Ganbare Pro 8/27/22 Results

Ganbare Pro had an outdoor event scheduled that was weather permitting, and it went on as planned. This event was held in a special setting located at an open-air shopping center that was free to attend.

Today’s event was held at Tokorozawa Park Town Shopping Street in Saitama and will be available on demand on WRSETLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced attendance was 389. Admission was free.

Match 1: Yumehito Imanari & Tysin maeguchi beat Gota Ihashi & Takaaki Iwasaki. Imanari pinned Ihashi after a lariat.

Match 2: Moeka Haruhi, HARUKAZE & Cherry beat Yuna Manase, Yoshiko Hasegawa & Kakeru Sekiguchi. Haruhi pinned Hasegawa after 79.5MHz. Cheery was a late replacement for YuuRI, who misse the event due to a hand injury.

Match 3: Aja Kong & Shinichiro Tominaga beat Shota & Takao Soma. Kong pinned Shota after a backfist.

Main Event: Ken Ohka, Shuichiro Katsumura & Keisuke Ishii beat Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Mizuki Watase & SAGAT. Ishii pinned Watase after Nail Kick.

The next event is 9/3 at Narimasu Act Hall in Tokyo with Imanari vs. Hartley Jackson for the Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Championship. There will be no live broadcast.

AEW Rampage 8/26/22 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Rampage from Cleveland, OH:
AEW Trios Title Tournament: Dark Order (John Silver, Alex Reynolds, 10) beat House Of Black. 10 pinned Malakai Black after Miro interference.

AEW TNT Champion Wardlow beat Ryan Nemeth to retain the title. Squash.

Powerhouse Hobbs beat Ashton Day. Squash.

Sammy Guevara & Tay Conti beat Ortiz & Ruby Soho. Guevara pinned Ortiz after a springboard cutter.

ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli beat Dustin Rhodes to retain the title.

Next week’s Rampage will be LIVE. Because of their win tonight, Dark Order will face Best Friends on next week’s show as part of the Trios Title Tournament. The winners advance to the finals for the titles at All Out against the winner of The Elite vs. United Empire on Wednesday.

Nothing new announced for Dynamite next week outside of a Jon Moxley appearance.

Tokyo Joshi Pro “TJPW PERFECTION” Results (8/27/22)

Tokyo Joshi Pro runs the second half of their TJPW PERFECTION doubleheader, and it’s the last one before a big makeover…based on new clips on YouTube, this will be the final time we see the promotion with their current logo-a new one will be unveiled tomorrow at Korakuen Hall, this coming a few weeks after their new theme music debuted (as much as I like Final Fantasy-type music, as a wrestling theme I am not a fan of it). Today is another standard house show on paper.
Kaya Toribami will miss this event due to scheduling issues. No card changes as it was announced on advance.

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. I anticipate the event’s total running time will be about 1 hour, 45 minutes.

Today’s lineup:
Mizuki vs. Hyper Misao & Yuki Aino in a 3-way
Maki Itoh & Moka Miyamoto vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu
Rika Tatsumi & Neko Haruna vs. Nao Kakuta & Hikari Noa
Yuka Sakazaki vs. Raku
Miyu Yamashita vs. Pom Harajuku
Shoko Nakajima & Miu Watanabe vs. Suzume & Arisu Endo

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 11:30 PM ET/8:30 PM PT.

11:27 PM ET UPDATE: Live 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 show but it looks even smaller than last time, lots of empty ringside seats. I’m estimating 150-175, which even with reduced capacity is low for the venue.

The matches will begin in about 15 minutes.

We also seem to be short ringside video equipment. Only hard camera today.

Match 1: Miyu Yamashita vs. Pom Harajuku. 15 minute time limit
Result: Miyu Yamashita beat Pom Harajuku by submission

Match 2: Rika Tatsumi & Neko Haruna vs. Nao Kakuta & Hikari Noa. 20 minute time limit
Result: Nao Kakuta & Hikari Noa beat Rika Tatsumi & Neko Haruna. Noa pinned Haruna with a blizzard suplex hold.

Match 3: Mizuki vs. Hyper Misao & Yuki Aino in a 3-way. 20 minute time limit
Result; Mizuki beat Hyper Misao & Yuki Aino in a 3-way by pinning Aino.

Match 4: Yuka Sakazaki vs. Raku. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuka Sakazaki beat Raku

Match 5: Maki Itoh & Moka Miyamoto vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu. 20 minute time limit
Result; Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu beat Maki Itoh & Moka Miyamoto. Kamifuku pinned Miyamoto after Fameasser.

Quick break for ring repairs.

Main Event: Shoko Nakajima & Miu Watanabe vs. Suzume & Arisu Endo. 20 minute time limit

Result: Shoko Nakajima & Miu Watanabe beat Suzume & Arisu Endo. Nakajima pinned Endo with a Northern Lights suplex hold.

Indeed a very fast event checking in at just under 100 minutes from start to finish, and very heavy on comedy matches today.

The next event is tomorrow at Korakuen Hall, a special women-only event that will also feature the reveal of the promotion’s new logo. Only women will be admitted to the event and they get in for free. For everyone else, live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 10:30 PM ET/7:30 PM PT. Live results are scheduled although due to other live events scheduled, they may be on an up to 30 minute delay.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 146. Also, it appears yesterday marked the 5th anniversary of the launch of Up Up Girls by TJPW, which has had a number of members in its history, most notably former top star Reika Saiki in her prime. The 3 current members (Miu Watanabe, Raku, Hikari Noa) all debuted in TJPW on 1/4/2018.

DDT 8/26/22 Results

DDT ran one of their occasional wacky “beer garden pro wrestling” events today, although due to the coronavirus pandemic this was a “non-alcoholic” version.

Today’s event was held at Ueno Park Outdoor Stage in Tokyo and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 427, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Pre-show dark match: MJ Pawl & KANON beat Hideki Okatani & Takeshi Masada. KANON pinned Masada after Sleepy Hollow.

Match 2: In a Bunkhouse Scramble Weapons Falls Count Anywhere match, Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya, Yuki Ishida & Illusion beat Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi, Kazuki Hirata & Takao Soma. Naya pinned Ishida after a chokeslam onto a pool.

Match 3: In a “Crocodile Panda Drunk” (or something like that) match with unlimited 1-minute rounds, Masa Takanashi & Yukio Sakaguchi beat HARASHIMA in a 3-way after 6 rounds.

Match 4: Daisuke Sasaki beat El Unicorn.

Match 5: In a 3-way deathmatch, Akito & Makoto Oishi vs. Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno and Saki Akai & Antonio Honda went to an unclear ending.

Match 6: MAO, Shunma Katsumata & Toui Kojima beat Yusuke Okada, Jun Akiyama & Yuya Koroku. Katsumata pinned Koroku after Our MADMAX.

Main Event: In a match where the teams were determined by a special customer lottery (participants were announced in advance), Konosuke Takeshita, Naomi Yoshimura & Chris Brookes beat Kazusada Higuchi, Yuki Ueno & Chris Brookes. Takeshita pinned Brookes after a jumping knee.

The next event is “DRAMATIC EXPLOSION 2022” on 9/4 at Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya headlined by 2 title matches including a KO-D Tag Team Championship match and an Atsushi Onita death match. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE including English commentary will begin on 9/4 at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

Post-show Update: The on demand replay of this event will be available starting Monday at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

AEW RUMORS Regarding All Out (SPOILERS!)

With what happened on last night’s Dynamite (and supposedly before) there are a lot of AEW rumors swirling around the All Out PPV card. Here is a quick rundown so far, I caution these are all RUMORS at this time and do not come from official AEW sources unless otherwise noted. And these may contain SPOILERS!

If you don’t want to know, stop reading now!

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NOAH News: Top Jr. Heavyweight Injured (Updated)

Pro Wrestling NOAH has announced changes to the N-1 VICTORY Tournament lineups, but they will not affect the tournament itself as it’s a Jr. Heavyweight. Still significant because it’s top talent Daisuke Harada. Neck injury revealed during a routine MRI. Out indefinitely but will miss the rest of the tournament (through 9/3) and will be re-evaluated afterwards. The promotion takes a nearly 2-week break after the 9/3 event.
More as it becomes available.

Update: For Saturday, he was to have teamed with Seiki Yoshioka & Alpha Wolf to face Dragon Bane, Alejandro & YO-HEY. Atsushi Kotoge is the replacement. For Sunday (Culttz Kawasaki), he was not on the card so no changes are anticipated. The 9/3 card has not been announced yet except for a 6-man tag with The Great Muta, NOSAWA Rongai & Great-O-Khan (New Japan) vs. TBA and Dragon Bane vs. Alpha Wolf. Also the N-1 VICTORY Final.

AEW Dynamite 8/24/22 Results (SPOILERS!)

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Cleveland, OH (SPOILERS for west feed viewers!):
Chris Jericho came out first and called out Daniel Garcia to choose between JAS & BCC. Bryan Danielson also came out during this. Garcia didn’t make a choice, and in the end this all led to Danielson-Jericho being made for All Out. Jake Hager sneak attacks Danielson at the end.

Jay Lethal beat Dax Harwood.

Women’s BREAKING NEWS: Thunder Rosa is injured and out long enough that she can’t defend the AEW Women’s Championship. INTERIM TITLE to be created at All Out.

Colten Gunn beat Billy Gunn.

Britt Baker beat KiLynn King by submission.

Women’s 4-way at All Out for the Interim Title will have Toni Storm, Baker, Jamie Hayter & Hikaru Shida.

Interim AEW World Champion Jon Moxley beat AEW World Champion CM Punk to become the UNDISPUTED AEW World Champion. Went less than 10 minutes. Punk may have re-injured his right foot that kept him out since Double Or Nothing.

Ricky Starks gets to finish his promo from a couple weeks ago when Powerhouse Hobbs beat him down. This was AWESOME.

AEW Trios Title Tournament: United Empire (Will Ospreay & Aussie Open) beat Death Triangle (Lucha Bros & Pac). Ospreay pinned Rey Fenix after Oscutter. Excellent match. Kip Sabian returned late to take out Pac.

Added to All Out besides what was announced earlier: AEW Tag Team Champions Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland vs. The Acclaimed for the titles, Jungle Boy vs. Christian Cage, FTR & Wardlow vs. Lethal & Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley), and Ricky Starks vs. Powerhouse Hobbs.

Friday on Rampage: House Of Black vs. Dark Order in the Trios Tournament, Sammy Guevara & Tay Melo vs. Ortiz & Ruby Soho, AEW TNT Champion Wardlow vs. Ryan Nemeth for the title, ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli vs. Dustin Rhodes for the title and Jade Cargill Speaks.

Next week: Danielson vs. Hager and Storm & Shida vs. Baker & Hayter. And while unannounced they will be in Chicago so you know Punk will be involved.

BREAKING: IWGP Women’s Championship Belt Design Revealed

On their official English Twitter account, Stardom has unveiled the design for the IWGP Women’s Championship. Not the actual belt itself yet but will go on it. It was first revealed by Tokyo Sports then New Japan and Stardom shared it.

DDT 8/24/22 Results

DDT began the post-WRESTLE PETER PAN portion of the year with their monthly DDT FREE event today, a free admission event beginning the build to when Konosuke Takeshita challenges Kazusada Higuchi for the KO-D Openweight Championship next month.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced attendance was 250, a super full house. All tickets were free so no paid admissions. Vocal cheering was allowed for this event.

Match 1: MAO, Shunma Katsumata & Kazuki Hirata beat Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno & Koju Takeda. Hirata pinned Dieno.

Match 2: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON beat Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani by DQ. Okatani DQ’d. Ref assault.

Match 3: Tetsuya Endo beat Takeshi Masada.

Match 4: Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya & Chris Brookes beat Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku. Brookes pinned Koroku after Praying Mantis Bomb.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno & Asuka (Veny) beat Joey Janela & Akito. Ueno pinned Akito after WR.

Match 6: HARASHIMA & Toru Owashi beat Naomi Yoshimura & Makoto Oishi. Owashi pinned Oishi after a powerbomb.

Main Event: Kazusada Higuchi & Yuki Ishida beat Konosuke Takeshita & Toui Kojima. Ishida pinned Kojima after Flame Palm.

The next event is a special “non-alcoholic beer garden wrestling” event Friday at Ueno Park Outdoor Stage in Tokyo. There will be no live broadcast.

In other DDT Group news…
If the Ganbare event Saturday is held as planned (weather permitting due to being outdoors), YuuRI is now off the event. Left hand injury. She was to have teamed with Moeka Haruhi & HARUKAZE to face Yuna Manase, Kakeru Sekiguchi & Yoshiko Hasefawa. Cherry is the replacement.
Eri Suzuki, an actress who is a voice actress on several popular anime series, will provide some of the opening video narration for the upcoming Tokyo Joshi Pro events on 8/28 at Korakuen Hall and 9/4 at Nagoya Congress Center. Suzuki is also part of TJPW’s collaboration with popular anime series “The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls”.
Koriki Choshu, a popular Japanese comedian known for his impersonation of wrestler Riki Choshu, will make a guest appearance at the 9/13 event at Asakusa Flower Theater in Tokyo.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Upcoming Cards, Notes

Tokyo Joshi Pro today announced this weekend’s card and more details regarding Hikari Noa’s first international excursion, which was announced at this past weekend’s event:
As revealed Sunday, Noa is headed to England for an International Princess Championship match against current Champion Alex Windsor. That match will happen during the Pro Wrestling Eve event on Thursday, September 1 at 229 The Venue in London. The event starts at 8 PM BST, which is 3 PM ET/Noon PT, in Japan that’s (I believe) on 9/2 at 4 AM JST. It will be streamed live on YouTube, but in all likelihood it will be behind a paywall so to see most of the event you’ll have to pay. I don’t know how much yet. This will be the first title defense for Windsor.

The full card for Saturday at Ryogoku KFC Hall (Friday night US time) has been announced:
Miu Watanabe & Shoko Nakajima vs. Suzume & Arisu Endo
Miyu Yamashita vs. Pom Harajuku
Yuka Sakazaki vs. Raku
Rika Tatsumi & Neko Haruna vs. Nao Kakuta & Hikari Noa
Maki Itoh & Moka Miyamoto vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu
Mizuki vs. Hyper Misao & Yuki Aino in a 3-way
Kaya Toribami is off this event and 9/4 at Nagoya Congress Center due to scheduling issues. Status is unknown for 9/3 (Narimasu Act Hall, Tokyo) and currently is not on the 8/28 (Korakuen Hall) card.