UJPW “ALL TOGETHER”, 06/05/2024
Tokyo Nippon Budokan
1. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Sanshiro Takagi & Naomichi Marufuji Vs EVIL, Ren Narita & Yujiro Takahashi
2. Tomohiro Ishii & Daisuke Sekimoto Vs Jeff Cobb & Masa Kitamiya
3. Shota Umino, Kaito Kiyomiya & Yuki Ueno Vs Yuya Uemura, Konosuke Takeshita & Shun Skywalker
A press conference was held today to reveal details for the launch event of United Japan Pro Wrestling happening in Budokan Hall this May. The show will be the return of “ALL TOGETHER”, a concept that in the past united several wrestling promotions together to run charity shows in regions affected by disasters. Proceeds from the upcoming show will go towards charity efforts regarding the Noto earthquake that took place over the new year. Six of the member promotions in UJPW will be participating on the show: New Japan, NOAH, DDT, Dragongate, Big Japan and Stardom.
Presidential figures Hiroshi Tanahashi, Sanshiro Takagi & Naomichi Marufuji were all at the press conference. The three of them will be teaming up to face House Of Torture in a 6-Man Tag Match. The three are calling themselves the Shacho Squad and Takagi made jokes about his working relationship with the other two. He more often sees Marufuji when they go out drinking than he does at the office. Tanahashi made references to past beef with Takagi over New Japan and DDT being at odds with each other. Takagi understands he is the weakest wrestler of the three so he will do his best as a pro wrestler and face the challenge lying ahead. The three are coming up with ideas to prevent House Of Torture from using interference to help them win. Some suggestions include placing Danshoku Dieno or Oleg Boltin at ringside to handle any invaders trying to enter the ring.
A big 6-Man Tag Match pits together the biggest names of the current generation. Marufuji believes the six participants are all talked about as the future of their companies when they really are the leaders now. They should see each other as rivals so Marufuji thinks this is the best match for all of them to show off and stand out. Tanahashi agrees and said if he was in that match he would be thinking how about how he could stand out from everyone else and take the top spot of the industry.
There is planned to be around 8 to 10 matches on the finished card. It has not been decided yet if Stardom will be doing matches by themselves or if they get to interact with the other promotions in mixed tag bouts.
UJPW “UNITED JAPAN PRO WRESTLING”, 15/06/2024
Sapporo Hokkai Kitayell
The second UJPW event will be held in Sapporo intends to feature the promotions that are not taking part in “ALL TOGETHER”. That should mean All Japan, Ganbare☆Pro and Tokyo Joshi Pro. TJPW have their annual Golden Week show at Korakuen Hall on the same day as “ALL TOGETHER” so I assume that is one of the reasons they are involved here instead. However TJPW has a show in Kobe the same day as UJPW in Sapporo so who knows what is being planned. UJPW eventually wants to run shows all over Japan to develop pro wrestling across the country. They still need to abide by all of the members having different schedules to avoid plans from clashing with each other. They admit this is an aspect the members will have to work on more.
Dramatic DDT 