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Tokyo Joshi Pro wraps up their 2025 today with their final event of the year, “TJPW Year-End Party 2025”. It’s mostly a light house show with the main event being the focus-a 19-woman battle royal that will feature pretty much everyone not in one of the 4 other matches. But 2 of the participants are listed as TBA so there is room for some surprises…I sense one of them will be “It’s a f*cking house party!” but we shall see.

There has been late changes to the planned card due to Ren Konatsu being removed from the event. Apparent illness. She was to have faced Suzume. Uta Takami is the replacement, being removed from the battle royal which was planned to be 20 women but is now only 19 with no replacement.

Today’s event will be held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. There are only 5 matches scheduled in part due to the battle royal so even with that main event it’ll be on the shorter side for house shows, with a running time of probably around 90 minutes.

Today’s lineup:
Suzume vs. Uta Takami
Wakana Uehara vs. Haru Kazashiro
Yuki Aino vs. Chika Nanase
Rika Tatsumi & Toga vs. Kakeru Sekiguchi & Mahiro Kiryu
19 woman battle royal. Participants: Miu Watanabe, Yuki Kamifuku, Arisu Endo, Shoko Nakajima, Miyu Yamashita, Kaya Toribami, Mizuki, Yuki Arai, Hyper Misao, Raku, Pom Harajuku, HIMAWARI, Shino Suzuki, Mifu Ashida, Kira Summer, Max The Impaler, Ram Kaichow, 2 TBAs

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Updates below will begin at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 15 minutes before the event.

5:45 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in 10-15 minutes.

6 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The venue looks close to full and advance ticket sales were good, it sounds like they’re using the reduced capacity setup (the venue’s full capacity is 500) so I’m guessing the crowd will be around 300. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 429, a super full house/very near sellout. So it was a close to full capacity setup)

The matches should begin in 10-15 minutes. During opening announcements, 4 more teams for the Max Heart Tournament were announced: Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao, HIMAWARI & Shino Suzuki, Miyu Yamashita & Kaya Toribami, Yuki Arai & Mifu Ashida.

The matches begin at 6:15 PM PT/9:15 PM ET. Slight order change from what was listed before the event and above (shuffled the first 3 matches).

Match 1: Yuki Aino vs. Chika Nanase. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Aino beat Chika Nanase by submission

Match 2: Suzume vs. Uta Takami. 15 minute time limit
Result: Suzume beat Uta Takami

Match 3: Wakana Uehara vs. Haru Kazashiro. 15 minute time limit
Result: Haru Kazashiro beat Wakana Uehara. Big upset ahead of 1/4! (Kazzashiro & Aino face Uehara & Yuki Kamifuku for the Princess Tag Team Championship that day)

Match 4: Rika Tatsumi & Toga vs. Kakeru Sekiguchi (Independent/Freelancer) & Mahiro Kiryu. 20 minute time limit. And since Kiryu is still the current DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion, if she gets pinned or submitted she loses the title
Result: Rika Tatsumi & Toga beat Kakeru Sekiguchi & DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Mahiro Kiryu, with Tatsumi beating Kiryu to win the title. Tatsumi becomes the 1791st Champion.

Main Event: 19 woman battle royal. Staggered entry. Eliminations by pinfall, submission, over top rope, etc. Order of entry: HIMAWARI, Kaya Toribami, Mizuki, Ram Kaichow (666), Shoko Nakajima, Pom Harajuku, TBA 1 which was Kuishinbo Kamen (Osaka Pro), Hyper Misao (with microphone of course), TBA 2 which was…I had a feeling it was gonna be a f&ckin house party because it’s Ryo Mizunami (Independent/Freelancer), Kira Summer, Raku, Miyu Yamashita, Yuki Kamifuku, Miu Watanabe, Yuki Arai, Arisu Endo, Max The Impaler, Shino Suzuki, Mifu Ashida
Order of elimination: HIMAWARI by Harjauku (pindall), Toribami by everyone (pinfall), Kamen by Misao, Misao & Nakajima by Summer (over top rope), Kaichow by Mizunami & Raku (pinfall), Yamashita by Mizuki (over top rope), Kamifuku & Mizunami by everyone (over top rope), Summer by Max (pinfall), Harjauku by Max (over top rope…NOOOOOOOO! MAX NOT SUPPOSED TO ELIMINATE POM!!!), Suzuki by Max (over top rope), Arai by Watanabe (over top rope), Max by Watanabe (over top rope), Watanabe by everyone (pinfall), Endo by Mizuki (over top rope), Raku by Mizuki & Ashida (pinfall), Ashida by Mizuki (pinfall)
Result: Mizuki wins. Because of course Mizuki doesn’t like to lose

The next event is “Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling ’26”, the annual year-opening blowout event, on 1/4 at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 1/3 at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET.

UPDATE: BREAKING post-event backstage development!
Kakeru Sekiguchi beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Rika Tatsumi & Mahiro Kiryu in a 3-way game of Old Maid to win the title. Sekiguchi becomes the 1792nd Champion.

And just moments before this update…
Mahiro Kiryu beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Kakeru Sekiguchi to win the title. Kiryu becomes the 1793rd Champion. After Sekiguchi slipped on a banana peel. Classic…but For The Love Of God, stop putting the title on Kiryu!

Some Tokyo Joshi Pro news:

First, unfortunately one of two planned debuts on 1/4 will not happen as Henri, who doesn’t have her ring name yet so name is listed as (tentative), has had her debut match postponed. Unspecified beyond “comprehensive judgement of condition” which likely means either the always vague poor health or an unspecified injury. New date TBA.

In other better news, the first US tour of 2026 is set, it will be from 3/17-3/22 in Texas. 4 events are scheduled and the first two are very significant because they will be part of SXSW, the massive annual business conference/festival in Austin. There will also be events in Dallas and Houston. Dates and times are TBA.

UPDATE: Ren Konatsu is now off Saturday’s event. The always vague poor health. She was to have faced Suzume. Uta Takami is the replacement and is now out of a 20 woman battle royal as a result. It will now be a 19 woman battle royal instead.

UPDATE 2: It has been announced that Shion, the other new trainee who will debut on 1/4, has been given the ring name Shion Kanzaki.

Tokyo Joshi Pro ran their annual special pre-Christmas event “Se-no, Merry Christmas! 2025” today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Tama Mirai Messe in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 327, a full house/near sellout.

Before the event began, a press conference was held with the contract signing for the Princess Of Princess Championship match on 1/4 between Miu Watanabe & Suzume, now official again with Watanabe retaining the title last weekend in Thailand.

Except for the main event, all matches had a 7 minute time limit.

Match 1: Chika Nanase beat Uta Takami.

Match 2: Raku beat Kira Summer.

Match 3: Mahiro Kiryu beat Shino Suzuki. Kiryu retains the DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship.

Match 4: Kaya Toaibami vs. Toga went to a time limit draw.

Match 5: Hyper Misao beat Ren Konatsu by submission.

Match 6: Shoko Nakajima beat Mifu Ashida.

Match 7: Arisu Endo beat Pom Harajuku by submission.

Match 8: Mizuki vs. Rika Tatsumi went to a time limit draw.

Match 9: Miyu Yamashita beat Yuki Arai in 65 seconds. Ouch. Almost a glorified squash.

Main Event: Suzume, Yuki Aino & Haru Kazashiro beat Miu Watanabe, Yuki Kamifuku & Wakana Uehara. Aino pinned Kamifuku after Venus DDT.

The next event, the last of the year, is “TJPW Year-End Party 2025” Saturday at Shinjuku Face. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET.

Also forgot this in the original post-at this event the first 4 teams for the 2026 Max Heart Tournament, the promotion’s annual tag team tournament, were also announced: Yuki Kamifuku & Wakana Uehara, Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi, Arisu Endo & Suzume and Yuki Aino & Haru Kazashiro. It will be a 12-team tournament next year, single elimination, with the remaining teams TBA.

During a live stream last night, Tokyo Joshi Pro held a random draw to determine the 7 single matches for Sunday’s pre-Christmas event. The drawing was conducted by WRESTLE UNIVERSE semi-regular special guest and former SKE48 member Marika Tani and can be watched FOR FREE on YouTube. Here are the matches that were drawn, all will have a 7 minute time limit:
Mahiro Kiryu vs. Shino Suzuki
Mifu Ashida vs. Shoko Makajima
Hyper Misao vs. Ren Konatsu
Mizuki vs. Rika Tatsumi
Kira Summer vs. Raku
Arisu Endo vs. Pom Harajuku
Uta Takami vs. Chika Naase
Miyu Yamashita vs. Yuki Arai
Kaya Toribami vs. Toga

Rounding out the card, as previously announced, is Miu Watanabe, Yuki Kamifuku & Wakana Uehara vs. Yuki Aino, Suzume & Haru Kazaahiro. No HIMAWARI at the event (scheduling conflicts).

Continuing their worldwide expansion efforts today, Tokyo Joshi Pro made their first visit to Thailand for a joint event with new partner promotion SETUP Pro Wrestling, which is based in Thailand and first visited Japan within the past year.

Today’s event was held at The Circus Studio in Bangkok, Thailand and can be watched on demand as a PPV on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. The PPV costs 2500 Japanese yen (around $16 US) for monthly paid UNIVERSE subscribers and-I believe-3100 yen (around $20) for non-paid subscribers. You get unlimited on demand replays for the next month (until 1/13/26) with purchase.

The announced paid attendance was 372, a legit sellout. Small venue.

Match 1: Yuki Kamifuku beat Uta Takami.

Match 2: Atisu Endo & Suzume beat Yuki Arai & Shino Suzuki. Suzume pinned Suzuki after Ring A Bell.

Match 3: MLW Women’s Featherweight Champion Shoko Nakajima beat Alexis Lee to retain the title. For those curious as I don’t usually count non-Japan title defenses like this, V6 for Nakajima. Afterwards, Nakajima hinted at her next defense being in Singapore, Lee’s home country.

Match 4: IWA Japan SETUP World Tag Team Champions Miyu Yamashita & Kaya Toribami beat Raku & Pom Harajuku to retain the titles. Yamashita pinned Raku after Skull Kick. V1 for the champs.

Main Event: Princess Of Princess Champion Miu Watanabe beat Matcha to retain the title. V3 for Watanabe. Next up: As previously announced, Suzume on 1/4. Had Matcha won the title she would have defended against Suzume on that day.

The next event is “Se-no, Merry Christmas! 2025” on 12/21 at Tama Mirai Messe in Tokyo. The annual Christmas event will feature one tag match and a series of 7 7-minute single matches with random pairings determined by a drawing to be conducted by former SKE48 member and occasional UNIVERSE special guest Marika Tani. It has also been announced that HIMAWARI is off this event due to schedule conflicts. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 12/20 at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET.

Tokyo Joshi Pro has provided an update on Moka Miyamoto, who has been out the last several months due to an unspecified illness which also forced her to vacate the International Princess Championship. Unfortunately it’s not the best update-Miyamoto has decided to retire. There will be no retirement ceremony/event per her request. Really sad about this because over the last couple years she was showing a lot of improvement and that title win was a huge milestone for Miyamoto, who seemed to be heading towards a Princess Of Princess Championship reign in the next year or two. I wish her all the best in the future.

(Many TJPW wrestlers past & present, as well as regular TV/WRESTLE UNIVERSE personalities Haruo Murata & Sayoko Mita, have posted memories and well-wishes to Miyamoto on social media today as well)

Tokyo Joshi Pro held a special collaboration event with Japanese idol music group OCHA NORMA today, featuring a combination of wrestling matches and live performances by the popular all-girl J-Pop group as well as Up Up Girls.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand as a PPV on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. The PPV is available for 3000 Japanese yen (around $19 US) for paid monthly UNIVERSE subscribers and 3500 yen (around $23 US) for free subscribers. Purchase includes unlimited replays for the next month and includes all music performances in addition to the matches.

The announced paid attendance was 910, a full house/near sellout. Due to the setup it was reduced capacity, it looks like they didn’t use the opposite-camera bleacher seats at all.

Up Up Girls live performance opened the event.

Match 1: HIMAWARI & Haru Kazashiro beat Arisu Endo & Uta Takami. Kazashiro beat Takami with 16 Nights (armbar variation).

Match 2: Ryo Mizunami (Independent/Freelancer), Raku & Pom Harajuku beat Mahiro Kiryu, Shino Suzuki & Chika Nanase. Mizunami pinned Nanase after a spear.

The first OCHA NORMA live performance followed the second match.

Match 3: Ochanomizu (masked mystery wrestler) & Kaya Toribami beat Wakana Uehara & Ren Konatsu. Ochanomizu pinned Konatsuwith La Ochastral.

Match 4: In a comedy game in the ring, Haru Kazashiro, Pom Harajuku & Uta Takami beat 3 members of OCHA NORMA 3-2.

Match 5: Miyu Yamashita, Rika Tatsumi & Mifu Ashida beat Hyper Misao, Yuki Kamifuku & Kira Summer. Tatsumi pinned Summer after Missile Hip.

After that match…
Mahiro Kiryu beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Rika Tatsumi to win the title. Kiryu becomes the 1787th Champion. Which led to…
Natsuki Natsuyama beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Mahiro Kiryu to win the title. Natsuyama becomes the 1788th Champion. OCHA NORMA holds the belt now!

The second OCHA NORMA live performance followed before the last match.

Main Event: Mizuki, Suzume & Yuki Arai beat Miu Watanabe, Yuki Aino & Toga. Suzume pinned Toga after Ring A Bell. Erika Sato was the special ring announcer.

Overall another collaboration success for TJPW and popular J-Pop groups as many TJPW wrestlers are fans of OCHA NORMA. But then something happened backstage…
A Bottle Of Tea beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Natsuki Natsuyama to win the title. Tea becomes the 1789th Champion. Considered a submission and verbally giving up the title in naturally hilarious DDT fashion. Only in DDT (and TJPW) can inanimate objects become champions. And it is awesome.

The next event is TJPW LIVE IN BANGKOK Saturday at The Circus Studio in Bangkok, Thailand. Live streaming as a(nother) PPV on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at, if I’m guessing correctly on the time, 1 AM PT/4 AM ET. The PPV is available for pre-order for 2500 yen (around $15) for monthly paid UNIVERSE subecribers and 3200 yen (around $21) for non-paid subscribers and will be available for purchase and on demand until 1/13/26. (Correction: 3 AM PT/6 AM ET will be the live start time)

UPDATE: Breaking development several hours after the event…
Mahiro Kiryu beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion A Bottle Of Tea to win the title. Kiryu becomes the 1790th Champion. Why Kiryu…

Tokyo Joshi Pro runs a special doubleheader in Tokyo today with the roster split into two groups, one event featuring a “Team TJ” and the second a “Team PW”.

Below are NEAR LIVE results for the first event, with results for the second event to follow tomorrow.

Today’s events are being held at Itabashi Green Hall in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Thursday (first event) and Friday (second event). There are no live broadcasts.

Event 1:
The announced paid attendance was 173, a full house/near sellout.

There was a last-minute change to the card due to Rika Tatsumi being pulled off the event. The always-vague poor health. She was to have faced Mahiro Kiryu. Miu Watanabe was the replacement.

Since Up Up Girls are split between the events, the first event opened with a Uta Takami solo performance.

Match 1: Kaya Toribami beat Chika Nanase.

Match 2; Hyper Misao beat HIMAWARI.

Match 3: Arisu Endo beat Kira Summer by submission.

Match 4: Miu Watanabe beat Mahiro Kiryu.

Main event: Yuki Kamifuku & Yuki Aino beat Yuki Arai & Uta Takami. Aino pinned Takami after Venus DDT.

Event 2:
The announced paid attendance was 190, a super full house/very near sellout.

Shino Suzuki solo for Up Up Girls.

Match 1: Raku beat Ren Konatsu by submission.

Match 2: Wakana Uehara beat Mifu Ashida.

Match 3: Mizuki beat Shino Suzuki by submission.

Match 4: Shoko Nakajima beat Pom Harajuku. This was Pom’s 7th anniversary match and she came out dressed as a dinosaur. Pom at her best. Can’t wait to see this Friday.

Main Event: Miu Watanabe & Toga beat Suzume & Haru Kazashiro. Watanabe pinned Kazashiro after Teardrop.

The next event is Saturday at Osaka Azalea Taisho in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast.