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Regarding New Year’s Event Results (12/31/25-1/4/26)

The New Year period is one of the biggest in pro wrestling in Japan just because of Ittenyon aka 1/4 (Tokyo Dome) but this entire week has seen and will see several other major events across several promotions (started with Stardom yesterday). My schedule will allow me to watch many, but not all, major events live and do live results based on time differences (I am currently 17 hours behind Japan). Here are the current plans for the rest of the week:

12/31: All-Japan major year-end event, 2 PM JST. Post-event results tomorrow (it’s a 9 PM PT start tonight but I am working tomorrow so it will start too late for me and will probably run 3+ hours)
1/1: Pro Wrestling NOAH “NOAH THE NEW YEAR”, 3 PM JST. Right now the plan is to do live results as it is a 10 PM PT tomorrow start. Whether or not I can stay awake after a full day’s work for what should be a 4-5 hour event is up in the air.
1/2: All-Japan event, 11:30 AM JST. Live results planned (1/1 at 6:30 PM PT)
1/3: All-Japan event, 11:30 AM JST. Live results planned (1/2 at 6:30 PM PT). DDT live event, 6:30 PM JST. Post-event results (1:30 AM PT start)
1/4: Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, 11 AM JST. Live results planned (1/3 at 6 PM PT).
1/4: New Japan Tokyo Dome event, TBA (4 PM JST but there will be a pre-show match so plan for 20-30 minutes earlier). Live results planned but depends on how long event goes (1/3 at 11 PM PT, I anticipate 4+ hours so the last 1-2 hours may be a struggle to stay awake for it)

As always, plans are subject to change to circumstances beyond my control. (And of course the ever-present threat of major earthquakes in Japan among other things. I imagine there could be one from that final massive Hiroshi Tanahashi retirement air guitar performance to send the crowd home happy…hopefully)

All-Japan Pro Wrestling 1/2/2026 LIVE Results

All-Japan kicks off their 2026 today with the first half of their year-opening New Year’s doubleheader in Tokyo. It’s a major event spread over two days starting with a title match today as the All-Japan World Tag Team Championship as Talos & Ren Ayabe get their rematch with Xyon & Odyssey as their reward for winning the World’s Strongest/Real World Tag League, this time for the titles, then the main event will be the annual year-opening battle royal with everyone participating. They also promise to introduce new roster members-whether this means rookies or free agents, we’ll find out.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV in Japanese. This will also be taped for broadcast on Samurai! TV in Japan at a later date. Even with the title match and battle royal (oddly the intermission won’t be before the main event) I sill anticipate this being in the “standard” Korakuen running time range of 2 1/2-3 hours, closer to 3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Go Shiozaki vs. Shota Kofuji
Hideki Suzuki, Kengo Mashimo & Hikaru Sato vs. Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus
Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato vs. KURAMA & MAZADA
Kento Miyahara, Jun Saito, MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda, Shotaro Ashino & Dan Tamura
Intermission
Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Ryo Inoue
All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Xyon & Odyssey vs. Ren Ayabe & Talos for the titles
New Year’s Battle Royal

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Updates below will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin just before the event starts.

6:25 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Commentary will start when the matches begin.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It’s a regular weekday morning in Japan and advance ticket sales seem to reflect that, probably not going to be a sellout. But it should still be a decent crowd, I’ll guess based on so far it’ll be around 1000.

Opening announcements begin just after we go live. Commentary begins after the opening call by the ring announcer. After this, the roster comes out to the ring for the annual new year’s greeting to the crowd. Kento Miyahara led this as the President of the wrestlers’ group. During this, he announced that Shota Kofuji has joined the promotion and he came out. Kofuji had been competing as a freelancer and a member of a smaller independent promotion. That makes two official cat people in the promotion along with Hideki Suzuki, who Kofuji has had some fun Twitter bantering with the last few months. Then Shotaro Ashino interrupted and brought out Go Shiozaki, who actually joined the promotion late last year. But now he gets the official year-opening introduction. After years of being NOAH, he is now All-Japan. (UPDATE: Kofuji will also remain a member of the small OSW promotion in addition to All-Japan. Both moves are official as of yesterday) Kofuji just finished his rookie year on Christmas Day.

One correction to the lineup from the opening video for Match 3-it’s MAZADA but on AJPW’s website incorrectly says it’s “Mazda”.

The matches begin at 6:42 PM PT/9:42 PM ET. Rei Saito is a guest on commentary alongside the solo announcer.

Match 1: All-Japan Pro Wrestling 2026 Opening Match: Go Shiozaki vs. Shota Kofuji. 30 minute time limit
Result: Go Shiozaki beat Shota Kofuji

Match 2: Hideki Suzuki (who went crazy attacking the cameramen around the ring with a towel during his entrance), Kengo Mashimo & Hikaru Sato vs. Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus. 30 minute time limit
Result: Hokuto Omori, Kumarashi & Cyrus beat Hideki Suzuki, Kengo Mashimo & Hikaru Sato. Kumaarashi pinned Sato.

Match 3: Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato vs. KURAMA & MAZADA (Independent/Freelancers). 30 minute time limit
Result: Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato beat KURAMA & MAZADA. Aoyagi pinned KURAMA.

Match 4: Kento Miyahara, Jun Saito, MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda, Shotaro Ashino & Dan Tamura. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kento Miyahara, Jun Saito, MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka beat Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda, Shotaro Ashino & Dan Tamura. Miyahara pinned Tamura with a shutdown suplex hold.

Intermission.

The matches resume at 7:57 PM PT/10:57 PM PT (about a 12 minute break).

Match 5: Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Ryo Inoue. 30 minute time limit
Result: Daisuke Sekimoto beat Ryo Inoue

Match 6: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Xyon & Odyssey vs. Ren Ayabe & Talos for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Ren Ayabe & Talos beat All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Xyon & Odyssey to win the titles. Ayabe & Talos become the 103rd All-Japan World Tag Team Champions. Talos pinned Xyon after a double chokeslam. Afterwards, during the post-match victory promo, Talos called out Miyahara. A mix of Japanese, English and comedy that almost ended with Miyahara getting a double chokeslam. I think the gist of all this is a Triple Crown challenge by Talos.

Promo video for the All-Asia Tag Team Championship fallout from 12/31 when the Dragon Gate duo of Yoshiki Kato & ISHIN won the titles. Of note: New video game background music-in 2025 it was a remix of the theme from “Space Harrier”. 2026? A remix of “Splash Wave” from fellow mid-1980s Sega & Yu Suzuki icon “Outrun”. The video is an announcement of the 2026 All-Japan Jr. Tag Festival Tournament, to be held over 4 events in February & March with 8 participating teams. The participating teams: Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato, Dan Tamura & Hikaru Sato, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito, Fuminori ABe & Seigo Tachibana, Kota Sekifuda & Toshiyuki Sakuda, Seiki Yoshioka & Yuya Susumu, MUSASHI & Shota Kofuji, Ryo Inoue & Mochizuki Junior. It will be a single-elimination bracket tournament. The Quarterfinals are 2/15 & 2/23, Semifinals on 3/15 and Finals on 3/20.

Main Event: New Year Battle Royal. Everyone in at the start. Over the top rope, pinfall and submission eliminations
Result: Yuma Anzai won, last eliminating Shota Kofuji. Mainly a comedy match but a very entertaining one that even saw Ryuki Honda get eliminated by the referee and the referee then get eliminated by Atsuki Aoyagi despite some impressive acrobatics beforehand. Miyahara, you wonder? Second-to-last elimination by Kofuji.

The second event is tomorrow. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH “NOAH THE NEW YEAR 2026” LIVE Results (1/1/2026) (Updated)

While it’s not the first event in Japan in the New Year, Pro Wrestling NOAH kicks off 2026 today with their annual New Year’s Day blowout event, NOAH THE NEW YEAR 2026. The main event is an interesting GHC Heavyweight Championship match between Yoshiki Inamura & OZAWA. Representing the future of the promotion, it’s a rematch of late 2022 when then-Taishi Ozawa made his debut against a much different Inamura, who was struggling to make the mid-card before beginning a pair of training excursions, most recently to WWE as part of NXT and came back with a new look, some decent English and now the top title while OZAWA recently returned from injury and teased a face turn but still seems to solidly be Team 2000X going in, we shall see. Almost every other GHC Championship will also be defended today and there’s even a title match from Europe’s Progress Wrestling to round out a massive card along with a surprise appearance in one title match-the net seems to think it could be the NOAH debut of one Tetsuya Naito and I concur, but we must wait and see…

Today’s event will be held at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only. This is a live & exclusive ABRMA broadcast in Japan, which will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese a short time after the event (with Akitoshi Saito on commentary among others). The 9 match lineup features 6 title matches so this will be a New Year’s all-nighter/morninger depending on where you are with a predicted running time in the 4-5 hour range.

Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka vs. Kazuhuki Fujita, Minoru Suzuki, Junta Miyawaki & Shuhei Taniguchi
KENTA, HAYATA, Tetsuya Endo & Ulka Sasaki vs. Atsushi Kotoge, Mohammed Yone, Hajime Ohara & Hi69
Kaito Kiyomiya & Jack Morris vs. Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows
Progress Atlas Champion Will Kroos. vs. Saxon Huxley for the title
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Daga & Daiki Odashima vs. Alejandro & Kai Fujimura and Eita & Shuji Kondo in a 3-way for the titles
GHC National Champion Dragon Bane vs. Alpha Wolf for the title
GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuni & Kenoh vs. BUSHI & TBA for the titles
GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi vs. AMAKUSA for the title
GHC Heavyweight Champion Yoshiki Inamura vs. OZAWA for the title

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Updates below will begin at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 30 minutes before the event. (Pre-show Update: The stream start time, as of 5 PM PT/8 PM ET, has now been pushed back 10 minutes and will now begin 20 minutes before the event)

9:40 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in about 10 minutes. The UNIVERSE pre-start screen indicates the start time has been moved up to 9:50 PM PT/12:50 AM ET. It also suggests the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship 3-way will be the opening match.

9:50 PM PT UPDATE: The ABEMA stream probably started now but the UNIVERSE stream has to wait a little longer.

10 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Nippon Budokan in Toyo, Jpaan. Commentary will begin shortly when the first match starts.

The paid attendance will be announced after the vent. The venue’s normal full capacity for wrestling events is roughly 8400 but I imagine they’re using a smaller setup and it clearly isn’t a sellout. Hoping it’s a good crowd, I’m guessing the setup will be for closer to 6000 and I’ll make a best-case guess of 4000 for today. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 6278)

We join right before the opening video & match card announcement. Leaning heavily into Yoshiki Inamura’s cowboy-themed persona now.

The matches begin at 10:05 PM PT/1:05 AM ET. Your hosts are the returning Stewart (BANG! Back at last!) Fulton, Mark Pickering & Mike Shroudner.

Match 1: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Daga & Daiki Odashima vs. Alejandro & Kai Fujimura and Eita & Shuji Kondo in a 3-way for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Daga & Daiki Odashima beat Alejandro & Kai Fujimura and Eita & Shuji Kondo in a 3-way, when Odashima pinned Alejandro, to retain the titles. V2 for the champs.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka (Independent/Freelancer) vs. Kazuhuki Fujita, Minoru Suzuki, Junta Miyawaki & Shuhei Taniguchi. 30 minute (?) time limit
Result: Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka beat Kazuyuki Fujita, Minoru Suzuki, Junta Miyawaki & Shuhei Taniguchi. Kitamiya beat Miyawaki with Stranglehold y.

Match 3: Progress Atlas Champion Will Kroos. vs. Saxon Huxley for the title. A nice pre-match surprise as Huxley was seconded by the injured YO-HEY, looking a lot better and closer to a return. Or at least someone that looked like YO-HEY…I think it actually was Shuji Kondo.
Result: Saxon Huxley beat Progress Atlas Champion Will Kroos to win the title.

Match 4: KENTA, HAYATA, Tetsuya Endo & Ulka Sasaki vs. Atsushi Kotoge, Mohammed Yone, Hajime Ohara & Hi69. 30 minute (?) time limit KENTA with microphone pre-match. He reveals that, as indicated by the shirts they came out wearing, his new faction is now called WRS-White Raven Squad.
Result: KENTA, HAYATA, Tetsuya Endo & Ulka Sasaki beat Atsushi Kotoge, Mohammed Yone, Hasjime Ohara & Hi69. KENTA pinned Hi69 after GO 2 SLEEP.

Match 5: GHC National Champion Dragon Bane vs. Alpha Wolf for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Alpha Wolf beat GHC National Champion Dragon Bane to win the title. Wolf becomes the 19th GHC National Champion. All because of The Turn…Yoshitatsu came out near the end and that gave it all away-Wolf turned on Bane, his brother, and defected to Team 2000X.

Intermission. We get some of the Japanese commentary unmuted during the break while the English team steps away.

The matches resume at 11:40 PM PT/2:40 AM ET. Keiji Muto & sumo wrestler Wakamotoharu join Japanese commentary. (Some sumo wrestlers are pro wrestling fans and some wrestlers, most notably New Japan star Taichi, are sumo fans and return the favor)

Match 6: Kaito Kiyomiya & Jack Morris vs. Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows. Unknown time limit
Result: Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Jack Morris. Anderson pinned Morris after Magic Killer.

As the next match prepares to begin it’s midnight PT so…Happy New Year & welcome to 2026!

Match 7: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuni & Kenoh vs. BUSHI & TBA for the titles. 1 Hour time limit. And TBA is…indeed…Tetsuya Naito!
Result: BUSHI & Tetsuya Naito beat GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuji & Kenoh to win the titles. BUSHI & Naito become the 76th GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. BUSHI pinned Marufuji. Got away with an apparent mist attack on a rollup.

Match 8: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi (New Japan) vs. AMAKUSA for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: AMAKUSA beat GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi to win the title. AMAKUSA becomes the 60th GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion. Next up: Looks like Odashima as challenge issued. Accepted. Updates to come later today.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Yoshiki Inamura vs. OZAWA for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC Heavyweight Champion Yoshiki Inamura beat OZAWA to retain the title. V2 for Inamura. A lot of Team 2000X interference but at one point Dragon Bane came out to help Inamura. Next up: Kenoh. Ot is it? Before he could get to the ring, Masa Kitamiya laid out Kenoh. Kitamiya with microphone. He wants next and isn’t letting Inamura choose Kenoh next. Challenge accepted by Inamura. Kitamiya took the cheap shot and went for the beatdown but bailed when Inamura got the upper hand. So it looks like Kitmaiya and not Kenoh next. Updates to come.

The next event is tomorrow at Shinjuku Face. The event is a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

UPDATE: Kitamiya is indeed next for Inamura and not Kenoh. That match will happen on 1/11 at Korakuen Hall along with AMAKUSA-Odashima.

All-Japan 12/31/2025 Results

Before this post gets going, it is now 2026 in Japan so Happy New Year to them and to all the wrestlers, announcers, support staff and more, thank you for your hard work in 2025 and best wishes for a safe, happy and prosperous 2026 with out continued support.

Now then…All-Japan wrapped up the pro wrestling portion of 2025 with their annual New Year’s Eve event today.

Today’s event was held at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. This will be a taped GAORA SPORTS broadcast in Japan at a later date.

The announced paid attendance was 2730.

Match 1: KURAMA, Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer), Fuminori Abe & Seigo Tachibana beat Atsuki Aoyagi, Rising Hayato, Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue. KURAMA pinned Inoue after Apilicion.

Match 2: Dump Matsunoto won a 10 person battle royal, last eliminating Kuroshio TOKYO Japan. Aja Kong was also a participant of note.

Match 3: Hideki Suzuki & Yuko Miyamoto beat Ryuki Honda & Shota Kofuji. Suzuki pinned Kofuji after a double arm suplex.

Match 4: Xyon, Ofyssey & Shotaro Ashino beat Ren Ayabe, Talos & Daisuke Sekimoto and Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus in a 3-way when Xyon pinned Omori.

Match 5: Jun Saito beat Go Shiozaki.

Match 6: Yoshiki Kato & ISHIN beat All-Asia Tag Team Champions MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka to win the tktles. Kato & ISHIN become the 128th All-Asia Tag Team Champions. Kato pinned Yoshioka after Cadere Luna. The titles are seemingly headed to Dragon Gate now, at least for a while.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Kento Miyahara beat Yuma Anzai to retain the Triple Crown. V3 for Miyahara.

A short time ago, the promotion also posted their annual New Year’s greetings on their website.

The 2026 opener is Friday at Korakuen Hall for the start of a doubleheader. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin Thursday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

GLEAT 12/30/2025 Results

GLEAT wrapped up a turbulent and transitional 2025 today with their final event of the year, GLEAT Ver. 21.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube. No more paywalls as their paid membership is no more. Every event paywalled this year can now be watched foe free.

The announced paid attendance was 407.

Matches not noted as otherwise were G PROWRESTLING matches.

Match 1: Ryuichi Kawakami, Keiichi Sato, Rock Iwasaki & Chris Weiss beat Takehiro Yamamura, Tetsuya Izuchi, Junjie & Shigehiro Irie. Kawakami pinned Izuchi after a lariat.

Match 2: Lidet UWF Double Bout: Yukina Uehara & Chii Aoba beat Marino Sahara & Salura Mizushima by submission.

Match 3: Soma Watanabe & So Daimonji beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana. Watanabe pinned Tachibana after a Frankensteiner.

Match 4: T-Hawk, Hayato Tamura & Seiki Yoshioka beat Kaito Ishida, KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Quiet Storm. T-Hawk pinned Ishida after Ready-to-Wear. Afterwards, T-Hawk & Tanura issued a G INFINITY Championship challenge. That match will happen on 1/20.

Match 5: MICHIKO & Yuna Manass (Ganbare Pro) beat ZONES & ChiChi (Evolution). MICHIKO pinned ChiChi after a non-human driver.

Match 6: Lidet UWF Single Bout: Lidet UWF Champion Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Ryo Aitaka by ref stoppage (technical submission) to retain the title. V6 for Nakajima.

Matxh 7: G-RUSH Champion Minoru Tabaka vs. Kotaro Suzuki went to a 7 minute time limit draw. Which led to…
Continuation (no time limit, 1 count pinfalls, 1 rope escape allowed, 3 count countouts): G-RUSH Chanpion Minoru Tabaka beat Kotaro Suzuki to retain the title. V1 for Tanaka.

Main Event: G-REX Champion El Lindaman beat TJP to retain the title. V2 for Lindaman. Next up: Watanabe. That match will happen on 1/10.

The next event, their 2026 opener, is 1/10 at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka. Broadcast plans TBA.

Stardom 12/29/2025 Results (Updated x3)

STARDOM DREAM QUEENDOM 2025, the promotion’s year-end blowout event, is now in the books.

Today’s event was held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand as a PPV on Stardom World for 4400 Japanese yen (around $29 US). An “emergency addition” was made just before the broadcast-Hanan was added as a guest on commentary (she is currently injured). You can also watch the pre-show match and the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance was not announced, but if not a legit sellout it was very close. (UPDATE: It was a legit sellout. The UNOFFICIAL reported paid attendance was 6563) (UPDATE 2: Tokyo Sports reports that same attendance number. While a legit sellout, that’s only about 43-44% capacity for the Kokugikan)

Pre-show match: Ema Maishima & Kikyo Furusawa beat Matoi Hamabe & Anne Kanaya. Marshima pinned Kanaya.

Match 1: Starlight Kid & AZM beat Syuri & Tomoka Inaba. Kid pinned Inaba after a moonsault press.

Match 2: Rina won a 21 woman battle royal, last eliminating Miyu Amasaki. A huge surprise at entrant 21-the original Stardom OG who the promotion was originally built around…my eternal Japanese wrestling crush returned for one day-Yuzuki Aikawa! (A former pinup/gravure idol who was one of the highest acclaimed models ever, probably in part for her nice and very big bouncy-bouncys-who became a pro wrestler when Stardom was formed, after a couple years as the inaugural Wonder Of Stardom Champion she retired and became an actress/entertainer). Not receiving nice birthday present here was the eliminated Hina, who celebrated her 19th birthday today.

Match 3: Maika, Megan Bayne, Xena & HANAKO vs. Suzu Suzuki, Bozilla, Rina Yamashita & Itsuki Aoki went to a double countout.

Match 4: Fuwa-chan Re-Debut Match: Hazuki beat Fuwa-chan.

Match 5: Sareee beat Natsupoi.

Match 6: Goddesses Of Stardom Champions Natsuko Tora & Ruaka beat Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara to retain the titles. Ruaka pinned Sakura with a Dhaka German suplex hold. V3 for the champs.

Match 7: Wonder Of Stardom Champion Konami beat Saya Iida to retain the title. V1 for Konami.

Main Event: World Of Stardom Champion Saya Kamitani beat Saori Anou to retian the title. V8 for Kamitani. Exactly one year in and her reign rightfully continues. A year that saw her crown the undisputed best Japanese women’s wrestler in Japan and the first woman to win the Tokyo Sports MVP ends how it began-on top. And next up is the biggest spotlight of all-Tokyo Dome for a double title showdown with Syuri (for the IWGP Women’s and STRONG Women’s Championships). Long May Our PHENEX QUEEN Reign. Embrace The H.A.T.E. In 2026. Needless to say this result made me very happy.

The first event of 2026 is 1/10 at Korakuen Hall for a doubleheader to begin the promotion’s 15th Anniversary celebration. Broadcast plans TBA.

UPDATE: Tokyo Sports reports Aikawa will also be back for the 1/21 15th Anniversary event. Not too shabby for a nearly 5 year absence and now being a mother of two. Showing those Bellas how it’s done! Yes I’m kinda excited about this, she still can Yuzupon Kick pretty good too! 1/21 will probably be a tag match, possibly with Yuria Hime as a partner or opponent.

UPDATE 2: The next challengers for Kamitani & Konami appear set…Kid & Rina, respectively. When is TBA. Also, for the curious, Kamitani still has a ways to go to be the record-setting Red Belt Champion. The longest reign to date is about 18 months while the successful defense record is 14.

UPDATE 3: Aikawa’s return is for a limited time and the Hime match likely will be a single match.

DDT Pro Wrestling 12/29/2025 LIVE Results

DDT hosts a Super Japan Pro Wrestling event today, the latest Sanshiro Takagi Produced project event featuring only non-DDT affiliated wrestlers outside of Takagi himself. And that of course means the fellow oldest member at 57 years old, New Japan wrestler Yuji Nagata, participation as well as some familiar other veterans (Taiji Ishimori will also participate from New Japan)and also a women’s match, and surely plenty of comedy to go along with it and wrap up 2025 on a lighter note.

Today’s event will be held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. There are 6 matches scheduled with no intermissions so the longest the event could run is about 3 hours, but it probably will be closer to 2 hours. Although the main event does have an always-long & unpredictable Kuroshio TOKYO Japan entrance, so who knows.

Today’s lineup:
Ryoma Tsukamoto vs. Shota
DJ Nira vs. Muscle Sakai (Super Sasadango Machine)
Mio Shirai vs. Marika Kobashi
MIKAMI & TakashI Sasaki vs. “Shows” & “Reiwa” 2
Brahmans Shu & Kei & Taiji Ishimori vs. Shuji Kondo, Ken Ohka & Mac Matsushita
Sanshiro Takagi, Jun Kasai & Munenori Sawa vs. Yuji Nagata, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Fuminori Abe

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Updates below will begin at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 15 minutes before the event.

6:45 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in 10-15 minutes.

7 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will not be announced after the event. Based on advance ticket sales, it could be a legit sellout with only a few same-day tickets left. If not it will be very close. So it’s safe to say full capacity and they’ll proabbly do 475-500.

Sanshiro Takagi comes out to open the event. Quick greeting and start shout.

The matches begin at 7:05 PM PT/10:05 PM ET.

Match 1: Ryoma Tsukamoto vs. Shota. 30 minute time limit
Result: Shota beat Ryoma Tsukamoto

Match 2: DJ Nira (maybe the only wrestler without entrance music) vs. Muscle Sakai. 30 minute time limit
Result: Unclear. Comedy match where they kept turning the lights on & off and inconclusive ending. Maybe Nira was declared winner as there was no music.

Match 3: Mio Shirai vs. Marika Kobashi. 30 minute time limit
Result: Mio Shirai beat Marika Kobashi

Match 4: MIKAMI & TakashI Sasaki vs. “Showa” 2 & “Reiwa” 2. 30 minute time limit
Result: MIKAMI & Takashi Sasaki beat Showa 2 & Reiwa 2. MIKAMI pinned Showa (I think).

Match 5: Brahmans Shu & Kei & Taiji Ishimori (New Japan) vs. Shuji Kondo, Ken Ohka & Mac Matsushita. 30 minute time limit
Result: Brahmans Shu & Kei & TaijI Ishimori beat Shuji Kondo, Ken Ohka & Mac Matsushita. Ishimori beat Matsushita with Bone Lock.

Break for ring cleaning (there was no intermission scheduled but it looks like we’re having one now before the last match).

We return after about a 12 minute break.

Main Event: Sanshiro Takagi, Jun Kasai & Munenori Sawa vs. Yuji Nagata (Nre Japan), Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Fuminori Abe. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuji Nagata, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Fuminori Abe beat Sanshiro Takagi, Jun Kasai & Munenori Sawa. Nagata beat Takagi with Nagata Lock 2.

This event was basically the comedy portion of DDT with just a little actual wrestling thrown in. If you like the wacky humor this is your kind of event.

There probably will be more such events in 2026, just not sure when yet.

The next event, the first of 2026, is Saturday at Korakuen Hall. The event is a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

DDT 12/27/2025 & 12/28/2025 Results

DDT wrapped up their 2025 this weekend with a house show doubleheader in Nagoya.

Both events were held at Imaike Gas Hall in Nagoya and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday (yesterday’s event) and Wednesday (today’s event). There were no live broadcasts.

The paid attendance was not announced. Today’s event was a legit sellout.

Yesterday:
Match 1: Yuki Iino beat Hinata Kasai.

Match 2: Danshoku Dieno & Yuni beat Kazuki Hirata & Takao Soma. Yuni pinned Hirata after a firebird splash.

Match 3: Kazusada Higuchi, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida beat Hideki Okatani, MJ Paul & Illusion. Ishida pinned Illusion after Flame Palm.

Match 4: Jun Akiyama, HARASHIMA & Akito beat Yukio Naya, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato. Akito beat Koroku with Goliath Bird Eater.

Match 5: MAO & KANON beat Daisuke Sasaki & Demus. KANON pinned Demus after The Guru-Guru Driver.

Main Event: Chris Brookes, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada beat Yuki Ueno, To-y & Kazuma Sumi. Masada pinned Sumi after a Brookes Praying Mantis Bomb.

Today:
Match 1: Yuni beat Hinata Kasai.

Match 2: Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya beat Kazuki Hirata & Akito. Naya pinned Hirata after an elbow drop.

Match 3: Chris Brookes, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada beat Jun Akiyama, Kazusada Higuchi & Naomi Yoshimura. Honda pinned Yoshimura.

Match 4: HARASHIMA beat Takao Soma. This was Soma’s last match before an extended absence for treatment of a knee injury he’s worked through. Post-match, Soma vowed to return some time next year. HARASHIMA provided some optimism with his signature catch phrase these days-Because It’s Training/Practicing!

Match 5: MAO & KANON beat Yuki Ueno & Danshoku Dieno. KANON pinned Dieno after a lariat.

Main Event: Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani, MJ Paul, Demus & Illusion beat KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions To-y, Yuya Koroku, Daichi Sato, Yuki Ishida & Kazuma Sumi to win the titles. Sasaki, Okatani, Paul, Demus & Illusion become the 11th KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions. Illusion pinned Sumi after a swanton bomb.

The event ended with a Dieno & Ueno mini-talk show event instead of an ending announcement. They were perhaps hoping to go for a KO-D Tag Team Championship shot, but not so much after today.

The next event is a Sanshiro Takagi Produced Super Japan Pro Wrestling event tomorrow at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin TONIGHT at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET.

Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling 12/28/2025 LIVE Results (Updated)

Dragon Gate wraps up the FANTASTIC GATE 2025 Tour, and their 2025 as a whole, today with the final event of the year in Kobe. It’s the second half of a weekend doubleheader and is mainly a standard house show lineup along with, as is usually the case in their hometown, a battle royal.

Today’s event will be held at Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe and can be watched LIVE on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. You will also be able to watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube. There will be no commentary although an alternate feed with wrestler commentary will also be available. There are 7 matches scheduled so with an intermission the event will be on the long side for a house show, probably running around 2 1/2 hours although, for comparison, yesterday’s event went 2 3/4 hours but it also had a title match.

Today’s lineup:
Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii vs. Susumu Yokosuka & KAGETORA
Takashi vs. Jiro Shinbashi
12 man battle royal
Ryu Fuda, Daiki Yanagiuchi & Akihiro Shaara vs. Ho Ho Lun, Ho Lee & Reach Tominaga
YAMATO, Dragon Kid, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi vs. Madoka Kikuta, Kota Minoura, Jason Lee & KAI
JACKY KAMEI & Riiita vs. Yuki Yoshioka & Ryoya Tanaka
Shun Skywalker & El Cielo vs. ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 15 minutes before the event.

9:45 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe, Japan. There is no commentary. An alternate wrestler commentary feed will begin with the first match.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Yesterday’s attendance was just reported as 461 so based on that, and the second hals of doubleheaders usually drawing a little better, I’ll predict about 500. Could be a near-sellout from what we see as the event gets started. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 815, a super full house/very near sellout. That’s near legit full capacity)

The matches should begin in 20-25 minutes. There has been a late change to the above card. It sounds like the original 6-man tag match has been changed to an Open The Triangle Gate Championship match.

The event begins at 10:10 PM PT/1:10 AM ET. NEW Open The Triangle Gate Champions Hyo, Ben-K & Mochizuki Junior come out first along with the rest of Live & Peace for a short promo.

The matches begin at 10:15 PM PT/1:15 AM ET.

Match 1: Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii vs. Susumu Yokosuka & KAGETORA. 15 minute time limit
Result: Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii beat Susumu Yokosuka & KAGETORA. Fujii pinned Yokosuka.

Match 2: Takashi vs. Jiro Shinbashi. 15 minute time limit
Result: Takashi beat Jiro Shinbashi. Comedy match

Match 3: 12 man battle royal
Result: U-T wins, last eliminating Reach Tominaga.

Match 4: YAMATO, Dragon Kid, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) vs. Madoka Kikuta, Kota Minoura, Jason Lee & KAI. 30 minute time limit
Result: Madoka Kikuta. Kota Minoura, Jason Lee & KAI beat YAMATO, Dragon Kid, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi. Kikuta pinned Hulk after a rolling lariat.

Match 5: JACKY KAMEI & Riiita vs. Yuki Yoshioka & Ryoya Tanaka. 30 minute time limit
Result: JACKY KAMEI & Rioita beat Yuki Yoshioka & Ryoya Tanaka. Riiita pinned Tanaka after Riiitanic. Afterwards, Riiita with microphone. Open The Brave Gate Championship challenge issued. Accepted by Tanaka. (UPDATE: It’s now official. That match will happen on 1/8)

Intermission.

The event resumes at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

Match 6: Open The Triangle Gate Champions Hyo, Ben-K & Mochizuki Junior vs. Akihiro Sahara, Daiki Yanagiuchi & Ryu Fuda for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Open The Triangle Gate Champions Hyo, Ben-K & Mochizuki Junior beat Akihiro Sahara, Daiki Yanagiuchi & Ryu Fuda to retain the titles. Junior pinned Yanagiuchi with a German suplex hold. V1 for the champs.

Main Event: Shun Skywalker & El Cielo vs. ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato. 1 Hour time limit
Result: ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato beat Shun Skywalker & El Cielo. Kato pinned Cielo.

The next event, the first of 2026, is 1/8. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

Dragon Gate 12/27/2025 Results

Dragon Gate began their final weekend doubleheader of the year with the year’s penultimate event today in Kobe.

Today’s event was held at Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Match 1: Don Fujii & Yasushi Kanda beat Akihiro Sahara & Kazuma Kimura. Fujii beat Kimura with a knee lock.

Match 2: Ryu Fuda won an 11 man battle royal, last eliminating Susumu Yokosuka.

Match 3: Yuki Yoshioka, Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka beat Ho Ho Lun, Ho Lee & Reach Tominaga. Tanaka pinned Tominaga after Cross Saber.

Match 4: Shun Skywalker & El Cielo beat Dragon Kid & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer). Cielo pinned Kid after a spinning tombstone piledriver.

Match 5: Madoka Kikuta & Yoshiki Kato beat JACKY KAMEI & Riiita. Kato pinned KAMEI after Cadere Luna.

Match 6: PWRevolution Openweight Champion El Cucuy beat ISHIN to retain the title.

Main Event: Open The Triangle Gate Championship Tournament Finals: Hyo, Ben-K & Mochizuki Junior beat Kota mInoura, Jason Lee & KAI and Strong Machine J, Kzy & U-T in a 3-way elimination match, when Hyo beat Lee after MInoura beat J, to win the tournament and the vacant titles. Hyo, Ben-K & Junior become the 97th Optn The Triangle Gate Champions.

The final event of the year is tomorrow. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin TONIGHT at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.