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DDT 1/11/25 Results (Updated)

DDT ran a semi-wacky KOTATSU FIGHTING 2025 event today in Yokohama.

Today’s event was held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: MJ Paul & Demus beat Yuki Iino & Yuki Ishida. Demus pinned Ishida after Balaguesa.

Match 2: Yukio Naya, Keigo Nakamura & Yuya Koroku beat Daisuke Sasaki, KANON & Illusion. Nakamura pinned Illusion with a modified crucifix hold.

Match 3: To-y beat Tomomitsu Matsunaga.

Match 4: In a KOTATSU FIGHTING Match, where the not-legal participants had to wait in a special area before being tagged in, or that was the plan anyway, Danshoku Dieno, Yuki Ueno & Jun Akiyama beat Makoto Oishi, Antonio Honda & Takao Soma. Ueno beat Honda with Cold Clutch.

Match 5; MAO beat Kazuma Sumi.

Main Event: Shuji Ishikawa, HARASHIMA & Akito beat Chris Brookes, Masa Takanashi & Takeshi Masada. Ishikawa pinned Takanashi after Splash Mountain.

The next event is tomorrow at Yodogawa Community Center in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast. On demand scheduled for Wednesday.

UPDATE: HARASHIMA is now off tomorrow & Monday. Fever. For tomorrow Kohei Kinoshita is the replacement. For Monday Yasutaka Oosera is the replacement.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 1/11/25 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH held their first STAR NAVIGATION 2025 event of the year today, a PREMIUM event in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1535, a legit sellout.

Match 1: Eita, Shuji Kondo, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki beat HAYATA, Yo-HEY, Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi. Eita pinned HAYATA with La Magistral.

Match 2; Ulka Sasaki & Zozaya beat Mohammed Yone & Black Menso-re (Independent/Freelancer). Sasaki pinned Menso-re with a backdrop hold.

Match 3: Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Kotoge, Kazuyuki Fujita & Hajime Ohara beat Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Odashima. Shiozaki pinned Odashima after Go Lariat.

Match 4: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Galeno (Galeno Del Mal) beat Saxon Huxley & LJ Cleary. Wagner Jr. pinned Cleary after Emerald Flowsion. This was Wagner Jr.’s final match in the promotion, at least for some time, as he is now headed back to his native Mexico.

Match 5; Daga & Yu Owada beat Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. Owada pinned Fujimura.

Match 6: Jack Morris & Omos (WWE) beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Harutoki. Omos pinned Harutoki after Last Ride.

Match 7: OZAWA vs. Kenoh went to a no contest. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: In a handicap match, OZAWA, Jack Morris, Omos, Daga, Yu Owada & Yoshitatsu beat Kenoh, Kaito Kiyomiya, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. OZAWA pinned Alejandro after Real Rebel.

Main Event: Tetsuya Endo beat GHC National Champion Manabu Soya to win the title. Endo becomes the 14th GHC National Champion. Next up: REMATCH!!! That match will happen on 2/11, as will the first GHC Heavyweight Championship defense for OZAWA. The challenger: Galeno. After the match, Endo joined Team 2000X.

The next event is tomorrow at G Messe Gunma in Gunma. There will be no live broadcast.

Injury Report: So apparently masks don’t protect you from injuries. Alejandro is now off tomorrow because of an injury suffered today. Facial bruises. He was to have teamed with Kai Fujimura to face Omos. Several changes to the card were made as a result so Omos will now face Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi and Fujimura will team with Kenoh to face Daga & Yu Owada. He is not scheduled for the following event on Monday (a LIMIT BREAK ex.) so he has a week to recover. Unless something is broken I doubt he’ll miss any more time.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 1/11/25 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro kicked off the NEW YEAR CIRCUIT 2025 Tour today with an event in Kobe.

Today’s event was held at Kobe Art Center in Kobe and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (probably Tuesday). There was no live broadcast. They did attempt to stream 2 matches live using the UNIVERSE CAST feature on the service.

The announced paid attendance was 231.

Match 1: Miu Watanabe beat Chika Nanase by submission.

Match 2; Mahiro Kiryu, Neko Haruna & Ivy Steele beat Raku, Shino Suzuki & Uta Takami. Kiryu pinned Takami after a spinebuster.

Match 3: Moka Miyamoto & Haru Kazashiro beat Wakana Uehara & Mifu Ashida. Miyamoto beat Ashida with Rashomon.

Match 4: Jada Stone beat Kaya Toribami.

Match 5: HIMAWARI & Toga beat Maki Itoh & Kira Summer. Toga pinned Summer after Rock Bottom.

Match 6: Rika Tatsumi won a 6 woman battle royal, last eliminating Shoko Nakajima. Order of elimination: Yuki Aino, Hyper Misao, Pom Harajuku, Arisu Endo, Nakajima. As a result, Tatsumi gets the next Princess Of Princess Championship shot.

Main Event: Mizuki & Suzume beat Miyu Yamashita & Yoshioko Hasegawa. Mizuki pinned Hasegawa after a diving foot stomp. Tatsumi came out afterwards for the title shot challenge promo with Mizuki. That match will happen on 3/16 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo, meaning it almost certainly will be the main event of GRAND PRINCESS ’25.

The next event is tomorrow (tonight US time) at Okayama Future Hall in Okayama. Yuki Kamifuku will miss the event due to a title defense in Singapore. There will be no live broadcast.

Stardom News: Annual Faction Tournament Announced

Unlike in most women’s promotions in Japan, faction warfare is an integral part of Stardom (Dragon Gate may be the best example as a whole of faction warfare in Japan). Today the promotion announced their annual faction tournament for upcoming events later this month, here’s how it will work:
All 6 current factions-Stars, Cosmic Angels, God’s Eye, E neXus V, Neo Genesis, H.A.T.E.-will participate in 2 3-team blocks. All matches will be 6-women tag matches, 2/3 Falls, 30 minute time limit, participants on each team are not announced until the match begins and each faction member must participate in at least one of their two matches. That puts H.A.T.E. in an impossible predicament because they have 7 members so they all can’t be in 2 different matches. The other factions all have 5 or 6. However, the participation rule is waived if one or more wrestlers in a faction can’t participate due to injury.
After the matches are concluded, the winners of each block advance to a championship match and the tournament winners get 2 title shots of their choice as long as they are Stardom titles (so not the IWGP Women’s Championship or STRONG Women’s Championship as those are New Japan titles). If there is a tie, the tiebreaker is match result. If said match was a draw, there will be a rematch (1 Fall, 30 minute time limit). The Final will be a 30 minute match between all members of a faction, possibly with 1 minute intervals, most total falls wins.

The blocks are as follows:
Red-Stars, God’s Eye, E neXus V
Blue-Cosmic Angels, Neo Genesis, H.A.T.E.
The matches:
1/17 (Matsuyama Community Center Special Exhibition Hall, Ehime)-Stars vs. E neXus V, Cosmic Angels vs. Neo Genesis
1/18 (Osaka Prefectural Gym 2, Osaka)-Stars vs. God’s Eye, Neo Genesis vs. H.A.T.E.
1/19 (Osaka Prefectural Gym 2)-God’s Eye vs. E neXus V, Cosmic Angels vs. H.A.T.E.
1.23 (Shin-Kiba 1st Ring, Tokyo)-Final
The promotion also announced Hanan will not be part of the 1/19 event due to Diana participation. Events will also have non-tournament matches.

As far as Stardom World broadcasts, no live broadcast on 1/17 (on demand later), live on 1/18 & 1/19 (1/18 start in the US), TBA for 1/23 (I anticipate live but I sense they’ll try to be sneaky and force a PPV since it’s also the promotion’s 14th Anniversary event).

New Japan News: The King (Of Pro Wrestling) Is Officially Dead

Following Great-O-Khan announcing he was “retiring” the KOPW (King Of Pro Wrestling) championship at the end of 2024, meaning it wouldn’t be contested for at New Japan’s year-opening events (Tokyo Dome and NEW YEAR DASH!!), the IWGP Executive Committee-the sanctioning body that oversees New Japan’s championships-has made it official: The “title” is retired and dead. The title was created in mid-2020 at the suggestion of Kazuchika Okada and saw over 50 title matches in its existence, each with unique rules proposed by the participants and voted on by fans. It was never considered or treated as an “official” championship though.

Injury Report: Double DDT’d (Updated 1/15/25)

DDT has announced a pair of injury/illness changes for this weekend’s events-both Kazuki Hirata and Yuni are now off all 3 events. Hirata-right knee. Yuni-fever. This means the fourth match for tomorrow has to be changed as Hirata was announced as part of a 6-man Kotatsu Fighting match. (It actually has but not in an English-language post on DDT’s website. Makoto Oishi is the replacement).. it’s not known how long Hirata may be out, Yuni’s absence is precautionary.

More as it becomes available.

1/15/35 UPDATE: Hirata remains out indefinitely. Not serious but some swelling in the knee so it will continue to be monitored.

Dragon Gate 1/9/25 Results

Dragon Gate began their 2025 campaign today with the opener of the New Year Gate 2025 tour, the annual East-West competition event. Teams were determined based on their hometown, with foreigners on the West team.

Today’s event was held at Kobe Art Center in Kobe and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

The announced paid attendance was 338.

Match 1: Yasushi Kanda & Ben-K beat Ryoya Tanaka & Akihiro Sahara. Ben-K pinned Sahara.

Match 2: Genki Horiguchi, Shachihoko BOY, Problem Dragon & JACKY KAMEI beat Kagetora, Punch Tominaga, Daiki Yanagiuchi & Ryu Fuda. KAMEI pinned Tominaga after JFK.

Match 3: Don Fujii, Takashi Yoshida & Naruki Doi beat Masaaki Mochizuki, Mochizuki Junior & ISHIN. Yoshida pinned ISHIN after a body press.

Match 4: Madoka Kikuta beat Honare by DQ. Weapon use.

Match 5: Strong Machine J, Susumu Yokosuka & KAI beat Luis Mante, Ho Ho Lun & Jason Lee. J pinned Lun after Genie Windmill.

Match 6: Dragon Dia & Riiita beat U-t & Hyo. Dia pinned U-T.

Main Event: YAMATO, BxB Hulk & Susumu Yokosuka beat Shun Skywalker, Kota Minoura & Yoshiki Kato. YAMATO pinned Kato after Omniscient & Omnipotent Frankensteiner.

East wins 4-3. All East members received a New Year’s Ball from GM Ryo Saito as a prize.

The next event is Saturday at Kyoto KBS Hall in Kyoto. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

BREAKING: The Collective 2025 Announced

In a post on social media shared by co-organizer Game Changer Wrestling, The Collective 2025, a series of independent events around WWE WrestleMania weekend in Las Vegas, NV, was just announced. This year it will take place from 4/17-4/19 with all events at the Pearl Theater at The Palms Casino Resort. DDT and Tokyo Joshi Pro Wresting are coming over from Japan again along with Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport, and there will be a joint DDT/TJPW/GCW event once again.

Bloodsport will tun on 4/17 at 8 PM PT, TJPW on 4/18 at 11 AM PT, DDT on 4/18 at 3 PM PT, and the joint DDT/TJPW/GCW event on 4/19 at 2 PM PT. All Collective events (11 at this time) will stream live and on demand on Triller/FITE via the Triller+ subscription package, available for $7:99/month. The DDT & TJPW events also will be on demand on WRESTE UNIVERSE at some point, but based on the last US events you’ll probably have to wait several months.

More as it becomes available.

BREAKING: New Japan Champion Signs With Promotion

Forget We Want Mina…more like Everyone Wants Konosuke. New Japan just announced that, following winning the NEVER Openweight Championship at the Tokyo Dome, Konosuke Takeshita has signed with the promotion. Already signed with both home promotion DDT and All Elite Wrestling, he is now in a unique position of being signed with 3 different promotions together. It’s not known how long this contract os for but knowing New Japan I imagine it’s for one year (contracts ate usually up after Tokyo Dome & New Year Dash and re-done during the break before the first tour of the year).

New Japan 1/6/25 Results

With Tokyo Dome now in the books, New Japan officially began their new year today, and the road to Tokyo Dome 2026, with their traditional new campaign launch event, NEW YEAR DASH!!

Today’s event was held at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 2348.

None of the matches were announced in advance.

Pre-show match: Yuji Nagata, Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Daiki Nagai, Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato. Nagata beat Nagai with Nagata Lock 2.

Match 1: In an Exhibition Match, Boltin Oleg vs. Josh Barnett went to a 5 minute time limit draw.

Match 2; Jacob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, TJP, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb beat Jado, Master Wato, Tomoaki Honma, Shota Umino & El Phantasmo. Khan pinned Honma after Eliminator. Afterwards, Khan tore up a handmade IWGP World Heavyweight Championship belt Umino had been carrying around which was made by a young fan, which probably sets up the next feud for Umino.

Match 3: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Yujiro Takahashi, Sho & Ren Narita beat Tiger Mask, Togi Makabe, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Sho pinned TM 4.

Match 4: Clark Connors & SANADA beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. SANDA beat TAKA with Skull End.

Match 5: KUSHIDA & El Desperado beat KENTA & Taiji Ishimori. KUSHIDA beat KENTA with Hoverboard Lock.

Match 6: BUSHI, Titan, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji beat Gedo, Drilla Moloney, Gabriel Kidd & David Finlay. Titan pinned Gedo after Jade Immortal.

Match 7: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Ryusuke Taguchi & Alex Zayne. Naito pinned Taguchi after Destino. Afterwards, Naito issued an IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship challenge to Matt & Nick Jackson, who beat LIJ in a 3-way yesterday to win the vacant titles.

Main Event: Rocky Romero, Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Kosei Fujita, Robbie Eagles, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. Yoh beat Eagles with a ground cobra twist. Afterwards, with the shot in hand from winning the New Japan Ranbo on Saturday, Goto issues the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship challenge to Sabre. That match will likely happen at THE NEW BEGINNING on 2/11 at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka.

The next event is Battle In The Valley 2025 Saturday at San Jose Civic in San Jose, CA. Live streaming on New Japan World for all paying subscribers and as a PPV on Triller/FITE ($19.99) will begin at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. No live results because, recent health concerns not withstanding, I will be there live in person!

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