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Dragon Gate 10/9/23 Results (Updated)

Dragon Gate ran a mid-major event, THE GATE OF ORIGIN 2023, today (it’s a holiday in Japan so everyone had big events).

Today’s event was held at Sendai Sun Festa in Sendai and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK).

The announced paid attendance was 555.

Match 1: Madoka Kikuta, Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia beat Strong Machine J, U-T & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. Kikuta pinned KAMEI after a rolling lariat.

Match 2: BIGBOSS Shimizu beat Yoshiki Kato.

Match 3: Kota Minoura & Ben-K beat Ho Ho Lin & Problem Dragon. Minoura pinned Dragon after Golden Rose.

Match 4: Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki, Mochizuki Jr. & Yasushi Kanda beat Don Fujii, Genki Horiguchi, Ryo Saito & Kagetora. Susumu Mochizuki pinned Horiguchi.

Match 5: Luis Mante beat Jason Lee. Mante is the former, and now unmasked, Diamante.

Match 6: Kzy beat Open The Brave Gate Champion ISHIN to win the title. Kzy becomes the 49th Open The Brave Gate Champion.

Main Event: Open The Triangle Gate Champions YAMATO, Dragon Kid & Punch Tominaga beat Shun Skywalker, KAI & H-Y-O to retain the titles. YAMATO pinned H-Y-O after Gallaria. V1 for the champs.

The next event is tomorrow at Aore Nagaoka in Niigata. There will be mo live or on demand broadcast.

UPDATE: There will be a Kzy-ISHIN rematch for the Open The Brave Gate Championship on Saturday.

GLEAT 10/9/23 Results

GLEAT ran their latest major event today, dubbed GLEAT Ver. EX.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on YouTube (it was a free live broadcast).

The announced paid attendance was 729.

Match 1: Kaz Hayashi, Minoru Tanaka, Yu Iizuka, Jun Tonsho & Junjie beat Hagane Shinno, Yumehito Inanari, Shota, Mizuki Watase & Kaji Tomato. Hayashi pinned Imanari.

Match 2: Tomoaki Honma (New Japan) & Ryota Hama beat Kotaro Suzuki & Hartley Jackson. Honma pinned Jackson after Kokeshi. Wow, haven’t seen or heard from Hama in a long time, not since the former sumo wrestler left All-Japan after former yokozuna (Grand Champion) Akebono did (their SMOP tag team was something else).

Match 3: MICHIKO, Aoi, Risa Sera & Arisa Nakajima beat Yukari Hosokawa, Sayaka Unagi, Itsuki Aoki & Yurika Oka. MICHIKO pinned Hosokawa.

Match 4: Lidet UWF Double Bout: Masakatsu Funaki & Tyson Maeguchi beat Soma Watanabe & Tetsuya Izuchi by KO. Maeguchi beat Izuchi.

Match 5: In a No DQ match, Isami Kodaka & Yuko Miyamoto beat Takanori Ito & Issei Onitsuka. Miyamoto pinned Onistuka after Fire Thunder into lighttubes.

Match 6: Ryuichi Kawakami, KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Check Shimatani beat The Great Sasuke (Michinoku Pro), GAINA & Ultraman Robin. SAKAMOTO pinned Sasuke.

Match 7: Kaito Ishida Return Match: Kaito Ishida beat CIMA by submission. Afterwards, Ishida requested to face Takehiro Yamamura at his return match on 12/30 at TDC Hall in Tokyo. But so did Issei Onitsuka. Therefore, a match between Ishida & Onitsuka to determine the 12/30 opponent will happen on 11/3 at Tokyo FM Hall.

Match 8: El Lindaman & Hayato Tamura beat SBK & TAKUMA. Lindaman pinned TAKUMA with a tiger suplex hold.

Main Event: G-REX Champion T-Hawk beat Shuji Ishikawa (All-Japan) to retain the title. V4 for T-Hawk.

The next event is G PROWRESTLING Ver. 62 on 10/21 at Umeda Stella Hall in Osaka. Broadcast plans TBA but since it’s Osaka there likely will be no live broadcast. It should be available on YouTube no later than 3 days after the event.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 10/9/23 Results (Updated)

Pro Wrestling NOAH kicked off MONDAY MAGIC today, a new experiment featuring 5 events in a serialized format to be held every couple weeks over the rest of the year on Mondays.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTE UNIVERSE FOR FREE! No signup or login required! Click below to watch (the full event runs 1 hour 53 minutes):

https://www.wrestle-universe.com/en/lives/pLkUUJXfo97Y5jGuCYkv9V

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Match 1: Ninja Mack beat Terry Yaki. Yaki is an American wrestler making his NOAH debut. Questionable ring name though.

Match 2: Go Shiozaki, Kazuyuki Fujita & Junta Miyawaki beat Manabu Soya, Masa Kitamiya & Kai Fujimura. Miyawaki pinned Fujimura after Falcon Arrow.

Match 3: Jake Lee & Anthony Greene beat LJ Cleary & Ryohei Oiwa. Greene pinned Oiwa. Cleary is a wrestler from Iteland also making his NOAH debut today.

Match 4: Takumi Iroha & Mio Momono beat Yuu & Rigo Kawabata. Iroha pinned Kawabata after Running 3.

Match 5: YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf and Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69 in a 3-way when YO-HEY pinned Bane.

Main Event: Kenoh beat Satoshi Kojima.

Episode 2 is 10/23. After the event, it was announced The Great Muta (Keiji Muto) will appear at that event.

The next event is Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama, continuing the never-ending SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12;30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.

UPDATE: The promotion announced the free replay of this event will only be available until 10/23 at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. So watch quickly if you’re not a subscriber!

Tokyo Joshi Pro 10/9/23 Results

WRESTLE PRINCESS 4, Tokyo Joshi Pro’s most important annual event, is now in the books.

Today’s event was held at Tama Mirai Messe in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 868, a super full house/very near sellout. Almost standing room only as only unreserved seats were available before the event.

Match 1: Runa Okubo beat Haru Kazashiro.

Match 2: Arisu Endo, Kaya Toribami & HIMAWARI beat HARUKAZE, Yoshiko Hasegawa & Riara (Ganbare Women). Endo beat Hasegawa with a camel clutch.

Match 3: Moka Miyamoto beat Juria Nagano.

Match 4: Aja Kong, Raku & Shino Suzuki beat Hyper Misao, Wakana Uehara & Toga. Kong pinned Uehara after a backdrop.

The 6-Woman Tag Match participants for DDT’s 11/12 event at Ryogoku Kokugikan were announced: It’s Yuki Arai (YES!!!), Moka Miyamoto & Shino Suzuki vs. Suzume, Arisu Endo & Wakana Uehara. Having Arai in the match makes sense given it’s Saki Akai’s retirement event…one last helping of AA Eye Candy please!

Match 5: Miu Watanabe & Yuki Arai beat Ryo Mizunami & Yuki Aino. Arai pinned Aino after Finally.

Match 6: Sakisama (Saki Akai), May Saint-Michel, Yukio Saint-Laurent (Yukio Sakaguchi) & Martha beat Shoko Nakajima, Suzume, Pom Harajuku & Antonio Honda (DDT). Sakisama pinned Harajuku after Academy Awards. This likely is the final time we’ll see NEO Bishiki-gun in TJPW. They will be missed.

Major announcement…GRAND PRINCESS ’24 returns to Ryogoku Kokugikan on March 31!

Match 7: Nyla Rose (All Elite Wrestling) beat Maki Itoh.

Match 8: Nao Kakuta & Hikari Noa beat Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu to win the vacant Princess Tag Team Championship. Kakuta & Noa become the 14th Princess Tag Team Champions. Kakuta pinned Kiryu after Shiden Kai.

Match 9: Max The Impaler beat International Princess Champion Rika Tatsumi to win the title and retain the NWA Women’s TV Championship. Impaler becomes the 11th International Princess Champion.

Main Event: Miyu Yamashita beat Princess Of Princess Champion Mizuki to win the title. Yamashita becomes the 13th Princess Of Princess Champion. And first & only for now 4-time champion. The Champ Is Here again! HAPPY HAPPY!!!

The next event is a doubleheader Sunday at Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo. The first event is Go Girl 4, the first women-only special event in over a year where only female fans can attend. The second event will be continuing the CITY CIRCUIT Tour with a regular event. The only announcements so far for both are Yuki Arai & Max The Impaler participation. There will be no live broadcasts.

New Japan 10/9/23 Results (Updated x2)

DESTRUCTION in RYOGOKU, New Japan’s October blowout event, is now in the books.

Today’s event was held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and can be watched in demand on New Japan World outside Japan. It may not yet be available in Japan where it aired live only on ABEMA.

The announced paid attendance was 5002. While they do use a smaller layout for the venue now than the full capacity used for sumo (in particular for the mass/box seats being at only half capacity), this seems rather low for Ryogoku.

Pre-show Match: Oskar Leube, Ryusuke Taguchi, Toru Yano, Tiger Mask & YOSHI-HASHI beat Takahiro Katori (Eagle Pro Wrestling), Jun Masaoka (Independent/Freelancer), Kengo (Independent/Freelancer), Takeshi Masada (DDT) & Kazuma Sumi (DDT). Taguchi beat Katori with Oh My & Gar Ankle.

Match 1: Yuya Uemura, DOUKI & Taichi beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho & Yujiro Takahashi. Uenura pinned Takahashi with a suplex hold. Uemura, just back from Impact Wrestling, is now part of Just 5 Guys.

Match 2: Tanga Loa beat Chase Owens.

Match 3: BUSHI, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Callum Newman, HENARE, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb. Naito pinned Newman after Destino.

Match 4: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Drilla Moloney & Clark Connors beat Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA to retain the titles. Moloney pinned KUSHIDA after Full Clip. V2 for the champs.

Match 5: Best of 7 Series Match 7: Master Wato, Shota Umino & Yuji Nagata beat Ren Narita, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki. Umino pinned Narita after Death Slider. 3-3-1. DRAW.

Match 6: El Phantasmo & Hikuleo beat STRONG Tag Team Champions Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin to win the titles. Phantasmo & Hikuleo become the 6th STRONG Tag Team Champions. Phantasmo pinned Coughlin after Super Thunder Kiss ’86.

Match 7: NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Tomohiro Ishii, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada beat Josh Alexander, Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley (Impact Wrestling) to retain the titles. Tanahashi pinned Shelley after High Fly Flow. V3 for the champs.

Match 8: Tama Tonga beat NEVER Openweight Champion David Finlay to win the title. Tonga becomes the 40th NEVER Openweight Champion.

Match 9: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi beat Yoh & Mike Bailey in a 3-way by pinning Yoh to retain the title. V6 for Takahashi. Next up: Possibly Taiji Ishimori, who attacked Takahashi afterwards. Ishimori has been out the last several months due to injury.

Main Event: In a Lumberjack Deathmatch, IWGP World Heavyweight Champion SANADA beat EVIL to retain the title. V4 for SANADA. Next up: It’s probably Tokyo Dome, which means, if all goes as planned the next 3 months, Naito. Destino.

The next event is ROYAL QUEST 3 Saturday at Copper Box in London, England. The event will be a live PPV via Revolution Pro Wrestling and their on demand streaming service beginning at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT. The service costs $9.49/month or $89.99/year and additional purchase may be required, but you must subscribe first. It will be available on demand on New Japan World at a later date.

UPDATE: If you believe New Japan’s official English social media outlets, it’s now official. Naito-SANADA at Tokyo Dome on 1/4.

UPDATE 2/ The first 1/4 press conference, with the first matches announced, will be tonight at 12 PM PT/2 AM ET and can be watched live FOR FREE on New Japan World and may also be available on YouTube in Japanese.

DDT 10/7/23 & 10/8/23 Results

DDT ran 2 events yesterday and today, continuing the GOD BLESS DDT 2023 Tour yesterday and following up with a free mini-event today.

Yesterday’s event was held at Sanjo City Welfare Hall in Niigata and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 253, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Yusuke Okada beat Rukiya.

Match 2: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON beat Takeshi Masada & Kazuma Sumi. KANON pinned Sumi after Sleepy Hollow.

Match 3: Super Sasadango Machine beat Danshoku DIeno & Kazuki Hirata in a 3-way by pinning Dieno. Sanjo City Mayor Ryo Takizawa, in attendance for the event, interfered to help Machine win. Machine headbutted the Mayor then and demanded a match, which did not happen.

Match 4: Yukio Naya beat MJ Paul.

Match 5: Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani beat Tetsuya Endo & Yuya Koroku. Okatani pinned Koroku with a double arm suplex.

Match 6: All-Asia Tag Team Champions Jun Akiyama & Kotaro Suzuki beat Takao Omori & Yoshitatsu (All-Japan) to retain the titles. Akiyama pinned Omori after a wrist-clutch Exploder. V1 for the champs. Next up: Sakaguchi & Okatani. That match will happen on 11/3 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and will be held under PWF (All-Japan) Rules.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno, MAO & Toi Kojima beat HARASHIMA, Kazusada Higuchi & Akito. Ueno pinned Akito after WR.

Today’s event was held at Akos Event Square in Saitama and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The attendance was not announced because this was a free event. It was also an outdoor event.

Match 1: Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani beat Kazuki Hirata, Danshoku Dieno & Kazuma Sumi. Okatani pinned Sumi with a double arm suplex.

Match 2: Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku beat Akito, Yukio Naya, Takeshi Masada & Rukiya. Endo pinned Rukiya after a swiveling torture rack bomb.

Match 3: HARASHIMA, Kazusada Higuchi & Antonio Honda beat Yuki Ueno, MAO & Toi Kojima. HARASHIMA pinned Kojima after Blue Sword. HARASHIMA was presented with a special sponsor prize afterwards for being the winner.

The next event is Saturday at Sapporo E-One Arena in Hokkaido for a weekend doubleheader. There will be no live broadcasts.

All-Japan 10/8/23 Results

All-Japan began their October tour, the 51st Anniversary Tour (marking the promotion’s beginning in October 1972), with a house show today in Yamagata.

Today’s event was held at Supaku Yanabe in Yamagata and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV later today. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 333.

Match 1: Ryuki Honda beat Takaaki Iwasaki.

Match 2: Takao Omori beat Yoshitatsu & Black Menso-re in a 3-way by pinning Menso-re.

Match 3: Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato vs. Hikaru Sato & Yoshifumi Iwamoto went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 4: Hideki Suzuki (Po Wrestling NOAH) & Takuya Nomura beat Ryo Inoue & Yuma Anzai. Suzuki pinned Inoue after a double arm suplex.

Match 5: Hokuto Omori beat Dan Tamura.

Main Event: Kento Miyahara, Yuma Aoyagi & Suwama beat Jun & Rei Saito & KONO. Aoyagi pinned Jun Saito after THE FOOL.

The next event is tomorrow at Kakuda CIty General Gym in Miyagi with Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi vs. the Saito Bros. for the All-Japan World Tag Team Championship. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin TONIGHT at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET.

AEW Collision 10/7/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Collision in Salt Lake City, UT:

The show aired an hour earlier than usual for unknown reasons.

Ricky Starks & Big Bill beat AEW Tag Team Champions FTR to become THE NEW AEW TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS! Starks pinned Dax Harwood after a spear.

Bryan Danielson beat Kyle Fletcher.

Juice Robinson & Gunn Club beat Angelico, Gravity & Metalik. Robinson pinned Metaik.

Nick Wayne promo. Pre-taped.

The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn beat Iron Savages & Jacked Jameson. Max Caster pinned ? after Mic Drop.

Toni Storm beat Kiera Hogan.

Stip announced for Tuesday’s AEW Women’s Championship Match (Saraya vs. Hikaru Shida)-No Ruby Soho at ringside.

ROH World Champion Eddie Kingston beat Komander to retain the title.

Adam Copeland promo. Lichasaurus & Nick Wayne beatdown until Darby Allin makes the save but he gets a beatdown too.

End Show.

New Japan 10/7/23 Results (Updated 10/8)

New Japan wrapped up the Road to DESTRUCTION Tour today with the final event before Monday’s blowout event.

Today’s event was held at Yume Messe Miyagi Main Building Exhibition Building Exhibition Hall C in Miyagi and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1089.

Match 1: Boltin Oleg beat Yuto Nakashima.

Match 2: Callum Newman, Great-O-Khan & HENARE beat Oskar Leube, Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI. Khan pinned Leube after Royal Right.

Match 3: Best of 7 Series Match 6: El Desperado, Ren Narita & Minoru Suzuki beat Master Wato, Shota Umino & Yuji Nagata. Suzuki pinned Nagata after a Gotch-style piledriver. Suzuki’s team leads 3-2-1.

Match 4: El Phantasmo, Tanga Loa, KUSHIDA, Jado & Tama Tonga beat Drilla Mooney, Gedo, Chase Owens, Clark Connors & David Finlay. Tonga pinned Gedo after Gun Stun.

Match 5: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Yujiro Takahashi, Sho & EVIL beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Taichi & SANADA. Kanemaru pinned DOUKI after Touch Out.

Main Event: In an Elimination Match, Yoh, Tomohiro Ishii, Ryusuke Taguchi, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada beat BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsua Naito. Yoh was the only winner left, last eliminating Takahashi.

The next event is DESTRUCTION in RYOGOKU, the October blowout event, Monday at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. Live streaming on New Japan World OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET. The live broadcast in Japan will only be on ABEMA and available on demand on New Japan World at a later date.

10/8 UPDATE: At a pre-event presser for DESTRUCTION, a late change was announced for the event: Lio Rush is off due to the illness that kept him off the last few events. He was to have faced IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi and Mike Bailey in a 3-way for the title. Yoh is the replacement. Monitor for potentially more last-second changes as Bailey could be cutting it close on making it to the event in time due to other international commitments.

Dragon Gate 10/6/23 Results (Updated)

Dragon Gate continued The Gate Of Victory 2023 Tour today with their monthly mid-major Tokyo event.

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

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1296)

Match 1: Masaaki Mochizuki & Mochizuki Jr. vs. Don Fujii & Yoshiki Kato went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Kagetora & Problem Dragon beat Ho Ho Lun & Daiki Yanagiuchiz Kagetora beat Yanagiuchi with a modified camel clutch.

Match 3: Genki Horiguchi beat Yasushi Kanda.

Match 4: Susumu Mochizuki beat Kenichiro Arai.

Match 5: BIGBOSS Shimizu & Strong Machine J beat Shuji Kondo & Eita. Shimizu pinned Eita after Shot Put Slam.

Match 6: Shun Skywalker, KAI, H-Y-O & ISHIN beat Kzy, Jason Lee, U-T & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. ISHIN pinned U-T after Jinchu.

Main Event: YAMATO, Dragon Kid & Punch Tominaga beat Kota Minoura, Ben-K & Naruki Doi and Madoka Kikuta, Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia in a 3-way elimination match, when YAMATO eliminated Ben-K then Tominaga eliminated Yoshioka, to win the vacant Open The Triangle Gate Championship. YAMATO, Kid & Tominaga become the 87th Open The Triangle Gate Champions.

The next event is tomorrow at Mercure Hotel Yokosuka in Kanagawa. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

UPDATE: The promotion has announced that Diamante, who lost his mask in his last DG match earlier this year, will return tomorrow and will now be known as Luis Mante.