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Stardom News: 5STAR GP 2025 Field Announced

At a press conference earlier today, Stardom announced the entire field for the 2025 5STAR GP, the promotion’s signature annual tournament. This year it’s a massive field of 32 divided into 4 blocks, which are as follows:
Red A: Saya Kamitani, Lady C, Mei Seira, Waka Tsukiyama, Azusa Inaba, Hanan, Yuna Mizumori, Bea Priestley (most recently was Blair Davenport in WWE)
Red B: Starlight Kid, Tomoka Inaba, Rian, Rina*, AZM, Natsuko Tora, Natsupoi, Sayaka Kurara
Blue A: Saya Iida, Saori Anou, Miyu Amasaki, Ami Sohrei, Aya Sakura, Bozilla, Ruaka, TBA**
Blue B: Momo Kohgo, Momo Watanabe, Sareee, Konami, Hina, Suzu Suzuki, HANAKO, Ranna Yagami
*-Subject to change due to injury suffered yesterday
**-Will be Yuria Hime or Akira Kurogame via determination match on TBA.

The tournament is round-robin format, 15 minute time limit for all matches. 2 points for win, 1 point for draw, 0 points for loss. The top 3 in each block will advance with the winner of each block going directly to the Quarterfinals and the other 2 going into elimination matches. Tiebreakers likely will be head-to-head results.

The tournament starts on 7/27 and ends on 8/23. Those two events will be PPVs and all other events will be live on Stardom World.

DDT 7/5/25 Results

DDT ran an event in Yohokama today as part of another doubleheader with Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling.

Today’s event was held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. DDT’s website incorrectly stated there would be no live broadcast and on demand would not be available until Wednesday. It did stream live and is thus available on demand already.

The paid attendance was not announced.

Before the event began there was a public signing ceremony for the KO-D Openweight Championship match between Kazusada Higuchi & HARASHIMA on 7/13. After that, Hikaru Sato appeared and issued a DDT Extreme Championship challenge to To-y.

Match 1: KANON beat MJ Paul by submission.

Match 2: Danshoku Dieno vs. Akito, Kazuki Hirata, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuya Koroku in a 5-way went to (somehow) a 30 minute time limit draw.

Match 3: Yuki Ueno & Kazuma Sumi beat Ryota Nakatsu & Yuki Ishida. Ueno pinned Ishida after a frog splash.

Match 4: Jun Akiyama, Hikaru Sato & Daichi Sato beat Yuki Iino, To-y & Tomomitsu Matsunaga. Akiyama pinned Matsunaga after Exploder.

Match 5; Kazusada Higuchi & Yukio Naya beat HARASHIMA & Takao Soma. Naya pinned Soma after The World’s Largest Backdrop.

Main Event: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani & Illusion beat Chris Brookes, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada to retain the titles. Illusion pinned Honda. V3 for the champs.

The next event is a Japan Wrestling Federation Presents Charity Pro Wrestling Festival event tomorrow at Odawara Arena Sub Arena in Kanagawa. There will be no live broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/5/25 Results (Updated x3)

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2025 Tour today in Tokyo, an event that began a month-long 20th Anniversary celebration for host venue Shinjuku Face. The roughly 600-seat music & entertainment hall opened in summer 2005 after a remodeling & rebranding.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 403.

Match 1: Eita, Shuji Kondo & Caribbean beat Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara. Kondo pinned Ohara after a King Kong lariat.

Match 2: Tetsuya Endo beat Super Crazy & Black Menso-re in a 3-way by pinning Menso-re.

Match 3: Daiki Inaba beat Daiki Odashima.

Match 4: Naomichi Marufuji, Will Cross, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Galeno, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. Cross pinned Alejandro after Cross Control. Afterwards, Cross immediately challenged Galeno for the GHC National Championship. Accepted. It’s now official, date TBA.

Match 5: HAYATA & Saxon Huxley beat YO-HEY & Manabu Soya. HAYATA pinned YO-HEY.

Match 6: OZAWA, Takashi Sugiura & Daga beat Kenoh, KENTA & Ulka Sasaki. OZAWA pinned Kenoh after Real Rebel.

Main Event: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Tadasuke & Owadasan to retain the titles. Bane pinned Owadasan after Santa Maria. V2 for the champs.

The next event is tomorrow at Shimada City General Sports Center Sub Arena in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast.

UPDATE: After the event it was announced that GHC Women’s Champion Takumi Iroha would be defending the title today in Spain along with the RCW Women’s Championship she holds. Results when they become available. This event will also be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date.

UPDATE 2: Iroha won her match to retain the title. V2 for Iroha.

UPDATE 3: GHC National Championship match update: That match will happen on 7/13 at G Messe Gunma in Gunma.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling 7/5/2025 LIVE Results (Updated Pre-Show)

Tokyo Joshi Pro kicks off a very busy & exciting July today, which includes their return to the US next week, with an event perhaps appropriately called “CAN’T WAIT UNTIL SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’25!” Besides continuing the build to their annual July blowout event in just over 2 weeks, 2 more Tokyo Princess Cup spots will be filled with the first half of the qualifier final matches, with the winners of Haru Kazashiro vs. Ivy Steele and Wakana Uehara vs. Shino Suzuki advancing to the promotion’s annual singles tournament. The event will also feature Yoshiko Hasegawa’s final TJPW match before her retirement event next week and her last “real match” as her retirement match will be the TJPW standard handicap match of Hasegawa vs. the rest of the roster. So something like a 27 vs. 1 handicap match.

The promotion has announced that Maki Itoh is off today’s event. Schedule conflicts. No impact on the card.

Today’s event will be held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. The event is a legit advance sellout. You will also be able to watch the full event FOR FREE on YouTube (live broadcast only, no on demand replays). There will be no commentary. There are 6 matches planned and while the qualifier matches will have no time limit I anticipate this bring a standard house show with a running time of around 2 hours (and it can’t run too long because there is a DDT event at the venue shortly after this one)

Today;s lineup (match order TBA):
Mizuki, Shoko Nakajima, Hyper Misao & Suzume vs. Yuki Arai, Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Moka Miyamoto
Yuki Kamifuku, Mifu Ashida & Kira Summer vs. Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku
Yoshiko Hasegawa & Kaya Toribami vs. HIMAWARI & Riara (Independent/Freelancer)
Mahiro Kiryu, Toga & Chika Nanase vs. Arisu Endo, Uta Takami & Ren Konatsu
Tokyo Princess Cup Qualifier Finals (winners get into the tournament):
Haru Kazashiro vs. Ivy Steele
Wakana Uehara vs. Shino Suzuki

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET. The WRESTLE UNIVERSE broadcast is scheduled to begin 15 minutes prior to the event. The YouTube broadcast will begin at event start time.

(On a TJPW side note, Sayuri Namba has made it to Canada safely to start her new life and hopeful new career as a language teacher and started a YouTube channel today to chronicle her journey. She uploaded her first video today and promises much more. Check it out at the below link and subscribe too:

https://youtube.com/@sayuri_namvancouver?si=jIyAgX5hEjG8r4hg

PRE-SHOW UPDATE: BREAKING PRE-EVENT DEVELOPMENT…There’s been an impromptu title change in the locker room!
Riara beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Sanshiro Takagi to win the title. Riara becomes the 1750th Champion.

7:45 PM PT UPDATE The WRESTLE UNIVERSE livestream has begun. We should be going to the venue in 10-15 minutes. The YouTube livestream should begin at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.

7:58 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It’s a legit advance sellout so it’ll depend on the setup-the venue’s max capacity is just under 400 but is usually set up for anywhere from 290-350 so I’ll guess it’ll be, give or take a few, roughly 300. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance-a legit advance sellout-was 273)

The matches will begin shortly. During opening announcements they brought out Shoko Nakajima for an announcement. More on that as it becomes available. (UPDATE: It was the announcement of a new training program for women only who want to be pro wrestlers, to be led by Nakajima & Miyu Yamashita. It will be held irregularly starting in August, probably once a month, and if neither is available due to events or other schedule conflicts other wrestlers will fill in)

The matches begin at 8:13 PM PT/11:13 PM ET.

Match 1: Tokyo Princess Cup Qualifier Final 1: Wakana Uehara vs. Shino Suzuki. No time limit
Result: Wakana Uehara beat Shino Suzuki by submission. As a result, Uehara qualifies for the Tokyo Princess Cup.

Match 2: Tokyo Princess Cup Qualifier Final 2: Haru Kazashiro vs. Ivy Steele. No time limit
Result: Haru Kazashiro beat Ivy Steele. As a result, Kazashiro qualifies for the Tokyo Princess Cup.

Match 3: Mahiro Kiryu, Toga & Chika Nanase vs. Arisu Endo, Uta Takami & Ren Konatsu. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mahiro Kiryu, Toga & Chika Nanase beat Arisu Endo, Uta Takami & Ren Konatsu. Toga pinned Konatsu after a chokeslam.

Match 4: Yoshiko Hasegawa & Kaya Toribami vs. HIMAWARI & Riara (Independent/Freelancer). 20 minute time limit
Result: Yoshiko Hasegawa & Kaya Toribami beat HIMAWARI & DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Riara, with Hasegawa beating Riara to win the title. Hasegawa becomes the 1751st Champion.

Match 5: Yuki Kamifuku, Mifu Ashida & Kira Summer vs. Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yuki AIno, Raku & Pom Harajuku beat Yuki Kamifuku, Mifu Ashida & Kira Summer. Aino pinned Summer after Venus DDT.

Quick break for ring maintenance.

Main Event: Mizuki, Shoko Nakajima, Hyper Misao & Suzume vs. Yuki Arai, Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Moka Miyamoto. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Arai, Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Moka Miyamoto beat Mizuki, Shoko Nakajima, Hyper Misao & Suzume. Arai pinned Mizuki after Finally. Much to my delight. 16 more days until it hopefully happens again and I will be HAPPY HAPPY!!!

The next event is the Yoshiko Hasegawa Retirement Event Tuesday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese (there will be commentary) will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET. After that event the US-bound wrestlers will hustle to Texas for those events starting Thursday. For the Thursday (7/10) & Friday (7/11) events, I will not be able to do live results due to work schedule conflicts (I have a new schedule) but will do NEAR LIVE results instead on about a one hour tape delay.

New Japan 7/4/25 Results (Updated x2)

New Japan resumed the New Japan Soul 2025 Tour today after a week-long break with the penultimate event of the tour.

Today’s event was held at Tokyo Budokan in Tokyo (not the same as Nippon Budokan) and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1377.

Pre-show:
Match 1: Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Zane Jay went to a 10 minute time limit draw.
Match 2: Daiki Nagai & Katsuya Murashima beat Masatora Yasuda & Shoma Kato. Nagai pinned Yasuda.

Main show:
Match 1: Tiger Mask, Shota Umino, Taichi, Tomohiro Ishii & Shota Umino beat Dick Togo, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, SANADA, DOUKI & EVIL. Umino beat Togo with STF.

Match 2: Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi beat Jacob Austin Young, Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan. Takagi pinned Young after MADE IN JAPAN.

Match 3: Boltin Oleg, Yuya Uemura & El Desperado beat Hartley Jackson, Zack Sabre Jr. & Kosei Fujita. Uemura pinned Jackson after a Frankensteiner.

G1 CLIMAX 35 Qualifier Tournament Finals:
Match 4: Block A: Ryohei Oiwa beat Satoshi Kojima. As a result, Oiwa will be in Block A of the tournament.
Match 5: Block B: YOSHI-HASHI beat Chase Owens. As a result, YOSHI-HASHI will be in Block B of the tournament.

Match 6: Master Wato, Yoh & Toru Yano beat NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita to win the titles. Wato, Yoh & Yano become the 31st NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Yano pinned Takahashi.

Main Event: IWGP Global Champion Gabriel Kidd beat Hiroshi Tanahashi to retain the title. V1 for Kidd.

The tour-ender is Sunday at Korakuen Hall. It may be a legit sellout and overflow crowd as standing room only tickets are now on sale in limited quantities. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

UPDATE: After the event, it was announced Hirooki Goto is OUT of G1 CLIMAX 35. Recent elbow injury suffered last weekend at TANAHASHI JAM. That means he is now out at least another month. The replacement in Block A will be determined by a gauntlet match Sunday with Tomohiro Ishii, Taichi, Satoshi Kojima & Chase Owens participating. The winner is the replacement for Goto.

UPDATE 2: At today’s TAMASHII event in Auckland, New Zealand, Mark Tui & Richard Mulu, known as The Pretty Boys when teaming, won a tournament to become the inaugural TAMASHII Tag Team Champions.

Stardom 7/4/25 Results (Updated x2)

Stardom ran their latest NEW BLOOD event today, continuing the sub-label for younger & less experienced wrestlers.

Today’s event was held at Tokyo Square in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 153.

Match 1: Ema Maishima beat Rina by ref stoppage. Potential Rina injury. More at the bottom of the post. First career win for Maishima, but not the way anyone wanted it to happen.

Match 2: Kiyoka Kokatsu beat Kikyo Furusawa.

Match 3: Rian & Honoka (WAVE) beat Saki-ran & Asuka Goda. Rian pinned Goda.

Match 4: Hina, Lady C & Ranna Yagami beat Aya Sakura, Sayaka Kurara & Akira Kurogame. Hina pinned Kurogame with Gedo Clutch.

Main Event: New Blood Tag Team Champions Waka Tsukiyama & HANAKO beat Momo Kohgo & Yuria Hime to retain the titles. HANAKO pinned Hime after a lariat. V4 for the champs.

The next event is Sunday at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on Stardom World will begin Saturday at 7:10 PM PT/10:10 PM ET.

Injury Report: The first match was stopped after Rina took a hard blow to the head. The ref noticed concussion-like symptoms. Rina was immediately hospitalized, examined and was released from the hospital and posted on social media that she is fine, but the promotion’s follow-up report confirmed a suspected concussion despite no abnormalities or symptoms. Out indefinitely. This is going to have potential major impacts on Sunday because she was to have challenged for the Artist Of Stardom Championship alongside Konami & Natsuko Tora. Assume she is now off Sunday.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: The on demand replay on YouTube is no longer available for now.

UPDATE 2: The edited on demand replay on YouTube is now available again as of 7/5. Also, because of the Rina injury above, the Artist Of Stardom Championship match scheduled for Sunday at Korakuen Hall is now off. The champions & challengers will be moved into other matches.

GLEAT 7/1/25 Results (Updated)

GLEAT ran their 4th Anniversary event Tuesday in Tokyo, held on the date the promotion held their debut event in 2022.

Tuesday’s event was held at City Hall & Gallery Gotanda in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on YouTube with a paid channel membership ($8.99/month outside Japan).

The announced paid attendance was 340, a legit sellout. A lot less than what they had been doing each year when they held the event previously at Tokyo Dome City Hall.

Match 1: El Lindaman, Takanori Ito & Minoru Tanaka beat Soma Watanabe, Junjie & JD Lee. Lindaman pinned Lee with a German suplex hold.

Match 2: G-RUSH Champion Issei Onitsuka beat Brass Knuckles JUN to retain the title.V2 for Onitsuka.

Match 3: Kotaro Suzuki & Quiet Storm beat Rock Iwasaki & Keiichi Sato. Storm pinned Sato after 53cm Arm Lariat.

Match 4: Mason Madden, Mansoor, Baliyan Akki & Mei Suruga beat Ryo Aitaka, MICHIKO, T-Hawk & KAZMA SAKAMOTO. Suruga pinned MICHIKO. Afterwards, Shuji Ishikawa appeared which set up a match for 7/24.

Match 5: CIMA & Alberto El Patron (formerly Alberto Del Rio) beat Ryuichi Kawakami & Chris Weiss. Patron pinned Kawakami.

Match 6: G INFINITY Champions Takehiro Yamamura & Issei Onitsuka beat Tetsuya Izuchi & So Daimonji to retain the titles. Onitsuka pinned Izuchi after Soul Shooting Star Press. V2 for the champs. And for Onitsuka this day-2 title matches, 2 successful defenses. Impressive.

Main Event: Katsuhiko Nakajima beat G-REX Champion Kaito Ishida to win the title. Nakajima becomes the 7th G-REX Champion. Now a double champion in GLEAT as he also holds the Lidet UWF Championship.

The next event is 7/13 at Umeda Stellar Hall in Osaka. Broadcast plans TBA.

UPDATE: On 7/4 the promotion announced Onitsuka has been INDEFINITELY SUSPENDED. Suspected breach of contract. Will be out until the investigation is completed but it’s going to be a few weeks. The 7/13 card will be changed as a result and he is also suspended from fan club activities (he may be the chairman). Regarding the G INFINITY and G-RUSH Championships he holds, statuses TBA.

More as it becomes available.

Injury Report: Wasteland Pom Party Pooper

This one makes me very sad…Tokyo Joshi Pro has announced that, to many fans’ dismay, Max The Impaler is now off SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’25 on 7/21. Unspecified health issues. Max was to have teamed with Pom Harajuku to face Raku & Andreza Giant Panda. So no Wasteland Pom Party. Kyoko Inoue is the replacement. It’s mot known what the specific issues are keeping Max out but I hope for a speedy recovery.

Dragon Gate 7/3/25 Results (Updated)

Dragon Gate continued the Aggressive Gate 2025 Tour today with their monthly Tokyo event.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK in Japanese & English. You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1066.

Match 1: Luis Mante & Ryoya Tanaka beat Flamita & U-T. Tanaka pinned U-T after Cross Saber.

Match 2: Ultimo Dragon, Don Fujii, BxB Hulk, Susumu Yokosuka & Kagetora beat Masaaki Mochizuki, Takashi, Problem Dragon, Punch Tominaga & Daiki Yanagiuchi. Fujii pinned Takashi with Gedo Clutch.

Match 3: Riiita beat Bendito.

Match 4: Strong Machine J & Kzy vs. KAI & Madoka Kikuta went to a no contest.

Match 5: Hyo, Ben-K, JACKY KAMEI & Mochizuki Junior beat Kota Minoura, Jason Lee, ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato. Ben-K pinned Minoura after a spear.

Match 6: Dragon kid & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia. Kid pinned Yoshioka after Doible.

Main Event: YAMATO beat Homare by submission. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: Shun Skywalker beat YAMATO. Finish came with 7 seconds left in a 5 minute time limit match.

The next event is Saturday at Juroku Plaza in Gifu. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

UPDATE: It was also announced that Kazuma Kimura, who appeared in an exhibition match recently, will have his official debut match at the next Korakuen event on 8/5 vs. TBA.

DDT 7/2/25 Results

DDR ran their monthly Meet&Greet&Fight event today, which also was their latest D GENERATIONS event.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Friday. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced.

There were last-minute changes to the card due to Shunma Katsumata being off the event. Left knee injury suffered in practice recently. Out indefinitely.

Match 1: Takao Soma beat Munetatsu Nakamura.

Match 2: Hideki Okatani beat Lil Kraken.

Match 3: Takeshi Masada beat Ryoma Tsukamoto.

Match 4: Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie beat To-y & Yuya Koroku. Irie pinned Koroku after Beast Bomber.

Match 5: Yuki Ishida & Kazuma Sumi beat Shota & Kazuki Hirata in 16 seconds. Sumi pinned Hirata. Which led to…
Match 5 (again): Yuki Ishida & Kazuma Sumi beat Shota & Kazuki Hirata. Sumi pinned Hirata (again).

Main Event: Kazuma Sumi won a 7 man battle royal, last eliminating Takeshi Masada & To-y. As a result, Sumi’s chosen color-yellow-will be the background color for a new D GENERATIONS logo under development.

The next event is Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.