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New Japan Pro Wrestling crowned a new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion as part of today’s NJPW New Beginning In Sapporo 2024 Night 1 event at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan as SHO defeated El Desperado to become the new Champion. SHO’s victory brings an end to El Desperado’s 50-day reign as  Continue Reading »

New Japan Pro Wrestling crowned a new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion during today’s NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18 event at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan as El Desperado defeated Hiromu Takahashi to become the new Champion. El Desperado’s victory brings an end to Hiromu Takahashi’s 365-day reign as the Champion.

New Japan Pro Wrestling have announced that the following matches will take place as part of their NJPW Power Struggle 2023 event on November 4th at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka, Japan. — Hiromu Takahashi (c) vs. Taiji Ishimori for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship. — Kazuchika Okada, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tomohiro Ishii (c)  Continue Reading »

The following results are from a recent New Japan Pro Wrestling event. The event took place on October 9th, 2023 at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan. Pre-Show Match Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask, Oskar Leube, YOSHI-HASHI & Toru Yano defeated Kazuma Sumi, Jun Masaoka, Takeshi Masada, Takahiro Katori & Kengo. 6 Man Tag Team Match  Continue Reading »

New Japan Pro Wrestling have announced that the following matches will take place as part of their Destruction In Ryogoku 2023 event on October 9th at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan. — SANADA (c) vs. EVIL for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. — David Finlay (c) vs. Tama Tonga for the NEVER Openweight Championship.  Continue Reading »

In a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi (via a translator) discussed several topics, including the potential of him defending the title in All Elite Wrestling. “A dream of mine is to have a match on live prime time TV, I’d be stoked to wrestle in AEW any time and  Continue Reading »

The following results are from a recent New Japan Pro Wrestling event. The event took place on June 4th, 2023 at the Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka, Japan. Pre-Show Match Oskar Leube vs. Ryohei Oiwa went to a 5 minute time limit draw. Pre-Show Match Oskar Leube vs. Oleg Boltin went to a 5 minute time  Continue Reading »

New Japan Pro Wrestling have announced that the following matches will take place as part of the NJPW Dominion event on June 4th at the Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka, Japan. — SANADA (c) vs. Yota Tsuji for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. — Hiromu Takahashi (c) vs. Master Wato for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.  Continue Reading »

New Japan Pro Wrestling crowned a new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion during today’s NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17 event as Hiromu Takahashi defeated Taiji Ishimori, El Desperado and Master Wato in a Fatal Four Way Match to become the new Champion. Takahashi’s victory brings an end to Ishimori’s 248-day reign as the Champion. A four way  Continue Reading »

New Japan Pro Wrestling crowned a new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion during today’s NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2022 event at the Fukuoka PayPay Dome in Fukuoka, Japan as Taiji Ishimori defeated El Desperado to become the new Champion. Ishimori’s victory brings an end to El Desperado’s 176-day reign as the Champion.

The following results are from a recent New Japan Pro Wrestling pay-per-view event. New Japan Pro Wrestling Wrestle Kingdom 12 took place on January 4th, 2018 at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. New Japan Rumble Masahito Kakihara defeated Katsuya Kitamura, BUSHI, Delirious, Leo Tonga, Manabu Nakanishi, Chase Owens, Yuji Nagata, TAKA Michinoku, Yoshinobu Kanemaru,  Continue Reading »