The first of two New Japan Pro Wrestling New Beginning in Sapporo events took place earlier on Saturday.
From the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center, the event was headlined by a singles match between Shota Umino and Tetsuya Naito.
Shota Umino was set back tonight with a heavy loss to Tetsuya Naito- but even Naito had to acknowledge the Roughneck's potential!#njnbg report:https://t.co/lgH2hDKuRM
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— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) February 4, 2023
Will Ospreay was in action in the semi-main, taking on Taichi. The sole title match on the card was for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles.
Full results:
- Great-O-Khan def. Oskar Leube
- Ryohei Oiwa, Ren Narita, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki def. Dick Togo, SHO, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL
- Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. def. YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto & Yuto Nakashima
- Master Wato, Hikuleo, Tama Tonga & Hiroshi Tanahashi def. Taiji Ishimori, El Phantasmo, KENTA & Jay White
- Shingo Takagi, SANADA, Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI def. YOH, Ryusuke Taguchi, Toru Yano & Kazuchika Okada
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships: Francesco Akira & TJP (c) def. DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
- Will Ospreay def. Taichi
- Tetsuya Naito def. Shota Umino
John Pollock will be joined by Karen Peterson on Sunday for a special POST show looking at both nights of The New Beginning in Sapporo for Café members.
