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The New Beginning (2013) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on February 10, 2013, in Hiroshima, Hiroshima, at the Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall. The event featured nine matches, four of which were contested for championships.[1][2][3] It was the fourth event under the New Beginning name.

Production[]

Storylines[]

The New Beginning featured tem 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.[4]

Event[]

All four champions were successful in their defenses. Time Splitters (Alex Shelley and KUSHIDA) successfully defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against the previous champions, Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero), Prince Devitt successfully defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Apollo 55 partner Ryusuke Taguchi, K.E.S. (Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer) successfully defended the IWGP Tag Team Championship against previous champions, Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima), and Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Karl Anderson for his seventh successful defense of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.[1]

Results[]

# Results[1][2][3] Stipulations Times
1 Jushin Thunder Liger, Manabu Nakanishi, Tama Tonga, Tiger Mask and Yuji Nagata defeated CHAOS (Jado, Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano and Yoshi-Hashi) Ten-man tag team match 08:20
2 Time Splitters (Alex Shelley and KUSHIDA) (c) defeated Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero) Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship 11:26
3 Prince Devitt (c) defeated Ryusuke Taguchi Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship 14:01
4 K.E.S. (Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer) (c) defeated Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima) Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship 14:16
5 Togi Makabe defeated Yujiro Takahashi Singles match 08:00
6 Laughter7 (Katsuyori Shibata and Kazushi Sakuraba) defeated Hirooki Goto and Wataru Inoue Tag team match 11:07
7 Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Kengo Mashimo Singles match 11:21
8 Minoru Suzuki (with Taichi) defeated Kazuchika Okada (with Gedo) Singles match 15:59
9 Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) defeated Karl Anderson Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship 25:10
  • (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
  • Videoicon – refers to the video of that match

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 The New Beginning (in Japanese). New Japan Pro Wrestling. Retrieved on 2013-10-18.
  2. 2.0 2.1 新日本プロレス「The New Beginning」 (in Japanese). Sports Navi. Yahoo! (2013-02-10). Retrieved on 2013-10-18.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Show results - 2/10 NJPW "New Beginning" PPV: Anderson challenges for IWGP Title, Shelley & U.S. stars in title matches . Pro Wrestling Torch (2013-02-10). Retrieved on 2013-10-18.
  4. Grabianowski, Ed. How Pro Wrestling Works . HowStuffWorks, Inc.. Discovery Communications. Retrieved on 2014-09-13.
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