The New Beginning in Osaka (2019)

The New Beginning in Osaka (2019)  is an upcoming professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event will take place on February 11, 2019, in Osaka, Osaka, at Edion Arena Osaka. The event will feature eight matches, two of which were contested for championships. In the main event, Hiroshi Tanahashi will defend the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Jay White. This was the seventeeth event under the New Beginning name and the sixth under the New Beginning in Osaka name.

Background
The event will air worldwide on NJPW's internet streaming site, New Japan Pro Wrestling World, with English commentary provided by Kevin Kelly and Chris Charlaton, the latter of whom replaces Kelly's previous broadcast partner Don Callis.

Storylines
The New Beginning in Osaka will feature eight professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.

The New Beginning in Osaka will e main evented by Hiroshi Tanahashi making his first defense of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Jay White. On January 4, 2019, at Wrestle Kingdom 13 in Tokyo Dome, Tanahashi won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship for the record setting eight-time defeating Kenny Omega. After the match, White challenged Tanahashi to a match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship following the show's main event. The following day, at New Years Dash Tanahashi and White faced each other in a six-man tag team match, where Tanahashi teamed with Kazuchika Okada and Yoshi-Hashi and White with his Bullet Club stablemates Bad Luck Fale and Gedo. White scored the win for his team by pinning Yoshi-Hashi. White would ask Tanahashi to the ring, only to attack him afterwards and lay him out with the Blade Runner. The main event was officially announced on January 7. In a interview prior to the match, Tanahashi claimed stated that he didn't need to worry, he was confident he would retain the title. White had previously been feuding with Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada since October 2017, leading a union between CHAOS and the NJPW Home unit.