8/28/22-9/4/22 Events Schedule

Here is the current events schedule for 8/28-9/4, which is subject to change (all times PT):
8/28:
Midnight-Pro Wrestling NOAH N-1 VICTORY 2022 Tournament, Culttz Kawasaki, Kawasaki, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
5 PM-NWA “NWA 74” Night 2, St. Louis, MO. Live on FITE and NWA All Access. LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED
8 PM-Nihon Sumo Kyokai September 2022 Grand Sumo Tournament Banzuke Announcement (tentative)

8/31:
5 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Dynamite”, Chicago, IL. Live on TBS in US and FITE elsewhere

9/2:
2:30 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling BURNING SPIRIT Tour, Yokohama Budokan, Yokohama, Japan. Live on New Japan World
7 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Rampage”, Chicago. LIVE on TNT in US and FITE elsewhere
8:30 PM-Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, Narimasu Act Hall, Tokyo, Japan. No live broadcast

9/3:
Midnight-Pro Wrestling NOAH N-1 VICTORY 2022 Tournament Finals, Osaka Prefectural Gym, Osaka, Japan. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
1 AM-New Japan Pro Wrestling BURNING SPIRIT Tour, Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Japan. No live or on demand broadcast
8:30 PM-Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, Naoya Congress Center, Nagoya. Live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. LIVE RESULTS SCHEDULED

Pro Wrestling NOAH 8/27/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAh continued the N-1 VICTORY 2022 Tournament today as the series enters the final stages. Tomorrow wraps up the preliminary stages and sets up next weekend’s finals.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English.

The announced paid attendance was 609.

Match 1: N-1 VICTORY Block B: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Kinya Okada.

Match 2: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Hideku Suzuki beat Anthony Greene by submission.

Match 3: N-1 VICTORY Block B: Takashi Sugiura beat Jack Morris.

Match 4: Mohammed Yone & Daiki Inaba beat Shuhei Taniguchi & Yoshiki Inamura. Inaba pinned Inamura.

Match 5: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Go SHiozaki beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr.

Match 6: N-1 VICTORY Block B: Satoshi Kojima beat Masakatsu Funaki.

Main Event: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Masato Tanaka beat Kazuyuki Fujita.

Standings:
1-Kenoh, 4-1-1, 9 pts
2-Suzuki, 4-1-1, 9 pts
3-Fujita, 4-2, 8 pts
4-Shiozaki, 4-2, 8 pts
5-Tanaka, 3-3, 6 pts (OUT)
6-Wagner, 2-4, 4 pts (OUT)
7-Greene, 1-5, 2 pts (OUT)
8-Masaaki Mochizuki, 1-5, 2 pts (OUT)

Block B:
1-Kiyomiya, 4-2, 8 pts
2-Kojima, 4-2, 8 pts
3-Sugiura, 4-2, 8 pts
4-Katsuhiko Nakajima, 4-2, 8 pts
5-Funaki, 3-3, 6 pts
6-Masa Kitamiya, 3-3, 6 pts
7-Morris, 2-4, 4 pts (OUT)
8-Okada, 0-6, 0 pts (OUT)
The winner of each block advances to the Finals. In Block A, all of the top 4 have a chance, but if the current standings hold after tomorrow’s final matches, it;s complicated. If either Kenoh or Suzuki wins, butoont both, it’s settled. If they both win, things get interesting-presumably the tiebreaker is head-to-head result, but their match went to a time limit draw. Kenoh’s loss came to Tanaka while Suzuki’s was to Fujita, which opens the door more to Fujita if he beats Kenoh tomorrow. Suzuki has Shiozaki, and Shiozaki is in a tough tiebreaker spot because his losses are to Kenoh & Fujita. Everybody else is out. In Block B, also a potential mess brewing. We’re likely going to need tiebreakers without an epic upset because Nakajima’s final match tomorrow is against Okada, who has been the block jobber, Sugiura has Funaki and Kitamiya has Morris. Kiyomiya has Kojima. We’ll have to wait and see but here’s one key stat that could factor in at the end-one of Kiyomiya’s two losses was an early upset loss to Morris. The other was to Kitamiya. Funaki’s losses are Kiyamita & Kojima. Nakajima’s losses are Funaki & Kiyomiya. Kojima’s losses are Nakajima & Sugiura. Sugiura’s losses are Nakajima & Kojima. Tranlation: ANYTHING CAN AND WILL HAPPEN!

The next event is tomorrow at Culttz Kawasaki in Kawasaki with the final block matches. Live streaing on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. A pre-show dark match is scheduled for 20 minutes before the event.

Also, after the event it was announced that Yasutaka Yano, who has been out the last few months due to injury, will return on 9/21 at the next N INNOVATION event. He will face Kai Fujimura in his return match.

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.