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All Elite Wrestling/New Japan Pro Wrestling Forbidden Door PPV Results (6/26/22)

AEW & New Japan host their first joint PPV, an event several months in the making, tonight in Forbidden Door. All but one match features wrestlers from each promotion competing against each other, with a number of title matches set as well. New Japan lost a couple of participants the last few days as Tomohiro Ishii was removed due to injury while Hiromu Takahashi was unable to travel due to illness (fever) while Bryan Danielson was not cleared to compete, denying him a match against Zack Sabre Jr. This resulted in Clark Connors being added to the AEW All-Atlantic Title 4-way as a replacement and a planned 8-man tag match becoming a 6-man instead. The main event will be Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the Interim AEW World Championship.
Today’s event will be held at United Center in Chicago and can be watched LIVE on PPV via participating cable/satellite providers and Bleacher Report in the US, ppv.com in Canada ONLY, New Japan World in Japan ONLY and FITE elsewhere for $49.99 except in Japan, where it is 4980 yen. If you go the Bleacher Report route, you get the live stream and then on demand replays for 72 hours after a 24 hour wait. A FREE pre-show will stream on YouTube 1 hour before the main show. A post-event media scrum on YouTube is currently scheduled for 12:30 AM ET/9:30 PM PT indicating the PPV’s likely runtime will be in the neighborhood of 5 hours total.
Tonight’s current lineup:
Pre-show:
Gunn Club & Max Caster vs. The DKC, Kevin Knight, Alex Coughlin & Yuya Uemura
Swerve Strickland & Keith Lee vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado
Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI vs. QT Marshall & Aaron Solo

PPV:
The Young Bucks & El Phantasmo vs. Darby Allin, Sting & Shingo Takagi
Chris Jericho, Minoru Suzuki & Sammy Guevara vs. Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino
AEW Women’s Champion Thunder Rosa vs. Toni Storm for the title
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan vs. ROH World Tag Team Champions FTR and Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero in a 3-way for BOTH titles
IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay vs. Orange Cassidy for the title
Malakai Black vs. Miro, Pac & Clark Connors in a 4-way for the inaugural AEW All-Atlantic Championship
Zack Sabre Jr. vs. TBA
IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jay White vs. Kazuchika Okada, Adam Cole & Adam Page in a 4-way for the title
Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the Interim AEW World Championship
Updates below will begin at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT. Click below to watch the pre-show FOR FREE on YouTube at that time:

Pre-show:
Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI beat QT Marshall & Aaron Solo. Goto pinned Solo after GTW.
Lance Archer beat Nick Comoroto..
Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado. Lee pinned Kanemaru after a fireman’s carry powerbomb.
Gunn Club & Max Caster vs. The DKC, Kevin Knight, Alex Coughlin & Yuya Uemura. Caster pinned DKC after Mic Drop. Austin & Colten Gunn were immediately taken away from the match at the start by Danhausen.

PPV:
Chris Jericho, Minoru SUzuki & Sammy Guevara beat Eddie Kingston, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Unimo. Jericho pinned Umino after Judas Effect.
ROH World Tag Team Champions FTR beat IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan and Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero in a 3-way, when Dax Harwood pinned Romero, to retain the ROH titles and win the IWGP titles. FTR become the 96th IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.
Pac beat Miro, Malakai Black & Clark Connors in a 4-way by beating Connors to become the inaugural AEW All-Atlantic Champion.
Sting, Darby Allin & Shingo Takagi beat The Young Bucks & El Phantasmo. Takagi pinned Phantasmo after Last of the Dragon.
AEW Women’s World Champion Thunder Rosa beat Toni Storm to retain the title.
IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay beat Orange Cassidy to retain the title. V1 for Ospreay.
TBA beat Zack Sabre Jr. TBA was a replacement for Bryan Danielson, and it was Claudio Castagnoli (formerly Cesaro in WWE).
IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jay White beat Kazuchika Okada, Adam Cole & Adam Page in a 4-way by pinning Cole to retain the title. V1 for White.
Main Event: Jon Moxley beat Hiroshi Tanahashi to become the Interim AEW World Champion.

End Show.

Post-event media scrum has been tentatively moved up to 12:15 AM ET/9:15 PM PT. Click below to watch on YouTube after the PPV:

Tokyo Joshi Pro 6/26/22 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro wrapped up their June schedule with the second half of their weekend CITY CIRCUIT doubleheader today, making their first trip to Fukuoka in 3 years.

Today’s event was held at Nishitetsu Hall in Fukuoka and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 270, a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Moka Miyamoto beat Kaya Toribami by submission.

Match 2: In a One Spray OK Rule match, where a spray bottle attack could be used once by each competitor, Hyper Misao beat Arisu Endo.

Match 3: Hikari Noa & Nao Kakuta beat Suzume & Neko Haruna. Noa pinned ? with a blizzard suplex hold.

Match 4: Rika Tatsumi beat Raku & Yuki Kamifuku in a 3-way by pinning Raku.

Match 5: Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Mahiro Kiryu beat Miu Watanabe, Pom Harajuku & Yuki Arai. Sakazaki pinned Harajuku after Magical Merry-Go-Round.

Main Event: Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh beat Shoko Nakajima & Yuki Aino. Yamashita pinned Aino aftet Skull Kick.

The next event is SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’22, their summer blowout event, on 7/9 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo. The full card:
Moka Miyamoto vs. Juria Nagano
Aja Kong, Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku vs. Hyper Misao, Nao Kakuta, Neko Haruna & Kaya Toribami
Willow Nightingale (All Elite Wrestling/Ring Of Honor) vs. Miu Watanabe
Hikaru Shida (All Elite Wrestling) & Hikari Noa vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu
International Princess Champion Maki Itoh vs. Alex Windsor for the title
Riho (All Elite Wrestling) & Arisu Endo vs. Mei Suruga & Suzume
Thunder Rosa (All Elite Wrestling) vs. Miyu Yamashita
Princess Tag Team Champions Yuka Sakazaki & Mizuki vs. Yuki Arai & Saki Akai for the titles
Princess Of Princess Champion Shoko Nakajima vs. Rika Tatsumi for the title
Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 7/8 at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

BREAKING: Another Forbidden Door Casualty

The All Elite Wrestling/New Japan Pro Wrestling Forbidden Door PPV tomorrow has just taken another hit-Hiromu Takahashi can’t travel to the US and is now off. Fever. He was to have teamed with Sting, Darby Allin & Shingo Takagi against The Young Bucks, El Phantasmo & Hikuleo. There will be no replacement and it will now be a trios match as Hikuleo is being removed.

6/26/22-7/2/22 Events Schedule

Here is the current events schedule for 6/26/22-7/2/22, which is subject to change (moreso because the site owner will be off work at least this next week due to coronavirus, which means a couple events I may have had to miss I can now watch and cover):

6/26:
4 PM-All Elite Wrestling/New Japan Pro Wrestling Forbidden Door, Chicago, IL. LIVE on PPV and Bleacher Report in US only, New Japan World in Japan only and FITE elsewhere for $49.99 US (4980 Japanese yen for New Japan World subscribers)

6/29:
3 AM-Ganbare Pro Wrestling “Kinda Garton Cup 2022”, Shin-Kiba 1st Ring, Tokyo, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
5 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Dynamite”, Detroit, MI. LIVE on TBS in US, New Japan World in Japan and FITE elsewhere

7/1:
5 PM-Impact Wrestling Against All Odds 2022, Atlanta, GA. Available LIVE on FITE for $9.99
7 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Rampage”, Detroit, MI. TAPED on TNT

7/2:
2 AM-Pro Wrestling NOAH SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour, Big Palette Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan. Will be taped for On Demand broadcast on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date
7:30 PM-DDT Pro Wrestling “KING OF DDT” Finals, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan. LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE

DDT 6/25/22 Results

DDT took a break from the KING OF DDT Tournament today to continue the DRAMATIC DREAM TOUR 2022 with a house show in Yokohama. A KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship match headlined the event.

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

The announced paid attendance was 195, a legit sellout.

Match 1: Yuji Hino & Yukio Naya beat HARASHIMA & Hideki Okatani. Naya pinned Okatani after a backdrop.

Match 2: In a No Touch Rule match, Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno & Akito beat Toru Owashi, Kazuki Hirata & Takao Soma. Iino pinned Hirata. Afterwards, Akito issued a DDT Extreme Championship challenge to Iino and defected from Pheromons. He got it and paid for it.

Match 3: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON beat Chris Brookes & Antonio Honda. KANON beat Honda with Medusa.

Andrew Everett is announced for the 7/3 & 7/7 events.

Match 4: Naomi Yoshimura beat Yuya Koroku,

Match 5: Kazusada Higuchi & Yukio Sakaguchi beat Jun Akiyama & Yusuke Okada. Higuchi pinned Okada after Brain Claw Slam.

Main Event: MAO, Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata, Toui Kojima & Shinya Aoki beat KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions Poison Sawada JULIE, Takashi Sasaki, GENTARO, MIKAMI & Tanomusaku Toba to win the titles. MAO, Ueno, Katsumata, Kojima & Aoki become the 8th KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions. Kojima beat Toba with a triangle choke.

The next event is 7/3 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo with the KING OF DDT Semifinals and Finals. The winner becomes the new KO-D Openweight Champion. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 7/2 at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 6/25/22 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continued their CITY CIRCUIT series of standalone events today with the first half of a doubleheader taking them to western Japan, making a stop in Kobe today.

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

The announced paid attendance was 258, a super full house/very near sellout.

Before the show began, a Kyoto KBS Hall event was announced for 11/13.

Match 1: Hikari Noa beat Mahiro Kiryu.

Match 2: Hyper Misao beat Kaya Toribami & Neko Haruna in a 3-way by beating Toribami.

Match 3: Maki Itoh beat Pom Harajuku by submission.

Match 4: Yuki Aino, Yuki Kamifuku & Yuki Arai beat Yuka Sakazaki, Raku & Arisu Endo. Aino pinned Endo after Venus DDT.

Match 5: Mizuki & Nao Kakuta beat Miyu Yamashita & Moka Miyamoto. Mizuki pinned Miyamoto after a diving foot stomp.

Main Event: Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe beat Shoko Nakajima & Suzume. Tatsumi beat Suzume with a dragon sleeper.

The next event is tomorrow at Nishitetsu Hall in Fukuoka. There will be no live broadcast. The event is a legit advance sellout.

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.

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