New Japan’s January Shows See Most Successful Live Attendance In Years

New Japan Pro Wrestling have a lot to celebrate right now. The company have just finished their ‘New Beginning’ tour and following the highly successful Wrestle Kingdom show on January 4th their live attendance figures have been released and they are staggering.

Japanese wrestling correspondent @EvanDeadlySinsW released the following chart showing the gradual build of live attendance since May 2015 up to January 2018. The spikes in July/August from 2015 to 2017 can be attributed to New Japan’s G1 Climax tournament which runs over several weeks, however the truly impressive stats are seen when you compare January 2016 and 2017 to this year’s huge number.

Check out the chart below:

Thanks to a big jump in WK attendance and successful New Beginning shows, January 2018 was NJPW's best drawing month in… a long time. pic.twitter.com/DDyQjiAQmt

— Evan (@EvanDeadlySinsW) January 31, 2018

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