News, results & more from Japanese Pro Wrestling & Sumo
Stardom’s US return is underway as they are in Las Vegas for WrestleMania week festivities. NEAR LIVE results of the event will be posted below as they become available.
Today’s event is being held at The Pearl At The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, NV and can be watched LIVE as a PPV on Triller/FITE for $19.99. (I am unable to watch live due to work schedule conflicts)
Updates below will begin shortly.
GLEAT ran a special online-only mini-event today, the second or third in a new series of unannounced events made for streaming.
Today’s event was held at an unspecified location and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube.
This was a closed event with no fans in attendance.
Match 1: Takehiro Yamamura & Ryuichi Kawakami beat Junjie & Kotaro Suzuki. Yamamura pinned Suzuki.
Match 2: Tetsuya Izuchi vs. El Lindaman went to a 20 minute time limit draw.
Main Event: Takanori Ito, T-Hawk & Hayato Tamura beat Kaito Ishida, Soma Watanabe & KAZMA SAKAMOTO. T-Hawk pinned Watanabe.
The next event is Sunday at Ogimachi Museum CUBE01 in Osaka. Broadcast plans TBA but probably no live broadcast with on demand sometime next week.
New Japan has announced a major change to WRESTLING DONTAKU 2026 Day 2 on 5/3-Gabriel Kidd is now off the event. Right shoulder injury. This happened this past weekend at the All Elite Wrestling Dynasty PPV. Out indefinitely but at least a month because of this. He was to have faced IWGP Global Champion Yota Tsuji for the title. No word yet on a potential replacement if any.
More as it becomes available.
Tokyo Joshi Pro is back in the US today for a morning matinee as part of WrestleMania week. Below are NEAR LIVE results from the event (I am unable to watch live due to work schedule conflicts).
Today’s event is being held at The Pearl At The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, NV and can be watched LIVE as a PPV on Triller/FITE for $19.99. There is no live broadcast on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 424)
Match 1: Yuki Kamifuku & Walana Ushara beat Toga & Uta Takami. Kamifuku pinned Takami after Fameasser.
Match 2: Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku beat HIMAWARI, Shino Suzuki & Alexis Lee. Aino pinned Suzuki after Venus DDT.
Match 3: Miyu Yamashita beat Mizuki & Miu Watanabe in a 3-way by pinning Mizuki.
Match 4: International Princess Champion Suzume beat Sakura Hattori to retain the title. V1 for Suzume. Next up: As already announced, Haru Kazashiro. That match will happen on 5/4 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.
Match 5: Princess Tag Team Champions Jessica McKay & Cassie Lee beat Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao to retain the titles. Lee pinned Nakajima. V1 for the champs. Still an upset to me.
Main Event: Princess Of Princess Champion Yuki Arai beat J-Rod to retain the title. V1 for Arai.
End Show.
The next event is a TJPW INSPIRATION event Saturday at Itabashi Green Hall in Tokyo with some of the wrestlers who did not go to the US. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Tuesday.
UPDATE: Next ip for the tag champs-possibly Watanabe & Tatsumi, maybe on 5/4.
New Japan returns to the US today for an El Desperado Produced event, Death Vegas International”, as part of WrestleMania Week festivities in Las Vegas. As the title suggests, the event focuses heavily on hardcore & death matches with both international and US participation including Desperado himself.
There has been a late change to the card due to Maki Itoh being pulled off the event. Visa issues. She will instead be a guest on Japanese commentary.
Today’s event will be held at the Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, NV and can be watched LIVE as follows: On Triller/FITE with a Triller+ subscription ($7.99/month, free trial available for new subscribers) in English, and as a PPV on New Japan World ($22.99) in Japanese & English. The Triller+ version includes unlimited on demand replays while the New Japan World version only includes replays until 5/31 (subject to change). There are currently 6 matches scheduled as the Triller lineup does not include a late addition, and based on yesterday’s events and the venue schedule I anticipate this event having a total running time of just over 2 hours.
UPDATE: You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.
Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Daisuke Sasaki & Gedo vs. Gringo Loco & Joey Janela in a House Rules hardcore match
KUSHIDA & YAMATO vs. Mansoor & Mason Madden and Alec Price & Jordan Oliver in a 3-way
Effy vs. Jimmy Lloyd & ISHIN in a 3-way hardcore match
Masashi Takeda & Rina Yamashita vs. El Desperado & Jun Kasai and Matt Tremont & Nick Gage in a 3-way death match
Dragon Kid & Starlight Kid vs. El Phantasmo & TBA (was Maki Itoh)
Zack Sabre Jr. vs. TBA (chosen by Hikaru Sato)
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Updates below will begin at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.
8 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
We are LIVE form the Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Your hosts, who I can’t hear well, are Veda Scott and someone else. Might be Rich Bocchini.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Looks like a setup for around 500 and close to it. (UPDATE: The paid attendance was not announced)
Match 1: Zack Sabre Jr. vs. TBA chosen by Hikaru Sato. TBA is Fuminori Abe
Result: Zack Sabre Jr. beat Fuminori Abe
Match 2: Effy vs. Jimmy Lloyd & ISHIN (Dragon Gate) in a 3-way hardcore match. 30 minute time limit
Result: ISHIN beat Effy & Jimmy Lloyd in a 3-way by pinning Lloyd.
Match 3: KUSHIDA & YAMATO (Dragon Gate) vs. Mansoor & Mason Madden and Alec Price & Jordan Oliver in a 3-way. 30 minute time limit. Technical difficulties during this match (signal lost)
Result: KUSHIDA & YAMATO won but didn’t see who they beat. Will update later. (UPDATE: KUSHIDA pinned Mansoor)
8:50 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates end here for now due to technical issues. The signal from the venue has been lost.
8:55 PM PT UPDATE: Signal restored for now. Missed end of 3rd match.
Match 4: Dragon Kid (Dragon Gate) & Starlight Kid (Stardom) vs. El Phantasmo & TBA. TBA is Maika (Stardom). 30 minute time limit
Result: El Phantasmo & Maika beat Dragon Kid & Starlight Kid. Phantasmo pinned Dragon Kid.
Match 5: Daisuke Sasaki (DDT) & Gedo vs. Gringo Loco & Joey Janela in a House Rules hardcore match. 30 minute time limit
Result: Gringo Loco & Joey Janela beat Daisuke Sasaki & Gedo. Janela pinned Gedo.
Quick break to prepare for the main event.
Main Event: Masashi Takeda (Freedoms) & Rina Yamashita (Stardom) vs. El Desperado & Jun Kasai (Freedoms) and Matt Tremont & Nick Gage in a 3-way death match. 30 minute time limit
Result: Matt Tremont & Nick Gage beat Masashi Takeda & Rina Yamashita and El Desperado & Jun Kasai in a 3-way when Gage pinned Desperado.
Except for the main event. this was surprisingly lacking hardcore. That and technical issues during match 3 made this a slightly disappointing event overall. Glad I got it for free.
End Show.
The next event is Sunday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo to start the Road To WRESTLING DONTAKU 2026 Tour. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.
As part of this year’s WrestleMania week independent events in Las Vegas, Dragon Gate is back with another of their DRAGONGATE USA events today, The Gate Of Sin City. Co-promoted with help of Game Changer Wrestling & Dragon Gate wrestler Ho Ho Lun (who is also a sort-of-international liaison for the promotion), today’s event features a mix of Dragon Gate wrestlers from Japan and independent wrestlers from the US with Dragon Gate being featured in every match.
Today’s event will be held at Horseshoe Las Vegas in Las Vegas, NV and can be watched LIVE on Triller/FITE with a Triller+ subscription, which is available for $7.99/month with a 1-week free trial for new subscribers. It’s not yet known if there will be any commentary but there probably will be English commentary. t will not be available on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. There are 6 matches currently scheduled and I’m not sure if there will be other events before or after this one at the venue so I anticipate the event’s running tiime being about 2 hours.
Today’s lineup )match order TBA):
Aero Panther & Fight Panther Jr. vs. Alec Price & Joradn Oliver and Ben-K & Hyo in a 3-way
Susumu Yokosuka vs. Marcus Mathers
KAI vs. Willie Mack & El Cucuy in a 3-way
Ho Ho Lun & La Estrella vs. Channing Decker & Rhys Maddox
Dragon Kid, Kzy & Yuki Yoshioka vs. ISHIN, Madoka Kikuta & Yoshiki Kato
YAMATO vs. Jonathan Gresham
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8 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
We are LIVE from the Horseshoe Casino & Resort in Las Vegas, NV. Your hosts are Larry Doud (?) and Joe Dombrowski.
The paid attendance may or may not be announced after the event. The venue is on the small side and looks set up for maybe 300-400 but right now it looks like a crowd of about half that. It is a Wednesday night in Vegas though.
The matches begin right away.
Match 1: KAI vs. Willie Mack & El Cucuy in a 3-way
Result: Willie Mack beat KAI & El Cucuy in a 3-way by pinning KAI.
Match 2: Ho Ho Lun & La Estrella vs. Channing Decker & Rhys Maddox
Result: Ho Ho Lun & La Estrella beat Channing Decker & Rhys Maddox. Lun pinned Decker.
Match 3: Susumu Yokosuka vs. Marcus Mathers
Result: Marcus Mathers beat Susumu Yokosuka
Match 4: Aero Panther & Fight Panther Jr. vs. Alec Price & Jordan Oliver and Ben-K & Hyo in a 3-way
Result: Ben-K & Hyo beat Aero Panther & Fight Panther Jr. and Alec Price & Jordan Oliver in a 3-way when Hyo pinned Panther.
Match 5: YAMATO vs. Jonathan Gresham
Result: YAMATO beat Jonathan Gresham by submission
Main Event: Dragon Kid, Kzy & Yuki Yoshioka vs. ISHIN, Madoka Kikuta & Yoshiki Kato
result: Dragon Kid, Kzy & Yuki Yoshioka pinned ISHIN, Madoka Kikuta & Yoshiki Kato. Kzy pinned ISHIN after Impact.
End Show.
The next event is Friday at Kobe Lapis Hall in Kobe for a PRIME ZONE+ taping. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.
One of the great unsolved mysteries in Japanese women’s wrestling the last few years is why Hikari Noa, a rising star in Tokyo Joshi Pro who balanced Up Up Girls with hardcore dabbling on the side, inexplicably walked away without revealing why. We may never get an answer but Noa resurfaced on social media today with a new Twitter account and, based on a video posted by Sayaka Unagi to YouTube, is making a comeback. They revealed in the video that Noa will return at a Unagi-produced independent event on 6/21 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Her look has understandably changed, most notably she has full blonde hair now but looks well physically and this is already generating a lot of excitement among fans.
More as it becomes available.
Until the other day, broadcast plans for New Japan’s El Desperado Produced event in Las Vegas, NV on Thursday seemed in flux as I hadn’t found any streaming details. Those have now been cleared up-the event will be a PPV on New Japan World in Japanese & English. It can be purchased now for $22.99 in the US or 3500 yen (around $22) in Japan and will include unlimited replays until 5/30.
For now the event has 5 matches scheduled which are as follows (match order will be announced on event day):
Dragon Kid & Starlight Kid vs. El Phantasmo & TBA. TBA was to have been Maki Itoh but she is now off the event. Visa issues.
Nick Gage & Matt Tremont vs. El Desperado & Jun Kasai and Rina Yanashita & Masashi Takeda in a 3-way death match
Effy vs. Jimmy Lloyd & ISHIN in a 3-way
Jordan Oliver & Alec Price vs. KUSHIDA & YAMATO and Mansoor & Mason Madden in a 3-way
UPDATE: Stardom has announced that Itoh will be a guest on the Japanese commentary version of the PPV (they will be doing it from Japan). Also added to the card is Zack Sabre Jr. vs. TBA, but that TBA will be someone chosen by Hikaru Sato. Also added is Gedo & Daisuke Sasaki vs. Joey Janela & Gringo Loco in a House Rules Hardcore match.
UPDATE 2: The event will also be available on Triller/FITE with a Triller+ subscription, so if you have that you DO NOT need to buy the PPV on New Japan World.
GLEAT bad puns are so easy to come up with…joking aside, unfortunately they have another injury absence to report, this time it’s MICHIKO. Fractured axial vertebra tooth based on translation. Out indefinitely. No word yet on how long she may be out.
More as it becomes available.
UPDATE: Correction1the injury appears to be a neck bone. This from translation of MICHIKO commenting on GLEAT’s original post.
All-Japan kicked off the 2026 Champions Carnival, the annual spring Heavyweight singles tournament, today in Tokyo.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on drmand on AJPW.TV. This will also be a taped Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan at a later date.
The announced paid attendance was 1194.
Match 1: Dan Tamura, Hokuto Omori & Hikaru Sato beat Seigo Tachibana, Shota Kofuji & Seiki Yoshioka. Tamura pinned Tachibana with La Magistral.
Match 2: Champions Carnival Block A: Rei Saito beat Kumaarashi.
Match 3: Champions Carnival Blovk B: Daisuke Sekimoto beat Yuma Aoyagi.
Match 4: Champions Carnival Block A: Kengo Mashimo beat Talos.
Match 5: Kento Miyahara, Atsuki Aoyagi, Ryuki Honda & Rising Hayato beat Odyssey, Shotaro Ashino, MUSASHI & Ryo Inoue. Miyahara pinned Inoue with a shutdown suplex hold.
Match 6: Champions Carnival Block B: Xyon beat Hideki Suzuki.
Match 7: Champions Carnival Block B: Ren Ayabe beat Jun Saito.
Main Event/ Champions Carnival Block A: Go Shiozaki beat Yuma Anzai.
The next event is Saturday at Kinjo Pier Arena in Nagoya. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin Friday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET.
In other news, it was announced that Yasutaka Yano, who first appeared in the promotion as masked wrestler KURAMA before unmasking, will re-debut on 5/17.