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Dragon Gate 3/4/23 Results

Dragon Gate ran the first half of CHAMPION GATE 2023 today, a doubleheader that will feature all the promotion’s championships contested for over two events.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

The announced paid attendance was 455. Osaka seems to still be quite strict about reduced capacity despite the Japanese government easing most if not all its pandemic restrictions. So this number likely isn’t nearly as bad as it sounds for the venue.

Match 1: Shun Skywalker, KAI & H-Y-O vs. Strong Machine J, Kzy & BIGBOSS Shimizu went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: YAMATO beat Ichikawa by submission in 28 seconds. Which led to…
Match 2 again: YAMATO beat Ichikawa by KO.

Match 3: Masaaki Mochizuki (who seemingly has gone light blonde and looks much different than what Pro Wrestling NOAH fans are used to) & Don Fujii beat Yoshiki Kato & Kito Nagano. Fujii beat Kato with Gedo Clutch.

Match 4: Dragon Kid, Yuki Yoshioka, Dragon Dia & Madoka Kikuta beat Genki Horiguchi, Naruki Doi, Eita & Takashi Yoshida. Yoshioka pinned Horiguchi after a frog splash.

Match 5: Jason Lee beat Open The Brave Gate Champion Minorita to win the title. Lee becomes the 47th Open The Brave Gate Champion.

Main Event: Open The Triangle Gate Champions Kota Minoura, Ben-K & BxB Hulk beat Susumu Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Mochizuki Jr. to retain the titles. Ben-K pinned Mozhicuki Jr. V1 for the champs.

The second half of the event is tomorrow. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin TONIGHT at 9:45 PM ET/12:45 AM ET.

3/5/23-3/11/23 Events Schedule (Updated 3/5)

Here is the current events schedule for 3/5/23-3/11/23, which is subject to change (all times PT):
3/5:
1 AM-Ganbare Pro Wrestling, Takashimadaira Community Center, Tokyo, Japan.No live broadcast
1:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling New Japan Cup 2023, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Live on New Japan World
4:30 PM-All Elite Wrestling “Revolution”, San Francisco, CA. Live on PPV, Bleacher Report, in select theaters and Dave & Buster’s restaurants in US, ppv.com in Canada and FITE elsewhere

3/6:
1:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling 51st Anniversary Event, Ota City General Gym, Tokyo, Japan. Live on New Japan World worldwide and ABEMA in Japan. FREE BROADCAST
2 AM-Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling “The Night Before GRAND PRINCESS ’23”, Shinjuku Face, Tokyo, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE

3/7:
1:30 AM-GLEAT LIDET UWF Ver. 3, Shinjuku Face, Tokyo, Japan. Live on YouTube. FREE BROADCAST

3/8:
1:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling New Japan Cup 2023, Big Palette Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan. Live on New Japan World
5 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Dynamite”, Sacramento, CA. Live on TBS in US and FITE elsewhere. LIVE IN-PERSON RECAP TO FOLLOW EVENT (I will be in attendance)

3/9:
1:30 AM-Pro Wrestling NOAH STAR NAVIGATION 2023 Tour, Korakuen Hall. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only and ABEMA in Japanese
4 PM-Ring Of Honor Wrestling “Ring Of Honor TV”, Orlando, FL. TAPED on HonorClub
5 PM-Impact Wrestling “Impact Wrestling”, Las Vegas, NV. TAPED on AXS TV. Available on Impact+ and YouTube at 5:30 PM

3/10:
1:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling New Japan Cup 2023 Tour, Aimesse Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan. Live on New Japan World
3:30 AM-Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling, Singapore Eurasian Community House, Singapore, Singapore. No live broadcast
7 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Rampage”. TAPED on TNT in US and FITE elsewhere
10 PM-Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling, Singapore Eurasian Community House. No live broadcast

3/11:
Midnight-New Japan Pro Wrestling New Japan Cup 2023 Tour, Aichi Prefectural Gym, Nagoya, Japan. Live on New Japan World
1 AM-Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling GLORIOUS GATE 2023, Atelier Himeji, Hyogo, Japan. No live broadcast
8 PM-DDT Pro Wrestling, Tokorozawa Aviation Memorial Park Outdoor Stage, Saitama, Japan. No live broadcast
TBA-Sumo-March 2023 Grand Sumo Tournament Opening Day, Osaka Prefectural Gym, Osaka, Japan. Live on NHK World Premium (available on participating cable/satellite providers) and ABEMA

On a side note, as of 3/4 the issues I was having with WRESTLE UNIVERSE and monthly payments appear to be resolved. When applicable, live results posts for DDT, NOAH and TJPW events will resume effective immediately Also, the TJPW 1/30/23 and NOAH 2/21/23 PPVs are now available to all paying WRESTLE UNIVERSE monthly subscribers without additional charges

3/5 UPDATE: Added 3/7 GLEAT event which was inadvertently omitted. This will be a LIVE broadcast on YouTube.

DDT 3/4/23 Results

DDT ran their second “Yokohama Unlimited” event today as they continue to build to their 26th Anniversary event later this month.

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 173.

Match 1: MJ Pawl & KANON beat Takao Soma & Kazuma Sumi. Pawl pinned Sumi after a running body press.

Match 2: Akito won an Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship Battle Royal, last eliminating Kazuki Hirata, to win the title. Hirata first beat Yoshihiko to win the title and become the 1562nd Champion. Akito then beat Hirata to win the title. Akito becomes the 1563rd Champion

Match 3: HARASHIMA & Toru Owashi beat Kazusada Higuchi & Yuki Ishida. HARASHIMA pinned Ishida after Blue Sword.

Match 4: Keigo Nakamura & Hideki Okatani beat Toui Kojima & Yuya Koroku. Okatani pinned Kojima with a double arm suplex.

Daisuke Sasaki made an unannounced appearance and announced he will return on 3/21. He had been “missing” for several months but was out due to eye muscle surgery. As a result, what had been MJ Pawl & KANON vs. Chris Brookes & Drew Parker on 3/21 is now Pawl/KANON/Sasaki vs. Brookes/Parker/Hagane Shinno.

Match 5: Tetsuya Endo & Kotaro Suzuki beat Jun Akiyama & Yusuke Okada. Suzuki pinned Okada after a tiger driver.

Match 6: Ryota Nakatsu beat MAO.

Main Event: Yuji Hino & Yukio Sakaguchi beat Yukio Naya & Takeshi Masada. Hino pinned Masada after Fuckin’ BOMB.

The next event is tomorrow at Nagano City Arts Center Art Space in Nagano. There will be no live broadcast.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 3/4/23 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continued the CITY CIRCUIT Tour today with a visit to Yokohama as they wind down the build to GRAND PRINCESS ’23 in 2 weeks.

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 194.

Match 1: Suzume & Arisu Endo beat Wakana Uehara & HIMAWARI. Suzume pinned HIMAWARI after Ring A Bell.

Match 2: Yuki Aino beat Kaya Toribami & Hikari Noa in a 3-way by pinning Toribami.

Match 3: Mizuki beat Pom Harajuku by submission.

Match 4: Yuka Sakazaki beat Raku.

Match 5: Myu Yamashita & Moka Miyamoto beat Shoko Nakajima & Mahiro Kiryu. Yamashita pinned Kiryu after Attitude Adjustment.

Main Event: Rika Tatsumi, Hyper Misao & Nao Kakuta beat Miu Watanabe, Yuki Kamifuku & Neko Haruna. Tatsumi pinned Haruna after Twist Of Fate.

The next event is “The Night Before GRAND PRINCESS ’23” Monday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, the final event before Ariake Arena. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

AEW Rampage 3/3/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s LIVE AEW Rampage in Daly City, CA:
Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta beat John Silver & Alex Reynolds, Top Flight & Dark Order in a 4-way when Yuta pinned Darius Martin.

Riho beat Emi Sakura.

Powerhouse Hobbs beat Serpentico. Squash.

Keith Lee & Dustin Rhodes beat Swerve Strickland & Parker Boudreaux. Lee pinned Boudreaux after a jackhammer.

A couple rough spots (especially at the end of Riho-Sakura, Emi seemed to botch a moonsault sequence) but otherwise a fine hour of action, all average to above-average. Main event was quite good. Lee’s new look with a dark purple supervillain-like cape and hood was definitely a high spot for his return.

Added to Revolution Sunday: The Pre-Show match will be Lucha Bros & Mark Briscoe vs. Varsity Athletes. Also, Jungle Boy vs. Christian Cage, which was announced as a No Holds Barred match on Dynamite, is now being called The Final Burial. This suggests it could be a cinematic-style match like WWE did a couple times in recent years with The Undertaker.

Ring Of Honor TV 3/2/23 Results (Premiere/Return Episode)

Here are the quick results from yesterday’s Ring Of Honor TV weekly episode (3/2/23-Series Premiere/Relaunch under All Elite Wrestling/Tony Khan ownership):

Willow Nightingale beat Lady Frost.

Madison Rayne & Slye Blue beat The Renegades. Blue pinned Charlette Renegade after Skyfall.

Ari Daivari beat Metalik.

The Embassy beat Joe Keys, Rex Lawless & LSG. Brian Cage pinned LSG after a sandwich clothesline/toss/powerbomb sequence. Squash.

Konosuke Takeshita beat Josh Woods.

Christopher Daniels beat Rohit Raju.

New Japan NJPW WORLD TV Champion Zack Sabre Jr. beat Blake Christian to retain the title.

The Kingdom beat The Infantry (Shawn Dean & Carlie Bravo). Matt Taven pinned Bravo after Proton Pack.

Mark Briscoe beat Slim J.

ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli beat AR Fox to retain the title.

Next week (rumored/expected): Rhett Titus & Tracy Williams vs. Aussie Open, ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta vs. Timothy Thatcher for the title and ROH Women’s Champion Athena vs. Willow Nightingale for the title.

The episodes can be watched online on HonorClub (watchroh.com). Subscription is required which currently is $9.99/month and includes access to all prior ROH video content dating back to the beginning in the early 2000s.

Impact Wrestling 3/2/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s TAPED Impact Wrestling from Las Vegas, NV (this episode was taped Saturday and starts the fallout from Friday’s No Surrender PPV):

Pre-show match (Before The Impact on YouTube): Heath & Rhino beat Decay.

Usual opening is replaced with No Surrender highlights.

Ace Austin & Chris Bey promo. Motor City Machine Guns eventually interrupt. They make and seemingly accept a challenge for the Impact Tag Team Championship tonight. The match was officially announced as a promo graphic during the first match below.

Shane Haste interviewed backstage.

Rich Swann interviewed backstage. Interrupted by Shera & Singh passing out $100 bills. Challenge by Swann rebuffed.

Match 1: Mike Bailey beat Shane Haste. Excellent opener.

The Design talk backstage, interrupted by Rhino. Sami Callahan steps in and they are nose-to-nose. Potential challenge issued by Rhino.

Match 2: Kenny King beat Kevin Knight.

Highlights from New Japan’s 2/18 US event that led to Josh Alexander vs. KUSHIDA at the New Japan/Impact crossover event on 3/30, which is scheduled to be for the Impact World Championship. Alexander interviewed. He challenges KUSHIDA to a 6-man tag at the Sacrifice PPV later this month-KUSHIDA & MCMG vs. Alexander & 2 partners of his choice. Steve Maclin then interrupts. Alexander is to defend the title against Maclin at Rebellion in April in Toronto, Canada.

Highlights from the Busted Open Live segment at No Surrender. Doctor says Tommy Dreamer will be fine but he & Santino Marella are interrupted by Bully Ray. He asks is the “fat bastard” is gonna live (funny reference to “The Fat & The Furious” when he & Tommy host Busted Open without Dve LaGreca. HA!) Bully then runs into Bhupinder who threatens Bully. Bully slaps Bhupinder before walking away as Bhupinder is EN FUEGO.

Mickie James comes out. She calls out Jordynne Grace but gets Gisele Shaw (with Savannah Evans) instead. This led to James challenging Shaw but Gail Kim interrupted. Kim makes it official and for the Knockouts Championship! Only question is when. (Note that I HAVE NOT read spoilers from last weekend’s tapings so I do not know everything that will happen over the next month)

Brian Myers backstage. He’s trying to push some podcast or similar when Moose interrupts. He wants to help Myers win the Impact Digital Media Championship to get revenge on Joe Hendry.

Jordynne Grace confronts Santino bout the match Kim just made, which will be next week. Grace wants to invoke her rematch clause after that, and Santino grants it for Sacrifice on 3/24. Then Johnny Swinger interrupts. Santino allows him to have essentially an open challenge for anyone on the roster.

Match 3: PCO beat Impact X Champion Trey Miguel in a NON-TITLE match by DQ. Eddie Edwards interference, again attacking PCO with a shovel. Which this time did absolutely nothing but make PCO angry. PCO proceeded to destroy security. (There was no official announcement so this also may have been declared a no contest. I’m just going by what I saw)

Announced for Sacrifice on 3/24: It’s now official-Grace vs. James/Shaw for the Impact Knockouts Championship.

Main Event: Bullet Club (Ace Austin & Chris Bey) beat Impact World Tag Team Champions Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin) to become THE NEW IMPACT WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS! Austin pinned Shelley after The Fold.

Next week: Rhino vs. Sami Callahan & Jonathan Gresham vs. KUSHIDA.

Dragon Gate 3/2/23 Results

Dragon Gate wrapped up the Rey De Parejas 2023 today, finishing the tournament being held for the first time since before the pandemic began in 2020.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1186.

Match 1: Rey De Parejas Semifinals: Yuki Yoshioka & Madoka Kikuta beat Shun Skywalker & KAI. Yoshioka pinned KAI after a frog splash

Match 2: Rey De Parejas Semifinals: Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda beat Kota Minoura & BxB Hulk. Kanda pinned Hulk.

Match 3: H-Y-O & ISHIN vs. Ryukyu Dragon & Teelan Shisa went to a No Contest. YAMATO interference.

Match 4: Daiki Yanaguchi Debut Match: Don Fujii beat Daiki Yanaguchi.

Match 5: Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI beat Masaaki Mochizuki, Mochizuki Jr. & Shachihoko BOY. Kzy pinned BOY after a running elbow smash.

Match 6: Strong Machine J & Jason Lee beat Ben-K & Minorita. J pinned Ben-K with Machine suplex.

Match 7: YAMATO, Naruki Doi, Shuji Kondo & Takashi Yoshida beat Dragon Kid, Kagetora, Eita & Dragon Dia. Ymato pinned Kagetora after Frankensteiner of the Almighty.

Main Event: Rey De Parejas Finals: Yuki Yoshioka & Madoka Kikuta beat Susumu Mochzuki & Yasushi Kanda to win the tournament. Kikuta pinned Kanda after a rolling lariat. As a result, Yoshioka & Kikuta will face Open The Twin Gate Champions Kzy & BIGBOSS Shimizu for the titles on Sunday at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka.

The next event is CHAMPION GATE 2023 in OSAKA, the start of the GLORIOUS GATE 2023 Tour, a doubleheader beginning Saturday at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 12:45 AM PT/3:45 AM ET. (The second half of the doubleheader will be later that night and will also be a live broadcast)

BREAKING: Top NOAH Jr. Heavyweight Retiring

At a press conference earlier today, top Pro Wrestling NOAH Jr. Heavyweight Daisuke Harada announced he will retire at the 3/9 event at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Harada is retiring due to a neck injury suffered last August on doctor’s advice, and will finish his career with a 1 minute exhibition match against Atsushi Kotoge. There likely will be a retirement ceremony afterwards. The match eill be the 3rd match on the card.

Harada debuted in Osaka Pro in 2006 and has been with NOAH since 2013, and has been one of the top Jr. Heavyweights in NOAH over the last decade and formed one of the top tag teams in Japan with Kotoge dating back to Osaka Pro.

AEW Dynamite 3/1/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Daly City, CA:

AEW All-Atlantic Champion Orange Cassidy beat Big Bill to retain the title.

Powerhouse Hobbs won the Face Of The Revolution Ladder Match. As a result, Hobbs gets an AEW TNT Championship match next week.

Chris Jericho beat Peter Avalon.

FTW Champion Hook beat Matt Hardy to retain the title. As a result, Hook gets a No DQ match with Stokely Hathaway with The Firm banned from ringside in the future.

Riho beat Toni Storm.

Danhausen & Orange Cassidy won the casino tag team battle royal as a late replacement for Best Friends. As a result, Cassidy/Danhausen are in the AEW Tag Team Title 4-way at Revolution vs. Gunn Club, The Acclaimed and Jeff Jarrett & Jay Lethal (Gunn Club defending the titles).

MJF/Bryan Danielson promo was main event segment but they got less than 4 minutes.

This was one of the worst episodes of Dynamite to date and a horrible finish to a rushed and very bad PPV build. Better now than next week when I will be there LIVE AND IN PERSON!

Rampage is LIVE Friday, only thing seemingly announced for the show was Dustin Rhodes & Keith Lee vs. Mogul Affiliates.