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Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/31/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up their July schedule today with MIDSUMMER CLASH 2022, an uncommon standalone house show between ongoing & upcoming tours.

Today’s event wad held at Ishikawa Industrial Exhibition Hall 3 and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 1276, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Mohammed Yone & Alexander Otsuka beat Akitoshi Saito & Kinya Okada. Yone pinned Okada after Kinniku Muscle Buster.

Match 2: Atsushi Kotoge beat Kai Fujimura.

Match 3: Ninja Mack, Dante Leon & YO-HEY beat Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Hi69. Mack pinned Tadasuke after Ninja Bomb.

Match 4: Masa Kitamiya & Stallion Rogers beat Daiki Inaba & Anthony Greene. Rogers pinned Inaba after a missile headbutt.

Match 5: HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa & Yuya Susumu beat Daisuke Harada, Seiki Yoshioka & Alejandro. Susumu beat Alejandro with a crossface.

Match 6: Kazuyuki Fujita & Kendo Ka Shin beat Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi. Fujita pinned Taniguchi after a powerbomb.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Satoshi Kojima & Takashi Sugiura beat Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya. Kiyomiya pinned Soya with a Tiger suplex hold.

The enxt event is DEPARTURE 2022 on Friday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, headlined by the return of Naomichi Marufuji from injury and GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion HAYATA vs. Shuji Kondo for the title. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 7/31/22 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continued the Tokyo Princess Cup today with the Quarterfinals. After today the Semifinals would be determined by a random draw rather than the established bracket.

Today’s event was held at Otemachi Mitsui Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 284.

Match 1: Maki Itoh & Arisu Endo beat Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano. Itoh beat Nagano with Itoh Punish.

Match 2: Yuki Kamifuku beat Neko Haruna & Mizuki in a 3-way by pinning Haruna.

Match 3: Yuki Arai, Raku & Pom Harajuku beat Hyper Misao, Mahiro Kiryu & Kaya Toribami. Arai pinned Toribami after Finally.

Tokyo Princess Cup:
Match 4: Suzume beat Rika Tatsumi.
Match 5: Miyu Yamashita beat Nao Kakuta.
Match 6: Yuka Sakazaki beat Hikari Noa.
Main Event: Miu Watanabe beat Shoko Nakajima. That means whoever wins the tournament gets to face Nakajima for the Princess Of Princess Championship, possibly at WRESTLE PRINCESS 3 in October.
As a result of the random post-event draw, the Semifinals will be Sakazaki-Suzume & Yamashita-Watanabe. The Semifinals are on 8/13 at Korakuen Hall.

The next event is 8/7 at Fujisawa City Shonandai Cultural Children’s Center Citizen’s Theater in Kanagawa, which will be a Yuki Kamifuku Homecoming event. Yuna Manase (Ganbare Pro) participation has been announced for the event. There will be no live broadcast.

Post-show news: The following was announced for 8/13 at Korakuen Hall:
Max The Impaler vs. Pom Harajuku (that’s gonna be ugly squash)
Arisu Endo vs. Mei Suruga
Tokyo Princess Cup Semifinals
AA Eye Candy (Saki Akai & Yuki Arai) participation

New Japan 7/31/22 Results

New Japan ran Day 9 of the G1 CLIMAX 32 today, featuring 5 tournament matches instead of the 4 that had been the general pattern so far.

Today’s event was held at Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese and English.

The announced paid attendance was 2742. Yoshinobu Kanemaru is once again today’s guest on Japanese commentary.

Match 1: Sho, El Phantasmo, Yujiro Takahashi & KENTA beat Ryohei Oiwa, Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto & Hiroshi Tanahashi. SHo beat Oiwa with a cross armbreaker.

Match 2: Bad Dude Tito & Jonah beat Royce Isaacs & Tom Lawlor. Jonah pinned Isaacs after Black Forest Bomb.

Match 3: Aaron Henare, Great-O-Khan & Will Ospreay beat Jado, Tama Tonga & David Finlay. Henare beat Jado with Ultima.

Match 4: BUSHI, SANADA & Shingo Takagi beat TAKA Michinoku, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. Takagi pinned TAKA after Pumping Bomber.

G1 CLIMAX:
Match 5: Block A-Jeff Cobb beat Lance Archer.
Match 6: Block B-YOSHI-HASHI beat Juice Robinson.
Match 7: Block D-Jay White beat Chase Owens.
Match 8: Block A-Kazuchika Okada beat Bad Luck Fale.
Main Event: Block C-Tetsuya Naito beat EVIL.

Standings:
Block A:
1-Okada, 3-0, 6 pts
2-Cobb, 2-1, 4 pts
3-Fale, 2-2, 4 pts
4-Jonah, 1-1, 2 pts
5-Archer, 1-2, 2 pts
6-Yano, 1-2, 2 pts
7-Lawlor, 0-2, 0 pts

Block B:
1-White, 3-0, 6 pts
2-Sanada, 2-1, 4 pts
3-Tonga, 1-1, 2 pts
4-Taichi, 1-1, 2 pts
5-Ishii, 1-2, 2 pts
6-Owens, 1-2, 2 pts
7-Khan, 0-2, 0 pts

Block C:
1-Goto, 2-0, 4 pts
2-Tanahashi, 2-1, 4 pts
3-Sabre, 2-1, 4 pts
4-EVIL, 1-1, 2 pts
5-Naito, 1-2, 2 pts
6-Henare, 1-2, 2 pts
7-KENTA, 0-2, 0 pts

Block D:
1-Ospreay, 2-0, 4 pts
2-Finlay, 2-1, 4 pts
3-YOSHI-HASHI, 1-1, 2 pts
4-Phantasmo, 1-1, 2 pts
5-Robinson, 1-2, 2 pts
6-Takagi, 1-2, 2 pts
7-Takahashi, 1-2, 2 pts

Day 10 is Tuesday at Hamamatsu Arena in Shizuoka. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

DDT & Ganbare Pro 7/30/22 Results

DDT & Ganbare Pro ran a split doubleheader in Osaka today, both at the same venue with DDT running first then Ganbare had their event a couple hours later.

Today’s events were held at 176BOX in Osaka and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast for either event.
DDT:
The announced paid attendance was 235, a full house/near sellout.

During the opening announcements, Konosuke Takeshita announced, via recorded message, a 10th Anniversary event on 9/10.

Match 1: Yukio Sakaguchi beat Kazuki Hirata.

Match 2: Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno vs. Toru Owashi & Takao Soma went to a no contest. GM Imabayashi interference.

Match 3: Jun Akiyama, Yuuske Okada & The Bodyguard beat Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya & Yuki Ishida. Bodyguard beat Ishida with Rising Dragon.

Match 4: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON beat Akito & Antonio Honda. KANON beat Honda with Just Cobra Twist.

Match 5: HARASHIMA & Gamma beat Yuki Ueno & Makoto Oishi. HARASHIMA pinned Oishi with a crucifix.

Match 6: Tetsuya Endo beat Yuya Koroku.

Main Event: Kazusada Higuchi & Naomi Yoshimura beat MAO & Shunma Katsumata. Yoshimura pinned Katsumata after a throwaway powerbomb.

The next event is 8/6 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. There will be no live broadcast.

Ganbare:
The announced paid attendance was 109.

Match 1: Cherry beat YuuRI.

Match 2: Shuichiro Katsumura, Tsuyoshi Okada & HARUKAZE beat MAO, Tyson Maeguchi & Yuna Manase. Katsumura pinned Maeguchi.

Match 3: Shota & Takao Soma beat Shunma Katsumata & Yuki Ishida. Shota pinned Ishida.

Match 4: Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie beat Kazuaki Mihara & Koki Iwasaki. Irie pinned Iwasaki after Beast Bomber.

Main Event: Yumehito Imanari & Magnitude Kishiwada beat Mizuki Watase & Shinichiro Tominaga. Imanari pinned Tominaga after a lariat.

The next event is 8/13 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

In Tokyo Joshi Pro news ahead of tomorrow’s (tonight US time) event, they will return to Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 on 10/29 and while it will not affect tomorrow’s card, since it was announced at the time this news came out, Yuki Aino is off tomorrow’s event. Leg injury. It’s not known if she will miss any additional time.

7/31/22-8/6/22 Events Schedule

Here is the current events schedule for 7/31-8/6, which is subject to change (all times PT):
7/31:
Midnight-New Japan Pro Wrestling G1 CLIMAX 32 Day 9, Aichi Prefectural Gym, Nagoya, Japan. Live and on demand on New Japan World
Midnight-Pro Wrestling NOAH MIDSUMMER CLASH 2022, Ishikawa Industrial Exhibition Hall 3, Ishikawa, Japan. Available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date

8/2:
2:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling G1 CLIMAX 32 Day 10, Hamamatsu Arena, Shizuoka, Japan. Live and on demand on New Japan World

8/3:
5 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Dynamite”, Columbus, OH. LIVE on TBS in US and FITE elsewhere

8/5:
2:30 AM-Pro Wrestling NOAH DEPARTURE 2022, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Live and on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
3 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling G1 CLIMAX 32 Day 11, Item Ehime, Ehime, Japan. Live and on demand on New Japan World
7 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Rampage”, Battle Creek, MI. LIVE on TNT in US and FITE elsewhere

8/5:
1 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling G1 CLIMAX 32 Day 12, Osaka Prefectural Gym, Osaka, Japan. Live and on demand on New Japan World
1 AM-DDT Pro Wrestling Road to PETER PAN 2022 in YOKOHAMA, Yokohama Radiant Hall, Yokohama, Japan. No live broadcast
7:30 PM-All-Japan Pro Wrestling Royal Road Tournament, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Live and on demand on AJPW.TV. LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED
10 PM-New Japan Pro Wrestling G1 CLIMAX 32 Day 13, Osaka Prefectural Gym. Live and on demand on New Japan World
11 PM-DDT Pro Wrestling Road to PETER PAN 2022 in MIYAGI, Tagajo City Center Small Hall, Miyagi, Japan. No live broadcast
TBA-All Elite Wrestling “Battle For The Belts 3”, Battle Creek, MI. TAPED on TNT in US

Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/30/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up the SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour with a weekend house show, the first of two events this weekend.

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

The announced paid attendance was 179.

Match 1: Hi69 beat Kai Fujimura.

Match 2: Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito beat Masa Kitamiya & Kinya Okada. Saito pinned Okada after a running Sickle Of Death.

Match 3: Dante Leon beat Alejandro.

Match 4: Daisuke Harada, YO-HEY & Seiki YOshioka beat HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa & Yuya Susumu. Yoshioka pinned Susumu after Buzzsaw Kick.

Match 5: Satoshi Kojima, Daiki Inaba & Anthony Greene beat Takashi Sugiura, Shihei Taniguchi & Stallion Rogers. Kojima pinned Rogers after Western lariat.

Main Event: Go Shiozaki, Kaito Kiyomiya, Yoshiki Inamura, Atsushi Kotoge & Ninja Mack beat Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya, Tadasuke & Hajime OHara. Shiozaki pinned Soya after Go Lariat.

The next event is MIDSUMMER CLASH 2022 tomorrow at Ishikawa Industrial Exhibition Hall 3 in Ishikawa. This event will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (there will be no live broadcast).

New Japan Pro Wrestling Music City Mayhem Results (7/30/22)

The US wrestling world, amazingly including WWE, descends on Nashville, TN this weekend for likely the biggest non-WrestleMania weekend of the year. While WWE runs their major SummerSlam event tonight, the focus otherwise is on “Starrcast V”, an entire weekend of independent events, special fan gatherings, podcast tapings and more all centered around the final match in the career of the one & only Ric Flair tomorrow night. New Japan is part of Starrcast with their latest US event today, Music City Mayhem. On paper it seems like a “B show” because all the top talent is in Japan for the ongoing G1 CLIMAX tournament so the show will mainly feature the US-based talent and some of the top Jr. Heavyweights from NJPW and some top All Elite Wrestling names including FTR. 2 title matches are on tap too-Davey Richards will defend the MLW National Championship against Rocky Romero, stepping in because original challenger Clark Connors is out due to injury. Then STRONG Openweight Champion Fred Rosser makes his first defense against Big Damo. The main event is AEW Interim World Champion Jon Moxley vs. El Desperado in a NON-TITLE match, and to make it more fair for the smaller Desperado it’s No DQ.

Today’s event will be held at the Nashville Fairgrounds in Nashville, TN and can be watched LIVE and on demand ONLY ON FITE in English. IT IS NOT AVAILABLE ON NEW JAPAN WORLD. The event is available as a standalone PPV for $14.99 and includes the live broadcast and unlimited on demand replays (you also get unlimited replays if you buy it on demand after the event), or as part of one of the special Starrcast V inclusive bundles that include Ric Flair’s last match tomorrow-these start at $99.99.
If you plan to watch SummerSlam later or any other Starrcast events there should be no conflicts here as I expect this to be a short event, only running about 2 hours. (Post-show note: It went about 2 hours, 40 minutes)

Today’s lineup:
Red Yehi, Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino vs. The DKC, Kevin Knight & Ren Narita
MLW National Champion Davey Richards vs. Rocky Romero for the title
STRONG Openweight Champion Fred Rosser vs. Big Damo for the title
Hiromu Takahashi vs. Blake Christian
FTR & Alex Zayne vs. Aussie Open & TJP
KUSHIDA vs. Alex Shelley
Jon Moxley vs. El Desperado in a No DQ match

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 3 PM ET/Noon PT.

3 PM ET UPDATE: Waiting for live stream to begin. No signal from venue. Not good.

3:03 PM ET UPDATE: Stream has begun. Just missed most of the opening promo video. Anyway…
We are LIVE from the Nashville Fairgrounds in Nashville, TN. Your hosts are Ian Riccaboni & Matt Rehwoldt.
Match 1: The DKC, Kevin Knight & Ren Narita vs. Fred Yehi, Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino. 20 minute time limit
Result: Fred Yehi, Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino beat The DKC, Kevin Knight & Ren Narita. Umino pinned DKC after a double-arm underhook DDT.

Match 2: MLW National Champion Davey Richards vs. Rocky Romero for the title. 20 minute time limit
Result: MLW National Champion Davey Richards beat Rocky Romero to retain the title.

Legendary NJPW referee Tiger Hattori joins commentary for the next match.
Match 3: STRONG Openweight Champion Fred Rosser vs. Big Damo for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: STRONG Openweight Champion Fred Rosser beat Big Damo to retain the title. V1 for Rosser.

Match 4: Hiromu Takahashi vs. Blake Christian. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hiromu Takahashi beat Blake Christian

Tanga Loa joins commentary.

Match 5: Aussie Open & TJP vs. FTR & Alex Zayne. 20 minute time limit
Result: Aussie Open & TJP beat FTR & Alex Zayne. Mark Davis pinned Zayne. Afterwards, Aussie Open challenged FTR for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. (Some technical difficulties with stream caused me to miss just under a minute of this about 2/3 of the way through)

Match 6: KUSHIDA vs. Alex Shelley. 20 minute time limit
Result: Time Limit Draw

Main Event: Jon Moxley vs. El Desperado in a No DQ match. No time limit
Result: Jon Moxley beat El Desperado by ref stoppage (technical submission). Afterwards, Moxley with microphone for a promo to send the crowd home happier.

Despite some brief technical issues this was an event that, based on its lineup on paper, really overachieved and was great from start to finish. Every match is worth watching but KUSHIDA-Shelley alone is worth the $15.

End Show.

New Japan 7/30/22 Results

New Japan ran Day 8 of G1 CLIMAX 32 today, as the tournament approaches the halfway point.

Today’s event was held at Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese and English.

The announced paid attendance was 2225. Yoshinobu Kanemaru is today’s guest on Japanese commentary.

Match 1: Sho & Yujiro Takahashi beat Ryohei Oiwa & Kosei Fujita. Sho beat Fujita with a cross armbreaker.

Match 2; El Phantasmo & KENTA beat Jado & Tama Tonga. Phantasmo pinned Jado after Sudden Death.

Match 3: Aaron Henare, Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay beat TAKA Michinoku, Taichi & Lance Archer. Henare beat TAKA with Ultima.

Match 4: BUSHI & Tetsuya Naito beat Dick Togo & EVIL. BUSHI pinned Togo after MX.

Match 5: YOSHI-HASHI, Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto & Kazuchika Okada beat Gedo, Chase Owens, Bad Luck Fale, Juice Robinson & Jay White. Yano pinned Gedo.

G1 CLIMAX:
Match 6: Block D-David Finlay beat Shingo Takagi.
Match 7: Match 7: Block A-Jonah beat Tom Lawlor.
Match 8: Block B-SANADA beat Great-O-Khan.
Main Event: Block C-Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Zack Sabre Jr.

Day 9 is tomorrow. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 3 AM ET/midnight PT.

AEW Rampage 7/29/22 Results (SPOILERS!)

Here are the quick results from tonight’s TAPED AEW Rampage in Worcester, MA (SPOILERS for west feed viewers):
This was again held under the Fight For The Fallen theme from Dynamite this past week, a fundraiser for Oceana.

Best Friends & Orange Cassidy beat Jay Lethal, Sonjay Dutt & Satnam Singh. Cassidy pinned Dutt after ORange Punch. Supposedly Dutt can’t really wrestle anymore. Singh only came in for one real spot early.

Ethan Page beat Leon Ruffin. Squash.

Claudio Castagnoli promo turns into Wheeler Tuta-Chris Jericho for next week on Dynamite. And it’s for Jericho’s Interim AEW World Title shot the following week.

Lee Moriarty beat Matt Sydal. Stokely Hathaway tried to recruit Moriarty afterwards.

Anna Jay beat Ruby Soho by technical submission.

Another episode I didn’t care for and is mostly skippable except for the Yuta-Jericho stuff and the main event, which at least was decent despite those typical long commercial breaks during ALL Women’s matches.

Next week on Dynamite, in addition to what was announced Wednesday: Cassidy-Lethal, Powerhouse Hobbs squashes a jobber, Jericho-Yuta and The Acclaimed vs. Gunn Club in a Dumpster Match. PERFECT!

Next week: Rampage is LIVE! They also will tape Battle Of The Belts 3 for airing on 8/6, which will feature Castagnoli vs. Konosuke Takeshita for the ROH World Championship.

BREAKING: New Japan Announces Women’s Title

King Of Sports…and soon Queen Of Sports? At a conference call in Japan today, New Japan and women’s promotion Stardom announced the creation of the IWGP Women’s Championship. The plan is for it to be defended on New Japan events in both Japan and the USA. The inaugural champion will be crowned at a joint NJPW-Stardom event on 11/20 at Ariake Arena in Japan. It could be defended in Stardom too but apparently it will be a New Japan title.

Both New Japan and Stardom are owned by Bushiroad Corporation.

More as it becomes available.

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