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Ganbare Pro announced today that their planned 1/31 event at Takashimadaira Community Center in Tokyo has now been moved to Shin-Kiba 1st Ring at the same scheduled time. This is because of the upcoming snap elections (impromptu and unscheduled) in Japan called recently by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (which last bappened last year and, for the ruling party, backfired) so use of the original venue that day is not allowed to prepare for early voting. Tickets already purchased for the event will be honored at the new location although refunds are being offered due to Munetatau Nakamura being off due to injuries-Nakamura was to have challenges for the Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Championship. Nakamura is off due to a neck injury, and Takuya Wada is also off due to family circumstances. Shinichiro Tominaga now gets the title shot against Masaaki Mochizuki.

UPDATE: The promotion has also provided an update on the Nakamura injury Cervical disc hernia. Out indefinitely but now at least 6 more weeks. Best-case return date is now 3/7 but further decisions will be made closer to that time.

Ganbare Pro held an event Sunday with several matches spread out between boat races at a venue in Saitama.

Sunday’s event was held at Boat Race Toda 1st Floor Event Hall in Saitama and may be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date.

This was a free event outside of venue admission so there was no paid attendance announced.

There was a last-minute change to the event due to Takuya Wada being pulled off the card. Unspecified circumstances. Match 2 was changed as a result.

Match 1: Yoshihiro Toguchi & Gabai Ji-chan beat Chou-un Shiryu & Kokoro Suzuki. Gabai pinned Suzuki after a swanton bomb.

Match 2: Mizuki Watase, Gota Ihashi & Munetatsu Nakamura beat Keisuke Ishii, Yuki Kanzaki & Sentaro Motoshima. Nakamura pinned Motoshima after Michinoku Driver 2.

Match 3: Moeka Haruhi, Yuna Manase & YuuRI beat Maya Yukihi, Bunny Oikawa & Yuki Mashiro. YuuRI pinned Oikawa after a swanton bomb.

Match 4: Akira Koji & Tyson Maeguchi beat Ken Ohka & Shota Kawakami. Koji beat Kawakami with an armbar.

Main Event: Spirit Of Ganbare World Tag Team Champions Yumehito Imanati & Shinichiro Tomonaga beat Minoru Suzuki & Shuichiro Katsumura to retain the titles. Imanari pinned Katsumura after a lariat. V1 for the champs.

The next event is 1/31 at Takashimadaira Community Center in Tokyo. It will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE on 2/5.

UPDATE: Injury Report-Munetatsu Nakamura may have been injured during this event. Neck. Out at least several weeks and will miss 1/31. Status for February and beyond TBD. This means a significant 1/31 change because Nakamura was supposed to face Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion Masaaki Mochizuki for the title. Shinichiro Tominaga is the replacement. The promotion is also offering refunds for purchased tickets as a result. On social media, Nakamura posted he should know more on his recovery after a doctor’s visit next week.

Ganbare Pro wrapped up their 2025 today with their final event of the year in Tokyo. The below results are courtesy of Weekly Pro.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Thursday at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Before the matches began…
Yuna Manase beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Mahiro Kiryu to win the title. Manase becomes the 1794th Champion.

Match 1: Mizuki Watase, Shigehiro Irie, Munetatsu Nakamura & Sentaro Motojima beat Jun Kasai, Takuya Wada, Tyson Maeguchi & Shota Kawakami. Nakamura pinned Maeguchi with a rolling German suplex hold.

Match 2: Ken Ohka & Mahiro Kiryu beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yuna Manase & Takashi Sasaki, Moeka Haruhi & Gabai Ji-Chan and HARUKAZE & Hartley jackson in a 4-way when Ohka pinned Manase to win the title. Ohka becomes the 1795th Champion. Which led to…
Mahiro Kiryu beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Keno hka to win the title. Kiryu becomes the 1796th Champion. Argh…

Match 3: Shuichiro Katsumura beat Akira Koji.

Match 4: YuuRI 5th Anniversary Match: Sareee beat YuuRI.

Match 5: Yumehito Imanari & Shinichiro Tominaga beat Spirit Of Ganbare World Tag Team Champions Yumehito Nakatsu & Takumi Tsukamoto to win the titles. Imanari & Tominaga become the 5th Spirit Of Ganbare World Tag Team Champions. Tominaga pinned Tsukamoto. Next up: Katsumura & Minoru Suzuki. That may possibly happen on 1/11-it’s already scheduled but not yet for the titles.

Main Event: Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion Masaaki Mochizuki beat Keisuke Ishii to retain the title. V4 for Mochizuki. Next up: Nakamura.

The next event, their first of the new year, is 1/11 at Boat Race Toda Event Hall in Saitama. This is a free event (outside of a 100 yen entry fee for the venue, or about 65 cents US) along with scheduled boat races that day. On demand broadcast plans TBA.

Ganbare Pro ran their penultimate event of 2025 today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Monday.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Match 1: Match 1: Mizuki Watase & Rukiya (DDT) beat Yasu Urano & Rekka. Watase pinned Rekka after Venetian.

Match 2: Moeka Haruhi vs. Gabai Ji-Chan went to a double pinfall draw.

Match 3: Takuya Wada & Tyson Maeguchi beat Ken Ohka & Akira Shoji. Maeguchi beat Ohka.

Match 4: Yuna Manase & Toga (Tokyo Joshi Pro) beat beat YuuRI & Chika Nanase (Tokyo Joshi Pro). Manase pinned Nanase after Dynamic HotShot.

Match 5: PSYCHO beat Shuichiro Katsumura & Chou-un Shiryu in a 3-way by pinning Shiryu.

Main Event: Yumehito Imanari, Keisuke Ishii & Shinichiro Katsumura beat Munetatsu Nakamura, Shota Kawakami & Sentaro Motojima. Ishii beat Motojima.

The next event is 12/27 at Korakuen Hall. It is scheduled to be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE on 12/29.

Ganbare Pro held a major event today in Tokyo, but since there was no live broadcast and results don’t seem to be posted yet anywhere I will post them as soon as I can find them. Worst-case is they will be up Tuesday as the event is scheduled to be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Monday at 11 PM PT/Tuesday at 2 AM ET. (It sounds like the main event result may be out there based on social media posts from Yuna Manase & Masaaki Mochizuki, who faced off for the Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Championship held by Mochizuki)

UPDATE: Here are the results:

Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE tomorrow at 11 PM PT/Tuesday at 2 AM ET.

The announced paid attendance was 202.

Match 1: Shota Kawakami beat Sentaro Motojima.

Match 2: YuuRI & Sumika Nakagawa beat Haruka Umesaki & Soy. YuuRI beat Soy with a spiral dragon sleeper.

Match 3: Shuichiro Katsumura, Takuya Wada & Jonathan Johnson beat Yumehito Imanari, Shinichiro Tominaga & Mizuki Watase. Johnson pinned Tominaga after The Jackknife.

Match 4: Keisuke Ishii beat Munetatsu Nakamura.

Match 5: Spirit Of Ganbare World Tag Team Champions Yumehito Nakatsu & Takumi Tsukamoto beat Ken Ohka & Chou-un Shiryu to retain the titles. Nakatsu beat Shiryu with a rear naked choke. V2 for the champs.

Main Event: Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion Masaaki Mochizuki beat Yuna Manase to retain the title. V2 for Mochizuki. Manase comes up just short in her bid to become the first woman to hold the promotion’s top title…or virtually any major non-women’s title in Japan for that matter (excluding DDT’s various tag team titles and All-Japan’s 6-man tag team title which both were held by Saki Akai at one time). Next up: Ohka. That match may happen on 11/29 but that depends on scheduling because Dragon Gate also has an event that day in Okinawa (match card TBA) while Ganbare will be in Tokyo. I would think they would hold it for their year-ender on 12/27 when they go back to Korakuen Hall but we’ll see.

The next event is 11/29 at Takashimadaira Community Center. It will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE a few days after the event.

UPDATE 2: Next up for the tag champs-Katsumura & YuuRi. That match will happen on 11/29. Also announced for 12/27 at Korakuen was a YuuRI 5th Anniversary match which will be YuuRI vs. Sareee.

UPDATE 3 (11/13/25): It’s now official. Mochizuki vs. Ohka will happen on 11/29.

Ganbare Pro held their latest major event today in Tokyo, which also was a Mizuki Watase 10th Anniversary event.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Monday. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Match 1: Sentaro Motoshima Debut Match: Rukiya, Kazumasa Yoshida & Hiroyu Inoue beat Sentaro Motoshima, Munetatsu Nakamura & Shodai Kawakami. Yoshida beat Motoshima.

Match 2: Yuna Manase & YuuRI beat Moeka Haruhi & Hanako Nakamori. YuuRI pinned Nakamori after a swanton bomb.

Match 3: Takashi Sasaki, Toru Sugiura & Dragon Libre beat Ken Ohka, Shuichiro Katsumura & Shinichiro Tominaga. Sugiura pinned Tominaga after a swift driver.

Match 4: Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie & Takuya Wada beat Funinori Abe, MAO & Tyson Maeguchi. Ishii pinned Maeguchi after a high angle double-arm DDT.

Match 5: Masaaki Mochizuki (Dragon Gate) beat Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion Yumehito Imanari to win the title. Mochizuki becomes the 9th Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion.

Main Event: Mizuki Watase 10th Anniversary Match: In a Fluorescent Lighttube Death Match, Jun Kasai beat Mizuki Watase.

The next event is 9/15 at Takashimadaira Community Center in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA.

Ganbare Pro results haven’t been easy to come by this year as the promotion doesn’t always post them. But they did for their latest event this Sunday.

Sunday’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. (As usual there was no live broadcast but the on demand video was made available earlier today)

The announced paid attendance was 196.

Match 1: Ken Ohka & Chou-un Shiryu beat Shinichiro Tominaga & Ali Najima. Ohka pinned Najima after Flame Spear.

Match 2: Keisuke Ishii beat Shodai Kawakami.

Match 3: Shuichiro Katsunura beat Tanomusaku Toba by ref stoppage (technical submission).

Match 4: Yoshiko Hasegawa Final Ganbare Match: Moeka Haruhi, Yuna Manase & Bunny Oikawa beat Yoshiko Hasegawa, YuuRI & Riara. Manase pinned Hasegawa after Suzuki Dynamic. Hasegawa left Ganbare last year to join Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling and is retiring in a couple weeks. HARUKAZE was special ring announcer for this match.

Match 5: Mizuki Watase beat Munetatsu Nakamura by TKO (ref stoppage-towel).

Main Event: Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion Yumehito Imanari beat Tyson Maeguchi to retain the title. V5 for Imanari.

The next event is 7/19. There will be no live broadcast. It will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE a few days after the event.

Marking one year since they became independent by breaking away from DDT and CyberFight Corporation, Ganbare Pro ran their biggest event since yesterday in Tokyo, which might be their biggest event of the year and was also the promotion’s 12th Anniversary event.

Yesterday’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Thursday. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. These results are courtesy of Japanese website Tokyo Headline Web.

Match 1: Yasu Urano, PSYCHO & Bunny Oikawa beat Hartley Jackson, Daisuke & HARUKAZE. Urano pinned HARUKAZE.

Match 2: Hikaru Sato & Tyson Maeguchi beat Toru Sugiura & Munetatsu Nakamura. Sato beat Nakamura with an armbar.

Match 3: Mizuki Watase Return Match: Mizuki Watase, Shigehiro Irie, Chou-un Shiryu & Rekka beat Koki Iwasaki, Takuya Wada, Fuminori Abe & Shodai Kawakami. Watase pinned Kawakami after Venetian.

Match 4: Yuna Manase, Hazuki & Koguma (Stardom) beat Moeka Haruhi, YuuRI & Ami Manase. Yuna Manase pinned Ami Manase after a lariat. Ami is Yuna’s real-life younger sister.

Match 5: Masaaki Mochizuki (Dragon Gate) beat Ken Ohka.

Match 6: Yuji Nagata (New Japan) & Tatsuhito Takaiwa beat Shuichiro Katsumura & Keisuke Ishii. Nagata pinned Katsumura with a backdrop hold.

Main Event: Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion Tumehito Imanari beat Shinichiro Tominaga to retain the title. V4 for Imanari.

The next event is 5/5 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. It will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date.

It was announced after the event they will next run Korakuen on 8/26, which will be a Mizuki Watase 10th Anniversary event which will feature Watase vs. Jun Kasai in a Fluorescent Lighttube Death Match, and also that former Ganbare wrestler Yoshiko Hasegawa, currently with Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, will make a final appearance in the promotion on 6/22 before she retires in July.

Ganbare Pro held their latest event last week in Tokyo.

The event was held at Takashimadaira Community Center in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 138.

Match 1: Shodai Kawakami beat Shota Oto. This was Kawakami’s first career win. It was also announced he would face Shota (different one) in his 1st Anniversary natch on 5/5.

Match 2: Yuna Manase, YuuRI & Bunny Oikawa beat Hanako Nakamori, Moeka Haruhi & HARUKAZE. YuuRI pinned Harukaze after a swanton bomb. Afterwards, HARUKAZE announced she will be going on an indefinite hiatus after the 5/5 event. The promotion reported she recently began working for her father outside the ring and thus it’s too much to balance that and wrestling. She will still appear as a staff member when circumstances permit.

Match 3: Shinichiro Tominaga & Rekka beat Takuya Wada & PSYCHO. Tominaga pinned Wada after JK.

Match 4: Ken Ohka beat Tyson Maeguchi.

Match 5: Shuichiro Katsumura, Yuki Kanzaki & Munetatsu Nakamura beat Keisuke Ishii, Shinnaba (?) & Zhao Yunzulong (?). Nakamura pinned Zhao with a German suplex hold.

Main Event: Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Cganpion Yumehito Imanari beat Fuminori Abe to retain the title. V3 for Imanari. Next up: Tominaga. That match will happen at the next event on 4/11.

The next event is the promotion’s 12th Anniversary event on 4/11 at Korakuen Hall. Broadcast plans TBA. At this time there is no live broadcast scheduled

Ganbare Pro ran their latest house show Monday in Tokyo, a “Men’s Wrestlers Association Box Office” event so no women’s matches this time.

Monday’s event was held at Takashimadaira Community Center in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 101.

At the start of the event, it was announced that Mizuki Watase, who has been out long-term due to injury, will return on 4/11.

Match 1: PSYCHO & Rekka beat Uasu Urano & Takeshi Okada. PSUCHO pinned Okada after God Trap.

Match 2: Keisuke Ishii beat Daisuke®.

Match 3: AKIRA & Ricky Fuji beat Ken Ohka & Zhao Yunzilong. AKIRA pinned Ohka after Musasabi Press.

Match 4: Takuya Wada beat Tyson Maeguchi.

During a break here, it was announced that Munetatsu Nakamura will challenge KFC Junior Champion Yuya Susumu for the title at a Freedoms event on 3/19 at Korakuen Hall.

Match 5: Shodai Kawakami vs. Shuichiro Katsumura went to a double countout.

Main Event: Yumehito Imanari & Shinichiro Tominaga beat Toru Sugiura & Munetatsu Nakamura. Tominaga pinned ? (didn’t say clearly).

The next event is 3/16 with Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion Yumehito Imanari vs. Fuminori Abe for the title. Broadcast plans TBA, I would expect no live broadcast with on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE to follow a few days later.