Injury Report: Es Too Desperado

New Japan has announced an injury absence for the upcoming tour, and it’s a major one with potential title implications because it’s El Desperado. Back & leg (spinal canal stenosis & lumbar disc herniation). This apparently started in March but he decided to compete through it even as it got worse. Out indefinitely but will miss at least the entire Super Junior Tag League, which means at least 2 weeks and possibly longer. He was to have teamed with Mistico in the tournament. Masatora Yasuda is the replacement. The other concern is that Desperado & Mistico are the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions so if it’s long-term, or at least to past Tokyo Dome on 1/4, they may have to vacate the titles. He does plan to at least appear at his next produced event on 11/9 but it’s not yet known how long he may be out.

More as it becomes available.

All-Japan 10/22/2026 Results

All-Japan wrapped up the 54th Anniversary Tour today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. This was also a live Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.

The paid attendance was not announced but it was a legit advance sellout with additional standing room only tickets sold.

Match 1: Hideki Suzuki beat Shota Kofuji by submission.

Match 2: Rising Hayato, MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Yasutaku Yano beat Dan Tamura, Hokuto Omori, Seigo Tachibana & Yuya Aoki. Hayato pinned Tamura after a Huracanrana.

Match 3: Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo beat Suwama & Go Shiozaki. Mashimo pinned Suwama after Unrighteous.

After the intermission here, an announcement promised in advance was made…Genki Hanawa, a trainee who joined on 4/1, will debut on 12/31 vs. Hideki Suzuki. Hanawa will turn 26 just 5 days before his debut and is 6’, 110 kg/242 pounds

Match 4: Xyon, Odyssey, Shotaro Ashino & Cal Bloom beat beat Jun & Rei Saito, Senor Saito & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer). Bloom pinned Jun Saito after 180BC.

Match 5: Yuma Anzai, Yuma Aoyagi & Ren Ayabe beat Madoka Kikuta, ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato (Dragon Gate) by DQ. Kikuta DQ’d. Ref assault.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Kento Miyahara beat Ryuki Honda to retain the Triple Crown. V10(!) for Miyahara. That ties the record he shares for most successful defenses. Longest reign? Not even close. That’s about 23 months so he has about 10 months to go. (He did manage 17 months before)

The next event is Monday at Hakodate General Wholesale Center Distribution Hall to start their annual Hokkaido tour. There will be no live broadcast. On drmand later that day. The only live broadcast for the tour will be the finale-in the US this comes after the fall time change so it will be an hour earlier.

In other news, the full field for the upcoming World’s Strongest/Real World Tag League was also announced. It will be a 2 block round-robin format with 12 teams entered, matches under PWF Rules (2 points for win, 1 point for time limit draw, 0 points for double countout/double DQ/no contest, 30 minute time limit) and the top 2 in each block advancing to the Semifinals. Tiebreaker if needed will be head-to-head result. The entered teams:
Block A: Jun & Rei Saito, Xyon & Odyssey, Suwama & Go Shiozaki, Kento Moyahara & Hyo Ogawa, Ryuki Honda & Masayuki Kono, MUSASBI & Seiki Yoshioka
Block B: Ren Ayabe & Talos (2025 winners), Yuma Aoyagi & Yuma Anzai, Hideki Suzuki & Timothy Thatcher, Cal Bloom & Shotaro Ashino, Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo, Dan Tamura & Seigo Tachibana
on paper it suggests Block A probably favors the Saitos & Havoc to advance, while the reunited Titans Of Calamity should come out of Block B with the second spot being a toss-up.
The tournament starts on 11/21 and ends on 12/6.

DEVELOPING: Several Major Websites/Services Down (Updated)

Wondering why I couldn’t access some of the usual wrestling websites today and getting messages about maintenance, apparently these sites are down due to a critical PHP vulnerability and awaiting patching. It’s affecting more than wrestling sites including major other websites and mobile gaming apps, but I can confirm that Pro Wrestling NOAH’s website, Stardom’s website and Stardom World are all down and unavailable. WRESTLE UNIVERSE (web and app versions), New Japan’s website and New Japan World are not affected. DDT & Tokyo Joshi Pro’s websites are also operational. It’s not known how long the services will be down but as of this post it’s been approximately 2 hours.

More as it becomes available.

6 PM PT UPDATE: NOAH’s website is back up and accessible again. Stardom’s website and Stardom World are still down.

7 PM PT UPDATE: While NOAH’s website is back up, clicking on news articles is not working. It leads to the earlier maintenance message. Also, although TJPW’s website stayed up, the separate Up Up Girls website is down. The Puroresu Today news site that I sometimes visit/refer to is also down.

8 PM PT UPDATE: Stardom’s website and Stardom World are now back up. Their separate fan club site remains down.

10/22/2026 UPDATE: More websites went down overnight because of this, including Dragon Gate, GLEAT and some sumo stable homepages. Most if not all are now back up though. Seems like there will be a ripple effect for a couple more days as New Japan announced their fan club site will be temporarily down for preventive maintenance.

News: Fan Injured By Wrestler Weapon

Yikes…according to a new story on some US wrestling news sites, wrestling icon Tiger Jeet Singh injured a fan recently at an event in Tokyo with a sword. Here’s what we know from translations of Hochi Sports & Tokyo Sports reports: It happened on 10/17 at a Meguni Kudo 40th Anniversary Event at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2. During Singh’s entrance he was swinging a sword wildly and it cut a fan in his forehead. The fan was hospitalized and treated for what thankfully were said to be minor injuries. Singh’s response? Sorry, Not Sorry. He says the fan should have gotten out of the way and the ring announcer was warning fans over the speakers (like you often hear when wrestlers fight outside the ring or go for over-top-rope dives in setups with no guardrails between the ring and front-row seats. Same explanation from Singh’s son, Tiger Ali Singh, who also says it was accidental. More apologetic, however, was Kudo. She believed there were “shortcomings in the corner team setup” and her organization will do everything to address the situation.

I don’t know if there is video of what happened but Tokyo Sports posted pictures that, from what I saw, don’t show the exact moment it happened but both Singhs had swords that appeared to resemble sabers similar to what is used in fencing. Nothing like a samurai sword or close to that. That’s why if you see Gianni Valletta making his entrance in Dragon Gate, you better duck. That chain he swings could easily take your head off.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 10/20/2026 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the Lethal Odyssey 2026 Tour today in Kanagawa.

Today’s event was held at Hodogaya Public Hall in Kanagawa and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Thursday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 397.

Match 1: Mohammed Yone, Hi69 & Shuji Kondo beat Tetsuya Endo, HAYATA & Hiroto Tsuruya. Kondo pinned Tsuruya after a King Kong lariat.

Match 2: Takashi Sugiura & Alpha Wolf beat Atsushi Kotoge & Black Menso-re. Sugiura beat Menso-re with a reverse figure 4.

Match 3: RYUSEI beat Hiroya Namiki.

Match 4: Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh & Kouga vs. Kaito Kiyomiya, Yoshiki Inamura & Yuto Koyanagi went to a double countout.

Match 5: Kai Fujimura, YO-HEY & Jun Masaoka beat Dragon Bane, Alejandro & Daiki Odashima. Fujimura pinned Bane.

Match 6: KENTA & Shane Haste beat Manabu Soya & Yuki Iino and Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows in a 3-way when Haste pinned Soya.

Main Event: OZAWA & Masa Kitamiya beat Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI. OZAWA pinned BUSHI after Destino. No Tranquilo!

The next event is WRESTLE ODYSSEY 2 Sunday at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin Saturday at 10:40 PM PT/1:40 AM ET. This is an exclusive ABEMA live broadcast in Japan.

Stardom 10/20/2026 Results

Stardom ran their semi-regular weeknight Tokyo event today, the first of consecutive events.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on Stardom World. You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance was not announced.

There were last-minute changes to the card due to Koguma and Natsuko Tora being pulled off the event. Koguma-family circumstances. Tora-the always vague poor health (again, aka illness).

Match 1: HANAKO beat Matoi Hamabe.

Match 2: Rina & Azusa Inaba beat Saya Iida & Yuria Hime. Rina pinned Hime after Pink Devil.

Rina Yamashita, Itsuki Aoki & Maki Itoh beat Ami Sohrei, Lady C & Kiyoka Kokatsu and Hazuki, Fuwa-chan & Waka Tsukiyama in a 3-way when Itoh pinned Kokatsu.

Match 3: Syuri, Hina, Tomoka Inaba & Ranna Yagami beat Natsupoi, Saori Anou, Yuna Mizumori & Anne Kanaya. Yagami pinned Kanaya after Beat Strike. Unless it already happened elsewhere, this may have been Tomoka’s return from injury.

Match 4: Suzu Suzuki & Akira Kurogame beat Starlight Kid & Ema Maishima. Kurogame pinned Maishima.

Match 5: Konami, Saya Kamitani & Ruaka beat Hanan, Maika & Utami Hayashishita. Kamitani pinned Hanan after a Frankensteiner. Afterwards, Ruaka delivered a promo from the absent Tora.

Main Event: Kikyo Furusawa & Rian beat New Blood Tag Team Champions Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara to win the titles. Furusawa & Rian become the 6th New Blood Tag Team Champions. Rian pinned Sakura after Hanaguruma. Very happy for Rian in particular, she was the last and slowest of the 2023 debuting class to win a title but has finally done so, and despite struggling in the 5STAR GP this year she did pick up a big win along the way and clearly has been on the verge of a breakthrough. Even though I don’t like her & Furusawa aligning with Itoh to perhaps get there, it seems like that time has come. And despite tying for the fewest successful defenses yet with 2, Sakura & Kurara had the longest reign so far at 10 days short of a year. But part of why they maybe had fewer defenses than they could have (and also reigned longer) was Kurara injuries. This was her return match after a neck injury in the 5STAR GP.

The next event is 10/27. Live streaming on Stardom World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

Stardom 10/18/2026 Results (Updated x2)

Stardom returned to Tochigi today for the annual Stardom Sisters hometown event, shining the spotlight on the real-life sister trio of Hanan, Hina & Rina.

Today’s event was held at Light Cube Utsunomiya in Tochigi and can be watched on demand on Stardom World. You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 792, a full house/near sellout.

There was a last-minute change to the card due to Natsuko Tora being pulled off the event. The always vague poor health. Replacement was TBA at match time.

Match 1: Yuria Hime Return Match: Saya Kamitani & Ruaka beat Saya Iida & Yuria Hime. Kamitani pinned Hime after Star Crusher.

Match 2: Syuri beat Matoi Hamabe.

Match 3: Konami, Azusa Inaba & TBA-the Natsuko Tora replacement, revealed at match time to be Suzu Suzuki, beat Ami Sohrei, Lady C & Ranna Yagami. Inaba pinned Yagami.

Match 4: Maika & HANAKO beat Natsupoi & Saori Anou and Maki Itoh & Kiyoka Kokatsu in a 3-way when Maika pinned Kokatsu.

Match 5: Aya Sakura & Yuna Mizumori beat Kikyo Furusawa & Rian. Sakura pinned Furusawa with a German suplex hold.

Match 6: Suzu Suzuki, Rina Yamashita, Itsuki Aoki & Akira Kurogame beat Starlight Kid, Hazuki, Koguma & Fuwa-chan. Suzuki pinned Kid after Tequila Shot. This was the second match of the day for Suzuki.

Match 7: Rina beat Utami Hayashishita. Afterwards, Rina promo noted this was one of the things she “foretold” after winning the 5STAR GP. But STILL no hints as to when she’ll take the title shot prize.

Main Event: Wonder Of Stardom Champion Hanan beat Hina to retain the title. V5 for Hanan. Once again big sister triumphs over little sister. If you look at championships and major accolades, despite being the middle sister Hina has clearly been left behind and not had nearly the success that Hanan & Rina have experienced to date, with Hanan clearly being a cornerstone of Stardom’s future and Rina becoming the youngest 5STAR GP winner yet and the greatest Future Of Stardom Champion to date (but Ranna Yagami is making a serious run at the latter) while, outside of some tag team/trios success Hina has accomplished very little to nothing and has struggled greatly against her big sister & little sister. Hopefully soon the breakthrough will come.

The next event is Tuesday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo with a New Blood Tag Team Championship match that also is the return of Sayaka Kurara from injury. Live streaming on Stardom World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

UPDATE: Koguma is now off Tuesday’s event. Family circumstances. She was to have been in a 3-way match with Haxuki & Fuwa-chan against Ami Sohrei, Lady C & Kiyoka Kokatsu and Rina Yamashita, Itsuki Aoki & Maki Itoh. Changes TBA.

UPDATE 2: So is Tora. The always vague poor health again. She was to have teamed with Konami, Saya Kamitani & Ruaka to face Hanan, Maika, Utami Hayashishita & Waka Tsukiyama. It’s now a 6-woman tag as Tsukiyama has been pulled from this match and will be the Koguma replacement in the 3-way above.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 10/18/2026 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran a Masa Kitamiya 15th Anniversary event today in Toyama.

Today’s event was held at Takaoka Techno Dome in Toyama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 555.

There may have been a late change to the card due to Yuki Iino possibly being pulled off the event. DDT participation.

Match 1: Dragon Bane, Alejandro & Daiki Odashima beat Kai Fujimura, YO-HEY & Jun Masaoka. Odashima pinned Masaoka after Rotating Olympics Hell 1.

Match 2: Yuto Koyanagi beat Tetsuya Endo & Black Menso-re in a 3-way by pinning Menso-re.

Match 3: KENTA & HAYATA beat Atsushi Kotoge & Mohammed Yone. KENTA beat Yone with Relic Lock.

Match 4: Kaito kiyomiya beat Hiroya Namiki.

Match 5: Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh & Manabu Soya beat Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows & Hi69. Soya pinned Hi69 after Ballistic.

Match 6: Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & RYUSEI beat OZAWA, Alpha Wolf & Tadasuke. Naito pinned Tadasuke after Destino.

Match 7: Kouga beat Hiroto Tsuruya.

Main Event: The Chairman’s 15th Anniversary Match: Masa Kitamiya & Takashi Sugiura beat Yoshiki Inamura & Shane Haste. Kitamiya pinned Inamura after a diving senton. The Chairman is, of course, Kitamiya, as he has been since turning heel and defecting to Team 2000X.

The next event is Tuesday at Hodogaya Public Hall in Kanagawa. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Thursday.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 10/18/2026 Results (Updated)

Tokyo Joshi Pro held the first Noto Genki Pro Wrestling event today, visiting part of Ishikawa that was devastated by the Noto Peninsula earthquake in 2024.

Today’s event was held at Wadauchi Sports Center in Ishikawa and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 625, a legit sellout.

Match 1: HIMAWARI beat Chieri Sakimori.

Match 2: Rika Tatsumi & Ren Konatsu beat Mahiro Kiryu & Chika Nanase. Tatsumi beat Nanase with a dragon sleeper.

Match 3: Raku beat Mifu Ashida.

Match 4: Suzume & Sakura Hattori beat Toga & Shion Kanzaki. Suzume pinned Kanzaki after Ring A Bell.

Match 5: Yuki Aino & Haru Kazashiro beat Miyu Yamashita & Kira Summer. Aino pinned Summer after Venus DDT.

Match 6: Aja Kong (OZ Academy) & Yuki Kamifuku beat Miu Watanabe & Pom Harajuku. Kamifuku pinned Harajuku after Fameasser.

Main Event: Yuki Arai, Mizuki & Uta Takami beat Shoko Nakajima, Wakana Uehara & Shino Suzki. Arai beat Suzuki with a scorpion deathlock.

The next event is Saturday at Kasukabe Fureai Cube in Saitama to resume the (I thought it was over but it’s not) fall house show tour. The matches could also set up the finals of the NexGene Tournament depending on results. There will be no live broadcast. On demand 10/26.

UPDATE: After the event, added to 11/8 at Korakuen Ball in Tokyo was what will be the Shiori Futaba Debut Match: Shiori Futaba, Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi vs. Mifu Ashida, Wakana Uehara & Mizuki. The current card suggests either it’s now final at 7 matches or there may be one more match added.

DDT News: Early 10/17/2026 Event News/Fallout (Updated x2)

DDT is running their monthly Tokyo signature event right now and is wrapping it up. I normally would have done live results since it’s a weekend matinee (and was a 7:30 PM PT start time) but was unable to this time due to a schedule conflict and results aren’t available yet, but here is some breaking news/fallout from today:
Shinya Aoki is joining the promotion effective 11/3. Apparently he’s been a freelancer prior despite semi-regular appearances the last few years.
Yuki Iino’s final DDT match on 11/3 is official-his final opponent will be Yukio Naya. Iino will be moving to Pro Wrestling NOAH full-time after that event.
A new ring announcer and 3 new trainees were introduced during the event. The new wrestlers are scheduled to debut in December.

More news and full results when they become available.

UPDATE: Here are the full results:
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Naomi Yoshimura & Masami Inahata beat Sanshiro Takagi & Yuki Ishida. Yoshimura pinned Ishida after Paybacks.

After that…
Super Sasadango Machine beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yuki Ueno to win the title. Machine becomes the 1918th Champion. Which led to…
Yuki Ueno beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Super Sasadango Machine to win the title. Ueno becomes the 1919th Champion. Which led to…
Danshoku Dieno beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yuki Ueno to win the title. Dieno becomes the 1920th Champion. Which led to…
To-y beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Danshoku Dieno to win the title. To-y becomes the 1921st Champion. Which led to…
Super Sasadango Machine beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion To-y to win the title. Machine becomes the 1922nd Champion. Which led to…
Yui Yoshida beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Super Sasadango Machine to win the title. Yoshida becomes the 1923rd Champion. Yoshida is a comedian who was a special guest on commentary for today’s event. Which led to…
Danshoku Dieno beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yui Yoshida to win the title. Dieno becomes the 1924th Champion. Which led to…
Yuki Ueno beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Danshoku Dieno to win the title. Ueno becomes the 1925th Champion. All that in the span of about 10 minutes. Pro Wrestling, Everybody!

We now return to your regularly scheduled results…

Match 2: Yuki Ueno, To-y & Kaisei Takechi beat Danshoku DIeno, Kazuki Hirata & Super Sasadango Machine in ONE SECOND. Takechi pinned Hirata. Which led to…oh, wait, the wackiness above is not done yet!
Kazuki Hirata beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yuki Ueno to win the title. Hirata becomes the 1926th Champion.

Match 3: Shinya Aoki & Junta Miyawaki beat Jun Akiyama & Daichi Sato. Aoki pinned Sato with Aoki Clutch.

Match 4: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani & Illusion beat Shunma Katsumata, Yuni & Kazuma Sumi to retain the titles. Sasaki pinned Sumi. V1 for the champs.

Match 5: KO-D Tag Team Champions Takeshi Masada & Yuya Koroku beat Takao Soma & Shota to retain the titles. Koroku pinned Soma. V1 for the champs. Although still competing in DDT, this was Soma’s first appearance (I believe) as a freelancer as he left the promotion at the end of September.

Match 6: DDT Universal Champion Ryusuke Taguchi beat Akito to retain the title. V4 for Taguchi.

Main Event: In an elimination match with over the top rope rules, MAO, KANON, Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya beat Chris Brookes, HARASHIMA, Antoino Honda & Hinata Kasai. Order of elimination: Kasai by Iino, Iino by Naya, Naya & Honda together, KANON by Brookes, HARASHIMA by MAO, Brookes by MAO. MAO wins as only one left on his team. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: Yuki Iino beat Danshoku Dieno. The Danshoku DIeno that was part of those deplorable Pheromones. After all, Iino defecting to NOAH means one thing that already seems permanent given he transformed himself into a slightly balder & darker-skinned Manabu Soya…NOT SEXY!!!

The next event is Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

UPDATE 2: Next up for Taguchi: To-y. That match will happen on 11/29.