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Injury Report: To The D-L (Updated)

Dragon Gate announced what has been some updates to a recent injury situation: U-T, who has been out recently due to injury, will be out a bit longer. Unspecified injury. Out indefinitely. This could have major title impacts soon as he is scheduled to face Open The Brave Gate Champion Ryoya Tanaka for the title on 4/26 in a rematch from when Tanaka won the title. That’s still a month away so there is time but this bears continued monitoring.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: Unspecified injury is a back injury.

TJPW News: Late 3/29/2026 Card Change

Tokyo Joshi Pro has been forced to make a last-minute change to the GRAND PRINCESS ’26 lineup on 3/29…unfortunately no Wasteland Pom Party once again because Max The Impaler is now off the event. Visa issues. Max was to have teamed with Pom Harajuku & Aja Kong to face Shoko Nakajima, Yuki Aino & Haru Kazashiro. Veny is the replacement. Of course this is very disappointing because no Max & Pom together again. But it’s how things are sometimes.

Also, it has been announced that, in addition to the live WRESTLE UNIVERSE broadcast, you will also be able to watch the first match LIVE FOR FREE on YouTube. That is scheduled to be Uta Takami vs. Shion Kanzaki.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 3/25/2026 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the Lethal Odyssey 2026 Tour today in Tokyo.

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

The announced paid attendance was 455.

Match 1: Atsushi Kotoge, Hi69 & Hajime Ohara beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Harutoki & Midori Takahashi. Hi69 pinned Takahashi after Transrave.

Match 2: Knull beat Angel Reyes. Squash.

Match 3: KENTA, HAYATA & Tetsuya Endo beat Manabu Soya, Eita & Black Menso-re. KENTA pinned Menso-re after a diving foot stomp.

Match 4: Yoshiki Inamura beat Katsumi Inahata.

Match 5: AMAKUSA, Mohammed Yone & Yuto Koyanagi beat Kenoh, Naomichi Marufuji & Hiroto Tsuruya AMAKUSA pinned Tsuruya after a firebird splash.

Match 6: OZAWA, Masa Kitamiya & Takashi Sugiura beat Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & RYUSEI. Kitamiya pinned RYUSEI after a diving senton.

Main Event: In an elimination match, Alpha Wolf, Kai Fujimura, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka beat Dragon Bane, Alejandro, Daga & Daiki Odashima. Order of elimination: Daga by Masaoka, Masaoka over top rope, Bane & Wolf over top rope, Alejandro over top rope, Tadasuke by Odashima, Odashima by Fujimura. Fujimura wins as only one left.

The next event is Friday at Shinjuku Face. Kaito Kiyomiya is off this event due to Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling participation in Canada. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

Stardom 3/25/2026 Results

Stardom ran their latest NEW BLOOD event today, the 30th installment of their developmental sub-label for younger & less-experienced wrestlers.

Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and cam be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Hanan, Saya Iida & Yuria Hime beat Matoi Hamabe, Anne Kanaya & Ema Maishima. Hanan pinned Hamabe with a blockbuster hold. This was the return match for both Hamabe & Maishima after the rookies both were out since late last year due to injuries.

Match 2: Yuna Mizunori & Rian beat Mase & Moe Hisai (?). Mizumori pinned Mase Hisai after Tropicana.

Match 3: HANAKO & Echika Miyabi beat Hina & Kiyoka Kokatsu. HANAKO pinned Kokatsu.

Match 4: Saki Kashima & Fukigen beat Alira Kirogame & Kikyo Furusawa. Kashima pinned Furusawa.

Main Event: Future Of Stardom Champion Ranna Yagami beat Aya Sakura to retain the title. V1 for Yagami. Had Sakura won the title she would have vacated it immediately dur to this being the last day she met eligibility requirements-tomorrow is the 3rd anniversary of her debut so she is too experienced to compete for the title now. But had this match gone another 19 seconds it would have been a time limit draw. If that happened, Yagami would have retained the title. Next up: Xelhua from Pro Wrestling WAVE. That match will happen on Tuesday at Korakuen Hall.

The next event is Saturday at Yume Messe Miyagi West Hall in Sendai. There will be no live broadcast. It was also announced the 4/17 US event will be a PPV on Stardom World, but it may also be available on Triller/FITE as it’s part of WrestleMania week in Las Vegas, but it’s not on their schedule yet.

GLEAT 3/20/2026 & 3/22/2026 Results

GLEAT ran 2 events over the past werk, first a house show in Yokohama than a G PROWRESTLING event on Osaka.

Friday’s event was held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 120.

Match 1: Brass Knuckles JUN & Rock Iwasaki beat Tetsuya Icuzhi & Kotaro Suzuki. JUN pinned Izuchi after Absolute Zero. Afterwards, Kohei Kinoshita came out and announcing he was joining JUN’s apparently unnamed faction.

Match 2: Takanori Ito vs. Parker Boudreaux went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

Match 3: El Lindaman, MICHIKO, Vent Vert Jack & Andy Panda beat Takehiro Yamamura, Marika Kobashi, Yuya Aoki & Andy Wu. Lindaman pinned Yamamura.

Match 4: Soma Watanabe, KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Black Andromeda beat Junjie, Minoru Tanaka & Katsuhiko Nakajima. Andromeda pinned Junjie after Nebulosa.

Main Event: T-Hawk, Hayato Tamura & Ryuichi Kawakami beat Kaito Ishida, JD Lee & So Daimonji. Kawakami pinned Daimonji after Strawberry Elephant.

Sunday’s event was held at Uneda Sky Building Stellar Hall in Osaka. There was no live broadcast, but it can now be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 233.

Match 1: Chanyota, Marika Kobashi & YuuRI beat Super Delfin, Flying Penguin & Nanase. Chanyota pinned Nanase.

Match 2: Kaito Ishida vs. Kohei Kinoshita went to a no contest. Brass Knuckles JUN faction interference.

Match 3: Kotaro Suzuki, Parker Boudreaux & Andy Panda beat Takehiro Yamamura, Tetsuya Izuchi & Shigehiro Irie. Boudreaux pinned Irie after a chokeslam.

Match 4: Lidet UWF Double Bout: Soma Watanabe & Hikaru Sato beat Takanori Ito & Seiichi Ikemoto by ref stoppage (technical submission). Watanabe beat Ito with a body sleeper hold.

Match 5: El Lindaman, Junjie, Katsuhijo Nakajima & Yuya Aoki beat KAZMA SAKAMOTO, JD Lee, So Daimonji & Black Andromeda. Junjie pinned SAKAMOTO after a tolling lariat. Afterwards, Junjie issued a G INFINITY Championship challenge with Nakajima as his partner. Date TBA.

Match 6: In a G-RUSH Rules match, G-RUSH Champion Minoru Tanaka beat Andy Wu to retain the title. V4 for Tanaka.

Main Event: Brass Knuckles JUN, Rock Iwasaki & Keiichi Sato beat T-Hawk, Hayato Tamura & Ryuichi Kawakami. JUN pinned Kawakami after Absolute Zero.

The next event is GLEAT Ver. 24 on 4/8 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA but it likely will be a live YouTube broadcast.

DDT 3/24/2026 Results

DDT ran another Sanshiro Takagi Produced Super Japan Pro Wrestling event today, which based on a fan vote afterwards could be the last. As usual there was no DDT participation outside of Takagi himself.

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, but based on post-event planned audience polling it appears to have been 315.

There were last-minute changes to the card due to MIKAMI being pulled off the event. The always-vague poor health. I believe he was to have been part of the opening segment.

Match 1: Evil Uno & Ram Kaichow beat Shota & Marika Kobashi. Uno pinned Shota after Something Evil.

Match 2: Hiroshi Yamato vs. Munenori Sawa & Gym Trainer Kotoka in a 3-way went to a draw. Apparent triple KO.

Match 3: Brahmans Shu & Kei & Mac Panasonic beat Takashi Sasaki, Nao Sano & Demonio Uno. Kei pinned Uno.

Match 4: Sanshiro Takagi beat Poison Sawada JULIE.

Match 5: Kuroshio TOKYO Japan beat Kumatori.

Match 6: Kazunari Murakami vs. Shinya Aoki went to a no contest. Out of control.

Main Event: Yuji Nagata (New Japan) beat Fuminori Abe.

After all matches ended, the vote on the project’s future was held for fans in attendance…258 Yes, 6 No, 51 Neutral/No Answer. Super Japan Pro Wrestling continues! The next one will be on 5/24 at Ueno Park Outdoor Stage. They also announced former All-Japan President Masayuki Uchida has been appointed as an advisor to the project.

The next event is Saturday at Mitsui Outlet Park Tama Minami-Osawa in Tokyo for a free event. There will be no live broadcast. On demand on 3/31.

BREAKING: DDT Top Star Retiring (Updated)

DDT announced a short time ago on social media that Kazusada Higuchi, who is currently out with injuries, has decided to retire. This is due to cervical spine issues found during a recent physical and continuing his career would be dangerous. So the decision was made he will retire, with a retirement ceremony held on 4/5 but he will not have any more matches.

Initial thoughts…This really surprised and saddened me as, since the pandemic, he became one of DDT’s top stars and a KO-D Openweight Champion after leaving Eruption behind (it was winding down as Hideki Okatani left then Yukio Sakaguchi & Saki Akai retired), but that brought one of the signature memories I’ll have of Higuchi-Flagbearer for DDT. He carried the promotion’s flag with him to the ring as champion and waved it with pride. A true champion who understood what being the face of the promotion meant and stood for. He was a wrestler in every way-looks, demeanor, performance, results. Someone I would want to build around. The injuries the last couple years were unfortunate as it took him away from helping build up younger wrestlers, especially Naomi Yoshimura (who also was out long-term with injuries) and Yuki Ishida as Harimao, and I hate to see him have to walk away because of this but it’s the right decision and I appreciate his doing a retirement ceremony and getting a proper sendoff. Hopefully DDT can find a role for him much like with Akai (she works part-time in the front office and makes occasional appearances on commentary). Higuchi-san, thank you for your hard work. Rest well and heal up and enjoy post-wrestling life.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: Harimao will also disband after 4/5. Ryota Nakatsu will team with Yoshimura & Ishida against Shunma Katsumata, Kota Umeda & Koki Iwasaki.

You can also watch today’s press conference replay FOR FREE on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZdkMFJguPm4?si=R4JlplZF4u8hlYPK

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling “Texas Stampede-Houston” Results (3/22/2026) (Updated)

Tokyo Joshi Pro wraps up their first US tour of the year today with the last event of their 4-event Texas series in Houston. The build to GRAND PRINCESS ’26 is pretty much over so this last event before that looks to be a regular house show on paper with some more fun matches before everyone heads back to Japan, although most of them will return in a few weeks for events in Las Vegas during WrestleMania week.

Today’s event will be held at Post Houston in Houston, TX and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English. There appear to be 6 matches currently planned so it will be another short house show with a runnign time of proabbly a little over 90 minutes.

Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Hyper Misao vs. Raku
Sakura Hattori vs. Mifu Ashida
Yuki Aino & VertVixen vs. Suzume & Shino Suzuki
Yuki Arai vs. Pom Harajuku
Yuki Kamifuku & Wakana Uehara vs. Miyu Yamashita & Kaylia Capri
Miu Watanabe, Rika Tatsumi & Arisu Endo vs. Shoko Nakajima, Mizuki & Uta Takami

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Updates below will begin at 1 PM PT/4 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 10 minutes before the event.

3:15 PM PT UPDATE: I got distracted and totally forgot to watch the event, so here are the results, my apologies for not doing live:

The announced paid attendance was 415, a legit sellout.

Match 1: Yuki Aino & VertVixen beat Suzume & Shino Suzuki. Aino pinned Suzuki after Venus DDT.

Match 2: Sakura Hattori beat Mifu Ashida,

Match 3: Hyper Misao beat Raku.

Match 4: Yuki Kamifuku & Wakana Uehara beat Miyu Yamashita & Kaylia Capri. Uehara beat Capri with Banana Pillow.

Match 5: Yuki Arai beat Pom Harajuku.

Main Event: Miu Watanabe, Rika Tatsumi & Arisu Endo beat Shoko Nakajima, Mizuki & Uta Takami. Watanabe pinned Takami after Teardrop.

The next event is GRAND PRINCESS ’26, the biggest event of the year, on 3/29 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

UPDATE: For 3/29, current DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Antonio Honda has been added to the card to defend the title in the scheduled battle royal. But, as always, subject to change (as it has several times). Which means someone beat GM Imabayashi’s Glasses to win the title then Honda beat that someone as he is the 1813th champion.

DDT 3/22/2026 Results

DDT celebrated their 29th Anniversary today on the day with their annual Anniversary event, keeping with recent tradition of planning a maiisve 5-hour marathon around it.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and an be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. Momoyoko Nakajima of comedy group “Dow 90000” and Saki Akai were the guests on commentary.

The paid attendance was not announced but it was a legit advance sellout.

Pre-show:
Match 1: Yuni beat Hinata Kasai.
Match 2: Tokyo Joshi Pro Match: HIMAWARI, Haru Kazashiro & Chika Nanase beat Toga, Ren Konatsu & Shion Kanzaki. Kazashiro pinned Kanzaki with a fisherman’s suplex hold.

Main show:
Match 1: Jun Akiyama beat Rukiya.

Match 2: Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya beat Evil Uno & Akito. Iino pinned Akito after a spear.

Match 3: Viente Maligno & O-MENZ Kumadori beat MJ Paul & Illusion and Makoto Oishi & Masami Inabata in a 3-way when Maligno pinned Illusion.

Match 4: Shunma Katsumata Return Match: MAO beat Shunma Katsumata.

Match 5: Chris Brookes & HARASHIMA beat Junta Miyawaki & Shinya Aoki. HARASHIMA pinned Miyawaki after Blue Sword. As a result, Brookes & HARASHIMA will get the next KO-D Tag Team Championship shot after today.

Match 6: In a Punishment Bamboo Sword Death Match, Hideki Okatani beat DDT Extreme Champion To-y to win the title. Okatani becomes the 64th DDT Extreme Champion. Next up: Naya. That match will happen on 4/15.

Match 7: In a Handicap match, Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi, Danshoku Dieno, Super Sasadango Machine, Antonio Honda, GM Imabayashi & GM Imabayashi’s Glasses beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Minoru Suzuki with Imabayashi’s Glasses pinning Suzuki to win the title. Imabayashi’s Glasses become the 1812th Champion.

Match 8: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Takeshi Masada, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato beat Naomi Yoshimura, Ryota Nakatsu & Yuki Ishida to retain the titles. Masada pinned Ishida. V1 for the champs. Next up: Brookes, HARASHIMA & Kasai. That match will happen on 4/15.

Match 9: Konosuke Takeshita beat Kazuki Hirata in 7 seconds. Which led to…
Match 9 (again): Konosuke Takeshita beat Kazuki Hirata in 10 seconds. Which led to…
Match 9 (yet again): In a Death Match where Takeshita had to get a 20 count pinfall to win but Hirata only needed a 2 count, Konosuke Takeshita beat Kazuki Hirata. Afterwards, Takeshita vs. Kaisei Takechi was announced for 8/11 at Ryogoku Kokugikan which will be WRESTLE PETER PAN, the promotion’s biggest event of the year.

Match 10: Kazuma Sumi beat DDT Universal Champion Daisuke Sasaki to win the title. Sumi becomes the 21st DDT Universal Champion.Next up: He chose Katsumata. That match will happen on 4/18 in Fukuoka.

Main Event: KO-D Openweight Champion Yuki Ueno beat KANON to retain the title. V6 for Ueno. Next up: Iino. That match will happen on 4/15.

During the opening announcements, the field for this year’s KING OF DDT Tournament was announced: HARASHIMA, Dieno, MAO, Brookes, Naya, KANON, Okatani, Masada, To-y, Aoki, Koroku, Sato, Kaisei Takechi, Miyawaki, Sumi, Minoru Suzuki. It will be a single-elimination bracket format tournament in May.

The next event is a Super Japan Pro Wrestling event, a Sanshiro Takagi Produced event, Tuesday at Shinjuku Face. And it could be the last depending on a fan vote after the event. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Friday.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling “TJPW Texas Stampede-Dallas” LIVE Results (3/21/2026)

After a couple days off for travel and fun exploring Texas, Tokyo Joshi Pro begins the second half of their first US tour today in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area with the third of 4 events. The final push to GRAND PRINCESS ’26 continues today, specifically the Princess Of Princess Championship match between Miu Watanabe & Yuki Arai, and with an extra development yesterday-it already was announced that whoever leaves 3/29 as champion will defend on 4/16 in Las Vegas, NV and the promotion announced who they will defend against…J-Rod. She failed to beat Watanabe for the title before, but who will she face this time?

There have been some last-minute changes to today’s card due to Jada Stone being pulled off the event. Flight delays. Not going to make it in time (I think we can perhaps blame the current government shutdown because it’s made delays in some areas horrible, especially Texas and Atlanta, GA). She was to have faced Rika Tatsumi. What was to have been Mizuki vs. Hyper Misao will now be a 3-way with Tatsumi as a result.

Today’s event will be held at College Park Center at the University of Texas in Arlington, TX and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English. There also is the prior caveat about potential streaming issues due to the servers being in Japan-at the first event it was rough for the first few minutes then no issues after that, I didn’t watch the second event but hopefully all will go well. With the lineup change there are now only 6 matches and they do seem to be keeping to the time limits but now this card will be a little shorter than planned with a running time of probably about 100 minutes. WIth 7 matches it likely would’ve been about 2 hours.

Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Shino Suzuki vs. Mifu Ashida
Sakura Hattori vs. Uta Takumi
Mizuki vs. Hyper Misao & Rika Tatsumi in a 3-way
Suzume & Arisu Endo vs. Raku & Pom Harajuku
Yuki Kamifuku & Wakana Uehara vs. Yuki Aino & VertVixen
Miu Watanabe & Miyu Yamashita vs. Shoko Nakajima & Yuki Arai

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Updates below will begin at 1 PM PT/4 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 10 minutes before the event.

12:50 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in 5-10 minutes.

1 PM PT UPDATE: Waiting to go to the venue.

1:01 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from College Park Center at the University of Texas in Arlington, TX. Commentary will begin shortly.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The venue map suggests a capacity of around 2000 but the initial camera shots indicate it won’t be near a sellout today. This could wind up being the lowest number of the tour so far (which has been very successful btw) so from what I’ve seen I’ll make an initial prediction of around 1250. (Actually from seeing more early crowd shots it looks smaller so I’m revising it down to 1000) (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1481. Typical late-arriving crowd)

Up Up Girls out first thing. Matches should begin in about 5 minutes.

The matches begin at 1:10 PM PT/4:10 PM ET. Your hosts are Rich Bocchini & Veda Scott.

Match 1: Shino Suzuki vs. Mifu Ashida
Result: Shino Suzuki beat Mifu Ashida by submission

Match 2: Sakura Hattori vs. Uta Takami
Result: Sakura Hattori beat Uta Takami by submission

Match 3: Suzume & Arisu Endo vs. Raku & Pom Harajuku
Result: Suzume & Arisu Endo beat Raku & Pom Harajuku. Endo pinned Harajuku after The 10th Law.

Match 4: Yuki Kamifuku & Wakana Uehara vs. Yuki Aino & VertVixen
Result: Yuki Kamifuku & Wakana Uehara beat Yuki Aino & VertVixen. Kamifuku pinned Aino after a middle-rope Fameasser.

Match 5: Mizuki vs. Hyper Misao & Rika Tatsumi in a 3-way
Result: Mizuki beat Hyper Misao & Rika Tatsumi in a 3-way by pinning Misao.

Main Event: Miu Watanabe & Miyu Yamashita vs. Shoko Nakajima & Yuki Arai
Result: Shoko Nakajima & Yuki Arai beat Miu Watanabe & Miyu Yamashita. Nakajima pinned Yamashita after a diving senton.

No streaming issues today aside from starting a minute or two late. Another fun event despite losing one match due to Jada Stone not able to make it, not her fault though. Today was the final Arai-Watanabe face-off as Arai is scheduled to face Pom tomorrow.

The tour finale is tomorrow at Post Houston in Houston, TX. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English will begin at 1 PM PT/4 PM ET.