AJPW The Path of King's is Littered with Broken Dreams

Night One of our two night new year kick off held in the historic Korakuen Hall!


-Opeing Bout-
We decided to opening our first show of the year with a special tag team match between two super hoss teams of Daisuke Sakimoto & Yuji Okabayashi (Strong BJ) against TMDK's JONAH & Tommy Knight, two thirds of the new AJPW TV Six-Man Champions were able to defeat their gaijin counterparts.

-Second Bout-
Young Boy test as Ryoma Tsukamoto faced the Roaring Beast Kazusada Higuchi, Tsukamoto showed alot of heart but had to submit when put into the Brain Claw Hold.

-Third Bout-
Before they collide tommorrow the Von Erichs teamed with Toni Storm to face down the unit of TMDK memebers Mikey Nicholls, Shane Haste & Tenille Dashwood. Storm got her team the victory when she caught Dashwood in a pinning combination, after the match Ross handed his brother the belt but hesitated to let go.

-Fourth Bout-
Special preview match for the GAORA TV title as Yoshitatsu & Baliyan Akki face off Go Shiozaki & Atsushi Kotoge, Yoshitatsu had Shiozaki on the backfoot going after the champions famously vulnable arms in the end the match was decided between the Junior members and victory went to the Burning team when Kotoge pinned Akki after hitting the Killswitch, outside the ring Yoshitatsu choked out Go with koji clutch.

-Fifth Bout-
Six-Man action when Nextream (Kento Miyahara, Rising HAYATO & Yuma Aoyagi) against their eternal rivals Purple Haze (Shigehiro Irie, Izanagi & UTAMARO) sadly without the leadership Zeus Purple Haze havn't been overly sucessful recently.

-Sixth Bout-
Now time for one of AJP oldest traditions the New Year battle royal winner gets prize of ¥100,000. this year saw Kazusada got the victory when he last eliminated Jun Akiyama with the Goten.

-Seventh Bout-
We had a special singles match to preview the All Asia title match when Gabriel Kidd representing Britain's Finest fought Yuko Miyamoto the Young Bull was able to dominate with his superior strengh against the lighter opponant but Yuko showed his experiance by using Kidd's confidence against him easily baiting him into advantageous and this would be what led to the Death Match legends victory against his younger opponant.

-Eighth Bout-

The first championship match of the new year see's Veteran Junior Heavyweight and champion Daisuke Harada take on the younger of the Aoyagi Brothers Atsuki, this will be Aoyagi first time challengeing for the Junior prize but he may have the toughest challenge against the young master. Harada keeps the early part of this match on the ground not letting Atsuki get momentum with his high flying offence, this is a sound strategy but confidence can lead to mistakes and Jr. Nextream member begins to turn the match his way first hitting frankensteiners then hitting spring board armdrags on the champion he hits some nasty strikes to stun Harada and set up for the 450 Splash. This would not come to pass as when he left the ropes Harada rolled out of the way and caught the now grounded fly with his bridging german for the 1... 2... 3... After the match harada shook his opponants hand showing that not all of Burning are looking to become everyones enemy.

-Ninth Bout-

Second of three championship match's is for the PWF Women's World title, two powerhouses in Chihiro Hashimoto & Yuu collide, this fight has two tag team and training partners face each other so it takes more for the other to get the other hand knowing each others strengths and weaknesses, Yuu was the first to get blood catching Hashimoto in an armbar setup Chihiro was able to get the ropes before she could fully lock on the hold. Chhiro is able to egg on Yuu into a striking contest and show her superior endurance and knock down the mighty Yuu this leads to her eventual victory as she hits her opponant with bigger and bigger bombs untill she hits the Albright german suplex. The two hugged after the match letting it be known but this sweet moment is interuppted when Miyu Yamashita come out from the back to make her challenge to the champion.

-Final Bout-

Now it's time for your main event as the Unified World Tag Team Champions Naoya Nomura & Ryuki Honda faces against the 2025 Real World Tag League victors Naomichi Marufuji & Kaito Kiyomiya. We open with Nomura and Kiyomiya testing eachother out seeing if they can find a weakness in the other soon Ryuki Honda get's impatiant and demands to be tagged in, Nomura agress to the demand and Honda calls out the veteran Marufuji to face him in a chop exchange, the student of Misawa has a wry smile on his face at this request and tags in. This was a poor decision on the part of Honda as he gets light up by the sharp chops of the Noah Genius, this looks to be the same strategy as last time for Naomichi & Kaito target the lesser experiance member of the pair but Honda was able to get free and tag in Nomura before they could do serious damage. The Closing section saw Genius Supernova attempt some more complex tag team offence on Nomura but this would be their down fall as Honda was able to dive in for the save and give Naya an Opening to hit Kaito with a nasty Maximum and get the victory. Afterwards moon vulcan came out and said 'That since they never got their original shot at the titles they wanted another oppertunity against Zenith now.'

Next Stop on the King's Road Yokohama Twilight Blues vol. 20

Triple Crown Heavyweight Title Match | Suwama vs. Marshall Von Erich [c] - This contest is important as the winner will most defiantly enter Tokyo Dome.

World Tag Team Title Match | moon vulcan vs. Zenith [c] - This match was meant to take place last year at the Anniversary Show in Ryugoku but due to injury had to have a substitution now Suzuki & his pupil will bring everything they've developed together against the champions. This will be Zenith's 4 defence and halfway to the record for defences.

PWF Women's World Title Match | Miyu Yamashita vs. Chihiro Hashimoto [c] - Chihiro became a three times champion with her victory over mentor Meiko Satomura, currently on 3 successful defences, the fourth always being her hurdle to fall at with losing to Jordynne Grace & Meiko Satomura.

Special Tag Team Match | Momo no Seishun Tag (Daisuke Harada & Atsushi Kotoge) vs. Next Stars (Rising HAYATO & Atsuki Aoyagi) - Aoyagi is in his third match opposite the champion can he reclaim his defeats and earn another title shot. Or will Kotoge be the hero and defend his partner against these vile villains?

Six-Man Tag Team Match | BURNING (KENTA, Jun Akiyama & Go Shiozaki) vs. Total Eclipse (Yuji Hino, TAKA Michinoku & Kazusada Higuchi) - First of two matches involving the champion and challenger this first one being six-man action who will get first blood and the upper hand in psychological?

World Tag Team #1 Contendership Tournament | A-Block All Mighty Terror (Tommy Knight & JONAH) vs. Masashi Takeda & Kohei Sato / B-Block Yuma Aoyagi & Kento Miyahara vs. Revolution (Tsugutaka Sato & Towa Iwasaki) - Four Team tournament for a shot at the World Tag Team Titles in Tokyo Dome all teams want not just to win the title but to also do it in front of one of the biggest audience in AJPW Calendar.

~Predictions~
Suwama vs. Marshall Von Erich [c]
moon vulcan vs. Zenith [c]
Miyu Yamashita vs. Chihiro Hashimoto [c]
Momo no Seishun Tag vs. Next Stars
BURNING vs. Total Eclipse
All Mighty Terror vs. Masashi Takeda & Kohei Sato
Yuma Aoyagi & Kento Miyahara vs. Revolution
A-Block vs. B-Block