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NOAH News: Top Jr. Heavyweight Injured (Updated)

Pro Wrestling NOAH has announced changes to the N-1 VICTORY Tournament lineups, but they will not affect the tournament itself as it’s a Jr. Heavyweight. Still significant because it’s top talent Daisuke Harada. Neck injury revealed during a routine MRI. Out indefinitely but will miss the rest of the tournament (through 9/3) and will be re-evaluated afterwards. The promotion takes a nearly 2-week break after the 9/3 event.
More as it becomes available.

Update: For Saturday, he was to have teamed with Seiki Yoshioka & Alpha Wolf to face Dragon Bane, Alejandro & YO-HEY. Atsushi Kotoge is the replacement. For Sunday (Culttz Kawasaki), he was not on the card so no changes are anticipated. The 9/3 card has not been announced yet except for a 6-man tag with The Great Muta, NOSAWA Rongai & Great-O-Khan (New Japan) vs. TBA and Dragon Bane vs. Alpha Wolf. Also the N-1 VICTORY Final.

AEW Dynamite 8/24/22 Results (SPOILERS!)

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Cleveland, OH (SPOILERS for west feed viewers!):
Chris Jericho came out first and called out Daniel Garcia to choose between JAS & BCC. Bryan Danielson also came out during this. Garcia didn’t make a choice, and in the end this all led to Danielson-Jericho being made for All Out. Jake Hager sneak attacks Danielson at the end.

Jay Lethal beat Dax Harwood.

Women’s BREAKING NEWS: Thunder Rosa is injured and out long enough that she can’t defend the AEW Women’s Championship. INTERIM TITLE to be created at All Out.

Colten Gunn beat Billy Gunn.

Britt Baker beat KiLynn King by submission.

Women’s 4-way at All Out for the Interim Title will have Toni Storm, Baker, Jamie Hayter & Hikaru Shida.

Interim AEW World Champion Jon Moxley beat AEW World Champion CM Punk to become the UNDISPUTED AEW World Champion. Went less than 10 minutes. Punk may have re-injured his right foot that kept him out since Double Or Nothing.

Ricky Starks gets to finish his promo from a couple weeks ago when Powerhouse Hobbs beat him down. This was AWESOME.

AEW Trios Title Tournament: United Empire (Will Ospreay & Aussie Open) beat Death Triangle (Lucha Bros & Pac). Ospreay pinned Rey Fenix after Oscutter. Excellent match. Kip Sabian returned late to take out Pac.

Added to All Out besides what was announced earlier: AEW Tag Team Champions Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland vs. The Acclaimed for the titles, Jungle Boy vs. Christian Cage, FTR & Wardlow vs. Lethal & Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley), and Ricky Starks vs. Powerhouse Hobbs.

Friday on Rampage: House Of Black vs. Dark Order in the Trios Tournament, Sammy Guevara & Tay Melo vs. Ortiz & Ruby Soho, AEW TNT Champion Wardlow vs. Ryan Nemeth for the title, ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli vs. Dustin Rhodes for the title and Jade Cargill Speaks.

Next week: Danielson vs. Hager and Storm & Shida vs. Baker & Hayter. And while unannounced they will be in Chicago so you know Punk will be involved.

DDT 8/24/22 Results

DDT began the post-WRESTLE PETER PAN portion of the year with their monthly DDT FREE event today, a free admission event beginning the build to when Konosuke Takeshita challenges Kazusada Higuchi for the KO-D Openweight Championship next month.

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

The announced attendance was 250, a super full house. All tickets were free so no paid admissions. Vocal cheering was allowed for this event.

Match 1: MAO, Shunma Katsumata & Kazuki Hirata beat Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno & Koju Takeda. Hirata pinned Dieno.

Match 2: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON beat Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani by DQ. Okatani DQ’d. Ref assault.

Match 3: Tetsuya Endo beat Takeshi Masada.

Match 4: Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya & Chris Brookes beat Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku. Brookes pinned Koroku after Praying Mantis Bomb.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno & Asuka (Veny) beat Joey Janela & Akito. Ueno pinned Akito after WR.

Match 6: HARASHIMA & Toru Owashi beat Naomi Yoshimura & Makoto Oishi. Owashi pinned Oishi after a powerbomb.

Main Event: Kazusada Higuchi & Yuki Ishida beat Konosuke Takeshita & Toui Kojima. Ishida pinned Kojima after Flame Palm.

The next event is a special “non-alcoholic beer garden wrestling” event Friday at Ueno Park Outdoor Stage in Tokyo. There will be no live broadcast.

In other DDT Group news…
If the Ganbare event Saturday is held as planned (weather permitting due to being outdoors), YuuRI is now off the event. Left hand injury. She was to have teamed with Moeka Haruhi & HARUKAZE to face Yuna Manase, Kakeru Sekiguchi & Yoshiko Hasefawa. Cherry is the replacement.
Eri Suzuki, an actress who is a voice actress on several popular anime series, will provide some of the opening video narration for the upcoming Tokyo Joshi Pro events on 8/28 at Korakuen Hall and 9/4 at Nagoya Congress Center. Suzuki is also part of TJPW’s collaboration with popular anime series “The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls”.
Koriki Choshu, a popular Japanese comedian known for his impersonation of wrestler Riki Choshu, will make a guest appearance at the 9/13 event at Asakusa Flower Theater in Tokyo.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Upcoming Cards, Notes

Tokyo Joshi Pro today announced this weekend’s card and more details regarding Hikari Noa’s first international excursion, which was announced at this past weekend’s event:
As revealed Sunday, Noa is headed to England for an International Princess Championship match against current Champion Alex Windsor. That match will happen during the Pro Wrestling Eve event on Thursday, September 1 at 229 The Venue in London. The event starts at 8 PM BST, which is 3 PM ET/Noon PT, in Japan that’s (I believe) on 9/2 at 4 AM JST. It will be streamed live on YouTube, but in all likelihood it will be behind a paywall so to see most of the event you’ll have to pay. I don’t know how much yet. This will be the first title defense for Windsor.

The full card for Saturday at Ryogoku KFC Hall (Friday night US time) has been announced:
Miu Watanabe & Shoko Nakajima vs. Suzume & Arisu Endo
Miyu Yamashita vs. Pom Harajuku
Yuka Sakazaki vs. Raku
Rika Tatsumi & Neko Haruna vs. Nao Kakuta & Hikari Noa
Maki Itoh & Moka Miyamoto vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu
Mizuki vs. Hyper Misao & Yuki Aino in a 3-way
Kaya Toribami is off this event and 9/4 at Nagoya Congress Center due to scheduling issues. Status is unknown for 9/3 (Narimasu Act Hall, Tokyo) and currently is not on the 8/28 (Korakuen Hall) card.

New Japan-Stardom Press Conference Notes (8/23/22)

New Japan’s corporate offices hosted a major press conference today regarding the upcoming NJPW-Stardom crossover event in November and the new IWGP Women’s Championship. Attending were Bushiroad Corporation chairman Takaaki Kidani (Kitani), New Japan chairman Naoki Sugabayashi, Stardom creator/executive producer Rossy Ogawa, Hiroshi Tanahashi representing New Japan, and Mayu Iwatani representing Stardom.
Kitani began talking about this year marking the 15th anniversary of Bushiroad, the 50th anniversary of New Japan and the 10th anniversary of Stardom last year. Bushiroad owns both promotions. Kidani discussed the rumors and feedback since the IWGP Women’s Championship was announced as well as a recent issue of a Japanese sports magazine that featured both Kazuchika Okada on the cover and an interview with New Japan founder and wrestling Hall of Famer Antonio Inoki.
Chairman Sugabayashi then discussed the championship and plans for a tournament to crown the inaugural IWGP Women’s Champion…the tournament will begin on 10/2 during the second day of New Japan’s return to London, England, continue in Stardom on 10/22 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, then the Semifinals will be held in Stardom on 10/23 at Arena Tachikawa, with the Finals on 11/20 at the historic crossover event at Ariake Arena in Tokyo. Participants TBA. The inaugural champion will first defend the title at Tokyo Dome on 1/4/23.
Besides the tournament final, the first matches for 11/20 were announced, all are mixed tag/intergender matches:
Tom Lawlor & Syuri vs. Zack Sabre Jr. & Guilia
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Utami Hayashishita vs. Hirooki Goto & Maika
Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Natsupoi & Tam Nakano vs. DOUKI, El Desperado, Starlight Kid & Momo Watanabe

New Japan’s English website is suggesting the broadcast in the US will be in English and a PPV on New Japan World, which also means possibly on FITE as well. The event is scheduled for Sunday, November 20 at, taking the time change into consideration, midnight PT/3 AM ET. No word on if it will also be available on Stardom World, Stardom’s online streaming service.
More as it becomes available.

New Japan Upcoming Events News (Updated 8/23/22)

Lots of New Japan news relating to upcoming events:
First, the 1/4 Tokyo Dome Main Event is now official: Whoever is IWGP World Heavyweight Champion at that time vs. Kazuchika Okada for the title. Jay White will defend the title against Tama Tonga on 10/10, whoever comes out of that as champion likely is taking it into Tokyo Dome. Also, Okada is expected to defend his title shot contract at least once, and if he loses to Jonah again on 10/10 plans could very well change.
Fans will be allowed to cheer vocally when the promotion returns to Korakuen Hall on 9/5 & 9/6, and Okada will return on 9/5 to team with Hiroshi Tanahashi against Shane Haste & Jonah. Haste, who debuted in Japan with Pro Wrestling NOAH in the late 2000s when he formed TMDK with longtime tag team partner Mikey Nicholls, is returning to New Japan for the first time since Tokyo Dome in January 2015. Also set for 9/5 is Bad Dude Tito vs. Minoru Suzuki, while 9/6 will have Shingo Takagi & Hiromu Takahashi vs. El Phantasmo & KENTA.
The Burning Spirit tour-ender on 9/25 at Kobe World Hall now has 3 title matches set: IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Francesco Akira & TJP vs. Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato for the titles, NEVER Openweight Champion Karl Anderson vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the title and the main event-IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay vs. David Finlay for the title. Also set are Chase Owens & Bad Luck Fale vs. Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb and Tetsuya Naito & SANADA vs. Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr., both of which could help determine the next challengers for IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions FTR.
Gideon Grey, the newest recruit for United Empire from RevPro in England, will make his NJPW debut on 9/2 at Yokohama Budokan. NJPW STRONG standouts Alex Coughlin (coming back from injury) and Hikuleo also will return to Japan for the tour.

8/23 UPDATE: New Japan has announced Coughlin is now off the next tour. Left leg injury. The DKC is the replacement.

Iconic Japan Referee Wada Hospitalized

All-Japan announced today that iconic referee Kyohei Wada was hospitalized today due to illness, and upon subsequent testing was also diagnosed with the coronavirus. It’s not known if both are related. All-Japan is off until September 10 but it’s not known how long Wada may be hospitalized. Regardless, he will be isolating until at least August 29.
Best wishes to Wada for a full and speedy recovery.

Ganbare Pro 8/21/22 Results

Ganbare Pro ran a small house show today dubbed “Sangalia 2022” that was preceded by the signing ceremony for the upcoming Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Championship on 9/3. The ceremony, held separately from the event at Narimasu Act Hall in Tokyo, it saw Champion Yumehito Imanari & Challenger Hartley Jackson get heated after much beer-themed (and fueled?) taunting.

Today’s event was held at Takashimidaira Community Center in Tokyo and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 114.

Match 1: MAO (DDT) & HARUKAZE beat Onryo & YuuRI. HARUKAZE pinned YuuRI after Flame Spear.

Match 2: Yuna Manase & Moeka Haruhi beat Nao Kakuta (Tokyo Joshi Pro) & Yoshiko Hasegawa. Manase pinned Hasegawa.

Match 3: Hartley Jackson beat Shinichiro Tominaga.

Match 4: Keisuke Ishii beat Shota.

Main Event: Ken Ohka, Shuichiro Katsumura & Takao Soma (DDT) beat Takaaki Iwasaki, Mizuki Watase & Tsunehiro Shimatani. Ohka pinned Shimatani after Flame Spear.

Imanari, currently out due to injury, appeared post-main event.

The next event is Saturday at Tokorozawa Park Town Shopping Street Special in Saitama, a free outdoor event. This event is weather permitting and subject to cancellation in the event of severe weather. If it is held as planned, there will be no live broadcast.

New Japan News: International Showcases Today

With New Japan now off for 2 weeks for the post-G1 CLIMAX break, several talents left Japan for international showcases around the world over the last couple days, a theme that will continue this week when Will Ospreay & Aussie Open return to All Elite Wrestling in the US this coming week. First, Robbie Eagles, Tiger Mask & Rocky Romero continued their current run in Mexico with participation in CMLL’s Grand Prix at Arena Mexico in Mexico City. They took part in a massive 16-man tag team elimination match, which saw Eagles, TM 4, Romero, Mesias, Oraculo, Kenny King, Matt Taven & Lince Dorado face Volador Jr., Mistico, Ultimo Guerrero, Atlantis Jr., Titan, Soberano Jr., Stuka Jr. & Templario. After nearly an hour of action, the CMLL team emerged victorious when Volador eliminated TM 4 following Volador eliminating Romero after Mistico had been eliminated by TM 4 before Volador took out Romero.
Upon his return to Japan, TM 4 is expected to make additional appearances in All-Japan Pro Wrestling to defend the All-Japan World Jr. Heavyweight Championship, including a possible appearance at the promotion’s 50th Anniversary Event on 9/18 at Nippon Budokan. Minoru Suzuki will also be at the event.
Over in England, STRONG Tag Team Champions Aussie Open made their first successful title defense in partner promotion RevPro, picking up V1 by beating Connor Mills & Michael Oku at RevPro’s 10th Anniversary event. It was a great day for United Empire as a whole as RevPro British Heavyweight Champion (and IWGP US Heavyweight Champion) Will Ospreay beat Mike Bailey to retain the title, although Francesco Akira was unsuccessful in his effort to win the RevPro British Cruiserweight Championship. Ospreay & Aussie Open will be back in AEW this Wednesday to face Ospreay’s fellow British rival Pac and Mexican duo Penta El Zero M (Pentagon Jr.) & Rey Fenix in the AEW Trios Title Tournament.

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