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Dragon Gate 2/12/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued the Rey De Parejas 2023 today with Day 4 of the tournament.

Today’s event was held at Hotel Saint Inn Kurashiki in Okayama and may be available on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 220.

Match 1: BxB Hulk, Ben-K & Minorita beat Yuki Yoshioka, Madoka Kikuta & Punch Tominaga. Ben-K pinned Tominaga after a spear.

Match 2: Kota Minoura beat Ryu Fuda.

Match 3: Rey De Parejas Block A: H-Y-O & ISHIN beat Kaito Nagano & Yoshiki Kato. H-Y-O pinned Nagano with an inside cradle.

Match 4: Ultimo Dragon & Shachihoko BOY beat Genki Horiguchi & Kagetora. BOY pinned Horiguchi after M-9.

Match 5: Shun Skywalker, KAI & Diamante beat Strong Machine J, JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI & Jason Lee. Skywalker pinned KAMEI after a moonsault double kneedrop.

Main Event: Rey De Parejas Block B: Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda beat Dragon Kid & Dragon Dia. Mochizuki pinned Dia with Mugen Package.

The next events are Saturday, first is at Yukihashi City Gym in Fukuoka. There will be no live broadcast for this event. Second is a doubleheader at Acros Fukuoka in Fukuoka. Live streaming of both Acros Fukuoka events on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin Saturday at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET for the first event and at midnight PT/3 AM ET Sunday for the second event.

Dragon Gate 2/11/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued the Rey De Parejas 2023 yesterday with the 3rd event of the tournament, coming after nearly a week off since the last event.

Yesterday’s event was held at Kyoto KBS Hall in Kyoto and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

The announced paid attendance was 349.

Match 1: Shun Skywalker, H-Y-O, ISHIN & Diamante beat Kota Minoura, Ben-K, BxB Hulk & Minorita. H-Y-O pinned Minorita.

Match 2: KAI beat Ryu Fuda.

Match 3: Yuki Yoshioka, Dragon Dia & Madoka Kikuta beat Genki Horiguchi, Eita & Takashi Yoshida. Kikuta pinned Horiguchi after a rolling lariat.

Match 4: Rey De Parejas Block A: Yoshiki Kato & Kaito Nagano beat JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI & Jason Lee. Kato pinned KAMEI after countering “JACKY” Knife.

Match 5: NOSAWA Rongai Final Dragon Gate Match: Ultimo Dragon, Dragon Kid & NOSAWA Rongai beat Susumu Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Mochizuki Jr. Dragon pinned Jr. with La Magistral. (NOSAWA is also retiring on 2/21 at the Pro Wrestling NOAH Keiji Muto Retirement Event at the Tokyo Dome)

Main Event: Rey De Parejas Block B: Strong Machine F & J vs. YAMATO & Naruki Doi went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

The next event was earlier today at Hotel Saint Inn Kurashiki in Okayama. Results will be posted when available. There was no live broadcast.

GLEAT 2/12/23 Results (Updated)

GLEAT ran their latest G PROWRESTLING event today, headlined by a defense of the G-INFINTY Championship, the promotion’s tag team titles.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Azalea Taisho in Osaka and should be available on demand on YouTube at a later date (hopefully in the next 3 days). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 188.

Match 1: Takanori Ito, Yusuke Kodama & Seijin Kamino (?) beat Kaz Hayashi, Minoru Tanaka & Keiichi Sato. Ito pinned Sato with a German suplex hold. Afterwards, Ito announced the creation of his faction known as Yanzuya Family.

Match 2: Soma Watanabe beat Jun Tonsho.

Match 3: Lidet UWF Mixed Double Bout: Yu Iizuka & Michiko Miyagi beat beat Seiichi Ikemoto & Maya Fukuda by submission in 10:42. Iizuka beat Fukuda with a triangle choke.

Match 4: Kaito Ishida & Hartley Jackson beat Tetsuya Izuchi & Issei Onitsuka. Ishida pinned Onitsuka with a half Tiger suplex hold. Afterwards, Onitsuka was forcibly recruited into the Yanzuya Family faction.

Match 5: KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Quiet Storm & Galeno Del Mar beat T-Hawk, El Lindaman & CIMA. Mar pinned CIMA after Galeno Special.

Main Event: G-INFINITY Champions Hayato Tamura & Check Shimatani beat Kotaro Suzuki & Yutani to retain the titles. Tamura pinned Yutani after a jackhammer. V3 for the champs. Afterwards, El Lindaman emerged to make the next challenge, only saying his partner would not be #STRONGHEARTS partners CIMA or T-Hawk.

The next event is Wednesday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo with a one-night 6-man tag team tournament. The winning team gets to produce a future event at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA.

UPDATE: The full video of this event will be available on YouTube Tuesday (2/14) beginning at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.

NWA “Nuff Said” PPV Results (2/11/23)

Here are the quick results from last night’s NWA “Nuff Said” PPV in Tampa, FL (I had planned to do live results but was unable to due to illness):
The event can be watched on FITE for $24.99 and, if your should-be-cancelled subscription still has time left on it, NWA All-Access (Annual Plan only. The service has been discontinued but you can still watch for free until your subscription runs out). The pre-show is available FOR FREE on YouTube. The event was a legit advance sellout.
Pre-show:
La Rosa Negra beat Missa Kate.
Dax Draper & Mims beat Jax Dane & Blake Troop. Draper pinned Troop with a slingshot rollup.
EC3 announced he has signed with NWA and is bringing his Control Your Narrative brand with him.
Odinson beat Joe Alonzo.
Mercurio & Natakia Markova beat Jennacide & Max The Impaler. Markova pinned Jennacide after a double-arm DDT.

PPV:
In a Singapore Cane Match, Thom Latimer beat Fodder.
NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Kerry Morton beat Alex Taylor to retain the title.
Thrillbilly Silas Mason beat (JR) Kratos.
Renegade Twins beat NWA World Women’s Tag Team Champions Pretty Empowered to become THE NEW NWA WORLD WOMEN’S TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS! Charlette Renegade pinned Ella Envy with a rollup. (Yes, the same Renegades that have been jobbers in AEW)
EC3 beat Kevin Kiley (Alex Riley) by submission.
NWA World Tag Team Champions La Rebelion beat Blunt Force Trauma by DQ to retain the titles. Blunt Force Trauma DQ’d when manager Aron Stevens got caught with a loaded punch to Bestia 666.
Chris Adonis beat Trevor Murdoch by submission.
In a No DQ Match, NWA World Women’s Champion Kamille beat Angelina Love to retain the title.
NWA National Heavyweight Champion Cyon beat Homicide to retain the title.
In a No Seconds at Ringside Match, NWA World Heavyweight Champion Tyrus beat Matt Cardona to retain the title. Bully Ray was on commentary. There was interference from Rolando Freeman, Mike Knox and Bully after a ref bump. Afterwards, Tyrus offered Bully an open contract for a title shot. The result seems to give more credibility to rumors that Cardona could soon be following wife Chelsea Green back to WWE (Cardona most recently has been with Impact Wrestling).

No word yet on when the next PPV is, they have TV tapings today & tomorrow in Tampa then are headed to Mexico on 3/4 for a crossover event with AAA in Mexico City that will include a Smashing Pumpkins performance (Billy Corgan’s band). After that, NWA matches will be part of a 2-week Smashing Pumpkins tour in Australia in April, and given recent schedules the next PPV will probably follow in May with what should be the 75th Anniversary Event in August.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 2/12/23 Results

GREAT VOYAGE 2023 in OSAKA, the latest in Pro Wrestling NOAH’s signature blowout event series, is in the books. Today’s loaded event featured 3 title matches and a pre-event appearance by Keiji Muto for the final time ahead of his retirement event next week.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 2092. Apparently they had reduced capacity compared to New Japan’s event the day before (50% here) so it’s not as bad as it sounds.

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

Match 2: Chris Ridgeway & Daga beat Tadasuke & Hajime Ohara. Daga pinned Tadasuke after Magnum.

Match 3: Kazuyuki Fujita, Hideki Suzuki & Timothy Thatcher beat Masato Tanaka, Masaaki Mochizuki & Yoshiki Inamura. Suzuki pinned Inamura.

Match 4: Katsuhiko Nakajima, Masakatsu Funaki, Shuji Kondo & Hi69 beat Naomichi Marufuji, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., AMAKUSA & Ninja Mack. Hi69 pinned AMAKUSA after Michinoku Driver (Velo).

Match 5: El Desperado (New Japan) & NOSAWA Rongai beat YO-HEY & Yasutaka Yano. Desperado pinned Yano after Pinche Loco.

Match 6: Kenoh & Manabu Soya beat Jake Lee & Anthony Greene. Soya pinned Greene after a jumping DDT.

Match 7: Dralistico beat Atsushi Kotoge.

Match 8: Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba beat GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Takashi Sugiura & Satoshi Kojima to win the titles. Kitamiya & Inaba become the 63rd GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Kitamiya beat Kojima with Decapitated Prison. Next up: Kenoh & Soya. That match will happen at GREAT VOYAGE 2023 in YOKOHAMA on 3/19 at Yokohama Budokan.

Match 9: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Yoshinari Ogawa & Eita beat Junta Miyawaki & Alejandro to retain the titles. Eita pinned Alejandro after Imperial Uno. V1 for the champs. Next up: Ridgeway & the returning HAYATA. That match will happen on 3/19.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya beat Jack Morris to retain the title. V4 for Kiyomiya.

The next event is chocoZAP Presents KEIJI MUTO GRAND FINAL PRO WRESTLING LAST LOVE ~HOLD OUT~, Muto’s retirement event, on 2/21 at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo. This will be a PPV ONLY broadcast on WRESTLE UNIVERSE for about $38 for non-subscribers and about $30 for subscribers. Purchase includes the live event and replays for one week. There is no word on when it may be available for all UNIVERSE subscribers if at all (for comparative purposes, as of this past Friday the January Tokyo Joshi Pro PPV is still not available at all following the one week replay period). The event will begin at 2 AM ET/11 PM PT.

2/12/23-2/18/23 Events Schedule (Updated 2/14)

Here is the current events schedule for 2/12/23-2/18/23, which is subject to change (all times PT):
2/14:
2 AM-DDT Pro Wrestling, Shinjuku Face, Tokyo, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE

2/15:
1:30 AM-GLEAT “G PROWRESTLING Ver. 44”, Shinjuku Face. Live on YouTube
5 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Dynamite”, Laredo, TX. Live on TBS in US and FITE elsewhere

2/16:
5 PM-Impact Wrestling “IMPACT Wrestling”, Orlando, FL. TAPED on AXS TV. Available on demand on Impact+ and YouTube (paid subscription required) at 5:30 PM

2/17:
4 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Rampage”. TAPED on TNT in US and FITE elsewhere. SPECIAL START TIME
7 PM-Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling “CITY CIRCUIT” Tour, Nagoya International Conference Center Event Hall, Nagoya, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED

2/18:
Midnight-DDT Pro Wrestling “Friendship, Effort, Victory in Nagoya 2023”, Nagoya International Conference Center Event Hall. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
1 AM-Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling Rey De Parejas 2023, Yukihashi City Gym, Fukuoka, Japan. No live broadcast
6:20 PM-New Japan Pro Wrestling Battle In The Valley, San Jose, CA. Live on FITE in English and New Japan World in Japanese as a PPV ($19.99 on FITE, $28-35 on New Japan World). LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED
6:30 PM-All-Japan Pro Wrestling “ajpw Pro Wrestling ManiaX” Tour, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Live on AJPW.TV. LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED
8 PM-Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling Rey De Parejas 2023, Acros Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan (2 events). Live on DRAGONGATE NETWORK (both events)
9:08 PM-DDT Pro Wrestling “Hamamatsu Train Pro Wrestling”, Tenryu Hamanako Railway, Shizuoka, Japan. Event to be held on an actual moving train. No live broadcast

Note: For 2/17, AEW Rampage airs at an earlier start time and is a nationwide simulcast due to NBA All-Star Weekend coverage on TNT beginning at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT. There is a possibility it will re-air on the US west coast at regular time (10 PM PT).

2/14 UPDATE: The 2/15 GLEAT event will be streamed LIVE on YouTube FOR FREE. It will be available on demand immediately after the event concludes.

DDT 2/11/23 Results

DDT ran a standalone house show on Yokohama today, continuing the D Generations Cup and beginning to set up matches for more upcoming events.

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

The announced paid attendance was 195, a full house/near sellout.

Pre-show: Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno beat Toru Owashi & Antonio Honda. Iino pinned Honda.

Match 1: D Generations Cup Block A: Yuya Koroku beat Illusion.

Match 2: D Generations Cup Block B: Toui Kojima beat Keigo Nakamura.

Match 3: D Generations Cup Block B: Takeshi Masada beat Yuki Ishida.

Match 4: Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada & Takashi Yoshida beat Chris Brookes, Akito, Takao Soma & Kazuma Sumi. Endo pinned Sumi after Yurikamome.

Match 5: Yukio Sakaguchi, Hideki Okatani & Hikaru Machida beat MAO, Yuki Ueno & Kazuki Hirata. Machida pinned Hirata after Iai Punch. Afterwards, Machida made a KO-D Tag TeamChampionship challenge with Sakaguchi. That match will happen on 2/26 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo against the 2/23 winners.

Match 6: In a Burlesque Deathmatch, Sanshiro Takagi beat Shunma Katsumata.

Match 7: Kazusada Higuchi & Ryota Nakatsu beat MJ Pawl & KANON. Higuchi pinned Paw after a lariat. Nakatsu joined the Harimao faction today.

Main Event: HARASHIMA & Yukio Naya beat Yuji Hino & Makoto Oisho. Naya pinned Oishi after a backdrop.

The next event is Tuesday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

DDT News: The Mystery Has Been Solved!

Over the last month, there has been a mystery playing out in DDT regarding the whereabouts of Daisuke Sasaki, who no-showed some events and nobody knew where he had gone off to. The only person that seemed to have any clues was KANON, the last person to talk to Sasaki. He finally re-emerged today and we now know why he disappeared…eye surgery (muscle surgery). He will be back soon and has been announced for the US return on 3/31, but it’s not known if he will return before then.

New Japan 2/11/23 Results

New Japan ran THE NEW BEGINNING in OSAKA today, the end of their traditional year-opening tour and a blowout event that would settle many things including potentially the main event of next week’s US event. Whoever emerged from the main event as IWGP World Heavyweight Champion will defend the title on 2/18.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese and English.

The announced paid attendance was 4055. Back to close to full capacity, with the setup that probably was around 70-75% full.

Match 1: Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan beat Oskar Leube & Toru Yano. Henare pinned Leube after Rampage.

Match 2: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask, Shota Umino & Tomoaki Honma. Takahashi pinned Taguchi after TIME BOMB 2. Afterwards, a video played which was Lio Rush issuing an IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship challenge to Takahashi.

Match 3: Taiji Ishimori beat Master Wato.

Match 4: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat KENTA.

The time came where House Of Torture had to defend the NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championship or be stripped of the titles in light of EVIL continuously refusing to do so. They did finally agree to. Which led to…
Match 5: Ren Narita, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki beat NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL to win the titles. Narita, Desperado & Suzuki become the 25th NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Narita beat Takahashi with a cobra twist. Afterwards, Suzuki announced their new faction/team will be known as Strong Style.

Match 6: In a Loser Leaves Japan Match, Hikuleo beat Jay White. As a result, White must leave Japan. I have read rumors that White’s contract with New Japan has expired, so we’ll see what happens.

Match 7: NEVER Openweight Champion Tama Tonga beat El Phantasmo to retain the title. V1 for Tonga. And to make it even more memorable, he won with Jay Driller, the late Jay Briscoe’s finisher. REACH FOR THE SKY, BOY!

Main Event: IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada beat Shingo Takagi to retain the title. V1 for Okada. As a result, Okada will defend the title on 2/18 in San Jose, CA. The opponent…Okada called his shot…Tanahashi!!! Ace vs. Rainmaker…reminiscent of 11 years ago here when Okada beat Tanahashi to become champion…they last had a title match 5 years ago, and now…One Last Time?

The next event is Battle In The Valley on 2/18 at San Jose Civic Center in San Jose, CA. The event is a legit advance sellout. Live streaming as a PPV on FITE will begin with a FREE pre-show at 6:20 PM PT/9:20 PM ET. The PPV will be in English for $19.99. It’s also available on New Japan World in Japanese but be aware that will cost, dependent on if a subscription is required, at least $8-15 more. The matches will also be broadcast on the newly-rebranded STRONG On Demand on New Japan World and FITE in the near future, possibly in March.

AEW Rampage 2/10/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s TAPED AEW Rampage from El Paso, TX:
Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta beat Kip Sabian, The Butcher & The Blade. Castagnoli pinned Sabian after a European uppercut.

Ruby Soho beat Marina Shafir.

Jungle Boy beat Ryan Nemeth. Squash.

AEW All-Atlantic Champion Orange Cassidy beat Lee Moriarty to retain the title.

This week’s show ended a recent run of good episodes as it started well but then was monkey crap the rest of the way.

Next week on Dynamite: Moxley/Castagnoli vs. Rush & Preston Vance in a Texas Tornado Tag Match and Renee Paquette interviews Adam Cole.

Next week’s Rampage will air at an earlier time of 7 PM ET/4 PM PT due to NBA All-Star Weekend coverage on TNT.