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New Japan 10/30/22 Results

New Japan continued the BURNING AUTUMN ’22 Tour today with an event featuring the final Quarterfinals of the NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament. The Semifinals would be set today ahead of the tour-ender on 11/5, where we’ll find out who will face off to become the first champion at Tokyo Dome in January.

Today’s event was held at Makuhari Messe Industrial Exhibition Hall 1 in Chiba and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 493.

Match 1: DOUKI beat Kosei Fujita by submission.

Match 2: Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb beat Ryohei Oiwa & Yuto Nakashima. Khan pinned Oiwa after Imperial Drop. Afterwards, Khan & Cobb called out IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions FTR, who are to be at the 11/5 tour-ender to defend the titles (FTR beat the United Empire duo to win the titles).

Match 3: Master Wato & Hikuleo beat Dick Togo & EVIL. Hikuleo pinned Togo after a chokeslam.

Match 4: Alex Zayne, Tiger Mask & David Finlay beat TAKA Michinoku, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. Finlay pinned TAKA after Trash Panda.

Match 5: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado beat Gedo & Taiji Ishimori. Kanemaru beat Gedo with a Figure 4.

Match 6: Titan, BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Gideon Gray, Francesco Akira, TJP & Aaton Henare. Takahashi pinned Gray.

Match 7: NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament Quarterfinals: Ren Narita beat Toru Yano.

Main Event: NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament Quarterfinals: SANADA beat KENTA. As a result, SANADA will face Narita in the Semifinals. The other Semifinal is EVIL vs. Zack Sabre Jr.

The next event is Tuesday at Echizen City AW-I Sports Arena in Fukui. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 10/30/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the Keiji Muto Retirement Road series today with what possibly was the first pro wrestling event to be held at Tokyo’s new Ariake Arena venue, constructed for the 2020 (delayed to 2021) Summer Olympics in Japan. This marks the halfway point in Muto’s originally planned 5 match retirement series, today’s match was a crossover match with New Japan Pro Wrestling as Muto was opposite perhaps the G.O.A.T. of New Japan, the one & only Hiroshi Tanahashi.

Today’s event was held at Ariake Arena in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The live broadcast earlier was only in English due to being an ABEMA exclusive.

The announced paid attendance was 3739. Because vocal cheering was allowed, that meant 50% capacity (the venue’s normal max capacity will be 12,000). Between that and the layout, this was roughly 75-80% full, a good debut number for the venue.

Pre-Show Dark Match: Kai Fujimura beat Taishi Ozawa.

Main Show:
Before the first match, Go Shiozaki came out to address the crowd. He was wearing a t-shirt that read “I AM NOAH COMEBACK COMMING SOON”. Yes, it was misspelled. Shiozaki is out due to injury. He led the crowd in shouts of “I AM NOAH! WE ARE NOAH!”
Match 1: Manabu Soya, Shuji Kondo & Hajime Ohara beat Shuhei Taniguchi, Alejandro & Extreme Tiger. Kondo pinned Alejandro after a King Kong lariat.

Match 2: Jack Morris & Dante Leon beat Daiki Inaba & YO-HEY. Morris pinned YO-HEY after Inferno.

Match 3: Yoshinari Ogawa, Chris Ridgeway & Yasutaka Yano beat NOSAWA Rongai, Eita & Super Crazy by DQ. Eita DQ’d. NOSAWA weapon use.

Match 4: Hideki Suzuki & Dr. Wagner Jr. beat Takashi Sugiura 7 Masa Kitamiya. Wagner pinned Kitamiya after Wagner Driver.

Before the next match began, a recorded video played…O…M…G…January 1, Nippon Budokan…The Great Muta vs….SHINSUKE NAKAMURA!!! He’s coming home to Japan! (Nakamura has spent the last decade-plus in WWE since leaving New Japan) This will be an ABEMA live broadcast so hopefully in English on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

Match 5: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Atsushi Kotoge & Seiki Yoshioka beat Tadasuke & Hi69 to retain the titles. Kotoge pinned Hi69. V1 for the champs. Afterwards, Shuji Kondo & Hajime Ohara hit the ring to make the next challenge and start a Kongo beatdown of the champs until a mysterious masked man ran in to make the save and clean house. The mystery man then unmasked himself…Haoh! Tadasuke was en fuego because Haoh was expelled from NOAH after losing their last match against each other. But Haoh seems to be back and will now be known as AMAKUSA.

Match 6: Ninja Mack beat GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion HAYATA by ref stoppage (injury) to win the title. Mack becomes the 50th GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion. HAYATA could not continue due to an elbow injury. Never how you want a title match (or any match) to end. The injury occurred just before the 10 minute mark when Mack went for a sequence starting with multple backflips after bouncing off the ropes following a running start, then with HAYATA on the apron Mack backflipped over the ropes into a powerbomb to the floor. The ref checked on HAYATA then began the 20 count. At 5 the ref checked again on HAYATA and stopped it. HAYATA was already clutching his left elbow and wrist area. It might have landed on the hard floor just past where the mats around the ring ended.

Match 7: In a GHC Martial Arts Rules Match, GHC National Champion Masakatsu Funaki beat Kazushi Sakuraba by ref stoppage (submission) to retain the title.V6 for Funaki. The rules made this a very short match, just 199 seconds.

Match 8: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Takashi Sugiura & Satoshi Kojima beat Kenoh & Katsuhiko Nakajima to retain the titles. Kojima pinned Nakajima after Western Lariat. V1 for the champs.

Match 9: Keiji Muto Retirement Series-PRO WRESTLING LOVE FOREVER 3 ~TRIUMPH~: Keiji Muto, Naomichi Marufuji & Yoshiki Inamura beat Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma (New Japan Pro Wrestling). Marufuji pinned Honma after Shiranui.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya beat Kazuyuki Fujita to retain the title. V1 for Kiyomiya. And fulfillment as he avenged his only N-1 VICTORY 2022 loss.

Regarding HAYATA, it was announced after the event he was scheduled to be on the 11/10 event and is now off. The event will feature 5 matches, all GHC title matches. Thus here is who is next up for all the champions at that event (in match order):
Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team (Kotoge/YO-HEY): Kondo & Hajime Ohara
Jr. Heavyweight (Mack): Leon
Heavyweight Tag (Sugiura/Kojima): Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito
National (Funaki): Wagner Jr.
Heavyweight (Kiyomiya): Timothy Thatcher
This event will be live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
More on the HAYATA injury when/if it becomes available. The earlier announcement means he is out at least 2 weeks. There are only 4 events scheduled in November with December’s schedule TBA beyond a special Tokyo Gurentai produced standalone event on 12/20.

The next event is Thursday at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka, which likely will end the SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour. This will be aired on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date, which probably will be 11/6 or 11/7 (there will be no live broadcast).

All-Japan Pro Wrestling 10/30/22 Results

All-Japan wraps up the Flag Raising Series 2022 Tour today with an early Halloween-themed event where fans will be able to dress up, and the promotion has announced that fans who dress up like their favorite wrestlers or in wrestler support merchandise will receive gifts after the event on the way out of the venue. 2 title matches headline the event-first up, GAORA TV Champion Toshizo defends the title against Masao Hanabata (the former Seigo Tachibana, who changed his ring name after the last event), then in the main event All-Asia Tag Team Champions Hikaru Sato & Dan Tamura defend against Yoshitatsu & TAJIRI.

Today’s event will be held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV. It is not known if there will be any commentary. The event is a legit advance sellout. For those potentially staying up late to watch in the east US, I anticipate the event will have a runtime of around 2 1/2 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Hokuto Omori vs. Yusuke Kodama
Yuma Anzai vs. Naoya Nomura
Kento Miyahara & Rising Hayato vs. Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi
Shotaro Ashino & Ryuki Honda vs. Takao Omori & Masao Inoue
Suwama, Jun & Rei Saito vs. Jake Lee, Shuji Ishikawa & Ryo Inoue
Izanagi vs. Black Menso-re
GAORA TV Champion Toshizo vs. Masao Hanabata for the title
All-Asia Tag Team Champions Hikaru Sato & Dan Tamura vs. Yoshitatsu & TAJIRI for the titles

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

11 PM ET UPDATE: Updates will begin shortly. Waiting for the live stream to begin.

We are LIVE from Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo, Japan. As usual, audio is muted when we begin for the opening announcements.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event but it is a legit advance sellout. Depending on the venue’s layout, that likely means in the 450-500 range if full capacity, possibly as high as 600. But vocal cheering is allowed today so that’ll limit the attendance to closer to 300 (50% capacity).

Audio is turned on 5 minutes in. Then off again for first match entrances and back on to start the first match (sounds like they’ll have to do this for every wrestler with non-original aka licensed music, even ones they normally don’t do it for, because this isn’t on TV in Japan). There will be no commentary. The non-hard cameras at ringside are not good quality.

Match 1: Izanagi vs. Black Menso-re. 10 minute time limit
Result: Time Limit Draw. Comedy match

Match 2: Shotaro Ashino & Ryuki Honda vs. Takao Omori & Masao Inoue. 15 minute time limit
Result: Shotaro Ahsino & Ryuki Kinda beat Takao Omori & Masao Inoue. Ashino beat Inoue.

Match 3: Hokuto Omori vs. Yusuke Kodama. 15 minute time limit
Result: Hokuto Omori beat Yusuke Kodama

Match 4: GAORA TV Champion Toshizo vs. Masao Hanabata for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GAORA TV Champion Toshizo beat Masao Hanabata to retain the title. V3 for Toshizo.

Intermission. Updates will resume in a few minutes (as of midnight ET/9 PM PT).

We resume at 12:13 AM ET/9:13 PM PT.

Match 5: All-Asia Tag Team Champions Hikaru Sato & Dan Tamura vs. Yoshitatsu & TAJIRI for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Yoshitatsu & TAJIRI beat All-Asia Tag Team Champions Hikaru Sato & Dan Tamura to win the titles. Yoshitatsu & TAJIRI become the 115th All-Asia Tag Team Champions. Yoshitatsu beat Tamura. Next up: Potentially Black Menso-re & Izanagi, who were quick to hit the ring post-match for a comedy challenge.

Match 6: Yuma Anzai vs. Naoya Nomura. 30 minute time limit
Result: Naoya Nomura beat Yuma Anzai

Match 7: Suwama, Jun & Rei Saito vs. Jake Lee, Shuji Ishikawa & Ryo Inoue. 30 minute time limit
Result: Suwama, Jun & Rei Saito beat Jake Lee, Shuji Ishikawa & Ryo Inoue. Suwama pinned Inoue after a backdrop suplex. Afterwards, Suwama with microphone. It appears he challenged Ishikawa to a match at the next event.

Main Event: Kento Miyahara & Rising Hayato vs. Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kento Miyahara & Rising Hayato beat Yuma & Atsuhi Aoyagi. Miyahara pinned Yuma Aoyagi with a German suplex hold.

The next event is the World’s Strongest Tag League 2022 beginning on 11/13 at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin on 11/12 at 9:30 PM ET/6:30 PM PT.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 300, a legit advance sellout. Vocal cheering allowed meant 50% max capacity.

10/30/22-11/5/22 Events Schedule

Here is the current events schedule for 10/30/22-11/5/2022, which is subject to change (all times PT):
10/30:
2:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling BATTLE AUTUMN ’22 Toue, Makuhari Messe Industrial Exhibition Hall 1, Chiba, Japan. Live on New Japan World
8 PM-Grand Sumo November 2022 Tournament Banzuke Announcement (tentative)

11/1:
2:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling BATTLE AUTUMN ’22 Tour, Echizen City AW-I Sports Arena, Fukui, Japan. No live or on demand broadcast
2:30 AM-DDT Pro Wrestling D-KING Grand Prix 2022, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE

11/2:
3 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling BATTLE AUTUMN ’22 Tour, Yoshitsune Arena, Ishikawa, Japan. No live or on demand broadcast
5 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Dynamite”, Baltimore, MD. Live on TBS in US and FITE elsewhere
8:30 PM-Ganbare Pro Wrestling “Dirty Hero 2022”, Yokohama Radiant Hall, Yokohama, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED
11 PM-Pro Wrestling NOAH SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour, Kira Messe Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan. Available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date

11/3:
1 AM-DDT Pro Wrestling D KING Grand Prix 2022, Yokohama Radiant Hall, Yokohama, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
2 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling BATTLE AUTUMN ’22 Tour, Osaka Prefectural Gym 2, Osaka, Japan. Live on New Japan World

11/4:
7 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Rampage”, Atlantic City, NJ. LIVE on TNT in US and FITE elsewhere
8:30 PM-DDT Pro Wrestling D KING Grand Prix 2022/DDT FREE, Yokohama Radiant Hall. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE

11/5:
1 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling BATTLE AUTUMN ’22 Tour, Osaka Prefectural Gym, Osaka. Live on New Japan World
1 AM-DDT Pro Wrestling D KING Grand Prix 2022, Yokohama Radiant Hall. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
8:30 PM-Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, Ryogoku KFC Hall, Tokyo. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED
11:40 PM-DDT Pro Wrestling “Street Wrestling in Shingashi Exciting Festival”, Tobu Tojo Line Shingashi Station West Exit Ekimae Street Venue, Saitama, Japan. Free one-match event. Weather permitting (outside venue, will be held if light rain occurs). No live broadcast

Additionally, the New Japan 10/1 and 10/2 events from London, England are now available on demand on New Japan World for subscribers.

New Japan 10/28/22 Results

New Japan continued the BATTLE AUTUMN ’22 Tour today with a house show featuring the wrestlers that were not in the USA for the PPVs the last two days.

Today’s event was held at Kumagaya Citizen Gym in Saitama. There was no live broadcast and no on demand video will be available.

The announced paid attendance was 866.

Match 1: Ryohei Oiwa beat Yuto Nakashima.

Match 2: Tiger Mask beat Kosei Fujita.

Match 3: DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Togi Makabe & Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Taichi pinned Tenzan after a Yokozuna type raised elbow

Match 4: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Dick Togo & EVIL. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Togo.

Match 5: Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii beat Ren Narita & Tomoaki Honma. Ishii pinned Honma after a vertical drop brainbuster.

Match 6: Jado, Alex Zayne & Hikuleo beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & KENTA. Zayne pinned Gedo after Cinnamon Twist.

Match 7: Master Wato, David Finlay & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat TAKA Michinoku, El Desperado & Zack Sabre Jr. Finlay pinned TAKA after Trash Panda.

Main Event: Titan, BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito beat Francesco Akira, TJP, Aaron Henare, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb. Naito pinned Henare after Destino.

The next event is tomorrow at Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall 1 in Chiba. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

AEW Rampage 10/28/22 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s LIVE AEW Rampage in Uncasville, CT:

Jon Moxley beat Matt Menard. This was supposed to have been Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta vs. Menard & Angelo Parker, but Yuta was accidentally double booked as he was already scheduled for tonight’s New Japan PPV in New York City.

Keith Lee beat Serpentico. Squash.

Tay Melo beat Madison Rayne.

AEW TNT Champion Wardlow beat Matt Taven to retain the title.

Added to next Wednesday’s Dynamite in Baltimore, MD is AEW TBS Champion Jade Cargill vs. Marina Shafir for the title.

Next week on a LIVE Rampage in Atlantic City, NJ: Whoever is the AEW All-Atlantic Champion after Wednesday vs. an opponent of their choice for the title and Mike Tyson returns to AEW, likely to be a guest on commentary.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling “The Mountain Top 2022” Results (10/29/22)

Tokyo Joshi Pro heads to Osaka today for a mid-major event, heading to the city for the first time in about 6 months. In addition to All Elite Wrestling’s Willow Nightingale getting to make her Japan debut (it was postponed from earlier this year due to visa issues), the main event features International Princess Champion Miu Watanabe vs. Moka Miyamoto for the title. Miyamoto has gotten the better of Watanabe over the last month, but all in tag matches and never pinning the champion. Now that it’s one-on-one, can the Up Up Girl back up her stunning title-winning upset with that important first successful defense?

Today’s event will be held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. It’s not yet known if there will be commentary but I am assuming there will be Japanese commentary. This is the last part of a live wrestling tripleheader along with New Japan’s PPV and All Elite Wrestling Rampage, so it you’re trying to last the whole thing in the eastern US have plenty of caffeine ready for this overnighter, I anticipate this event running about 2 1/2 hours. (It went exactly 2 hours)

Today’s lineup:
Yuki Aino & Raku vs. Nao Kakuta & Yoshiko Hasegawa
Miyu Yamashita & Juria Nagano vs. Mahiro Kiryu & Kaya Toribami
Shoko Nakajima, Hyper Misao & Pom Harajuku vs. Mizuki, Suzume & Neko Haruna
Rika Tatsumi & Yuki Arai vs. Hikari Noa & Arisu Endo
Yuka Sakazaki & Willow Nightingale vs. Maki Itoh & Yuki Kamifuku
International Princess Champion Miu Watanabe vs. Moka Miyamoto for the title

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

11:25 PM ET UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka, Japan. It sounds like vocal cheering is allowed today. There is no commentary.

The announced paid attendance was 400, a legit sellout. Further reduced max capacity due to vocal cheering allowed, plus Osaka has been stricter than most about capacity limits since the pandemic began. Also, the view on the stream was from the hard camera only despite at least one video cameraman at ringside when the matches began.

During the opening announcements, Saki Akai is announced for the 11/13 event in Kyoto. Hopefully that means more AA Eye Candy!

The matches begin at 11:40 PM ET.

Match 1: Yuki Aino & Raku vs. Nao Kakuta & Yoshiko Hasegawa (Ganbare Pro). 20 minute time limit
Result; Yuki Aino & Raku beat Nao Kakuta & Yoshiko Hasegawa. Aino pinned Hasegawa after Venus DDT.

Match 2: Miyu Yamashita & Juria Nagano vs. Mahiro Kiryu & Kaya Toribami. 20 minute time limit
Result: Miyu Yamashita & Juria Nagano beat Mahiro Kiryu & Kaya Toribami. Yamashita pinned Toribami after Attitude Adjustment.

Match 3: Shoko Nakajima, Hyper Misao & Pom Harajuku vs. Mizuki, Suzume & Neko Haruna. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mizuki, Suzume & Neko Haruna beat Shoko Nakajima, Hyper Misao & Pom Harajuku. Mizuki pinned Harajuku.

Match 4: Rika Tatsumi & Yuki Arai vs. Hikari Noa & Arisu Endo. 20 minute time limit
Result: Rika Tatsumi & Yuki Arai beat Hikari Noa & Arisu Endo. Tatsumi beat Endo with a dragon sleeper hold.

Match 5: Yuka Sakazaki & Willow Nightingale (All Elite Wrestling) vs. Maki Itoh & Yuki Kamifuku. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yuka Sakazaki & Willow Nightingale beat Maki Itoh & Yuki Kamifuku. Nightingale pinned Kamifuku after a gutwrench powerbomb..

Main Event: International Princess Champion Miu Watanabe vs. Moka Miyamoto for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: International Princess Champion Miu Watanabe beat Moka Miyamoto to retain the title. V1 for Watanabe.

The next event is 11/6 at Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo, resuming the Fall 2022 house show tour. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 11/5 at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT.

New Japan Pro Wrestling “Rumble On 44th Street” Results (10/28/22)

New Japan is back in the US for their next PPV tonight Rumble On 44th Street. Coming off a surprise-filled special event last night that cane off quite well, this more structured event is still loaded with big names from New Japan and All Elite Wrestling among others, and both NJPW STRONG titles are on the line. As a bonus, there is an SWA Championship match, a women’s title that must always be defended against foreigners not from the champion’s native country.

Today’s event will be held at Palladium Times Square in New York City and can be watched live as a PPV on FITE in English and New Japan World in Japanese. On FITE the event is available for $24.99 and includes the live broadcast and unlimited on demand replays. It also is available as part of a combo pack including unlimited replays of last night’s special event (which you should check out) for $29.99, a $10 savings compared to buying both events separately. The New Japan World broadcast costs 2990 Japanese yen (around $20-21) plus the monthly New Japan World subscription fee if you are not a current subscriber (so add about $7 for that). I will be watching on FITE as I pre-purchased the combo pack. There also will be a FREE pre-show 30 minutes before the PPV begins.

If you’re planning to watch alongside other events, get ready for lots of split-screen as I expect tonight’s event, including pre-show, to run close to 3 1/2 hours. Finally, because I will miss the pre-show and will be using the DVR functionality on FITE to watch from the beginning after missing the first part of the event due to work conflicts, the results below will be NEAR LIVE and about 20-30 minutes behind real time.

Tonight’s lineup:
Pre-Show:
Mina Shirakawa & Waka Tsukiyama vs. Kylie Rae & Tiara James
PPV:
Yoh & Rocky Romero vs. Sho & Yujiro Takahashi
STRONG Openweight Champion Fred Rosser vs. Jonathan Gresham for the title
STRONG Tag Team Champions Aussie Open vs. Motor City Machine Guns and The DKC & Kevin Knight in a 3-way for the titles
Homicide, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino vs. Tom Lawlor & West Coast Wrecking Crew
Clark Connors vs. Minoru Suzuki
SWA World Champion Mayu Iwatani vs. KiLynn King for the title
KOPW 2022 Trophy Holder Shingo Takagi vs. El Phantasmo in a Street Fight for the title
Kazuchika Okada & Eddie Kingston vs. Jay White & Juice Robinson

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Updates below will begin at around 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT.

Pre-Show: Kylie Rae & Tiara James beat Mina Shirakawa & Waka Tsukiyama by TKO. Rae beat Tsukiyama.

8:30 PM ET UPDATE: Updates begin below.

We are (NEAR) LIVE from Palladium Times Square in New York City. Your hosts are Ian Ricccaboni, Matt Rehwoldt & Alex Kozlov.
The paid
Match 1: Sho & Yujiro Takahashi vs. Yoh & Rocky Romero. 20 minute time limit
Result: Sho & Yujiro Takahashi beat Yoh & Rocky Romero. Takahashi pinned Romero after a Sho spanner shot from outside the ring. (Side note: Yoh dyed his hair blonde for these events. Usually it’s black). After the match, Lio Rush returned to break up the heel beatdown on Yoh.

Match 2: STRONG Tag Team Champions Aussie Open vs. Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley) and The DKC & Kevin Knight in a 3-way for the titles. 30 minute time limit
Result: Motor City Machine Guns beat STRONG Tag Team Champions Aussie Open and The DKC & Kevin Knight in a 3-way, when Sabin pinned Knight, to win the titles. Motor City Machine Guns become the second STRONG Tag Team Champions.

Alex Coughlin comes out. With microphone. He calls out JR Kratos but also issues a challenge to everybody, both in the US and Japan. He finishes by saying “he’ll be back” next month at the World Tag League.

Match 3: STRONG Openweight Champion Fred Rosser vs. Jonathan Gresham for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: STRONG Openweight Champion Fred Rosser beat Jonathan Gresham to retain the title. V5 for Rosser.

New Japan will return to San Jose, CA on 2/18/2023 for their next US event, the second installment of Battle of the Valley.

Match 4: Homicide, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino vs. Tom Lawlor & West Coast Wrecking Crew. 30 minute time limit
Result: Homicide, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino beat Tom Lawlor & West Coast Wrecking Crew. Umino pinned Jorel Nelson after Death Rider.

Match 5: Clark Connors vs. Minoru Suzuki. 30 minute time limit. MMA legend Ken Shamrock is in Connors’ corner.
Result: Minoru Suzuki beat Clark Connors

At this point (9:55 PM ET) results are LIVE the rest of the way.

Match 6: SWA World Champion Mayu Iwatani (Stardom) vs. KiLynn King for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: SWA World Champion Mayu Iwatani beat KiLynn King to retain the title. (Side note: The title has a unique rule-defenses can’t be against wrestlers from the champion’s native country/ethnic background. So as long as Iwatani is champion, a Japanese woman can’t challenge for the title)

Match 7: KOPW 2022 Trophy holder Shingo Takagi vs. El Phantasmo in a Street Fight for the trophy. 1 Hour time limit
Result: KOPW 2022 Trophy holder Shingo Takagi beat El Phantasmo to retain the trophy.

Quick break for ring cleaning. The ring sweeper gets some chants from front row fans as we go to a promo video for the main event.

Main Event: Kazuchika Okada & Eddie Kingston vs. Jay White & Juice Robinson. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Jay White & Juice Robinson beat Kazuchika Okada & Eddie Kingston. White pinned Kingston after Bladerunner. Afterawrds, White with microphone for a post-main event heel promo to not necessarily send the crowd home happy.

End Show. Including the pre-show, the event ran about 3 1/2 hours.

The next US event likely will be the 2/18/23 event announced earlier tonight.

Back on the Japan side of things, the next event of the BATTLE AUTUMN ’22 Tour is tomorrow at Kumagaya Citizen Gym in Saitama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 982.

FREE VIDEO: NOAH THE HOME 10/28/22

Just yesterday Pro Wrestling NOAH announced a 12th installment of it’s YouTube series “NOAH THE HOME”, which launched this past year to help provide their younger wrestlers with much-needed experience and matches during the pandemic. The show is filmed and produced entirely at the NOAH Dojo in a closed setting without fans, only the timekeeper is present along with the referee and wrestlers. It’s seen entirely from a hard camera perspective. They also encourage viewers to donate to help cover costs of producing the show and support the talent but it is not required.

This installment consists of 2 episodes, the first aired earlier today and the second will air tomorrow. You can watch today’s episode FOR FREE on YouTube below (NO SPOILERS WILL BE POSTED HERE):

The second episode is to air tomorrow at (I believe) 4 AM PT/7 AM ET and will be available for free on NOAH’s YouTube channel. Past episodes may be available on YouTube as well.