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Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling 6/18/23 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continues their spring house show tour today with another weekend matinee in Tokyo. It’s one more chance for the lesser-known/experienced members of the roster to get a chance to shine before the big names start coming back next week from overseas. This event also comes just 24 hours after the full SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’23 card was announced so there are 3 weeks left until their summer blowout event.
There were some late changes for this event due to Nao Kakuta having to be pulled due to injury (back) so a planned tag team match became a 3-way. Also revealed near-last-minute was no Mizuki today. Overseas excursion. Kakuta is out indefinitely but as of now is still on the 7/8 card. Mizuki should be back next week along with Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh returning from their excursions (Yamashita’s went nearly 3 months and, in terms of matches and titles won, was incredibly successful). Ganbare Pro women’s wrestler Yoshiko Hasegawa also will be part of today’s event.

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. This will be a longer and larger house show than usual because it has 7 matches instead of the usual 5-6 so it will run a little longer than normal, probably right about at 2 hours, give or take a minute.

Today’s lineup (match order TBA except for main event):
Moka Miyamoto vs. Runa Okubo
Hikari Noa & Haru Kazashiro vs. Mahiro Kiryu & Shino Suzuki
Miu Watanabe vs. Toga
Yuki Kamifuku vs. Wakana Uehara
Hyper Misao & Yoshiko Hasegawa vs. Raku & Pom Harajuku
Shoko Nakajima vs. Arisu Endo & Kaya Toribami in a 3-way
Rika Tatsumi & Suzume vs. Yuki Aino & HIMAWARI (main event)

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Updates below will begin at 8:30 PM PT/11:30 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to launch at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.

8:30 PM PT 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 event. Looks like some fans still filing in at ringside but looking like average for these KFC events, so probably right around 200. (For the curious, max capacity depends on how many seats are set up around the ring but it’s 500 at most. The fixed seating capacity is approx. 350). (Post-Show Update: The announced paid attendance was 213)

The matches should begin in about 15 minutes. During opening announcements, Yoshiko Hasegawa comes out to promote Ganbare Pro’s biggest event of the year, WRESTLE SEKIGAHARA 2, on 7/9 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo.

The matches begin at 8:45 PM PT. Once again hard camera view only.

Match 1: Moka Miyamoto vs. Runa Okubo. 15 minute time limit
Result: Moka Miyamoto beat Runa Okubo by submission

Match 2: Hikari Noa & Haru Kazashiro vs. Mahiro Kiryu & Shino Suzuki. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hikari Noa & Haru Kazashiro beat Mahiro Kiryu & Shino Suzuki. Noa pinned Suzuki.

Match 3: Miu Watanabe vs. Toga. 15 minute time limit
Result: Miu Watanabe beat Toga by submission

Match 4: Hyper Misao & Yoshiko Hasegawa (Ganbare Pro) vs. Raku & Pom Harajuku. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hyper Misao & Yoshiko Hasegawa beat Raku & Pom Harajuku. Misao pinned Harajuku after Hypami Returns.

Match 5: Yuki Kamifuku vs. Wakana Uehara. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Kamifuku beat Wakana Uehara. Potential near-botched finish as Uehara almost kicked out of Fameasser at the 3 count. Kamifuku stomped on Uehara afterwards as if to express her displeasure with the rookie.

Match 6: Shoko Nakajima vs. Arisu Endo & Kaya Toribami in a 3-way. 20 minute time limit
Result: Shoko Nakajima beat Arisu Endo & Kaya Toribami in a 3-way by pinning Toribami. The second half of this match was really good.

.Main Event: Rika Tatsumi & Suzume vs. Yuki Aino & HIMAWARI. 20 minute time limit
Result: Rika Tatsumi & Suzume beat Yuki Aino & HIMAWARI. Tatsumi beat HIMAWARI with a dragon sleeper hold.

The next event is Saturday (Friday US time) at Kobe Art Center in Kobe. There will be no live broadcast.

GLEAT 6/17/23 Results

GLEAT ran their latest G PROWRESTLING event today, continuing the build to their annual July anniversary event just 2 weeks away now.

Today’s event was held at Umeda Stellar Hall in Osaka and likely will be available on demand on YouTube in a few days. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 247.

Match 1: Kaz Hayashi, Minoru Tanaka & Keiichi Sato beat Ryuichi Kawakami, Check Shimatani & Quiet Storm. Sato pinned Shimatani.

Match 2: Yuya Susumu beat Yu Iizuka.

Match 3: Sayaka Unagi & Yukari Hosokawa beat Isuki Aoki & Momoka Hanazono. Unagi pinned Aoki.

Match 4: Yutani & El Bendito beat El Lindaman & Junjie. Yutani pinned Junjie after TE MATO.

Match 5: Tetsuya Izuchi & Jun Tonsho beat Hayato Tamura & KAZMA SAKAMOTO. Izuchi beat Tamura with an armbar.

Match 6: Soma Watanabe beat Emperador Azteca.

Match 7: T-Hawk beat Hartley Jackson.

Main Event: Takanori Ito, Yusuke Kodama & Issei Onitsuke beat Yutani, Kotaro Suzuki & Flamita. Kodama pinned Yutani after Mad Splash. Yutani was a replacement for the injured Kaito Ishida.

The next event is 6/24 at Nishitetsu Hall in Fukuoka. Broadcast plans TBA but there likely will be no live broadcast.

6/18/23-6/24/23 Events Schedule (Updated 6/23)

Here is the current events schedule for 6/18/23-6/24/23, which is subject to change (all times PT):
6/18:
Midnight-New Japan Pro Wrestling “Blue Justice 12-Yuji Nagata Produced”, Sakura Civic Gym, Chiba, Japan. Live on New Japan World

6/21:
5 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Dynamite”, Chicago, IL. Live on TBS in US and FITE elsewhere

6/22:
2:30 AM-Pro Wrestling NOAH STAR NAVIGATION 2023 Tour, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only
5 PM-Impact Wrestling “Impact Wrestling”, Columbus, OH. TAPED on AXS TV. TAPED on YouTube at 5:30 PM. TAPED on Impact+ at 7 pm

6/23:
2:30 AM-Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling Rainbow Gate 2023 Tour, Chiba Port Arena, Chiba, Japan. No live or on demand broadcast
7 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Rampage”. TAPED on TNT in US and FITE elsewhere
8 PM-Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, Kobe Art Center, Kobe, Japan. No live broadcast

6/24:
Midnight-Pro Wrestling NOAH “Kenoh Channel Presents Kenoh Debut 15th Anniversary Match ~Since 2008~”, Tokushima City Gym, Tokushima, Japan. Live on YouTube via the Kenoh Official YouTube Channel
1 AM-Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling Rainbow Gate 2023 Tour, Espowa Isanonuma, Saitama, Japan. No live or on demand broadcast
1 AM-GLEAT “G PROWRESTLING Ver. 55”, Nishitetsu Hall, Fukuoka, Japan. Live on YouTube
5 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Collision”, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Live on TNT in US and FITE elsewhere
7:30 PM-DDT Pro Wrestling “What Are You Doing 2023”, Korakuen Hall. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED
11 PM-Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, Nishitetsu Hall. No live broadcast
11 PM-Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling Rianbow Gate 2023 Tour, Espowa Isanonuma. No live or on demand broadcast

6/23 UPDATE: The 6/24 GLEAT event will be streamed LIVE FOR FREE on YouTube.

Dragon Gate 6/17/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued the Rainbow Gate 2023 Tour today with the start of a weekend doubleheader in Okinawa.

Today’s event was held at Naha City Bunka Tembusukan in Okinawa. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The paid attendance has not yet bern announced. (Update: The announced paid attendance was 228, a full house/near sellout)

Match 1: Jason Lee, U-T & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu & Strong Machine J. KAMEI pinned Shimizu after JACKY Knife.

Match 2: Masaaki Mochizuki & Drake Morimatsu beat Problem Dragon & Hibiscus Mii. Mochizuki pinned Dragon after Twister.

Match 3: Kota Minoura, Ben-K, BxB Hulk & Minorita beat YAMATO, Genki Horiguchi, Kagetora & Ryu Fuda. Minorita pinned Fuda after Minoritonic.

Impromptu Match: Mochizuki Jr. vs. Gurukun Mask went to a 5 minute time limit draw.

Match 4: Dragon Kid & Teelan Shisa beat Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda. Kid pinned Kanda after countering Candy Magic.

Main Event: Madoka Kikuta, Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia beat Shun Skywalker, KAI & H-Y-O. Yoshioka pinned H-Y-after a frog splash.

The next event is tomorrow. There will be no live or on demand broadcast

DDT 6/17/23 Results

DDT continued the What Are You Doing 2023 Tour today with the start of a doubleheader in Hokkaido.

Today’s event was held at Sapporo E-One Stadium in Hokkaido and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 210.

Match 1: Hideki Okatani beat Yuki Ishida.

Match 2: In a handicap match, Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno beat Yusuke Okada, Kazuma Sumi & Rukiya. Iino beat ? (appeared to be both Sumi & Rukiya simultaneously based on photos).

Match 3: Andreza Giant Panda & Saki Akai beat Akito & Kazuki Hirata in 19 seconds by ref stoppage (TKO). Akito inadvertent elbow to Hirata. Which led to…
Match 3 (again): Andreza Giant Panda & Saki Akai beat Akiro & Kazuki Hirata. Akai pinned Hirata after Quetzalcoatl.

Match 4: Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama, Yuya Koroku & Takashi Yoshida (Dragon Gate) beat Sanshiro Takagi, HARASHIMA, Makoto Oishi & ?. Endo pinned Oishi after Burning Star Press. This originally was to have been a 6-man tag match but apparently changed last-minute to an 8-man tag.

Match 5: MAO & Toi Kojima beat Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul. Kojima pinned Paul.

Main Event: Yuji Hino & Yukio Sakaguchi beat Kazusada Higuchi & Takeshi Masada. Hino pinned Masada after Fuckin’ BOMB.

The next event is tomorrow (tonight US time). There will be no live broadcast.

Ganbare Pro 6/17/23 Results

Ganbare Pro ran the latest Ganbare Women’s event today, spotlighting their revived women’s division.

Today’s event was held at GEN Sports Palace in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on YouTube and below (it was live streamed on YouTube, be aware it was filmed on an iPad). It should be available on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. Video courtesy of the Ganbare Pro official YouTube channel:

The announced paid attendance was 93. It’s an extremely small venue/setup.

Match 1: Anchanmu beat Riara.

Match 2: Makoto beat Tokiko Kirihara.

Match 3: Miyako Matsumoto & Alex Lee beat Marika Kobashi & Echika Miyabi. Lee pinned Miyabi after Vincoplex.

Main Event: Sumiba Yanagawa & Princess Kagura Misa (JTO) beat YuuRI & Yoshiko Hasegawa. Misa pinned Hasegawa.

The next Ganbare Women event is 7/18 at Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA.

New Japan 6/17/23 Results (Updated)

New Japan continued the New Japan Road Tour today with a return to Tokyo after a week on the road.

Today’s event was held at Esforta Arena Hachioji in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1565.

There were some last-minute changes to the card due to DOUKI being pulled from the event. Fever. Tested negative for coronavirus but held out as a precaution.He was to have teamed with SANADA to face Hiromu Takahashi & Yota Tsuji in the main event. Yoshinobu Kanemaru, who was in a 6-man tag in match 7, was removed from that match as a replacement and match 7 was changed to a tag match with BUSHI being removed from the match.

Match 1: Master Wato beat Kosei Fujita.

Match 2: Boltin Oleg & Tomoaki Honma beat Yuto Nakashima & Ryusuke Taguchi. Honma beat Nakashima with a Boston Crab.

Match 3: Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Toru Yano, Togi Makabe & Hirooki Goto. EVIL pinned Tenzan after EVIL.

Match 4: Francesco Akira, TJP & Great-O-Khan beat Gedo, Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney. Akira pinned Gedo after Speedfire.

Match 5: Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin beat Oskar Leube & YOSHI-HASHI. Kidd pinned Leube after a hijack piledriver.

Match 6: Yoh, Tomohiro Ishii, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada beat Tiger Mask, El Desperado, Ren Narita & Shota Umino. Yoh pinned TM 4 after a superkick.

Match 7: Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Taichi & TAKA Michinoku. Takagi pinned TAKA after Pumping Bomber.

Main Event: Hiromu Takahashi & Yota Tsuji beat SANADA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru. Takahashi pinned Kanemaru after Time Bomb.

The tour-ender is Blue Justice 12, the annual Yuji Nagata Produced hometown event, tomorrow at Sakura Civic Gym in Chiba. All-Japan participation will be featured in the main event. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

UPDATE: DOUKI is now off tomorrow’s event as well (fever). The card will be changed accordingly.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 6/17/23 Results

GREEN JOURNEY 2023 in Nagoya, Pro Wrestling NOAH’s latest major event today, is now in the books.

Today’s event was held at Nagoya International Conference Center Event Hall in Nagoya and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The live broadcast was only in English due to being an ABEMA-exclusive broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 833. That sounds bad for a major event like this, but depending on the setup the capacity was likely only in the 1000-1200 range (the absolute maximum for the venue would be 1800).

Match 1: Akitoshi Saito, Seiki Yoshioka & Stallion Rogers beat Mohammed Yone, Alejandro & TaishI Ozawa. Yoshioka beat Ozawa with a crossface.

Match 2: Hajime Ohara beat Hi69.

Match 3: Kaito Kiyomiya, AMAKUSA & Super Crazy beat Hjo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Yoshinari Ogawa & Kai Fujimura. Kiyomiya beat Fujimura with a double arm lock.

Match 4: Hideki Suzuki beat Shuhei Taniguchi.

Match 5: Naomichi Marufuji & Eita beat Daiki Inaba & Atsushi Kotoge. Eita pinned Kotoge after Imperial Uno.

Match 6: Jack Morris, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Sean Legacy, Chris Ridgeway & Daga. Morris pinned LEgacy after a tiger driver.

Match 7: Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Kenoh & Manabu Soya. Nakajima pinned Soya after Vertical Spike.

Match 8: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion HAYATA beat Dante Leon to retain the title. V2 for HAYATA.

Match 9: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher beat Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura to retain the titles. Huxley pinned Kitamiya after a neck hanging bomb. V1 for the champs.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Jake Lee beat Takashi Sugiura to retain the title. V3 for Lee.

The next event is tomorrow at Osaka ATC Hall in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast.

All-Japan 6/17/23 Results

All-Japan continued the Dynamite Series 2023 today with another major event headlined by a Triple Crown match.

Today’s event was held at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 1966.

Match 1: Hikaru Sato & Dan Tamura beat Takuya Nomura & Kazumasa Yoshida. Tamura pinned Yoshida after Death Valley Bomb.

Match 2: Mayumi Ozaki (OZ Acadremy) & Maya Yukihi (Independent/Freelancer) beat ChiChi & Sunny. Ozaki pinned Sunny after a fisherman buster.

Match 3: Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Yoshitatsu.

Match 4: Atsushi Onita, Toru Owashi (DDT) & Carbell Ito beat Black Menso-re, Black Tiger & Great Tiger. Owashi pinned Menso-re.

Match 5: Satoshi Kojima, Osamu Nishimura & Yutaka Yoshie (Dradition) beat Ryuki Honda, Hokuto Omori & Ryo Inoue. Kojima pinned Honda after a lariat.

Match 6: Minoru Suzuki, Taiyo Kea & MAZADA (Independent/Freelancer) beat Jun & Rei Saito & Toshizo. Suzuki pinned Toshizo after a Gotch-style piledriver.

Match 7: Shuji Ishikawa 20th Anniversary Match 2: Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi (Big Japan) beat Shuji Ishikawa & Suwama. Okabayashi pinned Ishikawa after Golem Splash.

Match 8: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi beat Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato to retain the titles. Miyahara pinned Hayato with a shutdown suplex hold. V1 for the champs.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Yuji Nagata (New Japan) beat Yuma Anzai to retain the Triple Crown. V3 for Nagata. Next up: TBA, which will be on 7/2 at Korakuen Hall. Also announced for 7/2 was All-Japan World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Atsuki Aoyagi vs. El Lindaman for the title.

The next event is 6/26 at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

BREAKING: Dragon Gate Cuts 2 for Contract Violations

In a Twitter post on its Japanese account, Dragon Gate announced 2 wrestlers-Kento Kobune (SB KENTo) and Takuma Fujiwara-have been released. The promotion only said it was due to a “serious breach of contract” and resolution efforts were unsuccessful. Both have been inactive for roughly a year.