Rei Saito has pulled off an incredible comeback to win the All Japan Pro-Wrestling Champion Carnival 2025 tournament. Saito started the annual tournament with three consecutive losses making his hopes of winning this years Champion Carnival very bleak.
On May 18th, Pro Wrestling NOAH held its latest event STAR NAVIGATION 2025 at Korakuen Hall with over 1,500 fans in attendance. The main event was a highly anticipated rematch for the GHC Heavyweight Championship as the current titleholder OZAWA defended it against the man he beat for the belt in January, Kaito Kiyomiya.
The semi-finals and finals of the 2025 Champion Carnival Tournament are a few hours away at the Ota City General Gymnasium. There are four competitors left who can earn the opportunity to challenge the for the AJPW Triple Crown Championship held by Jun Saito.
On May 17th, New Japan Pro-Wrestling held it’s fifth night of Best of Super Juniors 32 tournament action. There were over 1800 fan in attendance at the Yoyogi National Stadium Gymnasium #2 to witness the event.
On May 21st at STARDOM NIGHTER 2025 in KORAKUEN MAY, the current Wonder of STARDOM Champion Starlight Kid will make her fourth defense of her title against HANAKO.
HANAKO, who is one half of the New Blood Tag Team Champions, earned this opportunity when she won the pre-show Rumble match at Stardom All-Star Grand Queendom 2025.
On May 24th at Marigold Shine Forever 2025, pro-wrestling great Nanae Takahashi will end her incredible career as she is set to have her final match. Her final opponent will be Miku Aono, who confronted Takahashi on May 4th in Korakuen Hall and made the challenge for May 24th.
We are just a few days away from the huge Pro Wrestling NOAH GHC Heavyweight Championship match between the current titleholder OZAWA and challenger Kaito Kiyomiya. The two will meet on May 18th at STAR NAVIGATION 2025 in Korakuen Hall.
The in-ring career of pro-wrestling great Nanae Takahashi will come to its conclusion on May 24th in Yoyogi.
Four days before her retirement, she will set foot inside a Marvelous ring one last time as a competitor.
On March 19th, Chihiro Hashimoto defeated the legendary Meiko Satomura to win the Sendai Girls World Championship for an unprecedented sixth time in her career. Shortly after winning the title, Hashimoto successfully defended it against STARDOM superstar Maika at Stardom All-Star Grand Queendom 2025 in front of over 7,000 fans in attendance.
STARDOM announced yesterday that it will be holding auditions in search of the next group of trainees who hope to become future in-ring competitors for the promotion. The auditions will be called STARDOM Project 2025 and will be broadcast on TV Asashi as a special titled Golden Dream.
