September 22, 2026
Opening / Up Up Girls (Pro-Wrestling) Mini-Live
Ring Announcer Shirai appeared at the opening of the event, broadcasting the standard rules and venue announcements before transitioning to the Up Up Girls (Pro-Wrestling) performance corner. The group held a mini-live performance of “Rabu-motto!” and led the crowd in the opening call.
Match 1: 15-Minute Time Limit ○ Sakura Hattori (5:56, Shinden Fudo-ryu Mae-jime Ura) Momo Sato ●
The match began with a handshake. The grappling exchanges on the mat went back-and-forth until Hattori launched a back elbow off the ropes. Sato was sent flying but immediately popped up with a shoulder tackle. Hattori followed up with a headlock takeover, a soccer kick, and an armlock. Sato escaped, returning fire with a body slam, a flurry of running corner elbows, and another shoulder tackle. Hattori retaliated with a barrage of leaping kicks and locked in an arm triangle, which Sato resisted. Sato dodged an overhead kick, leading to a striking rally. Hattori leaped onto the top turnbuckle, but Sato threw her down to the mat, hitting another body slam and immediately locking in a Boston crab.
Five minutes elapsed. Hattori reached the ropes and absorbed a flurry of elbows, but as Sato ran the ropes, Hattori caught her with a counter high kick. Hattori reapplied the arm triangle choke. Sato endured for a moment before finally submitting.
Match 2: 20-Minute Time Limit Shino Suzuki & ○ Uta Takami (9:50, Koala Clutch) Ren Konatsu & Shion Kanzaki ●
Konatsu and Takami started the match with a rapid-fire exchange of arm wringers; Konatsu hit an arm drag, but Takami reclaimed wrist control and backed away. Both teams tagged out. Suzuki grounded Kanzaki with a headlock, but Kanzaki sent her into the ropes and hit a back elbow. They traded corner attacks before Kanzaki trapped Suzuki, hyping the crowd with a call-and-response routine before delivering a dropkick. Suzuki immediately answered with a dropkick of her own and teamed up with Takami to give their opponents a “sightseeing tour” toward a “massive success at Ota Ward.” Takami tagged in and began working over the legs as the five-minute mark passed.
Suzuki hit a dropkick followed by a body slam. Kanzaki remained on the defensive but managed to counter a second body slam attempt into a roll-up, then hit a body slam of her own to tag in Konatsu. Konatsu utilized the ropes for an arm drag and a dropkick. Suzuki immediately fired back with a standing dropkick and a neckbreaker. Takami entered and hit a pendulum dropkick, looking for the Koala Clutch, but Konatsu resisted, locking in a headscissors and transitioning into shoulder blocks. Takami escaped. Takami blocked Konatsu’s Aries Comet, but Konatsu followed up by rolling her into a Konatsu Crush. Kanzaki tagged in.
Kanzaki hit a flurry of elbows and a dropkick. Takami resisted a Fujiwara armbar attempt, but Kanzaki immediately nailed a jumping back elbow. Takami grabbed the arm and rolled her up; when Konatsu rushed in to break the pin, Suzuki cleared her out with a dropkick. Kanzaki launched a belly-to-belly suplex, but Takami connected with a springboard missile kick and locked in the Koala Clutch to decisively end the match.
Match 3: 3-Way Match (20-Minute Time Limit) ○ Pom Harajuku (9:48, Backward Roll Cradle) Raku ● (The third participant was HIMAWARI)
In honor of Respect for the Aged Day, Harajuku entered dressed as an old man and forced Raku to transform into an old woman before the opening bell. Surrounded by two elderly people, HIMAWARI was utterly bewildered. Raku noted, “There’s a cutie right here,” tangling with HIMAWARI and grabbing her arm. HIMAWARI’s counterattack drew massive boos from the crowd, and Harajuku used her cane to trip HIMAWARI. The two elders ran the ropes in agonizingly slow motion, stepping over HIMAWARI’s back. HIMAWARI dodged a hair-pulling attack as the elders utilized tandem offense with the cane. They set up a slow-motion Oyasumi Express, which HIMAWARI effortlessly evaded. At this point, Raku snapped back to reality, taking off Harajuku’s wig to return her to normal. Reverting to her usual self, Raku properly executed the Oyasumi Express.
Raku hit a dropkick and the Max Toki, then tagged Harajuku. Harajuku landed a dropkick and went for the cover, but Raku warned her, “I’m not letting you pin her.” Harajuku used the Denden Daiko and went for another cover, prompting a furious Raku to break it up. HIMAWARI thwarted their double-team attempt with hair-whip strikes and blasted them both away with a John Woo dropkick at the five-minute mark. She locked them both in a single-leg Boston crab. Harajuku countered HIMAWARI’s Princess Drop with the Laforet Harajuku, hyping herself up with a dropkick. Harajuku launched a missile kick and attempted the Pom de Justice, but HIMAWARI dodged and hit a facecrusher. HIMAWARI locked in a single-leg Boston crab, but the elderly version of Raku returned to the ring to break it up.
Raku handed the wig back to Harajuku, and the “old man” delivered a cane strike from the top turnbuckle—but accidentally hit the “old woman.” HIMAWARI immediately planted the old man with a Princess Drop. Raku took the wig back and delivered a flurry of chops. HIMAWARI blocked a brain chop follow-up by lifting Raku, but Raku countered with a roll-up and hit the Kagayaki. Raku immediately connected with the Doctor Yellow, but Harajuku broke up the pin with a Pom de Justice. Harajuku then quickly trapped Raku in a roll-up to steal the three count.
Match 4: 20-Minute Time Limit ○ Wakana Uehara & Toga (10:28, Pinfall) Chika Nanase & Kira Summer ● Winning Move: Sushi Tornado
Nanase and Uehara started the match with a gritty exchange on the mat before tagging out to Summer and Toga. They dodged each other’s attacks until Summer swept Toga’s legs and rolled her up. Summer followed with a shoulder tackle, but Toga resisted a body slam and slammed Summer instead. Uehara tagged in, applying a headscissors, but Summer escaped and executed a body slam. Nanase tagged in and hit a John Woo, followed by a running corner tackle and another tackle in the center of the ring. Uehara landed on her feet out of a body slam, hit a cartwheel dropkick, and tagged Toga.
Toga executed a fallaway slam and a Rolling Thunder as five minutes elapsed. Nanase escaped a muffler hold and fought back with a running elbow. Nanase absorbed Uehara’s space rolling attack, answered with a stiff elbow, and tagged Summer. After a double-team sequence, Summer locked in an armlock, transitioning into a Samoan Drop when Uehara escaped. Toga broke up the count. Uehara hit a dropkick and a snap suplex, quickly locking in the Banana Pillow. She dragged Summer to the center of the ring, but Nanase desperately broke the hold. Toga cleared Nanase out with an elbow, and Uehara nailed Summer with an enzuigiri. Uehara then executed the Sushi Tornado for the three count.
Match 5: 20-Minute Time Limit ○ Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao (12:21, European Clutch) Mizuki & Yuki Kamifuku ●
Before the bell, Misao took the microphone and touched upon Kamifuku’s impending retirement, admitting she was “feeling emotional.” Acknowledging Kamifuku’s final four months, Misao pledged to have a fair and square handshake. However, it was entirely a ruse for a sneak attack. Mizuki caught the ambush, Kamifuku hit an eye rake, and Misao retaliated with aerosol spray. Nakajima tagged in and began twisting Kamifuku’s fingers apart. Kyoraku Kyomei executed a tandem split-leg submission, and Misao used the ropes to target the arm. Kamifuku managed to fire off a kick from the mat, landing a big boot to create space for a tag to Mizuki. Mizuki hit a dropkick and a crossbody, but Misao blocked her diving double foot stomp with a knee strike. Misao retaliated with a crossbody of her own for a two count.
Mizuki reversed a chickenwing facelock into a facelock of her own, but Misao pinned her shoulders down to force a break. Misao hit the Hyper Gotham Crash and tagged Nakajima. Mizuki countered Nakajima’s Senton Atomico follow-up with a corner complete shot and tagged Kamifuku. A double-team attempt by Mizuki and Kamifuku failed, allowing Nakajima to nail Mizuki with a Rider Kick. Kamifuku trapped Nakajima in an octopus hold (Manji-gatame). Nakajima countered into a roll-up, and Kamifuku responded with a massive boot over the top rope. Kyoraku Kyomei launched a double-team assault, culminating in Nakajima locking in a double-arm submission and transitioning into the Unmanned Local Train Hold.
Kamifuku narrowly escaped and hit a big boot. Nakajima swept her legs and delivered a flurry of elbows. Kamifuku returned fire, sparking a heavy exchange. Nakajima dodged a big boot, executing a headscissors whip (tijeras) into a Rider Kick. Mizuki stopped Nakajima’s 619 attempt, assisting Kamifuku with a diving double foot stomp to Nakajima’s face. Ten minutes elapsed. Kamifuku hit a brainbuster, and Mizuki hit a diving foot stomp. Kamifuku’s reverse Fameasser secured a two count. Misao broke up a reverse chop strike with a knee, cleared Mizuki out with a Dragon Slayer, and Nakajima launched a Tope Suicida onto Kamifuku on the outside. Nakajima threw Kamifuku back into the ring and prepared for Hypami Returns. Kamifuku stopped her with an eye poke, caught Nakajima on the top turnbuckle, and hit an avalanche brainbuster. Kamifuku immediately went for a standard Fameasser, but Nakajima masterfully countered the impact into a sudden roll-up to snatch a reversal three count.
Match 6: 20-Minute Time Limit ○ Yuki Arai, Miu Watanabe, Rika Tatsumi & Miyu Yamashita (15:28, Scorpion Deathlock) Suzume ●, Arisu Endo, Yuki Aino & Haru Kazashiro
Entrances occurred in the following order: Endo, Yamashita, Prism Greed, Daydream, Suzume, and Arai. The challenger squad formed a huddle to unify their spirits. Yamashita and Endo started.
They read each other’s movements until Yamashita set up for a stomach buster, which Endo countered with a roll-up. During a scramble near the corner, Yamashita connected with a brutal high kick. Arai tagged in, hitting a dropkick and a knee drop. Endo fired back with a dropkick and tagged Suzume. Suzume hit a roll-up into a dropkick; Arai responded with a body slam and tagged Watanabe. Suzume used the ropes for a Hachinosu Eight Knot, and Prism Greed immediately launched a tandem attack. Kazashiro was spiked with a body slam but instantly popped back up to stay in the fight. Watanabe obliterated her with a shoulder tackle, and Daydream combined forces for a double double-axe handle. They successfully hit their signature “Yossha Ikuzo! Elbow.”
Tatsumi executed a backbreaker into a sleeper hold. Kazashiro escaped and locked in an armbar while Aino neutralized Watanabe. However, Watanabe’s attempt to break the hold accidentally hit Tatsumi. While Tatsumi confronted Watanabe, Kazashiro rolled Tatsumi up. Kazashiro hit a low-altitude crossbody and tagged Aino. Aino delivered a stomach buster to Tatsumi and utilized the ropes for a corkscrew senton as the five-minute mark passed. Tatsumi dodged a flying shoulder tackle, hitting a low-altitude crossbody into a dragon screw. Tatsumi looked poised to tag Watanabe but yelled “No way!” and refused the tag. Aino immediately caught her with a bulldog, but Tatsumi retaliated with a sliding hip attack and a cover. They traded shoulder tackles and hip attacks until suffering a double down.
Tatsumi once again ignored Watanabe, opting to tag Yamashita. Endo attacked with rapid-fire offense, but Yamashita shut her down with a barrage of middle kicks to the lower back. During a rope-break scramble, Endo shoved Yamashita to the floor, but Yamashita countered the outside brawl with a front slam and ran the ring apron for a PK to the chest. Back in the ring, Yamashita hit a Return Crash. Endo landed on her feet to avoid the Attitude Adjustment, but Yamashita struck her in the back of the head with a high kick. Endo dodged a Skull Kick, landed a superkick, and tagged Suzume. Yamashita nailed a running corner high kick and tagged Arai. Arai missed a running corner big boot and a dropkick, allowing Suzume to tangle her up in the Hachinosu Eight Knot. Ten minutes elapsed as Arai desperately forced a rope break.
Suzume unloaded a flurry of elbows, but Arai powered through, grabbing her for a Full Nelson Buster. Suzume resisted, hitting a facecrusher. Arai blocked Suzume’s attempt to use the turnbuckle for an attack and hit the Full Nelson Buster. Arai locked in the Scorpion Deathlock, but Suzume quickly reached the ropes. Arai climbed to the top turnbuckle, but Suzume intercepted her with elbows from below. They traded blows on the turnbuckle until Arai attempted a modified brainbuster. Suzume landed on her feet, hit a facecrusher, and went for the finishing Ring a Bell, but Arai launched her away. Suzume caught a big boot, Endo provided the assist, Kazashiro fired off a leg lariat, and Suzume hit a low-altitude Ring a Bell.
Yamashita rushed in to break it up, but Endo dumped her with a fireman’s carry slam (Suisha Otoshi). Watanabe planted Endo with an avalanche hold and hit Kazashiro with a double-axe handle. Aino intercepted Daydream’s double-team finisher attempt, causing Watanabe’s double-axe handle to accidentally strike Tatsumi again. Remaining in the ring, Suzume walked the ropes for a facecrusher, but Arai dodged it and hit the Shinjinsho (Rookie of the Year). Suzume evaded the Finally to attempt a Ring a Bell, but Arai caught her mid-air, muscled her into a Full Nelson Buster, and locked in a deep Scorpion Deathlock. The 15-minute mark passed. Suzume held on for as long as she could before finally tapping out.
Post-Match & Backstage Comments
A Crack in Daydream? Tension Boils Over Before Title Match
After the match, Yamashita flaunted her EVE Championship belt in Endo’s face as Arai took the microphone.
Arai: “The champion team wins! I’ll be fighting Suzume-san for this Princess of Princess belt at Ota Ward. We’ve had these preview matches over and over, but I’m so happy that I was finally able to leave a tangible result here. At the same time, I feel like it’s still not enough. I feel like Suzume-san’s eyes were telling me she can do so much more—and so can I. For our remaining preview matches, I want to surpass that version of Suzume-san again and again. I want to sweep our last two preview matches, win at Ota Ward, and keep sprinting forward from there! Please keep watching us! Thank you for today!”
Yamashita: (In a remarkably loud voice) “Arisu!! You can hear me at this volume, right? Yamashita is nowhere near done. Keep raising your passion, get stronger, and stand before me. You hear me, Arisu Endo?!”
Watanabe then offered the microphone to Tatsumi. As she handed it over, she said, “Don’t speak before me,” causing the microphone to drop in the confusion. Yamashita tried to calm Tatsumi down, but Tatsumi slapped Watanabe’s hand away, wearing an expression of pure disgust. With no other option, Arai nervously took the microphone back.
Arai: “So… anyway, I am very happy today. All seats sold out! Thank you very much. And since this is being broadcast on YouTube, I hope everyone watching on YouTube had fun too!”
Yamashita: “It was fun!”
Arai: “I’m so glad! Thank you! Yes, so, we here at Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling will continue to fight with everything we have in every match, every day. Please keep your eyes on the road to Ota Ward, Ota Ward itself, and everything Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling does beyond that! Please stay by our side forever! Thank you for today!”
After the promo, Tatsumi and Watanabe flanked Yamashita and Arai for a commemorative photo. Tatsumi then quickly exited the ring, leaving Watanabe behind.
Backstage Comments
Yamashita: “Fighting Arisu in these preview matches… I want our battles to be about how hot we can make each other and how far we can push each other’s limits. Even though today was an 8-woman tag and relatively short, it made me feel like our title match is going to be incredibly good. I really felt Arisu’s strength and passion today. But still, we’re not done. There are things I haven’t shown yet, and I’m sure Arisu hasn’t shown everything either. My emotional tension spiked through the roof in today’s match. Fighting together as champions with these four was incredibly fun and wildly stimulating.”
Arai: “This was my third preview match against Suzume-san. Every time we fight, I feel her gear shifting higher and higher during the match. I felt it strongly again today… and it’s frustrating to admit I was influenced by it. Seeing Suzume-san made me realize I couldn’t just stay as I was, which brought out the version of Arai you saw today. It’s frustrating, but the result is that I won. I’m glad I could finally leave a direct result in a preview match. But I still want to keep beating Suzume-san, and of course, I want to win on the day of the title match. I lost in my previous International title match, so I feel like I’ve repaid that debt for now, but the real work starts here. I want to show everyone versions of myself they don’t even know yet.”
Tatsumi: “I wanted to dominate today’s preview match with a perfect game. Our team won, but because of Miu… because of Miu, things didn’t go smoothly. And she wouldn’t even let me speak first on the mic. Well, we still have preview matches left, but I can easily beat Prism Greed all by myself.”
Watanabe: “Wait, I didn’t do anything with malicious intent toward Rika-san. Things just happened to not go smoothly today, but I didn’t think it meant Daydream was falling apart… All I said was ‘Should we talk normally?’ and offered her to go ahead. I don’t think she needs to fixate on that.”
Tatsumi: “Because you never talk…”
Watanabe: (Interrupting) “I don’t think you need to go out of your way to say you’ll fight alone. I don’t understand why you need to say that.”
Tatsumi: “You should have just let me speak first.”
Watanabe: “I speak when I need to speak. I just asked ‘How about it?’ today, and that’s how it ended up. I don’t know, I don’t feel like I did anything that bad. A misfire happens in pro-wrestling. True, I might have spoken a bit strongly, but for that, I’m sorry.”
Tatsumi: “You’re just saying that.”
Watanabe: “I admit I said it a bit strongly, but…”
Tatsumi: “You aimed for me, didn’t you.”
Watanabe: “I didn’t aim for you!”
Tatsumi: “…You did it on purpose, right?”
Watanabe: “I didn’t, I didn’t! You’ll see if you watch the footage! Just watch it on Wrestle Universe later!”
Tatsumi: “Fine, fine. You’re annoying, so annoying!” (Tatsumi leaves the room alone)
Arai: “Eh, what…?”
Watanabe: “I think she’ll understand if we just talk calmly, so it’s fine. We will fight as a duo, truly.”
Yamashita: “That’s probably for the best. Let’s do our best and shift our mindset.”
Arai: “I’ll do my best!”
Endo: “This was my first preview match since challenging Yamashita-san was decided. I realized all over again just how incredibly strong Yamashita-san is. But I’m incredibly strong too. I haven’t shown my true depths yet. I lost today, but as long as I win the next one, and the next one, and the next one, it’ll be fine. If I win the next, next, next, next, next one until eternity, I think I’ll be fine.”
Aino: “Haru was agonizing over a lot of things, but she made up her mind to do her best regardless, and I really felt that while fighting alongside her today. So I’m glad about today, but in the end, we lost as a team. I need to explode my fighting spirit even more and do my best to charge straight toward victory.”
Kazashiro: “I feel like I graduated from my gloomy self today.”
Aino: “Oh!”
Kazashiro: “I graduated, so now I just need to trust Yuki-san. I want to trust myself more too, win our remaining one or two preview matches, and head into October 3.”
Suzume: “I have this incredibly reliable challenger team with me, and I’m both a champion and a challenger right now. I should be greedier than anyone else today, but I was the one who got pinned, and it’s incredibly frustrating…”
Aino: “We won’t lose when it comes to being greedy.”
Kazashiro: “We are Prism Greed, after all. It means desire. The incarnation of desire.”
Endo: “We won’t lose, we won’t lose.”
Aino: “We won’t lose on greed. Sorry, Suzume, but we won’t.”
Suzume: “I haven’t lost either, you know.”
Aino: “But honestly, I’m kind of happy. We lost to the champions as a team today. Frankly, we suffered a crushing defeat, but the fact that none of us are broken has given me power again. No one can beat an unbreakable heart.”
Suzume: “Then let’s all get those belts, form a team again after Ota Ward, and fight!”
Aino: (When asked about the tension in Daydream) “Well, it was frustrating having the belts flaunted in our faces at the end, but those two weren’t standing side-by-side, were they.”
Suzume: “That’s rare for them.”
Kazashiro: “Well, I don’t care about them! We are good friends.”
Aino: “I don’t care how tense they get. While they’re doing that, we’ll deepen our bond and get even stronger.”
Kazashiro: “Exactly.”
Translator’s Notes
- Respect for the Aged Day (敬老の日 – Keiro no Hi): The gimmick utilized in Match 3 (Pom Harajuku dressing as an old man and transforming Raku into an old woman) is a thematic nod to Respect for the Aged Day, a Japanese national holiday honoring elderly citizens, which fell closely to the date of this event.
- Prism Greed Typo: In the original Japanese text covering the main event entrances, the tag team of Haru Kazashiro and Yuki Aino was bizarrely transcribed as “春烈プリード” (Shunretsu Plead). This is clearly an OCR or transcription error in the publication’s raw text for “Prism Greed” (プリズムグリード), which Kazashiro explicitly confirms as the team’s name during the backstage comments (“We are Prism Greed, after all. It means desire”). It has been translated correctly as Prism Greed in the match report.
- Shinkansen (Bullet Train) References: Raku is famously a train enthusiast, and her signature maneuvers referenced in Match 3—the Max Toki, Kagayaki, and Doctor Yellow—are all named after prominent Japanese Shinkansen bullet trains and service lines.
- Unmanned Local Train Hold (無人在来線固め): Hyper Misao and Shoko Nakajima’s double-team submission hold is named after the climactic “Unmanned Local Train Bomb” sequence from the 2016 film Shin Godzilla.
- Laforet Harajuku: Pom Harajuku’s counter move in Match 3 is named after Laforet Harajuku, a famous department store and prominent fashion landmark located in the Harajuku district of Tokyo.
- Shinjinsho & Finally: Yuki Arai’s finishing sequence involves the Shinjinsho (Rookie of the Year kick) and the Finally (an axe kick). Both moves are named as tributes to her background as an idol; “Finally” was a major release/theme for her idol group SKE48, and she won the Tokyo Sports Pro-Wrestling Rookie of the Year award in 2021.