Developing NOAH news for 7/16: The GHC Jr. Heavyweight Title match that day is now off and has been postponed. Current co-champion Chris Ridgeway is now off the event. Visa issues. Delays in issuance procedures in the UK may prevent him from making it to Japan in time. New date TBA but it will be when Ridgeway can travel to Japan. Yuya Susumu will now team with Yoshinari Ogawa to face Eita & Kotaro Suzuki in a NON-TITLE match.
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Site News: All-Japan Coverage Begins This Week
Starting this coming weekend (7/9/22-7/10/22), I will begin adding coverage of All-Japan Pro Wrestling to the site. All-Japan is considered the #2 promotion in Japan and has been around almost 50 years, having been founded about 6 months after top promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling. Coverage will begin with their event this Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall, and I will begin watching that day live and on demand on All-Japan’s streaming service, ajpw.tv. It costs 900 yen per month (same as New Japan World), which as if this moment is $6.68 US.
Please look forward to it!
New Japan 7/4/22 Results
New Japan continued the New Japan Road tour with the middle event of the final 3-event stretch before the G1 CLIMAX.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese.
The announced paid attendance was 536. Smaller setup used today on the opposite hard camera side. No guest on commentary. (Togi Makabe joined after the break)
Match 1: Minoru Suzuki beat Kosei Fujita by submission.
Match 2: Satoshi Kojima beat TAKA Michinoku. Kojima came out wearing a Pro Wrestling NOAH shift and with the GHC Heavyweight Championship that he next defends on 7/16. Kojima with microphone afterwards to promote that match.
Match 3: Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe beat Ryohei Oiwa & Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Makabe beat Oiwa with a Boston Crab.
Match 4: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & Taichi beat The DKC, Clark Connors & Yuji Nagata. Taichi pinned DKC after Dangerous Backdrop.
Match 5: Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Takahashi after Shoto.
Match 6: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Master Wato, Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Zayne, Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada. Takagi pinned Wato after MADE IN JAPAN.
Main Event: Taiji Ishimori & KENTA beat KUSHIDA & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Ishimori beat KUSHIDA with Bone Lock.
The tour-ender is tomorrow with Yano vs. Togo in a Dog Cage Deathmatch and NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL vs. Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto for the titles. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. After that, it’s on to the G1 CLIMAX-EVERY event will stream LIVE and on demand in Japanese and English on New Japan World, and everyone will be able to watch the first 2 events FOR FREE!
DDT/TJPW Upcoming Event Updates
DDT announced several upcoming event details at a press conference today:
First on the Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling side, Willow Nightingale is now off Saturday’s SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’22 event. Visa issues/timing (the process won’t be completed in time for travel). She was to have faced Miu Watanabe. Ryo Mizunami is the replacement, making her first appearance in TJPW. Nightingale will travel to Japan and appear at a later date once the visa is secured.
Konosuke Takeshita will return to DDT next month for his 10th Anniversary match on 8/10 against Daisuke Sasaki. He will also be at WRESTLE PETER PAN on 8/20. Takeshita is currently on an excursion to All Elite Wrestling.
NEW KO-D Openweight Champion Kazusada Higuchi appeared and reiterated his desire to defend against Tetsuya Endo on 8/20, but a decision will not be made until after Endo’s return match on 7/24.
2 new events were announced for September-9/13 at Asakusa Kageki Theater in Tokyo and 9/25 at Korakuen Hall. 9/25 will allow vocal cheering by fans although one section for non-vocal fans will be set up. The venue or at least the vocal section will be at 50% capacity.
New Japan 7/3/22 Results
New Japan resumed the New Japan Road Tour today after a roughly 2-week break for the Forbidden Door joint PPV with All Elite Wrestling last week in the US, beginning a quick 3-day sprint to the finish before the G1 CLIMAX begins.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese.
The announced paid attendance was 1200. Maybe a full house/near-sellout based on the setup for today. No guest on commentary. (Hiroyoshi Tenzan joined commentary after intermission)
Match 1: Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe beat Ryohei Oiwa & TBA, which at the start of the event was revealed to be Tiger Mask 4. Honma beat Oiwa with a Boston Crab. Afterwards, TM 4 with microphone discussing his successful winning the All-Japan Jr. Heavyweight Championship, which he will defend in the promotion later this month. This was to have been Yuto Nakashima & Oiwa vs. Honma & Makabe, but Nakashima is out of the remaining events due to injury.
Match 2: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki beat Kosei Fujita, Master Wato & Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Suzuki pinned Fujita after a Gotch-style piledriver.
Match 3: Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan beat BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi. Henare beat BUSHI with Ultima. This was to have been Jado & Ryusuke Tatughi vs. BUSHI & Takahashi, but Jado was a last-minute removal from the event due to a fever (he tested negative for coronavirus). Taguchi was also pulled.
Match 4: SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat The DKC, Clark Connors & Yuji Nagata. Sanada pinned DKC after Skull End. This was to have been Alex Coughlin, Connors & DKC vs. LIJ, but Coughlin is out due to injury.
Match 5: Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Takahashi pinned YOSHI-HASHI after Big Juice. This was to have been an 8-man tag but Yoh is out due to coronavirus. Sho was also removed as a result.
Match 6: Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. Okada beat TAKA with Money Clip. This was to have been DOUKI & Taichi vs. Ishii & Okada, but DOUKI is out as a precaution due to being a coronavirus close contact.
Main Event: KENTA & KUSHIDA Return Match: Alex Zayne, KUSHIDA & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & KENTA. KUSHIDA beat Gedo with a hammerlock suplex hold. This was KENTA’s first match since suffering injuries at Tokyo Dome in January in a bloody No DQ IWGP US Heavyweight Title match against Tanahashi, and KUSHIDA’s first match in New Japan since 2019, when he left for WWE.
The next event is tomorrow. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.
Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/3/22 Results
Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour today with the second half of a weekend doubleheader.
Today’s event was held at Yamagata Big Wing in Yamagata and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. There was no live broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 248.
Match 1: Seiki Yoshioka beat Kai Fujimura.
Match 2: Rene Dupree & Simon Gotch beat Yoshiki Inamura & Kinya Okada. Dupree pinned Okada after a diving elbow drop.
Match 3: Tadasuke & Hi69 beat Atsushi Kotoge & YO-HEY. Hi69 pinned Kotoge after Stuka Splash.
Match 4: Katsuhiko Nakajima & Hajime Ohara beat Mohammed Yone & Alejandro. Ohara pinned Alejandro after Muy Bien.
Match 5: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. beat Extreme Tiger.
Match 6: HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa & Yuya Susumu vs. NOSAWA Rongai, Kotaro Suzuki & Super Crazy went to a no contest. Seiki Yoshioka interference.
Match 7: Kenoh & Manabu Soya beat Satoshi Kojima & Daiki Inaba. Kenoh pinned Inaba after PFS.
Main Event: Takashi Sugiura, Hideki Suzuki & Timothy Thatcher beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Michael Elgin & Masa Kitamiya. Suzuki beat Kitamiya with Royal Stretch.
The next event is 7/10 at Fujisan Messe in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast and it will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date.
DEVELOPING: Another New Japan Card Change
New Japan has just announced another last-minute change for today’s event in a couple hours-Jado is now off the event. Fever. Tested negative for coronavirus but will be kept out as a precaution. He was to have teamed with Ryusuke Taguchi to face Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI. Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan are the replacements and Taguchi is now off. Probably just took LIJ from win to near-squash loss.
DDT Pro Wrestling KING OF DDT FINAL!! Results (7/3/22)
DDT Pro Wrestling wraps up the 2022 KING OF DDT Tournament today with the Semifinals and Finals, and the stakes are as high as they can be in the annual singles tournament. Not only will the winner claim the KING OF DDT title and a 1 million yen bonus prize (about $7400 US), but also will become the new KO-D Openweight Champion after Tetsuya Endo had to vacate the title due to a concussion suffered at CyberFight Festival ’22. Endo will be in attendance and address the crowd so it will be interesting to hear what he has to say. And when.
Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. Additionally, two pre-show matches and the first main card match will be streamed FOR FREE on YouTube.
Today’s lineup:
Pre-show:
Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani vs. Toru Owashi, Takao Soma & Toui Kojima
Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON vs. Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya & Yuki Ishida
Main show:
Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno & Yumehito Imanari vs. Akito, Antonio Honda & Kazuki Hirata
KING OF DDT Semifinals:
Yuki Ueno vs. Naomi Yoshimura
Kazusada Higuchi vs. Jun Akiyama
Masa Takanashi & HARASHIMA vs. Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku
MAO & Shunma Katsumata vs. Chris Brookes & Andrew Everett
KING OF DDT Finals for the vacant KO-D Openweight Championship
Tetsuya Endo will appear and speak to the fans
Refresh this page occasionally for the latest updates.
Updates below will begin at 9:45 PM ET/6:45 PM PT. The live stream begins at 9:30 PM ET/6:30 PM PT.
9:45 PM ET UPDATE: Live updates start now.
Waiting for the live stream to go to the venue, which should happen shortly. The first match should begin in about 15 minutes.
9:53 PM ET UPDATE: We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Or were for a moment. Stand by.
9:57 PM ET UPDATE: Take 2…We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your Japanese hosts are Ken Kato & Sayoko Mita. Your English hosts are Baliyan Akki & Christelle Ciari.
Pre-show:
Match 1: Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani vs. Toru Owashi, Takao Soma & Toui Kojima. 10 minute time limit
Result: Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani beat Toru Owashi, Takao Soma & Toui Kojima. Okatani pinned Kojima after a double arm suplex.
Match 2: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON vs. Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya & Yuki Ishida. 10 minute time limit
Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON beat Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya & Yuki Ishida. KANON pinned Ishida after a brainbuster.
The main show will begin at 10:30 PM ET/7:30 PM PT. During the pre-event announcements they bring in Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling stars Yuki Aino & Raku and Ganbare Pro star Ken Ohka to promote their respective major events next weekend at Ota City General Gym. The main show broadcast begins during Okha’s promo.
New Japan Pro Wrestling stars Yuji Nagata & Yoshinobu Kanemaru are announced for the Jun Akiyama 30th Anniversary Event on 9/18.
Shunma Katsumata & Toui Kojima come out to promote their Super Hardcore Girls event on 7/14, where they will transform into hardcore schoolgirls to take on members of Prominence. They lead the opening call to start the event.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Looks like a near-sellout/full house.
Main Show:
Sanahiro Takagi (reluctantly) joins Japanese commentary.
Match 1: Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno & Yumehito Imanari vs. Akito, Antonio Honda & Kazuki Hirata. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno & Yumehito Imanari beat Akito, Antonio Honda & Kazuki Hirata. Iino beat Akito.
Tetsuya Endo comes out. With microphone. He apologizes to the fans for worrying them following his injury (concussion) at CyberFight Festival. He announces he was just cleared to resume training and will return on 7/24 at Korakuen.
The YouTube broadcast ends here.
Match 2: KING OF DDT Semifinals: Yuki Ueno vs. Naomi Yoshimura. No time limit
Result; Naomi Yoshimura beat Yuk Ueno. As a result, Yoshimura advances to the Final to face the winner of the next match.
Match 3: KING OF DDT Semifinals: Kazusada Higuchi vs. Jun Akiyama. No time limit
Result: Kazusada Higuchi beat Jun Akiyama. As a result, Higuchi advances to the Finals to face Naomi Yoshimura for the KO-D Openweight Championship in the main event.
Quick break for ring cleaning.
Match 4: Masa Takanashi & HARASHIMA vs. Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku beat Masa Takanashi & HARASHIMA. Okada pinned Takanashi. Afterwards, Okada with microphone. He challenged Takanashi for the DDT Universal Championship.
Match 5: MAO & Shunma Katsumata vs. Chris Brookes & Andrew Everett. 30 minute time limit
Result; Chris Brookes & Andrew Everett beat MAO & Shunma Katsumata. Everett pinned Katsumata after a moonsault chokeslam off the top rope. Note that while Everett calls himself “The Giant”, he really is no bigger than Brookes. By no means is he 7 feet, 300+ pounds.
Konosuke Takeshita, who is on an excursion to All Elite Wrestling in the US, appears in a recorded promo. He may be coming back for WRESTLE PETER PAN.
Main Event: KING OF DDT Finals: Naomi Yoshimura vs. Kazusada Higuchi for the vacant KO-D Openweight Championship. No time limit
Result: Kazusada Higuchi beat Naomi Yoshimura to win the tournament and the title. Higuchi becomes the 79th KO-D Openweight Champion.
The next event is Thursday at Shinjuku Face, which is this month’s DDT FREE event. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.
Post-show news/updates:
The announced paid attendance was 703.
The DDT Universal Championship match hinted at will happen on 7/24. Whoever wins will defend vs. TBA on 8/20.
First up for Higuchi: TBA. That will be on 8/20 at WRESTLE PETER PAN, but Higuchi stated he wants to wait for Endo.
Joey Janela vs. Shunma Katsumata in a Hardcore match was announced for 8/20, as was Shinichiro Kawamatsu, Sanshiro Takagi & Takao Soma vs. Osamu Nishimura, Makoto Oishi & Akito.
Atsushi Onita participation in an explosion death match was announced for 9/4 at Nagoya Congress Center.
For the DDT Extreme Championship match on 7/16, which is Yuki Iino defending vs. Akito, the rule is a 3 vs. 1 handicap match of Pheromons vs. Akito. If any of the Pheromons get a pinfall or submission, Iino retains the title. But if Akito gets a pinfall or submission on any of the Pheromons, even if it’s not Iino, Akito wins the title.
For the Jun Akiyama 30th Anniversary Event on 9/18 at Korakuen, it will be set up where vocal cheering will be allowed in one section of the venue but not in another section, and the vocal section will be at 50% capacity.
7/3/22-7/9/22 Events Schedule
Here is the current events schedule for this site for 7/3/22-7/9/22, which is subject to change (all times PT):
7/3:
1 AM-Pro Wrestling NOAH SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour, Yamagata Big Wing, Yamagata, Japan. On demand video available on WRESTLE UNIVERSE beginning 7/6
2:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling New Japan Road Tour, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Live and on demand on New Japan World
7/4:
2:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling New Japan Road Tour, Korakuen Hall. Live and on demand on New Japan World
7/5:
2:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling New Japan Road Tour, Korakuen Hall. Live and on demand on New Japan World
7/6:
5 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Dynamite”, Rochester, NY. LIVE on TBS in US, New Japan World in Japan and FITE elsewhere
7/7:
2:30 AM-DDT Pro Wrestling “DDT FREE -LET’S SHOUT!-“, Shinjuku Face, Tokyo, Japan. Live and on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
7/8:
7 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Rampage”. TAPED on TNT in US and FITE elsewhere
10 PM-Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling “SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’22”, Ota City General Gym, Tokyo, Japan. Live and on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. English audio will be available for this event.
7/9:
10 PM-Ganbare Pro Wrestling “WRESTLE SEKIGAHARA”, Ota City General Gym. Live and on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. English audio will be available for this event.
Streaming note: Since it’s that time of the month, the latest monthly subscription fees in USD for WRSETLE UNIVERSE & New Japan World are as follows as of yesterday (7/1), based on what I was charged:
WRESTLE UNIVERSE-$6.66 (900 yen)
New Japan world-$7.37 (999 yen)
Both are record lows since I have been subscribing (since February 2021 for New Japan World, since summer 2021 for WRESTLE UNIVERSE). Remember that if you have never subscribed to WRESTLE UNIVERSE before, you get a 2-week FREE trial. If you cancel before the 13th day Japan time, you will not be charged.
Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/2/22 Results
Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour, this being a rare tour that stretches out over two consecutive months, with the next of a handful of house shows building up the next blowout event in 2 weeks. Today also possibly marked the major promotions’ return to Fukushima after the major earthquake a few months ago that caused some damage in areas affected by the catastrophic 9.1 earthquake near Fukushima in March 2011.
Today’s event was held at Big Palette Fukushima in Fukushima and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. There was no live broadcast.
In addition to Go Shiozaki being a late removal from the event (potential coronavirus close contact), it was revealed on the results page that Shuhei Taniguchi was also a last-minute removal from the event. Heat stroke.
The announced paid attendance was 318.
Match 1: Manabu Soya vs. Daiki Inaba went to a 15 minute time limit draw.
Match 2: Super Crazy beat Alejandro.
Match 3: HAYATA & Yuya Susumu beat Seiki Yoshioka & Kai Fujimura. Susumu beat Fujimura with a crossface.
Match 4: Michael Elgin, Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura beat Timothy Thatcher, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Rene Dupree. Elgin pinned Dupree after a Double Impact type Elgin Bomb.
Match 5: Takashi Sugiura, Hideki Suzuki & NOSAWA Rongai beat Mohammed Yone, Simon Gotch & Kinya Okada. Suzuki pinned Okada with a double arm suplex.
Match 6: Yoshinari Ogawa beat Kotaro Suzuki by DQ. Outside interference.
Main Event: Satoshi Kojima, Kaito Kiyomiya, Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY & Extreme Tiger beat Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Hi69. Kojima pinned Ohara after a Western lariat.
The next event is tomorrow at Yamagata Big Wing in Yamagata. Both Shiozaki and Taniguchi will miss this event as well. The event will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. There will be no live broadcast.
