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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.

NJPW Blue Justice XV - Wrestling Life 40th Anniversary Yuji Nagata was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event produced by Yuji Nagata and held on January 19, 2025, at the Chiba-Sakura Municipal Gymnasium in Sakura, Japan, headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi, Oleg Boltin, Toru Yano & Yuji Nagata vs. House of Torture (Ren Narita, SHO, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Yujiro Takahashi).

The NJPW 53rd Anniversary Event was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) pay-per-view held on March 6, 2025 at the Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan, headlined by Hirooki Goto (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

The ninth and final night of the tournament took place on March 20, 2025, at the Aore Nagaoka in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan, and featured the final match to crown the New Japan Cup 2025 winner.

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.

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.

Superhuman Taiji Ishimori Gets Even More Ridiculous was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Taiji Ishimori that took place on October 7, 2025 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW New Japan Road in Ishikari 2025 was a live-streamed event held October 19, 2025, at Ishikari Municipal Hanakawa Junior High School Gymnasiumin Hokkaido, Japan, featuring hometown hero Taichi’s homecoming and marquee matches including El Desperado & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. House of Torture and a JTO Girls Tag Title defense.

NJPW Superhuman Taiji Ishimori Gets Ridiculous One More Time was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Taiji Ishimori that took place on November 12, 2025 at Shinjuku FACE in Tokyo, Japan.