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Stardom 11/8/25 NEAR LIVE Results

Stardom continues the Goddess Of Stardom Tag League Tournament today in Gunma. NEAR LIVE results will be posted as they become available via Stardom’s website and social media.

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

Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Yuna Mizumori, Mei Seira & Momo Kohgo vs. Ruaka, Rina & Ram Kaichow
Ami Sohrei, Lady C & Kikyo Furusawa vs. Saya Kamitani, Konami & Natsuko Tora
Goddess Of Stardom Tournament:
Red Block:
Natsupoi & Saori Anou vs. Hina & Ranna Yagami
Bozilla & Akira Kurogame vs. Teotleco & Osita
Waka Tsukiyama & Rian vs. Sareee & Miku Kanae
Blue Block:
AZM & Miyu Amasaki vs. Suzu Suzuki & Rina Yamashita
Saya Iida & Bea Priestley vs. Syuri & Saki Kashima
Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara vs. HANAKO & Megan Bayne

The event is scheduled to begin at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.

In other news, Tokyo Sports reports Fuwa-Chan, a YouTuber who has competed in Stardom twice since her debut there in 2022, will return to the promotion at the year-end blowout event on 12/29. She has been inactive since August 2024 due to inappropriate social media posts.

8:35 PM PT UPDATE: Updates begin now.

The paid attendance may or may not be announced after the event. Lately they’ve not been doing it much. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 675, a full house/near sellout)

Match 1: Goddess Of Stardom Tournament Blue Block: HANAKO & Megan Bayne beat Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara. Bayne pinned Kurara after a running powerbomb.

Match 2: Ruaka, Rina & Ram Kaichow (666) beat Yuna Mizumori, Mei Seira & Momo Kohgo. Rina pinned Kohgo after Pink Devil.

Match 3: Goddess Of Stardom Tournament Red Block: Sareee & Miku Kanae beat Waka Tsukiyama & Rian. Kanae pinned Rian with a German suplex hold.

Match 4: Goddess Of Stardom Tournament Red Block: Teotleco & Osita beat Bozilla & Akira Kurogame. Osita beat Kurogame with a body scissor sleeper hold.

Match 5: Ami Sohrei, Lady C & Kikyo Furusawa beat Saya Kamitani, Konami & Natsuko Tora. Sohrei pinned Konami.

Match 6: Goddess Of Stardom Tournament Blue Block: Saya Iida & Bea Priestley beat Syuri & Saki Kashima. Iida pinned Kashima after Iidabashi.

Match 7: Goddess Of Stardom Tournament Blue Block: AZM & Miyu Amasaki beat Suzu Suzuki & Rina Yamashita. AZM pinned Suzuki after Azumi Sushi.

Main Event: Goddess Of Stardom Tournament Red Block: Natsupoi & Saori Anou beat Hina & Ranna Yagami. Anou pinned Yagami with a German suplex hold.

The next event is tomorrow at Kissei Cultural Hall in Nagano. There will be no live broadcast.

Stardom 11/7/25 Results

Stardom kicked off the 15th Goddess Of Stardom Tag League today, the promotion’s annual tag team tournament.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on Stardom World. You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced, which based on recent history suggests it will not be announced.

There were last-minute changes to the entire tournament made yesterday due to Hazuki & Koguma being removed from the events. Unforeseen circumstances. No further hints dropped by the promotion or by Hazuki in an apology post on social media. A team from Mexico was the replacement

Pre-show match: Momo Kohgo beat Ema Maishima.

Match 1: Saya Kamitani beat Kikyo Furusawa.

Goddess Of Stardom Tournament Blue Block:
Match 2: Kobami & Rina beat Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara. Konami pinned Sakura after Triangle Lancer.
Match 3: Saya Iida & Bea Priestley beat AZM & Miyu Amasaki. Priestley pinned Amasaki after Plan Bea.
Match 4: Syuri & Saki Kashima beat Suzu Suzuki & Rina Yamashita. Kashima pinned Yamashita.
Match 5: Red Block: Yuna Mizumori & Mei Seira beat Sareee & Miku Kanae. Mizumori pinned Kanae after Kumamoto’s Unsinkable Ship.

Match 6: HANAKO, TBA-HANAKO’s tournament partner, revealed at match time to be Meghan Bayne (currently with All Elite Wrestling), Waka Tsukiyama & Rian beat Ami Sohrei, Lady C, Bozilla & Akira Kurogame. Bayne pinned Kurogame after a running powerbomb.

Goddess Of Stardom Tournament Red Block:
Match 7: Natsupoi & Saori Anou beat Teotleco & Osita. Natsupoi pinned Teotleco after Fairy Magic. The losers are the Hazuki/Koguma replacements.
Main Event: Natsuko Tora & Ruaka beat Hina & Ranna Yagami. Ruaka pinned Hina with a Dharma German suplex hold.

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

Injury Report: Not Vague Poor Health

Calling wrestlers out due to “poor health”, which is always vague, has happened a lot in Japan the last few months but sometimes we do get more details as to why, such as when Pro Wrestling NOAH announced earlier today that Tetsuya Endo is now temporarily sidelined. Flu. Out Saturday. He was to have teamed with Ulka Sasaki to face Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf and Manabu Soya & Saxon Huxley in a 3-way. HAYATA is the replacement. It’s not yet known how long Endo may be out, I’d say he probably will be out Sunday (match card TBA outside of Jr. Heavyweight tournament matches) and then questionable for an Osaka doubleheader next week. Beyond that would be worst-case but flu is usually 1-2 weeks unless it’s severe so I expect him back in time for CROSS OVER 2025 on 11/21 in Sendai, the next big event on the schedule.

More as it becomes available.

Dragon Gate 11/6/25 Results

Dragon Gate kicked off the 2025 KING OF GATE Tournament, the promotion’s top annual singles tournament, today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Match 1: Kota Minoura, Jason Lee, KAI & Yoshiki Kato beat Dragon Dia, Ryu Fuda, Daiki Yanagiuchi & Kazuma Kimura. Kato pinned Yanagiuchi after Cadere Luna.

Match 2: Masaaki Mochizuki beat Jiro Shinbashi.

Match 3: Gianni Valetta & El Cielo beat Punch Tominaga & El Cucuy. Valetta pinned Tominaga after a King Kong kneedrop.

Match 4: Ultimo Dragon, Takashi & Churaumi Saver beat Strong Machine J, Kzy & U-T. Saver pinned U-T after a firebird splash.

KING OF GATE Round 1:
Match 5: ISHIN beat Luis Mante.
Match 6: Shun Skywalker beat Naruki Doi.

Match 7: Hyo, Ben-K, JACKY KAMEI, Riiita & Mochizuki Junior beat YAMATO, KAGETORA, Dragon Kid, BxB Hulk & Susumu Yokosuka. Hyo pinned YAMATO after Samson Driver.

KING OF GATE Round 1:
Match 8: Ryoya Tanaka beat Homare.
Main Event: Yuki Yoshioka beat Madoka Kikuta. So with the Open The Dream Gate Champion out early (of course), that pretty much guarantees a title shot for the eventual winner.

As a result of today, ISHIN will face the El Cucuy-Ryu Fuda winner, Yoshioka will face the Takashi-U-T winner, Skywalker will face the Mochizuki-Minoura winner and Tanaka will face the Hyo-YAMATO winner in Round 2.

The next event is Saturday at Kobe Art Center in Kobe. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET. Unfortunately this is the last scheduled live or on demand broadcast for the tournament until the Finals.

New Japan News: World Tag League Field, Next Nagata Event

Some more New Japan news:

The field for the upcoming World Tag League has been announced. This year it’s a 16-team field in 2 blocks of 8, the usual round-robin prelim format. The entered teams are as follows:
Block A: Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI, Taichi & Satoshi Kojima, Toru Yano & Boltin Oleg, El Desperado & Shuji Ishikawa (Independent/Freelancer), Yota Tsuji & Gabriel Kidd, Shingo Takagi & Drilla Moloney, EVIL & Don Fale, Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens
Block B: Hiroshi Tanahashi & El Phantasmo, Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura, David Finlay & Hiromu Takahashi, OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby), Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa, Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan, Ren Narita & SANADA, Lance Archer & Alex Zayne.
Last year’s tournament was won by Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito, sparing us from the despair of Bishamon 5-peat talks. Kojima is essentially an injury replacement for Tomohiro Ishii, who is out indefinitely due to a shoulder injury suffered a couple weeks ago in the US in All Elite Wrestling.

Elsewhere, the next Yuji Nagata Produced event has been announced. BLUE JUSTICE 17 will mark the promotion’s next visit to Chiba and will be held on 1/18 at Sakura Civic Gym. Advance tickets go on sale this weekend for fan club members and 11/23 for the public.

Injury Report: Stonewalled

Apparently being a Stone Pitbull and the toughest two dollar steak doesn’t make you impervious to injury. Neither does All Elite Wrestling. New Japan has announced that, in part due to that, Tomohiro Ishii is headed to the sidelines. Dislocated right shoulder suffered on 10/22 in AEW. Out indefinitely. It’s not yet known how long he will be out but given he’s not in the World Tag League it may be most of the rest of the year.

More as it becomes available.

GLEAT 11/3/25 Results

GLEAT VER. MEGA in Yokohama, billed as the promotion’s biggest event of the year, took place yeaterday.

Yesterday’s event was held at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama and can be watched on demand on YouTube. A paid channel membership is required (999 yen/month in Japan, $8.99/month outside Japan).

The announced paid attendance was 703.

Pre-show match: Parker Boudreaux won a 11 man battle royal, last eliminating Soma Watanabe.

Match 1: GLEAT MMA, 3 5-minute round fight: Tomohito Mizuguchi beat Tetsuya Izuchi by submission (rear naked choke) in 67 seconds.

Match 2: GLEAT MMA, No Gi Grappling Match, 5 1-minute rounds, no points: Yu Iizuka vs. Yoshinari Fukushima went to a time limit draw.

Match 3: Lidet UWF Single Bout: Ryo Aitaka beat Hideki Sekine by TKO.

The rest of the card was G PROWRESTLING matches.

Match 4: Kaito Ishida, Soma Watanabe & KAZMA SAKAMOTO beat Joe Landau, Danny Black & Maverick Mayhew. Watanabe pinned Maybew after a firebird splash.

Match 5: MICHIKO beat Evolution Strong Women’s Champion ZONES to win the title. MICHIKO becomes the second Evolution strong Women’s Champion. (Evolution is a small women’s promotion tun by All-Japan wrestlers Suwama & Shuji Ishikawa)

Match 6: T-Hawk & Naoki Tanisaki (Independent/Freelancer) beat Takehiro Yamamura & Shigehiro Irie. T-Hawk pinned Yamamura.

Match 7: TJP, Ryuichi Kawakami & Brass Knuckles JUN beat Junjie, Minoru Tanaka & Kotaro Suzuki. TJP beat Tanaka with a kneebar.

Match 8: Hayato Tamura beat Check Shimatani. I think. The results list Shimatani as beating Shimatani.

Match 9: Suwama beat Katsuhiko Nakajima.

Main Event: G-REX Champion El Lindaman beat CIMA to retain the title. V1 for Lindaman. Next up: JUN…or TJP, who turned on JUN & Kawakami, laid them out and declared he’s next.

The next event is tomorrow at Sayama City Citizen Exchange Center in Saitama. It’s billed as a house show which probably means no live or on demand broadcast.

Injury Report: Izuchi apparently took enough physical punishment on the MMA fight to send him to the sidelined to recover. Out at least 2 weeks. Further decisions on his status will be made after the 11/16 event.

Stardom News: Goddess Tag League Field Announced (Updated x2)

A busy day for Stardom continued with their own presser alongside New Japan’s (Syuri & Saya Kamitani were there as they’ll be at Tokyo Dome on 1/4), this one to announce the field for the Goddess Of Stardom Tag League tournament beginning this weekend. It’s a 16-team field divided into 2 blocks of 8 in a round-robin format. The top 3 teams on each block advance with the winners of each block going to the Semifinals and 2nd & 3rd place going to elimination matches. All matches will have a 15 minute time limit except the Semifinals and Finals which will be no time limit.

The full field:
Red Block: Natsuko Tora & Ruaka (current Goddesses Of Stardom Champions), Natsupoi & Saori Anou, Yuna Mizumori & Mei Seira, Hina & Ranna Yagami, Waka Tsukiyama & Rian, Bozilla & Akira Kirogame, Hazuki & Koguma, Sareee & Miku Kanae
Blue Block: Saya Iida & Bea Priestley, Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara (current New Blood Tag Tram Champions), Syuri & Saki Kashima, Ami Sohrei & Lady C, HANAKO & TBA (will be revealed at first match time on 11/7 per HANAKO), AZM & Miyu Amasaki, Suzu Suzuki & Rina Yamashita, Konami & Rina.

Only real notable name missing from the field is Hanan but I think she’s injured. Also understandably no Saya Kamitani & Momo Watanabe nor rookies outside of Kurogame.

The tournament begins Saturday and prelim matches run the rest of the month. The eventual tournament winners will likely get a Goddesses Of Stardom Championship match, probably at the year-end blowout event, unless Tora & Ruaka win.

UPDATE: Tokyo Sports reports Kamitani not being in the tournament could be “politics” as it’s the promotion’s decision. but also because Watanabe will miss the tournament due to a knee injury apparently suffered yesterday. Kamitani’s next World Of Stardom Championship defense was also announced-12/29 vs. Saori Anou. That means Kamitani’s reign will reach exactly one year…but recent history is bad for her as the last few years have seen title changes on that date, including Kamitani beating Tam Nakano last year. They also want to try and keep her healthy for that and Tokyo Dome on 1/4 when she will face Syuri for both the IWGP and STROMG Women’s Championships, meaning 12/29 is not a double title match.

UPDATE 2: It has been announced that Hazuki & Koguma are now out of the tournament. Various unspecified circumstances. Teotleco & Osita, a team from Mexico, are the replacements.

New Japan News: More Tokyo Dome Announcements

New Japan held their latest Tokyo Dome press conference earlier today, here are some notable items coming out of it. The full presser can be watched on demand FOR FREE on New Japan World (no account/paid subscription required) and YouTube.

2 new matches are official: IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Konosuke Takeshita vs. IWGP Global Champion Yota Tsuji for the titles and IWGP Women’s Champion Sturi vs. STRONG Women’s Champion Saya Kamitani for the titles (but not the World Of Stardom Championship also held by Kamitani).

The previously announced Aaron Wolf vs. EVIL match, the debut match for the former, will now be for the NEVER Openweight Championship held by EVIL. Originally it was not going to be. EVIL used a can of spray paint to paint the title belt gold at the presser…which for the most part it already was.

Hiroshi Tanahashi announced that the number of sold tickets so far for 1/4 is 31,548. If the Dome is used at full capacity (usually for baseball) that’s about halfway yo a legit sellout as the Dome can hold 65,000. At worst, it’s on pace to only be out-drawn worldwide by WWE WrestleMania. Fitting as I consider 1/4 to be the biggest pro wrestling event annually outside of WrestleMania.

Tanahashi was asked about a potential final opponent following backstage comments at the last event where he talked to Gedo about it. Gedo is also the head booker for New Japan. This led US websites to start rumors about it being former New Japan wrestler and longtime rival Shinsuke Nakamura, but one reason I doubt it happens-he’a in WWE. New Japan has a working partnership with All Elite Wrestling, WWE’s biggest rival. I think that makes more recent rival and torchbearer-to-be Kazuchika Okada more likely. A foreign wrestler was also hinted at.

The broadcast plans are also set for the event, beginning on 1/3 at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET (1/4 at 4 PM Japan time):
INSIDE JAPAN ONLY: TV Asahi live and exclusive broadcast
OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY: New Japan World live and on demand. NOT AVAILABLE IN JAPAN (at least until several days latrr)

Dragon Gate 11/3/25 Results

THE GATE OF DESTINY 2025, Dragon Gate’s major 2-day Osaka event, concluded today with Day 2.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. This also may have been a live GAORA SPORTS broadcast in Japan. You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 878)

Match 1: Daiki Yanagiuchi & Akihiro Sahara beat Ryu Fuda & Kazuma Kimura. Sahara pinned Kimura after Inception Trigger.

Match 2: Don Fujii beat Shinbashi Jiro.

Match 3: YAMATO, Dragon Kid, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Ultimo Dragon, Problem Dragon, Masaaki Mochizuki & Ho Ho Lun. Hulk pinned Problem Dragon after First Flash.

Match 4: Ryoya Tanaka, Luis Mante & El Cucuy beat Madoka Kikuta, Jason Lee & Kota Minoura by DQ. Minoura DQ’d. Deadly weapon use.

Match 5: Susumu Yokosuka & KAGETORA beat Strong Machine J & Kzy and Ben-K & Mochizuki Junior in a 3-way when KAGETORA pinned Junior.

Match 6: Taiji Ishimori (New Japan) beat Hyo.

Match 7: Shun Skywalker, Homare & Gianni Valetta beat Open The Triangle Gate Champions KAI, ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato to win the titles. Slywalker, Homare & Valetta become the 96th Open The Triangle Gate Champions. Valetta pinned ISHIN after King Kong Kneedrop EX.

Main Event: JACKY KAMEI & Riiita beat Open The Twin Gate Champions Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia to win the titles. KAMEI & Riiita become the 70th Open The Twin Gate Champions. Riiita pinned Dia after Riiitanic.

The next event is Wednesday at Suzuka City Northern Gym in Nagano. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.