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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.

All-Japan continues the Excite Series 2026 Tour today in Tokyo as the build to its upcoming Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Tournament winds down. The first half of today’s events feature tag matches with the spotlight on the Junior Heavyweights before the second half focuses on upcoming Heavyweight Tag Team and Triple Crown matches. In the middle was planned to be a grudge match of sorts as the Hokuto Army has basically imploded. Unfortunately…

There has bern a late change to the card due to Hokuto Omori being pulled off the event. Flu. He was to have faced Kumaarashi in said grudge match. Takashi is the replacement.

Today’s event will be held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV. You will also be able to watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube. The event is a legit advance sellout. It’s not yet known if there will be any commentary. There are 6 matches scheduled with an intermission at the halfway point so even with the break the event probably won’t run longer than 2 1/2 hours, and should be closer to 2 hours. The longest it could go would be just under 3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Go Shiozaki & Shotaro Ashino vs. Seigo Tachibana & Yuko Miyamoto
MUSASHI & Shota Kofuji vs. Dan Tamura & Hikaru Sato
Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato vs. Seiki Yoshioka & Yuya Susumu
Ibtermission
Takashi vs. Kumaarashi
Ren Ayabe, Talos & Yuma Anzai vs. Daisuke Sekimoto, Hideki Suzuki & Kengo Mashimo
Kento Miyahara, Ryuki Honda & Ryo Inoue vs. Jun Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito

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Updates below will begin at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. A link to the YouTube feed will be added closer to the start time.

In a not-related-to-today update, the next All-Asia Tag Team Championship match has been announced: Next up for Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii-Tatsumi Fujinami & Strong Machine J. That match will happen on 3/3 at the Dragon Gate Korakuen Hall event. (For the youngins, Fujinami is an example of how wrestlers never really retire until they die. He is 70 and still going after over 50 years)

Pre-show Update: Below is the link/embed for the YouTube broadcast, which is scheduled to begin 5 minutes before event time (the AJPW.TV broadcast should begin 10 minutes before event time):

6:40 PM PT UPDATE; The AJPW.TV livestream has begun. We should be going to the venue in 15-20 minutes. The YouTube broadcast is scheduled to begin in 15 minutes.

6:54 PM PT UPDATE: The YouTube broadcast should begin momentarily. Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from SHin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo, Japan. No word on commentary yet. (Update: There is no commentary)

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It’s a legit advance sellout which should mean the post-pandemic “new normal” of roughly 337. (Pre-pandemic full capacity was roughly 600). (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was indeed 337)

The matches should begin in 10-15 minutes.

The YouTube broadcast has begun. The opening announcements begin here with the announcement of Hokuto Omori’s absence.

The matches begin at 7:02 PM PT/10:02 PM ET. Audio muted for first entrances. There is no commentary. Also it’s hard camera only.

Match 1: Go Shiozaki & Shotaro Ashino vs. Seigo Tachibana & Yuko Miyamoto. 20 minute time limit
Result: Go Shiozaki & Shotaro Ashino beat Seigo Tachibana & Yuko Miyamoto. Shiozaki pinned Miyamoto after Go Lariat.

Match 2: MUSASHI & Shota Kofuji vs. Dan Tamura & Hikaru Sato. 20 minute time limit
Result: Dan Tamura & Hikaru Sato beat MUSASHI & Shota Kofuji. Sato beat Kofuji with a Boston crab.

Match 3: Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato vs. Seiki Yoshioka & Yuya Susumu (Independent/Freelancer). 20 minute time limit
Result: Time Limit Draw. After muted taunting by both sides, Hayato with microphone. Quick promo then muted again due to background music.

Intermission. The YouTube broadcast ends here.

The matches resume at 8:06 PM PT/11:06 PM ET (about a 10 minute break).

Match 4: Takashi (Dragon Gate) vs. Kumaarashi. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kumaarashi beat Takashi. Mostly a comedy match.

Match 5: Ren Ayabe, Talos & Yuma Anzai vs. Daisuke Sekimoto, Hideki Suzuki & Kengo Mashimo. 30 minute time limit
Result: Ren Ayabe, Talos & Yuma Anzai beat Daisuke Sekimoto, Hideki Suzuki & Kengo Mashimo. Ayabe pinned Suzuki after Des Roulette.

Main Event: Kento Miyahara, Ryuki Honda & Ryo Inoue vs. Jun Saito, Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) & Senor Saito. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jun Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito beat Kento Miyahara, Ryuki Honda & Ryo Inoue. Jun Saito pinned Inoue after a chokeslam.

The next event is Wednesday at Kitasato Arena Fuji in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast. On demand at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET.

All-Japan has announced pending changes to upcoming events because Hokuto Omori is headed to the sidelines. Flu. Out Saturday and maybe a little longer. He was to have faced Kunaarashi. Card change(s) TBA. It’s not yet known how long Omori may be out but for now I’d call him questionable for Wednesday in Shizuoka but hopefully he will be back in time for 2/15 at Korakuen Hall.

A fan club event Sunday to have featured Omori is also off with MUSASHI being the replacement. Refunds will be offered to those who purchased tickets.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: Takashi is the replacement. Omori has also apologized on the socials for getting sick.

All-Japan kicked off the Excite Series 2026 Tour today in Okinawa.

Today’s event was held at Okinawa Prefectural Budokan in Okinawa 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 2036.

Match 1: Seiki Yoshioka beat Shota Kofuji.

Match 2: Cyrus beat MUSASHI & Aizawa No. 1 in a 3-way by pinning both.

Match 3: Go Shiozaki & Shotaro Ashino beat Ryuki Honda & Rising Hayato. Shiozaki pnined Hayato after Go Lariat.

Match 4: Atsuki Aoyagi beat Shisa Mask.

Match 5: Kento Miyahara, Hideki Suzuki & Dan Tamura beat Jun Saito, Yuma Anzai & Ryo Inoue. Miyahara pinned Inoue with a shutdown suplex hold.

Main Event: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Ren Ayabe & Talos beat Hokuto Omori & Kumaarashi to retain the titles. Ayabe pinned Omori after Des Roulette. V1 for the champs.

The next event is Saturday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo. The event is already a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin Friday at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET.

UPDATE: Next up for Ayabe/Talos: The Odd Couple aka Hideki Suzuki & Suwama. That match will happen on 2/23 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo.

UPDATE 2: In a post on social media earlier today (2/2), Kumaarashi announced he is leaving the Hokuto Army faction. So that leaves it as Omori and-when they show up-Cyrus and, I think, Takashi. A Kumaarashi-Omori match is now set for Saturday.

All-Japan wrapped up the New Year Wars 2026 Tour today in Chiba.

Today’s event was held at Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall 4 in Chiba and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. This will also be a taped GAORA SPORTS broadcast in Japan at a later date.

The announced paid attendance was 1057.

There was a late change to match 2 due to Hikaru Sato being pulled off the event. Scheduling conflicts (he got dates mixed up when confirming availability(. Suwama was the replacement.

Match 1: Ryuki Honda, Ren Ayabe, Ryo Inoue & Ayato Yoshida (Independent/Freelancer) beat Yuma Anzai, Rising Hayato, Shota Kofuji & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer). Inoue pinned Kofuji after a Daikannon suplex.

Match 2: Suwama, Hideki Suzuki & Dan Tamura beat All-Japan AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Champions Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Takashi Yoshida to win the titles. Suwama, Suzuki & Tamura become the 12th All-Japan AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Suwama pinned Omori after a backdrop.

Match 3: MUSASHI beat Seiki Yoshioka.

Match 4: Jun Saito beat Cyrus.

Match 5: Go Shiozaki & Shotaro Ashino beat Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo by ref stoppage. Shiozaki beat Mashimo with an ankle lock.

Match 6: Seigo Tachibana beat All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Atsuki Aoyagi to win the title. Tachibana becomes the 72nd All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion. WTF…

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Kento Miyahara beat Talos to retain the Triple Crown. V4 for Miyahara.

The next event is 2/1 at Okinawa Prefectural Budokan in Okinawa. There will be no live broadcast. On demand later that day or the following day.

UPDATE: Next up for Miyahara-Jun Saito, the man he beat to win the Triple Crown last time. That match will happen on 2/23 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo…which Miyahara seemingly isn’t happy about because he claims he wasn’t consulted about it although the PWF approved it. Also set for 2/23 is GAORA TV Champion Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Kumaarashi for the title.

All-Japan continued the New Year Wars 2026 Tour today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 337, a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Rising Hayato beat Shota Kofuji.

Match 2: Hokuto Omori & Cyrus beat JunSaito & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer). Cyrus pinned Doi after a reverse splash.

Match 3: Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo beat Go Shiozaki & Shotaro Ashino. Mashimo pinned Ashino.

Match 4: Kumaarashi beat Dan Tamura.

Match 5: Atsuki Aoyagi, MUSASHI & Fuminori Abe beat Seiki Yoshioka, Ryo Inoue & Mochizuki Junior (Dragon Gate). Aoyagi pinned Inoue after a firebird splash.

Main Event: Talos, Ren Ayabe & Yuma Anzai beat Kento Miyahara, Hideki Suzuki & Ryuki Honda. Talos pinned Honda after a big boot.

The next event is 1/25 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba with 3 title matches including Miyahara-Talos for the Triple Crown. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. This will be a taped GAORA SPORTS broadcast in Japan on 2/6 and 2/13.

UPDATE: One title match on 1/25 may be off. A scheduled All-Japan AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Championship match may have to be postponed because there is a chance that Hikaru Sato, part of the challengers, will be unable to participate. Potential schedule conflicts. The promotion is working on a resolution.

UPDATE 2: In a response to the above post on social media, Sato apologized and explained he thought the event was on 1/23 (Friday) and didn’t confirm this afterwards, so until now he believed the event was on a different date.

UPDATE 3: Sato is now off but the match will go on as planned. Suwama is the replacement.

All-Japan ran their annual year-opening fan appreciation event today in Tokyo.

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

The announced paid attendance was 530, a legit sellout and over normal max capacity for the venue, which is 500.

There were last-minute changes to the card due to Ryo Inoue & Shota Kofuji being pulled off the event. Flu.

Before the event began, the promotion announced the signing of Yasutaka Yano to a trainee contract. Initial fan reaction on social media has been overwhelmingly negative to this.

Match 1: Kumaarashi beat Ryuki Honda.

Match 2: Daisuke Sekimoto, Hikaru Sato & Seiki Yoshioka beat MUSASHI, Kengo Mashimo & Yuko Miyamoto. Yoshioka pinned MUSASHI after a Miyamoto Sasuke Special X Version 10.2 Segway misfired.

Match 3: Seigo Tachibana beat Ren Ayabe, Talos & Cyrus in a 4-way by countout. Everyone else counted out.

Match 4: Jun Saito, Hideki Suzuki & Shotaro Ashino beat Hokuto Omori, Atsuki Aoyagi & Dan Tamura. Saito pinned Omori after Psychi Break.

Main Event: Kento Miyahara & Go Shiozaki beat Yuma Anzai & Rising Hayato. Shiozaki pinned Hayato after Go Lariat.

The next event is 1/18 at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

All-Japan runs the second half of their year-opening New Year doubleheader today in Tokyo. There are 2 title matches today, one of which was further hyped yesterday and that’s the main event, where Atsuki Aoyagi defends the All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Championship against KURAMA, the latest masked independent outsider to step up to take a big-time shot. The second semifinal sees the just-returned Daisuke Sekimoto challenge Shotaro Ashino in a potential hoss fight for the GAORA TV Championship.

There has been a last-minute change to the originally annoucned card for today: After they were announced as part of the upcoming Zennichi Jr. Festival tag team tournament, Naruki Doi & Kota Sekifuda have been added to the first match, which originally was a 6-man tag match. It’s now an 8-man tag.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV in Japanese. There are just 6 matches today with the intermission coming at the halfway point, so even though there are 2 title matches I expect the running time to be about the same as yesterday, in the range of 2 1/2-3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Yuko Miyamoto, Fuminori Abe, Seigo Tachibana & Kota Sekifuda vs. Rising Hayato, Dan Tamura, Shota Kofuji & Naruki Doi
Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus vs. MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Ryo Inoue
Hideki Suzuki, Kengo Mashimo & Hikaru Sato vs. Xyon, Odyssey & Go Shiozaki
Intermission
Ren Ayabe, Talos & Yuma Anzai vs. Kento Miyahara, Jun Saito & Ryuki Honda
GAORA TV Champion Shotaro Ashino vs. Daisuke Sekimoto for the title
All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Atsuki Aoyagi vs. KURAMA for the title

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

6:26 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Commentary will start in a few minutes.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Advance sales looked to be on par with yesterday and the crowd is still filing in but looks a little less than yesterday so far. Yesterday wound up doing 1270 so I’ll guess close to that today, roughly 1250. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1205)

Opening announcements start with the announcement of today’s opening match change and a preview of the title matches. Rei Saito is then brought out and the next Triple Crown challenger for Kento Miyahara is announced-Talos. That match will happen on 1/25 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba.

The matches begin at 6:35 PM PT/9:35 PM ET. Your hosts are Shocichi Nakamoto & Rei Saito.

Match 1: Yuko Miyamoto, Fuminori Abe, Seigo Tachibana & Kota Sekifuda vs. Rising Hayato, Dan Tamura, Shota Kofuji & Naruki Doi. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuko Miyamoto, Fuminori Abe, Seigo Tachibana & Kota Sekifuda beat Rising Hayato, Dan Tamura, Shota Kofuji & Naruki Doi. Tachibana pinned Kofuji after Yankee Hammer.

Match 2: Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus vs. MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Ryo Inoue. 30 minute time limit
Result: Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Curys beat MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Ryo Inoue. Cyrus pinned Inoue after a diving body splash. Afterwards, MUSASHI & Yoshioka continued fighting each other outside the ring.

Match 3: Hideki Suzuki, Kengo Mashimo & Hikaru Sato vs. Xyon, Odyssey & Go Shiozaki. 30 minute time limit
Result: Xyon, Odyssey & Go Shiozaki beat Hideki Suzuki, Kengo Mashimo & Hikaru Sato. Xyon pinned Sato after a diving headbutt.

Rei Saito returns to the ring. He announced what I’m guessing (and hoping) is his return date. And it’s already official via All-Japan’s website…February 23 at Ota City General Gym. DOOM!!!

Intermission.

The 3 major Tokyo events for Febtruary & May at Ota City General Gym and 12/31/26 at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 are announced (5/17 is the Champions Carnival Final then 8/29 is the second big date) followed by the 1/11 card.

The matches resume at 7:40 PM PT/10:40 PM ET.

Match 4: Ren Ayabe, Talos & Yuma Anzai vs. Kento Miyahara, Jun Saito & Ryuki Honda. 30 minute time limit
Result: Ren Ayabe, Talos & Yuma Anzai beat Kento Miyahara, Jun Saito & Ryuki Honda. Talos pinned Honda after a double chokeslam. Afterwards, Talos laid out Miyahara in the ring.

Match 5: GAORA TV Champion Shotaro Ashino vs. Daisuke Sekimoto for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Daisuke Sekimoto beat GAORA TV Champion Shotaro Ashino to win the title. Sekimoto becomes the 32nd GAORA TV Champion.

Main Event: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Atsuki Aoyagi vs. KURAMA for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Atsuki Aoyagi beat KURAMA to retain the title. V4 for Aoyagi. Next up: Tachibana. (UPDATE: No official date set yet but possibly 1/25)

The next event is 1/11 at Shinjuku Face. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.
It was also announced that all events this month will be live on AJPW.TV with on demand afterwards.

UPDATE: After unmasking voluntarily during the match, KURAMA was revealed to be Yasutaka Yano. Tokyo Sports reports he was fired by Pro Wrestling NOAH after being charged with forced obscenity with a woman in Sendai in 2023, possibly the equivalent of sexual battery in the US. A settlement was reached and he was not charged. He resumed bis wrestling career last year in Mexico as KURAMA.

UPDATE 2: This was the last match for Odyssey in the promotion for now. He is returning to the US. They made it sound like he will be back soon, so this could be visa-related, a common thing for foreigners in Japan.

All-Japan kicks off their 2026 today with the first half of their year-opening New Year’s doubleheader in Tokyo. It’s a major event spread over two days starting with a title match today as the All-Japan World Tag Team Championship as Talos & Ren Ayabe get their rematch with Xyon & Odyssey as their reward for winning the World’s Strongest/Real World Tag League, this time for the titles, then the main event will be the annual year-opening battle royal with everyone participating. They also promise to introduce new roster members-whether this means rookies or free agents, we’ll find out.

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 taped for broadcast on Samurai! TV in Japan at a later date. Even with the title match and battle royal (oddly the intermission won’t be before the main event) I sill anticipate this being in the “standard” Korakuen running time range of 2 1/2-3 hours, closer to 3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Go Shiozaki vs. Shota Kofuji
Hideki Suzuki, Kengo Mashimo & Hikaru Sato vs. Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus
Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato vs. KURAMA & MAZADA
Kento Miyahara, Jun Saito, MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda, Shotaro Ashino & Dan Tamura
Intermission
Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Ryo Inoue
All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Xyon & Odyssey vs. Ren Ayabe & Talos for the titles
New Year’s Battle Royal

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

6:25 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Commentary will start when the matches begin.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It’s a regular weekday morning in Japan and advance ticket sales seem to reflect that, probably not going to be a sellout. But it should still be a decent crowd, I’ll guess based on so far it’ll be around 1000. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1240)

Opening announcements begin just after we go live. Commentary begins after the opening call by the ring announcer. After this, the roster comes out to the ring for the annual new year’s greeting to the crowd. Kento Miyahara led this as the President of the wrestlers’ group. During this, he announced that Shota Kofuji has joined the promotion and he came out. Kofuji had been competing as a freelancer and a member of a smaller independent promotion. That makes two official cat people in the promotion along with Hideki Suzuki, who Kofuji has had some fun Twitter bantering with the last few months. Then Shotaro Ashino interrupted and brought out Go Shiozaki, who actually joined the promotion late last year. But now he gets the official year-opening introduction. After years of being NOAH, he is now All-Japan. (UPDATE: Kofuji will also remain a member of the small OSW promotion in addition to All-Japan. Both moves are official as of yesterday) Kofuji just finished his rookie year on Christmas Day.

One correction to the lineup from the opening video for Match 3-it’s MAZADA but on AJPW’s website incorrectly says it’s “Mazda”.

The matches begin at 6:42 PM PT/9:42 PM ET. Rei Saito is a guest on commentary alongside the solo announcer.

Match 1: All-Japan Pro Wrestling 2026 Opening Match: Go Shiozaki vs. Shota Kofuji. 30 minute time limit
Result: Go Shiozaki beat Shota Kofuji

Match 2: Hideki Suzuki (who went crazy attacking the cameramen around the ring with a towel during his entrance), Kengo Mashimo & Hikaru Sato vs. Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus. 30 minute time limit
Result: Hokuto Omori, Kumarashi & Cyrus beat Hideki Suzuki, Kengo Mashimo & Hikaru Sato. Kumaarashi pinned Sato.

Match 3: Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato vs. KURAMA & MAZADA (Independent/Freelancers). 30 minute time limit
Result: Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato beat KURAMA & MAZADA. Aoyagi pinned KURAMA.

Match 4: Kento Miyahara, Jun Saito, MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda, Shotaro Ashino & Dan Tamura. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kento Miyahara, Jun Saito, MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka beat Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda, Shotaro Ashino & Dan Tamura. Miyahara pinned Tamura with a shutdown suplex hold.

Intermission.

The matches resume at 7:57 PM PT/10:57 PM PT (about a 12 minute break).

Match 5: Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Ryo Inoue. 30 minute time limit
Result: Daisuke Sekimoto beat Ryo Inoue

Match 6: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Xyon & Odyssey vs. Ren Ayabe & Talos for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Ren Ayabe & Talos beat All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Xyon & Odyssey to win the titles. Ayabe & Talos become the 103rd All-Japan World Tag Team Champions. Talos pinned Xyon after a double chokeslam. Afterwards, during the post-match victory promo, Talos called out Miyahara. A mix of Japanese, English and comedy that almost ended with Miyahara getting a double chokeslam. I think the gist of all this is a Triple Crown challenge by Talos.

Promo video for the All-Asia Tag Team Championship fallout from 12/31 when the Dragon Gate duo of Yoshiki Kato & ISHIN won the titles. Of note: New video game background music-in 2025 it was a remix of the theme from “Space Harrier”. 2026? A remix of “Splash Wave” from fellow mid-1980s Sega & Yu Suzuki icon “Outrun”. The video is an announcement of the 2026 All-Japan Jr. Tag Festival Tournament, to be held over 4 events in February & March with 8 participating teams. The participating teams: Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato, Dan Tamura & Hikaru Sato, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito, Fuminori ABe & Seigo Tachibana, Kota Sekifuda & Toshiyuki Sakuda, Seiki Yoshioka & Yuya Susumu, MUSASHI & Shota Kofuji, Ryo Inoue & Mochizuki Junior. It will be a single-elimination bracket tournament. The Quarterfinals are 2/15 & 2/23, Semifinals on 3/15 and Finals on 3/20.

Main Event: New Year Battle Royal. Everyone in at the start. Over the top rope, pinfall and submission eliminations
Result: Yuma Anzai won, last eliminating Shota Kofuji. Mainly a comedy match but a very entertaining one that even saw Ryuki Honda get eliminated by the referee and the referee then get eliminated by Atsuki Aoyagi despite some impressive acrobatics beforehand. Miyahara, you wonder? Second-to-last elimination by Kofuji.

The second event is tomorrow. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

Before this post gets going, it is now 2026 in Japan so Happy New Year to them and to all the wrestlers, announcers, support staff and more, thank you for your hard work in 2025 and best wishes for a safe, happy and prosperous 2026 with out continued support.

Now then…All-Japan wrapped up the pro wrestling portion of 2025 with their annual New Year’s Eve event today.

Today’s event was held at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. This will be a taped GAORA SPORTS broadcast in Japan at a later date.

The announced paid attendance was 2730.

Match 1: KURAMA, Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer), Fuminori Abe & Seigo Tachibana beat Atsuki Aoyagi, Rising Hayato, Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue. KURAMA pinned Inoue after Apilicion.

Match 2: Dump Matsunoto won a 10 person battle royal, last eliminating Kuroshio TOKYO Japan. Aja Kong was also a participant of note.

Match 3: Hideki Suzuki & Yuko Miyamoto beat Ryuki Honda & Shota Kofuji. Suzuki pinned Kofuji after a double arm suplex.

Match 4: Xyon, Ofyssey & Shotaro Ashino beat Ren Ayabe, Talos & Daisuke Sekimoto and Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus in a 3-way when Xyon pinned Omori.

Match 5: Jun Saito beat Go Shiozaki.

Match 6: Yoshiki Kato & ISHIN beat All-Asia Tag Team Champions MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka to win the tktles. Kato & ISHIN become the 128th All-Asia Tag Team Champions. Kato pinned Yoshioka after Cadere Luna. The titles are seemingly headed to Dragon Gate now, at least for a while.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Kento Miyahara beat Yuma Anzai to retain the Triple Crown. V3 for Miyahara.

A short time ago, the promotion also posted their annual New Year’s greetings on their website.

The 2026 opener is Friday at Korakuen Hall for the start of a doubleheader. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin Thursday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.