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New Japan News: The Next Big Thing Arriving?

If you have followed New Japan and, in particular, Yuji Nagata on social media the last couple years, you may be familiar with the oldest 58-year-old’s side hustle as an amateur coach for a New Japan-sponsored team. Besides Nagata’s own son (not part of this as he is still in high school) that has included highly-viewed wrestler Shion Obata, who had great success at the amateur level including 4 straight runner-up All-Japan Amateur Wrestling Championship finished (not affiliated with All-Japan Pro Wrestling). Now he’s taking the next step-he will debut for New Japan at Tanahashi Jam 2, the second Hiroshi Tamahashi Produced event, on 11/19 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, against Boltin Oleg. Ohata, 25, is a super heavyweight at 185 cm (about 6’2”) and 130 kg/286 pounds, which is sumo-level and would easily make him perhaps the second-biggest man in the promotion behind only Hartley Jackson. He joined the promotion in July and certainly will be one to watch over the next 20-plus years.

Reminder: Tanahashi Jam will only be broadcast live in Japan on TV Asahi. No New Japan World live broadcast but maybe on demand at a later date.

BREAKING: New Japan of America Shutting Down (Updated)

New Japan has announced it is shutting down New Japan of America effective immediately. In a brief announcement in English, the promotion cited “optimizing allocation of management resources in a rapidly changing business environment” as the reason. This DOES NOT mean the end of New Japan events in the US-they will still be held with “the full backing and resources” of current NJPW owner TV Asahi group. What I wonder about now is things like the US-specific fan club.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: This also means the NJPW ACADEMY, aka the LA Dojo in Carson, CA, the promotion’s US-based training facility, is also shutting down. Lead trainer Fred Rosser may be done with New Japan as a result as US news sites are reporting he recently returned to WWE for what was a guest appearance as a coach at the Performance Center. No word on what this means for the STRONG Openweight/Tag Team/Women’s Championships.

Dragon Gate 11/5/2026 Results (Updated x2)

Dragon Gate ran their monthly Tokyo event today.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. This was also a live GAORA SPORTS broadcast in Japan. You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Match 1: Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii & El Cucuy beat Luis Mante, Punch Tominaga & Mochizuki Junior. Cucuy pinned Tominaga after a moonsault press.

Match 2: Aja Kong (OZ Academy) beat Jiro Shinbashi.

Match 3: YAMATO, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Ultimo Dragon, Ryoya Tanaka & Kazuma Kimura. YAMATO pinned Kinura after Gallaria.

Match 4: ISHIN & Ryu Fuda beat Susumu Yokosuka & KAGETORA. ISHIM pinned Yokosuka.

Match 5: Yoshiki Kato, Madoka Kikuta, KAI & Jason Lee beat Kzy, U-T, GuC & Strong Machine J. Kato pinned J after Cadere Luna.

Match 6: Yuki Yoshioka, Kota Minoura & El Cielo beat Open The Triangle Gate Champions Hyo, JACKY KAMEI & Riiita to win the titles. Yoshioka, Minoura & Cielo become the 101st Open The Triangle Gate Champions. Yoshioka pinned Riiita after High Fly Flow.

Main Event: Homare beat Interim Open The Brave Gate Champion Dragon Kid to win the undisputed title. Homare becomes the 57th Open The Brave Gate Champion.

The next event is Saturday at Fujisan Messe in Shizuoka. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

UPDATE: After the event, it was announced that the December tour will be KING OF GATE, the promotion’s annual single tournament. This is a single-elimination bracket format event and will have 30 participants. Whoever are the Open The Dream Gate and Open The Brave Gate Champions as of this Monday will get a free pass past the first round, meaning Homare and the Yoshiki Kato-Strong Machine J winner in a match for the Open The Dream Gate Championship. That match is Sunday at Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe. More details are TBA but the bracket has been revealed with the tournament ending on 12/27 at Kobe Sambo Hall.

Here is the bracket:

Also, the next Open The Twin Gate Championship match is set as the next challengers for ISHIN & Kato are Yokosuka & KAGETORA, despite the loss at this event. That match will happen on 11/15 at Mercure Hotel Yokosuka in Kanagawa.

UPDATE 2: Next up for Homare for the Brave Gate: Ultimo Dragon. That match will happen on 11/26 in Napoli, Italy.

New Japan News: World Tag League Field Announced (Updated x2)

New Japan followed up yesterday’s Tokyo Dome announcements today with the full field announcement for the upcoming World Tag League, the annual year-end Heavyweight tag team tournament. It’s a 2-block round-robin format event with 16 teams entered this year. The top 2 teams in each block will advance to the Semifinals and tiebreaker will be head-to-head result if needed. Here is the full field:

Block A: Yuya Uemura & Yuji Nagata, Aaron Wolf & Boltin Oleg, Yota Tsuji & Jeff Cobb, OSKAR & Yuto Ice, Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson, Callum Newman & Jake Lee, SANADA & Yujiro Takahashi, Lance Archer & Alex Zayne

Block B: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto, Shota Umino & Satoshi Kojima, Togi Makabe & Toru Yano, Shingo Takagi & Drilla Moloney, HENARE & Great-O-Khan, Ren Narita & Shun Skywalker, Don Fale & Chase Owens, Taichi & TBA

Certainly no lack of interesting teams this year. Block A seems to favor The Grouch & Ice Ice Baby given they come in as the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Yeam Champions but there is definite upset potential. Wolf & Oleg are a very intriguing pair and fan favorites Archer & Zayne are a tough underdog out. Tsuji & Cobb should be contenders along with Oiwa & Jackson. Never know with Newman & Lee while House of Torture and Nagata seem to be there to be the jobbers with no Young Lions entered. Block B (unfortunately) starts and ends with Bishamon who as usual are all-but-Semifinalists already, while HENARE & Khan are the other early favorites. Takagi & Moloney should contend while I’m curious about Narita and Skywalker, in particular the latter in his first big opportunity in New Japan. Makabe & Yano re-form GBH and will probably weasel their way to some wins (Yano will at least). Fale & Owens and Umino & Kojima probably won’t contend. Can’t predict much about Taichi & TBA until we know who the TBA is.

The tournament starts on 11/21 and ends on 12/13. The eventual winners, unless it’s OSKAR/Ice, will get an IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship shot, likely at Tokyo Dome on 1/4. Although if anyone already in a Tokyo Dome match gets the title shot, it may wait until New Year Dash!! the day or so after.

UPDATE: The TBA with Taichi apparently was going to be Tomohiro Ishii but he remains out injured. That according to Zack Sabre Jr., who yesterday in a promo asked Taichi to choose ZSJ as the TBA and to re-form Dangerous Tekkers for the tournament.

UPDATE 2: It’s now official. Sabre will be the TBA teaming with Taichi.

New Japan News: Updated 1/4/2027 Card

New Japan’s traditional post-blowout event presser today in Tokyo was all about Tokyo Dome as we are now 2 months away from the biggest event of the year in Japan. Updating from yesterday, just about everything hinted at is now official. Here is the current card:
Mistico & TBA vs. Taiji Ishimori & Robbie X and Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles in a 3-way for the vacant IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Yoh vs. Sho for the title. If Sho wins, Yoh must leave New Japan. If Yoh wins, Sho must leave House Of Torture and re-form Roppongi 3K
Ryohei Oiwa vs. MJF
Will Ospreay vs. Callum Newman
Shingo Takagi vs. Jon Moxley in an Unbound Deathmatch
IWGP Global Champion Gabriel Kidd vs. Yuya Uemura for the title
IWGP Heavyweight Champion Yota Tsuji vs. Kenny Omega for the title

More as it becomes available.

DDT 11/3/2026 Results

ULTIMATE PARTY 2026, DDT’s fall year-end blowout event, is in the books.

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

The paid attendance was not announced.

Pre-show Match: Shivam & Yuni beat Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Yuki Ishida. Yuni pinned Ishida.

Match 1: HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshinura beat Jun Akiyama & Masami Inahata. Yoshimura pinned Inahata.

Match 2: Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata beat Super Sasadango Machine, Antonio Honda & Akito. Hirata pinned Honda.

Match 3: Junta Miyawaki & Daichi Sato beat Mansoor & Mason Madden, Mj Paul & Illusion and Takao Soma & Shota in a 4-way when Sato pinned Shota. Right after that…
Mason Madden beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Junta Miyawaki to win the title. Madden becomes the 1931st Champion. Which led to…
Mansoor beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Mason Madden to win the title. Mansoor becomes the 1932nd Champion.

Match 4: Jun Kasai beat Hinata Kasai.

Match 5: In a match where after a pinfall kickout or rope escape that wrestler had to add a 1 kg (2.2 pounds) weight to themselves, up to a 20 kg limit, and also were always connected by the wrists via a rope, DDT Extreme Champion Shunma Katsumata beat Yuki Ueno to retain the title. V3 for Katsumata. Next up: Yoshimura. That match will happen on 12/9 at Korakuen Hall.

Match 6: To-y & Kaisei Takechi beat KANON & O-MENZ Kumadori. To-y pinned KANON after a Franksteiner. Kumadori’s entrance featured a performance by all of O-MENZ.

Match 7: Yukio Naya beat Yuki Iino. This was Iino’s final DDT match before leaving the promotion to join Pro Wrestling NOAH full-time.

Match 8: KO-D Tag Team Champions Takeshi Masada & Yuya Koroku beat Hideki Okatani & Illusion to retain the titles. Masada pinned Illusion. V2 for the champs. Next up: Takagi & TBA, which will be revealed at match time. That match will happen on 11/29 at Korakuen Hall.

Match 9: Konosuke Takeshita beat Danshoku Dieno & Daisuke Sasaki in a 3-way by pinning Sasaki.

Match 10: Zack Sabre Jr. (New Japan) beat Shinya Aoki.

Main Event: KO-D Openweight Champion MAO beat Chris Brookes by countout to retain the title. V6 for MAO. They went almost 34 minutes. Next up: Naya. That match will happen on 11/29. But during that commotion backstage…
Yoshihiko beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Mansoor to win the title. Yoshihiko becomes the 1933rd Champion. A fitting end to an Ultimate Party.

The next event is Sunday (Saturday US time) at JR Omori Station East Exit Front Plaza in Tokyo. This is a free event and will feature the annual Omori World Championship match and a battle royal for the next title shot among other things. It’s an outdoor event and is weather permitting (will be cancelled if severe weather). There will be no live broadcast. On demand 11/11.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 11/3/2026 Results

Pro Wrestling MOAH resumed the Lethal Odyssey 2026 Tour today in Saitama.

Today’s event was held at Kasukabe Fureai Cube in Saitama and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Thursday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 352.

Match 1: Manabu Soya beat Hiroto Tsuruya.

Match 2: Dragon Bane beat Tetsuya Endo & Yuto Koyanagi in a 3-way by pinning Koyanagi.

Match 3: Naomichi Marufuji & Kazuyuki Fujita beat Kenoh & Black Menso-re. Fujita pinned Menso-re after Beast Bomb.

Match 4: Masa Kitamiya & Takashi Sugiura beat Atsushi Kotoge & Mohammed Yone. Sugiura pinned Kotoge after Olympic Yosen Slam.

Match 5: YO-HEY, Jun Masaoka & Tadasuke beat Shuji Kondo, Hi69 & Hiroya Namiki. Tadasuke pinned Namiki after Cat King.

Match 6: Titus Alexander beat Daiki Odashima.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Yoshiki Inamura & Alejandro beat OZAWA, Alpha Wolf & Kai Fujimura. Inamura pinned Wolf after DIS CHARGE.

The next event is the NOAH Jr. Grand Prix opener Monday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

Injury Report: The promotion has announced changes to the tournament schedule because Tsunagu Sato was injured in Michinoku Pro this past Sunday. Concussion. Out Monday. He was to have faced Kid Lykos 2 in a tournament match. That match has been moved to 11/14 at Umeda Stellar Hall in Osaka.

All-Japan 11/3/2026 Results

All-Japan wrapped up the fall Hokkaido tour today with a major event.

Today’s event was held at APA Resort & Hotel Sapporo in Hokkaido and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 707, a legit sellout.

Match 1: MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Kumagoro Hokkai beat Hokuto Omori, Seigo Tachibana & Tamayo. Hokkai pinned Omori after a reverse splash.

Match 2: Kento Miyahara, Shota Kofuji & Hyo Ogawa beat Go Shiozaki, Ren Ayabe & Yasutaka Yano. Miyahara pinned Yano with a shutdown suplex hold.

Match 3: Odyssey beat GAORA TV Champion Masaaki Mochizuki to win the title. Odyssey becomes the 35th GAORA TV Champion.

Match 4: Hideki Suzuki, Ryuki Honda & Masayuki Kono beat Yuma Aoyagi, Yuma Anzai & Xyon. Honda pinned Anzai after Final Vent.

Match 5: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Dan Tamura beat Rising Hayato to retain the title. V3 for Tamura.

Main Event: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito beat Cal Bloom & Shotaro Ashino to retain the titles. Rei Saito pinned Bloom after Yagiyama Cyclone. V4 for the Saitos/Champs. Bloom? No, DOOM!!!

During the event there was an “announcement” promised at the halfway point after intermission, which was the announcement of the 2027 Champions Carnival. They only announced one event which will be on 4/29/2027 at Hokkasu Gas Arena Sapporo 46.

The next event is the World’s Strongest/Real World Tag League starting on 11/15 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin on 11/14 at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

New Japan 11/3/2026 Results

POWER STRUGGLE, New Japan’s annual November Hiroshima blowout event, is now in the books.

Today’s event was held at Hiroshima Sun Plaza in Hiroshima and can be watched on demand OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY on New Japan World. This event aired as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE 2026 exclusively on TV Asahi in Japan. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 3683, a legit sellout.

Match 1: KUUKAI, Master Wato & Aaron Wolf beat Zane Jay, Jacob Austin Young & Francesco Akira. Wolf beat Young with an armbar.

Match 2: Masatora Yasuda, KUSHIDA & Mistico beat Daiki Nagai, Gedo & Titan. KUSHIDA beat Gedo with a hoverboard lock.

Match 3: Hartley Jackson & Ryohei Oiwa beat Blake Christian & Lee Johnson. Oiwa beat Johnson with a headlock. Afterwards, a taped promo from MJF (All Elite Wrestling) was played, demanding a match with Oiwa on 1/4 at the Tokyo Dome.

Match 4: Kazuma Sumi, Ryusuke Taguchi, Toru Yano & Yuya Uemura beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru, DOUKI, Shun Skywalker & Ren Narita. Uemura pinned Kanemaru after Lions Shiner.

Match 5: Shota Umino, Hyo & Yoh beat Yujiro Takahashi, Dick Togo & Sho. Hyo pinned Togo after Samson Driver. Afterwards, a mystery man appeared in a promo issuing an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship challenge to Yoh before attacking him. That mystery man was Sho. Challenge issued for 1/4 with the stip that if Yoh loses, he must leave New Japan. Accepted by Yoh. With his own stip-if Sho loses, Sho must leave House Of Torture and re-form Roppongi 3K with Yoh.

Match 6: Jeff (Corn On The) Cobb & Shingo Takagi beat Wheeler Yuta & Jon Moxley. Cobb pinned Yuta after Tour of the Islands. Afterwards, Takagi demanded a death match against Moxley on 1/4.

Match 7: IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby) beat Callum Newman & Will Ospreay by DQ to retain the titles. Ospreay DQ’d. Newman chair use. V1 for the champs. Afterwards, Newman seemingly turned on Ospreay and demanded a match on 1/4.

Match 8: Kenny Omega beat Yota Tsuji & Boltin Oleg in a 3-way by pinning Tsuji. As a result, Omega gets a rematch for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, and it could be the 1/4 main event.

Match 9: Super Jr. Tag League Finals: Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori beat Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles to win the tournament. Ishimori pinned Fujita. As a result, X & Ishimori get the next IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship shot…except…the titles are now VACANT. Mistico & El Desperado then vacated the titles due to a Desperado injury, and instead there will be a 3-way of Mistico & TBA, Ishimori & X and Fujita & Eagles to crown new champions. Which just rendered this match and the tournament completely pointless and devalued it all. Yes there were questions about how long Desperado would be out but why not vacate it at the start if they knew?

Main Event: IWGP Global Champion Gabriel Kidd beat Taichi to retain the title. V3 for Kidd. They went 30 minutes. Afterwards, Death Riders beat down President Hiroshi Tanahashi and others to stand tall and send the crowd home not happy. Next up: Based on his involvement and subsequent beatdown, possibly Uemura.

If nothing else this event officially began setting up the 1/4 card with a heavy New Japan vs. AEW theme.

The next event is an El Desperado Produced event Monday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo. Live streaming as a PPV on New Japan World will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. The PPV is available for pre-order for $22.99 US (2500 Japanese yen in Japan or around $17) and will be available for purchase and on demand replays until 12/25 at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

Stardom 11/3/2026 NEAR LIVE Results

Stardom continues the Goddess Of Stardom Tag League today with Day 2, with 7 matches from both blocks scheduled. NEAR LIVE results will be posted below as they become available.

Today’s event will be held at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka and will be available on demand on Stardom World at a later date. There is no live broadcast.

The event is scheduled to begin at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.

8:40 PM PT UPDATE: NEAR LIVE results updates begin now.

The paid attendance may or may not be announced after the event. It was not an advance sellout. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 437)

Match 1: Red Block: Momo Watanabe & Saya Kamitani beat Mei Seira & Ema Maishima. Watanabe pinned Seira after Tequila Sunrise.
Watanabe/Kamitani are 2-0, 4 pts. Seira/Maishima are 1-1, 2 pts.

Match 2: Red Block: Saori Anou & Fuwa-chan beat Yuna Mizumori & Anne Kanaya. Fuwa-chan pinned Kanaya after Shining Wizard.
AnouFuwa-chan are 2-0, 4 pts. Mizumori/Kanaya are 0-1, 0 pts.

Match 3: Lady Silueta & Barquilla (CMLL) beat Hanan & Yuria Hime. Barquilla pinned Hime with a German suplex hold.

Match 4: Blue Block: Hina & Lady C beat Natsupoi & Rian. C pinned Rian after Choke Slam Requiem.
Hima/C are 2-0, 4 pts. Natsupoi/Rian are 0-1, 0 pts.

Match 5: Konami & Rina beat Waka Tsukiyama & Matoi Hamabe and Ranna Yagami & Akira Kurogame in a 3-way when Konami pinned Kurogame.

Match 6: Red Block: Starlight Kid & Maki Itoh beat Kikyo Furusawa & Kiyoka Kokatsu. Itoh beat Furusawa with Itoh Deluxe.
Kid/Itoh are 1-1, 2 pts. Furusawa/Kokatsu are 0-2, 0 pts.

Match 7: Red Block: Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara beat Maika & HANAKO. Kurara pinned Maika after Prism Capture.
Sakura/Kurara are 1-1, 2 pts. Maika/HANAKO are 0-2, 0 pts.

Match 8: Blue Block: Hazuki & Koguma vs. Natsuko Tora & Ruaka went to a 15 minute time limit draw.
Hazuki/Koguma are 0-0-1, 1 pt. Tora/Ruaka are 0-1-1, 1 pt.

Main Event: Blue Block: Saya Iida & Utami Hayashishita beat Suzu Suzuki & Rina Yamashita. Hayashishita pinned Suzuki after Crusade.
Iida/Hayashishita are 2-0, 4 pts. Suzuki/Yamashita are 1-1, 2 pts.

The next event is Sunday at G Messe Gunma in Gunma. Live streaming on Stardom World will begin Saturday at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.