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DDT 7/7/23 Results

DDT ran a special house show in Tokyo today punctuated by the return of Chris Brookes from injury, 2 weeks before he challenges Yuji Hino for the KO-D Openweight Championship.

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

The announced paid attendance was 305, a full house/near sellout.

Before the matches began, a signing ceremony for the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship match on 7/23 was held.

Match 1: Toru Owashi & Kazuma Sumi beat Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno. Sumi pinned Dieno. Akito interference helped.

Match 2: HARASHIMA & Kazuki Hirata beat Jun Akiyama & Yusuke Okada. HARASHIMA pinned Okada after Blue Sword.

Match 3: Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani beat Kazusada Higuchi, Yuki Ishida & Illusion. Okatani pinned Ishida after a running elbow butt.

Match 4: KANON 4th Anniversary Match: TAKA Michinoku (New Japan) & KANON beat Tetsuya Endo & Yuya Koroku. KANON beat Koroku with Ultimate Cobra Twist. Afterwards, KANON requested a match against TAKA in the future, maybe this time next year.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno beat Nick Wayne.

Match 6: Daisuke Sasaki beat Toi Kojima by submission. Afterwards, El Desperado (New Japan) made a surprise appearance. He faces Sasaki on 7/23.

Main Event: Yuji Hino & Makoto Oishi beat Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi. Hino beat Brookes with King Kong Sleeper.

The next event is tomorrow at Shiroishi Castle Honmaru Square in Miyagi. This is a free mini-event. If it rains, the event will be held at Shiroishi City General Public Hall instead. There will be no live broadcast.

Dragon Gate 7/7/23 Results

Dragon Gate kicked off the 2023 KING OF GATE Tournament today, their annual singles tournament featuring the entire roster in a bracket-style single-elimination format 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 1189)

Match 1: KAI, H-Y-O & ISHIN beat U-T, Jason Lee & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. H-Y-O pinned U-T after O Kick.

Match 2: Genki Horiguchi & Takashi Yoshida beat Kaito Nagano & Daiki Yanagiuchi. Yoshida pinned Yanagiuchi after a released powerbomb.

Match 3: KING OF GATE Round 1: Kzy beat Eita.

Match 4: KING OF GATE Round 1: Punch Tominaga beat BxB Hulk.

Match 5: Ultimo Dragon, Don Fujii & Dragon Kid beat Susumu Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Mochizuki Jr. Fujii beat Jr. with a ground Manjigatame.

Match 6: YAMATO, Yuki Yoshioka, Dragon Dia & Kagetora beat Naruki Doi, Minorita, Kota Minoura & Ben-K. Dia pinned Minorita after DDDDT.

Match 7: KING OF GATE Round 1: BIGBOSS Shimizu beat Shun Skywalker.

Main Event: KING OF GATE Round 1: Madoka Kikuta beat Masaaki Mochizuki.

KING OF GATE Round 1: Susumu Mochizuki beat Diamante by default/forfeit. Diamante withdrawal from the tournament after the 7/2 event.

Day 2 is tomorrow at Act City Hamamatsu in Shizuoka. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. Also tomorrow is “Heroic Legend -ZERO- Vol. 2” at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin TONIGHT AT 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.

Sumo-July Tournament Final Pre-Tournament Notes (Updated)

With the July Grand Sumo Tournament starting tomorrow, the first 2 days’ matches for the top 2 tiers have been announced, as well as the early injury withdrawals. There was a major one in the top tier-Ozeki Takakeisho is OUT. Meniscus/knees. Out 3 weeks. That means he’ll be back in kadoban status in September where he’ll need 8+ wins again to avoid demotion. As expected, Wakatakakage is also out due to injury (still out anywhere from 2-8 more months) so he’ll be demoted from Maegashira 12 out of the top tier. Fujiseiun, at Juryo 6, has also withdrawn (unknown). If he misses the whole tournament odds are he’ll be demoted back to Makushita.

The first day matchups are as traditional, generally against the current or next rank up, so Hakuoho (former Ochiai) makes his top tier against Aoiyama, fighting to stay in the top tier at Margashira 17, while May Juryo Champion Gonoyama devuts against Kotoshoho. At Maegashira 4 Asonoyama will first face Maegashira 3 Meisei. New Ozeki Kirishima (former Kiribayama) starts with Nishikigi (Maegashira 1) while Yokozuna Terunofuji first gets Abi, who is back at Komusubi.

With Fujiseiun out of Juryo at the start, Tokihayate moves up as the Makushita man on Day 1, he will face Chiyonoumi. At Makushita 1 Tokihayate can get back to Juryo with 4+ wins, he was demoted after a 6-9 Juryo debut effort in May.

UPDATE: The rest of the pre-tournament withdrawals from the lower tiers have been announced. Notable Makushita withdrawals include Enho & Chiyonokuni, both demoted from Juryo and not coming back up in September.

Impact Wrestling 7/6/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s Impact Wrestling in Atlanta, GA:

This episode was taped 6/23 & 6/24 as part of the Summer Sizzler TV tapings.

The YouTube pre-show match was Dirty Dango vs. Crazzy Steve.

Match 1: Eddie Edwards beat Frankie Kazarian. Frequent Alisha Edwards interference.

Lio Rush interviewed backstage. He is only here for the X Division Championship. Nick Aldis interrupts.

Kazarian promo backstage. Words for Edwards post-match. Kazarian wants a rubber match at Slammiversary to break their current 1-1 tie. And to counter Alisha, Kazarian is bringing his wife to be in his corner, and his wife is none other than original Knockout Traci Brooks.

Match 2: Sami Callihan & Rich Swann beat Champahne Singh & Shera. Callihan pinned Singh after Cactus Driver 97. Squash. No intros (came back from commercial right to the bell).

Brian Myers & Moose interviewed backstage.

Pre-show highlights including a Santino Marella promo on Dirty Dango after Dango’s match.

Dango promo.

Match 3: Jonathan Gresham beat Angels by submission. After the match, Angels appeared to turn on The Design, leaving only Deaner and Kon.

Bullet Club promo. The Rascalz interrupt and seem to issue an Impact Tag Team Championship challenge for Slammiversary, but the champs refuse.

PCO getting charged up backstage before commercial.

Highlights package from last week’s Australia tour, including tourism in Wagga Wagga. Both events are available on demand on FITE.

Trinity walks into Dronna Purrazzo’s room backstage to talk to her.

Match 4: PCO beat The Good Hands. Squash. Steve Maclin & Bully Ray came out afterwards and went after PCO following Scott D’Amore being handcuffed to the ropes. After this they head backstage and set PCO on fire.

Match 5: Gisele Shaw beat Courtney Rush. Got away with feet on the ropes unseen by the referee.

Kenny King & Sheldon Jean get constantly mobbed by fans until one triggers a Joe Hendry appearance. In a humorous spot, Hendry makes Yuya Uemura appear in his style at the end.

Just added to Slammiversary: Hendry-King for the Impact Digital Media Championship and Kazarian-Edwards with their wives in their corners.

Main Event: Lio Rush & Nick Aldis beat Motor City Machine Guns. Rush pinned Chris Sabin after Final Hour. Low blow behind the ref’s back helped set it up.

Next week: Zachary Wentz vs. Chris Bey, Kevin Knight vs. Mike Bailey, Moose & Brian Myers vs. Rich Swann & Sami Callihan and a Deonna Purrazzo open challenge. This will be the go-home episode for Slammiversary.

Regarding Potential All-Japan News/Results Delays (7/6/23)

Due to All-Japan’s official website possibly being down or temporarily restricted, there may be delays in posting news and results from events (namely the 7/8 event) until this issue is resolved. The site was very broken last weekend with many links not properly working, and accessing the site (at least outside Japan) gives a Forbidden error message. The AJPW.TV service does not appear to be affected and that site is currently available as normal, as are All-Japan’s Japanese and English Twitter accounts.

Updates will follow. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

AEW Rampage 7/7/23 Results (SPOILERS!)

Here are the quick results for tomorrow’s AEW Rampage (100th episode) in Edmonton, Canada (SPOILERS!):

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Injury Report: Not A Super Strong Machine

He may be the biological son of 1980s-1990s New Japan wrestler Super Strong Machine, but apparently Dragon Gate wrestler Strong Machine J was not strong enough to avoid injury at the major Kobe event Sunday. He saved his mask but at a physical price. Left shoulder injury. Out indefinitely and is questionable for KING OF GATE-his first match is scheduled for 7/14 against Yasushi Kanda. If he can’t go Kanda probably will get a forfeit win. (Also already out is Diamante but that was per his request so Susumu Mochizuki gets a forfeit win on 7/7. Diamante lost his mask on that same 7/2 match)

More as it becomes available.

AEW Dynamite 7/5/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Edmonton, Canada:

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

Match 1: Blind Eliminator Tag Team Tournament: Orange Cassidy & Darby Allin vs. Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland
Result: Orange Cassidy & Darby Allin beat Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland. Allin pinned Strickland with Last Supper.

Nick Wayne promo featuring Darby Allin.

Jungle Boy arrived and was going to demand an FTW Title match but Hook immediately ambushed him and Jungle Boy bailed.

MJF & Adam Cole working out together last week.

Match 2: The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn vs. The Blade & Bollywood Boyz
Result: The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn beat The Blade & Bollywood Boyz. Max Caster pinned one of the Boyz after Mic Drop. Extended Squash.

Chris Jericho promo. Don Callis interrupts and tries to recruit Jericho for The Don Callis Family. Jericho says Maybe.

Match 3: Blind Eliminator Tag Team Tournament: MJF & Adam Cole vs. Matt Menard & The Butcher
Result: MJF & Adam Cole beat Matt Menard & The Butcher. Cole pinned Menard after BOOM.
MJF throws a mini-birthday party for Cole in the ring. It ends with MJF getting a face full of cake.

Daniel Garcia & Sammy Guevara are a Blind Eliminator Tag Team Tournament pairing.

Match 4: Owen Hart Cup Women’s Quarterfinals: Britt Baker vs. Ruby Soho
Result: Rubo Soho beat Britt Baker. With help from Toni Storm & Saraya. As a result, Soho advances to the Semifinals and will face Skye Blue. Baker will not repeat as tournament champion.

Main Event: Wheeler Yuta vs. Kenny Omega
Result: Kenny Omega beat Wheeler Yuta. BCC beatdown on Omega afterwards but The Elite quickly made the save. Dark Order rushed out to get involved as we ran out of time and cut away (already into overrun.

To me it was a show that happened. MJF-Cole stuff was hilarious though. That’s the stuff to watch/re-watch.

Friday on Rampage: Matt Hardy & Jeff Jarrett vs. Daniel Garcia & Sammy Guevara (Blind Eliminator Tournament), Brian Cage & Bil Bill vs. Trent Beretta & Matt Sydal (Blind Eliminator Tournament), Hikaru Shida vs. Marina Shafir and Adam Page & The Young Bucks vs. Dark Order.

Next week: Soho-Blue, MJF/Cole & Cassidy/Allin vs. Friday’s Tournament winners and Chris Jericho vs. Komander.

TJPW News: Yet Another 7/8 Change

Tokyo Joshi Pro has made yet another change to this weekend’s SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’23 card, but again it’s for an existing match and not a bad change-at the request of Miyu Yamashita, who just returned from a successful title defense in England, her match against Sawyer Wreck will now be for the Pro Wrestling EVE Championship under Spirit Of EVE rules. That means 30 minute time limit, no countouts and not displaying enough fighting spirit in the referee’s view results in being DQ’d. This will be the 7th defense of the title for Yamashita. It makes a total of 4 title matches on the event between TJPW and other titles. (And for those wondering, still no word on when the vacant Princess Tag Team Championship situation will be resolved)

New Japan 7/5/23 Results (Updated)

New Japan ran the second half of STRONG Independence Day today, following a day full of surprises with the chance for even more.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand as a PPV only on New Japan World. (The PPV is only a combo pack that includes yesterday’s Day 1, in the US it’s about $30 and is available until roughly mid-September) You can also watch the pre-show match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1401, a super full house/very near sellout. They could have called it a sellout as attendance was down only 32 from yesterday.

There was a last-minute change to the card for today as JR Kratos was not cleared to compete today. Cut (head) suffered during yesterday’s match. He was to have faced Oskar Leube in the first PPV match.

Pre-show Match: Boltin Oleg, Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Rekka, Takahiro Katori & Dragon Libre. Wato pinned Rekka with a Tsutenkaku German suplex hold.

Match 1: TBA, revealed at match time to (perhaps not surprisingly) be Satoshi Kojima, beat Oskar Leube.

Match 2: Francesco Akira & TJP beat Ryohei Oiwa & Homicide. Akira pinned Oiwa after 2/2.

Rocky Romero demanded an IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title match. Which led to…
Match 3: IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney beat Rocky Romero & Yoh to retain the titles. Connors pinned Romero after Full Clip. V1 for the champs.

Match 4: Alex Zayne & Lance Archer beat Kosei Fujita & Bad Dude Tito. Arxher pinned Fujita after a lariat.

Match 5: The DKC, Tomohiro Ishii & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Jorel Nelson, Royce Isaacs & Tom Lawlor. Tanahashi pinned Isaacs.

Match 6: Giulia (Stardom) beat STRONG Women’s Champion Willow Nightingale to win the title. Giulia becomes the second STRONG Women’s Champion.

Match 7: IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto bear Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin to retain the titles. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Kidd after Shoto. V1 for the champs.

Match 8: Eddie Kingston beat STRONG Openweight Champion KENTA to win the title. Kingston becomes the 6th STRONG Openweight Champion.

Main Event: In a Final Death match, Jon Moxley beat El Desperado.

Next up is the G1 CLIMAX 33 Tournament, the promotion’s biggest tournament of the year and the start of the road to Tokyo Dome, beginning on 7/15 at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kitayell in Hokkaido. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET. All tournament events will be available live and on demand on New Japan World.

Also announced is the Road to DESTRUCTION Tour, which will be the September and early October tour including DESTRUCTION in KOBE on 9/24 at Kobe World Hall in Kobe and DESTRUCTION in RYOGOKU on 10/9 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.

UPDATE: And it’s now official…WRESTLE KINGDOM 18 in TOKYO DOME on 1/4/24 at the Tokyo Dome. That’s a Thursday morning so make plans now.