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New Japan News: Tokyo Dome Full Card Announced

At their press conference earlier today, New Japan announces the full card for 1/4 at Tokyo Dome in addition to updated guidelines that will allow vocal cheering at full capacity to some extent (note Japanese fans aren’t cheering/singing types like US fans are, that wouldn’t be allowed), but for now those are in effect for 1/4 only.

The full card:
Pre-Show:
Boltin Oleg Debut Match: Boltin Oleg vs. Ryohei Oiwa. 3 Minute Exhibition Match
New Japan Ranbo Qualifier for the KOPW 2023 Trophy Determination Match. Battle royal where usually the last 4 left advance to the match at a later date
Antonio Inoki Memorial Match: Yuji Nagata, Satoshi Kojima & Togi Makabe vs. Tatsumi Fujinami, Minoru Suzuki & Tiger Mask 4
Main Show:
IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Francesco Akira & TJP vs. Lio Rush & Yoh for the titles
IWGP Women’s Champion KAIRI vs. Tam Nakano for the title
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions FTR vs. Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI for the titles
Ren Narita vs. Zack Sabre Jr. for the inaugural NJPW World TV Championship
NEVER Openweight Champion Karl Anderson vs. Tama Tonga for the title
Keiji Muto, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Shota Umino vs. BUSHI, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito
IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Taiji Ishimori vs. Hiromu Takahashi, El Desperado & Master Wato in a 4-way for the title
IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay vs. Kenny Onega for the title
IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jay White vs. Kazuchika Okada for the title

The pre-show is scheduled to begin at 1:30 AM ET/10:30 PM PT ahead of the main show at 3 AM ET/midnight PT.

AEW Dynamite 12/14/22 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Garland Park, TX:
Match 1: AEW Trios Title 7 Match Series Match 5: Death Triangle beat The Elite. Rey Fenix beat Nick Jackson with a kneebar. Death Triangle leads 3-1.

Jungle Boy beat Brian Cage.

House of Black beat QT Marshall and two of his Factory members. Squash.

A jobber aka Action Andretti beat Chris Jericho. That really happened. You need to see this. The crowd made this really enjoyable.

Ruby Soho beat Tay Melo.

AEW World Champion MJF beat Ricky Starks to retain the title and the Dynamite Diamond Ring for another year.

And thanks to his victory, Action Andretti is #AllElite.

Next week: Holiday Bash! AEW Women’s Champion Jamie Hayter vs. Hikaru Shida for the title, Trios Title Series Match 5 which will be a No DQ match and FTR vs. Gunn Club.

Friday on Rampage: Jon Moxley vs. Sammy Guevara, Britt Baker vs. Skye Blue, Wardlow vs. TBA and Best Friends & Dustin Rhodes vs. The Butcher & The Blade, Trent Seven & Kip Sabian.

FREE VIDEO: GLEAT MMA (12/14/22)

Lidet Entertainment unveiled their latest effort under their GLEAT label today-the debut of GLEAT MMA, featuring GLEAT talent that normally compete under its GLEAT, Lidet UWF and G PROWRESTLING labels. It was live streamed on YouTube-if you missed the event or want to watch again, you can do so FOR FREE below:

Site News: Scheduled Downtime Tuesday (12/20/22)

I just found out that the hosting service for this site will be performing scheduled server maintenance on Tuesday, 12/20/22, which will result in some downtime for the site. The maintenance is scheduled to begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET/9 AM GMT and is expected to last for 2 hours.

Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

DDT 12/14/22 Results

DDT ran their final DDT FREE event today, wrapping up the year-long series of monthly free admission events for fans lucky enough to win tickets.

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

The announced attendance was 437, a legit sellout. All tickets were free.

Before the matches began, two matches were announced for 1/3: Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi vs. MAO & Shunma Katsumata for the vacant KO-D Tag Team Championship and Naruki Doi vs. Daisuke Sasaki for the next DDT Universal Championship challenger.

Match 1: In a handicap match, Danshoku Dieno & Yuki Iino beat Akito, MAO & Kazuma Sumi. Iino pinned Akito. As a result, if Pheromons win their match against the anti-Pheromons group on 12/29, the losing member responsible for it )whoever gets pinned or submitted) must join Pheromons for a day.

Match 2: Tryout Match: Shunma Katsumata beat Anarco Montagna.

Match 3: Saori Anou & Rika Kawabata beat Saki Akai & Yoshiko Hasegawa. Anou pinned Hasegawa.

Match 4: Sanahiro Takagi, Yuji Hino & Makoto Oisho beat Takao Soma, Yuya Koroku & Takeshi Masada. Oishi pinned Masada after a Hino reverse horizontal chop.

Match 5: Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama, Kotaro Suzuki (Pro Wrestling NOAH) & Yusuke Okada beat HARASHIMA, Toru Owashi, Kazuki Hirata & Yukio Naya. Endo pinned Hirata. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: Kotaro Suzuki beat Yusuke Okada.

Match 6: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON beat Chris Brookes & Hideki Okatani. Sasaki pinned Okatani after El Es Claro.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno & Toui Kojima beat Kazusada Higuchi & Yuki Ishida. Kojima pinned Ishida after Kojima In Wonderland.

The next event is Saturday at Kumamoto City Distribution Information Center in Kumamoto. There will be no live broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 12/14/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the never-ending SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 tour with the series’ final event of the year (it will resume next year).

Today’s event was held at Aizuwakamatsu City Cultural Center in Fukushima and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Saturday at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 284.

Match 1: Hi69 beat Taishi Ozawa.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba beat Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito by ref stoppage. Inaba beat Saito.

Match 3: Naomichi Marufuji & Jack Morris beat Yoshiki Inamura & Yasutaka Yano. Morris pinned Yano after a tiger driver.

Match 4: Yoshinari Ogawa beat NOSAWA Rongai by submission. This went over 27 minutes.

Match 5: Dante Leon & YO-HEY beat AMAKUSA & Alejandro. Leon pinned Alejandro after Inferno.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Takashi Sugiura, Satoshi Kojima, Atsushi Kotoge & Seiki Yoshioka beat Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya, Tadasuke & Hajime Ohara. Kitomiya pinned Ohara after Trnasformed Shining Wizard.

The next event is NOAH “NEW HOPE” Sunday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 10 PM ET/7 PM PT. This will be an event mainly focusing on the younger, less experienced wrestlers. Vocal cheering will be allowed.

New Japan 12/14/22 Results

New Japan wrapped up the Super Jr. Tag League & World Tag League today with their last major event of the year. Both tournament finals were held and likely would set up additional title matches for Tokyo Dome on 1/4.

Today’s event was held at Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 2031.

Match 1: El Lindaman & Alex Zayne beat Kosei Fujita & Ryohei Oiwa. Lindaman pinned Fujita with a German suplex hold.

Match 2: Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls beat Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA. Haste pinned Knight after Tank Buster.

Match 3: Francesco Akira, TJP, Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan beat Gabriel Kidd, Alex Coughlin, Robbie Ragles & Tiger Mask. TJP pinned TM 4.

Match 4: DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Lance Archer & Minoru Suzuki beat Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Suzuki pinned Togo after a Gotch-style piledriver. Afterwards, Suzuki with microphone for a major announcement he promised…he shocked the crowd by announcing his Suzuki-gun faction will disband at the end of the year after over a decade.

Match 5: Titan. BUSHI, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito beat Clark Connors, Ryusuke Taguchi, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Naito pinned Connors after Destino.

Match 6: Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & Jay White beat Master Wato, Tama Tonfga & Kazuchika Okada. Gedo pinned Wato.

Match 7: NEVER Openweight Champion Karl Anderson beat Hikuleo to retain the title. V2 for Anderson. Next up: Tonga. That match will happen at Tokyo Dome.

Match 8: Super Jr. Tag League Finals: Lio Rush & Yoh beat Ace Austin & Chris Bey to win the tournament. Yoh pinned Austin after Direct Drive. While not definite, this probably means Rush & Yoh will face IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Francesco Akira & TJP for the titles at Tokyo Dome.

Main Event: World Tag League Finals: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Aussie Open to win the tournament. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Kyle Fletcher after Abyss. It’s the second straight tournament victory for YOSHI-HASHI & Goto and means they will probably face IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions FTR for the titles at Tokyo Dome, assuming All Elite Wresting lets them miss that day’s AEW Dynamite (not guaranteed).

The next event is Road to TOKYO DOME, the year-ending doubleheader, on 12/22 and 12/23 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming of both events on New Japan World will begin each day at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET, and even better you can watch the 12/22 event FOR FREE!

Wrestler Absences Due To Injury

Pro Wrestling NOAH and All-Japan have announced pending card changes due to Hikaru Sato suffering an injury at an event yesterday. Lower back contusion. He was scheduled for the Tokyo Gurentai event in NOAH on 12/20 and All-Japan events on 12/21 and 12/25. For the NOAH event, he was to have been in an 8-man tag team match. Ikuto Hidaka is the replacement. For All-Japan in 12/21, he was to have teamed with Dan Tamura to face Ryuki Honda & Masao Hanabata. No replacement named yet.

RUMOR: WWE Superstar to New Japan

This is just a rumor for now, but it’s huge-Mercedes Varnado, best known as Sasha Banks on WWE, is reportedly headed to New Japan, at least temporarily. Varnado, who has been out of WWE since summer but is still reportedly under contract, has agreed to “multiple dates” with New Japan and may have a deal with them. But there is a chance she re-signs with WWE, and if that happens the potential New Japan deal is off. Her WWE deal is up at the end of the year but they could add time on based on how long she has been out, that could mean as much as 6-7 months.

If she does go to New Japan it likely would be for special attraction matches against talent from Stardom as both are owned by Bushiroad Corporation. Showing up in Stardom is also possible.What seems less clear now is All Elite Wrestling and if she might go there, or if they had a hand in this.

More as it becomes available. But for now this is all rumors.

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