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Pro Wrestling NOAH 1/2/25 Results (Updated x4)

Pro Wrestling NOAH followed yesterday’s year-opening event with an event today called NEW YEAR REBOOT.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. The live broadcast was only on ABEMA in Japan. (UPDATE: WRESTLE UNIVERSE on demand tomorrow)

UPDATE 2: As of 3 PM PT/6 PM ET today’s event can now be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 480, a super full house/very near sellout.

Match 1; HAYATA, YO-HEY & Yuto Kikuchi beat Eita, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki. HAYATA beat Eita with an armbar.

Match 2; Masaaki Mochizuki (Dragon Gate) & Takashi Sugiura won an 8 team battle royal, last eliminating Ulka Sasaki & Titus Alexander.

Match 3; Tetsuya Endo (DDT) beat Atsushi Kotoge.

Match 4: Jack Morris, Omos (WWE) & Yu Owada beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Galeno Del Mal & Saxon Huxley. Omos pinned Del Mal after a double chokeslam.

Match 5: GHC National Champion Manabu Soya beat Tadasuke to retain the title. V5 for Soya. Apparently Tadasuke decided to cash in his future title shot he won yesterday here for the National Championship. Next up: Possibly Endo, who issued the challenge. We’ll see what happens.

Main Event; Kenoh & Kaito Kiyomiya beat OZAWA & Daga. Kenoh beat Daga with a neck lock.

The next event is 1/11 at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

After the event, DDT announced Endo will be taking an indefinite hiatus from the promotion after their Sunday event to participate regularly in NOAH until further notice.

Also, according to the official NOAH English social media accounts, Yu Owada has now defected to Team 2000X, the heel faction led by Jack Morris, Daga & Yoshitatsu.

UPDATE: After the event, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. announced 1/11 will be bis last NOAH event. He has decided to return to his native Mexico and may be taking a break from wrestling but is not retiring.

UPDATE 3: It’s now official. Soya-Endo for the GHC National Championship has been added to 1/11. And after today’s result Eita has his first…and maybe last for this reign…GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship challenger: HAYATA of course. That match will happen on 1/25 at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka.

UPDATE 4: Today (1/3/25) at the Marigold event, inaugural GHC Women’s Champion Kouki Amarei beat Chika Goto to retain the title in the first title match since the determination match to crown the first champion. V1 for Amarei.

All-Japan Pro Wrestling 1/2/25 LIVE Results

All-Japan begins their 2025 campaign today with the first half of their New Year’s opening doubleheader in Tokyo, New Year’s Wars 2025. Faction warfare is a focus of today’s event along with 2 title matches-an All-Japan 6-Man Tag Team Championship match and a GAORA TV Championship match-and the main event will feature the traditional New Year’s Battle Royal. All of today’s participants and perhaps more will compete so just about everyone will be pulling some double duty to get the year started.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV, presumably in Japanese. There will be an intermission after the 4th match of 7. The main event being a battle royal makes it hard to predict how long the event will run but with the break and 2 title matches my guess will be close to 3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Taishin Nagao vs. Suwama
Shotaro Ashino, Atsuki Aoyagi & Ryo Inoue vs. MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Seigo Tachibana
Hartley jackson & Jack Kennedy vs. Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr.
All-Japan AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Champions Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus vs. Yuma Aoyagi, Fuminori Abe & Hikaru Sato for the titles
Intermission
GAORA TV Champion Yuko Miyamoto vs. Dan Tamura for the title
Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe vs. Jun & Rei Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito
New Year Battle Royal (all wrestlers participate)

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Updates below will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 10 minutes prior to the event and go to the venue 1 minute prior to the event.

6:20 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in 10 minutes.

6:30 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Commentary should join shortly.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It’s still holiday time in Japan and while advance sales were good, walk-up ticket sales seem to be strong as the venue looks at least 90% full. They’ll probably claim a legit sellout while the setup suggests an actual number closer to 1300. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1235)

The roster comes out to the ring to open the event for the year-opening greeting, delivered by Kento Miyahara. But when Miyahara mentions MUSASHI, instead Hideki Suzuki comes out in a full suit. Suzuki with microphone. (Right before this we hear from commentary). Suzuki keeps it short and sweet-apparently he has joined All-Japan. He previously had been a freelancer. (Update: Miyahara named MUSASHI the new Vice President of the Players’ Association. It’s also official-Suzuki has joined All-Japan)

The matches begin at 6:45 PM PT/9:45 PM ET.

Match 1: Taishin Nagao vs. Suwama. 20 minute time limit
Result: Suwama beat Taishin Nagao

Match 2: Shotaro Ashino, Atsuki Aoyagi & Ryo Inoue vs. MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Seigo Tachibana. 20 minute time limit
Result: MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Seigo Tachibana beat Shotaro Ashino, Atsuki Aoyagi & Ryo Inoue. MUSASHI pinned Inoue after Exploder.

Match 3: Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy vs. Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr.. 30 minute time limit
Reslut: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy. Smith pinned Jackson after Bulldog Bomb.

Match 4: All-Japan AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Champions Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus vs. Yuma Aoyagi, Fuminori Abe & Hikaru Sato for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Yuma Aoyagi, Fuminori Abe & Hikaru Sato beat All-Japan AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Champions Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus to win the titles. Aoyagi, Abe & Sato become the 10th All-Japan AJPW.TV 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Aoyagi pinned Omori after THE FOOL. Afterwards, Omori feigned congratulating Aoyagi but low blowed him before leaving.

Intermission.

The matches resume at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.

Match 5: GAORA TV Champion Yuko Miyamoto vs. Dan Tamura for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GAORA TV Champion Yuko Miyamoto beat Dan Tamura to retain the title. V1 for Miyamoto.

Match 6: Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe vs. Jun & Rei Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito. 30 minute time limit
Result: Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Jun & Rei Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito. Anzai pinned Senor Saito after Gimlet.

Quick break before the main event.

Main Event: New Year Battle Royal. Eliminations by pinfall, submission, KO or over the top rope. Everyone starts in the ring at the same time
Result: Atsuki Aoyagi won, last eliminating Ryuki Honda. The last 3 were Aoyagi, Honda and Hideki Suzuki, who even “eliminated” a referee! Aoyagi promo followed to end the event.

The next event is tomorrow. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. This is also scheduled to be a Samurai! TV broadcast.

Ganbare Pro 12/27/24 Results

Ganbare Pro finished off 2024 Friday with their last event of the year, finishing a year that saw them break away from DDT and become independent.

Friday’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can now be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 380, a full house/near sellout.

Before the event began, Shinichiro Tominaga, who has been out long-term due to injury, announced he will return at the next event.

Match 1: Yuuki Kanzaki & Daisuke* beat Tyson Maeguchi & Shodai Kawakami. Daisuke* pinned Kawakami with a fisherman’s buster.

Match 2; PSYCHO, YuuRI & Bunny Oikawa beat Chou-un SHiryu, Moeka Haruhi & HARUKAZE. YuuRI pinned HARUKAZE after a swanton bomb.

Match 3; Minoru Fujita & Isami Kodaka beat Ken Ohka & Munetatsu Nakamura. ? pinned Nakamura after a vertical drop brainbuster.

Match 4: MICHIKO beat Kitsune Women’s Wrestling World Champion Yuna Manase to win the title. MICHIKO becomes the 3rd Kitsune Women’s Wrestling World Champion. Manase could get a rematch as the next challenger as that will be determined on 1/13 in a match of Manase vs. YuuRI for the next title shot.

Match 5: Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Shigehiro Irie & Takuya Wada beat Hartley Jackson, Koki Iwasaki & Rekka. Wada pinned Rekka after Assault Point.

Match 6: Dick Togo (New Japan) beat Shuichiro Katsumura.

Main Event: Yumehito Imanari beat Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion Keisuke Ishii to win the title. Imanari becomes the 8th Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion.

As they stated today in a new year’s greeting, it was a tumultuous year for the promotion but a good year and they have plans for continued growth in 2025, including more events and a return to Korakuen Hall (that will happen on 4/12 for their 12th Anniversary event). While they likely won’t have any live event broadcasts available, WRESTLE UNIVERSE will continue to have on demand broadcasts of their events at some point after they take place so fans have a way to keep up with their happenings.

The next event, their first of 2025, is 1/13 at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. It will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 1/1/25 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH kicked off 2025 in Japan today with their annual year-opening blowout event, NOAH THE NEW YEAR 2025, kicking off their 25th Anniversary campaign.

Today’s event was held at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand only as a PPV on ABEMA in select countries, including the US. It will not be available on WRESTLE UNIVERSE until an unknown later date if at all. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 5088. That’s the best number for the promotion in at least a year. I’m guessing based on the setup that was around 80-85% full (the venue’s normal capacity for wrestling, at least what I can remember pre-pandemic, is around 8400, but it only holds maybe 4-5 events per year).

Pre-show match: Tadasuke won a 13 person battle royal, which included a surprise entry by Dump Matsumoto, last eliminating LJ Cleary. Eliminations were by pinfall, submission or over the top rope. Order of elimination: Yu Owada, Yuto Kikuchi, Dump Matsumoto, Saxon Huxley, Masao Inoue, Shuhei Taniguchi, Zozaya, Harutoki, Masaaki Mochizuki, Titus Alexander, Cleary. As a result, Tadasuke gets a GHC Championship match of his choice in the future.

Match 1: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions HAYATA & YO-HEY beat AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki and Alejandro & Kai Fujimura in a 3-way, when HAYATA pinned Alejandro, to retain the titles. V5 for the champs.

Match 2; Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara beat Kazuyuki Fujita, Black Menso-re (Independent/Freelancer), Tetsuya Endo (DDT) & Shuji Ishikawa. Shiozaki pinned Menso-re after Go Lariat.

Match 3: Kazuyuki FUjita vs. Daiki Odashima went to a 1 minute time limit draw.

Match 4: Galeno Del Mal beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr.

Match 5: KENTA (New Japan) beat Kenoh.

Match 6: In a 3 Falls Match, Eita beat GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga 2-1 to win the title. Eita becomes the 57th GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion.

Match 7: GHC National Champion Manabu Soya beat Masa Kitamiya to retain the title. V4 for Soya.

Match 8: Jack Morris & TBA, revealed earlier this week to be Omos (WWE), beat GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura to win the titles. Morris & Omos become the 68th GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Omos pinned Marufuji after a double chokeslam.

Match 9: Shinsuke Nakamura (WWE) beat Ulka Sasaki.

Main Event: OZAWA (Taishi Ozawa) beat GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya to win the title. OZAWA becomes the 46th GHC Heavyweight Champion. HOLY SHIT!!! HOLY SHIT!!! HOLY SHIT!!! EPIC PROPORTIONS UPSET ALERT!!! This changes everything. And that may be a gross understatement.

The next event is NEW YEAR REBOOT 2025 Thursday at Shinjuku Face. There will be no live broadcast outside of Japan. Unfortunately it’s an ABEMA exclusive with no WRESTLE UNIVERSE broadcast (not even English only) scheduled.

In post-event news, while it’s not a title match at this time Ozawa’s first scheduled match as champion will be 1/11 at Korakuen Hall vs. Kenoh.

The promotion has also announced the following events to celebrate its 25th Anniversary in 2025: 3/2 at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama (part of the NOAH Jr. Tag League 2025), 5/3 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, TBA in late June at TBA in Osaka, and 7/19 & 7/20 at Korakuen Hall.

News: New Wrestler Joining TJPW

In announcements made on social media and YouTube within the last hour, Tokyo Joshi Pro announced wrestler Mifu Ashida is joining the promotion effective today (1/1 Japan time). From what I saw on her social media accounts, Ashida is also an actress & entertainer before getting into wrestling, and most recently was with Ice Ribbon and just finished up with them today.

Ashida, 27, is in her second year as a wrestler, having debuted in Ice Ribbon in August 2023 and was a cheerleader in high school, even competing in the largest competition in the US where she finished 3rd. After being a Miss Teen Japan 2013 finalist, she went into the entertainment industry and was also a JAPAN AMBASSADOR 2024 runner-up. Her wrestling debut came following an audition for a pro wrestling-themed movie.

At this time she is not scheduled for TJPW’s year-opening event Saturday but with “8-10 matches scheduled” and 8 already set there is a possibility she is a late addition, or at the very least will appear to greet the fans. (Correction: She will be at the event on 1/4)

GLEAT 12/30/24 Results (Updated 1/4/25)

GLEAT’s annual year-end blowout event, GLEAT Ver. 14, was held yesterday in Tokyo.

Yesterday’s event was held at Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on YouTube…but for now it’s paywalled. They launched a new membership on the channel which will have the live and on demand broadcasts for now (whether or not they go un-paywalled at some point is not yet known). Membership is $8.99/month and will include other perks. All prior events that have been uploaded before this are still available on demand on the channel for free.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (1/4/25 UDPATE: The announced paid attendance was 1045)

Match 1: Takanori Ito, Kumaarashi & Issei Onitsuka beat Mr. Iguana, JD Lee & Junjie.

Match 2: So Daimonji & Hartley Jackson beat Tomoaki Honma (New Japan) & Ryo Aitaka.

Match 3: Chris Weiss, Brass Knuckles JUN & Ryuichi Kawakami beat KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Quiet Storm & Kouki Iwasaki. (UPDATE: During this match, Iwasaki was originally a masked wrestler until he turned on SAKAMOTO and defected from Bulk Orchestra to Anti-GLE Monsters (the winners).

Match 4: Lidet UWF Single Bout: Minoru Tanaka beat Yu Iizuka.

Match 5; Psycho Clown beat Takehiro Yamamura.

Match 6: Manami (Diana) & Meiko Satomura (Sendai Girls) beat MICHIKO & Risa Sera (Independent/Freelancer).

Match 7: In a Into The G-RUSH Rules match (2 count falls, only 2 rope escapes allowed, 7 minute time limit), Issei Onitsuka beat CIMA.

Match 8: Katsuhiko Nakajima, Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Tatsumi Fujinami beat Kaito Ishida, Kotaro Suzuki & Tetsuya Izuchi.

Match 9: Seigo Tachibana & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan beat T-Hawk & El Lindaman to win the vacant G INFINITY Championship. Tachibana & Kuroshio become the 7th G INFINITY Champions. God save us all.

Main Event: Soma Watanabe beat G-REX Champion Hayato Tamura to win the title. Watanabe becomes the 5th G-REX Champion. Tamura’s record reign ends at precisely one year.

The next event is GLEAT Ver. 15 on 1/11 at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA, if live on YouTube expect it to be paywalled.

Injury Report: Wrong Konami Code

Maybe UUDDLRLRBASS doesn’t have the same effect as when it gave you 30 lives…At Stardom’s PPV Sunday a match between Syuri & Konami went to a DQ win for Syuri in just 33 seconds when H.A.T.E. interfered. And maybe we now know why…Konami was injured in the match. Undisclosed/unspecified. Out indefinitely and will miss the next event on 1/3. She was not yet announced for the event and is not in the final lineup. It’s not yet known how long she may be out, with the next event after Friday set for 1/11.

More as it becomes available.

All-Japan Pro Wrestling 12/31/24 LIVE Results (Updated)

All-Japan wraps up 2024 today with their year-end New Year’s Eve major event in Tokyo. It’s more of a celebratory/variety event to wrap up their 50th Anniversary year but there also are 2 title matches plus the return of Atsuki Aoyagi from a long absence due to injury. In the first title match, All-Asia Tag Team Champions Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai defend the titles against Kento Miyahara & Ryo Inoue, while in the main event Davey Boy Smith Jr. makes his first defense of the Triple Crown against Jun Saito, who looks to cap quite a year for the Saitos, as despite Rei Saito missing time due to injury which forced them to vacate the tag team titles they held at the time it’s clear Jun & Rei Saito are the team to beat in All-Japan, and maybe all of Japan, as long as they stay healthy. Forget they didn’t debut until their mid-30s in 2023, the former sumo wrestlers clearly have become THE TEAM.

There was one late change made to the card after the final announcements: The planned 10-man battle royal is now an 11-man battle royal with the “emergency addition” of Ultimo Dragon to the match.

Today’s event will be held at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV in Japanese. This will also be a live Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan. There will be an intermission just past the halfway point so the event will run a little longer than anticipated-I’m hoping not too long because I’m staying up later than usual to do this as I have to physically go to work early tomorrow so I’m hoping it doesn’t run as long as I predict it will go, which is about 3 hours (also may be affected by this being an early afternoon weekday event in Japan).

Today’s lineup:
MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Taishin Nagao vs. Yuko Miyamoto, Seigo Tachibana & Fuminori Abe
11 Man Battle Royal. Staggered entry (every minute after the first 2), eliminations by pinfall, submission, KO and over the top rope. Participants: Suwama, Hideki Suzuki, Hikaru Sato, Shotaro Ashino, Kumaarashi, Aizawa No. 1, Hartley Jackson, Kunagoro Hokkai, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan, Minoru Suzuki, Ultimo Dragon
Dan Tamura vs. Daisuke Sekimoto
Rei Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito vs. Hokuto Omori, Cyrus & Jack Kennedy
Intermission
Atsuki Aoyagi Return Match: Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi vs. Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe
All-Asia Tag Team Champions Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai vs. Kento Miyahara & Ryo Inoue for the titles
All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Jun Saito for the Triple Crown

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Updates below will begin at 9 PM PT/midnight ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 10 minutes prior to the event and go to the venue 1 minute before the event.

8:50 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has started. We should be going to the venue in 10 minutes.

9 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo, Japan. Audio is muted when we begin.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Advance ticket sales were good and most if not all the lower level seats are sold out, upper level is a mixed bag. I think the full capacity for wrestling is around 3500, my initial prediction will be around 2500. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 2503. Nailed it!)

The matches should begin in a few minutes after the opening video. Commentary will also join at that point.

The matches begin at 9:06 PM PT/12:06 AM ET. Your hosts are an unannounced commentator (didn’t hear his name) and Kagehiro Osano.

Match 1: MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Taishin Nagao vs. Yuko Miyamoto (666), Seigo Tachibana & Fuminori Abe. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuko Miyamoto, Seigo Tachibana & Fuminori Abe beat MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Taishin Nagao. Abe beat Nagao.

MUSASHI is now a guest on commentary.

Match 2: 11 Man Battle Royal. Staggered entry (every minute after the first 2), eliminations by pinfall, submission, KO and over the top rope. Participants: Suwama, Hideki Suzuki, Hikaru Sato, Shotaro Ashino, Kumaarashi, Aizawa No. 1, Hartley Jackson, Kunagoro Hokkai, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan, Minoru Suzuki, Ultimo Dragon. No time limit
Order of entry: Suwama, Hideki Suzuki, Hikaru Sato, Shotaro Ashino, Aizawa No. 1, Kumaarashi, Hartley Jackson, Kumagoro Hokkai, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan (the match may be over before he ever gets done with his entrance!), Minoru Suzuki, Ultimo Dragon.
Order of elimination: Aizawa by Dragon (pinfall), Dragon by everyone (pinfall), Jackson by everyone (over the top rope), Hokkai by everyone (pinfall), Ashino & Kumaarashi by everyone (pinfall), Kuroshio by everyone (submission), Sato by Minoru Suzuki (submission), Hideki Suzuki by Minoru Suzuki (pinfall), Minoru Suzuki by Suwama (over the top rope).
Result: Suwama won. Suzuki grabbed a nearby guardrail and took his frustration out on Taishin Nagao afterwards.

Match 3: Dan Tamura vs. Daisuke Sekimoto (Big Japan). 30 minute time limit
Result: Daisuke Sekimoto beat Dan Tamura

After the entrances for the next match, Kumaarashi joins commentary.

Match 4: Rei Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito vs. Hokuto Omori, Cyrus & Jack Kennedy. 30 minute time limit
Reslut: Hokuto Omori, Cyrus & Jack Kennedy beat Rei Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito. Omori pinned Senor Saito after a frog splash. However, based on apparent fan support which apparently made this like an Open The Owarai Gate Championship match in Dragon Gate, where fan support determines the real winners, the Saitos & Doi were declared the winners.

Intermission. A moment after it begins we go to backstage comments from the Saitos & Doi after the last match. This is then followed by Omori Army backstage comments.

The matches resume at 10:45 PM PT/1:45 AM ET.

Match 5: Atsuki Aoyagi Return Match: Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi vs. Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe. 30 minute time limit
Result: Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi. Honda pinned Atsuki Aoyagi after Final Vent.

Match 6: All-Asia Tag Team Champions Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai vs. Kento Miyahara & Ryo Inoue for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Asia Tag Team Champions Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai beat Kento Miyahara & Ryo Inoue to retain the titles. Anzai pinned Inoue after Gimlet. V2 for the champs.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Jun Saito for the Triple Crown. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Jun Saito beat All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Davey Boy Smith Jr. to win the Triple Crown. Jun Saito becomes the 75th All-Japan Triple Crown Champion. UPSET ALERT!!! What an end to 2024. The Saitos are now in almost total control of All-Japan, although maybe not for long as they do have an All-Japan World Tag Team Championship defense later this week. But until then…DOOM!!!

The next event, the first of 2025, is Thursday at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin Wednesday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

UPDATE: There was an Actress Girls segment and match held before AJPW.TV went live…
Pre-show match: Marino Saihara & Natsuki beat Akuto & Riko Fukunaga. Natsuki pinned Fukunaga after Midnight Sun.

Also, at Thursday’s event new trainees/wrestlers will be introduced to the crowd.
Friday’s event at Korakuen (Thursday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET, also live on AJPW.TV) will also be a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.

Stardom 12/29/24 Results (Updated x2)

STARDOM DREAM QUEENDOM 2024, the promotion’s year-end blowout event, took place earlier today. Below are quick results I found since the promotion is always slow to post results, more details will be added later.

Today’s event was held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand as a PPV on Stardom World in Japanese & English for around $30 US. Ami Sohrei was a guest on Japanese commentary while Xena was a guest on English commentary. It will be available to all monthly subscribers on or after 1/11/25. You can also watch the pre-show and the first PPV match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. Based on advance ticket sales I think they’ll do a bit better than DDT did yesterday there with a reduced capacity setup, which was 3579 (near sellout). 4500-5000 sounds possible. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 4023, a legit sellout)

Pre-show:
Match 1: Yuna Mizumori & Aya Sakura beat ChiCHI (Evolution) & Matoi Hamabe. Mizumori pinned Hamabe.
Match 2: Ranna Yagami vs. Sayaka Kurara went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

PPV:
Match 1: Hanan & Saya Iida beat Goddesses Of Stardom Champions Momo Watanabe & Thekla to win the titles. Hanan & Iida become the 35th Goddesses Of Stardom Champions. Hanan pinned Thekla with a backdrop hold. Probably the most slam-dunk result given how much trouble Thekla has caused lately and Watanabe seems in line for a singles push again. Nonetheless, it caps off the true breakout 2024 for Hanan and cements her as THE future of Stardom. She should be singles champion soon and many times over to come.

Match 2; Mina Shirakawa, Waka Tsukiyama, HANAKO & Rian beat Saki Kashima, Tomoka Inaba, Lady C & Hina and Rina, Azusa Inaba, Ruaka & Fukigen in a 3-way when Shirakawa pinned Fukigen.

Match 3: AZM, Mei Seira, Suzu Suzuki & Miyu Amasaki beat Mayu Iwatani, Momo Kohgo, Hazuki & Koguma. AZM pinned Kohgo after Azumi Sushi.

Match 4: Saori Anou beat Mika Iwata (Sendai Girls).

Match 5: Syuri beat Konami by DQ in 33 seconds. H.A.T.E. interference. Former GLEAT wrestler Maya Fukuda then appeared and made the save, seemingly aligning with Syuri and hinting at joining Stardom in 2025.

Match 6: In a No DQ Match. Natsuko Tora beat Maika.

Match 7: Starlight Kid beat Wonder Of Stardom Champion Natsupoi to win the title. Kid becomes the 24th Wonder Of Stardom Champion. At last, you could say.

Main Event: Saya Kamitani beat World Of Stardom Champion Tam Nakano to win the title. Kamitani becomes the 20th World Of Stardom Champion. And righted the wrongs that was the 5STAR GP and fallout. Nakano never should have gotten a title shot after starting 0-3 and going winless then winning the title from Tora, even with the logical explanation she only lost the title at the end of December 2023 due to having to vacate it (injury). This result, like it or not, saved Stardom’s 2024 to me. Tam Road has ended and the queen is dead. Long Live The Phenex Queen! As for Nakano, now she has to deal with the returning Sayaka Unagi.

The next event is STARDOM NEW YEAR DREAM 2025 Friday at Tokyo Garden Theater in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA but the current lineup which includes 3 potential pre-show matches suggests it could be, albeit on very late notice, another PPV. If there is a live broadcast on Stardm World, PPV or not, it should begin Thursday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET.

UPDATE: PPV again Friday on Stardom World. 4400 yen/around $30 US. Non-PPV version available on or after 1/11 (may now be 4680 yen). It will be available in Japanese and English with Ami Sohrei & Xena as guests again on the Japanese & English versions, respectively.

UPDATE 2: After this event, Hazuki & Koguma went to the OZ Academy year-event at Korakuen Hall and beat Ryo Mizunami & Sonoko Kato to win the OZ Academy Tag Team Championship. Hazuki & Koguma become the 40th Champions. Next defense upcoming likely is against Mizunami & Cohaku.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 12/29/24 Results (Updated)

Tokyo Joshi Pro wrapped up their 2024 today with their year-end “TJPW Year-End Party 2024” event, which primarily was about special matches focusing on fun and ending the year on a high note.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese.

The announced paid attendance was 720.

During the opening announcements, events for 3/39 & 3/30 were announced to coincide with Yuki Arai’s final performances as a member of SKE48 (now that she’s past age 25 apparently she’s too old for the group and has outgrown them so it’s time to move on). 3/30 may feature an SKE48 performance. Arai’s last day with the group will be 3/31, after that she will continue her wrestling career with TJPW which I am happy about.

Match 1: Ivy Steele beat Chika Nanase.

Match 2: What was a 5-on-5 elimination match series with 2 count falls & 5 minute time limits went like this (if time limit draws happened, matches continued with no time limits and 1 count falls):
1-Shoko Nakajima beat Yoshiko Hasegawa.
2-Nakajima beat Uta Takami.
3-Shino Suzuki beat Nakajima.
4-Suzuki beat Toga.
5-Moka Miyamoto beat Suzuki.
6-Miyamoto vs. Suzume went to a time limit draw. Which led to…
Continuation-Suzume beat Miyamoto.
7-Suzume vs. Arisu Endo went to a time limit draw. Which led to…
Continuation-Endo beat Suzume.
8-Mizuki beat Arisu Endo.
Final-Mizuki vs. Haru Kazashiro went to a time limit drae. Which led to…
Continuation-Mizuki beat Haru Kazashiro.
Mizuki/Suzume/Suzuki/Takami/Hasegawa win and receive sponsor prizes consisting of a gift card and fresh meat.

Match 3: SETUP Pro Wrestling All-Asia Women’s Champion Pom Harajuku beat Matcha to retain the title. V1 for Harajuku.

Match 4: Queen Of Asia & VPW Women’s Champion Yuki Kamifuku beat Lei Ying Lee (fka Xia Li in WWE) to retain the titles. V5 & V3 for Kamifuku, respectively.

Main Event: Miu Watanabe won a 20 person battle royal (eliminations by pinfall, submission, over the top rope), last eliminating Yuki Aino. Order of elimination: Yuna Manase, Poison Sawada JULIE, Hyper Misao, Antonio Honda, Miyu Yamashita, Kira Summer, Maki Itoh, HIMAWARI, Pocotan, Mahiro Kiryu, Wakana Uehara, Neko Haruna, Kaya Toribami, Aja Kong, Rika Tatsumi, Ryo Mizunami, Yuki Arai, Raku, Aino. As a result, Watanabe wins various sponsor prizes including 6+ pounds of mochi. It should be noted Aino was the first entrant and lasted a very impressive 37+ minutes. I believe #2 was Tatsumi. Kong & Mizunami were mystery entrants not revealed in advance. Afterwards, everyone gathered in the ring for the traditional year-end group photos.

TJPW made continued strides forward in their 11th year in 2024, including a pair of successful returns to the US, and with a US return set for WrestleMania week events in Las Vegas in April, 2025 promises bigger & better. And moat importantly, more Yuki Arai and soon the return of Wasteland Pom Party! (One of their best stories of the year as Harajuku & Max The Impaler became the best odd couple in wrestling and completely won the internet over)

The next event is “Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling ’25”, the annual year-opening blowout event and Tokyo Done morning matinee/appetizer, Saturday. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET.

UPDATE: There has been a change to 1/4: The Shoko Nakajima-Hyper Misao match is now a Lumberjack Deathmatch with Poison Sawada JULIE as special referee. Rules TBA on event day.

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