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DDT 12/17/22 Results

DDT continued their year-ending tour today with a house show in Kumamoto. This was a hometown event for Yuki Ishida.

Today’s event was held at Kumamoto City Distribution Information Center in Kumamoto and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (likely Tuesday). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 250, a legit sellout.

Match 1: Shunma Katsumata beat Saki Akai & Kazuki Hirata in a 3-way by pinning Hirata.

Match 2: Akito & Kazuma Sumi (with Yoshihiko) beat Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno. Akito beat Dieno with a stepover toehold.

Match 3: Sanshiro Takagi & Yusuke Okada beat Toru Owashi & Takeshi Masada. Okada pinned Masada after a Takagi Stunner.

Match 4: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON beat HARASHIMA & Hideki Okatani. Sasaki beat Okatani with Numero Dos Punto Seis Seis Seis. For those who no habla espanol, that’s Number 2.666.

Match 5 Yuki Ueno, MAO & Toui Kojima beat Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Yuya Koroku. Ueno pinned Koroku after WR.

Main Event: Yuji Hino, Makoto Oishi & Shiori Asahi beat Kazusada Higuchi, Chris Brookes & Yuki Ishida. Oishi pinned Ishida after Cactus Flower. Afterwards, Hino announced they would return to Kumamoto for a 20th Anniversary event in July (presumably for Hino).

The next event is tomorrow at Pivole Fukuoka in Fukuoka. There will be no live broadcast.

BREAKING: NOSAWA Rongai To Retire In 2023

Breaking news from Pro Wrestling NOAH via Twitter: Kazushige Nosawa, beat known as longtime heel and Tokyo Gurentai leader NOSAWA Rongai, will retire on 2/21/23 at Tokyo Dome. The announcement comes on NOSAWA’s 46th birthday and approaching his 27th anniversary in the ring.

More as it becomes available.

DEVELOPING: Tokyo Sports 2022 Year-End Award Winners

The Japanese newspaper Tokyo Sports has announced their annual year-end award winners, recognizing what they feel was the best of 2022. Note this only includes Japan-based promotions and wrestlers so no WWE, AEW, etc.

The list of winners:
MVP: Kazuchika Okada (New Japan)
Match of the Year: Okada vs. Will Ospreay, New Japan, 8/18
Tag Team: Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb (New Japan)
Distinguished Service Award: Kento Miyahara (All-Japan)
Fighting Spirit Award: Great-O-Khan
Technique Award: El Lindaman (GLEAT)
Women’s Grand Prize: Syuri (Stardom)
Rookie of the Year: Yuma Anzai (All-Japan)
Pro Wrestling Grand Prize Honor Award: Antonio Inoki (posthumous-in recognition of his contributions to pro wrestling and his 6 career MVP awards)
In the future there may be more individual awards for women, as this was noted as something committee member Kenta Kobashi is pushing for.

Tokyo Joshi Pro “Angel And Rabbit” Results (12/15/22) (Updated x2)

Tokyo Joshi Pro held a Mizuki 10th Anniversary event today, which also featured a fan lottery to determine the pairings for a number of 1-minute matches at their upcoming Christmas event.

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

The announced paid attendance was 316, a super full house/very near sellout.

During the opening announcements, 2 new wrestlers debuting soon are introduced and the fan lottery to determine matches for 12/24 were held. Those matches will be announced soon.

Match 1: Shoko Nalajima beat Juria Nagano.

Match 2: Yuki Kamifuku, Mahiro Kiryu & Neko Haruna beat Hikari Noa, Raku & Kaya Toribami. Kamifuku pinned Toribami after Fameasser.

Match 3: Yuki Aino won a “Full Of Mizuki 10th Anniversary” battle royal, last eliminating Pom Harajuku. Order of elimination: Miyu Yamashita DQ’d, Suzume by Hyper Misao, Hyper Misao by Aino, Miu Watanabe by Aino & Harajuku, Harajuku by Aino.

Match 4: Rio & Maki Itoh beat Yuki Arai & Moka Miyamoto. Rio pinned Miyamoto after Draised End. Rio is now returning to Pro Wrestling EVE in England.

Main Event: Mizuki 10th Anniversary Match: Mizuki & Rika Tatsumi beat Yuka Sakazaki & Nao Kakuta. Mizuki pinned Kakuta with Cutie Special.

The next event is “Se-no, Merry Christmas! 2022”, their final event of the year, on 12/24 at Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 12/23 at 10 PM ET/7 PM PT.

UPDATE: The new wrestlers introduced are Wakana Uehara & HIMAWARI. They will debut on 1/4. Uehara, 26, is also an actress who makes occasional appearances on NTV (Nippon TV) and YouTube programs. Her athletic background includes swimming, martial arts, dance and ballet and she once placed 3rd in a Japanese national cheerleading competition. HIMAWARI will turn 25 Sunday but nothing else was revealed about her.

UPDATE 2: The “Full Of Mizuki” Battle Royal was named that because all the participants were dressed as Mizuki (they all wore copies of her ring outfit. Yes, even Yamashita)

New Japan News: Tokyo Dome Full Card Announced

At their press conference earlier today, New Japan announces the full card for 1/4 at Tokyo Dome in addition to updated guidelines that will allow vocal cheering at full capacity to some extent (note Japanese fans aren’t cheering/singing types like US fans are, that wouldn’t be allowed), but for now those are in effect for 1/4 only.

The full card:
Pre-Show:
Boltin Oleg Debut Match: Boltin Oleg vs. Ryohei Oiwa. 3 Minute Exhibition Match
New Japan Ranbo Qualifier for the KOPW 2023 Trophy Determination Match. Battle royal where usually the last 4 left advance to the match at a later date
Antonio Inoki Memorial Match: Yuji Nagata, Satoshi Kojima & Togi Makabe vs. Tatsumi Fujinami, Minoru Suzuki & Tiger Mask 4
Main Show:
IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Francesco Akira & TJP vs. Lio Rush & Yoh for the titles
IWGP Women’s Champion KAIRI vs. Tam Nakano for the title
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions FTR vs. Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI for the titles
Ren Narita vs. Zack Sabre Jr. for the inaugural NJPW World TV Championship
NEVER Openweight Champion Karl Anderson vs. Tama Tonga for the title
Keiji Muto, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Shota Umino vs. BUSHI, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito
IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Taiji Ishimori vs. Hiromu Takahashi, El Desperado & Master Wato in a 4-way for the title
IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay vs. Kenny Onega for the title
IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jay White vs. Kazuchika Okada for the title

The pre-show is scheduled to begin at 1:30 AM ET/10:30 PM PT ahead of the main show at 3 AM ET/midnight PT.

AEW Dynamite 12/14/22 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Garland Park, TX:
Match 1: AEW Trios Title 7 Match Series Match 5: Death Triangle beat The Elite. Rey Fenix beat Nick Jackson with a kneebar. Death Triangle leads 3-1.

Jungle Boy beat Brian Cage.

House of Black beat QT Marshall and two of his Factory members. Squash.

A jobber aka Action Andretti beat Chris Jericho. That really happened. You need to see this. The crowd made this really enjoyable.

Ruby Soho beat Tay Melo.

AEW World Champion MJF beat Ricky Starks to retain the title and the Dynamite Diamond Ring for another year.

And thanks to his victory, Action Andretti is #AllElite.

Next week: Holiday Bash! AEW Women’s Champion Jamie Hayter vs. Hikaru Shida for the title, Trios Title Series Match 5 which will be a No DQ match and FTR vs. Gunn Club.

Friday on Rampage: Jon Moxley vs. Sammy Guevara, Britt Baker vs. Skye Blue, Wardlow vs. TBA and Best Friends & Dustin Rhodes vs. The Butcher & The Blade, Trent Seven & Kip Sabian.

UPCOMING FREE VIDEO: Wrestle Kingdom 17 Press Conference

With their last major tour of the year in the books, New Japan has a 1/4 Tokyo Dome press conference scheduled for later today Japan time. You can watch below FOR FREE or on YouTube starting at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET or on demand after it begins (please note this will be in Japanese only):

FREE VIDEO: GLEAT MMA (12/14/22)

Lidet Entertainment unveiled their latest effort under their GLEAT label today-the debut of GLEAT MMA, featuring GLEAT talent that normally compete under its GLEAT, Lidet UWF and G PROWRESTLING labels. It was live streamed on YouTube-if you missed the event or want to watch again, you can do so FOR FREE below:

Site News: Scheduled Downtime Tuesday (12/20/22)

I just found out that the hosting service for this site will be performing scheduled server maintenance on Tuesday, 12/20/22, which will result in some downtime for the site. The maintenance is scheduled to begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET/9 AM GMT and is expected to last for 2 hours.

Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.