New Japan wrapped up the Best Of The Super Junior 32 Tournament today with the Finals.
Today’s event was held at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.
The announced paid attendance was 3044.
Pre-show match: Robbie X beat Shoma Kato.
Match 1: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita & SANADA beat Kevin Knight, KUSHIDA, Master Wato, Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano. Kanemaru beat Wato with a figure 4.
Match 2: Francesco Akira, Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan beat Tomoaki Honma, YOSHI-HASHI & Taichi. Khan pinned Honma after a wrist clutch Eliminator.
Match 3: Nick Wayne, MAO, El Phantasmo & Shota Umino beat Robbie Eagles, Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. Phantasmo pinned Jackson after CR2.
Match 4: Titan & Yota Tsuji beat Clark Connors & Taiji Ishimori. Tsuji pinned Connors after Gene Blaster.
Match 5: EVIL beat Gedo by submission. Borderline glorified squash.
Match 6: Ninja Mack, Dragon Dia & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat TAKA Michinoku, El Desperado & Yuya Uemura. Tanahashi pinned TAKA after High Fly Flow. Afterwards, Jun Kasai appeared and challenged Desperado to a match on 6/24.
Match 7: Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi beat Ryusuke Taguchi & Hirooki Goto. Takagi pinned Taguchi after Burning Dragon.
Main Event: Best Of The Super Junior Finals: Kosei Fujita beat Yoh to win the tournament. Fujita becomes the youngest BOSJ winner in history. As a result, Fujita also gets an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship shot in the near future.
The next event is DOMINION, the annual June blowout event, on 6/15 at Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka. Live streaming on New Japan World OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. This will be a live & exclusive TV Asahi broadcast in Japan.
Also coming up before then is a New Japan/DDT crossover event focused on a Toru Yano vs. Super Sasadango Machine match on 6/9 at Korakuen Hall. That event will be a live PPV on both New Japan World and WRESTLE UNIVERSE for 2500 Japanese yen (around $17 US) beginning at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.
6/2/25 UPDATE: At today’s customary post-tournament presser, it was confirmed the title match between Desperado & Fujita will not happen at DOMINION. There is a chance of it happening on 6/24 at Korakuen Hall at an El Desperado Produced event although Desperado wants to defend the title against Jun Sakai that day. That is not yet official so officially the date is TBA. I’m thinking either 7/4 at Tokyo Budokan (Nippon Budokan?) or 7/6 at Korakuen.
Also announced today by Stardom were upcoming IWGP Women’s Championship matches: Syuri will make her first title defense Friday (6/6/25) vs. Alex Windsor at a Pro Wrestling EVE event in England. You may be able to watch that match on YouTube although it will likely be paywalled. Whoever comes out as champion will defend in Stardom on 6/21/25 at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 vs. Sareee. That will, while not yet announced, almost definitely be a PPV on Stardom World.
UPDATE 2: DDT has now announced Fujita will make his first appearance in the promotion on their 7/13 event. He will be in a tag match with TBA, billed as his “friend”, as his partner.
UPDATE 3: It’s now official-El Desperado vs. Jun Kasai on 6/24 will be for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.
UPDATE 4: Following up on Update 2 above, said “friend” teaming with Fujita on 7/13 in DDT is Takeshi Masada. They will face To-y & Yuya Koroku.
