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New champion crowned at NJPW Road to King of Pro Wrestling event

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DOUKI has recaptured the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.

He defeated El Desperado in the main event of Mondayâ€s Road to King of Pro Wrestling show at Korakuen Hall.

The match was not without controversy due to repeated interference from DOUKIâ€s House of Torture teammate, SHO. Despite SHO having been banished from ringside before the bout officially began, he returned later and struck Desperado with a wrench and sheet pan, allowing DOUKI to lock in the DOUKI-chokey for the win.

“I guess the only logical reason to end such a great Junior Heavyweight Championship reign would be to end it in the most controversial and displeasing way possible,”wrote our own Cory Michaels in today’s recap of the show.

It was the 99th title change in the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championshipâ€s lineage. Desperadoâ€s fifth reign with the belt ends after 275 days and eight successful title defenses.

For DOUKI, he regains the title he lost due to match stoppage at Wrestle Kingdom after he suffered what was at first thought to be a broken arm, and later revealed to be a dislocated left elbow. He missed over five months before returning that June at Dominion. DOUKIâ€s first reign with the title lasted 183 days with four successful defenses.

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Sting’s Son Makes Pro Wrestling Debut Against Top AEW Star

Sting‘s son, Steven Borden, made his pro wrestling debut last night in New York against a top AEW star.

On Friday night, All Elite Wrestlingâ€s Darby Allin hosted an art exhibit in New York titled 52W HARDWAY. The event also featured wrestling matches, the top one being Allin teaming up with former WWE Superstar Killer Kross (Karrion Kross) to take on the team of JD Drake and Stingâ€s son, Steven Borden.

The finish of the match saw Darby Allin hit the Coffin Drop on top of both Borden and Drake to score the pinfall victory for his team. You can check out some highlights from this match in the embedded video below:

Stingâ€s retirement inspired his son to chase the dream of becoming a pro wrestler

Back in May 2024, Darby Allin revealed that Stingâ€s son, Steven Borden, was training with him to become a professional wrestler.

Borden has been taking his training seriously over the past year, training alongside other top AEW stars, Adam Copeland, Dax Harwood, and Cash Wheeler.

Copeland spoke highly of Borden last year, believing he could make it in wrestling if he put his mind to it.

With his debut under his belt, you would have to believe itâ€s only a matter of time until Borden is under contract with All Elite Wrestling to continue the legacy his father built over several decades in the industry.

Stay tuned to WrestleZone for more information on whatâ€s next for Steven Borden as it becomes available.

READ MORE: Stingâ€s Son Steven Borden Recalls Telling His Dad He Wanted To Get Into Wrestling

What do you make of Stingâ€s son becoming a professional wrestler? Do you think this will lead to Steven Borden signing a contract with All Elite Wrestling? Let us know your overall thoughts by sounding off in the comments section below.

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Scheffler may break revered Tiger record, pro says. And he jabs Mickelson

Rocco Mediate, a reporter thinks, has been the biggest fan of prime Tiger Woods.

Is the scribe right, Rocco?

“Love him, 100 percent,” Mediate said.

There’s some bias there then, though that might make another thought from the long-time pro even more notable.

One of Woods’ most-revered records may fall, Mediate says — in a little over three years.

Talking Thursday ahead of his title defense at the PGA Tour Champions’ Furyk and Friends event, Mediate had been asked a question that’s become popular recently. Did he think that it was unfair Scottie Scheffler was being compared to Woods? Or did he think that Scheffler “may “one day live up something close to that?”

He answered this way:

“Win-wise, no, I don’t think so,” Mediate said. “World No. 1 ranking, I think he breaks it as the streak he’s on now because he has the game to do that.

“See, like Rory’s awesome. Xander’s, they’re all awesome. Scottie doesn’t miss that much. He doesn’t have any foul, foul balls. The other guys do. So the way he drives it, if he continues to play, if he doesn’t quit, he will surpass Tiger’s No. 1 ranking in this run, I’m telling you, unless he gets hurt. Hopefully that won’t happen. Hopefully he didn’t go skiing or hopefully he doesn’t cut himself on whatever. But if he continues to do exactly what he’s doing, is he going to win seven, eight times a year? I’d say probably not, but he could. There’s not many other guys you could say that about. Scottie’s too much like this, it’s so unbelievable to watch and I think he breaks Tiger’s No. 1 ranking.”

That could happen in 2028. Woods’ record No. 1-ranking streak lasted 281 weeks — and Scheffler’s streak currently sits at 123 weeks. As for the wins that Mediate noted, Woods has won a PGA Tour-record-tying 82 times, while Scheffler has won 19 times since turning pro in 2018.

After Mediate’s answer, a reporter told him that he is right in saying that Scheffler doesn’t make double bogeys and doesn’t shoot 76.

“No. And is that going to happen?” Mediate said. “Of course he’s going to have his bad times, of course he is, it’s just golf. But man, the way he does it now, this is what Tiger did, the same thing. He didn’t make a lot of mistakes with foul balls.

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“So I think Scottie’s got a shot at it. Is he going to win 90 times? I don’t know, I would doubt it, but can’t say he won’t. Can’t say he won’t. What did he win seven, eight this year? Are you kidding me?”

Here, Mediate jabbed Phil Mickelson for a thought he had in March.

The six-time major winner had written on Twitter that he thought that Scheffler wouldn’t win this year before the Ryder Cup that finished last week.

One of golfâ€s most popular caddies is back. And his pro embraces being ‘differentâ€

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The video is only five seconds long. In it, the pro hits just one driver on the range, and the caddie just looks on. But that was more than enough for more than a few folks. On Twitter, the PGA Tour’s posting of the video has gotten over 100,000 views. Over on Instagram, it’s received just under 5,000 likes.

Geno Bonnalie, one of golf’s most popular loopers, is back, after all.

As shown in the video, he’s connected with Isaiah Salinda, a 28-year-old pro out of San Francisco, and the pair is playing this week’s Sanderson Farms Championship. You might like them, and we’ll get to that in a sec, though Salinda’s colorful socks in the video give at least a heads-up of what’s to come. But Bonnalie’s former boss was also a personality, and their breakup even got some headlines (including two on this site, and they can be found here and here).

That’s how much Bonnalie and pro Joel Dahmen were known. They’d won only once on the PGA Tour, but social media gave them a voice, before Netflix’s “Full Swing” gave them stardom. On the show, they were open. They were relatable.

But then they were done. In mid-July, Dahmen wrote on Twitter that they had split. They thought they needed “a fresh perspective.”

“Man, I love Geno,” Dahmen said a few weeks later, at the Wyndham Championship. “We still text almost daily. He’s doing well. Yeah, I mean, I miss him but sometimes the hardest — you have to do something hard to …”

He paused.

“Look, it wasn’t an easy decision,” Dahmen said. “I won’t say I’m not happy about it, but it’s hard. He’s my best friend, he’s still my best friend.”

And now Bonnalie’s returned.

This year, Salinda has posted a couple top 10s. Entering the Sanderson, he’s 104th in the season-long points race, but only the top 100 keep their full-time playing privileges, so work will need to be done. But Salinda, like Dahmen, is affable. Dude’s a character.

For more on that, GOLF’s Sean Zak talked with him at this year’s Players Championship, and his story can be found by clicking here, or by scrolling immediately below.

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Isaiah Salinda looks comfortable. That alone draws you in. But what he leads with really makes you lean forward.

“Can I be honest?” he starts. “Are you recording this or anything?”

“We don’t have to be,” a reporter clarifies.

“No, no, no — you can. F–k it,” he says. “Too many guys out here are just kind of cookie-cutter, vanilla shortbread cookies, you know what I mean? I’m trying to be different.”

It’s Wednesday morning and Salinda is one of 12 Players Championship debutants sitting in director’s chairs, spread out in a massive circle for their first-timer’s press conferences. He’s wearing a Bad Birdie polo with a desert sunset pictured on it, which partly explains what he means by different. His mountain-man thighs are testing the limits of his hiked-up golf shorts. He’s the proud owner of what the Tour calls “a robust selection of fun socks” — which included the Cookie Monster pair he wore early in the week — but he’s elected for clean white ones today, as to not distract from his shirt. He’s different. In many ways, that is exactly what the PGA Tour is in search of.

In recent months, the Tour has launched Fan Forward, a catch-all name for initiatives driven by survey responses from more than 50,000 golf fans. Among the four takeaways being put into action is a simple one on paper — make players more relatable — that isn’t so easy in reality. Because pros prefer to keep their public opinions as straight as their tee shots. It might maintain the brand pillars of the sponsors ironed on their shirts, but that safe approach doesn’t attract the eyes and ears the Tour seeks most in this time of TV ratings and popularity contests.

With Salinda, the work is easy. He’s trending, too: He has less than 5,000 Instagram followers, but reels the Tour’s content team have made featuring him regularly outperform those of better-known stars. Like the one he posted after our convo Wednesday, which has earned him an extra couple hundred followers since. Later that afternoon, when Collin Morikawa’s caddie made an ace on the island green 17th hole Wednesday, it was Salinda centering himself in front of the camera with a Gladiator impression.

“Are you not entertained!”

Salinda is considering joining Twitter, looking to get in the mix on the Tour discourse a bit, definitely interested in establishing a personal brand. But mostly, he just wants his fellow Tour pros to lighten up a bit. Go off script. Play practice rounds with Tour rookies. Talk a little s—. He graduated from Stanford in 2019 and slowly rose through the Tour ranks, from PGA Tour Canada to a couple years on the Korn Ferry Tour. He turned 28 Thursday, but the youthful streak in him very much misses the team golf days of college. He moved to Vegas, he says, just so he could compete with the crew of Tour players who live there, such as Morikawa and Min Woo Lee.

“I just love the juice,” Salinda says, so I ask him very plainly, “Do you talk s—?”

“Buddy, I talk too much s—,” he replies. “To the point where I think not too many people like me out here.”

To play a practice round with Salinda — at least according to him (sorry, I have no experience) — is to be chided and ridiculed constantly. It’s just “raw confidence,” he says, regularly unleashing vicious club-twirls regardless of where the ball goes.

The ongoing absence of Tiger Woods plus LIV Golf snatching stars means the Tour has been eager to develop more fan favorites. The best golfers will gain popularity as a result of their play, but the Tour hopes more players could gain fans from their personalities, too, and then launch to greater heights from their best on-course weeks. The best way to get noticed is to win, of course, something Salinda came damn close to a couple weeks ago, finishing one shot back of a playoff at the Mexico Open. While waiting for the leaders to finish, he said he was “clowning” off-camera, but the instant the broadcast producers turned the red light in his direction, he buttoned himself up.

“I hate myself,” he said this week, laughing. “I hate that I did that. But my agent was standing next to me. He didn’t tell me anything, but I knew I can’t say anything absurd. Next time, whenever that is, I’ll be more unique, I guess. I’ll stand out.”

Next time may be the next broadcast window. Salinda’s opening round at TPC Sawgrass was clean and efficient, comprised of 15 pars and three birdies, leaving him three shots back of the leaders. He walked to scoring with just a fraction of the fanfare of the Xanders, Jordans and JTs, who all also get requested for interviews by the media. Despite outplaying them all Thursday, Salinda wasn’t requested by anyone. His relative anonymity continues, if only for another 18 holes.

Hiroshi Tanahashi match official for Pro Wrestling NOAH

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On his retirement tour, Hiroshi Tanahashi will be competing at a big event for Pro Wrestling NOAH.

NOAH has confirmed that Tanahashi & Kaito Kiyomiya will be teaming up on October 11, facing off against Naomichi Marufuji & KENOH at Wrestle Odyssey. The match was set up at NJPW Destruction in Kobe when Kiyomiya showed up and invited Tanahashi to team with him.

Tanahashi — one of NJPW’s greatest-ever wrestlers — will conclude his in-ring career at Wrestle Kingdom 20 on January 4, 2026. NJPW has yet to name Tanahashi’s opponent for his retirement match.

Though he’s retiring from the ring, Tanahashi will still be heavily involve in NJPW with his behind-the-scenes role as company president.

NOAH Wrestle Odyssey 2025 is airing live on ABEMA in Japan. The card also includes two NXT wrestlers: Charlie Dempsey & Harlem Lewis. They will be facing Jack Morris & Sasaki Yuruka in a tag bout.

Pro Wrestling NOAH Wrestle Odyssey (Saturday, October 11) —

  • GHC Heavyweight Champion KENTA defends against Masa Kitamiya
  • GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi defends against Eita
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Naomichi Marufuji & KENOH
  • Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Minoru Suzuki
  • GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf defend against Daga & Daiki Odashima
  • Takashi Sugiura & Shun Skywalker vs. Tetsuya Endo & Hayata
  • Jack Morris & Ulka Sasaki vs. Charlie Dempsey & Harlem Lewis
  • Galeno & Harutoki vs. Manabu Soya & Yuto Kikuchi
  • Junta Miyawaki vs. Kai Fujimura

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Mark Henry: We Need To Stop Letting Random Schmucks Into Pro Wrestling

Mark Henry made a major statement about the newcomers in the pro wrestling world and shared his reaction to Jazmyn Nyxâ€s boyfriendâ€s latest statement. Jazmyn Nyx is a former NXT star and recently decided not to re-sign with WWE.

After this, a video went viral from Jazmynâ€s boyfriend in which he called wrestling fake. In response to this, Mark Henry made a bold statement during an interview with TMZ and said that the world of wrestling needs to stop letting ‘random schmucks†into the business.

“I didnâ€t like it at all. But itâ€s our fault, because weâ€re the ones that let them in the business. Let her in the business, let him in the business. Henry said (H/T WrestleTalk) “Just because you can doesnâ€t mean you should. Thereâ€s a lot of people that you shouldnâ€t bring in the businessâ€.

Henry compared the situation when a father finds a perfect partner for their daughter. Similar to this, wrestling only needs to welcome those who are actually candidates to trust.

“Itâ€s like whoâ€s gonna marry your daughter. You gonna let some random schmuck marry your daughter? Thatâ€s what we do in wrestling. We let random schmucks in wrestling, female and male, because they look good or they accomplished something. “Just because you accomplished something doesnâ€t make you a candidate for the trust of our industry.

Mark Henry blasted Jazmyneâ€s boyfriend

After this, Henry slammed Jazmynâ€s boyfriend for his remarks and threatened to expose him for who he really is.

“That girl didnâ€t love wrestling. And her boyfriend, heâ€s just gonna go wherever she is because sheâ€s helping him get notoriety – that motherf***er ainâ€t famous. Donâ€t nobody care about him. Who did he ever beat? What did he ever do? “He is a nothing.

Mark Henry also added that: “He is a nobody. Why would you get mad at somebody that is a flea, thatâ€s a tick, thatâ€s a parasite, theyâ€re one of those sucking things that stick to fish. What value do I care? Youâ€re trying to make dollar off of gambling apps because you donâ€t have no real talent and no job. Iâ€ll expose you. Donâ€t do it.â€

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Pro Wrestling Is Undergoing A Tag Team Renaissance

Tag team wrestling is a staple of pro wrestling history. This style of match allows promotions to vary a card and open up genuinely different storytelling possibilities among tag team rivalries, including but not limited to teams coming together, breaking up, and reuniting. Moreover, tag teams can offer a keen place for young talents to cultivate experience or for aging talents to lend their credibility on screen and mentorship backstage to up-and-comers while their actual in-ring work tapers off.

A lot of signs suggest a renewed focus on tag teams across major promotions. This dynamic tends to ebb and flow but, at least in the short term, there’s a lot of reason for excitement for tag team wrestling fans.

Major Reunions Have Brought Buzz to Tag Team Wrestling

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There’s a lot to be said for the excitement of seeing a beloved tag team reunite, and pro wrestling has delivered on several such angles in recent months. In AEW, the biggest story is Adam Copeland (“Cope”) and Christian Cage finding themselves on the same page again. Longtime fans remember them as one of the very best tag teams in the stacked WWE Attitude Era, where in-ring ability, personality on the mic, and the kind of interpersonal chemistry that can only come with years of real-life friendship made this pair something special.

The team’s time together was deceptively short in WWE. The duo paired for less than three years full-time, as Edge in particular got major singles opportunities interspersed with their proper teaming. From there, Edge became a main eventer, while Christian had a respectable singles run of his own while also bouncing between tag teams and factions.

Extended periods followed with Edge in WWE, Christian going to TNA to get his own main event push, and later heading to AEW years ahead of his best friend. Thatâ€s not to mention both men suffering seemingly career-ending injuries that took each out of action for years. Though the two worked one-off tag matches together and enjoyed a reunion angle shortly before Copelandâ€s first retirement, it makes complete sense that fans are incredibly excited to see the pair teaming up again in 2025 as age dictates both men must be eyeing a more permanent retirement.

On a smaller scale, AEW also staged a Jurassic Express reunion at All Out. While Jack Perry and Luchasaurus donâ€t have the decades-long story of Cope and Cage, this does represent both men returning to their roots as a babyface tag team that fans still have a lot of nostalgia for after heel runs that drew mixed reactions (Perry a polarizing big-name heel, Luchasaurus a viable henchman for Cage, but he never really found another gear beyond big man mid-carder and tag team wrestler). This revisitation of the team invokes AEW nostalgia for a pairing that got over in the earliest days of AEW. Three years apart gave fans time to miss them, but also, the sudden reunion without any meaningful foreshadowing delivered a genuinely pleasing surprise for fans.

Meanwhile, on the WWE side of things, The Usos came back together over the summer with a renewed sense of credibility for Jeyâ€s main event push—including main eventing SummerSlam as a singles star, winning a Royal Rumble, and capturing a world title at WrestleMania—besides Jimmy remaining viable as a mid-card act and factor in main event storylines. The duo had about 13 years as a team for the WWE main roster audience, but after spending most of two years apart (and even feuding against each other), it feels refreshing to see them paired again—even if recent creative has complicated whether theyâ€ll keep teaming or what their face-heel alignment might be for the long haul.

The Tag Team Ranks Are a Great Place for Nostalgia

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One clear sign of the success of AEW and WWE tag team reunion angles is that the tag division is a great place for nostalgia, as fans love seeing meaningful alliances revisited.

TNA has been in on the act too, booking The Hardys vs. Team 3D for Bound For Glory. Alongside Edge and Christian, these two teams represented the foundation of perhaps WWEâ€s most successful tag team feud of all time, and arguably the companyâ€s most successful period for tag team wrestling overall.

None of the four men involved in this TNA showdown are young anymore, so TNA is a good spot to highlight a match like this for its smaller stage and its hardcore fanbase that can definitely tap into the nostalgia of an attraction like this.

WWE had its own spin on this kind of matchup recently on its NXT Homecoming special, with DIY facing Trick Williams and Carmelo Hayes. Each pair felt representative of a distinctive generation of NXT, each with roots as partners and main event level foes. The tag team format—including The Miz interfering—kept everyone reasonably well protected in the process.

Such is the essence of nostalgia for nostalgiaâ€s sake. The stakes are objectively low, but tag team matches can help cover for aging performers†limitations, keep any single performer from being over-exposed, and allow fans to lose themselves in the rush of a hot tag and reunited pairs “playing the hits.â€

Dream Matches Could Be in the Making

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With the recent resurgence of tag teams, there are possibilities around dream match scenarios. Cope and Christian Cage have lots of business left to settle with FTR, but after that dream scenario wraps, a showdown with The Young Bucks is appealing as well—not to mention the complicated history Cage has with Jurassic Express that might invite that tag team feud.

On the WWE side, The Usos represent great foils for just about any pairing, including an array that might emerge from NXT and also acts like The Judgment Day. And though the rivalry may have been overdone in the 2010s, there is something fun about imagining running back a Usos vs. New Day feud in 2025.

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Part of the fun of multiple major wrestling promotions operating at the same time is imagining dream scenarios pairing the best acts from one company against the best of another, in addition to speculation about what other tag teams might take shape.

Dream match scenarios start with stalwart talent whoâ€ve stuck with the same promotion and thus havenâ€t had the opportunity to work with one another. The conversation starts with The Usos and New Day on WWEâ€s side opposite The Young Bucks in AEW; the Bucks working either of these teams would pay off years of lowkey debate around tag team supremacy.

An FTR vs. Street Profits showdown also has to be in the conversation. These teams did work some house shows in NXT and a battle royal together at Survivor Series 2019, but itâ€s a case of FTR being a generation ahead of Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins, who are just starting to come into their own on the WWE main roster after FTR moved on to AEW.

A hard-hitting heavyweight clash pitting Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin against Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed also has a lot of appeal. This is even before considering reigning tag champs like Brodido, The Wyatt Sicks, and The Judgment Day, or other masters of the tag team form like The Motor City Machine Guns or the inevitable Lucha Bros reunion as Pentagon and Rey Fenix team together for the first time under the WWE banner.

Finally, while womenâ€s tag teams have in most cases not had as much time to gel or cultivate nostalgia, the pairing of Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair has the name recognition and experience to be entertaining opponents against just about any pairing. Moreover, AJ Lee and Nikki Bellaâ€s returns to WWE, alongside speculation about a comeback tour for Paige, have fans hungry for a WrestleMania 31 rematch of Lee and Paige versus The Bella Twins.

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Pro Wrestling NOAH Announces Departure Of Former 5x GHC Heavyweight Champ Go Shiozaki

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One of Pro Wrestling NOAH’s longest serving performers will be starting a new chapter in their career in the coming days as it has been confirmed by the company that the contract of former five-time GHC Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki has officially expired.

The company took to their X (formerly known as Twitter) account to issue an official statement on the matter.

“Notice of Contract Expiration: Go Shiozaki. Following discussions initiated by Go Shiozaki, it has been decided that his contract with PRO WRESTLING NOAH will not be renewed. As of today, the contract has officially expired. September 30, 2025. CyberFight/PRO WRESTLING NOAH.”

The Executive Vice-President of CyberFight, NOAH legend Naomichi Marufuji, also issued a statement regarding Shiozaki’s exit, though it seems that Marufuji wasn’t too happy about the way things transpired as referenced a gesture he made to Shiozaki in what turned about to be his final match for the company.

“9.23 Korakuen Hall. I think he didn’t understand it either, but I pointed to the NOAH logo in the center of the ring with various meanings in mind. I probably won’t ever put the Noah jersey on his shoulder again. Don’t do things halfway. Live. For now, Bye-Bye.”

Shiozaki arrived at the NOAH dojo back in 2003 and quickly rose through the ranks as a Junior Heavyweight before graduating to the main event scene. He was the first man to hold the GHC Heavyweight Championship following the untimely passing of company founder Mitsuharu Misawa in 2009, and would hold the title for a second time before departing for All Japan Pro Wrestling in 2012. After holding the AJPW Triple Crown Championship, he returned to NOAH in 2015 and became one of the most decorated wrestlers in company history. He would eventually reach five GHC Heavyweight Championship reigns, more than anyone else, as well as holding the GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championships on seven different occasions. As for what’s next, Shiozaki is the current ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion, and given how successful he was in NOAH, he won’t be short of offers when he enters the free agency pool.

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Longtime Pro Wrestling NOAH star leaving company

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A longtime Pro Wrestling NOAH star is departing the company.

NOAH announced Tuesday morning that Go Shiozaki, who aside from a few years spent most of his career with the company, will be leaving as of September 30.

“Following discussions initiated by Go Shiozaki, it has been decided that his contract with PRO WRESTLING NOAH will not be renewed. As of today, the contract has officially expired,†the company wrote on social media.

Shiozakiâ€s last match was during the N-1 Victory tour on September 23, where he teamed with Atsushi Kotoge, Kazuyuki Fujita, and Mohammed Yone to defeat Harutoki, Kaito Kiyomiya, Naomichi Marufuji, and Shuhei Taniguchi.

Graduating from the Pro Wrestling NOAH dojo in 2003, Shiozaki has spent most of his career in the company, where he held the GHC Heavyweight title on five different occasions and won the N-1 Victory tournament in 2023. He briefly left the company in 2013 to join All Japan Pro Wrestling, where he held the Triple Crown title once before returning to NOAH in 2015, where he remained up until Tuesday.

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NJPW announces lineups for King of Pro Wrestling, Road to shows

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NJPW has announced several upcoming matches.

The promotionâ€s next big show is King of Pro Wrestling 2025 on Monday, October 13 at the RyÅgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, with Zack Sabre Jr. defending against Konosuke Takeshita. NJPW has also booked two title matches for the Road to King of Pro Wrestling tour on October 6 and 11. Full lineups for all three shows are below.

NJPW Road to King of Pro Wrestling lineup October 6 at Korakuen Hall

  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion El Desperado defends against DOUKI
  • Yuya Uemura vs. Yuto-Ice
  • Shota Umino vs. OSKAR
  • Titan, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi, & Yota Tsuji vs. Gedo, Taiji Ishimori, David Finlay, & Gabe Kidd
  • Tiger Mask, KUUKAI, Toru Yano, & Boltin Oleg vs. Dick Togo, SHO, Don Fale, & EVIL
  • Clark Connors & Drilla Maloney vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & SANADA
  • Jado & El Phantasmo vs. Katsuya Murashima & Hiroshi Tanahashi
  • Tatsuya Matsumoto & Shoma Kato vs. Zane Jay & Masatora Yasuda

NJPW Road to King of Pro Wrestling lineup October 11 in Saitama

  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Sho & DOUKI defend against El Desperado & KUUKAI
  • Daiki Nagai, Titan, Shingo Takagi, & Yota Tsuji vs. Gedo, Taiji Ishimori, David Finlay & Gabe Kidd
  • Tomoaki Honma & Yuya Uemura vs. OSKAR & Yuto-Ice
  • Tiger Mask, Toru Yano, Boltin Oleg vs. Dick Togo, Don Fale, & EVIL
  • Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & SANADA
  • Shota Umino vs. Katsuya Murashima
  • Tatsuya Matsumoto & Shoma Kato vs. Zane Jay & Masatora Yasuda

NJPW King of Pro Wrestling 2025 lineup for October 13, 2025

  • IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Zack Sabre Jr. defends against Konosuke Takeshita
  • IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion Gabe Kidd defends against Yota Tsuji
  • IWGP Tag Team Champions Knockout Brothers (OSKAR & Yuto-Ice) vs Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino
  • NEVER Openweight Champion Boltin Oleg defends against EVIL
  • NJPW World TV Champion El Phantasmo defends against Hiroshi Tanahashi
  • YOH, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto (first match back) vs TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa, Hartley Jackson & Kosei Fujita)
  • Drilla Moloney vs SANADAÂ
  • Shingo Takagi, Hiromu Takahashi & Titan vs War Dogs (David Finlay, Taiji Ishimori & Clark Connors)

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