Maybe he uses them as bis name suggests but I can’t verify because GLEAT event videos are now paywalled on YouTube (and admittedly I unsubscribed rather than pay $9/month for them when in Japanese currency it’s much less but no choice for me in the US), regardless Brass Knuckles JUN is the latest injury casualty in the promotion. Unspecified bone bruise. Out indefinitely but based on now being out of an upcoming tournament starting on 4/26 it will be at least 2 weeks. Changes to cards and the tournament are TBA (it’s a 16-man single elimination tournament).
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Pro Wrestling NOAH 4/15/25 Results
Pro Wrestling NOAH held a special Kenoh Channel 3rd Anniversary event today to commemorate said anniversary of the launch of Kenoh’s YouTube channel.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. It was streamed live for free on YouTube but the replay is set to private. The event has Japanese commentary.
The announced paid attendance was 1560, presumably a legit sellout.
Match 1; KENTA beat Daiki Odashima.
Match 2: Kenoh vs. Meiko Satomura was an exhibition match so there was no winner or loser.
Match 3: Kaito Kiyomiya, Alejandro & TBA, revealed to be Kabuto Mitomi, beat Shujo Kondo, Hajime Ohara & TBA, revealed to be Katsuo. Kiyomiya pinned Ohara after Shining Lancer.
Match 4: Dump Matsunoto beat Black Menso-re.
Match 5: Results were not posted but it was Owadasan vs. Hiroki Amemiya. I will update after watching the replay later.
Match 6: Minoru Suzuki & Hiroyo Matsumoto (Independent/Freelancer) beat Manabu Soya & Chihiro Hashimoto (Sendai Girls). Suzuki pinned Soya after a Gotch-style piledriver.
Main Event: Kenoh & Jinsei Shinzaki (Michinoku Pro) beat Hiromu Takahashi (New Japan) & Kenbu. Kenoh pinned Kenbu aftet Kenoh Special.
The next event is 4/26 at Yamagata Big Wing in Yamagata. There will be no live broadcast.
Dragon Gate 4/13/25 Results (2nd Event) (Updated)
As noted yesterday in the live results for the first event, Dragon Gate ran a same-day doubleheader yesterday in Fukuoka. Below are results from the second event.
Yesterday’s event was held at Acros Fukuoka in Fukuoka and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.
The announced paid attendance was 409.
Match 1: Masaaki Mochizuki & Toru Owashi (DDT) beat Ben-K & Mochizuki Junior. Owashi pinned Junior after a chokeslam.
Match 2; Jaosn Lee & KAI beat Strong Machine J & U-T. Lee pinned U-T.
Match 3: Open The Brave Gate Championship Tournament: Hyo beat Ryu Fuda. As a result, Hyo advances to the Semifinals and will face Ryoya Tanaka.
Match 4: JACKY KAMEI & Riiita beat Dragon Kid & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer). KAMEI pinned Kid after JACKY Knife.
Match 5: YAMATO, BxB Hulk & Luis Mante beat Don Fujii, Genki Horiguchi & Yasushi Kanda. Mante pinned Kanda after Spell Tigre.
Main Event: In an elimination match, Yuki Yoshioka, Dragon Dia, Madoka Kikuta & Ryoya Tanaka beat Shun Skywalker, Kota MInoura, Gianni Valetta & Homare. Order of elimination: Dia by Skywalker, Skywalker by Yoshioka, Homare by Tanaka, Kikuta by Valetta, Tanaka by Minoura, Valetta by Yoshioka, Minoura by Yoshioka. D-Courage wins.
The latest event was today at Kumamoto Castle Hall in Kumamoto. Results when available. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast. Also announced at these events for 4/19 is Mante vs. Lee with the winner facing YAMATO for the Open The Dream Gate Championship at DEAD OR ALIVE 2025 on 5/5.
The next event is tomorrow at Holt Hall Oita in Oita. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. Tomorrow’s event will only have wrestlers who are not headed to the US for this week’s events in Las Vegas, NV. The US events are Wednesday & Friday at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET. Both will be available live and on demand on TrillerTV/FITE with a Triller+ subscription ($7.99/month or $71.99/year, a 1 week free trial is available for new subscribers so if you’ve never subscribed before you can watch these and all events in The Collective FOR FREE!).
UPDATE: Wednesday’s US event has now been changed from an 8 PM PT/11 PM ET start to 9 PM PT/midnight ET and has been moved to The Pearl at The Palms Casino Resort.
Pro Wrestling NOAH 4/14/25 Results (Updated)
Pro Wrestling NOAH ran this month’s STAR NAVIGATION 2025 event today in Tokyo.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The live broadcast was English only due to being an ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan.
The announced paid attendance was 1332.
Match 1: Masa Kitamiya beat Harutoki.
Match 2: Jack Morris & Owadasan beat Shuhei Taniguchi & Black Menso-re. Owadasan pinned Menso-re.
Match 3: Mohammed Yone, Kazuyuki Fujita, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara beat Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, Eita & Daiki Odashima. Kotoge pinned Odashima after a bat drop.
Match 4: Manabu Soya, Saxon Huxley, HAYATA & Yuto Kikuchi beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Galeno, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. Huxley pinned Kiyomiya after a neck hanging bomb.
Match 5: Ulka Sasaki beat Daga by ref stoppage (technical submission).
Match 6: YO-HEY beat Tadasuke. As a result, YO-HEY gets the next GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship shot against Eita. That match will happen on 5/3 at Ryogoku Kokugikan.
Match 7: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki beat Jun Masaoka & Gaia Hox to retain the titles. Miyawaki pinned Masaoka. V1 for the champs.
Main Event: In a No DQ match, KENTA & Kenoh beat OZAWA & Tetsuya Endo. KENTA pinned OZAWA after GO 2 SLEEP.
The next event is a Kenoh Channel 3rd Anniversary event tomorrow. Live streaming FOR FREE on the Kenoh Channel YouTube channel will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. Access the video (placeholder until live) at the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzozUXp2N34
UPDATE: Next up for the Jr. Tag champs: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf. That match will happen on 5/3.
BREAKING: New Japan Titles Vacated
This is going to cause a lot of groans among some New Japan fans-the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is now VACANT. Previous champions Jeff Cobb & Callum Newman have vacated the titles because Cobb is leaving the promotion at his request. He’s been rumored to be heading to WWE. Cobb’s final NJPW match will be Saturday against Hiroshi Tanahashi. Newman and Great-O-Khan will try to leep the titles on 4/26 when they face…cue the groans…Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI). However, Newman also gets to face Goto for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at WRESTLING DONTAKU on 5/4 (whoever wins will defend on 5/9 in the US).
Stardom 4/13/25 Results (Updated)
Stardom wrapped up their 4-day run of consecutive events today in Shizuoka.
Today’s event was held at Act City Hamamatsu Exhibition Event Hall Block 2 in Shizuoka and can be watched on demand on Stardom World.
The announced paid attendance was 619.
There once again were many last-mintue changes due to this time the absences of Mei Seira, Suzu Suzuki, Mayu Iwatani and Starlight Kid. The always-vague poor health. Something going around.
Match 1: Miyu Amasaki beat Yuna Mizumori & Yuria Hime in a 3-way by pinning Hime.
Match 2; Natsupoi & Aya Sakura beat HANAKO & Tabata (CMLL). Natsupoi pinned Tabata after Fairy Real Gift.
Match 3: Ruaka & Rina beat Saya Iida & Momo Kohgo. Ruaka pinned Kohgo after Freezer Bomb.
Match 4: Sayaka Kurara beat Akira Kurogame by submission.
Match 5: Saya Kamitani, Natsuko Tora & Konami beat Maika, Waka Tsukiyama & Rian. Tora pinned Tsukiyama after Death Valley Bomb.
Match 6: Syuri & Hina beat Ranna Yagami & Lady C. Hina beat Yagami with Gedo Clutch.
Main Event: Tam Nakano (Independent/Freelancer) beat Hanan.
The next event is STARDOM AMERICAN DREAM in Sin City Thursday at Veil Pavilion at Silverton Casino Lodge in Las Vegas, NV. Live streaming on TrillerTV/FITE as a PPV will begin at Noon PT/3 PM ET. The PPV is available for pre-order for $19.99 or as a combo pack for $24.99 that includes Friday’s event. The next Japan event is 4/24.
UPDATE: Although neither were on the event, it was announced that Seira & Suzuki would face each other on 4/27 at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama in a NON-TITLE match (not for the High Speed Championship held by Seira). This is a straight up fight that came about after Suzuki recently turned on Seira and left Neo Genesis, thus breaking up their team.
All-Japan 4/13/25 Results
All-Japan continued the Champions Carnival today in Hiroshima.
Today’s event was held at Hiroshima Sangyo Kaikan in Hiroshima and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV tonight at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET. There was no live broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 785.
Match 1: Rey Paloma, Takashi Yoshida (Dragon Gate), Aigle Blanc & Xyon beat Atsuki Aoyagi, Dan Tamura, Ryo Inoue & Tsuyoshi Okada. Yoshida pinned Inoue after Pineapple Bomber.
Champions Carnival:
Match 2: Block B: Hokuto Omori beat Ryuki Honda.
Match 3; Block A: Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Kumaarashi.
Match 4: Block B: Mike D. Vecchio beat Rei Saito.
Match 5; Kento Miyahara, Yuma Aoyagi, MUSASHI & Makoto Oishi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai, Ren Ayabe & Taishin Nagao. Miyahara pinned Nagao with a shutdown suplex hold.
Champions Carnival:
Match 6: Block A: Kengo Mashimo (Indepndent/Freelancer) beat Hideki Suzuki.
Main Event: Block A: Jun Saito beat Shotaro Ashino.
The next event is Saturday at Sanjo City Welfare Hall in Niigata. There will be no live broadcast.
Ganbare Pro 4/11/25 Results
Marking one year since they became independent by breaking away from DDT and CyberFight Corporation, Ganbare Pro ran their biggest event since yesterday in Tokyo, which might be their biggest event of the year and was also the promotion’s 12th Anniversary event.
Yesterday’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Thursday. There was no live broadcast.
The paid attendance has not yet been announced. These results are courtesy of Japanese website Tokyo Headline Web.
Match 1: Yasu Urano, PSYCHO & Bunny Oikawa beat Hartley Jackson, Daisuke & HARUKAZE. Urano pinned HARUKAZE.
Match 2: Hikaru Sato & Tyson Maeguchi beat Toru Sugiura & Munetatsu Nakamura. Sato beat Nakamura with an armbar.
Match 3: Mizuki Watase Return Match: Mizuki Watase, Shigehiro Irie, Chou-un Shiryu & Rekka beat Koki Iwasaki, Takuya Wada, Fuminori Abe & Shodai Kawakami. Watase pinned Kawakami after Venetian.
Match 4: Yuna Manase, Hazuki & Koguma (Stardom) beat Moeka Haruhi, YuuRI & Ami Manase. Yuna Manase pinned Ami Manase after a lariat. Ami is Yuna’s real-life younger sister.
Match 5: Masaaki Mochizuki (Dragon Gate) beat Ken Ohka.
Match 6: Yuji Nagata (New Japan) & Tatsuhito Takaiwa beat Shuichiro Katsumura & Keisuke Ishii. Nagata pinned Katsumura with a backdrop hold.
Main Event: Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion Tumehito Imanari beat Shinichiro Tominaga to retain the title. V4 for Imanari.
The next event is 5/5 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. It will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date.
It was announced after the event they will next run Korakuen on 8/26, which will be a Mizuki Watase 10th Anniversary event which will feature Watase vs. Jun Kasai in a Fluorescent Lighttube Death Match, and also that former Ganbare wrestler Yoshiko Hasegawa, currently with Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, will make a final appearance in the promotion on 6/22 before she retires in July.
Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling 4/13/25 LIVE Results (1st Event) (Updated)
Dragon Gate runs a same-day doubleheader in Fukuoka today, which will feature the start of a tournament to crown a new Open The Brave Gate Champion. This comes after YAMATO vacated the title following his first successful defense last week against Daiki Yanagiuchi, it was never revealed why but most likely is due to YAMATO also holding the Open The Dream Gate Championship. The tournament is an 8-man single-elimination tournament with both events today having one quarterfinal match. Those participating are not headed to the US for next week’s events and will compete in Japan events happening at the same time. The Semifinals will be held on 4/26 then the Finals will crown a new champion at DEAD OR ALIVE 2025 on 5/5.
Today’s events will be held at Acros Fukuoka in Fukuoka and can be watched LIVE on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. There will be no commentary but there also will be an alternate broadcast with wrestler commentary in Japanese. The results posted here will be for the first event. There are 6 matches scheduled and with not much time between event start times this first event almost certainly won’t go longer than 2 hours. (Edit: You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube)
Today’s lineup:
Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia vs. Genki Horiguchi & Luis Mante
Madoka Kikuta vs. Punch Tominaga
Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii & Toru Owashi vs. Shun Skywalker, Gianni Valetta & Yoshiki Kato
Open The Brave Gate Championship Tournament: Riiita vs. Ryoya Tanaka
Ben-K, JACKY KAMEI & Mochizuki Junior vs. Strong Machine J, U-T & Hyo
YAMATO, Dragon Kid, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi vs. Kota Minoura, Jason Lee, KAI & Homare
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Updates below will begin at 9 PM PT/midnight ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 15 minutes before the event.
Pre-event note: There are several wrestlers who will miss today’s events, including Kzy, Susumu Yokosuka and ISHIN among perhaps others. They are in the US for independent participation ahead of The Collective.
8:45 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
We are LIVE from Acros Fukuoka in Fukuoka, Japan. There is no commentary. The alternate wrestler commentary will begin later.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. We can only see a few people right now as they’re still filing in. Normally the setup when they’re here is somewhere in the 500-700 range. I’ll predict this event will finsh with a crowd of around 450.
The matches should begin in about 20 minutes.
The event begins with the introduction of the Open The Brave Gate Championship Tournament participants.
The matches begin at 9:12 PM PT/12:12 AM ET. Your hosts on the wrestler commentary stream are Ryo Saito & Yasushi Kanda.
Match 1: Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia vs. Genki Horiguchi & Luis Mante. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia beat Genki Horiguchi & Lios Mante. Yoshioka pinned Horiguchi.
Match 2: Madoka Kikuta vs. Punch Tominaga. 15 minute time limit
Result: Madoka Kikuta beat Punch Tominaga. Squash.
Match 3: Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii & Toru Owashi (DDT) vs. Shun Skywalker, Gianni Valetta & Yoshiki Kato. 20 minute time limit
Result: Double Countout. Immediately afterwards, Fujii with microphone. Appeared to demand a match against Valetta.
Match 4: Open The Brave Gate Championship Tournament: Riiita vs. Ryoya Tanaka. 30 minute time limit
Result: Ryoya Tanaka beat Riiita. As a result, Tanaka advances to the Semifinals.
Intermission.
The matches resume at 10:20 PM PT/1:20 AM ET. Your new hosts on the wrestler commentary version are the grumpy old men aka Don Fujii & Toru Owashi.
Match 5: Ben-K, JACKY KAMEI & Mochizuki Junior vs. Strong Machine J, U-T & Hyo. 45 minute time limit
Result: Strong Machine J, U-T & Hyo beat Ben-K, JACKY KAMEI & Mochizuki Junior. Hyo pinned Junior. Both sides continued their Tug-O-Hyo post-match ahead of a match on an upcoming event where the winning faction-Gold Class or Natural Vibes-gets Hyo.
Masaaki Mochizuki replaces Fujii on wrestler commentary for the last match.
Main Event: YAMATO, Dragon Kid, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) vs. Kota Minoura, Jason Lee, KAI & Homare. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Kota Minoura, Jason Lee, KAI & Homare beat YAMATO, Dragon Kid, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi. Lee pinned Kid after Maximum Driver.
The second event is coming up after a break. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.
UPDATE: Fujii is getting bis wish for a match against Valetta. That match will happen on 4/26 at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka.
Tokyo Joshi Pro 4/13/25 LIVE Results (Updated)
Before they head to the US for The Collective along with DDT and others, Tokyo Joshi Pro holds a special WRESTLE UNIVERSE Members Only event today, with admission limited to members of WRESTLE UNIVERSE, which is the promotion’s fan club (also for DDT and one of two for Pro Wrestling NOAH) as well as subscription streaming service. Most of today’s card will not be announced in advance with one exception-the annual fan-favorite “Costume Change” match will be held today which will consist on paper of Mizuki, Suzume, Pom Harajuku & Yoshioko Hasegawa vs. Wakana Uehara, HIMAWARI, Toga & Haru Kazashiro. It’s gonna be wacky and fun if just because of Pom who is at her comedy best in matches like this.
It has also been announced that Mifu Ashida will miss this event. Scheduling conflicts.
Today’s event will be held at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. There will be 6 matches total so the event probably will be a standard house show running just under 2 hours.
Today’s lineup:
Mizuki, Suzume, Pom Harajuku & Yoshioko Hasegawa vs. Wakana Uehara, HIMAWARI, Toga & Haru Kazashiro in a Costume Change match
5 other matches TBA
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Updates below will begin at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 15 minutes before the event.
9:45 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in just under 15 minutes. Remember no matches will be announced before they happen except the one above already announced.
9:59 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
We are LIVE from Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Ticket sales were limited to paid WRESTLE UNIVERSE members only but it’s going to be close to a full crowd, it’s a very small venue so said crowd will probably be around 175. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 258, a super full house/very near sellout)
Even ring announcer Sayuri Namba is getting in on the costume change theme today as she came out dressed as a Chinese woman instead of her usual Final Fantasy-themed outfit.
The matches are announced after the Up Up Girls performance. The costume change match announced before is the main event.
The matches begin at 10:13 PM PT/1:13 AM ET.
Match 1: Chika Nanase vs. Yuki Kamifuku. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Kamifuku beat Chika Nanase
Match 2: Ivy Steele vs. Kira Summer. 15 minute time limit
Result: Kira Summer beat Ivy Steele. Comedy match with both dressed up and repping their native homelands-Steele from the UK and Summer from Australia with a stuffed Koala bear and dressed like an Australian wildlife explorer.
Match 3: Hyper Misao, Mahiro Kiryu & Moka Miyamoto (all dressed like Misao with the masks too) vs. Raku, Yuki Aino & Neko Haruna (Aino & Haruna were masked and not in their usual outfits). 20 minute time limit
Result: Hyper Misao, Mahiro Kiryu & Moka Miyamoto beat Raku, Yuki Aino & Neko Haruna. Misao pinned Haruna with La Magistral. At some point Raku disappeared and was replaced by a mystery woman dressed as a skeleton in a hoodie, which most definitely was not Raku.
Match 4: Miu Watanabe & Uta Takami vs. Miyu Yamashita & Arisu Endo. 20 minute time limit
Result: Miu Watanabe & Uta Takami beat Miyu Yamashita & Arisu Endo. Apparently the match somehow involved trivia questions being answered correctly to win (I was split-streaming another event so I didn’t have audio on)
Match 5: Shino Suzuki vs. Kaya Toribami, Maki Itoh, Rika Tatsumi & SHoko Nakajima in a 5-way. Apparently an elimination match but also a comedy match. Also changing rules after each elimination
Result: Not even gonna try to explain because I couldn’t understand but apparently itoh & Toribami won.
Main Event: Mizuki, Suzume, Pom Harajuku & Yoshioko Hasegawa vs. Wakana Uehara, HIMAWARI, Toga & Haru Kazashiro in a Costume Change match. 20 minute time limit. Change-wise, Toga was dressed as Neko Haruna, Kazashiro was Hyper Misao, HIMAWARI was Shoko Nakajima, Uehara was Miyu Yamashita. On the other side, they were all Up Up Girls.Mizuki was Suzuki, Harajuku was Takami, Hasegawa was Watanabe, Suzume was (a somewhat convincing and pretty good) Raku.
Result: Mizuki, Suzume, Pom Harajuku & Yoshiko Hasegawa beat Wakana Uehara, HIMAWARI, Toga & Haru Kazashiro. Mizuki pinned Kazashiro with Cutie Special. Comedy match of course, although one has to admit Toga was not the most convincing Neko Haruna, if only because the real Haruna is much bigger.
The next event is TJPW LIVE in Las Vegas Friday at the Pearl Theater at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, NV. Live streaming exclusively on TrillerTV/FITE with a Triller+ subscription ($7.99/month or $71.99/year, a 1 week free trial is available for new subscribers) will begin at 11 AM PT/2 PM ET. It may be on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date, but it will probably be a few weeks or even a couple months later. For the wrestlers not coming to the US, their next event is Saturday at Kanda Myojin Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 8:30 PM PT/11:30 PM ET.
UPDATE: The promotion will return to the venue on 6/27 for a Hyper Misao Produced event.