Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling runs their biggest event of the year, WRESTLE PRINCESS 3, today, a blowout event featuring top names from TJPW, All Elite Wrestling, Pro Wrestling EVE in England and more. All 3 TJPW titles are on the line tonight-first, International Princess Champion Alex Windsor returns from England to defend against Miu Watanabe, who will be at a huge size advantage but makes up for it in heart and determination. Then, EVE tries to win more gold as Nightshade & Leah O’Reilly challenge AA Eye Candy (Yuki Arai & Saki Akai) for the Princess Tag Team Championship, another literally huge challenge for the champions. In the main event, Princess Of Princess Champion Shoko Nakajima & Yuka Sakazaki face off for the title once again. The undercard includes former AEW Women’s World Champion Riho, Hall of Fame legend Aja Kong and the scary US sensation Max The Impaler.
Today’s event will be held at Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The Japanese commentary team will be Haruo Murata, Kagehiro Osano and special guest Reika Saiki (a former Princess Of Princess Champion, Tokyo Princess Cup winner and original Up Up Girl among other accolades who officially retired earlier this year). The English commentary team will be Chris Brookes & Baliyan Akki. Vocal cheering by fans will be allowed at the event, which will result in greatly reduced capacity but it could be a sellout as only one section of seats will have same-day tickets available. Everything else is sold out. If you’re going to stay up late in the US to watch plan on a most or all-nighter as I anticipate this event will run close to 3 hours, not including a pre-match press conference with the EVE talent and title signing ceremonies to stream FOR FREE on YouTube one hour before the event before the event. You can also watch until the end of the first match on YouTube.
Today’s lineup:
Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano vs. Arisu Endo & Kaya Toribami
Yuki Kamifuku, Mahiro Kiryu & Neko Haruna vs. Nao Kakuta, Yuna Manase & Yoshiko Hasegawa
Suzume vs. Ryo Mizunami
Mizuki vs. Hyper Misao
Aja Kong, Raku & Pom Harajuku vs. Yuki Aino, Rika Tatsumi & Max The Impaler
Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh vs. Riho & Hikari Noa
International Princess Champion Alex Windsor vs. Miu Watanabe for the title
Princess Tag Team Champions Yuki Arai & Saki Akai vs. Leah O’Reilly & Nightshade for the titles
Princess Of Princess Champion Shoko Nakajima vs. Yuka Sakazaki for the title
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Updates below will begin at 12:30 AM ET/9:30 PM PT. The pre-event press conference and title match contract signings on TJPW’s YouTube channel will begin at midnight ET/9 PM PT.
9:30 PM PT UPDATE: We are LIVE from Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your Japanese hosts are Haruo Murata & Reika Saiki. Kagehiro Osano likely will join us later. Your English hosts are Chris Brookes & Baliyan Akki.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event, but if it’s not a legit sellout it’s going to be very close.
UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1007, a legit sellout. Because vocal cheering was allowed, capacity was only allowed to be 50%.
The matches are scheduled to begin in 30 minutes. The first portion is backstage interviews with the title match participants, although it gets hilarious when Saki Akai & Yuki Arai are interrupted by the wondering Max The Impaler. Haruo Murata sure got scared too. Arai never stopped smiling.
We go back to the ring 10 minutes before start as Sayuri Namba is running around before taking the stage and entering the ring for the opening announcements. It should be noted the opposite-hard camera side of the ring is about right up against the stage, so if they go outside the ring there they’ll be a few feet up on stage. That could be a factor in some matches.
They also introduced two new trainees during this segment.
Up Up Girls performance begins just after 10 PM PT. So we’re about 5-10 minutes from the first match. (Actually not. They’re doing multiple songs, so the first match now won’t begin until at least 10:20 PM PT). But for the second song their new member-to-be joins them.
The matches begin at 10:20 PM PT. Your 3rd host Kagehiro Osano now joins Japanese commentary..
Match 1: Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano vs. Arisu Endo & Kaya Toribami. 20 minute time limitResult: Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano beat Arisu Endo & Kaya Toribami. Nagano pinned Toribami after a rolling high kick. That’s Nagano’s first career victory!
The YouTube broadcast ends here. WRESTLE UNIVERSE continues.
Match 2: Yuki Kamifuku, Mahiro Kiryu & Neko Haruna vs. Nao Kakuta, Yuna Manase (Ganbare Pro Wrestling) & Yoshiko Hasegawa (Ganbare Pro Wrestling). Sayuri Namba mixes up Manase’s intro with Kakuta and the broadcast introduces Kakuta on-screen as Mahiro Kiryu. I didn’t hear any “YOU F***ED UP!” chants in Japanese though. 20 minute time limit
Result: Nao Kakuta, Yuna Manase & Yoshiko Hasegawa beat Yuki Kamifuku, Mahiro Kiryu & Neko Haruna. Kakuta pinned Haruna after Shiden Kai.
Match 3: Suzume vs. Ryo Mizunami (Independent/Freelancer). 15 minute time limit
Result: Ryo Mizunami beat Suzume
Match 4: Mizuki vs. Hyper Misao. 15 minute time limit. And after it started apparently it became a No DQ match (albeit a hardcore comedy match).
Result: Mizuki beat Hyper Misao. Comedy match.
Quick break for ring cleaning.
Match 5: Aja Kong, Raku & Pom Harajuku vs. Yuki Aino, Rika Tatsumi & Max The Impaler. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Aino, Rika Tatsumi & Max The Impaler beat Aja Kong, Raku & Pom Harajuku. Tatsumi pinned Harajuku after a sliding hip attack (butt bump). Kong & Max kept going at it outside the ring after the match and finally everyone just ran off scared and let them fight. This was far more entertaining than it had any right to be.
Promo video for 10/14 at Shinjuku Face, which will feature an exhibition match that is the culmination of a TV competition series on Japanese TV called “Dream On The Ring”.
Match 6: Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh vs. Riho (All Elite Wrestling) & Hikari Noa. 20 minute time limit
Result: Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh beat Riho & Hikari Noa. Itoh beat Noa with Itoh Deluxe.
Match 7: Miu Watanabe beat International Princess Champion Alex Windsor to win the title. Watanabe becomes the 11th International Princess Champion.
Match 8: Princess Tag Team Champions Yuki Arai & Saki Akai beat Leah O’Reilly & Nightshade to retain the titles. Arai pinned Nightshade after Finally. V2 for the champs.
Main Event: Yuka Sakazaki beat Princess Of Princess Champion Shoko Nakajima to win the title. Sakazaki becomes the 11th Princess Of Princess Champion. She also joins Miyu Yamashita as the only 3-time champions.
After the main event, the entire roster gathered on stage for a post-event celebration for the fans and a huge announcement…on March 18, 2023, GRAND PRINCESS returns for a second installment…and this time…ARIAKE ARENA DEBUT! And they’ll also be in action on the biggest day of the year for pro wrestling in Japan with a Korakuen Hall event on January 4, 2023-this is the day New Japan Pro Wrestling runs Japan’s version of WrestleMania at the Tokyo Dome.
The next event is a special “Yume Pro Wrestling-Dream On The Ring” event Friday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. A special exhibition match between the TV competition show’s participants is scheduled as the final of the series, and all TJPW wrestlers as well as Max The Impaler and Leah O’Reilly will participate. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.
