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Pro Wrestling NOAH followed up their year-opening signature event yesterday with today’s NEW YEAR REBOOT 2026 event.

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

The announced paid attendance was 468, a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Shuhei Taniguchi, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara bear Yuto Koyanagi, Hiroto Tsuruya & Midori Takahashi. Kotoge pinned Koyanagi after a bat drop.

Match 2: Takashi Sugiura, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka beat Hatutoki, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. Masaoka pinned Alrhandro after Ambitions.

Match 3: KENTA, HAYATA, Ulka Sasaki & Tetsuya Endo beat Jack Morris, Mohammed Yone, Eita & Hi69. Sasaki beat Hi69 with an armbar. Afterwards, Sasaki announced he was leaving the promotion, at least temporarily, to go to the US. More as it becomes available.

Match 4: Naomichi Marifuji beat Katsumi Inabata by ref stoppage.

Match 5: Kenoh, Daga & Daiki Odashima beat Kaito Kiyomiya, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki. Daga beat Miyawaki with a spinning leg lock.

Match 6: Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows beat Manabu Soya & Saxon Huxley. Anderson pinned Soya after Magic Killer.

Main Event: OZAWA, Masa Kitamiya & Alpha Wolf beat Yoshiki Inamura, Will Kroos & Dragon Bane. Kitamiya pinned Bane after a diving senton.

The next event is 1/10 at Shiroishi White Cube in Miyagi for a Tetsuya Endo hometown event. There will be no live broadcast

While it’s not the first event in Japan in the New Year, Pro Wrestling NOAH kicks off 2026 today with their annual New Year’s Day blowout event, NOAH THE NEW YEAR 2026. The main event is an interesting GHC Heavyweight Championship match between Yoshiki Inamura & OZAWA. Representing the future of the promotion, it’s a rematch of late 2022 when then-Taishi Ozawa made his debut against a much different Inamura, who was struggling to make the mid-card before beginning a pair of training excursions, most recently to WWE as part of NXT and came back with a new look, some decent English and now the top title while OZAWA recently returned from injury and teased a face turn but still seems to solidly be Team 2000X going in, we shall see. Almost every other GHC Championship will also be defended today and there’s even a title match from Europe’s Progress Wrestling to round out a massive card along with a surprise appearance in one title match-the net seems to think it could be the NOAH debut of one Tetsuya Naito and I concur, but we must wait and see…

Today’s event will be held at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only. This is a live & exclusive ABRMA broadcast in Japan, which will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese a short time after the event (with Akitoshi Saito on commentary among others). The 9 match lineup features 6 title matches so this will be a New Year’s all-nighter/morninger depending on where you are with a predicted running time in the 4-5 hour range.

Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka vs. Kazuhuki Fujita, Minoru Suzuki, Junta Miyawaki & Shuhei Taniguchi
KENTA, HAYATA, Tetsuya Endo & Ulka Sasaki vs. Atsushi Kotoge, Mohammed Yone, Hajime Ohara & Hi69
Kaito Kiyomiya & Jack Morris vs. Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows
Progress Atlas Champion Will Kroos. vs. Saxon Huxley for the title
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Daga & Daiki Odashima vs. Alejandro & Kai Fujimura and Eita & Shuji Kondo in a 3-way for the titles
GHC National Champion Dragon Bane vs. Alpha Wolf for the title
GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuni & Kenoh vs. BUSHI & TBA for the titles
GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi vs. AMAKUSA for the title
GHC Heavyweight Champion Yoshiki Inamura vs. OZAWA for the title

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 30 minutes before the event. (Pre-show Update: The stream start time, as of 5 PM PT/8 PM ET, has now been pushed back 10 minutes and will now begin 20 minutes before the event)

9:40 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in about 10 minutes. The UNIVERSE pre-start screen indicates the start time has been moved up to 9:50 PM PT/12:50 AM ET. It also suggests the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship 3-way will be the opening match.

9:50 PM PT UPDATE: The ABEMA stream probably started now but the UNIVERSE stream has to wait a little longer.

10 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Nippon Budokan in Toyo, Jpaan. Commentary will begin shortly when the first match starts.

The paid attendance will be announced after the vent. The venue’s normal full capacity for wrestling events is roughly 8400 but I imagine they’re using a smaller setup and it clearly isn’t a sellout. Hoping it’s a good crowd, I’m guessing the setup will be for closer to 6000 and I’ll make a best-case guess of 4000 for today. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 6278)

We join right before the opening video & match card announcement. Leaning heavily into Yoshiki Inamura’s cowboy-themed persona now.

The matches begin at 10:05 PM PT/1:05 AM ET. Your hosts are the returning Stewart (BANG! Back at last!) Fulton, Mark Pickering & Mike Shroudner.

Match 1: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Daga & Daiki Odashima vs. Alejandro & Kai Fujimura and Eita & Shuji Kondo in a 3-way for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Daga & Daiki Odashima beat Alejandro & Kai Fujimura and Eita & Shuji Kondo in a 3-way, when Odashima pinned Alejandro, to retain the titles. V2 for the champs.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka (Independent/Freelancer) vs. Kazuhuki Fujita, Minoru Suzuki, Junta Miyawaki & Shuhei Taniguchi. 30 minute (?) time limit
Result: Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka beat Kazuyuki Fujita, Minoru Suzuki, Junta Miyawaki & Shuhei Taniguchi. Kitamiya beat Miyawaki with Stranglehold y.

Match 3: Progress Atlas Champion Will Kroos. vs. Saxon Huxley for the title. A nice pre-match surprise as Huxley was seconded by the injured YO-HEY, looking a lot better and closer to a return. Or at least someone that looked like YO-HEY…I think it actually was Shuji Kondo.
Result: Saxon Huxley beat Progress Atlas Champion Will Kroos to win the title.

Match 4: KENTA, HAYATA, Tetsuya Endo & Ulka Sasaki vs. Atsushi Kotoge, Mohammed Yone, Hajime Ohara & Hi69. 30 minute (?) time limit KENTA with microphone pre-match. He reveals that, as indicated by the shirts they came out wearing, his new faction is now called WRS-White Raven Squad.
Result: KENTA, HAYATA, Tetsuya Endo & Ulka Sasaki beat Atsushi Kotoge, Mohammed Yone, Hasjime Ohara & Hi69. KENTA pinned Hi69 after GO 2 SLEEP.

Match 5: GHC National Champion Dragon Bane vs. Alpha Wolf for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Alpha Wolf beat GHC National Champion Dragon Bane to win the title. Wolf becomes the 19th GHC National Champion. All because of The Turn…Yoshitatsu came out near the end and that gave it all away-Wolf turned on Bane, his brother, and defected to Team 2000X.

Intermission. We get some of the Japanese commentary unmuted during the break while the English team steps away.

The matches resume at 11:40 PM PT/2:40 AM ET. Keiji Muto & sumo wrestler Wakamotoharu join Japanese commentary. (Some sumo wrestlers are pro wrestling fans and some wrestlers, most notably New Japan star Taichi, are sumo fans and return the favor)

Match 6: Kaito Kiyomiya & Jack Morris vs. Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows. Unknown time limit
Result: Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Jack Morris. Anderson pinned Morris after Magic Killer.

As the next match prepares to begin it’s midnight PT so…Happy New Year & welcome to 2026!

Match 7: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuni & Kenoh vs. BUSHI & TBA for the titles. 1 Hour time limit. And TBA is…indeed…Tetsuya Naito!
Result: BUSHI & Tetsuya Naito beat GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuji & Kenoh to win the titles. BUSHI & Naito become the 76th GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. BUSHI pinned Marufuji. Got away with an apparent mist attack on a rollup.

Match 8: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi (New Japan) vs. AMAKUSA for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: AMAKUSA beat GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi to win the title. AMAKUSA becomes the 60th GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion. Next up: Looks like Odashima as challenge issued. Accepted. Updates to come later today.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Yoshiki Inamura vs. OZAWA for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC Heavyweight Champion Yoshiki Inamura beat OZAWA to retain the title. V2 for Inamura. A lot of Team 2000X interference but at one point Dragon Bane came out to help Inamura. Next up: Kenoh. Ot is it? Before he could get to the ring, Masa Kitamiya laid out Kenoh. Kitamiya with microphone. He wants next and isn’t letting Inamura choose Kenoh next. Challenge accepted by Inamura. Kitamiya took the cheap shot and went for the beatdown but bailed when Inamura got the upper hand. So it looks like Kitmaiya and not Kenoh next. Updates to come.

The next event is tomorrow at Shinjuku Face. The event is a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

UPDATE: Kitamiya is indeed next for Inamura and not Kenoh. That match will happen on 1/11 at Korakuen Hall along with AMAKUSA-Odashima.

Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up their 2025 today with their final event of the year, PRO WRESTLING NOAH THANKSGIVING 2025.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 1492, a super full house/very near sellout. Maybe a legit sellout as only a few same-day tickets were left prior to today.

Match 1: Will Kroos, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura beat Saxon Huxley, Shuji Kondo & Eita. Kroos pinned Eita after a frog splash.

Match 2: Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka (Independent/Freelancer) beat Atsushi Kotofe & Hajime Ohara. Tadasuke beat Kotoge with a cross lock.

Match 3: Kazuyuki Fujita won a 12 man battle royal, last eliminating Manabu Soya. Order of elimination: Yuto Koyanagi, Mohammed Yone, Ulka Sasaki, Daga, HAYATA, Harutoki, Junta Miyawaki, Hi69, Shuhei Taniguchi, Black Menso-re, Soya.

Matxh 4: Naomichi Marufuji & Kenoh beat Hiroto Tauruya & Midori Takahashi. Kenoh beat Takahashi with Kenoh Special.

Match 5: Hiromu Takahashi & Daiki Nagai (New Japan) beat AMAKUSA & Daiki Odashima. Takahashi pinned AMAKUSA after Time Bomb.

Match 6: Takashi Sugiura 25th Anniversary Match: Takashi Sugiura beat KENTA.

Main Event: OZAWA, Masa Kitamiya & Tadasuke beat Yoshiki Inamura, Kaito Kiyomiya & Tetsuya Endo. OZAWA pinned Endo after Real Rebel. This originally was to have been Inamura & Kitamiya vs. Kiyomiya & Endo but OZAWA was a surprise last-second addition to the match as was Tadasuke. It also marks OZAWA’s official return from injury.

The next event, the first of 2026, is NOAH THE NEW YEAR 2026 on 1/1 at Nippon Budokan. Live streaming ONLY IN JAPAN ON ABEMA will begin on 12/31 at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. There is no live WRESTLE UNIVERSE broadcast so set up and test your VPNs now so you can get ABEMA if you are outside Japan (the event should be a free broadcast even though ABEMA is mow offering a limited version of WRESTLE UNIVERSE as a paid option-it will only include select live events, no on demand). It also likely won’t be on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE right away-you may have to wait a week or two.

UPDATE: 1/1 will now be LIVE ON WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only.

After 4 long, full years that helped steer the promotion through the pandemic and recovery, Pro Wrestling NOSH finally ended the seemingly-never-ending SUNNY VOYAGE 2025 Tour today with the last event.

Today’s event was held at Act City Hamamatsu in Shizuoka and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE tomorrow night (early Tuesday AM on the US east coast). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 278.

Match 1: Alejandro & Kai Fujimura beat Hiroto Tsuruya & Yuto Koyanagi. Fujimura pinned Koyanagi.

Match 2: Mohammed Yone beat Black Menso-re.

Match 3: Shuji Kondo, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69 beat Daga, Daiki Odashima & Midori Takahashi. Kotoge beat Takahashi with a Texas cloverleaf.

Match 4: Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh & AMAKUSA beat Manabu Soya, Saxon Hucley & Junta Miyawaki. Kenoh pinned Miyawaki after a round fist.

Match 5: Yoshiki Inamura & Will Kroos beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Harutoki. Inamura pinned Harutoki after DIS Charge.

Main Event: Ulka Sasaki, Tetsuya Endo & HAYATA beat Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura & Tadasuke. Sasaki beat Tadasuke with Nameless Joint Technique.

The final event of 2025 is Pro Wrestling NOAH THANKSGIVING 2025 on Tuesday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the penultimate event of the SUNNY VOYAGE 2025 Tour today in Osaka.

Today’s event was held at 176BOX in Osaka and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Monday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 292.

Match 1: Daiki Odashima & Hiroto Tsuruya beat Yuto Koyanagi & Midori Takahashi. Odashoma pinned Takahashi after Dead End.

Match 2: AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki beat Alejandro & Back Menso-re. Miyawaki pinned Menso-re with a sunshine suplex hold.

Match 3: Manabu Soya & Saxon Huxley beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Harutoki. Huxley pinned Harutoki after a neck hanging bomb.

Match 4: Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69 beat Ulka Sasaki, Tetsuya Endo, HAYATA & Yuto Kikuchi. Marufuji pinned Kikuchi after a round fist.

Match 5: Eita beat Kai Fujimura.

Main Event: Yoshiki Inamura, Will Kroos & Daga beat Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura & Tadasuke. Inamura pinned Tadasuke after DIS Charge.

The tour-ender, after 4 long years, is tomorrow at Act City Hamamatsu in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Monday night.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the final week of the SUNNY VOYAGE 2025 Tour today in Kanagawa.

Today’s event was held at Hodogaya Public Hall in Kanagawa and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Friday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 321.

Match 1: Ulka Sasaki & Hajime Ohara beat Hiroto Tsuruya & Midpri Takahashi. Ohara beat Takahashi with a Boston crab.

Match 2: Tetsuya Endo & HAYATA beat Shuhei Taniguchi & Black Menso-re. HAYATA beat Menso-re with an armbar.

Match 3: Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka (Independent/Freelancer) beat Kazuyuki Fujita, Mohammed Yone, Daiki Odashima & Yuto Koyanagi. Kitamiya pinned Koyanagi after Saito Suplex.

Match 4: AMAKUSA beat Hi69.

Match 5: Kaito Kiyomiya, Harutoki, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura beat Naomichi Marufuji, Kenih, Atsushi Kotoge & Junta Miyawaki. Kiyomiya pinned Miyawaki after a slywalk elbow.

Main Event: Yoshiki Inamura, Will Kroos & Daga beat Manabu Soya, Saxon Huxley & Shuji Kondo. Inamura pinned Kondo after DIS Charge.

The next event is Saturday at 176BOX in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast. On demand at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH began the final week of the SUNNY VOYAGE 2025 Tour today in Toyama.

Today’s event was held at Volfert Toyama in Toyama and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 235.

Match 1: Tetsuya Endo beat Midori Takahashi.

Match 2; AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki beat Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69. AMAKUSA pinned Kotoge.

Match 3: Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh & Eita beat Daga, Daiki Odashima & Black Menso-re. Eita pinned Menso-re after Diablo Wings.

Match 4: Ulka Sasaki, HAYATA & Hiroto Tsuruya beat Mohammed Yone, Hasjime Ohara & Yuto Koyanagi. Sasaki beat Koyanagi with an armbar.

Match 5: Yoshiki Inamura & Will Kroos beat Manabu Soya & axon Huxley. Kroos pinned Huxley after Kroos Control.

Main Event: Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka (Independent/Freelancer) beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Harutoki, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. Kitamiya beat Harutoki with Stranglehold y.

The next event is Wednesday at Hodogaya Public Hall in Kanagawa. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Friday.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the finally-winding-down SUNNY VOYAGE 2025 Tour today in Nagoya.

Today’s event was held at Lives Nagoya in Nagoya and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 332.

Match 1; HAYATA beat Yuto Koyanagi by submission.

Match 2: Eita & Shuji Kondo beat Midori Takahashi & HIroto Tsuruya. Eita pinned Takahashi.

Match 2; Ulka Sasaki & Tetsuya Endo beat AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki. Saaki pinned Miyawaki.

Match 4: Kaito Kiyomiya, Harutoki, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura beat Atsushi Kotoge, Hajime Ohara, Hi69 & Black Menso-re. Alejandro pinned Ohara after Zero Gravity.

Match 5: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Daga & Daiki Odashima beat Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka to retain the titles. Daga pinned Tadasuke after 59. V1 for the champs.

Match 6: Yoshiki Inamura, Will Kroos & Kazuyuki Fujita beat Manabo Soya, Saxon Huxley & Mohammed Tone. Inamure pinned Yone after DIS Charge.

Main Event: Naomichi Marufuji & Kenoh beat GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Masa Kitamiya & Takashi Sugiura to win the titles. Marufuji & Kenoh become the 75th GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Kenoh pinned Sugiura after Maraken.

The next event is tomorrow at Volfert Toyama in Toyama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast (it’s not on the UNIVERSE schedule for on demand). (UPDATE: On their English social media account the promotion does say on demand at a later date. If they follow normal scheduling that would mean Wednesday)

UPDATE: First up for the new tag champs-BUSHI & TBA. A lot of speculation is about whether or not TBA will be Tetsuya Naito. That match will happen on 1/1 at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo.