IIt’s too late. I have already depicted you as the nerdy Kento Miyahara and myself as the devastatingly handsome and debonair Yuma Anzai.
Years ago, I followed AJPW more closely than any other company, even EVOLVE. Kento Miyahara’s charisma (and entrance theme) was simply that powerful; it’s the only explanation I have for why I watched every night of the Champion Carnival in 2017 and 2018. (It certainly wasn’t because of Yutaka Yoshie and Takao Omori.) Seeing Miyahara live in Korakeun Hall ranks even higher on my wishlist than seeing Sareee live, and I was prepared to fly to Las Vegas on a whim to see her. KEN-TO! KEN-TO!
Miyahara’s great match with Anzai at the end of 2025 drew the Ōru Japan Puroresuringu freak in me out of deep hibernation. And that freak was delighted to sample this year’s Champion Carnival. (For an alternate perspective, check out Wrestling Omakase’s recent episode about Champion Carnival Days 2 and 3.)
In this edition, I covered:
- Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Yuma Aoyagi (AJPW, April 12, 2026)
- Yuma Anzai vs. Go Shiozaki (AJPW, April 12, 2026)
- Go Shiozaki vs. Kento Miyahara (AJPW, April 18, 2026)
- Yuma Anzai vs. Kento Miyahara (AJPW, April 19, 2026)
- Kengo Mashimo vs. Yuma Anzai (AJPW, April 23, 2026)
- El Lindaman vs. Fuminori Abe (Shinya Aoki Produce, April 20, 2026)
Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Yuma Aoyagi
AJPW Champion Carnival 2026 Day 1
April 12, 2026
Cagematch ranking as of 5/1/26: 94
Daisuke Sekimoto’s match against Jeff Cobb from January 2025 has served as my measuring stick for matches between meaty men who aim to slap meat together. Unfortunately, meaty men’s attempts sometimes fall short, but I am really impressed when they meet or surpass the standard that Sekimoto and Cobb set. Though Sekimoto was in his gradual decline at 45 years old, he was still capable of rising to the occasion. I had hoped that he would summon the spirit of 2016, when he won the Champion Carnival, for at least this match.
In my personal 30 Under 30 list last year, I had wondered if Yuma Aoyagi would find his way out of the “light and pop” zone and back to a place where I could take him seriously as a wrestler. At 30 years old, he seemed to be eclipsed by the other prominent Yuma in the company. I also had questions about whether AJPW had Aoyagi in good standing after his suspension over his car accident. (He caused the accident while driving with an expired license.) Against Sekimoto, Aoyagi had a chance to impress against one of my standard bearers, a standout wrestler in his generation. (That said, I’m not sure when or why Sekimoto stole the haircut from one of my aunties.)
From the jump, watching Sekimoto move reminded me of Duke’s assessment of Rocky Balboa’s options against Mason “The Line” Dixon. Sekimoto didn’t have the same foot speed that, combined with his power and toughness, had made special. However, he still had that power and toughness, so he could still absorb Aoyagi’s dropkick and run him over with a shoulder charge. And he could still carry Aoyagi on his shoulders around ringside to the crowd’s delight, ignore Aoyagi’s strikes, and rock Aoyagi with hurtin’ bombs.
Unfortunately for Sekimoto, he plowed head first into Korakuen Hall’s barricades on his tope suicida because he sailed over Aoyagi. Despite Sekimoto’s collision and bleeding head wound, Aoyagi was the worse for wear. With the dynamics of Sekimoto as the inexorable force and Aoyagi the resistor trying to stop Sekimoto’s flow for just three seconds set, Sekimoto and Aoyagi created a frantic closing sequence. Aoyagi tried everything in his war crate to pin Sekimoto, but Sekimoto continued to rise. Sekimoto escaped Aoyagi’s attempt to hook him for the Rockstar Buster and reversed Aoyagi’s roll-up into a German suplex. Aoyagi continued to resist, so Sekimoto picked him up and put him down with an Attitude Adjustment.
I appreciated how this match framed Aoyagi’s tenacity and gave him some room to grow. He took the task of stopping Sekimoto seriously. Though he didn’t succeed, he earnestly tried, and I preferred that to his unserious, tongue-in-cheek approach to wrestling from the past few years. This also positioned Sekimoto as the most dangerous threat in his tournament block after Jun Saito withdrew due to injury. Though it wasn’t the first match of the tournament, it still provided an auspicious start to the proceedings.
You can watch this match and the show on AJPW.tv.
Yuma Anzai vs. Go Shiozaki
AJPW Champion Carnival 2026 Day 1
April 12, 2026
Cagematch ranking as of 5/1/26: 13
Yuma Anzai was one of the most highly touted rookie pro wrestlers to emerge in the past five years and almost immediately shot to the top of All Japan Pro Wrestling. With such a prodigious rise in AJPW, I had wondered what other stories Anzai could tell with AJPW’s limited cast. He faced almost everyone of note in AJPW’s orbit during the 140 days of his first and so far sole Triple Crown reign. He beat Katsuhiko Nakajima for the title and defended it against Miyahara, Hideki Suzuki, Suwama, Ryuki Honda, and Rei Saito before losing it to Yuma Aoyagi.
To AJPW’s credit, they shifted Anzai to the tag team scene so that Aoyagi and Jun Saito could establish themselves. (For the sake of argument, let’s agree to ignore Davey Boy Smith Jr.’s 57-days-long reign.) For 245 days, Anzai held the All Asia Tag Team Championship with Rising HAYATO. During that stretch, he also disappeared for a few months to apparently film his part in The Bachelorette Japan. For me, he announced his return in a major way when he challenged Miyahara for the Triple Crown Championship on New Year’s Eve 2025 in a match that ranked 17th on the VOW Matches of 2025 and 40th on Cagematch’s match guide for 2025 as of January 12.
As Anzai returned from the world of simulated romance to the world of simulated combat, Go Shiozaki made his escape from a NOAH dominated by Team 2000x. He landed in AJPW…and promptly joined AJPW’s own black-clad, rule-breaking faction, HAVOC. If you can’t beat them, emulate them elsewhere, I suppose. Shiozaki had a critically acclaimed but odd feeling title match against Miyahara in his third match in this AJPW tenure. He brought his usual sense of grit and grind with him even as he left his former colleague Atsushi Kotoge to deal with the ZERO1 World Heavyweight Championship that he neither wanted nor wanted to drop.
Still, it was good to see Shiozaki here, and I wish him the best of luck in his audition to replace Chairman Kaga in a hypothetical Iron Chef reboot. Give this man a bell pepper ASAP. Allez cuisine! However, I’m not sure that even the power of Kitchen Stadium would be enough to propel Shiozaki past Anzai’s sexy hip swivels at the start of the match.
That said, the intensity they imbued into their exchange of headlock takeovers was exhilarating. (I suppose that April 2026 was the moment for headlock takeovers.) Shiozaki and Anzai maintained the high intensity when their match made its way to the floor of Korakeun Hall. The crowd (and I) certainly appreciated Anzai’s youthful energy and intensity when he turned it around on Shiozaki.
It was hard to begrudge the Korakuen Hall crowd for chanting his name after that.
Naturally, Shiozaki, who’s in his element the most when he’s a grump, turned Anzai’s youthful exuberance against him. Anzai charged at Shiozaki, who countered with a low dropkick to Anzai’s ankle. That gave Shiozaki a target for his comeback and the match a solid narrative anchor. Shiozaki focused on damaging the leg, which gave Anzai ample opportunities to garner sympathy from the receptive crowd. For example, when Anzai was able to muster some mustard for his forearm strike, Shiozaki strategically chopped Anzai’s leg.
Shiozaki repeated this later by kicking Anzai’s injured leg after Anzai again summoned some strength to attack Shiozaki’s chest.
Anzai was able to create bursts of offense, and he remembered to remind the crowd about his leg pain even as he used it. It mostly made sense; he massaged his leg for a bit after he knocked Shiozaki down, and he clutched at his leg after elevating for this dropkick.
Shiozaki, meanwhile, continued to attack Anzai’s leg to stop his momentum, like kicking behind him at Anzai’s leg to block Anzai’s attempt a German suplex. Despite his easy ability to stop Anzai in his tracks and his potent chops, Shiozaki could not break Anzai’s spirit. He absorbed all of Shiozaki’s punishment and landed two German suplexes to try to set up his jumping knee attack, but Shiozaki dodged it and laid Anzai out with a lariat. Anzai and Shiozaki then gave me one of my favorite sequences: they geared up in opposing corners and charged each other.
Now with the wind at his back, Anzai pressed the attack with more knee attacks, but Shiozaki was undeniable. He overpowered Anzai on the turnbuckle to drop him with a twisting suplex and dropped him again with a Go Flasher that I thought was the end of Anzai. Yet, Anzai survived and fought his way out of Shiozaki’s setup for the Limit Break. Sensing that the momentum might shift again, Shiozaki lariated Anzai’s leg out from under his leg and caught him in a Texas Cloverleaf that made the crowd scream. To our satisfaction, Anzai survived.
Anzai flipped his way out of Shiozaki’s lariat and plopped him down with a backdrop driver and a pair of running knee strikes. He tried to set another jumping knee attack up, but Shiozaki just made him land on his neck twice with two brutal lariats. Anzai used his last reserves to survive those lariats, but Shiozaki’s third lariat finally knocked him out. With that, a bloodied Shiozaki scored his first points in the block.
Shiozaki and Anzai created a delightful, intense, and brutal match. I don’t love Anzai’s jumping or running knee attack as his signature offense, but he made up for that deficiency with everything else that he did. He was engaging on both offense and defense, and it was easy to understand why the crowd loved him so. Shiozaki, ever the grump, channeled his maximum grouchiness into fuel as he became more frustrated at Anzai’s tenacity. He was a great foil for the youthful and sympathetic Anzai here.
You can watch this match and the show on AJPW.tv. I highly recommend it.
Go Shiozaki vs. Kento Miyahara
AJPW Champion Carnival 2026 Day 2
April 18, 2026
Cagematch ranking as of 5/1/26: 89
It’s the rematch between Shiozaki and Miyahara after their aforementioned critically acclaimed Triple Crown Championship match from October 2025. It was also the 11th singles match between Shiozaki and Miyahara. Shiozaki held a lifetime record of 9-1 against Miyahara, though they’re 1-1 in Triple Crown Championship matches. Finally, it’s the second of the three most attractive matches that AJPW could offer its fans to kick off the Champion Carnival. Placing Shiozaki, Miyahara, and Anzai in the same block promised hot action. So far, Shiozaki and Anzai delivered. Here, it was Shiozaki and Miyahara’s turn.
Just hearing the opening strains of Miyahara’s entrance theme brought an unironic smile to my face.
Certain wrestlers just look right with a title belt around their waists. Ric Flair, Bret Hart, Goldberg (and yes, I intentionally positioned Hart and Goldberg next to each other in this sentence), Kazuchika Okada, Bryan Danielson, and Kento Miyahara just look…right with a title belt around their waist. The 875 fans’ chants of “Kento! Kento!” overcame Kinjofuto Arena sound-swallowing, cavernous capacity.
Miyahara’s strategy was as consistent as ever. He would aim to weaken his opponent so he could wrap his arms around them for the Shutdown German Suplex. Some could accuse Miyahara of being formulaic. I would be more charitable and say that he was consistent and that he knew how to wring every drop of drama from a proven match structure.
They started with matwork similar to what Shiozaki and Anzai had, and Miyahara was the aggressor to start. He squeezed the moment of tying Shiozaki up in the ropes so he could tease a clean break for as much as he could. Miyahara stayed aggressive and struck Shiozaki first, which caused Shiozaki to retreat outside the ring while Miyahara basked in the crowd’s adulation. If he weren’t so charismatic and if he didn’t have the history as AJPW’s young ace a decade ago, Miyahara would be a great vain heel.
The two veterans brawled around Kinjofuto Arena, and the highlight was Miyahara’s awkward contortions to fall to the floor for Shiozaki’s DDTs. Back inside the ring, Miyahara and Shiozaki worked at a deliberate pace; I mostly remembered Shiozaki’s chinlock on Miyahara, Shiozaki’s running knee on the apron to Miyahara’s head, and the look on Miyahara’s face as he slumped to the mat after Shiozaki’s knee attack.
Miyahara weathered Shiozaki’s offense and got to work; though I am not fluent in Japanese, I believe that Miyahara paid homage to Crixus by asking the crowd, “Shall we begin?” before launching his own running knee at Shizoaki. Unfortunately for Miyahara, Shiozaki assumed the role of Spartacus here and absorbed the damage to fuel his twisting suplex from the middle turnbuckle and his Go Flasher. Miyahara even managed to lock his arms around Shiozaki’s waist and lift him, but he couldn’t land the Shutdown German Suplex. Instead, after targeting Miyahara’s neck with the chinlock, Shiozaki decapitated Miyahara with a pair of lariats and won his second match in the tournament.
Since AJPW scheduled the three possible combinations of Anzai, Shiozaki, and Miyahara for the first three nights of the Champion Carnival, they also invited comparison amongst them. Anzai vs. Shiozaki had a better narrative about Anzai’s injured ankle, but Miyahara vs. Shiozaki had more starpower thanks to Miyahara. (Neither had a football to the groin, which was probably for the best.) I preferred Anzai vs. Shiozaki to Miyahara vs. Shiozaki, but my appetite was whetted for the last combination.
You can watch this match and the show on AJPW.tv.
Yuma Anzai vs. Kento Miyahara
AJPW Champion Carnival 2026 Day 3
April 19, 2026
Cagematch ranking as of 5/1/26: 12
AJPW tried to attract users to its streaming platform, AJPW.tv, by making the first three nights free to watch with an account and stacking its three biggest matches to headline each night. To leave viewers with the heaviest sense of FOMO possible, AJPW decided to blow out night three with its biggest possible match-up, a rematch between their old king and the prince in waiting. Come for Anzai vs. Miyahara; stay for the unlikely rise of Hideki Suzuki in Shinjuku FACE, the Kasukabe Fureai Cube, and Light Cube Utsunomiya.
Miyahara’s entrance was fascinating to watch. The Umeda Sky Building Stella Hall in Osaka was not as cavernous as Nagayo’s Kinjofuto Arena, but the chants of “Kento! Kento!” were subdued enough that I thought Miyahara might restart his entrance altogether to try to get louder chants from the crowd. (He’s done it before.) He didn’t sprint up the ring steps like how I remembered from his matches in 2017 and 2018. Then again, who among us can sprint up any steps the way we might have been able to in those before-times?
Anzai’s entrance was more business-like; he didn’t rush to the ring, but he didn’t demand the crowd’s tribute. (I mean, Miyahara had a whole section after his music ended where he conducted the crowd’s chanting of his whole name before Anzai’s entrance could start.) In further contrast, Anzai did jog up the ring steps. And it was probably for the best that Anzai didn’t hit the crowd with the hip swivels again.
Similar to Anzai vs. Shiozaki and Shiozaki vs. Miyahara, we got some drama from the opening lock-up to help define the characters. Anzai gave Miyahara a respectful tap on the chest in his clean break on the ropes. Conversely, Miyhara gifted Anzai a soft chop and some condescending pats on the head.
Anzai seemed stoic in the face of this disrespect, but he responded by chasing Miyahara out of the ring with a dropkick and beating Miyahara around the ring. To Miyahara’s credit, he reversed Anzai’s attempt to crash him with the ringpost in an impressively aggressive way.
Anzai gave as good as he got later with his jumping forearm strike.
Back inside the ring, Anzai choked Miyahara against the bottom rope with his leg, and that seemed to infuriate more than injure Miyahara. He ran after Anzai with his high kick, headbutts, and slaps, and then he posed over Anzai’s prone body for good measure. After sending Anzai back inside the ring, Miyahara taunted Anzai a bunch, kicked him in the face, and celebrated with a big whoop. Say what you want about Miyahara, but you can’t deny that he had style.
Look at pleased he was with this basic pin attempt.
Miyahara and Anzai also deserved credit for making a basic Boston Crab sequence work as well as it did. I greatly appreciated their timing on when Anzai would rise on his hands to crawl and when Miyahara would sit down on his submission hold.
Miyahara and Anzai had traded wins in singles prior to this Champion Carnival match. Miyahara defeated Anzai in their first match, but Anzai beat Miyahara to retain the Triple Crown Championship in their second match. In their third match, Miyahara beat Anzai to retain his Triple Crown Championship. Thus, Miyahara, the reigning king, clearly felt that he could patronize the prince in waiting, Anzai. Holding the advantage for the moment, Miyahara again slapped Anzai upside the head and swiped at his head with his foot. He even shoved Anzai away, effectively telling him to get that weak stuff outta here. Finally, he posed with Anzai like he had won the deadliest game.
All this and Miyahara’s showboating after hitting Anzai with two more dropkicks to the face built anticipation for when Anzai would deliver Miyahara his comeuppance. Thanks to a running forearm and some dropkicks, Anzai was able to lock Miyahara in the same chinlock that he was in earlier. Neither man could suplex the other over the top rope, but Anzai won a skirmish on the ring apron with a forearm strike and a jumping knee to the floor.
Now on the defensive, Miyahara dug deeply to fire himself up and exchange forearm blows with Anzai.
Miyahara, the charisma monster, would break off from his forearm battle to engage the crowd in small and BIG ways and made the case for why he still held the throne. Who could deny this man?
While I appreciated the contrast that Anzai’s stoicism provided in the face of Miyahara’s magnetism, I was also heartened to see that he had the spark in him. Anzai’s appeal was founded on his steady fortitude, which made this little bit of emotion leaking through stand out.
Back on the attack, Anzai got a near fall with a super underhook suplex. Miyahara tried to reverse the momentum with a lariat, but Anzai dodged the second and maintained control. By their next forearm exchange, Miyahara and Anzai had fully switched positions, with Miyahara on his knees sucking wind and grasping at Anzai. Miyahara suffered Anzai’s jumping knee strike, but he reset the stage after his knee collided with Anzai’s. That gave Miyahara enough space to set up his Blackout knee strike, which was not enough to finish Anzai.
With time running out, Anzai and Miyahara went for their reliable finishers. Anzai reached for the Gimlet, his “wristlock single-arm side electric chair lift dropped into a sit-out powerbomb,” while Miyahara tried to secure the Shutdown German Suplex. They teased the crowd with a definitive conclusion, but time expired as Miyahara lifted Anzai off his feet. For now, Miyahara retained the lead in their one-on-one matches, but Anzai could certainly claim that he was getting closer to Miyahara’s level.
Of the trinity, this match stood above the others. (I’d rank them Anzai vs. Miyahara, Anzai vs. Shiozaki, and Shiozaki vs. Miyahara.) Miyahara unleashed his charisma here, and the thirty minutes of this match passed faster than the twenty five minutes of Shiozaki vs. Miyahara. Anzai and Miyahara made for great foils, and each had their moments in the spotlight. So, the match showed Anzai’s progress since his last match with Miyahara, made the case for the prince in waiting to ascend, and advanced the Champion Carnival’s plot by giving each wrestler their first point from their draw.
You can watch this match and the show on AJPW.tv. Go watch it. It’s a very good one.
Kengo Mashimo vs. Yuma Anzai
AJPW Champion Carnival 2026 Day 4
April 23, 2026
Cagematch ranking as of 5/1/26: 152
18:13
Let it be known that I’ve been on board the Kengo Mashimo Auto since his 30 minute time limit draw with Kento Miyahara in the 2016 Champion Carnival. I also enjoyed his match that against Naoya Nomura, who stepped away from wrestling in 2023 and returned in 2025. Of course, I also dug his Triple Crown Championship match against Miyahara in June 2016, his first and last challenge for the Triple Crown Championship.
Anzai impressed in his previous matches, but he didn’t actually win either. So, hopes were high that he could both impress against a favorite of mine like Mashimo and that he could notch his first win here.
According to Cagematch, Mashimo had never wrestled Zack Sabre Jr., which seemed like a missed opportunity. Surely, a battle between Sabre’s technical prowess and Mashimo’s craftiness would fit on an independently produced show somewhere in Japan.
For example, Mashimo manipulated Anzai’s own armlock against him.
Mashimo and Anzai played cat and mouse in and out of the ring for a while to create tension. When Mashimo finally attacked Anzai’s leg and took him down with a Dragon Screw in the ropes, the crowd had been primed for it. Mashimo targeted the same leg that Shiozaki attacked, so Anzai and Mashimo were able to maintain narrative consistency through the Champion Carnival.
The match made for a fun contrast with the Shiozaki match. Mashimo projected a more mischievous energy than Shiozaki, who came off as a violent grump. Still, Mashimo and Shiozaki both used Anzai’s vulnerable leg as a way to stop his momentum. Where Shiozaki would chop the leg, Mashimo would kick it any time Anzai started to chain his offense together. The question was whether Anzai could persevere through those attacks.
Just as Mashimo turned Anzai’s hammerlock against him early in the match, so Mashimo turned Anzai’s own momentum against him by catching him in an ankle lock.
Mashimo trapped Anzai in this ankle lock and then a Figure Four Leglock for some time; only reaching the ropes saved Anzai. Therefore, Anzai had to turn the tables on Mashimo to start his attack. First, he hit Mashimo with a knee strike when Mashimo tried to shoot the single on him. He rolled when Mashimo caught his running knee strike and tried another Dragon Screw to avoid the damage. He finished his segment with a jumping knee strike to Mashimo’s face.
Anzai reached for bigger bombs, namely his German suplex, but Mashimo reversed his ambition on him. This must have felt like the wrestling equivalent of playing against a blue control deck in Magic: The Gathering.
So, landing this German suplex out of Mashimo’s ankle lock must have felt like hitting a mono blue deck pilot with a Lightning Bolt at last.
To extend the metaphor a little further, hitting the Gimlet to beat Mashimo must have felt like hitting the Channel and Fireball combo.
It didn’t feel like an essential match the way that Anzai vs. Shiozaki and Anzai vs. Miyahara did. Still, it was a nice pro wrestling romp. You can watch this match and the show on AJPW.tv.
El Lindaman vs. Fuminori Abe
Shinya Aoki Produce Aoki Clutch 01
April 20, 2026
Cagematch ranking as of 5/1/26: 384
Former AEW star El Lindaman looked more naked than ever in this match thanks to his shaven head. In a way, both Lindaman and Abe felt like they were auditioning for a job at bigger companies. El Lindaman, the reigning GLEAT G-REX Champion, was probably the most prominent wrestler left in GLEAT after the recent exodus. (You could make a case for T-Hawk.) Meanwhile, Abe, on his own because Takuya Nomura was diagnosed with kidney failure in September 2025, has tried to maintain his usual prolific productivity. So far, Abe has wrestled 47 matches through April in 2026. For comparison, he wrestled 70 matches through April in 2025. As usual, he bounced around to every company that would have him: 666, TTT, Evolution, AJPW, BJW, DDT, Ganbare Pro, Up Town, BASARA, Dove Pro, ACTION, and GCW, and he popped up in independently produced shows too.
In this particular case, Abe met Lindaman at Shinya Aoki’s first ever independently produced show. (For the record, Aoki vs. Kendo Kashin headlined the show.) Abe and Lindaman started the match with high energy grappling on the mat, which seemed like an appropriate tribute to Aoki. However, the match veered into the comedy zone, which seemed to be Abe’s preferred zone. When Abe wrestled Zack Sabre Jr. at El Desperado Presents Death Vegas Invitacional, the match was consistently intense and violent. Here, the middle was dotted with comedy:
- Lindaman and Abe got a laugh from the crowd when Lindaman slapped Abe’s back after Abe tried to hook his foot around Lindaman’s leg to escape a waistlock
- Abe took a seat ringside when Lindaman sent him out of the ring
- Abe refused to return to the ring because he was correctly concerned that Lindaman would attack him when he tried to re-enter
- Abe hopped out of the path of Lindaman’s dropkick from the turnbuckle and wagged his finger
- Abe and Lindaman exchanged taunting slaps to the tops of each other’s heads.
Abe brought us out of the comedy zone with this tight spinning kick to Lindaman’s stomach. I was impressed by Abe’s speed despite his a short runway to start his spins.
Also, as Lindaman proved, it wasn’t as easy as Abe made it look.
And Abe reminded everyone that he’s not just a heavy hitter, but he’s surprisingly agile.
I had to give credit to Abe and Lindaman: I needed to check my video settings to make sure I hadn’t accidentally increased my play speed because they were moving so quickly. Furthermore, El Lindaman proved he could still fly when he needed to:
I guess when you’re not encumbered by knee pads, elbow pads, or hair because you’re one of the nudest men in wrestling, you can take to the air with ease.
Finally, he showed his power when he finished Abe with a deadlift German suplex.
This was a trifle of a match. Abe and Lindaman showcased their versatility, but it felt like a meaningless exhibition. It was entertaining, but it probably won’t stick in memory. Daiki Odashima wrestled in a six-man tag match with Jun Akiyama and Kaito Kiyomiya against Kenoh, Shuhei Taniguchi, and Titus Alexander at Kenta Kobashi’s annual Fortune Dream show this year. I would love to see Odashima face Abe at Fortune Dream 12 next year.
You can watch this match and the show on AbemaTV.
With all that said, let’s update our list of wrestlers under the age of 30.
1. Miu Watanabe
2. Daiki Odashima
3. MIRAI
4. Saya Kamitani
5. Starlight Kid
6. JACKY KAMEI
7. Senka Akatsuki
8. Riiita
9. Yuma Anzai (*NEW*)
10. Dragon Dia
11. VENY
12. Miku Kanae
13. Hazuki
14. Konami
15. Saya Iida
16. Rina
17. Arisu Endo
18. Suzume
19. Kazuma Sumi
20. Mei Seira
21. Takeshi Masada
22. Chanyota
23. Jet Wei
24. Kodai Nazaki
25. Kaisei Takechi
26. SUZAKU
27. Aran Sano
28. Kohei Kinoshita
29. Jarvis
30. Randy Chambers
Wrestlers considered but not ranked at this time: Junta Miyawaki, Jessica Troy, Kouga, Honori Hana, Cory Zero, JGU, Hollie Barlow, NORI, Chi Chi, Titus Alexander, Hanan, Peter Tihanyi, Zoltan, Spider Fly, Toxin, Kuro, Echika Miyabi, Shay Kassidy, Aysha, Joe Lando, Danny Black, Eli Theseus, Gabriel Aeros, Alexxis Falcon, Noisy Boy, Kasai, Emman Asman, Koshiro Asakura, Towa Iwasaki, JJ Furno, KANON, YuuRI, Rhio, Ricky Sosa, Yutani
Next time: We’ve scouted prospects in Japan, Australia, Malaysia, England, and Joe Lando. It’s time to highlight some of American and Canadian independent wrestling’s brightest stars.
