RUMOR: Major Tokyo Wrestling Venue Closing?

This has not been confirmed by the venue yet, and I can’t get more info because the reporting site appears to be geoblocked or restricted (I’ll try using VPN later to get to it), but Japanese site Kakutolog is reporting on socials that Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, which is celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary this year, will close this fall. The site cautions the venue has not announced anything official and is still advertising events-both pro wrestling and music as it is also a concert/theater venue-into May, but also fueling this are is an announcement from Bar123, a pro wrestling themed bar stating the same, who also shared a post from Marigold wrestler Minami Komomo, who possibly started all this a week or two ago in announcing Marigold will run at Kinshicho Marui, which is a shopping center in Sumida City, Tokyo. But perhaps it is also an affiliated Marui Annex in Shinjuku. Nonetheless it bears monitoring as a closure of Shinjuku Face would have a huge impact on wrestling as many indies as well as DDT, Pro Wrestling NOAH, Tokyo Joshi Pro and others frequently run there…all really but New Japan and, to a minimal extent, All-Japan. Again, nothing official on this yet.

More as it becomes available.