Impact Wrestling 7/6/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s Impact Wrestling in Atlanta, GA:

This episode was taped 6/23 & 6/24 as part of the Summer Sizzler TV tapings.

The YouTube pre-show match was Dirty Dango vs. Crazzy Steve.

Match 1: Eddie Edwards beat Frankie Kazarian. Frequent Alisha Edwards interference.

Lio Rush interviewed backstage. He is only here for the X Division Championship. Nick Aldis interrupts.

Kazarian promo backstage. Words for Edwards post-match. Kazarian wants a rubber match at Slammiversary to break their current 1-1 tie. And to counter Alisha, Kazarian is bringing his wife to be in his corner, and his wife is none other than original Knockout Traci Brooks.

Match 2: Sami Callihan & Rich Swann beat Champahne Singh & Shera. Callihan pinned Singh after Cactus Driver 97. Squash. No intros (came back from commercial right to the bell).

Brian Myers & Moose interviewed backstage.

Pre-show highlights including a Santino Marella promo on Dirty Dango after Dango’s match.

Dango promo.

Match 3: Jonathan Gresham beat Angels by submission. After the match, Angels appeared to turn on The Design, leaving only Deaner and Kon.

Bullet Club promo. The Rascalz interrupt and seem to issue an Impact Tag Team Championship challenge for Slammiversary, but the champs refuse.

PCO getting charged up backstage before commercial.

Highlights package from last week’s Australia tour, including tourism in Wagga Wagga. Both events are available on demand on FITE.

Trinity walks into Dronna Purrazzo’s room backstage to talk to her.

Match 4: PCO beat The Good Hands. Squash. Steve Maclin & Bully Ray came out afterwards and went after PCO following Scott D’Amore being handcuffed to the ropes. After this they head backstage and set PCO on fire.

Match 5: Gisele Shaw beat Courtney Rush. Got away with feet on the ropes unseen by the referee.

Kenny King & Sheldon Jean get constantly mobbed by fans until one triggers a Joe Hendry appearance. In a humorous spot, Hendry makes Yuya Uemura appear in his style at the end.

Just added to Slammiversary: Hendry-King for the Impact Digital Media Championship and Kazarian-Edwards with their wives in their corners.

Main Event: Lio Rush & Nick Aldis beat Motor City Machine Guns. Rush pinned Chris Sabin after Final Hour. Low blow behind the ref’s back helped set it up.

Next week: Zachary Wentz vs. Chris Bey, Kevin Knight vs. Mike Bailey, Moose & Brian Myers vs. Rich Swann & Sami Callihan and a Deonna Purrazzo open challenge. This will be the go-home episode for Slammiversary.

Regarding Potential All-Japan News/Results Delays (7/6/23)

Due to All-Japan’s official website possibly being down or temporarily restricted, there may be delays in posting news and results from events (namely the 7/8 event) until this issue is resolved. The site was very broken last weekend with many links not properly working, and accessing the site (at least outside Japan) gives a Forbidden error message. The AJPW.TV service does not appear to be affected and that site is currently available as normal, as are All-Japan’s Japanese and English Twitter accounts.

Updates will follow. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

AEW Rampage 7/7/23 Results (SPOILERS!)

Here are the quick results for tomorrow’s AEW Rampage (100th episode) in Edmonton, Canada (SPOILERS!):

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Injury Report: Not A Super Strong Machine

He may be the biological son of 1980s-1990s New Japan wrestler Super Strong Machine, but apparently Dragon Gate wrestler Strong Machine J was not strong enough to avoid injury at the major Kobe event Sunday. He saved his mask but at a physical price. Left shoulder injury. Out indefinitely and is questionable for KING OF GATE-his first match is scheduled for 7/14 against Yasushi Kanda. If he can’t go Kanda probably will get a forfeit win. (Also already out is Diamante but that was per his request so Susumu Mochizuki gets a forfeit win on 7/7. Diamante lost his mask on that same 7/2 match)

More as it becomes available.

AEW Dynamite 7/5/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Edmonton, Canada:

Updates below will begin at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT.

Match 1: Blind Eliminator Tag Team Tournament: Orange Cassidy & Darby Allin vs. Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland
Result: Orange Cassidy & Darby Allin beat Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland. Allin pinned Strickland with Last Supper.

Nick Wayne promo featuring Darby Allin.

Jungle Boy arrived and was going to demand an FTW Title match but Hook immediately ambushed him and Jungle Boy bailed.

MJF & Adam Cole working out together last week.

Match 2: The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn vs. The Blade & Bollywood Boyz
Result: The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn beat The Blade & Bollywood Boyz. Max Caster pinned one of the Boyz after Mic Drop. Extended Squash.

Chris Jericho promo. Don Callis interrupts and tries to recruit Jericho for The Don Callis Family. Jericho says Maybe.

Match 3: Blind Eliminator Tag Team Tournament: MJF & Adam Cole vs. Matt Menard & The Butcher
Result: MJF & Adam Cole beat Matt Menard & The Butcher. Cole pinned Menard after BOOM.
MJF throws a mini-birthday party for Cole in the ring. It ends with MJF getting a face full of cake.

Daniel Garcia & Sammy Guevara are a Blind Eliminator Tag Team Tournament pairing.

Match 4: Owen Hart Cup Women’s Quarterfinals: Britt Baker vs. Ruby Soho
Result: Rubo Soho beat Britt Baker. With help from Toni Storm & Saraya. As a result, Soho advances to the Semifinals and will face Skye Blue. Baker will not repeat as tournament champion.

Main Event: Wheeler Yuta vs. Kenny Omega
Result: Kenny Omega beat Wheeler Yuta. BCC beatdown on Omega afterwards but The Elite quickly made the save. Dark Order rushed out to get involved as we ran out of time and cut away (already into overrun.

To me it was a show that happened. MJF-Cole stuff was hilarious though. That’s the stuff to watch/re-watch.

Friday on Rampage: Matt Hardy & Jeff Jarrett vs. Daniel Garcia & Sammy Guevara (Blind Eliminator Tournament), Brian Cage & Bil Bill vs. Trent Beretta & Matt Sydal (Blind Eliminator Tournament), Hikaru Shida vs. Marina Shafir and Adam Page & The Young Bucks vs. Dark Order.

Next week: Soho-Blue, MJF/Cole & Cassidy/Allin vs. Friday’s Tournament winners and Chris Jericho vs. Komander.

TJPW News: Yet Another 7/8 Change

Tokyo Joshi Pro has made yet another change to this weekend’s SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’23 card, but again it’s for an existing match and not a bad change-at the request of Miyu Yamashita, who just returned from a successful title defense in England, her match against Sawyer Wreck will now be for the Pro Wrestling EVE Championship under Spirit Of EVE rules. That means 30 minute time limit, no countouts and not displaying enough fighting spirit in the referee’s view results in being DQ’d. This will be the 7th defense of the title for Yamashita. It makes a total of 4 title matches on the event between TJPW and other titles. (And for those wondering, still no word on when the vacant Princess Tag Team Championship situation will be resolved)

New Japan 7/5/23 Results (Updated)

New Japan ran the second half of STRONG Independence Day today, following a day full of surprises with the chance for even more.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand as a PPV only on New Japan World. (The PPV is only a combo pack that includes yesterday’s Day 1, in the US it’s about $30 and is available until roughly mid-September) You can also watch the pre-show match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1401, a super full house/very near sellout. They could have called it a sellout as attendance was down only 32 from yesterday.

There was a last-minute change to the card for today as JR Kratos was not cleared to compete today. Cut (head) suffered during yesterday’s match. He was to have faced Oskar Leube in the first PPV match.

Pre-show Match: Boltin Oleg, Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Rekka, Takahiro Katori & Dragon Libre. Wato pinned Rekka with a Tsutenkaku German suplex hold.

Match 1: TBA, revealed at match time to (perhaps not surprisingly) be Satoshi Kojima, beat Oskar Leube.

Match 2: Francesco Akira & TJP beat Ryohei Oiwa & Homicide. Akira pinned Oiwa after 2/2.

Rocky Romero demanded an IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Title match. Which led to…
Match 3: IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney beat Rocky Romero & Yoh to retain the titles. Connors pinned Romero after Full Clip. V1 for the champs.

Match 4: Alex Zayne & Lance Archer beat Kosei Fujita & Bad Dude Tito. Arxher pinned Fujita after a lariat.

Match 5: The DKC, Tomohiro Ishii & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Jorel Nelson, Royce Isaacs & Tom Lawlor. Tanahashi pinned Isaacs.

Match 6: Giulia (Stardom) beat STRONG Women’s Champion Willow Nightingale to win the title. Giulia becomes the second STRONG Women’s Champion.

Match 7: IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto bear Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin to retain the titles. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Kidd after Shoto. V1 for the champs.

Match 8: Eddie Kingston beat STRONG Openweight Champion KENTA to win the title. Kingston becomes the 6th STRONG Openweight Champion.

Main Event: In a Final Death match, Jon Moxley beat El Desperado.

Next up is the G1 CLIMAX 33 Tournament, the promotion’s biggest tournament of the year and the start of the road to Tokyo Dome, beginning on 7/15 at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kitayell in Hokkaido. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET. All tournament events will be available live and on demand on New Japan World.

Also announced is the Road to DESTRUCTION Tour, which will be the September and early October tour including DESTRUCTION in KOBE on 9/24 at Kobe World Hall in Kobe and DESTRUCTION in RYOGOKU on 10/9 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.

UPDATE: And it’s now official…WRESTLE KINGDOM 18 in TOKYO DOME on 1/4/24 at the Tokyo Dome. That’s a Thursday morning so make plans now.

New Japan 7/4/23 Results

New Japan brought the STRONG sub-label to Japan for the first time for STRONG Independence Day, starting a 2-day doubleheader in Tokyo today.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand as a PPV only on New Japan World. The only purchase option is a combo pack that also includes tomorrow’s event live and on demand (the PPV on demand window is expected to be about 2 months). You can also watch the pre-show match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1433, a legit advance sellout.

Pre-show Match: Oskar Leube, Yoh & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Takahiro Ketori, Dragon Libre & Kengo.Yoh pinned Libre after Direct Drive.

Match 1: Bad Dude Tito beat The DKC.

Match 2: Jorel Nelson, Royce Isaacs & JR Kratos beat Ryohei Oiwa, Alex Zayne & Lance Archer. Nelson pinned Oiwa after West Coast Classic.

Match 3: Tom Lawlor beat Kosei Fujita.

Match 4: Rocky Romero & Eddie Kingston beat Gedo & KENTA. Kingston pinned KENTA after Backfist To The Future.

Match 5: Momo Kohga (Stardom) & Willow Nightingale beat Thekla & Giulia (Stardom). Nightingale pinned Thekla after Babe With The Powerbomb.

Match 6: Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin beat STRONG Tag Team Champions Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI to win the titles. Kidd & Coughlin become the 5th STRONG Tag Team Champions. Kidd pinned YOSHI-HASHI after a hijack piledriber.

Match 7: Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney beat IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Francesco Akira & TJP to win the titles. Connors & Moloney become the 73rd IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Moloney pinned TJP after Full Clip. Interesting backstory here because Moloney came into New Japan as part of United Empire before defecting to Bullet Club, who had themselves a night with 2 title wins.

Main Event: In a Doomsday No DQ match, Jun Kasai (Freedoms) & El Desperado beat Homicide & Jon Moxley. Desperado pinned Homicide after Pinche Loco form a reverse tiger driver.

The next event is tomorrow. Live streaming on New Japan World as a PPV only will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. There will be a FREE pre-show match on YouTube about 20 minutes before the event begins. There are 3 title matches scheduled for tomorrow-STRONG Women’s Champion Willow Nightingale vs. Giulia for the title, YOSHI-HASHI/Goto-Kidd/Coughlin again but this time for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship and STRONG Openweight Champion KENTA vs. Eddie Kingston for the title. The main event is scheduled to be a Final Death match between El Desperado & Jon Moxley.

Injury Report: Ryuki Honda Update (Updated 7/6)

At yesterday’s All-Japan event, Ryuki Honda appeared to be legit knocked unconscious early in a tag match with Masao Hanabata against Hokuto Omori & Naoki Tanisaki. All-Japan has now provided an update on Honda’s condition-he legit fainted during the match and wasn’t moving as he was stretchered out and the finish was rushed to by Omori & Tanisaki (Honda’s eyes appeared open on a close-up shot after the match ended). He was taken straight to a hospital afterwards and the diagnosis is in following examination. Mild concussion. Out indefinitely. He will be required to rest for 2-3 days. That means he is very questionable right now for the next event on 7/8.

More as it becomes available.

7/6 UPDATE: Honda has been cleared to return and will be on the 7/8 event as scheduled.

GLEAT 7/1/23 Results

GLEAT ran their 2nd Anniversary event yesterday, which likely was their biggest event of the year with a mix of G PROWRESTLING and Lidet UWF matches.

Yesterday’s event was held at Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1279.

Matches 1-7 were G PROWRESTLING matches, while Matches 8-10 were Lidet UWF bouts.

Match 1: Issei Onitsuka & Yusuke Kodama beat Shigehiro Irie & Junjae. Kodama pinned Junjae with La Magistral.

Match 2: Quiet Storm, Galeno Del Mar & HANAOKA beat Emperador Azteca, El Bendito & MAZADA. Galeno pinned MAZADA with Galeno Special.

Match 3: G INFINITY Champions Jun & Rei Saito (All-Japan) beat Kaz Hayashi & Minoru Tanaka to retain the titles. Rei Saito pinned Tanaka after a diving body press. V1 for the champs.

Match 4: Michiko Miyagi, Aoi, Risa Sera & Janai Kai beat Yukari Hosokawa, Sayaka Unagi, Itsuki Aoki & Rydeen Hagane. Miyagi pinned Hosokawa after a tombstone piledriver. After the match, Miyagi announced she will be changing her ring name among other things. That will be revealed on 8/4 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.

Match 5: In a Loser Unit Dissolution Match, Ryuichi Kawakami, Hayato Tamura, Check Shimatani & KAZMA SAKAMOTO beat Tetsuya Iczichi, Jun Tonsho & Keiichi Sato.Tamura pinned Izuchi after Hayato Orchestra. As a result, 60seconds must disband. And yes, apparently it was a handicap match with an unfair advantage for Bulk Orchestra.

Match 6: GLEAT 2nd Anniversary Match: El Lindaman, Kento Miyahara (All-Japan) & Chihiro Hashimoto (Sendai Girls) beat Yutani, Flamita & Kotaro Suzuki. Lindaman pinned Yutani with a tiger suplex hold.

Match 7: G-REX Champion T-Hawk beat Soma Watanabe to retain the title. V2 for T-Hawk. Next up: Hayato Tamura. That match likely will happen on 8/4.

Match 8: Lidet UWF Single Bout: Maya Fukuda beat Azusa Inaba by KO.

Match 9: Lidet UWF Double Bout: Yu Iizuka & Ayato Yoshida vs. Shinya Aoki & Hikaru Sato went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

Main Event: Fujita “Jr.” Hayato beat Lidet UWF Champion Takanori Ito by ref stoppage to win the title. Hayato becomes the second Lidet UWF Champion.

The next event is G PROWRESTLING Ver. 56 on 7/16 at Umeda Sky Building Stellar Hall in Osaka. There will likely be no live broadcast.

Also not mentioned in results but announced for 8/4: Kota Ibushi participation. Yes, THAT Kota Ibushi (who hasn’t been seen since he unceremoniously left New Japan following an injury suffered in the 2021 G1 CLIMAX Finals). He has been reportedly linked to All Elite Wrestling but that hasn’t happened and seems very unlikely.