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Inpact Wrestling 7/27/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s Impact Wrestling in Windsor, Canada:

This episode was taped on 7/16 and wraps up the fallout from Slammiversary.

The YouTube pre-show match was Yuya Uemura & Joe Hendry vs. Kenny King & Sheldon Jean.

Match 1: Trinity & Dani Luna beat The Coven (Taylor Wilde & KiLynn King. Trinity pinned Wilde. Immediately afterwards, Deonna Purrazzo came out. She said she’s getting her Impact Knockouts Championship rematch at Emergence, the next monthly live event.

Backstage footage from after last week of Lio Rush, Brian Myers & Moose talking before Bully Ray cuts in. Rush says he’s not here to make friends but Moose isn’t asking for that. Bully makes it simple-Rush is with them or against them and wants an answer tonight.

Dirty Dango promo. Johnny Bravo appears in part of it. He is now Alpha Bravo, Dango’s personal security

Match 2: In a Loser Leaves Impact Match, Johnny Swinger beat Zicky Dice. As a result, Swinger gets an Impact World Championship shot and Dice must leave Impact. Comedy match and Swinger won with feet on the ropes.

Pre-show match highlights. Yuya Uemura pinned Kenny King as Uemura & Joe Hendry beat King & Sheldon Jean. Hendry & Santino Marella almost let Urmura talk himself into an Impact Digital Media Championship shot, but Hendry has a rematch as former champion. Santino hinted at a 3-way. Hendry agreed, so Santino makes the match for next week. Some good comedy from Uemura by way of his broken English.

Nick Aldis promo. No more Jimmy Jacobs to interview Aldis (he’s reportedly gone to All Elite Wrestling).

Match 3: Gisele Shaw beat Masha Slamovich.

Jake Something promo.

Traci Brooks talks to Frankie Kazarian. She wants to go ask for 5 minutes in the ring with Alisha Edwards.

Match 4: Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA beat Moose & Brian Myers. Shelley pinned Myers. Bully Ray immediately came out afterwards for the heel beatdown but Josh Alexander quickly made the save.Lio Rush then quickly ran out to beat down Shelley. That brought out Chris Sabin to join the fray. They cleaned house and laid out Rush. Sabin seems good now after what happened at Slammiversary.

Alan Angels promo. He challenges Heath to a match.

Rascalz promo from outside the venue last week when they were kicked out. They want Subculture then made the mistake of picking on Mike Bailey as he arrived.

Match 5: Zachary Wentz beat Mike Bailey. Trey Miguel seconded Wentz and was ejected by the ref but refused to leave, allowing Wentz to spray Bailey in the face with paint to cheat.

Emergence (8/27) Matches announced: Time Machine & Josh Alexander vs. Bully Ray, Moose, Brian Myers & Lio Rush and Trinity-Purrazzo for the Impact Knockouts Championship. Emergence will be available on Impact+ for subscribers, YouTube for Ultimate Insiders and as a PPV on FITE.

Main Event: Eric Young beat Nick Aldis. Afterwards, The Design ambushed Young from behind and laid him out. Deaner demanded Kon continue to punish Young, who has history with them when they were Violent By Design, and Kon chokeslammed Young. Then Deaner ordered Kon to chokeslam Young yet again and he did. Deaner finished Young then with the Antisote spike DDT then sat on Young’s chest and posed sadistically to end the show.

Next week: King vs. Uemura & Hendry in a 3-way for the Impact Digital Media Championship.

The next TV tapings are tomorrow & Saturday in Chicago and will take them to Emergence at the end of August (4 weeks).

DEVELOPING: Impact Returning To UK

In a press release, Impact Wrestling has announced they are returning to the UK in October for the first time since January 2016. It will include 3 events-10/26 in Glasgow, Scotland; 10/27 in Newcastle, England and 10/28 in Coventry, England. Several top names including Alex Shelley, Moose, Joe Hendry, Deonna Purrazzo and more have been announced as well as the Impact return of Scotland standout Grado.

Tickets go on sale on 8/4 via Impact’s website. No word on potential broadcasts for the events (namely if they may be PPVs on FITE, they would be 2 PM ET/11 AM PT starts in the US.

More as it becomes available.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 7/27/23 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro held a special summer athletic competition today, a break from traditional wrestling for a variety of unusual and comedy-themed activities with everyone divided into two teams for the unique event.

Today’s event was held at Sugamiku Resort Pleasure Forest in Kanagawa and is available on demand as a PPV on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. The event can be purchased until 8/2 and is available for 3500 Japanese yen (around $26) for non-monthly subscribers and 2800 yen (around $20) for monthly paying subscribers. It may be available to all paying subscribers at a later date (probably October at the earliest).

This was a closed event with no fans in attendance. The format was 5 events with 1 point for the winners, most points at the end wins.

Match 1: In a Falls Count Anywhere match, Rika Tatsumi, Hikari Noa & Nao Kakuta (Red Team) beat Pom Harajuku, Suzume & Yuki Arai (White Team). Tatsumi pinned Harajuku after Twist Of Fate.

Match 2: In a Spider Climbing Competition, where apparently the most combined distance climbed wins (and it was teams simultaneous and fighting each other), Mizuki, Miu Watanabe & Kaya Toribami (White Team) beat Yuki Aino, Moka Miyamoto & Arisu Endo 31.4 meters-22.9 meters.

Match 3: In a Steel Maze Battle, a series of 3 single battles where the first to escape a multi-level structure won, Raku, Nao Kakuta & Hyper Misao (Red Team) beat Suzume, Mahiro Kiryu & Yuki Kamifuku (White Team) 2-1.

Match 4: In a Sumo Pushing competition held in a small cage high above the ground (everyone was tethered to bungee cords and had to walk across suspension bridges to reach the structure), Red Team beat White Team 2-1. Nao Kakuta (Red) beat Pin Harajuku (White), Miu Watanabe (White) beat Moka Miyamoto (Red), Raku (Red) beat Yuka Sakazaki (White).

Main Event: In a Cavalry Deathmatch, pitting the entire teams against one another and the first to claim the opponent’s leader’s headband was the winner, White Team beat Red Team. The leaders were Yuki Arai & Moka Miyamoto, Arai won by claiming Miyamoto’s headband. White got 1 million points for winning and won the competition 1 million-3.

As a reward for winning, the White team got to enjoy a luxurious BBQ and party afterwards. And Arai being the big winner at the end made me very happy of course.

The next event is Saturday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo for the Tokyo Princess Cup Quarterfinals. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET. Live results will be posted here.

New Japan 7/27/23 Results

New Japan ran Day 9 of the G1 CLIMAX 33 today, Day 5 of Blocks A & B. With only the top 2 in each block advancing, the field starts thinning out today.

Today’s event was held at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. This was a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.

The announced paid attendance was 2316.

All matches were G1 CLIMAX matches, 20 minute time limit.

Match 1; Block A: Shota Umino beat Chase Owens.

Match 2: Block B: Taichi beat YOSHI-HASHI.

Match 3: Block A: Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Gabriel Kidd went to a double countout. 1 point for each. This was a brawl all over the venue.

Match 4: Block B: Tanga Loa beat Great-O-Khan.

Match 5: Block A: Hikuleo beat Yota Tsuji.

Match 6: Block B: El Phantasmo beat KENTA in 19 seconds. Flash win.

Match 7: Block A: SANADA beat Ren Narita.

Main Event: Block B: Will Ospreay beat Kazuchika Okada.

Standings-wise, SANADA will now advance out of Block A as he has all possible tiebreakers. Everyone else still has a chance at 2nd and advancing although Narita is on life support at best with just 2 points. Only a miracle and then some, which may now be impossible, gets him to 2nd. Okada & Ospreay now are tied atop Block B with 8 points and because of today, Khan is now eliminated and it’s all but settled. Everyone else now needs tiebreakers to have a chance except for Taichi.

Day 10 is Sunday at Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya with Blocks C & D. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hirooki Goto is the main event. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

AEW Dynamite 7/26/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Albany, NY:

Darby Allin-AR Fox promo.

Match 1: AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy vs. AR Fox for the title
Result: AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy beat AR Fox to retain the title.

Don Callis talks Chris Jericho into a tag match in the near future with Konosuke Takeshita vs. Daniel Garcia & Sammy Guevara.

Jack Perry interviewed. Jerry Lynn interrupts and issued an indirect challenge for the FTW Title. Perry says maybe next week.

Match 2: Pac vs. Gravity (a wrestler)
Result: Pac beat Gravity by submission.

MJF & Adam Cole backstage interview from last week which didn’t air on TV.

FTR interview in response to MJF/Cole, also from last week, after we return from commercial.

Match 3: Swerve Strickland vs. Darby Allin
Result: Swerve Strickland beat Darby Allin. AR Fox interfered at the end. He joined Mogul Affiliates after the match.

Angelo Parker, Matt Menard, Anna Jay.A.S. & (A voluptuous, notably pregnant now) Tay Melo have a talk with Jericho backstage. They walk out on him.

Match 4: Britt Baker vs. Taya Valkyrie
Result: Britt Baker beat Taya Valkyrie by submission

Main Event: Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Lucha Bros & Best Friends in a 3-way
Result: Lucha Bros beat Best Friends and Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli when Penta El Zero M pinned Trent Beretta.

It was a show that happened. Very average, nothing terrible but nothing really great.

End Show.

Friday on Rampage: Nyla Rose vs. Hikaru Shida, Scorpio Sky vs. Kip Sabian, Matt Taven & Mike Bennett vs. TBA and an 8-team tag team battle royal for an AEW Tag Team Title shot after Collision’s match this Saturday (The Hardys not winning will be an upset as they are in the battle royal).

Next week: Episode 200! Jon Moxley vs. Trent and Penta El Zero M in a 3-way with Anything Goes Rules, Chris Jericho & Konosuke Takeshita vs. Daniel Garcia & Smamy Guevara and Jack Perry & Jerry Lynn face-to-face. More TBA on Rampage.

New Japan 7/26/23 Results

New Japan ran Day 8 of the G1 CLIMAX 33 today, the halfway point for Blocks C & D.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. This was a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.

The announced paid attendance was 1472, a legit sellout. Also about the same as yesterday which is good.

All matches were G1 CLIMAX matches, 20 minute time limit.

Match 1: Block C: EVIL beat HENARE.

Match 2: Block D: Alex Coughlin beat Hirooki Goto.

Match 3: Block C: Shingo Takagi beat Mikey Nicholls.

Match 4: Block D: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Toru Yano.

Match 5: Block C: Tomohiro Ishii beat Eddie Kingston.

Match 6: Block D: Shane Haste beat Tetsuya Naito.

Match 7: Block C: Tama Tonga beat David Finlay.

Main Event: Block D: Jeff Cobb beat Zack Sabre Jr.

Tonga, Finlay & EVIL are now tied for the Block C lead while Cobb is now the Block D leader.

Day 9 is tomorrow at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo with Blocks A & B and a Kazuchika Okada-Will Ospreay main event. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

Injury Report: DDT Wrestlers Peter Panned

DDT’s WRESTLE PETER PAN 2023 event was full of surprises, but unfortunately there also were some injuries coming out, including a big one-Tetsuya Endo is back on the sidelines again. Hand (metacarpal fracture). Also heading to the sidelines with injury is Toru Owashi. Cervical spine. Both out indefinitely but “a while” per translation of DDT’s website, which means months.

More as it becomes available.

New Japan 7/25/23 Results

New Japan ran Day 7 of the G1 CLIMAX 33 today, as the preliminary round reaches the halfway point. Day 4 of Blocks A & B was today.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. This was a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.

The announced paid attendance was 1471, a legit sellout.

All matches were G1 CLIMAX matches, 20 minute time limit.

Match 1: Block B: Will Ospreay beat Great-O-Khan.

Match 2: Block A: Shota Umino beat Gabriel Kidd.

Match 3: Block B: KENTA beat Taichi.

Match 4: Block A: Yota Tsuji beat Chase Owens.

Match 5: Block B: El Phantasmo beat Tanga Loa.

Match 6: Block A: Hikuleo beat Ren Narita.

Match 7: Block B: Kazuchika Okada beat YOSHI-HASHI.

Main Event: Block A: SANADA beat Kaito Kiyomiya.

Both SANADA and Okada remain unbeaten at 4-0, 8 points and atop their respective blocks. SANADA is 3 points clear of the rest of Block A.

Day 8 is tomorrow with Blocks C & D. Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Jeff Cobb will be the main event. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. This will also be a Samurai! TV broadcast.

Sumo-July 2023 Grand Sumo Tournament Final Standings & Notes (Top 2 Tiers) (Updated x2)

Below is the final Hoshitori for the July 2023 Grand Sumo Tournament-the finals standings based on the Banzuke (rankings) and some early thoughts on rankings for September.

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