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DEVELOPING: TJPW Wrestler 3/29/2026 Appearance Cancelled

A strange breaking development that affects Tokyo Joshi Pro’s GRAND PRINCESS ’26 event on 3/29: Lei Ying Lee (fka Xia Li), who was previously confirmed for the event, is now off. Details are sketchy but it appears to be a decision made by TNA Wrestling, where Lee is currently signed to. TJPW tried to make things worked but couldn’t. TNA shared the following statement:

“TNA sincerely apologizes for Lei Ying Lee’s inability to participate in TJPW’s Ryogoku Sumo Hall show on March 29.
Neither Lee nor TJPW are at fault for this situation, and we thank TJPW for accommodating this change.
Once again, we apologize to TJPW, TJPW fans, as well as as Miyu Yamashita, Arisu Endo, and Sareee who were announced in this match with Lee, for the absence of Lei Ying Lee at the last minute for the Ryogoku Sumo Hall show which we know is very important for TJPW. We wish TJPW continued success and appreciated their partnership.”

After doing some research, one possible explanation for Lee being pulled is scheduling conflicts. TNA has their monthly PPV in the US on 3/27 (OK, technically it’s a PLE but it’s also a PPV. An el cheapo $9.99 PPV but still a PPV) and then a night of TV tapings on 3/28. If Lee is a part of those, there’s no way she can make it to Japan in time for the 3/29 event.

As for the card…she was to have teamed with Sareee to face Miyu Yamashita & Arisu Endo. Takumi Iroha is the replacement. This will apparently be the first time Iroha has appeared in TJPW.

New Japan 3/12/2026 Results

New Japan continued the New Japan Cup today with the second day of Round 2.

Today’s event was held at Takamatsu City General Gym in Kagawa and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. No YouTube today.

The announced paid attendance was 702.

Match 1: OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby) beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Chase Owens. Ice pinned Kanemaru after Cruella.

Match 2: Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Daiki Nagai & Drilla Moloney. Sabre beat Nagai with a front neck lock.

Match 3: Toru Yano, Aaron Wolf & Shota Umino beat Dick Togo, Don Fale & Yujiro Takahashi. Yano pinned Togo.

Match 4: Kosei Fujita & Hartley Jackson beat Zane Jay & Callum Newman. Fujita pinned Jay.

Match 5: Jacob Austin Young, Francesco Akira & Jake Lee beat Tatsuya Matsumoto, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Young pinned Matsumoto after Bite The Dust.

Match 6: Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi beat Tomoaki Honma & Yuya Uemura. Tsuji pinned Honma after Dragon Soul Blaster (a combination Gene Blaster and Dragon Soul Lariat).

New Japan Cup Round 2:
Match 7: Ren Narita beat Satoshi Kojima.
Main Event: Boltin Oleg beat HENARE.
As a result, the second Quarterfinals match will be Narita-Oleg.

The next event is tomorrow at Kanaoka Park Gym in Osaka. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

GLEAT 3/12/2026 Results

GLEAT ran their latest G PROWRESTLING event today in Tokyo.

Tofay’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 260.

Match 1: Takanori Ito, Shigehiro Irie & Yuya Aoki beat Tetsuya Izuchi, Andy Wu & Yumehito Imanari. Ito pinned Izuchi with a German suplex hold.

Match 2: T-Hawk, Minoru Tanaka & Kotaro Suzuki beat Junjie, Katsuhijo Nakajima & Kendo Ka Shin. Tanaka pinned Junjie after BDF.

Match 3: Soma Watanabe, ARASHI & So Daimonji beat Van Vert Jack, Kapy & Lohei Kinoshita. Watanabe pinned Kinoshita after a dropkick.

Match 4: MICHIKO, ChiChi, Chanyota & Riara beat Kakeru Sekiguchi, Honori Hana, Nanami Hatano & Mizuki Kato. ChiChi pinned Hatano after a backdrop.

Match 5: Hayato Tamura, Parker Boudreaux & Andy Panda beat Kato Ishida, KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Black Andromeda. Tamura pinned Andromeda after a lariat.

Main Event: Brass Knuckles JUN, Rock Iwasaki & Keiicho Sato beat El Lindaman, Ryuichi Kawakami & Takehiro Yamamura. JUN pinned Kawakami after Absolute Zero.

The next event is 3/20 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Broadcast plans TBA but this is being billed as a house show which likely means mo live or on demand broadcast.

Stardom 3/11/2026 Results (Updated)

Stardom continued the Cinderella Tournament today in Tokyo with the Quarterfinals.

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 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1164.

Match 1: Starlight Kid, Mei Seira, Maika, Xena, India Sioux (CMLL) & Tabata (CMLL) beat Hazuki, Saori Anou, Yuna Mizumori, Anne Kanaya, Kikyo Furusawa & Fuwa-chan. Seira pinned Kanaya after Biba Meiko.

Match 2: Suzu Suzuki, Rina Yamashita & Akira Kurogame beat Saya Iida, Bea Priestley & Momo Kohgo. Suzuki pinned Kohgo after Tequila Shot.

Match 3: Ami Sohrei, Saki Kashima, Lady C, Tomoka Inaba & Ranna Yagami beat Konami, Natsuko Tora, Ruaka, Azusa Inaba & Fukigen. Yagami pinned Fukigen after Beat Buster.

Cinderella Tournament:
Match 4: Hanan beat Maki Itoh.
Match 5: Aya Sakura beat Rian.

Match 6: Future Of Stardom Champion HANAKO beat Yuria Hime to retain the title. V4 for HANAKO.

Cinderella Tournament:
Match 6: Rina beat Sayaka Kurara. No repeat. And hopefully this means no World Of Stardom Championship shot that Kurara keeps begging for.
Main Event: Miyu Amasaki beat Hina.

As a result of today, the Semifinals are Hanan-Sakura and Rina-Amasaki. This means there’s the chance of a big sister-little sister Final is Hanan & Rina win. Hanan is trying for her 2nd Cinderella triumph. Everyone else goes for their first.

The Semifinals & Finals are Sunday at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama. Live streaming as a PPV on Stardom World will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.

UPDATE: Next up for HANAKO-Yagami. That match will happen Sunday.

DDT 3/11/2026 Results (Updated)

Following the shocking & sad news that Shinjuku Face in Tokyo is closing at the end of September after 21 years, DDT ran the first of what will be their final 10 events at the venue before than today. The venue’s lease is expiring but no further details are known yet.

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

The paid attendance was not announced.

Pre-show Match: Tokyo Joshi Pro match: Rika Tatsumi & Uta Takami beat Yuki Kamifuku & Kira Summer. Tatsumi pinned Summer after Missile Hip.

Shortly after that…
Antonio Honda beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Rika Tatsumi to win the title. Honda becomes the 1809th Champion.

Match 1: Shinya Aoki, Junta Miyawaki & Viente Maligno beat Chris Brookes, Kota Sekifuda & Hinata Kasai. Aoki beat Kasai with Aoki Clutch.

Match 2: HARASHIMA & Antonio Honda beat Jun Akiyama & Kazuki Hirata. Honda pinned Hirata after a HARASHIMA Blue Sword.

During the opening announcements that followed, Antonio Honda vs. Yoh (New Japan) was announced for 4/15 at Korakuen Hall. Honda announced he would defend the Iron Man Title then against Yoh. However…
GM Imabayashi beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Antonio Honda to win the title. Imabayashi becomes the 1810th Champion.

Match 2: Kazuma Sumi, Naomi Yoshimura, Ryota Nakatsu & Yuki Ishida beat Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani, MJ Paul & Illusion. Yoshimura pinned Illusion after Paybacks.

Match 4: Shishamo Power, Eel Mask & Gota Ihashi beat Yuki Iino, Yukio Naya & Tomomitsu Matsunaga. Power pinned Matsunaga after a fisherman’s buster.

Match 5: KO-D Tag Team Champions MAO & KANON beat Danshoku Dieno & Super Sasadango Machine to retain the titles.KANON pinned Dieno after a lariat. V4 for the champs.

Main Event: Takeshi Masada, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato beat KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Yuki Ueno, To-y & Kaisei Takechi to win the titles. Masada, Koroku & Sato become the 60th KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Masada pinned Takechi. That will not make the ladies happy. Next up: Yoshimura, Nakatsu & Ishida. That match will happen on 3/22 at Korakuen Hall. As for Imabayashi…odds are his Iron Man reign will also end on 3/22 as he will defend the title in a 1 vs. 6 Handicap Match against Honda, Minoru Suzuki, Sanshiro Takagi, Dnashoku Dieno, Super Sasadango Machine & Toru Owashi. Then we’ll see what happens because if Rika Tatsumi doesn’t steal it back that will affect Tokyo Joshi Pro’s 3/29 event as she was supposed to defend the ttile then in a battle royal. With the “Card subject to change” caveat of course. But hey, if it means Mahiro Kiryu can’t win it back I will not complain. Also, TJPW will have a pre-show match on 3/22.

The next event is Sunday at Yume Messe Miyagi in Miyagi. There will be no live broadcast. On demand on 3/18.

UPDATE: TJPW has announced whoever is champion on 3/29 will defend in the battle royal…which is now a 12 person battle royal as Tatsumi aka some weird alter-ego has been added as a challenger.

TJPW News: Street Performance Leads To Incident

First things first-this was a promotional stunt for GRAND PRINCESS ‘26 so don’t be too alarmed. Here’s what happened-as part of a “challenge” issued by event PR Ambassador Super Sasadango Machine, Tokyo Joshi Pro roomie Shion Kanzaki did a live street performance in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo where she performed her entrance theme. She did and received cheers & applause from some onlookers. Mission acocmplished. But then, a masked assailant attacked Representative President Tetsuya Koda, who was there, with a saber and beat him down. It was revealed to be Sumire Uesaka, a popular voice actress who sold out Ryogoku Kokugikan with a solo performance in 2016. Uesaka received word yesterday she is in the 10-person battle royal on 3/29 for the DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship currently held by Rika Tatsumi (POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT-unfortunately Mahiro Kiryu is in it too) and attacked Koda as part of a promo until Kanzaki intervened.

In other words…Pro Wrestling Everybody!!!

The rest of the participants were announced last night along with the full card: Tatsumi, Kiryu, Raku, Mifu Ashida, Kira Sunmer, Chika Nanase, Sakura Hattori*, Matcha, Momo Sato, Minimo Chan (with Mari Haguchi). But as always with this title, Card Subject To Change.

The event will have 10 total matches with an intermission before the 3 title matches that will be the 8th-10th matches.

*-Soon-to-be fka Kaya Toribami after this Sunday’s event. Since last weekend’s event she announced a new name and video clips have surfaced online related to this. They can be viewed on TJPW’s YouTube channel.

New Japan 3/10/2026 Results (Updated)

New Japan began Round 2 of the New Japan Cup today in Okayama.

Today’s event was held at Shigeto Arena Okayama in Okayama and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube

The announced paid attendance was 1233.

Match 1: OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby) beat Masatora Yasuda & Aaron Wolf. Ice pinned Yaauda after Ice High.

Match 2: Jacob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, Great-O-Khan, HENARE & Jake Lee beat Tatsuya Matsunoto, Toru Yano, Boltin Oleg, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Young pinned Matsumoto after Bite The Dust.

Match 3: Kosei Fujita & Hartley Jackson beat Zane Jay & Callum Newman. Jackson pinned Jay after Death Valley Bomb.

Match 4: Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita beat Tomoaki Honma, Shota Umino & Satoshi Kojima. Owens pinned Honma after C Trigger.

Match 5: Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Daiki Nagai & Yota Tsuji. Oiwa pinned Nagai with a roll-through German suplex hold.

New Japan Cup Round 2:
Match 6: Shingo Takagi beat Don Fale.
Main Event: Yuya Uemura beat Drilla Moloney.
As a result, Takagi-Uemura is set for the Quarterfinals.

The next event is Thursday at Takamatsu City General Gym in Kagawa. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.

UPDATE: Tokyo Sports reports there was a title change in England this past Sunday in Pro Wrestling EVE-Syuri lost the STRONG Women’s Championship to Alex Windsor. New Japan’s Japanese website has been updated to reflect this. Windsor becomes the 8th STRONG Women’s Champion.

New Japan TAMASHII 2/28/2026 Results

New Japan’s TAMASHII sub-label ran their latest event on 2/28, their first of the year showcasing training wrestlers from Australia, New Zealand & the Oceania region.

The event was held at Magere Arts Center in Auckland, New Zealand. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast but there is a chance some matches will be available on YouTube at a later date.

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Thor Keith beat Darryl Voll.

Match 2: Dorian Webber & Graham Hughes bear Bee Numan & Lance Adams.

Match 3: Nico Bell beat TJ Illes.

Match 4: Johnny Recon & Liam Erikson beat Don Fale & Maximillion.

Match 5: EC Brownie beat James Shaw.

Main Event: TAMASHII Tag Team Champions The Pretty Boys beat Kawa Kupa & Toa to retain the titles. V2 for the champs.

No word on when the next event will be.

RUMOR: Major Tokyo Wrestling Venue Closing? (Updated x3)

This has not been confirmed by the venue yet, and I can’t get more info because the reporting site appears to be geoblocked or restricted (I’ll try using VPN later to get to it), but Japanese site Kakutolog is reporting on socials that Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, which is celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary this year, will close this fall. The site cautions the venue has not announced anything official and is still advertising events-both pro wrestling and music as it is also a concert/theater venue-into May, but also fueling this are is an announcement from Bar123, a pro wrestling themed bar stating the same, who also shared a post from Marigold wrestler Minami Komomo, who possibly started all this a week or two ago in announcing Marigold will run at Kinshicho Marui, which is a shopping center in Sumida City, Tokyo. But perhaps it is also an affiliated Marui Annex in Shinjuku. Nonetheless it bears monitoring as a closure of Shinjuku Face would have a huge impact on wrestling as many indies as well as DDT, Pro Wrestling NOAH, Tokyo Joshi Pro and others frequently run there…all really but New Japan and, to a minimal extent, All-Japan. Again, nothing official on this yet.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: Sadly, it’s now official. Shinjuku Face will close at the end of September.

UPDATE 2: The closure is because the venue’s lease is expiring after what will be 21 years. Many Japanese & foreign wrestlers who have competed there are posting on social media about this.

UPDATE 3: Now there are reports the closure is because the building it’s housed in will need to be rebuilt due to aging. The venue is at least 7 stories tall and houses much more than the venue. The company that operates the venue is looking at building a new venue in Tokyo and if it’s in Shinjuku they likely would call it Shinjuku Face again.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 3/9/2026 Results

To bridge the gap somewhat between MONDAY MAGIC seasons, Pro Wrestling NOAH held UNIVERSE MAGIC 2036 today, a special one-off event with the start of an 8-man tournament featuring CyberFight-affiliated promotions. The tournament is single-elimination.

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

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Takeru Inoue & Sentaro Motojima beat Toki Hiromi (?) & Nobuhiko Kimura. Inoue pinned Kimura.

Match 2: UNIVERSE CUP: Sanshiro Talagi beat The Great Mummy.

Match 3: UNIVERSE CUP: Naomichi Marufuji beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan.

Match 4: Mayu Iwatani, Mika Iwata & Mio Momomo vs. Takumi Iroha, Miyuki Takase & Utami Hayashishita went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

Match 5: UNIVERSE CUP: The Great Sasuke beat Isami Kodaka.

Main Event: UNIVERSE CUP: Hayabusa (2.0) beat Yumehito Imanari.

No word yet on when the Semifinals will be but the schedule suggests 4/6 at the next UNIVERSE MAGIC event.

The next event is 3/17 at Hodogaya Public Hall in Kanagawa. There will be no live broadcast. On demand TBA but it currently is not on the schedule.