BREAKING: GLEAT Wrestler Leaving Promotion

According to a news post from GLEAT today, Brass Knuckles JUN is apparently done with the promotion. Depending on how you interpret translation of a conversation JUN had with President Hiroyuki Suzuki at yesterday’s event, JUN either asked for it it or talked himself into being fired. It sounded like JUN was going to be traveling starting today and requested his contract be terminated and perhaps he work as a freelancer. Either way, JUN is no longer with the promotion and, based on the popularity of his TheSick faction and having a t-shirt that just went on sale, perhaps at a bad time.

I did come across a social media post from JUN after this (posted earlier today) who confirmed he has left the promotion after 4+ years and perhaps somewhat regretted how the conversation went. But he will be moving on to compete elsewhere as a freelancer for now.

News: TAKAYAMANIA Main Event Announced

With tickets going on sale tomorrow, Minoru Suzuki has revealed the main event of TAKAYAMANIA EMPIRE 5, the annual fundraiser event for legendary wrestler Yoshihiro Takayama. This year it will be Suzuki & El Desperado vs. Naomichi Marufuji & HARASHIMA. All profits from ticket sales will be donated to Takayama’s wife to assist with his medical care & rehab

The event will be held on 9/7 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. It will be a live ABEMA broadcast in Japan, hopefully on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE afterwards.

GLEAT 7/2/2026 Results

GLEAT ran a house show today in Tokyo to kick off their 6th year. This is the last event before the GLEAT Ver. numbering for all events going forward begins (but the matches are still called G PROWRESTLING, Lidet UWF, etc).

Today’s event was held at Basement Monstar in Tokyo and should be available on demand on YouTube at a later date. There was bo live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 87, a legit sellout. It’s a VERY small venue. (Kobe Lapis Hall in Kobe, where Dragon Gate tapes PRIME ZONE+, is a good comparison as I think it doesn’t even hold 100 for those events)

Match 1: T-Hawk beat Jo Yamamoto by submission.

Match 2: JD Lee beat Junjie.

Match 3: Tetsuya Izuchi, SBK & Nobu San beat Keiichi Sato, Rock Iwasaki & Kohei Kinoshita Izuchi pinned Sato after Kill Zone.

Match 4: Kaito Ishida & KAZMA SAKAMOTO beat ARASHI & So Daimonji. SAKAMOTO pinned Daimonji. Afterwards, Kapy & Van Vert Jack came out after winning the next G INFINITY Championship shot yesterday and demanded a date be set for their title shot. That match will happen on 7/16.

Match 5: In a G-Rush Rules Match, Soma Watanabe beat G-Rush Champion Minoru Tanaka & Brass Knuckles JUN in a 3-way elimination match, first eliminating Tanaka then, after the time limit, eliminating JUN in overtime, to win the title. Watanabe becomes the 4th G-Rush Champion.

Main Event: El Lindaman, MICHIKO, Takanori Ito & Takehiro Yamamura beat Ryuichi Kawakami, Quiet Storm, Hayato Tamura & Kotaro Suzuki. Lindaman pinned Kawakami after a piledriver.

The next event is 7/16 at City Hall & Gallery Gotanda in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA

Dragon Gate 7/2/2026 Results (Updated)

Dragon Gate kicked off the Aggresive Gate 2026 Tour, it’s biggest of the year, with the monthly Tokyo event.

Today’s event was held at Kotakuen Hall in Tokyo 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: Flamita & Luis Mante beat Dragon Kid & Susumu Yokosuka. Flamita pinned Yokosuka after Flam Fly.

Match 2: YAMATO, KAGETORA, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Toru Owashi, Problem Dragon, Punch Tominaga & Ryu Fida. KAGETORA pinned Fuda.

Match 3: TBA, revealed at match time to be Alexander Otsuka, beat Jiro Shinbashi.

Match 4: Hyo, JACKY KAMEI, Riiita & Mochizuki Junior beat Strong Machine J, U-T, GuC & @KEY. Junior pinned @KEY with a German suplex hold.

Match 5: Yuki Yoshioka & Homare beat Ryoya Tanaka & Kazuma Kimura. Homare pinned Kimura.

Match 6: Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii, Genki Horiguchi & Yasushi Kanda beat Madoka Kikuta, KAI, ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato. Mochizuki pinned KAI after a buzzsaw kick.

Impromptu Match: Gianni Valetta beat Shun Skywalker.

Match 7: Kota Minoura beat Jason Lee.

Main Event: Kzy beat El Cielo. As a result, Kzy will face Open The Dream Gate Champion Madoka Kikuta for the title at Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival 2026 on 7/20.

The next event is Saturday at Nadazaki Cultural Center in Okayama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

UPDATE: Also added to 7/20 is Open The Twin Gate Champions JACKY KAMEI & Riiita vs. Yuki Yoshioka & Kota Minoura for the titles.

DDT 7/2/2026 Results

DDT held the latest Daisuke Sasaki Produced event today, which he dubbed CHARISMANIA 4.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The paid attendance was not announced.

Tetsu Inada was the guest ring announcer.

Match 1: Yasu Urano & Sangre Azteca Jr. beat Naohiro Katsuni & Yunikaras Jr. (likely Yuni). Both winners beat both losers simultaneously.

Match 2: Ryunosuke Nagai beat MJ Paul.

Match 3: 3 Fake Brahman Yuukis vs. Trans-Am Hiroshi, Takayuki Ueki & Takeshi Masada went to a no contest. Out of control.

Match 4: Ayato Yoshida & Gabai Ji-chan beat Minoru Fujita & Illusion. Gabai pinned Illusion.

Match 5: In a Barbed Wire Board Crash Match, where the first to put the other through a barbed wire board wins, DDT Extreme Champion Hideki Okatani vs. Yuko Miyamoto went to a draw because both went through said board together. As a result, Okatani retains the title. V3 for Okatani. Next up: Yuki Ishida. And he’s got the stip/rules-Belt vs. Hair. If Ishida loses, he loses his hair. That match will happen on 7/26 at Korakuen Hall.

Main Event: DDT O-40 Champion Daisuke Sasaki beat Shuji Ishikawa & Keisuke Ishii in a 3-way by pinning Ishii to retain the title. V2 for Sasaki.

If what Illusion said post-main event holds true, there will be a CHARISMANIA 5, but when isn’t known.

The next event is Sunday at Rembrandt Hotel Atsugi in Kanagawa. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Wednesday.

New Japan 7/2/2026 Results

New Japan continued the Road To G1 CLIMAX Tour today in Saitama.

Today’s event was held at Tokorozawa Citizen Gym in Saitama. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 634.

Match 1: Daiki Nagai beat Taisei Nakahara.

Match 2: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Sho beat Masatora Yasuda & Ryusuke Taguchi. Kanemaru beat Yasuda with a figure 4.

Match 3: Tiger Mask, Toru Yano & Togo Makabe beat Tatsuya Matusnoto, El Desperado & Satoshi Kojima. Yano pinned Matsumoto. Afterwards, the TM 4 farewell rounds continued as his retirement tour enters the final week.

Match 4: Taichi & Yuya Uenura. Eat Jacob Austin Young & Great-O-Khan. Uemura pinned Young after Lions Shiner.

Match 5: Jado, Master Wato, Aaron Wolf & Shota Umino beat Kosei Fujita, Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. Umino pinned Jackson after Second Chapter.

Match 6: YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Yoh beat Zane Jay, Jake Lee & Francesco Akira. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Jay after Shoto.

Main Event: Gedo, Taiji Ishimori, OSKAR (The Grouch), Yuto Ice (Ice Baby) & Yota Tsuji beat Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi, DOUKI, SANADA & Ren Narita. Tsuji pinned DOUKI after Gene Blaster.

The next event is Saturday at Yamagata Big Wing in Yamagata. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. This will be the last non-televised event for a while (probably until the end of August) as all G1 CLIMAX events will be live & on demand on New Japan World. 7/18 & 7/19 will be available OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY as they will be exclusive TV Asahi live broadcasts in Japan 7/22 will also be a live Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan. As a reminder, the 7/11 US event will be a NON-PPV New Japan World broadcast.

Stardom News: Another AEW Appearance (SPOILERS!)

Between last week’s Forbidden Door PPV and other happenings, Stardom has been a semi-regular in All Elite Wrestling recently. Another appearance is coming up-this one is TAPED again (airing tonight) so if you don’t want SPOILERS avoid clicking below for now. Otherwise, proceed..

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Stardom News: Result From AEW Participation Tonight (7/1/2026)

You may recall from last weekend that Stardom wrestler Maika won a match in All Elite Wrestling to get into a title match tonight on the AEW Dynamite program, which is why she missed yesterday’s Stardom event in Japan. That match is in the books, which was a 6-way elimination match for the vacant AEW TBS Championship. Maika lost, being eliminated by fellow Japanese wrestler Hikaru Shida. The match went like this: Harley Cameron was eliminated first by CMLL wrestler Persephone, Maika was eliminated second by Shida, Persephone was eliminated third by Queen Aminata, Persephone was eliminated fourth by Kris Statlander, then finally Shida eliminated Statlander to win the title. Maika is now headed back to Japan and is expected back in time for Stardom’s next event on Saturday.

The match can be watched on demand on the TBS (US version, there is also a TBS in Japan, specifically in Tokyo)website & mobile app with a participating cable/satellite/streaming subscription or on HBO Max with a subscription. It may show up on Stardom World at some point as well…but don’t go looking right this moment. Stardom World is currently down until 1 AM PT/4 AM ET on 7/2/2026 due to scheduled maintenance.

GLEAT 7/1/2026 Results

GLEAT ran their 5th Anniversary event today on the date of their first event in 2001. Below are the quick results from the event.

Today’s event was held at SGC Hall Ariake in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. However, it may be their biggest number to date. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1013)

Match 1: Kapy & Van Vert Jack beat JD Lee & So Daimonji, Masami Inahata & Rukiya, Shigehiro Irie & Yuya Aoki and Keiichi Sato & Logei Kinoshita in a 5-way elimination match. As a result, Kapy & Jack will get the next G INFINITY Championship match after today.

Match 2: Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kazuyuki Fujita, Shinya Aoki & Kendo Ka Shin beat Jo Yamamoto, Ryo Aitaka, Tetsuya Izuchi & Yu Iizuka.

Match 3: Azusa Inaba, Chanyota, Matika Kobashi & MICHIKO beat Ayane Sasura, Hikari Noa, Misa Kagura & Sayaka Unagi.

Match 4: Atsushi Kotoge, Mohammed Yone, Hajime Ohara & Kaito Kiyomiya (Pro Wrestling NOAH) beat Hayato Tamura, Junjie, Ryuichi Kawakami & Talehiro Yamamura.

Match 5: G INFINITY Champions Kaito Ishida & KAZMA SAKAMOTO beat Brass Knuckles JUN & Rock Iwasaki to retain the titles. V4 for the champs. Next up: Kapy & Jack after winning the first match

Match 6: Lidet UWF Single Bout: Lidet UWF Champion Takanori Ito beat Daisuke Sekimoto by ref stoppage to retain the title. V2 for Ito.

Match 7: ARASHI, El Fiscal & Soma Watanabe beat Abismo Negro Jr., Nobu San & SBK.

Match 8: Naomichi Marufuji (Pro Wrestling NOAH) & Kotaro Suzuki beat Kaz Hayashi & Minoru Tanaka.

Main Event: G-REX Champion El Lindaman beat T-Hawk to retain the title. V5 for Lindaman.

The next event is tomorrow at Basement Monstar in Tokyo. The card will not be announced in advance. Broadcast plans TBA but at the moment it looks like no live broadcast. Also, after tomorrow all events will use GLEAT Ver. numbering going forward, no more G PROWRESTLING, Lidet UWF, etc. So when that resumes later this month it will be GLEAT Ver. 26 and going from there.

TJPW News: Tokyo Princess Cup Entrants Announced

Ahead of this year’s Tokyo Princess Cup Tournament, Tokyo Joshi Pro just announced the entrants for this year’s event. With 24 participants that usually encompasses the entire roster it’s easier to list who IS NOT in: Kira Summer (will be back home in Australia for several events) and, notably, Yuki Kamifuku, who just announced her retirement today (will retire at the end of the year). It was her decision to not participate. Also out because they are long-term inactive are Shino Suzuki & Runa Okubo. Notably IN is Momo Sato, who will debut next month right before the tournament.

Actual matchups are TBA. Those will be determined by random drawing.