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DEVELOPING: Another TJPW Injury

A few minutes ago Tokyo Josbi Pro announced more injury news and it’s more significant: Miyu Yamashita’s scheduled trip to England this weekend to defend the Pro Wrestling EVE Championship is now off. Concussion. According to a loose translation of the Twitter post in Japanese. Yamashita had a headache after yesterday’s event, where she lost to Yuka Sakazaki for the Princess Of Princess Championship in the main event, and was hospitalized, where a subsequent MRI revealed a mild concussion with no abnormalities. Out indefinitely. The EVE matches probably will be rescheduled at a later date. She would have missed this weekend’s TJPW events anyway because of the trip.

More as it becomes available.

Ganbare Pro 1/5/23 Results

Ganbare Pro Wresting kicked off their 2023 today with a big event headlined by a Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Championship match and the beginning of their efforts to expand their women’s division.

Today’s event was held at Itabashi Green Hall in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 127, a legit sellout. No word on of vocal cheering was allowed as this was just over half of what DDT drew earlier in the day.

During the opening announcements, they introduced the Spirit of Ganbare World Tag Team Championship and announced two Korakuen Hall events for this year: 5/5 and 12/27. More on the tag team titles as it becomes available.

Match 1: Young Ganbare Cup: Yumehito Imanari beat Sotetsu Nakamura.

Match 2: Riko Kawabata beat YuuRI.

Match 3: Yoong Ganbare Cup: Kentaro Hachisu beat Yuki Kanzaki.

Match 4: Moeka Haruhi & HARUKAZE beat Yuna Manase & Yoshiko Hasegawa. Haruhi pinned Hasegawa after Haruichiban.

Match 5: In an Elimination Match, Ken Ohka, Shigehiro Irie, Shota & Shinichiro Tominaga beat Shuichiro Katsumura, Keisuke Isbii, Takao Soma & Hartley Jackson. Tominaga was the only person left., last eliminatinf Jackson.

Main Event: Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion Mizuki Watase beat Taison Maeguchi by TKO (elbow strike) to retain the title. V1 for Watase.

The next event is a tripleheader on 1/28 at Oji Basement MON*STAR in Tokyo, first is a regular event, second is a Shuichiro Katsumura Produced event, third is a Gambare Players Association Event. At this time broadcast plans are TBA for all events.

DDT 1/5/23 Results

DDT ran a special “All Seats 3000 yen” house show today, a morning matinee spotlighting the promotion’s younger talent. All the seats were a discounted 3000 yen, a monthly special that was replaced in 2022 by the DDT FREE events with free admission and tickets distributed via lottery.

Today’s event was held at Itabashi Green Hall in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (expected to be Saturday). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 234, a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: HARASHIMA & Antonio Honda beat Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno. Honda pinned Dieno after a diving fist drop.

Match 2: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON beat Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata and Yukio Naya & Yusuke Okada in a 3-way when Sasaki beat Hirata.

Match 3: Yuki Ueno & Yuya Koroku beat Makoto Oishi & Illusion. Ueno pinned Illusion after a dropkick.

Match 4: Tetsuya Endo beat Hideki Okatani.

Match 5: MAO & Shunma Katsumata beat Toui Kojima & Kazuma Sumi. Katsumata pinned Kojima after Super Double Miracle Ecstasy.

Match 6: Chris Brookes beat Takeshi Masada.

Main Event: Kazusada Higuchi beat Yuki Ishida.

Konosuke Takeshita appeared at the end and announced he is returning to the US tomorrow (he is headed back to All Elite Wrestling starting tomorrow) but wanted one more match before he left. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: Konosuke Takeshita vs. Yuki Ueno went to a 10 minute time limit draw.

The next event is Saturday at Tsurumi Fruit & Vegetable Market in Kanagawa, headlined by a New Year’s Air Time Bomb & Electric Current Blast Bat Deathmatch featuring Atsushi Onita (a 6-man tag match). A time bomb will be placed above the ring and explode after 10 minutes. If Onita’s team loses, he loses the trademark rights to “exploding current” and they are transferred to DDT. But if Onita’s team wins, the winning member (Onita, Shunma Katsumata or Toui Kojima) will assume the corporate role within DDT of the loser (President if Sanshiro Takagi takes the loss, Vice President if it’s Akito, Store Manager if it’s Takao Soma). It is trending towards a legit sellout. Unfortunately for the rest of us, there will be no live broadcast.

New Japan 1/5/23 Results (Updated x2)

New Japan held their annual New Year’s Dash! event today, which marks the fallout from Tokyo Dome and the official start of the new year for the promotion.

Today’s event was held at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World FOR FREE! Click below to watch:

Japanese:
https://njpwworld.com/p/s_00631_1_1

English:
https://njpwworld.com/p/s_00631_2_1

The announced paid attendance was 2713. No vocal cheering so much closer to full capacity.

With one exception, no matches were announced on advance and were not revealed until entrances began.

Match 1: Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Ren Narita, Tiger Mask & Tomoaki Honma. EVIL pinned Honma after Magic Killer.

Match 2: DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi beat Francesco Akira, TJP & Will Ospreay. DOUKI beat Akira with Jorge Rivera Special.

Match 3: Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat YOSHI-HASHO, Hirooki Goto & Tomohiro Ishii. Nicholls pinned YOSHI-HASHI after Tank Buster.

Match 4: Yoh, Ryusuke Taguchi, Shota Unino & Togi Makabe beat BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito. Yoh pinned Takahashi after Direct Drive.

Match 5: Master Wato, Tama Tonga, Hikuleo & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Taiji Ishimori, El Phantasmo, KENTA & Jay White by DQ. Phantasmo DQ’d. NEVER Openweight Title belt use. Afterwards. White challenged Hikuleo to a Loser Leaves Japan match.

Match 6: Shingo Takagi beat Toru Yano, Great-O-Khan & Sho in a 4-way by pinning Yano to win the KOPW 2023 Title.

Main Event: Kenny Omega & Kazuchika Okada beat Aaron Henare & Jeff Cobb. Okada pinned Henare after Rainmaker.

The next event is WRESTLE KINGDOM 17 in YOKOHAMA on 1/21 at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama. It was announced earlier today it will again be a New Japan-Pro Wrestling NOAH crossover event. Broadcast plans TBA and we may know more after a press conference tomorrow at 3 AM ET/midnight PT but as of right now there will be no live broadcast in the US, at least not on New Japan World. It’s probably going to be only on ABEMA in Japan, possibly a PPV, then on demand later on New Japan World and WRESTLE UNIVERSE (Pro Wrestling NOAH’s streaming service under the CyberFight Group, which includes DDT and it’s sub-brands Ganbare Pro and Tokyo Joshi Pro). The press conference will be available live and on demand on the ABEMA, New Japan and Pro Wrestling NOAH YouTube channels.

UPDATE: On his official Twitter account after the event, Kanemaru issued a challenge for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship on behalf of himself and DOUKI. Also, a new faction called “Just Four Guys” is emerging, made up of former Suzuki-gun members TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Kanemaru & Taichi. Additionally, it looks like Kosei Fujita joined TMDK after the 3rd match as the faction has doubled its membership in adding Zack Sabre Jr. yesterday and now Fujita after losing Jonah (went back to WWE) and Bad Dude Tito. Normally the Young Lions don’t join factions like this before they go on their customary training excursions, so this is a very interesting development not to mention the Australians now have an Englishman (Sabre) as their apparent leader and now a Japanese youngster in their ranks.

UPDATE 2: 1/21 will be a PPV on New Japan World. Cost TBA. The PPV period will be 1 week. On 1/28 it will be available without extra cost for all subscribers. The card will be posted shortly.

New Japan 1/4/23 Results (Updated)

The biggest annual event in Japanese pro wrestling and one of the biggest in the world, New Japan’s WRESTLE KINGDOM 17 in TOKYO DOME, is in the books.

For those who have not watched yet and who want to avoid SPOILERS, do not click below until after watching even though spoilers are now all over the place. If you want to know what happened, click below.

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BREAKING: New Japan Announces East US Events

New Japan has just announced a US east coast doubleheader for later this year-On 4/15 they will return to Washington, DC for Capital Collision at Entertainment & Sports Arena. Then on 4/16 it’s Collision in Philadelphia at 2300 Arena (ECW Arena).

Tickets go on sale 1/13 for both events. Broadcast plans TBA but they likely will be live PPVs on FITE in English and New Japan World in Japanese.

More as it becomes available.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling “Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling 2023” Results (1/4/23) (Updated x2)

The biggest day of the year in Japanese pro wrestling kicks off today with Tokyo Joshi Pro running a matinee to begin their 2023 with their first major event of the year. The event has 8 scheduled matches and a bit of everything, starting with two new debuting wrestlers, then a mini battle royal to determine the next Princess Of Princess Championship challenger, and finally 3 title matches to close it out-first, International Princess Champion Miu Watanabe looks to overcome a huge size disadvantage once again as she defends the title against AEW’s Trish Adora. Second, Princess Tag Team Champions Saki Akai & Yuki Arai have another very tough task ahead as they defend the titles against Heidi Howitzer & Max The Impaler, which has me very worried for AA Eye Candy. Finally, it’s a showdown between the top 2 TJPW wrestlers of all time as Princess Of Princess Champion Yuka Sakazaki defends the title against Miyu Yamashita, who looks to become the first 4-time champion in history against the only other 3-time champion in Sakazaki. It should be another instant classic.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The opening video will be narrated by Japanese voice actress Yuko Minaguchi. The Japanese commentary team will be Haruo Murata, Kagehiro Osano, Sayoko Mita and SKE48 member Marika Tani. The English commentary team will be Chris Brookes & Drew Parker. The promotion has already mentioned the main event will take place roughly 2 hours in so the event should have a total running time of just over 2 1/2 hours. (Pre-show Update: TJPW is projecting the event will end around 2 PM JST, meaning a roughly 2 1/2 hour runtime and finishing about 80 minutes before New Japan’s Tokyo Dome event begins)

Today’s lineup:
HIMAWARI Debut Match: HIMAWARI vs. Yuki Aino
Wakana Uehara Debut Match: Wakana Uehara & Arisu Endo vs. Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano
Nao Kakuta, Mahiro Kiryu & Kaya Toribami vs. Raku, Pom Harajuku & Neko Haruna
Shoko Nakajima vs. Hyper Misao
6 Woman staggered entry battle royal. The winner will be the next challenger for the Princess Of Princess Championship. Participants-Mizuki, Maki Itoh, Rika Tatsumi, Yuki Kamifuku, Suzume, Hikari Noa
International Princess Champion Miu Watanabe vs. Trish Adora for the title
Princess Tag Team Champions Saki Akai & Yuki Arai vs. Heidi Howitzer & Max The Impaler for the titles
Princess Of Princess Champion Yuka Sakazaki vs. Miyu Yamashita for the title

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 9 PM ET/6 PM PT. The event is scheduled to begin at 9:30 PM ET/6:30 PM PT.

8:45 PM ET UPDATE: The opening announcements are scheduled to begin 10 minutes before the event at 9:20 PM ET/6:20 PM PT.

9 PM ET UPDATE: The live stream has just started. We should be going to the venue in about 15 minutes.

9:15 PM ET UPDATE: Live updates begin now…
We are LIVE deom Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your Japanese hosts are Haruo Murata, Kagehiro Osano, Sayoko Mita & Marika Tani. Your English hosts are Chris Brookes & Drew Parker.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The bleachers on commentary’s side were mostly tarped off but the rest of the venue already looked close to full. So depending on whether or not vocal cheering is allowed, the number will be in flux but it looks like it is not. The available seating looks full or close to it so I’m guessing it’ll be in the 900-1000 range.

The matches should begin in about 20 minutes. During opening announcements they reveal that Miu Watanabe & Suzume will become part of the videogame “The Idolmaster: Cinderella Girls” as part of a special game/TJPW crossover promotion starting on 1/11. And…on 3/31…US DEBUT! TJPW’s first-ever US show! It will be at the Globe Theater in Los Angeles, CA

The matches begin at 9:50 PM ET.

Match 1: HIMAWARI Debut Match: HIMAWARI vs. Yuki Aino. 15 minute time limit
Result; Yuki Aino beat HIMAWARI. HIMAWARI has ponytails long enough to be a Japanese Bianca Belair in terms of appearance although it’s nowhere near as thick as Belair’s.

Match 2: Wakana Uehara Debut Match: Wakana Uehara & Arisu Endo vs. Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano. 20 minute time limit
Result: Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano beat Wakana Uehara & Arisu Endo. Miyamoto beat Uehara with Rashomon. Uehara almost looked like a nicer Maki Itoh.

Match 3: Nao Kakuta, Mahiro Kiryu & Kaya Toribami vs. Raku, Pom Harajuku & Neko Haruna. 20 minute time limit
Result: Nao Kakuta, Mahiro Kiryu & Kaya Toribami beat Raku, Pom Harajuku & Neko Haruna. Kakuta pinned Haruna after Shiden Kai.

Match 4: Shoko Nakajima vs. Hyper Misao. 15 minute time limit. This has become some kind of ladder match involving 3 stuffed animals hanging a few feet above the ring. Also apparently some kind of lumberjack match as Yuki Aino, HIMAWARI, Arisu Endo & Mahiro Kiryu came out wearing rabbit ears with blow-up mallets. This, of course as expected, is a comedy match.
Result: Draw. Apparently they both grabbed the last animal at the same time and referee Masayuki declared it a draw after some comedy stuff.

Quick break for ring cleaning and taking down the hanging wires after this last match..

Match 5: 6 Woman staggered entry battle royal. Eliminations by pinfall, submission or over the top rope. The winner will be the next challenger for the Princess Of Princess Championship. Participants-Mizuki, Maki Itoh, Rika Tatsumi, Yuki Kamifuku, Suzume, Hikari Noa. No time limit
Order of entry: Noa, Itoh, Kamifuku, Tatsumi, Mizuki, Suzume.
Order of elimination: Noa by Kamifuku (over the top rope), Kamifuku by Itoh (over the top rope), Tatsumi by Itoh/Mizuki/Suzume (pinfall), Suzume by Itoh (submission), Itoh by MIzuki (pinfall)
Result: Mizuki wins. As a result, Mizuki gets the next Princess Of Princess Championship shot after today. Which could mean facing her BFF Yuka Sakazaki perhaps…

Match 6: International Princess Champion Miu Watanabe vs. Trish Adora for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: International Princess Champion Miu Watanabe beat Trish Adora to retain the title. V2 for Watanabe.

Match 7: Princess Tag Team Champions Saki Akai & Yuki Arai vs. Heidi Howitzer & Max The Impaler for the titles. 30 minute time limit
Result: Heidi Howitzer & Max The Impaler beat Princess Tag Team Champions Saki Akai & Yuki Arai to win the titles. Howitzer & Max become the 11th Princess Tag Team Champions. Max pinned Arai. Nooooooooo…beyond heartbroken…

Main Event: Princess Of Princess Champion Yuka Sakazaki vs. Miyu Yamashita for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: Princess Of Princess Champion Yuka Sakazaki beat Miyu Yamashita to retain the title. V2 for Sakazaki. Next up: Mizuki. Yamashita is now headed to England to defend the Pro Wrestling EVE Championship. Mizuki came out and a tense-sounding promo at first between the BFFs ahead of their upcoming title match turned more joyful to end the show.

The next event is Saturday at Kobe Art Center in Kobe, resuming the CITY CIRCUIT series. There will be no live broadcast.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1111, a super full house/very near sellout. Outside of the bleachers in the middle next to commentary, I saw only one or two empty seats. Also, Sakazaki-Mizuki is now official for GRAND PRINCESS ’23 at Ariake Arena on 3/18.

UPDATE 2: TJPW has announced on Twitter that Neko Haruna was injured during her match. Shoulder. Out 1-2 weeks and will miss this weekend’s events and 1/15 but hopes to return on 1/19.

DDT 1/3/23 Results (Updated)

DDT began their 2023 today with a mid-major event that would begin the path to their 26th Anniversary event in March as well as other major events this year.

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

The announced paid attendance was 759, a legit sellout.

Match 1: Makoto Oishi & Shiori Asahi beat Hideki Okatani & Toui Kojima. Oishi pinned Kojima after Cactus Flower.

Match 2: Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno vs. Akito & Antonio Honda went to a No Contest. GM Imabayashi stoppage.

The promotion’s biggest events of the year were announced outside of the 26th Anniversary event on 3/21-5/3 will be MEGA MAX BUMP 2023 at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, and 7/23 will be WRESTLE PETER PAN, the promotion’s biggest annual event, at Ryogoku Kokugikan.

Match 3: Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata beat New Year Pokotan, Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Kazuma Sumi. Hirata pinned Sumi.

Match 4: Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama, Kotaro Suzuki (Pro Wrestling NOAH), Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku beat Kazusada Higuchi, HARASHIMA, Rickey Shane Page, Takao Soma & Yuki Ishida. Endo pinned Ishida after Burning Star Press.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno & Cara Noir beat MJ Pawl & KANON. Noir beat Pawl with Blackout Sleeper.

Match 6: Konosuke Takeshita beat Takeshi Masada. Afterwards, Takeshita requested a match against Sanshiro Takagi. Takagi initially refused, but that match will happen on 3/21.

It was then announced that AEW duo Kip Sabian & Penelope Ford will appear on 2/18 & 2/26, and former WWE wrestler Kalisto/Samurai Del Sol will appear on 3/21.

Match 7: Naruki Doi vs. Daisuke Sasaki went to a 30 minute time limit draw. This was to have determined the next challenger for the DDT Universal Championship. As a result, the title match on 1/13 will be a 3-way survival, meaning it’s very likely an elimination match.

Main Event: MAO & Shunma Katsumata beat Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi to win the vacant KO-D Tag Team Championship. MAO & Katsumata become the 76th KO-D Tag Team Champions. MAO pinned Takanashi after Our Madokasu.

The next event is Thursday at Itabashi Green Hall in Tokyo. The event is a legit advance sellout. There will be no live broadcast.

UPDATE: The next challengers for the KO-D Tag Team Championship have been announced: Oishi & Asahi. That match will happen on 1/29 at Korakuen Hall.

All-Japan 1/3/23 Results

All-Japan ran the second of consecutive morning matinee events today to open 2023, today being a bigger show with 2 title matches planned.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. (I had hoped to do live results but my cable/internet outage since the weekend was not resolved in time to watch, but it was restored after the event concluded)

The announced paid attendance was 1041. I believe that was a few more than yesterday.

Match 1: Dan Tamura & Hikaru Sato beat Rising Hayato & Ryo Inoue. Tamura pinned Inoue after Death Valley Bomb.

Match 2: Black Menso-re & Mitsuya Nagai beat Yusuke Kodama & Masao Hanabata. Nagai beat Hanabata with Stretch Plum.

Match 3: Naoya Nomura beat Ryuki Honda.

Match 4: Jun & Rei Saito & Suwama beat Yoshitatsu, Yuji Nagata (New Japan) & Yuma Anzai by ref stoppage. Suwama beat Yoshitatsu with Sleeper Vise.

Match 5: NOSAWA Rongai & Kendo Ka Shin beat All-Asia Tag Team Champions Masao Inoue & Takao Omori to win the titles. NOSAWA & Ka Shin become the 118th All-Asia Tag Team Champions. NOSAWA pinned Omori.

Match 6: Hokuto Omori, Minoru Suzuki & Naruki Doi beat Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi & Shuji Ishikawa. Omori pinned Atsuki Aoyagi after Momentum Hardened.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Kento Miyahara beat Takuya Nomura to retain the Triple Crown. V3 for Miyahara.

The next event is 1/11 at Hodogaya Public Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

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