Global Wars UK

Global Wars UK is an annual professional wrestling supershow co-produced by the Japanese New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and British Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW) promotions. The two promotions established a partnership in July 2015 as part of NJPW's "New IWGP Conception."^[1][2][3] All editions of the show have been archived on New Japan's NJPW World streaming service.

Global Wars UK
Promotions	New Japan Pro-Wrestling Revolution Pro Wrestling
First event	2015

Events

#	Event	Date	City	Venue	Main event	Ref(s)
1	Global Wars UK (2015)	October 3, 2015	Reading, Berkshire	Rivermead Leisure Complex	AJ Styles (c) vs. Jyushin Thunder Liger for the British Heavyweight Championship	[4]
2	Global Wars UK (2016)	November 10, 2016	Bethnal Green, London	York Hall	Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Katsuyori Shibata for the British Heavyweight Championship	[5]
3		November 11, 2016	Walthamstow, London	Waltham Forest Town Hall	Katsuyori Shibata (c) vs. Chris Hero for the British Heavyweight Championship	[6]
4	Global Wars UK (2017)	November 9, 2017	Bethnal Green, London	York Hall	Chaos (Hirooki Goto and Will Ospreay) vs. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki and Zack Sabre Jr.)	[7]
5		November 10, 2017	Walthamstow, London	Waltham Forest Town Hall	Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Will Ospreay for the British Heavyweight Championship	[8]
6	Global Wars UK (2018)	October 14, 2018	Bethnal Green, London	Brixton Recreation Centre	Minoru Suzuki (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii for the British Heavyweight Championship
7	Global Wars UK (2024)	October 19, 2024	Doncaster, Yorkshire	Doncaster Dome	Luke Jacobs (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii for the British Heavyweight Championship
8	Global Wars UK (2025)	August 22, 2025	Crystal Palace, London	Crystal Palace National Sports Centre	TBD
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

2015

Global Wars UK
Promotion(s)	New Japan Pro-Wrestling Revolution Pro Wrestling
Date	October 3, 2015[4]
City	Reading, Berkshire[4]
Venue	Rivermead Leisure Complex[4]
Global Wars UK chronology
← Previous First Next → 2016
New Japan Pro-Wrestling events chronology
← Previous Destruction in Kobe Next → King of Pro-Wrestling

No.	Results[4]	Stipulations	Times[4]
1	Tetsuya Naito defeated Kushida and Martin Kirby	Three-way match	12:18
2	Gideon Grey defeated Gedo	Singles match	8:40
3	Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima) defeated The Thrillers (Joel Redman and Mark Haskins)	Tag team match	12:04
4	Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Marty Scurll	Singles match	17:20
5	Bullet Club (Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson) defeated The Revolutionists (James Castle and Sha Samuels)	Tag team match	7:09
6	Kazuchika Okada defeated Will Ospreay	Singles match	15:49
7	Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Big Damo	Singles match	14:25
8	AJ Styles (c) defeated Jyushin Thunder Liger	Singles match for the British Heavyweight Championship	15:04
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

2016

Night 1

Global Wars UK
Promotion(s)	New Japan Pro-Wrestling Revolution Pro Wrestling
Date	November 10, 2016[5]
City	Bethnal Green, London[5]
Venue	York Hall[5]
Global Wars UK chronology
← Previous 2015 Next → 2017
New Japan Pro-Wrestling events chronology
← Previous Power Struggle Next → Global Wars UK 2016 Night 2

No.	Results[5]	Stipulations	Times[5]
1	Marty Scurll defeated Jyushin Thunder Liger	Singles match	13:35
2	Tomoaki Honma defeated Sha Samuels	Singles match	6:57
3	Yuji Nagata defeated Pete Dunne	Singles match	11:55
4	Chris Hero defeated Tomohiro Ishii	Singles match	13:35
5	Will Ospreay defeated Bushi	Singles match	11:11
6	Los Ingobernables de Japón (Evil, Sanada, and Tetsuya Naito) defeated David Starr and Moustache Mountain (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate)	Six-man tag team match	14:50
7	Katsuyori Shibata defeated Zack Sabre Jr. (c)	Singles match for the British Heavyweight Championship	16:39
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

Night 2

Global Wars UK
Promotion(s)	New Japan Pro-Wrestling Revolution Pro Wrestling
Date	November 11, 2016[6]
City	Walthamstow, London[6]
Venue	Waltham Forest Town Hall[6]
Attendance	1,120
Global Wars UK chronology
← Previous 2015 Next → 2017
New Japan Pro-Wrestling events chronology
← Previous Global Wars UK 2016 Night 1 Next → Wrestle Kingdom 11

No.	Results[6]	Stipulations	Times[6]
1	Charlie Garrett and Joel Redman defeated Los Ingobernables de Japón (Bushi and Evil)	Tag team match	9:44
2	Josh Bodom defeated Tomoaki Honma	Singles match	10:35
3	Yuji Nagata defeated Trent Seven	Singles match	10:50
4	Will Ospreay defeated Jyushin Thunder Liger	Singles match	9:49
5	Tomohiro Ishii defeated Pete Dunne	Singles match	12:25
6	Los Ingobernables de Japón (Sanada and Tetsuya Naito) defeated LDRS of the New School (Marty Scurll and Zack Sabre Jr.)	Tag team match	18:44
7	Katsuyori Shibata (c) defeated Chris Hero	Singles match for the British Heavyweight Championship	13:18
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

2017

Night 1

Global Wars UK
Promotion(s)	New Japan Pro-Wrestling Revolution Pro Wrestling
Date	November 9, 2017[7]
City	Bethnal Green, London[7]
Venue	York Hall[7]
Global Wars UK chronology
← Previous 2016 Next → 2018
New Japan Pro-Wrestling events chronology
← Previous Power Struggle Next → Global Wars UK 2017 Night 2

No.	Results[7]	Stipulations
1	Ryan Smile defeated Bushi and Josh Bodom (c)	Three-way match for the British Cruiserweight Championship
2	Chaos (Gedo and Toru Yano) defeated Gideon Grey and No Fun Dunne	Tag team match
3	Matt Riddle defeated El Desperado	Singles match
4	Tetsuya Naito defeated Marty Scurll	Singles match
5	Yuji Nagata defeated Zack Gibson	Singles match
6	CCK (Chris Brookes and Travis Banks) defeated Chaos (Rocky Romero and Yoshi-Hashi)	Tag team match
7	Tomohiro Ishii defeated Keith Lee	Singles match
8	Chaos (Hirooki Goto and Will Ospreay) defeated Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki and Zack Sabre Jr.)	Tag team match
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

Night 2

Global Wars UK
Promotion(s)	New Japan Pro-Wrestling Revolution Pro Wrestling
Date	November 10, 2017[9]
City	Walthamstow, London[8]
Venue	Waltham Forest Town Hall[8]
Global Wars UK chronology
← Previous 2016 Next → 2018
New Japan Pro-Wrestling events chronology
← Previous Global Wars UK 2017 Night 1 Next → Lion's Gate Project 9

No.	Results[9]	Stipulations
1	CCK (Chris Brookes, Kid Lykos, and Travis Banks) defeated Chaos (Gedo, Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi)	Six-man tag team match
2	Toru Yano defeated Zack Gibson	Singles match
3	Josh Bodom defeated Rocky Romero	Singles match
4	Tomohiro Ishii defeated Dave Mastiff	Singles match
5	Ryan Smile (c) defeated El Desperado	Singles match for British Cruiserweight Championship
6	Los Ingobernables de Japón (Bushi and Tetsuya Naito) defeated Keith Lee and Yuji Nagata	Tag team match
7	Minoru Suzuki defeated Matt Riddle	Singles match
8	Zack Sabre Jr. (c) defeated Will Ospreay	Singles match for the British Heavyweight Championship
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

2018

Global Wars UK
Promotion(s)	Revolution Pro Wrestling New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date	October 14, 2018[10]
City	London, England
Venue	Brixton Recreation Centre
Event chronology
← Previous RevPro: Live at The Cockpit 33 NJPW: King of Pro-Wrestling 2018 Next → RevPro: Uprising NJPW: Power Struggle
Global Wars UK chronology
← Previous 2017 Next → 2024

No.	Results[11]	Stipulations	Times
1	Kushida defeated Kurtis Chapman	Singles match	13:03
2	Los Ingobernables de Japón (Evil and Sanada) defeated Ringkampf (Timothy Thatcher and Walter)	Tag team match[12]	12:40
3	Great O-Kharn (with Lord Gideon Grey) defeated Rishi Ghosh	Singles match	10:21
4	Tetsuya Naito defeated Chris Brookes	Singles match[13]	11:52
5	Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Hirooki Goto	Singles match[14]	14:52
6	Satoshi Kojima defeated Mark Davis	Singles match[15]	9:33
7	El Phantasmo defeated Rocky Romero	Singles match[16]	10:33
8	Chris Ridgeway defeated Will Ospreay	Singles match[17]	14:35
9	Tomohiro Ishii defeated Minoru Suzuki (c)	Singles match for the British Heavyweight Championship[10]	24:06
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

2024

Global Wars UK
Promotion(s)	Revolution Pro Wrestling New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date	October 19, 2024[18]
City	Doncaster, Yorkshire
Venue	Doncaster Dome
Event chronology
← Previous RevPro: British J-Cup NJPW: King of Pro-Wrestling Next → RevPro: Uprising NJPW: Royal Quest IV
Global Wars UK chronology
← Previous 2018 Next → 2025

No.	Results[19][20]	Stipulations
1	Will Kaven (c) defeated Cameron Khai	Singles match for the Undisputed British Cruiserweight Championship
2	Los Ingobernables de Japon (Bushi and Hiromu Takahashi) defeated Callum Newman and JJ Gale	Tag team match
3	AZM defeated Kanji	Singles match
4	Hiroshi Tanahashi, Leon Slater and Zozaya defeated Connor Mills, Gabe Kidd and Jay Joshua	Six-man tag team match
5	Yota Tsuji defeated Máscara Dorada 2.0	Singles match
6	Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Robbie X	Singles match
7	Mina Shirakawa (c) defeated Lizzy Evo	Singles match for the Undisputed British Women's Championship
8	Michael Oku defeated Ricky Knight Jr.	Singles match to determine the #1 contender to the Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship
9	Luke Jacobs (c) defeated Tomohiro Ishii	Singles match for the Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

2025

Global Wars UK
Promotion(s)	Revolution Pro Wrestling New Japan Pro-Wrestling Ring of Honor Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Date	August 22, 2025
City	London, England
Venue	Crystal Palace National Sports Centre
Tagline	13 Year Anniversary Show Night 1
Event chronology
← Previous RevPro: Summer Sizzler NJPW: G1 Climax 35 Next → RevPro: Trios Grand Prix NJPW: Forbidden Door
Global Wars UK chronology
← Previous 2024 Next → —

See also

• Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom
• List of professional wrestling promotions in Europe