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Tokyo Joshi Pro continues the Futari-wa Princess Max Heart Tournament today with the Quarterfinals. Or at least 3/4 of them because one match was held yesterday. This will finish setting up the Semifinals-we already know Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano have made the final 4, today we’ll find out who joins them. In one quarterfinal it’s an all-idol special as Yuki Arai & Wakana Uehara face Mizuki & Shino Suzuki. The second quarterfinal has presumed favorites Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe facing Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao. The third quarterfinal is Raku & Pom Harajuku vs. Suzume & Arisu Endo. The Suzume/Endo-Raku/Harajuku winners will face Miyamoto/Nagano while the other Quarterfinals winners today will face each other in the Semifinals.

There have been last-minute changes to today’s card because Nao Kakuta is now off. Fever. She was to have faced Haru Kazashiro. What had been Moka Miyamoto vs. HIMAWARI is now a 3-way with Kazashiro as a result.

Today’s event will be held at Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. The Kakuta absence and card changes took one match off the card so it will be shorter than planned-based on yesterday and with another DDT event coming up after this I anticipate this event will also run about what yesterday’s did, just over 90 minutes, closer to 100 minutes but under 2 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Moka Miyamoto vs. HIMAWARI & Haru Kazashiro in a 3-way
Miyu Yamashita, Kaya Toribami & Toga vs. Yuki Aino, Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu
Tournament Quarterfinals:
Yuki Arai & Wakana Uehara vs. Mizuki & Shino Suzuki
Raku & Pom Harajuku vs. Suzume & Arisu Endo
Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe vs. Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao

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Updates below will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

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

We are LIVE from Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Advance sales and the initial crowd shots suggest it will be close to yesterday’s event which drew 262, so I’m guessing it’ll be around 250 again. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 277)

The matches will begin in a few minutes.

The matches begin at 6:47 PM PT/9:47 PM ET. Hard-camera only view again, left side entrance view for the wrestlers is obstructed by the ring posts.

Match 1: Miyu Yamashita, Kaya Toribami & Toga vs. Yuki Aino, Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Aino, Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu beat Miyu Yamashita, Kaya Toribami & Toga. Aino pinned Toga after Venus DDT.

Match 2: Moka Miyamoto vs. HIMAWARI & Haru Kazashiro in a 3-way. 20 minute time limit
Result: Moka Miyamoto beat HIMAWARI & Haru Kazashiro in a 3-way by beating Kazashiro.

Match 3: Tournament Quarterfinals: Raku & Pom Harajuku vs. Suzume & Arisu Endo. No time limit
Result: Suzume & Arisu Endo beat Raku & Pom Harajuku. Suzume pinned Harajuku after Ring A Bell. As a result, Suzume/Endo advance to the Semifinals and will face Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano.

Match 4: Tournament Quarterfinals: Yuki Arai & Wakana Uehara vs. Mizuki & Shino Suzuki. No time limit
Result: Yuki Arai & Wakana Uehara beat Mizuki & Shino Suzuki. Uehara beat Suzuki with a sleeper hold. As a result, Arai & Uehara advance to the Semifinals and will face the winner of the main event.

Main Event: Tournament Quarterfinals: Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe vs. Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao. No time limit
Result: Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe beat Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao. Tatsumi pinned Misao after Daydream. As a result, Tatsumi & Watanabe advance to the Semifinals and will face Yuki Arai & Wakana Uehara.

The Semifinals are Saturday at Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET. I will be unable to do live results due to a prior scheduling conflict.

Nao Kakuta. The latest DDT/Tokyo Joshi Pro wrestler to be sidelined. Fever. Out today. She was to have faced Haru Kazashiro. What had been a Moka Miyamoto vs. HIMAWARI match will now be a 3-way with Kazashiro added and the event for mow will have 5 matches instead of 6.

Tokyo Joshi Pro kicks off the 4th Futari-wa Princess Max Heart Tournament today with Round 1. Started during the pandemic in 2021, it has become the promotion’s annual tag team tournament, usually held in January & February. This year’s edition has 11 teams with 22 participants that comprise almost the entire available roster. That means 3 teams get free passes to the Quarterfinals with all the Round 1 matches today.

While it won’t affect the card or tournament, the promotion also announced Mizuki is off today’s event. Scheduling conflicts.

Today’s went will be held at Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will likely he no commentary. There are only 5 matches but we don’t know the time limits for the matches yet, however there also is a DDT event after this so it will likely be short, no more than maybe 2 hours. (Early show update: No time limit for tournament matches)

Today’s lineup:
Yuki Aino, RIka Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe vs. Suzume, Arisu Endo & Shino Suzuki
Tournament Round 1:
Kaya Toribami & Haru Kazashiro vs. Yuki Arai & Wakana Uehara
Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu
Nao Kakuta & HIMAWARI vs. Raku & Pom Harajuku
Tournament Quarterfinals:
Miyu Yamashita & Toga vs. Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano

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Updates below will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

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

We are LIVE from Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary. Looks like it’s a hard-camera only view today.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It looks like a small venue with 2 levels of seating, the lower level seems pretty full (not completely) but not so much the upper level. I don’t know the exact capacity but from the opening shot is looks like it will be around 250. (We’ll maybe find out later because the upcoming DDT event after this is a legit advance sellout) (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 263)

The matches will begin shortly.

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

Match 1: Yuki Aino, RIka Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe vs. Suzume, Arisu Endo & Shino Suzuki. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yuki AIno, Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe beat Suzume, Arisu Endo & Shino Suzuki. Watanabe beat Suzuki with a Canadian backbreaker. The ref missed the end spot when Suzuki tapped but he didn’t call for the bell until a couple seconds later as she kept tapping out.

Match 2: Max Heart Tournament Round 1: Kaya Toribami & Haru Kazashiro vs. Yuki Arai & Wakana Uehara. No time limit
Result: Yuki Arai & Wakana Uehara beat Kaya Toribami & Haru Kazashiro. Arai beat Kazashiro with a scorpion deathlock. As a result, Arai & Uehara advance to the Quarterfinals and will face Mizuki & Shino Suzuki tomorrow.

Match 3: Tournament Round 1: Nao Kakuta & HIMAWARI vs. Raku & Pom Harajuku. No time limit
Result: Raku & Pom Harajuku beat Nao Kakuta & HIMAWARI. Raku pinned HIMAWARI after Doctor Yellow. Kakuta geting into the ring blocked a view of Raku seemingly slapping HIMAWARI & grabbing her hair after the bell. As a result, Raku & Harajuku advance to the Quarterfinals and will face Suzume & Arisu Endo tomorrow.

Match 4: Tournament Quarterfinals: Miyu Yamashita & Toga vs. Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano. No time limit
Result: Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano beat Miyu Yamashita & Toga. Nagano pinned Toga after a spinning head kick. As a result, Miyamoto & Nagano advance to the Semifinals on 1/27 and will face the Suzume/Endo-Raku/Harajuku winner.

Main Event: Tournament Round 1: Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu. No time limit
Result: Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao beat Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu. Misao pinned Kiryu with La Magistral. As a result, Nakajima & Misao advance to the Quarterfinals and will face Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe tomorrow.

The event went faster than expected, roughly 95 minutes total.

The remaining Quarterfinals are tomorrow. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET with live results scheduled.

Tokyo Joshi Pro continued their early 2024 house show tour today in Okayama with a hometown event for Yuki Aino.

Today’s event was held at Okayama Convention Center in Okayama and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 273, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Kaya Toribami beat Shino Suzuki.

Match 2: Nao Kakuta beat Toga.

Match 3; Raku & Pom Harajuku beat Arisu Endo & Haru Kazashiro. Harajuku pinned Kazashiro after Pomu. Do. Justis.

Match 4; Hyper Misao & Mahiro Kiryu beat Mizuki & HIMAWARI. Misao beat HIMAWARI with a chicken wing.

Match 5; Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe beat Suzume & Takana Uehara. Watanabe beat Uehara with a Canadian backbreaker.

Main Event; Shoko Nakajima & Yuki Aino beat Miyu Yamashita & Moka Miyamoto. Aino pinned Miyamoto after UBV. Afterwards, former TJPW wrestler Nodoka Tenma, who is also Aino’s older sister, joined the post-match celebration in the ring.

The next event is the Futari-wa Princess Max Heart Tournament Round 1 on 1/20 at Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

Tokyo Joshi Pro continues their 2024 house show tour today with an event in Kobe, which is a hometown event for Mizuki. Below are NEAR LIVE results from the event so far.

Today’s event was held at Kobe Art Center in Kobe and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (probably Tuesday). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 230.

In pre-match announcements it was revealed that Chika, one of the current trainees, will debut on 2/24 in Osaka. That will not be her ring name (TBA). Ryo Mizunami participation was announced for 2/11 and 2/24. Also an absolute last-second card change-no Yuki Kamifuku today. Off for currently unknown reasons (but if I had to guess based on what’s been happening in DDT lately, flu). (UPDATE: The always-vague poor physical condition. Hospitalized for further examination. Consider questionable for tomorrow) She was to have teamed with Wakana Uehara to face Yuki Aino & Ryo Mizunami. Suzume is the replacement. Suzume was to have teamed with Arisu Endo against Toga & Kaya Toribami. That match became a 3-way instead.
More on Kamifuku as it becomes available. For tomorrow she is scheduled to team with Mahiro Kiryu to face Mizuki & HIMAWARI.

Match 1: Moka Miyamoto beat Haru Kazashiro by submission.

Match 2: Raku beat Shino Suzuki.

Match 3: Arisu Endo beat Toga & Kaya Toribami in a 3-way by beating Toga.

Match 4: Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao beat Mahiro Kiryu & HIMAWARI. Nakahima pinned HIMAWARI with a northern lights suplex hold.

Match 5: Yuki Aino & Ryo Mizunami beat Suzume & Wakana Uehara. Mizunami pinned Uehara after a spear.

Main Event: Miyu Yamashita, Mizuki & Nao Kakuta beat Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Pom Harajuku. Mizuki pinned Harajuku with Cutie Special.

The next event is tomorrow at Okayama Convention Center in Okayama. There will be no live broadcast.

UPDATE: Kamifuku is now off tomorrow. Poor physical condition. Hyper Misao is the replacement, meaning what had been a 3-way of Misao vs. Kaya Toribami & Sho o Suzuki is now Toribami vs. Suzuki

Tokyo Joshi Pro has announced the field for the 4th Futari-wa Princess Max Heart Tournament, the promotion’s annual tag team tournament. There will be 11 teams this year comprising the entire roster except for Maki Itoh (injured), Hikari Noa (injured/illness), Yuki Aino (current Princess Tag Team Champion and probably because no Ryo Mizunami participation as co-Champion) & Runa Okubo (on hiatus to focus on education).

The full field:
Miyu Yamashita & Toga
Yuki Arai & Wakana Uehara
Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe
Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao
Mizuki & Shino Suzuki
Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu
Nao Kakuta & HIMAWARI
Raku & Pom Harajuku
Suzume & Arisu Endo
Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano
Kaya Toribami & Haru Kazashiro

The tournament is single-elimination bracket format with 6 teams facing off in Round 1 and the other 5 going straight to the Quarterfinals. Matchups will be determined by random draw at a later date.

Unless something happens, the winning team will face Aino & Mizunami for the Princess Tag Team Championship at a later date, probably at GRAND PRINCESS ’24 on 3/31. Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh won last year’s edition but won’t repeat because no Itoh (she would not have participated anyway because she was to have been in the US the rest of January). On paper Tatsumi/Watanabe are the early favorites and have won the tournament before followed by Suzume/Endo as sleepers.

The schedule is as follows:
1/20 (Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel, Tokyo): Round 1 and one Quarterfinals
1/21 (Club eX): Remaining 3 Qurterfinals
1/27 (Ryogoku KFC Hall, Tokyo): Semifinals
2/10 (Korakuen Hall, Tokyo): Finals

At a press conference in Tokyo today, Juria Nagano announced she is leaving Tokyo Joshi Pro and quitting wrestling this spring. Nagano has always been a part-time wrestler due to her other work as an actress and nurse, and is quitting to focus more on acting/entertainment but also due to personal reasons. It’s essentially retiring without saying retiring as she says she will be done with wrestling, hence TJPW calling it “graduating”.

She will work the following events before leaving: 1/20 (Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel, Tokyo), 1/27 (Korakuen Hall), 2/10 (Korakuen), 3/31 (Ryogoku Kokugikan) and finish up on 4/13 (Kitazawa Town Hall, Tokyo).

Tokyo Joshi Pro holds their first TJPW INSPIRATION event of the year today, part of their series of occasional mini-events focusing more on comedy matches and types of matches you aren’t likely to see often in the promotion. The events normally have only 3 or 4 matches and run just over an hour. Today’s event was to have been headlined by Hikari Noa vs. Masha Slamovich in some kind of deathmatch, but Noa is off due to the ever-vague poor physical condition/health. Max The Impaler is the replacement and it will be a regular match. The match of note is a 6-woman battle royal with Mizuki, Maki Itoh, Miu Watanabe, Rika Tatsumi, Shoko Nakajima & Yuki Kamifuku-the winner will main event GRAND PRINCESS ’24 on 3/31 and get a shot at Princess Of Princess Champion Miyu Yamashita at the biggest event of the year.

Today’s event will be held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. These are very short events with only 4 matches and they typically have 10-15 minute time limits, so if you’re in the western US keep your Friday night plans for after this event as it should have a running time of only about 75 minutes. The promotion is predicting the event will run around 90 minutes.

Today’s lineup:
Pom Harajuku vs. Kuishinbo Kamen (Osaka Pro)
Miyu Yamashita & Yuki Aino vs. HIMAWARI & Toga
Battle Royal. Participants: Mizuki, Maki Itoh, Miu Watanabe, Rika Tatsumi, Shoko Nakajima, Yuki Kamifuku. The winner will face Princess Of Princess Champion Miyu Yamashita for the title on 3/31 (Update-see below)
Max The Impaler vs. Masha Slamovich (TNA)

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Updates below will begin at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET.

PRE-SHOW UPDATE (1:45 PM PT/4:45 PM ET): Maki Itoh is now off the event due to injury. Arm. Out indefinitely but her planned excursion back to the US the rest of the month is now also off. MRI conducted today after complaining of numbness in the arm after the 1/4 event where she lost to Rina Yamashita. According to TJPW, a full diagnosis and return tineframe is pending but she will rest for now. The battle royal will go forward with just 5 today and there will be no replacement.

6 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

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

The pair attendance will be announced after the event. What we can see on screen looks close to full except below the camera. DDT here did 255 earlier today so I’m guessing this will do close to that, around 250. Hard camera view only. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 374, a super full house/very near sellout)

The matches should begin shortly. It starts with Sayuri Namba’s usual pre-match rundown & announcements, then someone is brought in to preview the lineup. This went on for about 15 minutes. No Up Up Girls performance today. Lineup order changed so the battle royal is now the main event.

The matches begin at 6:20 PM PT/9:20 PM ET.

Match 1: Miyu Yamashita & Yuki Aino vs. HIMAWARI & Toga. 20 minute time limit
Result: Miyu Yamashita & Yuki Aino beat HIMAWARI & Toga. Yamashita pinned HIMAWARI after Attitude Adjustment.

Match 2: Pom Harajuku vs. Kuishinbo Kamen (Osaka Pro). 15 minute time limit
Result: Pom Harajuku beat Kuishinbo Kamen. Comedy match. Harajuku is dressed up like Kamen, a masked clown wrestler. Harajuku won after the referee superkicked Kamen and counted fast on a Harajuku rollup. You read that right, the ref superkicked Kamen. Afterwards, Harajuku with microphone. It almost immediately turned into a comedy skit.

Match 3: Max The Impaler vs. Masha Slamovich (TNA Wrestling). 20 minute time limit
Result: No Contest. Ref assault by both after Max introduced a chair then they brawled through the venue and out of the audience area.

Quick break for restoring order and referee recovery from what just happened.

Main Event: Battle Royal. Participants: Mizuki, Miu Watanabe, Rika Tatsumi, Shoko Nakajima, Yuki Kamifuku. Pinfalls, submissions and over the top rope eliminations. The winner will face Princess Of Princess Champion Miyu Yamashita for the title on 3/31. No time limit
Order of elimination: Nakajima by Mizuki (over the top rope), Mizuki by Tatsumi (over the top rope), Tatsumi by Kamifuku (rollup), Kamifuku by Watanabe (Teardrop)
Result: Miu Watanabe wins. As a result, Watanabe will face Miyu Yamashita at GRAND PRINCESS ’24 for the Princess Of Princess Championship. Only a select very few have been TJPW Triple Crown champions in their career by winning all 3 titles in the promotion. Watanabe now has a chance to join them. Afterwards, Yamashita came back out for the initial promo for that match. Handshake turned into fighting words and a stare then she left the ring and Watanabe finished with her victory comments to end the event. A very exciting main event to come and I’m looking forward to it!

The next event is 1/13 at Kobe Art Center in Kobe. There will be no live broadcast.