TJPW Heading Back To Las Vegas This April

TOKYO JOSHI PRO “TJPW LIVE IN LAS VEGAS 2026”, 16/04/2026
Pearl Theater At Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

After last year’s success in Las Vegas, Tokyo Joshi Pro is going to do it all over again! They are returning to the Pearl Theater inside Palms Casino Resort to hold a big show during Wrestlemania Week.

The wrestlers from TJPW announced to take part in the show are Miu Watanabe, Yuki Kamifuku, Wakana Uehara, Miyu Yamashita, Shoko Nakajima, Mizuki, Hyper Misao, Raku, Yuki Aino, Suzume, Pom Harajuku, Yuki Arai, Kaya Toribami, Shino Suzuki, HIMAWARI, Toga and Uta Takami.

TOKYO JOSHI PRO/MLP/CMLL “TJPW X MLW X CMLL SUPER SHOW”, 17/04/2026
Pearl Theater At Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

This time around TJPW are not running their show as part of The Collective. Instead they will be part of a new collection of events called Slam Fest that is being put together by the Paragon Talent Agency (remember Mojo Rawley? That’s his gig now). The other promotions involved in the series are CMLL, House Of Glory, Stardom and Maple Leaf Pro. According to the AXS Tickets page linked on the Palm Casino website, TJPW are also running a interpromotional show with CMLL and Maple Leaf Pro. That might be the weirdest combination of three wrestling companies to run an event together in quite some time.

However it was pointed out to me that TJPW are also scheduled to do a free meet and greet around the same time this super show is allegedly taking place. There might be a mix-up over what this event is meant to be.

UPDATE: The website has removed the link and now only refers to the event as a Meet & Greet.

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So it actually is happening! For months now I’ve been going crazy hearing conflicting information over whether or not TJPW was going back to Las Vegas for Wrestlemania Week. The Collective accidentally linked them and DDT to their first announcement of their return to Vegas but quickly removed those links. Then The Collective revealed their lineup with no DDT or TJPW in sight. However a little while later I learned TJPW were still planning on going to Vegas, this time without GCW’s help. Doubts crept in when their other international tours were announced for March and April. Someone reached out to tell me the Texas tour was the only American visit TJPW had for the Springtime. That info was given to me before the Canadian tour was announced but it wasn’t contradictory nor do I think the person was trying to mislead me.

Yet there was still another side talking about TJPW being set for Vegas one way or another. Smoke to that fire started appearing when Toga was booked for Podermania. Miyu Yamashita was being booked for other shows too but she always goes working in America during this time of year. Toga however was out of the blue. Then the two of them along with Shoko Nakajima, Hyper Misao and Yuki Aino were announced for a WrestleCon convention appearance. By that point I knew there would be a show with TJPW attached to it taking place and just had to play the waiting game until it was officially announced. Finally the news came out today!

TJPW moving on from the GCW relationship doesn’t surprise me. I thought last year’s show was a success attendance wise but the big complaint coming out of it I kept hearing was GCW’s production values ruining the vibes for a lot of fans wanting an authentic TJPW experience. I didn’t have much of a problem with it myself (anyone there remember the “Candyman” rib? Good times) but I get it. The ring they used got worn down pretty bad during every show and if you watched the streams there was little to no variety in the presentation for every show. Also The Up Up Girls entering the Clusterfuck and having Kerry Morton shouting foul mouthed insults at them didn’t go down well with some fans online.

Now let’s have some fun speculating over how on earth this all happened. As much as WWE pulled the rug over everybody with their sudden WrestleMania location switcharoo, it seems that a lot of groups who were going to New Orleans were able to recover and change course back to Vegas. GCW and The Collective made it clear they weren’t using the Palms Casino again but I’d love to know if that was a decision they made of their own volition or if Paragon jumped in and got the venue for themselves first. Paragon did have their own wrestling related stuff going on in that casino last year, I remember that. Also we have TJPW and Stardom working under the same umbrella but being kept away from each other. It’s funny to see it just has to be that way. They are still linked through UJPW but again any hope for a crossover seems slim. There might also be a few awkward meetings if Maki Itoh is travelling over with the Stardom side. There is TJPW links to the other promotions thanks to Nakajima working with CMLL and Yamashita appearing in both HOG and MLP last year. So for a brand new collection TJPW has links with everyone else involved.