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Pro Wrestling NOAH 12/20/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the final STAR NAVIGATION 2023 event of the year, before the series continues in 2024.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo 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 688.

Match 1: LEONA (Dradition) & Kai Fujimura beat Taishi Ozawa & Yu Owada. Fujimura pinned Owada after a swan dive elbow.

Match 2: Hajime Ohara beat Hi69.

Match 3: Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito beat Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher & Shuhei Taniguchi. Shiozaki pinned Taniguchi after Go Lariat.

Match 4: Terry Yaki beat Extreme Tiger. This was to have been a 3-way including Alejandro but Alejandro was removed last-minute due to the ever vague poor health/physical condition.

Match 5: HAYATA, Eita & Titus Alexander beat Yoshinari Ogawa, Super Crazy & Vinny Massaro. Alexander pinned Massaro after Big Ugly.

Match 6: Naomichi Marufuji beat Atsushi Kotoge.

Match 7: Jake Lee, LJ Cleary, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Kaito Kiyoiya, Ryohei Oiwa, Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki. Lee pinned Miyawaki after a backdrop. Afterwards, the House Of Torture faction in New Japan Pro Wrestling appeared and beat down the losers. EVIL with microphone. Based on translation it sounds like a challenge was issued to Kiyomiya & Miyawaki for a match against EVIL & Dick Togo.

Main Event: Kenoh, Takashi Sugiura & Kazuyuki Fujita beat Manabu Soya, Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba. Kenoh pinned Soya with a Samson Clutch.

The next event, which will be the final event of 2023, is “THE GIFT 2023 in MAKUHARI-KEIJI MUTO HAPPY BIRTHDAY” Saturday at Makuhari Messe Hall 6 in Chiba. There will be no live broadcast.

Injury Report: Return Quickly DDT’d

And yet another DDT wrestler goes down again…and this one after a short comeback. Just one month after he returned from injury, Yuki Ishida is out again. Lumbar disc hernia. Out indefinitely.

More as it becomes available.

BREAKING: Last-Minute NOAH Change For Today

A few minutes ago Pro Wrestling NOAH announced that Alejandro is now off today’s Korakuen Hall event. The ever vagus poor health/poor physical condition. He was to have faced Extreme Tiger & Terry Yaki in a 3-way. It’s now a single match. No word on Alejandro’s status going forward but monitor because he is scheduled to be in Dragon Gate Sunday in a match for the Open The Twin Gate Championship.

Dragon Gate 12/19/23 Results

Dragon Gate ran their final Tokyo event of the year today as they continued the Fantastic Gate 2023 Tour.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1343.

Before the event began, it was announced that the Open The Twin Gate Championship is now VACANT. Previous champions Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia vacated the titles today, with Dia returning the belts, due to a Yoshioka injury (eye). It’s a minor injury but this means Yoshioka won’t be able to return for their scheduled title defense Sunday against Kaito Kiyomiya & Alejandro (Pro Wrestling NOAH. Alejandro actually was in Dragon Gate until earlier this year as Aleja). The NOAH duo will now face Ben-K & Kota Minoura for the titles Sunday.

Match 1: Punch Tominaga beat Yoshiki Kato.

Match 2: Kzy, Strong Machine J, BIGBOSS Shimizu, U-T & Jason Lee beat Don Fujii, Genki Horiguchi, Kagetora, Takashi Yoshida & Daiki Yanagiuchi. Shimizu pinned Yanagiuchi after Power BOSS.

Match 3: ISHIN beat JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI by countout.

Match 4: Ultimo Dragon & VIENTO beat Super Crazy & Demus. Dragon pinned Demus after Asai DDT.

Match 5; Kota Minoura, BxB Hulk & Ben-K beat Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda. Minoura pinned Kanda after Golden Rose.

Match 6: YAMATO, Naruki Doi, Dragon Kid & Alejandro beat Dragon Dia, Ryoya Tanaka, Eita & Shuji Kondo. Alejandro pinned Tanaka after a modified Yoshitonic.

Main Event: Madoka Kikuta & Luis Mante beat Shun Skywalker & KAI by DQ. Skywalker DQ’d. Which led to…
Main Event (again): Madoka Kikuta, Luis Mante & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI beat Shun Skywalker, KAI & ISHIN. KAMEI pinned Skywalker after “JACKY” Knife. That’s not insignificant, in particular for KAMEI. I would call that a definite upset.

The next event is tomorrow at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. This is the last non-televised event of the year as both remaining events after this will be live and on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

It was also announced today that the first Korakuen event of 2024 on 1/10 (the first half of a doubleheader) will be a Masaaki Mochizuki 30th Anniversary Event. For his 30th Anniversary match, Mochizuki will face Shingo Takagi, the former Dragon Gate star who began his career in the promotion before moving to New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he reached superstardom and is a former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion among other accolades. Check out the promo poster below for the event, which should be live and on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK (confirmation will come later this month(:

BREAKING: Dragon Gate Titles Vacated

Following up on the Yuki Yoshioka injury (eye) in Dragon Gate, a breaking update-The Open The Twin Gate Championship held by Yoshioka and Dragon Dia is now VACANT. This means Yoshioka will not be back in time for Saturday. They were supposed to defend the titles against Kaito Kiyomiya & Alejandro, who will now face Ben-K & Kota Minoura for the titles.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 12/18/23 Results (Updated x3)

Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up MONDAY MAGIC today with the final episode of what, on paper, appears to have been a very successful experiment.

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

The paid attendance has not yet been announced but it was a legit advance sellout (every event in the series was). So that likely means 450-500 depending on the setup.

Match 1: Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher beat 2 Great Mummies. Huxley pinned a Great Mummy after a neck hanging bomb.

Match 2: Jake Lee, LJ Cleary, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Masato Tanaka (ZERO1), Titus Alexander, Alejandro & Terry Yaki. Lee pinned Yaki after FBS.

Match 3: Haruka Umesaki & Miyuki Takase beat Nagisa Nozaki & Arisa Nakajima. Takase pinned Nozaki with La Magistral.

Match 4: Kenoh, Kota Minoura (Dragon Gate) & Ben-K (Dragon Gate) beat Manabu Soya, Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba. Kenoh pinned Inaba after PFS.

Match 5: HAYATA & Yoshinari Ogawa beat Gedo (New Japan) & Eita by DQ. Gedo DQ’d. Ref assault.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Ryohei Oiwa.

The next event is Wednesday at Korakuen Hall for the final STAR NAVIGATION 2023 event (of course this tour continues next year). Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin at 1:30 AM Pt/4:30 AM ET. This is another ABEMA exclusive in Japan only.

UPDATE: The promotion has announced MONDAY MAGIC will return in April. Season 2 will be 4 episodes on 4/1, 4/8, 4/15 & 4/22, all at Shinjuku Face.

UPDATE 2: Today’s event is currently unavailable on demand or limited due to technical issues.

UPDATE 3: Issue fixed as of 12:30 PM ET and today’s event is now available on demand again.

Injury Report: Sick Panther

Dragon Gate has announced that Open The Brave Gate Champion Hyo will be temporarily sidelined for the next few days. Illness. Out tomorrow and Wednesday. Condition is improving and at this time is still on for Saturday, when he is to defend the Open The Brave Gate Championship against Genki Horiguchi.

More as it becomes available.

Dragon Gate 12/17/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued the Fantastic Gate 2023 Tour today with a house show in Nagoya.

Today’s event was held at Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Match 1: KAI & Yoshiki Kato beat Kaito Nagano & Daiki Yanagiuchi. Kato pinned Yanagiuchi after Cadere Luna.

Match 2: Ben-K beat Problem Dragon.

Match 3: Kota Minoura beat JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI.

Match 4; BIGBOSS Shimizu, Strong Machine J & Jason Lee beat Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda. J pinned Kanda after Reflected Candy Magic.

Match 5: Ultimo Dragon & Dragon Kid beat Kzy & U-T. Kid pinned U-T after Bible.

Main Event: Madoka Kikuta & Dragon Dia beat Shun Skywalker & ISHIN, Hyo & Luis Mante and Genki Horiguchi & Kagetora in a 4-way when Dia pinned ISHIN.

The next event is Tuesday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

Dragon Gate 12/16/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued the Fantastic Gate 2023 Tour yesterday with an event in Hiroshima.

Yesterday’s event was held at Fukuyama Big Rose in Hiroshima. There was/is no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 408, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Kzy, Strong Machine J & Jason Lee beat Madoka Kikuta, Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka. J pinned Tanaka after Gold Ship.

Match 2: Takashi Yoshida & Kaito Nagano beat BIGBOSS Shimizu & Daiki Yanagiuchi. Yoshida pinned Yanagiuchi.

Match 3: Ultimo Dragon, Kota Minoura & Ben-K beat Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda. Minoura pinned Kanda after a jumping knee.

Match 4: Luis Mante & Hyo beat Genki Horiguchi & Naruki Doi. Hyo pinned Horiguchi after a double biceps senton.

Main Event: YAMATO, Dragon Kid, Punch Tominaga & Shachihoko BOY beat Shun Skywalker, Kzy, ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato. Kid pinned Kato after Bible.

The latest event was today at Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The next event is Tuesday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo for the final Tokyo event of the year. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 12/17/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the last event of the never-ending SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour (which will continue into 2024) today with a house show in Shizuoka.

Today’s event was held at Act City Hamamatsu in Shizuoka and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Thursday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 319.

Match 1; Taishi Ozawa beat Yu Owada.

Match 2: Alejandro & Terry Yaki beat Hajime Ohara & Extreme Tiger. Alehandro pinned Tiger after Empty Bullet.

Match 3: Junta Miyawaki beat Kai Fujimura.

Match 4: Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69. Thatcher beat Hi69 with a Fujiwara armbar.

Match 5: Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa beat Yoshinari Ogawa & Super Crazy. Kiyomiya pinned Crazy after Transformed Shining Wizard.

Match 6; Manabu Soya, Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba beat Kenoh, Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito. Soya beat Yone with a dragon sleeper.

Main Event: Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, HAYATA & Eita beat Jake Lee, LJ Cleary, YO-HEY & Tadasuke. Marufuji pinned Cleary after God Tiger King.

The next event is MONDAY MAGIC FINAL, the 5th and final event of the series, tomorrow at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. The event is a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.