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Gunji rarely steps away of the Michinoku Pro ring to compete in various events from the Japanese independent circuit. At Gatoh Move One And Only, an event promoted by Gatoh Move Pro Wrestling on February 13, 2017, hw teamed up with Daichi Sasaki to unsuccessfully challenge reigning champions Bad Company (Golem Thai and P-Nutz), and DJ Nira and Masahiro Takanashi for the SPW Southeast Asian Tag ...
AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event co-promoted by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and the Japanese promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). Established in 2022, it is held annually during the summer and features direct competition between wrestlers from the two promotions.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling World (新日本プロレスワールド, Shin Nihon Puroresu Wārudo), [2] also referred to as NJPW World and New Japan World, [3] is a subscription-based video streaming service owned by the Japanese professional wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW).
Toru Matsunaga (松永透, Matsunaga Toru) better known mononymously by his ring name Toru (sometimes stylized in capital letters as TORU) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working as a freelancer and is best known for his tenures with Osaka Pro Wrestling (OPW) where he is the current Osaka Pro Wrestling Champion, Tenryu Project, Dotonbori Pro Wrestling and various other promotions ...
Big Japan Pro Wrestling Core (BJW Core) is a video-on-demand service owned by Big Japan Pro Wrestling. In November 2017, BJW announced "Big Japan Pro Wrestling Core", a new worldwide video-on-demand site for the promotion's events. The service features matches from the promotion's archives, dating back to 1995.
NOAH The New Year 2025 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah and took place on January 1, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Nippon Budokan. Broadcasting was made on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
The New Beginning in Osaka was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on February 11, 2025, in Osaka at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. [2] It was the forty-first event under the New Beginning name and the ninth to take place in Osaka.
The first Japanese person to involve themselves in catch wrestling (the basis of traditional professional wrestling) was former sumo wrestler Sorakichi Matsuda. [1] There were subsequent attempts before and after World War II to popularize the sport in Japan, but these generally failed until the advent of its first big star, Rikidōzan , in ...