New Japan Pro-Wrestling returned to the Aore Nagaoka for the first time in just over four months for the fifth night of this summer’s G1 Climax tournament. The show featured four B Block matches and saw the tournament’s final undefeated competitor suffer their first loss, another notable upset, and an exciting all-British main event between…
Night four of New Japan’s G1 Climax took place inside Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai, Japan, on Tuesday evening, drawing an attendance of 1,612 fans. The event featured five A Block tournament matches, with several notable results that could have a significant impact on the competitors’ strategies as the blocks progresses. One of the evening’s…
It was finally “Kzy Time” inside Kobe World Hall in Kobe, Japan, as the 40-year-old defeated his demons and Madoka Kikuta to capture the Open the Dream Gate Championship for the first time at Dragongate’s Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival event on July 20. The former leader of Natural Vibes was forced to weather Kikuta’s offence…
The fans inside Herbis Hall in Osaka, Japan were treated to a fun evening of tournament matches as STARDOM rolled on to the third night of their 5★STAR Grand Prix. Headlined by two singles matches in which the respective members of High Hai Mate battled 02line, HANAKO and Maika both emerged victorious, avenging their tag…
Yota Tsuji may have caused Bushiroad to push ahead with selling NJPW. On May 27, Bushiroad announced that it would sell its shares in New Japan Pro-Wrestling to CyberAgent and previous minority shareholder TV Asahi, with the deal officially finalised on June 30. Earlier this year, at The New Beginning in Osaka, Yota Tsuji criticised…
Takaaki Kidani has opened up on how AEW’s formation nearly led to Bushiroad selling NJPW. All Elite Wrestling was founded on January 1, 2019, with Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, and Adam Page officially signing with the promotion the following day alongside the announcement that Tony Khan would serve as company president, while his father,…
AJ Styles says his recent comments had nothing to do with WWE buying NJPW. Last week, AJ Styles expressed his desire for WWE to purchase a Japanese wrestling promotion, similar to the company’s acquisition of AAA in Mexico in 2025. The comments sparked criticism from some fans, although Styles has since addressed the reaction, stating…
STARDOM returned to the Loisir Hotel Toyohashi Holiday Hall on Sunday for Night 2 of the 5★STAR Grand Prix. The event featured eight tournament matches involving some of the promotion’s biggest stars, including World of Stardom Champion Suzu Suzuki and Wonder of Stardom Champion Hanan. Hanan began festivities when she caught Kikyo Furusawa with the…
New Japan Pro-Wrestling returned to the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo for Night 3 of its annual G1 Climax tournament on Saturday, July 18. The show featured four B Block clashes and was headlined by an all-TMDK showdown between former G1 Climax winner Zack Sabre Jr. and his protégé, Yuya Uemura. The two looked…
A week after New Japan Pro-Wrestling began its 36th annual G1 Climax tournament in Chicago, Illinois, the company continued the competition inside the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo to a reported attendance of 2,555 fans. The show featured five matches from the tournament’s A Block and one from the B Block. Drilla Moloney surprised…