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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.

All-Japan wrapped up the Excite Series 2025 today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Esforta Arena Hachioji in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. The event will also be replayed in Japan on GAORA SPORTS at a later date.

The announced paid attendance was 1870.

A memorial ceremony for former wrestler Gran Hamada, who died last week, was held before the event began.

Match 1: Kento Miyahara & Taishin Nagao beat Naruki Doi & Senor Saito. Miyahara pinned Saio with a shutdown suplex hold.

Match 2: Ryuki Honda, Ren Ayabe & Seigo Tachibana beat Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Jack Kennedy. Ayabe pinned Omori after Des Roulette.

Match 3: GAORA TV Champion Yuko Miyamoto beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan to retain the title. V3 for Miyamoto.

Match 4: Hideki Suzuki, Hikaru Sato, Kengo Mashimo (Independent/Freelancer) & Seiki Yoshioka beat Shotaro Ashino, MUSASHI, Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue. Yoshioka pinned MUSASHI with La Magistral.

Match 5: All-Asia Tag Team Champions Rishing Hayato & Yuma Anzai beat Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura to retain the titles. Hayato pinned Abe after Sid Vicious. V3 for the champs.

Match 6: Atsuki Aoyagi beat Rei Saito.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Jun Saito beat Yuma Aoyagi to retain the Triple Crown. V2 for Saito.

The next event is 3/9 at Korakuen Hall with the Saitos defending the All-Japan World Tag Team Championship against Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi and MUSASHI vs. Seigo Tachibana for the All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Championship. Broadcast plans TBA but it almost certainly will be a live broadcast on AJPW.TV.

UPDATE: Next up for the Triple Crown: That time again…Miyahara. That match will happen on 3/29 at Ota City General Gym.

Next up for the GAORA TV Champion: Doi. That match will happen on 3/9 at Korakuen Hall.

There have also been changes to 3/15 in Okinawa because of a Kuroshio TOKYO Japan stip from a prior event: Because he didn’t win the GAORA TV Championship, he has been added to the event. Also added to 3/15 is the next All-Asia Tag Team Championship match, Hayato/Anzai defend against Hideki Suzuki & Dan Tamura.

All-Japan continued the Excite Series 2025 today with a Valentine’s Day event in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 339, a legit sellout.

There were late changes to the card due to Jun Saito being off the event due to injury.

Match 1: Ryo Inoue, Taishin Nagao & Seigo Tachibana beat MUSASHI, Rising Hayato & Atsuki Aoyagi. Tachibana pinned MUSASHI after Yankee Hammer.

Match 2: Ryuki Honda beat Seiki Yoshioka.

Match 3: Hideki Suzuki & Hikaru Sato beat Shotaro Ashino & Dan Tamura by ref stoppage. Suzuki beat Tamura with a cobra clutch.

Match 4; Rei Saito beat Kumaarashi by submission.

Main Event: Yuma Anzai, Ren Ayabe & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan beat Kento Miyahara, Yuma Aoyagi & Hokuto Omori. Ayabe pinned Omori after Des Roulette.

The next event is 2/24 at Esforta Arena Hachioji in Tokyo. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin on 2/23 at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET. This will also be taped for a GAORA SPORTS broadcast in Japan at a later date.

All-Japan has announced injury changes to upcoming events, potentially big ones if it goes on because current Triple Crown and All-Japan World Tag Team Champion Jun Saito has gone down. Left quad. Occurred at the last event at Korakuen Hall. Out indefinitely, he missed yesterday’s event and will miss Friday. Kuroshio TOKYO Japan is/was the replacement. It’s not known how long Saito may be out but it needs to be monitored because the next scheduled Triple Crown match is on 2/24.

More as it becomes available.

All-Japan kicks off the Excite Series 2025 Tour today with an event in Tokyo. Continuing a recent theme of rivalries between and among brothers, the main event features an All-Japan World Tag Team Championship match as Jun & Rei Saito defend against Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi. Before that, the card also features an All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Championship match as MUSASHI defends the title against Hikaru Sato, and Shotaro Ashino & Kumaarashi celebrate their 10th Anniversary by facing each other. The promotion also will announce the entire field for this year’s Champions Carnival Tournament.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV in Japanese. It will also be taped for broadcast on Samurai! TV in Japan at a later date. There are only 6 matches scheduled with an intermission at the halfway point so I expect the event’s running time to be about 2 1/2 hours taking TV taping into account.

Today’s lineup:
Taishin Nagao & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Naruki Doi & Senor Saito
Kento Miyahara, Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue vs. Hokuto Omori, Aizawa No. 1 & Jack Kennedy
All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion MUSASHI vs. Hikaru Sato for the title
Intermission
Champions Carnival Participants Announcement
Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & ReN Ayabe vs. Suwama, Hideki Suzuki, Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura
Shotaro Ashino vs. Kumaarashi
All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito vs. Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi for the titles

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Updates below will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

6:30 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Commentary will begin shortly.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. I jumped in a couple minutes late during the opening video so I haven’t seen a crowd shot yet. (Does sound like a good crowd with decent same-day ticket sales today. Possibly over 1000, I’ll guess 1100 to start) (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1276)

The matches will begin shortly.

The matches begin at 6:35 PM PT/9:35 PM ET. Your host is Shoichi (?) Nakamoto.

Match 1: Taishin Nagao & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Naruki Doi & Senor Saito. 20 minute time limit
Result: Naruki Doi & Senor Saito beat Taishin Nagao & Seiki Yoshioka. Doi beat Nagao with a camel clutch.

Doi joins commentary for the next match.

Match 2: Kento Miyahara, Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue vs. Hokuto Omori, Aizawa No. 1 & Jack Kennedy. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kento Miyahara, Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue beat Hokuto Omori, Aizawa No. 1 & Jack Kennedy. Miyahara pinned Omori with a shutdown suplex hold.

Inoue joins commentary for the next match, replacing Doi.

Match 3: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion MUSASHI vs. Hikaru Sato for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion MUSASHI beat Hikaru Sato to retain the title. V1 for MUSASHI. Next up: Seigo Tachibana via recorded video promo.

Intermission.

The event resumes at 7:40 PM PT/10:40 PM ET.

The 2025 Champions Carnival participants are announced to a remix of the main theme song of the classic video game “Space Harrier”:
Block A: Kento Miyahara (defending winner), Jun Saito, Hideki Suzuki, Shotaro Ashino (2023 winner), Kumaarashi, Kengo Mashimo, Zion , Cyrus, Davey Boy Smith Jr.
Block B: Yuma Aoyagi (2022 winner), Rei Saito, Hokuto Omori, Ryuki Honda, Yuma Anzai, Ren Ayabe, Mike D. Vecchio, Aigle Blanc, Madoka Kikuta (Dragon Gate)
The tournament begins on 3/9 and ends on 5/18.

Dan Tamura joins commentary for the next match.

Match 4: Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe vs. Suwama, Hideki Suzuki, Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura. 30 minute time limit
Result: Suwama, Hideki Suzuki, Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura beat Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe. Abe beat Hayato.

Match 5: Shotaro Ashino vs. Kumaarashi. 30 minute time limit
Result; Shotaro Ashino beat Kumaarashi by submission

Main Event: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito vs. Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito beat Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi to retain the titles. Jun Saito pinned Yuma Aoyagi after a chokeslam. V8 for the Saitos/champs. Next up: They didn’t even start the post-match promo/comments before Kento Miyahara came out. He mentioned Davey Boy Smith Jr. as a partner. Hinted at the next Korakuen for happening, which would be 3/9. But instead Yuma Aoyagi was sent back to the ring without even getting to the back. More comedy than anything. The Saitos then finished up with more comedy as they have branched out more outside wrestling (even into music now!) before a toast, a snack and of course DOOM!!

The next event is Tuesday at Fujisan Messe in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast.

All-Japan wrapped up the New Year Wars 2025 Tour today with a major event in Chiba.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1012.

Match 1: Rei Saito & Senor Saito beat Taishin Nagao & Seiki Yoshioka. Rei Saito pinned Nagao after a chokeslam.

Match 2: GAORA TV Champion Yuko Miyamoto beat Shotaro Ashino to retain the title. V2 for Miyamoto.

Match 3: Hideki Suzuki & Dan Tamura beat Kengo Mashimo & Ayumu Honda. Suzuki beat Honda with Legal Stretch.

Match 4: All-Japan 6-Man Tag Team Champions Yuma Aoyagi, Fuminori Abe & Hikaru Sato beat Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & TBA, revealed at match time to be Aja Kong (OZ Academy), to retain the titles. Aoyagi pinned Omori after The Fool. V1 for the champs.

Match 5: Rising Hayato, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Kento Miyahara, Atsuki Aoyagi & Ryo Inoue. Honda pinned Inoue after Final Vent.

Match 6: MUSASHI beat All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Naruki Doi to win the title. MUSASHI becomes the 70th All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Jun Saito beat Yuma Anzai to retain the Triple Crown. V1 for Saito.

The next event is 2/9 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo with the Saitos vs. the Aoyagis for the All-Japan World Tag Team Championship. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin on 2/8 at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. This will also be a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.

All-Japan returned to action after a 2 week break for their New Year Fan Appreciation Day event today.

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

The announced paid attendance was 510, a legit advance sellout. Actually overflow because the venue’s normal full capacity is 500.

Match 1: Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue beat Hideki Suzuki, Yuko Miyamoto & Hikaru Sato. Ashino beat Miyamoto with an ankle lock.

Match 2: Yuma Anzai & Ren Ayabe beat Rising Hayato & Ryuki Honda. Anzai pinned Hayato after Gimlet.

Match 3: MUSASHI, Seriki Yoshioka & Seigo Tachibana beat Hokuto Omori, Aizawa No. 1 & Naruki Doi. MUSASHI pinned Aizawa after Two Heaven First Class.

Match 4: Jun Saito & Yuma Aoyagi beat Rei Saito & Atsuki Aoyagi. Yuma Aoyagi pinned Atsuki Aoyagi after The Fool.

Main Event: Kento Miyahara beat Taishin Nagao.

The next event is 1/26 at Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Center Hall 4 in Chiba. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. This event will also be broadcast on GAORA SPORTS in Japan at a later date.

All-Japan runs the second half of their year-opening New Year Wars doubleheader today in Tokyo. There is one title match today which is the main event, as following Hideki Suzuki officially joining All-Japan yesterday after previously being a freelancer, he teams with Daisuke Sekimoto to challenge Jun & Rei Saito for the All-Japan World Tag Team Championship. We’ll see how Suzuki fares outside of his popular and entertaining “odd couple” pairing with frenemy Suwama, who now is taking a step back and only competing part-time as he starts winding his in-ring career down (and also focuses more on his Evolution women’s promotion). Beyond that, it’s another faction warfare-heavy card plus a Junior Heavyweight spotlight opener.

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 Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan. There are only 6 matches today plus the halfway point intermission so I don’t see this event running as long as yesterday’s, probably will be just over 2 1/2 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Rising Hayato, Atsuki Aoyagi, MUSASHI, Dan Tamura & Taishin Nagao vs. Naruki Doi, Seiki Yoshioka, Hikaru Sato, Yuko Miyamoto & Seigo Tachibana
Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe vs. Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy
Yuma Aoyagi vs. Fuminori Abe
Intermission
Kento Miyahara, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Ryo Inoue vs. Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus
Shotaro Ashino vs. Yuma Anzai
All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito vs. Daisuke Sekimoto & Hideki Suzuki for the titles

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Updates below will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

6:30 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

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

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Looks very similar to yesterday, not a legit sellout as I see empty seats but not many. Probably will be around 1300 again. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1339, they didn’t call it a near-sellout even though it probably was at least 90% full)

The matches will begin shortly.

The matches begin at 6:35 PM PT/9:35 PM PT. Solo commentary right now.

Match 1: Rising Hayato, Atsuki Aoyagi, MUSASHI, Dan Tamura & Taishin Nagao vs. Naruki Doi, Seiki Yoshioka, Hikaru Sato, Yuko Miyamoto & Seigo Tachibana. 30 minute time limit
Result: Rising Hayato, Atsuki Aoyagi, MUSASHI, Dan Tamura & Taishin Nagao beat Naruki Doi, Seiki Yoshioka, Hikaru Sato, Yuko Miyamoto & Seigo Tachibana. MUSASHI pinned Doi. Afterwards, MUSASHI with microphone. As I figured might be the case given the result, challenge issued for the All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Championship. We’ll see what happens.

Rising Hayato joins commentary for the next match.

Match 2: Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe vs. Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy. 30 minute time limit
Result: Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy. Ayabe pinned Kennedy after Ballistic.

Atsuki Aoyagi replaces Rising Hayato on commentary for the next match.

Match 3: Yuma Aoyagi vs. Fuminori Abe. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuma Aoyagi beat Fuminori Abe

Intermission. Updates will resume after the break.

The matches resume at 7:45 PM PT/10:45 PM ET.

Before they do, some upcoming event announcements beginning with the 2025 Champions Carnival schedule. It will be at least 12 events starting on 4/9 at Korakuen and ending on 5/18 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo. (What was announced is not the full tournament schedule, more dates are TBA). Other big events coming up: 6/1 at Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai, 8/3 in Tokyo at Ota City General Gym, 8/10 in Nagano at Matsumoto City Gym, and 12/31 in Tokyo for the annual year-ender at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2. On 2/9 there will be a Kumaarashi & Shotaro Ashino 10th Anniversary Match…they’ll face each other.

Yuma Aoyagi joins commentary for the next match.

Match 4: Kento Miyahara, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Ryo Inoue vs. Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kento Miyahara, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Ryo Inoue beat Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus. Miyahara pinned Omori with a shutdown suplex hold.

Match 5: Shotaro Ashino vs. Yuma Anzai. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuma Anzai beat Shotaro Ashino

Quick break for ring cleaning.

Kento Miyahara joins commentary for the final match.

Main Event: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito vs. Daisuke Sekimoto & Hideki Suzuki for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito beat Daisuke Sekimoto & Hideki Suzuki to retain the titles. Rei Saito pinned Suzuki after (a sloppy-looking) BBQ Bomb. V7 for the Saitos/champs. Next up: An oddly head-bandaged Anzai came out…alone. Sounds like he was going to challenge with Rising Hayato as his partner. Which could mean…DOUBLE TITLE? Also for the All-Asia Tag Team Championship? Naturally Jun responded with an emphatic finish of DOOM! That would be something, it could mean that-if Naruki Doi counts-the Saitos could soon hold all the titles in All-Japan outside of the AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Championship and GAORA TV Championship. They finished the promo with a rousing “All-Japan DOOM!” to end the show.

The next event is “New Year Fan Thanksgiving Day” on 1/18 at Shinjuku Face. The event is already a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET. (It’s worth nothing that all the events the rest of this month will be live broadcasts on the service, with 1/26 also scheduled to be a GAORA SPORTS broadcast)

All-Japan begins their 2025 campaign today with the first half of their New Year’s opening doubleheader in Tokyo, New Year’s Wars 2025. Faction warfare is a focus of today’s event along with 2 title matches-an All-Japan 6-Man Tag Team Championship match and a GAORA TV Championship match-and the main event will feature the traditional New Year’s Battle Royal. All of today’s participants and perhaps more will compete so just about everyone will be pulling some double duty to get the year started.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV, presumably in Japanese. There will be an intermission after the 4th match of 7. The main event being a battle royal makes it hard to predict how long the event will run but with the break and 2 title matches my guess will be close to 3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Taishin Nagao vs. Suwama
Shotaro Ashino, Atsuki Aoyagi & Ryo Inoue vs. MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Seigo Tachibana
Hartley jackson & Jack Kennedy vs. Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr.
All-Japan AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Champions Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus vs. Yuma Aoyagi, Fuminori Abe & Hikaru Sato for the titles
Intermission
GAORA TV Champion Yuko Miyamoto vs. Dan Tamura for the title
Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe vs. Jun & Rei Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito
New Year Battle Royal (all wrestlers participate)

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Updates below will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 10 minutes prior to the event and go to the venue 1 minute prior to the event.

6:20 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in 10 minutes.

6:30 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Commentary should join shortly.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It’s still holiday time in Japan and while advance sales were good, walk-up ticket sales seem to be strong as the venue looks at least 90% full. They’ll probably claim a legit sellout while the setup suggests an actual number closer to 1300. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1235)

The roster comes out to the ring to open the event for the year-opening greeting, delivered by Kento Miyahara. But when Miyahara mentions MUSASHI, instead Hideki Suzuki comes out in a full suit. Suzuki with microphone. (Right before this we hear from commentary). Suzuki keeps it short and sweet-apparently he has joined All-Japan. He previously had been a freelancer. (Update: Miyahara named MUSASHI the new Vice President of the Players’ Association. It’s also official-Suzuki has joined All-Japan)

The matches begin at 6:45 PM PT/9:45 PM ET.

Match 1: Taishin Nagao vs. Suwama. 20 minute time limit
Result: Suwama beat Taishin Nagao

Match 2: Shotaro Ashino, Atsuki Aoyagi & Ryo Inoue vs. MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Seigo Tachibana. 20 minute time limit
Result: MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Seigo Tachibana beat Shotaro Ashino, Atsuki Aoyagi & Ryo Inoue. MUSASHI pinned Inoue after Exploder.

Match 3: Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy vs. Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr.. 30 minute time limit
Reslut: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy. Smith pinned Jackson after Bulldog Bomb.

Match 4: All-Japan AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Champions Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus vs. Yuma Aoyagi, Fuminori Abe & Hikaru Sato for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Yuma Aoyagi, Fuminori Abe & Hikaru Sato beat All-Japan AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Champions Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus to win the titles. Aoyagi, Abe & Sato become the 10th All-Japan AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Aoyagi pinned Omori after THE FOOL. Afterwards, Omori feigned congratulating Aoyagi but low blowed him before leaving.

Intermission.

The matches resume at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.

Match 5: GAORA TV Champion Yuko Miyamoto vs. Dan Tamura for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GAORA TV Champion Yuko Miyamoto beat Dan Tamura to retain the title. V1 for Miyamoto.

Match 6: Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe vs. Jun & Rei Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito. 30 minute time limit
Result: Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Jun & Rei Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito. Anzai pinned Senor Saito after Gimlet.

Quick break before the main event.

Main Event: New Year Battle Royal. Eliminations by pinfall, submission, KO or over the top rope. Everyone starts in the ring at the same time
Result: Atsuki Aoyagi won, last eliminating Ryuki Honda. The last 3 were Aoyagi, Honda and Hideki Suzuki, who even “eliminated” a referee! Aoyagi promo followed to end the event.

The next event is tomorrow. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. This is also scheduled to be a Samurai! TV broadcast.