AEW Rampage 6/24/22 Results

Here are the quick results from last night’s AEW Rampage:
Andrade El Idolo beat Rey Fenix. Andrade appeared to align himself with Rush and his Los Faction Ingobernables faction afterwards.

Serena Deeb & Mercedes Martinez beat Laynie Luck & Sierra. Squash.

Hook beat The DKC. Squash.

Jeff Cobb beat Cash Wheeler.

2 more matches were added to Forbidden Door, both on the pre-show: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs. QT Marshall & Aaron Solo and Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado.

Tokyo Joshi: 9th Princess Cup Announced

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling has announced the 9th Tokyo Princess Cup, their annual singles tournament featuring the entire TJPW roster. Normally it features the entire roster, which is currently 22, but only 20 entrants are set for this year and it guarantees a new champion this year. That is because defending winner Maki Itoh is out because she was invited to participate in Game Changer Wrestling in the US on August 14, which is the same date as the Finals. Itoh will go to the US to contribute to TJPW by appearing overseas and will miss the tournament as a result. Rookie Juria Nagano will also not participate due to schedule reasons. That and recent history would suggest Mizuki will be the favorite going in-the only reason she may very well not have been going for a 4-peat this year is Itoh, who beat Mizuki in last year’s Semifinals to deny her a potential 3rd straight tournament win.

The schedule for this year’s tournament is as follows:
Rounds 1-2: 7/16, 7/17, 7/18 at Ryogoku KFC Hall & 7/23 at Shinjuku Face
Quarterfinals: 7/31 at Otemachi Mitsui Hall
Semifinals: 8/13 at Korakuen Hall
Finals: 8/14 at Korakuen Hall
Round 1 will have 4 matches over each of the first 2 events. Because of the number of participants, 4 will get a free pass to Round 2. After the Quarterfinals, there likely will be a random draw to set up the Semifinals. The eventual winner will likely earn a Princess Of Princess Championship match unless the current champion wins (that will be either Shoko Nakajima or Rika Tatsumi).

Pro Wrestling NOAH 6/24/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH resumed the SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour today, wrapping up their June schedule with the beginning of the build to the next GHC Heavyweight Championship match at the next Nippon Budokan blowout event in mid-July.

Today’s event was held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Tokohama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 202. Depending on the seating layout, this was probably at least a near-sellout (it’s a very small venue).

There were some last-minute changes to the card as Rene Dupree was announced as being off the card just before event time. The always-vague poor physical condition.

Match 1: Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito beat Atsushi Kotoge & Kinya Okada. Yone pinned Okada after Kinniku Muscle Buster.

Match 2: Simon Gotch beat Daiki Inaba.

Match 3: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. beat Manabu Soya.

Match 4: Takashi Sugiura, Hideki Suzuki & Timothy Thatcher beat Michael Elgin, Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura. Thatcher beat Kitamiya with a Fujiwara armbar.

Match 5: Go Shiozaki beat Shuhei Taniguchi.

Main Event: Satoshi Kojima & Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Kenoh & Katsuhiko Nakajima went to a 30 minute time limit draw.

The next event is 7/2 at Big Palette Fukushima in Fukushima. This event and the two events after that all will be taped for on demand broadcast on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (this is typically 3 days after the event).

In post-event news, the full card for ABEMA presents DESTINATION 2022 on 7/16 has been announced (this is an ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan, WRESTLE UNIVERSE will have a companion live broadcast in English):
Daisuke Harada, Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY & Extreme Tiger vs. Shuji Kondo, Hajime Ohara, Tadasuke & Hi69
Masaaki Mochizuki, Shuhei Taniguchi, Yoshiki Inamura, Daiki Inaba & Kinya Okada vs. Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Rene Dupree, Simon Gotch, Stallion Rogers & Anthony Green
Ninja Mack vs. Dante Leon
Rob Van Dam & Masato Tanaka vs. NOSAWA Rongai & Super Crazy in a Hardcore match
Go Shiozaki, Takashi Sugiura & Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Masakatsu Funaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya
GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Yoshinari Ogawa & Chris Ridgeway vs. Eita & Kotaro Suzuki for the titles
PRO WRESTLING LOVE FOREVER 1 ~THE FINAL COUNTDOWN~: Keiji Muto vs. Kaito Kiyomiya (the first of the final 5 matches of Muto’s career)
GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Michael Elgin & Masa Kitamiya vs. Hideki Suzuki & Timothy Thatcher for the titles
GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion HAYATA vs. Seiki Yoshioka for the title
GHC Heavyweight Champion Satoshi Kojima vs. Kenoh for the title

BREAKING: NJPW Star Off Forbidden Door

The injury bug continues to hit AEW & New Japan at a bad time right before the Forbidden Door PPV this weekend-New Japan just announced on their English website that Tomohiro Ishii is now off the event. Left knee injury. He was to have been in a 4-way for the AEW All-Atlantic Championship. Clark Connors, who Ishii beat to earn a spot in the match, is the replacement.

AEW Dynamite 6/22/22 Results

Here are the quick results from last night’s AEW Dynamite in Milwaukee:
Bryan Danielson announced he can’t compete at Forbidden Door or next week’s Dynamite due to not being medically cleared. This is apparently due to injury from Double Or Nothing. He was to have faced Zack Sabre Jr. on Sunday and been in Blood And Guts next week. Replacement TBA but it’ll be the same person for both.

Orange Cassidy, Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero beat Will Ospreay & Aussie Open.

Christian Cage cut a heel promo on Jungle Boy.

AEW All-Atlantic Championship Tournament: Malakai Black beat Penta Oscuro. As a result, Black is in the 4-way for the title against Miro, Pac & Tomohiro Ishii.

Adam Page beat Silas Young.

Toni Storm beat Marina Shafir.

Jon Moxley & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Chris Jericho & Lance Archer. Afterwards, Kazuchika Okada made his AEW Debut and it was announced that IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jay White will defend the title at Forbidden Door…against Page, Okada and Adam Cole in a 4-way. Oh snap.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 6/23/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran this month’s N INNOVATION event today, and on paper it was a big event with 2 title matches and someone’s NOAH run ending. More potential big shifting in the Jr. Heavyweight ranks.

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

The announced paid attendance was 360, a legit advance sellout.

There were a few late changes to the card yesterday and today before the event-first, Alejandro had to be removed from the card due to a fever. He was to have teamed with Kaito Kiyomiya to face Shuji Kondo & Hi69. Extreme Tiger was the telacement. Until…after that Daisuke Harada also had to be removed from the card. Fever. Because he was part of the champion team, it meant the Open The Triangle Gate Championship would now be VACANT. The scheduled title match was now for the vacant titles with Tiger replacing Harada, and TBA again with Kiyomiya in the first match.

Match 1: Kaito Kiyomiya & TBA, which ultimately wound up being Satoshi Kojima (who IS NOT a Jr. Heavyweight), beat Shuji Kondo & Hi69. Kojima pinned Hi69 after a Western lariat.

Match 2: Yoshinari Ogawa beat Kai Fujimura by submission. It only went 51 seconds. (Comment after watching on replay-this may have been a botched finish. Fujimura seemed to clearly have his shoulders up before the 3 count and the ref casually counted. Ogawa had caught Fujimura in a dropkick and was maybe setting up a Figure 4 but sat down for the pin. Very questionable but I think the ref blew this one)

Match 3: Seiki Yoshioka beat Yuya Susumu.

Match 4: NOSAWA Rongai, Eita & Kotaro Suzuki beat Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY & Extreme Tiger to win the vacant Open The Triangle Gate Championship. NOSAWA, Eita & Suzuki become the 81st Open The Triangle Gate Champions. Eita pinned YO-HEY after Imperial Uno.

Match 5: In a Loser NOAH Expulsion match, Tadasuke beat Haoh. As a result, Haoh is done with NOAH.

Main Event: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion HAYATA beat Hajime Ohara by submission to retain the title. V2 for HAYATA. Next up: Yoshioka. That will happen on 7/16 at Nippon Budokan.

The next event is tomorrow at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

UPDATE: Potential correction on the opening match-when I watched the replay, Hi69 was announced as HIROKI, which is a name he later used before becoming Nioh.

FREE VIDEO: All NJPW STRONG Title Matches

On this weekend’s new episode of NJPW STRONG, STRONG Openweight Champion Tom Lawlor will attempt to make his 9th successful title defense as the first and only champion, facing Fred Rosser for the second time with the stip that Rosser must leave STRONG if he loses. But before then, you have the change to watch EVERY title match so far, including the tournament final where Lawlor beat Brody King to become champion, FOR FREE! That’s almoat 4 hours of action!
Click below to watch via New Japan’s YouTube channel:

New Japan 6/21/22 Results

New Japan continued the New Japan Road Tour today with the final event before Forbidden Door and a roughly 2-week break, headlined by Hiromu Takahashi attempting to follow up his 3rd straight Best Of The Super Junior victory with reclaiming yhe IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1380, a legit sellout. This is about 2/3 notmal capacity for the venue.

Match 1: DOUKI beat Yuto Nakashima by submission.

Match 2: Taichi beat Ryohei Oiwa.

Match 3: Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Yoh, Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Sho pinned Yoh. They might have teased yet another NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championship match between them afterwards.

Match 4: Aaron Henare, Francesco Akira & TJP beat Jado, Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi. Henare beat Jado with Ultima.

Match 5: BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Kosei Fujita, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Togi Makabe & Kazuchika Okada. BUSHI pinned Fujita.

All G1 CLIMAX matches were announced. The first 9 events will have one match from each block, then it will be 5 matches per event until Day 18 at Nippon Budokan, which will have the last 2 matches in each block and will set the Semifinals with the winner of each block.

Match 6: AEW All-Atlantic Championship Tournament: Tomohiro Ishii beat Clark Connors. As a result, Ishii advances to the 4-way for the title on Sunday at Forbidden Door against Pac, Miro and either Malakai Black or Penta Oscuro. That last match is tomorrow on AEW Dynamite.

Main Event: IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Taiji Ishimori beat Hiromu Takahashi to retain the title. V1 for Ishimori. A 36+ minute instant classic. Next up: Time Splitter…KUSHIDA is back! Having been released by WWE earlier this year, KUSHIDA returned and announced he has re-signed with New Japan for what should be the rest of his career and made the challenge. Ishimori said he’d have to earn it. They last met in January 2019 at Tokyo Dome when Ishimori beat KUSHIDA to retain the title.

The next event is 7/3.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 6/19/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH returned to Kobe for the first time in some time yesterday, I forgot to post results although I was also feeling under the weather. The event was dubbed BACK IN THE KOBE! LIVE 2022.

Yesterday’s event was held at Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE beginning Wednesday at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1; Mohammed Yone & Alexander Otsuka (Independent/Freelancer) beat Shuhei Taniguchi & Kinya Okada. Yone pinned Okada after Kinniku Muscle Buster.

Match 2: YO-HEY & Extreme Tiger beat Atsushi Kotoge & Alejandro. YO-HEY pinned Alejandro after Face G.

Match 3: Kazushi Sakuraba beat Simon Gotch by submission.

Match 4: Yoshinari Ogawa & Yuya Susumu beat Seiki Yoshioka & Kai Fujimura. Susumu beat Fujimura with a crossface.

Match 5: HAYATA beat Hajime Ohara.

Match 6: Go Shiozaki, Michael Elgin, Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura beata Takashi Sugiura, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Rene Dupree & Timothy Thatcher. Shiozaki pinned Wagner after Go Lariat.

Match 7: GHC National Champion Masakatsu Funaki beat Masato Tanaka by ref stoppage (technical submission) to retain the title. V4 for Funaki.

Main Event: Satoshi Kojima, Kaito Kiyomiya, Daiki Inaba, Daisuke Harada & Haoh beat Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya, Tadasuke & Hi69. Kojima pinned Hi69 after a Western lariat.

During the event it was also announced that Yoshiki Inamura participation is set for the upcoming ZERO1 Fire Festival Tournament in July. Inamura was to have been in last year’s tournament but was forced to miss the tournament due to injury.

The next event is an N INNOVATION event Thursday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo with an Open The Triangle Gate Championship match and main event of HAYATA vs. Ohara for the GHC Jr. Heavyweight Championship. Between those matches is a big match of Haoh vs. Tadasuke in a Loser NOAH Expulsion match, meaning the loser is gone from the promotion. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Thursday at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

New Japan 6/20/22 Results

New Japan continued the New Japan Road Tour today with the start of the fully-televised stretch of events for the rest of the series, starting with the first half of a doubleheader representing their final build to the joint Forbidden Door PPV with All Elite Wrestling next weekend. Today they also unveiled the 4 blocks for the 2022 G1 CLIMAX Tournament, with matches scheduled to be announced tomorrow.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese FOR FREE! No account or login required! The event also was streamed live on ABEMA in Japan. Click below to watch the full replay FOR FREE:
https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00617_3_1

The announced paid attendance was 542. It was reduced capacity again and they used the smaller layout on the hard camera-facing side with two monitors instead of one. Taichi is today’s guest on commentary.

Match 1: Aaron Henare beat Kosei Fujita by submission.

Match 2: Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Yoh, Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. EVIL pinned Yoh after EVIL.

Match 3: SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Ryohei Oiwa, Yuto Nakashima & Kazuchika Okada. Takagi pinned Oiwa after Pumping Bomber.

Match 4: BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi beat Gedo & Taiji Ishimori. Takahashi pinned Gedo after D.

Match 5: AEW All-Atlantic Championship Tournament: Clark Connors beat Tomoaki Honma.

Match 6: AEW All-Atlantic Championship Tournament: Tomohiro Ishii beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru. As a result, Ishii will face Connors tomorrow with the winner advancing to a 4-way for the title at Forbidden Door.

Main Event: Francesco Akira & TJP beat IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato to win the titles. Akira & TJP become the 70th IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Akira pinned Wato after The Leaning Tower. Well, I guess that’s it for Team 6 or 9. Unless they hang around long enough to become the 96th champions!

Here are the 4 blocks for the G1 CLIMAX Tournament this yer, as announced today:
Block A: Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano, Tom Lawlor, Jeff Cobb, Jonah, Bad Luck Fale, Lance Archer
Block B: Jay White, Tomohiro Ishii, SANADA, Tama Tonga, Great-O-Khan, Chase Owens, Taichi
Block C: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto, Tetsuya Naito, Zack Sabre Jr., Aaron Henare, KENTA, EVIL
Block D: Will Ospreay, Shingo Takagi, YOSHI-HASHI, David Finlay, Juice Robinson, El Phantasmo, Yujiro Takahashi
Okada is the defending champion. Block A probably is going to be Okada-Cobb again like last year to determine who wins. Block B seemingly has White, the current IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, all over it. Block C is the “Block Of Death”…any of them can win. Block D, despite a heavy Bullet Club presence, looks poised for another Ospreay-Takagi epic to settle it.

The next event is tomorrow, headlined by Hiromu Takahashi-Ishimori for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. It also is the final event before Forbidden Door-after tomorrow they will be off for the event with the current tour resuming on 7/3.

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