All-Japan runs the second half of their year-opening New Year Wars doubleheader today in Tokyo. There is one title match today which is the main event, as following Hideki Suzuki officially joining All-Japan yesterday after previously being a freelancer, he teams with Daisuke Sekimoto to challenge Jun & Rei Saito for the All-Japan World Tag Team Championship. We’ll see how Suzuki fares outside of his popular and entertaining “odd couple” pairing with frenemy Suwama, who now is taking a step back and only competing part-time as he starts winding his in-ring career down (and also focuses more on his Evolution women’s promotion). Beyond that, it’s another faction warfare-heavy card plus a Junior Heavyweight spotlight opener.
Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV in Japanese. This will also be a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan. There are only 6 matches today plus the halfway point intermission so I don’t see this event running as long as yesterday’s, probably will be just over 2 1/2 hours.
Today’s lineup:
Rising Hayato, Atsuki Aoyagi, MUSASHI, Dan Tamura & Taishin Nagao vs. Naruki Doi, Seiki Yoshioka, Hikaru Sato, Yuko Miyamoto & Seigo Tachibana
Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe vs. Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy
Yuma Aoyagi vs. Fuminori Abe
Intermission
Kento Miyahara, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Ryo Inoue vs. Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus
Shotaro Ashino vs. Yuma Anzai
All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito vs. Daisuke Sekimoto & Hideki Suzuki for the titles
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Updates below will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.
6:30 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Commentary will join in a few minutes.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Looks very similar to yesterday, not a legit sellout as I see empty seats but not many. Probably will be around 1300 again. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1339, they didn’t call it a near-sellout even though it probably was at least 90% full)
The matches will begin shortly.
The matches begin at 6:35 PM PT/9:35 PM PT. Solo commentary right now.
Match 1: Rising Hayato, Atsuki Aoyagi, MUSASHI, Dan Tamura & Taishin Nagao vs. Naruki Doi, Seiki Yoshioka, Hikaru Sato, Yuko Miyamoto & Seigo Tachibana. 30 minute time limit
Result: Rising Hayato, Atsuki Aoyagi, MUSASHI, Dan Tamura & Taishin Nagao beat Naruki Doi, Seiki Yoshioka, Hikaru Sato, Yuko Miyamoto & Seigo Tachibana. MUSASHI pinned Doi. Afterwards, MUSASHI with microphone. As I figured might be the case given the result, challenge issued for the All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Championship. We’ll see what happens.
Rising Hayato joins commentary for the next match.
Match 2: Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe vs. Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy. 30 minute time limit
Result: Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy. Ayabe pinned Kennedy after Ballistic.
Atsuki Aoyagi replaces Rising Hayato on commentary for the next match.
Match 3: Yuma Aoyagi vs. Fuminori Abe. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuma Aoyagi beat Fuminori Abe
Intermission. Updates will resume after the break.
The matches resume at 7:45 PM PT/10:45 PM ET.
Before they do, some upcoming event announcements beginning with the 2025 Champions Carnival schedule. It will be at least 12 events starting on 4/9 at Korakuen and ending on 5/18 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo. (What was announced is not the full tournament schedule, more dates are TBA). Other big events coming up: 6/1 at Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai, 8/3 in Tokyo at Ota City General Gym, 8/10 in Nagano at Matsumoto City Gym, and 12/31 in Tokyo for the annual year-ender at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2. On 2/9 there will be a Kumaarashi & Shotaro Ashino 10th Anniversary Match…they’ll face each other.
Yuma Aoyagi joins commentary for the next match.
Match 4: Kento Miyahara, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Ryo Inoue vs. Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kento Miyahara, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Ryo Inoue beat Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus. Miyahara pinned Omori with a shutdown suplex hold.
Match 5: Shotaro Ashino vs. Yuma Anzai. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuma Anzai beat Shotaro Ashino
Quick break for ring cleaning.
Kento Miyahara joins commentary for the final match.
Main Event: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito vs. Daisuke Sekimoto & Hideki Suzuki for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito beat Daisuke Sekimoto & Hideki Suzuki to retain the titles. Rei Saito pinned Suzuki after (a sloppy-looking) BBQ Bomb. V7 for the Saitos/champs. Next up: An oddly head-bandaged Anzai came out…alone. Sounds like he was going to challenge with Rising Hayato as his partner. Which could mean…DOUBLE TITLE? Also for the All-Asia Tag Team Championship? Naturally Jun responded with an emphatic finish of DOOM! That would be something, it could mean that-if Naruki Doi counts-the Saitos could soon hold all the titles in All-Japan outside of the AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Championship and GAORA TV Championship. They finished the promo with a rousing “All-Japan DOOM!” to end the show.
The next event is “New Year Fan Thanksgiving Day” on 1/18 at Shinjuku Face. The event is already a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET. (It’s worth nothing that all the events the rest of this month will be live broadcasts on the service, with 1/26 also scheduled to be a GAORA SPORTS broadcast)
