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AEW Dynamite 1/3/24 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Newark, NJ:

Samoa Joe promo. Recorded backstage after the PPV Saturday.

Adam Cole promo.

AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy beat Dante Martin to retain the title. After the match, Private Party returned (including Marq Quen, back from a long layoff due to injury).

Mariah May beat Queen Aminata. Afterwards, Deonna Purrazzo debuted in AEW by interrupting a post-match interview. Later on she got the #AllElite graphic on the socials.

Konosuke Takeshita beat Darby Allin.

Trent Beretta beat Brian Cage, Bryan Keith & El Hijo Del Vikingo in a 4-way by pinning Keith. As a result, Beretta will face Eddie Kingston for the AEW Continental Championsihp/NJPW STRONG Openweight Championship/ROH World Championship Saturday on Collision.

Swerve Strickland beat Daniel Garcia. Prince Nana low blowed Garcia post-match during an apparent handshake, then after Matt Menard tried to make the save but was sent packing Adam Page came out. Page & Strickland fought as security tried to separate them to end the show.

DDT 1/3/24 Results (Updated)

DDT wrapped up the D KING GP 2023 and kicked off their 2024 today with a big year-opening event.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. Kenta Kobashi & SKE48 member Marika Tani were guests on commentary.

The announced paid attendance was 1194, a super full house/very near sellout. Also their best Korakuen number in a long time as they normally use a smaller configuration.

During the opening wrestler entrance ceremony, Yoshitatsu, who just left All-Japan Sunday, appeared and announced he will be participating full time in DDT starting Friday.

Match 1: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON beat Takao Soma, Shota & Yuni. KANON beat Soma with Cobra Twist 2.0. Shota was a last-minute replacement for Yuki Iino, who was removed from the match as a last-minute replacement in another match for the absent MAO (fever). Afterwards, Sasaki & KANON issued a KO-D Tag Team Championship challenge to Soma & Shota. That match will happen on 1/21 at Club Shinagawa eX in Tokyo.

Match 2: Makoto Oishi & Jun Akiyama beat Yusuke Okada & Kazuma Sumi. Oishi beat Sumi with a Fujiyama knee lock.

Miu Watanabe (Tokyo Joshi Pro) appeared to promote tomorrow’s (tonight US time) TJPW event .They then introduced Tsubasa Suzuki, aka Mother Con Kid, who will debut om 3/17. However, he is an intern and will continue as such so there is no guarantee he will become a full-time member, that decision will come in a few months.

Match 3: Shunma Katsumata Return Match: Shunma Katsumata & Toi Kojima beat Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani. Kojima pinned Okatani after a deformed face buster.

Match 4: HARASHIMA, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata beat Sanshiro Takagi, Akito & Antonio Honda. Hirata pinned Honda. After this, it appears Disaster Box officially disbanded, then Katsumata reappeared to issue a DDT Extreme Championship challenge to Hirata. That match will happen on 1/28.

Match 5: Jun & Rei Saito (All-Japan) beat Kazusada Higuchi & Rukiya. Rei Saito pinned Rukiya.

Impromptu Match: Kuroshio TOKYO Japan beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion The Christmas Tree to win the title. Kuroshio becomes the 1600th Champion.

Which led to…

Match 6: DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Kuroshio TOKYO Japan beat Danshoku Dieno to retain the title.

In addition to what All-Japan announced earlier in the day, more crossover matches to be held in DDT were announced: Ryuki Honda & Yuma Anzai will appear on 2/7 and Konosuke Takeshita vs. Yuma Aoyagi will happen on 3/17.

Match 7: Yuki Ueno & Yuki Iino beat Masa Takanashi & Takeshi Masada. Ueno pinned Masada after Jul 2. Iino was a last-minute replacement for MAO.

Main Event: D KING GP 2023 Finals: Yukio Naya beat Tetsuya Endo to win the tournament. First victory for Naya. As a result, Naya will face KO-D Openweight Champion Yuki Ueno for the title on 1/28.

The next event is Friday at Shinjuku Face. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

UPDATE: In post-match backstage comments, Sanshiro Takagi announced he will take a break from wrestling after the 7/21 event for health reasons. He will continue in his current managerial role for owner CyberFight Corporation.

BREAKING: Yet Another DDT Absence

DDT has just announced a last-minute change for their year-opening event in a few hours…the body count keeps unfortunately rising and the latest casualty is MAO. Fever. He just returned from the US where he defended the DDT Universal Championship Sunday. He was to have teamed with Yuki Ueno to face Masa Takanashi & Takeshi Masada. Yuki Iino is the replacement, but he was to have been in a 6-man tag that was the first match with Takao Soma & Yuno vs. Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Payl & KANON. Shota is the replacement there. MAO should mot miss any more time and hos next totle defense is scheduled for 1/21.

All-Japan Pro Wrestling 1/3/24 Results

All-Japan is scheduled to run the second half of their New Year doubleheader today, amidst what has become a very difficult start to 2024 in Japan with the major earthquake off the western coast and now a tragic and deadly plane collision at Haneda Airport in Tokyo that killed 5 Japan Coast Guard service members (thankfully the roughly 380 aboard the passenger jet involved survived and got off before it caught fire). I join those all over the world in sending condolences and support to those in Japan affected by these disasters.

The event today is currently on as planned but refunds will be offered for those with tickets who cannot travel to the event from affected areas (the earthquake was centered in Ishikawa Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo and northeast of Osaka). The headliner is Katsuhiko Nakajima defending the Triple Crown against Charlie Dempsey, who is getting this chance mainly as a favor from WWE towards William Regal as Dempsey is his real-life son and very few people are more respected in pro wrestling than Regal, who I can listen to talk about wresting for all eternity (he is a walking encyclopedia when it comes to the sport). As for what may happen, let’s just say, as always in wrestling, you never know.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV, presumably in Japanese. Yesterday’s event went shorter than I predicted and with one fewer match today, and just one title match, I anticipate this event having a running time of around 2 1/2 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Dan Tamura, Rising Hayato, Black Menso-re & Ryo Inoue vs. Hikaru Sato, Naruki Doi, Koji Iwamoto & Fuminori Abe
Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana vs. Minoru Suzuki & Hokuto Omori
Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi vs. Ryuki Honda & Yuma Anzai
Actress Girls Provided Match
Shotaro Ashino & Ren Ayabe vs. Jun & Rei Saito
Suwama & Hideki Suzuki vs. Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr.
All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Charlie Dempsey for the Triple Crown

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

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. We come in during pre-event announcements. Commentary will start shortly. It sounds like this is another Samurai! TV simulcast in Japan.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Already a super full house so potentially a sellout. Easy 1300. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1331, a super full house/very near sellout)

Muted a moment for opening music.

The matches begin at 6:33 PM PT/9:33 PM ET. I didn’t see the advertised Actress Girls match in the opening lineup video so we’ll see what happens.

Match 1: Dan Tamura, Rising Hayato, Black Menso-re & Ryo Inoue vs. Hikaru Sato, Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer), Koji Iwamoto & Fuminori Abe. 30 minute time limit
Result: HIkaru Sato, Naruki Doi, Koji Iwamoto & Fuminori Abe beat Dan Tamura, Rising Hayato, Black Menso-re & Ryo Inoue. Iwamoto pinned Inoue. Iwamoto was/is angling for the next shot at the All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Championship held by Tamura. We’ll see what happens.

Match 2: Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana vs. Minoru Suzuki & Hokuto Omori. 30 minute time limit
Result: Minoru Suzuki & Holluto Omori beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana. Suzuki pinned Tachibana after a Gotch-style piledriver. Largely a comedy match, the first 5 minutes or so were them brawling all throughout the crowd.

Match 3: Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi vs. Ryuki Honda & Yuma Anzai. 30 minute time limit
Result: Ryuki Honda & Yuma Anzai beat Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi. Honda pinned Atsuki Aoyagi after Final Vent.

Actress Girls performance.

Match 4; Actress Girls Provided Match: Chika Goto & Koki (?) vs. Natsuki & Miku Aono. Unknown time limit
Result: Chika Goto & Koki beat Natsuki & Miku Aono. Koki pinned Natsuki. Some of these girls were in their debut match here.

Video revealing the 1/14 card. It will include NEW 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 (this is the challengers’ reward for winning the 2023 Real World Tag League) and a Masanobu Fuchi 50th Anniversary & 70th Birthday Match-Masanobu Fuchi vs. the winner of an 8 man battle royal before that. Then on 1/27 at Esforta Arena Hachioji in Tokyo, AEW & DDT’s Konosuke Takeshita makes his AJPW debut teaming with Hideki Okatani vs. Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi.

Match 5: Shotaro Ashino & Ren Ayabe vs. Jun & Rei Saito. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jun & Rei Saito beat Shotaro Ashino & Ren Ayabe. Rei Saito pinned Ayabe after a divng body press.

Match 6: Suwama & Hideki Suzuki (Pro Wrestling NOAH) vs. Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr.. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Suwama & Hideki Suzuki. Miyahara pinned Suwama with a rollup after reversing Last Ride.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Charlie Dempsey for the Triple Crown. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Charlie Dempsey to retain the Triple Crown. V2 for Nakajima. Next up: Possibly Shotaro Ashino, who still has never gotten the title match he earned for winning the Champions Carnival last year. He lost that opportunity due to injury. After the challenge is issued, Nakajima leaves first in an odd spot, leaving Ashino to finish the post-match promo. I’ve been waiting for Ashino to hopefully get his chance since he just came back and now it seems it’ll be sooner rather than later. Only question is when.

The next event is 1/14. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin on 1/13 at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. Live results are scheduled. The promotion is also sponsoring/co-promoting a Sayaka Unagi Produced event Sunday but that event will not be broadcast, at least not on AJPW.TV.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 1/2/24 Results (Updated)

Pro Wrestling NOAH opened their 2024 with NOAH THE NEW YEAR 2024, their year-opening blowout event.

Today’s event was held at Ariake Arena in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The live broadcast was in English only due to ABEMA exclusivity.

The announced paid attendance was 5135. Like with All-Japan’s event, it’s not known how much potential attendance was affected by the major earthquake on the western coast northwest of Tokyo.

Pre-show Match 1: Yu Owada beat Taishi Ozawa.

Pre-show Match 2: Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge, Super Crazy & Terry Yaki beat Akitoshi Saito, Hajime Ohara, Hi69 & Kai Fujimura. Kotoge pinned Fujimura after a moonsault press.

Match 1: YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Dragon Bane & Apha Wolf and Ninja Mack & Alejandro in a 3-way, when YO-HEY pinned Wolf after pinning Mack, to win the titles. YO-HEY & Tadasuke become the 60th GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. This was an elimination match.

Match 2: Jake Lee, Jack Morris & Anthony Greene beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Vinny Massaro & Titus Alexander. Morris pinned Massaro after M-83.

Match 3: Tomohiro Ishii (New Japan) beat Masa Kitamiya.

Match 4: Go Shiozaki beat Satoshi Kojima (New Japan).

Match 5: Haruka Umesaki & Miyuki Takase beat The Great Sakuya & Nagisa Nozaki by DQ. Sakuya DQ’d. Ref assault.

Match 6: Ulka Sasaki Debut Match: Takashi Sugiura beat Ulka Sasaki.

Match 7: Zack Sabre Jr. (New Japan) & Yoshinari Ogawa beat Hiroshi Tanahashi (New Japan) & HAYATA. Sabre pinned HAYATA.

Match 8: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga beat Eita to retain the title. V2 for Daga.

Match 9: In an Elimination Match, Kaito Kiyomiya, Shota Umino (New Japan), Ryohei Oiwa, Daiki Inaba, Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki beat EVIL, Ren Narita, Divk Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & Yodhinobu Kanemaru (New Japan). Kiyomiya won as the only one remaining, last eliminating EVIL.

Match 10: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kenoh beat Manabu Soya to retain the title. V1 for Kenoh. Next up: Shiozaki. That match will happen on 1/13.

Main Event: Kota Ibushi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Naomichi Marufuji.

The next event is 1/13 at Korakuen Hall for the first STAR NAVIGATION 2024 event, continuing that never-ending series of usually monthly events. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin at 1:15 AM PT/4:15 AM ET. This is another ABEMA exclusive broadcast so Japanese will only be available on demand after the event.

UPDATE: Ibushi was reportedly hospitalized after the event. Possible broken ankle from fan accounts and ankle injuries via Ibushi himself. Official statement from NOAH is they are waiting for official diagnosis.

All-Japan Pro Wrestling 1/2/24 Results

All-Japan kicks off 2024 today with the start of the New Year’s Series 2024. This is the first half of a doubleheader. It should be noted that, at this time, this and all other events this week I am aware of are set to go on as planned despite the major 7.5 earthquake that struck western Japan today (centered in Ishikawa prefecture, northwest of Yokyo). Today’s event features 2 title matches-first up is a GAORA TV Championship match as Minoru Tanaka defends against Black Menso-re, then NEW All-Japan World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Dan Tamura defends against former partner Hikaru Sato. The main event will be a battle royal with participants TBA later today, so we may not know everyone in it until match time.
The promotion also has announced Shuji Ishikawa is off today’s and tomorrow’s events. Illness. This comes amidst reports from Tokyo Sports that he will leave the promotion at the end of the month amidst apparent disputes with the President of All-Japan.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV, probably in Japanese. Depending on how long some of the matches go, and there is also an “Actress Girls Wrestling” segment planned, it’s hard to predict a potential running time for this event but I’ll guess it’ll be close to 3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Rising Hayato, Fuminori Abe & Ryo Inoue vs. Naruki Doi, Koji Iwamoto & Takahiro Katori
GAORA TV Champion Minoru Tanaka vs. Black Menso-re for the title
Kento Miyahara, Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi vs. Shotaro Ashino, Kuroshio Tokyo Japan & Seigo Tachibana
ActWres Girls Provided Segment
Suwama, Ryuki Honda, Ren Ayabe, Osamu Nishimura & Mitsuya Nagai vs. Minoru Suzuki, Hokuto Omori, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Jun & Rei Saito
Katsuhiko Nakajima & Hideki Suzuki vs. Yuma Anzai & Charlie Dempsey
All-Japan World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Dan Tamura vs. HIkaru Sato for the title
New Year’s Battle Royal

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6:22 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now…

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Didn’t hear who is on commentary as it started a couple minutes before I jumped on but it sounds like Kagehiro Osano is one of the hosts today. This may be another Samuraii! TV simulcast in Japan. As I Join in the roster comes out for New Year’s greetings from the President of the promotion.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It’s a Tuesday morning event but I think ti’s a holiday and it looks like a decent crowd so far although most of the bleacher seats aren’t full. I’m going to guess it’ll be in the 800-850 range. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1008, but the promotion has announced that, in the wake of the earthquake, refunds will be offered for fans affected by the disaster who were unable to attend the event and who also cannot make tomorrow’s event)

The matches should begin in a few minutes.

The matches begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

Match 1: Rising Hayato, Fuminori Abe & Ryo Inoue vs. Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer), Koji Iwamoto & Takahiro Katori. 30 minute time limit
Result: Naruki Doi, Koji Iwamoto & Takahiro Katori beat Rising Hayato, Fuminori Abe & Ryo Inoue. Iwamoto pinned Inoue.

After this, Hayato returned to the ring. With micorphone. He said a few words then walked off.

Match 2: GAORA TV Champion Minoru Tanaka vs. Black Menso-re for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Black Menso-re beat GAORA TV Champion Minoru Tanaka to win the title. Menso-re becomes the 24th GAORA TV Champion. That ends what had been the 3rd-longest title reign to date as Tanaka came just 3 weeks short of reigning for a year.

Match 3: Kento Miyahara, Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi vs. Shotaro Ashino, Kuroshio Tokyo Japan & Seigo Tachibana. 30 minute time limit
Reslut: Shotaro Ashino, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana beat Kento Miyahara, Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi. Ashino pinned Atsuki Aoyagi.

An ActWres Girls segment is happening now (starts at 7:23 PM PT/10:23 PM ET). I believe they are a promotion featuring former idols/actresses turned wrestlers. A song/dance number leads to a face-painted girl (Great Asako) coming out slowly, then it leads to a tag match involving some of the girls. There is no commentary for this segment. Asako was pinned and slowly crawled to the back weirdly afterwards. Weird…

Commentary returns for the next match.
Match 4: Suwama, Ryuki Honda, Ren Ayabe, Osamu Nishimura & Mitsuya Nagai (Dradition) vs. Minoru Suzuki, Hokuto Omori, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Jun & Rei Saito. 30 minute time limit
Result: No Contest. Out of control outside the ring and became a brawl all over the place.

Match 5: Katsuhiko Nakajima (Independent/Freelancer) & Hideki Suzuki (Pro Wrestling NOAH) vs. Yuma Anzai & Charlie Dempsey (WWE). 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuma Anzai & Charlie Dempsey beat Katsuhiko Nakajima & Hideki Suzuki. Dempsey pinned Nakajima.

Match 6: All-Japan World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Dan Tamura vs. HIkaru Sato for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Dan Tamura beat Hikaru Sato by submission to retain the title. V1 for Tamura.

Main Event: New Year’s Battle Royal. Everyone participating including Dan Tamura & Hikaru Sato despite just finishing their match, with a few exceptions (Nakajima, Dempsey, Nishimura, Nagai, Smith, Minoru Suzuki, Tanaka, Menso-re) Everyone in the ring to start. Eliminations by pinfall, submission or over the top rope unless otherwise noted. No time limit
Order of elimination: Kento Miyahara, Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi, Shotaro Ashino, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan, Black Menso-re, Seigo Tachibana, Hideki Suzuki, Fuminori Abe, Suwama, Dan Tamura, Koji Iwamoto, Ryuki Honda & Yuma Anzai DQ’d, Takahiro Katori, Rei Saito, Jun Saito, Naruki Doi, Tuma Anzai, Rising Hayato.
Result: Ryo Inoue wins. He gets a nice little bonus to start 2024.

The next event is tomorrow with Nakajima-Dempsey for the Triple Crown. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET and live results will be posted.

DDT 12/31/23 Results

DDT wrapped up 2023 in Japan with their final event of the year, a 1 day 6-man tag team tournament.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. Surprisingly, given it was at Korakuen, there was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 778.

6-Man NYE Tag Tournament Round 1:
Match 1: HARASHIMA, Koji Sekifuda & Yuji Hino beat Takeshi Masada, Akira & Koji Iwamoto. HARASHIMA pinned Masada after Blue Magic Sword.
Match 2: Kazusada Higuchi, Yasufumi Nakanoue & Kyohei Kinoshita beat Takao Soma, Kazumasa Yoshida & Trans-Am*Hiroshi. Kinoshita pinned Hiroshi with a blockbuster hold.
Match 3: Yukio Naya, Hideyoshi Kamiya & Minoru Suzuki vs. Danshoku Dieno, Daichi Hashimoto & Ikuto Hidaka went to a 10 minute time limit draw. Which led to…
Continuation (no time limit, 1 count fall): Yukio Naya, Hideyoshi Kamiya & Minoru Suzuki beat Danshoku Dieno, Daichi Hashimoto & Ikuto Hidaka. Suzuki beat Dieno with a sleeper hold.
Match 4: Tetsuya Endo, Daisuke Sekimoto & Fuminori Abe beat Hideki Okatani, Yuki Ishikawa & Brahman Shu. Abe pinned Shu.

Match 5: Daimonji Sou (?), Ender Kara (?), Leighton Buzzard & Tempesta beat Kazumi Kikuta, Kazuki Hashimoto, Kazuma Sumi & Rukiya. Buzzard pinned Rukiya after a firebird splash. (Completely guessing the winners names based on translations)

6-Man NYE Tag Tournament Semifinals:
Match 6: HARASHIMA, Koji Sekifuda & Yuji Hino beat Kazusada Higuchi, Yasufumi Nakanoue & Kyohei Kinoshita. Sekifuda pinned Kinoshita after Ironman.
Match 7: Yukio Naya, Hideyoshi Kamiya & Minoru Suzuki vs. Tetsuya Endo, Daisuke Sekimoto & Fuminori Abe went to a 15 minute time limit draw. Which led to…
Continuation (same as above): Tetsuya Endo, Daisuke Sekimoto & Fuminori Abe beat Yukio Naya, Hideyoshi Kamiya & Minoru Suzuki. Sekimoto pinned Kamiya after a lariat.

Match 8: Takuya Nomura, Abdullah Kobayashi & Kankuro Hoshino beat Yuki Ueno, Kazuki Hirata & Antonio Honda. Kobayashi pinned Honda.

Main Event: 6-Man NYE Tag Tournament Finals: Tetsuya Endo, Daisuke Sekimoto & Fuminori Abe beat HARASHIMA, Koji Sekifuda & Yuji Hino to win the tournament. Endo pinned Sekifuda after Burning Star Press.

The promotion’s 2024 schedule begins Wednesday with the D KING GP 2023 Finals. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET. D KING GP Chairman Kenta Kobashi and SKE48 member Marika Tani will be guests on commentary. The first 3 matches will also be broadcast FOR FREE on YouTube.

GLEAT 12/30/23 Results

GLEAT’s year-end blowout event, GLEAT Ver. 7, went down yesterday. All Elite Wrestling was a notable participant for the first time.

Yesterday’s event was held at Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube in Japanese (your hosts are Haruo Murata & Masato Yoshino). Watch the full event replay below, video courtesy of the GLEAT Official YouTube Channel:

The announced paid attendance was 1507.

Match 1: Ryuichi Kawakami, Quiet Storm & Galeno Del Mal beat Jun Tonsho, JD Lee & Atsuki Aoyagi (All-Japan Pro Wrestling), Takanori Ito, Yusuke Kodama & Tomoaki Honma (New Japan Pro Wrestling) and Kotaro Suzuki, Hartley Jackson & Keiichi Sato in a 4-way when Kawakami pinned Lee.

Match 2: Colt Cabana (All Elite Wrestling), Brandon Cutler (All Elite Wrestling) & Kurosio TOKYO Japan (Independent/Freelancer) beat Kaz Hayashi, El Lindaman & Issei Onitsuka. Kuroshio pinned Onitsuka after a moonsault press.

Match 3: MICHIKO & Yukari Hosokawa beat Sayaka Unagi & Aoi. MICHIKO pinned Unagi. After the match, once they were backstage, Hosokawa announced she was retiring effective immediately. It was later clarified the promotion was leaving the door open for a potential return (Hosokawa is only 19 although she debuted at 15).

Match 4: SBK & TAKUMA (Independent/Freelancers) beat KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Check Shimatani. TAKUMA pinned Shimatani after a 630 splash.

Match 5: Lidet UWF Single Bout: Riki Aitaka Debut Match: Riki Aitaka beat Tetsuya Izuchi by TKO. It appears Aitaka was trained at Kota Ibushi’s Japanese wrestling school.

Match 6: Lidet UWF Double Bout: Maya Fukuda & Hikaru Shida (All Elite Wrestling) beat Tomoka Inaba & Azusa Inaba by submission. Shida beat Inaba with Full Metal Muffler. (Shida is now headed back to the US & AEW)

Match 7: Lidet UWF Single Bout: Lidet UWF Champion Fujita “Jr.” Hayato beat Minoru Tanaka by TKO to retain the title. V1 for Hayato.

Intermission. Before this, Kaz Hayashi announced in a video message that he will retire on 7/1/24 at GLEAT Ver. 12 at TDC Hall.

Match 8: Kaito Ishida beat Takehiro Yamamura.

Match 9: G INFINITY Champions Jun & Rei Saito (All-Japan Pro Wrestling) beat Soma Watanabe & Yuya Susumu to retain the titles. Rei Saito pinned Watanabe after a diving body press. V9 for the champs.

Main Event: Hayato Tamura beat G-REX Champion T-Hawk to win the title. Tamura becomes the 4th G-REX Champion.

The next event is GLEAT Ver. 8 on 1/21 at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka. Broadcast plans TBA. It’s Osaka so, considering it’s a big event, 50-50 on a live broadcast.

BREAKING: TJPW Titles Vacated

More bad news for DDT & their sub-brands as the body count keeps rising, and as a result, this breaking news: The Tokyo Joshi Pro Princess Tag Team Championship is now VACANT. Previous champions HIkari Noa & Nao Kakuta have vacated the titles because Noa is now off the 1/4/24 event. The ever-vague poor health/poor physical condition. Out indefinitely. Kakuta attended the emergency press conference but Noa did not. They were to have defended the titles against Suzume & Ariseu Endo on 1/4. As a result, there will now be a 3-way between Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe, Suzume & Arisu Endo and Ryo Mizunami & Yuki Aino for the titles and Kakuta will now face Mizuki on 1/4.

BREAKING: GLEAT Wrestler Retires (Updated)

While they haven’t posted today’s results yet, GLEAT has announced breaking news: Yukari Hosokawa, one of the female wresters on their roster, has retired effective immediately. However, the door was potentially open for a return as Hosokawa is only 19. She began training in 2017 in HEAT UP under the tutelage of current GLEAT wrestler Yu Iizuka before officially debuting in 2019. She had never won a singles match but had some success in tag team matches.

UPDATE: Now it’s GLEAT Wrestlers Retiring. Also announced during the event was that Kaz Hayashi will retire on 7/1/24 at GLEAT’s annual biggest event of the year when they run GLEAT Ver. 12 at TDC Hall.