By Oliver Taylor

Pro Wrestling NOAH

Pro Wrestling NOAH has cancelled all of its shows through May.

The total of newly cancelled events is six. The shows were scheduled to take place in Tokyo on May 2 and 17, Saitama on May 9, Tottori on May 2, Osaka on May 23 and Hamamatsu on May 30.

Meanwhile, Major League Wrestling star Alexander Hammerstone has teased challenging Go Shiozaki for the GHC Heavyweight Championship.

Hammerstone competed in NOAH’s N-1 Victory tournament last year, defeating Shiozaki on the first day of block competition.

The probability of Hammerstone actually facing Shiozaki is dubious, even beyond the current global situation.

MLW’s working relationship with NOAH, which facilitated Hammerstone’s participation in the N-1 Victory last year, was discontinued in favor of a new agreement with Dragon Gate in February.

Hammerstone’s match against Shiozaki was featured on Fusion last September.

All Japan Pro Wrestling

In an alternate universe, R-Truth might have been a multiple time AJPW Junior Heavyweight champion as opposed to a multiple time WWE 24/7 champion.

As was revisited on Reddit user daprice82‘s excellent Wrestling Observer Rewind series, Dave Meltzer reported in the March 25, 2002 edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Kaz Hayashi had made a strong push for the company to sign R-Truth after his WWE release in 2002.

Kaz Hayashi is pushing to bring in Rey Mysterio and K-Kwik to AJPW to help bolster their junior heavyweight division.

Rather signing with All Japan, Killings made his way to Impact Wrestling, then known as NWA: Total Nonstop Action, and became a two-time NWA World Heavyweight champion.

The full March 25 rewind can be read here.

New All Japan Vice President Satoshi Igarashi recently gave an interview with Nikkan Sports.

The resulting article was translated by @RandomAwad on Twitter:

Photo via Twitter

Of particular note is Igarashi’s desire to hold a show in a major venue for the company’s 50th year anniversary in October 2022.

The company’s first ever show took place on October 21, 1972.

A fitting venue for the 50th anniversary show could be the legendary Nippon Budokan, a building synonymous with All Japan’s highest peak during the 1990s with the Four Pillars of Heaven.

Despite the long history inside the Budokan, All Japan have not held a show in the arena since 2004.

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling has suspended its biggest yearly show Wrestle Peter Pan 2020.

The show was scheduled to take place on June 7 in the Saitama Super Arena.

Stars confirmed for the show included Meiko Satomura, Naomichi Marufuji, CIMA, T-Hawk, El Lindaman and Kenny Omega.

Omega personally announced he would not be able to compete at the show on Twitter.

The show will take place at some point and DDT will announce the new date for the show once the schedule has been finalised.

Current Impact World Tag Team champion Ethan Page uploaded a montage of his DDT tenure onto his YouTube channel.

Page reflects on his experiences in Japan beginning at 9:04, while the montage itself starts at 12:40.

Page toured with DDT twice in 2018, from March to April and September to October. He also wrestled on DDT’s show in New York in April 2019.

Elsewhere, Daisuke Sasaki held a Q&A on DDT’s YouTube channel and gave out some questionable advice.

Some of the best, or worst, responses were translated by the @ddtpro_eng Twitter account:

Q: I have a fiance but I am such a scumbag I don't have the confidence to get married.



S: Don't get married. Marriage is life's graveyard. I've never seen anyone become happy through marriage. Look at Takagi. — DDT English Update (@ddtpro_eng) April 22, 2020

Q: How do I stop running away? My friends chipped in for a love hotel but I couldn't get myself to go in with a girl



S: I run away from everything. Debt, taxes, etc. Life is entirely about running away. — DDT English Update (@ddtpro_eng) April 22, 2020

Sasaki proposes a new service UberDrugs but I'm not sure of its legality, regardless of country — DDT English Update (@ddtpro_eng) April 22, 2020

Closing words froom Sasaki:



LOVE AND PEACE, SEX AND PEACE — DDT English Update (@ddtpro_eng) April 22, 2020