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Ganbare Pro wrapped up the build to their annual biggest event of the year today with a house show dubbed “Ghost Hunters 2023”.

Today’s event was held at Takashimadaira Community Center in Tokyo and while it is not yet available on WRESTLE UNIVERSE, a late decision was made to stream it LIVE FOR FREE on YouTube. It is now available on demand on the Ganbare Pro YouTube channel and can be watched below (the video below runs just over 2 hours, it should be on WRESTLE UNIVERSE sometime next week):

Results below.

The announced paid attendance was 92.

Match 1: Mizuki Watase beat Sotatsu Nakamura by submission.

Match 2: Haruka Umesaki beat Riara. Umesaki was chosen by Sayaka Unagi for this match.

Match 3: HARUKAZE & YuuRI beat Yoshiko Hasegawa & Kaede Matsushita. YuuRI pinned Matsushita after a swanton bomb.

Match 4: Ken Ohka & Kurashi beat Keisuke Ishii & Shota. Kurashi pinned Shota after a diving senton.

Main Event: In an Elimination Match, Shuichiro Katsumura, Minoru Fujita & Yuki Kanzaki beat Yumehito Imanari, Takao Soma & Tyson Maeguchi. Katsumura was the only winner left.

The next event is WRESTLE SEKIGAHARA 2, the promotion’s biggest event of the year, on 7/9 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English will begin on 7/8 at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

In a series of Twitter posts earlier today, which I machine translated from Japanese, Moeka Haruhi (currently a freelancer who regularly competes in Ganbare Pro) announced that the scheduled operation to donate one of her kidneys to her sister has unfortunately been postponed near-last-minute. According to Haruhi’s post, a pre-surgery blood test showed her kidney function was declining and thus the surgery was cancelled. It was to have happened tomorrow. Her sister was discharged from the hospital as a result. Haruhi will be undergoing further testing to try and determine the cause of her deteriorating kidney function.

Haruhi had planned to return to wrestling after having the surgery and recovering, having recently stepped away from Ganbare after a series of farewell matches. There is no word now on her future plans except she will not make her regular appearance on a Japanese radio program this week.

You can read the thread below from Haruhi’s Twitter (hopefully there is a translate option for those who cannot read Japanese, there was for me in the app). Please keep Haruhi and her sister in your thoughts and hope there is a way for this to happen as Haruhi’s sister really needs this transplant to happen.

Ganbare Pro is running their latest event today, which is Moeka Haruhi’s final appearance before she steps away to donate one of her kidneys to her sister in a potential life-saving operation. The full results are now below

Today’s event is being held at Takashimadaira Community Center in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (likely some time next week). There is no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 131.

Match 1: Ken Ohka beat Yuki Kanzaki.

Match 2: Hikaru Sato beat Shinichiro Tominaga.

Match 3: Moeka Haruhi Farewell For Now Match: Moeka Haruhi, HARUKAZE & Yoshiko Hasegawa beat Rina Amikura, YuuRi & Reala. Haruhi pinned YuuRI after a diving foot stomp. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: Moeka Haruhi won a 15 person battle royal, last eliminating Reala.

Haruhi said her farewell for now after all this. But when she and her sister are healthy again, she (and possibly they) will be back. All the best wishes to Haruhi and her sister.

After this, Sayaka Unagi appeared. Unagi vs. Reala was added to 7/9 at Ota City General Gym.

Match 4: Takao Soma & Takuya Wada beat Shuichiro Katsumura & Shota. Wada pinned Katsumura.

Main Event: Mizuki Watase, Tyson Maeguchi & Takeshi Okada beat Keisuke Ishii, Yumehito Imanari & Illusion. Maeguchi pinned Imanari after a flying knee kick. Afterwards, Wada issued a Spirit Of Ganbare World Tag Team Championship challenge with Katsumura as his partner.

The next event is a Ganbare Women event on 6/17 at GEN Sports Palace in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA.

Ganbae Pro ran their monthly variety tripleheader in Tokyo today, this month it was Yumehito Imanari doing the middle wrestler-produced event among a regular event and wrestlers-produced finale.

All 3 events were held at Oji Basement MON*STAR in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

Event 1:
The announced paid attendance was 62.
There were last-second changes to the event, namely the first match, due to no YuuRI. Sudden illness. Shota was the replacement.

Match 1: Moeka Haruhi & Reala beat Shota & Yoshiko Hasegawa. Haruhi pinned Hasegawa after a diving foot stomp.

Match 2: Keisuke Ishii & Takao Soma beat Hartley Jackson & Mitch Ryder. Soma pinned Ryder after Authorized Endless Waltz.

Match 3: Minoru Fujita & Daiki Shimomura beat Ken Ohka & Shota. Fujita beat Shota with a deformed Samson Clutch.

Main Event: Mizuki Watase, Shuichiro Katsumura & Yuki Kanzaki beat Yumehito Imanari, Tyson Maeguchi & Shinichiro Tominaga. Watase pinned Tominaga after Venetian.

Event 2 (Yumehito Imanari Produced):
The announced paid attendance was 81.
Match 1: Moeka Haruhi vs. Yumehito Imanari went to a 30 minute time limit draw. By producer’s decision, Haruhi wins.

Match 2: HARUKAZE won a Yumejin Poison Rumble battle royal, last eliminating both Takao Soma & Yuki Kanzaki.

Match 3: Shuichiro Katsumura & Shota beat Illusion & Sotatsu Nakamura. SShota pinned Nakamura.

Main Event: Yumehito Imanari Ganbare Pro 10th Anniversary Match: Ken Ohka & Keisuke Ishii beat Yumehito Imanari & Shinichiro Tominaga. Ishii pinned Imanari after a running double arm driver.

Event 3 (Wrestler group produced):
The announced paid attendance was 82.
Match 1: Shinichiro Tomianga & HARUKAZE beat Shota & Yoshiko Hasgawa. Shota pinned Tominaga after a moonsault press.

Match 2: Hong Kong International Policewoman beat Hong Kong International Policeman by ref stoppage (TKO).

Match 3: In an Elimination Match, Ken Ohka, Keisuke Ishii & Shuichiro Katsumura beat Mizuki Watase, Takao Soma & Yumehito Imanari. Clean sweep, no winners eliminated.

Main Event: Isami Kodaka beat Sotatsu Nakamura. As a result, Kodaka will challenge Spirit Of Ganbare Openweight Champion Mizuki Watase for the title on 7/9 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo.

The next event is Saturday (Friday US time) at Takashimadaira Community Center in Tokyo. Streamers thrown by fans will be allowed only for Moeka Haruhi, a hint this might be her final event before she leaves wrestling to donate a kidney to her sister. Haruhi intends to return to wrestling after recovering from the process. There will be no live broadcast.

Ganbare Pro was back in action today with a house show only 24 hours after their Golden Week blowout event, with the first Spirit Of Ganbare World Tag Team Championship match the headliner.

Today’s event was held at Takashimadaira Community Center in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 68.

Before the matches began, clarification from yesterday’s event: Although he made the next challenge, Isami Kodaka WILL NOT get the next Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Championship shot right away. He’ll have to earn it by beating Sotatsu Nakamura on 5/28 with the winner getting the next shot.

Match 1: Hong Kong Domestic Policewoman beat Hong Kong International Policeman and Itabashi Dangerous Policeman in a 3-way by pinning Itabashi Dangerous Policeman. Comedy match of course.

Match 2: Moeka Haruhi & HARUKAZE beat YuuRI & Reala. Haruhi pinned Reala after a diving foot stomp.

Match 3: In an Elimination Match (over the top rope rules in effect), Mizuki Watase, Ken Ohka, Keisuke Ishii & Shinichiro Tominaga beat Tatsuhiro Takaiwa, Yumehito Imanari, Takao Soma & Sotatsu Nakamura. Order of elimination (all by over the top rope), Takaiwa by Ohka, Soma by Tominaga, Watase & Nakamura together, Imanari by Ishii. Ohka/Ishii/Tominaga win.

Match 4: Shuichiro Katsumura beat Takuya Wada.

Main Event: Spirit Of Ganbare World Tag Team Champions Hikaru Sato & Tyson Maeguchi beat Dan The Dad & Cody Lang to retain the titles. Maeguchi pinned Lang after a buzzsaw kick. V1 for the champs.

The next event is 5/28 for the monthly tripleheader at Oji Basement MON*STAR in Tokyo. This time there is a Yumehito Imanari produced event along with the normal event and wrestlers group-produced event. There will be no live broadcasts.