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All-Japan Pro Wrestling 11/22/25 LIVE Results

All-Japan kicks off the 2025 World’s Strongest Tag League aka Real World Tag League today in Tokyo, the promotion’s annual year-end openweight tag team tournament. It’s going to look a lot different this year as the Saitos are not taking part as Jun Saito opted to voluntarily withdraw and not participate because brother & partner Rei Saito remains out long-term due to injury. That also means it’s more wide open. Most of the field for the round-robin format tournament will be in tournament action today including current All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Xyon & Odyssey, who will eventually defend the titles against the tournament winners if they do not win. Also a notable main event will see the Aoyagi brothers on opposite sides as Yuma Aoyagi teams with Yuma Anzai against Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV in Japanese. The event will also be taped for broadcast on GAORA SPORTS in Japan in about a week. All the matches including a non-tournament match have a 30 minute time limit and there’s an intermission at the halfway point so it probably will wind up having an “average” Korakuen running time of about 2 1/2 hours (although the GAORD broadcast is scheduled for 3+ hours, that would also assume every match goes the distance and the longest possible time of about 3 1/2 hours).

Today’s lineup:
Tag League:
Block B: Xyon & Odyssey vs. Takashi & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan
Block A: Shotaro Ashino & Go Shiozaki vs. Hokuto Omori & Kumaarashi
Jun Saito, MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Dan Tamura, Ryo Inoue & Shota Kofuji
Intermission
Tag League:
Block A: Hideki Suzuki & Kengo Mashimo vs. Ren Ayabe & Talos
Block B: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Ryuki Honda & Naoya Nomura
Block B: Yuma Aoyagi & Yuma Anzai vs. Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato

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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 before the event.

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

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

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

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It’s just under the “new normal” full capacity setup as commentary is in the bleacher seats opposite hard camera. While not an advance sellout from what I know the crowd already looks good, I’ll predict a potential near-sellout of around 1200. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1327)

The matches should begin in 10-15 minutes. During opening announcements they bring out Rei Saito after announcing he will be a guest on commentary today for AJPW.TV.

The event begins with the tag league opening ceremony, where all the participating teams are introduced in the ring.

As it was ending, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan took out Xyon & Odyssey outside the ring, leading to…
Match 1: Block B: Xyon & Odyssey vs. Takashi & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan. 30 minute time limit
Result: Xyon & Odyssey beat Takashi & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan. Xyon pinned Japan after a diving headbutt.

Match 2: Block A: Shotaro Ashino & Go Shiozaki vs. Hokuto Omori & Kumaarashi (with a full head of hair instead of his usual short mohawk). 30 minute time limit
Result: Shotaro Ashino & Go Shiozaki beat Hokuto Omori & Kumaarashi. Shiozaki pinned Omori after Go Lariat.

Match 3: Jun Saito, MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Dan Tamura, Ryo Inoue & Shota Kofuji. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jun Saito, MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka beat Dan Tamura, Ryo Inoue & Shota Kofuji. Saito pinned Inoue after a chokeslam.

Intermission.

The matches resume at 7:36 PM PT/10:36 PM ET (about a 15 minute break).

Match 4: Block A: Hideki Suzuki & Kengo Mashimo vs. Ren Ayabe & Talos. 30 minute time limit
Result: Ren Ayabe & Talos beat Hideki Suzuki & Kengo Mashimo. Ayabe pinned Suzuki after Des Roulette.

Match 5: Block B: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Ryuki Honda & Naoya Nomura. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Ryuki Honda & Naoya Nomura. Miyahara pinned Honda with a shutdown suplex hold.

Main Event: Block B: Yuma Aoyagi & Yuma Anzai vs. Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato. 30 minute time limit
Result: Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato beat Yuma Aoyagi & Yuma Anzai. Atsuki Aoyagi pinned Yuma Aoyagi after a 450 splash. Almost went the distance (25+ minutes).

The next event is tomorrow at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Sunday at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET. This will also be a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan on 11/29.

New Japan 11/20/25 Results (Updated x3)

New Japan kicked off the 2025 World Tag League, the annual year-end (usually) Heavyweight Tag Team tournament, today with the start of Block A.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1498, a legit sellout.

Before the event began, Yoh came out to request a NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championship match at Tokyo Dome, meaning a title defense. More on that later.

Match 1: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, SANADA & Ren Narita beat Zane Jay, Alex Zayne & Lance Archer. Narita pinned Jay.

Match 2: Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Jacob Austin Young, Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan. Oiwa beat Young with a transformed Boston Crab.

Match 3: Shoma Kato, Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino beat Masatora Yasuda, El Phantasmo & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Umino pinned Yasuda after a lariat.

Match 4: Gedo, Hiromu Takahashi & David Finlay beat Daiki Nagai, OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby). Finlay pinned Nagai after a power bomb whip.

World Tag League Block A:
Match 5: Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano beat Shuji Ishikawa & El Desperado. Yano pinned Ishikawa.
Match 6: Don Fale & EVIL beat Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi. EVIL beat Takahashi with a scorpion deathlock.
Match 7: Satoshi Kojima & Taichi beat YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Taichi pinned YOSHI-HASHI after Black Mephisto.
Main Event: Drilla Moloney & Shingo Takagi beat Gabriel Kidd & Yota Tsuji. Takagi pinned Kidd after WAR DRAGONS.

After the event ended, Yoh came out again to continue begging Chairman Naoki Sugabayashi for a Tokyo Dome title match. Granted. More as it becomes available.

The next event is Saturday at Fujisawa City Chichibunomiya Memorial Gym in Kanagawa with the start of Block B. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

UPDATE: CMLL FANTASTICAMANIA 2026 was announced during the event. Next year’s series will run 7 events between 2/18-2/27 with the following CMLL participation: Mistico, Mascara Dorada, Titan, Atlantis, Atlantis Jr., Templario, Stigma, Ultimo Guerrero, Hechicero, Averno, Soberano Jr., Okumura, Magnus, Futuro, Valiente Jr., Hijo de Stuka Jr. and ring announcer Ivan Salguero.

Event dates: 2/18 (Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2, Tokyo), 2/21 (CHRES Seliz, Kochi), 2/22 (ATC Hall, Osaka), 2/23 (Aichi Prefectural Budokan, Aichi), 2/24 (EDION Osaka B, thinking this is aka Osaka Prefectural Gym 2), 2/26 & 2/27 (Korakuen).

UPDATE 2: In a post-match comments clip posted on New Japan’s Japanese social media account, Tanahashi responded to 11/19 post-match comments from DDT’s Kaisei Takechi where “The Rampage” requested a match against Tanahashi before his retirement. Tanahashi was happy about that but expressed concerns about it not being possible due to Takechi’s schedule. But Tanahashi seemingly extended an invite for Takechi to be part of Tokyo Dome on 1/4.

More as it becomes available..

UPDATE 3: It’s now official. Takechi will be part of 1/4z also, the NEVER 6-aman Tag Team Title match will be a Tornado Rambo aka a battle royal.

New Japan 11/19/25 Results

Tonight was a night full of EVIL (INDEEEEEEEED!) as New Japan held the first House Of Torture produced event, appropriately dubbed “PURGE NIGHT OF TORTURE”.

Todat’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand as a PPV on New Japan World for $22.99 US.

The announced paid attendance was 1481, a legit advance sellout.

There was a change to the second match due to Tomohiro Ishii being out with a shoulder injury. Taichi was the replacement.

Pre-show match: Hip Togo (Ryusuke Taguchi) beat Dick Togo.

Match 1: EVIL beat Shun Skywalker (Dragon Gate).

Match 2: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Chase Owens & Don Fale beat Masato Tanaka (ZERO1), Ikuto Hidaka (ZERO1) & Taichi. Owens pinned Hidaka after Last Testament. (New Japan’s English website says it was Yujiro Takahashi here but the Japanese website says Owens. I go with Japanese first)

Match 3: Dick Togo & Ren Narita beat HANZO & The Great Sasauke (Michinoku Pro). Narita pinned HANZO.

Matxh 4: Sho, DOUKI & SANADA beat Kaisei Takechi, Akito & Yuki Ueno (DDT) by ref stoppage. DOUKI beat Akito with Italian Stretch 32 after multiple deadly weapon uses.

Main Event: Yujiro Takahashi vs. Saya Kamitani (Stardom) went to a no contest. Out of control. H.O.T. and H.A.T.E. interference. Which led to…

Impromptu Match: EVIL vs. Yujiro Takahashi went to a Double KO. Afterwards, despite the divisions EVIL proclaimed the House was unified still. Because they are EVIL! ((INDEEEEEEEEED!)

The next event is the World Tag League, the annual year-end (usually) Heavyweight tag team tournament, starting tomorrow. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 11/19/25 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro held a TJPW INSPIRATION event today, the latest in their series of spinoff events held 2-3 times annually featuring more comedy matches and matches & wrestlers normally not seen in the promotion.

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

The announced paid attendance was 247, a full house/near sellout.

No Up Up Girls today so Chika Nanase did the opening start call.

Match 1: Kaya Toribami beat Toga.

Match 2: Rika Tatsumi beat Gabai Ji-Chan.

Match 3: Mizuki & Yuki Aino beat Raku & HIMAWARI. Mizuki pinned Raku with Cutie Special.

Main Event: Miyu Yamashita & Shoko Nakajima vs. Yuu (Sendai Girls) & Yuki Kamifuku went to a 20 minute time limit draw. Yuu was making her first TJPW appearance in 7 years, but also her last as she is retiring at the end of the year.

The next event is Saturday (Friday US time) at Kanazawa Distribution Hall in Ishikawa for a Uta Takami hometown event. Miyu Yamashita is off this event due to an excursion to Europe. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Tuesday.

Dragon Gate 11/17/25 Results

THE GATE OF NOSTALGIA 2025, Dragon Gate’s annual fun event featuring wrestlers bringing back their old factions & gimmicks again for one day, was held earlier today. And much to my delight that meant…sing it with me…WE ARE JIMMYS! (WE ARE JIMMYS!)

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

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 445. I’d call it a full house/near sellout even though they did not as that’s just short of 90% of max capacity)

Pre-show match: JACKY KAMEI, Riiita & Mochizuki Junior beat Daiki Yanagiuchi, Akihiro Sahara & Kazuma Kimura. Junior pinned Yanagiuchi with a German suplex hold.

Match 1: Jimmy Susumu, Jimmy Kagetora & Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!! (with Jimmy Ryo Saito) beat Strong Machine J. Strong Karaoke Machine & Strong Shachihoko Machine in 41 seconds. Susumu pinned Shachihojo after Yokosuka Cutter. Which led to…
Match 1 (again): Jimmy Susumu, Jimmy Kagetora & Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!! (with Jimmy Ryo Saito) beat Strong Machine J. Strong Machine F & Giant Strong Machine. Susumu pinned F with Backslide From Heaven..

Match 2: Open The Owarai Gate Champion Shinbashi Jiro beat Johnson Florida, then got the required audience support to retain the title. V1 for Jiro.

Match 3: Diamante (Luis Mante before he lost his mask), H-Y-O (Hyo) & DiaInferno beat Shun Skywalker, Dragon Dia & Gianni Valetta. Diamante pinned Dia after Vuelta Finale.

Match 4: YAMATO, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Kzy, Yasushi Kanda & Kenichiro Arai and Madoka Kikuta, ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato in a 3-way by countout. Which led to…
Match 4 (again): Madoka Kikuta, ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato beat YAMATO, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi, Kzy, Yasushi Kanda & Kenichiro Arai and Toru Owashi (DDT), Shuji Kondo (Independent/Freelancer) & Masaaki Mochizuki in a 4-way elimination match. Order of elimination (team eliminated when one member loses): Kanda by Kondo, Mochizuki by YAMATO, YAMATO by Kikuta.

Main Event: Ben-K, Dragon Kid & Jason Lee beat Shingo Takagi (New Japan), Cyber Kong & Chihiro Tominaga. Ben-K pinned Tominaga after a spear.

The next event is Friday at Kunimidai Gym in Saga. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. There are no more broadcasts scheduled this month so the rest of KING OF GATE 2025 will be untelevised until the Finals.

TJPW News: Magical Girl Homecoming in 2026 (Updated x2)

Tokyo Joshi Pro announced some exciting news for 2026-original roster member Yuka Sakazaki, who left a couple years ago for All Elite Wrestling and other opportunities. is coming back home in early 2026 for two appearances. First she will compete at “Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling ’26”, the annual year-opener on 1/4 just before Tokyo Dome, and also she will be part of GRAND PRINCESS ’26 on 3/29 when the event returns to Ryogoku Kokugikan. Further details TBA. This will be Sakazaki’s first TJPW appearance since this year’s 1/4 event.

UPDATE: BREAKING DEVELOPMENT FROM EARLIER TONIGHT!

In a Mahjong Match, Masahito Torikashi beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Mahiro Kiryu, Danshoku Dieno & Ken Ohka by having the top score to win the title. Torikashi becomes the 1783rd Champion.

Later on…

Ken Ohka’s White Tank Top beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Masahito Torikashi to win the title. Top becomes the 1784th Champion.

And finally…

Mahiro Kiryu beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Ken Ohka’s White Tank Top to win the title. Kiryu becomes the 1785th Champion.

Pro Wrestling Everybody!

UPDATE 2: Following a challenge issued by Matcha to Miu Watanabe for the Princess Of Princess Championship recently, TJPW just announced the match is official. That match will happen on 12/13 in Bangkok, Thailand. If Matcha wins the title, the Watanabe-Suzume match on 1/4 for the title will then be a NON-TITLE match.

News: Latest Masa Takanashi Update

DDT has posted the latest update in Masa Takanashi, hospitalized since suffering a major neck injury earlier this year. This update is a best-case one…Takanashi has been discharged and will continue rehab from home. DDT’s online store selling Takanashi goods to raise funds for his recovery will close in December at his request. In a brief statement, Takanashi thanked fans for their continued support and also expressed gratitude to hospital staff.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 11/16/25 Results (Updated 11/18/25)

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the NOAH Jr. Grand Prix today with a second Osaka event.

Today’s event was held at Umeda Stellar Hall Sky Hall in Osaka and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Thursday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 422.

Match 1: Jack Morris, Daiki Odashima, Daga & Eita beat KENTA, Ulka Sasaki, Tetsuya Endo & Hajime Ohara. Morris pinned Ohara after a tiger driver.

Match 2: Takashi Sugiura & Masa Kitamiya beat Jun Masaoka (Independent/Freelancer) & Black Menso-re. Sugiura pinned Menso-re after Olympic Yosen Slam.

Match 3: Manabu Soya, Saxon Huxley, Nonja Mack (Independent/Freelancer) & Junta Miyawaki beat Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh, HAYATA & Yuto Kikuchi. Mack pinned Kikuchi after a phoenix splash.

NOAH Jr. Grand Prix Round 2:
Match 4: Kai Fujimura beat Shuji Kondo.
Match 5: Tadasuke beat AMAKUSA. During this match, Masaoka joined Team 2000X by turning on AMAKUSA.
As a result, Fujimura & Tadasuke afvance to the Semifinals. Fujimura will face HAYATA and Tadasuke will face Hiromu Takahashi.

Main Event: Yoshiki Inamura, Hank Walker & Tank Ledger (WWE) beat Kaito Kiyomoya, Harutoki & Alrjandro. Inamura pinned Alejandro after DIS CHARGE.

The next event is CROSS OVER 2025 Friday at Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET. This will be a live & exclusive ABEMA broadcast in Japan.

11/18/25 UPDATE: The on demand broadcast of this event is now available on WRESTLE UNIVERSE (a couple days ahead of schedule).

All-Japan 11/16/25 Results

All-Japan wrapped up the Dynamite Series 2025 Tour today in Gunma.

Today’s event was held at G Messe Gunma in Gunma and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 932.

Match 1: Jun Saito & Senor Saito beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana. Jun Saito pinned Tachibana after a chokeslam.

Match 2: Atsuki Aoyagi, Rising Hayato & Dan Tamura beat Seiki Yoshioka, Yuya Susumu (Independent/Freelancer) & Ryuji Hijikata. Aoyagi pinned Hijikata after a firebird splash.

Match 3: All-Japan AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Champions Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Takashi beat Yuma Aoyagi, Fuma & Kikutaro to retain the titles. Omori pinned Kikutaro. V5 for the champs.

Match 4: GAORA TV Champion Shotaro Ashino beat Ryo Inoue by submission to retain the title. V1 for Ashino.

Match 5: Xyon, Odyssey & Go Shiozaki beat Hideki Suzuki, Ryuki Honda & Hikaru Sato. Xyon pinned Sato after a diving headbutt.

Main Event: Kento Miyahara, Yuma Anzai & Shota Kofuji beat Ren Ayabe, Talos & MUSASHI. Anzai pinned MUSASHI after Gimlet.

The next event is the World’s Strongest Tag League aka Real World Tag League, the annual Heavyweight tag team tournament, starting Saturday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin Friday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. This will be a taped GAORA SPORTS broadcast in Japan on 11/30.

New Japan 11/16/25 Results

New Japan ran another standalone event, SHIMONOSEKI IMPACT, today which was possibly in collaboration with boat race events in the area.

Today’s event was held at J:COM Arena Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi. Despite what New Japan said on social media about all remaining events being streamable/watchable before Hiroshi Tanahashi retires, there is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 2057.

There was a last-minute change to the main event due to El Desperado being removed from the card. Lower back injury.

Match 1: Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Zane Jay went to a 10 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Tiger Mask beat Masatora Yasuda.

Match 3: Toru Yano & Togi Makabe beat Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato. Yano pinned Kato.

Match 4: Master Wato & Yoh beat Daiki Nagai & Gedo. Yoh pined Nagai after a falcon blow.

Match 5: Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji beat Tomoaki Honma & Boltin Oleg. Takagi pinned Honma after Burning Dragon.

Match 6: Hiromu Takahashi, OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby) beat Ryusuke Taguchi, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Ice pinned Taguchi after K.O.B.

Main Event: Go Takemura (Independent/Freelancer), Yuya Uemura, Shota Umino & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Kosei Fujita, Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. Tanahashi pinned Jackson after High Fly Flow.

The next event is PURGE NIGHT OF TORTURE, a House Of Torture Produced event, Wednesday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming as a PPV on New Japan World will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET. The PPV is available for pre-order for 3500 yen in Japan and $22.99 in the US.