All-Japan kicks off their June tour, the Super Power Series 2025, today with a major event in Sendai. 3 title matches headline the event starting with an All-Japan World junior Heavyweight Championship match as new champion Seiki Yoshioka defends for the first time against Dan Tamura. The second title match sees All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi, the landmark 100th champions, make their first defense against Shotaro Ashino & Xyon. Finally, in the main event, it’s a brotherly affair as Jun Saito defends the Triple Crown against his brother Rei Saito, this year’s Champions Carnival winner. Two things for sure-I’ll be happy no matter how this match ends and afterwards, it will be all about DOOM!!!
There has been a last-minute change to the card because Taishin Nagao is now off the event. Unspecified injury. He was to have faced Hideki Suzuki. Takashi, the former Takashi Yoshida who is now using just his first name as announced recently by home promotion Dragon Gate, is the replacement.
Today’s event will be held at Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV in Japanese. It will also be taped for broadcast on GAORA SPORTS in Japan at a later date. There will be an intermission before the title matches (the last 3) so it’s going to be a long event, based on the later TV broadcast schedules I’d anticipate it running about 3 1/2 hours so I may not make it all the way through. And you never know because of that Kuroshio TOKYO Japan guy being on the card with his unpredictable entrance antics.
Today’s lineup:
Hideki Suzuki vs. Takashi (Takashi Yoshida)
Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan vs. Jack Kennedy & Aizawa No. 1
MUSASHI, Rising Hayato & Ryo Inoue vs. Atsuki Aoyagi, Fuminori Abe & Seigo Tachibana
Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe vs. Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & TBA (only being called XXL)
Intermission
All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Seiki Yoshioka vs. Dan Tamura for the title
All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi vs. Shotaro Ashino & Xyon for the titles
All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Jun Saito vs. Rei Saito for the Triple Crown
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Updates below will begin at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 5 minutes before the event.
9:57 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
We are LIVE from Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai, Japan. Commentary will begin later.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Advance tickets sales were strong and a legit sellout is possible, the venue’s listed capacity is just over 2700 but looks a setup closer to 2500 and that will be my prediction. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 2239)
Opening announcements begin the broadcast.
The matches begin at 10:07 PM PT/1:07 AM ET. Commentary starts now. Not sure who the host is but Kagehiro Osano is also on commentary.
Match 1: Hideki Suzuki vs. Takashi (Takashi Yoshida). 15 minute time limit
Result: Hideki Suzuki beat Takashi by submission. Largely a comedy match including brawling through the building at one point, leaving us thinking maybe it got thrown out.
Match 2: Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan vs. Jack Kennedy & Aizawa No. 1. 20 minute time limit
Result: Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan beat Jack Kennedy & Aizawa No. 1. Smith pinned 1 after Bulldog Bomb.
Match 3: MUSASHI, Rising Hayato & Ryo Inoue vs. Atsuki Aoyagi, Fuminori Abe & Seigo Tachibana. 30 minute time limit
Result: Atsuki Aoyagi, Fuminori Abe & Seigo Tachibana beat MUSASHI, Rising Hayato & Ryo Inoue. Aoyagi pinned Inoue after Firebird Splash.
Match 4: Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe vs. Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & TBA (only being called XXL). 30 minute time limit. After everyone else enters, Omori reveals XXL is, well, XXL. Big man foreigner (tall, maybe legit 7 feet). I think they call him Taros.
Result: Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Taros beat Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe. Taros pinned Ayabe after a chokeslam.
Intermission.
The matches resume at 11:47 PM PT. Longer than usual intermission (20 minutes). The Sendai return date is 10/13 at Nikko Arena. (Kakuda City General Gym in Miyagi, it will be a Saito Brothers hometown event)
Match 5: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Seiki Yoshioka vs. Dan Tamura for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Seiki Yoshioka beat Dan Tamura to retain the title. V1 for Yoshioka. (UPDATE: Next up: If Yoshioka gets his wish, either Naruki Doi or possibly Tamura again. Most likely Doi)
Match 6: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi vs. Shotaro Ashino & Xyon for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi beat Shotaro Ashino & Xyon to retain the titles. Miyahara pinned Xyon with a shutdown suplex hold. V1 for the champs. (UPDATE: Next up: Madoka Kikuta and TBA, at least that’s what Aoyagi wants. Miyahara said that match will happen on 6/18 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo).
Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Jun Saito vs. Rei Saito for the Triple Crown. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Jun Saito beat Rei Saito to retain the Triple Crown. V4 for Jun Saito. Next up: Hideki Suzuki.
The next event is 6/14 at Juroku Plaza in Gifu. There will be no live broadcast. On demand later that day.
UPDATE 2: More post-event news:
The new Hokuto army member’s name is Talos according to a more accurate translation (not Taros as I thought). And because Hokuto Omori is so obsessed with keeping the titles, Talos will team with Omori & Aizawa No. 1 for an All-Japan AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Championship match on 6/14 against champions Omori, Kumaarashi & Takashi. Inter-faction warfare!
As far as the other title matches above, the All-Japan World Tag Team Championship match is now official for 6/18. TBA teaming with Madoka Kikuta will be KAI. Also set for 6/18 is Jun Saito-Hideki Suzuki fro the Triple Crown and Yoshioka vs. Naruki Doi for the All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Championship. Other matches TBA.