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DDT Pro Wrestling “DDT GOES PHILADELPHIA!” Results (4/4/24)

DDT returns to the USA today as part of The Collective, a series of independent events around WrestleMania weekend put on by independent promotion Game Changer Wrestling. The event promises to be more of the incredible wrestling and ridiculous comedy that DDT is known worldwide for. 7 matches are currently scheduled for the event with one title match, as MAO defends the DDT Universal Championship against Billie Starkz in a No Rules match. Konosuke Takeshita, now in All Elite Wrestling, makes an appearance as well along with TNA & independent sensation Mike Bailey, who faces KO-D Openweight Champion Yuki Ueno in a NON-TITLE match. And the comedy will be plentiful and entertaining as Kazuki Hirata takes on the GOD of professional wrestling, the one & only Yoshihiko, in a can’t-miss epic. Get your popcorn ready!

Today’s event will be held at Penn’s Landing Caterers in Philadelphia, PA and can be watched LIVE on TrillerTV/FITE in English only via the Triller+ subscription service, which costs $7.99/month or $79.99/year. You also get unlimited on demand viewing. The event may also be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. The event is a legit advance sellout. I don’t know if there will be the usual time limits for the matches but I anticipate this being similar to a normal Korakuen Hall event and will probably run 2 1/2-3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Daisuke Sasaki & KANON vs. Nick Wayne & Takeshi Masada
Chris Brookes & Kid Lycos vs. Bryan Keith & Shota
Kazuki Hirata vs. Yoshihiko
Tetsuya Endo vs. Andrew Everett
Konosuke Takeshita vs. Shunma Katsumata
Yuki Ueno vs. Mike Bailey
DDT Universal Champion MAO vs. Billie Starkz in a No Rules match for the title

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Updates below will begin at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET.

5 PM PT UPDATE: Waiting for live stream to begin. Currently no signal, just an “end show” screen.

5:10 PM PT UPDATE: Live stream has just begun, but we missed the first 10 minutes of the event and the most of the opening match…

We are LIVE from Penn’s Landing Caterers in Philadelphia, PA. Your hosts are two names we don’t yet know.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It’s a legit advance sellout, looks like it’s a setup for around 500. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 750. That’s an idea of what to expect for tomorrow morning’s TJPW event that is also sold out)

Match 1: Chris Brookes & Kid Lycos vs. Bryan Keith & Shota
Result: Chris Brookes & Kid Lycos beat Bryan Keith & Shota. Lycos pinned Shota after a brainbuster.
We only saw the last 2-3 minutes due to stream joining 10 minutes late.

Match 2: Tetsuya Endo vs. Andrew Everett
Result: Tetsuya Endo beat Andrew Everett

Match 3: Dan The Dad vs. Chiitan
Result: Chiitan beat Dan The Dad. Chris Brookes came put for a beatdown on Chiitan until Yoshihiko came out to make the save. Which led to…

Match 4: Yoshihiko vs. Kazuki Hirata
Result: Yoshihiko beat Kazuki Hirata

Match 5: DDT Universal Champion MAO vs. Billie Starkz in a No Rules match for the title
Result: Double Pinfall. Which led to…
TIebreaker: Rock Paper Scissors!
Result: DDT Universal Champion MAO beat Billie Starkz to retain the title. V7 for MAO.

Match 6: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON vs. Nick Wayne & Takeshi Masada
Result: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON beat Nick Wayne & Takeshi Masada. KANON pinned Masada after a Sasaki diving elbow drop.

Match 7: Konosuke Takeshita vs. Shunma Katsumata
Result: Konosuke Takeshita beat Shunma Katsumata by submission

Main Event: Yuki Ueno vs. Mike Bailey
Result: Yuki Ueno beat Mike Bailey

I can’t really grade the whole event fairly due to the stream starting 10+ minutes late and thus cutting out just about all the first match. The rest was good but several matches were too short and the whole event was a little short again too, checking in at about 2 hours but that’s how it is during this event with the same one or two venues hosting numerous events every day. It was fun, generally what you’d expect from DDT, but maybe wait until they hopefully fix the replay to watch for the beginning.

End Show.

The next event is APRIL FOOL 2024 Sunday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET. Live results are scheduled for that event.

Stardom 4/4/24 Results (Updated)

Stardom is in the USA today as part of “The Collective”, a series of over a dozen independent events taking place over WrestleMania weekend beginning today through Sunday, for “Stardom American Dream 2024 in the Keystone State”, a special event held before some participation in other independent events. It’s a lean card on paper thanks in part to the recent talent exodus with just 5 matches, but 2 are title matches. First up is a 3-way for the High Speed Championship with Mei Seira defending the title against Ram Kaichow and Saki Kashima, while in the likely main event, World Of Stardom Champion Maika defends the title against Meghan Bayne, making her first Stardom appearance since returning from a long excursion to the promotion in Japan last year. There’s plenty of notable outsider participation as well including All Elite Wrestling star Willow Nightingale, TNA Wrestling star Xia Brookside and NEW STRONG Women’s Champion Stephanie Vaquer from the CMLL promotion in Mexico among others. Former foreign wrestler Mariah May, who left Stardom last last year for AEW, also makes a return appearance.

Today’s event will be held at 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, PA and can be watched LIVE on TrillerTV/FITE worldwide in English as a PPV for $24.99. You get the live broadcast and unlimited on demand replays with purchase. There is no Pia Stream PPV option. The event may be available on demand on Stardom World at a later date. With only 5 matches and the 2 title matches this is going to be a short event unless anything is added last-minute, and seems overpriced for an event that probably won’t go more than 2 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Stephanie Vaquer, Momo Watanabe & Starlight Kid vs. AZM, Saya Kamitani & Camron Branae
Syuri & Konami vs. Willow Nightingale & SAKI
Mayu Iwatani, Tam Nakano & Momo Kohgo vs. Mina Shirakawa, Mariah May & Xia Brookside
High Speed Champion Mei Seira vs. Ram Kaichow & Saki Kashima in a 3-way for the title
World Of Stardom Champion Maika vs. Meghan Bayne for the title

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Updates below will begin at Noon PT/3 PM ET.

Mandatory FBI Warning, then to the intro screen right on time and right to the opening video as…
We are LIVE from 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, PA. Your hosts are Veda Scott & Tom Lawlor. It sounds like we have the usual New Japan US ring announcer today. There are some minor audio issues at the start, namely I can’t seem to hear Lawlor on commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced sometime after the event. It’s a legit advance sellout so it depends on the setup, but max capacity for the venue would mean 1300, (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 976, so that means the setup reduced the capacity by about 25%).

Match 1: High Speed Champion Mei Seira vs. Ram Kaichow & Saki Kashima in a 3-way for the title. Usually these matches have a 15 minute time limit but we’ll see here.
Result: Saki Kashima beat High Speed Champion Mei Seira & Ram Kaichow in a 3-way by pinning Seira to win the title. Kashima becomes the 25th High Speed Champion. Mostly a comedy match. Kaichow thought she won after using a powder attack following a ref bump but it allows Kahsima to roll up Seira for 3 instead. Rather short match although that’s slightly the point of these matches.

Match 2: Stephanie Vaquer, Momo Watanabe & Starlight Kid vs. AZM, Saya Kamitani & Camron Branae
Result: Stephanie Vaquer, Momo Watanabe & Starlight Kid beat AZM, Saya Kamitani & Camron Branae. Vaquer pinned Branae after Death Valley Driver. Afterwards, Vaquer headbutted Watanabe as things got heated between them. They face off on 4/12 in New Japan for the STRONG Women’s Championship.

Match 3: Syuri & Konami vs. Willow Nightingale (All Elite Wrestling) & SAKI
Result: Willow Nightingale & SAKI beat Syuri & Konami. Nightingale pinned Konami after Babe With The Powerbomb.

Match 4: Mayu Iwatani, Tam Nakano & Momo Kohgo vs. Mina Shirakawa, Mariah May (All Elite Wrestling) & Xia Brookside (TNA Wrestling). The latter team out first, Shirakawa with microphone to introduce her teammates instead of the regular announcer. May did the honors for Shirakawa.
Result: Mayu Iwatani, Tam Nakano & Momo Kohgo beat Mina Shirakawa, Mariah May & Xia Brookside. Nakano pinned Brookside with Twilight Dream. This was definitely the fanservice match for all the male fans. Post-match, as Club Venus posed in the ring for fans…Toni Storm!?! The AEW Women’s Champion came out, minus black & white old-school filter and Luther. Storm rose up the ranks in Stardom before going to WWE. Storm with microphone. Hard to hear what she was saying on the stream though (had to turn the volume up to deafening). She said she was here to put Stardom over and thank them for the opportunities the promotion gave her. She then put May over and gave her a flower bouquet as the crowd chanted for Shirakawa. This caused Storm to go a little more in-character as she reminded them The Forbidden Door is always open. Shirakawa accepted as she & Storm stared down, Storm shoving the AEW Women’s Championship belt in Shirakawa’s face as May broke it up.
That was a really fun surprise, moreso with Storm in her AEW persona (annoying and I’m not a fan of it but she continues to make it work very well). Let’s see if anything comes out of it, perhaps sometime in June…

Main Event: World Of Stardom Champion Maika vs. Meghan Bayne for the title. Usually these matches have a 30 minute time limit (In-match note: They seemed to have FINALLY fixed Lawlor’s microphone/headset, now I can clearly hear him for the first time all event)
Result: World Of Stardom Champion Maika beat Meghan Bayne to retain the title. V3 for Maika.
Bayne had it won at one point but it was a 2.99999999999. Very physical match. The former partners hugged it out afterwards. As it seemed to start winding down, Momo Watanabe came out. With microphone. Challenge issued in Japanese. As Watanabe went to leave, she suddenly came back with a baseball bat shot but Bayne stepped in front of Maika and Watanabe hit the brakes, then walked off. Maika with microphone. Challenge accepted. That match apparently will happen on 4/27 in Yokohama. Maika then spoke in English to lead a “We Are Stardom” chant to send the crowd home happy.

My complaints about this event are all on the technical/production side as for 98% of the event I couldn’t hear Lawlor on commentary, and often the venue/production audio drowned out commentary and the microphone in ring was hard to hear. Could barely hear the announcer too. The matches were solid but with only 5 matches and the event running only about 100 minutes, it did not justify the $25 price tag. $15 would have been better, maybe $20 tops, but $25 was too much for too little. Hopefully it hits Stardom World soon, wait until it does to watch. I did enjoy the event but I felt I paid too much and got too little. The matches were all good to great though, all are worth watching.

End Show.

Some of them will be sticking around for other events as part of The Collective as well as meet-and-greets at WrestleCon before returning to Japan next week.

The next event is 4/12 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, which will be the final Stardom event for Giulia & Utami Hayashishita. Broadcast plans TBA but I would not be surprised if they make it a PPV via Pia Stream.

AEW Collision 4/6/24 Results (SPOILERS!)

Here are the quick results for Saturday’s TAPED AEW Collision in Worcester, MA, airing at 11:30 PM ET/8:30 PM PT or after NCAA Basketball on TNT, whichever is later (SPOILERS!):

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Injury Report: Wasteland Pom Party Cancelled (Updated x2)

Unfortunately the relentless injury/illness bug has followed Japan to “The Collective” in Philadelphia and it’s resulted in very disappointing news for Tokyo Joshi Pro fans-Max The Impaler has announced they are off the weekend’s events and that includes tomorrow’s Tokyo Joshi Pro event. Coronavirus. Max was to have teamed with Pom Harajuku to face Mizuki & VertVixen. Replacement TBA. Max has apologized to the fans on Twitter and asked them to “PLEASE TAKE CARE OF MAX’S POM”, and understandably is very sad that there will be no reunion of the very popular Wasteland Pom Party tomorrow.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: Nao Kakuta is now off both events as well. Illness. Did not travel to the US. Updates to come.

UPDATE 2 Aja Kong is the replacement for Max The Impaler. Trish Adora is the replacement for Kakuta and will team with Raku wi face Yuki Kamifuku & Viva Van.

AEW Dynamite 4/3/24 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Worcester, MA:

Adam Copeland comes out to open the show. Rambles for a while before bringing out Will Ospreay for the opening match.

Match 1: Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Will Ospreay
Result: Will Ospreay beat Powerhouse Hobbs

Match 2: Bryan Danielson vs. Lance Archer
Result: Bryan Danielson beat Lance Archer

Chris Jericho calls out Hook. Hook says he got them a match for Saturday on Collision. A subsequent promo reveals it’ll be against Shane Taylor & Lee Moriarty.

Match 3: Jay White vs. Billy Gunn
Result: Billy Gunn beat Jay White by DQ. Low blow.

Willow Nightingale interviewed. Stokely Hathaway adds on but gets cut off by Mercedes Mone, who says she’s challenging whoever is AEW TBS Champion after Dynasty for the title at Double Or Nothing.

Match 4: AEW Tag Team Championship Tournament Semifinals: The Young Bucks vs. Best Friends
Result: The Young Bucks beat Best Friends. Nick Jackson pinned Trent Beretta. As a result, The Bucks will face either FTR or Top Flight for the titles at Dynasty. FTR-Top Flight is Saturday. Afterwards, Best Friends went for the group hug with Chuck Taylor but Beretta instead laid out Orange Cassidy with a running knee strike.

Match 5: Mariah May vs. Thunder Rosa
Result: Thunder Rosa beat Mariah May. As a result, Rosa will face AEW Women’s Champion Toni Storm for the title at Dynasty on 4/21.

Next week: AEW TNT Champion Adam Copeland vs. Penta El Zero M for the title.

Saturday on a TAPED Collision at 11:30 PM ET/8:30 PM PT or after NCAA Basketball (whichever is later): Penta vs. Komander.

Samoa Joe-Swerve Strickland Dynasty contract signing is the main event segment. Devolved into the usual violence with Joe beating down Strickland into nothingness but Strickland came back to taunt Joe before signing the contract with his own blood, then Joe put Strickland through a table after a low blow to end it.

I didn’t care much for tonight’s lineup and the card on paper was nowhere near huge. The first 2 matches were good though.

News: First Independent Ganbare Card Announced

In a Twitter post with a link to the press conference video on YouTube, Moeka Haruhi helped reveal the card for the first Ganbare Pro event as an independent promotion, which will be on 4/27 at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo. The full lineup:
Takuya Wada vs. Shinichiro Tominaga
Tyson Maeguchi & Tsuyoshi Okada vs. Mizuki Watase & Munetatsu Nakamura
Rekka, Yuna Manase & YuuRI vs. Minoru Fujita, Sayaka Unagi & HARUKAZE
Ken Ohka & Funinori Abe vs. Yumehito Imanari & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion Shuichiro Katsumura vs. Keisuke Ishii for the title

As far as broadcasting goes, this and future events will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date.

New Japan 4/3/24 Results

New Japan continued the Road To SAKURA GENESIS Tour today with the last televised event before this weekend.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1195.

Match 1: Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato. Takahashi pinned Kato after Pimp Juice.

Match 2: TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yuya Uemura, Taichi & SANADA beat Boltin Oleg, Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Toru Yano. Uemura pinned TM 4 with a diving cross body.

Match 3: Taiji Ishimori & Chase Owens beat El Desperado & YOSHI-HASHI. Ishimori pinned Desperado.

Match 4: In a Gauntlet match, Kevin Knight, KUSHIDA & Tomohiro Ishii beat Callum Newman, Francesco Akira & TJP, then Knight/KUSHIDA/Ishii beat Gedo, Drilla Moloney & Clark Connorsz

Match 5: Shingo Takagi beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru by DQ. Ref assaults. Afterwards, EVIL named Kanemaru a special referee for Saturday’s NEVER Openweight Championship match against Takagi.

Match 6: Yoh & Shota Umino beat Sho & Ren Narita. Yoh punned Sho after Direct Drive. Afterwards, Yoh & Sho may have agreed to change Saturday’s IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match to a No DQ match.

Main Event: BUSHI & Yota Tsuji beat Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito. BUSHI pinned Takahashi.

Not counting a special pre-event press conference and talk show event Friday that is open to the public, the tour-ender is tomorrow at Ryugasaki City General Gym in Ibaraki. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

During today’s event, the annual G1 CLIMAX Tournament was announced. The 34th annual event schedule is as follows:
7/20-7/21-Osaka Prefectural Gym, Osaka
7/23-Hiroshima Sun Plaza, Hiroshima
7/25-Sun Messe Kagawa, Kagawa
7/27-Dojima Messe Nagasaki, Nagasaki
7/28-7/29-Fukuoka International Center, Fukuoka
7/31-KDDI Ishin Hall, Yamaguchi
8/3-Yamato University Yamato Arena, Osaka
8/4-Aichi Prefectural Gym, Nagoya
8/6-8/7-Korakuen
8/8-Yokohama Budokan, Yokohama
8/10-Xebio Arena Sendai, Sendai
8/12-Aore Nagaoka, Niigata
8/14-Hamamatsu Arena, Shizuoka
8/15-Makuhari Messe, Chiba
8/17-8/18-Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo
Participants TBA at a later date, probably in June.

BREAKING: AEW Talent Cuts Announced

Uh oh…here comes The Wrath Of KHAN!!! AEW has reportedly released ten wrestlers/talents today, who will not have no-compete clauses and are immediate free agents. Here’s the list so far: The Boys, Dasha Kuret (Dasha Gonzalez, who was the secondary ring announcer), Jose The Assistant, Jora Johl, Anthony Henry, Gravity, Stu Grayson (again?), Parker Boudreaux, Slim J. Obviously I’m not happy about Dasha because I liked her as a ring announcer, when she started out she was also a co-host for the early episodes of Dark on YouTube (she also wrestled one match a couple years ago). I had read a rumor earlier today that Boudreaux was still under contract for several more months, beyond that it’s disappointing to see The Boys gone as they were a big part of Dalton Castle’s character, and same with Grayson seemingly being done for a second time. Henry had been seeing a lot of action lately, mostly as a jobber. Jose was a big part of LFI as a manager. Johl hasn’t really been used much at all, same for Slim J. Gravity is basically a wrestling pun but was the kind of flippy luchador-type Khan marks out for.

No word on whether or not there may be more cuts coming.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 4/1/24 Results

After a very successful first run several months ago, Pro Wrestling NOAH brought back the MONDAY MAGIC series for a second season of events, which kicked off today with Episode 1.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. It also streamed live on ABEMA in Japan.

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

Match 1: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Luis Mante (Dragon Gate) beat Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf. Mante pinned Wolf after Vuelta Finale.

Match 2; Kenoh beat Ryohei Oiwa.

Match 3: Nagisa Nozaki & Great Sakuya beat Miyuki Takase & Nameless (?). Sakuya pinned Nameless after a moonsault press.

Match 4; Jake Lee, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Masa Kitamiya, Junta Miyawaki & Yu Owada. YO-HEY pinned Owada after a dropkick.

Match 5: Yoshinari Ogawa & Gedo (New Japan) vs. HAYATA & Eita went to a no contest.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Ulka Sasaki.

Episode 2 is next Monday and will feature a GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match as YO-HEY & Tadasuke defend the titles against Isami Kodaka & Yuko Miyamoto.

The next event is Saturday at Shimizu Marine Building in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast.

In other news, after making a surprise appearance today, former Stardom wrestler Giulia has been added to the 5/4 event at Ryogoku Kokugikan. More as it becomes available.

Injury Report: DDT Young Man To Take Extended Hiatus

DDT has announced another in a strong of countless injury absences, but this one is different because it will be a planned hiatus: After this Sunday’s (4/7) event, Hideki Okatani will be taking an injury hiatus. Left knee surgery (torn ACL). Out indefinitely but almost certainly several months. Okatani has vowed to come back stronger. His last match Sunday will be as part of a 6-man 4-way tag.