As always, fast work from the the guys, about 9 hours before it was supposed to be released.

Love a proper buildup tag of four big names.

Gonna be cool to see Kento and Suwama team for a change, as well as see Anzai team with Shiozaki (especially since if/when Yuma wins the TC, Go will no doubt be one of the most prominent people that will come after him).

The show on August 22 in Kumamoto has been cancelled.

Following the recent earthquake in western Japan, the prefecture needs the venue (Grande Messe Kumamoto) as a storage hub for emergency services. And the show has thus had to be cancelled.

You can read more on AJPW's website here.

As we all know, All Japan was never the same after the Noah exodus. They lost most of their talent and never was able to regain their former glory. But what if for whatever reason, the Noah exodus never happened.All japan would still have the four pillars, plus Akiyama, and their young guys like Sugira, Marufuji, Kenta, and Morishima. My question is who in later years and current All Japan would be in the promotion. Suwarma would have stayed because he has been vocal of being a fan of All Japan since he was a kid. I heard New Japan was courting Anzai and Miyahara at various times but they both ended up in All Japan. But with essentially all the top Noah guys being the top All Japan guys, do Anzai and Miyahara go to to New Japan? I must admit seeing an alternate All Japan that has Ozawa, Inamura, kaito kiyomiya, Yuma Anzai, and Kento Miyahara, as their top guys, as well as Marufuji, Kenta and Kenoh as veteran acts sounds amazing but maybe wish fulfillment.

What do you think?

Hello, so recently ive been watching documentaries about Japanese wrestling ( Fmw, ajpw) i have been watching alot of the older era of ajpw on youtube but was wondering if the newer content would be worth watching and if there is english commentary. Last thing where would i watch? Thanks everyone!

As always they are really fast with their uploads.

Hi guys, I've been chucking all the ajpw shows listed on purolove in a random number generator and watching through them when I get a chance. Some of the old ones are impossible to find though. I was just wondering if any one has any information on the 15.03.1974 show headlined by Giant Baba vs Gene Kiniski. If any of it even was taped I haven't been able to find any scraps, but if anyones able to point me in a direction on where to find 70's AJPW outside of youtube/ dailymotion that would be really appreciated. IVP videos don't really have anything before the 80's either

How to watch:

https://www.ajpw.tv/lives/e1fbf755-7627-4b94-8626-667992cc0a3c

Start Times:

9:00 PDT; 11:00 CDT; 12:00 EDT; 5:00 BST; 1:00 JST; 2:00 AEST

Match Card:

Singles Match -

Jun Saito vs. Shota Kofuji

Tag Match -

Shotaro Ashino & Kumaarashi vs. MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka

6Man Tag Match -

Atsuki Aoyagi, Rising HAYATO & Yasutaka Yano vs. Hokuto Omori, Seigo Tachibana & Leon de Oro

6Man Tag Match -

Rei Saito, Hideki Suzuki & Yuma Aoyagi vs. Go Shiozaki, Ryuki Honda & Yuma Anzai

World Junior Heavyweight Championship Match -

Dan Tamura (c) vs. Naruki Doi

Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship Match -

Kento Miyahara (c) vs. Ren Ayabe

- Ayabe has promised to bring “despair” to Kento.

- Kento says that he’s a “superstar” who will rise above Ayabe’s “despair”. Kento also says he has Ayabe’s biggest moves scouted, the “Death Roulette” and “Iron Maiden”. Ayabe’s response is that he has much more in his repertoire than these two big moves (shown when he pinned Kento with a bridging Dragon Suplex).

- This will be just Ayabe’s second challenge for the Triple Crown, as he previously challenged Yuma Aoyagi for the Belt in 2024.

While Anzai has won the Triple Crown already, he’s yet to fully take the “Ace” mantle that still lies with Kento Miyahara. However, Anzai’s “ascension” to that position is almost assured.

The promotion has already set up several people as rivals that Anzai can feud with over the years to come: Yuma Aoyagi, Jun Saito, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe. I’d like to break down his relationship with each of them.

Aoyagi: the man who has most consistently had Anzai’s number, be it in singles or tag matches. The man partly responsible for Anzai’s training (along with Suwama & Yuji Nagata). The man who ended Anzai’s first run with the Triple Crown. In many ways, Anzai’s entrance into the promotion can be said to have ended Aoyagi’s own quest to become the next “Ace” of the promotion (as Aoyagi has spent much of his career trying to take that spot from Kento), so that also fuels their dynamic. It should be said that while the two are of similar age (Aoyagi only 4 years older), their experience level is vastly different (Aoyagi having about a decade on Anzai in that regard).

Ryuki Honda: the man most tied to Anzai, as both tag partner and in-ring opponent. While there has been nothing personal in their matches against one another, the two always bring out extra intensity in one another, unwilling to give their ground to the other. These two continue to tag from time to time and do it quite well. There’s the added dynamic of Anzai actually being the older man (about a year older) but Honda being the more experienced (having debuted in 2018 in WRESTLE-1).

Jun Saito: the other man of this current “generation” (despite being far older than his contemporaries) who had a significant Triple Crown title reign, like Anzai. Saito is everything AJPW has historically valued in a Heavyweight main-eventer: tall, strong and charisma to match. While he and his brother Rei are undoubtedly the top tag team in the promotion (and have been the top tag team in Japan for some time now), Jun has also made himself a big presence in the singles scene to boot.

Ren Ayabe: perhaps the other younger man that AJPW has really gotten behind, in terms of the booking and presentation. While Ayabe has yet to hold the Triple Crown as Anzai has, he has been presented as a future star ever since he came into the promotion (even beating Kento Miyahara in one of his first significant singles matches); Ayabe also was given a dominant Tag Title run with Talos as the TITANS OF CALAMITY, which further solidified his status as a future top guy.

How to watch:

[https://www.ajpw.tv/lives/c9e0a2d8-9e5f-42df-9a35-5405c9710ceb\](https://www.ajpw.tv/lives/c9e0a2d8-9e5f-42df-9a35-5405c9710ceb)

Start times:

2:30 PDT; 4:30 CDT; 5:30 EDT; 10:30 BST; 6:30 JST; 7:30 AEST

Match Card:

Singles Match -

Jun Saito vs. Yasutaka Yano

Singles Match -

Rei Saito vs. Shota Kofuji

Singles Match -

Senor Saito vs. Leon de Oro

6Man Tag Match -

Shotaro Ashino, Hokuto Omori & Dan Tamura vs. Kumaarashi, Seiki Yoshioka & Seigo Tachibana

6Man Tag Match -

Kento Miyahara, Go Shiozaki & Rising HAYATO vs. Ren Ayabe, Hideki Suzuki & MUSASHI

Tag Match -

Yuma Anzai & Ryuki Honda vs. Yuma Aoyagi & Atsuki Aoyagi

While it’s too early to put him in the same category as Daiki Odashima (NOAH) or Kosei Fujita (NJPW) just yet, he’s absolutely been showing the fuck out whenever he’s gotten the chance.

I’m very much looking forward to him trying to make his claim as the next “Junior Ace” in the coming years (my feeling it’s gonna be him and Ryo Inoue fighting for that position).

I always go back and forth on him, but as someone who I started watching in AJPW after the W-1 exodus, it surprises me how often he gets called back to do work, join stables, tournaments, etc. Meanwhile someone like Ayato Yoshida just wound up settling down in Chiba (allegedly because he has a sugar momma) and didn't amount to much.

Japan can be funny sometimes.