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New Japan 2/4/23 Results

New Japan ran the first half of THE NEW BEGINNING IN SAPPORO today, kicking off a big weekend doubleheader in chilly Hokkaido with title matches and major single matches.

Today’s event was held at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kita Yell in Hokkaido and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese and English.

The announced paid attendance was 3073.

Match 1: Great-O-Khan beat Oskar Leube by submission.

Match 2: Ryohei Oiwa, Ren Narita, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki beat Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi, Sho & EVIL. Narita beat Togo with a cobra twist.

Match 3: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Yuto Nakashima, YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto. Fujita beat Nakashima with a double armlock.

Match 4: Master Wato, Hikuleo, Tama Tonga & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Taiji Ishimori, El Phantasmo, KENTA & Jay White. Wato pinned Ishimori.

Match 5: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & Shingo Takagi beat Yoh, Ryusuke Taguchi, Toru Yano & Kazuchika Okada. Takagi pinned Taguchi after Last of the Dragon.

Match 6: IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Francesco Akira & TJP beat DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru to retain the titles. Akira pinned DOUKI after Fireball. V4 for the champs.

Match 7: Will Ospreay beat Taichi.

Main Event: Tetsuya Naito beat Shota Umino. This went over 32 minutes.

The second half of the doubleheader is tomorrow with 3 title matches including the first defense of the NJPW WORLD TV Championship. Live streaming on New Japan World in Japanese and English will begin TONIGHT at 9 PM PT/midnight ET. Live results will be posted here.

Dragon Gate 2/3/23 Results

Dragon Gate kicked off the 2023 Rey De Parejas Tournament, a tag team tournament being held for the first time since the late 2010s in part due to the coronavirus pendemic.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1198. Vocal cheering was allowed and presumably capacity restrictions were lifted following recent government actions, but both can still be restricted by venues especially for where decisions were previously made.

Match 1: Shun Skywalker, KAI & Diamante beat Shuji Kondo, Eita & Takashi Yoshida. Skywalker pinned Yoshida after a moonsault kneedrop.

Match 2: JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI beat Kaito Nagano.

Match 3: Jason Lee beat Yoshiki Kato.

Match 4: Rey De Parejas Block B: Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda beat Strong Machine J & F. Movhizuki pinned F with Jumbo Pin.

Match 5: Rey De Parejas Block A: Masaaki Mochizuki & Mochizuki Jr. beat H-Y-O & ISHIN. Mochizuki pinned H-Y-O after a reverse Twister.

Match 6: Ultimo Dragon, Ben-K & Minorita beat Genki Horigucho, Kagetora & Ho Ho Lun. Ben-K pinned Horiguchi after Masakari.

Main Event: Rey De Parejas Block A: Yuki Yoshioka & Madoka Kikuta vs. BxB Hulk & Kota Minoura went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

The next event is tomorrow at Fujisan Messe in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast.

In other news, the promotion announced their Golden Week blowout event, DEAD OR ALIVE 2023, for 5/5 at Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya. (Golden Week is a week-long national holiday in Japan, generally it’s the first week of May. Almost every promotion, both major ones and smaller independents, hold either a big event or for the smaller ones their biggest event of the year during this week)

Impact Wrestling 2/2/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s TAPED Impact Wrestling from Orlando, FL:

The pre-show featured Aiden Prince vs. Jonathan Gresham.

Match 1: Ace Austin & Chris Bey beat Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA. Bey pinned Knight after 1…2…Sweet. Amazing finishing sequence.

Match 2: Gisele Shaw beat Savannah Evans.

Match 3: Crazzy Steve beat Sheldon Jean. Squash.

Match 4: Kenny King beat Johnny Swinger. Squash.

Main Event: The Design (Kon, Angels, Deaner) & Sami Callahan beat Josh Alexander, Frankie Kazarian, Rich Swann & Yuya Uemura. Callahan pinned Uemura.

Next week: The Good Hands vs. Tommy Dreamer & Mickie James with Bully Ray banned from ringside, Impact Digital Media Champion Joe Hendry vs. Matt Cardona for the title and 2 qualifying matches for a 4-way at No Surrender to become the next #1 contender for the Impact World Championship and likely a shot at the Josh Alexander-Rich Swann winner at No Surrender-those matches will be Brian Myers vs. Dirty Dango and Shera vs. PCO. Also Taylor Wilde & Killer Kelly vs. Death Dollz.

News: Former TJPW Wrestler Back In The Ring

Tokyo Joshi Pro fans might remember Marika Kobashi, a former model & wrestler who left the promotion last year and wrestling as a whole to focus on education after 6 years in wrestling (she debuted at age 14). It wasn’t known if she would ever return to wresting…but she’s back after only about 7 months away. From posts on her official Twitter she may have returned late last year but will be more active this month-she appears to be a freelancer now and is competing for small independent promotions in Tokyo in the coming weeks. There is no indication she plans to return to TJPW anytime soon though.

FYI for New Japan World Subscribers for February 2023

In posts on Twitter in Japanese and English, New Japan World announced that a technical issue has resulted in some subscribers being double-billed for February 2023. This happened to me upon checking my credit card activity earlier today, but a refund has already been issued and the promotion is working on doing just that.

Here is the English-language post which was updates to note refunds are being processed:

AEW Dynamite 2/1/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Dayton, OH:

Jon Moxley beat Adam Page.

The Acclaimed beat 2 jobbers. Squash.

Konosuke Takeshita beat Brian Cage.

Bryan Danielson beat Timothy Thatcher.

AEW TBS Champion Jade Cargill beat Red Velvet to retain the title. 50-0.

In a No Holds Barred Match, Samoa Joe beat AEW TNT Champion Darby Allin to become THE NEW AEW TNT CHAMPION!

I missed the first 45 minutes live due to cable issues but watched what I missed on the west replay. Another good show overall.

New Japan 2/1/23 Results

New Japan wrapped up the first part of the Road to THE NEW BEGINNING Tour today amidst fallout from the departure of Kota Ibushi from the promotion (contract expired) and potential concerns about Yoh, who missed a second straight event today due to a fever. He should be fine for the weekend.

Today’s event was held at Aomori Budokan in Aomori. There was no live broadcast and no on demand video will be available.

The announced paid attendance was 1216.

Match 1: Aaron Henare beat Ryohei Oiwa.

Match 2: Toru Yano & Togi Makabe beat Oskar Leube & Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Yano pinned Leube.

Match 3: Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo beat Master Wato & Tiger Mask. Phantasmo pinned TM 4 after Sudden Death.

Match 4: Jado & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Gedo & KENTA. Tanahashi beat Gedo with a Texas Cloverleaf.

Match 5: Yuto Nakashima, YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto beat Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. YOSHI-HASHI beat Fujita with Butterfly Lock.

Match 6: Francesco Akira, TJP, Great-O-Khan & Will Ospreay beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi. Ospreay pinned TAKA after Hidden Blade.

Main Event: Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Shota Umino, Tomoaki Honma & Kazuchika Okada. Takagi pinned Honma after Pumping Bomber. During the match, BUSHI interfered against Umino and Naito attacked Umino’s father, referee Red Shoes Unno, potentially setting up the next big rivalry for Naito…after his match against Keiji Muto in The Living Legend’a retirement match, presumably.

The next events are as follows:

TAMASHII returns for its second installment with 2 events this weekend. The first one is Friday in Sydney, Australia and the second one is Saturday in Melbourne, Australia. There will be no live broadcast for both.

On the Japan side. Next up is THE NEW BEGINNING in SAPPORO, a doubleheader Saturday US time at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kitayell in Hokkaido. Live streaming on New Japan World in Japanese and English will begin Saturday at midnight PT/3 AM ET for the first event and Saturday at 9 PM PT/midnight ET for the second event. Live results are scheduled for the second event.

Also, announced after the event were a Hirooki Goto 20th Anniversary event on 4/22 in Mie and WRESTLING DONTAKU 2023, the annual Golden Week blowout event in Fukuoka, on 5/3 back at its regular home, Fukuoka International Center. Last year’s event was held at the much larger Fukuoka PayPay Dome for the 50th Anniversary celebration.

TJPW News: Injury Forces Wrestler Off 2/11 Event

In announcing the full card for the Korakuen Hall event on 2/11 (the Futari-wa Princess Max Heart Tournament Finals), Tokyo Joshi Pro also announced a forced change of plans-Juria Nagano, who was scheduled to participate, is now off. Hand injury suffered in her match with Moka Miyamoto against Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh. Out indefinitely but to be off this event means at least 2 weeks. They have about 6 weeks until GRAND PRINCESS ’23, which she has been announced for, so hopefully it’s not serious and she will be back in time for that.

More as it becomes available.

BREAKING: Kota Ibushi Comeback (Updated x2)

He’s back…Game Changer Wrestling has announced on Twitter that Kota Ibushi will return to action at GCW Collective 2023 as part of events on 3/30 & 3/31. Both events will stream live on FITE as part of FITE+, a subscription package available for $4.99/month or $49.99/year (and if you go annual, each year they give you enough credits to watch up to $24 worth of PPV content FOR FREE). It’s not known what this means for his status in Japan as his New Japan contract has presumably expired and he had been out since October 2021 due to injury and personal issues.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: There are reports Ibushi’s New Japan contract expired today (yesterday Japan time). Also, the original post has been corrected to reflect that the injury occurred in October 2021, not August 2021.

UPDATE 2: New Japan has announced on their Japanese website that Ibushi has left the promotion, confirming his contract expired today (yesterday Japan time).

New Japan 1/31/23 Results (Updated)

New Japan continued the Road to THE NEW BEGINNING Tour today with the last event of the month.

There were last-second changes to the event as Yoh was a late removal from the card. Fever. Coronavirus rapid test was negative. Status beyond today is uncertain. The main event also saw BUSHI removed as a result.

Today’s event was held at Akita Furusato Village Dome Theater in Akita. There was no live broadcast and no on demand video will be available.

The announced paid attendance was 659.

Match 1: Great-O-Khan beat Yuto Nakashima by submission.

Match 2: Tiger Mask & Tomoaki Homna beat Oskar Leube & Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Honma pinned Leube after Kokeshi.

Match 3: Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo beat Jado & Master Wato. Phantasmo pinned Jado after Sudden Death.

Match 4: Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Gedo & KENTA by DQ. Gedo DQ’d.

Match 5: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Ryohei Oiwa, YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Tomohiro Ishii. Nicholla pinned Oiwa after a siding lariat.

Match 6: Francesco Akira, TJP, Aaron Henare & Will Ospreay beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi. Ospreay pinned TAKA after Hidden Blade.

Main Event: Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Shota Umino, Togi Makabe & Kazuchika Okada. Takagi pinned Makabe after Last of the Dragon.

The next event is tomorrow at Aomori Budokan in Aomori. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

UPDATE: Yoh is now off tomorrow as well. Precautionary due to fever. BUSHI is now off again as well to change their match from a 10-man tag to 8-man.