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17-559: At 2023 's Power Struggle , after Will Ospreay had defended the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship against Shota Umino in the main event, Bullet Club leader David Finlay destroyed both the U.S. belt and Ospreay's custom IWGP United Kingdom Heavyweight Championship belt with a mallet after attacking Ospreay and Umino's former mentor, AEW 's Jon Moxley , and a three-way match was scheduled for three men at Wrestle Kingdom 18 . While

34-455: A ruby in the center are vertically set, two on each side, next to the center plate. The two sets of side plates each feature different parts of the world globe. As of November 28, 2024, there have been three reigns shared among two wrestlers. David Finlay was the inaugural champion, has the most reigns at two, and was the youngest champion, winning it at 30 years old. Nic Nemeth was the oldest champion when he won it at 43 years old. David Finlay

51-477: Is set on a white strap, similar to the now-retired IWGP Intercontinental Championship , and features five plates: one center and two set of side plates. The center plate features depictions of lions on each side, the "IWGP" letters in the center, and the words (all in capital letters) "Global" and "Champion" on the top and bottom, respectively; the New Japan logo is also featured on the top. Four gold circles with

68-588: Is the current champion in his record-setting second reign. He defeated Nic Nemeth at Wrestling Dontaku: Night 2 in Fukuoka, Japan on May 4, 2024. As of November 28, 2024. Power Struggle (2023) Power Struggle was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling . It took place on November 4, 2023, in Osaka , Osaka , at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium . It

85-542: The NJPW World stream, in which Boltin Oleg , Ryusuke Taguchi and The DKC outmatched Dragongate 's Strong Machine J , Mochizuki Jr. and Yoshiki Kato in six-man tag team action. In the first main card bout, Callum Newman and Jeff Cobb picked up victory over Oskar Leube and Yuto Nakashima in tag team action. Next up, El Desperado and Master Wato defeated Yoh and Musashi, Robbie Eagles and Kosei Fujita ), and

102-644: The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship at Destruction in Ryōgoku , Taiji Ishimori returned and attacked Takahashi and challenged him to a match at Power Struggle. After Chaos ( Kazuchika Okada and Tomohiro Ishii ) and Hiroshi Tanahashi successfully defended the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship at Destruction in Ryōgoku, Ishii offered a title shot to TMDK which they accepted. The event also featured

119-555: The IWGP United Kingdom Heavyweight Championship against Zack Sabre Jr. at Royal Quest III On October 14 at Royal Quest III, Will Ospreay called out anyone to challenge him for the title. Shota Umino then came out and accepted Ospreay's challenge which Ospreay granted Umino a title shot at Power Struggle under the condition that Great-O-Khan would face Jon Moxley , which Umino accepted. After Hiromu Takahashi successfully defended

136-741: The IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestle Kingdom 18 . Next up, Bullet Club leader David Finlay defeated Guerrillas of Destiny 's Tanga Loa in singles competition. Next up, Jon Moxley and Great-O-Khan collided as their first bout came up short into a double countout. Moxley then challenged O-Khan to an immediate rematch this time under the Falls Count Anywhere match rules from which Moxley came out victorious. Next up, Kazuchika Okada , Tomohiro Ishii and Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Zack Sabre Jr. , Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste to secure

153-583: The finals of the 2023 Super Junior Tag League . The tournament matches took place during the Road to Power Struggle tour between October 21 until November 2. On November 2, Catch 2/2 ( Francesco Akira and TJP ) defeated Intergalactic Jet Setters ( Kushida and Kevin Knight ) in the semi-finals to advanced to the finals while House of Torture ( Sho and Yoshinobu Kanemaru ) defeated El DespeWato ( El Desperado and Master Wato ) to also advance. Both teams finished

170-417: The fourth consecutive defense of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship in that respective reign. At AEW Dynamite #212 on October 25, 2023, Kazuchika Okada teamed up with Chaos stablemate Orange Cassidy in a losing effort against Blackpool Combat Club 's Bryan Danielson and Claudio Castagnoli . The bout concluded after Danielson submitted Okada, but at the cost of a broken arm injury. On

187-425: The latter accepted. In the main event, Will Ospreay defeated Shota Umino to secure the third consecutive defense of the IWGP United Kingdom Heavyweight Championship . After the bout concluded, Ospreay called out Jon Moxley who accompanied Umino ringside to challenge him for a further title match. David Finlay appeared and attacked both Moxley and Ospreay, and pulled out a mallet with which he destroyed both of

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204-585: The match was initially listed as for the United States title, NJPW chairman Naoki Sugabayashi announced at a press conference on November 6, 2023 that the title would be retired and the match would be for a brand new championship. On December 11, at another press conference, he announced the name of the new championship, the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship. The new championship belt was revealed on January 3, 2024. It

221-586: The night of the Power Struggle event, the injured Danielson reached via video to challenge Okada for a rematch at Wrestle Kingdom 18 . In the tenth bout, TJP and Francesco Akira defeated Sho and Yoshinobu Kanemaru in the finals of the 2023 Super Junior Tag League , becoming number one contenders for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship . After the bout concluded, Akira and TJP got jumped by

238-409: The reigning champions Drilla Moloney and Clark Connors ahead of their Wrestle Kingdom 18 officiated confrontation. In the semi main event, Hiromu Takahashi defeated Taiji Ishimori to secure his seventh consecutive defense of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship in that respective reign. After the bout ended, Takahashi called out El Desperado for a title match at Wrestle Kingdom 18, which

255-661: The time's IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Drilla Moloney and Clark Connors in four-way tag team action. In the fourth bout, Kevin Knight , Kushida and Tama Tonga defeated Titan , Bushi and Shingo Takagi , ahead of Tonga and Takagi's bout for the NEVER Openweight Championship which was scheduled to take place at Lonestar Shootout 2023 . Next up, Tetsuya Naito and Yota Tsuji defeated Sanada and Yuya Uemura ahead of Naito, (the G1 Climax 33 winner) and Sanada's confrontation for

272-466: The tournament with a record of six wins and three losses, setting up the finals of the tournament. At Destruction in Ryogoku, David Finlay lost the NEVER Openweight Championship to Tama Tonga . At Royal Quest III , Finlay was pinned by Tanga Loa in a six-man tag team match. A match was scheduled between Finlay and Loa for Power Struggle. The event started with a preshow match broadcast live on

289-471: Was the twelfth event under the Power Struggle chronology. Power Struggle featured professional wrestling matches that will involve 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. After retaining

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