DDT has made the video of their 11/6/22 one-match event in Saitama available FOR FREE on YouTube, likely for a limited time. It should also be available on WRESTLE UNIVERSE, but if you are not yet a subscriber check it out below while it’s available (description is in Japanese, there are no spoilers):
New Japan News: More Weekend Card Changes
New Japan has announced changes to this weekend’s TAMASHII launch events: Jeff Cobb is now off both events in Australia & New Zealand. Personal reasons. He was to have faced Michael Richards on Friday and Carter Deams on Sunday. Friday’s card has been almost totally reshuffled as a result:
Match 1 was Richard Mulu & Mark Tui vs. Jordan Allen Wright & Shep Alexander. Chris Miles replaces Mulu.
Match 2 was Jack Bonza vs. Jake Taylor. It’s now Bonza & Bad Luck Fale vs. Taylor & Tony Kozina.
Match 3, Nikolai Anton Bell & Rowan Davis vs. Natural Classics, is now Match 4.
Match 4 was Cobb vs. Michael Richards. It’s now Match 3 and will be Mulu vs. Richards.
Match 5, KENTA vs. Michael Villalobos, is now Match 6.
Match 6, which was Fale & Taiji Ishimori vs. Kozina & Aaron Solo, is now Match 5 and will be Ishimori vs. Solo.
For Sunday, Match 1 was Unsocial Jordan vs. Jordan Allen Wright. Mat Diamond replaces Jordan.
Match 2 was Mat Diamond & Robbie Eagles vs. Richard Mulu & Jake Taylor. It’s now Unsocial Jordan & Aaron Jake vs. Mulu & Taylor.
Match 3 was Cobb vs. Carter Deams. It’s now Eagles vs. Deams.
New Japan News: Upcoming Tag League Teams Announced
New Japan announced the full lists of entrants for the upcoming World Tag League and Super Jr. Tag League today, which will run concurrently over the next tour. Each tournament will have 10 teams entered and will be in traditional round-robin format with 2 points earned for a match win, 1 for a time limit draw or certain other draws and 0 points for a loss. Of note for the World Tag League is a break from tradition-the current IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, FTR, are not in the tournament, perhaps because of their All Elite Wrestling schedule. Top Guys Out indeed. But the current IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, Francesco Akira & TJP, are in the Super Jr. Tag League. Lance Archer will represent AEW in the World Tag League. Ace Austin & Chris Bey will represent Impact Wrestling in the Super Jr. Tag League.
The World Tag League entrants:
Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI
Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL
SANADA & Tetsuya Naito
Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Toru Yano
Aussie Open (Mark Davis & Kyle Fletcher)
Lance Archer & Minoru Suzuki
Bad Luck Fale & Chase Owens
Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls
Alex Coughlin & Gabriel Kidd
YOSHI-HASHI & Goto are the defending tournament champions.
The Super Jr. Tag League entrants:
Francesco Akira & TJP
Yoh & Lio Rush
BUSHI & Titan
Ace Austin & Chris Bey
Tiger Mask & Robbie Eagles
Sho & Dick Togo
Ryusuke Taguchi & Clark Connors
DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
KUSHIDA & Kevin Knight
El Lindaman & Alex Zayne
Kanemaru & El Desperado won the last tournament, but Desperado is not entered this year.
The Super Jr. Tag League begins on 11/21, with the World Tag League to begin on 11/22. All tournament events will be available live and on demand on New Japan World.
New Japan News: Weekend Card Change
New Japan has announced a change to this weekend’s Anjo City event (Anjo City 70th Anniversary & Kazuchika Okada homecoming): Jado is now off the event. International excursion. He was to have teamed with Ren Narita & Ryusuke Taguchi to face Zack Sabre Jr., Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI. Satoshi Kojima is the replacement. Kojima has been competing in Pro Wrestling NOAH the last several months and has held the GHC Heavyweight Championship and currently is a GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champion.
DDT 11/6/22 Results (One Match Event)
DDT held another of their special one-match Street Wresting events today, held outside of a train station and open to anyone who wanted to watch.
Today’s event was held at Tobu Tojo Line Shingashi Station West Exit Ekimae Street Venue in Saitama and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.
The attendance was not allowed because this was a free event and open to the public without tickets needed.
Main Event: Shunma Katsumata beat Makoto Oishi, HARASHIMA & Nabe Yakan (?) in a 4-way Falls Count Anywhere match by pinning Oishi. The match went 36 minutes.
The D KING GP 2022 resumes Saturday at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.
11/20/22 HISTORIC X-OVER Card Announced (Updated)
The full card for the New Japan/Stardom HISTORIC X-OVER event on 11/20/22 at Ariake Arena in Tokyo has been announced. There will be 11 matches including 2 pre-show matches and the main event will be the IWGP Women’s Championship Tournament Finals for the title.
The full card:
Pre-Show:
Oskar Leube Debut Match: Oskar Leube, Ryohei Oiwa, Kosei Fujita & Yuto Nakashima vs. Kevin Knight, Gabriel Kidd, Clark Connors & Alex Coughlin
Stardom 15 Woman Battle Royal
Main Show:
Lio Rush, Tomohiro Ishii, Yoh & YOSHI-HASHI vs. Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL
Lady C, AZM & Saya Kamitani vs. Mai Sakurai, Himeka & Thekla
Tom Lawlor & Syuri vs. Zack Sabre Jr. & Giulia
Tam Nakano, Natsupoi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi vs. Starlight Kid, Momo Watanabe, El Desperado & DOUKI
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Utami Hayashishita vs. Hirooki Goto & Maika
BUSHI, SANADA, Hiromu Takahashi, Shongo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito vs. Aussie Open, TJP, Francesco Akira & Gideon Gray
The Great Muta (Keiji Muto), Toru Yano & Kazuchika Okada vs. Great-O-Khan, Aaron Henare & Jeff Cobb
IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay vs. Shota Umino for the title
Mayu Iwatani vs. KAIRI for the IWGP Women’s Championship
The mixed tag matches aren’t “true” mixed matches because the men can only face the men, and the women only face the women. No intergender action, there must be a tag on both sides.
The event will be available worldwide as a PPV on New Japan World. The pre-show will begin on 11/20 at 2 AM ET/11 PM PT with the main show at midnight PT/3 AM ET.
UPDATE: The PPV is now available for pre-order. It will be in English and will cost 3990 yen, or about $27 US. There is conflicting information regarding if a New Japan World subscription is required (New Japan’s English website says no, but the PPV purchase page says yes). If you buy the PPV you get the live stream on 11/20 at midnight PT/3 AM ET and unlimited replays until 11/27 at 7 AM PT/10 AM ET. The replay will also be available to all New Japan World subscribers without additional fees at a later date.
Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling 11/6/22 Results
Tokyo Joshi Pro resumes their Fall 2022 house show series today with a return to Tokyo for a Sunday midday matinee event. All Elite Wrestling star Willow Nightingale continues her Japan debut tour and makes her second TJPW appearance today and her first Tokyo appearance after appearing for fellow DDT sub-label Ganbare Pro Wrestling earlier this week in Yokohama, which will be one of the highlights 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. Since this is a weekend matinee house show it will be on the short side-because there are 6 matches, but half are single matches, I expect the event to run about 1 hour 45 minutes. So if you’re watching in the eastern US it’ll be over shortly before the time change (REMINDER for US viewers-set your clocks back one hour at 2 AM!)..
The promotion has announced that Nao Kakuta will miss the next two events due to conflicts with her acting schedule. Also, after today’s event Miyu Yamashita & Hyper Misao are headed to England to appear in Pro Wrestling EVE and will miss at least one event.
Today’s lineup:
Yuki Kamifuku vs. Pom Harajuku
Hikari Noa vs. Kaya Toribami
Yuki Aino & Raku vs. Moka Miyamoto & Arisu Endo
Rika Tatsumi vs. Neko Haruna
Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Mahiro Kiryu vs. Miyu Yamashita, Maki Itoh & Hyper Misao
Miu Watanabe & Suzume vs. Shoko Nakajima & Willow Nightingale
Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.
Updates below will begin at 11:30 PM ET/8:30 PM PT.
11:30 PM ET UPDATE: 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. Sounds and looks about average for the venue at reduced capacity, so likely in the 225-250 range.
Opening announcements are underway then the Up Up Girls performance. The matches should begin in about 10 minutes. A new trainee was introduced during the opening announcements.
The matches begin at 11:45 PM ET. Hard camera only today.
Match 1: Hikari Noa vs. Kaya Toribami. 15 minute time limit
Result: Hikari Noa beat Kaya Toribami
Match 2: Yuki Kamifuku vs. Pom Harajuku. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Kamifuku beat Pom Harajuku
Match 3: Yuki Aino & Raku vs. Moka Miyamoto & Arisu Endo. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yuki AIno & Raku beat Moka Miyamoto & Arisu Endo. Aino pinned Endo after Venus DDT.
Match 4: Rika Tatsumi vs. Neko Haruna. 15 minute time limit
Result: Rika Tatsumi beat Neko Haruna
Match 5: Miu Watanabe & Suzume vs. Shoko Nakajima & Willow Nightingale (All Elite Wrestling). 20 minute time limit
Result: Shoko Nakajima & Willow Nightingale beat Miu Watanabe & Suzume. NIghtingale pinned Suzume after a gutwrench sitout powerbomb. Of note, Watanabe managed to get Nightingale, who is at least twice her size if not more, up for a 10 rotation Giant Swing. Incredible.
Quick break for ring repairs.
Main Event: Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Mahiro Kiryu vs. Miyu Yamashita, Maki Itoh & Hyper Misao. 20 minute time limit
Result: Miyu Yamashita, Maki Itoh & Hyper Misao beat Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Mahiro Kiryu. Misao pinned Kiryu after Hypami Returns.
This was a comedy-heavy event except for the opening match with a lot of emphasis on humor. Still enjoyable as usual though. They blazed through the first 4 matches in barely an hour. After the main event, Misao gave a quick send-off to the fans as she & Yamashita are now off to England. The entire show ran 1 hour 45 minutes. If you’re on the US east coast, it’s coming up on 2 AM now at the end so set those clocks back!
The next event is “CITY CIRCUIT AUTUMN-Yuki Arai’s Triumphant Local Return” on 11/13 at Kyoto KBS Hall in Kyoto. Of course this means I’ll be happy because I get another helping of AA Eye Candy because Saki Akai will also be participating. The event is already a legit sellout. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 11/12 at 10:30 PM ET/7:30 PM PT.
UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 312, a full house/near sellout. That’s the highest KFC Hall number in quite some time.
11/6/22-11/12/22 Events Schedule (Updated 11/7)
Here is the current events schedule for 11/6/22-11/12/22, which is subject to change (all times PT):
REMINDER: In the US, the time change to Standard time happens at 2 AM local time on 11/6, so all Japan events will start one hour earlier until March 2023.
11/9:
5 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Dynamite”, Boston, MA. Live on TBS in US and FITE elsewhere
11/10:
1:30 AM-Pro Wrestling NOAH GLOBAL 2days WRESTLE UNIVERSE presents Global Honored Crown, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
10:30 PM-New Japan Pro Wrestling NJPW TAMASHII, Christchurch, New Zealand. No live or on demand broadcast
11/11:
1:30 AM-Pro Wrestling NOAH/Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling GLOBAL 2days WRESTLE UNIVERSE presents Global Dream, Korakuen Hall. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
7 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Rampage”. TAPED on TNT in US and FITE elsewhere
11/12:
Midnight-New Japan Pro Wrestling Anjo City 70th Anniversary/Kazuchika Okada Homecoming Event, Tosho Arena Anjo, Aichi, Japan. No live or on demand broadcast
12:30 AM-DDT Pro Wrestling D KING GP 2022 Tournament, Osaka Prefectural Gym 2, Osaka, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
4 PM-NWA “Hard Times In New Orleans”, New Orleans, LA. Live PPV on FITE. LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED
6:30 PM-All-Japan Pro Wrestling World’s Strongest Tag League 2022, Korakuen Hall. Live on AJPW.TV. LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED
7:30 PM-Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling “CITY CIRCUIT AUTUMN-Yuki Arai’s Local Triumphant Return”, Kyoto KBS Hall, Kyoto, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED
TBD-Grand Sumo November 2022 Tournament Day 1, Fukuoka International Center, Fukuoka, Japan
UPDATE: Added 11/12 NWA PPV to lineup.
DDT 11/5/22 Results (2 Events)
DDT continued the D KING GP 2022 Tournament today with a doubleheader in Yokohama. The first event, a midday matinee (late night last night in the US), was this month’s DDT FREE event with free admission for lucky ticket winners. The second event, a couple hours after the first event concluded, was a “normal” event.
Today’s events were held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Japan and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
Event 1:
The announced attendance was 300, a legit sellout. All tickets were free with no paid admissions. This was legit full capacity.
Match 1: Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku beat Shunma Katsumata & Kazuma Sumi. Koroku beat Sumi with a chicken wing.
Match 2; Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno & Yumehito Imanari beat Toru Owashi, Kazuki Hirata & Antonio Honda. Iino beat Hirata with Sexy Arabian Night.
Match 3; Sanshiro Takagi, HARASHIMA, Makoto Oishi & Akito beat Hideki Okatani, Toui Kojima, Yuki Ishida & Takeshi Masada. Oishi beat Ishida with a Fujiyama kneelock.
Match 4: D KING GP 2022 Block A: Joey Janela beat Naomi Yoshimura.
Match 5: D KING GP 2022 Block B: KANON beat MAO by submission.
Main Event: D KING GP 2022 Block A: Rickey Shane Page beat Daisuke Sasaki.
Event 2:
The announced paid attendance was 280, a super full house/very near sellout.
Match 1; Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Pawl beat Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida. Pawl pinned Ishida after Death Valley Bomb.
Match 2; Yukio Sakaguchi Produced Match: In a Handicap Match, Pocotan & Gota Ihashi beat Saki Akai, Hideki Okatani & Kazuki Hirata. Pocotan pinned Hirata after a diving body press. It turns out Pocotan actually was Sakaguchi this time.
Match 3; D KING GP 2022 Block B: Chris Brookes beat KANON.
Match 4: D KING GP 2022 Block A: Joey Janela beat Tetsuya Endo. UPSET ALERT!
Match 5: Jun Akiyama, HARASHIMA, Takao Soma & Yukio Naya beat MAO, Shunma Katsumata, Toui Kojima & Takeshi Masada. Naya pinned Masada after a chokeslam.
At this point, a title match was announced for the upcoming special free event on 11/27: Takao Soma will face Chikara for the World Omori Class Championship. This was to have been Masa Takanashi getting the title shot, but Takanashi will be on an overseas excursion and gave the match to Soma.
Match 6: D KING GP 2022 Block A: Yuki Ueno beat Rickey Shane Page.
Main Event; D KING GP 2022 Block B: Kazusada Higuchi vs. Yuji Hino went to a 30 minute time limit draw. Epic Hoss Fight.
Standings:
Block A:
1-Janela, 2-1, 4 pts
2-Page, 2-1, 4 pts
3-Ueno, 2-1, 4 pts
4-Endo, 1-1-1, 3 pts
5-Sasaki, 0-1-1, 1 pt
6-Yoshimura, 0-2, 0 pts
Block B:
1-Hino, 2-0-1, 5 pts
2-Higuchi, 1-0-1, 3 pts
3-Brookes, 1-1, 2 pts
4-Naya, 1-1, 2 pts
5-KANON, 1-1, 2 pts
6-MAO, 1-2, 2 pts
The next event is a special one-match “Street Wrestling in Shingashi Exciting Festival” today at Tobu Tojo Line Shingashi Station West Exit Ekimae Street Venue in Saitama, a free event. The one match will be HARASHIMA vs. Makoto Oishi, Shunma Katsumata and (I believe) Kikutaro in a 4-way Falls Count Anywhere match. This event is weather permitting, it will be held in light rain but if it’s too heavy it could be cancelled. There will be no live broadcast.
The tournament continues on 11/12 at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.
New Japan 11/5/22 Results (Updated)
New Japan wrapped up the BATTLE AUTUMN ’22 Tour with what likely will be the penultimate major event of the year, with multiple title matches and at least one more Tokyo Dome title match being set as we’ll find out who will face off for the inaugural NJPW WORLD TV Championship.
Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese and English.
The announced paid attendance was 4006, a full house/near sellout. That suggests Osaka has, at least for some events, eased up its strict pandemic capacity limits above 50% (if it were still at half this would be a legit overflow crowd).
Match 1: IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Francesco Akira & TJP beat Titan & BUSHI to retain the titles. Akira pinned BUSHI after The Leaning Tower. V2 for the champs.
Match 2: Gideon Gray, Aaron Henare & Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis) beat Alex Zayne, Toru Yano, David Finlay & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Fletcher pinned Yano after Corealis.
Match 3: Hikuleo beat Yujiro Takahashi. This lasted just 28 seconds. Sho interference at the start backfired. This was to have been Hikuleo vs. NEVER Openweight Champion Karl Anderson for the title, but Anderson no-showed due to claiming he would be at a WWE event in Saudi Arabia today. There were rumors Anderson would be stripped of the title but as of this moment he has not been.
Match 4: NJPW WORLD TV Championship Tournament Semifinals: Ren Narita beat SANADA.
Match 5: NJPW WORLD TV Championship Tournament Semifinals: Zack Sabre Jr. beat EVIL by submission.
As a result of the Semifinals, it will be Narita vs. Sabre for the title at Tokyo Dome. (It’s gonna be Narita although Sabre deserves a singles title run. I’m sensing Narita is going to be be pushed as the eventual next Hiroshi Tanahashi or Kazuchika Okada, although Okada has a good 10+ years left in him as long as he remains healthy)
Match 6: In a tag team match where the pairings were determined by random draw at a press conference yesterday, Master Wato & El Desperado beat Hiromu Takahashi & Taiji Ishimori. Wato pinned Takahashi after countering Time Bomb with a jumping knee strike. Regardless of the type of match, this is a huge victory for Wato.
Match 7: Tama Tonga & Kazuchika Okada beat KENTA & Jay White. Tonga pinned KENTA after Gun Stun.
Match 8: IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions FTR beat Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb to retain the titles. Dax Harwood pinned Khan after Big Rig. V2 for the champs. They will be taking the belts back to All Elite Wrestling with them. I expect their next defense to be at Tokyo Dome unless they make something happen in AEW.
Main Event: IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay beat Tetsuya Naito to retain the title. V3 for Ospreay. 30 minute marathon. Next up…Shota Umino!?! If this happens, it likely will be on 11/20 at Ariake Arena in Tokyo. (Umino, the son of referee Red Shoes Unno, has been in England since before the pandemic began on his post-Young Lion training excursion).
The next events are a special Kazuchika Okada Homecoming & Anjo City 70th Anniversary event on 11/12 at Tosho Arena Anjo in Aichi and the debut of NJPW TAMASHII on Friday in Sydney, Australia and 11/13 in Christchurch, New Zealand. TAMASHII is a new sub-brand focusing on Australia & New Zealand-based talent, much like how NJPW STRONG focuses on the LA Dojo in the USA. New Zealand dojo head and current NJPW wrestler Bad Luck Fale is heading up TAMASHII.
There will be no live or on demand broadcasts for all 3 events.
The next “main” event is HISTORIC X-OVER, a joint event between New Japan & Stardom (both are owned by Bushiroad Corporation), on 11/20 at Ariake Arena in Japan. This will be a worldwide PPV on New Japan World (additional purchase required). That will be followed by the World Tag League & Super Jr. Tag League, which will run together, beginning on 11/21 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.
UPDATE: It’s now official. Ospreay-Umino for the US Title will happen on 11/20.
