29 WTF Moments From NJPW New Beginning In Niigata 2016

The first ever tweet from underneath the ring?

By Jack Pooley /

One down, one to go. After The New Beginning in Niigata delivered a solid series of fights, it was down to Niigata to well and truly blow our minds...and that it certainly did with a much higher standard of wrestling and storytelling on the whole. The IWGP Intercontinental Championship main event between Kenny Omega and Hiroshi Tanahashi more than lived up to the hype, and pretty much every title match hit the markers it needed to. From the stiff brand of wrestling any NJPW fan both expects and demands to the ridiculous eccentricities from overzealous fans and everything in-between, there was plenty to be both entertained and bemused by here, not least that we may have the very first ever tweet sent from underneath a ring during a live wrestling pay-per-view. That's history-making right there... Here are 29 WTF moments from NJPW New Beginning in Niigata 2016...

29. The 4-Way Sleeper

In the show's second match, reDRagon took on Chaos' Gedo and Kazushi Sakuraba, leading to this terrific exchange in which Gedo locked Bobby Fish in a sleeper hold. Kyle O'Reilly then applied the same move to Gedo, and finally, Sakuraba put a sleeper on O'Reilly, resulting in this awesome four-way sleeper hold. It didn't last long, but it sure did look funny. As for the result? reDRagon eventually scooped up the victory.