Ryusuke Taguchi

NJPW New Year Dash!! 2025 was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event held on January 6, 2025, at Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan, headlined by CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, Rocky Romero, YOH & YOSHI-HASHI) vs. TMDK (Kosei Fujita, Robbie Eagles, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.) with Hartley Jackson.

Wrestling Dontaku 2025 – Night 1 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on May 3, 2025, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center in Fukuoka, Japan, and was headlined by a Dog Pound Cage Match pitting War Dogs against House of Torture, with the losing team forced to leave Bullet Club.

Wrestling Dontaku 2025 – Night 2 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) that took place on May 4, 2025, at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center in Fukuoka, Japan, and was headlined by Hirooki Goto (c) vs. Callum Newman for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

NJPW Death Pain Invitational was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) pay-per-view produced by El Desperado and held on June 24, 2025, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, headlined by El Desperado (c) vs. Jun Kasai in a Fluorescent Lighttubes Glass Board Barbed Wire Death Match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title.

NJPW Tanahashi Jam was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event produced by Hiroshi Tanahashi and held on June 29, 2025, at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, Japan, headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa.

NJPW Wrestling RedZone in Hiroshima 2025 was a special event produced by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), held on April 26, 2025, at the Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall in Hiroshima, Japan.

The eighteenth night of the tournament, featuring two semifinal matches, took place on August 16, 2025, at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

The nineteenth and final night of the tournament, featuring the match to crown the G1 Climax 35 winner, took place on August 17, 2025, at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

Yuji Nagata Produce Blue Justice XVI was a professional wrestling event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and organized by Yuji Nagata. Held on September 7, 2025, at Togane Arena in Togane, Chiba, Japan, the annual Blue Justice show served as Nagata’s hometown charity event. The main event featured Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yuji Nagata in what was billed as Tanahashi’s “Final Road” match—Tanahashi’s mentor versus his longtime protégé. The match carried added significance as the 18th and final singles encounter between the two, closing the book on one of NJPW’s defining rivalries that began with their first clash on January 24, 2002, when a young Tanahashi challenged Nagata in a bout that helped launch his rise to stardom.

NJPW x Stardom Historic X-over in Guangzhou was a professional wrestling event co-promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and World Wonder Ring Stardom (STARDOM), which also featured wrestlers from China’s own INFIN Wrestling. The event took place on October 5, 2025, at Damai 66 Livehouse in Guangzhou, China, and was headlined by Cosmic Angels (Natsupoi, Saori Anou & Sayaka Kurara) vs. H.A.T.E (Natsuko Tora, Ruaka & Rina).