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New Japan 6/18/22 Results

New Japan ran the first televised event of the New Japan Road tour today, a homecoming event for Hiromu Takahashi who hoped to put on a good show for a sellout crowd ahead of his IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship match next week, a reward for winning Best Of The Super Junior.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1955. Based on event photos from New Japan’s Japanese website, not quite the legit sellout Takahashi hoped for. No guest on Japanese commentary. Your host is Haruo Murata alongside Milano Collection A.T.

Match 1: TAKA Michinoku beat Kosei Fujita by submission.

Match 2: Tiger Mask & Tomoaki Honma beat Yuto Nakashima & Clark Connors. Honma pinned Nakashima after Kokeshi. After the match, TM 4 with microphone. He is competing in All-Japan Pro Wrestling tomorrow and vowed to win the All-Japan Jr. Heavyweight Championship.

Match 3: Minoru Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru beat Ryohei Oiwa & Tomohiro Ishii. Suzuki beat Oiwa.

Match 4: Yoh, Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Gedo, Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Yoh pinned Gedo after Traas Kick.

Match 5: Aaron Henare, Francesco Akira & TJP beat Jado, Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato. Henare pinned Jado after ultima.

Match 6: SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Togi Makabe & Kazuchika Okada. Takagi pinned Makabe after Last of the Dragon.

ATSUSHI, who probably is some kind of comedian dressed and face painted like a clown, joined comemntary for the main event.
Main Event: Hiromu Takahashi Homecoming Match: BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi beat Sho & Taiji Ishimori. Takahashi pinned Sho after Time Bomb. After the match, Takahashi’s LIJ factionmates joined him for the show-ending promo.

The next event is Monday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and features an IWGP Jr. heavyweight Tag Team Title match. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. And best of all, it’s the monthly event that everyone can watch FOR FREE! In other upcoming event news, New Japan World will have a live PPV broadcast of the GLEAT Ver. 3-1st Anniversary Event on 7/1 at Tokyo Dome City Hall. It will cost 3000 yen or just over $22 US in addition to the monthly subscription fees and will be available on demand until October 1. If you can wait, odds are sometime down the road it’ll be on YouTube.

Correction:The next event actually is tomorrow at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka, but it is a non-televised event so no live or on demand video will be available.

AEW Rampage 6/17/22 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Rampage:
Jon Moxley beat Dante Martin by submission.

Gunn Club & Max Caster beat Bear Country & Leon Ruff. Caster pinned Ruff after Mic Drop. Squash.

AEW TBS Champion Jade Cargill beat Willow Nightingale to retain the title.

Darby Allin beat Bobby Fish. Sting returned after the match.

Keiji Muto Retirement Series Set

At a press conference held by Pro Wrestling NOAH today for their major 7/16 main event, Keiji Muto announced the plans for his retirement series he revealed at CyberFight Festival ’22. The Living Legend will compete in just 5 more matches before bringing the curtain down on an incredible 40-year career in the ring, which will include one final appearance as his legendary alter-ego The Great Muta. It has been dubbed “Keiji Muto FINAL COUNTDOWN SERIES” and the schedule is currently as follows:
7/16-Muto vs. Kaito Kiyomiya
9/25 (Aichi Prefectural Gym)-TBA
10/30 (Ariake Arena, Tokyo)-TBA
1/22/23 (Yokohama Arena, Yokohama)-GREAT MUTA FINAL “BYE-BYE”, TBA
TBA-KEIJI MUTO GRAND FINAL-PRO WRESTLING “LAST” LOVE – HOLD OUT -, Location TBA

The 7/16 event is an ABEMA exclusive live broadcast but WRESTLE UNIVERSE will have an exclusive live broadcast in English beginning at 3 AM ET/midnight PT.

New Japan 6/16 Results

New Japan kicked off the New Japan Road tour today, which in recent years was known as KIZUNA ROAD, a reference to one of the many card games that owner Bushiroad Corporation has published in Japan. The name change is a likely return to original names as part of the ongoing 50th Anniversary Celebration. SANADA continues his return from injury after coming back at DOMINION this past weekend.

Today’s event was held at Tochigi Cultural Center in Tochigi and was a non-televised event. The event will not be available on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 421.

Match 1: TAKA Michinoku beat Ryohei Oiwa by submission.

Match 2: Tiger Mask & Tomoaki Honma beat Kosei Fujita & Clark Connors. Honma pinned Fujita after Kokeshi.

Match 3: Minoru Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru beat Yuto Nakashima & Tomohiro Ishii. Suzuki pinned Nakashima after a Gotch-style piledriver.

Match 4: Yoh, Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Yoh pinned Togo after Direct Drive.

Match 5: Aaron Henare, Francesco Akira & TJP beat Jado, Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato. Henare pinned Jado after Ultima.

Match 6: BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi beat Gedo & Taiji Ishimori. Takahashi pinned Gedo after D.

Main Event: SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Togi Makabe & Kazuchika Okada. SANADA pinned Tenzan with O’Connor Bridge.
For those wondering about notable names missing, many of them appeared in All Elite Wrestling in the US last night to help promote the Forbidden Door PPV on 6/26.

The next event is Saturday at Esforta Arena Hachioji in Tokyo. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

In other news, the September tour, “Burning Spirit”, has been announced. The current schedule is as follows:
9/2-Yokohama Budokan, Yokohama
9/3-Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya
9/5-Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
9/6-Korakuen Hall
9/7-Lily Arena MITO, Ibaraki
9/9-Fujisan Messe, Shizuoka
9/10-G Messe Gunma, Gunma
9/11-Togane Arena, Chiba
9/13-Towa Pharmaceutical Dome Sub-Arena, Osaka
9/15-Kirin Beverage Shunan Sports Center, Yamaguchi
9/17-Ichiki Kushikino City General Gym, Kagoshima
9/18-Beppu Beacon Plaza, Oita
9/20-Acros Fukuoka, Fukuoka
9/21-Grand Messe Kumamoto, Kumamoto
9/23-Takamatsu City General Gymnasium Stadium 1, Kagawa
9/25-Kobe World Hall, Kobe (likely a major event)

6/16 DDT Results

DDT ran their monthly DDT FREE event today (on the weekly schedule post I incorrectly said it was yesterday, DDT’s website is kinda wacky with event date/time listings), which kicked off their annual KING OF DDT Tournament. This year’s tournament takes on much greater significance because with KO-D Openweight Champion Tetsuya Endo out and forced to vacate the title because of a concussion suffered at CyberFight Festival ’22, the tournament winner also becomes the new champion.

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

The announced attendance was 444. All tickets were free and this was billed as a legit sellout. In reality this was extremely close to legit full capacity for the venue, maybe 6 short of 100% (normal capacity for wrestling at the venue is 450, maybe 500).

Before the matches began, Makoto Oishi announced he will return at the 7/24 event. He has been out for a year due to injuries.

Dark Match: Masa Takanashi & Toui Kojima vs. Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku went to a 10 minute time limit draw. Takanashi was to have faced Endo in the tournament but got a free pass to the Quarterfinals due to Endo being out, and this match was added to the event as a result.

All main show matches were KING OF DDT Tournament matches, no time limit.
Match 1: HARASHIMA beat Hideki Okatani.
Match 2: Naomi Yoshimura beat Chris Brookes.
Match 3: Yuki Ueno beat KANON.
Match 4: Daisuke Sasaki beat Yuji Hino.
Match 5: Yuki Iino beat MAO.
Match 6: Jun Akiyama beat Yukio Sakaguchi.
Main Event: Kazusada Higuchi beat Yukio Naya.

The next event is Sunday at Korakuen Hall with the Quarterfinals and more non-tournament matches. The Quarterfinals will be Takanashi-Higuchi, Akiyama-Iino, Sasaki-Ueno and HARASHIMA-Yoshimura. After that, the Semifinals will be determined by lottery. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Sunday at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

AEW Dynamite 6/15/22 Results (SPOILERS!)

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite (5/16/22)-this contains SPOILERS if you haven’t watched yet!

Chris Jericho beat Ortiz in a Hair vs. Hair Match. As a result< Ortiz loses his hair.

Will Ospreay beat Dax Harwood.

In a 20-on-1 Handicap Match, Wardlow beat all 20 of Smart Mark Sterling’s Plaintiffs.

AEW All-Atlantic Tournament: Miro beat Ethan Page. As a result, Miro advances to face Pac.

Toni Storm beat Britt Baker.

In a Ladder Match, The Young Bucks beat AEW World Tag Team Champions Jurassic Express to become THE NEW AEW WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS! They also are now the first 2-time champions. Afterwards, Christian Cage turned on Jungle Boy to end the show.

BREAKING: DDT Title Vacated

More CyberFight Festival fallout-the KO-D Openweight Championship is now VACANT. Previous champion Tetsuya Endo has vacated the title due to injury-he suffered a concussion Sunday and is out indefinitely. The winner of the KING OF DDT Tournament, which starts tomorrow, will become the new champion. Endo’s first opponent, Masa Takanashi, will get a win by forfeit and advance to the next round

New Japan Free Match Monday 6/13/22

It’s a very special New Japan Free Match Monday as today, on the 13th anniversary of his tragic death, the legacy of the legendary Mitsuharu Misawa, the founder of Pro Wrestling NOAH and one of the top stars of puroresu before that, is remembered by New Japan in this match against Masahiro Chono from 5/2/2002 at the Tokyo Dome.
Mitsuharu Misawa, ALWAYS IN OUR HEARTS!

https://youtu.be/VYjF9Gh4-Zo

UPDATED: BREAKING: AEW Star Arrested (Yet Again…)

BREAKING: AEW star Jeff Hardy has been arrested yet again. Felony DUI, a third drug- or alcohol-related DUI offense within 10 years, driving with a suspended, canceled or revoked license and violation of restrictions placed on a driver’s license. Those non-DUI charges are misdemeanors. Hardy should appear before a judge in Florida tomorrow. This could change Dynamite plans this week because The Hardys are scheduled to face AEW Tag Team Champions Jurassic Express and The Young Bucks in a 3-way ladder match for the titles.

More as it becomes available.

Source:
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10038585-aews-jeff-hardy-arrested-on-multiple-charges-including-felony-dui

6/14 UPDATE: Jeff Hardy has now been suspended without pay by AEW. He must complete rehab before he can return. He was released from jail on $3500 bond.

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