New Japan continued the BURNING SPIRIT Tour today with the last live event broadcast for a while, as TMDK looks to keep their early momentum going after two huge opening tour wins.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese FOR FREE! It’s also available on the New Japan World YouTube channel (Correction: Only the first 2 matches are on YouTube). Click below to watch:
The announced paid attendance was 700, a legit advance sellout. Vocal support was allowed for the first time since the pandemic began.
Match 1: Minoru Suzuki beat Bad Dude Tito.
Match 2: Toru Yano, Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Yano pinned Togo.
Match 3: Hikuleo, Chase Owens & Bad Luck Fale beet Gideon Gray, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb. Hikuleo pinned Gray after a chokeslam.
Match 4: Aaron Henare, Francesco Akira & TJP beat The DKC, Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi. Henare pinned DKC after Rampage.
Match 5: Jado & KUSHIDA beat Gedo & Taiji Ishimori. KUSHIDA pinned Gedo with a hammerlock suplex hold.
Match 6: KENTA & El Phantasmo beat BUSHI & Shingo Takagi. Phantasmo pinned BUSHI after CR 2.
Match 7: Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito beat El Desperado, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. SANADA pinned Taichi with O’Connor Bridge.
Main Event: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada beat Shane Haste & Jonah. Tanahashi pinned Haste after High Fly Flow. Afterwards, Tanahashi & Okada led a big chorus of cheering to send the crowd home happy.
The next event is tomorrow. This event will be ON DEMAND ONLY on New Japan World. It will be a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan. The next live broadcast will not be until 9/18
But to keep you busy until then, several PPVs and major events that were behind paywalls earlier this year are now available on demand to all New Japan World subscribers: The Suzuki-Gun PPVs put on by Taichi, TAKA Michinoku & El Desperado from January and May are now available (a third one is coming up next week and is available as a PPV for approx. $22.50 in addition to the monthly subscription fees, so for new subscribers that’s right around $30), as is the Tatsumi Fujinami 50th Anniversary event from 5/12 and the special post-G1 CLIMAX TV Asahi Special outdoor event from 8/20.
During the Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling event today in Osaka, several Pro Wrestling NOAH Jr. Heavyweight wrestlers appeared to announce a special joint event between the promotions with full cooperation of Dragon Gate. No further details were announced but in keeping with Dragon Gate’s mostly lighter weight roster expect Jr. Heavyweights to be the focus.
A controversial month-plus for AEW comes to a (hopeful) conclusion tonight with their big All Out PPV, and it’s big indeed-maybe too big as, at this moment, they are cramming 15-FIFTEEN!-matches into what will probably be at least a 5-hour event. Almost everything that can be on the line is, with only the AEW TNT Title not up for grabs, and an Interim AEW Women’s World Champion will be crowned as champion Thunder Rosa is out due to a back injury, but it’s mostly about the main event-once again Jon Moxley & CM Punk are to face off for the AEW World Championship. Moxley won a literal squash to unify the title with his Interim World Title a couple weeks ago on Dynamite when Punk may have re-injured his foot that was hurt when he won the title at Double Or Nothing. What will happen tonight? That among countless other big matches and storylines.
Tonight’s event will be held at Now Arena in Chicago and can be watched on PPV via cable/satellite providers in the US. If you’re streaming, your only US option is Bleacher Report. In Canada, you can buy the event on ppv.com. Everywhere else in the world it will be available on FITE. The first hour will be a FREE Pre-Show on YouTube.
Tonight’s current lineup (subject to change, match order TBA):
Pre-Show:
Eddie Kingston vs. Tomohiro Ishii (New Japan Pro Wrestling)
FTW Champion Hook vs. Angelo Parker for the title
AAA Mixed Tag Team Champions Sammy Guevara & Tay Melo vs. Ortiz & Ruby Soho for the titles
AEW All-Atlantic Champion Pac vs. Kip Sabian for the title
PPV:
Ricky Starks vs. Powerhouse Hobbs
FTR & Wardlow vs. Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley) & Jay Lethal
House Of Black vs. Miro, Darby Allin & Sting
Jungle Boy vs. Christian Cage
Bryan Danielson vs. Chris Jericho
8 Man Casino Ladder Match for the next AEW World Championship shot. Participants: Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Penta El Zero M, Rey Fenix, Andrade El Idolo, Rush, Dante Martin, The Joker (TBA, revealed during the match)
AEW Tag Team Champions Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland vs. The Acclaimed for the titles
The Elite (The Young Bucks & Kenny Omega) vs. Dark Order (John Silver & Alex Reynolds) & Adam Page for the inaugural AEW Trios Championship
AEW TBS Champion Jade Cargill vs. Athena for the title
Toni Storm vs. Britt Baker, Jamie Hayter & Hikaru Shida in a 4-way for the Interim AEW Women’s World Championship
AEW World Champion Jon Moxley vs. CM Punk for the title
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Match 1: AAA Mixed Tag Team Champions Sammy Guevara & Tay Melo beat Ortiz & Ruby Soho to retain the titles. Melo pinned Soho after TayKO.
Match 2: FTW Champion Hook beat Angelo Parker by submission to retain the title.
Match 3: AEW All-Atlantic Champion Pac beat Kip Sabian to retain the title.
Match 4: Eddie Kingston beat Tomohiro Ishii.
The Pre-Show ends here.
Match 5: 8 Man Casino Ladder Match for the next AEW World Championship shot. Participants: Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Penta El Zero M, Rey Fenix, Andrade El Idolo, Rush, Dante Martin, The Joker (TBA, revealed during the match)
Result: The Joker won. It was an unidentified masked man in Stokely Hathaway’s stable.
Match 6: AEW Trios Tournament Finals: The Elite (The Young Bucks & Kenny Omega) vs. Dark Order (John Silver & Alex Reynolds) & Adam Page for the titles
Result: The Elite beat Dark Order & Adam Page to become the inaugural AEW Trios Champions. Omega pinned Silver after an inadvertent Page Buckshot Lariat.
Match 7: AEW TBS Champion Jade Cargill vs. Athena for the title
Result: AEW TBS Champion Jade Cargill beat Athena to retain the title.
Match 8: Wardlow & FTR vs. Jay Lethal & Motor City Machine Guns
Result: Wardlow & FTR beat Jay Lethal & Motor City Machine Guns. Wardlow pinned Lethal after 4 consecutive powerbombs.
Match 9: Ricky Starks vs. Powerhouse Hobbs
Result: Powerhouse Hobbs beat Ricky Starks
Match 10: AEW Tag Team Champions Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland vs. The Acclaimed for the titles
Result: AEW Tag Team Champions Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland beat The Acclaimed to retain the titles. Lee & Strickland pinned Anthony Bowens after a Spirit Bomb/Swerve Stomp combination.
Injury Report: There are now multiple reports that Ruby Soho was legit injured during the mixed tag match on the pre-show. Broken nose when she took the TayKO from Melo.
Match 11; Toni Storm vs. Britt Baker, Jamie Hayter & Hikaru Shida in a 4-way for the Interim AEW Women’s World Championship
Result: Toni Storm beat Britt Baker, Jamie Hayter & Hikaru Shida in a 4-way by pinning Hayter to become the Interim AEW Women’s World Champion.
Full Gear will be November 19. That’s a Saturday.
Match 12: Christian Cage vs. Jungle Boy
Result: Christian Cage beat Jungle Boy. This was over almost as soon as it began. Luchasaurus turned on Jungle Boy again during entrances and destroyed him.
Match 13: Bryan Danielson vs. Chris Jericho
Result: Chris Jericho beat Bryan Danielson
Match 14: House Of Black vs. Miro, Darby Allin & Sting
Result: Miro, Darby Allin & Sting beat House Of Black. Allin pinned Malakai Black after Last Supprt following a Sting mist attack.
Daniel Garcia turns on Jericho. JAS won’t be in Garcia’s corner when he faces ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta for the title on TV this week
Main Event: AEW World Champion Jon Moxley vs. CM Punk for the title
Result: CM Punk beat AEW World Champion Jon Moxley to become THE NEW AEW WORLD CHAMPION!
End Show.
If you want to stretch All Out into All Night, click below to watch the post-PPV media scrum FOR FREE on YouTube beginning at or around 12:30 AM ET/9:30 PM PT: (The stream went live just after midnight ET?9 PM PT)
POST-SHOW UPDATES: CM Punk & The Young Bucks reportedly got into an altercation after the media scrum stemming from Punk’s comments.
The Joker was revealed at the end of the PPV…MJF. Thanks to a lucrative return offer from Khan for the rest of his contract, he’s back!
BREAKING NEWS: Keiji Muto will hold a press conference this week to officially announce his upcoming retirement event. It will be broadcast LIVE on ABEMA in Japan and worldwide on NOAH’s official YouTube channel Wednesday at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.
More as it becomes available.
DDT held their “DRAMATIC EXPLOSION 2022” event today, a major show built around the signature death match gimmicks alongside their comedy style, although there were some big wrestling matches too.
Today’s event was held at Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese.
The announced paid attendance was 529, a full house/near sellout. It looked like a smaller capacity layout than Tokyo Joshi Pro’s event due to the planned matches. Vocal support by fans was allowed. Your hosts are Haruo Murata & Kagehiro Osano with special guest Marika Tani of SKE48, who changed out of her Yuki Arai shirt from earlier (supporting her SKE48 teammate during the TJPW event) into a Pheromons shirt. Shameful, haha.
Match 1: Yusuke Okada beat Takeshi Masada.
Match 2: Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno beat Kazuki Hirata & Antonio Honda. Iino pinned Hirata.
Match 3: Akito & Shinya Ishida beat MAO & Yuki Ishida. Akito beat Yuki Ishida with a Figure 4. No relation between the Ishidas.
Match 4: Yuki Ueno, Yuji Hino & Makoto Oishi beat Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Yuya Koroku. Oishi beat Koroku with a Fujiyama kneelock.
Match 5: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & Kanon beat Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani to retain the titles. KANON pinned Okatani after Sleepy Hollow. V2 for the champs. Next up: Hino, Oishi & Shiori Asahi. That will happen on 10/8 in Chiba.
Intermission. Skip ahead 10-15 minutes here.
Match 6: In a Bunkhouse Scramble Exploding Blast Current Death Match, Atsushi Onita, Shinya Aoki & Yukio Naya beat Konosuke Takeshita, Shunma Katsumata & Toui Kojima. Naya pinned Kojima. Afterwards, Kojima with microphone. He wants another such match with Onita.
Match 7: Chris Brookes beat Asuka (Veny).
Main Event: KO-D Tag Team Champions Kazusada Higuchi & Naomi Yoshimura beat HARASHIMA & Toru Owashi to retain the titles. Yoshimura pinned Owashi after a lariat. V1 for the champs. Next up: Sasaki & KANON. That will happen on 10/12 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Then Shinya Aoki teased cashing in his “Money In The Bank” open match rights (represented by an NFT collectible) on Higuchi then and there for the KO-D Openweight Championship, but ultimately did not.
The next event is the Konosuke Takeshita 10th Anniversary Event Saturday at Nishinari Community Center in Osaka. The live broadcast will be available ONLY IN JAPAN ON ABEMA. Tokyo Joshi Pro will have a 3-way tag match on the card as well.
Tokyo Joshi Pro continues their “City Circuit” series today as part of a busy weekend for wrestling in Nagoya, and since they are in the hometown of all-girl J-pop megagroup SKE48, the group that counts Yuki Arai among its members will have a big presence today. Arai herself will join 4 of her “teammates” for a special live mini-concert during the event, then she and Saki Akai will try and defend the Princess Tag Team Championship against Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu. Both challengers have beaten Arai in recent weeks so the momentum is not on the champions’ side. Can Arai’s teammates help lift AA Eye Candy to a first successful defense? And vocal support will be allowed too so hopefully the fans can cheer Arai on to victory!
Today’s event will be held at Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. The commentary team will be Haruo Murata & Kagehiro Osano, with Arai’s fellow SKE48 teammate Marika Tani as a special guest on commentary (she will also be a guest for DDT’s event after this one). Note that the SKE48 performance during the event will be available as part of the on demand replay for only one month after today. Since there is a DDT event shortly after this event it can’t run too long but it will be longer than usual-I anticipate the running time being around 2 1/2 hours.
Today’s lineup:
Maki Itoh vs. Arisu Endo
Yuki Aino vs. Nao Kakuta & Neko Haruna in a 3-way
Hikari Noa vs. Moka Miyamoto
Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao vs. Miyu Yamashita & Raku
Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Pom Harajuku vs. Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Suzume
Princess Tag Team Champions Yuki Arai & Saki Akai vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu for the titles
SKE48 live performance featuring Yuki Arai and 4 other members. This will probably come around the middle of the event
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11:15 PM ET UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
We are LIVE from Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya, Japan. Your hosts are Haruo Murata, Kagehiro Osano & Marika Tani (who is of course wearing a cute Yuki Arai t-shirt to support her SKE48 teammate).
The paid attendance will be announced after the event, but based on advance sales it could be a legit sellout. If not, it’ll be close, so possibly right around 1000. (It’s not a legit sellout, but looks like at least 95% full)
The first match should begin in 25-30 minutes.
The first match begins just after 11:40 PM ET.
Match 1: Maki Itoh vs. Arisu Endo. 15 minute time limit
Result: Maki Itoh beat Arisu Endo
Match 2: Yuki Aino vs. Nao Kakuta & Neko Haruna in a 3-way. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Aino beat Nao Kakuta & Neko Haruna in a 3-way by pinning Haruna.
Time for the SKE48 live mini-concert performance! The first song performed is their hit song “Finally”. No English title for the second song. The third song performed is called “Stand by you”. The vocal crowd is making this an AWESOME performance. I know they’re trying to keep the coronavirus in check but the increase in vocal support allowed at wrestling events in Japan is a big step towards normalcy and restoring an important tradition in the sport. Afterwards, the girls have some fun with ring announcer Sayuri Namba & Miu Watanabe, then Maki Itoh comes out. It’s well known that Itoh is not a fan of Arai in the ring. After this and photo ops for the ringside media, one more song. This concludes the performance, which went just over 20 minutes total. Remember you only have one month to watch this portion of the event on demand! (DDT’s website noted afterwards that Itoh will be MC for the SSKE48 14th Anniversary Festival on 9/25)
And now back to the wrestling…
Match 3: Hikari Noa vs. Moka Miyamoto. 15 minute time limit
Result: Hikari Noa beat Moka Miyamoto
Match 4: Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao vs. Miyu Yamashita & Raku. 20 minute time limit
Result: Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao beat Miyu Yamashita & Raku. Nakajima pinned Raku with a Northern Lights suplex hold.
Match 5: Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Pom Harajuku vs. Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Suzume. 20 minute time limit
Reslut; Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Suzume beat Yuka Sakazaki, MiUki & Pom Harajuku. Watanabe pinned Harajuku after Teardop.
Main Event: Princess Tag Team Champions Yuki Arai & Saki Akai vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu for the titles. 30 minute time limit
Result: Princess Tag Team Champions Yuki Arai & Saki Akai beat Mahiro Kiryu & Yuki Kamifuku to retain the titles. Arai pinned Kiryu after Finally. V1 for the champs. And all’s well that ends well in Nagoya today. And in a few hours, Akai will be back going for the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship in DDT. Next up: TBA. No challengers emerged and the crowd goes home happy. And best of all, Arai is still a champion.
The next event is a TJPW INSPIRATION event on 9/11 at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo, the latest in their series of occasional special events that feature mostly comedy matches and outsider participation and are much shorter events-this one has just 4 matches scheduled, so it will only go about an hour. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 11:30 PM ET/8:30 PM PT.
UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 640, a legit sellout. Did I ever grossly overestimate! But they still were just a few empty seats from 100% full, I’d say pess than 20.
Here is the current events schedule for 9/4/22-9/10/22, which is subject to change (all times PT):
9/4:
1:30 AM-DDT Pro Wretling ‘DRAMATIC EXPLOSION 2022″, Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
4 PM-All Elite Wrestling “All Out”, Chicago, IL. Live on PPV via cable/satellite and Bleacher Report in the US, ppv.com in Canada and FITE elsewhere. LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED
9/5:
2:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling BURNING SPIRIT Tour, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Live on New Japan World. FREE EVENT
9/6:
2:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling BURNING SPIRIT Tour, Korakuen Hall. Available On Demand ONLY on New Japan World at a later date. No live broadcast
9/7:
2:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling BURNING SPIRIT Tour, Lily Arena Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. No live or on demand broadcast
2:30 AM-Muscle 7, Korakuen Hall. No live broadcast
3 AM-Muscle 7, Kitazawa Town Hall, Tokyo. No live broadcast (monthly DDT FREE event)
5 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Dynamite”, Buffalo, NY. Live on TBS in US and FITE elsewhere
9/8:
9 PM-Muscle 7, Kitazawa Town Hall. No live broadcast
9/9:
2 AM-Muscle 7, Kitazawa Town Hall. No live braodcast
2:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling BURNING SPIRIT Tour, Fujisan Messe, Shizuoka, Japan. No live or on demand broadcast
7 AM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Rampage”, Buffalo, NY. TAPED on TNT in US and FITE elsewhere
11 PM-All-Japan Pro Wrestling The Road To Nippon Budokan Tour, Mima City Park Udatsu Arena, Tokushima, Japan. Available on demand on AJPW.TV on 9/11
9/10:
1 AM-DDT Pro Wrestling Konosuke Takeshita 10th Anniversary Event, Nishinari Community Center, Osaka, Japan. Live on ABEMA IN JAPAN ONLY. Available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date
2:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling BURNING SPIRIT Tour, G Messe Gunma, Gunma, Japan. No live or on demand broadcast
8:30 PM-Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling “TJPW INSPIRATION”, SHin-Kiba 1st Ring, Tokyo, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED
New Japan continued the BURNING SPIRIT Tour today with a house show in Nagoya, kicking off a very busy weekend of wrestling in the city with multiple events scheduled today and tomorrow.
Today’s event was held at Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya. This was a non-televised event and no on demand video will be available.
The announced paid attendance was 939.
Great-O-Khan missed today’s event, as expected, due to appearing in Pro Wrestling NOAH.
Match 1: The DKC beat Ryohei Oiwa.
Match 2: Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Yuto Nakashima, Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. SHo beat Nakajims with Snake Bite.
Match 3: Aaron Henare, Francesco Akira & TJP beat Jado, Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi. Henare beat Jado with Ultima.
Match 4: Chase Owens & Bad Luck Fale beat Gideon Gray & Jeff Cobb. Owens pinned Gray after a package piledriver. This went less than 3 minutes.
Match 5: Hikuleo, KENTA & Taiji Ishimori beat Tomoaki Honma, Toru Yano & KUSHIDA. Hikuleo pinned Honma after a chokeslam.
Match 6: BUSHI, SANADA, Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. SANADA beat Kanemaru with Skull End.
Main Event: Bad Dude Tito, Shane Haste & Jonah beat Togi Makabe, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika OKada. Haste pinned Makabe after Death Valley Bomb.
The next event is Monday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET, and best of all you can watch the entire event FOR FREE! No login or signup required! It will also stream live on ABEMA in Japan. Also, a heads-up that Tuesday’s Korakuen Hall event will be ON DEMAND ONLY on New Japan World at a later date. Monday will be the last live broadcast for 2 weeks as the 9/11 event also will be ON DEMAND ONLY.
Ganbare Pro ran an event after Tokyo Joshi Pro today, headlined by a Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Championship match as Yumehito Imanari defended against Hartley Jackson.
Today’s event was held at Narimasu Act Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNVIERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 118.
Match 1: Ksieuke Ishii beat Yuki Kanzaki.
Match 2: Yuna Manase & YuuRI beat Moeka Haruhi & Yoshiko Hasegawa. Manase pinned Hasegawa after Suzuki Dynamic.
Match 3: In a hardcore match, Shigehiro Irie & Akane Fujita beat Mizuki Watase & HARUKAZE. Irie pinned Watase after an avalanche Samoan Drop onto a chair.
Match 4: Ken Ohka, Shuichiro Katsumura & Takaki Iwasaki beat Takao Soma, Shinichiro Tominaga & Jun Masaoka. Katsumura pinned Tominaga.
Main Event: Hartley Jackson beat Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion Yumehito Imanari to win the title. Jackson becomes the 3rd Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Champion. Next up: Yuna Manase. That will happen on 10/2 at Itabashi Green Hall. Can she bring the title back home to GanPro now that it has been wrestled away from those despicable Pheromons, albeit by another outsider?
The next event is 9/23 at Oji Basement MON*STAR in Tokyo. There will be no live broadcast.
Tokyo Joshi Pro began their seasonal Autumn/Fall 2022 House Show tour today with a small house show ahead of their big Nagoya event tomorrow.
Today’s event was held at Narimasu Act 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 165.
During the opening, a WRESTLE UNIVERSE members-only event was announced for 10/24 at Kitazawa Town Hall. The Up Up Girls performance was a solo by Miu Watanabe because no Hikari Noa (returning from her first international excursion. She will be back tomorrow).
Match 1: Yuki Aino beat Moka Miyamoto.
Match 2: Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe beat Suzume & Neko Haruna. Tatsumi pinned Haruna after Twist Of Fate.
Match 4: In a “Sour Sweet Citric Acid” 2 Count Match, where besides a 2 count pinfall to win there was also a special rule where after a 1 count or rope escape you had to drink a glass of concentrated lemon juice to continue, Nao Kakuta beat Hyper Misao.
Main Event: Miyu Yamashita, Maki Itoh & Raku beat Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Pom Harajuku. Raku pinned Harajuku after Doctor Yellow. Very significant moment-this is Raku’s first career main event victory, at least one that she was directly responsible for.
The next event is tomorrow at Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya. Vocal cheering by fans will be allowed (no streamers or support banners though). It will be headlined by Princess Tag Team Champions Yuki Arai & Saki Akai vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu for the titles and a special SKE48 live mini-performance with Arai and 4 of her SKE48 teammates, which hopefully will be enough of a boost to lift AA Eye Candy to a successful title defense after Arai took tough losses to both challengers recently. SKE48 teammate Marika Tani will be on commentary for the event, and will stick around for the DDT event afterwards. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin TONIGHT at 11:30 PM ET/8:30 PM PT. LIVE RESULTS WILL BE POSTED. If you miss the live broadcast, the SKE48 performance will be available on demand for one month only, so don’t wait.
