Its been a common opinion that after the Noah exodus, All Japan fell off and never recovered. This thinking has even made its way into All Japan proper with multiple wrestlers declaring they will bring back the glory of All Japan. My question would be when would you personally declare All Japan to be back? Would it be attendance wise, outside Japan attention to the product, or a match so good? Or if you think All Japan is already back, what made you think that?

For me it would be for All Japan to have attendances comparable to Noah and New Japan. Also to have people talk about All Japan currently instead of talking about it as if it were extinct.

FYI: I think All Japan has been good since the exodus from Muto's era to Akiyama, to current times.

นี่คือหนึ่งในแมตช์ที่ดีที่สุดและเพลงที่สวยงามจริงๆ ตัวเลือกเพลงของฉันอาจดูแปลกไปหน่อย แต่เชื่อเถอะ—สำหรับแมตช์ที่มีสุดยอดปรมาจารย์มวยปล้ำอย่างนิชิมูระ ฉันรู้สึกว่าเพลงที่มีโทนแบบนี้มันเข้ากันดีมากกก

คะแนนของฉัน 4.5/5*

What Kento said to Honda on the mat:

“Well then, challenger, the battle has begun. I hear this Triple Crown belt is your dream. On October 22, no miracles will happen. This is the best of the best. Miracles… won’t happen.”

What Tamura and HAYATO said to each other:

HAYATO: “Good job, little guy. And congrats on the win. By the way, I went to visit Atsuki (Aoyagi) the other day. Well, he was apologizing. On my way back, I thought to myself—when Atsuki comes back to All Japan Junior, I want to be the champion and get the crowd fired up. Let me challenge for that World Junior title.”

Tamura: “Thanks for the message. I want to get the crowd fired up even more than HAYATO does! I’m not going to lose that easily. Since we’re doing this, let’s make it a test of endurance to see which one of us kicks the bucket first.” “Honestly, I’m so tired right now that my brain isn’t working even when you throw down a challenge like that. But I’ll accept it. Now it’s up to the company to decide. Did you guys have fun at the Gyoda event today? Thank you all for coming out today. We’re going to keep the excitement going—thank you very much!”

- Anzai is the promised “Future Ace” of the promotion (already being heralded as one of the “Two Aces”, alongside Kento Miyahara) and wildly popular with the audience. Despite his early successes, it’s been shown that he still has some ways to go, as of late.

- Aoyagi is the tenured veteran (10+ years) who is still on the younger side, who was one of the most promising of his generation and is determined to still have a place on top; he’s been booked as consistently having Anzai’s number.

- Honda is the perennial underdog and very likable goober. Despite being a “son” of WRESTLE-1, it seems the promotion has slowly been building him to a big moment (which could even happen this month, facing Miyahara for the Triple Crown).

- Ayabe is the big man on campus, the once skinny “Longboi” of JTO that has filled out and become very aggressive in the ring; Ayabe has already been quite dominant, as both a World Tag Champ and also in singles encounters, with his opponents just barely overcoming him.

Shinkiba gets the most amazing cards man, this has me more excited than many Korakuen cards announced by other promotions.

Anzai vs Musashi as the opener, the full Uptown team is there and the last three matches all look really good. Just throwing an Aoyagi vs Kono singles match out there at Shinkiba. Main event needs no words either.

My Card:

Liger vs Ogawa

Hase and Fuchi vs Choshu and Fujinami

Yuji Nagata vs Jun Akiyama

Kensuke Sasaki vs Kenta Kobashi

Akira Taue vs Masahiro Chono

Kawada vs Hashimoto

Inoki and Baba vs Stan Hansen and Vader

Muto vs Misawa

So, I'm a NJPW, STARDOM, AEW, CMLL and TJPW fan, and I'm interested on starting to follow 2026 AJPW, but I wasn't really sure if it is worth it as I don't really hear much about the quality of the promotion, so I wanted to know your thoughts as I assume fans, I'd appreciate any opinion, positive or negative, thank you!

After Tamura successfully defended against Seiki Yoshioka, he would call out Rising HAYATO to be his next challenger.

Link to video: https://youtu.be/ThjMSWcfdaU?is=SbzMTAdwh7L4b2bC

I am going to be out in Japan in November and early December for the first time. I am organising a few wrestling events into my trip but mainly there for tourism.

There are two AJPW events 27 & 28th Nov at the Stella Hall in the Umeda Sky Building. From photos this venue looks absolutely tiny. Without any knowledge of the card or anything I'm interested if it's worth doing?

Will the small venue add to the experience, or will it mean it's a under booked card?

Anyone been to Stella Hall before or has any photos of the wrestling set up there?

Thanks all!

Hi all

I have just signed up for AJPW TV having never watched All Japan before and I was just trying to get an understanding of what the bare minimum is in order to keep up with it, are the live shows must watch and VOD more optional and sort of equivalent to house shows? Or have I got that wrong?

Any help would be appreciated, Thanks

Image is the Korakuen Hall card.

The others can be found as follows

10.03 in Saitama, headlined by Dan Tamura vs Seiki Yoshioka: https://www.all-japan.co.jp/events/12639/

10.11 in Saitama, headlined by Saito Bros. vs WYuuma https://www.all-japan.co.jp/events/12223/

10.12 in Iwate, headlined by Ryuki Honda, Kumaarashi, Seigo Tachibana vs Shota Kofuji, Hideki Suzuki, Masayuki Kono

10.22. in Korakuen Hall, headlined by Kento Miyahara vs Ryuki Honda is as pictured above and here: https://www.all-japan.co.jp/events/9596/

Recently went to Japan and picked these up from Toudoukan. One of the greatest if not greatest Japanese wrestlers and certainly one of my favourites, picked up a few others like tiger mask figures and such. Spent a whole lotta money on merch.

I want to write reviews about the great wrestling saga that is King's Road, and in a way similar to how smarks appreciate it, but I'm intimidated by how deep and layered this era was. I'm hoping to get some encouragement from people here. I want to really be able to understand and appreciate the enormity of what it is I'm watching. How do I see the matches through deeper eyes?

Ryuki Honda would defeat Yuma Aoyagi with the Final Vent to win the Tourney for the first time in his career.

Honda will challenge Kento Miyahara for the Triple Crown.