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DDT 7/2/25 Results

DDR ran their monthly Meet&Greet&Fight event today, which also was their latest D GENERATIONS event.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Friday. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced.

There were last-minute changes to the card due to Shunma Katsumata being off the event. Left knee injury suffered in practice recently. Out indefinitely.

Match 1: Takao Soma beat Munetatsu Nakamura.

Match 2: Hideki Okatani beat Lil Kraken.

Match 3: Takeshi Masada beat Ryoma Tsukamoto.

Match 4: Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie beat To-y & Yuya Koroku. Irie pinned Koroku after Beast Bomber.

Match 5: Yuki Ishida & Kazuma Sumi beat Shota & Kazuki Hirata in 16 seconds. Sumi pinned Hirata. Which led to…
Match 5 (again): Yuki Ishida & Kazuma Sumi beat Shota & Kazuki Hirata. Sumi pinned Hirata (again).

Main Event: Kazuma Sumi won a 7 man battle royal, last eliminating Takeshi Masada & To-y. As a result, Sumi’s chosen color-yellow-will be the background color for a new D GENERATIONS logo under development.

The next event is Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

Injury Report: Cooled Off Heatwave

DDT has announced an injury change to upcoming events-Shunma Katsumata was injured during practice recently and is out of action again. Ruptured left knee ACL. Out indefinitely and was pulled off today’s event as a result. Today’s results will be posted tonight. It’s not yet known how long Katsumata will be out.

More as it becomes available.

Dragon Gate 7/1/25 Results

Dragon Gate kicked off the Aggressive Gate 2025 Tour, their July tour, today in Aichi.

Today’s event was held at Loisir Hotel Toyohashi in Aichi. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 311.

Match 1: YAMATO, Dragon Kid & Kagetora beat Yasushi Kanda, Luis Mante & Bendito. YAMATO beat Kanda with a sleeper hold.

Match 2: Susumu Yokosuka beat Problem Dragon.

Match 3: Madoka Kikuta & KAI beat Strong Machine J & Takashi. KAI beat Takashi with Gannosuke Clutch.

Match 4: Yuki Yoshioka, Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka beat Kzy, U-T & Flamita. Dia pinned Kzy after Repterianrana.

Main Event: In an elimination match, Hyo, Ben-K, JACKY KAMEI, Riiita & Mochizuki Junior beat Kota Minoura, Jason Lee, ISHIN, Yoshiki Kato & Homare. Hyo was the only winner, last eliminating ISHIN.

The next event is Thursday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

DEVELOPING: Another Major Stardom Departure (Updated)

At least temporarily, but it’s huge nonetheless…Stardom has announced that Syuri will be leaving the promotion indefinitely after the 7/6 event at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Not injury-related but a translation of her comments from Stardom’s Japanese website suggest she’s going to go overseas for training because she wants to reclaim the IWGP Women’s Championship, which she recently lost to Sareee. I can’t help but think this could mean All Elite Wrestling but we’ll see. It’s not known how long she will be gone but definitely will be at least 1-2 months because she is now out of the upcoming 5STAR GP. Although one has to wonder, is that title cursed? Everyone that’s held it before left Stardom almost as soon as they lost it (KAIRI went to WWE, Mercedes Mone went to AEW but did come back, albeit to New Japan though, Mayu Iwatani went to Marigold, now Syuri is leaving temporarily).

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: Syuri’s final match on 7/6 before leaving will be against Ranna Yagami. Syuri also indicated she will be back in Stardom at some point.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 6/30/25 Results (Updated)

WRESTLE MAGIC 2025, what appears to be a NOSAWA Rongai Produced event based on promo materials, was held by Pro Wrestling NOAH today.

Today’s event was held at Shinagawa Stella Ball in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The paid attendance has not been announced.

Match 1: KENTA, Kenoh & Ulka Sasaki beat Titus Alexander, Masaaki Mochizuki (Dragon Gate) & Shuji Kondo. KENTA pinned Alexander.

Match 2: Mika Iwata (Sendai Girls) & Miyuki Takase beat Great Sakuya & Johnnie Robbie. Iwata pinned Robbie after Raion.

Match 3: YO-HEY beat AMAKUSA & Archie Cole in a 3-way by pinning Cole.

Match 4: HAYATA beat GHC Hardcore Champion Shuji Ishikawa to win the title. HAYATA Becomes the 13th GHC Hardcore Champion. However he is considered the 4th champion as the title history prior to its revival in October 2023 is no longer recognized by the promotion.

Match 5: Luis Mante (Dragon Gate), Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Galeno, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. Mante pinned Fujimura after MCK.

Match 6: GHC Women’s Champion Takumi Iroha beat Victoria Yuzuki to retain the title. V1 for Iroha.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Ryohei Oiwa (New Japan), Yuki Ueno (DDT) & Yuki Yoshioka (Dragon Gate) beat YOSHI-HASHI (New Japan), KAI (Dragon Gate), Akito (DDT) & Daiki Inaba. Kiyomiya pinned Inaba after Shining Lancer.

The next event is Saturday at Shinjuku Face for a 20th Anniversary event for the venue. The likely main event will be a GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

In other news, WRESTLE UNIVERSE announced on YouTube that MONDAY MAGIC will return in October for an “Extreme Season”. This time, however, it’s under the WRESTLE UNIVERSE label instead of NOAH and is being moved from Shinjuku Face, which has held all the episodes before in the series’ history, to Shin-Kiba 1st Ring and will only be 3 episodes-10/6, 10/20 and 10/27.

UPDATE: Next up for Iroha: It looks like Utami Hayashishita. If Iroha gets what she wants, that match likely will happen in Marigold on 7/16 at Korakuen Hall.

Dragon Gate 6/29/25 Results

Dragon Gate wrapped up the Rainbow Gate 2025 Your today in Toyama.

Today’s event was held at Takaoka Ecole in Toyama. There is/was bo live or on demand broadcast.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 219)

Match 1: Genki Horiguchi, Luis Mante & Bendito beat JACKY KAMEI, Riiita & Mochizuki Junior. Bendito pinned Junior after La Bendicion.

Match 2: U-T & Flamita beat Susumu Yokosuka & Kagetora. U-T pinned Kagetora.

Match 3: Takashi beat Akihiro Sahara.

Match 4: YAMATO & BxB Hulk beat Yasushi Kanda & Punch Tomonaga. YAMATO pinned Tomonaga after Gallaria.

Match 5: Hyo & Ben-K beat Kota Monoura & KAI by DQ. Minoura DQ’d. Ref assault.

Main Event: Yuki Yoshioka, Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka vs. Madoka Kikuta, Jason Lee & ISHIN went to a double countout. Which led to…
Main Event (again): Yuki Yoshioka, Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka beat Madoka Kikuta, Jason Lee & ISHIN. Tanaka pinned ISHIN after Cross Saber.

The next event is Tuesday at Loisir Hotel Toyohashi in Aichi to start the Aggressive Gate 2025 Tour. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. There are 4 DRAGONGATE NETWORK live/on demand broadcasts scheduled in July: Thursday (Korakuen Hall, Tokyo), 7/12 (Kobe Art Center, Kobe), 7/13 (Kobe World Hall-Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival 2025), 7/27 (Kobe Sambo Hall).

Stardom 6/29/25 Results (Updated)

Stardom finished up their June schedule today with an event in Okayama.

Today’s event was held at Okayama Convention Center 3rd Floor Convention Hall in Okayama and can be watched on demand on Stardom World.

The announced paid attendance was 529.

Match 1: Bozilla & Akira Kurogame beat Hina & Ranna Yagami. Kurogame pinned Hina.

Match 2: Ami Sohrei & Lady C beat Mei Seira & Ema Maishima. C pinned Maishima after a big boot.

Match 3: Natsuko Tora & Ruaka beat Hanan & Kikyo Furusawa. Tora pinned Furusawa after a diving body press.

Match 4: Syuri, Saki Kashima & Tomoka Inaba beat Yuna Mizumori, Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara. Syuri beat Sakura with Ground Suzaku.

Match 5: Waka Tsukiyama, HANAKO & Rian beat Saya Iida, Momo Kohgo & Yuria Hime. Tsukiyama pinned Hime after Osui Suplex.

Main Event: Starlight Kid, AZM, Miyu Amasaki, Natsupoi & Saori Anou beat Saya Kamitani, Momo Watanabe, Konami, Rine & Azusa Inaba. AZM pinned Konami after Azumi Sushi.

The next event is NEW BLOOD 23 Friday at Tokyo Square in Tokyo. Live streaming FOR FREE on YouTube will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.

UPDATE: The promotion announced afterwards the hinted-at World Of Stardom Championship match of Kamitani vs. Natsupoi is now official. That match will happen on 7/21 in Hokkaido, which of course will be a PPV.

New Japan 6/29/25 Results (Updated x2)

New Japan held a special TANAHASHI JAM event today, a Hiroshi Tanahashi Produced event marking the halfway point of his retirement road and the grand finale of the Aichi Prefectural Gym venue, which is closing for good to make way for the brand-new Aichi International Arena (aka IG Arena) that opened about a month ago and will have it’s official grand opening in a couple weeks with the July 2025 Grand Sumo Tournament.

Today’s event was held at Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast outside of Japan. This event aired live in Japan only exclusively on TV Asahi.

The announced paid attendance was 4570.

Pre-show match: Katsuya Murashima vs. Daiki Odashima (Pro Wrestling NOAH) went to a 10 minute time limit draw.

Match 1: Ryusuke Taguchi, Shota Umino & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat LEONA (Dradition), Hiromu Takahashi & Tatsumi Fujinami (Dradition). Tanahashi beat LEONA with a Texas cloverleaf.

Match 2: Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita & EVIL beat YOSHI-HASHI, Taichi, Tomohiro Ishii & Yuya Uemura. Owens pinned YOSHI-HASHI after Last Testament.

Match 3: NEVER Openweight Champion Boltin Oleg beat Yuji Nagata to retain the title. V1 for Oleg.

Match 4: Master Wato, Yoh, El Desperado & Dragon Kid (Dragon Gate) beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho, DOUKI & SANADA. Wato pinned Kanemaru after a falcon blow.

Match 5: NJPW WORLD TV Champion El Phantasmo beat TBA, revealed at match time to be Taiji Ishimori, to retain the title. V2 for Phantasmo.

Match 6: Shun Skywalker (Dragon Gate), Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi beat Jacob Austin Young, Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan. Skywalker pinned Young after SSW.

Match 7: Zack Sabre Jr. beat IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Hirooki Goto by ref stoppage (technical submission) to win the title. Sabre becomes the 13th IWGP World Heavyweight Champion. And the second 2-time champion.

Main Event: Naomichi Marufuji (Pro Wrestling NOAH) & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Kaito Kiyomiya (Pro Wrestling NOAH) & Ryohei Oiwa. Tanahashi pinned Oiwa after High Fly Flow.

The next event is Friday at Tokyo Budokan in Tokyo for the penultimate event of the New Japan Soul 2025 Tour. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

UPDATE: After the event, Dragon Gate announced Tanahashi will participate in the promotion at Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival 2025, the promotion’s biggest event of the year, on 7/13 at Kobe World Hall in Kobe. He was revealed as the TBA that will team with Dragon Kid to face Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia. That event will be available to watch live & on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

UPDATE 2: Goto was injured in his match today. Right elbow. Out Friday. Status uncertain beyond that.

Dragon Gate 6/28/25 Results

Dragon Gate continued the Rainbow Gate 2025 Tour today in Okayama.

Today’s event was held at Marbee Fureai Center in Okayama. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 298)

Match 1: U-T, Flamita & Bendito beat Yuki Yoshioka, Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka. U-T pinned Tanaka.

Match 2: Madoka Kikuta beat Akihiro Sahara.

Match 3: Susumu Yokosuka & Dragon Kid beat Daiki Yanagiuchi & Yasushi Kanda. Yokosuka pinned Yanagiuchi after Yokosuka Cutter.

Match 4: YAMATO & Kagetora beat Luis Mante & Takashi. YAMATO pinned Takashi after Omniscient & Omnipotent Frankensteiner.

Match 5: ISHIN beat Shachihoko BOY by submission.

Main Event: Hyo, Ben-K, JACKY KAMEI & Riiita beat Kota Minoura, Jason Lee, KAI & Homare. Ben-K pinned KAI after a spear.

The tour-ender is tomorrow at Takaoka Ecole in Toyama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

DDT Pro Wrestling 6/29/25 LIVE Results (Updated)

DDT wraps up June with their monthly Tokyo major event today, KING OF KINGS. The title comes from the big main event as Chris Brookes defends the KO-D Openweight Championship against Kazusada Higuchi, who earned the shot by winning this year’s KING OF DDT Tournament. It’s the second time Higuchi has won the annual spring tournament-the first time he followed it up by winning his first KO-D Openweight Championship so history is on the challenger’s side. That match will be preceded by a KO-D Tag Team Championship match as well as O-MENZ Kumadori participation, which promises intrigue & excitement (as well as helping to pack the venue with more female fans). Additionally, Poison Sawada JULIE will also appear to unveil a new DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship title belt…but whether he leaves with it is another story as he is currently champion, but you never know with that true 24/7 title, the best in all pro wrestling. Today definitely will be more of DDT at its best.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. Actor Yuzuki Hashimoto will be a special guest on commentary. There will be a pre-show match before the event followed by a signing ceremony for the DDT Universal Championship match to be held on 7/13. The pre-show means this will run longer than normal Korakuen events, probably going closer to 3 1/4 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Pre-show:
Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida vs. Akito & Kazuma Sumi
DDT Universal Championship 7/13 Contract Signing

Main show:
Jun Akiyama, Daichi Sato & Takao Soma vs. Toru Owashi, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada
Danshoku Dieno & Kazuki Hirata vs. Mansoor & Mason Madden
MJ Paul & Illusion vs. HARASHIMA & O-MENZ Kumadori
Daisuke Sasaki & Hideki Okatani vs. MAO & KANON and Shunma Katsumata & To-y in a 3-way
Minoru Suzuki & Yuki Ueno vs. Shinya Aoki & Yuya Koroku
KO-D Tag Team Champions Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura vs. Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya for the titles
KO-D Openweight Champion Chris Brookes vs. Kazusada Higuchi for the title

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. The pre-show is scheduled to begin at 7:10 PM PT/10:10 PM ET. The main show will begin at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET.

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

7:10 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Satoshi Dairaku, Kagehiro Osano & Yuzuki Hoshimoto.

The paid attendance will not be announced after the event as they stopped doing that at the start of the year. Advance ticket sales were stronger than usual for today, no doubt in part due to O-MENZ Kumadori.

The pre-show match starts as soon as we go live.

Pre-show match: Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida vs. Akito & Kazuma Sumi. 15 minute time limit
Result: Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida beat Akito & Kazuma Sumi. Ishida pinned Sumi after Flame Palm.
Quick break to set the ring up for the DDT Universal Championship public signing ceremony for the 7/13 title match.

Main show:
The matches begin at 7:35 PM PT/10:35 PM ET.

Match 1: Jun Akiyama, Daichi Sato & Takao Soma vs. Toru Owashi, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jun Akiyama, Daichi Sato & Takao Soma beat Toru Owashi, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada. Sato pinned Masada.

Your new host is Haruo Murata.

Match 2: Danshoku Dieno & Kazuki Hirata vs. Mansoor & Mason Madden. 30 minute time limit
Result: Mansoor & Mason Madden beat Danshoku Dieno & Kazuki Hirata. Madden pinned Hirata.

GM Imabayashi brings out current DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Poison Sawada JULIE to unveil the new title belt design for the title. Afterwards, JULIE makes the mistake of taunting Sanshiro Takagi and he comes out. Which led to…
Sanshiro Takagi beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Poison Sawada JULIE to win the title. Takagi becomes the 1749th Champion.

Match 3: MJ Paul & Illusion vs. HARASHIMA & O-MENZ Kumadori. 30 minute time limit
Result: MJ Paul & Illusion beat HARASHIMA & O-MENZ Kumadori. Illusion pinned Kumadori after a low blow. UPSET ALERT!!! And a rather unpopular one at that. Both with microphone post-match. We probably haven’t seen the end of this. UPDATE: Single match between Kumadori & Illusion is set. That match will happen on 7/16 at Shinjuku Face.

Host tag in/out as Satoshi Dairaku is your host once again for the next match.

Match 4: Daisuke Sasaki & Hideki Okatani vs. MAO & KANON and Shunma Katsumata & To-y in a 3-way. 30 minute time limit
Result: Daisuke Sasaki & Hideki Okatani beat MAO & KANON and Shunma Katsumata & To-y in a 3-way when Sasaki beat Katsumata.

Match 5: Minoru Suzuki & Yuki Ueno vs. Shinya Aoki & Yuya Koroku. 30 minute time limit
Result: Minoru Suzuki & Yuki Ueno beat Shinya Aoki & Yuya Koroku. Ueno pinned Koroku. The on-screen graphic incorrectly said Aoki/Koroku won. Maybe because Aoki had Suzuki all but out in a sleeper hold when Ueno won and that’s what the ref counted-Ueno rolling up Koroku. Suzuki was seemingly out cold until he then did the Deadman Undertaker springing back to life and cleaning house post-match.

Host tag-your host is Haruo Murata once again.

Match 6: KO-D Tag Team Champions Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura vs. Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya beat KO-D Tag Team Champions Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura to win the titles. Iino & Naya become the 87th KO-D Tag Team Champions. Naya pinned Abe after The World’s Largest Backdrop. Afterwards, Iino with microphone. HE IS BURNING no more…they are now GMX. But as he finished…next up: Sato & Akiyama out to issue challenge. And just like that, GM Imabayashi with microphone. It’s now official. Sounds like next month. Will update later with confirmed date (I think it’ll be 7/12). UPDATE: That match will happen on 7/27 at at Sumitomo Metal Mining Arena Ome Sports Hall 1 in Tokyo.

Main Event: KO-D Openweight Champion Chris Brookes vs. Kazusada Higuchi for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Kazusada Higuchi beat KO-D Openweight Champion Chris Brookes to win the title. Higuchi becomes the 85th KO-D Openweight Champion. Higuchi led a post-match toast with Brookes and impressively took it to a big can of Sapporo (beer) afterwards. Then…next up…HARASHIMA out for the challenge. He wants an 11th reign and first since 2020. Accepted. And it’s made official by GM Imabayashi. Also sounds like 7/12. UPDATE: That match will happen on 7/13 at Korakuen. That event will also be broadcast live on ABEMA in Japan because it will be the next Kaisei Takechi event. It will also be live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. That event is already a legit advance sellout.

The next event is Wednesday at Shinjuku Face. There will be no live broadcast.