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AEW Dynamite 12/13/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Arlington, TX:

Samoa Joe comes out right away to start. No opening video, pyros, etc. He calls out Adam Page, who comes out. Tensions interrupted by Roderick Strong who comes out and claims MJF is the devil. Page cuts him off with a forearm shot just before a referee comes out. Joe leaves and Strong ambushes Page from behind to lead to…
Match 1: Roderick Strong vs. Adam Page
Result: Adam Page beat Roderick Strong

Match 2: Continental Classic Blue Block: Brrody King vs. Andrade El Idolo
Result: Andrade El Idolo beat Brody Kiong
Andrade is 3-0, 9 points. King is 2-1, 6 points. Because of his win in their earlier match, Andrade has the presumptive tiebreaker over Bryan Danielson, who is also at 6 points.

Chris Jericho & Kenny Omega promo. They call out and get Ricky Starks & Big Bill. This all leads to Jericho & Omega cashing in their guaranteed AEW Tag Team Championship shot for Worlds End on 12/30.

Toni Storm joins commentary for the next match.

Match 3: Ruby Soho vs. Riho
Result: Riho beat Ruby Soho

Wardlow promo.

Match 4: Continental Classic Gold Block: Rush vs. Jay Lethal. Rush must win to stay in contention
Result; Rush beat Jay Lethal by submission
Rush is 2-2, 6 points. Lethal is 0-4, 0 points.

Match 5: Continental Classic Gold Block: Jay White vs. Mark Briscoe. White must win to stay in contention
Result: Jay White beat Mark Briscoe
White is 3-1, 9 points. Briscoe is 0-4, 0 points.

Main Event: Continental Classic Gold Block: Swerve Strickland vs. Jon Moxley
Result: Jon Moxley beat Swerve Strickland
Moxley is 4-0, 12 points. Strickland is 3-1, 9 points. Moxley will win the block unless he loses to Jay White in his last match and a lot of other crazy stuff happens.

Adam Page beatdown outside by the masked attackers. The Devil appears out of a car before Page is slammed onto the hood of the car. They blew past their allowed 5 minute overrun here and abruptly cut away.

Not a great show again despite Tony Khan’s social media promises, but another good show. The Von Erichs appeared but their spot was wasted by Orange Cassidy & Danhausen interrupting even though it sets up the Von Erichs to appear on Rampage Friday. All the tournament matches were good as usual but a slight step down from prior matches. The first and last matches are must-see.

Friday on Rampage: TBA.

Saturday on Collision: Blue Block matches-Andrade vs. Claudio Castagnoli, Eddie Kingston vs. Daniel Garcia and King vs. Bryan Danielson.

BREAKING: New Japan Star Back To US

In a social media post moments ago, Impact/TNA Wrestling announced New Japan Jr. Heavyweight KUSHIDA has signed with TNA. He has been a semi-regular in Impact over the last few years.

More as it becomes available.

DEVELOPING: Tokyo Sports Awards Winners Announced

The Japanese newspaper/website Tokyo Sports announced the winners of their annual Year-End Awards, which are a very big deal in Japanese pro wrestling. The promotions have begun congratulating their winners, for convenience here is a full list of the major winners courtesy of Samurai! TV and New Japan World personality:commentator Miki Motoi:

The award winners:
MVP-Tetsuya Naito (New Japan)
Match Of The Year-The Great Muta vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (NOAH, 1/1)
Tag Team-Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI (New Japan)
Outstanding Performance: Hiromu Takahashi (New Japan)
Fighting Spirit-Kenoh (NOAH)
Technique-Yuma Aoyagi (All-Japan)
Rookie Of The Year-Jun & Rei Saito (All-Japan)
Women’s MVP-Tam Nakano (Stardom)

News: Major TV Crossover Event in Early 2024

According to news items from both All-Japan and Pro Wrestling NOAH, both promotions are set to participate in a special February 2024 event to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of Japanese TV station Nippon TV (NTV), which at one time or another was a broadcast partner for both (I remember NOAH events in the early days airing on NTV’s G+ network). The event, called (loosely translated from Japanese) “70 Years of Pro Wrestling Broadcast THE Nippon TV Pro Wrestling”, will be held on 2/9 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Tickets are now on sale ranging from around $60 US up to around $650 (Correction: Earlier versions of this post said $6500, which was incorrect as that’s around 1 million yen where these tickets actually are 100,000 yen) for front row VIP seats that come with commemorative goods, a special photo opportunity and more. All-Japan has announced Masanobu Fuchi will appear at the event while NOAH Vice President Naomichi Marufuji issued a statement about the event but didn’t do any name drops.

The event will be broadcast on Japanese TV but it’s not yet known if it will be live or taped, and at this time it’s not known when/if it may be available on AJPW.TV and/or WRESTLE UNIVERSE. Check out a promo graphic for the event below:

New Japan News: Post-WTL Press Conference Notes

New Japan held their traditional post-major event/tournament press conference today in Tokyo, which cowered post-World Tag League and more news for Tokyo Dome:

First up, it’s now official-IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions & World Tag League winners YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs. STRONG Tag Team Champions El Phantasmo & Hikuleo for both titles is set for 1/4.

Second, following reports it was going to happen, the IWGP Global Championship was unveiled today, which will replace the IWGP US/UK Championship. This essentially combines and replaces the titles and puts to rest any rumors of reviving the IWGP Intercontinental Championship, surely to the dismay of one Tetsuya Naito, and os meant to be a truly international title. What had been a 3-way between IWGP US Champion Will Ospreay, Jon Moxley & David Finlay on 1/4 for the title will now be to crown the inaugural Global Champion.

The cards for Road To Tokyo Dome on 12/21 & 12/22 at Korakuen Hall were also announced, and 12/22 will be the monthly FREE EVENT on New Japan World. 12/21 has 2 title matches: KOPW 2023 Champion Taichi vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru for the title in the final KOPW match of the year, with stips TBA, and NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada vs. HENARE, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb for the titles. 12/22 is the final event of the year and the last build to Tokyo Dome.

Dragon Gate 12/10/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued the Fantastic Gate 223 Your today with an event in Kyoto, and aso announced the full 12/24 card.

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

The announced paid attendance was 445, a super full house/very near sellout.

Match 1: Don Fujii, Dragon Kid, Genki Horigichi & Takashi Yodhida beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu, Jason Lee & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. Horiguchi pinned Kzy after Backslide Times.

Match 2: Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda beat Ultimo Dragon, Kaito Nagano & Problem Dragon. Kanda pinned Nagano after Ryu’s.

Match 3: YAMATO beat Yoshiki Kato by DQ. Z-Brats interference.

Match 4: Hyo & Luis Mante beat Kota Minoura & Ben-K. Hyo pinned Minoura after Samson Driver.

Main Event: Shun Skywalker, KAI & ISHIN beat Madoka Kikuta, Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia. Skywalker pinned Yoshioka after SSW.

The next event is Saturday at Fukuyama Big Rose in Hiroshima. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

Here is the full card for THE FINAL GATE 2023, the last blowout event of the year, on 12/24 at Fukuoka International Center in Fukuoka:
Jason Lee, U-T & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI vs. Ryoya Tanaka, Kaito Nagano & Daiki Yanagiuchi
Open The Brave Gate Champion Hyo vs. Genki Horiguchi for the title
Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda vs. Ultimo Dragon, Don Fujii & Kagetora
8-Man Tag with the following: Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu, Strong Machine J, Kota Minoura, Ben-K, BxB Hulk, Naruki Doi, Shuji Kondo. Teams TBA on 12/23 via lottery
Open The Triangle Gate Champions TAMATO, Dragon Kid & Punch Tominaga vs. KAI, ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato for the titles
Open The Twin Gate Champions Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia vs. Kaito Kiyomiya & Alejandro (Pro Wrestling NOAH) for the titles
Open The Dream Gate Champion Madoka Kikuta vs. Shun Skywalker & Luis Mante in a 3-way for the title

GLEAT 12/10/23 Results

GLEAT ran a GLEAT Ver. EX event today as they wind down the build to their next blowout event coming up in a few weeks at the start of the new year.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube.

Click below to watch (video courtesy of the GLEAT Official YouTube Channel):

The announced paid attendance was 226.

Match 1: Takanori Ito & Yusuke Kodama beat Soma Watanabe & Jun Tonsho. Ito pinned Tonsho with a German suplex hold.

Match 2: Galeno Del Mal won a 5 person battle royal, last eliminating Hartley Jackson. The other participants were Masato Kamino, Aja Kong & Daisuke Sekimoto.

Match 3: Kaz Hayashi, El Lindaman & Issei Onitsuka beat Kotaro Suzuki, Keiichi Sato & HANAOKA. Lindaman pinned Sato with a German suplex hold. Afterwards, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan appeared and was announced for 12/30, possibly in a 6-man tag match with Colt Cabana & Brandon Cutler from All Elite Wrestling.

Match 4: Aoi beat MICHIKO. Afterwards, Aoi announced she was leaving DIAMOND EGOIST, MICHIKO’s current faction, and asked to re-form a team with Sayaka Unagi. But Yukari Hosokawa then appeared and declared her loyalty to MICHIKO.

Match 5; Kaito Ishida beat Ryuichi Kawakami.

Match 6: T-hawk, Jun & Rei Saito beat Hayato Tamura, KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Check Shimatani. T-Hak pinned Shimatani after Night Ride.

Main Event: Lidet UWF Championship Next Challenger Tournament Finals: Minoru Tanaka beat Tetsuya Izuchi by submission to win the tournament. As a result, Tanaka will fight Lidet UWF Champion Fujita “Jr.” Hayato for the title on 12/30 at Tokyo Dome City Hall.

The next event is 12/24 at Umeda Stellar Hall in Osaka for the final G PROWRESTLING event of the year and the last event before TDC Hall. Broadcast plans TBA but since it’s in Osaka there almost certainly will be no live broadcast. If that’s the case, it will be available on demand on YouTube a few days after the event.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 12/10/23 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro held a special aquarium-thened comedy event recently that was premiered for viewing earlier today. This was a previously recorded standalone event.

This event was held at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE as a PPV (separate purchase required). It should be available for all monthly subscribers without additional purchase in a few months.

This was a closed venue event with no fans in attendance.

The format was a best-of-3 match series between teams of 6 led by Yuka Sakazaki & Yuki Arai. Matches were held inside an actual aquarium and were Falls Count Anywhere with no actual ring aka Street Fights, similar to how DDT does their Street Pro Wrestling events.

Match 1: Miu Watanabe & Arisu Endo beat Shoko Nakajima & HIMAWARI. Watanabe beat HIMAWARI with a Canadian backbreaker.

Match 2: Rika Tatsumi & Suzume beat Yuki Arai & Raku. Tatsumi pinned Raku.

Main Event: Yuka Sakazaki & Mizuki vs. Hyper Misao & Nao Kakuta went to a no contest. Ref assault by both teams. Draw. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki, Rika Tatsumi, Suuzume, Shoko Nakajima & HIMAWARI beat Yuki Arai, Raku, Miu Watanabe, Arisu Endo, Hyper Misao & Nao Kakuta. Sakazaki pinned Endo after a running elbow butt. Sakazaki gets sent off with a giant stuffed animal.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 12/10/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continues the SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour today with a house show built around what they bill as their biggest annual pre-event autograph session for fans in attendance.

Today’s event was held at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube. This was an “emergency decision” made just yesterday, originally there was to be no live broadcast. It will also be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday or Wednesday. (If you do watch below, the view is fixed/hard camera only for the entire event and there is no commentary. The total running time was about 2 1/4 hours)

You can watch the event FOR FREE below, video courtesy of the Pro Wrestling NOAH Official Japanese YouTube channel:

The announced paid attendance was 412.

Match 1: Hajime Ohara & Kai Fujimura beat Super Crazy & Yu Owada. Fujimura pinned Owada.

Match 2: Terry Yaki beat Extreme Tiger.

Match 3: Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Mohammed Yone, Akitoshi Saito & Taishi Ozawa. Thatcher pinned Ozawa.

Match 4: Alejandro beat Tadasuke.

Match 5: Jake Lee, LJ Cleary & YO-HEY beat Takashi Sugiura, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69. YO-HEY pinned Hi69 after Super Face-G.

Match 6: HAYATA & Eita beat Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki. Eita pinned Miwataki after a dropkick.

Main Event: Kenoh, Naomichi Marufuji & Go Shiozeki beat Manabu Soya, Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba. Marufuji pinned Inaba after God Tiger King.

The next event is Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 11:30 PM PT/2:30 AM ET.