New Japan 4/28/23 Results

New Japan continued the Road to WRESTLING DONTAKU Tour today with a mid-major event featuring 2 title matches and the announcement of the entire Best Of The Super Junior 30 field.

Today’s event was held at Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall in Hiroshima and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1614.

Match 1: Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan beat Boltin Oleg & Oskar Leube. Henare beat Leube with Ultima.

Match 2: Yoh, Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Togo after Shoto.

Match 3: Taiji Ishimori, KENTA & David Finlay beat Master Wato, Hikuleo & Tama Tonga. Finlay pinned Wato after INTO OBLIVION.

Match 4: Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Jeff Cobb & Aussie Open. Haste pinned Kyle Fletcher after Tank Buster.

Match 5: Shota Umino, Ren Narita, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki beat Tomoaki Honma, Togi Makabe, Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada. Umino pinned Honma after Deslider.

Match 6: Taichi & SANADA beat BUSHI & Shingo Takagi. SANADA beat BUSHI with Skull End.

Match 7: Tetsuya Naito beat DOUKI.

Match 8: Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA beat IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Francesco Akira & TJP to win the titles. Knight & KUSHIDA become the 71st IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Knight pinned Akira after Culture Crush.

Main Event: IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru to retain the title. V4 for Takahashi. This went over 30 minutes. That also means it’s now officially official-IWGP World Heavyweight Champion SANADA vs. Takahashi for the title on 5/3 at WRESTLING DONTAKU. SANADA added a stip that had Kanemaru won the title, he got the title shot instead.

Before the title matches, the Best Of The Super Junior 30 field was announced. It’s 20 entrants in 2 blocks of 10 this year, standard round-robin format.

The entrants:
Block A: Hiromu Takahashi, TJP, KUSHIDA, Ryusuke Taguchi, Taiji Ishimori, Sho, Titan, DOUKI, Lio Rush, Mike Bailey
Block B: Francesco Akira, El Desperado, BUSHI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Yoh, Robbie Eagles, Master Wato, Kevin Knight, Clark Connors, Dan Moloney
Takahashi is the defending tournament winner and will be going for 4 straight triumphs and 5th in the last 6 years, although being the current Jr. Heavyweight Champion works heavily against him.
The tournament runs 5/13-5/28 with all events broadcast live on New Japan World.

The next event is “Wrestling Satsuna no Kuni” Saturday at Kagoshima Arena in Kagoshima. The event will be headlined by Aussie Open vs. Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls in an Aussie Aussie Aussie! affair for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship and Shingo Takagi vs. Taichi once again for the KOPW 2023 Championship, this time in a Takagi Triad Match where the first to earn 3 of these 5 finishes-pinfall, submission, countout, stoppage, KO-wins. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

AEW Rampage 4/28/23 Results (SPOILERS!)

Click below for the quick results from tomorrow’s TAPED AEW Rampage, which will air at 5:30 PM ET/2:30 PM PT on TNT due to NHL Playoffs (this contains SPOILERS!):

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AEW Dynamite 4/26/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Sunrise, FL (Ft. Lauderdale area):
AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy beat Bandido to retain the title.

Jeff Jarrett beat Dax Harwood.

Tony Khan’s announcement was the return of the Owen Hart Cup Tournament. Starts at Double Or Nothing in May then continues in Canada including at Forbidden Door 2 in June. Finals at Calgary debut in July.

Wardlow beat a jobber. Squash.

Sammy Guevara beat Darby Allin by DQ. Skateboard use thanks in part to MJF. As a result, Guevara will face MJF for the AEW World Championship at Double Or Nothing. Unless Allin & Jungle Boy beat MJF & Guevara in a tag match next week-if that happens, the title match becomes a 4-way with Allin & Jungle Boy included.

Adam Cole calls out Chris Jericho. Jericho sends out JAS for the beatdown which includes Orange Cassidy & Bandido when they try to make the save. Roderick Strong then comes out to clean house and reunite with Cole. After this, AEW announced Strong has signed with them.

AEW TBS Champion Jade Cargill beat Taya Valkyrie to retain the title. 56-0. Valkyrie would have been DQ’d had she used Road To Valhalla aka Jaded. Cargill shockingly won with a rollup.

Kenny Omega & Konosuke Takeshita beat The Butcher & The Blade. Takeshita pinned Butcher after a knee strike. Afterwards, BCC tried to recruit Takeshita but he refused, leading to a screwdriver-fueled beatdown that continued into a brief overrun as the show ended.

An average show tonight that was billed as “massive”. Allin-Guevara was a great match despite the ending.

Friday on Rampage at 5:30 PM ET/2:30 PM PT: Ricky Starks & Shawn Spears vs. Jay White & Juice Robinson, Keith Lee & Dustin Rhodes vs. TBA, The Outcasts promo, Anna Jay.A.S. vs. Ashley D’Amboise, Cash Wheeler vs. Jay Lethal & The Acclaimed promo.

Next week: MJF & Sammy Guevara vs. Jungle Boy & Darby Allin with Allin & Jungle Boy in the Double Or Nothing Main Event if they win (if they don’t, it’s still MJF-Guevara) and Adam Cole, Roderick Strong, Orange Cassidy & Bandido vs. JAS. More TBA on Rampage.

New Japan 4/26/23 Results

New Japan continued the Road to WRESTLING DONTAKU 2023 Tour today with what should be the last non-televised event until at least mid-June.

Today’s event was held at Yawatahama Citizen Gym in Ehime. There was no live broadcast and there is no on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 504.

Match 1: Ryohei Oiwa vs. Boltin Oleg went to a 10 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Yoh, Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Yoh beat Togo with 5 Star Clutch.

Match 3: Francesco Akira, TJP & Aaron Henare beat Yuto Nakashima, Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA. Henare beat Nakashima with Ultima.

Match 4: Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb & Aussie Open beat Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. Kyle Fletcher pinned Fujita after Grimstone.

Match 5: Master Wato, Shota Umino, Hikuleo & Tama Tonga beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori, KENTA & David Finlay. Wato beat Gedo with Vendeval.

Match 6: Tomoaki Honma, Togi Makabe, Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada beat Oskar Leube, Ren Narita, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki. Honma pinned Leube after Kokeshi.

Main Event: DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Taichi & SANADA beat BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito. Taichi pinned BUSHI with Mausoleum of the Holy Emperor Cross.

The next event is tomorrow at Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall in Hiroshima. Before the event, a public signing ceremony for tomorrow’s IWGP Jr. Heavyweight and Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship matches will be held. Before those title matches, the full field for this year’s Best Of The Super Junior Tournament will be announced. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

Also, in related news, it was revealed in recent interviews he did that Will Ospreay’s NjPW contract is up in February. So monitor his status and happenings going into and after Tokyo Dome 2024 for hints on what he may do, moreso with hints he dropped on social media about maybe not having a lot of time left in his career due to injuries.

DDT News: Wrestler Injury Update

An injury update from DDT: Keigo Nakamura, who has been out recently with a concussion but was to have returned this Saturday, will not return to action as planned. Right knee ligament and meniscus damage from an old injury that flared up recently. Out indefinitely but will be gone “for a while”. No new return date set but this sounds like weeks if not months.

More as it becomes available.

All-Japan 4/25/23 Results

All-Japan continued the Champions Carnival 2023 Tournament today with the 6th match for most of the participants.

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

The announced paid attendance was 753.

Match 1: Dan Tamura beat Black Menso-re.

Match 2: Champions Carnival Block B: Shotaro Ashino beat Takao Omori by submission.

Match 3: Champions Carnival Block A: Cyrus beat Yoshitatsu.

Match 4: Champions Carnival Block B: Suwama beat Hokuto Omori.

Match 5: Jr. Tag Battle Of Glory: Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato beat Ryo Inoue & Oji Shiiba. Hayato pinned Inoue after Sid Vicious.

Match 6: Jr. Tag Battle Of Glory: Kaito Ishida & Kotaro Suzuki beat Naruki Doi & Naoki Tanisaki. Ishida pinned Tanisaki with a half tiger suplex hold.

Match 7: Champions Carnival Block A: Jun Saito beat Yuma Aoyagi.

Match 8: Champions Carnival Block B: Yuma Anzai beat Rei Saito.

Match 9: Champions Carnival Block A: Rei Saito beat Ryuki Honda.

Match 10: Champions Carnival Block B: Shuji Ishikawa beat Manabu Soya.

Main Event: Champions Carnival Block A: Satoshi Kojima beat Kento Miyahara.

With one match left, Block A has Miyahara, Ishikawa & T-Hawk tied for the lead at 4-2, 8 points. With their head-to-head match remaining, the Miyahara-T-Hawk winner, if there is one, is assured of at least a tie for the top spot. Mathematically Honda still has a chance with 8 points but he’ll need Miyahara-T-Hawk to be a no contest or Double DQ. In Block B, 4 are tied at 4-2, 8 points with 3 at 3-3, 6 points. Only the winner of each block advances to the Finals.

The next event is Sunday at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

New Japan 4/25/23 Results

New Japan continued the Road to WRESTLING DONTAKU 2023 Your today with a non-televised event.

Today’s event was held at Kochi Prefectural Gym in Kochi. There was no live broadcast and no on demand video.

The announced paid attendance was 663.

Match 1: Yuto Nakashima vs. Boltin Oleg went to a 10 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Yoh, Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto beat Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Yano pinned Togo.

Match 3: Francesco Akira, TJP & Great-O-Khan beat Oskar Leube, Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA. Khan pinned Leube with a pancake hold.

Match 4: Aaron Henare, Jeff Cobb & Aussie Open beat Kosei Fujita, Mikey Nicholls, Shane Haste & Zack Sabre Jr. Mark Davis pinned Fujita after Waterfall.

Match 5: Master Wato, Shota Umino, Hikuleo & Tama Tonga beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori, KENTA & David Finlay. Umino beat Gedo with STF.

Match 6: Tomoaki Honma, Togi Makabe, Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada beat Ryohei Oiwa, Ren Narita, El Desperado & Minoru Suuzki. Makabe pinned Oiwa after a King Kong kneedrop.

Main Event: DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Taichi & SANADA beat BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito. Kanemaru beat BUSHI with a Figure 4.

The next event is tomorrow at Yawatahama Citizen Sports Center in Ehime. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. (This will be the last non-televised event for about 2 months)

GLEAT 4/23/23 Results

GLEAT ran the latest G PROWRESTLING event yesterday, the 50th event for the promotion’s primary event series.

Yesterday’s event was held at Osaka Azalea Taisho in Osaka and will be available on demand on YouTube tomorrow beginning at 4:30 AM PT/7:30 AM ET. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 188.

Match 1: Tetsuya Izuchi & Jun Tonsho beat Issei Onitsuka & Yu Iizuka. Tonsho pinned Oizuka with a German suplex hold.

Match 2: Kaho Matsushita beat Yukari Hosokawa.

Match 3: Kaz Hayashi, Minoru Tanaka & Seiichi Ikemoto beat Takanori Ito, Masato Kamino & Yusuke Kodama. Hayashi pinned Kodama. Afterwards, Issei Onitsuka came out to recruit Hayashi for his faction. Apparently whether it happens will be determined by a single match on 5/21.

Match 4: Kotaro Suzuki beat Keiichi Sato.

Match 5: Osma Watanabe beat Drew Parker by ref stoppage. Parker injury.

Match 6: Kaito Ishida, Yutani & Hartley Jackson beat Hayato Tamura, Check Shimatani & Quiet Storm. Yutani pinned Storm with Tornado Clutch.

Main Event: T-Hawk & El Lindaman beat Ryuichi Kawakami & KAZMA SAKAMOTO. T-Hawk pinned Kawakami after Cerberus. Afterwards, T-Hawk announced he would defend the G-REX Championship on 5/14 against someone in their 20s who hasn’t had a shot yet. Which led to…

Impromptu Match: Check Shimatani beat Issei Onitsuka, Jun Tonsho, Yu Iizuka, Masato Kamino & Yutani in a 6-way by pinning Onitsuka. As a result, Shimatani gets the 5/14 title shot. Then Shimatani announced a G INFINITY Championship match for 5/21, with Izuchi & Tonsho potential challengers.

The next event is 5/6 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA but since it’s in Tokyo it likely will be a live broadcast on YouTube and available on demand immediately after the event. If live, the broadcast will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

Dragon Gate 4/23/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued The Gate Of Passion 2024 Tour yesterday with a house show in Nagano.

Yesterday’s event was held at Nagano Arcs in Nagano. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 285, a super full house/very near sellout.

Match 1: Shun Skywalker, Diamante & ISHIN beat Kota Minoura, BxB Hulk & Minorita. ISHIN pinned Minorita after a deformed scrapbuster.

Match 2: Masaaki Mochizuki & Mochizuki Jr. beat YAMATO & Ichikawa. Mochizuki pinned Ichikawa with a jumping kick in just 7 seconds. Which led to…
Match 2 (again): Masaaki Mochizuki & Mochizuki Jr. beat YAMATO & Ichikawa. Mochizuki pinned Ichikawa after a failed chair attack.

Match 3: Ben-K beat Strong Machine J.

Match 4: Kagetora & Ho Ho Lun beat Dragon Kid & Punch Tominaga. Lun pinned Tomonaga after Horor.

Match 5: Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda beat KAI & H-Y-O. Kanda pinned H-Y-O after a diving elbow drop.

Main Event: Madoka Kikuta, Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu & Jaosn Lee. Dia pinned Lee.

The next event is Saturday at Mercure Hotel Yokosuka in Kanagawa. There will be no live broadcast.