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All-Japan 4/8/23 Results (Updated)

All-Japan kicked off the 2023 Champions Carnival today, their annual singles tournament that is the promotion’s most prestigious tournament held each year. It’s primarily a Heavyweight tournament that could reward the winner with a Triple Crown opportunity (and almost certainly will as Triple Crown Champion Yuji Nagata is not entered). They also began a Jr. Heavyweight tag tournament.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. Also, they are doing a promotion this month where if you are a new paying subscriber, you get this first month FOR FREE! The fine print: You can’t cancel during the month and you also must pay for next month before you can cancel.

The announced paid attendance was 634. If the venue was 50% capacity as the event was announced ahead of time before pandemic restrictions were lifted, that would be close to a sellout.

Match 1: Hikaru Sato & Dan Tamura beat Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato and Naruki Doi & Naoki Tanizaki in a 3-way when Tamura pinned Doi.

Match 2: Jr. Tag Battle Of Glory: Kaito Ishida (GLEAT) & Kotaro Suzuki beat Ryo Inoue & Oji Shiiba. Ishida pinned Inoue after a face kick.

Champions Carnival:
Match 3: Block B: Rei Saito beat Takao Omori. Possible squash.
Match 4: Block A: Cyrus beat Jun Saito.
Match 6: Block B: Hokuto Omori beat Shuji Ishikawa by submission.
Match 6: Block A: Yoshitatsu beat T-Hawk (GLEAT) by ref stoppage.
Match 7: Block A: Manabu Soya (Pro Wrestling NOAH) beat Shotaro Ashino.
Match 8: Block B: Ryuki Honda beat Satoshi Kojima (New Japan).
Match 9: Block B: Suwama beat Yuma Anzai.
Main Event: Block A: Yuma Aoyagi beat Kento Miyahara.

The next event is Monday at Hodogaya Public Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

UPDATE: A Triple Crown match has been announced for 5/29, so the Champions Carnival winner may face Nagata then. More as it becomes available.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 4/8/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH resumed the (really never-ending, it’s going through at least summer) SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour today with the first of all weekend events this month.

Today’s event was held at Osaka ATC Hall Floor B2 in Osaka and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 355.

Match 1: Kinya Okada beat Taishi Ozawa by submission.

Match 2: Super Crazy, Extreme Tiger & Lancelot beat Ninja Mack, Seiki Yoshioka & Alejandro. Tiger pinned Alejandro after a reverse face bomb.

Match 3: Hideki Suzuki & Saxon Huxley beat Hajime Ohara & Hi69. Huxley pinned Hi69 after a neck hanging bomb.

Match 4: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Yoshinari Ogawa beat Jack Morris & Tadasuke. Wagner pinned Morris after Wagner Driver.Match 5: HAYATA & Yasutaka Yano beat AMAKUSA & Atsushi Kotoge. HAYATA pinned AMAKUSA after Hedeck.

Match 6: Eita beat YO-HEY.Match 7: Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, Shuhei Taniguchi & Shawn Legacy beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Yoshiki Inamura. Legacy pinned Inamura after a swan dive 450 splash.

Main Event: Jake Lee & Anthony Greene beat Kenoh & Katsuhiko Nakajima by ref stoppage. Lee beat Nakajima with a cobra twist.

The next event is tomorrow at Takaoka Ecole in Toyama. There will be no live broadcast.

New Japan 4/8/23 Results

SAKURA GENESIS, New Japan’s traditional April blowout event, is now in the books. 5 title matches headlined the event with New Japan Cup winner SANADA going for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship in the main event.

Today’s event was held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. The live broadcast was part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE 2023 on TV Asahi in Japan.

The announced paid attendance was 6510. Depending on the seating configuration for the box and floor stats in the lower half of the venue, that’s between 40-55% of full capacity as they slowly ramp back up to normal. (The box seats normally sit between 2-6 people for sumo tournaments)

Match 1: Great-O-Khan, Toru Yano & Minoru Suzuki beat Yoh, El Desperado & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Yano pinned Tanahashi. This match’s participants were not announced until it began.

Match 2: Francesco Akira, Aaron Henare & Jeff Cobb beat Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Cobb pinned Sho after Tour of the Islands. Afterwards, Akira appeared to accept an IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship challenge from JET SETTERS (KUSHIDA & Kevin Knight).

Match 3: DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi beat BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito. Kanemaru beat BUSHI with a Figure 4.

Match 4: El Phantasmo, KENTA & David Finlay beat Master Wato, Hikuleo & Tama Tonga. Phantasmo pinned Wato after CR 2. Afterwards, KENTA, Finlay & Taiji Ishimori suddenly turned on Phantasmo and beat him down. Could Phantasmo now be out of Bullet Club?

Match 5: IWGP Women’s Champion Mercedes Mone beat AZM & Hazuki in a 3-way by pinning AZM to retain the title. V1 for Mone. Next up: Mayu Iwatani. That match will happen at a major Stardom event later this month at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama.

Match 6: NJPW WORLD TV Champion Zack Sabre Jr. beat Shota Umino to retain the title. V4 for Sabre.

Match 7: Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis) beat IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto to win the titles. Aussie Open become the 98th IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Fletcher pinned Goto after Corealis.

Match 8: IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi beat Robbie Eagles to retain the title. V3 for Takahashi.

Main Event: SANADA beat IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okadaa to win the title. SANADA becomes the 7th IWGP World Heavyweight Champion. Considering they also announced the 2023 G1 CLIMAX today (more on that below), now the questions are will Okada get another shot before then, and does this mean he is the favorite to 3-peat the G1 and perhaps get the main event and win it back at Tokyo Dome in 2024? SANADA follows up a New Japan Cup triumph by claiming the top prize for the first time in his career. Next up: It could be…Hiromu Takahashi!?! The current IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion made the challenge to his former LIJ stablemate! But not necessarily so fast-Kanemaru stepped in to challenge Hiromu for the Jr. Heavyweight Championship first. To Be Continued…

The next event is CAPITAL COLLISION on 4/15 at Entertainment & Sports Arena in Washington, DC. Live streaming on New Japan World as a separate PPV in Japanese and on FITE as a PPV in English will begin at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT. The event costs about $22 on New Japan World and $19.99 on FITE but you can also get a discount bundle for $29.99 that also includes COLLISION IN PHILADELPHIA on 4/16 which will be a FITE-only PPV, no live broadcast on New Japan World. The events will also be available via STRONG On Demand on New Japan World in the coming months.

In other news, as noted above the 2023 G1 CLIMAX 33 Tournament was announced today, which officially begins the road to Tokyo Dome as the winner traditionally gets the main event spot and an IWGP World Heavyweight Championship match on 1/4. The schedule is as follows:
7/15-Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kita Yell, Hokkaido
7/16-Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kita Yell
7/18-Yamagata Sports Center, Yamagata
7/19-Xebio Arena Sendai, Sendai
7/21-Aore Nagaoka, Niigata
7/23-Nagano Big Hat, Nagano
7/25-Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
7/26-Korakuen Hall
7/27-Ota City General Gym, Tokyo
7/30-Aichi Prefectural Gym, Nagoya
8/1-Takamatsu Gym, Takamatsu
8/2-Hiroshima Sun Plaza, Hiroshima
8/5-Osaka Prefectural Gym, Osaka
8/6-Osaka Prefectural Gym
8/8-Yokohama Budokan, Yokohama
8/9-Act City Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
8/10-Funabashi Arena, Chiba
8/12-Ryogoku Kokugikan
8/13-Ryogoku Kokugikan (Finals)

Much more on this to come as the tournament gets closer. I would expect further details and entries to be announced in June.

AEW Rampage & BOTB 6 4/7/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s LIVE AEW Rampage & Battle Of The Belts 6 in Kingston, RI:
Rampage:
In an FTW Rules Match, FTW Champion Hook beat Ethan Page by submission to retain the title. FTW Rules means anything goes, falls count anywhere.

Angelo Parker, Matt Menard & The Acclaimed beat 4 jobbers. Squash. JAS beat down The Acclaimed afterwards.

Darby Allin beat Lee Moriarty. Allin competed despite being run over by a car in New York yesterday while riding his skateboard and amazingly only suffering road rash (noticeable on his back).

Julia Hart beat Anna Jay.A.S.

BOTB 6:
AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy beat Dralistico to retain the title.

AEW TBS Champion Jade Cargill beat Billie Starkz to retain the title. 55-0.

ROH Tag Team Champions Lucha Bros beat QT Marshall & Powerhouse Hobbs to retain the titles.Rey Fenix pinned Marshall.

Both shows were mediocre at best and are skippable.

Wednesday on Dynamite: Keith Lee vs. Chris Jericho, Swerve Strickland vs. Darby Allin, Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Brandon Culter & Michael Nakazawa and AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy (of course) vs. Buddy Matthews for the title.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling 4/8/2023 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro is back from their USA debut (but reportedly it was quite an adventure getting back to Japan from Los Angeles…some apparently wound up in Washington, DC after their flights got cancelled!) and continues their spring house show tour today with the first event post-USA and last one before their next big event next week. Not all the roster came back as Miyu Yamashita, Maki Itoh & Yuka Sakazaki remained overseas for now with Yamashita not expected back until at least June. They also added a pre-event signing ceremony for next week’s Princess Of Princess Championship match between Mizuki & Nao Kakuta to lead off the event.

There was also a last-minute change to today’s event, what had been a 3-way is now a single match between Hyper Misao & HIMAWARI because of no Raku, who is off due to the ever-vague “poor physical condition”. She posted on Twitter earlier that she will be back next week.

Today’s event will be held at Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. With mostly tag matches and the signing ceremony this event will run longer than most weekend house shows-I anticipate the total running time being just over 2 hours, closer to 2 1/4 hours.

Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Mahiro Kiryu, Wakana Uehara & Toga vs. Yuki Aino, Haru Fujo & Runa Okubo
Hikari Noa vs. Shino Suzuki
Hyper Misao vs. HIMAWARI
Yuki Kamifuku & Neko Haruna vs. Suzume & Arisu Endo
Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe vs. Shoko Nakajima & Kaya Toribami
Mizuki & Moka Miyamoto vs. Nao Kakuta & Pom Harajuku

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 11:30 PM ET/8:30 PM PT.

8:30 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Ringside looks full, the othe seats we can see look 65-70%, since they’re back at full capacity there I’ll guess it’ll be around 325.

A table is set up in the ring as we’ll begin with the Mizuki-Nao Kakuta contract signing for 4/15.

The matches should begin in about 30 minutes. Contract signing lasts about 10 minutes and pre-event announcements begin at 8:40 PM PT to be followed by Up Up Girls. During announcements, Max The Impaler & Vertvixen were announced for 4/16 and there will be a screening event in the near future (it will be after the 4/29 event at Shinagawa Club eX).

The matches begin at 8:55 PM PT. Hard camera only views today. (They totally blew up the card last-minute. The original lineup posted above is completely inaccurate except for the first match) (Late update: Turns out both Hyper Misao & Yuki Aino were also last-minute removals from the event. Poor physical condition)

Match 1: Hikari Noa vs. Shino Suzuki. 15 minute time limit
Result: Hikari Noa beat Shino Suzuki

Match 2: Mahiro Kiryu, Wakana Uehara & Toga vs. Arisu Endo, Haru Fujo & Runa Okubo. 20 minute time limit
Result: Arisu Endo, Haru Fuji & Runa Okubo beat Mahiro Kiryu, Wakana Uehara & Toga. Endo beat Uehara with a camel clutch. (Did I miss something? I thought it was Yuki Aino here)

Match 3: Suzume vs. HIMAWARI. 15 minute time limit
Result: Suzume beat HIMAWARI

Match 4: Neko Haruna vs. Yuki Kamifuku. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Kamifuku beat Neko Haruna’

Match 5: Shoko Nakajima & Kaya Toribami vs. Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi. 20 minute time limit
Result: Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi beat Shoko Nakajima & Kaya Toribami. Tatsumi pinned Toribami after a Watanabe Teardrop into Twist Of Fate.

Main Event: Nao Kakuta & Pom Harajuku vs. Mizuki & Moka Miyamoto. 20 minute time limit
Result: Nao Kakuta & Pom Harajuku beat Mizuki & Moka Miyamoto. Kakuta pinned Miyamoto after Shiden Kai.

With the majority of the card being shifted due to 3 unexpected absences today (Raku, Hyper Misao, Yuki Aino) this wound up being a much shorter event than expected, checking in at only about 1 hour, 45 minutes. All 3 missing wrestlers should be back next time out though. It was a tough week of travel back from the USA as things did not go well due to flight cancellations and trouble getting out of Los Angeles, CA with some even being diverted all the way to Washington, DC. So they get a free pass and at least they shared a lot of great photos on social media…Endo acting like she just won the lottery holding a 40-count box of Rice Krispies Treats in a Target was just priceless.

The next event is “STAND ALONE ’23” on 4/15 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Based on pre-sale ticket schedules, this will be the last time they are only at 50% capacity in the venue (starting in May they’ll be back to full capacity). Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 4/14 at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 223.

TJPW News: Late Card Changes For Today

Tokyo Joshi Pro has announced a last minute change to today’s event card because Raku is now off. The ever-vague poor physical condition. She was to have faced Hyper Misao & HIMAWARI in a 3-way. It’s now just Misao vs. HIMAWARI.

The event also will now start with a public contract signing for the Princess Of Princess Championship Match between Mizuki & Nao Kakuta on 4/15. The event begins tonight at 11:30 PM ET/8:30 PM PT and streams live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

Impact Wrestling 4/6/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s TAPED Impact Wrestling in Windsor, Ontario Canada:
This episode was taped the day after Sacrifice and was the fallout episode from the PPV.

Pre-show YouTube Match: Heath & Rhino beat Champagne Singh & Shera.

Motor CIty Machine Guns beat TMDK. Chris Sabin pinned Shane Haste. Afterwards, MCMG challenge Ace Austin & Chris Bey to Ultimate X at Rebellion, possibly for the Impact Tag Team Championship.

Match 2: Mike Bailey vs. Jonathan Gresham went to a no contest. Trey Miguel interference. This was to have been for a shot at Miguel and the X Division Championship at Rebellion. As a result, Santino Marella announced that because of Miguel’s interference, he’ll have to defend against both Bailey & Gresham in a 3-way at Rebellion.

Match 3: Jody Threat Impact Debut Match: Jody Threat beat Tara Rising. Squash.

Match 4: Tommy Dreamer, Yuya Uemura & Darren McCarty beat Bully Ray & The Good Hands. McCarty pinned Skyler after a stunner.

Match 5: Eddie Edwards beat PCO. Alisha Edwards interference set it up.

Josh Alexander officially gave up the Impact World Championship due to injury. Steve Maclin & KUSHIDA got involved leading to a brawl with KUSHIDA getting the better of Maclin.

Next week: The go-home show for Rebellion. Gisele Shaw vs. Tasha Steelz, Taylor Wilde vs. Jessicka, Sami Callihan & Angels vs. Joe Hendry & Dirty Dango, Kenny King vs. Frankie Kazarian for the advantage in Hardcore War at Rebellion, and the final decision on Mickie James’ status for Rebellion.

Added to Rebellion: Santino Marella, Joe Hendry & Dirty Dango vs. The Design, Knockouts Tag Team Champions The Coven (KiLynn King & Taylor Wilde) vs. Death Dollz (Jessicka & Rosemary) and Impact X Division Champion Trey Miguel vs. Mike Bailey & Jonathan Gresham in a 3-way for the title.

Ring Of Honor TV 4/6/23 Results (SPOILERS!)

Below are the quick results for tonight’s episode of Ring Of Honor TV from Long Island, NY, which was taped yesterday after AEW Dynamite. Be advised this will contain SPOILERS! (The episode premieres later today on HonorClub, which is available in the US for $9.99/month)

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New Japan 4/6/23 Results

New Japan wrapped up the Road to SAKURA GENESIS Tour today with the final build to Saturday’s annual April blowout event.

Today’s event was held at Tokorozawa Civic Gym in Saitama. There was no live broadcast and there is no on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 711.

Match 1: Ryusuke Taguchi, Ren Narita, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki beat Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Narita pinned Togo with a blizzard suplex hold.

Match 2: Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo beat BUSHI & Shingo Takagi. Phantasmo pinned BUSHI after a combined moonsault press.

Match 3: Shota Umino beat Ryohei Oiwa.

Match 4: Zack Sabre Jr. beat Oskar Leube by submission.

Match 5: Aaron Henare, Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb & Aussie Open beat Tomoaki Honma, Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Henare pinned Hinma after Streets Of Rage.

Match 6: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles. Naito pinned Fujita.

Main Event: In an Elimination Match, TAKA Michinoku DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Taichi & SANADA beat Madter Wato, Yoh, Tiger Mask, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada. SANADA was the only winning team member left.

The next event is SAKURA GENESIS Saturday at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. Live streaming on New Japan World outside Japan only will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET. The live broadcast will be only on TV Asahi in Japan (New Japan World will have on demand only). A special press conference and public event with championship match contract signings and more will be held tomorrow. It is open to the public but some events require paid tickets.

Dragon Gate 4/5/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued The Gate Of Passion 2023 Tour today with an event in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

The announced paid attendance was 1087.

Match 1: BxB Hulk, Ben-K & Minorita beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu & Jason Lee. Minorita pinned Lee after a Ben-K spear.

Match 2: Kenichiro Arai & Punch Tominaga beat Genki Horiguchi & Takashi Yoshida. Arai beat Horiguchi with a full nelson clutch.

Match 3: Ultimo Dragon, Dragon Kid & Ichikawa beat Shun Skywalker, Diamante & H-Y-O by DQ. Diamante DQ’d. Mask removal. This was to have been a tag team match but Diamante & Dragon were late additions to make it a 6-man tag.

Match 4: KAI & ISHIN beat Shuji Kondo & Kagetora. KAI pinned Kagetora after Meteor Impact.

Match 5: Don Fujii, Eita & Naruki Doi beat YAMATO, Kaito Nagano & Daiki Yanagiuchi. Doi beat Yanagiuchi with a camel clutch.

Match 6: Strong Machine J & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI beat Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia. KAMEI pinned Dia after JACKY Knife.

Match 7: Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda vs. Masaaki Mochizuki & Mochizuki Jr. went to a double countout.

Main Event: Madoka Kikuta beat Kota Minoura. As a result, Kikuta will face Open The Dream Gate Champion Shun Skywalker for the title at DEAD OR ALIVE 2023 on 5/5 at Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya.

The next event is Saturday at Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.