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Dragon Gate 6/4/25 Results

Dragon Gate began a Tokyo doubleheader today with a blowout event featuring 4 title matches, with all but the promotion’s comedy title on the line.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. It will also be broadcast on GAORA SPORTS in Japan at a later date. You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1186)

Match 1: Dragon Dia, Luis Mante, Ryoya Tanaka & Yuki Yoshioka beat Ben-K, Hyo, JACKY KAMEI & Riiita. Tanaka pinned Riiita after Cross Saber.

Match 2: Ultimo Dragon, Don Fujii, Gurukun Mask & Bendito beat Toru Owashi (DDT), Problem Dragon, Punch Tominaga & Daiki Yanagiuchi. Bendito pinned Tominaga after La Bendicion.

Match 3: Shun Skywalker, Madoka Kikuta & KAI beat BxB Hulk, Susumu Yokosuka & Kagetora by ref stoppage. Skywalker beat Kagetora.

Match 4: Open The Brave Gate Champion U-T beat Mochizuki Junior to retain the title. V1 for U-T.

Match 5: ISHIN, Yoshiki Kato & Homare beat Open The Triangle Gate Champions Kzy, Strong Machine J & Flamita to win the titles. ISHIN, Kato & Homare become the 93rd Open The Triangle Gate Champions. Homare pinned J after Firebird Splash.

Match 6: Open The Twin Gate Champions Kota Minoura & Jason Lee beat Dragon Kid & Naruki Doi to retain the titles. Minoura pinned Kid after Golden Rose. V2 for the champs.

Main Event: Open The Dream Gate Champion YAMATO beat Masaaki Mochizuki by TKO (ref stoppage-towel) to retain the title. V8 for YAMATO. Next up: Skywalker. That match will happen at Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival 2025, the promotion’s biggest annual event, on 7/13 at Kobe World Hall in Kobe. For those wondering, YAMATO is now only halfway to the all-time successful defense record, which is 15. But it’s possible he could be the last obstacle to Z-Brats controlling everything as they could have all the titles after this depending on the next Brave Gate match as their ranks further grow and their leader has a chance to win the Dream Gate again.

The second event is tomorrow. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

UPDATE: The result details for Match 3 have been edited-the result above was correct but after watching the replay it was actually a ref stoppage. Skywalker hit SSW on Kagetora and had the 3 count but at 2.99 the ref stopped counting to check on Kagetora, who appeared to be knocked out. No response so the ref called the match off as it looked like Kagetora was legit KO’d. He had to be carried to the back by Yokosuka and GM Ryo Saito and oculdn’t even roll out of the ring on his own. As of right now Kagetora is still on tomorrow’s event (in a 10-man tag) but we’ll see if this changes last-minute. There has been one change already-what was to have been a match of Hyo vs. Punch Tominaga is now a 3-way with Takashi added.

News: Latest Daisuke Sekimoto Update

Tokyo Sports provided another update today on Daisuke Sekimoto, who was hospitalized after being seriously injured during a Big Japan match on 5/29. Now home and recovering, he went to a hospital in Yokohama yesterday for further testing and diagnosis. Traumatic cervical spine injury per translation, no paralysis or muscle weakness, it’s considered a low grade injury which hopefully is good and also no concussion. He will be re-examined in 2 weeks and decisions about going forward will be made then. Sekimoto is out at least this month and will not participate in the annual Fire Festival tournament in Pro Wrestling ZERO1 starting Friday. Further decisions about his future will be made after upcoming exams.

More as it becomes available.

Stardom 6/4/25 Results

Stardom ran their latest NEW BLOOD event today, the 22nd event of the developmental series 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, a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kyrara beat Ema Maishima & Kikyo Furusawa. Sakura pinned Maishima after Cherry Blossom.

Match 2: Asuka Goda beat Yuria Hime.

Match 3: Debbie Keitel beat Akira Kurogame.

Match 4: Hina & Ranna Yagami beat Honoka & Saki-ran and Azusa Inaba & Fukigen in a 3-way when Hina pinned Honoka.

Match 5: Nanami Hatano beat Rian.

Main Event: New Blood Tag Team Champions Waka Tsukiyama & HANAKO beat Himiko & Makoto Yume to retain the titles. Tsukiyama pinned Yume after Smelt. V3 for the champs.

The next event is Sunday at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on Stardom World will begin Saturday at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET.

News: TAKAYAMANIA Returns In 2025

Once one of Japanese pro wrestling’s most legendary big men and a mountain of a man in the ring (especially in terms of height), Yoshihiro Takayama has been paralyzed and bedridden since a cervical cord injury suffered in May 2017. But he continues to progress in rehabilitation and as has been the case the last few years, TAKAYAMANIA, a special annual event put on to support Takayama, will return in 2025. The wrestler’a official Japanese-language blog announced that TAKAYAMANIA EMPIRE 4 will be held on 9/3 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Ticket sales and wrestler participation will be announced as it gets closer but it will be a free live broadcast on ABEMA in Japan. All proceeds after necessary expenses will be donated to help cover Takayama’s medical expenses, and a number of banks have accounts set up allowing fans to make donations to Takayama’s wife to help with his ongoing care. I would at the very least expect Minoru Suzuki to be a featured wrestler at the event.

New Japan News: Tokyo Dome 2026 Event Official

Amidst a flood of New Japan news items yesterday was this item which I missed until just now-start making holiday travel plans because WRESTLE KINGDOM 20, the biggest annual event in Japanese pro wrestling and maybe biggest in the world after WWE WrestleMania, has been officially announced. It will be held on its traditional date of January 4 (a Sunday) at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo. Already set for the event is Hiroshi Tanahashi’s retirement but everything else is TBA.

More details including ticket information will be announced closer to the event.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 6/3/25 Results (Updated)

Pro Wrestling NOAH finished off a long weekend stretch of events today with this month’s STAR NAVIGATION 2025 event.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The live broadcast was English only due to being an ABEMA exclusive broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 1233.

Match 1: Masa Kitamiya, AMAKUSA & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Eita, Shuji Kondo & Black Menso-re. AMAKUSA pinned Menso-re after Opening Of The Country.

Match 2: Saxon Huxley, HAYATA & Yuto Kikuchi beat KENTA, Super Crazy & Daiki Odashima. Huxley pinned Crazy after a neck hanging bomb.

Match 3: Naomichi Marufuji, Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura and Daga, Tadasuke & Owadasan in a 3-way by DQ. Owadasan DQ’d. Removing Bane’s mask.

Match 4: Atsushi Kotoge 20th Anniversary Match: Atsushi Kotoge beat Super Delfin.

Match 5: Manabu Soya & Daiki Inaba beat GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Kenoh & Ulka Sasaki to win the titles. Soya & Inaba become the 71st GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Inaba pinned Kenoh.

Match 6: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion YO-HEY beat Junta Miyawaki to retain the title. V2 for YO-HEY. Next up; Kotoge. That match will happen on 6/21 at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion OZAWA beat Tetsuya Endo & Takashi Sugiura in a 3-way elimination match by eliminating both to retain the title. V6 for OZAWA. Afterwards, Sugiura apparently defected to Team 2000X.

The next event is Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.

The promotion has also announced viewership for yesterday’s MONDAY MAGIC Prime Time Episode 2 actually topped last week’s record and now ranks in the all-time top 10 for viewership of ANY event/program on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. A break next week before Episode 3 on 6/16.

UPDATE: You can now watch the English commentary version of today’s YO-HEY vs. Miyawaki match FOR FREE on YouTube via the Pro Wrestling NOAH Official English channel.

News: Another Wrestler Trying To Turn Politician

This one is a little hard to take seriously because of who it is. But anyway, Weekly Pro reports that wrestler is Sakura Hirota, who is leaving WAVE to run for a seat in the House Of Councilors in Aichi Prefecture. Hirota debuted in GAEA Japan in 1996 then retired in 2005 when the promotion closed, but unretired in 2009 and in recent years has been a comedy wrestler, often impersonating various wrestlers-male and female-under the ring bane Shin Sakura Hirota, but has been based in WAVE. She is now leaving that promotion but it’s not known if she is retiring again.

Wrestlers do have a track record of becoming politicians in Japan, most notably Hiroshi Hase who served in the upper house of the Diet (Japan’s version of Congress in the US) while wrestling in All-Japan, the late Osamu Nishimura who served in various local and national roles, and also Shinichiro Kawamatsu who reversed the roles as a politician in Tokyo who has appeared a few times in DDT over the last couple years. And let’s not forget Atsushi Onita double-dipping.

Sumo-Miyagino/Hakuho Update

Updating the stories from last week about the status of Miyagino fka ex-Yokozuna Hakuho, his retirement request was accepted today by the Japan Sumo Association and will be official next Monday, June 9 when he reportedly returns from a trip back to his native Mongolia. Also today, the transfer of Isegahama Beya to ex-Yokozuna Terunofuji was made official and Isegahama was appointed as a special counselor to the stable despite having to retire, but as a former Yokozuna he also is given 5 years of elder stock and that reportedly means he’ll become, of all people, Miyagino. The stable is expected to reopen but not until the end of the year as reports from Nikkan Sports and YouTuber Chris Sumo indicates some within the Isegahama conglomerate, including stablemaster Asakayama who is also a Director in the Association, pushed for it to happen sooner AND for Hakuho to remain onboard, but the major dissenting voice was Hakkaku, the current Chairman of the Association, who reportedly didn’t get along well with Hakuho. Plus Hakuho reportedly didn’t want to be a junior on paper to his felloe Mongolian Yokozuna. There also was talk of moving the Miyagino wrestlers to Asakayama Beya. For now they remain Isegahama men. Chris Sumo also notes Hakuho does have his share of powerful allies inside and outside of sumo so this could set off a civil war of sorts. I liken what could happen to “Star Wars”, with the Association as the Empire and Hakuho as the Rebellion.

They didn’t take much if any action last week because it was a period of celebration for the promotion of Onosato to Yokozuna, the first Japanese born Grand Champion in roughly 8 years. The last one? Kisenosato, now Onosato’s stablemaster Nishonoseki.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 6/2/25 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran Episode 2 of MONDAY MAGIC Prime Time today, looking to build on last week’s episode which was the most-watched MONDAY MAGIC to date on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

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

The paid attendance has not been announced.

Match 1: Junta Miyawaki beat HAYATA & Kai Fujimura in a 3-way by pinning Fujimura.

Match 2: AKIRA & Danny Duggan beat Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Odashima. Duggan pinned Odashima after a tombstone piledriver.

Match 3: Dragon Bane, Titus Alexander & Archie Cole beat Alpha Wolf, Robert Marter & Saxon Huxley. Bane pinned Marter after Twisterbane.

Match 4: Takumi Iroha beat GHC Women’s Champion Kouki Amarei to win the title. Iroha becomes the second GHC Women’s Champion.

Match 5: Kaito Kiyomiya & Naoya Nomura beat Ulka Sasaki & Hikaru Sato. Kiyomiya pinned Sato.

Main Event: GHC Hardcore Champion Shuji Kondo beat Manabu Soya to retain the title. V2 for Kondo. In a 3-day stretch of title matches Soya is now 0-2.

The next event is tomorrow at Korakuen Hall with 3 title matches including a 3-way for the GHC Heavyweight Championship and Soya trying AGAIN for the GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship after failing yesterday. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. The live broadcast will be in English only because of being an exclusive ABEMA live broadcast in Japan.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 6/1/25 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2025 Tour today in Saitama, the start of June which is designated as Mitsuharu Misawa Memorial Month in the promotion in memory of the legendary wrestler who also was the promotion’s founder. Misawa would have turned 63 on 6/18.

Today’s event was held at Westa Kawagoe Multipurpose Hall in Saitama and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 359.

Match 1: Dragon Bane, Alpha Wolf & Eita beat Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara. Bane pinned Ohara.

Match 2: Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Black Menso-re went to a double pinfall. Which led to…
Match 2 (again): Shuhei Taniguchi beat Black Menso-re in 51 seconds.

Match 3: Daiki Inaba & HAYATA beat Shuji Kondo & Super Crazy. HAYATA pinned Crazy.

Match 4: Manabu Soya, Saxon Huxley & YO-HEY beat Masa Kitamiya, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki. Soya pinned AMAKUSA after Ballistic.

Match 5: Kenoh, Ulka Sasaki & KENTA beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. KENTA beat Alejandro with Game Over.

Main Event: OZAWA, Daga, Tadasuke & Owadasan beat Takashi Sugiura, Tetsuya Endo, Naomichi Marufuji & Daiki Odashima. OZAWA pinned Odashima after Big Ben Edge.

The next event is MONDAY MAGIC Prime Time Episode 2 tomorrow at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.