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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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Updates below will begin at 9 PM PT/midnight ET.

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.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 4/19/24 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro held the second Hyper Misao Produced event today, which unfortunately was largely sans Hyper Misao due to injury.

Today’s event was held at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 227,

This event appears to have been mostly theater/play-type storytelling featuring several wrestlers playing along. Raku was the main star in the story and as it went along, it all built up to the one match of the event that was the…

Main Event: Aja Kong beat Raku.

The next event is 4/27. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 4/26 at 8:30 PM PT/11:30 PM ET. Live results are tentatively scheduled.

All-Japan 4/18/24 Results

All-Japan kicked off the 2024 Champions Carnival, the promotion’s annual major singles tournament, today. This will determine who gets the next Triple Crown chance unless Yuma Anzai wins the tournament as the current champion.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 1157.

Before the event began, there was an Actress Girls pre-show segement and match, followed by a memorial for Akebono, the former sumo grand champion and Triple Crown Champion who died earlier this month.

Match 1: Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue beat Rising Hayato & Seigo Tachibana. Tamura pinned Tachibana after a powerbomb.

Match 2: Hideki Suzuki (Pro Wrestling NOAH), Cyrus & MUSASHI (Michinoku Pro) beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan, Hartley jackson & Ryuji Hijikata. Cyrus pinned Hijikata after a reverse splash.

Champions Carnival:
Match 3: Block B-Suwama beat Rei Saito.
Match 4: Block A-Shotaro Ashino beat Hokuto Omori by submission.
Match 5: Block B-Road Crew beat Ryuki Honda.
Match 6: Block A-Yuma Aoyagi beat Davey Boy Smith Jr.
Match 7: Block A-Ren Ayabe beat Kento Miyahara.
Main Event: Block B-Yuma Anzai beat Jun Saito.

The next event is Saturday at Act City Hamamatsu in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast. It is scheduled to be available on demand beginning at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET.

Injury Report: Yoh No…(Updated)

At New Japan’s SAKURA GENESIS event earlier this month, a match between Sho & Yoh for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship ended just over a minute in due to a Yoh injury. Unfortunately it was both legit and bad as we found out today. Dislocated left shoulder and damaged labrum. Out indefinitely but long enough that he is now out of Best Of The Super Junior in May & June, which would mean at least 2 months. No replacement named yet.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: KUSHIDA is the replacement.

AEW Dynamite 4/17/24 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite from Indianapolis, IN:

Jon Moxley promo. This sets up a match against Powerhouse Hobbs next week.

Mercedes Mone promo.

Julia Hart & Brody King beat Adam Copeland & Willow Nightingale. Hart beat Nightingale with Hartless.

Samoa Joe interviewed.

The Young Bucks & Kazuchika Okada beat Pac, Penta El Zero M & Daniel Garcia. Okada pinned Garcia after Rainmaker.

Swerve Strickland interviewed.

Deonna Purrazzo beat Mariah May.

Orange Cassidy beat Shane Taylor.

Will Ospreay beat Claudio Castagnoli.

Strickland/Joe promo and one last going at it before Sunday.

After last week’s awful dumpster fire of a show, I skipped tonight’s show. Pending changes at my job will mean in the next couple months I will no longer be able to watch the live broadcast on Wednesdays. That and Tony Khan needs to be able to stay off socials for just one Wednesday before, during and just after the show.

No Rampage this Friday. It’s moved to Saturday because of NBA Playoffs and will probably be LIVE either before or after Collision.

Saturday: Bryan Danielson & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Kyle Fletcher & Konosuke Takeshita in a Bunkhouse Brawl, The Elite vs. FTR & Pac and The Acclaimed vs. Gunn Club.

Regarding Stardom 4/20-4/21 Results

In a post on their official English Twitter account, Stardom just announced their upcoming events on 4/20 & 4/21 will be streamed LIVE on Stardom World for subscribers. Because of this, I am pleased to announce plans to do LIVE results for both events. 4/21 will have a Goddesses Of Stardom Championship match as the likely main event.

Saturday’s event will be at Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe. Sunday’s event is at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka. The live streams will begin Friday & Saturday, respectively, at 9 PM PT/midnight ET.

(4/27 broadcast plans for their major event at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama are pending, but I have a feeling that will be a PPV with Stardom World on demand a few days later once the PPV window ends)

GLEAT 4/17/24 Results

GLEAT ran the 4th Lidet UWF event today, an event featuring only UWF bouts.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on YouTube (it was a live broadcast earlier today).

The announced paid attendance was 228.

All matches were Lidet UEF bouts (no pinfalls, win only by submission, KO/TKO, ref stoppage or points if time limit reached. If points are tied at time limit, it’s a Draw)

Match 1: Tetsuya Isuchi vs. Yutaka Kobayashi went to a 15 minute time limit draw, tied on points left. Draw.

Match 2: Kotaro Suzuki & Hartley Jackson beat Hideki Sekine & Takatoshi Matsumoto by TKO. Jackson beat Matsunoto with a powerbomb.

Match 3: Maya Fukuda beat Yura Suzuki by KO.

Match 4: Soma Watanabe & Dan Tamura vs. Takuya Wada & Daisuke Nakmura went to a 20 minute time limit draw, tied on points. Draw.

Match 5: Masakatsu Funaki beat Yu Iizuka by TKO in 46 seconds.

Match 6: Kaz Hayashi Last UWF Bout-Minoru Suzuki & Kendo Ka Shin beat Kaz Hayashi & Yoshiaki Fujiwara by submission. Suzuki beat Hayashi.

Main Event: Takanori Ito beat Hikaru Sato by ref stoppage.

The next event is GLEAT HOUSE SHOW in Yokohama on 5/4 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

New Japan News: Upcoming April/May Cards & Title Matches (Updated)

Lots of New Japan news for the end of April & May:

First up, most of the matches for WRESTLING DONTAKU 2024 on 5/3 & 5/4 in Fukuoka have been announced including NEW IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jon Moxley’s first defense. He said Shota Umino was going to be first…nope. This isn’t AEW so he can’t always call his shots and get them. Ren Narita gets next. First, here’s what’s set for 5/3:
Jon Moxley, Shota Umino & El Desperado vs. Ren Narita, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & EVIL
Yota Tsuji vs. David Finlay
NJPW WORLD TV Champion Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Jeff Cobb for the title
IWGP Global Champion Nic Nemeth vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the title

5/4 so far:
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Nic Nemeth vs. Taichi & SANADA
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI vs. KENTA & Chase Owens for the titles
NEVER Openweight Champion Shingo Takagi vs. Gabriel Kidd for the title
IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jon Moxley vs. Ren Narita for the title

On 4/27 as part of the Road to WRESTLING DONTAKU Tour in Hisoshima, there will be what looks to be a rematch of NEW STRONG Tag Team Champions Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls vs. Hikuleo & El Phantasmo for the titles. The champs lost the titles in a 4-way at Windy City Riot but weren’t the ones involved in the fall. Also set is KOPW 2024 Champion Great-O-Khan vs. Yuya Uemura for the title. The main event will be an LIJ vs. Bullet Club 10-man elimination tag match, and other graphics suggest DOUKI & TAKA Michinoku vs. Sho & Yoshinobu Kanemaru is set as well.

On 4/29 in Kagoshima, the annual Wrestling Satsuma No Kuni event IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Clark Connors & Dilla Moloney vs. Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI for the titles, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Sho vs. DOUKI for the title and probably Tetsuya Naito, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji vs. Gedo, David Finlay & Gabriel Kidd.

UPDATE: Whoever is IWGP World Heavyweight Champion on 5/11 will defend the title against Umino at Resurgence.

Dragon Gate 4/14/24 Results (2 Events)

Dragon Gate continued The Gate Of Passion 2024 Tour yesterday with a doubleheader in Fukuoka.

Yesterday’s events were held at Acros Fukuoka in Fukuoka and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

Event 1:
The announced paid attendance was 535, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Dragon Kid & Strong Machine J beat Genki Horiguchi & Yasushi Kanda. J pinned Horiguchi after Gold Ship.

Match 2: Don Fujii & Toru Owashi (DDT) beat Masaaki Mochizukii & Ryoya Tanaka. Owashi pinned Tanaka after a running chokeslam.

Match 3: Ultimo Dragon beat Gianni Valetta by DQ. Mask removal.

Match 4: YAMATO, Susumu Yokosuka & Naruki Doi beat Kota Minoura, Ben-K & BxB Hulk. YAMATO beat Minoura with a sleeper hold.

Match 5: Luis Mante & Hyo beat Madoka Kikuta & Dragon Dia. Hyo pinned Dia after Samson Driver.

Main Event: In a Captains Fall Elimination Match, Shun Skywalker, KAI, ISHIN & Jason Lee beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu, U-T & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. The captains were Lee & KAMEI, the match ended after one of them was eliminated. Order of elimination: Kzy by Skywalker, Shimizu by Lee, KAI by KAMEI, ISHIN by U-T, Skywalker by KAMEI, KAMEI by Lee. Although U-T was not eliminated, because KAMEI was as captain, Z-Brats wins.

Event 2:
The announced paid attendance was 625, a super full house/very near sellout.

Match 1: KAI, ISHIN & Jason Lee beat Madoka Kikuta, Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka. Lee pinned Tanaka after Annihilation.

Match 2: Toru Owashi beat Genki Horiguchi.

Match 3: Kota Minoura, Ben-K & BxB Hulk beat Ultimo Dragon, Don Fujii & Yasushi Kanda. Ben-K pinned Kanda after a spear.

Match 4: Strong Machine J beat Masaaki Mochizuki.

Match 5: YAMATO, Dragon Kid, Susumu Yokosuka & Naruki Doi beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu, U-T & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. Kid pinned KAMEI after Doybre.

Main Event: Shun Skywalker & Gianni Valetta beat Luis Mante & Hyo. Valetta pinned Hyo after a King Kong kneedrop.

The next event was earlier today at Kumamoto Castle Hall in Kumamoto. Results will be posted when available. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 4/15/24 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH held Episode 3 of MONDAY MAGIC Season 2 today.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced but it was a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Kaito Kiyomiya & Kenoh beat Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba. Kiyomiya pinned Inaba after Transformed Shining Wizard.

Match 2: Alejandro beat Daga in 79 seconds.

Match 3: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jack Morris & Anthony Greene beat TBA & TBA, revealed to be two of Great Mummy, to retain the titles. Morris pinned one Mummy after a tiger driver. V6 for the champs.

Match 4: HAYATA & Ulka Sasaki beat Ryohei Oiwa & Yu Owada. HAYATA beat Owada with Gedo Clutch.

Match 5: Great Sakuya & Nagisa Nozaki vs. Miyuki Takase & Takumi Iroha went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

Match 6: Jake Lee, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki. Lee pinned Miyawaki after FBS.

Main Event: GHC Hardcore Champion Ninja Mack beat Alpha Wolf to retain the title.. V2 for Mack.

The final episode of Season 2 is next Monday. Announced for next week are Morris & Greene again defending the GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Titles vs. TBA in an open challenge and Kiyomiya vs. Lee, with the winner facing Wagner Jr. for the GHC Heavyweight Championship on 5/4. That’s the next event on the schedule, and it’s already a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.