After 12 months of building, we’re finally here. This is the final update for this year’s RESURA Joshi Pro Wrestling Fantasy League! The wrestlers have all worked hard all year and put on some incredible matches along the way. To me, the action in joshi pro wrestling as a whole has taken another step forward compared to the last few years prior as more wrestlers join the scene and the overall talent level continues to rise.

While doing the scoring manually all year for this fantasy league, I’ve been able to notice the patterns when certain wrestlers have a really good month, or a wrestler who is for more active than another either based on their company running a lot of shows or being a freelancer who may not be booked all that much. You get a chance to really get a feel for what’s happening in the joshi pro wrestling landscape without even watching a lot of the shows, and for that I am honestly quite happy I decided to put this together. While the owners of each team in the league weren’t always the most active in trying to build their roster through free agency, it was still interesting to see some team’s seasons turn around for better or for worse as the year went on.

We’ll get around to the actual final standings for the teams in the league here shortly, but first I think it will be fun to take a look at the wrestlers who had the best year based on points alone. Those points of course, are based on wins in singles, tag, multi person matches, draws, title wins, title defenses and non-one day tournament wins. As you can see, there were quite a few different factors that could score a wrestler points, and I’ll give you the top scorers in each of those categories since it’s something fun to look at.

TOP 10 MOST OVERALL POINTS

TOP 10 MOST SINGLE MATCH WINS

TOP 10 MOST MULTI-PERSON MATCH WINS

TOP 10 MOST TAG TEAM MATCH WINS

TOP 10 MOST DRAWS

TOP 10 MOST TITLES WON

TOP 10 MOST TITLE DEFENSES

I’d list the top ten most tournament wins, but honestly it’s not all that exciting with only one wrestler winning more than one this year which was Sayaka Kurara who took home not only the Cinderella, but also the Goddesses tag league.

There were obviously a few names that you saw in many of the top tens above, but the real stand out this year was none other than the ageless wonder Kaori Yoneyama, who not only gets regular bookings in the biggest women’s wrestling company in Japan STARDOM, but also all around the joshi pro wrestling scene. It also helps that she runs her own shows as well under Gokigen Pro Wrestling, but that’s beside the point. In the year of 2025, Kaori Yoneyama wrestled a total of 236 matches, which is a pretty insane number for a wrestler over 40 years of age. Now, she did have quite a few matches that did the whole, flash pin win, flash pin win and then an actual longer match win, but it still counts with the way that Cagematch lists it.

When we turn our attention to the teams in the league and the number of points scored in a single month, there were definitely some months that simply had more points available than others. December for instance had the second lowest number of points scored by the teams combined with 1376, which wasn’t a lot more points than the month that placed last in points scored by all teams which was February and it’s 1361-point total. On the opposite side of the spectrum, May of this year had the highest point total with 1728 points scored, which is quite a big difference to say the least.

When we break it down to the highest the teams scored in a single month, we can bring that to you a top 10 much more easily…

TOP 10 BEST MONTHLY TOTAL (TEAMS)

As you can see, the teams that spent most of the time during the year near the top of the standings had a lot of the best single month scores overall, but a middle of the pack team like TCS 4 Life was able to squeak in right at the bottom of the top ten with their great month of December. When we move to take a look at the best single month scores by a wrestler themselves, you’d have to believe that the top ten list will involve quite a bit of Kaori Yoneyama, but just how many times will she show up on it? Let’s take a look.

TOP 10 BEST MONTHLY TOTAL (WRESTLER)

If your answer on the amount of times Kaori Yoneyama, the leader in points for the entire year would be on that top ten list was only once, then you’d be correct. It just honestly shows how good of a year she had in just about every month on the calendar. Also, kudos to Sareee for having one hell of a month in August as she was the only wrestler to score 40 points or more in a month this year.

With all of the coverage for the yearlong stats done, let’s move onto the final standings for the year, and the crowning of the first ever winner of the RESURA Joshi Pro Wrestling Fantasy League. During the year, there were a total of three different teams who stood in first place at the end of a given month. After January, The Icon & Friends were in first place after having quite a good start to the year with a roster based around a very young core. In February, Dylan’s Mad Dog Military team took over the points lead by having one hell of a month of their own, though that only last for one month as the Outlet Wolfpack team ran by Pedro took over the points lead for most of the year after that. It wasn’t until November when Dylan’s team once again took over the points lead, and they rode that all the way to the finish line.

That’s right, the winner of the first ever fantasy league season is none other than Dylan Murray and his team the Mad Dog Military! Congrats to Dylan for putting together one hell of a team, and one thing that stood out was the fact that he only picked up one wrestler during the course of the year, and that was Hiragi Kurumi very early on. Having the M.V.P. of Kaori Yoneyama definitely helped, but the likes of Starlight Kid, Saori Anou, and AZM all played a big part in scoring a lot of points as well to help the team get over the top!

Oh, by the way, here’s the final points standings for the year.

TEAM STANDINGS

If there had been an extra month in the calendar year, it’s possible that fourth and fifth place could have possibly caught up with third, and there could have been a shake up between sixth and seventh as well. Hell, even Fart Editing who had been in the basement pretty much all year could have possibly caught Alex’s Warbitches because of how bad of a month they had which brought their point totals ever so close together. It would have been the most interesting if all of the teams were very close together, but just like with any fantasy sports, injuries and other things were going to cause some separation no matter what. Still though, it was one hell of a year to say the least.

As always, I do my best to do a breakdown of each and every team in the league, and this time will be no different. I’ll start from the top of the standings and work my way down.

POSITION: 1st | TOTAL POINTS: 2154 | DECEMBER POINTS: 167

During the month of December Dylan’s team scored a pretty strong 167 points which was good enough for third place in the league. There weren’t a lot of points to go around, so scoring that high really helped them extend their lead over the team who was in second which was my own who only scored 146. Even though the Mad Dog Military and Oedo Tai traded places a few times in second and third during the year, Dylan’s team was quite consistent with scoring a good amount of points each month, meaning that it wasn’t easy to gain a lot of points on them for anyone in the league. That kind of consistency is what lead to their victory no doubt.

What more can I say about the team’s M.V.P. Kaori Yoneyama that I haven’t already said? She led in total points by 30 on the next highest wrestler in the league SAKI, and for what it’s worth, even in December she scored the second most points out of all of the wrestlers involved with 29. It was an absolute master class seeing her score so many points and be so active in matches in so many different promotions. It shows that if you’re able to make a great name for yourself as a freelancer, the opportunities are endless.

Some other wrestlers who had an impressive year on the team were Starlight Kid, Saori Anou, AZM, and Itsuki Aoki. Three of those names you’d probably expect considering they are full-time members of the biggest joshi promotion in the world, but Itsuki Aoki’s name being there really jumps off the page. While Itsuki isn’t a household name to a lot of casual joshi pro wrestling fans, she’s definitely doing everything she can to make a bigger name for herself with the 2025 that she had. She racked up 18 singles victories, 46 tag team victories, and even won a title late in the year which was the Regina Di Wave championship in the Pro Wrestling WAVE promotion. With her now participating a bit more in STARDOM, it will be interesting to see if her freelancing continues to be strong, or if she’ll be reined in more to work STARDOM more regularly, but one thing is for sure, she’s a name you now have to watch for more closely.

Unfortunately, Maya Yukihi basically spent the entire year on the injured reserve list for Dylan, not only because she was injured for a good portion, but because she also didn’t wrestle much even when she returned from injury. Yukihi is a pretty big name on the indies and would be expected to score quite a few points in a normal year. Maybe 2026 will be kinder to her, but we’ll have to see. Kizuna Tanaka scoring under 100 points was a bit surprising, though she also was plagued at times this year by injury because of her bad back. Kizuna is a young core piece of Marigold, so I would have expected her to do a bit more than she ended up doing, but there’s always next year.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 2nd | TOTAL POINTS: 2099 | DECEMBER POINTS: 146

The month of December wasn’t a great one for my team Oedo Tai and unfortunately, I needed to have an absolutely fantastic month if I was going to be able to catch first place. My team scored 146 points which was good enough for fourth place, but still about 20 points less than the first-place team Mad Dog Military, and 56 points away from the top team for the month TCS 4 Life.

This year there’s been two M.V.P.’s for my team dueling it out for the top spot on the team month after month and that was Rina Yamashita who finished in first place with 238 and Saya Kamitani who finished closely in second with 236. Both competitors had really good years, with Rina being booked all over the pro wrestling scene, whether that be in joshi, or even men’s federations. Saya Kamitani, on the other hand, only led the biggest joshi company in the world to their most successful year ever, so no big deal, right? If we’re looking at straight numbers though, Kamitani’s 12 title defenses definitely did quite a bit of heavy lifting when it comes to her points total, but not many wrestlers were booked stronger in those types of matches than her this year.

Another wrestler I have to show love for is Hazuki, and that should be no surprise since she was my first-round pick in the draft we did at the beginning of the year. I truly believed that this would be the year where she’d finally win the Wonder of Stardom title, but instead she became a bit of a freelancer while still being on a STARDOM contract which gave her more ability to work matches against new opponents. Her 203 points was quite good for someone who wasn’t really in many big storylines for the year, but she kept her head down and did her best as being one of the premier tag team wrestlers in 2025 totaling 65 tag team wins. While there was a bit of a dropoff after that, I’ll give kudos to the likes of Maika Ozaki, Kaho Kobayashi, and Miyuki Takase who all had a good year, but not a great one as they all were in the 150-point range at the end of the year.

In terms of disappointments, I can’t really be too upset with most of my roster. Shinno started the year almost halfway through and because of school she hasn’t had a chance to wrestle as often as she would if she was full time in Marigold, however, even her 44 points isn’t bad for the times she did get in the ring. Kouki Amarei was someone I had high hopes when I drafted her even though I knew she got injured, but unfortunately, she got injured again shortly after she came back, causing me to have to drop her towards the end of the year. I also didn’t know at the start of the year that Tam Nakano would be retiring for sure, so I only got a few months out of her before her retirement, though I did keep her in my inactive spot for the rest of the year since I don’t trust that she’s actually gone for good.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 3rd | TOTAL POINTS: 2034 | DECEMBER POINTS: 110

December was a rough month to say the least for Pedro and his team as their fall from grace continued. His team only scored a very disappointing 110 points overall, which was second from the bottom in the standings, and it almost enabled fourth place in the standings to make up enough ground to catch them before the year ended. Even with falling to third, Pedro should be pretty happy with his team’s output this year, because for most of the year they were in first place. He had great scoring throughout the lineup, and that’s kind of what you look for when trying to put together a successful team in something like this.

The M.V.P. for the team this year ended up being HANAKO which would have probably surprised all of us if we said it at the beginning of the year. This was a year where STARDOM was all for building their giant to being formidable against every other competitor on the roster and setting her up to be the top young star in her generation of rookies. The strong booking led to her scoring 184 points on the year, which is definitely a good number, though not as high as a lot of the top wrestlers on other rosters unfortunately. Tomoka Inaba finished close by in second place with 180 points, finishing what was a pretty damn good year for the still pretty young wrestler. Not only did she work a ton of dates for STARDOM as a regular part of the God’s Eye faction, but she also worked a lot of shows for JTO since that is her actual home promotion. JTO has a very young roster when it comes to their wrestlers, so having both Tomoka and Azusa there to anchor their promotion really helps everyone else under them grow.

Some other wrestlers we should spotlight for their strong years are Takumi Iroha and Saya Iida, both eclipsed the 150-point mark this year, showing that they were booked pretty strong, but not way over the top. Takumi Iroha finished in third place on the team with 160 points which was great to see because it meant that we got quite a few meaningful Takumi Iroha matches in 2025, which is something we’ve all been wanting the last few years. Seeing Takumi become the dominant “Ace” of Marvelous as the company garnered more buzz than they had in prior years was awesome to see, and hopefully it will continue into 2026. Saya Iida is a wrestler we’ve all wanted to see pushed successfully in more than just tag team action, so it was nice to see her finally get her opportunity for a big white belt challenge late in the year against Konami. Saya’s performance continues to cement just how talented of a worker she is, and how much she can connect with the crowd.

There weren’t a lot of really disappointing wrestlers on the team this year for Pedro, the only thing that sort of held them back was not having a few wrestlers at the top make it over the 200-point mark. Even the lowest wrestler point wise on the team was Sakura Mizushima with 88 points, which is honestly a pretty damn good total for a wrestler in Actwres Girl’z since the promotion doesn’t run a ton of events each year. Her time with the King of Ring Entertainment Championship was honestly a really strong point with the company this year, and hopefully that means that she’ll get some good opportunities for the AWG title as well in the near future. The only other wrestlers who didn’t quite make it to 100 points for the team was Momo Watanabe and Kirari Wakana, but both of them got close, so that’s honestly pretty good all things considered. Obviously, Pedro would have loved more from Momo since she was his first-round pick, but he was smart enough to surround Momo with a ton of other great talents who ended up scoring even more points than the superstar.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 4th | TOTAL POINTS: 2003 | DECEMBER POINTS: 179

December was honestly a very strong month for Xavi and his team as they scored 17 points, which was good enough for second best in the league, and considering the scoring overall was down quite a bit from normal, getting to almost 180 points allowed the team to almost catch third place because of the 69-point difference…nice. One thing that would have helped him gain even more points though was getting any of the 28 points that Tsukina Umino earned during the month, but unfortunately, she was left on injured reserve for his team, so she instead added zero points. Still though, Xavi has to be pretty happy with the effort from his team this year.

One of the biggest things that helped this team get as far as they did was having the second and third highest scoring wrestlers in the entire league with SAKI earning 271 points and Makoto earning 268 points respectively. Just the output of those two alone was over 500 points which can’t be said by any of the other teams in the league when you look at their top two scorers. Basically, what I’m saying is that SAKI and Makoto straight up carried as two of the most successful names on the freelance circuit, and without them, it would have been a rougher year.

While none of the other wrestlers other than the top two were able to eclipse the 200-point mark, there were a few wrestlers who made it over 150 who should get some love. Misa Kagura, another prominent freelancer, scored 196 points which is a very strong output for a wrestler who’s still nowhere near as seasoned as SAKI and Makoto for instance. Mai Sakurai was one of the strongest champions in Marigold this year, and her 187 points shows that firsthand. Other than Mayu Iwatani, the “Icon of Joshi Professional Wrestling” who started her year in a more active company, STARDOM, Mai Sakurai had the most points earned by anyone in Marigold. Needless to say, she was on quite a heater. We should also give props to Chihiro Hashimoto and Aya Sakura, as both scored over 170 points. Chihiro had a bit of a slow start to the year, but once Meiko retired, she started earning points pretty quickly. Aya Sakura has been pretty good all year even though she’s still somewhat inexperienced. Seeing her hit that point milestone shows that STARDOM truly believes in this wrestler, and it will be interesting to see what she does in 2026.

If we have to pick out some negatives for the year, we’d need to point out Mio Momono as one of the biggest for this team. She was drafted quite early and derailed by an early injury, but even when she returned from that injury, she never quite hit the stride expected as she only scored 63 points this year. With a talent like Mio, you’d expect at least 100 points from her, if not even more. Maybe with a full year of wrestling and not a few months off, she would have had the opportunity to gain more, but unfortunately for her, along with Xavi she had a bit of a quiet year to say the least.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 5th | TOTAL POINTS: 1981 | DECEMBER POINTS: 200

Out of all of the teams in the league, Dave and his team had the best month of December with them scoring a whopping 200 points. Not only was it the highest score, but they cleared the second-place team by 21 points. If the team had this success earlier in the year, I think they could have really made things interesting in the top part of the standings, but unfortunately, they were in the middle of the table for most of the year, which left this too far behind to make a big jump right at the end. It also didn’t help that the second-place team was the team directly in front of them in the standings, meaning they couldn’t gain as many points on them as they probably would have liked.

The true M.V.P. for this team this year was underage up until late in the year and that was none other than Azusa Inaba. She’s a wrestler with unlimited potential that has really made a large leap forward this year with her in-ring work. She scored 210 points which is really good, especially considering there weren’t a lot of wrestlers on the scene who scored over 200 points in general. She also scored more points than her sister who’s even more experienced which says quite a bit as well. Azusa Inaba is going to be a future star in this business, and Dave was smart to pick her up when he did, because I don’t think many of the team owners expected her to have the year that she ended up having. Going into 2026, the sky is the limit for her in my opinion.

Other wrestlers on the team who should get some spotlight would be Kakeru Sekiguchi, VENY, and Rina. Kakeru Sekiguchi had a pretty strong start to the year, getting a lot of opportunities to wrestle all over the joshi pro wrestling scene. She’s used in many of the indies, so you may not always see her wrestling, but she stays quite after which can be seen by her 171-point total. VENY has been a pretty big name on the freelance scene for quite a while as well, but unfortunately, she doesn’t always wrestle all that many matches each year, meaning that you’re left wanting more. She’s an insane talent, but just not active enough for my liking. Rina from STARDOM had a truly electric year even though she really wasn’t in the title pictures all that much. Sure, she won the Artists of Stardom Championship late in the year, and she had an awesome challenge for the Wonder of Stardom Championship early in the year, but ultimately, she just continued doing great work wherever she was put on the card, which is really all you can ask for. I do think that 2026 will be even better for her though as she continues to be one of the biggest rising stars in the biggest joshi promotion in the world. I truly believe that Rina will be able to capture that magic that Hana Kimura had all those years ago, making her one of the biggest stars both in ring and outside of it for the company in the future.

The real standout when it comes to disappointments on the team really came down to Mina Shirakawa who spent the early part of the year in STARDOM but eventually jumped to America full-time to wrestle for AEW. While Mina has become a pretty big star for AEW thus far, America simply doesn’t book their wrestlers every single week in matches, meaning that a lot of times the wrestlers are simply not busy enough to score enough points. I do think that she might have more title-related success in 2026, but it still might not turn into more than the 67 points she scored this year.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 6th | TOTAL POINTS: 1792 | DECEMBER POINTS: 131

Unfortunately for Ryan and his team God’s Sigh, it wasn’t that great of a month in December as the team only scored 131 points. While it was still quite a bit higher than the lowest team in scoring, it still wasn’t good enough to enable them to make ground on the teams ahead of them in the standings. The year as a whole was a bit up and down for the team. Early on, they did pretty well, but injuries messed a lot of stuff up as the year went on with many of the stronger booked talents on the roster being out at one time or another. I personally think that Ryan’s roster would have been quite scary if everyone was healthy for the entire year, but in fantasy sports, that’s never guaranteed.

Even though it was a VERY slow start to the year for the number one pick in the draft itself Sareee, she eventually got going strongly as the year went on, and in the end, she was the highest scoring wrestling on Ryan’s team just like she was supposed to be. Sareee, being a freelancer had the ability to work more matches than some of the other wrestlers on the scene, but instead chose to be a bit less active, most likely to save herself for matches that matter more. Her point total of 193 was still very strong though, and that was definitely helped by her winning two titles this year, along with defending those said titles six times in total. Would Sareee go first overall in another fantasy draft to start this year? It’s definitely possible, because you know that she’ll pull her weight and more!

Two other wrestlers who had very strong years in terms of points was Shoko Nakajima and Natsuko Tora, with both of them getting to the 170-point milestone or higher. Shoko Nakajima works for TJPW which means she may not work quite as often as a STARDOM wrestler for instance, but Shoko stayed busy, being willing to fly overseas to work matches in various countries around the world. Not only did she win the tag team championships in TJPW with her partner Hyper Misao, but she also picked up the women’s championship from US-based MLW which is a title she’s defended a few times during the course of this year as well. All in all, it was quite a strong year for the “Big Kaiju.” Natsuko Tora, on the other hand, continued to show that she’s quite the strong dependable hand in STARDOM putting on great performances as one of the top heels in the company and the leader of its top faction H.A.T.E. Natsuko’s big point scoring ability this year was the 59 tag team matches she won, helping her get to her 170-point total. It also helped that she was able to pick up the Goddesses of Stardom tag team championships towards the late middle of the year, which allowed her to gain a few title defenses as well for the bonus points.

When it comes to disappointments, you can just look at who got injured this year in all honesty. Picking Maika as early as Ryan did was great until she took most of the year off getting her elbow worked on. Having someone like Chi Chi was looking like a good pick, yet she had her own injury problems a few times this year as well. Syuri, ACT Yasukawa, and Haruka Umesaki all spent a decent amount of time on the proverbial shelf due to injury, so really that’s what set the team back at the end of the day. Still though, if Ryan ran it back in 2026 with this same roster, I do believe that things would be quite different to say the least.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 7th | TOTAL POINTS: 1770 | DECEMBER POINTS: 132

While Scott’s team finished one spot behind Ryan’s team of God’s Sigh, they finished one point ahead of that team in the standings for the month of December. It wasn’t a great month for the team that has been struggling a bit since the beginning of the season, but it also wasn’t that bad. The big issue that I think the team had this year was that they were somewhat inconsistent or consistently in the middle of the road points wise, which is what lead to them ending up in seventh place for the year.

You know, I guess it should be no surprise that the M.V.P. of the team for this year was none other than “The Icon” herself, Mayu Iwatani who just barely passed the 200-point milestone with a really strong 203 points. Her year didn’t start off the hottest while in STARDOM, but ever since she moved to Marigold she’s been booked like the “Ace” she is, meaning that most of the time she’s going to be on the winning side of the match, whether that’s in singles or in tags. Her 54 tag team wins really helped be a strong baseline for points, and the fact that she won the Superfly Championship and defended it quite a few times helped add quite a few bonus points as well. Obviously, Scott would have loved for her to score even more points considering what she means to joshi puroesu, but you really can’t be upset with this output at the end of the day.

There were three other very strong, but young point scorers on the team this year with Victoria Yuzuki, Seri Yamaoka, and Miyu Amasaki all putting in a really good year in 2025. Victoria Yuzuki continued building on her great first year with the newly created Marigold and pushed herself to even better heights. She won not only the Superfly title this year, but also the United National Championship, which gave her the ability to get five defenses out of the two belts as well. That in turn helped her gain 182 points this year. Seri Yamaoka had one of the best rookie years that is possible in joshi pro wrestling, and that can be seen firsthand with her very strong 175 points scored that was helped by a tag title reign with Nanae Takahashi and her very strong 49 tag team wins overall. Miyu Amasaki had one of the strongest months in January of this year and was a big reason why Scott was in first place after the first month, but after that she slowed down a good bit because of inconsistent booking from the STARDOM brass. She still finished with a very strong 173 points, but it could have been a much bigger year for her if the company pushed her to the ability they could have.

Unfortunately, the low end of Scott’s team is part of what dragged him down in the standings. Natsumi Showzuki spent a lot of the year on the shelf and because of that, she only scored 33 points. Maki Itoh had good and bad points of the year, but never really got into a consistent rhythm of scoring points. Chanyota has a ton of potential, but maybe she doesn’t quite work enough, or isn’t booked strongly enough yet to be a big-time member of the team. Later on in the year, Scott added Erina Yamanaka and Senka Akatsuki, but neither of them put together super strong months which meant that their point totals ended up being quite low to say the least. If Scott could have gotten more out of the bottom parts of his line up, he could have been in the thick of things later on in the year.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 8th | TOTAL POINTS: 1638 | DECEMBER POINTS: 93

Much like a lot of the year, December was a rough month for the team of Casa Royale and it’s owner Fernando. They were one of two teams who didn’t even hit triple digits for points scored as a team with 93, and it’s unfortunate because it’s a team full of wrestlers that I actually like quite a bit, but they just didn’t put up enough points to make the team successful as a whole this year. Still though, I think Fernando would learn from this season if there is a next season and would mix things up a bit with his picks.

There was one far away M.V.P. for the team this year and that was none other than Mei Suruga, the enigmatic “Ace” of ChocoPro who can fill you with happiness while also showing you technical skill that rivals some of the best in the industry. While Mei’s score of 172 isn’t quite as high as most of the top point scorers on other teams this year, the fact that she was able to do it in a smaller promotion like Choco Pro was honestly quite impressive. Sure, the company runs a lot of shows, but the booking can sometimes be inconsistent. Mei was able to defend her Super Asia title five times this year which helped her gain a few bonus points as well.

While Fernando’s team didn’t have any other wrestler cross the 150- point mark, there were three wrestlers who had gotten pretty close as the year came to a close. Koguma, one half of the popular tag team FWC, Tae Honma, a strong freelancer who retired in October, and Miyu Yamashita, the official leader of TJPW, along with someone who can be seen as the ace whenever they need her to step into that role. Koguma finished with 56 tag team match wins and a nice score of 148 points, Tae Honma had a good year all around scoring 147 points, which is surprising considering the fact that she didn’t wrestle for the last two months of the year, and Miyu Yamashita came in fourth place with 143 points scored, which is probably a bit lower of a total than expected, but still decent. All in all, all three of them could have performed better, but you also can’t get too upset with their output.

With the opening draft, Fernando took a risk by drafting Iyo Sky early, and unfortunately it didn’t pay off as much as a first-round pick should. This year she only gained 88 points, and that’s with her winning a title and defending it a few times as well. Unfortunately, the match schedule in WWE just isn’t plentiful enough for the wrestlers to gain a lot of point unless they are defending their title constantly on house shows in between which are few and far between at this point. Fernando also didn’t get much out of Ayano Irie this year, as Actwres booked her quite a bit, but didn’t really push her with any of their three different available titles. She’s one of the veterans on their roster, so I can see why you’d expect her to get more wins, but this year simply wasn’t her year. The likes of Saki Kashima and Ibuki Hoshi both didn’t hit the 100-point milestone, but that can be attributed to injuries more than anything, as both had a decent amount of time off during the year of 2025.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 9th | TOTAL POINTS: 1585 | DECEMBER POINTS: 80

December was one of the roughest months of Alex and their team this year as they came in last with a very subpar 80 points scored. The team make-up was a bit sketchy to say the least when it came to how they drafted their team, but there were times this year where multiple wrestlers on the team would have really good months, they just didn’t have the consistency needed to make their way up the ladder as the year went on. They also had such a bad last month that they almost got caught by last place who had been quite far behind for quite a few months. Still though, I think Alex would learn from the possible drafting mistakes and get a better mixture of names next time.

While no wrestler on the roster was amazing this year, there was one wrestler who sort of set themselves apart from the rest of the pack for most of the year, and that was none other than Manami Katsu, the “Ace” of Ice Ribbon for this year. Without Manami, Ice Ribbon would have been in some real trouble I think, but her stabilizing force at the top really helped the company get through some of these tough times, while helping build a young roster who could push them forward in the future. Her 161 points was particularly impressive because 43 total wins between the three options of singles, multi, and tag was pretty low, but her winning two championships while also defending those titles seven times helped propel her to the top of the team’s standings.

Two other wrestlers who helped this team propel themselves forward was Ayame Sasamura, the steady regular in so many of the joshi indie promotions, and Hina, maybe the least popular of the Tochigi trio, but someone who truly proved that they are one of the best young wrestlers in the sport this year. Ayame’s 155 points was especially impressive because she didn’t have any title wins this year, and she only had one title defense give her any bonus points. Her total of 61 wins over the three options is damn good for a wrestler who is a part of a mostly men’s company but is also allowed to freelance.

The big disappointment for the team this year was the number one pick for Alex’s team which was Mayumi Ozaki. While none of us could expect that she was going to wrestle a ton of matches considering her age, she normally likes to hold some sort of gold during most of the year in her own promotion, so you would have expected her to get some bonus points for that, but she ended up coming away with zero in the title related categories by the end of the year. Unfortunately, having your first-round pick only score 61 points is a good way to find yourself down towards the bottom of the standings. It was also kind of surprising that Yuki Arai only mustered up 72 points by the end of the year. TJPW had been very high on Arai, and it seemed like only a matter of time before she was the top champion in the promotion because she sells tickets, but ever since she left her idol group, I feel like her booking has been sort of in a holding pattern, which doesn’t upset me since I don’t think she’s as talented as they booked her to be, but I also think she’ll get better in due time, she just needs more reps in the ring. Maybe that’s the reason for her low score this year.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 10th | TOTAL POINTS: 1580 | DECEMBER POINTS: 139

Even though the overall year has been rough for Fart Editing, the team actually had a pretty good December all things considered. Hell, it was almost enough for them to slip into ninth place before the league concluded. Their 139 points was good enough for fifth best in the league for the month, and part of it could have been helped by the overall lower scoring of this month, but also it might have signaled a turnaround for the team if there were only a few more months left in the season. Still though, they finished with a bang, so you can’t be too upset about that.

There was definitely a very obvious M.V.P. for this team this year, and that was the very recently retired YUU. Not only did she score 214 points for this team, but towards the end of the year she was working so many matches that if you needed to try to catch up to another team in front of you, she would have been a big help to that. Her 58 tag team wins was one of the highest marks in the league, and she was even able to gain quite a few bonus points from her one title win, along with four title defenses. I’m sure many of us will miss seeing YUU pop up on so many cards around the joshi scene, and my hope is that even if she’s retired from in ring stuff, that she’ll still be able to have some sort of backstage role in a promotion of some kind, because it would be nice to see her around every once in a while.

The only other wrestler to really spotlight when it comes to point scoring on the team was the soon to be retiring Risa Sera who put together an impressive 169 points this year as she nears her retirement early in 2026. Risa Sera has definitely been breaking down physically for quite a while, but she still keeps pushing through it, trying to work as many matches and as many shows as she can, which shows in her point total for 2025. I know I personally will miss seeing her pop up on cards, but for her body physically, I am happy that she’ll be stepping away, because I know from my own bad knees that it just keeps getting worse with more use.

Unfortunately, you can sort of take your pick when it comes to disappointments on this team because there were quite a few. The first two I’ll point out is the tag team of Magenta, Maria and Riko Kawahata. They were both picked quite early in the draft, and yet neither of them were able to cross the 100-point threshold. As a tag team they won two tag team titles this year, but only had one successful defense, which hurt their ability to get bonus points, and in general their 53 total wins between the three categories just simply wasn’t enough. Maybe that’s Marvelous’ fault with how they book and the amount of shows they run, but still, you expect more from the two. You also have to be a bit disappointed with HIMAWARI from TJPW and Yuka Sakazaki who moved over to AEW with both of them putting up sub-50 points for the year. You need more from the bottom parts of your roster to have a chance in a game like this.

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FREE AGENTS

In December, there were actually quite a few high scorers among the free agents in the league with Kaho Matsushita and Hibiscus Mii both scoring a whopping 28 points apiece which was good enough to be tied for 3rd in the league. Riko Fukunaga also had a really good month scoring 24 points, along with the Kabuki Warriors in WWE who took advantage of house show defenses by putting up 24 and 21 points respectively.

In terms of the overall year though, there were a few stand out free agent wrestlers who ended up being stuck down there. While none of them scored a ton of points, their point totals could have helped as depth pieces on some of the teams in the league if they wanted to make a switch. There were two wrestlers who even got over the 100-point milestone in Waka Tsukiyama and rhythm, which is somewhat surprising, but shows that they had a sneaky good year in all honesty. Here’s a breakdown of the top 10 names on the free agents in terms of points at the end of the year.

TOP 10 IN OVERALL POINTS (FREE AGENTS)

And with that, it is time to say goodbye to this fantasy league because while it was fun both playing along with running it, it’s a bit too much work for me to deal with when there’s so many more projects I want to take care of in 2026. I hope you’ve all enjoyed the updates as we’ve posted them over the year, and I hope that everyone who took part in the fantasy league enjoyed their time in it as well. If anyone would want to do a fantasy league of their own using my template and rule set, feel free to let me know by sending me a message on my X account posted below, or Discord if you happen to be in a server with me. I’d be more than happy to share it with you.

Thank you to all of the content creators who took part in this fantasy league. Even though the activity within it decreased over the year like a lot of fantasy leagues for other sports, it was still cool bringing everyone together for this. If you’ve enjoyed these updates over the year and you haven’t followed the creators below, please do so! They all love joshi pro wrestling, and they want to share that love with the world!