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New Japan Pro Wrestling “CMLL FANTASTICAMANIA USA” Results (7/13/24)

Before the G1 CLIMAX gets underway and officially begins the Road To Tokyo Dome, New Japan returns to the USA today for their next stateside event, CMLL FANTASTICAMANIA USA. An extension of the popular crossover event with the CMLL promotion in Mexico normally held in Japan in February, this event will feature matches with New Japan wrestlers facing off against CMLL wrestlers. There also are 3 title matches scheduled. However, those matches also have come with a lot of controversy that’s overshadowed the event-earlier this week it was announced that CMLL Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer, who was to have defended the title against Lluvia, was off the event. At first it was called personal reasons, but then rumors started-and were very quickly confirmed-that “personal reasons” was actually signing with WWE. Vaquer was stripped of the title and the CMLL Women’s Tag Team Championship she held and both promotions began putting out statements and doing damage control, but it’s safe to say Vaquer will not be back with either promotion for a long time and perhaps never (never say “never” in wrestling, but this is nuclear heat). Lluvia will now face Viva Van (representing New Japan) & Willow Nightingale (representing All Elite Wrestling) in a 3-way for the vacant title. The Main Event will feature NEW IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion DOUKI & Mistico vs. Rocky Romero & Volador Jr.

Today’s event will be held at Mt. Pleasant High School in San Jose, CA and can be watched LIVE on New Japan World as a PPV in Japanese & English. The PPV costs $19.99 in the US (2990 yen in Japan, which is just under $20) and includes on demand replays until 8/30, but that date is subject to change. The event’s page lists a tentative running time of 2 1/2 hours and it could go nearly 5 hours if every match went the distance, but I anticipate it being around the “normal” PPV running time of 3 hours. (Also, there is no pre-show scheduled)

Today’s lineup:
Adrian Quest & The DKC vs. Vento & Cucuy
MLW World Tag Team Champions Satoshi Kojima & OKUMURA vs. Rugido & Magnus for the titles
Lluvia vs. Viva Van & Willow Nightingale in a 3-way for the CMLL Women’s World Championship
Zack Sabre Jr. & Bad Dude Tito vs. Hechicero & Virus
Yota Tsuji vs. Barbaro Cavernario
STRONG Openweight Champion Gabriel Kidd vs. Ultimo Guerrero for the title
DOUKI & Mistico vs. Rocky Romero & Volador Jr.

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

5:30 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now…

We are LIVE from Mt. Pleasant High School in San Jose, CA. Your Japanese hosts are several who I didn’t catch names for but include Taiji Ishimori, Miki Motoi & Mima Shimoda. Your English hosts are Miguel Castro & Veda Scott. We don’t have our usual US ring announcer either.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. This is a high school gym setup, it looks like floor seating has around 650 and was 85-90% sold as of earlier today so it’ll depend on how much bleacher seating there is. But it’s a small setup so I’m guessing it’ll be around 800. From the first looks at the crowd it definitely is not a sellout. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 906)

Opening video with card rundown then right to the action.

Match 1: Adrian Quest vs. The DKC, Vento & Cucuy in a 4-way (I misread this earlier as being a tag match). 30 minute time limit
Result: The DKC beat Adrian Quest, Vento & Cucuy in a 4-way by pinning Quest.

Match 2: MLW World Tag Team Champions Satoshi Kojima & OKUMURA vs. Rugido & Magnus for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: MLW World Tag Team Champions Satoshi Kojima & OKUMURA beat Rugido & Magnus to retain the titles. Kojima pinned Rugido.

Match 3: Lluvia vs. Viva Van & Willow Nightingale in a 3-way for the vacant CMLL Women’s World Championship. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Willow NIghtingale beat Lluvia & Viva Van in a 3-way by pinning Van to become the CMLL Women’s World Champion. Lluvia immediately confronted Nightingale and demanded a rematch for the title and came to blows over it for a moment. To be continued, I’d say.

Match 4: Zack Sabre Jr. & Bad Dude Tito vs. Hechicero & Virus. 30 minute time limit
Result: Hechicero & Virus beat Zack Sabre Jr. & Bad Dude Tito. Hechicero beat Tito with an armbar.

Match 5: Yota Tsuji vs. Barbaro Cavernario. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yota Tsuji beat Barbaro Cavernario

Match 6: STRONG Openweight Champion Gabriel Kidd vs. Ultimo Guerrero for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: STRONG Openweight Champion Gabriel Kidd beat Ultimo Guerrero to retain the title. V1 for Kidd. Afterwards, Kidd with microphone. He announced that at the next US event on 8/30 in Washington, DC, he was calling his shot and demanding Lio Rush.

Main Event: DOUKI & Mistico vs. Rocky Romero & Volador Jr. 30 minute time limit
Result: DOUKI & Mistico beat Rocky Romero & Volador Jr. Mistico beat Romero with La Mistica. Afterwards, Mistico indicated he wanted a shot at the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship and held up his MLW championship belt, perhaps hinting at a double title match should it happen. Afterwards, Mistico with microphone in Spanish. He put DOUKI over before indeed asking for that title match and also suggesting it be a double title match. Accepted by DOUKI. They shook hands and posed before Mistico put over the event and finished things off to send the crowd home happy.

They actually kept to the running time the ticket sales page hinted at, which means mainly short if not slightly rushed matches as only the main event went over 15 minutes (just short of 25 minutes. The matches as a whole were fine although the CMLL style of lucha libre is not for everyone. It wasn’t a bad event by any means but not quite worth $20 for PPV. If you didn’t buy the live broadcast, wait until it leaves the paywall and becomes available for all New Japan World subscribers then check it out-that hopefully will be in September.

End Show.

The next US event will be CAPITAL COLLISION on 8/30 at Entertainment & Sports Arena in Washington, DC.

The next event is the G1 CLIMAX 34 Tournament starting on 7/20 at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 7/13/24 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro finished up the build to SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’24 today with the final house show before the event.

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

The announced paid attendance was 194.

There were late changes to the card because Nao Kakuta & Moka Miyamoto were off the event. Kakuta is out due to a lower back injury that has her uncertain for the last 2 weeks of her career. Miyamoto is out due to the ever-vague poor health/physical condition.

Match 1; Kaya Toribami beat Chika Nanase by submission.

Match 2: HIMAWARI beat Kira Summer by submission.

Match 3: Maki Itoh & Yuki Kamifuku beat Wakana Uehara & Toga. Kamifuku pinned Uehara after Fameasser. (Lately I’ve noticed the Google Translate built into DDT’s website now translates it as “Famous Master”. Haha)

A mini talk show with the injured Nao Kakuta, Hyper Misao & Neko Haruna was held.

Match 4: Arisu Endo, Suzume & Haru Kazashiro beat Mahiro Kiryu, Shino Suzuki & Uta Takami. Endo pinned Suzuki after The 10th Law.

Main Event: Rika Tatsumi, Shoko Nakajima, Mizuki & Runa Okubo beat Miu Watanabe, Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku. Tatsumi beat Harajuku with White Dragon Sleeper.

The next event is SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’24, the quarterly blowout event, on 7/20 at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese & English will begin Friday at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET with live results scheduled.

All-Japan 7/13/24 Results

All-Japan continued the Summer Action Series 2024 today with a major event in Osaka.

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

The announced paid attendance was 958.

Match 1: Hideki Suzuki & Hikaru Sato beat Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue. Suzuki beat Inoue with a ground cobra twist.

Match 2: 2.5 Wrestling Provided Match: Super Delfin & Super W beat Hirakataniisan & Flying Penguin. W pinned Penguin after Super Flash.

Match 3: Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi, Cyrus & Jack Kennedy beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan, MUSASHI (Michinoku Pro), Seiki Yoshioka & Seigo Tachibana. Omori pinned Tachibana after a frog splash.

Match 4; Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Shotaro Ashino & The Bodyguard (Independent/Freelancer). Honda pinned Ashino after Final Vent.

Match 5: Naruki Doi beat All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Rising Hayato to win the title. Doi becomes the 69th All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion.

Match 6: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito beat Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi to retain the titles. Jun Saito pinned Aoyagi after DOOM. V2 for the champs.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Yuma Anzai beat Suwama to retain the Triple Crown. V3 for Anzai. Next up: TBA, but that match will happen on 8/3 at Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai.

The next event is tomorrow at Shimizu Marine Building in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast. It should be available on demand at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/13/24 Results (Updated)

DESTINATION 2024, Pro Wrestling NOAH’s latest signature blowout event, is in the books.

Today’s event was held at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand as a PPV only on ABEMA in select countries including the US for the next week. You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 4196. Not sure what the setup was for (the venue’s normal capacity is around 8500, I imagine it was set up for closer to 6000) but on paper this sounds like a decent number and much better than for recent major events capacity-wise.

Match 1: Alejandro & Cristobal beat Ninja Mack & Junta Miyawaki and Hajime Ohara & Super Crazy in a 3-way when Alejandro pinned Crazy.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya, Manabu Soya & Daiki Inaba beat Takashi Sugiura, Kazuyuki Fujita & Shuhei Taniguchi. Soya pinned Taniguchi after a jumping DDT.

Match 3: Shuji Kondo, Eita & AKIRA (Independent/Freelancer0 beat Yoshinari Ogawa, Ryohei Oiwa & Yu Owada. Eita pinned Owada after Imperial Uno.

Match 4; Kenoh beat Yuji Nagata (New Japan).

Match 5: GLG FInal Match: Jake Lee, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Jack Morris, Anthony Greene & LJ Cleary. Lee pinned Cleary after FBS. Per Lee’s earlier announcement, GLG has now disbanded.

Match 6: Go Shiozaki beat ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion Akitoshi Saito to win the title. Shiozaki becomes the 34th ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion.

Match 7: Ulka Sasaki beat GHC National Champion HAYATA by ref stoppage (techinical submission) to win the title. Sasaki becomes the 12th GHC National Champion.

Match 8: AMAKUSA beat GHC Juntior Heavyweight Champion Daga to win the title. AMAKUSA becomes the 55th GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion.

Match 9: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Galeno Del Mal beat Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf. Wagner Jr. pinned Wolf after Wagner Driver.

Match 10: AJ Styles (WWE) beat Naomichi Marufuji.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya beat YOICHI to retain the title. V2 for Kiyomiya. Next up: Probably the N-1 VICTORY Tournament winner, unless it’s Kiyomiya.

The next event is The Reeve Presents LIMIT BREAK ex. on 7/20 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. LIve streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.

The usual post-event news/fallout:
Injury Report: Daiki Inaba was injured during his match. Torn meniscus. Out indefinitely.

After the event, YOICHI announced he was changing his ring name back to Yoshiki Inamura.

The next Nippon Budokan event will be NOAH THE NEW YEAR on 1/1/2025.

The full N-1 VICTORY schedule and field was announced, there will be 16 participants in 2 blocks of 8. More significantly, there is more WWE participation as WWE has recently shown more openness to working with other promotions (at least in their NXT brand, which has some programs going with US-based TNA Wrestling although they did allow AJ Styles to come over today and let Shinsuke Nakamura return to Japan to face Keiji Muto at the start of this year). The full field:
Block A: Kaito Kiyomiya, Go Shiozaki, Masa Kitamiya, Ryohei Oiwa, Jack Morris, Dragon Bane, Luis Mante (Dragon Gate, some graphics call him Lewis Mante), Josh Briggs (WWE).
Block B: Kenoh, Manabu Soya, Ulka Sasaki, Yoshiki Inamura, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Alpha Wolf, Titus Alexander, Tavion Heights (WWE).
Both Briggs & Heights are part of WWE’s NXT label.
Shiozaki is the defending tournament champion. The tournament begins on 8/4 and ends on 9/1 (all tournament events except 8/18 will stream LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE, but there will be no live broadcast on 8/18 and 8/12 may only be on ABEMA). The winner in each block will advance to the Finals on 9/1. Tiebreakers will be head-to-head result. If that was a draw, a tiebreaker match will be held.

UPDATE: Akitoshi Saito announced his retirement after losing to Shiozaki. it’s not yet clear if it’s immediate or at a later date. If it’s immediate, Saito is walking away after 33 1/2 years in the ring. His exact age isn’t lnown vut I believe he is in his mid-50s. They also are acting like Jake Lee is leaving the promotion and jumping to New Japan, but he was already announced for this year’s G1 CLIMAX tournament so it’s not known if this is a permanent move or just an angle to cover for the appearance. Lee is apparently now part of Bullet Club. We’ll find out in September, I guess.

Stardom 7/12/24 Results

Stardom ran the first event of a tripleheader weekend in Osaka today.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched on demand on Stardom World. They made a late change to a live broadcast for today instead of on demand later.

The announced paid attendance was 335.

There were late changes to the card due to Ami Sohrei being off the card. Injury treatment. Also, Thekla is suspended for all 3 events.

Match 1: Hanan beat Rian.

Match 2: Saki Kashima beat Aya Sakura.

Match 3: Saya Iida & Momo Kohgo beat Yuna Mizumori & Sayaka Kurara. Iida pinned Kurara after a lariat.

Match 4: Syuri, Konami, Ranna Yagami & Lady C beat Natsuko Tora, Momo Watanabe, Ruaka & Fukigen. Syuri pinned Fukigen after Drift Flame.

Match 5; Tam Nakano, Saori Anou & Natsupoi beat Mina Shirakawa, Gina & Waka Tsukiyama and Mayu Iwatani, Koguma & Hazuki in a 3-way when Nakano pinned Tsukiyama.

Match 6: Starlight Kid beat Miyu Amasaki.

Main Event: Maika & Saya Kamitani beat AZM & Mei Seira. Kamitani pinned Seira.

The next event is tomorrow at Yamato Arena in Osaka. Live streaming on Stardom World will begin TONIGHT at 9 PM PT/midnight ET.

Injury Report: Less Magnificent Stardom Weekend Ahead

Stardom has announced last-minute changes to their 3 events in Osaka this weekend because Ami Sohrei is now off. Undisclosed injury suffered in practice (accidental). Out indefinitely. Sohrei made the announcement and apologized on her social media accounts and these were shared by Stardom’s official accounts. Changes have been made to this weekend’s events. Updates to follow regarding her status.

In related news, Stardom announced that tomorrow’s event at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka has been changed from on demand only at a later date to a LIVE broadcast on Stardom World. It will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

Injury Report: Potential Early TJPW Farewell (Updated)

Tokyo Joshi Pro has announced changes forSaturday’s event in Tokyo stemming from two injury absences. Both are concerning ahead of SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’24 because two key wrestlers are affected-Moka Miyamoto & Nao Kakuta. Miyamoto-the always-vague poor health/physical condition. Kakuta-lower back. It’s not known if either will miss additional time, but Kakuta will be at the event and participate in a mini-talk show with Hyper Misao & Neko Haruna, who are also out with injuries. But this is the final event before the quarterly blowout event so both have only a week to recover. Miyamoto is to team with Yuki Arai to challenge for the Princess Tag Team Championship next week and Kakuta will have one of her last matches before retiring the following week.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: The YMZ promotion, which is tun by longtime wrestler Kaori Yoneyama when she’s not wrestling in Stardom as Fukigen, has announced that Kakuta will not be able to wrestle at their 7/16 event as planned but will still appear.

BREAKING: New Japan US Event Change for Saturday (Updated x2)

New Japan just announced a major change to Saturday’s CMLL FANTASTICAMANIA USA event: Stephanie Vaquer is now off. Personal reasons. She is no longer part of CMLL or NJPW per a statement from CMLL. As a result, the CMLL Women’s World Championship is now VACANT. Vaquer was to have defended the title against Lluvia. Lluvia will now face Willow Nightingale & Viva Van in a 3-way for the vacant title.

UPDATE: While not official, Mexico-based website RECORD reports (in Spanish) Vaquer has signed-or is about to sign-a multi-year deal-with WWE. Having to leave New Japan is confirmation she’s not headed to All Elite Wrestling. Said WWE deal reportedly started to come together after the Forbidden Door event.

UPDATE 2: It’s now official. WWE Hall Of Famer Shawn Michaels, who now oversees the NXT brand, posted a “welcome” post to Vaquer on Twitter at around 2:30 PM PT/5:30 PM ET, indicating she’s headed to NXT. So she is WWE-bound.

DDT 7/10/24 Results

DDT continued their current tour today with an event in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 308, a full house/near sellout.

Before the event, a public signing ceremony for the KO-D Tag Team Championship match on 7/21 was held.

Match 1: Makoto Oishi & Akito beat Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata. Akito pinned Hirata with Gedo Clutch.

Match 2: Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Iino & Yuya Koroku beat Jun Akiyama, Takao Soma & Keigo Nakamura. Endo pinned Nakamura after Yurikamome.

Match 3; Sanshiro Takagi & Yuni beat Danshoku Dieno & Kazuma Sumi. Takagi pinned Sumi after an avalanche-style brainbuster.

Match 4; KANON 5th Anniversary Match: TAKA Michinoku (New Japan) beat KANON.

Match 5: HARASHIMA beat Daisuke Sasaki & Masa Takanashi in a 3-way by pinning Sasaki.

Match 6: Go Shiozaki (Pro Wrestling NOAH) beat Yuki Iino.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata & To-y beat MAO, Chris Brookes & Antonio Honda. To-y pinned Honda after a Frankensteiner,

The next event is Saturday at Iwate Education Hall Multipurpose Hall in Iwate. There will be no live broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/8/24 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up a 3-day weekend in Hokkaido today with one more house show event.

Today’s event was held at Hakodate General Wholesale Center Distribution Hall in Hokkaido and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (scheduled for Friday). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 332.

Match 1: Black Menso-re (Independent/Freelancer) beat Tadasuke & Junta Miyawaki in a 3-way by pinning Miyawaki.

Match 2: Anthony Greene beat Daiki Inaba.

Match 3: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Super Crazy. Bane pinned Crazy.

Match 4: Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Eita beat Jake Lee, LJ Cleary & YO-HEY. Marufuji pinned Cleary after Shiranui.

Match 5; Daga & Ulka Sasaki vs. HAYATA & AMAKUSA went to a double countout. Which led to…
Match 5 (again): HAYATA & AMAKUSA beat Daga & Ulka Sasaki. HAYATA pinned Sasaki.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh, Alejandro & Cristobal beat YOICHI, Masa Kitamiya, Ryohei Oiwa & Yu Owada. Kiyomiya pinned Owada after Transformed Shining Wizard.

The next event is ABEMA Presents DESTINATION 2024 Saturday at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. Live streaming only on ABEMA as a PPV in select countries (including the US) in Japanese and English will begin Friday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET. Note that while it can be watched in a web browser, you must download the ABEMA iOS/Android app to purchase the PPV, which before event day costs 3500 Japanese yen (around $22 US) plus additional fees. On event day or after the event )on demand) it goes up to 4000 yen (around $27 US) and will be available on demand until 8 AM on 7/21. That means it will be at least a week or more after the event before it could show up on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. (UPDATE: You also will be able to watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube)

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