Next Generation Tournament ’25

September 22, 2025

Now in its third year the Next Generation Tournament has become established as Tokyo Joshi Pro’s annual showcase for its rookie wrestlers. The first two tournaments were put together particularly to highlight the wrestlers who debuted in 2023 but Tetsuya Koda reckons that group has now graduated past their rookie status so this year’s tournament only focuses on wrestlers who debuted in 2024 and 2025. Personally I agree with the idea that this should only be open to wrestlers with less than two years of experience.

That leaves a small field of four competitors: Kira Summer, Chika Nanase, Uta Takami and Ren Konatsu. For that reason Koda is taking inspiration from both the World Baseball Classic and also esports by adopting a double elimination bracket. That means wrestlers need to be beaten twice in order to be knocked out of the tournament. The opening bracket will be determined by a lottery and the tournament winner will be granted a title shot of their choice out of the three TJPW championships.

Those who lose a match will move down into the Losers Bracket while the two winners qualify for the final of the Winners Bracket. By the end of the tournament, the grand final will be between the Winners Bracket Champion and the Loser’s Bracket Champion but due to the double elimination rule, the Losers Champion must beat the Winners Champion twice to win the tournament. The Winners Champion will only need to beat the Losers Champion once.

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TOKYO JOSHI PRO “TJPW AUTUMN VICTORY IN SHINAGAWA”, 04/10/2025
Tokyo Shinagawa Prince Hotel Club eX

1. Next Generation Tournament ’25 – Round 1A: Kira Summer Vs Chika Nanase
2. Next Generation Tournament ’25 – Round 1B: Uta Takami Vs Ren Konatsu

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TOKYO JOSHI PRO “TJPW AUTUMN VICTORY IN SHINJUKU VOL. 1”, 12/10/2025
Shinjuku FACE

1. Next Generation Tournament ’25 – Losers Bracket: Loser Of Match 1A Vs Loser Of Match 1B
2. Next Generation Tournament ’25 – Winners Bracket: Winner Of Match 1A Vs Winner Of Match 1B

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TOKYO JOSHI PRO “TJPW AUTUMN VICTORY IN TAKASAKI”, 19/10/2025
Gunma G-Messe Main Hall (Takasaki City)

1. Next Generation Tournament ’25 – Losers Bracket: Winner Of Losers Bracket Vs Loser Of Winners Bracket

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TOKYO JOSHI PRO “TJPW AUTUMN VICTORY IN RYOGOKU”, 26/10/2025
Tokyo Ryogoku KFC Hall

1. Next Generation Tournament ’25 – Final: Winner Of Winners Bracket Vs Winner Of Losers Bracket

If the Winners Bracket Champion is victorious, she outright wins the tournament. If the Losers Bracket Champion is victorious, the final will be reset and an immediate rematch will take place to crown the tournament winner.

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Title Match In Tokorozawa, Gym Trainer Kotoka, TJ – PW Kakukaku Festival

September 22, 2025

DDT “DRAMATIC EXPO 2025”, 23/09/2025
Osaka Namba SkyO Convention Hall

1. Hideki Okatani Vs Hinata Kasai
2. Ilusion & MJ Paul Vs Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida
3. KANON’s Birthday Commemoration Match ~ Special Tag Match: MAO & KANON (w/ KIMIHIRO) Vs Chris Brookes & Danshoku Dieno
4. Kazuki Hirata & Antonio Honda Vs Soma Takao & Kazuma Sumi
5. Special Single Match: Akito Vs Takeshi Masada
6. Jun Akiyama 33rd Anniversary Commemoration Match ~ Special 6-Man Tag Match: Jun Akiyama, HARASHIMA & Yuki Ueno Vs Kazusada Higuchi, Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Daichi Sato
7. KO-D Tag Team Titles: Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya (c) Vs To-y & Yuya Koroku

A championship match, a wrestling debut anniversary and a birthday are just some of the things to look forward to tomorrow.

The current Right To Challenge Arm Cover holders are Yukio Naya (Red) and Yuki Ueno (Blue).

GANBARE☆PRO “TOKOROZAWA PARK TOWN BOX OFFICE”, 27/09/2025
Saitama Tokorozawa Park Town Shopping Arcade

1. Gota Ihashi & Sentaro Motoshima Vs Munetatsu Nakamura & Yasu Urano
2. Aja Kong & Yuna Manase Vs Moeka Haruhi & YuuRI
3. Shiro Koshinaka, Ken Ohka & Shota Kawakami Vs Yumehito Imanari, Keisuke Ishii & Shinichiro Tominaga
4. Spirit Of Ganbare World Tag Team Titles: Shigehiro Irie & Mizuki Watase (c) Vs Ryota Nakatsu & Takumi Tsukamoto

For the first time ever Ganbare☆Pro is holding a title match at their annual shopping arcade show at Tokorozawa Park Town. It is an inter-promotional match too because the home team Shigehiro Irie & Mizuki Watase are defending the Spirit Of Ganbare World Tag Team Titles against the two BASARA management wrestlers Ryota Nakatsu & Takumi Tsukamoto. Also on the show are Shiro Koshinaka and Aja Kong as special guests.

SUPER JAPAN “COME AGAIN 2025”, 14/10/2025
Shinjuku FACE

0. Exhibition Match: Sanshiro Takagi Vs Munenori Sawa
1. Mio Shirai Vs DJ Nira
2. 3 Way Tag Match: MIKAMI & Jun Masaoka Vs Shota & Ryoma Tsukamoto Vs Brahman Shu & Brahman Kei
3. Special Tag Match: Suwama & Yuki Kamifuku Vs Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Momoka Hanazono
4. Special Single Match: Yuji Nagata Vs Shinya Aoki
5. Special Tag Match: Gym Trainer Kotoka & Mac Matsushita Vs Fuminori Abe & Bryan Ishizaka

Back in March former Dragon Gate wrestler Kotoka reemerged after a multiple year long absence away from the ring to be a part of Kazuki Hirata’s 15th Anniversary show. Then he sort of disappeared again but now he’s back to wrestle on a Super Japan show. Wrestling hasn’t been his priority in years because he has a career managing many, many gyms across Tokyo and Osaka (he currently has 24 gyms according to his Instagram account) so he is now going to use the name Gym Leader Kotoka, at least for this match. Kotoka will be part of a “Dragon Gene” tag team with Mac Matsushita to take on the super indie tag team of monk wrestler Fuminori Abe and Filipino wrestler Bryan Ishizaka.

TOKYO JOSHI PRO “ADDITIONAL ATTACK ’25”, 18/10/2025
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Princess Tag Team Titles: Yuki Kamifuku & Wakana Uehara (c) Vs Yuna Manase & Toga
2. Princess Of Princess Title: Miu Watanabe (c) Vs Yuki Aino

It’s all new champions across Tokyo Joshi Pro and two of them have defences lined up for the October Korakuen Hall show. Miu Watanabe is putting the newly won Princess Of Princess Title on the line against Yuki Aino in order to see how much passion Aino can bring to the match.

Yuna Manase & Toga were already the next challengers for the Princess Tag Team Titles and now they will face Ober Eats instead of Kyoraku Kyomei. The dynamic to watch out for here is how Yuki Kamifuku and Yuna Manase will fight each other. They used to team together as Cat’s Pye and one of Kamifuku’s failed attempts to win the tag titles came from that team.

TOKYO JOSHI PRO “TJPW KAKUKAKU FESTIVAL PART 1 TEAM TJ”, 24/11/2025
Tokyo Itabashi Green Hall

Team TJ: Yuki Kamifuku, Arisu Endo, Rika Tatsumi, Hyper Misao, Yuki Aino, Mahiro Kiryu, Yuki Arai, Kaya Toribami, HIMAWARI, Kira Summer, Chika Nanase and Uta Takami

TOKYO JOSHI PRO “TJPW KAKUKAKU FESTIVAL PART 2 TEAM PW”, 24/11/2025
Tokyo Itabashi Green Hall

Team PW: Miu Watanabe, Wakana Uehara, Shoko Nakajima, Mizuki, Raku, Pom Harajuku, Suzume, Haru Kazashiro, Toga, Shino Suzuki, Mifu Ashida and Ren Konatsu

Later this November TJPW will be holding a doubleheader at Itabashi Green Hall. They decided to split the roster in half between the two shows. The first show will consist of “Team TJ” wrestlers and the second show will have “Team PW” wrestlers. Miyu Yamashita is on neither because she will be touring overseas during that period. Both shows will have around 4 or 5 matches each.

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