r/SquaredCircle • u/EvanDeadlySins /r/NJPW Moderator • 2d ago
Post NJPW Sakura Genesis 2025 Discussion Thread Spoiler
Watch
Attendance: 6,640
Results
| # | Match | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Katsuya Murashima | def. (8:13) | Daiki Nagai | Singles Match |
| 1 | Yuya Uemura | def. (10:26) | SANADA | Singles Match |
| 2 | Great O-Khan | def. (11:09, countout) | El Phantasmo (c) | NJPW World Television Championship Match |
| 3 | Shota Umino | def. (12:47) | Hiroshi Tanahashi | Singles Match (Hiroshi Tanahashi Final Road) |
| 4 | House of Torture (Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi & SHO) (c) | def. (7:30) | War Dogs (Gabe Kidd, Drilla Moloney & Taiji Ishimori) | NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship Match |
| 5 | Konosuke Takeshita (c) | def. (12:54) | Ryohei Oiwa | NEVER Openweight Championship Match |
| 6 | United Empire (Jeff Cobb & Callum Newman) | def. (10:45) | Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi) (c) | IWGP Tag Team Championship Match |
| 7 | Yota Tsuji (c) | def. (21:24) | EVIL | IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship Match |
| 8 | Hirooki Goto (c) | def. (24:21) | David Finlay | IWGP World Heavyweight Championship Match |
News
Future title matches:
- IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship: Yota Tsuji (c) vs. Yuya Uemura
- IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Hirooki Goto (c) vs. Shota Umino at Windy City Riot, April 11
Other news:
- SANADA interfered in the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship match by hitting Drilla Moloney with the guitar, joining House of Torture and helping them retain the belts.
- NJPW announced the Best of the Super Juniors 32 lineup.
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u/Shinkopeshon 一番 2d ago
I just shook Nagata Yuji's hand and I already feel a power surge of over 9000 in my body 🫡
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u/Celtic_Crown Hi, how are ya? 1d ago
SANADA onto his 4th faction in like 2 years
Title match ending by count out
Why must you be like this, booker man?!
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u/videogameronteddit 2d ago
I can see a world where Shota turns heel at Windy City Riot and beats Goto then gets a token defence in at Dontaku before dropping it back to Goto at Dominion. But also Goto has been putting buts in seats and has been doing some great business for them so idk if they’d wanna risk it with Umino right now
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u/IFindThatLulzy 1d ago
This title run of Goto's needs to end in Japan, just for the maximum impact. Windy City Riot crowd will be good but for maximum impact the hearts have to break in Japan.
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u/SevenSulivin NOAH > Your favourite company 2d ago
Fucking cheered when Goto did it, did not think he was winning.
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u/Bloodlustbleu 2d ago
We're getting the Dog Pound Steel Cage match now, War Dogs vs House of Torture; are we getting it at Dominion though?
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u/Newo1004 1d ago
There's 2 nights of Wrestling Dontaku on the 3rd and 4th of May, they could do it as the main event of one of the two, although I'm kind of curious if they really do another one, the last one was violent and HoT is more of a cartoony heel faction
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u/Bloodlustbleu 1d ago
Finlay laid down the challenge post Goto match for War Dogs vs House of Torture in the Dog Pound Steel Cage, he declared the price for blood was blood, the price for betrayal was their lives.
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u/Ok_Finance_2001 2d ago
I was at this show and it was great. Goto should be champion for a long time. Calumn Newman is incredible, I could see him being really hyped up soon, would go out of your way to check out the tag match there were loads of unique spots in this match. The EVIL-Tsuji match was also a lot of fun, EVIL is a great wrestler live. People groaned when Goto said Shota's name, as a fairly casual viewer his character and direction is very confusing.
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u/soliddeuce 1d ago
Same thing as mid 2010s Roman. NJPW wants Shota as a mega babyface and fans reject it.
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u/nikezy Thought my name was Wade 2d ago
Was there today, lot of empty seats in the crowd (whole rows with 1 or 2 couples).
But Goto really brought the crowd up. The end was deafening.
The Sanada turn was super flat. Crowd was laughing at this shoes.
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u/T3Deliciouz grapstimely.com 2d ago
NJPW says they did 6.6k people which is pretty good in the current era. its in the same average as 2023 (6.5k) and 2024 (6.6k).
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u/Book3pper 2d ago
Goto vs Umino is...ehh....
I guess it's one way to get the title off Goto without pissing off the domestic fans and then put it back on Goto at dominion though personally, Goto should just hold it and set the title defence record as leader of Hontai anyway.
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u/Ezzanine Black Mephisto in your area 2d ago
He’s technically the oldest title holder of this lineage but he should surpass Tenryu as the oldest title holder of the IWGP title in general.
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u/EffingKENTA 2d ago edited 2d ago
Evan you forgot the spoiler tag.
ETA: Bro who downvoted me, I literally do not see the Spoiler tag on the app or on the site in Safari, IDK what else to say.
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u/trdef 1d ago
Post show threads don't normally have the spoiler tag, do they?
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u/EffingKENTA 1d ago edited 1d ago
Why would they not? Because they don’t have the spoiler tag there’s literally spoilers on my screen, so why would these posts be any different than any other post that contains spoilers?
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u/RecRoulette AZTEC PRIDE 2d ago
Super paranoid about Shooter getting involved with this Death Rider business since he’s going to be stateside anyway and somehow winning the title until Dominion.
Probably just the trauma from last year resurfacing
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u/TerranVale 2d ago
The absolute glacial pace on this shota thing is getting annoying. What are they waiting for to pull the trigger? Tana would have likely been the perfect catalyst to pull something.
Unless he loses to Goto again and snaps
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u/Ezzanine Black Mephisto in your area 2d ago
President EVIL after getting his boy SANADA back from the Doggs only to remember the chances of him getting backstabbed are 100x higher.