If you’re not already familiar with the US independent promotion Major League Wrestling, they have been expanding their footprint the last couple years after a pandemic-induced hiatus, which includes new TV/streaming partnerships. Another one was just announced-New Japan is adding new episodes of MLW Fusion, the promotion’s weekly TV show, to New Japan World. The first episode will premiere Sunday at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET and will be available FOR FREE. Subsequent episodes will be available worldwide to paid monthly subscribers at the same time weekly.
Current New Japan wrestler KUSHIDA is currently featured on Fusion, he’s actually a heel over there as part of CONTRA, which also boasts CMLL and occasional NJPW wrestler OKUMURA. He’s also the promotion’s current Middleweight Champion (equal to Jr. Heavyweight) Their women’s division recently had Tokyo Joshi Pro wrestler Shoko Nakajima as their champion but she lost the title to former WWE wrestler Shotzi Blackheart. That ended Nakajima’s reign at over a year.
New episodes of MLW Fusion premiere Saturdays FOR FREE on YouTube at 3:05 PM PT/6:05 PM ET then air at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET on beIN Sports in the US. (MLW has a paid subscription on YouTube, which mainly consists of old episodes of Fusion and major special events. It’s worth noting all Fusion episodes are TAPED in advance) Episodes them remain available for on demand viewing on YouTube.
Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up the NEO Global Tag League today with the Finals.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and cam be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English. This was an exclusive ABEMA broadcast in Japan in Japanese, which will be available on demand shortly.
The announced paid attendance was 1009.
Match 1: Black Menso-re, Katsumi Inahata & Hiroto Tsuruya beat Super Crazy, Yuto Koyanagi & Midori Takahashi. Inahata pinned Takahashi after a powder drop.
Match 2: Yoshiki Inamura & Stallion Rogers beat Kazuyuki Fujita & Mohammed Yone. Rogers pinned Yone.
Match 3: AMAKUSA, Daiki Odashima, Kid Lykos 1 & 2 beat OZAWA, Tadasuke, Alpha Wolf & Jun Masaoka. Ofashima pinned Tadasuke.
Match 4: Shuji Kondo & Eita beat Naomichi Marufuji & Kenoh. Kondo pinned Marufuji after a King Kong lariat.
Match 6: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Dragon Bane & Alejandro beat Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara to retain the titles. Bane pinned Ohara after Sperlana. V3 for the champs. Ohara was a late replacement for the injured Hi69.
Main Event: NEO Global Tag League Finals: Manabu Soya & Yuki Iino beat Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows to win the tournament. Soya pinned Anderson after Passion IS. As a result, Soya & Iino will get a GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match in the near future. And right before I posted this it was made official. That match will happen on 6/25.
The next event is Saturday at Agematsu Town Community Center in Nagano for a Eita 15th Anniversary event with Eita vs. Bane for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.
Also some interesting fallout from today-Tadasuke claims he is putting bis N-1 Tournament entry on the line, apparently against Odashima, as a result of today. It will be a ladder match on 7/18 and naturally Tadasuke is stacking the deck-4 participants and it’s 3 Team 2000X members-Tadasuke, Alpha Wolf & Jun Masaoka-and Odashima. Also added to 8/18 is Yoshiki Inamura vs. Kazuyuki Fujita. They join the one other official match so far, Tetsuya Naito vs. Kaito Kiyomiya.
WRESTLE MAGIC 2026, Pro Wrestling NOAH’s latest likely NOSAWA Rongai Prosuced event, is in the books.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand as a PPV on WRESTLE UNIVERSE until 6/29.
The paid attendance was not announced.
Match 1: Naomichi Marufuji & Daiki Odashima vs. Daichi Hashimoto & Fuminori Abe went to a 15 minute time limit draw.
Match 2: Mirai Aono, ZONES & Miyuki Takase beat Nightshade, Johnnie Robbie & Miko Alana. Aono pinned Alana.
Match 3: Shuji Ishikawa beat Daisuke Sekimoto to win the vacant GHC Hardcore Championship. Ishikawa becomes the 17th GHC Hardcore Champion. 8th by the promotion’s count because they do not recognize reigns prior to the title being reactivated during the pandemic.
Match 4: HAYATA, Riiita & MAO beat Rich Port Ayala, Rhys Alexios & Danny Duggan. MAO pinned Duggan after Osaka Rinkai Upper.
Match 5: Ultimo Dragon, The Great Sasuke, Hayabusa, Tsubasa & Alejandro beat MAZADA, FUJITA, Shuji Kondo, “brother” YASSHI & Shuji Kondo. Dragon pinned YASSHI with La Magistral. This may have been a handicap match but I’m not sure if NOSAWA Rongai was part of the losing team or just seconded tbem.
Match 6: MIRAI beat Great Sakuya to won the vacant GHC Women’s Championship. MIRAI becomes the 4th GHC Women’s Champion.
Main Event: Zack Sabre Jr., Luis Mante & Chris Brookes beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Titus Alexander & Archie Cole. Sabre beat Cole with a modified octopus hold.
The next event is tomorrow with the NEO Global Tag League Finals. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English Only will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. This is an exclusive ABEMA live broadcast in Japan.
As part of their 2-day event yesterday & today in Paris, France, the Grand Sumo Performance Event included a pair of single-day elimination format tournaments. You’d be smart to think the Yokozuna would probably win based on how London went last year. But this time you’d be wrong. Both days’ tournaments have been a sweep as Ozeki Kotozakura won them both-he beat fellow Ozeki Kirishima yesterday and then beat Yokozuna Hoshoryu today. We’ll see if this momentum helps Kotozakura get back out of kadoban stastus in July to avoid demotion. Fellow Yokozuna Onosato did participate, a good sign that he’ll be back for the upcoming July Tournament although they absolutely did not go full-throttle in Paris as it basically was a glorified exhibition tournament and won’t go on their records nor affect rankings.
The participants, most of the top tier wrestlers, will now head back to Japan to prepare for the July Tournament in Nagoya. The Banzuke will be announced in 2 weeks.
Ganbare Pro ran their latest event today in Tokyo.
Today’s event was held at Takashimadaira Community Center in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday.
The paid attendance has not yet been announced.
Match 1: Ken Ohka & Guts Ishijima beat Keisuke Ishii & Shinichiro Tominaga. Ishijima pinned Tominaga after Twister.
Match 2: YuuRI beat Moe Hiiro by submission.
Match 3: Koki Iwasaki beat Shota Kawakami.
Match 4: Baliyan Akki & Munetatsu Nakamura beat Shigehiro Irie & Sentaro Motoshima. Nakamura pinned Nakashima after Octopus Killer.
Match 5: Shuchiro Katsumura, Yuya Susumu & Kikujiro Umezawa beat Yumehito Imanari, Takuya Wada & Moeka Haruhi. Katsumura beat Imanari with a standing ninja choke.
Main Event: Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion Mizuki Watase beat Tyson Maeguchi to retain the title. V3 for Watase. Next up: SUSHI aka Akira Raijin. That match will happen at the next event.
The next event is 7/4 at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. On demand TBA.
DOMINION, New Japan’s annual June Osaka blowout event, is now in the books.
Today’s event was held at Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka and can be watched on demand OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY on New Japan World. This event aired as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE 2026 exclusively on TV Asahi in Japan.
The announced paid attendance was 6890.
Match 1: NJPW WORLD TV Champion Konosuke Takeshita beat SANADA to retain the title. V4 for Takeshita.
Match 2: In a No DQ Match, Jake Lee beat El Phantasmo by ref stoppage (technical submission).
Match 3: Taichi & Yuya Uemura beat Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. Taichi pinned Oiwa with a polar star cross hold.
Match 4: El Desperado beat Mistico (CMLL).
Match 5: Aaron Wolf beat NEVER Openweight Champion Ren Narita to win the title. Wolf becomes the 52nd NEVER Openweight Champion.
Match 6: Great-O-Khan & HENARE beat IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby) to win the titles. Khan & HENARE become the 112th IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. HENARE pinned Ice after a great bomb.
Match 7: Shota Umino beat IWGP Global Champion Andrade El Idolo & Drilla Moloney in a 3-way by pinning Andrade to win the title. Umino becomes the 8th IWGP Global Champion. Next up: Possibly Gabriel Kidd, who beat down Umino afterwards.
Match 8: Yoh beat IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion DOUKI to win the title. Yoh becomes the 100th IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion. Next up: If Yoh has his way, a 4-way between Sho, Kosei Fujita, Master Wato & Francesco Akira to determine the next challenger.
Main Event: Yota Tsuji beat IWGP Heavyweight Champion Callum Newman to win the title. Tsuji becomes the 89th IWGP Heavyweight Champion.
On paper this really looks like they hit the reset button from SAKURA GENESIS to take most of things back to after Tokyo Dome with the title changes. Forget record-setting reigns (Newman was the youngest IWGP Heavyweight Champion to date) and AEW champions (Andrade). Will be fun to see how the net reacts to Umino finally winning a title too.
The next event is Friday at Chino Civic Center Multi-Hall in Nagano. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. There will probably be just 2 broadcasts over the next tour which would both be at Korakuen Hall, but there will also be a live broadcast for the next Yuji Nagata Produced event on Saturday.
UPDATE: As of 7:15 PM PT/10:15 PM ET you can now watch the first match (NJPW WORLD TV Championship) FOR FREE on YouTube.
The promotion has also announced part of the field for this year’s G1 CLIMAX Tournament, which officially officially kicks off the Road To Tokyo Dome. This year it will be a 20-man field with 2 blocks of 10 in the usual round-robin format. We now know 14 of the participants: Block A: Konosuke Takeshita, Yota Tsuji, SANADA, Shingo Takagi, Boltin Oleg, Jake Lee, Hirooki Goto Block B: Callum Newman, Zack Sabre Jr., Shota Umino, Yuya Uemura, Ren Narita, Drilla Moloney, Gabriel Kidd That leaves 6 spots, which will be determined as follows, and actually one happened today: Besides winning the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, Great-O-Khan & HENARE are in as a result. We just don’t know their placements yet. The last 4 will be determined on 6/23 and 7/6 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.. Takeshita is the defending tournament champion.
UPDATE 2: Khan goes in Block A, HENARE in Block B. The Final 4 will be determined by qualifying matches among 8 participants: Block A matches are Taichi vs. Yuto Ice and El Phantasmo vs. Ryohei Oiwa. Block B matches are YOSHI-HASHI vs. Aaron Wolf and OSKAR vs. Yujiro Takahashi. Winners are in. I think the only toss-up is YOSHI-HASHI vs. Wolf. The rest seem obvious outcome-wise.
Other DOMINION fallout: The 4-way Yoh wanted to determine his next IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship challenger is set. That match will happen on 6/23 at Korakuen Hall and the title match is 7/6. Tiger Mask 4’s retirement matches on 7/7 are set. He will have a pair of 5-minute exhibition matches, first vs. Tom Billington then vs. Black Tiger 4 (Rocky Romero).
Stardom runs the last event before this month’s PPV today in Tokyo. It’s definitely qualifying as a major event ahead of the next blowout event because there are 3 title matches on tap for today. First up, Future Of Stardom Champion Ranna Yagami chose outsider Miku Kanae as her next challenger for the title as she goes for a 5th successful defense. Second, the Goddesses Of Stardom Championship is on the line as AZM & Miyu Amasaki defend against Hazuki & Koguma, with Hazuki back after missing the first half of the month due to being in the US for All Elite Wrestling participation (and she’s going back after the PPV). Finally, the Artist Of Stardom Championship will be defended by Ami Sohrei, Hina & Lady C against Natsupoi, Yuna Mizumori & Aya Sakura-and whoever wins has Maki Itoh, Kikyo Furusawa & Rian waiting for them at the PPV. The event will also see Mei Seira return after being out a couple weeks due to injury and, while likely not today, a new column on Stardom’s website hints at a potential Momo Watanabe return in the near-future after being out the year so far.
Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on Stardom World. It’s not yet known if there will be any commentary. There are 8 matches planned and with 3 title matches (and presumably an intermission) it’ll likely be on the longer side for a Korakuen event as I anticipate a total running time of about 3 hours. (After cancelling several months ago I decided to resubscribe to Stardom World earlier this week so this will be the resumption of occasional live results posts for now when schedules allow)
Today’s lineup (match order TBA): Hanan & Matoi Hamabe vs. Saya Iida & HANAKO Mei Seira, Starlight Kid & Ema Maishima vs. Maki Itoh, Kikyo Furusawa & Rian Sayaka Kurara vs. Anne Kanaya Syuri, Tomoka Inaba Nanami Hatano & Kiyoka Kokatsu vs. Itsuki Aoki, Akira Kuraogame & Xena Saori Anou, Maika, Fuwa-chan & Utami Hayashishita vs. Natsuko Tora, Konami, Ruaka & Azusa Inaba Future Of Stardom Champion Ranna Yagami vs. Miku Kanae for the title Goddesses Of Stardom Champions AZM & Miyu Amakasi vs. Hazuki & Koguma for the titles Artist Of Stardom Champions Ami Sohrei, Hina & Lady C vs. Natsupoi, Yuna Mizumori & Aya Sakura for the titles
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Updates below will begin at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET.
UPDATES (Pre-event): There has been a last-minute change to the card because Tomoka Inaba is now off. Unspecified injury. Nanami Hatano is the replacement.
You will also be able to watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube. Link/video below:
7:20 PM PT UPDATE: The Stardom World live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in 5-10 minutes. The YouTube broadcast will begin at event time.
7:26 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. There may be commentary in a few minutes as it looks like it could also be a live Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.
The paid attendance may or may not be announced after the event. Lately they’ve only announced attendance when it’s a sellout or close. Today already looks like it’s going to be at least close to sold out. We’ll see but it already looks like it’ll be at least 1250. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1494, a full house/near sellout)
The matches should begin in about 10 minutes.
7:30 PM PT UPDATE: The YouTube broadcast has begun.
The event starts with the Tomoka Inaba absence and card change announcement. Today’s lineup is as listed above except the Goddesses Of Stardom Championship is the main event, the Artist of Stardom Championship is match 7.
The matches begin at 7:33 PM PT/10:33 PM ET. Japanese commentary also begins now. Your hosts are Haruo Murata & Makoto Oe. This is indeed a Samurai! TV broadcast.
Match 1: Hanan & Matoi Hamabe vs. Saya Iida & HANAKO. 20 minute time limit Result; Saya Iida & HANAKO beat Hanan & Matoi Hamabe.HANAKO pinned Hamabe after JP Coaster.
Match 2: Mei Seira, Starlight Kid & Ema Maishima vs. Maki Itoh, Kikyo Furusawa & Rian. 20 minute time limit Result: Maki Itoh, Kikyo Furusawa & Rian beat Mei Seira, Starlight Kid & Ema Maishima. Rian pinned Maishima. Afterwards, Kid with microphone. Apparently confirming happenings from today’s AEW Collision episode taped the other day, meaning she is AEW-bound to face Thekla at the upcoming Forbidden Door PPV.
Match 3: Sayaka Kurara vs. Anne Kanaya. 15 minute time limit Result: Sayaka Kurara beat Anne Kanaya
Surprise happening…Momo Watanabe comes out. She recently hinted at returning soon following a long period of inactivity.
The YouTube broadcast ends here. Quick break for the switchover.
Match 4: Syuri, Nanami Hatano (Diana) & Kiyoka Kokatsu vs. Itsuki Aoki, Akira Kuraogame & Xena. 20 minute time limit Result: Itsuki Aoki, AKira kurogame & Xena beat Syuri, Nanami Hatano & Kiyoka Kokatsu. Xena pinned Kokatsu with a German suplex hold.
Match 5: Saori Anou, Maika, Fuwa-chan & Utami Hayashishita vs. Natsuko Tora, Konami, Ruaka & Azusa Inaba. 20 minute time limit Result: Natsuko Tora, Konami, Ruaka & Azusa Inaba beat Saori Anou, Maika, Fuwa-chan & Utami Hayashishita. Tora pinned Hayashishita after a swanton bomb.
Match 6: Future Of Stardom Champion Ranna Yagami vs. Miku Kanae for the title. 15 minute time limit Result: Future Of Stardom Champion Ranna Yagami beat Miki Kanae to retain the title. V5 for Yagami.
Intermission.
The matches resume at 9:22 PM PT/12:22 AM ET. Break was mainly for ring repairs/maintenance.
Match 7: Artist Of Stardom Champions Ami Sohrei, Hina & Lady C vs. Natsupoi, Yuna Mizumori & Aya Sakura for the titles. 30 minute time limit Result: Artist Of Stardom Champions Ami Sohrei, Hina & Lady C beat Natsupoi, Yuna Mizumori & Aya Sakura to retain the titles. Sohrei pinned Sakura after Blue Thunder Bomb. V1 for the champs. That means they next defend on 6/20 against Maki Itoh, Kikyo Furusawa & Rian.
Main Event: Goddesses Of Stardom Champions AZM & Miyu Amakasi vs. Hazuki & Koguma for the titles. 30 minute time limit Result: Goddesses Of Stardom Champions AZM & Miyu Amasaki beat Hazuki & Koguma to retain the titles. AZM pinned Hazuki after Azumi Sushi. V1 for the champs.
The next event is STARDOM THE CONVERSION 2026 Saturday at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2. Live streaming as a PPV on Stardom World will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.
Also of note: It appears HANAKO joined Stars after Match 1, having been non-affiliated since E Nexus V disbanded. Now she will be part of Hanan’s faction.
UPDATE: Momo Watanabe will return Saturday. Confirmed with full card announcement on 6/16. The event will have 2 pre-show matches and now will begin Saturday at 11:20 PM PT/2:20 AM ET.
DDT ran their latest event today in Yokohama as part of a house show doubleheader with Tokyo Joshi Pro.
Today’s event was held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
The paid attendance was not announced.
Before the event began, a public signing ceremony was held for the DDT Extreme Championship match on 6/21 between Hideki Okatani & Junta Miyawaki. The rules were also announced-it will be a Hardcore I Quit Match. No pinfalls, submissions or DQs, only way to win is by verbal submission (saying I Quit) or by TKO (if the referee determines one has taken so much damage they can’t verbally quit).
Match 1: Illusion beat Hinata Kasai.
Match 2: In a Captains Fall Match, Yuya Koroku, Takeshi Masada & Daichi Sato beat Kazuki Hirata, Danshoku Dieno & KANON. Koroku pinned Hirata, who was the captain. Which led to…
Takeshi Masada beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yuya Koroku to win the title. Masda becomes the 1824th Champion.
Match 3: Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani & MJ Paul beat MAO, Yukio Naya & Viente Maligno (Keigo Nakamura). Okatani pinned Maligno after a vertical drop brainbuster.
Match 4: Jun Akiyama beat Antonio Honda. Which led to…
Yuya Koroku beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Takeshi Masada to win the title. Koroku becomes the 1825th Champion. Which led to…
Kazuki Hirata beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Takeshi Masada to win the title. Hirata becomes the 1826th Champion.
Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the penultimate event of the NEO Global Tag League today, wrapping up Block B.
Today’s event was held at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
The announced paid attendance was 405.
Match 1: Tetsuya Endo beat Hiroto Tsuruya.
Match 2: Eita & Yuto Koyanagi beat AMAKUSA & Black Menso-re. Eita pinned Menso-re after Imperial Uni.
Match 3: Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows beat HAYATA & Super Crazy. Gallows pinned Crazy after Magic Killer.
Match 4: Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & RYUSEI beat Atsushi Kotoge, Daiki Odashima & Midori Takahashi. BUSHI beat Takahashi with a reverse Boston Crab.
Match 5: Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura, Kai Fujimura & Jun Masaoka beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Alejandro, Kid Lykos 1 & 2. Kitamiya pinned Alejandro after Saito Suplex.
NEO Global Tag League Block B: Match 6: Kazuyuki Fujita & Mohammed Yone beat KENTA & Katsumi Inahata. Yone pinned Inahata after Kinniku Muscle Buster. Match 7: Manabu Soya & Yuki Iino beat OZAWA & Tadasuke. Soya pinned Tadasuke after Passion IS. Main Event: Naomichi Marufuji & Kenoh beat Yoshiki Inamura & Stallion Rogers. Marufuji pinned Rogers after a round fist. As a result, Marufuji/Kenoh and Soya/Iino finish tied for the block lead at 4-1, 8 pts, but because they won the head-to-head matchup, which is the tiebreaker, Soya/Iino win the block and advance to the Finals and will face Anderson/Gallows.
The Final is Tuesday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.
The next event is WRESTLE MAGIC Tuesday at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming as a PPV on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET. The PPV will be available for on demand purcase & viewing until 6/29.
Another unfortunate-timed injury, this one in Pro Wrestling NOAH. Not sure when it happened as he was not on today’s event but it has major title implications because Hi69 is headed to the sidelines. Calf muscle tear. Out indefinitely including Tuesday. That’s major because on Tuesday he was to have teamed with Atsushi Kotoge to challenge for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. Plans now undecided. We may have to wait until after Monday’s PPV to find out more. It’s not yet known how long Hi69 will be out.
More as it becomes available.
UPDATE: The title match Tuesday is ON. Hajime Ohara is the replacement.