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Tokyo Joshi Pro 2/11/26 Results (Updated)

Tokyo Joshi Pro made their first visit this year to Niigata today for a Shoko Nakajima hometown event.

Today’s event was held at Duo Cerezo in Niigata and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE tomorrow or, for those not in the western US, early Friday morning. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 215.

Before the event began, GRAND PRINCESS ‘26 PR Ambassador Super Sasadango Machine appeared for his latest update. It didn’t end well for Representative President Tetsuya Koda who apparently did not meet progress goals.

Match 1: Arisu Endo beat Shion Kanzaki by submission.

Match 2: Suzume beat Mifu Ashida.

Match 3: Miyu Yanashita beat Raku & DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Mahiro Kiryu in a 3-way by pinning Kiryu to win the title. Yamashita becomes the 1801st Champion.

Match 4: Max The Inpaler & Pom Harajuku beat Hyper Misao & Chika Nanase. Max pinned Nanase after a short range lariat.

Match 5: Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi beat Sarah Phoenix & Kira Summer. Tatsumi pinned Summer after Twist Of Fate. Afterwards, Machine returned to the ring with more PR stuff for Tatsumi.

Match 6: Mizuki, Shino Suzuki & Uta Takami beat Yuki Kamifuki, Wakana Uehara & Ren Konatsu. Takami beat Konatsu with Koala Clutch.

Main Event: Shoko Nakajima, Yuki Aino & Haru Kazashiro beat Yuki Arai, HIMAWARI & Toga. Nakajima pinned HIMAWARI after a diving senton.

The next event is Saturday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

UPDATE: BREAKING-You will also be able to watch Saturday’s entire event LIVE on YouTube FOR FREE!

GLEAT 2/11/2026 Results

GLEAT Ver. 23, the promotion’s latest signature series event, was held earlier today.

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

The announced paid attendance was 619. BOOYAKA BOOYAKA! (It should also be noted they used a significantly reduced-capacity setup, no opposite-camera bleacher seating. They also claimed in the last few days that ticket sales more than doubled, before about a week ago they only were at around 300)

Match 1: Junjie, Tetsuya Izuchi, Kohei Kinoshita & Andy Wu beat Minoru Tanaka, Kotaro Suzuki, Ryuji Hijinata & Ryo Aitaka. Junjie pinned Aitaka after a rolling lariat.

Match 2: Soma Watanabe, Black Andromeda & TBA, revealed at match time to be Ryota Hama, Takanoti Ito, Andy Panda & Van Vale Jack. Andromeda pinned Panda after an open moonsault press.

Match 3: In a GLEAT MMA No Gi Grappling Bout with 10 1-minute rounds, Yu Iizuka vs. Caol Uno went to a time limit draw.

Match 4: Takehiro Yamamura beat Jack Cartwheel.

Match 5: MICHIKO, Chanyota & Aoi beat Yuna Manase, Riara & Marika Kobashi. MICHIKO pinned Riara after a swivel tombstone piledriver.

Match 6: T-Hawk & Hayato Tamura beat So Daimonji & Shigehiro Irie. T-Hawk pinned Irie after Pluto Porte.

Match 7: G INFONITY Champions Kaito Ishida & KAZMA SAKAMOTO beat ARASHI & JD Lee to retain the titles. SAKAMOTO pinned Lee after a half package driver. V2 for the champs.

Match 8: Lidet UWF Songle Bout: Lidet UWF Champion Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Shinya Aoki by submission to retain the title. V7 for Nakajima.

Main Event: G-REX Champion El Lindaman beat Ryuichi Kawakami to retain the title. V4 for Lindaman. Afterwards, Brass Knuckles JUN came out and left Kawakami’s Anti-GLEAT Monsters faction and Kawakami announced no more monster/shaman/silly gimmicks like his latest “Shaman” one. Back to just plain old Ryuichi Kawakami.

The next event is Lidet UWF Vol. 8 on 3/8 at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. Broadcast plans TBA but since it’s Tokyo I anticipate it will be live on YouTube…if so, it would begin on 3/7 at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET.

All-Japan 2/11/2026 Results

All-Japan continued the Excite Series 2026 today with a charity fundraiser event in Shizuoka.

Today’s event was held at Fuji City General Gym in Shizuoka and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 502.

Match 1: Kumaarashi beat Shota Kofuji by submission.

Match 2: Go Shiozaki & Shotaro Ashino beat Yuma Anzai & Dan Tamura. Shiozaki pinned Tamura after Go Lariat.

Match 3: Atsuki Aoyagi, Rising Hayato, MUSASHI & Hikaru Sato beat Seiki Yoshioka, Yuya Susumu (Independent/Freelancer), Ryo Inoue & Kota Sekifuda (Independent/Freelancer). Hayato pinned Inoue after Sid Vicious.

Match 4: Kuroshio TOKYO Japan beat Hokuto Omori.

Match 5: Ren Ayabe & Talos beat Hideki Suzuki & Seigo Tachibana. Ayabe pinned Suzuki after Des Roulette.

Main Event: Kento Miyahara & Ryuki Honda beat Jun Saito & Senor Saito. Honda pinned Senor Saito after Final Vent.

The next event is Sunday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin Saturday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. This may be a live Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan, if not it will be taped for broadcast at a later date.

New Japan 2/11/2026 Results

THE NEW BEGINNING, New Japan’s first true blowout event of the year, and a very relevant and appropriately-titled one at that, is now in the books.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka and can be watched on demand OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY on New Japan World. This event aired as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE 2026 exclusively on TV Asahi in Japan. You can also watch the pre-show match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 5507, a legit advance sellout. Legit full capacity if not overflow.

Pre-show match: Katsuya Murashima Send-Pff Match: Toru Yano & Togo Makabe beat Shoma Kato & Katsuya Murashima. Makabe pinned Murashima after a King Kong kneedrop. Murashima will now be leaving for bis traditional Young Lion training excursion, possibly to Mexico. He will hopefully be back in 1-2 years.

A memorial ceremony for Tadao Yasuda, who died yesterday at 62, was held before the main caed began.

Match 1: Hiromu Takahashi New Japan Farewell Match: Taiji Ishimori & Hiromu Takahashi beat Jacob Austin Young & Francesco Akira. Ishinori beat Young with Bone Lock. Afterwards, Akira beat down Takahashi until Robbie X made the save.

Match 2: Drilla Moloney & Shingo Takagi beat Great-O-Khan & HENARE. Moloney pinned Henare after War Dragons. Afterwards, Moloney made a surprise announcement but it was a good one-he had re-signed with the promotion.

Match 3: NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Boltin Oleg, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Hartley JacksonX Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. to retain the titles. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Jackson. V1 for the champs.

Match 4: Andrade El Idolo beat Gabriel Kidd. As a result, Andrade will face IWGP Global Champion Yota Tsuji for the title on 2:27 at the next US event.

Match 5: Callum Newman beat David Finlay. Afterwards, Finlay bowed to the fans like this was his final New Japan match, at least for now.

At this time, President Hiroshi Tanahashi appeared to announce DOMINION, the annual June Osaka blowout event, on 6/14 at Osaka-jo Hall, and that it will be a live TV broadcast nationwide in Japan. Presumably that means TV Asahi, and for those of us outside Japan it means New Japan World.

Match 6: Ren Naritta beat NEVER Openweight Champion Aaron Wolf to win the title. Narita becomes the 51st NEVER Openweight Champion. 128 seconds of glorified House Of Torture beatdown squash that began before Wolf even got to the ring. Honeymoon over already.

Match 7: IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby) beat Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino to retain the titles. OSKAR pinned Uemura after KOB. V3 for the champs. Next up: Possibly All Elite Wrestling’s Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona, maybe on 2/27.

Main Event: IWGP Heavyweight Champion Yota Tsuji beat Jake Lee to retain the title. V1 for Tsuji. Afterwards, Tsuji brought Takahashi out for one final farewell.

The next event is CMLL FANTASTICAMANIA 2026, the annual crossover tour with Mexico’s CMLL promotion, starting on 2/18 at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET. The current plans are for TV/streaming for 5 of the 7 events with one event scheduled to also be a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 2/11/2026 LIVE Results (Updated)

Pro Wrestling NOAH continues the usually-monthly LEGACY RISE 2026 Tour (the new STAR NAVIGATION 2022-2025 Tour) with a second signature event this month and a rare weekday morning matinee (it’s a holiday in Japan), this one continuing the NOAH Jr. Tag League. The annual Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Tournament kicked off Friday and continues today with 4 round-robin format matches, so every team will have 2 matches after today is finished. A highlight match today will see Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf on opposite sides in the tournament for the first time since Wolf turned on his brother to defect to Team 2000X and take the GHC National Championship with him. This will be followed by 2 title matches-the GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship will be defended as Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI look to back up their New Year NOAH Debut upset win by defending against KENTA & HAYATA. In the main event, Yoshiki Inamura looks to get one step closer to his desired GHC Heavyweight Championship defense against Kenoh but first, the Team 2000X gauntlet continues with a defense against Takashi Sugiura.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English. This is a live & exclusive ABEMA broadcast in Japan in Japanese (so we get an at-times-muted & edited version), which will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE shortly after the event ends. There are 7 matches and since the tournament matches have time limits, even with the 2 title matches it probably will have close to a “normal” Korakuen running time of around 2 1/2 hours, but I’m thinking closer to 3 hours. But It can’t go too long because there are other events at Korakuen later in the day.

Today’s lineup:
Kaito Kiyomiya, Galeno, Harutoki & Midori Takahashi vs. Manabu Soya, Hajime Ohara, Yuto Koyanahi & Hiroto Tsuruya
NOAH Jr. Tag League:
AMAKUSA & Black Menso-re vs. Mark Trew & Kieron Lacey
Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69 vs. Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka
Daga & Daiki Odashima vs. Eita & Katsumi Inahata
Dragon Bane & Alejandro vs. Alpha Wolf & Kai Fujimura
GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI vs. KENTA & HAYATA for the titles
GHC Heavyweight Champion Yoshiki Inamura vs. Takashi Sugiura for the title

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 20 minutes before the event.

6:10 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. It sounds like we should be going to the venue in about 10 minutes.

6:20 PM PT UPDATE Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Stewart (BANG!) Fulron & Mark Pickering.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It’s a legit advance sellout with standing room only tickets sold so that guarantees 1500-1550. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance, a legit advance sellout and more, was 1598)

Shinjiro Otani, who has been injured and rehabbing back/cervical spine injuries since 2022, is scheduled to appear before the matches begin. The matches should begin in 15-20 minutes.

At the start Naomichi Marufuji brings Shinjiro Otani out, in a wheelchair but seems to be in good spirits. We briefly get some Japanese commentary before English comes back on. He says despite his injury he wants to stand in the ring again and is rehabbing every day to make that happen. A promo video for his new YouTube channel is shown. He encourages everyone to subscribe of course. Otani says it’s been 4 years since he was last at Korakuen and he really misses everything about the iconic venue. He finishes with some final words of encouragement and saying he loves pro wrestling.

The matches begin at 6:43 PM PT/9:43 PM ET. Otani will be at ringside for most or all matches.

Match 1: Kaito Kiyomiya, Galeno, Harutoki & Midori Takahashi vs. Manabu Soya, Hajime Ohara, Yuto Koyanagi & Hiroto Tsuruya. 15 minute time limit
Result: Kaito Kiyomiya, Galeno, Harutoki & Midori Takahashi beat Manaby Soya, Hajime Ohara, Yuto Koyanagi & Hiroto Tsuruya. Galeno pinned Koyanagi after Galeno Special.

NOAH Jr. Tag League:
Match 2: AMAKUSA & Black Menso-re vs. Mark Trew & Kieron Lacey. 15 minute time limit
Result: Mark Trew & Kieron Lacey beat AMAKUSA & Black Menso-re. Trew pinned Menso-re after a shooting star press.
Trew/Lacey are 1-1, 2 pts. AMAKUSA/Menso-re are 0-2, 0 pts.

Match 3: Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69 vs. Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka. 15 minute time limit
Result: Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka beat Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69. Masaoka pinned Hi69.
Tadaauke/Masaoka are 2-0, 4 pts. Kotoge/Hi69 are 1-1, 2 pts.

Match 4: Daga & Daiki Odashima vs. Eita & Katsumi Inahata. 15 minute time limit
Result: Daga & Daiki Odashima beat Eita & Katsumi Inahata. Daga pinned Inahata after Diablo Wings.
Daga/Odashima are 1-1, 2 pts. Eita/Inahata are 0-2, 0 pts.

Match 5: Dragon Bane & Alejandro vs. Alpha Wolf & Kai Fujimura. 15 minute time limit
Result: Alpha Wolf & Kai Fujimura beat Dragon Bane & Alejandro. Fujimura pinned Alejandro after Golazo.
Wolf/Fujimura are 2-0. 4 pts. Bane/Alejandro are 1-1, 2 pts.

Match 6: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI vs. KENTA & HAYATA for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI beat KENTA & HAYATA to retain the titles. BUSHI pinned HAYATA. V1 for the champs. Late in the match, an unknown wrestler, soon revealed by commentary to be Angel Reyes, interfered as an apparent new member of Los Tranquilos de Japon, giving them 4. As soon as it ended, Soya came out. With microphone. Challenge issued. But he didn’t name a partner, just repeatedly saying “With Passion!” Saxon Huxley is back in England so…anyway, seemingly accepted. Updates to follow, hopefully later today or tomorrow.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Yoshiki Inamura vs. Takashi Sugiura for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC Heavyweight Champion Yoshiki Inamura beat Takashi Sugiura to retain the title. V4 for Inamura. Next up: Let’s try this yet again…Kenoh. This time it’s happening. If Inamura gets his wish, that match will happen on 3/8 at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama. (UPDATE: It’s now official)

The next event is a same-day doubleheader Saturday at Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.

UPDATE: In more post-event news, it appears Galeno is heading back to Mexico again so his latest stint is almost over. His last match this time will be on 3/8 against Kiyomiya.

No word yet on when/if Soya will get his tag title shot or who his partner is. However, a clue may have been dropped-on 3/1 at Korakuen Soya & Tsuruya will face Naito & RYUSEI.

Obituary-Former Sumo, New Japan Wrestler Tadao Yasuda Dies

New Japan is reporting their learning of the recent death of Tadao Yasuda, although a cause is not known. He reportedly was found dead today (yesterday Japan time) at his home in Tokyo per unofficial internet reports. He was 62.

He first began his career as a sumo wrestler in 1979, using the shikona (ring name) Takanofuji he reached a career high rank of Komusubi, the 4th highest rank in pro sumo. After a 13-year career he retired in 1992 and joined New Japan shortly afterwards, debuting in 1994. In 2001 he entered MMA under the guidance of Antonio Inoki and shocked the world by defeating powerhouse fighter Jerome Le Banner at INOKI BOM-BA-YE 2001 at the Saitama Super Arena. He followed by returning to New Japan and winning the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in 2002. He continued in the promotion until 2005, when he left for other promotions, namely the defunct comedy promotion Hustle where he won multiple championships, and retired in 2011. In sumo he had a career record of 418-459-4 (win-loss-absent) as a member of Kokonoe Beya (stable/room) with one Special Prize and 2 Kinboshi (Gold Star Victory, when a Maegashira rank wrestler defeats a Yokozuna Grand Champion in a tournament). He would have qualified for elder stock, which would have allowed him to become a coach and possibly a stablemaster at some point. In MMA his official career record was 2-4 with one fight-his last-in the PRIDE promotion, the rest mostly were in Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye or other one-offs.

Yasuda is reportedly survived by a daughter. I join New Japan and others in sending my deepest condolences to Yasuda’s family, friends and fans.

Photo credit: New Japan Pro Wrestling

GLEAT 2/8/2026 Results

GLEAT returned to Osaka yesterday for a non-televised house show event.

Yesterday’s event was held at Osaka Azalea Taisho in Osaka. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast (no YouTube).

The announced paid attendance was 175.

Match 1: KAZMA SAKAMOTO, JD Lee, So Daimonji & Black Andromeda beat T-Hawk, Ryo Aitaka, Shigehiro Irie & Eisa 8. Lee pinned Aitaka after Shooting Star Press.

Match 2: MICHIKO, Yuna Manase, Chanyota & Marika Kobashi beat Lady Serina, Super Delfin, Flying Penguin & Super W. MICHIKO pinned Penguin after a Shoda drop.

Match 3: In a G-RUSH match, Andy Wu beat Andy Panda. As a result, Wu gets the next G-RUSH Championship shot against Minoru Tanaka.

Match 4: Minoru Tanaka & Kohei Kinoshita beat Katsuhijo Nalajima & Junjie. Tanaka beat Junjie with Secret Ground Cobra. Afterwards, Wu cane out for the G-RUSH faceoff with Tanaka. That match will happen on 3/22 at Umeda Stellar Hall.

Match 5: Kaito Ishida, Soma Watanabe & ARASHI beat Hayato Tamura, Tetsuya Izuchi & Kotaro Suzuki. Ishida pinned Izuchi after Rebellion.

Main Event: Ryuichi Kawakami, Keiichi Sato & Rock Iwasaki beat El Lindaman, Takanori Ito & Takehiro Yamamura. Kawakami pinned Lindaman after Fire Thunder Bomb.

The next event is GLEAT Ver. 23 Wednesday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming FOR FREE on YouTube will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 2/9/2026 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up the latest season of MONDAY MAGIC today with the final episode.

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 but it was a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Masato Tanaka beat GHC Hardcore Champion Titus Alexander to win the title. Tanaka becomes the 15th GHC Hardcore Champion. 6th to the promotion because history prior to 2023 is not recognized anymore.

Match 2: Miyuki Takase,, Marie Malenko & Sofia Sivan beat ZONES, Alivia Rose & Dream Girl Ellie. Malenko beat Rose with a Texas cloverleaf.

Match 3: OZAWA beat Archie Cole, Dragon Bane & Eita in a 4-way by pinning Cole.

Match 4: Galeno, Chase Emery, Iker Navarro & Danny Duggan beat Izzy James, Rich Port Ayala, Nathan De Wind & ? (I doubt it’s the loosely translated “Soda pop”). Navarro pinned Ayala.

Match 5: Kaito Kiyomiya & Alejandro beat BUSHI & RYUSEI. Kiyomiya pinned RYUSEI after Shining Wizard.

Main Event: GHC Women’s Champion Mayu Iwatani beat Great Sakuya to retain the title. V2 for Iwatani.

The next MONDAY MAGIC series will be in March & early April for UNIVERSE MAGIC featuring an 8-man tournament.

The next event is Wednesday at Korakuen Hall with the start of the NOAH Jr. Tag League and 2 title matches. The event is a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English Only will begin Tuesday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. This is an exclusive ABEMA live broadcast in Japan.

Correction: The original post misspelled Rose’s first name. It is Alivia, not Olivia.

DEVELOPING: NOAH Taking Over Wrestler Management

In an announcement a short time ago on social media and their official website, Pro Wrestling NOAH announced they are taking over management duties for wrestler Shinjiro Otani, who is out long-term due to spinal cord injuries. Otani, the founder of the ZERO1 promotion, is currently rehabbing and communicates with fans on social media while trying to work towards an eventual return, while NOAH will take over managing and arranging appearances by Otani, portrait rights and more. Additionally, the promotion plans to have Otani appear at Wednesday’s event at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo to greet fans but this is subject to change depending on his condition.

DDT 2/8/2026 Results (Updated)

DDT ran the second half of their weekend doubleheader in Nagoya today.

Today’s event was held at Imaike Gas Hall in Nagoya and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced. Based on crowd photos it may have been a legit sellout or close.

There was a last-minute change to the card due to Junta Miyawaki being pulled off the event. The always-vague poor health. Tomomitsu Matsunaga was the replacement.

Today is/was Yuni’s 18th birthday so there was a pre-event celebration for him.

Match 1: D GENERATIONS CUP Block B: Rukiya beat Hinata Kasai.

Match 2: Hideki Okatani & Illusion beat HARASHIMA & Yuni. Illusion pinned Yuni after a swanton bomb.

Match 3: Danshoku Dieno & Kazuma Sumi beat Akito & Kazuki HIrata. Sumi pinned Hirata.

Match 4: Jun Akiyama, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida beat Yukio Naya, Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Daichi Sato. Ishida pinned Sato after Buchi-kake.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno & To-y beat MAO & KANON, Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul and Chris Brookes & Antonio Honda in a 4-way when Ueno pinned Honda.

Main Event: D GENERATIONS CUP Block B: Takeshi Masada beat Yuya Koroku. As a result, there was a 3-way tie for the top spot so Assistant GM Akito intervened to set up the tiebreaker-a series of matches, between the three, first to win 2 advances. Which led to…
Tiebreaker match 1: Rukiya beat Yuya Koroku..
Tiebreaker match 2: Takeshi Masada beat Rukiya.
Tiebreaker match 3: Takeshi Masada beat Yuya Koroku. As a result, Masada wins Block B and advances to the Finals to face Sumi. That match will happen on 2/22 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

The next event is a The37Kamiina Produced event Saturday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

UPDATE: Injury Report-Sato was injured in his match. Ribs. Out at least 2 weeks. Status to be updates after the 2/22 Korakuen Hall event which he will also miss as well as all events before that.