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Tokyo Joshi Pro 8/7/22 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro ran another of their special house shows focused on homecoming events for their talent, today it was Yuki Kamifuku getting the chance to compete in her hometown for a special event as “The Casual Beauty” donated part of today’s ticket sales to a scholarship fund for students.

Today’s event was held at Shonandai Culture Center Civic Theater in Fujisawa City (Kanagawa Prefecture) and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 335.

Shortly before the event it was announced Mizuki would miss the event due to an overseas excursion.

Match 1: Hikari Noa beat Neko Haruna.

Match 2: Hyper Misao beat Pom Harajuku & Mahiro Kiryu in a 3-way by pinning Harajuku.

Match 3: Yuna Manase (Ganbare Pro) beat Moka Miyamoto.

Match 4: Yuka Sakazaki & Raku beat Suzume & Kaya Toribami. Sakazaki pinned Toribami after Magical Merry-Go-Round.

Match Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe beat Shoko Nakajima & Arisu Endo. Watanabe pinned Endo after Teardrop.

Main Event: Yuki Kamifuku & Maki Itoh beat Miyu Yamashita & Nao Kakuta. Kamifuku pinned Kakuta after a diving Fameasser. Afterwards, Kamifuku gave an emotional hometown speech to close out a successful career milestone.

The next event is Saturday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo with the Tokyo Princess Cup Semifinals. Itoh will miss next weekend due to overseas excursions, while Yuki Aino is expected to return from injury after being out the last couple weeks. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 10:30 PM ET/7:30 PM PT.

DDT Injury/Illness News (Updated 8/5)

DDT has become the latest promotion to take another big hit from the coronavirus as they have lost 3 big names for now-HARASHIMA, Jun Akiyama and Tetsuya Endo. HARASHIMA & Endo both tested positive after being evaluated for the ever-vague “poor physical condition”. Akiyama is pending test results after a fever. All 3 are off this weekend’s events and out until at least after 8/11’s event (Akiyama is tentative for that event). Hopefully they will be back in time for WRESTLE PETER PAN on 8/20, when Endo faces KO-D Openweight Champion Kazusada Higuchi for the title at DDT’s biggest event of the year.

In other injury news, Tokyo Joshi Pro announced that Yuki Aino is off this weekend’s event due to a leg injury, which caused her to miss this past weekend’s events. Aino is scheduled to return for the Korakuen Hall doubleheader on 8/13 & 8/14. Maki Itoh will miss those events due to returning to the US for appearances in Game Changer Wrestling.

UPDATE: TJPW will be shorthanded again in September as overseas independent Prestige Wrestling has announced Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh participation for 9/3, including Yamashita vs. Trish Adora. That means both would miss TJPW events on 9/2 and 9/3 but should not miss the Women-only 8/27 event (free but only women can attend).

8/5 UPDATE: Akiyama tested positive for the coronavirus, as has Toru Owashi and now Daisuke Sasaki has a fever. All out indefinitely.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 7/31/22 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continued the Tokyo Princess Cup today with the Quarterfinals. After today the Semifinals would be determined by a random draw rather than the established bracket.

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

The announced paid attendance was 284.

Match 1: Maki Itoh & Arisu Endo beat Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano. Itoh beat Nagano with Itoh Punish.

Match 2: Yuki Kamifuku beat Neko Haruna & Mizuki in a 3-way by pinning Haruna.

Match 3: Yuki Arai, Raku & Pom Harajuku beat Hyper Misao, Mahiro Kiryu & Kaya Toribami. Arai pinned Toribami after Finally.

Tokyo Princess Cup:
Match 4: Suzume beat Rika Tatsumi.
Match 5: Miyu Yamashita beat Nao Kakuta.
Match 6: Yuka Sakazaki beat Hikari Noa.
Main Event: Miu Watanabe beat Shoko Nakajima. That means whoever wins the tournament gets to face Nakajima for the Princess Of Princess Championship, possibly at WRESTLE PRINCESS 3 in October.
As a result of the random post-event draw, the Semifinals will be Sakazaki-Suzume & Yamashita-Watanabe. The Semifinals are on 8/13 at Korakuen Hall.

The next event is 8/7 at Fujisawa City Shonandai Cultural Children’s Center Citizen’s Theater in Kanagawa, which will be a Yuki Kamifuku Homecoming event. Yuna Manase (Ganbare Pro) participation has been announced for the event. There will be no live broadcast.

Post-show news: The following was announced for 8/13 at Korakuen Hall:
Max The Impaler vs. Pom Harajuku (that’s gonna be ugly squash)
Arisu Endo vs. Mei Suruga
Tokyo Princess Cup Semifinals
AA Eye Candy (Saki Akai & Yuki Arai) participation

Tokyo Joshi Pro 7/23/22 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continued the Tokyo Princess Cup today with the last Round 2 match, finishing the setup for the Quarterfinals. One match was a forfeit because Mizuki is out of the tournament due to missing today’s event (fever). While not scheduled in tournament action today, Miyu Yamashita also missed the event because she is in the US for some events this next week including a return to All Elite Wrestling on Wednesday.

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

The announced paid attendance was 202.

Match 1: Moka Miyamoto beat Arisu Endo by submission.

Match 2: Hikari Noa & Nao Kakuta beat Hyper Misao & Kaya Toribami. Kakuta pinned Toribami after Shiden Kai.

Match 3: Mahiro Kiryu beat Neko Haruna.

Match 4: Maki Itoh & Yuki Kamifuku beat Yuki Aino & Raku. Itoh beat Raku with Itoh Deluxe.

Match 5: Shoko Nakajima & Yuka Sakazaki beat Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe. Nakajima pinned Watanabe with a rotating Northern Lights suplex hold.

Main Event: Tokyo Princess Cup Round 2: Suzume beat Pom Harajuku. As a result, Suzume advances to the Qurterfinals and will face Tatsumi.
Tokyo Princess Cup Round 2: Shoko Nakajima beat Mizuki by forfeit. As a result, Nakajima advances to the Quarterfinals and will face Watanabe.

The other quarterfinals are Yamashita-Kakuta and Noa-Sakazaki.

The next event is 7/31 at Otemachi Mitsui Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 7/30 at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

BREAKING: Tokyo Joshi Princess Cup Favorite Out

BREAKING: Ahead of tomorrow’s Tokyo Joshi Pro event, the Tokyo Princess Cup Tournament has lost it’s biggest non-Final match and perhaps the favorite…Mizuki is now off tomorrow and is OUT of the tournament as a result. Fever. Not yet known if it’s coronavirus. She was to have faced Shoko Nakajima in Round 2 of the Cup. The Princess Of Princess Champion now gets a free pass and will advance to the Quarterfinals to face Miu Watanabe. Nakajima will now team with Yuka Sakazaki to face Rika Tatsumi & Watanabe. Also remember no Miyu Yamashita tomorrow as she is in the US.
Tomorrow’s event starts at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling Tokyo Princess Cup Round 2 Results (7/18/22)

Tokyo Joshi Pro continues the Tokyo Princess Cup 2022 today with the start of Round 2, which will feature two of the Round 2 matches along with a slate of non-tournament matches that will be announced when the event begins. Today’s tournament matches are Miyu Yamashita vs. Raku and Yuki Arai vs. Hikari Noa. Everyone is scheduled to be on the event except for Juria Nagano. After this event Yamashita is headed overseas and will miss next weekend.

Today’s event will be held at Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE and on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. Like the first two events, I anticipate today’s event having a total run time of just under 2 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Tokyo Princess Cup:
Miyu Yamashita vs. Raku
Yuki Arai vs. Hikari Noa
At least 3-4 more non-tournament matches TBA when the event begins

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest updates.

Updates below will begin at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT. The live stream is up and running in pre-show mode as of 10:30 PM ET/7:30 PM PT.

11 PM ET-We are LIVE from Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Appears and sounds comparable to the last 2 days so it likely will be around 250.
The first match will begin in 10-15 minutes.

There will be 5 total matches today, 3 non-tournament matches before the tournament matches. Arai-Noa will be the main event.

Match 1: Maki Itoh, Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu vs. Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Neko Haruna. 20 minute time limit
Result: Maki Itoh, Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu beat Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Neko Haruna. Itoh beat Haruna with Itoh Perish.

Match 2: Arisu Endo vs. Nao Kakuta & Shoko Nakjima in a 3-way. 20 minute time limit
Result: Nao Kakuta beat Shoko Nakajima & Arisu Endo in a 3-way by pinning Endo.

Match 3: Hyper Misao, Pom Harajuku, Kaya Toribami & Yuki Aino vs. Yuka Sakazaki, Suzume, Moka Miyamoto & Mizuki. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yuka Sakazaki, Suzume, Moka Miyamoto & Mizuki beat Hyper Misao, Pom Harajuku, Kaya Toribami & Yuki Aino. Suzume pinned Toribami after Ring A Bell.

Match 4: Tokyo Princess Cup Round 2-Raku vs. Miyu Yamashita. No time limit
Result: Miyu Yamashita beat Raku. As a result, Yamashita advances to the Quarterfinals and will face Nao Kakuta on 7/31.

Main Event: Tokyo Princess Cup Round 2-Yuki Arai vs. Hikari Noa. No time limit
Result: Hikari Noa beat Yuki Arai. As a result, Noa advances to the Quarterfinals and will face Yuka Sakazaki. And leaves me heartbroken over Arai losing another tough one.

This was a shorter event than I expected, the matches only went a collective 80 minutes and the event just 90 minutes.

The next event is Saturday at Shinjuku Face with the remaining Round 2 matches-Nakajima vs. Mizuki and Suzume vs. Harajuku. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 251.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1 Results (7/17/22)

Tokyo Joshi Pro continues the Tokyo Princess Cup today with the second half of Round 1. The 4 remaining matches will be held today along with a couple of non-tournament matches that will be announced when the event starts. Because of the tournament structure this year with the number of participants, today’s winners all will get a free pass through Round 2 and go straight to the Quarterfinals.

Today’s event will be held at Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE and on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. If you’re planning on watching this and New Japan tonight plan on some split-screen/multitasking as I anticipate this event having a total running time of just under 2 hours (last night’s event went 1 hour 40 minutes).

Today’s lineup:
Tokyo Princess Cup:
Yuki Kamifuku vs. Rika Tatsumi
Kaya Toribami vs. Yuka Sakazaki
Arisu Endo vs. Miu Watanabe
Nao Kakuta vs. Yuki Aino
Yuki Arai participation. Non-tournament matches TBA at event time

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

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

9 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. More empty ringside seats than last night. Prob will be in the 225-250 range.
The matches will begin in about 15 minutes.

During the match rundown, 3 non-tournament matches were announced for today, so 7 matches total. The main event is Kamifuku-Tatsumi.

Match 1: Miyu Yamashita, Yuki Arai & Moka Miyamoto vs. Hikari Noa, Raku & Suzume. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hikari Noa, Raku & Suzume beat Miyu Yamashita, Yuki Arai & Moka Miyamoto. Noa pinned Miyamoto after a blizzard suplex.

Match 2: Neko Haruna vs. Pom Harajuku & Maki Itoh in a 3-way. 20 minute time limit
Result: Pom Harajuku beat Neko Haruna & Maki Itoh in a 3-way by pinning Haruna.

Match 3: Mizuki & Mahiro Kiryu vs. Hyper Misao & Shoko Nakajima. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hyper Misao & Shoko Nakajima beat Mizuki & Mahiro Kiryu. Nakajima pinned Kiryu with a Northern Lights suplex hold. Before the match began, Misao was faking an elbow injury in a comedy spot.

Match 4: Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1-Miu Watanabe vs. Arisu Endo. No time limit
Result: Miu Watanabe beat Arisu Endo. As a result, Watanabe advances to the Quarterfinals and will face Shoko Nakajima or Mizuki.

Match 5: Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1-Kaya Toribami vs. Yuka Sakazaki. No time limit
Result: Yuka Sakazaki beat Kaya Toribami. As a result, Sakazaki advances to the Quarterfinals and will face Yuki Arai or Hikari Noa.

Match 6: Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1-Nao Kakuta vs. Yuki Aino. No time limit
Result: Nao Kakuta beat Yuki Aino. As a result, Kakuta advances to the Quarterfinals and will face Miyu Yamashita or Raku.

Main Event: Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1-Yuki Kamifuku vs. Rika Tatsumi. No time limit
Result: Rika Tatsumi beat Yuki Kamifuku. As a result, Tatsumi advances to the Quarterfinals and will face Pom Harajuku or Suzume.

Round 2 begins tomorrow. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT.

Post-show UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 257. Just a handful lower than yesterday (maybe 5).
Most of tomorrow’s card is TBA except Round 2 matches, which will be Yamashita-Raku and Noa-Arai.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1 Results (7/16/22)

After their summer blowout event last weekend, Tokyo Joshi Pro kicks off their annual Tokyo Princess Cup Tournament today, the 9th annual installment of the event to crown the top singles wrestler in TJPW. This is the first event of a 3-day tripleheader comprising the first 2 rounds of the tournament. Almost the entire roster is featured although 2 members will not participate this year-rookie Juria Nagano because of scheduling issues and defending tournament winner Maki Itoh because of Game Changer Wrestling (US) participation scheduled for the same day as the Finals in mid-August. The remaining 20 will go for the Cup and a Princess Of Princess Championship opportunity, unless current champion Shoko Nakajima wins the Cup (and those hopes could end today). Because of the number of entrants, 4 get a free pass into the 2nd round (Raku, Suzume, Hikari Noa & likely favorite Mizuki, a 2-time tournament winner). Today will be the first half of Round 1 and some non-tournament matches that won’t be announced until the event starts.

Today’s event will be held at Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE and on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary.

Today’s lineup:
Tokyo Princess Cup:
Shoko Nakajima vs. Neko Haruna
Miyu Yamashita vs. Hyper Misao
Yuki Arai vs. Majiro Kiryu
Pom Harajuku vs. Moka Miyamoto
Non-Tournament matches TBA, likely to be 1-2 additional matches

We are LIVE from Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.
Ring announcer Sayuri Namba is doing her usual pre-event announcements & housekeeping before the Up Up Girls performance. The first match should begin around 9:15 PM PT. There are some noticeable audio issues with the stream early on, namely with microphones the audio is off-sync with the video.

Match 1: Miu Watanabe, Hikari Noa, Raku, Rika Tatsumi & Yuki Aino vs. Yuka Sakazaki, Arisu Endo, Yuki Kamifuku, Nao Kakuta & Maki Itoh. 20 minute time limit
Result: Miu Watanabe, Hikari Noa, Raku, Rika Tatsumi & Yuki Aino beat Yuka Sakazaki, Arisu Endo, Yuki Kamifuku, Nao Kakuta & Maki Itoh. Tatsumi pinned Endo after Twist of Fate.

Match 2: Kaya Toribami vs. Suzume & Mizuki in a 3-way. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mizuki beat Kaya Toribami & Suzume in a 3-way by beating Toribami.

Match 3: Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1: Moka Miyamoto vs. Pom Harajuku. No time limit
Result: Pom Harajuku beat Moka Miyamoto. As a result, Harajuku advances to Round 2 and will face Suzume.

Match 4: Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1: Mahiro Kiryu vs. Yuki Arai. No time limit
Result: Yuki Arai beat Mahiro Kiryu. As a result, Arai advances to Round 2 and will face Hikari Noa.

Match 5: Neko Haruna vs. Shoko Nakajima. No time limit
Result: Shoko Nakajima beat Neko Haruna by submission. As a result, Nakajima advances to Round 2 and will face Mizuki.

Main Event: Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1: Hyper Misao vs. Miyu Yamashita. No time limit
Result: Miyu Yamashita beat Hyper Misao. As a result, Yamashita advances to Round 2 and will face Raku.

If you watch on replay, the total running time is a very lean 100 minutes.
The paid attendance will be announced soon.

The second half of Round 1 is tomorrow with Endo-Watanabe, Kakuta-Aino, Toribami-Sakazaki and Kamifuku-Tatsumi. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at midnight ET/9 PM PT.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 262. It also was announced post-event that Yamashita will miss the 7/23 event. International excursion. It’s not known where that will be but Ring Of Honor has an event that day, and Yamashita also is expected to return to All Elite Wrestling at some point soon to face Thunder Rosa for the AEW Women’s World Championship.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 7/9/22 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro ran their summer blowout event, SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’22, today, featuring All Elite Wrestling participation and, more significantly, a lifting of the ban on vocal cheering by fans for the first time in over 2 years. All 3 titles were on the line to headline the event.

Today’s event was held at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English.

The announced paid attendance was 1130. With the vocal ban lifted, that meant 50% capacity max, so this represented about 70-75% of that reduced limit. Your Japanese hosts are Haruo Murata, Kagehiro Osano, Sayoko Mita and special guest Mikie Hara, a former longtime idol/pinup model who is now an actress & entertainer. Your English hosts are Chris Brookes & Baliyan Akki.

Match 1; Moka Miyamoto beat Juria Nagano by submission.

Match 2: Aja Kong, Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku beat Hyper Misao, Nao Kakuta, Neko Haruna & Kaya Toribami. Aino pinned Toribami after Venus DDT.

Match 3: Ryo Mizunami beat Miu Watanabe. This was to have been Willow Nightingale vs. Watanabe but Nightingale missed the event due to visa issues.

Match 4: Hikaru Shida & Hikari Noa beat Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu. Shida pinned Kiryu after Arawashi Driver.

Match 5: Mei Suruga & Suzume beat Riho & Arisu Endo. Suzume pinned Endo after Rong A Bell.

Match 6: Alex Windsor beat International Princess Champion Maki Itoh to win the title. Windsor becomes the 8th International Princess Champion. Hahaha. And even better, Windsor won after reportedly having her luggage lost by her airline. This suggests title will now continue to be defended outside Japan, the original intent for the title.

Match 7: Miyu Yamashita beat Thunder Rosa. OOOOOOOOH…this is not only a big upset, but based on pre-event presser commebts could set up a rematch for Rosa’s AEW Women’s World Championship.

Match 8: Saki Akai & Yuki Arai beat Princess Tag Team Champions Yuka Sakazaki & Mizuki to win the titles. Akai & Arai become the 10th Princess Tag Team Champions. Akai pinned Mizuki after Double Rookie Award. To steal the former champs’ catchphrase after wind, HAPPY HAPPY! Not only has SKE48 member Arai won her first championship now, but even better is that bratty Mizuki was pinned. I love it. AA Eye Candy Champions.

Main Event: Princess Of Princess Champion Shoko Nakajima beat Rika Tatsumi to retain the title. V4 for Nakajima.

The next event is 7/16 at Ryogoku KFC Hall, the start of the 9th Tokyo Princess Cup Tournament. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 9 PM PT/midnight ET.

Some post-event thoughts having just watched the replay, which runs just over 4 hours:
First hearing the cheers and seeing the streamers in the first match was instant goosebumps. They’re such a big part of Japanese wrestling and some of these wrestlers were experiencing this for the first time in their careers. Everyone really soaked it all in and to see the emotions on their faces was something special. This is Japanese wrestling.
Because Yamashita beat Rosa, there almost certainly is going to be a rematch in All Elite Wrestling for the title. The question likely is when. That was per a challenge Rosa made in a pre-event press conference just before the event.
No challengers immediately emerged after any title match so who knows what’s next. Next up for Nakajima likely is the Tokyo Princess Cup winner, unless Nakajima wins. Itoh won last year.
The next big event will be GO GIRL 3 in mid-late August after the Cup.
US Independent wrestler Max The Impaler, who has recently appeared in AEW, was advertised for the 8/13 & 8/14 events. As the name would suggest, despite a male name she’s a woman and she physically is HUGE.

DDT Announces “Cutey Honey” TJPW Appearance

In announcing broadcast plans for SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’22, DDT has announced a special guest for the Tokyo Joshi Pro event broadcast-legendary idol Mikie Hara, a former gravure/swimsuit/pinup model who was one of the most acclaimed and popular idols during a long and successful modeling career, who is now an actress & entertainer best known for her starring role as the live-action portrayal of popular manga/anime superheroine “Cutey Honey” on Japanese TV. She will join Japanese commentary alongside Haruo Murata, Kagehiro Osano & Sayoko Mita. The event will also have English commentary with DDT’s Chris Brookes and Baliyan Akki. Remember you can watch FOR FREE if you sign up for WRESTLE UNIVERSE for the first time with a 2 week free trial!
The event streams LIVE Friday at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

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