Joshi pro wrestling is something special to me, as it’s wrestling that can truly make me feel stronger emotions than what I see here in America. I don’t know if it’s the fact that the wrestlers in general are on the smaller side, or look more innocent, but there’s something that gets me invested each time I see a Japanese woman show their fighting spirit against all odds in a pro wrestling match. The emotional aspect of pro wrestling is something that can only be measured by opinion, and not facts because it depends on the person. One thing that you can measure by factual evidence though is the numbers behind pro wrestling, and that’s what this is all about.
I compiled as much data as I could about every joshi pro wrester I know about, as well as the companies they work for from CageMatch.net along with other sources and now I’m here to deliver what I can deduce from the data I compiled.
If you’re not a logical thinker about pro wrestling, this might not be for you, but if you’re interested in the numbers of who wrestled the most matches, who was the biggest draw in joshi pro wrestling based on attendance figures and main events, or who had the best winning percentage in a given month, then this is for you!
Let’s start with the different spreadsheets that I set up for data collection. The first was a tracker to compile stats for each joshi pro wrestler who was on my proverbial radar, and it tracked a multitude of various stats including; how many matches of each type a wrestler has wrestled, their win percentage in each type, how many title matches they wrestled, and what their record was in tournament matches for the year, just to name a few. By having it on a spreadsheet, it made it a lot easier to rank or compare with other wrestlers on the scene which is ultimately what I wanted.
The second spreadsheet I set up was one that was simply how many matches a wrestler worked in each month of the year, along with how many wins they had in each of those months. The third spreadsheet was used to cover tag team wrestling with known tag teams at least to me, and it shows how many matches they wrestled as a duo, their win percentage, and how good they were in title opportunities or defenses. The next spreadsheet followed a lot of the same things as the tag team one, but instead it is for factions that I know about at least. I’m sure there were a few that were left out as I don’t always understand some of the stuff going on in some of the indie promotions to account for it properly, but I did my best.
The fifth spreadsheet was used to cover stats for 30 different promotions that are either full joshi companies, or ones that employ a few joshi workers regularly on their cards. In the case of a promotion like JTO for instance, I left out cards where they had no women’s matches on them, but it still gives you a general sense of how many shows they did and in what regions of the country, along with any attendance numbers that were shared. Those promotion numbers were complied with the help of the sixth spreadsheet which was a record of all of the events that took place in those 30 companies that involved joshi pro wrestlers and it included data like the venue, the region, the prefecture, the attendance if shared, how many matches were on the card, and the main event if there was a joshi pro wrestler in it. Finally, the seventh spreadsheet was for a wrestler’s ‘drawing power’ which used data from the sixth spreadsheet to compile how many main events a wrestler had this year, along with the attendance figures of the shows that they main evented.
With all of that established, let’s start throwing out some numbers.
WRESTLER MATCH STATS
First and foremost, there were a total of 353 joshi pro wrestlers who were accounted for in this data, and that does include some notable international talents who wrestled quite a few matches while in Japan or for a Japanese company. There were a total of 48 companies represented within these 353 wrestlers according to CageMatch, which includes quite a few wrestlers being the one and only contracted member of some of those promotions’ roster. The promotion with the most members is obviously STARDOM with 41 as they are the big powerhouse in the joshi pro wrestling scene and promotions like 666, Alma Libre, Batos Cafe Entertainment, Ehime Pro, Fukumen MANIA, GLEAT, Gokigen Pro, H-Production, Itabashi Pro, Michinoku Pro, MyWay, Pro Wrestling Shi-En, Sakai Gumi, Secret Base, Sukeban, UpTown, as well as ZERO1 all tied with only have one member each contracted in this data. (Sukeban is a special case because Natsuki Taiyo only wrestles there as Supersonic, but is retired otherwise)
There were a total of 60 freelancers included in this, and on top of that there were eight international wrestlers who made the cut as well with some wrestling more in Japan than others. The wrestler who wrestled the most matches overall this past year was none other than Kaori Yoneyama! She is probably best known as Fukigen Death to anyone who only watches STARDOM and nothing else, but she wrestled a total of 238 matches which is pretty insane if you think about it. Kaori does have the advantage of running her own promotion called Gokigen Pro, and before that it was called YMZ, but that’s still a lot of wrestling, especially for a 44-year-old.
The wrestler who wrestled in the second most matches overall was Rina Yamashita who took part in 172 matches during the year of 2025. Third place was the long-time freelancer Makoto who wrestled in 155 matches. The one thing all three have in common is that they all wrestled in a lot of different promotions, so I guess not being tied down to a single company does have its perks.
Yuuki Mashiro wrestled the most singles matches this year with a total of 47, though unfortunately for her, she only picked up the win in 12 of those matches which is a meager 26% win percentage. The aforementioned Kaori Yoneyama came in second place for most singles matches with 43, but she was much more successful in those matches than Mashiro with 23 wins for a 53% win percentage.
SAKI representing COLORS had the most singles match wins for the year with a whopping 32 out of 37 matches for a great 86% win percentage. The next highest was Rina Yamashita with 25 singles match wins and her win percentage was also quite high at 76%.
There were two wrestlers who had a perfect win percentage in singles matches while wrestling at least eight or more times which was the legend Aja Kong with 10, and Chihiro Hashimoto representing Sendai Girls with nine. An absolute dominant display when facing another competitor one on one.
When we take a look at multi-person matches like three-ways and four-ways for instance, there was one clear leader in the number of matches wrestled of that type which was Kaori Yoneyama racking up a total of 50 matches! The duo from Hokuto Pro based out of Hokkaido Chiho Matsumoto and Ami Kanda came in the next two spots with 33 and 29 respectively taking advantage of the fact that every show put on by that company ends with a battle royal, which is counted as a multi-person match. None of those three had a very good win percentage in those matches however.
No wrestlers really stood out in total wins for multi-person matches, but there were a couple of wrestlers who had very strong win percentages in those types of matches who wrestled at least six matches. Rika Tatsumi from TJPW was surprisingly good in multi-person matches this year, as she won five out of six for a great 83% win percentage, and Miyu Amasaki from STARDOM went six for eight for a very nice 75% win percentage.
When we switch our focus to tag team wrestling it should be no surprise that the top three are the same three wrestlers who wrestled the most matches in the year of 2025; Kaori Yoneyama, Rina Yamashita, and Makoto. Kaori led by quite a few with 145, Rina was next with 129 and Makoto rounded out the top three with 121. Fourth place was 12 matches behind as Hazuki from STARDOM wrestled in 109 tag team matches last year.
While Kaori Yoneyama may have wrestled the most tag team matches overall, she only won enough of those matches to place fifth in tag team match wins with Rina Yamashita taking the top spot with 68. Hazuki came in second with 65 and the recently retired YUU from Sendai Girls took the third spot with 62. If we look simply at win percentage however, there were a couple of wrestlers who stood out for wrestling a lot of tag matches. The first was the legendary Jaguar Yokota who won 47 out of 53 tag team matches for an amazing 89%. The other impressive wrestler is a legend in the making in Mayu Iwatani who won 54 of 73 tag team matches for a great win percentage of 74%.
One thing that always interests me is what wrestlers have the best winning percentage overall while also wrestling quite a few matches during the year. Usually you’ll see legends or at least long time veterans up there and this past year was no different with Jaguar Yokota coming in first winning 51 of 63 matches for an 81% win percentage. Act Yasukawa and Mayumi Ozaki came in the next two positions with an 80% and 76% win percentage respectively. The first wrestler with enough matches wrestled and a high winning percentage who would be considered in their ‘prime’ is Mayu Iwatani who won 73% of her matches in 2025. Mizuki, Chihiro Hashimoto, Marino Saihara, and Mei Suruga all came in with win percentages at 70% or better, representing their companies well as the top performer in that category.
Kaori Yoneyama wrestled in the most title matches this year with 25, which was good enough for 11% of her total matches, though she only won 48% of those matches. SAKI also wrestled a lot of title matches this year with 22, though unlike Kaori, she won most of those matches with a 73% win percentage. There was one notable wrestler who won their fair share of title matches and even had a perfect win percentage in those matches, and that was Manami Katsu from Ice Ribbon. She had a dominant year, winning nine out of nine title matches, and truly led that company from the top all year. Two other wrestlers who wrestled quite a few title matches, while almost having a perfect winning record was Saya Kamitani from STARDOM and Shoko Nakajima from TJPW. Saya Kamitani won 13 out of 14 title matches for a 93% win percentage, and Shoko Nakajima won 11 out of 12 title matches for a 92% win percentage.
Makoto and Kaori Yoneyama both lead the way with five titles won during the year, something that is mostly possible since they work in so many places. The wrestler who came in second place behind those two was Misa Kagura who also had a strong year, winning four titles.
Now we can turn our attention to tournament wrestling, something that is important in joshi puroesu as many of the bigger companies run tournaments throughout the year for their wrestlers to participate in. The wrestler who ended up wrestling in the most amount of tournaments this past year was Ranna Yagami from STARDOM. Ranna wrestled in 7 total tournaments and participated in 29 tournament matches which is 22% of Ranna’s total matches wrestled of 132. STARDOM runs their fair share of tournaments on their own, but Ranna gained an extra one this year by also participating in the Catch The WAVE tournament put on by the promotion Pro Wrestling WAVE where she made it all the way to the finals.
When we take a look at the best winning percentage for a wrestler who participated in more than one tournament this year, the top wrestler was actually Shoko Nakajima from TJPW. She won six of seven tournament matches, for an 86% win percentage, which was helped by being one half of the Max Heart Tag Team tournament winners with her partner Hyper Misao. Wrestlers in TJPW have a bit of an advantage though because their tournaments are mostly single elimination, meaning that it’s harder to pile up a bunch of losses in tournament play.
In my opinion, freelancers are the true lifeblood of joshi pro wrestling because even though there are big companies like STARDOM, TJPW, or Marigold out there, most of the other companies have much smaller rosters, meaning that they need to bring in these freelancers to fill up their shows, and sometimes even put titles on them. Without counting special produce shows or smaller promotions that don’t have a profile on CageMatch, I tallied up the number of promotions wrestlers worked for this year, and there were two wrestlers in particular who worked in the most. Both SAKI and YUU worked in 26 promotions this year, which shows that both appeared in shows all over Japan and even outside of it. Rina Yamashita wasn’t trailing too far behind as she worked for 25 promotions this past year.
MONTHLY BREAKDOWN
While CageMatch gives you the ability to pretty easily see how many matches a wrestler worked in a given month, they don’t simply give you the number of wins per month, unless of course I’m missing something, which is definitely possible. So, because of that, I had to go through each month for each wrestler to tally how many wins they were able to claim, which is part of what took so long. It, however, was quite fun getting to see some of the patterns form as I did so at least.
January is known for being a big month in joshi puroresu as you not only have the week of Wrestle Kingdom where every promotion in Japan decides to put on a show usually somewhere near Tokyo, but also because it’s important to show the fans of your promotion what your goal for the year will be, along with what wrestlers you want them to really get behind. With so many shows happening, it should be no surprise that freelancers would find themselves a lot of work which is shown by Kaori Yoneyama, the ageless wonder working the most matches for the month with a whopping 18! That’s more than a match every two days for the month, which is honestly pretty insane, and probably quite hard on the body. Rina Yamashita came in second with 14, and Ganbare Pro’s YuuRi surprisingly tied for third place with 12 matches worked that month.
When we switch our focus to winning percentage with at least eight matches wrestled, Jaguar Yokota, the 64-year-old legend won eight out of nine matches for a fantastic 89% win percentage. Another wrestler who stood out in the month of January, winning percentage wise, was Maika from STARDOM who won eight of ten matches for an 80% win percentage.
While February was much like the first month with Kaori Yoneyama leading the way working the most matches with 16, a surprising face came in second place as Hikari Shimizu, who was nearing her retirement, wrestled 15 matches in the shortened month. In terms of winning percentage, there was one wrestler who stood out from the rest and that was Mai Sakurai who won all eight of her matches during the month, giving her a perfect 100% winning percentage. Both Mayu Iwatani and Koguma won seven out of nine of their matches during the month giving them a very impressive 78% winning percentage.
In March, it was more of the same with Kaori Yoneyama wrestling the most matches with 23, which is almost a match every day. Rina Yamashita was in second again, but this time she was tied with another popular freelancer Unagi Sayaka, with both of them wrestling 16 matches during the month. Other popular names on the scene like Azusa Inaba, Misa Kagura, Kakeru Sekiguchi, Momoka Hanazono, and Makoto all wrestled 14 matches, which is still basically one match every two days. When it came to winning percentage, we had another wrestler go perfect while wrestling at least eight matches and it’s probably a name you wouldn’t expect, Raku from TJPW. Joshi wrestling’s god of sleep had a pretty incredible month winning all eight of her matches. Both YUU and DASH Chisako also had a strong month of March capturing the win in eight out of nine matches for a 89% win percentage.
When we move on to April, a special month for me since it’s my birthday month, Kaori Yoneyama once again led the way with 17 matches wrestled, but not too far behind her was the legend Meiko Satomura who ended up with 15 matches, which all led up to her retirement at the end of that month. Emi Sakura who rarely gets used by AEW, but was very active in Choco Pro in the month of April, won eight out of nine of her matches for an awesome 89% win percentage. The TJPW duo of Suzume and Mizuki came in second place by winning seven out of eight matches for a great 88% win percentage.
Let’s turn our attention to May where Kaori Yoneyama once again wrestled the most matches by competing in 21 matches but Rina Yamashita wasn’t too far behind with 18 herself. Azusa Inaba once again kept quite busy as she wrestled in 17 matches, no doubt helped by working a split schedule between STARDOM and her home promotion of JTO. The living legend Aja Kong had the top winning percentage of any wrestler who wrestled at least eight matches during the month as she captured the victory in eight out of nine matches for a wonderful 89% winning percentage. SAKI came in second winning 10 out of 12 matches during the month giving her a very strong 83% winning percentage.
June brings no new news on who came in first place since Kaori Yoneyama seems to be making a monopoly of that top spot, this time wrestling 20 times during the month. The popular freelancer who eventually joined Sendai Girls YUU came in second place with 16, followed by Azusa Inaba with 15. One name that kind of surprised me in terms of matches wrestled for the month was the long-time veteran of WAVE, Yumi Ohka who wrestled 11 times, which was 16% of her total matches for the entire year. When we switch the focus to winning percentages, the H.A.T.E. trio of Natsuko Tora, Ruaka, and Momo Watanabe all had a winning percentage of 88% or better during the month, showing the dominance of that faction over STARDOM.
July brings more of the same at the very top when it comes to the most matches worked as Kaori Yoneyama continued her dominance of that top spot working 18 matches, though there was a surprise in second place as a representative of Hokuto Pro, Chiho Matsumoto wrestled a total of 16 matches which is 21% of her total matches worked for the year! Her fellow Hokuto Pro member Ami Kanda tied for third place with popular freelancer Makoto, as they both wrestled in 15 matches. Nagisa Nozaki led the way in terms of winning percentage winning nine out of ten matches for a great 90% which was nice to see since her booking can be a bit hit or miss while she mostly wrestles in Marigold. The Tokyo Sports award winner Saya Kamitani was second place winning eight of 10 matches for a very strong 80% win percentage.
While Kaori Yoneyama once again wrestled the most matches in August with 21, second place had a three-way tie between the DIANA ‘Ace’ Haruka Umesaki, Misa Kagura ,and SAKI who all wrestled 15 matches during the month. Sareee was also quite active during August wrestling 14 matches. Leading the way in winning percentage for that month was Victoria Yuzuki who won eight of ten of her matches for an 80%. Second place was Sareee, the woman voted number one in the RESURA Joshi Top 100 this past year, who won 11 out of 14 matches for a 79% winning percentage.
September brought a lot of the same when it comes to the leader in matches wrestled as Kaori Yoneyama took the top spot for the ninth time with her wrestling 18 matches this time. A new face emerged in second place though with Ayame Sasamura, the 2AW representative who works in quite a few promotions around the scene, who wrestled 16 times. A shout should also be given to Tae Honma who was approaching her retirement at the time, as she came in third place with 15 matches wrestled. In terms of winning percentage, the freelancer Maika Ozaki came in first place winning seven of eight matches for an 88% winning percentage. Second place went to Haruka Umesaki who won 10 out of 12 matches for a great 83% winning percentage.
Moving on to October, the month of ghosts and ghouls, the top two wrestlers who were most active should be no surprise as it was once again Kaori Yoneyama with 20 and Rina Yamashita with 19 matches. Hazuki came tied in third place with YUU as both of them had 16, which made me quite happy since Hazuki’s my favorite wrestler, and the more I get to see her wrestle, the happier I am. When it came to winning matches, there’s one wrestler who was head and shoulders above the rest, as Chihiro Hashimoto went a perfect 10 for 10, winning 100% of her matches for the month. Normally we’re not blessed with Chihiro wrestling enough matches, but in October we were eatin’ good! The second best was somewhat surprisingly Misa Matsui from Marigold who won eight out of nine matches for a strong 89% winning percentage.
November was a very active month for all of joshi it seems, but it should be no surprise to anyone that once again Kaori Yoneyama wrestled in the most matches, this time wrestling in 27 matches which is almost one per day for the month. While we’re used to seeing Rina Yamashita in second place, there were two other wrestlers who tied with her as Sayaka Kurara from STARDOM and Rina Amikura representing COLORS with all three of them wrestling in 19 matches. There was also a three-way tie for third place between Makoto, Miku Kanae, and Azusa Inaba who all wrestled 18 times. Surprisingly with the numbers being so high for matches wrestled, you’d think that someone would have had a very high winning percentage to go with it, but that wasn’t the case this time. Mayu Iwatani and Aja Kong both tied as they won seven out of nine matches for a 78% winning percentage, leading the way. While Victoria Yuzuki, Ancham, and Chika Goto all went six for eight for their 75% winning percentage, Kaho Kobayashi who also tied with them, had a more impressive stat line winning 9 of 12 matches.
Finally, we made it to the end of the year, and you’d think that Kaori would continue her dominance by also having the highest number of matches worked in December as well, but that wasn’t the case! Yuki Miyazaki in her last month as a professional wrestler instead took that top spot, wrestling in 22 matches, and the long-time veteran Hibiscus Mii came closely in second with 21. Kaori Yoneyama did end up coming in third place with 19, which is still a lot of matches considering the fact that she had led the way through the first 11 months of the year. The winningest wrestler percentage wise at least, was Maika who could be considered one of the top babyfaces in STARDOM and Hanako Nakamori the ‘Ace’ of PURE-J who both won seven out of eight matches for a very strong 88%. In third place was Kaho Matsushita from Ice Ribbon who had been built strongly this year and eventually had her crowning moment at the start of this year by winning the ICExInfinity championship. She won eight of 10 matches for a strong 80% winning percentage leading up to that big win.
TAG TEAM WRESTLING
I did my best when it came to compiling stats for the tag teams that I knew about in the joshi pro wrestling scene, but there’ definitely a good possibility that I did leave some teams out that tag regularly, so don’t hate me too bad. A lot of the data I pulled followed the same structure as the wrestler match stats, where I tracked the amount of matches wrestled, wins, title match record and so forth, and I only considered matches where the two wrestlers of the tag team were wrestling on their own, without extra partners, so big six or eight person tags didn’t count.
‘Team 200kg’ made up of Chihiro Hashimoto and YUU wrestled the most times as a singular team this past year, wrestling 34 matches, which is quite a lot when you see where many of the other popular teams ended up. Hazuki and Koguma who make the team ‘FWC’ ended up coming in second place with 26 tag team matches wrestled, which was no doubt helped by the fact that the two got to do a lot of work outside of STARDOM this past year as well.
One thing that can be said about TJPW is that they keep a lot of their regular tag teams pretty strong when it’s not tournament time, and that is shown by the fact that the top two teams in winning percentage are from there. ‘Kyoraku Kyomei’, the team of Hyper Misao and Shoko Nakajima came in first place by winning 15 out of 16 matches for an incredible 94% winning percentage, while Suzume and Arisu Endo as ‘Daisy Monkey’ came in second place by winning 10 out of 11 matches for a winning percentage of 91%. A special shout out should be given to ‘Team 200kg’ though considering the fact that they won 30 out of 34 matches last year for a very good winning percentage of 88%.
‘Team 200kg’ was also at the top of the mountain for the amount of title matches wrestled as they competed in eight title matches over the course of 2025. There was a bit of a log jam for second place with ‘Red Energy’ made up of Miyuki Takase and Mika Iwata, ‘wing gori’ made up of Hanan and Saya Iida, ‘Bellflowers’ made up of Makoto and Sayaka, and ‘1111’ made up of Misa Kagura and Sumika Yanagawa who all wrestled in six title matches.
Another fun stat I tracked was how many different promotions each of the tag teams ended up working a match in. This time, the high number was seven as both ‘Team 200kg’ and ‘1111’ both worked in quite a few of promotions to say the least. It’s awesome that a lot of fans who may not see what some of the other companies do got a chance to see these two awesome teams wrestle live. ‘Magenta’ made up of Riko Kawahata and Maria, along with ‘FWC’ both worked in six different promotions as they got to show a lot of fans why they are two of the best teams in Japan.
THE BATTLE OF FACTIONS
I feel like it would be quite fun to see all of the factions of joshi pro wrestling battle it out in some sort of big crazy tournament, but with some promotions not being willing to work with others, that will probably never truly happen. Once again, I did my best to account for the factions I knew about, or ones that were brought to my attention by being ‘official’ on CageMatch, but I’m sure that I missed a few when putting everything together. Unlike when I put together the data for the tag teams, I decided to simply compile the stats from the first spreadsheet and just add together the numbers for each category, as it would have taken forever to meticulously try to make sure I wasn’t double counting a match wrestled by multiple members of a faction.
So, in a basic sense, this was treated like a contest where everyone’s singular scores contribute to their team, and if a wrestler was a part of that faction during the year, but left sometime during, I still just added the full stats to the team total, like Hazuki and Koguma leaving STARS for instance.
In total, I included 13 different factions into this, with some having as low as four members, and some having up to 10. It should be no surprise that the two biggest factions in STARDOM at least ‘H.A.T.E.’ and ‘God’s Eye’ had the two highest number of matches wrestled. ‘H.A.T.E.’ finished the year with 1045 matches and ‘God’s Eye’ ended up with 828. The largest faction in terms of members ‘ActWres Killerz’ finished just about last place with 237 matches, though that can be blamed more so on the fact that ActWres girl’Z doesn’t run a ton of shows, and their wrestlers don’t work much outside of the home promotion.
When it comes to winning percentage though, the two factions with the least number of matches wrestled ‘ActWres Five’ and ‘ActWres Killerz’ ended up taking the top two spots. While both factions came away with a 57% winning percentage when you round up, ‘ActWres Five’ was slightly ahead based on them needing to round down, while ‘ActWres Killerz’ needed to round up. The top winning percentage in STARDOM, which is known for their consistent faction battles, was Neo Genesis who finished with a winning percentage of 52%.
The one faction that was head and shoulders above the rest in title matches wrestled was ‘H.A.T.E.’ who competed in 79 title matches when you add up everyone’s singular stats. They also had the highest winning percentage in those matches at 63%. ‘STARS’ had the second most title matches wrestled with 47, and there was a tie for second place in winning percentage between ‘ActWres Five’ and ‘Las Fresa de Egoistas’ who both finished with 61%. The team who won the most titles during the year should be no surprise as ‘H.A.T.E.’ won 14.
The faction who had the best winning percentage in tournament matches while at least wrestling in 20 of them was ‘H.A.T.E.’ as well with a strong 56%. The faction that had a member appearing in the most different promotions was actually ‘Rebel X Enemy’ made up of Ram Kaicho, Rina Yamashita, Maika Ozaki, and Maya Yukihi, who had at least one member appear in 39 different promotions. Considering the fact that Yukihi was injured for a lot of the year, that’s a lot of miles that Ram, Rina, and Maika traveled in 2025.
PROMOTION STATS
When it came to the promotions, I tracked the amount of shows they put on, the number of shows that had an attendance number available, the number of matches booked, how many shows had title matches on it and how many title matches they had in total. I also captured their total attendance numbers for the year, along with breaking down their attendance in each region of Japan, along with international shows if that attendance was available. I do wish that more of the smaller companies would share their attendance more often, but in the end, you can’t always get what you want.
First and foremost, it should be no surprise that the company that ran the most shows in total last year was the big dogs themselves STARDOM who ran a total of 131. Marigold came in second place with 97 shows and somewhat surprisingly Ice Ribbon came in third place as they ran 85 shows.
With STARDOM running so many more shows than anyone else, it should be no surprise that they also booked the most matches last year with 955. Just like the shows booked category, second place for most matches was also Marigold who put together 577 matches. Where we have a bit of a change is in third place because TJPW puts together match cards that are quite a bit bigger than Ice Ribbon because of a much bigger roster. TJPW booked 503 matches compared to Ice Ribbon in fourth place who only booked 365.
The company that booked the most shows that included at least one title match on it was obviously STARDOM with 37, though that’s only 28% of their shows, which is pretty low when you compare it to second place which was TJPW who booked 27 shows with a title match, but their percentage was 34%. One of the promotions that is all women and had a pretty high percentage of shows with a title match on it was ActWres girl’Z who had 20 shows that included at least a title match which ended up being 50% of their shows.
The company that ran the most amount of tournaments during the year was of course STARDOM with five and within those five tournaments was 220 matches! TJPW ran four tournaments, but they only had 45 matches between those four tournaments as most of their tournaments are single elimination. Pro Wrestling WAVE actually had the second most amount of tournament matches with 67, mostly because of their giant Catch The WAVE tournament that runs each year.
In terms of attendance figures, STARDOM also won big by amassing 106,541 people through the door in the 127 events that they released attendance figures on. The fact that any joshi company could have a yearly attendance number over 100k is pretty incredible to say the least. That also put their average attendance at 839 people per show which would be a fantastic Korakuen number for most other promotions. STARDOM was truly special this year! The second highest overall attendance number was Marigold who drew 45,362 fans in their 91 shows that shared attendance. Their average attendance was only third best though with 498, because OZ Academy actually had them beat by averaging 626 over their 25 shows during the year.
When we look at the Chūbu region of Japan, STARDOM was there the most often, holding 23 shows with attendance numbers there for a pretty good number of 12,470. Marigold was second in that region with 10 shows, getting a total attendance of 3,147. There were not a ton of shows in Chūgoku for the companies I pulled data for, but once again STARDOM had the most foothold there running seven shows with attendance figures there for a total attendance number of 3,659. The next highest number of shows ran in that region was Marigold and JTO who both ran three shows a piece there with Marigold drawing quite a bit more on average with 335 compared to JTO’s 161.
There was one true queen of Hokkaidō as Hokuto Pro ran the most shows in the prefecture which shouldn’t be surprising since that’s their home. All 28 of their shows that had attendance numbers attached were in that region, and they averaged 404 fans per show, though that might be somewhat hyperbolic as a lot of their attendances say that they had the full capacity of a lot of these places which included one show listed as capacity 3,500. Out of the companies not based in that region, Marigold actually had the most shows there with 4, averaging 375 fans per show.
When we turn our focus to the Kansai region, STARDOM actually finished second in most shows in the area, with Marigold taking first place beating STARDOM 18 to 17. STARDOM however did draw a bigger crowd in total meaning that their average attendance was quite a bit higher than Marigold’s in that region beating them 556 to 392. The biggest battle that involves the most promotions though is for Kantō which includes Tokyo, the biggest metropolis in the country. The company that ran the most shows in that region was actually Ice Ribbon with 73, though their average of 89 fans per show leaves a lot to be desired. 2AW came in second place with 59 shows, though most of their roster is made up of men rather than women, so you’re lucky to get only one or two women’s matches at most on one of their cards. STARDOM ran the region 55 times while drawing a total attendance number of 68,243 which breaks down to an average of 1,241. Every promotion, men’s or women’s, would be happy to hit that number at Korakuen, let alone having that be your average.
The company that ran the most shows in the Kyūshū region was actually JTO who ran a total of six shows, though their average attendance with those six shows was only 131. The highest average attendance in the region was STARDOM which probably shouldn’t be much of a surprise considering how many great wrestlers they have from that region. Their average attendance of 536 was quite good when you compare it to a lot of other companies on the scene. When we fly off to the island of Okinawa, there’s only one true queen of the area promotion wise and that’s the Ryukyu Dragon who had 15 shows in the region with attendance numbers. While it’s not a joshi only federation, it does have two joshi wrestlers on every show pretty much, and others freelancing in from time to time. Even with them being the home promotion in Okinawa, they still had a pretty low average attendance number at 110, which is quite a bit lower than the promotion who had the highest average OZ Academy, who averaged 666 fans over their three shows in the area.
Out of all of the promotions I covered, there was only one who ran any shows that shared attendance numbers in the Shikoku prefecture and that was STARDOM who ran four shows there with an average attendance of 411. There was quite a bit more activity in the Tōhoku region of Japan where six different promotions ran shows there, and STARDOM ran the most with 13. Marigold also stayed pretty busy in that region running seven shows there. STARDOM’s average attendance of 495 in the region was the highest, though if Sendai Girls released more attendance numbers other than just their big arena show, that might not have been the case since that alone apparently drew 3,600.
Last but not least, we can take a look at the data for the international shows that were ran by a couple of companies. Unfortunately, STARDOM didn’t release attendance figures for their trips outside of Japan, but TJPW made sure to share their numbers at least and to be honest they were quite impressive! In seven total shows outside of Japan, TJPW drew a total of 5,757 fans, which comes out to an average of 822 fans per show. That was obviously helped by the huge number they did in Dallas, Texas last year, and I’m sure that they hope to repeat that same thing this year when they go back on tour through the biggest state in America. We should also give some props to DIANA who ran one show in Taiwan and drew 183 people.
WHO’S THE DRAW?
Maybe the most important spreadsheet of all is the one that I had to compile manually because it is all about what wrestlers drew the most fans during 2025, along with who wrestled in the most main events. I didn’t break down the number of main events based on how many were in their home promotion, compared to outside of it, but just seeing that number should still tell the story of how in demand that wrestler was throughout the year.
The first thing we’ll take a look at is the wrestlers who wrestled in the most main events in 2025, though keep in mind that random produce shows and shows outside of the 30 promotions I tracked will not have their main events included. The top wrestler this year in terms of main events should be no surprise to anyone, it was Saya Kamitani. She wrestled in 56 main events this year, which is nine more than the next wrestler on the list Mei Suruga who wrestled in 47. Third place ended up being Manami Katsu who basically carried Ice Ribbon in 2025 as their roster continued to grow and get better. She wrestled in 46 main events, which is just over half of the shows ran by the company last year.
Surprisingly, the wrestler from Marigold who wrestled in the most main events was actually Victoria Yuzuki with 42, though Mayu Iwatani wasn’t too far behind with 38, and that’s without the first few months of the year.
When it comes to average attendance numbers, most of the wrestlers had at least a few less main events with actual attendance, so that plays into things a bit. For example, Chihiro Hashimoto wrestled in 26 main events, but only 6 of those had attendance numbers attached which gave her a really high average attendance of 1,748. Considering that she had 20 less shows with attendance numbers, it’s hard to actually believe that her average attendance would be that high.
With that in mind, the highest average attendance that I would consider true is actually Tam Nakano who wrestled in 15 main events, all with attendance numbers attached, and those shows had an average attendance of 1,275. Second place for average attendance would actually be Saya Kamitani who had attendance numbers for 55 of 56 main events and came away with an average of 1,015. That fact that her average was that high with that many main events is really impressive to say the least. Sareee actually came in third place, though only 10 of her 21 main events had an attendance figure attached. Her average attendance 930 is quite strong, showing that she can be quite a draw when given a big main event.
That covers each of the various points of data that I collected, but there are tons of wrestlers I didn’t get to talk about here in this article. If you’re a numbers person like me, feel free to check out the Google Sheet that I have set up with all of the information, and use it however you’d like. Obviously, if you use that info in written work, podcasts, or YouTube videos, I’d appreciate a shout out at least, but if not, it’s not the end of the world. If there’s teams or factions that I may have missed this year, feel free to let me know either by Twitter or on Discord, since I’m in quite a few wrestling servers, so that I can account for them next year as I plan to make this an annual thing. Also, if there’s other information you’d want me to try to track next time, let me know as well.
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