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The New Beginning in Osaka (2014) was a
professional wrestling
pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on February 11, 2014, in
Osaka,
Osaka at the
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. The event featured ten matches, four of which were contested for
championships.
[1]
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[3] It was the sixth event under the
New Beginning name.
Storylines
The New Beginning in Osaka featured ten
professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and
storylines. Wrestlers portrayed
villains,
heroes, or
less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
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Event
In the opening match,
The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) made their second successful defense of the
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against former champions, the
Time Splitters (
Alex Shelley and
Kushida).
[1] In the fourth match,
Ryusuke Taguchi picked up his first win since returning from an eight-month injury break at the beginning of the month by pinning former
Apollo 55 partner and
Bullet Club leader
Prince Devitt in a tag team match.
[1] The working relationship between NJPW and the
National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) continued in the fifth match, where
Tencozy (
Hiroyoshi Tenzan and
Satoshi Kojima) defeated Big Daddy Yum-Yum and
Michael Tarver, with Tenzan submitting Tarver to avenge a loss suffered two days earlier. As a result, Tencozy earned another shot at the
NWA World Tag Team Championship, held by
The IronGodz (
Jax Dane and
Rob Conway).
[1] The sixth match of the event featured the returns of
mixed martial artists
Daniel and
Rolles Gracie to take on
Kazushi Sakuraba and
Yuji Nagata in a rematch from
Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome after the original match ended in a disqualification.
[5] After the Gracies had won,
Takashi Iizuka and
Toru Yano came out to challenge them.
[1]
In the second title match of the event,
Kota Ibushi made his first successful defense of the
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against
El Desperado, who had made his debut appearance at Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome.
[1] Following the match, Nick Jackson challenged Ibushi to a title match.
[1] The ninth match saw
Tomohiro Ishii win his first title in NJPW, eight years after starting to work regularly for the promotion,
[6] as he defeated
Tetsuya Naito to become the third
NEVER Openweight Champion.
[1] Finally, in the main event of the evening,
Kazuchika Okada made his eighth successful defense of the
IWGP Heavyweight Championship against
Hirooki Goto.
[1] Post-match, Goto's tag team partner
Katsuyori Shibata expressed interest in challenging Okada, but Okada instead told him to first win the
New Japan Cup.
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Results
References
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"The New Beginning in Osaka".
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from
the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
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"新日本プロレス「The New Beginning in Osaka」". Sports Navi (in Japanese).
Yahoo!. February 11, 2014. Archived from
the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
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b Namako, Jason (February 12, 2014).
"2/11 NJPW iPPV Results: Osaka, Japan (Okada/Goto)". Wrestleview. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
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"How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc.
Discovery Communications. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
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"2月9日広島で棚橋vs中邑!! 後藤&柴田が初タッグ!! 2月11日大阪でオカダvs後藤! 内藤vs石井! 飯伏vsデスペラード! グレイシー再上陸!!".
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). January 6, 2014. Archived from
the original on January 6, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
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38歳石井が第3代NEVER王者に.
Tokyo Sports (in Japanese). February 12, 2014. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
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