2012’s Anniversary Event was headlined by a title match that nobody would have seen coming a year earlier. Tetsuya Naito’s status as a challenger for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship seemed natural enough. He had phenomenal matches against Hiroshi Tanahashi and Shinsuke Nakamura in 2010 and 2011. Naito had almost broken through to the greatest of heights in NJPW and had reached the G1 Climax final the summer before.

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