Two junior heavyweight championship matches in Kagoshima      As the annual late spring tour contuinues, we step temporarily off the Road to Dontaku to instead battle in Satsuma no Kuni on April 29. Named for the traditional name of Kagoshima, Satsuma no Kuni will see two junior heavyweight championship matches atop a dramatic card. Watch Satsuma no Kuni LIVE on NJPW World! (English to follow on demand) Main event- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship- SHO vs DOUKI Singles record: 3-0 SHO The main event pits IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion SHO in his second defence of the titl ..read more

Moxley moves to V1 against Powerhouse Hobbs The main event on AEW Dynamite April 24 saw the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship defended on AEW television for the very first time, Jon Moxley defending against Powerhouse Hobbs of the Don Callis Family.  Hobbs used his power to pressure the champion with strikes who replied with a German suplex, but the big challenger came back up to his feet to deliver an exploder suplex and bring the fight to the floor. In his element, Moxley took charge of the fight on the outside, but Powerhouse Hobbs turned the tide with a shot into the guardrail and ..read more

HAKATA CITY Presents Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2024 at Fukui Prefecture Industrial Hall #1 Hall on April 25 ! The stacked card is headlined by Los Ingobernables de Japón vs BULLET CLUB match! There will be event day tickets available at 4:30 PM with limited seats remaining. Hikuleo＆ El Phantasmo will be signing autographs before the event! Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2024Tuesday, April 25 2024 Tickets/CardsBuy tickets in English! Event day tickets available: 4:30PM ■Signing session5:45PM～ Hikuleo＆El Phantasmo Be aware, there will be no intermission on this event. Entry permissible ..read more

Forbidden Door to open once again June 30 Forbidden Door 2024 general on sale THURSDAY! AEW has announced that tickets for AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door go on sale to the general public this Thursday, April 25 at 10 AM ET via AEWTix.com and Ticketmaster.com. The third iteration of AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling’s groundbreaking event takes place Sunday, June 30 live from UBS Arena at Belmont Park in New York and will broadcast live around the world on pay-per-view. “2024 has already delivered some of the most incredible pay-per-view events in the history of AEW, setting the stage for what will ..read more

Ten man tag joins the All Together mix Another big matchup has been added to All Together on May 6, with the junior heavyweight s getting in on the action. With Best of the Super Jr. getting started in Chiba on May 11 just five nights later, some key entrants will be doing battle alongside more names from the junior heavyweight landscape.  Watch All Together LIVE in English on ABEMA Live PPV! (select international markets) Kota Minoura of DRAGONGATE and MAO from DDT joins BOSJ 31 entrants Ninja Mack, HAYATA and El Desperado to face DRAGONGATE’s YAMATO, DDT’s Tetsuya Endo, NOAH’s Alfa Wol ..read more

Former GHC Champion to replace Gedo Watch LIVE on NJPW World! (English to follow on demand) The main event Saturday at Road to Wrestling Dontaku in Hiroshima will see an elimination tag team match between BULLET CLUB War Dogs and Los Ingobernables De Japon.  A new layer to this elimination main event came on April 23 in Korakuen, when Jake Lee made a shocking appearance from Pro-Wrestling NOAH. Declaring that he was in NJPW ‘to destroy Tetsuya Naito,’ Lee has become a powerful ally for the War Dogs.  Backstage, David Finlay declared that former GHC Heavyweight Champion Lee would rep ..read more

Finlay scores main event win; Jake Lee difference maker for Moloney The top five matches in Korakuen Hall on April 23 saw a best of five series between Los Ingobernables De Japon and BULLET CLUB War Dogs. Watch the replay! The first singles bout was barely a bout at all- Yota Tsuji Gene Blasted Gedo in a mere five seconds to put LIJ on the board, but War Dogs had big hits to come.  BUSHI knew he had to wrestle a smart game against very tough heavyweight competition in Gabe Kidd, and brought the fight to the War Ready one. As Kidd, hellbent in violence, fought with BUSJI into the crowd ..read more

V1 for the Hontai side sees H.O.T beaten back The NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Championships were on the line April 23 in Korakuen Hall as the freshly crowned Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano and Boltin Oleg defended against HOUSE OF TORTURE’s EVIL, Yujiro Takahashi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru. Watch the replay! H.O.T jumped Boltin early, but to little avail as the big man easily out powered his foes and brought in Tanahashi. Yano tried to continue the momentum for his team as well, but was sent into an exposed buckle, and laboured in the challengers’ corner until a much needed tug of Kanemaru’s h ..read more

Non title in Kagoshima? Before the action got underway in Korakuen Hall on the Road to Dontaku April 23, a contract signing in theory saw SHO and DOUKI put pen to paper ahead of their Satsuma no Kuni IWGP Junior Heavyweight title match April 29. Watch the replay! Never far from the other members of HOUSE OF TORTURE, SHO brought EVIL and Dick Togo to the ring for the contract signing. DOUKI, who has held SHO’s physical IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship belt ever since Sakura Genesis stated he would only allow SHO his property back if the contract was signed with no issues. SHO took faux o ..read more

Lee jumps from NOAH to target Naito Road to Dontaku on April 23 saw a best of five series between members of Los Ingobernables De Japon and War Dogs, but it was the semi main of Drilla Moloney and Tetsuya Naito that saw a sting in the tale. Watch the replay! Deep in a demanding matchup, Naito had the upper hand on his junior heavyweight competition when David Finlay hit the ringside area. As Finlay drew the attention of Naito, Pro-Wrestling NOAH’s Jake Lee hit the ring, and tore into Naito. Lee served up Moloney to hit the Drilla Killa and pin Naito, before the Face Break Shot connected in r ..read more