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DDT 12/8/24 Results

DDT began their year-ending Road To Ultimate Party 2024 Tour today in Nagoya.

Today’s event was held at Imaike Gas Hall in Nagoya and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 324, a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Yukio Naya & Takumi Saito beat Keigo Nakamura & Yuki Ishida. Naya pinned Ishida after a chokeslam.

Match 2: Tetsuay Endo & Toru Owashi beat Danshoku Dieno & Kazuki Hirata. Owashi pinned Hirata.

Match 3: Jun Akiyama & MAO beat HARASHIMA & Tomomitsu Matsunaga. Akiyama pinned Matsunaga after Exploder.

Match 4: Akito beat Takao Soma.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno & To-y beat Yuki Iino & Yuya Koroku. To-y pinned Koroku after a Frankensteiner.

Main Event: In an elimination match, Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul, KANON, Demus & Illusion beat Chris Brookes, Masa Takanashi, Antonio Honda, Takeshi Masada & Munetatsu Nakamura. Order of elimination: Honda by Sasaki, Demus by Brookes, Illusion by Nakamura, Nakamura by Paul, Masada by Sasaki, Paul by Brookes, Brookes & Sasaki together, Takanashi by KANON. KANON is the only winner left.

The next event is Wednesday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

New Japan Pro Wrestling 12/8/24 LIVE Results (Updated)

New Japan wraps up the World Tag League today with the Finals, which we got to in quite dramatic fashion. What will make most foreign fans happy is, for the first time this decade (if you don’t count 2020), Bishamon won’t win as Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI saw their bid for a 4-peat end in their final match. Instead it’ll be Gabriel Kidd & SANADA who bested them facing Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito, who got in because originally it was a 4-way tie in the block after Takahashi/Naito’s last win was a forfeit due to a HENARE injury, meaning HENARE & Great-O-Khan, and Takahashi/Naito were in a 4-way tie. With the current IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions out that meant a 3-way tiebreaker where L-I-J beat Ren Narita & EVIL and (thankfully) Toru Yano & Boltin Oleg to advance. The winner today will get a future tag team title shot, the question is when. And now, depending on the HENARE injury situation, perhaps if. (They will either way but the circumstances may change). Also no updates yet on Callum Newman, who also is out with, like HENARE, a knee injury.

Today’s event will be held at Grand Messe Kumamoto in Kumamoto and can be watched LIVE on New Japan World in Japanese and English. It will also be a live broadcast on ABEMA in Japan. The card has 8 matches with all but the main event having 20-30 minute time limits (no time limit for the main event), which suggests an event that will wind up running about 3 hours, so not quite an all-nighter for those like me on the US west coast but might have me fighting to avoid dozing off at the end.

Today’s lineup:
Tiger Mask vs. Daiki Nagai
Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato vs. Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls
YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs. Tome & Stevie Filip
TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI & Taichi vs. Jacob Austin Young, Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan
BUSHI, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi vs. Gedo, Chase Owens & KENTA
Jado, Tomoaki Honma, Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita & EVIL
Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Zayne & Shota Umino vs. Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.
World Tag League Finals: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito vs. Gabriel Kidd & SANADA

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Updates below will begin at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

8:15 PM PT UPDATE You will also be able to watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

8:35 PM PT UPDATE: While it will be 85 minutes before it actually begins, the live stream on New Japan World has started in pre-show mode. They did show a few seconds at ringside as they tested the video feed.

10 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Grand Messe Kumamoto in Kumamoto, Japan. Your hosts are someone I’m not familiar with and Milano Collection A.T. No guest on commentary yet. Your English hosts are Walker Stewart & Chris Charlton.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The venue has multiple configurations (convention hall/center space) and the closest thing to potential capacity I could find was a little over 2100 but it’s probably closer to 3000. It already sounds like a good crowd based on noise during the opening video so for now I’ll start with a guess of around 2500. Not sure if it’s a sellout but from what I could see that wasn’t in the dark it looked mostly full. (Update: Not a sellout, there were some mostly empty sections, but not many) (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 2232)

The matches begin at 10:05 PM PT/1:05 AM ET.

Match 1: Tiger Mask vs. Daiki Nagai. 20 minute time limit
Result: Tiger Mask beat Daiki Nagai

Match 2: Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato vs. Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls. 20 minute time limit
Result: Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls beat Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato. Haste pinned Murashima.

The YouTube broadcast ends here.

Match 3: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs. Tome & Stevie Filip. 20 minute time limit
Result: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Tome & Stevie Filip. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Stevie Filip after Shoto.

Match 4: TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI & Taichi vs. Jacob Austin Young, Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan. 30 minute time limit
Result: TAKA MIchinoku, DOUKI & Taichi beat Jacob Austin Young, Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan. DOUKI beat Young with Italian Stretch 32. Afterwards, Taichi refused to release a submission hold on Khan and appeared to issue a KOPW 2024 Championship challenge while posing with the belt. With only 3 weeks left in the year there may not be time for another match, but we’ll see.

Match 5: BUSHI, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi vs. Gedo, Chase Owens & KENTA. 30 minute time limit
Result: BUSHI, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi beat Gedo, Chase Owens & KENTA. Tsuji pinned Gedo after Pumping Blaster.

Hirooki Goto is now the guest on Japanese commentary.

Match 6: Jado, Tomoaki Honma, Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita & EVIL. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita & EVIL beat Jado, Tomoaki Honma, Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi by DQ. Tanahashi DQ’d. Chair use (attempted murder of EVIL with it). Nobody was really complaining though. Afterwards, Tanahashi with microphone. Sounds like a new stip requested for 1/4 at the Tokyo Dome against EVIL, I think he said Lumberjack Match. Will confirm later today if possible. (UPDATE: It’s now official. Lumberjack match)

Match 7: Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Zayne & Shota Umino vs. Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Zayne & Shota Umino. Oiwa pinned Taguchi after The Grip.

Main Event: World Tag League Finals: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito vs. Gabriel Kidd & SANADA. No time limit
Result: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Gabriel Kidd & SANADA to win the tournament. Takahashi pinned SANADA. As a result, Takahashi & Naito will get an IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match in the near future, but when may depend on the status of the injured HENARE. It could wind up being a determination match for the titles if HENARE & Great-O-Khan have to vacate the titles because of the injury.

The next event is STRONG STYLE EVOLVED on 12/15 at Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, CA. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET. It will also be available live as a PPV on TrillerTV/FITE. (It is not a PPV on New Japan World so monthly paid subscribers can watch without additional fees)

UPDATE: No word on tag title shot for the main event winners, but instead it will be Naito vs. Takahashi on 1/4.

All-Japan Pro Wrestling 12/8/24 LIVE Results

All-Japan wraps up the World’s Strongest Tag League today with the Semifinals and Finals. The Semifinals will lead off the event as Block A & B winners face the opposite block runners-up. First up will be Block B winners Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Block A runners-up Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai. The second Semifinal will be Block A winners and sole unbeatens so far Jun & Rei Saito vs. Block B runners-up Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe. The winners will meet in the Finals in the main event and the eventual champions will get a potential rematch with the Saitos for the All-Japan World Tag Team Championship. Unless, of course, the Saitos win as they are the current champions. There will also be a GAORA TV Championship match before the main event.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV in Japanese. Atsuki Aoyagi, who is currently out due to injury, will be a special guest on commentary. It will also be available at a later date (12/19) on GAORA SPORTS in Japan. The event is a legit advance sellout including standing room. There will be an intermission after the 4th match. The GAORA SPORTS broadcast is scheduled for a total of 3 1/2 hours so whether or not that includes intermission and other happenings is hard to day, but with 3 matches being no time limit I think it’s safe to predict the running time will be close to 3 hours, so if you plan to watch today’s New Japan event live you may need to split-screen at the beginning of that.

Today’s lineup:
World’s Strongest Tag League Semifinals:
Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai
Jun & Rei Saito vs. Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe
Ryo Inoue, Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo vs. Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura & Taishin Nagao
Makoto Oishi, Mike D. Vecchio & Senor Saito vs. MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan
Intermission
Hokuro Omori, Kumaarashi, Cyrus, Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy vs. Suwama, Yuma Aoyagi, Hideki Suzuki, Fuminori Abe & Hikaru Sato
GAORA TV Champion Seigo Tachibana vs. Yuko Miyamoto for the title
World’s Strongest Tag League Finals

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Updates below will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

6:25 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Commentary will begin when the matches do with our host whose name I will hopefully catch, along with Kagehiro Osano and special guest Atsuki Aoyagi.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It’s a legit advance sellout including standing room so the actual number will depend on the setup but 1500+ is virtually guaranteed. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance, a legit advance sellout, was 1517)

The matches should begin in 10-15 minutes.

The matches begin at 6:33 PM PT/9:33 PM ET.

Match 1: World’s Strongest Tag League Semifinals: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai. No time limit
Result: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai. Miyahara pinned Anzai with a shurdown suplex hold. As a result, Miyahara & Smith advance to the Finals, where they will face the winners of the next match in the main event.

Match 2: World’s Strongest Tag League Semifinals: Jun & Rei Saito (now clean-shaven, no more goatee) vs. Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe. No time limit
Result: Jun & Rei Saito beat Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe. .Rei Saito pinned Ayabe after BBQ Bomb. As a result, the Saitos advance to the Finals and will face Miyahara & Smith in the main event.

Match 3: Ryo Inoue, Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo vs. Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura & Taishin Nagao. 30 minute time limit
Result: Ryo Inoue, Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo beat Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura & Taishin Nagao. Sekimoto beat Nagao with a Boston crab.

Match 4: Makoto Oishi, Mike D. Vecchio & Senor Saito vs. MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan. 30 minute time limit
Result: :Makoto Oishi, Mike D. Vecchio & Senor Saito beat MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan. Vecchio pinned MUSASHI after a moonsault press. This may be Vecchio’s last appearance for now with the tour over and he got a great ovation from the crowd to wrap up his All-Japan debut.

After a brief video, Atsuki Aoyagi leaves commentary to hit the ring for the announcement-he will return to action on 12/31. And did some flips & cartwheels to show he apparently is 100% healthy again. He then returned to commentary.

Intermission. Updates will resume after the break.

The matches resume at 7:50 PM PT/10:50 PM ET.

Announced for 12/31 is Dan Tamura vs. Daisuke Sekimoto (corrected, not Taishin Nagao) then announced for 1/2 is Nagao vs. Suwama and a battle royal. On 1/3 is Yuma Anzai vs. Shotaro Ashino.

Match 5: Hokuro Omori, Kumaarashi, Cyrus, Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy vs. Suwama, Yuma Aoyagi, Hideki Suzuki, Fuminori Abe & Hikaru Sato. 30 minute time limit. And apparently Daisuke Sekimoto is one of the “ring boys” for this match…
Result: Suwama, Yuma Aoyagi, Hideki Suzuki, Fuminori Abe & Hikaru Sato beat Hokuro Omori, Kumaarashi, Cyrus, Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy. Aoyagi beat Kumaarashi with a modified guillotine choke. Afterwards, Aoyagi with microphone. Challenge issued for the All-Japan 6-Man Tag Team Championship with Abe & Sato as his partners. Accepted by Omori as Suzuki & Suwama left doing their usual odd couple bickering. Then more comedy as the challengers-to-be stole the belts before taking off.

Match 6: GAORA TV Champion Seigo Tachibana vs. Yuko Miyamoto for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Yuko Miyamoto beat GAORA TV Champion Seigo Tachibana to win the title. Miyamoto becomes the 28th GAORA TV Champion.

Main Event: World’s Strongest Tag League Finals: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Jun & Rei Saito. No time limit
Result: Jun & Rei Saito beat Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. to win the tournament. Jun Saito pinned Miyahara after a chokeslam. A perfect run for the Saitos as they didn’t lose a single match. Since this means no All-Japan World Tag Team Championship shot for the winners as the Saitos hold the belt, Jun Saito instead called Smith back out to issue a Triple Crown challenge. Accepted for 1/31. Afterwards, the Saitos finished their in-ring celebration to end the show. (Correction: 12/31 if it happens as mentioned, not 1/31)

The next event is 12/15 at AQUASTUDIO in Chiba. There will be no live broadcast.

New Japan 12/6/24 Results (Updated)

New Japan ran the penultimate day of the World Tag League today, finishing up a shaken-up Block B.

Today’s event was held at Sun Arena Sendai in Kagoshima and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1128.

There were last-minute changes to the event due to HENARE & Callum Newman being off the event. Knee injuries suffered yesterday. The former had a direct effect on the World Tag League.

Match 1: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato. Takahashi pinned Kato.

Match 2: Chase Owens, KENTA, SANADA & Gabriel Kidd beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Zayne, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. KENTA pinned Taguchi. Afterwards, Kenoh (Pro Wrestling NOAH) appeared. He is to face TBA, which he calls “his beloved” and an “anchor of NOAH” on the 1/1 NOAH event at Nippon Budokan. That TBA he called out here is KENTA. Accepted. It’s now official per NOAH. Kenoh vs. KENTA on 1/1.

Match 3: BUSHI, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi beat Jacob Austin Young, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb. Takagi pinned Young after MADE IN JAPAN.

Match 4: Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Tiger Mask, Tomoaki Honma & Shota Umino. Oiwa pinned TM 4 after The Grip.

David Finlay scene where he’s having a phone chat with Gedo. He accepts Brody King’s challenge for a match on 1/5 at the Tokyo Dome.

World Tag League Block B:
Match 5: Tome & Stevie Filip beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. Stevie Filip pinned TAKA after Mother Of All Bombs.
Match 6: Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano beat Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls. Oleg pinned Haste after Kamikaze.
Match 7: Ren Narita & EVIL beat Jado & Hiroshi Tanahashi. EVIL beat Tanahashi with a scorpion deathlock.
Main Event: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat HENARE & Great-O-Khan by forfeit. HENARE injury.
That meant a 4-way tie for the top spot, but with HENARE/Khan out that left a 3-way tie with no tiebreakers. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano and Ren Narita & EVIL in a 3-way when Naito pinned Oleg. As a result, Takahashi/Naito win Block B and advance to the Finals to face SANADA & Kidd.

The Final is Sunday at Grand Messe Kumamoto in Kumamoto. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin Saturday at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. This will also be a live ABEMA broadcast in Japan. A pre-event presser & Tanahashi talk show event, which is open to the public, will be held tomorrow.

UPDATE: It’s now official…Finlay-King has been added to 1/5 and, assuming Finlay is still IWGP Global Champion after 1/4, at this time it would presumably be a NON-TITLE match.

BREAKING: TJPW Rookie Stepping Away

In a post made on her social media accounts a short time ago, and confirmed in a brief card update by Tokyo Joshi Pro, Kira Summer is leaving the promotion temporarily, probably for the rest of the month. Her father died recently (sudden and unexpected) and she will be returning to Australia for the funeral and to spend Christmas with her family. She will miss the remainder of this month’s TJPW events as a result. In announcing the 12/14 card, TJPW stated her absence is due to family reasons. Summer said she will moss the next 2 events so she could be back for either 12/29 or 1/4, both at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. She also intends to talk more about the situation later.

I join in sending condolences & prayers to Kira in this very difficult time.

All-Japan 12/5/24 Results

All-Japan finished up the preliminary round of the World’s Strongest Tag League today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube

The announced paid attendance was 339, a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Jun & Rei Saito beat Seigo Tachibana & Taishin Nagao by ref stoppage. Rei Saito beat Nagao with a bearhug.

Match 2: Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Yuma Aoyagi & Ryo Inoue. Honda pinned Inoue after Final Vent.

World’s Strongest Tag League:
Match 3: Block A: MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka beat Dhotaro Ashino & Dan Tamura. MUSASHI pinned Tamura after Top Of The Second Class.
Match 4: Block B: Hikru Sato & Yuko Miyamoto beat Suwama & Hideki Suzuki by countout. Suwama counted out.
Match 5: Block A: Makoto Oishi & Mike D. Vecchip beat Hokuto Onori & Kumaarashi. Oishi pinned Onori.
Match 6: Block A: Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai beat Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo. Anzai pinned Mashimo after Gimlet.
Main Event: Block B: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Cyrus & Hartley Jackson. Smith pinned Jackson after Bulldog Bomb.
As a result, the Saitos win Block A and Hayato/Anzai finish 2nd, Smith/Miyahara win Block B and Honda/Ayabe finish 2nd. Those 4 teams advance to the Semifinals.

Final Standings:
Block A:
1-Saitos, 6-0, 12 pts
2-Hayato/Anzai, 4-2, 8 pts
3-Sekimoto/Mashimo, 3-2-1, 7 pts
4-Omori/Kunaarashi, 3-3, 6 pts
5-Omori/D’Vecchio, 2-4, 4 pts
6-MUsashi/Yoshioka, 1-4-1, 2 pts
7-Ashino/Tamura, 1-5, 2 pts

Block B:
1-Miyahara/Smith, 5-1, 10 pts
2-Honda/Ayabe, 4-2, 8 pts
3-Suwama/Suzuki, 3-3, 6 pts
4-Aoyagi/Abe, 3-3, 6 pts
5-Cyrus/Jackson, 3-3, 6 pts
6-Sato/Miyamoto, 2-4, 4 pts
7-Kuroshio TOKYO Japan/Tachibana, 1-5, 2 pts

The Semifinals and Finals are Sunday at Korakuen Ball in Tokyo. The event is a legit advance sellout with only standing room tickets available. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin Saturday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. This will also be a GAORA TV broadcast in Japan.

New Japan 12/5/24 Results (Updated x2)

New Japan wrapped up Block A of the World Tag League, which would set the first half of the Finals.

Today’s event was held at Athlete Town Nobeoka Arena Sub Arena in Miyazaki and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 611.

Pre-show match: Shoma Kato beat Daiki Nagai.

Match 1: DOUKI, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi beat Gedo, Tome & Stevie Filip. DOUKI beat Gedo with Italian Stretch 32.

Match 2: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls beat Tiger Mask, Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano. Nicholls pinned TM 4 after Electric Blue.

Match 3: Dick Togo, Ren Narita & EVIL beat Katsuya Murashima, Jado & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Narita beat Murashima with a kneebar.

Match 4: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Jacob Austin Young, HENARE & Great-O-Khan by ref stoppage (TKO/injury). HENARE right knee injury.

After Match 4, a Brody King promo was shown. Challenge issued to David Finlay for a match on 1/5 at the Tokyo Dome.

World Tag League Block A:
Match 5: Ryusuke Taguchi & Alex Zayne beat Chase Owens & KENTA. Taguchi pinned KENTA.
Match 6: Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa beat Callum Newman & Jeff Cobb by ref stoppage (TKO/injury). Newman knee injury.
Match 7: Shota Unino & Tomoaki Honma beat Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi. Unino pinned Tauji with Death Slider.
Main Event: Gabriel Kidd & SANADA beat YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. SANADA pinned YOSHI-HASHI after Deadfall. As a result, Kidd & SANADA win Block A and advance to the Finals. The Bishamon 4-peat bid is over. New champions of the tournament for the first time since 2021.

More on the HENARE injury when/if it becomes available because that has main event and tournament implications for Block B.

The last day of Block B is tomorrow at Sub Arena Sendai in Kagoshima. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

UPDATE: It’s now official-King vs. Finlay has been added to 1/5. If Finlay is still the IWGP Global Champion it will be for the title (Finlay is scheduled to defend against Yota Tsuji on 1/4).

UPDATE 2: HENARE & Newman are now both off tomorrow. For the former, that means Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi will win their World Tag League match against HENARE & Great-O-Khan by forfeit and get 2 free points. That also means LIJ will advance to the finals if Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano lose their last match tomorrow (Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls). If Oleg/Yano win AND Ren Narita & EVIL lose (Jado & Hiroshi Tanahashi), Oleg/Yano advance. If both Oleg/Yano AND Narita/EVIL win, there will be a 3-way match as the tiebreaker.
Takahashi/Naito will now face Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato in the first match.

New Japan 12/4/24 Results

New Japan continued the World Tag League today with the penultimate day of Block B.

Today’s event was held at Karatsu City Gym in Saga and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1004

The scheduled pre-show Young Lions match was cancelled due to a Maaatora Yasuda injury. Before the event began, a special collaboration project ceremony was held with an appearance by Hall of Fame wrestler Jushin Thunder Liger

Match 1: Chase Owens & KENTA beat Katsuya Murashima & Alex Zayne. KENTA beat Murashima with GAME OVER.

Match 2: Gedo, SANADA & Gabriel Kidd beat Shoma Kato, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Kidd pinned Kato after Drill-A-Hole Piledriver.

Match 3: BUSHI, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi beat Tiger Mask, Tomoaki Honma & Shota Umino. Tsuji pinned TM 4 after Gene Blaster.

Match 4: Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Jacob Austin Young, Callum Newman & Jeff Cobb. Oiwa pinned Young after The Grip.

World Tag League Block B:
Match 5: Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. Nicholls pinned TAKA after Electric Blue.
Match 6: HENARE & Great-O-Khan beat Tome & Stevie Filip. Khan pinned Tome Filip after Imperial Drop.
Match 7: Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano beat Jado & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Yano pinned Jado.
Main Event: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Ren Narita & EVIL. Naito pinned Narita after Destino.
With one day left HENARE/Khan lead at 5-1, 10 points with LIJ, H.O.T. and Oleg/Yano tied for 2nd at 4-2, 8 points. In case of toes, HENARE/Khan have all tiebreakers except LIJ, which is their last match. Only the winner advances to the Finals. That means H.O.T. is technically eliminated because they lose all tiebreakers so the HENARE/Khan-LIJ winner advances. Yano/Oleg also mathematically have a chance but their only tiebreaker win is LIJ so both they and LIJ must win. In Block A, it’s a 3-way tie but Bishamon have all tiebreakers. Whoever wins between them and Kidd/SANADA advances unless both Kidd/SANADA and Tsuji/Takagi both win, then LIJ has the tiebreaker. If Bishamon/Bullet Club is a draw, LIJ advances with a win, otherwise it’s Bishamon.

The final day of Block A is tomorrow at Athlete Town Nobeoka Arena Sub Arena in Miyazaki. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

Dragon Gate 12/3/24 Results (Updated)

Dragon Gate wrapped up the KING OF GATE 2024 Tournament today at their monthly Tokyo event.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

The announced paid attendance was 1192.

Match 1: JACKY KAMEI & Ryu Fuda beat Hyo & Daiki Yanagiuchi. KAMEI pinned Yanagiuchi after JFK.

Match 2: KING OF GATE Semifinals: Kota Minoura beat Kzy.

Match 3: KING OF GATE Semifinals: Dragon Dia beat Masaaki Mochizuki.

Match 4: Yasushi Kanda & Ho Ho Lun beat Takshi Yoshida & Punch Tominaga. Lun pinned Tomonaga after Ho Roll.

Match 5: Madoka Kikuta, Ryoya Tanaka & Luis Mante beat Ultimo Dragon, Don Fujii & Toru Owashi (DDT). Kikuta pinned Fujii after a rolling lariat.

Match 6: Strong Machine J, U-T & Flamita beat Ben-K, Riiita & Mochizuki Junior. Flamia pinned Junior after Flam Fly.

Match 7: KAI, ISHIN, Jason Lee, Homare & Yoshiki Kato beat YAMATO, BxB Hulk, Susumu Yokosuka, Kagetora & Daiki Yanagiuchi. Kato pinned Yanagiuchi after Limit Bomb.

Main Event: KING OF GATE Finals: Dragon Dia beat Kota Minoura to win the tournament.

Next up is the Fantastic Gate 2024 Tour to wrap up the year, a light tour with just 8 events headlined by THE FINAL GATE 2024 on 12/15. The tour starts tomorrow at Kasukabe Fureai Cube in Saitama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. (There are 6 event broadcasts to come this month-Saturday (Kyoto KBS Hall), 12/15 (Fukuoka International Center), 12/17 (Korakuen), 12/20 (PRIME ZONE+), and the final events of the year on 12/22 & 12/27 (Kobe Sambo Hall).

UPDATE: As a result of winning KING OF GATE, Dia gets an Open The Dream Gate Championship match against YAMATO on 12/15, and because Dia is the Open The Brave Gate Champion it’s for both titles.

TJPW News: Yuki Arai Update

Following her announcement of her leaving SKE48 at the end of March, Tokyo Joshi Pro announced an update that has me breathing easier-after that separation it was decided that Yuki Arai will continue her wrestling career. She will remain active with the promotion and under her current management by the Zest Corp. talent agency. Arai is approaching one year as International Princess Champion, a milestone she will reach at her next defense on 1/4.

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