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All-Japan continued the Giant Series 2024 today in Hokkaido.

Today’s event was held at Wind Hill Kushiro Super Arena Sub Arena in Hokkaido and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 510.

Match 1: Ryuki Honda beat Ryo Inoue.

Match 2: Dan Tamura beat Noriyuki Yoshida.

Match 3: Hokuto Omori & Kumaarashi beat Shotaro Ashino & Seigo Tachibana. Omori pinned Tachibana after Narcissist Press.

Match 4: Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Cyrus in a 3-way by pinning Japan.

Match 5: Suwama & Hideki Suzuki beat MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka. Suwama pinned MUSASHI after a backdrop.

Match 6: Jun & Rei Saito beat Andreza Giant Panda & Kumagoro Hokkai. Jun Saito pinned Hokkai after a jackhammer.

Main Event: Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai & Ren Ayabe beat Kento Miyahara, Yuma Aoyagi & Taishin Nagao. Ayabe pinned Nagao after a brainbuster.

The next event is Friday at Asahikawa Local Industry Promotion Center in Hokkaido. There will be no live broadcast.

UPDATE: After the event changes were announced for Sunday’s event-Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana have been added to the event. They were not scheduled but both requested to participate. As a result, what was Yuma Aoyagi vs. Rising Hayato & Ryo Inoue in a 3-way has been changed and is now a 5-way with Japan & Tachibana added.

All-Japan continued the Giant Series 2024 yesterday (forgot to post results) and today with events in Hokkaido.

Yesterday’s event was held at Tomakomai City General Gym in Hokkaido and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 488.

Match 1: Cyrus beat Ryuki Honda & Noriyuki Yoshida in a 3-way by pinning Yoshida.

Match 2: Hokuto Omori & Kumaarashi beat Shotaro Ashino & Hideki Suzuki. Omori pinned Suzuki after Narcissist Press.

Match 3: Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai & Ren Ayabe beat Kento Miyahara, MUSASHI & Ryo Inoue. Anzai pinned Inoue after a backdrop.

Match 4: Jun & Rei Saito beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana. Jun Saito pinned Tachibana after a double chokeslam.

Match 5: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Naruki Doi beat Seiki Yoshioka to retain the title. V5 for Doi.

Main Event: Yuma Aoyagi & Suwama beat Davry Boy Smith Jr. & Dan Tamura. Suwama pinned Tamura after a backdrop.

Today’s event was held at Yotsuba Arena Tokachi Main Arena in Hokkaido and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 517.

Match 1: Ren Ayabe beat Taishin Nagao.

Match 2: Ryuki Honda beat Shotaro Ashino & Kumaarashi in a 3-way by pinning Kumaarashi.

Match 3: MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka beat Yuma Aoyagi & Noriyuki Yoshida. MUSASHI pinned Yoshida after Estrella Futuro.

Match 4: Hokuto Omori & Cyrus beat Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Dan Tamura. Omori pinned Famura after Hokuto Army Special.

Match 5: GAORA TV Champion Seigo Tachibana beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan to retain the title. V1 for Tachibana.

Match 6: Jun & Rei Saito beat Suwama & Hideki Suzuki. Jun Saito pinned Suwama after Psycho Break.

Main Event: All-Asia Tag Team Champions Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai beat Kento Miyahara & Ryo Inoue to retain the titles. Anzai pinned Inoue after Gimlet. V1 for the champs.

The next event is tomorrow at Wind Hill Kushiro Super Arena in Hokkaido. There will be no live broadcast.

All-Japan began the Giant Series 2024 today with an event in Hokkaido.

Today’s event was held at APA Hotel & Resort Sapporo in Hokkaido and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 503.

Match 1: Yuma Aoyagi beat Taishin Nagao.

Match 2: Kumagoro Hokkai beat Seigo Tachibana & Tomoya in a 3-way by pinning Tachibana.

Match 3: Shotaro Ashino & Kutoshio TOKYO Japan beat MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka. Ashino pinned MUSASHI after a T-bone suplex.

Match 4: Yuma Anzai beat Ryo Inoue.

Match 5: Rising Hayato, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Kento Miyahara, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Dan Tamura. Honda pinned Tamura after Final Vent.

Match 6: Suwama & Hideki Suzuki beat Hokuto Omori & Kumaarashi. Suwama pinned Omori after a backdrop.

Main Event: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito beat Cyrus & Hartley Jackson to retain the titles. Rei Saito pinned Jackson after BBQ Bomb. V6 for the Saitos/champs.

The next event is tomorrow at Tomakomai City General Gym in Hokkaido with an All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Championship match scheduled. There will be no live broadcast.

All-Japan wrapped up the Flag Raising Commemoration Series today with a major event in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 1296.

Pre-show: Actress Girls Match: Nagisa Shotsuki & Marino Saihara beat Anka Iwai & Ayano Irie. Saihara pinned Iwai after MRN Smash!

Match 1: Taishin Nagao Debut Match: Ryo Inoue beat Taishin Nagao by ref stoppage (technical submission).

Match 2; Seiki Yoshioka, Hikaru Sato & Yuko Miyamoto beat MUSASHI, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Shotaro Ashino. Yoshioka pinned MUSASHI with La Magistral.

Match 3: Seigo Tachibana beat GAORA TV Champion Fuminori Abe to win the title. Tachibana becomes the 27th GAORA TV Champion.

Match 4: Jun & Rei Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito beat Hokuto Omori, Cyrus, Kuamarashi & Hartley Jackson. Jun Saito pinned Omori after a jackhammer.

Intermission.

Match 5: Kento Miyahara, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Dan Tamura beat Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai & Ryuki Honda. Smith pinned Anzai after Bulldog Bomb.

Match 6: Suwama 20th Anniversary Match: Hideki Suzuki & Shuji Kondo beat Suwama & TBA, revealed at match time to be Shuji Ishikawa. Suzuki pinned Suwama after a double arm suplex.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Yuma Aoyagi beat Ren Ayabe to retain the Triple Crown. V2 for Aoyagi. UPDATE: Next up: Smith, per a Twitter post from his official Twitter account. That match will reportedly happen on 11/4 in Hokkaido. No official confirmation yet from All-Japan.

The next event is the Giant Series 2024 Tour opener Sunday at APA Hotel & Resort Sapporo in Hokkaido, headlined by an All-Japan World Tag Team Championship match as the Saitos defend against Cyrus & Hartley Jackson. Changes have been made to this and next week’s events because Ryuki Honda was supposed to go on an international excursion but that was cancelled due to hurricanes, so as a result he has been added to the events. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin Saturday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET.

Also announced today were the first dates and major events for the first half of 2025. Here’s what is set so far:
1/2 & 1/3-Korakuen (New Year’s Wars 2025). These are morning matinees meaning they will be evening starts the day before in the US (6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET)
1/26-Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall 4, Chiba (New Year’s Wars 2025)
2/24-Esforta Arena Hachioji, Tokyo (Excite Series 2025)
3/15-Okinawa Prefectural Budokan, Okinawa (Dream Power Series 2025)
3/29-Ota City General Gym, Tokyo (Dream Power Series 2025)
5/18-Ota City General Gym (Champions Carnival 2025 Finals)
Okinawa will be their first visit to the prefecture in 6 years.

UPDATE 2: Perhaps a non-surprise given their history but the first challenger for Tachibana for the GAORA TV Championship will be Kuroshio TOKYO Japan. That match was originally scheduled for 10/29 and now will be for the title.

All-Japan has announced several card changes for next week, not due to subtraction this time but addition. Ryuki Honda was not on these events because he was scheduled for an international excursion, but those events were/have been cancelled due to weather. All-Japan’s website mentions a hurricane as the reason so it possibly was to the US, where the southeast coast is reeling from 2 recent hurricanes. Honda will now be on the 10/27, 10/28, 10/29 and 10/30 events, mostly in 3-ways with one single match and other matches have been changed as a result.

All-Japan continues the Flag Raising Commemoration Series 2024 today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. (UPDATE: You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube)

The announced paid attendance was 337.

Match 1: Kumaarashi beat Ryo Inoue.

Match 2: Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai beat MUSASHI & Hikaru Sato. Anzai pinned Sato after Gimlet.

Match 3: Suwama & Hideki Suzuki beat Shotaro Ashino & Dan Tamura. Suwama pinned Ashino after a backdrop.

Match 4: Yuma Aoyagi beat Fuminori Abe.

Main Event: Kento Miyahara, Jun Saito, Ryuki Honda & Cyrus beat Davey Boy Smith Jr., Rei Saito, Ren Ayabe & Hokuto Omori. Miyahara pinned Omori with a shutdown suplex hold.

The tour-ender is Tuesday at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

All-Japan continues the Flag Raising Commemorative Series 224 today in Shizuoka.

Today’s event was held at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka and will be available on demand on AJPW. TV tonight at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 515.

Match 1: Seigo Tachibana beat Ryo Inoue.

Match 2: Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura & Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Suwama, Hideki Suzuki & Hikaru Sato. Smith pinned Sato after Bulldog Bomb.

Match 3: Cyrus beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan in 3 seconds. LEGIT SQUASH.

Match 4: Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi, Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy beat Jun & Rei Saito, Natuki Doi & Senor Saito. Jackson pinned Senor Saito after Death Valley Bomb.

Match 5: Yuma Aoyagi & Kento Miyahara beat Ren Ayabe & Ryuki Honda. Aoyagi pinned Ayabe after Endgame.

Main Event: Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai beat All-Asia Tag Team Champions Seiki Yoshioka & MUSASHI to win the titles. Hayato & Anzai become the 125th All-Asia Tag Team Champions. Anzai pinned MUSASHI after Gimlet.

The next event is Thursday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

All-Japan kicked off the Flag Raising Commemorative Series 2024 today in Saitama.

Today’s event was held at Gyoda Green Arena Main Arena in Saitama and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV tonight at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 853.

Match 1: Suwama beat Ryo Inoue.

Match 2: Cyrus & Jack Kennedy beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana. Cyrus pinned Tachibana after a reverse splash.

Match 3: Hideki Suzuki & Hikaru Sato beat Shotaro Ashino & Ryuji Hijikata (Independent/Freelancer). Suzuki beat Hijikata with Legal Stretch.

Match 4: Ren Ayabe, Rising Hayato, Ryuki Honda & Yuma Anzai beat Yuma Aoyagi, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Kento Miyahara & MUSASHI. Ayabe pinned Aoyagi after Iron Maiden.

Match 5: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Naruki DOi beat Dan Tamura to retain the title. V4 for Doi.

Main Event: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito beat Hokuto Omori & Kumaarashi to retain the titles.Jun Saito pinned Omori after a jackhammer. V5 for the Saitos/champs.

The next event is tomorrow at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka. Tomorrow’s main event is an All-Asia Tag Team Championship match. There will be no live broadcast. On demand should be available at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET.

In other news, the promotion announced the next Triple Crown Championship match will be Yuma Aoyagi defending against TBA and will happen on 11/4 at Hotel Emisia Sapporo in Hokkaido.

All-Japan had 2 rookie debuts scheduled for 10/22 at Korakuen Hall, but one of them has been postponed as Sakuto Terada, one of the new rookies, is now off and his debut will be postponed. Concussion. Suffered recently in practice. Out indefinitely. He was to have teamed with Taishin Nagao, who will also debut at the event, to face Ryo Inoue & Dan Tamura. Tamura is now off and Nagao will face Inoue. The full card is still TBA so Tamura may wind up elsewhere on the lineup (currently there are 2 title matches, a Suwama 20th Anniversary match and, as is now customary for them at Korakuen, an Actress Girls pre-show segment).

All-Japan wraps up the Royal Road Tournament today with the Semifinals and Finals. The Semifinals will lead off the event, first will be Kento Miyahara vs. Ryuki Honda followed by Rei Saito vs. Ren Ayabe. The winners will meet in the Finals, which will be the main event. Tag matches fill out the rest of the card which will also see Suwama return from injury. Originally scheduled for the tournament, he could not participate due to ear vertigo. The tournament winner will probably get the next shot at Triple Crown Champion Yuma Aoyagi, who lost in Round 1. Today will also see the participants in the upcoming World’s Strongest Tag League announced.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV in Japanese. This will also be a live Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan. The event may be a legit sellout. It also has been announced there will be an Actress Girls segment and match 20 minutes before the event. There also will be an intermission after the 4th match. There is no time limit for the tournament matches and it probably will make for a longer than normal 6-match card along with the break, plus there’s the marathon Kuroshio TOKYO Japan entrance, so I anticipate the event running close to 3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Pre-show: Actress Girls Match: Nene Arahata & Ayano Irie vs. Natsu Aoi & Sakura Matsushima

Main show:
Royal Road Semifinals:
Kento Miyahara vs. Ryuki Honda
Rei Saito vs. Ren Ayabe
Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura, Ryo Inoue, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana vs. MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka, Fuminori Abe, Joel Redman & Hikaru Sato
Jun Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito vs. Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus
Intermission
World’s Strongest Tag League Participant Announcement
Yuma Aoyagi, Masakatsu Funaki & Yuma Anzai vs. Suwama, Hideki Suzuki & Davey Boy Smith Jr.
Royal Road Finals

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 7:10 PM PT/10:10 PM ET.

7:10 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Commentary will start later. (It started when the pre-show match began but didn’t hear names)

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It’s very close to a legit sellout based on advance ticket sales so standing room only tickets may be sold. Based on the setup that would suggest close to 1500. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1473, a legit sellout)

Pre-show: Actress Girls Match: Nene Arahata & Ayano Irie vs. Natsu Aoi & Sakura Matsushima
Result: Natsu Aoi & Sakura Matsushima beat Nene Arahata & Ayano Irie

Someone who I guess will be a guest on commentary makes his way through ringside to join commentary (Kagehiro Osano and someone else).

Opening announcements. Audio will be muted shortly for a minute or two.

The matches begin at 7:36 PM PT/10:36 PM ET. Yuma Aoyagi is a special guest on commentary for the first couple matches.

Match 1: Royal Road Semifinals: Kento Miyahara vs. Ryuki Honda. No time limit
Result: Ryuki Honda beat Kento Miyahara. As a result, Honda advances to the Finals.

Match 2: Royal Road Semifinals: Ren Ayabe vs. Rei Saito. No time limit
Result: Ren Ayabe beat Rei Saito by submission. As a result, Ayabe advances to the Finals.

This means the main event is Honda vs. Ayabe.

Match 3: Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura, Ryo Inoue, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana vs. MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka, Fuminori Abe, Joel Redman & Hikaru Sato. 30 minute time limit
Result: Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura, Ryo Inoue, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana beat MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka, Fuminori Abe, Joel Redman & Hikaru Sato. Tachibana pinned Abe.

Match 4: Jun Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito vs. Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus. 30 minute time limit
Result: Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus beat Jun Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito. Omori pinned Jun Saito after a frog splash. Afterwards, Omori with microphone. All-Japan World Tag Team Championship challenge issued with Kumaarashi as his partner.

2 new wrestlers are brought to the ring. Their names are Sakuto Terada & Taishin Nagao. They will debut at an upcoming Korakuen event.

Intermission.

The event resumes at 9 PM PT/midnight ET.

The Tag Team Championship match is now official. That match will happen on 10/12 in Saitama. So will All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Naruki Doi vs. Dan Tamura for the title. On 10/13 there will be All-Asia Tag Team Champions MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Yuma Anzai & Rising Hayato for the titles. At the next Korakuen on 10/22 the new wrestlers will debut against Tamura & Ryo Inoue. 10/22 will also have a Suwama 20th Anniversary Match: Hideki Suzuki & Shuji Kondo vs. Suwama & TBA.

The World’s Strongest Tag League field is announced, 2 blocks of 7 this year. The top 2 in each block advance to the Semifinals.
Block A: Jun & Rei Saito, MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka, Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai, Shotaro Ashino & Dan Tamura, Hokuto Omori & Kumaarashi, Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo, TBA & TBA.
Block B: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr., Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana, Cyrus & Hartley Jackson, Suwama & Hideki Suzuki, Yuma Aoyagi & Fuminori Abe, Hikaru Sato & Yuko Miyamoto.
Well we know the champs are going to be in Block A.

Match 5: Yuma Aoyagi, Masakatsu Funaki & Yuma Anzai vs. Suwama, Hideki Suzuki & Davey Boy Smith Jr.. 30 minute time limit
Result: Suwama, Hideki Suzuki & Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Yuma Aoyagi, Masakatsu Funaki & Yuma Anzai. Smith pinned Funaki after a sitout powerbomb. As usual when they team up, Suwama & Suzuki did their usual not-getting-along thing post-match.

Main Event: Royal Road Finals: Ryuki Honda vs. Ren Ayabe. No time limit
Result: Ren Ayabe beat Ryuki Honda to win the tournament. Afterwards, Ayabe with microphone. As expected, he called out Triple Crown Champion Yuma Aoyagi, who returned to commentary for the match. The tournament win almost certainly means he’s next. Potentially could happen on 10/22.

The next event is a free mini-event Monday at Branch Yokohama Minami Market Seaside Plaze in Yokohama with 3 matches scheduled, which is weather permitting due to being outdoors. If it rains the matches will be cancelled. The next official event is the 52nd Anniversary Commemoration Series 2024 opener on 10/12 at Gyoda Green Arena in Saitama. Broadcast plans TBA (specifically if it will be streamed live or not, I expect it will be). (9/26 UPDATE: There will be no live broadcast. On demand should be available that evening)