Miyabiyama Tetsushi "makuuchi" rank of "maegashira" 16. He won only three bouts in that tournament and was demoted to "jūryō" in March 2013, where he again only managed three wins and quickly announced his retirement on the last day of the tournament. Miyabiyama fought in the top division for 82 tournaments in total, which is second best among "makushita tsukedashi" entrants and the eleventh best overall in sumo history. The 68 tournaments he fought after dropping from the "ōzeki" rank is also a record. He was the last active wrestler who had begun his career at "makushita" 60 (the bottom of the
The New Beginning in Osaka (2015) Meltzer wrote that most of the matches at The New Beginning in Osaka were "good", but that none were "off the charts", while also noting that the crowd felt cold in what is traditionally NJPW's hottest arena. According to Meltzer, the event showed that NJPW had begun suffering from a "feeling of sameness" following Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome. He gave the highest match rating of four out of five stars to the main event, though stating that the match did not have the spark that the previous two matches between Styles and Tanahashi had had. The New Beginning