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All-Japan Pro Wrestling 1/14/24 Results

All-Japan continues their year-opening New Year Excite Series 2024 tour today with a Masanobu Fuchi 50th Anniversary & 70th Birthday event. The septuagenarian and once Jr. Heavyweight legend still makes an occasional appearance here & there but mostly works behind-the-scenes now. He gets the main event treatment today, facing the winner of an 8-man battle royal immediately before that. Also today, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Hokuto Omori get their prize for winning the Real World Tag League at the end of 2023, which is a shot at All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito. A GAORA TV Championship match is also on tap as new champion Black Menso-re defends against Seigo Tachibana.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV in Japanese. There was a last-minute addition of an Actress Girls Provided Match that may be a pre-show match to start the event. Most of the matches are 1 Hour or No Time Limit so it’s hard to predict exactly how long the event will run, but I’m going to guess just under 3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Pre-Show: Actress Girls Provided Match: Mio (?) & Sakura Mizushima vs. MARU & Anka Iwai (?)
Dan Tamura, Atsuki Aoyagi, Rising Hayato & Ryo Inoue vs. Koji Iwamoto, Kotaro Suzuki, Hikaru Sato & Fuminori Abe
Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Osamu Nishimura vs. Ren Ayabe & Naruki Doi
GAORA TV Champion Black Menso-re vs. Seigo Tachibana for the title
All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Hokuto Omori for the titles
Fuchi Rumble Battle Royal. Staggered entry. Over the top rope eliminations only. Participants: Kento Miyahara, Yuma Aoyagi, Suwama, Shotaro Ashino, Ryuki Honda, Yuma Anzai, Minoru Suzuki, Hideki Suzuki. Order of entry TBA today
Masanobu Fuchi 50th Anniversary & 70th Birthday Match: Masanobu Fuchi vs. the Fuchi Rumble winner

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6:28 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Muted for opening announcements.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Haven’t gotten a good look at the crowd yet. There we go…Crowd still filing in but looks like a full house/near sellout so probably in the 1300 range.

Actress Girls performance and match opens the event.

Pre-Show: Actress Girls Provided Match: Mii & Sakura Mizushima vs. MARU & Kyoka Iwai
Result: Mii & Sakura Mizushima beat MARU & Kyoka Iwai. Mii pinned MARU with a rollup.

Before the event officially begins, Masanobu Fuchi comes out. A video package of congratulatory messages for Fuchi, including from Kenta Kobashi, is played. Then Atsushi Onita comes out with a couple of fellow dignitaries for the customary flower presentations to Fuchi. Onita is almost certainly headed to Kanagawa right after this for the DDT event he is part of.

The matches begin at 7:02 PM PT.

Match 1: Dan Tamura, Atsuki Aoyagi, Rising Hayato & Ryo Inoue vs. Koji Iwamoto, Kotaro Suzuki, Hikaru Sato & Fuminori Abe. 30 minute time limit
Result: Koji Iwamoto, Kotaro Suzuki, Hikaru Sato & Fuminori Abe beat Dan Tamura, Atsuki Aoyagi, Rising Hayato & Ryo Inoue. Iwamoto pinned Tamura.

Match 2: Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Osamu Nishimura vs. Ren Ayabe & Naruki Doi (independent/Freelancer). 30 minute time limit
Result: Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Osamu Nishimura beat Ren Ayabe & Naruki Doi. Kuroshio pinned Ayabe. As usual Kuroshio’s entrance probably went longer than the whole match.

Match 3: GAORA TV Champion Black Menso-re vs. Seigo Tachibana for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Seigo Tachibana beat GAORA TV Champion Black Menso-re to win the title. Tachibana becomes the 25th GAORA TV Champion. That was the 3rd-shortest title reign to date at just 12 days. And just one day shorter than the 4th shortest.

Match 4: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Hokuto Omori for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito beat Katsuhiko Nakajima & Hokuto Omori to retain the titles. Rei Saito pinned Nakajima after an open palm lariat. V3 for the champs. The fact that Nakajima was the one beaten here is HUGE. I can see Rei making a challenge to Nakajima if he retains the Trriple Crown against Shotaro Ashino later this month.

Rising Hayato joins commentary.

Match 5: Fuchi Rumble Battle Royal. Staggered entry. Over the top rope eliminations only. Participants: Kento Miyahara, Yuma Aoyagi, Suwama, Shotaro Ashino, Ryuki Honda, Yuma Anzai, Minoru Suzuki, Hideki Suzuki. No time limit
Order of entry: Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda, Hideki Suzuki, Yuma Aoyagi, Shotaro Ashino, Kento Miyahara, Minoru Suzuki, Suwama.
Order of elimination: Honda by Miyahara, Suwama by Hideki Suzuki, Hideki Suzuki by Aoyagi, Aoyagi by Ashino, Ashino by Miyahara, Minoru Suzuki by Anzai, Miyahara by Anzai
Result: Yuma Anzai wins. As a result, Anzai will face Masanobu Fuchi in the main event. Which led to…

Main Event: Masanobu Fuchi 50th Anniversary & 70th Birthday Match: Masanobu Fuchi vs. Yuma Anzai. No time limit
Result: Yuma Anzai beat Masanobu Fuchi

The next event is 1/27 at Esforta Arena Hachioji in Tokyo with Nakajima vs. Ashino for the Triple Crown and Tamura vs. Iwamoto for the All-Japan World Jr. Heavyweight Championship. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin on 1/26 at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET.

TNA Wrestling “Hard To Kill 2024” Results (1/13/24)

Formerly Impact Wrestling, TNA has rebranded to its old identity and that kicks into full gear tonight with Hard To Kill, the promotion’s first quarterly PPV of the year. The old logo is back and new title belts were unveiled and the majority of the roster is back along with some new additions, but also some departures (Deonna Purrazzo) and rumors of more to come (the dirt sheets say Trinity may be headed back to WWE soon). The current lineup consists of roughly 10 matches and a surprise debut that TNA says “You won’t believe who is showing up”. Rumors run the gamut as to who it will be, I personally am betting it will be Nic Nemeth, fka Dolph Ziggler in WWE, but we shall see. Almost all the promotion’s titles are on the line (no Knockouts Tag Team Championship match though) with the main event expected to be TNA World Champion Alex Shelley vs. Moose for the title. The event will be followed by a live event tomorrow that also will be a TV taping.
There has been a late change to the card because Trent Seven, who was to have been in a 4-way for the TNA World Tag Team Championship, is now off. Travel issues. He was to have teamed with Mike Bailey in the match. Laredo Kid is the replacement.

Today’s event will be held at the Palms Casino & Resort in Las Vegas, NV and can be watched LIVE on PPV, TNA+ and TrillerTV (fka FITE). If you are a top-tier TNA+ subscriber the event is included in your subscription-that subscription is $219.99/year. Otherwise, the PPV is $39.99. If you are a lower-tier TNA+ subscriber ($9.99/month of $95.99/year) or YouTube Ultimate Insider subscriber (the YouTube subscription plans will continue although it was never mentioned in TNA+ announcements, it remains $4.99/month), you should be able to watch on demand in 30 days. There will be a pre-show as well, on TNA+ it will be 1 hour for subscribers while on TrillerTV it will be free but is only listed as 30 minutes. (Last-minute update: The PPV is also available on YouTube for $39.99. Includes live broadcast and on demand replays until midnight ET Monday)

Tonight’s current lineup:
Pre-show:
TNA Digital Media Champion Tommy Dreamer vs. Crazzy Steve for the title
Eddie Edwards & Brian Myers vs. Eric Young & Frankie Kazarian
Rich Swann vs. Steve Maclin
PPV:
A Mystery Appearance
PCO vs. Dirty Dango
Knockouts Ultimate X. Participants: Tasha Steelz, Gisele Shaw, Alisha Edwards, Jody Threat, Xia Brookside, Dani Luna. Winner gets a TNA Knockouts Championship shot anytime, anywhere they choose
TNA World Tag Team Champions Ace Austin & Chris Bey vs. Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz, Grizzled Young Vets and Mike Bailey & Laredo Kid in a 4-way for the titles
TNA X Champion Chris Sabin vs. KUSHIDA & El Hijo Del Vikingo for the title
Josh Alexander vs. Alexander Hammerstone
TNA Knockouts Champion Trinity vs. Jordynne Grace for the title
TNA World Champion Alex Shelley vs. Moose for the title

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Pre-show:
Steve Maclin beat Rich Swann.
Brian Myers & Eddie Edwards beat Eric Young & Frankie Kazarian.
In a No DQ Match, Crazzy Steve beat TNA Digital Media Champion Tommy Dreamer to become THE NEW TNA DIGITAL MEDIA CHAMPION!

PPV:
Match 1: Women’s Ultimate X. Participants: Tasha Steelz, Gisele Shaw, Alisha Edwards, Jody Threat, Xia Brookside, Dani Luna
Result: Gisele Shaw wins. As a result, Shaw gets a TNA Knockouts Championship match anytime, anywhere she wants

Match 2: PCO vs. Dirty Dango
Result: PCO beat Dirty Dango by DQ. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: PCO, Rhino & Jake Something vs. Dirty Dango, Alpha Bravo & Oleg Prudius
Result: PCO, Rhino & Jake Something beat Dirty Dango, Alpha Bravo & Oleg Prudius

Match 3: TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions Masha Slamovich & Killer Kelly vs. Rosemary & Havok (Jessicka) for the titles
Result: Rosemary & Havok beat TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions Masha Slamovich & Killer Kelly to become THE NEW TNA KNOCKOUTS TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS!

TNA & AAA (Mexico) extend their working partnership and talent exchange agreements.

Match 4: TNA X Champion Chris Sabin vs. KUSHIDA & El Hijo Del Vikingo in a 3-way for the title
Result: TNA X Champion Chris Sabin beat KUSHIDA & El Hijo Del Vikingo in a 3-way to retain the title.

Match 5: Josh Alexander vs. Alexander Hammerstone
Result: Josh Alexander beat Alexander Hammerstone

Xia Brookside has signed with TNA.

Match 6: TNA World Tag Team Champions Ace Austin & Chris Bey vs. Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz, Grizzled Young Vets and Mike Bailey & Laredo Kid in a 4-way for the titles
Result: TNA World Tag Team Champions Ace Austin & Chris Bey beat Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz, Grizzled Young Vets and Mike Bailey & Laredo Kid in a 4-way to retain the titles.

Match 7: TNA Knockouts Champion Trinity vs. Jordynne Grace for the title
Result: Jordynne Grace beat TNA Knockouts Champion Trinity to become THE NEW TNA KNOCKOUTS CHAMPION! Headline had the wrong result. Guess Trinity’s headed back to WWE?

This may or may not be that “you won’t believe who shows up” person but before the last match, they showed former WWE wrestler Dana Brooke in the front row. If that’s who it is…major letdown.

Main Event: TNA World Champion Alex Shelley vs. Moose for the title
Result: Moose beat TNA World Champion Alex Shelley to become THE NEW TNA WORLD CHAMPION! And to imagine when he won the title shot in the Feast Or Fired match he was disappointed and didn’t seem to want it! (He was hoping for the Tag Team Title shot with Brian Myers instead)

They saved “you won’t believe who shows up” for last after this…SHOW OFF!!! It’s Nic Nemeth! He hit Zig Zag on Moose then walked into the crowd and tore his top off to reveal a TNA shirt underneath and likely send the crowd home-or at least back into the casino-happy.

End Show.

AEW Collision & Battle Of The Belts 9 Results (1/13/24)

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Collision & Battle Of The Belts 9 special in Norfolk, VA:
Collision:
Adam Copeland Open Challenge. Answered by Lee Moriarty.
Adam Copeland beat Lee Moriarty by submission.

ROH 6-Man Tag Team Champions Gates Of Agony & Brian Cage beat Lance Archer & The Righteous to retain the titles. Afterwards, Prince Nana teased a potential match against Jay White & Gunn Club Wednesday on Dynamite. Accepted. Likely for the titles.

Roderick Strong confronted Preston Vance backstage. This could also lead to a match Wednesday

Dustin Rhodes beat Willie Mack. Christian Cage confronted Rhodes afterwards..

Adam Page beat JD Drake.

Deonna Purrazzo beat Red Velvet.

Last-minute addition: Hook vs. TBA.
Hook beat Kevin Matthews.

House Of Black beat FTR & Daniel Garcia.

BOTB 9:
Carrying over from Collision, the first match combatants brawled backstage.
AEW Tag Team Champions Big Bill & Ricky Starks beat Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara to retain the titles. Changed last-minute to a street fight.

AEW TBS Champion Julia Hart beat Anna Jay to retain the title.

AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy beat Preston Vance for the title.

End Shows.

Stardom 1/13/24 Results

Stardom continued the New Year’s Stars 2024 Tour today with their first visit of the year to Osaka.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and will be available on demand on Stardom World at a later date.

The announced paid attendance was 290.

Match 1; Yuna Mizumori beat Ranna Yagami.

Match 2: Mai Sakurai beat Lady C.

Match 3: Miyu Amasaki & Utami Hayashishita beat Sayaka Kurara & Mina Shirakawa. Hayashishita pinned Kurara.

Match 4: Fukigen, Sumire Natsu & Natsuko Tora beat Yuzuki, HANAKO & Mei Seira. Fukigen pinned Seira. Afterwards, Fukigen appeared to make a challenge for the High Speed Championship.

Match 5: Hazuki, Hanan, Saya Iida & Mayu Iwatani beat Saki Kashima, Ami Sohrei, MIRAI & Syuri. hanan pinned Sohrei with a backdrop hold.

Match 6: Saoti Anou & Suzu Suzuki vs. Starlight Kid & Momo Watanabe went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Main Event: Meghan Bayne & Maika beat Saya Kamitani & AZM. Bayne pinned AZM after F5.

The next event is tomorrow. It will be available on demand on Stardom World at a later date.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 1/13/24 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran their first STAR NAVIGATION 2024 Tour event today, continuing the never-ending tour name for their monthly Tokyo big events.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and an be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The live broadcast was English only due to ABEMA exclusive rights. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1139.

Match 1; Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Ninja Mack & Alejandro and HAYATA & Eita in a 3-way when Bane pinned Alejandro.

Match 2: Shuhei Taniguchi beat Ulka Sasaki.

Match 3: Mohammed Yone, Akitoshi Saito, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69 beat Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, Taishi Ozawa & Yu Owada. Kotoge pinned Ozawa after a moonsault press.

Match 4: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Daga & Yoshinari Ogawa beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Hajime Ohara & Super Crazy. Wagner Jr. pinned Crazy after Aztec Snake.

Match 5: Titus Alexander & Vinny Massaro beat Jack Morris & LJ Cleary. Alexander pinned Cleary after Big Ugly.

Match 6: Manabu Soya beat Ryohei Oiwa.

Match 7: Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba, Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki beat Jake Lee, Anthony Greene, YO-HEY & Tadasuke. Miyawaki pinned Tadasuke.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kenoh beat Go Shiozaki to retain the title. V2 for Kenoh. Next up: Wagner Jr. That match will happen on 2/4 in Sendai.

The regular post-major event news/fallout:
Taishi Ozawa has decided to go on an international excursion. Where and for how long is unknown but he will leave after the 1/23 event.
GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YO-HEY & Tadasuke vs. Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki for the titles has been announced for 1/28 in Osaka. (No live broadcast)
GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Daga vs. Hajime Ohara for the title has also been announced for 2/4 in Sendai.

The next event is Wednesday at Shinjuku Face with GHC National Champion Jack Morris vs. Titus Alexander for the title. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 1/13/24 Results (Updated)

Tokyo Joshi Pro continues their 2024 house show tour today with an event in Kobe, which is a hometown event for Mizuki. Below are NEAR LIVE results from the event so far.

Today’s event was held at Kobe Art Center in Kobe and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (probably Tuesday). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 230.

In pre-match announcements it was revealed that Chika, one of the current trainees, will debut on 2/24 in Osaka. That will not be her ring name (TBA). Ryo Mizunami participation was announced for 2/11 and 2/24. Also an absolute last-second card change-no Yuki Kamifuku today. Off for currently unknown reasons (but if I had to guess based on what’s been happening in DDT lately, flu). (UPDATE: The always-vague poor physical condition. Hospitalized for further examination. Consider questionable for tomorrow) She was to have teamed with Wakana Uehara to face Yuki Aino & Ryo Mizunami. Suzume is the replacement. Suzume was to have teamed with Arisu Endo against Toga & Kaya Toribami. That match became a 3-way instead.
More on Kamifuku as it becomes available. For tomorrow she is scheduled to team with Mahiro Kiryu to face Mizuki & HIMAWARI.

Match 1: Moka Miyamoto beat Haru Kazashiro by submission.

Match 2: Raku beat Shino Suzuki.

Match 3: Arisu Endo beat Toga & Kaya Toribami in a 3-way by beating Toga.

Match 4: Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao beat Mahiro Kiryu & HIMAWARI. Nakahima pinned HIMAWARI with a northern lights suplex hold.

Match 5: Yuki Aino & Ryo Mizunami beat Suzume & Wakana Uehara. Mizunami pinned Uehara after a spear.

Main Event: Miyu Yamashita, Mizuki & Nao Kakuta beat Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Pom Harajuku. Mizuki pinned Harajuku with Cutie Special.

The next event is tomorrow at Okayama Convention Center in Okayama. There will be no live broadcast.

UPDATE: Kamifuku is now off tomorrow. Poor physical condition. Hyper Misao is the replacement, meaning what had been a 3-way of Misao vs. Kaya Toribami & Sho o Suzuki is now Toribami vs. Suzuki

Injury Report: Can It Stop The Path Of Cage?

Wrestlers are sometimes notorious for working through injuries. AEW has seen its fair share of that lately, and in posts on his Instagram today and earlier this week Brian Cage revealed he worked last night’s Dynamite with an injury. Torn lat suffered last week on Dynamite. Doesn’t sound like he’ll take any time off yet, in part because he is part of the current ROH 6-Man Tag Team Champions.

See the original post below, and if you scroll through his feed there’s another video he uploaded offering a better look at the injury:

Injury Report: The DDTs Just Keep Coming (Updated x2)

DDT just can’t maintain a full healthy roster right now. The body count relentlessly keeps rising as something bad is going around Japan and the latest addition to the count today is Takeshi Masada. Flu. Out indefinitely and off Sunday’s event in Kanagawa. He was to have teamed with Yoshitatsu & Masa Takanashi to face Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Iino & Yusuke Okada. That match is now Endo/Iino/Okada vs. Yoshitatsu, Kazusada Higuchi & Akito. As a result, what had been Higuchi, Kazuki Hirata & Danshoku Dieno vs. HARASHIMA, Akito & Kazuma Sumi that same event is now Hirata/Dieno/Yuni vs. HARASHIMA/Sumi/Takanashi.

It’s not known if Masada will miss any additional events, the next ones after this are 1/20 & 1/21.

UPDATE: it never ends, it seems…now Kazuma Sumi is off the event. Flu. Sanshiro Takagi is the replacement.

UPDATE 2 (1/13): Someone keeps passing it around DDT as now Yuni has it and is off 1/14. Fever.

Dragon Gate 1/11/24 Results (Updated)

Dragon Gate ran the second half of their Tokyo doubleheader today to wrap ip their first monthly big events there.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1010.

Match 1: Kota Minoura, Ben-K & BxB Hulk beat Madoka Kikuta, Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka. Ben-K pinned Tanaka after a spear.

Match 2: Gianni Valletta beat Daiki Yanagiuchi. Potential squash, it went just 46 seconds.

Match 3: Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) & Shuji Kondo beat YAMATO & Punch Tominaga. Doi pinned Tominaga after Bakatare Sliding Kick.

Match 4: Ultimo Dragon, Don Fujii, Genki Horiguchi, Kenichiro Arai & Kagetora beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu, Jason Lee, Strong Machine J & U-T. Kagetora pinned U-T after Gurumakakari.

Match 5: Luis Mante beat JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI.

Match 6: Open The Triangle Gate Champions KAI, ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato beat Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda to retain the titles. Kato pinned Kanda with Authorized Gannosuke Clutch. V1 for the champs.

Main Event: Shun Skywalker beat Hyo.

The next event is Saturday at Act City Hamamatsu in Shizuoka. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

UPDATE: After the event, various promotions in Europe began advertising Mochizuki Jr. for upcoming events. Per a social media post by British Kingdom Pro Wrestling in England, Mochizuki is headed there for 3 months starting in late February and has also been announced for an upcoming event in Germany’s wXw promotion (one of the top European promotions).