All-Japan kicks off the Dream Power Series 2025 today in Tokyo, the first event of their 3-event March series. This qualifies as a major event on paper with 3 title matches making up half the scheduled card, headlined by Jun & Rei Saito defending the All-Japan World Tag Team Championships against eternal title challengers Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi. The Saitos are going for a 9th defense while the challengers look to become the landmark 100th champions. In the semifinal, familiar pain-in-the-side Seigo Tachibana tries again for another title, this time challenging MUSASHI for the All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Championship instead of his usual GAORA TV Championship pursuit. Speaking of GAORA TV Championship, it will open the event when Yuko Miyamoto defends the title against Naruki Doi, who considers himself one of the Saitos when competing in All-Japan.
The event will start earlier than planned as there will be a memorial ceremony and 10 bell salute for Osamu Nishimura, a former All-Japan wrestler who died this past week, before the event begins. Nishimura still competed a couple times a year in All-Japan as his political commitments/schedule allowed. The ceremony is scheduld to begin 10 minutes prior to the event.
Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV in Japanese. The event will air on GAORA SPORTS in Japan at a later date. Based on the TV broadcast schedule for the event, I anticipate this being a “typical” Korakuen event with a running time in the range of 2 1/2-3 hours. That includes an intermission at the halfway point.
Today’s lineup:
Pre-show: Osamu Nishimura Memorial Ceremony
GAORA TV Champion Yuko Miyamoto vs. Naruki Doi for the title
Atsuki Aoyagi & Taishin Nagao vs. Shuji Konda & Seiki Yoshioka
Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Jack Kennedy vs. MAZADA, TAKEDA & YOSHIDA
Intermission
Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe vs. Hideki Suzuki, Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue
All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion MUSASHI vs. Seigo Tachibana for the title
All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito vs. Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi for the titles
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Updates below will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. If the Osamu Nishimura memorial ceremony is streamed live, updates will instead begin at 6:20 PM PT/9:20 PM ET.
6 PM PT UPDATE: The Osamu Nishimura Memorial Ceremony will be part of the live broadcast so updates will begin at 6:20 PM PT/9:20 PM ET.
6:20 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
The pre-event Osamu Nishimura Memorial Ceremony begins as the entire roster comes out along with Masanobu Fuchi, holding a framed portrait of Nishimura. A 10 bell salute is held by the final call for Nishimura.
After the roster leaves the ring, the opening announcements begin a couple minutes ahead of schedule, so…
We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Commentary will join in a few minutes after the opening video.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Advance sales were very good and most of the crowd arrived early, looks like at least a near-sellout. Easily will be around 1300, maybe more (a legit sellout under the current full capacity setup is around 1500). (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1355. They didn’t call it a near-sellout but on TV/stream it looked like it)
The matches will begin shortly.
The matches begin at 6:36 PM PT/9:36 PM ET.
Match 1: GAORA TV Champion Yuko Miyamoto vs. Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GAORA TV Champion Yuko Miyamoto beat Naruki Doi to retain the title. V4 for Miyamoto.
Match 2: Atsuki Aoyagi & Taishin Nagao vs. Shuji Konda & Seiki Yoshioka. 30 minute time limit
Reslut: Shuji Kondo & Seiki Yoshioka beat Atsuki Aoyagi & Taishin Nagao. Yoshioka pinned Nagao after Cross Driver.
Match 3: Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Jack Kennedy vs. MAZADA (MAZADA), TAKEDA & YOSHIDA (Takashi Yoshida [Dragon Gate]). 30 minute time limit
Result: MAZADA, TAKEDA & YOSHIDA beat Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Jack Kennedy. YOSHIDA pinned Omori after Pineapple Bomber. This was billed as an Omori Army Tryout 2025 but came off more like a comedy match. However, apparently YOSHIDA is now part of the faction.
Intermission. Updates will resume after the break.
The event resumes at 7:40 PM PT/10:40 PM ET.
The Champions Carnival preliminary matches are announced. The tournament begins on 4/9. On a side note, I love how the background mssic for this year’s event and videos is a hard rock-style cover of the main theme from the classic Sega video game “Space Harrier”. Welcome To The Fantasy Zone! Get Ready!
Match 4: Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe vs. Hideki Suzuki, Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue. 30 minute time limit
Result: Hideki Suzuki, Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue beat Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe. Suzuki beat Anzai with a single-leg Boston Crab.
Match 5: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion MUSASHI vs. Seigo Tachibana for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion MUSASHI beat Seigo Tachibana to retain the title. V2 for MUSASHI. Next up: Yoshioka, his second/partner, wasted no time taking the microphone for the challenge.
Main Event: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito vs. Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi beat All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito to win the titles. Miyahara & Aoyagi become the 100th All-Japan World Tag Team Champions. Miyahara pinned Jun Saito with a shutdown suplex hold. Ugh, given how big the Saitos have become and coming off their first music CD release in Japan and all the publicity around it (serious), that’s horrible timing. All to keep piling titles on Miyahara. Yeah, I’m not happy about this.
The next event is Saturday at Okinawa Prefectural Budokan in Okinawa. There will be no live broadcast. On demand that evening.
UPDATE: It’s now official-Yoshioka is next for MUSASHI. That match will happen on 3/29 at Ota City General Gym.
