Maybe Natsupoi can help here, or not…she may not like news that her new hubby, Shingo Takagi, has been announced as sidelined by New Japan for now. Left side abdominal injury. Out about 3 weeks. Currently scheduled to return on 2/11.
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GLEAT 1/20/2026 Results
GLEAT ran their first G PROWRESTLING event of the year today, returning to their primary event series after an end-of-year break.
Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube.
The announced paid attendance was 279.
There was a last-minute change to the card due to Minoru Tanaka being pulled off the event. Left gastrocnemius muscle. Or in simpler terms, calf muscle. Out indefinitely.
Match 1: El Lindaman, Andy Panda & Andy Wu beat Luigi Primo, Kapy & Vent Vert Jack. Panda pinned Primo after a firebird splash.
Match 2: Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kendo Ka Shin & Shinya Aoki beat El Lindaman, Takanori Ito & Ryo Aitaka. Nakajima pinned 8to after Northern Lights Bomb. Afterwards, Aoki issued a Lidet UWF Championship challenge to Nakajima. That match will happen on 2/11 at Korakuen Hall.
Match 3: Ryuichi Kawakami & Keiichi Sato beat Tetsuya Izuchi & Kotaro Suzuki. Kawakami pinned Izuchi after Fire Thunder Bomb.
Match 4: Soma Watanabe, So Daimonji, ARASHI & Black Andromeda beat Takehiro Yamamura, Junjie, JD Lee & Shigehiro Itie. ARASHI pinned Lee after Death Nucadra del Dolmental. Afterwards, Lee announced he was joining the B.G.I. faction.
Match 5: Sayaka Unagi. Nanami Hatano, Ayana Sasamara & Honori Hana beat Marika Kobashi, Yuna Manase, MICHIKO & Chanyota. Unagi pinned Kobashi.
Main Event: G INFINITY Champions Kaito Ishida & KAZMA SAKAMOTO beat T-Hawk & Hayato Tanura to retain the titles. Ishida pinned T-Hawk after countering Ready-to-wear. V1 for the champs. Next up: ARASHI & Lee. That match will happen on 2/11.
The next event is Sunday (Saturday US time) at Imaike Gas Hall in Nagoya. Broadcast plans TBA
News: Ganbare Announces 1/31 Venue Change (Updated)
Ganbare Pro announced today that their planned 1/31 event at Takashimadaira Community Center in Tokyo has now been moved to Shin-Kiba 1st Ring at the same scheduled time. This is because of the upcoming snap elections (impromptu and unscheduled) in Japan called recently by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (which last bappened last year and, for the ruling party, backfired) so use of the original venue that day is not allowed to prepare for early voting. Tickets already purchased for the event will be honored at the new location although refunds are being offered due to Munetatau Nakamura being off due to injuries-Nakamura was to have challenges for the Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Championship. Nakamura is off due to a neck injury, and Takuya Wada is also off due to family circumstances. Shinichiro Tominaga now gets the title shot against Masaaki Mochizuki.
UPDATE: The promotion has also provided an update on the Nakamura injury Cervical disc hernia. Out indefinitely but now at least 6 more weeks. Best-case return date is now 3/7 but further decisions will be made closer to that time.
New Japan 1/20/2026 Results (Updated)
New Japan continued the Road To THE NEW BEGINNING Tour today with the second half of the opening Tokyo doubleheader.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. This was changed last-minute to also be a live Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.
The announced paid attendance was 1231.
Match 1: Young Lions Cup Semifinals: Shoma Kato beat Masatora Yasuda.
Match 2: Young Lions Cup Semifinals: Katsuya Murashima beat Daiki Nagai. As a resultX the Final will be Kato vs. Murashima.
Match 3: OSKAR (The Grouch) & Uuto Ice (Ice Baby) beat Tatsuya Matsumoto & Shota Unino. Ice pinned Matsunoto after KOB.
Match 4: Master Wato, Yoh, Toru Yano & Aaron Wolf beat Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi, EVIL & Ren Narita. Wolf beat Takahashi with an armbar.
Match 5: Jacob Austin Young, Callum Newman, Great-O-Khan, Francesco Akira & Jake Lee beat Gedo, Taiji Ishinori, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji. Lee pinned Takagi after FBS.
Match 6: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Sho to retain the titles. Fujita pinned Kanemaru after Thrill Ride. V1 for the champs.
Main Event: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion DOUKI beat El Desperado to retain the title. V1 for DOUKI.
The next event is BOAT RACE Miyajima Presents STRONG SPLASH, a weekend doubleheader starting Saturday at Boat Race Miyajima Event Hall in Hiroshima. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. Unless plans change today was the last live/on demand broadcast for the month.
UPDATE: At some point after the event, another title match was announced-the next defense of the STRONG Openweight Championship by Tomohiro Ishii will be against Boltin Oleg. That match will happen on 2/27 at the next US event.
Pro Wrestling NOAH 1/19/2026 Results
Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the 2026 debut event of MONDAY MAGIC today, kicking off the year’s first season of their serial Monday events.
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.
The matches were not announced in advance.
Match 1: Alejandro vs. Ryoya Tanaka (Dragon Gate) went to a 10 minute time limit draw.
Match 2: Shigehiro Irie (GLEAT) & Danny Duggan beat Manabu Soya & Hiroshi Yamato (Independent/Freelancer). Digga pinned Yamato after a tombstone piledriver.
Match 3: Archie Cole, Dragon Bane & Iker Navarro beat Jack Morris, Galeno & Nathan de Wind. Cole pinned de Wing after a swanton bomb.
Match 4: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer).
Match 5: Mayu Iwatani & Miku Aono beat ZONES & ChiChi. Iwatani pinned ZONES after a moonsault press.
Main Event: Titus Alexander beat GHC Hardcore Champion HAYATA to win the title. Alexander becomes the 14th GHC Hardcore Champion. NOAH says the 4th because they do not recognize the title history prior to 2023.
Episode 2 of the new RISING SUN season is next Monday.
The next event is Saturday at Shimizu Marine Building in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast. On demand plans TBA.
Injury Report: Mind The Neck
DDT has announced another injury absence, this one more concerning and likely long-term for Kazusada Higuchi. Neck. Out indefinitely. No further details provided but hopefully it’s not serious-you never know with neck injuries. At worst they can be life-threatening (as Hiromu Takahashi will tell you). At best maybe out a few weeks but often they can be months or years (like with Will Ospreay).
More as it becomes available.
New Japan 1/19/2026 Results
New Japan kicked off the Road To THE NEW BEGINNING Tour today, marking the official start to their year, the start of the road to Tokyo Dome 2027, and a true new beginning after 25+ years of Hiroshi Tanahashi as the face of the promotion…although he’s still around as President. The Young Lions Cup also returned today after several years giving the rookies & trainees a prize to compete for.
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 1006.
Match 1: Young Lions Cup: Masatora Yasuda beat Takuya Matsumoto. As a result, Yasuda advances to the Semifinals and will face Shoma Kato.
Match 2: Young Lions Cup: Daiki Nagai beat Zane Jay. As a result, Nagai advances to the Semifinals and will face Katsuya Murashima. (Both Kato & Murashima got free passes to the Semifinals)
Match 3: Master Wato, Yoh, Toru Yano, El Desperado & Aaron Wolf beat Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi, EVIL, DOUKI & Ren Narita. Wato beat Togo with Vendeval.
Match 4: Jacob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, Great-O-Khan, Callum Newman & Jake Lee beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji. Akira pinned Gedo after Unmanned Emerald Flowsion.
Match 5: Sho beat Kosei Fujita by DQ.
Match 6: Yoshinobu Kanemaru beat Robbie Eagles.
Match 7: Boltin Oleg, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. to win the titles. Oleg, YOSHI-HASHI & Goto become the 33rd NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Goto pinned Oiwa after GTR.
Main Event: Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino beat Tomohiro Ishii & Taichi. Umino pinned Taichi after Second Chapter. As a result, Uemura & Umino get the next IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship shot. That match will happen at THE NEW BEGINNING on 2/11 at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka.
The next event is tomorrow. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.
All-Japan 1/18/2026 Results (Updated x3)
All-Japan continued the New Year Wars 2026 Tour today in Tokyo.
Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.
The announced paid attendance was 337, a legit advance sellout.
Match 1: Rising Hayato beat Shota Kofuji.
Match 2: Hokuto Omori & Cyrus beat JunSaito & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer). Cyrus pinned Doi after a reverse splash.
Match 3: Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo beat Go Shiozaki & Shotaro Ashino. Mashimo pinned Ashino.
Match 4: Kumaarashi beat Dan Tamura.
Match 5: Atsuki Aoyagi, MUSASHI & Fuminori Abe beat Seiki Yoshioka, Ryo Inoue & Mochizuki Junior (Dragon Gate). Aoyagi pinned Inoue after a firebird splash.
Main Event: Talos, Ren Ayabe & Yuma Anzai beat Kento Miyahara, Hideki Suzuki & Ryuki Honda. Talos pinned Honda after a big boot.
The next event is 1/25 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba with 3 title matches including Miyahara-Talos for the Triple Crown. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. This will be a taped GAORA SPORTS broadcast in Japan on 2/6 and 2/13.
UPDATE: One title match on 1/25 may be off. A scheduled All-Japan AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Championship match may have to be postponed because there is a chance that Hikaru Sato, part of the challengers, will be unable to participate. Potential schedule conflicts. The promotion is working on a resolution.
UPDATE 2: In a response to the above post on social media, Sato apologized and explained he thought the event was on 1/23 (Friday) and didn’t confirm this afterwards, so until now he believed the event was on a different date.
UPDATE 3: Sato is now off but the match will go on as planned. Suwama is the replacement.
Stardom 1/18/2026 NEAR LIVE Results
Stardom is running the second half of their weekend doubleheader today in Osaka, below are NEAR LIVE results.
Today’s event is being held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched LIVE and on demand on Stardom World. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.
The paid attendance may or may not be announced after the event. (UPDATE: The paid attendance was not announced)
Before the matches began, Hanan came out and announced that she will return from injury Wednesday.
Match 1: AZM beat Anne Kanaya.
Match 2: Ranna Yagami & Tomoka Inaba beat Suzu Suzuki & Akira Kurogame. Inaba pinned Kurogame.
Match 3: Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara beat Maki Itoh & Kikyo Furusawa and Bea Priestley & Yuria Hime in a 3-way when Kurara pinned Furusawa.
Match 4: Olympia (CMLL) & Hazuki beat Saya Iida & Momo Kohgo. Olympia pinned Kohgo after a spinning spinebuster.
Match 5: Natsupoi, Saori Anou & Yuna Mizumori beat Konami, Rina & Azusa Inaba. Anou pinned Konami after Special Pottering.
Intermission.
Match 6: Maika, Xena, HANAKO, Waka Tsukiyama & Rian beat Syuri, Ami Sohrei, Saki Kashima, Hina & Lady C. Maika pinned C after Michinoku Driver 2.
Main Event: Starlight Kid, MeI Seira & Miyu Amasaki beat Natsuko Tora, Ruaka & Fukigen. Kid pinned Fukigen after Star Crusher.
The next event is Monday at Takamatsu Symbol Tower in Kagawa. There will be no live broadcast. Also a reminder that Wednesday’s event at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo is a PPV.
New Japan Pro Wrestling “BLUE JUSTICE 17” LIVE Results (1/18/2026)
A lot has changed in New Japan recently with the retirement of Hiroshi Tanahashi, the pending retirement of Tiger Mask 4 and more, but one thing has not…Yuji Nagata is still the self-proclaimed oldest member at 57 years old, and he’ll do his best today as well for his latest hometown event, BLUE JUSTICE 17. With the promotion’s first visit this year to Chiba Prefecture, Nagata gets to once again put on his own event with Nagata of course part of the main event but otherwise the event looks to be like a regular house show event, hopefully another successful one for Nagata.
Today’s event will be held at Sakura Civic Gym in Chiba and can be watched LIVE on New Japan World in Japanese. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube. There are 7 matches and with a regular house show plan the running time will not go past 3 hours, I’d anticipate between 2-2 1/2 hours.
Today’s lineup:
Zane Jay & Tiger Mask vs. Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles
Katsuya Murashima, Master Wato & Yoh vs. Daiki Nagai, OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby)
Masatora Yasuda, Ryusuke Taguchi & El Desperado vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaro, Sho & DOUKI
Tatsuya Matsumoto, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs. Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.
Shoma Kato, Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino vs. Satoshi Kojima, Taichi & Tomohiro Ishii
Gedo, Taiji Ishimori, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji vs. Jacob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, Great-O-Khan, Callum Newman & Jake Lee
Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano, Aaron Wolf & Yuji Nagata vs. Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita & EVIL
Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.
Updates below will begin at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET.
11 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
We are LIVE from Sakura Civic Gym in Chiba, Japan. Commentary will join after the opening video. Hiroyoshi Tenzan is today’s guest on commentary.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The venue has a reported full capacity of over 4000 but I doubt it will be anywhere near that. What I can see looks mostly but not completely full, I’ll predict around 2500. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1693)
The matches begin right after the opening video. None of the usual onscreen graphics today except for matches in the upper left corner.
Match 1: Zane Jay & Tiger Mask vs. Kosei Fujita & (a mustachioed) Robbie Eagles. 20 minute time limit
Result: Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles beat Zane Jay & Tiger Mask. Eagles beat Jay with an inverted Boston Crab.
Match 2: Katsuya Murashima, Master Wato & Yoh vs. Daiki Nagai, OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby). 20 minute time limit
Result: Daiki Nagai, OSKAR & Yuto Ice beat Katsuya Murashima, Master Wato & Yoh. OSKAR beat Murashima.
The YouTube broadcast ends here.
Match 3: Masatora Yasuda, Ryusuke Taguchi & El Desperado vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaro, Sho & DOUKI. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho & DOUKI beat Masatora Yasuda, Ryusuke Taguchi & El Desperado. Kanemaru beat Yasuda with a figure 4.
Match 4: Tatsuya Matsumoto, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs. Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.. 30 minute time limit
Result: Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Tatsuya Matsumoto, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Jackson pinned Matsumoto after Death Valley Bomb.
Match 5: Shoma Kato, Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino vs. Satoshi Kojima, Taichi & Tomohiro Ishii. 30 minute time limit
Result: Satoshi Kojima, Taichi & Tomohiro Ishii beat Shoma Kato, Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino. Taichi pinned Kato after Dangerous Backdrop.
Match 6: Gedo, Taiji Ishimori, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji vs. Jacob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, Great-O-Khan, Callum Newman & Jake Lee. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jacob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, Great-O-Khan, Callum Newman & Jake Lee beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji. Young beat Gedo.
Hiroshi Tanahashi joins commentary for the main event.
Main Event: Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano, Aaron Wolf & Yuji Nagata vs. Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita & EVIL. 30 minute time limit
Result: Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano, Aaron Wolf & Yuji Nagata beat Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren narita & EVIL. Wolf beat Togo. Afterwards, Wolf got to lead the closing promo for the first time although he seemed a little unsure about it at first. Pretty good Japanese though. Then he properly handed it over to Nagata to finish it up and send the hometown crowd home happy. Nagata brought Tenzan and a freshly-haircut Tanahashi (no more mullet) to the ring as a surprise to commemorate the anniversary of Tenzan’s pro wrestling debut. Tenzan clearly is still affected by injuries last year and was a bit unstable at times in the ring and moving very stiffly. (This was specifically for Tenzan’s 35th Anniversary in the ring) Nagata also said they will return to the venue, but due to its pending closing for upgrades/renovation it probably will not be for 2 years, however they will run other venues when they return to Chiba.
The next event is tomorrow at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo to kick off the Road To THE NEW BEGINNING Tour, the “official official” start to the promotion’s new year. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.