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DDT 12/15/24 Results (2 Events)

DDT ran a doubleheader in Osaka today, with the first event being a regular one and the second was a mini-event.

Both events were held at Konohama Community Hall in Osaka and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There were no liev broadcasts.

Event 1:
The announced paid attendance was 294, a super full house/very near sellout.

Match 1: Demus beat Yuni.

Match 2: Akito & Keigo Nakamura beat Carnalax & Yuki Ishida. Nakamura pinned Ishida.

Match 3: Tetsuya Endo & Yuki Iino beat Yukio Naya & Kazuma Sumi. Endo pinned Sumi after Burning Star Press.

Match 4: HARASHIMA, MAO & Takao Soma beat Danshoku Dieno, Jun Akiyama & Tomomitsu Matsunaga. MAO beat Matsunaga with a body lock.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno beat Kazuki Hirata.

Match 6: Daisuke Sasaki, KANON & Illusion beat Chris Brookes, ANtonio Honda & Takeshi Masada. Sasaki beat Honda with a crossface.

Main Event: To-y beat Yuya Koroku.

Event 2:
The announced paid attendance was 203.

Match 1: Yukio Naya, Keigo Nakamura & To-y beat Danshoku Dieno, HARASHIMA & Yuni. Nakamura beat Yuni with a neck lock.

Match 2; KANON & Illusion beat Yuya Koroku & Yuki Ishida. KANON beat Ishida with Just Cobra Twist.

Main Event: Takeshi Masada beat Kazuma Sumi.

The next event is NEVER MIND 2024 on 11/22 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. LIve streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. Former SKE48 member Marika Tani will be a special guest on commentary.

Stardom 12/14/24 Results

Stardom ran the first of 2 house shows this weekend today in Gunma.

Today’s event was held at G Messe Gunma Exhibition Hall A in Gunma and will be available on demand on Stardom World at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 409.

Match 1: Saya Kamitani & Fujkigen beat Tam Nakano & Sayaka Kurara. Kamitani pinned Kurara after Star Crusher.

Match 2: Hanan, Saya Iida & Momo Kohgo beat Mei Seira, Suzu Suzuki & Miyu Amasaki. Kohgo pinned Seira after 619DDT.

Match 3: Saori Anou & Aya Sakura beat Ranna Yagami & Lady C. Sakura beat Yagami with a triangle choke variation.

Match 4: Syuri, Saki Kashima & Hina beat Mayu Iwatani, Koguma & Matoi Hamabe. Hina pinned Hamabe after a modified jackhammer.

Match 5: Starlight Kid & AZM beat Natsupoi & Yuna Mizumori. Kid beat Mizumori with Black Tiger Leg Murder.

Main Event: Maika, Waka Tsukiyama, HANAKO & Rian beat Natsuko Tora, Momo Watanabe, Konami & Rina. HANAKO pinned Rina after JP Coaster.

The next event is just underway at Nagano Prefectural Budokan in Nagano. There is no live broadcast.

Injury Report: GLEAT Doesn’t Like Cola

Current GLEAT wrestler CIMA has always had one of the best entrance songs since his Dragon Gate debut, a song called “ME GUSTA COLA”, which translates to “I LIKE COLA!” Maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t, but maybe some bad cola was making the rounds because he is now on the sidelines temporarily. Fever. Out this weekend-GLEAT ran a non-televised house show today in Kyoto-there will be no video on YouTube, and another event tomorrow. Tomorrow he was to have teamed with Gamma and Maho Blanca to face Seiichi Ikemoto, Magnitude Kishiwada & MICHIKO. Minoru Tanaka is the replacement. Since tomorrow is in Osaka there will be no live broadcast, but it should be available on demand on YouTube by Wednesday or Thursday. This is the last GLEAT event before their year-end blowout event on 12/30 so CIMA should be back for that event.

New Japan 12/14/24 Results (Special Mini-Event)

New Japan held a TAKA Michinoku & Taichi Produced special mini-event today, the first such event for the duo in about 2 years (this was the 3rd such event they have done in New Japan). It could be called a mini-event as it had just 2 matches and was not on the New Japan schedule.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Presumably there is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Tetsuya Musashi (Just Tap Out, TAKA’s latest independent promotion) & Tomoaki Honma beat Ryoma Tsukamoto (Independent/Freelancer) & Abdullah Kobayashi (Big Japan). Honma pinned Tsukamoto after Kokeshi.

Match 2: In a 3 Falls Match, TAKA MIchinoku & Taichi beat SANADA & Gedo 2-1. Fall 1: Taichi pinned Gedo after Holy Emperor’s Cross Mausoleum. Fall 2: SANADA beat TAKA with Skull End. Fall 3: TAKA pinned Gedo after Michinoku Driver 2. Afterwards, Taichi challenged SANADA to a single match.

They considered the event to be a great success and plan to do more in the future.

BREAKING: Top Joshi Veteran To Retire in 2025

In a social media post she made that was shared by WRESTLE UNIVERSE, Nanae Takahashi, a well-traveled veteran with nearly 3 decades in the ring, has announced she has decided to retire in May 2025. Takahashi, about to turn 46 (Correction-the original post incorrectly stated she was about to turn 47), debuted in All-Japan Women as a teenager in July 1996 then after the promotion closed in the mid-2000s she became a freelancer and started her own promotion, Pro Wrestling Sun, which had a partnership with Zero-1 MAX but closed a couple years later. After that, she mostly competed in NEO (a promotion run by Kyoko Inoue until it closed) where she formed a unit called “Passion Red” with Natsuki*Taiyo & Kana (now Asuka in WWE), and also was a regular in Ice Ribbon in 2009 & 2010. In late 2010, she helped launch Stardom alongside Rossy Ogawa & former wrestler Fuka, staying with them until 2015 when she left to become a freelancer although she would make future appearances there. In April 2024 she reunited with Ogawa to help launch his new Marigold promotion following a talent exodus from Stardom after Ogawa was fired. Her retirement in May 2025 will coincide with Marigold’s first anniversary.
Takahashi’s career accomplishments and accolades to date are clearly Hall Of Fame worthy: All-Japan Women Champion, 2-time All-Japan Women Tag Team Champion, 2-time WWWA World Single Champion, 5-time WWWA World Tag Team Champion, 4 tournament wins in All-Japan Women, 3-time AWA Women’s Champion, 2024 Marigold Dresm Star GP Best Match Award, 3-time Ice Ribbon International Ribbon Tag Team Champion, Ice Ribbon Triangle Ribbon Champion, JWP Openweight Champion, JDStar BSJ Queen Of The Ring, NEO Single Champion, NEO Tag Team Champion, NWA Women’s Pacific Champion, AWA Japan Women’s Champion, Zero1-MAX Blast Queen Champion, World Of Stardom Champion, 3-time Goddesses Of Stardom Champion, 2 Goddess Of Stardom Tag League wins, the 2010 Tokyo Sports Women’s Grand Prize, the 2010 Nikkan Sports Women’s MVP and Best Match Awards, and several other Stardom accolades. She also had a fight in Lethwai, a Myanmar-based fighting style allowed in only a few countries including Japan, which basically is no-holds-barred bare knockle fighting (like MMA but headbutts are allowed), fighting Vero Nika to a draw in June 2017.

Since her final matches should be in Marigold, they likely will be available to watch worldwide on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. where some Marigold events stream live and all are available on demand. I normally don’t follow Marigold but updates on Takahashi’s retirement plans and potential last match will follow.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling “Winter Story” LIVE Results (12/14/24) (Updated)

Tokyo Joshi Pro runs their first event of December today, “Winter Story”, starting a light month schedule-wise with just 3 events left this year. Despite the name and typical pattern for the promotion this is basically a house show but with more matches than usual as the focus shifts to the year-opening 1/4 major event. One match in particular is that focus as Miu Watanabe & Mizuki will face off that day for the Princess Of Princess Championship, and they’ll be on opposite sides of a 6-woman tag today. There’s also excitement because Pom Harajuku returns as a champion for the first time in her career, coming off winning the SPW (Setup Pro Wrestling Thailand) All-Asia Championship recently. She’ll defend in a few weeks in a rematch.

Although it won’t affect today’s lineup, it was also announced that Kira Summer is off the event, as well as the next one, due to family reasons (she posted a couple weeks ago on social media that her father died recently and she is back in her native Australia for services and to spend the holidays with her family).

Today’s event will be held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. Despite having 7 matches instead of the usual 5-6 there are no title matches that will keep the running time around a typical house show length of about 2 hours.

Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Suzume vs. Uta Takami
Yuki Kamifuku & Neko Haruna vs. Raku & Chika Nanase
Rika Tatsumi & Moka Miyamoto vs. Arisu Endo & Ivy Steele
Hyper Misao vs. Yoshiko Hasegawa
Pom Harjauku vs. HIMAWARI
Miyu Yamashita, Maki Itoh & Mahiro Kiryu vs. Shoko Nakaima, Yuki Aino & Kaya Toribami
Miu Watanabe, Haru Kazashiro & Toga vs. Mizuki, Wakana Uehara & Shino Suzuki

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to launch 15 minutes before the event.

7:35 PM PT UPDATE: They apparently moved stream launch up to 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET and it’s now started. We should be going to the venue in about 25 minutes.

7:57 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Usually the venue is set up for around 300 for these events (full capacity is just under 400), I haven’t been able to see much seating-wise yet as it’s probably hard camera only but I’m guessing it’ll be around 225. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 223)

When we join Sayurti Namba is already in the ring helping fans in attendance with a lottery to determine matches for an upcoming event (this is for the 12/21 event, which will have 10 single matches). Once finished they get into the opening announcements. Also posted on the socials were the first 3 teams for the 2025 Futari-wa Princess Max Heart Tournament, the annual tag team tournament…and they announced the only one that matters to me and makes me very happy to report…WASTELAND POM PARTY!!! (Max The Impaler & Pom Harajuku)
Here are the 12/21 matches via the fan lottery: Moka Miyamoto vs. Ivy Steele, Shino Suzuki vs. Raku, Miyu Yamashita vs. Mizuki, Rika Tatsumi vs. Shoko Nakajima, Chika Nanase vs. Uta Takami, Maki Itoh vs. Toga, Mahiro Kiryu vs. Yoshiko Hasegawa, Yuki Kamifuku vs. Yuki Aino, Neko Haruna vs. Wakana Uehara, Hyper Misao vs. Haru Kazashiro.

The matches should begin around 8:15 PM PT/11:15 PM ET.

The matches begin at 8:17 PM PT/11:17 PM ET.

Match 1: Suzume vs. Uta Takami. 15 minute time limit
Result: Suzume beat Uta Takami

Match 2: Yuki Kamifuku & Neko Haruna vs. Raku & Chika Nanase. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Kamifuku & Neko Haruna beat Raku & Chika Nanase. Haruna pinned Nanase after Cat Scratch.

Match 3: Rika Tatsumi & Moka Miyamoto vs. Arisu Endo & Ivy Steele. 20 minute time limit
Result: Rika Tatsumi & Moka Miyamoto beat Arisu Endo & Ivy Steele. Miyamoto beat Steele with Rashomon. This was Steele’s TJPW debut (she is from Europe) and she was very well received by the fans. She was very excited too, almost too much during entrance.

Match 4: Hyper Misao vs. Yoshiko Hasegawa. 15 minute time limit
Result: Hyper Misao beat Yoshiko Hasegawa. Afterwards, Misao with microphone. Promo seemed to be about DDT & TJPW together, and went on until she was interrupted by Super Sasadango Machine. Seems to be leading to a potential comedy match in DDT as I heard Machine mention Antonio Honda. Possibly could happen at Ultimate Party 2024 later this month at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo for DDT’s year-end blowout event. They went on until Rika Tatsumi snuck in and neck pinched Machine to stun him for a beatdown by Misao & Tatsumi. Some unlucky guy in a suit-Tetsuya Koda actually-then got sent into the ring for a Machine beatdown which brought Misao & Tatsumi back out…to beat down poor Koda more. Machine then left as Misao & Tatsumi finished the promo. Sounds like potentially them vs. Machine & Honda at Ryogoku. Updates to follow. Classic DDT comedy segment. Went long enough to all but insure the event hits the “normal” about 2 hour house show runtime.

Match 5: Pom Harjauku vs. HIMAWARI. 15 minute time limit
Result: Pom Harajuku beat HIMAWARI. During her intro, Harajuku accidentally dropped her title belt into the floor below. Even as a champion, Pom Still Gonna Pom. But we still love her nonetheless.

Match 6: Miyu Yamashita, Maki Itoh & Mahiro Kiryu vs. Shoko Nakaima, Yuki Aino & Kaya Toribami. 20 minute time limit
Result: MIyu Yamashita, Maki Itoh & Mahiro Kiryu beat Shoko Nakajima, Yuki Aino & Kaya Toribami. Yamashita pinned Toribami after Attitude Adjustment (after inadvertently Skull Kicking Kiryu)..

Main Event: Miu Watanabe, Haru Kazashiro & Toga vs. Mizuki, Wakana Uehara & Shino Suzuki. 20 minute time limit
Result: Miu Watanabe, Haru Kazashiro & Toga beat Mizuki, Wakana Uehara & Shino Suzuki. Watanabe pinned Suzuki after a double Teardrop on Suzuki & Mizuki..

The next event is “Se-no, Merry Christmas! 2024” on 12/21 at Tama Mirai Messe in Tokyo. In addition to the 10 single matches determined today, which all have 7 minute time limits, there will be 2 tag matches with 10 minute time limits. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 12/20 at 9 PM PT/midnight ET.

UPDATE: The DDT-TJPW match for 12/28 is now official. It will be Machine. Honda & Toru Owashi vs. Misao, Tatsumi & Harajuku.

New Japan News: STRONG Title Defense In Ring Of Honor

New Japan posted on the socials a short time ago about an unmentioned-before title defense on today’s Ring Of Honor TV program (only available online on the HonorClub subscription service)-the episode saw Grizzled Young Veterans successfully defend the STRONG Tag Team Championship against MxM in a faceoff of former WWE tag teams. V1 for the champs. This means their scheduled defense Sunday at STRONG STYLE EVOLVED will now be their 2nd defense instead of 1st.

News: GLEAT Wrestler Taking Extended Hiatus

GLEAT announced on their website that Yu Iizuka is taking an extended hiatus from the promotion effective at the end of the year. While he dealt with injuries this past year, including several concussions, he currently is not seriously injured or under doctor’s orders but wants to rest and focus on jiu-jitsu training while focusing on a full recovery. He is expected to still be part of the year-end 12/30 event at TDC Hall in Tokyo then will step away, based on translation of the promotion’s announcement this hiatus could be at least 6 months to a year or longer as they will check in with Iizuka every 6 months. He is also scheduled for Sunday’s event in Osaka.

DDT 12/11/24 Results

DDT continued the Road To Ultimate Party 2024 tour today in Tokyo.

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

The announced paid attendance was 319, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: KANON & Demus beat Yuki Iino & Kazuma Sumi. Domus pinned Sumi after Balaguese.

Match 2: Danshoku Dieno beat Kazuki Hirata & Toru Owashi in a 3-way by pinning Hirata in 17 seconds. Which led to…
Match 2 (again): Danshoku Dieno beat Kazuki Hirata.

Match 3: Jun Akiyama, HARASHIMA & Tetsuya Endo beat Yukio Naya, Daichi Sato & Yuki Ishida. HARASHIMA pinned Ishida after a right high kick. Afterwards, Naya chokeslammed Akiyama through a table.

Match 4: Ikuto Hidaka, Minoru Fujita & Fuminori Abe beat Yuki Ueno, MAO & Keigo Nakamura by ref stoppage (TKO). Abe beat Nakamura.

Match 5: To-y beat Yuya Koroku.

Main Event: In a 2/3 Falls match, Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & Illusion beat Chris Brookes, Masa Takanashi & Antonio Honda 2-1. Fall 1: Illusion pinned Takanashi. Fall 2: Honda beat Paul. Fall 3: Sasaki bear Brookes.

The next event is Sunday at Konohana Community Hall in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast.

News: Tokyo Sports Awards Announced

The top Japanese newspaper/website Tokyo Sports, which tends to take a more gossip-like approach to wrestling compared to other established sources like Weekly Pro, Nikkan Sports, Daily Sports and others, has announced its annual Year-End Awards. Here are the winners:
MVP (Best Wrestler)-Zack Sabre Jr. (New Japan)
Match Of The Year-Hirooki Goto vs. Yota Tsuji, New Japan Cup Finals
Newcomer (Rookie Of The Year)-Boltin Oleg, New Japan
Skill Award-Shinya Aoki (DDT)
Fighting Spirit Award-Kaito Kiyomiya (NOAH)
Special Achievement-Award-Yuma Anzai (All-Japan)
Women’s Grand Prize-Sareee (Marigold)
Best Tag Team-Jun & Rei Saito (All-Japan)
Hot Topic Award-Dump Matsunoto (popularity & career revival thanks to new Netflix series about her life & early career), Bull Nakano (first Japanese woman inducted into WWE Hall Of Fame), Mayu Iwatani (approaching 2 years as IWGP Women’s Champion)
Special Award-Each of the 8 Japanese wrestlers who won gold medals at the 2024 Olympics
Also of note: The Saitos were a runner-up in the MVP category.

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