New Japan 6/19/2026 Results

New Japan began the Road To G1 CLIMAX Tour today in Nagano.

Today’s event was held at Chino Civic. Enter Multi-Hall in Nagano. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 568.

Match 1: In a handicap match, Hartley Jackson beat Taisei Nakahara & Tatsuya Matusmoto by pinning Nakahara.

Match 2: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Sho beat Masatora Yasuda & Master Wato. Kanemaru beat Yasuda with a figure 4.

Match 3: DOUKI, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Toru Yano & Togi Makabe. DOUKI beat Taguchi with a neck lock.

Match 4: Kosei Fujita & Ryohei Oiwa beat Jacob Austin Young & Jake Lee. Oiwa pinned Young after The Grip.

Match 5: Yoh, Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI beat Satoshi Kojima, Shota Umino & Aaron Wolf. Goto pinned Kojima after Shoto.

Match 6: El Desperado, Yuya Uemura & Taichi beat Gedo, OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby). Uemura beat Gedo with a wrist lock.

Main Event: Daiki Nagai, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji beat Zane Jay, Great-O-Khan & HENARE. Tsuji pinned Jay after Fire Blaster.

The next event is BLUE JUSTICE 18, the latest Yuji Nagata Produced event, tomorrow at Kimitsu City Gym in Chiba. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET. There will also be Tiger Mask 4 participation tonight in Mexico at CMLL FANTASTICAMANIA 2026 Mexico in Mexico City-that event streams live & on demand on the CMLL YouTube channel but is paywalled (requires a monthly paid membership that I think is $30).

DDT 6/18/2026 Results

DDT ran another Beer Garden Pro Wrestling event today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Ueno Park Outdoor Stage in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Sunday. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced.

There was a last-minute change to the card die to Daisuke Sasaki being pulled off the event. Apparent comedy angle involving crocodiles, not being able to sleep and getting him to come to the event as a crocodile instead.

Before the event began, Strange Love Connection appeared and announced YUZUKI (Yuzuki Hoshimoto) has joined the promotion.

Match 1: KANON, Junta Miyawaki & Yuki Ishida beat Jun Akiyama, Rukiya & Masami Inahata. KANON pinned Inahata after a lariat.

Match 2: Yuki Ueno beat Hinata Kasai.

Before the next match…

Bunbun beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yuya Koroku to win the title. Bunbun becomes the 1829th Champion. Which led to…

Match 3: Antonio Honda beat DDT Iton Man Heavymetalweight Champion Bunbun to win the title. Honda becomes the 1830th Champion. For those who don’t know about it, Bunbun is a stuffed animal carried to matches by Takeshi Masada.

Match 4: Takeshi Masada, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato beat Chris Brookes, DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Antonio Honda & Akito, when Koroku beat Honda to win the title. Koroku becomes the 1831st Champion.

Match 5: In a Crocodile Deathmatch, Crocodile D Sasa (Daisuke Sasaki), Hideki The Wild (Hideki Okatani) & Illusion beat MAO, Yukio Naya & Viente Maligno. Okatani pinned Maligno after a vertical drop brainbister in a pool.

Before the main event…

Kazuki Hirata beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yuya Koroku to won the title. Hirata becomes the 1832nd Champion.

Main Event: In a Ring Removal Deathmatch, HARASHIMA, Danshoku Dieno & Kazuki Hirata beat Shunma Katsumata, To-y & Yuni. Dieno pinned Yuni after Danshoku Driver. Along the way, HARASHIMA secured the right to be exempt from venue ring removal for a year.

The next event is Saturday at Osaka Azalea Taisho in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Monday.

All-Japan 6/18/2026 Results

All-Japan wrapped up the Super Power Series 2026 Tour today with a major event in Tokyo.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1504, a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Hokuto Omori, Yasutaku Yano, Masayuki Kono, Fuminori Abe & Yuya Aoki beat Xyon, MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka, Shota Kofuji & Hyo Ogawa. Yano pinned Kofuji.

Match 2: Dan Tamura beat All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Seigo Tachibana to win the title. Tamura becomes the 74th All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion.

Match 3: Ren Ayabe, Talos, Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo beat Jun & Rei Saito, Ryuki Honda & Kumaarashi by ref stoppage. Mashimo beat Jun Saito.

Match 4: NWA World Heavyweight Champion Silas Mason beat Shotaro Ashino to retain the title. This match was held under NWA rules.

Match 5: Go Shiozaki & Yuma Anzai beat Suwama & Yuma Aoyagi. Shiozaki pinned Suwama after Go Lariat.

Match 6: Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato beat All-Asia Tag Team Champions ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato to win the titles. Aoyagi & Hayato become the 132nd All-Asia Tag Team Champions. Aoyagi pinned Kato after a firebird splash. I saw this coming as soon as it was announced, guess it was time to take the titles back from Dragon Gate.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Kento Miyahara beat Hideki Suzuki to retain the Triple Crown. V7 for Miyahara.

The next event is Wednesday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

New Japan News: Possible Upcoming US Title Match (POTENTIAL SPOILERS!) (Updated)

First up, this has the warning about SPOILERS because it comes from reports about this Saturday’s AEW Collision, which was TAPED yesterday. It involves New Japan and the upcoming Forbidden Door PPV, but nothing is official yet on the NJPW side and these spoiler reports aren’t always 100% accurate. We’ll maybe know more Sunday and I share this with proverbial salt as this is my interpretation of the reports, but if you want to know about a potential New Japan title match being hinted at for the PPV, click below. Again, this is UNOFFICIAL right now.

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All-Japan News: Next Jr. Heavyweight Tournament Set

While I wait for full results from today’s All-Japan event (some quick highlights are up on social media, there were some title changes), they did announce another tournament today (there was one earlier in the week called the 13th Classic, which I’m not familiar with unless it’s what was Royal Road before). The Zennichi Jr. Festival will return in August-this will be a Junior Heavyweight tournament with 12 participants in a 2 block round-robin format. Schedule was announced today with participants scheduled to be revealed in a month.

More from today as it becomes available.

DDT 6/17/2026 Results (Updated)

DDT ran their latest Beer Garden Pro Wrestling event today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Ueno Park Outdoor Stage in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Saturday. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Takeshi Masada & Daichi Sato beat Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Masami Inahata. Masada pinned Inahata after Manburi.

Match 2: Yukio Naya & Viente Maligno beat Danshoku Dieno & Antonio Honda in 10 seconds. Naya beat Honda with a cobra twist. Which led to…
Match 2 (again): Yukio Naya & Viente Maligno beat Danshoku Dieno & Antonio Honda. Maya beat Honda with a cobra twist.

Match 3: DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Kazuki Hirata beat Yuya Koroku to retain the title. Which led to…
Yuya Koroku beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Kazuki Hirata to win the title. Koroku becomes the 1828th Champion.

Match 4: In an Irregular Captain Drunk Match, where if a wrestler commits a foul they had to have a drink of alcohol on the spot, Illusion, Daisuke Sasaki & Hideki Okatani beat Yuki Ishida, Rukiya & Hinata Kasai. Illusion pinned Kasai after a swanton bomb.

Match 5: Junta Miyawaki beat Shunma Katsumata.

Main Event: In a Falls Count Anywhere Match, Chris Brookes & HARASHIMA beat Yuki Ueno & To-y, MAO & KANON and Jun Akiyama & Sanshiro Takagi in a 4-way when HARASHIMA pinned To-y. Afterwards, MAO hit Takagi with a vehicle before HARASHIMA could finish the event with his signature “Because I’m Training!”

The post-match happenings have resulted in a change to the MAO-Takagi match on 6/28: It is now a No Referee Match. That means no referee, no DQs and win when the majority of the audience in attendance agrees on a 3 count. Classic DDT.

The next event is tomorrow for more Beer Garden Pro Wrestling. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Sunday.

UPDATE: There has been a last-minute change to tomorrow’s event-Daisuke Sasaki is now off. To put it simply, it’s a comedy absence. Something about a crocodile sighting in 1993 and now he can’t sleep due to fear. It looks like he will instead be appearing as a wrestler called Crocodile D. Sasa to team with Illusion & Hideki Okatani against MAO, Yukio Naya & Viente Maligno. Only one thing to say about that…Pro Wrestling Everybody!!!

News: New Japan New Streaming Partnership Announced

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 6/16/2026 Results

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 5: Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI, Kaito Kiyomiya & KENTA beat Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura, Tetsuya Endo & HAYATA. Naito pinned HAYATA.

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.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 6/15/2026 Results

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.

Sumo-June 2026 Paris Event Quick Results

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.