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DDT 6/25/22 Results

DDT took a break from the KING OF DDT Tournament today to continue the DRAMATIC DREAM TOUR 2022 with a house show in Yokohama. A KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship match headlined the event.

Today’s event was held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 195, a legit sellout.

Match 1: Yuji Hino & Yukio Naya beat HARASHIMA & Hideki Okatani. Naya pinned Okatani after a backdrop.

Match 2: In a No Touch Rule match, Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno & Akito beat Toru Owashi, Kazuki Hirata & Takao Soma. Iino pinned Hirata. Afterwards, Akito issued a DDT Extreme Championship challenge to Iino and defected from Pheromons. He got it and paid for it.

Match 3: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON beat Chris Brookes & Antonio Honda. KANON beat Honda with Medusa.

Andrew Everett is announced for the 7/3 & 7/7 events.

Match 4: Naomi Yoshimura beat Yuya Koroku,

Match 5: Kazusada Higuchi & Yukio Sakaguchi beat Jun Akiyama & Yusuke Okada. Higuchi pinned Okada after Brain Claw Slam.

Main Event: MAO, Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata, Toui Kojima & Shinya Aoki beat KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions Poison Sawada JULIE, Takashi Sasaki, GENTARO, MIKAMI & Tanomusaku Toba to win the titles. MAO, Ueno, Katsumata, Kojima & Aoki become the 8th KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions. Kojima beat Toba with a triangle choke.

The next event is 7/3 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo with the KING OF DDT Semifinals and Finals. The winner becomes the new KO-D Openweight Champion. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 7/2 at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 6/25/22 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continued their CITY CIRCUIT series of standalone events today with the first half of a doubleheader taking them to western Japan, making a stop in Kobe today.

Today’s event was held at Kobe Art Center in Kobe and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 258, a super full house/very near sellout.

Before the show began, a Kyoto KBS Hall event was announced for 11/13.

Match 1: Hikari Noa beat Mahiro Kiryu.

Match 2: Hyper Misao beat Kaya Toribami & Neko Haruna in a 3-way by beating Toribami.

Match 3: Maki Itoh beat Pom Harajuku by submission.

Match 4: Yuki Aino, Yuki Kamifuku & Yuki Arai beat Yuka Sakazaki, Raku & Arisu Endo. Aino pinned Endo after Venus DDT.

Match 5: Mizuki & Nao Kakuta beat Miyu Yamashita & Moka Miyamoto. Mizuki pinned Miyamoto after a diving foot stomp.

Main Event: Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe beat Shoko Nakajima & Suzume. Tatsumi beat Suzume with a dragon sleeper.

The next event is tomorrow at Nishitetsu Hall in Fukuoka. There will be no live broadcast. The event is a legit advance sellout.

AEW Rampage 6/24/22 Results

Here are the quick results from last night’s AEW Rampage:
Andrade El Idolo beat Rey Fenix. Andrade appeared to align himself with Rush and his Los Faction Ingobernables faction afterwards.

Serena Deeb & Mercedes Martinez beat Laynie Luck & Sierra. Squash.

Hook beat The DKC. Squash.

Jeff Cobb beat Cash Wheeler.

2 more matches were added to Forbidden Door, both on the pre-show: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs. QT Marshall & Aaron Solo and Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado.

Tokyo Joshi: 9th Princess Cup Announced

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling has announced the 9th Tokyo Princess Cup, their annual singles tournament featuring the entire TJPW roster. Normally it features the entire roster, which is currently 22, but only 20 entrants are set for this year and it guarantees a new champion this year. That is because defending winner Maki Itoh is out because she was invited to participate in Game Changer Wrestling in the US on August 14, which is the same date as the Finals. Itoh will go to the US to contribute to TJPW by appearing overseas and will miss the tournament as a result. Rookie Juria Nagano will also not participate due to schedule reasons. That and recent history would suggest Mizuki will be the favorite going in-the only reason she may very well not have been going for a 4-peat this year is Itoh, who beat Mizuki in last year’s Semifinals to deny her a potential 3rd straight tournament win.

The schedule for this year’s tournament is as follows:
Rounds 1-2: 7/16, 7/17, 7/18 at Ryogoku KFC Hall & 7/23 at Shinjuku Face
Quarterfinals: 7/31 at Otemachi Mitsui Hall
Semifinals: 8/13 at Korakuen Hall
Finals: 8/14 at Korakuen Hall
Round 1 will have 4 matches over each of the first 2 events. Because of the number of participants, 4 will get a free pass to Round 2. After the Quarterfinals, there likely will be a random draw to set up the Semifinals. The eventual winner will likely earn a Princess Of Princess Championship match unless the current champion wins (that will be either Shoko Nakajima or Rika Tatsumi).

Pro Wrestling NOAH 6/24/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH resumed the SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour today, wrapping up their June schedule with the beginning of the build to the next GHC Heavyweight Championship match at the next Nippon Budokan blowout event in mid-July.

Today’s event was held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Tokohama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 202. Depending on the seating layout, this was probably at least a near-sellout (it’s a very small venue).

There were some last-minute changes to the card as Rene Dupree was announced as being off the card just before event time. The always-vague poor physical condition.

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

Match 2: Simon Gotch beat Daiki Inaba.

Match 3: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. beat Manabu Soya.

Match 4: Takashi Sugiura, Hideki Suzuki & Timothy Thatcher beat Michael Elgin, Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura. Thatcher beat Kitamiya with a Fujiwara armbar.

Match 5: Go Shiozaki beat Shuhei Taniguchi.

Main Event: Satoshi Kojima & Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Kenoh & Katsuhiko Nakajima went to a 30 minute time limit draw.

The next event is 7/2 at Big Palette Fukushima in Fukushima. This event and the two events after that all will be taped for on demand broadcast on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (this is typically 3 days after the event).

In post-event news, the full card for ABEMA presents DESTINATION 2022 on 7/16 has been announced (this is an ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan, WRESTLE UNIVERSE will have a companion live broadcast in English):
Daisuke Harada, Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY & Extreme Tiger vs. Shuji Kondo, Hajime Ohara, Tadasuke & Hi69
Masaaki Mochizuki, Shuhei Taniguchi, Yoshiki Inamura, Daiki Inaba & Kinya Okada vs. Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Rene Dupree, Simon Gotch, Stallion Rogers & Anthony Green
Ninja Mack vs. Dante Leon
Rob Van Dam & Masato Tanaka vs. NOSAWA Rongai & Super Crazy in a Hardcore match
Go Shiozaki, Takashi Sugiura & Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Masakatsu Funaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya
GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Yoshinari Ogawa & Chris Ridgeway vs. Eita & Kotaro Suzuki for the titles
PRO WRESTLING LOVE FOREVER 1 ~THE FINAL COUNTDOWN~: Keiji Muto vs. Kaito Kiyomiya (the first of the final 5 matches of Muto’s career)
GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Michael Elgin & Masa Kitamiya vs. Hideki Suzuki & Timothy Thatcher for the titles
GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion HAYATA vs. Seiki Yoshioka for the title
GHC Heavyweight Champion Satoshi Kojima vs. Kenoh for the title

BREAKING: NJPW Star Off Forbidden Door

The injury bug continues to hit AEW & New Japan at a bad time right before the Forbidden Door PPV this weekend-New Japan just announced on their English website that Tomohiro Ishii is now off the event. Left knee injury. He was to have been in a 4-way for the AEW All-Atlantic Championship. Clark Connors, who Ishii beat to earn a spot in the match, is the replacement.

AEW Dynamite 6/22/22 Results

Here are the quick results from last night’s AEW Dynamite in Milwaukee:
Bryan Danielson announced he can’t compete at Forbidden Door or next week’s Dynamite due to not being medically cleared. This is apparently due to injury from Double Or Nothing. He was to have faced Zack Sabre Jr. on Sunday and been in Blood And Guts next week. Replacement TBA but it’ll be the same person for both.

Orange Cassidy, Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero beat Will Ospreay & Aussie Open.

Christian Cage cut a heel promo on Jungle Boy.

AEW All-Atlantic Championship Tournament: Malakai Black beat Penta Oscuro. As a result, Black is in the 4-way for the title against Miro, Pac & Tomohiro Ishii.

Adam Page beat Silas Young.

Toni Storm beat Marina Shafir.

Jon Moxley & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Chris Jericho & Lance Archer. Afterwards, Kazuchika Okada made his AEW Debut and it was announced that IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jay White will defend the title at Forbidden Door…against Page, Okada and Adam Cole in a 4-way. Oh snap.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 6/23/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran this month’s N INNOVATION event today, and on paper it was a big event with 2 title matches and someone’s NOAH run ending. More potential big shifting in the Jr. Heavyweight ranks.

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

The announced paid attendance was 360, a legit advance sellout.

There were a few late changes to the card yesterday and today before the event-first, Alejandro had to be removed from the card due to a fever. He was to have teamed with Kaito Kiyomiya to face Shuji Kondo & Hi69. Extreme Tiger was the telacement. Until…after that Daisuke Harada also had to be removed from the card. Fever. Because he was part of the champion team, it meant the Open The Triangle Gate Championship would now be VACANT. The scheduled title match was now for the vacant titles with Tiger replacing Harada, and TBA again with Kiyomiya in the first match.

Match 1: Kaito Kiyomiya & TBA, which ultimately wound up being Satoshi Kojima (who IS NOT a Jr. Heavyweight), beat Shuji Kondo & Hi69. Kojima pinned Hi69 after a Western lariat.

Match 2: Yoshinari Ogawa beat Kai Fujimura by submission. It only went 51 seconds. (Comment after watching on replay-this may have been a botched finish. Fujimura seemed to clearly have his shoulders up before the 3 count and the ref casually counted. Ogawa had caught Fujimura in a dropkick and was maybe setting up a Figure 4 but sat down for the pin. Very questionable but I think the ref blew this one)

Match 3: Seiki Yoshioka beat Yuya Susumu.

Match 4: NOSAWA Rongai, Eita & Kotaro Suzuki beat Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY & Extreme Tiger to win the vacant Open The Triangle Gate Championship. NOSAWA, Eita & Suzuki become the 81st Open The Triangle Gate Champions. Eita pinned YO-HEY after Imperial Uno.

Match 5: In a Loser NOAH Expulsion match, Tadasuke beat Haoh. As a result, Haoh is done with NOAH.

Main Event: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion HAYATA beat Hajime Ohara by submission to retain the title. V2 for HAYATA. Next up: Yoshioka. That will happen on 7/16 at Nippon Budokan.

The next event is tomorrow at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

UPDATE: Potential correction on the opening match-when I watched the replay, Hi69 was announced as HIROKI, which is a name he later used before becoming Nioh.

FREE VIDEO: All NJPW STRONG Title Matches

On this weekend’s new episode of NJPW STRONG, STRONG Openweight Champion Tom Lawlor will attempt to make his 9th successful title defense as the first and only champion, facing Fred Rosser for the second time with the stip that Rosser must leave STRONG if he loses. But before then, you have the change to watch EVERY title match so far, including the tournament final where Lawlor beat Brody King to become champion, FOR FREE! That’s almoat 4 hours of action!
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New Japan 6/21/22 Results

New Japan continued the New Japan Road Tour today with the final event before Forbidden Door and a roughly 2-week break, headlined by Hiromu Takahashi attempting to follow up his 3rd straight Best Of The Super Junior victory with reclaiming yhe IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese. This was a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.

The announced paid attendance was 1380, a legit sellout. This is about 2/3 notmal capacity for the venue.

Match 1: DOUKI beat Yuto Nakashima by submission.

Match 2: Taichi beat Ryohei Oiwa.

Match 3: Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Yoh, Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Sho pinned Yoh. They might have teased yet another NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championship match between them afterwards.

Match 4: Aaron Henare, Francesco Akira & TJP beat Jado, Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi. Henare beat Jado with Ultima.

Match 5: BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Kosei Fujita, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Togi Makabe & Kazuchika Okada. BUSHI pinned Fujita.

All G1 CLIMAX matches were announced. The first 9 events will have one match from each block, then it will be 5 matches per event until Day 18 at Nippon Budokan, which will have the last 2 matches in each block and will set the Semifinals with the winner of each block.

Match 6: AEW All-Atlantic Championship Tournament: Tomohiro Ishii beat Clark Connors. As a result, Ishii advances to the 4-way for the title on Sunday at Forbidden Door against Pac, Miro and either Malakai Black or Penta Oscuro. That last match is tomorrow on AEW Dynamite.

Main Event: IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Taiji Ishimori beat Hiromu Takahashi to retain the title. V1 for Ishimori. A 36+ minute instant classic. Next up: Time Splitter…KUSHIDA is back! Having been released by WWE earlier this year, KUSHIDA returned and announced he has re-signed with New Japan for what should be the rest of his career and made the challenge. Ishimori said he’d have to earn it. They last met in January 2019 at Tokyo Dome when Ishimori beat KUSHIDA to retain the title.

The next event is 7/3.

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