All Star Junior Festival 2023

All Star Junior Festival 2023 was an interpromotional professional wrestling pay-per-view event organized by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It was held on March 1, 2023 at Korakuen Hall in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. The event, which was produced by NJPW wrestler Hiromu Takahashi, featured the participation of junior heavyweight wrestlers from over 20 different promotions from around the world.

All Star Junior Festival 2023
All Star Junior Festival 2023 logo
Promotion	New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date	March 1, 2023
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Korakuen Hall
Attendance	1,381[1]
Tagline(s)	Junior Dream Festival[2]
Event chronology
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All Star Junior Festival chronology
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In the main event, NJPW's Master Wato defeated All Japan Pro Wrestling's Atsuki Aoyagi. In other prominent matches, Taiji Ishimori defeated Soberano Jr., Shun Skywalker, Ninja Mack, and Yo-Hey in a five-way match and Hiromu Takahashi teamed with Fujita "Jr." Hayato and Amakusa to defeat Hayata, Yamato, and Kazuki Hashimoto.

Production

Background

On January 23, 2023, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) officially announced the All Star Junior Festival.^[3][4] The event is produced by NJPW's Hiromu Takahashi and features junior heavyweight wrestlers from over 20 different Japanese and international promotions.^[3][5]

Participating promotions

As part of the event's publicity efforts, participants were announced each day throughout the month of February by their respective promotion on Twitter.

Representative	Promotion	Ref.
Chicharito Shoki	Active Advance Pro Wrestling	[6]
Atsuki Aoyagi	All Japan Pro Wrestling	[7]
Black Menso-re		[8]
Kazuki Hashimoto	Big Japan Pro Wrestling	[9]
Kota Sekifuda		[10]
Atlantis Jr.	Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre	[11]
Soberano Jr.		[12]
Místico		[13]
Volador Jr.		[14]
Mao	DDT Pro-Wrestling	[15]
Yuki Ueno		[16]
Leona	Dradition	[17]
Dragon Kid	Dragongate	[18]
Shun Skywalker		[19]
Yamato		[20]
Yumehito Imanari	Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling	[21]
El Lindaman	Gleat	[22]
Minoru Tanaka		[23]
Batten×Burabura	Kyushu Pro-Wrestling	[24]
Fujita "Jr." Hayato	Michinoku Pro Wrestling	[25]
Musashi		[26]
The Great Sasuke		[27]
Bushi	New Japan Pro-Wrestling	[28]
Douki		[29]
El Desperado		[30]
Hiromu Takahashi		[31]
Master Wato		[32]
Ryusuke Taguchi		[33]
Sho		[34]
Taiji Ishimori		[35]
Yoshinobu Kanemaru		[36]
Billyken Kid	Osaka Pro Wrestling	[37]
Tigers Mask		[38]
Hikaru Sato	Pancrase Mission	[39]
Isami Kodaka	Pro-Wrestling Basara	[40]
Jun Kasai	Pro Wrestling Freedoms	[41]
Alejandro	Pro Wrestling Noah	[42]
Amakusa		[43]
Hayata		[44]
Ninja Mack		[45]
Yo-Hey		[46]
Hanaoka	Pro-Wrestling Secret Base	[47]
Shoki Kitamura	Pro Wrestling Zero1	[48]
Taka Michinoku	Professional Wrestling Just Tap Out	[49]
Gurukun Mask	Ryukyu Dragon Pro-Wrestling	[50]
Onryo	Wrestling of Darkness 666	[51]
Tatsuhito Takaiwa	Freelancer	[52]

Storylines

All Star Junior Festival 2023 featured ten professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match.^[53]

Results

No.	Results[54]	Stipulations	Times[1]
1P	Yoh, Soma Watanabe and Kazuma Sumi defeated Fuminori Abe, Ryo Hoshino and Akira Jumonji	Six-man tag team match	10:35
2	Hiromu Takahashi, Fujita "Jr." Hayato, and Amakusa defeated Hayata, Yamato, and Kazuki Hashimoto	Six-man tag team match	8:52
3	Isami Kodaka and Mao defeated Sho and Onryo (with Ram Kaicho)	Tag team match	9:43
4	Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Jun Kasai, Minoru Tanaka, and Taka Michinoku defeated Musashi, Shoki Kitamura, Leona, Chicharito Shoki, and Kota Sekifuda	Ten-man tag team match	10:28
5	Ryusuke Taguchi, Hikaru Sato, and Yumehito Imanari defeated The Great Sasuke, Tigers Mask, and Batten×Burabura (with Taro Nohashi)	Six-man tag team match	7:29
6	El Desperado and Volador Jr. defeated El Lindaman and Yuki Ueno and Los Japoneses Del Mal (Douki and Hanaoka)	Three-way tag team match This match was held under Lucha Libre rules.	10:34
7	Místico, Billyken Kid, Alejandro, and Gurukun Mask (with Teelan Shisa) defeated Dragon Kid, Bushi, Atlantis Jr., and Black Menso-re	Eight-man tag team match	11:29
8	Cima defeated Kazuki Hirata	Singles match	7:16
9	Taiji Ishimori defeated Soberano Jr., Shun Skywalker, Ninja Mack, and Yo-Hey	Five-way match	9:38
10	Master Wato defeated Atsuki Aoyagi	Singles match	14:24
P  – the match was broadcast on the pre-show

See also

• Japan portal

• 2023 in professional wrestling
• List of NJPW pay-per-view events
• Sky Diving J
• Super J-Cup