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DDT 2/3/25 Results

DDT held a Sanshiro Takagi 30th Anniversary Event today, which was unique in that it did not feature any DDT wrestlers-at least none who are signed to the promotion (some regulars who are technically freelancers were featured).

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

The paid attendance was not announced, as is now the case for DDT, but they claimed it was a legit sellout.

At the start of the event, Sanshiro Takagi appeared and announced the start of a new project, M&A Pro Wrestling (Matchmake & Agent), with the first event on 4/9 at Ueno Park Outdoor Stage then the second event on 6/25 at Shinjuku Face. No DDT wrestlers will be a part of either event.

Match 1: Fumito Kihara beat Shota.

Match 2: Hyper Misao (Tokyo Joshi Pro) beat Muscle Sakai. Misao actually unmasked herself during the match.

Match 3: Fuminori Abe & Munenori Sawa beat Yumiko Hotta & Shinya Aoki by DQ. Hotta DQ’d. Out of control.

Match 4: Dump Matsumoto & Toru Owashi beat Brahmans Shu & Kei by DQ in 44 seconds. Shu DQ’d. Ref assault. Which led to…
Match 4 (again): In a No DQ Match, Dump Matsumoto & Toru Owashi beat Brahmans Shu & Kei. Matsumoto pinned Kei after a body press. Sanshiro Takagi was special referee.

Match 5: Meiko Satomura beat Shin Sanshiro Takagi, an unknown wrestler dressed up as Takagi. Based on a promo for the match, I’m led to believe “Takagi”, who was seconded by the real Takagi, was actually Sakura Hirota.

Main Event: Yuji Nagata (New Japan) beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan. Which led to…
Main Event (again): Yuji Nagata (New Japan) beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan in 30 seconds. Which led to…
Main Event (yet again): Yuji Nagata (New Japan) beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan. Afterwards, Takagi made Nagata & Kuroshio vs. Brahmans Shu & Kei for 4/9, and promised the fans he will compete again. He has taken a step back from wrestling and is no longer competing full time, in part to focus on front office duties and his role in a new alliance of many major and independent promotions in Japan (about the only notable promotion not part of this alliance right now is All-Japan).

The next event is Thursday, a mini-event with only 4 matches which will all be part of the D GENERATIONS CUP 2025 Tournament. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

Stardom 2/2/25 Results (Updated)

Stardom ran their latest major event, STARDOM SUPREME FIGHT 2025, today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand as a PPV on Stardom World for 1400 Japanese yen (around $9.30 US) until Saturday. It should be available for all monthly paying subscribers shortly after that. You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced but it was a legit advance sellout. Only standing room tickets were available today. Some claims are going around it’s a Korakuen record for the promotion. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1614)

Match 1: Yuria Hime vs. Akira Kurogame went to a 5 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Momo Watanabe, Thekla, Rina & Azusa Inaba beat Maika, Mina Shirakawa, Waka Tsukiyama & HANAKO. Thekla pinned Maika after Poisonous Spider Drop.

Match 3: Hina & Lady C beat Mei Seira & Rian. Hina pinned Rian after a modified jackhammer.

Match 4: Koguma beat Ranna Yagami. As a result, Yagami had to do the bear pose Koguma does. Had Yagami won, Koguma could no longer have forced God’s Eye to do the pose.

Match 5: Natsuko Tora, Ruaka & Fukigen beat Yuna Mizumori, Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara. Fukigen pinned Mizumori.

Match 6: Syuri, Saki Kashima, Tomoka Inaba & Kiyoka Kokatsu beat Mayu Iwatani, Hanan, Hazuki & Momo Kohgo. Syuri beat Kohgo with White Tiger. Konami returned after the match.

Match 7: AZM, Starlight Kid & Miyu Amasaki beat Artist Of Stardom Champions Tam Nakano, Natsupoi & Saori Anou to win the titles. AZM, Kid & Amasaki become the 34th Artist Of Stardom Champions. AZM pinned Anou after Azumi Sushi.

Main Event: World Of Stardom Champion Saya Kamitani beat Suzu Suzuki to retain the title. V1 for Kamitani. Next up: TBA, but she proposed a tag match of herself and TBA vs. Tam Nakano & Sayaka Kurara for 2/24. If Nakano wins, she can demand anything she wants from Kamitani including a title rematch. But if Kamitani wins Kurara must join H.A.T.E. (2/24 will be a PPV) (UPDATE: It’s now official. TBA teaming with Kamitani will be announced at a later date.

The next event is NEW BLOOD 18 Wednesday at Tokyo Square in Tokyo. Live streaming FOR FREE on YouTube will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. It will also be available on demand on YouTube after the event (no Stardom World broadcast).

UPDATE: Injury Report-Mina Shirakawa was injured during or after her match, possibly from Pink Devil on a chair by Rina. Unspecified injury. Out indefinitely.

Also announced for 2/24 is Wonder Of Stardom Champion Starlight Kid vs. Rina for the title.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 2/2/25 LIVE Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continues the SUNNY VOYAGE 2025 Tour today with an event in Tokyo. While it’s mainly a house show the big attraction is a massive autograph session held for fans with most if not all the roster that is available participating. I expect the main event to be a tag match that will continue the build to the upcoming GHC Heavyweight Championship match between OZAWA & Galeno.

There have been late changes made to the card because Ulka Sasaki is now off. The always vague poor health. He was to have been in a 6-man tag match, which was changed to a tag match and Shuji Kondo was moved to another match, changing it from a single match to a 3-way.

Today’s event will be held at Tama Mirai Messe in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. There are only 6 matches and the main event may be the only one with more than a 30 minute time limit, but despite that I anticipate it having a running time of only about 2 hours.

Additionally, as of earlier today the full NOAH THE NEW YEAR event from 1/1, which originally was only available as a PPV on ABEMA in select countries, is now available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE for all monthly paying subscribers with no further paywalls in Japanese and English.

Today’s lineup:
Manabu Soya vs. Owadasan
Tadasuke vs. Shuji Kondo & Black Menso-re in a 3-way
Takashi Sugiura & Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Mohammed Yone & Masa Kitamiya
Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh & Kai Fujimura vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Shuhei Taniguchi & Zozaya
HAYATA, YO-HEY, Eita & Daiki Odashima vs. Atsushi Kotoge, Hajime Ohara, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki
OZAWA & Tetsuya Endo vs. Galeno & Alejandro

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Updates below will begin at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. The livestream is scheduled to begin 15 minutes before the event.

9:55 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Tama Mirai Messe in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The venue has a maximum capacity for wrestling of about 900 I believe, they’re probably using much smaller today and I can’t see much from hard camera but what I see is largely full. I’ll predict it’ll be near 400. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 524)

The matches will begin in a few minutes.

The matches begin right on schedule at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. Looks like hard camera-only views today.

Match 1: Manabu Soya vs. Owadasan. 15 minute time limit
Result: Manabu Soya beat Owadasan by submission

Match 2: Tadasuke vs. Shuji Kondo & Black Menso-re (Independent/Freelancer) in a 3-way. 20 minute time limit
Result: Tadasuke beat Shuji Kondo & Black Menso-re in a 3-way by pinning Menso-re.

Match 3: Takashi Sugiura & Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Mohammed Yone & Masa Kitamiya. 20 minute time limit
Result: Takashi Sugiura & Kazuyuki Fujita beat Mohammed Yone & Masa Kitamiya. Sugiura pinned Yone after Olympic Yosen Slam.

Intermission.

The matches resume at 10:50 PM PT/1:50 AM ET (about a 10 minute break).

Match 4: Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh & Kai Fujimura vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Shuhei Taniguchi & Zozaya. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh & Kai Fujimura beat Naomichi Marufuji, Shuhei Taniguchi & Zozaya. Kenoh pinned Taniguchi after PFS.

Match 5: HAYATA, YO-HEY, Eita & Daiki Odashima vs. Atsushi Kotoge, Hajime Ohara, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki. 30 minute time limit
Result: Atsushi Kotoge, Hasjime Ohara, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki beat HAYATA, YO-HEY, Eita & Daiki Odashima. AMAKUSA pinned Odashima after Opening Of The Country.

Main Event: OZAWA & Tetsuya Endo (with Yoshitatsu) vs. Galeno & Alejandro. 1 Hour time limit
Result: OZAWA & Tetsuya Endo beat Galeno & Alejandro. OZAWA pinned Alejandro after Big Ben Edge. Afterwards, OZAWA unmasked Galeno as part of a heel beatfown until Kiyomiya & Kenoh made the save and covered up Galeno’s face. We never saw his face. This match also showed that, for those who didn’t know, Yoshitatsu is about the only person in NOAH that gets booed despite Team 2000X all being heels.

A neat & tidy event over in just under 2 hours even with the intermission even if the ending doesn’t send the crowd home happy, and it didn’t.

The next event is Saturday at Shinjuku Face. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET. Also, although it does not say this on NOAH’s website, the 2/11 Korakuen Hall event, listed as only an ABEMA live broadcast, will also be available live outside Japan on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only.

New Japan 2/1/25 Results

New Japan continued the Road To THE NEW BEGINNING Tour today in Aomori.

Today’s event was held at Aomori City General Gym in Aomori. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 1508.

Match 1: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita beat Masatora Yasuda, Katsuya Murashima, Boltin Oleg & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Kanemaru beat Yasuda with a figure 4.

Match 2: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Daiki Nagai & Tomohiro Ishii. Naito pinned Nagai.

Match 3: Togi Makabe & Shota Umino beat Jacob Austin Young & Great-O-Khan. Makabe pinned Young after a King Kong kneedrop.

Match 4: Francesco Akira & Jeff Cobb beat Jado & El Phantasmo. Akira pinned Jado after Fireball.

Match 5: Taiji Ishimori & SANADA beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. Ishimori beat TAKA with Bone Lock.

Match 6: Clark Connors, Drilla Moloney & Gabriel Kidd beat BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji. Moloney pinned BUSHI after Drilla Killer.

Main Event: In an elimination match, Hartley Jackson (Independent/Freelancer), Robbie Eagles, Ryohei Oiwa, Kosei Fujita & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Tomoaki Honma, Yoh, El Desperado, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Oiwa was the only winner left, last eliminating Honma.

The next event is Monday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo to start a doubleheader there with a NJPW WORLD TV Championship match as the scheduld main event. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET. This will also be a live ABEMA broadcast in Japan.

News: 2025 Hana Kimura Memorial Event Announced

It has been announced on social media that this year’s Hana Kimura Memorial Event, celebrating the young wrestler & daughter of longtime wrestler Kyoko Kimura, will be held on 5/23 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Tickets will go on sale next week but those who become sponsors can take advantage of a pre-sale and choose seats.

Hana Kimura was a young rising star in Stardom and elsewhere who was the creator and leader of the Oedo Tai faction in Stardom (now H.A.T.E.) and also made appearances in the US (notably in the former iteration of Ring Of Honor). The event date marks the anniversary of the day she took her own life in 2020 after cyberbullying following her appearance on a Japan-only Netflix series. She was only 22 at the time of her death, which months later was ruled a suicide. Kyoko Kimura continues to fight for stronger criminal penalties in Japan for such incidents of bullying that lead to suicides or deaths, which led to a new law in 2022 carrying up to a year in jail and a 300,000 yen (around $2000 US) fine. This memorial event, held every year since, brings wrestlers from throughout Japan together to celebrate Hana’s life and too-short career and also is a fundraiser for Kyoko Kimura to help cover legal expenses and continuing Hana’s legacy through a non-profit organization.

Broadcast plans TBA but if the trend since the beginning continues, fans outside Japan should be able to watch the event as a PPV live & on demand on Triller/FITE.

New Japan 1/31/25 Results

New Japan continued the Road To THE NEW BEGINNING Tour today with an event in Iwate.

Today’s event was held at Iwate Prefectural Gym in Iwate. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 1020.

Match 1: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita beat Daiki Nagai, Masatora Yasuda, Bolein Oleg & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Kanemaru pinned Nagai.

Match 2: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Katsuya Murashima & Tomohiro Ishii. Takahashi pinned Murashima.

Match 3: Togi Makabe & Shota Umino beat Jacob Austin Young & Great-O-Khan. Makabe pinned Young after a King Kong kneedrop.

Match 4: Francesco Akira & Jeff Cobb beat Jado & El Phantasmo. Akira pinned Jado after Fireball.

Match 5: Clark Connors & SANADA beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. Connors pinned TAKA after No Cultivation.

Match 6: Taiji Ishimori, Drilla Moloney & Gabriel Kidd beat BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji. Moloney pinned BUSHI after Drilla Killer.

Main Event: Tomoaki Honma, Yoh, El Desperado, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Hartley Jackson (Independent/Freelancer), Robbie Eagles, Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. Goto pinned Jackson after Shoto.

The next event is tomorrow at Aomori City General Gym in Aomori. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

Injury Report: The Going Around Gets More

Pro Wrestling NOAH has announced changes to this weekend’s events, to include a special CyberFight joint event with the promotions under the umbrella-Ulka Sasaki is now off these events. The always vague poor health (likely illness). He will miss an autograph session tomorrow and Sunday’s NOAH event in Tokyo. On Sunday he was to have teamed with Takashi Sugiura & Kazuyuki Fujita to face Masa Kitamiya, Mohammed Yone & Shuji Kondo. Kondo has been removed from the match to make it a tag match, and will now be moved into Match 2, which was supposed to be Tadasuke vs. Black Menso-re but will now be a 3-way. Sasaki should be back for the next event after this on 2/8.

Injury Report: Stardom Rookie To The Sidelines

Stardom has announced some injury changes for their upcoming event on 2/2 (which will be a PPV): Matoi Hamabe is now off. Undisclosed injury. Out indefinitely. She was to have been in a 10-woman tag match. Lady C, who was also to be part of the match, has also been removed to make it an 8-woman tag and what had been Mei Seira vs. Hina & Rian in a 3-way will now be C & Hina vs. Seira & Rian. It’s not yet known how long Hamabe will be out.

The PPV will cost 1400 Japanese yen ((around $9.30 US) and includes the live broadcast Saturday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET and on demand replays until 2/9 at 7 AM PT/10 AM ET. It will then be available on Stardom World for all monthly subscribers shortly after that.

New Japan 1/30/25 Results

New Japan resumed the Road To THE NEW BEGINNING Tour today in Sendai.

Today’s event was held at Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1077.

Pre-show Match: Masatora Yasuda vs. Daiki Nagai went to a 10 minute time limit draw. This was Yasuda’s return after 2 months due to injury and cones as he replaced Shoma Kato, who is now out due to injury.

Match 1: Hartley Jackson & Ryohei Oiwa beat Katsuya Murashima & YOSHI-HASHI. Oiwa beat Murashima with an arc clutch.

Match 2: Jado, Togi Makabe, Shota Umino & El Phantasmo beat Jacob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan. Phantasmo pinned Young after CR 2.

Match 3: Taiji Ishimori & SANADA beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. Ishimori beat TAKA with Gedo Clutch.

Match 4: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Tomoaki Honma & Tomohiro Ishii. Naito pinned Honma after Pluma Blanca.

Match 5: Clark Connors, Drilla Moloney & Gabriel Kidd beat BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji. Connors pinned BUSHI after No Cultivation.

Match 6: Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita beat NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the titles. Sho, Takahashi & Narita become the 30th NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Sho pinned Yano after a low blow.

Main Event: Robbie Eagles, Kosei Fujita & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Yoh, El Desperado & Hirooki Goto. Sabre pinned Goto with a European Clutch.

The next event is tomorrow at Iwate Prefectural Gym in Iwate. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

Sumo-January 2025 Grand Sumo Tournament Post-Event News/Notes (Updayed)

Now that most of the major news coming out of the January 2025 Grand Sumo Tournament has broken, here is a final recap of the standings for the top 2 tiers and news following the event:

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