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Sumo-September 2022 Banzuke Announced

The Nihon Sumo Kyokai has announced the full Banzuke (Rankings) for the September 2022 Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo. A full list of the top 2 tiers will come later today, but here are some of the big early points of note:
First, the hottest topic perhaps…Despite a second straight losing tournament, Mitakeumi stays at Ozeki and presumably remains in Kadoban status. Mitakeumi was 2-6 in July before being forced to withdraw due to a coronavirus outbreak in his beya (stable). That means the equivalent of 2-13, which for a Kadoban Ozeki normally means demotion. Shodai & Takakeisho are out of Kadoban again and there is perhaps a chance of Yokozuna consideration for Takakeisho if he can win the tournament with at least 13 wins.
July Champion Ichinojo, coming off his first tournament championship, moves up to Komosubi from Maegashira 2.
Hoshoryu is promoted to Sekiwake for the first time, joining holdovers Wakatakakage & Daieisho at the 3rd-highest rank. Wakatakakage, the March Champion, just missed potential Ozeki promotion by one or two wins in July.
Kiribayama returns to Komosubi along with Ichinojo and Abi.
Midorifuji is the big mover up, leaping all the way up to Maegashira 1. July Juryo Champion Ryuden is finally back in the top tier as expected, coming in at Maegashira 12.
Demotions to Juryo include Shinanoumi to Juryo 1 after a disastrous 1-14 July, Chiyomaru to J1, and Daiamami to J8. Only 16 Maegashira ranks because Sanyaku additions took two bottom spots away. Elsewhere in Juryo, Kinbozan becomes what is believed to be the first rikishi from Kazakhstan to reach the top two tiers, debuting at Juryo 12 and needing just 6 tournaments to get there.
Amidst rumors it might spell the end of his career, longtime top-tier stalwart Kaisei was demoted to Makushita 1 and, in breaking news, has now retired. The Brazilian ranked as high as Sekiwake and won 1 championship in Juryo. He will now become Oyakata Tomozuna and go through training to become a mentor and perhaps eventually a stablemaster, following in the path of Yokozuna Hakuho, who became Oyakata Magaki after retiring last year.
Former Ozeki Asanoyama, who went a perfect 7-0 and won the Sandanme tournament in his return in July, takes a rocket flight up from Sandanme 22 to Makushita 15. Another 7-0 performance could get him back to Juryo in November. Ishiura, formerly in the top tier but out the last 2 tournaments due to injury, drops to Makushita 10. July Makushita Champion Yoshii makes the usual big leap up and just missed reaching Juryo, he’ll try to get there next time from Makushita 3.

The September Tournament runs from 9/11-9/25 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.

UPDATE 1: There is also a name change to report-Kanno, who is making his Juryo debut at Juryo 14, will now be known as Tochimusashi. There have been two other renamings in the Sandanme and one in the Jonidan.

UPDATE 2: Here is the September Banzuke for the top 2 tiers;
Makuuchi (top tier):
Yokozuna-Terunofuji
Ozaki-Mitakeumi (Kadoban), Shodai, Takakeisho
Sekiwake-Wakatakakage, Daieisho, Hoshuryu
Komosubi-Abi, Ichinojo (July Tournament Champion), Kiribayama
Maegashira 1-Tobizaru, Midorifuji
Maegashira 2-Kotonowaka, Meisei
Maegashira 3-Tamawashi, Ura
Maegashira 4-Nishigiki, Takayasu
Maegashira 5-Takarafuji, Sadanoumi
Maegashira 6-Wakamotoharu, Endo
Maegashira 7-Aoiyama, Onosho
Maegashira 8-Tochinoshin, Hokutofuji
Maegashira 9-Myogiryu, Kotoeko
Maegashira 10-Nishikifuji, Takanosho
Maegashira 11-Kotoshoho, Chiyotairyu
Maegashira 12-Okinoumi, Ryuden (July Juryo Champion)
Maegashira 13-Ichiyamamoto, Oho
Maegashira 14-Chiyoshoma, Yutakayama
Maegashira 15-Terutsuyoshi, Tsurugisho
Maegashira 16-Mitoryu, Hiradoumi

Juryo (2nd tier):
Juryo 1-SHimanoumi, Chiyomaru
Juryo 2-Chiyonokuni, AzUmaryu
Juryo 3-Atamifuji, Tohakuryu
Juryo 4-Kagayaki, Bushozan
Juryo 5-Hidenoumi, Asanowaka
Juryo 6-Akua, Churanoumi
Juryo 7-Kotokuzan, Enho
Juryo 8-Daiamami, Daishoho
Juryo 9-Hokuseiho, Kaisho
Juryo 10-Shimazuumi, Tokushoryu
Juryo 11-Chiyosakae, Kitanowaka
Juryo 12-Gonoyama, Kinbozan
Juryo 13-Oshoma, Tochimaru
Juryo 14-Tochimusashi (name change-formerly Kanno), Takakento
Notable Makushita: Kaisei (Makushita 1-RETIRED), Yoshii (July Makushita Champion-Makushita 3), Asanoyama (July Sandanme Champion-Makushita 15)
Once again there are only 90 ranks in the Sandanme instead of 100. There are 107 ranks in the Jonidan (and many now at least get mug shots/profile pics on the banzuke!), and 19 ranks in the Jonokuchi with an odd number of inexperienced or debuting wrestlers.

NWA 74 Night 2 Results (8/28/22)

The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), under the leadership of William Patrick Corgan aka Billy Corgan (of the music group Smashing Pumpkins), holds their anniversary event this weekend, their biggest event of the year. NWA 74 is their WrestleMania and will be held as a 2-night doubleheader loaded with big names and big matches. Night 2 tonight has several more title matches and is headlined by a big man faceoff for the 10 Pounds Of Gold in the main event as NWA World Heavyweight Champion Trevor Murdoch defends against NWA TV Champion Tyrus. The TV Title is not on the line so this is not a double title match. And after a brutal title defense last night against Taya Valkyrie, there’s no rest for NWA Women’s World Champion Kamille as she now must defend tonight against Max The Impaler, who won The Burke Invitational last night.

Tonight’s event will be held at the Khorassan Ballroom at Chase Park Royal Sonesta in St. Louis, MO and can be watched LIVE on FITE. There are two ways to watch: Tonight’s event is available as a standalone PPV for $24.99 or you can get a combo pack with yesterday’s Night 1 included for $39.99. Either way, a purchase gets you the live broadcast and unlimited on demand replays of both nights. If you are an NWA All Access Annual member or you sign up, you get both nights included and all past, present and upcoming NWA TV episodes and archived content live and on demand and more. NWA All Access Annual is $49.99 for a year-considering that’s how much this weekend’s PPVs cost on their own, and each of their 4 annual PPVs is $25 each, it’s a bargain-like getting this weekend’s events or 2 PPVs each year FOR FREE! I bought the Annual plan so I get this weekend’s events as part of it. There is also a monthly All Access plan for $4.99/month but that only includes the TV episodes. The first hour of tonight’s event will be a pre-show available FOR FREE on YouTube.

Tonight’s current lineup (subject to change):
Colby Corino vs. Caprice Coleman in a 2 of 3 Falls match
Thom Latimer vs. TBA (Latimer is advertised as facing Judais and also EC3 in a second match)
Mercurio vs. Magic Jake Dumas
Rodney Mack & Aron Stevens vs. Pope & JR Kratos in a Tornado Tag Match
12 Team Battle Royal for the reinstated NWA US Tag Team Championship. Announced teams: Hawx Aerie, The Fixers, The Ill Begotten, The Miserably Faithful, The Country Gentlemen, Gold Rushhh, The Now, Ruff ‘N Ready, The OGK
Nick Aldis vs. Flip Gordon
MLW National Champion Davey Richerds vs. Thrillbilly Silas for the title
NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Homicide vs. Ricky Morton for the title
NWA Women’s Tag Team Champions Pretty Empowered vs. The Hex in a Street Fight for the titles
NWA National Champion Cyon vs. Anthony Mayweather for the title
NWA World Women’s Champion Kamille vs. Max The Impaler for the title
NWA World Heavyweight Champion Trevor Murdoch vs. Tyrus for the title

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6:55PM ET UPDATE: updates will begin shortly. Pre-show will begin in about 5 minutes.

We are LIVE from the Khorassan Ballroom at Chase Park Royal Sonesta in St. Louis, MO. Your hosts are Joe Galli & Tim Syorm. Velvet Sky will join us when the PPV begins. Venue not even close to full but the crowd is still filing in.

Pre-SHow:
Match 1: Rhett Titus vs. Doug Williams in a Submission Match. Win only by submission.
Result: Time Limit Draw. We didn’t know until the end there was a 10 minute time limit
Grade: B-

May Valentine interviews Austin Idol.

Match 2: Angelina Love vs. Taryn Terrell
Resuit: Angelina Love beat Taryn Terrell
Grade: D+ (largely comedy from Terrell)

May Valentine interviews Mercurio. A Super Mario-like talker he is not. The OGK shows up at the end.

Match 3: Kerry Morton vs. Gustavo
Result: Kerry Morton beat Gustavo
Grade: C+

May Valentine interviews Blk Jeez.

Match 4: Jennacide, KiLynn King & Taya Valkyrie vs. Missa Kate, Natalia Markova & Madi in a Queen Bee Match. The winners will immediately face-off next in a 3-way elimination match
Result: Missa Kate, Natalia Markova & Madi beat KiLynn King, Jennacide & Taya Valkyrie. Markova pinned Jennacide. Which led to…
Part 2: Natalia Markova vs. Madi & Missa Kate in a 3-way elimination match
Result: Natalia Markova beat Madi & Missa Kate. Kate beat Madi first then Markova beat Kate.
Grade: C+

End Pre-Show. Updates will resume when the PPV begins in 10 minutes.

PPV:
Opening video features some highlights from last night. Crowd is noticeably smaller than yesterday. Velvet Sky joins commentary.

Updated card rundown for tonight. Thom Latimer will face EC3 and not Judais as was listed earlier on the NWA’s official website.

Match 1: Colby Corino vs. Caprice Coleman in a 2 of 3 Falls match
Fall 1: Caprice Coleman beat Colby Corino by submission.
Fall 2: Colby Corino beat Caprice Coleman
Fall 3: Colby Corino beat Caprice
Result: Colby Corino beat Caprice Coleman 2-1
Grade: C-

Match 2: 12 Team Battle Royal for the reinstated NWA US Tag Team Championship. Over the top rope only. All 12 teams in at the start A team is eliminated when one member is eliminated Entered teams: Team Ambition, The Ill Begootten, The Now, Gold Rushhh, Rough N’ Ready, The Fixers, The Country Gentlemen, The Spectaculars, Hawx Aerie, Miserably Faithful, The OGK, NEW NWA World Tag Team Champions La Rebelion.
Order of elimination: Gold Rushhh, Miserably Faithful, Ill Begotten, The Spectaculars, Rough N’ Ready, The Country Gentlemen, The Now, Hawx Aerie, La Rebelion, The OGK (eliminated themselves), Team Ambition
Result: The Fixers won to become the NWA US Tag Team Champions.
Grade: C

Matt Cardona promo.

Match 3: Mercurio vs. Magic Jake Dumas
Result: Magic Jake Dumas beat Mercurio
Grade: D

Match 4: MLW National Champion Davey Richards vs. Thrillbilly Silas for the title
Result: MLW National Champion Dacey Richards beat Thrillbilly Silas by submission to retain the title.
Grade: C+

Galli leaves commentary after saying he’s going to hijack the show. With microphone. He shouts out Billy Corgan then calls out his wife, Shelby Rodriguez, who is in the crowd and tells her to come to the ring. I know where this is going…he’s gonna ask. And he did. She looked equally embarrassed and dumbfounded but of course said yes. Galli then returns to commentary.

Barry Windham & JJ Dillon are brought out.

May Valentine interviews Kamille & Thom Latimer. Mostly Latimer about his opponent being changed to EC3. Kamille addresses Max The Impaler, her challenger tonight. Kamille has a POKER FACE.

Match 5: NWA National Champion Cyon vs. Anthony Mayweather for the title
Result: NWA National Champion Cyon beat Anthony Mayweather to retain the title.
Grade: C+

Match 6: NWA Women’s Tag Team Champions Pretty Empowered vs. The Hex in a Street Fight for the titles
Result: NWA Women’s Tag Team Champions Pretty Empowered beat The Hex to retain the titles. Both pinned Marti Belle together.
Grade: C+ (But as a hardcore match this was really fun)

Match 7: NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Homicide vs. Ricky Morton for the title
Result: NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Homicide beat Ricky Morton to retain the title.
Grade: C-

Match 8: Nick Aldis vs. Flip Gordon
Result: Nick Aldis beat Flip Gordon by submission
Grade: B
Afterwards, as Aldis left, Odinson came out and blindsided Gordon. Aldis tried to make the save and also got beaten down.

Match 9: Rodney Mack & Aron Stevens vs. Pope & JR Kratos in a Falls Count Anywhere Tornado Tag Match
Result: Pope & JR Kratos beat Aron Stevens & Rodney Mack. Pope pinned Mack.
Grade: B (Stevens, the former Damien Sandow in WWE, still does great comedy)

Match 10: EC3 vs. Thom Latimer
Result: No Contest. Control Your Narrative interfered and helped EC3 beat down Latimer. EC3 teased a chair shot as Latimer was restrained but instead sat on the hair and played mind games.
Grade: B

May Valentine interviews James Mitchell.

Bully Ray joins commentary, replacing Tim Storm for the next match.

Match 11: NWA World Women’s Champion Kamille vs. Max The Impaler for the title. Ring announcer incorrectly says Max won The Burke at NWA 34
Result: NWA Women’s World Champion Kamille beat Max The Impaler to retain the title.
Grade: B+

Billy Corgan comes out. He announces the NWA will return to St. Louis next year for NWA 75. He then asks for a moment of silence and an honorary 10 bell salute in memory of those the NWA family has lost the past 12 months, including Daffney, Jimmy Rave, Scott Hall, Tarzan Goto, Dave Hebner, Jim White and Gene LeBell among others.

Main Event: NWA World Heavyweight Champion Trevor Murdoch vs. Tyrus for the title
Result: NWA World Heavyweight Champion Trevor Murdoch beat Tyrus to retain the title.
Grade: B-
Afterwards, Murdoch tries to put over Tyrus but Tyrus knocks over the commentary table instead after talking to his kid at ringside and just walks off. Murdoch thanks the crowd to send them home happy.

Overall show grade: C
Like yesterday, I have not kept up on the NWA recently as much as I should have so I’m no tup to speed on what has been happening and that affected my perception of the weekend. There were some good matches and some bad matches, but also what felt like a lot of filler and a lot of the not-always-good things we see in WWE & AEW. Overall this weekend came off as average to me. For tonight, the Women’s title matches are worth watching, also check out Aldis-Gordon and the Tornado Tag. But if you’re relatively new to the NWA, watch some of their recent TV first if you can, you’ll get more out of this weekend.

End Show.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 8/28/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the penultimate day of the N-1 VICTORY 2022 Tournament today, narrowing the field of 8 still with a chance to reach the finals down to 2…hopefully, because there were some insane possibilities with tiebreakers.

Today’s event was held at Culttz Kawasaki in Kawasaki City and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 825.

Match 1: Pre-shoe dark match: Shuhei Taniguchi, Daiki Inaba & Yoshiki Inamura beat Mohammed Yone, Akitoshi Saito & Stallion Rogers. Inaba pinned Rogers.

Match 2: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Masaaki Mochizuki beat Anthony Greene.

Match 3: N-1 VICTORY Block B: Jack Morris beat Masa Kitamiya. As a result, Kitamiya is eliminated from Finals contention.

Match 4: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. beat Masato Tanaka. As a result, Tanaka is eliminated from Finals contention.

Match 5: N-1 VICTORY Block B: Masakatsu Funaki beat Takashi Sugiura by submission. This went just 57 seconds.

Match 6: In a Captains Fall Match, where the match immediately ended if the Captain of a team was eliminated, HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa (C), Yuya Susumu & Kai Fujimura vs. NOSAWA Rongai, Eita (C), Kotaro Suzuki & Super Crazy went to a No Contest. Chris Ridgeway interference.

Match 7: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Hideki Suzuki beat Go Shiozaki. As a result, Shiozaki is eliminated from Finals contention.

Match 8: N-1 Victory BLOCK B: Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Kinya Okada by ref stoppage. Okada injury.

Match 9: Dragon Bane, Alpha Wolf & Alejandro beat Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Hi59. Wolf pinned Hi69 after Wolf’s Tusk.

Match 10: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Kazuyuki Fujita beat Kenoh. As a result, Hideki Suzuki wins Block A and advances to the Finals.

Main Event: N-1 VICTORY Block B: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Satoshi Kojima. As a result, Kiyomiya wins Block B and advances to the Finals.

The Final is Saturday at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka. The full card has been announced:
Super Crazy vs. Hajime Ohara
Jack Morris & Daiki Inaba vs. Anthony Greene & Stallion Rogers
HAYATA, Yuya Susumu & Kai Fujimura vs. Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY & Seiki Yoshioka
Masakatsu Funaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Shuji Kondo vs. Masa Kitamiya, Mohammed Yone & Alejandro
Takashi Sugiura & Satoshi Kojima vs. Shuhei Taniguchi & Yoshiki Inamura
Dragon Bane vs. Alpha Wolf
Naomichi Marufuji, Go Shiozaki, Masato Tanaka & Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Kazuyuki Fujita, Kendo Ka Shin, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Timothy Thatcher
GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Yoshinari Ogawa & Chris Ridgeway vs. Eita & Kotaro Suzuki for the titles
The Great Muta, Great-O-Khan (New Japan Pro Wrestling) & NOSAWA Rongai vs. Kenoh, Manabu Soya & Tadasuke
N-1 VICTORY 2022 Finals: Hideki Suzuki vs. Kaito Kiyomiya
Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English will begin Saturday at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

Injury Report: Okada was legit injured against Nakajima. Mandibular fracture. Out indefinitely. This is the second time in less than 3 months Nakajima has legit injured an opponent with his stiff strikes-remember in June 2022 at CyberFight Festival 2022 he knocked DDT star Tetsuya Endo out with a concussion that cost him nearly 2 months of action AND the KO-D Openweight Championship.

Tokyo Joshi Pro “Go Girl 3-Women Only Entertainment” Results (8/28/22)

As part of the DDT Group’s efforts to get more female fans to attend their events, Tokyo Joshi Pro is holding a special women-only event today where only female fans can attend, and they can do so for free. While DDT usually sells out their Ladies’ Seats for events when available, not so much for TJPW, so they once in a while hold special events like this to get more women to attend. As for the rest of us, thankfully there is live streaming. One noteworthy item today is that the promotion will unveil a new logo for the first time in their history, or at least in a long time. Most of the roster will participate including SKE48 member Tuki Arai and DDT star Saki Akai also appearing, although AA Eye Candy won’t be teaming today.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The Japanese commentary team will be Haruo Murata & Sayoko Mita with guests Yohei Azakami & Mako Morino. The English commentary team will be Chris Brookes & Drew Parker. The opening through the end of the first match will also stream FOR FREE on YouTube. Because there will be special post-match happenings at a nearby hotel, this may be a fast-paced event. I expect the total running time to be just under 2 hours.

Today’s lineup (in order):
Suzume & Arisu Endo vs. Pom Harajuku & Neko Haruna
Nao Kakuta & Mahiro Kiryu vs. Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano
Hyper Misao vs. Raku
Maki Itoh vs. Yuki Aino
Saki Akai vs. Hikari Noa
Yuki Arai vs. Yuki Kamifuku
Shoko Nakajima, Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe vs. Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Miyu Yamashita

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Updates below will begin at 10:30 PM ET/7:30 PM PT.
Pre-show Update: Per the WRESTLE UNIVERSE event page for this stream, Kaya Toribami is again absent from this event due to scheduling issues. Also is out for one or both of next week’s events.

10:20 PM ET UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your Japanese hosts are Haruo Murata & Sayoko Mita with guests Yohei Azakami & Mako Morino. Your English hosts are Chris Brookes & Drew Parker.

The opening proceedings should begin in just under 10 minutes.

The attendance will be announced after the event. Women only and all tickets were free. It’s a reduced capacity setup on the opposite-hard camera side with only seats in the middle, from first quick look I’m going to estimate around 450 will be the final number.

After an opening video before Sayuri Namba enters the ring for the first time, the new logo is unveiled: English capital letters “TJPW” with two squares atop the “W”. Simpler and clearner than the old logo, but otherwise…meh…

The matches should begin around 10:45 PM ET/7:45 PM PT.

After opening announcements, what appears to be two new debuting wrestlers are introduced. Names coming later. It looks like they will debut on 10/14 at Shinjuku Face. They look a lot like Yuki Kamifuku & Raku.

Match 1: Suzume & Arisu Endo vs. Pom Harajuku & Neko Haruna. 20 minute time limit
Reslut; Suzume & Arisu Endo beat Pom Harajuku & Neko Haruna. Sueume pinned Haruna after Ring A Bell.

Match 2: Nao Kakuta & Mahiro Kiryu vs. Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano. 20 minute time limit
Result: Nao Kakuta & Mahiro Kiryu beat Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano. Kakuta pinned Miyamoto after Shiden Kai.

Match 3: Hyper Misao vs. Raku. 15 minute time limit
Result: Hyper Misao beat Raku

Match 4: Maki Itoh vs. Yuki Aino. 15 minute time limit
Result: Maki Itoh beat Yuki Aino

Match 5: Saki Akai vs. Hikari Noa. 15 minute time limit
Result: Saki Akai beat Hikari Noa by submission

Match 6: Yuki Arai vs. Yuki Kamifuku. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Kamifuku beat Yuki Arai

Main Event: Shoko Nakajima, Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe vs. Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Miyu Yamashita. 30 minute time limit
Result: Shoko Nakajima, Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe beat Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Miyu Yamashita. Nakajima pinned Mizuki after a diving senton. This went over 20 minutes.

It seemed like this had a good turnout and the many children & younger fans in attendance were allowed to be somewhat vocal at times, in particular during entrances which the wrestlers noticed and acknowledged, surely making them very happy. A fun event overall and it seemed to be successful although, initially, I’m not a big fan of the new logo. There is a bit of meaning behind it and DDT has already posted a news item about it on their website.

The next event is Saturday at Narimasu Act Hall in Tokyo, which will be the opening event of the Autumn/Fall Tour. There will be no live broadcast. The next broadcast will be a TJPW CITY CIRCUIT event on 9/4 at Nagoya Congress Center with Princess Tag Team Champions Saki Akai & Yuki Arai vs. Yuki kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu for the titles. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin next Saturday at 11:30 PM ET/8:30 PM PT.

Post-Show Update: The announced attendance was 500.
The introductions during the opening announcements are about a special event being put on by a new project form CyberFight Corporation, which currently has 3 inexperienced women wrestlers competing in some kind of tournament. The final portion of this competition is an exhibition match at Yume Pro Wrestling on 10/14.

And here’s the new logo:

NWA 74 Night 1 Results (8/27/22)

The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), under the leadership of William Patrick Corgan aka Billy Corgan (of the music group Smashing Pumpkins), holds their anniversary event this weekend, their biggest event of the year. NWA 74 is their WrestleMania and will be held as a 2-night doubleheader loaded with big names and big matches. Night 1 tonight has a number of title matches and more including The Burke Invitational, a Women’s Gauntlet match where the winner claims the trophy named after legendary Women’s wrestler Mildred Burke AND an NWA Women’s World Championship match tomorrow.

Tonight’s event will be held at the Khorassan Ballroom at Chase Park Royal Sonesta in St. Louis, MO and can be watched LIVE on FITE. There are two ways to watch: Tonight’s event is available as a standalone PPV for $24.99 or you can get a combo pack with tomorrow’s Night 2 included for $39.99. Either way, a purchase gets you the live broadcast and unlimited on demand replays. If you are an NWA All Access Annual member or you sign up, you get both nights included and all past, present and upcoming NWA TV episodes and archived content live and on demand and more. NWA All Access Annual is $49.99 for a year-considering that’s how much this weekend’s PPVs cost on their own, and each of their 4 annual PPVs is $25 each, it’s a bargain-like getting this weekend’s events or 2 PPVs each year FOR FREE! I bought the Annual plan so I get this weekend’s events as part of it. There is also a monthly All Access plan for $4.99/month but that only includes the TV episodes.

Tonight’s current lineup:
The Burke Invitational. Confirmed participants: Missa Kate, Madi (Wrenkowski), Angelina Love, Tootie Lynn, Jennacide, Natalia Markova, Samantha Starr, KiLynn King. Presumably 2 more TBA
Pope vs. Rodney Mack
NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Homicide vs. Kerry Morton for the title
NWA World Tag Team Champions Commonwealth vs. La Rebellion for the titles
NWA National Heavyweight Champion Jax Dane vs. Cyon for the title
Matt Cardona vs. TBA (his hand-picked opponent)
Bully Ray vs. Mike Knox in a Tables Match
EC3 vs. Mims
NWA World Women’s Champion Kamille vs. Taya Valkyrie for the title (winner defends tomorrow vs. The Burke winner)

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

UPDATE: There will be a FREE Pre-Show on YouTube beginning at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT so updates will now begin then.

We are LIVE from the Khorassan Ballroom at Chase Park Royal Sonesta in St. Louis, MO. Your hosts are Joe Galli & Tim Storm.

Audio issues right away. Sounds off at first then cuts out completely. Video is fine though. (Audio restored about 10 minutes in) Venue looks sold out but it’s a small room, so only a few hundred.

Pre-SHow:
Match 1: The Country Gentlemen vs. Gold Rushhh
Result: The country Gentlemen beat Gold Rushhh.<,br>
Grade: N/A (stream issues)

Jay Bradley interview backstage by May Valentine interrupted by technical difficulties. Probably because the interviewer couldn’t keep her eyes off his, uh, lower half.

The next PPV is 11/12/22 in New Orleans, LA for Hard Times at the Sigur Civic Center. It will be LIVE on FITE.

Match 2: Rhett Titus vs. VSK. This was to have been Titus vs. Luke Hawx but it seems Hawx will now be in another match.
Result: Rhett Titus beat VSK
Grade: C+

Match 3: Pope vs. Rodney Mack
Result: Rodney Mack beat Pope by submission
Grade: C
Afterwards, Aron Stevens & Mack beat down Pope but JR Kratos made the save.

Valentine interviews Bully Ray.

BREAKING: The NWA World Tag Team Championship is now VACANT. Co-champion Harry Smith is out due to illness. Hawx Aerie will replace The Commonwealth Connection and face La Rebellion for the titles.

Match 4: Wrecking Ball Legursky & Colby Corino vs. Caprice Coleman & Gustavo in a Pick Your Poison Match for tomorrow’s Corino-Coleman match. If Corino/Legursky win, it’s a 30 Minute Iron Man Match tomorrow. If Coleman/Gustavo win, it’s 2 of 3 Falls tomorrow.
Result: Gustavo & Caprice Coleman beat Colby Corino & Wrecking ball Legursky. Coleman beat Legursky with a chicken wing. As a result, tomorrow’s match between Coleman & Corino is 2 of 3 falls.
Grade: C+

End Pre-Show. Velvet Sky will join commentary for the main show.

Pre-show ends at 7:55 PM ET. Updates will resume in 5 minutes when the main show begins.

Main Show:
Mandatory FBI Warning graphic then the opening video plays.

We are LIVE from the Khorassan Ballroom at Chase Park Royal Sonesta in St. Louis, MO. Your hosts are Joe Galli, Velvet Sky & Tim Storm.

Nick Aldis comes out first. With microphone. Because he lost what was to have been an NWA World Heavyweight Title match this weekend for unspecified reasons (known only to Aldis and Billy Corgan), he thought about quitting before shifting to talk about his wife, WWE Hall Of Famer Mickie James. He promises that we don’t want to miss his match tomorrow against Flip Gordon. He closes by welcoming everyone to NWA 74.
For those unfamiliar, Aldis has been the face of the NWA since the pandemic began and had a year-plus reign as NWA World Heavyweight Champion.

Match 1: EC3 vs. Mims
Result:: EC3 beat Mims by submission
Grade: C+
Afterwards, EC3 with microphone for a Control Your Narrative promo (his new project launched earlier this year with Adam Scherr, the former Braun Strowman in WWE), but was interrupted by Thom Latimer coming out. EC3 took a step forward as he began to put Latimer over before claiming EC3 had more demons to extract from Latimer before telling him “you’ve been warned” before leaving.

Match 2: Miserably Faithful vs. The Ill Begotten in a Beelzebub’s Bedlam Match, meaning no rules except 1 Fall. During entrances commentary reveals Max The Impaler has been added to The Burke Invitational tonight. That makes 9, leaving one TBA.
Result: Miserably Faithful beat The Ill Begotten. Judais pinned Danny Dealz after a chokeslam.
Grade: C-
Incredibly scary spot late when, after a suplex attempt off a ladder, Alex Taylor bounced off the top rope coming down (his midsection hit the rope) and may have been seriously injured.

Match 3: Chris Adonis vs. Odinson
Result: Chris Adonis beat Odinson by DQ. Foreign object/substance usage.
Grade: B

Match 4: NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Homicide vs. Kerry Morton (with Ricky Morton) for the title
Result: NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Homicide beat Kerry Morton to retain the title.
Grade: B

Former NWA World Champion Tommy Rich is brought out. He fires up the crowd.

May Valentine interview Thrillbilly Silas. He faces Davey Richards for the NLW National Championship tomorrow.

Match 5: Matt Cardona vs. TBA. TBA is an opponent hand-picked by Cardona for his return match here. Cardona out first with microphone. He complains about how his injury caused him to miss his own PPV (Alwayz Ready, the last NWA PPV) and forced him to vacate the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. (If you’re new to the NWA or didn’t catch him in AEW during a brief run last year, Cardona is the former Zack Ryder in WWE) Then he says his mystery opponent is not Nick Aldis. And it’s not Bully Ray. Xardona then says he’s got a future title shot in his pocket thanks to Billy Corgan before revealing his hand-picked opponent…Rolando Freeman. A wrestler who is MUCH SMALLER than Cardona.
Result: Rolando Freeman beat Matt Cardona
Grade: D+ (Mostly a joke match although Cardona got his comeuppance in the end. That got it up from D)

May Valentine interviews Samantha Starr & former women’s wrestling icon Baby Doll (apparently Starr is her daughter).

Match 6: The Burke Invitational. The winner get an NWA Women’s World Championship match tomorrow. 10 woman battle royal, new entrant every minute. Eliminations by pinfall, submission or over the top rope
Order of entry: 1-KiLynn King. 2-Samantha Starr. 3-Natalia Markova. 4-Missa Kate. 5-Madi (Madi Wrenkowski). 6-Taryn Terrell. 7-Max The Impaler. 8-Tootie Lynn. 9-Angelina Love. 10 (Final)-Jennacide.
Order of elimination: Kate by King (over the top rope), Madi eliminated herself (over the top rope) when Max The Impaler entered, Lynn by Max (over the top rope), Love & Terrell by Max (over the top rope), Starr by Jennacide (submission), King by Markova (pinfall), Jennacide by Max (pinfall), Markova by Max (pinfall)
Result: Max The Impaler won. As a result, Max will face the Kamille-Taya Valkyrie winner (tonight’s main event) for the NWA Women’s World Championship tomorrow.
Grade: B-

Aron Stevens challenges JR Kratos to a tag team match. And it is made for tomorrow.

Match 7: NWA National Champion Jax Dane vs. Cyon for the title
Result: Cyon beat NWA National Champion Jax Dane to become THE NEW NWA NATIONAL CHAMPION!
Grade: C-

Match 8: Bully Ray vs. Mike Knox in a Tables Match. The only way to win is to put your opponent through a table.
Result: Bully Ray beat Mike Knox. Right before, Knox went through a table but it didn’t count because he put himself through it.
Grade: B-

Afterwards, Bully broke off a piece of a table and gave it to a young girl in the front row as a souvenir to send that fan home happy and make a new fan for life in a great gesture.

Match 9: Hawx Aerie vs. La Rebellion for the vacant NWA Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
As the match was about to begin, former co-champion Doug Williams came out to present his belt to the referee in a great show of respect.
Result: La Rebellion beat Hawx Aerie to win the vacant NWA Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. Bestia 666 pinned PJ Hawx with a rollup after Damien 666 sprayed mist while the ref was distracted.
Grade: B

Billy Corgan brings out Trevor Murdoch & Tyrus to promote tomorrow’s main event for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship held by Murdoch. Tyrus is also the NWA TV Champion, that title is not on the line.

Main Event: NWA Women’s World Champion Kamille vs. Taya Valkyrie for the title
Result: NWA Women’s World Champion Kamille beat Taya Valkyrie to retain the title.
Grade: A
Afterwards, almost the entire women’s locker room came out in a show of respect for both. Some of the men’s locker room could be seen near the entrance applauding as Kamille walked to the back.

Overall show grade: C+
Extremely close to a B- though, while the grade suggests is was just above average the good did outweigh the bad in my view, and I’m not as up to speed on the NWA as I should be. Just a little too much screwjob in teh title matches, but outside of the Cardona joke match nothing was terrible. The pre-show and the Cardona match can be skipped, the main event is must-watch while most of the rest is between worth watching and at least take a look at. Tomorrow should be better with the really big matches.

End Show.

8/28/22-9/4/22 Events Schedule

Here is the current events schedule for 8/28-9/4, which is subject to change (all times PT):
8/28:
Midnight-Pro Wrestling NOAH N-1 VICTORY 2022 Tournament, Culttz Kawasaki, Kawasaki, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
5 PM-NWA “NWA 74” Night 2, St. Louis, MO. Live on FITE and NWA All Access. LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED
8 PM-Nihon Sumo Kyokai September 2022 Grand Sumo Tournament Banzuke Announcement (tentative)

8/31:
5 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Dynamite”, Chicago, IL. Live on TBS in US and FITE elsewhere

9/2:
2:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling BURNING SPIRIT Tour, Yokohama Budokan, Yokohama, Japan. Live on New Japan World
7 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Rampage”, Chicago. LIVE on TNT in US and FITE elsewhere
8:30 PM-Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, Narimasu Act Hall, Tokyo, Japan. No live broadcast

9/3:
Midnight-Pro Wrestling NOAH N-1 VICTORY 2022 Tournament Finals, Osaka Prefectural Gym, Osaka, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
1 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling BURNING SPIRIT Tour, Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Japan. No live or on demand broadcast
8:30 PM-Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, Naoya Congress Center, Nagoya. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED

Pro Wrestling NOAH 8/27/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAh continued the N-1 VICTORY 2022 Tournament today as the series enters the final stages. Tomorrow wraps up the preliminary stages and sets up next weekend’s finals.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English.

The announced paid attendance was 609.

Match 1: N-1 VICTORY Block B: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Kinya Okada.

Match 2: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Hideku Suzuki beat Anthony Greene by submission.

Match 3: N-1 VICTORY Block B: Takashi Sugiura beat Jack Morris.

Match 4: Mohammed Yone & Daiki Inaba beat Shuhei Taniguchi & Yoshiki Inamura. Inaba pinned Inamura.

Match 5: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Go SHiozaki beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr.

Match 6: N-1 VICTORY Block B: Satoshi Kojima beat Masakatsu Funaki.

Main Event: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Masato Tanaka beat Kazuyuki Fujita.

Standings:
1-Kenoh, 4-1-1, 9 pts
2-Suzuki, 4-1-1, 9 pts
3-Fujita, 4-2, 8 pts
4-Shiozaki, 4-2, 8 pts
5-Tanaka, 3-3, 6 pts (OUT)
6-Wagner, 2-4, 4 pts (OUT)
7-Greene, 1-5, 2 pts (OUT)
8-Masaaki Mochizuki, 1-5, 2 pts (OUT)

Block B:
1-Kiyomiya, 4-2, 8 pts
2-Kojima, 4-2, 8 pts
3-Sugiura, 4-2, 8 pts
4-Katsuhiko Nakajima, 4-2, 8 pts
5-Funaki, 3-3, 6 pts
6-Masa Kitamiya, 3-3, 6 pts
7-Morris, 2-4, 4 pts (OUT)
8-Okada, 0-6, 0 pts (OUT)
The winner of each block advances to the Finals. In Block A, all of the top 4 have a chance, but if the current standings hold after tomorrow’s final matches, it;s complicated. If either Kenoh or Suzuki wins, butoont both, it’s settled. If they both win, things get interesting-presumably the tiebreaker is head-to-head result, but their match went to a time limit draw. Kenoh’s loss came to Tanaka while Suzuki’s was to Fujita, which opens the door more to Fujita if he beats Kenoh tomorrow. Suzuki has Shiozaki, and Shiozaki is in a tough tiebreaker spot because his losses are to Kenoh & Fujita. Everybody else is out. In Block B, also a potential mess brewing. We’re likely going to need tiebreakers without an epic upset because Nakajima’s final match tomorrow is against Okada, who has been the block jobber, Sugiura has Funaki and Kitamiya has Morris. Kiyomiya has Kojima. We’ll have to wait and see but here’s one key stat that could factor in at the end-one of Kiyomiya’s two losses was an early upset loss to Morris. The other was to Kitamiya. Funaki’s losses are Kiyamita & Kojima. Nakajima’s losses are Funaki & Kiyomiya. Kojima’s losses are Nakajima & Sugiura. Sugiura’s losses are Nakajima & Kojima. Tranlation: ANYTHING CAN AND WILL HAPPEN!

The next event is tomorrow at Culttz Kawasaki in Kawasaki with the final block matches. Live streaing on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. A pre-show dark match is scheduled for 20 minutes before the event.

Also, after the event it was announced that Yasutaka Yano, who has been out the last few months due to injury, will return on 9/21 at the next N INNOVATION event. He will face Kai Fujimura in his return match.

Ganbare Pro 8/27/22 Results

Ganbare Pro had an outdoor event scheduled that was weather permitting, and it went on as planned. This event was held in a special setting located at an open-air shopping center that was free to attend.

Today’s event was held at Tokorozawa Park Town Shopping Street in Saitama and will be available on demand on WRSETLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced attendance was 389. Admission was free.

Match 1: Yumehito Imanari & Tysin maeguchi beat Gota Ihashi & Takaaki Iwasaki. Imanari pinned Ihashi after a lariat.

Match 2: Moeka Haruhi, HARUKAZE & Cherry beat Yuna Manase, Yoshiko Hasegawa & Kakeru Sekiguchi. Haruhi pinned Hasegawa after 79.5MHz. Cheery was a late replacement for YuuRI, who misse the event due to a hand injury.

Match 3: Aja Kong & Shinichiro Tominaga beat Shota & Takao Soma. Kong pinned Shota after a backfist.

Main Event: Ken Ohka, Shuichiro Katsumura & Keisuke Ishii beat Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Mizuki Watase & SAGAT. Ishii pinned Watase after Nail Kick.

The next event is 9/3 at Narimasu Act Hall in Tokyo with Imanari vs. Hartley Jackson for the Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Championship. There will be no live broadcast.

AEW Rampage 8/26/22 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Rampage from Cleveland, OH:
AEW Trios Title Tournament: Dark Order (John Silver, Alex Reynolds, 10) beat House Of Black. 10 pinned Malakai Black after Miro interference.

AEW TNT Champion Wardlow beat Ryan Nemeth to retain the title. Squash.

Powerhouse Hobbs beat Ashton Day. Squash.

Sammy Guevara & Tay Conti beat Ortiz & Ruby Soho. Guevara pinned Ortiz after a springboard cutter.

ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli beat Dustin Rhodes to retain the title.

Next week’s Rampage will be LIVE. Because of their win tonight, Dark Order will face Best Friends on next week’s show as part of the Trios Title Tournament. The winners advance to the finals for the titles at All Out against the winner of The Elite vs. United Empire on Wednesday.

Nothing new announced for Dynamite next week outside of a Jon Moxley appearance.

Tokyo Joshi Pro “TJPW PERFECTION” Results (8/27/22)

Tokyo Joshi Pro runs the second half of their TJPW PERFECTION doubleheader, and it’s the last one before a big makeover…based on new clips on YouTube, this will be the final time we see the promotion with their current logo-a new one will be unveiled tomorrow at Korakuen Hall, this coming a few weeks after their new theme music debuted (as much as I like Final Fantasy-type music, as a wrestling theme I am not a fan of it). Today is another standard house show on paper.
Kaya Toribami will miss this event due to scheduling issues. No card changes as it was announced on advance.

Today’s event will be held at Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. I anticipate the event’s total running time will be about 1 hour, 45 minutes.

Today’s lineup:
Mizuki vs. Hyper Misao & Yuki Aino in a 3-way
Maki Itoh & Moka Miyamoto vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu
Rika Tatsumi & Neko Haruna vs. Nao Kakuta & Hikari Noa
Yuka Sakazaki vs. Raku
Miyu Yamashita vs. Pom Harajuku
Shoko Nakajima & Miu Watanabe vs. Suzume & Arisu Endo

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

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

11:27 PM ET UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the show but it looks even smaller than last time, lots of empty ringside seats. I’m estimating 150-175, which even with reduced capacity is low for the venue.

The matches will begin in about 15 minutes.

We also seem to be short ringside video equipment. Only hard camera today.

Match 1: Miyu Yamashita vs. Pom Harajuku. 15 minute time limit
Result: Miyu Yamashita beat Pom Harajuku by submission

Match 2: Rika Tatsumi & Neko Haruna vs. Nao Kakuta & Hikari Noa. 20 minute time limit
Result: Nao Kakuta & Hikari Noa beat Rika Tatsumi & Neko Haruna. Noa pinned Haruna with a blizzard suplex hold.

Match 3: Mizuki vs. Hyper Misao & Yuki Aino in a 3-way. 20 minute time limit
Result; Mizuki beat Hyper Misao & Yuki Aino in a 3-way by pinning Aino.

Match 4: Yuka Sakazaki vs. Raku. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuka Sakazaki beat Raku

Match 5: Maki Itoh & Moka Miyamoto vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu. 20 minute time limit
Result; Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu beat Maki Itoh & Moka Miyamoto. Kamifuku pinned Miyamoto after Fameasser.

Quick break for ring repairs.

Main Event: Shoko Nakajima & Miu Watanabe vs. Suzume & Arisu Endo. 20 minute time limit

Result: Shoko Nakajima & Miu Watanabe beat Suzume & Arisu Endo. Nakajima pinned Endo with a Northern Lights suplex hold.

Indeed a very fast event checking in at just under 100 minutes from start to finish, and very heavy on comedy matches today.

The next event is tomorrow at Korakuen Hall, a special women-only event that will also feature the reveal of the promotion’s new logo. Only women will be admitted to the event and they get in for free. For everyone else, live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 10:30 PM ET/7:30 PM PT. Live results are scheduled although due to other live events scheduled, they may be on an up to 30 minute delay.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 146. Also, it appears yesterday marked the 5th anniversary of the launch of Up Up Girls by TJPW, which has had a number of members in its history, most notably former top star Reika Saiki in her prime. The 3 current members (Miu Watanabe, Raku, Hikari Noa) all debuted in TJPW on 1/4/2018.

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