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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).

AEW Dynamite 1/10/24 Results

Here ate the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Jacksonville, FL (Homecoming house show event at Daily’s Place):

Match 1: Adam Page vs. Claudio Castagnoli
Result: Adam Page beat Claudio Castagnoli

Match 2: Lance Archer, Brian Cage & Gates Of Agony vs. Preston Vance, Adam Copeland, Orange Cassidy & Dustin Rhodes
Result: Preston Vance, Dustin Rhodes, Adam Copeland & Orange Cassidy beat Brian Cage, Gates Of Agony & Lance Archer. Vance pinned Bishop Kaun after Discus Lariat.

Samoa Joe promo. Swerve Strickland interrupts. So does Adam Page. Both make challenges. When they leave and the promo is about to end…so does Hook.

Match 3: Sammy Guevara vs. Ricky Starks
Result: Sammy Guevara beat Ricky Starks. Afterwards, they share a handshake which set up a Big Bill beatdown on Guevara but Chris Jericho quickly made the save. Jericho & Bill brawled all over the place while Jericho’s music played the entire time, which I thought was funny. And actually clever.

Tony Khan makes Joe vs. Hook for the AEW World Championship official for Dynamite next week. Of course the week I have to miss the show! (I will be on vacation and traveling)

Match 4: Thunder Rosa, Willow NIghtingale, Kris Statlander & Anna Jay vs. Julia Hart, Skye Blue, Saraya & Ruby Soho
Result: Thunder Rosa, Willow NIghtingale, Kris Statlander & Anna Jay beat Julia Hart, Skye Blue, Saraya & Ruby Soho. Jay beat Blue with Queenslayer.

Match 5: Roderick Strong vs. a jobber (Bryan Keith)
Result: Roderick Strong beat Bryan Keith. Glorified squash. Adam Cole promo afterwards.

Deonna Purrazzo makes her in-ring debut Saturday on Collision. Possibly against Red Velvet.

Main Event: Darby Allin & Sting vs. Konosuke Takeshita & Powerhouse Hobbs in a Tornado Tag match. Anything goes. TV Time Remaining with 5 minute overrun
Result: Darby Allin & Sting beat Konosuke Takeshita & Powerhouse Hobbs. Sting pinned Hobbs after a scorpion deathdrop through a table. They used the overrun to perhaps reveal the final opponent for Sting at Revolution, but they were interrupted by the returning Young Bucks. They just stared for a couple minute before leaving, enough to hint at perhaps a tag team match assuming Allin hasn’t taken off to climb Mt. Everest yet as he plans to.

While I didn’t really care for the matches announced in advance, Daily’s Place makes for great TV with its layout, fans and ambience so I enjoyed the show just for that. The matches generally were average but not terrible. Page-Castagnoli was the best match of the night and the Joe segment was hot. Skip the main event and the Strong squash which was not announced ahead of time. I give tonight a B- just for the fans & atmosphere.

Friday on Rampage: TBA but maybe Eddie Kingston vs. Wheeler Yuta for the Continental Crown.

Saturday on Collision in Norfolk, VA: Adam Copeland vs. TBA (open challenge), Adam Page appears, Deonna Purrazzo vs. Red Velvet and ROH 6-Man Tag Team Champions Gates Of Agony & Brian Cage vs. Lance Archer & The Righteous for the titles.
On Battle Of The Belts 9 immediately after Collision: AEW Tag Team Champions Ricky Starks & Big Bill vs. Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara for the titles and AEW TBS Champion Julia Hart vs. Anna Jay for the title.

FREE VIDEO: Satoshi Kojima vs. Go Shiozaki (1/2/24) (Limited Time)

Ahead of the GHC Heavyweight Championship match on 1/13 featuring Go Shiozaki challenging Kenoh for the title, Pro Wrestling NOAH has uploaded Shiozaki’s match against Satoshi Kojima from the 1/3 event to YouTube for a limited time. If lariats (sadly in Kojima’s case here, sans bread courtesy of fans) are your thing, Go check it out below. Video courtesy of the Pro Wrestling NOAH Official Japanese YouTube Channel:

You can also watch the match on WRESTLE UNIVERSE (paid subscription required) in Japanese and English.