By Oliver Taylor

New Japan Pro-Wrestling

New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced the cancellation of five events scheduled for the Road to Dontaku tour today. The further cancellations will span from April 12 to April 18.

In response to the ongoing Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, five further events on the Road to Dontaku tour between April 12 and April 18 have been cancelled.https://t.co/hYReRsMRke#NJPWTogether #njpw #njdontaku pic.twitter.com/pFvwK0r3k9 — NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) March 31, 2020

New Japan last held a show on February 26. Other major events such as the 48th Anniversary event, the New Japan Cup and Sakura Genesis have already been cancelled in response to the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic.

Pro Wrestling NOAH

NOAH the CHRONICLE vol.2 in Korakuen Hall took place on Sunday. The full results can be read here.

Pro Wrestling NOAH announced yesterday that the upcoming on April 4 and 5 shows in Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium and April 10 and 12 shows in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring have been cancelled. The events were scheduled to be part of the Global Tag League tour.

The scheduled lineup for the Global Tag League included:

• Naomichi Marufuji and Masaaki Mochizuki

• Kaito Kiyomiya and Shuhei Taniguchi

• Kenoh and Masa Kitamiya

• Renee Dupre and El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr.

• Go Shiozaki and Katsuhiko Nakajima

• Akitoshi Saito and Masao Inoue

• Takashi Sugiura and Hideki Shrek Sekine

• Daisuke Sekimoto and Yoshiki Inamura

The Global Tag League’s two remaining dates on April 15 and 18 are currently scheduled to go ahead.

Minoru Tanaka is dealing with injuries in both ankles following his match at NOAH the CHRONICLE vol.2 in Korakuen Hall.

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling held its Protect The Elderly From The New Coronavirus! Kyou Clinic Pro Wrestling event at a hospital yesterday.

British wrestler Chris Brookes uploaded the following photos on Twitter:

The event took place at Saitama Medical Corporation Anzukai Kyou Clinic and only featured one match, the previously advertised four-way tag team match under Falls Count Anywhere rules.

Gorgeous Matsuno and Gabai Ji-chan defeated Shinya Aoki and Makoto Oishi, Konosuke Takeshita and Shunma Katsumata and Chris Brookes and Mike Bailey.

The event was scheduled to be streamed live on YouTube but it was announced three hours before the start of the event that it would instead air on the company’s streaming service DDTUniverse at a later date.

DDT also announced the partial card for its next big show on April 12 yesterday:

Tetsuya Endo vs. Kazusada Higuchi vs. Tetsuya Endo

KO-D Tag Team Championships: Yuki Ueno and Naomi Yoshimura (c) vs. MAO and Mike Bailey

KO-D Openweight Championship: Masato Tanaka (c) vs. Yukio Sakaguchi

The show is branded as “Max Bump 2020” and it will take place in Shinjuku FACE with no live fans in attendance. It will be Yuki Ueno and Naomi Yoshimura’s fourth defense of the KO-D Tag Team Championships, as well as Masato Tanaka’s third defense of the KO-D Openweight Championship.

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Today’s Big Japan Pro Wrestling show featured three matches in the Strong Climb tournament. The results were:

Taishi Takizawa defeated Kazuki Hashimoto

Yoshiki Inamura defeated Akira Hyodo

Daisuke Sekimoto defeated Kohei Sato

After his victory today, Sekimoto has won his tournament block.

It was also revealed that Quiet Storm and Yuji Hino will challenge Daisuke & Sato for the BJW Tag Team Championships at Big Japan’s April 27 show in Korakuen Hall.

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate announced yesterday that four upcoming touring shows on April 4, 5, 7 and 8 have been cancelled. However, The Gate of Passion on April 4 is still scheduled to go ahead.

The Gate of Passion will take place with no live fans in attendance in Kobe Sambo Hall. It will air live on Dragon Gate Network with the option of English commentary.

Due to the ongoing measures to prevent further spread of Covid-19, we have made the decision to cancel the following live events:



4/4 Kiramesse Numazu

4/5 Nagoya Congress Center

4/7 Tochigi Sougo Bunka Center

4/8 Korakuen Hall#dragongate — Dragongate Japan Pro-Wrestling (Official English) (@DragonGateEN) March 30, 2020

Despite the cancellations, #TheGateOfPassion2020 will kick off as planned on Saturday, April 4th with an empty arena show live from Kobe Sambo Hall.



Start time will be 4PM JST and will feature English commentary.https://t.co/NJ8LwBGxO4#dragongate#DragonGateNetwork — Dragongate Japan Pro-Wrestling (Official English) (@DragonGateEN) March 31, 2020

Wrestle-1

Wrestle-1’s last ever show in Korakuen Hall is scheduled to take place tomorrow. There will be no live fans in attendance.

The original card for the event has been remastered. The updated card can be seen here:

The event will be broadcasted on Japanese channel GAORA Sports on April 17 at 2pm JST, 6am BST, 1am EST.

Thanks to @Hi5ame, @EasternLariat and @ddtpro_eng for information used in this article.