New Japan Press Conference 7/7/22

Earlier today (late last night US time) New Japan held a special press conference that was open to the public, or at least select members of New Japan’s fan club. Some items of note from New Japan’s English recap will follow but you can also watch the event FOR FREE on New Japan World (no login or signup required):
https://njpwworld.com/p/o_original_0274_1O

(Note: The service will be unavailable on 7/12 from 7 PM PT-1 AM PT due to maintenance)

Notes from the event:
This was a Business Strategy Presentation with Bushiroad Director Takaaki Kidani (Kitani), Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hiromu Takahashi & Great-O-Khan also attending.
They started discussing finances and future plans for the US, which will include women’s matches mainly from Stardom, which is also owned by NJPW owner Bushiroad Corporation.
New Japan will return to the UK in October for the first time since 2019.
An outdoor event will be held at a to be determined location in Japan on 8/20.
The New Japan-Stardom joint event in November will have “around two” mixed tag matches, but not true intergender matches because the women will wrestle only the women, and same for the men. This was something Tanahashi previously hointed at and was pushing for.
Fans will be allowed to cheer vocally at two Korakuen Hall events in September, with masks required and capacity limited to 50%.
New goods and product collaborations were announced, likely Japan-only for now, including protein supplements featuring Tanahashi, a Khan t-shirt and Takahashi featured in trading cards. The t-shirt is designed by famed anime artist Masami Ohbari, the brother of NJPW President Takami Ohbari.
In closing, Kidani described what he calls the “2.1 era”, his vision the future of both New Japan and Stardom.

More on everything as it becomes available.

AEW Dynamite 7/6/22 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite from Rochester, NY:
In a street fight, Wardlow beat AEW TNT Champion Scorpio Sky to become THE NEW AEW TNT CHAMPION!

Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland beat The Butcher & The Blade. Strickland pinned Blade.

Eddie Kingston still wants Chris Jericho’s blood. Jericho responds by showing Ruby Soho getting a car door slammed on her hand by Tay Conti as a warning.

Dark Order promo highlighted by -1. Ends with QT Marshall challenging -1 to a match but then getting beat down by Dark Order with help from Adam Page.

Rush beat Penta Oscuro.

Gunn Club & The Acclaimed beat Bear Country, Leon Ruff & Fuego Del Sol. Austin pinned one of the Bears. Squash. Gunn Club beat down The Acclaimed afterwards so their partnership seems to be over.

Thunder Rosa & Toni Storm beat Nyla Rose & Marina Shafir. Rosa pinned Shafir.

Interim AEW World Champion Jon Moxley beat Brody King by submission to retain the title.

Next week-Fyter Fest Night 1! Claudio Castagnoli vs. Jake Hager, AEW Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks vs. Strickland & Lee and Powerhouse Hobbs & Ricky Starks in a 3-way for the titles, more TBA.

Friday on Rampage-Konosuke Takeshita vs. Kingston, Mercedes Martinez & Serena Deeb vs. 2 jobbers, Lee Moriarty & Jonathan Gresham vs. Gates Of Agony & Orange Cassidy vs. Tony Nese.

Announced for Ring Of Honor’s Death Before Dishonor PPV on 7/23: ROH TV Champion Samoa Joe vs Jay Lethal for the title, ROH Pure Champion Wheeler Yuta vs. Daniel Garcia for the title and, if a promo before the main event holds true, FTR vs. The Briscoes. The event will be available on PPV, Bleacher Report and FITE.

DDT Announces “Cutey Honey” TJPW Appearance

In announcing broadcast plans for SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’22, DDT has announced a special guest for the Tokyo Joshi Pro event broadcast-legendary idol Mikie Hara, a former gravure/swimsuit/pinup model who was one of the most acclaimed and popular idols during a long and successful modeling career, who is now an actress & entertainer best known for her starring role as the live-action portrayal of popular manga/anime superheroine “Cutey Honey” on Japanese TV. She will join Japanese commentary alongside Haruo Murata, Kagehiro Osano & Sayoko Mita. The event will also have English commentary with DDT’s Chris Brookes and Baliyan Akki. Remember you can watch FOR FREE if you sign up for WRESTLE UNIVERSE for the first time with a 2 week free trial!
The event streams LIVE Friday at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

New Japan 7/5/22 Results

New Japan wrapped up the New Japan Road Tour today with the last of a Tokyo tripleheader, headlined today by a NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Title match and a Toru Yano oddball match because, well, Toru Yano gotta do something like that…

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

The announced paid attendance was 579.

Match 1: Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Kosei Fujita & Ryohei Oiwa. Wato beat Fujita.

Match 2: Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe. Kojima pinned Honma after a lariat.

Match 3: Alex Zayne, Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada beat The DKC, Clark Connors & Yuji Nagata. Ishii pinned DKC after a vertical drop brainbuster.

Match 4: Jado, KUSHIDA & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & KENTA. Tanahashi beat Gedo with a Texas Cloverleaf.

Match 5: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat TAKA Michinoku, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki & Taichi. Takahashi pinned TAKA after D.

Match 6: In a Dog Cage Deathmatch, where the only way to win was to lock your opponent in a large dog cage, Toru Yano beat Dick Togo.

Main Event: Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL to win the titles. Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Goto become the 23rd NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Yoh pinned Sho after Direct Drive. And sent the crowd home very happy…Fo Sho, Yoh.

Next up is the G1 CLIMAX 32, the promotion’s biggest tournament of the year and the unofficial start of the Road To Tokyo Dome in January. Day 1 is 7/16 at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Kita Yell in Hokkaido. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin that day at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET, and remember the first 2 days will be available to watch FOR FREE!
Also, a live press conference will be broadcast FOR FREE on New Japan World beginning Wednesday at 11 PM PT/Thursday at 2 AM ET.

DEVELOPING: NOAH 7/16 Title Match Off

Developing NOAH news for 7/16: The GHC Jr. Heavyweight Title match that day is now off and has been postponed. Current co-champion Chris Ridgeway is now off the event. Visa issues. Delays in issuance procedures in the UK may prevent him from making it to Japan in time. New date TBA but it will be when Ridgeway can travel to Japan. Yuya Susumu will now team with Yoshinari Ogawa to face Eita & Kotaro Suzuki in a NON-TITLE match.

Site News: All-Japan Coverage Begins This Week

Starting this coming weekend (7/9/22-7/10/22), I will begin adding coverage of All-Japan Pro Wrestling to the site. All-Japan is considered the #2 promotion in Japan and has been around almost 50 years, having been founded about 6 months after top promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling. Coverage will begin with their event this Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall, and I will begin watching that day live and on demand on All-Japan’s streaming service, ajpw.tv. It costs 900 yen per month (same as New Japan World), which as if this moment is $6.68 US.

Please look forward to it!

New Japan 7/4/22 Results

New Japan continued the New Japan Road tour with the middle event of the final 3-event stretch before the G1 CLIMAX.

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

The announced paid attendance was 536. Smaller setup used today on the opposite hard camera side. No guest on commentary. (Togi Makabe joined after the break)

Match 1: Minoru Suzuki beat Kosei Fujita by submission.

Match 2: Satoshi Kojima beat TAKA Michinoku. Kojima came out wearing a Pro Wrestling NOAH shift and with the GHC Heavyweight Championship that he next defends on 7/16. Kojima with microphone afterwards to promote that match.

Match 3: Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe beat Ryohei Oiwa & Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Makabe beat Oiwa with a Boston Crab.

Match 4: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & Taichi beat The DKC, Clark Connors & Yuji Nagata. Taichi pinned DKC after Dangerous Backdrop.

Match 5: Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Takahashi after Shoto.

Match 6: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Master Wato, Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Zayne, Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada. Takagi pinned Wato after MADE IN JAPAN.

Main Event: Taiji Ishimori & KENTA beat KUSHIDA & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Ishimori beat KUSHIDA with Bone Lock.

The tour-ender is tomorrow with Yano vs. Togo in a Dog Cage Deathmatch and NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL vs. Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto for the titles. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. After that, it’s on to the G1 CLIMAX-EVERY event will stream LIVE and on demand in Japanese and English on New Japan World, and everyone will be able to watch the first 2 events FOR FREE!

DDT/TJPW Upcoming Event Updates

DDT announced several upcoming event details at a press conference today:
First on the Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling side, Willow Nightingale is now off Saturday’s SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’22 event. Visa issues/timing (the process won’t be completed in time for travel). She was to have faced Miu Watanabe. Ryo Mizunami is the replacement, making her first appearance in TJPW. Nightingale will travel to Japan and appear at a later date once the visa is secured.

Konosuke Takeshita will return to DDT next month for his 10th Anniversary match on 8/10 against Daisuke Sasaki. He will also be at WRESTLE PETER PAN on 8/20. Takeshita is currently on an excursion to All Elite Wrestling.

NEW KO-D Openweight Champion Kazusada Higuchi appeared and reiterated his desire to defend against Tetsuya Endo on 8/20, but a decision will not be made until after Endo’s return match on 7/24.

2 new events were announced for September-9/13 at Asakusa Kageki Theater in Tokyo and 9/25 at Korakuen Hall. 9/25 will allow vocal cheering by fans although one section for non-vocal fans will be set up. The venue or at least the vocal section will be at 50% capacity.

New Japan 7/3/22 Results

New Japan resumed the New Japan Road Tour today after a roughly 2-week break for the Forbidden Door joint PPV with All Elite Wrestling last week in the US, beginning a quick 3-day sprint to the finish before the G1 CLIMAX begins.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1200. Maybe a full house/near-sellout based on the setup for today. No guest on commentary. (Hiroyoshi Tenzan joined commentary after intermission)

Match 1: Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe beat Ryohei Oiwa & TBA, which at the start of the event was revealed to be Tiger Mask 4. Honma beat Oiwa with a Boston Crab. Afterwards, TM 4 with microphone discussing his successful winning the All-Japan Jr. Heavyweight Championship, which he will defend in the promotion later this month. This was to have been Yuto Nakashima & Oiwa vs. Honma & Makabe, but Nakashima is out of the remaining events due to injury.

Match 2: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki beat Kosei Fujita, Master Wato & Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Suzuki pinned Fujita after a Gotch-style piledriver.

Match 3: Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan beat BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi. Henare beat BUSHI with Ultima. This was to have been Jado & Ryusuke Tatughi vs. BUSHI & Takahashi, but Jado was a last-minute removal from the event due to a fever (he tested negative for coronavirus). Taguchi was also pulled.

Match 4: SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat The DKC, Clark Connors & Yuji Nagata. Sanada pinned DKC after Skull End. This was to have been Alex Coughlin, Connors & DKC vs. LIJ, but Coughlin is out due to injury.

Match 5: Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Takahashi pinned YOSHI-HASHI after Big Juice. This was to have been an 8-man tag but Yoh is out due to coronavirus. Sho was also removed as a result.

Match 6: Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. Okada beat TAKA with Money Clip. This was to have been DOUKI & Taichi vs. Ishii & Okada, but DOUKI is out as a precaution due to being a coronavirus close contact.

Main Event: KENTA & KUSHIDA Return Match: Alex Zayne, KUSHIDA & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & KENTA. KUSHIDA beat Gedo with a hammerlock suplex hold. This was KENTA’s first match since suffering injuries at Tokyo Dome in January in a bloody No DQ IWGP US Heavyweight Title match against Tanahashi, and KUSHIDA’s first match in New Japan since 2019, when he left for WWE.

The next event is tomorrow. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/3/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour today with the second half of a weekend doubleheader.

Today’s event was held at Yamagata Big Wing in Yamagata and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 248.

Match 1: Seiki Yoshioka beat Kai Fujimura.

Match 2: Rene Dupree & Simon Gotch beat Yoshiki Inamura & Kinya Okada. Dupree pinned Okada after a diving elbow drop.

Match 3: Tadasuke & Hi69 beat Atsushi Kotoge & YO-HEY. Hi69 pinned Kotoge after Stuka Splash.

Match 4: Katsuhiko Nakajima & Hajime Ohara beat Mohammed Yone & Alejandro. Ohara pinned Alejandro after Muy Bien.

Match 5: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. beat Extreme Tiger.

Match 6: HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa & Yuya Susumu vs. NOSAWA Rongai, Kotaro Suzuki & Super Crazy went to a no contest. Seiki Yoshioka interference.

Match 7: Kenoh & Manabu Soya beat Satoshi Kojima & Daiki Inaba. Kenoh pinned Inaba after PFS.

Main Event: Takashi Sugiura, Hideki Suzuki & Timothy Thatcher beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Michael Elgin & Masa Kitamiya. Suzuki beat Kitamiya with Royal Stretch.

The next event is 7/10 at Fujisan Messe in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast and it will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date.

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