All Japan Pro Wrestling

Japanese professional wrestling promotion

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January 26 2025 Musashi won the World Junior Heavyweight Championship in Tokyo, Japan by defeating Naruki Doi at New Year Wars 2025 - Night 3.
January 1 2025 Baka No Jidai (Fuminori Abe, Hikaru Sato and Yuma Aoyagi) won the AJPW TV Six-Man Tag Team Championship in Tokyo, Japan by defeating Hokuto-gun (Cyrus, Hokuto Omori and Kuma Arashi) at New Year Wars 2025 - Night 1.
December 31 2024 Jun Saito won the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship in Tokyo, Japan by defeating Davey Boy Smith Jr. at New Year's Eve event.
December 8 2024 World's Strongest Tag Determination League tournament won by tag team Jun Saito and Rei Saito
December 8 2024 Yuko Miyamoto won the Gaora TV Championship in Tokyo, Japan by defeating Seigo Tachibana at Real World Tag League - Night 11.
October 13 2024 ELPIDA (Yuma Anzai and Rising Hayato) won the All Asia Tag Team Championship in Tokyo, Japan by defeating Musashi and Seiki Yoshioka at Raising An Army Memorial Series 2024 - Night 2.
September 22 2024 Ōdō Tournament won by Ren Ayabe
May 12 2024 Champion Carnival tournament won by Kento Miyahara
March 30 2024 Zen Nisshin Jidai (Kento Miyahara and Yuma Aoyagi) win the World Tag Team Championship in Tokyo, Japan by defeating Jun Saito and Rei Saito at Dream Power Series 2025 - Night 1.
March 30 2024 Saito Brothers (Jun Saito and Rei Saito) won the World Tag Team Championship in Tokyo, Japan by defeating Hideki Suzuki and Suwama at Dream Power Series 2024 - Night 5.
December 15 2023 AJPW was announced as a founding member of the United Japan Pro-Wrestling alliance, with Seiji Sakaguchi named as the chairman of the project.
December 15 2023 Noah becomes a founding member of the United Japan Pro-Wrestling alliance, with Seiji Sakaguchi named as the chairman.
December 6 2023 Jr. Battle of Glory tournament won by Dan Tamura
May 4 2023 Jr. Tag Battle of Glory tournament won by tag team Kaito Ishida and Kotaro Suzuki
July 12 2022 AJPW announced plans to celebrate its 50th anniversary event on September 18 at Nippon Budokan, marking its return to the arena after eighteen years.
November 19 2021 Noah re-establishes its relationship with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) during Wrestle Kingdom 16 event.
October 18 2021 Zeus announced his resignation from All Japan Pro Wrestling, planning to leave on December 31 after purchasing Osaka Pro Wrestling shares.
June 26 2021 AJPW announced a special Tomoe Battle to determine the Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion, involving Jake Lee, Kento Miyahara, and Yuma Aoyagi.
May 7 2021 Due to a government-announced state of emergency, AJPW postponed their event at Ota City General Gymnasium from May 15 to June 26.
2020 Tsuyoki Fukuda took over leadership of All Japan Pro Wrestling, beginning a new era for the promotion after previous leadership changes.
2020 AJPW starts streaming on Amazon Prime Video Japan, further expanding their digital media presence.
2020 Multiple broadcasting changes occur: Nippon TV ends its broadcast, AbemaTV and Wrestle Universe begin streaming Noah events, and Triller TV starts broadcasting Noah content.
November 28 2020 AJPW launched its women's division 'Evolution's Girls', with Suwama and Shuji Ishikawa heading the initiative and establishing a working relationship with Ice Ribbon.
November 14 2020 AJPW announced the creation of its first six-man tag team championship, the AJPW TV Six-Man Tag Team Championship.
June 26 2020 Jun Akiyama announced his departure from AJPW after nine years, with management to be transferred to Tsuyoki Fukuda.
April 2 2020 AJPW president Tsuyoki Fukuda canceled the 2020 Champion Carnival and began planning empty arena shows due to the pandemic.
January 2020 CyberAgent, the parent company of DDT Pro-Wrestling, purchased Pro Wrestling Noah. DDT's executives took over Noah's operations, and Noah's content began appearing on the Wrestle Universe streaming service.
October 10 2019 Jun Akiyama left his position as president to become General Manager, with Tsuyoki Fukuda later appointed as the new president of AJPW.
February 1 2019 Noah is purchased by Lidet Entertainment, which acquires a 75% stake in the company.
2018 AJPW ends broadcasting on BS11's Eleven highlight show.
2017 AJPW begins international streaming on FITE TV (which ended in 2018).
August 2017 Toryumon Mexico started working with All Japan Pro Wrestling in a collaborative event tour called Lucha Fiesta.
2016 AJPW starts streaming on Nico Nico Douga, expanding their digital media distribution.
November 27 2016 The promotion returned to Ryōgoku Kokugikan for its first event at the venue in three years, with Kento Miyahara defending the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship against Suwama.
November 1 2016 Noah is sold to IT development company Estbee, with former AJPW president Masayuki Uchida becoming the new Noah president.
October 2016 All Japan Pro Wrestling reached a deal with Nippon BS Broadcasting for a monthly highlights show called Eleven, to be broadcast on the third Monday of each month.
2015 Final year of Pro Wrestling Sem events, after which no further events were held.
November 20 2015 Yoshinobu Kanemaru announced he would be leaving All Japan after December 15, part of a mass exodus due to changes in wrestler contracts to pay-per-appearance basis.
November 2 2015 Akebono announced his departure from All Japan Pro Wrestling to return to mixed martial arts.
May 3 2015 All Japan Pro Wrestling holds the Champion Carnival tournament, a significant annual event in the promotion's wrestling calendar.
2014 Nobuo Shiraishi's leadership of All Japan Pro Wrestling concludes, marking the end of his tenure with the promotion.
July 1 2014 All Japan Pro Wrestling officially changed its corporate name and relocated headquarters from Tokyo to Yokohama, with Akiyama establishing Zen Nihon Puroresu Innovation to run the promotion.
June 5 2014 All Japan announced a corporate restructuring with Jun Akiyama set to take over as the promotion's new president.
April 30 2014 Kenta announces his resignation from Noah to sign with WWE.
December 2013 Manabu Soya quits All Japan Pro Wrestling to join Wrestle-1 before the end of the year.
October 27 2013 A new Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship belt was revealed, and Dory Funk, Jr. was announced as the new Pacific Wrestling Federation chairman.
September 8 2013 Wrestle-1 promotion holds its first show at Tokyo Dome City Hall, with René Dupree making his debut in the new promotion.
September 1 2013 Longtime freelancer Akebono signed a full-time contract with All Japan Pro Wrestling.
September 1 2013 Akebono signed a full-time contract with All Japan.
August 27 2013 Nobuo Shiraishi announced his resignation as All Japan president, though he would remain the owner of the promotion.

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