A bow on the career of Ichikawa.
Dragongate Japan Pro-Wrestling hosted their Fantastic Gate event on December 17th and it was headlined by Konomama Ichikawa’s retirement match.
He competed against NJPW President Hiroshi Tanahashi. They had two sanctioned matches. The first was a nine-minute bout that Tanahashi won and then following that, there was a quick 16-second match that Tanahashi won as well.
Ichikawa’s run in Dragongate started in 2004 and he’s wrestled for the promotion every year since then. He’s donned several different aliases such as Stalker Ichikawa, Jushin Thunder Ichikawa and Stan Ichikawa.
Tanahashi’s retirement match is scheduled for 2026 at Wrestle Kingdom 20.
