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All-Japan 4/21/24 Results

All-Japan ran Day 3 of the Champions Carnival 2024 today.

Today’s event was held at Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall 4 (last-second move from Hall 7 apparently) in Chiba and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 758.

Match 1: Hikaru Sato, Dan Tamura, Road Crew & Daiki Wakamatsu beat Ryo Inoue, MUSASHI (MIchinoku Pro), Ayako Yoshida (Independent/Freelancer) & Chicharito Shoki (Independent/Freelancer). Crew pinned Shoki.

Champions Carnival:
Match 2: Block B-Jun Saito beat Hartley Jackson.
Match 3: Block A-Kuroshio TOKYO Japan beat Cyrus.
Match 4: Block A-Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Shotaro Ashino.
Match 5: Block B-Rei Saito beat Hideki Suzuki.

Match 6: Suwama, Kaz Hayashi & Masayuki Kono (KONO) beat Dan Tamura, Hokuto Omori & Ren Ayabe. Suwama pinned Omori after a lariat.

Champions Carnival:
Match 7: Block A-Kento Miyahara beat Yuma Aoyagi.
Main Event: Block B-Ryuki Honda beat Yuma Anzai.

The next event is Wednesday at Shinagawa Prince Hotel Stellar Ball in Tokyo. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

New Japan 4/21/24 Results

New Japan continued the Road To WRESTLING DONTAKU Tour today with a house show in Nagano.

Today’s event was held at Chino Civic Center Multi Hall in Nagano. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 738.

Match 1: Taiji Ishimori, Chase Owens & KENTA beat Shoma kato, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Ishimori beat Kato with Bone Lock.

Match 2: Callum Newman & Jeff Cobb beat Tomoaki Honma & Tomohiro Ishii. Cobb pinned Honma after Tour of the Islands.

Match 3; Sho & Yujiro Takahashi beat TAKA Michinoku & DOUKI. Takahashi pinned TAKA after Big Juice.

Match 4: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Jado, El Desperado, El Phantasmo & Hikuleo. Fujita beat Jado with a chicken wing.

Match 5: Boltin Oleg, Shota Umino, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Dick Togo, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Ren Narita & EVIL. Umino beat Togo with STF.

Match 6: Yuya Uemura, Taichi & SANADA beat Francesco Akira, TJP & Great-O-Khan. Taichi pinned TJP after Tensho Cross Fang.

Main Event: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Gedo, Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Gabriel Kidd & David Finlay. BUSHI pinned Gedo after Fable.

The next event is tomorrow at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

Stardom 4/21/24 Results (Updated)

Stardom has their second event of the weekend coming up today in Osaka, this one with 6 matches and also a title match. The title match is for the Goddesses Of Stardom Championship as Suzu Suzuki & Mei Seira defend against Risa Sera & Kurumi Hiragi from the Prominence promotion, both challengers clearly going after former partner Suzuki. Elsewhere, this is the last event before their last major event so there could be some final build for next weekend.

Today’s event will be held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched LIVE on Stardom World for paid subscribers (currently around $6.25/month) and also as a PPV via Pia Stream for 2200 Japanese yen (around $15 US). Both streams will be the same. You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube. There will be no commentary for all broadcasts. Yesterday’s event went 2 hours with 5 matches so with a 6th match and title matches normally having a 30 minute time limit I anticipate this event will go closer to 2 1/4 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Saya Kamitani, AZM, Lady C & Miyu Amasaki vs. Tam Nakano, Yuna Mizumori, Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara
Saki Kashima vs. Saya Iida & Rian in a 3-way
Syuri, Ami Sohrei & Ranna Yagami vs. Hazuki, Koguma & Momo Kohgo
Mina Shirakawa, Waka Tsukiyama, Gina & HANAKO vs. Natsuko Tora, Starlight Kid, Ruaka & Fukigen
Maika, Saori Anou & Mayu Iwatani vs. Momo Watanabe, Hanan & Natsupoi
Goddesses Of Stardom Champions Suzu Suzuki & Mei Seira vs. Risa Sera & Kurumi Hiragi for the titles

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Updates below will begin at 9 PM PT/midnight ET. The live stream has begun and is currently in pre-show mode.

8:55 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The venue can normally hold at least 1300 but has been set up for smaller since the pandemic, but whatever the setup is looks close to full. As it’s what they seem to be doing since full crowds were allowed all over the country again I’m guessing it’ll be much smaller than that, probably around 550. (Actually as we see the second angle hard camera, much higher up than yesterday, I see front rows of empty seats so I’m revising my estimate to 500) (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 389)

The matches should begin shortly. The match card rundown starts the show, except for the 3-way and main event all matches today are 20 minute time limit. 15 minutes for the 3-way and 30 minutes for the title match. Order is as listed above.

Match 1: Saya Kamitani, AZM, Lady C & Miyu Amasaki vs. Tam Nakano, Yuna Mizumori, Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara. 20 minute time limit
Result: Saya Kamitani, AZM, Lady C & Miyu Amasaki beat Tam Nakano, Yuna Mizumori, Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara. AZM pinned Kurara.

The YouTube broadcast ends here.

Match 2: Saki Kashima vs. Saya Iida & Rian in a 3-way. 15 minute time limit
Result: Saya Iida beat Saki Kashima & Rian in a 3-way by pinning Kashima. Afterwards, Iida with microphone. High Speed Championship shot called. Kashima asked the down Rian about it but instead Saya Kamitani came out. Then they were joined by Fukigen. That gave Kashima an idea…4-way! We’ll see what happens, might be a late add to the PPV next weekend.

Match 3: Syuri, Ami Sohrei & Ranna Yagami vs. Hazuki, Koguma & Momo Kohgo. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hazuki, Koguma & Momo Kohgo beat Syuri, Ami Sohrei & Ranna Yagami. Hazuki pinned Yagami after a diving senton.

Match 4: Mina Shirakawa, Waka Tsukiyama, Gina & HANAKO vs. Natsuko Tora, Starlight Kid, Ruaka & Fukigen. 20 minute time limit
Result: Natsuko Tora, Starlight Kid, Ruaka & Fukigen beat Mina Shirakawa, Waka Tsukiyama, Gina & HANAKO. Ruaka pinned HANAKO after a diving body press onto Ruaka’s suitcase on top of HANAKO.

Quick break for ring cleaning.

Match 5: Maika, Saori Anou & Mayu Iwatani vs. Momo Watanabe, Hanan & Natsupoi. 20 minute time limit
Result: Time Limit Draw

Main Event: Goddesses Of Stardom Champions Suzu Suzuki & Mei Seira vs. Risa Sera & Kurumi Hiragi for the titles. 30 minute time limit
Result: Goddesses Of Stardom Champions Suzu Suzuki & Mei Seira beat Risa Sera & Kurumi Hiragi to retain the titles. Suzuki pinned Hiragi with a German suplex hold. V1 for the champs. Next up…well, no fewer than 3 teams came out: Koguma & Hazuki, AZM & Seira and Ruaka & Kid. 4-way?

The next event is STARDOM GRAND QUEENDOM 2024 Saturday at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama. Live streaming as a PPV via Pia Stream will begin Friday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET. It will be available on demand on Stardom after the PPV viewing window ends, which should be sometime next week.

UPDATE: The full Saturday card was announced soon after the event:
Pre-show:
Momo Kohgo vs. Ranna Yagami
Yuna Mizumori & Aya Sakura vs. Lady C & Rian
PPV:
Konami Return Match: Konami, Syuri & Ami Sohrei vs. Gina, Waka Tsukiyama & HANAKO
High Speed Champion Saki Kashima vs. Saya Kamitani, Saya Iida & Fukigen in a 4-way for the title
Mina Shirakawa vs. Natsuko Tora
Goddesses Of Stardom Champions Mei Seira & Suzu Suzuki vs. Hazuki & Koguma, AZM & Miyu Amasaki and Starlight Kid & Ruaka in a 4-way for the titles
Future Of Stardom Champion Rina vs. Sayaka Kurara for the title
Aja Kong & Kaoru Ito (OZ Academy) vs. Tam Nakano & Natsupoi
IWGP Women’s Champion Mayu Iwatani vs. Sareee (Independent/Freelancer) for the title
Wonder Of Stardom Champion Saori Anou vs. Hanan for the title
World Of Stardom Champion Maika vs. Momo Watanabe in a 3 Falls Match for the title. Fall 1 is a normal match, 30 minute time limit. Fall 2 is a Hardcore Falls Count Anywhere match, 30 minute time limit. Fall 3 if needed is a Last Woman Standing Match, no time limit, win only by KO (10 count after down)
The pre-show matches are scheduled to begin at 10:15 PM PT/1:15 AM ET, 45 minutes before the PPV.

AEW Collision & Rampage 4/20/24 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Collusion and LIVE Rampage from Peoria, IL (Rampage was moved from last night due to NBA Playoffs on TNT):

Collision:
Adam Copeland, Eddie Kingston & Mark Briscoe beat Top Flight & Action Andretti.

Powerhouse Hobbs beat CJ Esparza. Squash.

Gunn Club beat The Acclaimed.

Bryan Danielson promo.

Toni Storm promo.

In a Bunkhouse Brawl, Bryan Danielson & Claudio Castagnoli beat Konosuke Takeshita & Kyle Fletcher.

Skye Blue beat Leyla Hirsch by submission.

Pac & FTR beat Kazuchika Okada & The Young Bucks.

Rampage:
Jon Moxley promo. His match next week on Dynamite vs. Powerhouse Hobbs is now for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

Rob Van Dam beat Isaiah Kassidy, Komander & Lee Johnson in a 4-way elimination match.

Yuka Sakazaki beat Emi Sakura.

Angelo Parker promo. He & Ruby Soho have a pregnancy angle going…

Kyle O’Reilly, Matt Menard & Rocky Romero beat Roderick Strong, Matt Taven & Mike Bennett.

Next up is Dynasty tomorrow on PPV, including on Triller TV/FITE in the US (not just Bleacher Report).

Next week: Looks like another doubleheader with Rampage probably bumped to Saturday again. It’s a house show week as all 3 shows will be at Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, FL before they head back to Canada.

TNA Rebellion 2024 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s TNA Rebellion 2024 PPV in Las Vegas, NV (also available on TrillerTV/FITE for $39.99):

Pre-show:
Match 1: Leon Slater & Bullet Club beat The Rascalz.

Match 2: Laredo Kid beat TNA Digital Media Champion Crazzy Steve to become THE NEW TNA DIGITAL MEDIA CHAMPION!

Match 3: TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions Jody Threat & Dani Luna beat Decay to retain the titles.

PPV:
Match 1: TNA X Champion Mustafa Ali beat Jake Something to retain the title.

Match 2: Rick Swann beat Joe Hendry.

Match 3: In a Full Metal Mayhem Match, Frankie Kazarian beat Eric Young.

Match 4: Mike Santana (formerly Santana in AEW) beat Steve Maclin.

Match 5: TNA Tag Team Champions Brian Myers & Eddie Edwards beat Mike Bailey & Trent Seven to retain the titles.

Match 6: In a Last Man Standing Match, Josh Alexander beat Alexander Hammerstone.

Match 7: TNA Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace beat Steph De Lander to retain the title.

Main Event: TNA World Champion Moose beat Nic Nemeth to retain the title. Post-Match, Matt Hardy returned as Broken Matt Hardy. (His AEW contract recently expired)

The next PPV is Slammiversary on 7/20 in Montreal, Canada.

End Show.

Dragon Gate 4/20/24 Results

Dragon Gate continued The Gate Of Passion 2024 Tour today with the first half of a weekend doubleheader in Kobe.

Today’s event was held at Kobe Art Center in Kobe and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

The announced paid attendance was 356.

Pre-show Match: In an Exhibition Match, Homare Kato vs. Akihiro Sakara went to a 5 minute itme limit draw.

Match 1; Hyo vs. JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Kagetora & Ryu Fuda beat Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka. Kagetora pinned Tanaka after Gurumakakari.

Match 3: Ultimo Dragon, Genki Horiguchi, U-T & Ho Ho Lun beat Shachihoko BOY, Problem Dragon, Punch Tominaga & Daiki Yanagiuchi. Lun pinned Yanagiuchi.

Match 4: Strong Machine J won a 13 man Heavyweight battle royal, last eliminating ISHIN. (Dragon Gate considers 85 kg/188 pounds to be Heavyweight)

Match 5; YAMATO, Dragon Kid & Susumu Yokosuka beat Kota Minoura, Ben-K & BxB Hulk, YAMATO pinned Minoura after Gallaria.

Main Event: Jason Lee beat Kzy.

The next event is tomorrow. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin TONIGHT at 9 PM PT/midnight ET. I may try and do live results but this is the same time as a live Stardom event so it may not work.

Injury Report: Right after this was posted I learned there have been last-minute changes to tomorrow due to a BxB Hulk injury today. Something on the right side but unclear exactly what at ths time. He was to have teamed with Kota Minoura, Ben-K & Ryu Fuda to face Shachihoko BOY, Takashi Yoshida, Problem Dragon & Punch Tominaga. Daiki Yanagiuchi is the replacement.

All-Japan 4/20/24 Results

All-Japan ran Day 2 of the 2024 Champions Carnival today.

Today’s event was held at Act City Hamamatsu in Shizuoka and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV beginning at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 481.

Match 1: Hikaru Sato & MUSASHI (Michinoku Pro) beat Rising Hayato & Ryo Inoue. MUSASHI pinned Inoue after Estrella Futuro.

Champions Carnival:
Match 2: Block A-Shotaro Ashino beat Ren Ayabe by submission.
Match 3: Block B-Suwama beat Hartley Jackson by ref stoppage (technical submission).

Match 4: Ryuki Honda, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Cyrus beat Rei Saito, Dan Tamura & Hideki Sekine. Smith pinned Tamura after Bulldog Bomb.

Champions Carnival:
Match 5: Block A-Yuma Aoyagi beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan by coiuntout.
Match 6: Block B-Yuma Anzai beat Road Crew.
Match 7: Block B-Jun Saito beat Hideki Suzuki.
Main Event: Block A-Kento Miyahara beat Hokuto Omori.

Day 3 is tomorrow at Makuhari Messe Exhibition Hall 7 in Chiba. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

New Japan 4/20/24 Results

New Japan began the Road To WRESTLING DONTAKU Tour today, which will take them to the annual May blowout event in Fukuoka.

Today’s event was held at Machida City Gym in Tokyo. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 1267.

There were late changes to this card and all events cards this series due to Ryusuke Taguchi now being off. Injuries sustained in a bicycle accident.

Before the matches began, a memorial ceremony for the late pro wrestler and sumo Yokozuna (Grand Champion) Akebono was held.

Match 1: Taiji Ishimori, Chase Owens & KENTA beat Katsuya Murashima, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Ishimori beat Murashima with Bone Lock.

Match 2: Callum Newman, Francesco Akira & Jeff Cobb beat El Desperado, Tomoaki Honma & Tomohiro Ishii. Cobb pinned Honma after Tour of the Islands.

Match 3: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Shoma Kato, Jado, El Phantasmo & Hikuleo. Fujita pinned Kato.

Match 4: DOUKI & SANADA beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Sho. SANADA beat Kanemaru with Skull End.

Match 5: Boltin Oleg, Shota Umino, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita & EVIL. Umino pinned Togo after Death Rider.

Match 6: Yuya Uemura & Taichi beat TJP & Great-O-Khan. Taichi pinned TJP after Tencho Cross Fang.

Main Event: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Gedo, Dtilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Gabriel Kidd & David Finlay. Naito pinned Gedo.

The next event is tomorrow at Nagano CIvic Center Multi Hall in Nagano. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

Injury Report: Oh My And…Oh My

Another injury has hit New Japan following the word that Yoh is out a while, and now unfortunate circumstances have taken Ryusuke Taguchi to the disabled list. Neck, hands, arms, knees AND concussion. Out indefinitely but at least until after WRESTLING DONTAKU, meaning 2+ weeks. Status for Best Of The Super Junior uncertain at this time. In a statement, Taguchi said the incident happened when he swerved on his bicycle to avoid hitting a dog and fell off. Oh My.

More as it becomes available.

Stardom 4/20/24 Results

As Stardom continues to move on from the mass talent exodus (mostly to Rossy Ogawa’s newly-announced Marigold promotion), the promotion also continues to further test live streaming capability with this weekend’s doubleheader. Today they’re in Kobe for a house show with 5 scheduled matches ahead of tomorrow’s event, which has a title match scheduled. The likely main event is a 10-woman tag match with rules rarely seen in women’s wrestling these days-3 Falls with a 1 Hour time limit as HLA…I mean, E Nexus V (Mina Shirakawa sure bought the HLA on her recent US tour during The Collective) vs. the Oedo Corps faction.

Today’s event will be held at Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe and can be watched LIVE on Stardom World. There will be no commentary. Most non-title matches in the promotion have 15-20 minute time limits so even with the potential hour-long main event I anticipate this event’s total running time being around 2 hours.

Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Suzu Suzuki & Mei Seira vs. Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara
Natsupoi vs. Ami Sohrei, Lady C & Rian in a 4-way
Syuri, Saki Kashima & Ranna Yagami vs. Hazuki, Saya Iida & Momo Kohgo and Saya Kamitani, AZM & Miyu Amasaki in a 3-way
Mayu Iwatani, Hanan & Koguma vs. Saori Anou, Tam Nakano & Yuna Mizumori
Maika, Mina Shirakawa, Gina, HANAKO & Waka Tsukiyama vs. Natsuko Tora, Momo Watanabe, Starlight Kid, Ruaka & Fukigen in a 3 Falls match

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8:30 PM PT UPDATE: You can also watch the first match live & on demand FOR FREE on YouTube. It looks like the first match will be Suzuki/Seira vs. Sakura/Kurara.

8:40 PM PT UPDATE: The Stardom World live stream is up and running in pre-show mode. The live broadcast should begin in about 20 minutes.

9 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Usually the venue can be set up for between 600-800 for wrestling, and it looks like a near-sellout. Depends on the setup but I’m guessing it’ll be in the 500-550 range. At least a full house, could wind up being a legit sellout. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 305. Not even close to either)

Match card rundown, it’s going to be the order listed above.

Match 1: Suzu Suzuki & Mei Seira vs. Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara. 15 minute time limit
Result: Suzu Suzuki & Mei Seira beat Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara. Seira beat Kurara with an inverted face lock.

The YouTube broadcast ends here.

Match 2: Natsupoi vs. Ami Sohrei, Lady C & Rian in a 4-way. 15 minute time limit
Result: Natsupoi beat Ami Sohrei, Lady C & Rian in a 4-way by pinning Rian.

Match 3: Syuri, Saki Kashima & Ranna Yagami vs. Hazuki, Saya Iida & Momo Kohgo and Saya Kamitani, AZM & Miyu Amasaki in a 3-way. 20 minute time limit. During intros there was a funny spot when, during Iida’s intro, she took part of her outerwear off and tossed it up, and it got caught on pipes above the ring! Thankfully one of the other wrestlers was able to jump high enough to pull it down.
Result: Saya Kamitani, AZM & Miyu Amasaki beat Syuri, Saki Kashima & Ranna Yagami and Hazuki, Saya Iida & Momo Kohgo in a 3-way when Kamitani pinned Kashima. Based on post-match happenings, Kamitani could now be angling for a shot at the High Speed Championship held by Kashima.

Match 4: Mayu Iwatani, Hanan & Koguma vs. Saori Anou, Tam Nakano & Yuna Mizumori. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mayu Iwatani, Hanan & Koguma beat Saori Anou, Tam Nakano & Yuna Mizumori. Hanan pinned Mizumori with a German suplex hold.

Intermission. Main Event coming up shortly.

Main Event: Maika, Mina Shirakawa, Gina, HANAKO & Waka Tsukiyama vs. Natsuko Tora, Momo Watanabe, Starlight Kid, Ruaka & Fukigen in a 3 Falls match. 1 Hour time limit
Fall 1: Watanabe pinned Tsukiyama.
Fall 2: Tora DQ’d. Weapon use.
Fall 3: Maika pinned Fukigen.
Result: E Nexus V wins 2-1. In total, the match went just under 20 minutes.

Overall the streaming experience was good as Stardom continues ramping up live broadcasts on Stardom World, it was high quality (1080p HD) and there were only a couple times when it cut out (once during the main event, perhaps due to activity all over the venue) but for less than a second each time. There are more live streams to come which is a good sign. For my first time watching live on the service, a solid 9/10. Interesting to note they used 2 hard cameras-an additional one looking at one corner of the ring and the other in the traditional position-in addition to ringside cameras. Rather unique to me.

The next event is tomorrow at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka. Live streaming on Stardom World (also as a PPV via Pia Stream for around $15 US) will begin at 9 PM PT/midnight ET. Live results are tentatively scheduled.