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Stardom 12/25/2025 Results

Christmas Day is not really a holiday in Japan like in the rest of the world so it was more business as usual, and that includes wrestling as Stardom ran their final NEW BLOOD event of the year today.

Today’s event was held at Belle Salle Shibuya in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance was not announced.

There were last-minute changes to the card due to Matoi Hamabe being pulled off the event. Fever.

Match 1: Azusa Inaba & Fukigen beat Sakiran & Anne Kanaya. Inaba pinned Kanaya.

Match 2: Tomoka Inaba beat Ema Maishima by submission.

Match 3: Bea Priestley & Yuria Hime beat Itsuki Aoki & Akira Kurogame. Priestley pinned Kurogame after a DDT.

Match 4: Hina beat Yuki Mashiro.

Match 5: Yuna Mizumori, Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara beat Ranna Yagami, Kiyoka Kokatsu & Kikyo Furusawa. Kurara pinned Furusawa after Tokimeki Spear.

Main Event: Future Of Stardom Champion HANAKO beat Rian to retain the title. V2 for HANAKO.

The next event is STARDOM DREAM QUEENDOM 2025, the year-end blowout event, Monday at Ryogoku Kokugikan. Live streaming as a PPV on Stardom World will begin Sunday at 11:30 PM PT/2:30 AM ET.

TJPW News: Next US Tour Set, Postponed Debut (Updated x2)

Some Tokyo Joshi Pro news:

First, unfortunately one of two planned debuts on 1/4 will not happen as Henri, who doesn’t have her ring name yet so name is listed as (tentative), has had her debut match postponed. Unspecified beyond “comprehensive judgement of condition” which likely means either the always vague poor health or an unspecified injury. New date TBA.

In other better news, the first US tour of 2026 is set, it will be from 3/17-3/22 in Texas. 4 events are scheduled and the first two are very significant because they will be part of SXSW, the massive annual business conference/festival in Austin. There will also be events in Dallas and Houston. Dates and times are TBA.

UPDATE: Ren Konatsu is now off Saturday’s event. The always vague poor health. She was to have faced Suzume. Uta Takami is the replacement and is now out of a 20 woman battle royal as a result. It will now be a 19 woman battle royal instead.

UPDATE 2: It has been announced that Shion, the other new trainee who will debut on 1/4, has been given the ring name Shion Kanzaki.

Stardom 12/24/2025 Results

Stardom finished up their main 2025 schedule today with a Christmas Eve event.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on Stardom World. And as their holiday gift to us, you can also watch THE ENTIRE EVENT FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1121.

There were last-minute changes to the card due to Matoi Hamabe being pulled off the event. Fever. Also out tomorrow. Cohaku was the replacement today.

Pre-show match: Yuki Mashiro beat Kikyo Furusawa.

Match 1: Natsupoi, Rian & Ema Maishima beat Sareee, ChiChi & Miku Kanae. Rian pinned Kanae.

Match 2: Xena & Waka Tsukiyama beat Cohaku (WAVE) & Anne Kanaya. Xena pinned Kanaya.

Match 3: Hazuki, Koguma, AZM, Miyu Amasaki & Olympia (CMLL) beat Ami Sohreo, Lady C, Tomoka Inaba, Bozilla & Akira Kurogame. Hazuki pinned Kurogame after a diving senton.

Match 4: Bea Priestley, Momo Kohgo & Yuria Hime beat Saki kashima, Hina & Kiyoka Kokatsu, Suzu Suzuki, Rina Yamashita & Itsuki Aoki and Rina, Azusa Inaba & Fukigen in a 4-way when Priestley pinned Fukigen.

Match 5: Maika, HANAKO, Syuri & Ranna Yagami beat Chihiro Hashinoto, Yuu, Aika & YUNA (Sendai Girls). HANAKO pinned Yuna after JP Coaster.

Match 6: Yuna Mizumori beat High Speed Champion Mei Seira to win the title. Mizumori becomes the 28th High Speed Champion. UPSET ALERT!!! The seemingly-unbeatable Seira loses the title. And by Mizumori no less. Whoa. (Seira had just beaten the longest reign mark by a few days and was tied for second-most successful defenses. The record, which AZM can breathe easier about now as she still holds it. Is 12)

Main Event: Saori Anou, Saya Iida, Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara beat Saya Kamitani, Natsuko Tora, Konami & Ruaka. Anou pinned Kamitani after Special Pottering. Is this a preview of what could happen Monday in the World Of Stardom Championship match?

The next event is NEW BLOOD 27 tomorrow at Belle Salle Shibuya. Live streaming FOR FREE on YouTube will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

DDT 12/24/2025 Results

DDT ran their penultimate event of 2025 which was also the year’s last Tokyo event.

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

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Daichi Sato & Yuni beat Rukiya & Hinata Kasai. Yuni pinned Kasai after a firebird splash.

Match 2: Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani, MJ Paul & Demus beat Yuki Iino, Yukio Naya, Super Sasadango Machine & Takao Soma. Sasaki beat Soma with a crossface.

Match 3: O-MENZ Kunadori beat Illusion.

Match 4: KANON beat Yuya Koroku.

Match 5: In a match where no kissing was allowed for the first 5 minutes and also no pinfalls or submissions for those first 5 minutes, Sanshiro Takagi, Jun Akiyama & HARASHIMA beat Danshoku Dieno, Kazuki Hirata & Akito. HARASHIMA pinned Hirata after Blue Sword.

Match 6: Chris Brookes beat Takeshi Masada. Afterwards, it sounded like Brookes decided to disband Schadenfreude International and leave so if it still exists, it’s only Antonio Honda and maybe Masa Takanashi.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno, MAO & Kazusada Higuchi beat To-y, Kazuna Sumi & Yuki Ishida. MAO pinned Sumi.

The next event is Saturday at Imaike Gas Hall in Nagoya for a year-ending weekend doubleheader. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Tuesday.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 12/23/2025 Results (Updated)

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.

News: WRESTLE UNIVERSE Now On ABEMA?

An interesting social media post I cane across that was shared by former Tokyo Joshi Pro wrestler (now YouTuber too) Nao Kakuta-it seems that WRESTLE UNIVERSE may now be available as part of ABEMA, the major online streaming service in Japan. A graphic in Japanese indicates you can now subscribe to ABRMA and watch all live broadcasts of DDT, NOAH and TJPW on the service for 1250 Japanese yen per month or around $8 US. That’s 48 yen (about 30 cents) cheaper than WRESTLE UNIVERSE. Free broadcasts on ABEMA will remain free. However, some live WRESTLE UNIVERSE content is not part of the ABEMA plan (Sendai Girls and maybe the other smaller promotions), and the only thing UNIVERSE won’t have in comparison is the NOAH talk show program that streams on ABEMA. Also, the ABEMA plan WILL NOT include on demand broadcasts-those will remain exclusive to WRESTLE UNIVERSE. It sounds like, as far as UNIVERSE goes, nothing will change. The only thing you’ll miss out are the occasional ABEMA-only live NOAH events (like 1/1) unless you can set up a VPN and figure out a workaround if you’re outside Japan.

In other words, if you already have WRESTLE UNIVERSE stick with it as you don’t need this ABEMA add-on. Just try and get a good VON and setup so you can watch free content on ABEMA like the live major NOAH events, sumo, etc.

NEWS: Major GLEAT Departures (Updated x2)

After Purotesu Today reported on some pending GLEAT departures at the end of the year, the promotion announced more on their website, and they’re major…

First up, after rampant rumors about his status, CIMA is leaving the promotion on 12/31. Contract expiring and they couldn’t agree on an extension. CIMA will continue to appear as a freelancer and will appear on at least 6 events next year to make up for the events he missed these last 2 months due to injury after his potential departure was revealed in November.

Second, Ryo Aitaka is also leaving the promotion. Contract expiring. He will continue to compete as a freelancer, including in GLEAT, and also plans to focus more on work as an actor.

Also departing is Commissioner Masato Yoshino, who is retiring on 12/31 when his contract expires. He and CIMA have been with the promotion since the beginning after leaving Dragon Gate (Yoshino had already retired as a wrestler due to injuries). The position will not be filled.

Finally, Executive Director Kiyoshi Tamura will also retire on 12/31 at the end of his contract. No plans for a replacement.

Aitaka’s last match will be on 12/30, a Lidet UWF Single Bout vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima. All except Aitaka had been with GLEAT since the promotion was formed.

Not yet announced-clarification on the promotion’s YouTube plans. If you missed it before, they will terminate their paid channel membership program in one week.

UPDATE: The promotion also announced the plans for YouTube with the paid membership ending: EVERYTHING in 2026 including all events except non-televised/recorded house shows will be available FOR FREE! What’s not yet clear is what will happen to everything that was paywalled this year. Guess we’ll find out in about a week.

UPDATE 2: The 12/30 event will be LIVE FOR FREE on YouTube. May be a slight delay for on demand afterwards.

New Japan 12/22/25 Results (Updated)

New Japan wrapped up their 2025 with the final event of the Road To TOKYO DOME Tour and the Hiroshi Tanahashi retirement road, the last event before his retirement match at Tokyo Dome.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World FOR FREE!!! No account or paid subscription required! No YouTube as a result.

The announced paid attendance was 1515, a legit sellout.

Match 1: NJPW WORLD TV Champion El Phantasmo beat TBA, revealed at match time to be Ryusuke Taguchi, to retain the title. V5 for Phantasmo. Next up: Possibly DDT wrestler Chris Brookes, who attacked Phantasmo post-match and issued the challenge. According to DDT’s official English social media, the challenge is for Tokyo Dome.

Match 2; Boltin Oleg, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Tiger Mask, Satoshi Kojima & Taichi. YOSHI-HASHI pjnned TM 4.

Match 3: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita, SANADA & EVIL beat Master Wato, Yoh, Toru Yano, Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino. Narita pinned Wato. Afterwards, a House Of Torture beatdown commenced until DDT’s Kaisei Takechi made the save, surely to the delight of female fans in attendance.

Match 4: Jacob Austin Young, Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan beat Gedo, Hiromu Takahashi & David Finlay. Newman pinned Gedo after Overkill. Afterwards, Newman revealed one of the two TBA for United Empire in the 10-man tag at Tokyo Dome…Andrade El Idolo. Supposedly Andrade has a 1 year no-compete clause due to being let go again by WWR for drug program violations but I’d heard a “one-time exception” was being negotiated by his legal team. This must be it.

Match 5: Sho & DOUKI beat KUUKAI & El Desperado and Daiki Nagai & Taiji Ishinori in a 3-way when DOUKI pinned Nagai.

Match 6: Yota Tsuji, OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby) beat Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. Tsuji pinned Jackson after Gene Blaster.

Main Event: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Kosei Fujita. Afterwards, Tanahashi said farewell to the venue where he made his debut and performed one final Korakuen epic air guitar show to send the fans home happy.

2025 has now come to a close for New Japan and the Hiroshi Tanahashi Retirement Road has reached the final stop because…

The next event, the first of 2026, is WRESTLE KINGDOM 20 in TOKYO DOME, the biggest annual event in Japanese pro wrestling and maybe biggest in the world after WWE WrestleMania, on 1/4 at the Tokyo Dome. The event is a legit advance sellout. Live streaming EXCLUSIVELY on New Japan World OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY will begin on 1/3 at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET. This will be a live & exclusive TV Asahi broadcast in Japan only. Additionally, a special program looking back at Tanahashi’s career will be aired on New Japan World FOR FREE Wednesday beginning at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

UPDATE: It’s now official. Phantasmo-Brookes has been added to Tokyo Dome and will be a pre-show match.

Also, the full field for the battle royal for the NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championship match on 1/4 has been announced: Master Wato, Yoh & Toru Yano will defend the titles against these 7 teams-Shota Umino/Yuya Uemura/Kaisei Takechi (DDT), Hirooki Goto/YOSHI-HASHI/Boltin Oleg, Zack Sabre Jr./Ryohei Oiwa/Hartley Jackson, Togi Makabe/Ryusuke Taguxhi/Tiger Mask, Clark Connors/OSKAR/Yuto Ice, Tomohiro Ishii/Taichi/Satoshi Kojima, Ren Narita/Yoshinobu Kanemaru/SANADA. 2 teams will start and a new team enters every minute. When one wrestler is eliminated that entire trio is out. Eliminations are by pinfall, submission or over the top rope. Last team left wins the match and the titles

Stardom 12/20/25 & 12/21/25 Results

Stardom wrapped up their 2025 house show slate this weekend with events yesterday & today.

Yesterday’s event was held at Tex Port Imabari in Ehime and will be available on demand on Stardom World at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 474.

There were last-minute changes to both cards due to Koguma being pulled off both events. Fever. Flu season started early in Japan and it reportedly has been rough so far.

Match 1: HANAKO & Ema Maishima beat Rian & Kikyo Furusawa. HANAKO pinned Rian after a lariat.

Match 2: Lady C beat Matoi Hamabe.

Match 3: AZM, Mei Seira & Miyu Amasaki beat Natsupoi, Yuna Mizumori & Anne Kanaya. Seira pinned Mizumori after Shooting Star.

Match 4: Suzu Suzuki, Bozilla & Akira Kurogame beat Bea Priestley, Momo Kohgo & Yutia Hime. Bozilla pinned Hime after a sitdown powerbomb.

Match 5: Maika, Waka Tsukiyama & Hazuki beat Ami Sohrei, Hina & Ranna Yagami. Maika pinned Yagami after Michinoku Driver 2.

Main Event: Saya Kamitani, Konami, Natsuko Tora, Ruaka & Rina beat Syuri, Saori Anou, Saya Iida, Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara. Ruaka pinned Kurara after Freezer Bomb.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and will be available on demand on Stardom World at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 757.

Match 1: Maika & Rian beat HANAKO & Waka Tsukiyama. Rian pinned HANAKO.

Match 2: AZM, Mei Seira & Miyu Amasaki beat Syuti, Matoi Hamabe & Anne Kanaya. AZM pinned Hamabe after a diving foot stomp.

Match 3: Hina beat Akira Kurogame & Kikyo Furusawa in a 3-way by pinning Furusawa.

Match 4: Hazuki, Ema Maishima & Olympia beat Momo Kohgo, Yuria Hime & Bea Priestley. Olumpia pinned Hime. Olympia is another masked wrestler from Mexico.

Match 5: Natsupoi, Yuna Mizumori, Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara beat Natsuko Tora, Ruaka, Rina & Fukigen. Sakura pinned Ruaka after a high kick.

Match 6: Suzu Suzuki, Rina Yamashita & Bozilla beat Ami Sohrei, Lady C & Ranna Yagami. Suzuki pinned C after Splash Mountain.

Main Event: Saori Anou & Saya Iida beat Saya Kamitani & Konami. Iida pinned Konami after Iidabashi.

The next event is Wednesday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on Stardom World will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 12/21/25 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro ran their annual special pre-Christmas event “Se-no, Merry Christmas! 2025” today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Tama Mirai Messe in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 327, a full house/near sellout.

Before the event began, a press conference was held with the contract signing for the Princess Of Princess Championship match on 1/4 between Miu Watanabe & Suzume, now official again with Watanabe retaining the title last weekend in Thailand.

Except for the main event, all matches had a 7 minute time limit.

Match 1: Chika Nanase beat Uta Takami.

Match 2: Raku beat Kira Summer.

Match 3: Mahiro Kiryu beat Shino Suzuki. Kiryu retains the DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship.

Match 4: Kaya Toaibami vs. Toga went to a time limit draw.

Match 5: Hyper Misao beat Ren Konatsu by submission.

Match 6: Shoko Nakajima beat Mifu Ashida.

Match 7: Arisu Endo beat Pom Harajuku by submission.

Match 8: Mizuki vs. Rika Tatsumi went to a time limit draw.

Match 9: Miyu Yamashita beat Yuki Arai in 65 seconds. Ouch. Almost a glorified squash.

Main Event: Suzume, Yuki Aino & Haru Kazashiro beat Miu Watanabe, Yuki Kamifuku & Wakana Uehara. Aino pinned Kamifuku after Venus DDT.

The next event, the last of the year, is “TJPW Year-End Party 2025” Saturday at Shinjuku Face. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET.

Also forgot this in the original post-at this event the first 4 teams for the 2026 Max Heart Tournament, the promotion’s annual tag team tournament, were also announced: Yuki Kamifuku & Wakana Uehara, Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi, Arisu Endo & Suzume and Yuki Aino & Haru Kazashiro. It will be a 12-team tournament next year, single elimination, with the remaining teams TBA.