CyberFight Festival ’22 Updates

On it’s new weekly news program on YouTube, DDT announced a few changes to the CyberFight Festival card:
NOAH star Naomichi Marufuji is off the event and next week’s NOAH events due to knee pain. He was to have teamed with Atsushi Kotoge & Yoshiki Inamura to face Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Kazusada Higuchi. Katsuhiko Nakajima is the replacement.

Kenoh vs. Daisuke Sasaki, at the request of Kenoh, is now a No DQ hardcore match.

Kenoh has been named public relations director for the event. That’s gonna be fun.

New Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling rookie Juria Nagano has been named TikTok committee chairman and various related videos will be shared from her official account.

DDT/Tokyo Joshi Pro News 5/29/22

A bit of DDT & Tokyo Joshi Pro news from overnight:
International Princess Champion Maki Itoh successfully defended the title against former WWE star Mia Yim this weekend at an independent event in Portland, OR. V3 for Itoh. Next up: “The Unbreakable” Rio, which has been added to 6/4 at Entetsu Hall in Shizuoka. Unfortunately there is no live broadcast on WRESTLE UNIVERSE so we’ll likely have to wait at least 3 days to see it. Itoh & Yuka Sakazaki are on their way back to Japan for this event but Miyu Yamashita is not. Apparently she is staying overseas a little longer and will miss 6/4. She should be back for CyberFight Festival.
Also, the first names for Summer Sun Festical ’22 on 7/9 have been announced: Yuki Arai, Juria Nagano and Mei Suruga, who apparently will appear as herself and not as May Saint-Michel, her usual persona in TJPW alongside Saki Akai when she appears as Saki-sama.

On the DDT side, Chris Brookes missed this weekend’s events and is now out a couple more weeks as he has been diagnosed with a sprained right ankle. He plans to be back for CyberFight Festival. Also, Gota Ihashi is now off Wednesday’s Korakuen Hall event. Enteritis.

Finally, the Japanese branch of the NIVEA skin care company will be a sponsor of CyberFIght Festival ’22, and all fans attending the event in person will receive a free product sample upon entering the venue. This came about after a NIVEA representative saw social media posts by Saki Akai about her pre-match skin care routing, which led to an offer to provide products to Akai. CyberFight management and NIVEA held discussions which led to this and possibly more. This comes admist news that Akai has just released her own own men’s skin care product called Riviera Perfect All-in-One Gel in Japan. Pre-orders just began shipping in Japan.It appears to be available only in Japan. Saki has started a Shopify page for the product, which also links to her official Instagram page. A roughly 2-month supply is available for 5500 yen in Japan and for now will only be sold via Saki’s Shopify product page. There are no plans to sell it at DDT events or DDT’s online store.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 5/29/22 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continued their Spring house show tour today with an event missing several notable top stars, as Miyu Yamashita, Maki Itoh & Yuka Sakazaki are all in the US (Sakazaki is in All Elite Wrestling, Yamashita & Itoh are making independent appearances this weekend).

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 256.

Before the matches began, a new YouTube series called “Dream Wrestling – dream on the ring=” was announced. It will feature 4 women from the entertainment world outside of wrestling competing to possibly become a wrestler in TJPW. The show will premiere late this week.

Match 1-Raku & Pom Harajuku beat Hikari Noa & Kaya Toribami. Harajuku pinned Toribami after Pomu. Do. Justis.

Match 2: Hyper Misao beat Nao Kakuta & Mahiro Kiryu in a 3-way by beating Kiryu.

Match 3: “The Unbreakable” Rio beat Yuki Aino. Rio is a wrestler from Europe returning to TJPW for the first time since before the coronavirus pandemic began.

The Main Event was a 10-woman match divided into 5 singles matches, with the teams pre-determined then matches determined by a random draw held before the event. 10 minute time limit for each match.
Match 1: Yuki Kamifuku beat Moka Miyamoto.
Match 2: Rika Tatsumi beat Arisu Endo by submission.
Match 3: Mizuki beat Neko Haruna by submission.
Match 4: Shoko Nakajima beat Yuki Arai.
Match 5: Miu Watanabe vs. Suzume went to a 10 minute time limit draw.
Red Corner team wins 4-0-1.

The next event is Saturday at Entetsu Hall in Shizuoka. There is no live broadcast scheduled (it would be Friday night in the US). This will be the final TJPW event before CyberFight Festival ’22.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling-More US Appearances

Following up on a hint dropped in the preview for Sunday’s event, Tokyo Joshi Pro announced today that International Princess Champion Maki Itoh is returning to the US later this month, and this time she’s bringing bestie/frenemy Miyu Yamashita with her. They will be appearing in Portland, OR on 5/28 and 5/29 US time for local independent PRESTIGE Wrestling. On 5/28, Itoh will defend the International Princess Championship against former WWE star and indy standout Mia Yim, who was recently let go by WWE and apparently has not yet followed fiance Keith Lee to All Elite Wrestling (Itoh made a couple appearances in AEW during their pandemic stay in Jacksonville, FL as part of a #1 Contender Tournament for the AEW Women’s Championship and has an 0-2 AEW record). This is significant for the title because it’s the first time a defense will happen outside TJPW, which was one of the plans for the championship before the coronavirus pandemic derailed those plans. Yamashita will face indy and Impact Wrestling star Masha Slamovich on 5/28.
On 5/29, Yamashita & Itoh will face each other for the first time since WRESTLE PRINCESS 2 in October. Presumably this will be a non-title match if Itoh retains.
As a result, both will miss the 5/29 TJPW event at Otemachi Mitsui Hall in Tokyo.

The events will be available to stream worldwide on the IWTV streaming service, which I believe costs around $15/month. No word on when/if their matches will become available on WRESTLE INIVERSE.

CyberFight Festival 2022 Lineup

The full card for CyberFight Festival 2022, a major multi-brand blowout event featuring Pro Wrestling NOAH, DDT, Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling and more, was just announced:

Pre-show:

Muscle Sakai & Yukio Naya vs. Takao Soma & Kazuki Hirata

Hyper Misao, Yuki Aino, Raku, Pom Harajuku & Neko Haruna vs. Nao Kakuta, Mahiro Kiryu, Moka Miyamoto, Arisu Endo & Kaya Toribami
Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani vs. Ken Ohka, Yuna Manase & Mizuki Watase

Main show:
Kinya Okada & Kai Fujimura vs. Toui Kojima & Yuya Koroku
Miyu Yamashita, Maki Itoh & Juria Nagano vs. Hikari Noa, Suzume & Yuki Arai
Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno, Yumehito Imanari & Akito vs. Sanshiro Takagi, Kendo Ka Shin, Shinya Aoki & Yumiko Hotta
Rika Tatsumi vs. Mizuki, Miu Watanabe & Yuki Kamifuku in a 4-way. The winner will face the Princess Of Princess Champion for the title on 7/9
Talashi Sugiura, Kazuyuki Fujita, Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Michael Elgin, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Rene Dupree, Simon Gotch & TBA, who will be revealed on 6/7
HARASHIMA, Naomi Yoshimura, Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi vs. Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata, MAO & Zhu Chonghua
Rob Van Dam, Yoshinari Ogawa & HAYATA vs. Kaito Kiyomiya, Daisuke Harada & YO-HEY
Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Kazusada Higuchi vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Atsushi Kotoge & Yoshiki Inamura
Kenoh vs. Daisuke Sasaki
Princess Of Princess Champion Shoko Nakajima vs. Yuka Sakazaki for the title
GHC Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki vs. Satoshi Kojima for the title

The event will be broadcast LIVE ONLY ON WRESTLE UNIVERSE. Comentary will be in Japanese. Annoinced guests are Kendo Kobaysbi, Yui Okada, Rina Matsuki & SKE48 member Marika Tani.

The event will be held on June 12, 2022 beginning at 1 PM Japan time (6/11 at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET).

CyberFight Festival Card Announcement Next Week

The CyberFight Group announced today that the full card for CyberFight Festival 2022 will be revealed at a press conference Tuesday. The presser will be streamed live on ABEMA, WRESTLE UNIVERSE and all the promotions’ YouTube channels (DDT, Pro Wrestling NOAH, Tokyo Joshi Pro) beginning Monday at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT.
So far the following is set the event:
GHC Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki vs. Satoshi Kojima for the title
Kenoh vs. Daisuke Sasaki
Rob Van Dam Participation

CyberFight Festival 2022 will be held on 6/12 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan and will be broadcast live only on WRESTLE UNIVERSE starting at 2 AM ET/11 PM PT on 6/11.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 5/5/22 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro ran their second Golden Week event today, GO GO DO IT, making their return to Osaka for their first event at Osaka Prefectural Gym #2 in several years.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym #2 in Osaka and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese.

The announced paid attendance was 348, a super full house/very near sellout. They only used floor seating close to the ring as apparently Osaka is still under major coronavirus safety protocols and very reduced capacity limits (normally the venue can hold 1500-2000). Your hosts are Haruo Mutata & Kagehiro Osano. SKE48 member Marika Tani was a special guest on commentary.

Match 1: Yuki Aino beat Neko Haruna.

Match 2: In a 3 Falls Osaka Ultra Quiz Match, where the first to answer two Osaka-related questions correctly wins, Hyper Misao beat Kaya Toribami.

Match 3: Yuna Manase (Ganbare Pro Wrestling) beat Mahiro Kiryu.

Match 4: Hikari Noa & Nao Kakuta beat Raku & Pom Harajuku. Kakuta pinned Harajuku after Shiden Kai.

Match 5: Saki Akai (DDT) & Yuki Kamifuku beat Miyu Yamashita & Miu Watanabe. Kamifuku pinned Watanabe after Fameasser.

Main Event: In a 3 Falls Match, Shoko Nakajima, Maki Itoh, Mizuki & Rika Tatsumi beat Yuki Arai, Moka Miyamoto, Arisu Endo & Suzume. Fall 1-Tatsumi beat Endo with a dragon sleeper. Fall 2-Nakajima pinned Arai after a diving senton. This match went just short of 30 minutes.

The next event is 5/15 at Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo. They’re taking most of the next month off after a busy last couple months as only 3 more events are scheduled before CyberFight Festival on 6/12.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 4/30/22 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro wrapped up their April schedule with their almost-regular Saturday matinee event, which also was the final event before their next major event next week.
Today’s event was held at Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
The announced paid attendance was 155. Whoa, 2 straight KFC non-sellouts.
Before the matches, the contract signings for the 5/3 title matches were held. Also, as previously announced, Pom Harajuku missed today’s event due to family circumstances.
Match 1: Suzume beat Kaya Toribami.
Match 2: Yuki Aino beat Arisu Endo.
Match 3: Raku beat Rika Tatsumi & Neko Haruna in a 3-way by pinning Haruna. Tatsumi losing a 3-way these days is always an UPSET ALERT!
Match 4: Maki Itoh beat Moka Miyamoto by submission.
Match 5: Miyu Yamashita & Miu Watanabe beat Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu. Watanabe pinned Kiryu after Kick and Kabom!
Main Event: Hyper Misao, Hikari Noa & Nao Kakuta beat Shoko Nakajima, Yuka Sakazaki & Mizuki. Misao pinned Nakajima after Vanitas.
The next event is “YES! WONDERLAND 2022-Spread the wings of your dreams”, their annual Golden Week major event, Tuesday at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Monday at 10:30 PM ET/7:30 PM PT. All Elite Wrestling superstar Hikaru Shida will return for her 3rd TJPW appearance this year as part of the event.
Post-event news: Yuka Sakazaki is now off Thursday’s (5/5) event at Osaka Prefectural Gym #2. All Elite Wrestling wants her back next week so she’s returning to the US after Tuesday. If she retains the Princess Tag Team Championship Tuesday, there will be a substitute announced for Thursday. It might be a close call on time because she would have to fly from Tokyo to Baltimore, MD on Tuesday and AEW Dynamite is Wednesday, so we’ll see (AEW Rampage on Friday will be TAPED on Wednesday).
Yuna Manase vs. Mahiro Kiryu has been added to Thursday.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling 4/29/22 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro ran the first event of a doubleheader today that will lead into their major Golden Week event on Tuesday.

Today’s event was held at Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. Remember that starting today new subscribers can get a 2-week trial of the service FOR FREE! Cancel before the end of the 13th day (Japan time) and pay nothing.

The announced paid attendance was 150. This snaps a long sellout streak at the venue.

Before the matches, a Shoko Nakajima talk event was held where she discussed her trip to England last week to compete in Pro Wrestling EVE.

Match 1: Yuki Aino beat Kaya Toribami.

Match 2: Miu Watanabe beat Neko Haruna.

Match 3: Hikari Noa & Nao Kakuta beat Rika Tatsumi & Arisu Endo. Kakuta pinned Endo after Shiden Kai.

Match 4: Miyu Yamashita beat Moka Miyamoto.

Match 5: Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Raku beat Maki Itoh, Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu. Sakazaki pinned Kiryu after Toy Story 4.

Main Event: Shoko Nakajima & Pom Harajuku beat Hyper Misao & Suzume. Nakajima pinned Suzume with a Northern Lights suplex hold.

The next event is tomorrow. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin TONIGHT at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT. A contract signing for Tuesday’s title matches will open the event.

Tuesday’s full card has also been announced:

Exhibition Match-Reika Saiki vs. Arisu Endo. 3 minute time limit (Saiki is a former TJPW wrestler who is now technically retired, but is coming back for a farewell appearance)

Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu vs. Neko Haruna & Kaya Toribami

Juria Nagano vs. Suzume

Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Yuki Arai vs. Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku

Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh vs. Hikaru Shida (All Eite Wrestling) & Moka Miyamoto

Princess Tag Team Champions Yuka Sakazaki & Mizuki vs. Hikari Noa & Nao Kakuta for the titles

Princess Of Princess Champion Shoko Nakajima vs. Hyper Misao for the title

The full card for Thursday (Osaka Prefectural Gym #2) will be announced after the event

The event will stream live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Monday at 10:30 PM ET/7:30 PM PT.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Upcoming Cards Updates

Tokyo Joshi Pro has announced the full cards for this week’s events and an update for 5/5 at Osaka Prefectural Gym #2:

First, 5/5-the second official match is Saki Akai & Yuki Kamifuku vs. Miu Watanabe & Miyu Yamashita. The first official match (previously announced) is Yuki Arai, Suzume, Moka Miyamoto & Arisu Endo vs. all the current champions at the time (Maki Itoh is set, meaning there likely will be no International Princess Championship match on 5/3). Those other 3, and the rest of the card, will be announced after the 5/3 event.
The full cards for this week’s events, both at Ryogoku KFC Hall (and unless she tests positive for the coronavirus, Shoko Nakajima will be back for both):
4/29 (Friday):
Miu Watanabe vs. Neko Haruna
Yuki Aino vs. Kaya Toribami
Hikari Noa & Nao Kakuta vs. Rika Tatsumi & Arisu Endo
Miyu Yamashita vs. Moka Miyamoto
Shoko Nakajima & Pom Harajuku vs. Hyper Misao & Suzume
Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Raku vs. Maki Itoh, Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu

4/30 (Saturday):
Yuki Aino vs. Arisu Endo
Suzume vs. Kaya Toribami
Maki Itoh vs. Moka Miyamoto
Rika Tatsumi vs. Raku & Neko Haruna in a 3-way
Miyu Yamashita & Miu Watanabe vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu
Shoko Nakajima, Yuka Sakazaki & Mizuki vs. Hyper Misao, Nao Kakuta & Hikari Noa
Pom Harajuku will miss Saturday due to family circumstances.

Both events will be brodcast LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE beginning Thursday and Friday at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT.

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