New Japan 10/5/24 Results (Updated)

New Japan began the Road to KING OF PRO WRESTLING 2024 Tour today, unusual because all the events are/will be non-televised house shows so unless you are/were there you won’t be able to watch.

Today’s event was held at Kumagaya City Municipal Gym in Saitama. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 978.

There were last-minute changes to the event because of Gabriel Kidd being off the event unexpectedly. Flight delays-unable to make it in time as a result.

Match 1: Katsuya Murashima beat Daiki Nagai. First career singles win for the Young Lion!

Match 2: Tomoaki Honma & Boltin Oleg beat Shoma Kato & Tomohiro Ishii. Oleg pinned Kato after Kamikaze.

Match 3: Taiji Ishimori, Caveman Agu & Bad Luck Fale beat Hartley Jackson (Independent/Freelancer), Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls. Fale pinned Jackson after an elbow drop.

Match 4: Taichi & DOUKI beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Sho. Taichi beat Kanemaru with a Taichi-type Gedo Clutch.

Match 5: Hiromu Takahashi & Yota Tsuji beat Jacob Austin Young & Jeff Cobb. Takahashi beat Young with a Figure 4.

Match 6: Shota Umino, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Umino pinned Togo after Death Rider.

Match 7: Kevin Knight, KUSHIDA, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Gedo & David Finlay. YOSHI-HASHI beat Gedo with Butterfly Lock.

Main Event: Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito. Sabre pinned BUSHI after Sabre Driver.

The next event is BLUE JUSTICE 14, a Yuji Nagata Produced 40th Anniversary event, tomorrow at Togane Arena in Chiba. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

UPDATE: Great-O-Khan made an appearance at today’s Stardom PPV in Nagoy and announced he wanted to defend the KOPW 2024 Championship at Historic X-Over 2 on 11/17 against someone-or someones-from Stardom. Khan announced any rules would be acceptable. We’ll see what happens.

New Japan News: New Interim Dojo Coach, TV Plans

Some New Japan news before the next tour begins:

The promotion announced today that Josh Barnett, a longtime MMA and pro wrestling veteran including in New Japan, has been named an interim coach at the New Japan Dojo for this month. In comments, Barnett said he was very honored to be named an interim coach and following in the footsteps of his trainer, Karl Gotch.

It was also announced that the Royal Quest 4 event in England later this month will be a LIVE broadcast worldwide on New Japan World for all paying monthly subscribers-no PPV/paywalls. The event is on 10/20 and will start at a nice matinee time for those of us in the US-9:30 AM PT/12:30 PM ET. While the Road to KING OF PRO WRESTLING tour starting tomorrow will not be televised at all, the event continues a run where every event should be televised at least through after the upcoming Super Jr. Tag League in October & November. Also on New Japan World will be Sunday’s Yuji Nagata Produced event and KING OF PRO WRESTLING 2024, which will be available live OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY (it’s a TV Asahi exclusive in Japan). The movie “Gladiator 2: The Voice Of The Hero”, being released worldwide soon and in Japan on 11/15, will be the title sponsor of the KOPW 2024 event.

DDT 10/3/24 Results

DDT kicked off their October tour today with the final event for Makoto Oishi before he retires from full-time wrestling to relocate and spend more time with his family (he may still compete part-time including when DDT is in his area) and also the third match for Kaisei Takechi, just days after “The Rampage” had his second career match.

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

The announced paid attendance was 500, a legit advance sellout. 100% legit full capacity sellout. (500 is the venue’s max capacity for wrestling)

Match 1: Yukio Naya beat Yuki Ishida.

Match 2: Jun Akiyama, Takao Soma & Kazumi Suni beat Toru Owashi, Masa Takanashi & Illusion. Soma pinned Takanashi after Authorized Endless Waltz. As a result, Soma wins Takanashi’s “Money In The Bank” title shot.

Match 3: Tetsuya Endo & Yuki Iino beat Keigo Nakamura & To-y. Endo pinned Nakamura after a rotating torture rack bomb.

Match 4: Makoto Oishi & Kaisei Takechi beat Akito & Kazuki Hirata. Oishi pinned Hirata with a tornado clutch. No word on if all the female fans left after this because it wasn’t the main event.

Match 5: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON beat Chris Brookes, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada to retain the titles. Sasaki pinned Masada after Freedom Call. V2 for the champs.

Main Event: Makoto Oishi Final DDT Match: KO-D Tag Team Champions MAO & Shunma Katsumata beat Makoto Oishi & Danshoku Dieno to retain the titles. MAO pinned Oishi after Iai Kick. V1 for the champs.

The next event is Wednesday at Asakusa Flower Theater in Tokyo. There will be no live broadcast.

Stardom 10/2/24 Results

Stardom ran their second Tokyo weeknight event in recent memory today, the last build for their next major event this weekend.

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

The announced paid attendance was 844.

Match 1: Suzu Suzuki & AZM beat Tam Nakano & Aya Sakura. AZM pinned Sakura after a diving foot stomp.

Match 2: Ruaka, Rina & Azusa Inaba beat Miyu Amasaki, Hina & Tomoka Inaba. Ruaka pinned Hina after a neck hanging bomb.

Match 3: Momo Watanabe beat Momo Kohgo.

Match 4: Syuri, Lady C, Ranna Yagami & Nanami (Diana) beat Gina, Waka Tsukiyama, HANAKO & Rian. Nanami pinned Rian with a Northern Lights suplex hold. Nanami was a late replacement for the absent Saki Kashima (unspecified injury).

Match 5: Hazuki & Koguma vs. Starlight Kid & Mei Seira went to a double countout.

Match 6: In an elimination match (over the top rope rules in effect), Natsuko Tora, Saya Kamitani, Thekla & Konami beat Natsupoi, Saori Anou, Yuna Mizumori & Sayaka Kurara. Order of elimination: Mizumori by Tora, Kurara & Kamitani together, Tora by Anou, Anou & Konami together, Natsupoi by Thekla. Thekla wins. Late in the match, New Japan wrestler Clark Connors interfered to help Thekla beat Natsupoi.

Main Event: Toni Storm, Mina Shirakawa & Maika beat Mayu Iwatani, Hanan & Saya Iida. Storm pinned Hanan after Storm Zero.

The next event is STARDOM NAGOYA GOLDEN FIGHT 2024 Saturday at Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya. Live streaming on Stardom World in Japanese and English as a PPV (4400 Japanese yen, around $30 US) will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. Purchase includes on demand replays until Tuesday. It should be available for all monthly subscribers without additional purchase next Wednesday or Thursday.

GLEAT 9/29/24 Results (Updated)

GLEAT ran their latest G PROWRESTLING event Sunday in Nagoya, their final Nagoya event of the year.

Sunday’s event was held at Nagoya Diamond Hall in Nagoya and will be available on demand on YouTube tomorrow. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 277.

Match 1: MICHIKO, Minoru Tanaka & Kumaarashi beat Blanca Maho, Issei Onitsuka & CIMA. Kumaarashi pinned Maho after a diving senton. Afterwards, a recruiting war occurred as Kumaarashi was being recruited by both Yanzu Family and Bulk Orchestra.

Match 2: Ryuichi Kawakami & Brass Knuckles JUN beat Yu Iizuka & Riki Aitaka. Kawakami pinned Iizuka after Frozen Punch.

Match 3: Hayato Tamura & Quiet Storm beat Soma Watanabe & Junjie. Storm pinned Junjie after a lariat.

Match 4: Hartley Jackson & So Daimonji beat KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Koki Iwasaki. Daimonji pinned Iwasaki after Black Rain.

Match 5: Chris Ridgrway beat Takehiro Yamamura.

Match 6: Lidet UWF Double Bout: Masakatsu Funaki & Daichi Hashimoto beat Katsuhiko Nakajima & Takanori Ito by submission. Funaki beat Ito with a sleeper hold.

Main Event: Kaito Ishida, Tetsuya Izuchi & Kotaro Suzuki beat T-Hawk, El Lindaman & Seiki Yoshioka. Izuchi beat Lindaman with am armbar.

The next event is GLEAT VER. MEGA in OSAKA Sunday at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka. Broadcast plans TBA.

In other news, the promotion announced Aitaka is now an official member of GLEAT effective today and will be known as Ryo Aitaka going foreard.

UPDATE: For Sunday, it will be LIVE on YouTube beginning at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

Injury Report: No Speed Genius on Break

Stardom has announced a last-minute change to tomorrow’s Korakuen Hall event and Saturday’s PPV in Nagoya: Saki Kashima is now off. Unspecified injury. Out indefinitely but at least a week. For tomorrow, was to have teamed with Akari, Lady C & Ranna Yagami to face Gina, Waka Tsukiyama, HANAKO & Rian. Nanami (Diana) is the replacement. For Saturday, she was to have been in a pre-show 6-woman battle royal for a High Speed Championship shot. It will now be a 5-person battle royal with no replacement. It’s not yet known how long Kashima will be out.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 9/30/24 Results (Updated 10/2/24)

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 Tour today in Tokyo.

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

The announced paid attendance was 287.

Match 1: AMAKUSA & Eita beat Alejandro & Cristobal. Eita pinned Cristobal after Imperial Uno.

Match 2: Junta Miyawaki & Kai Fujimura beat Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi. Miyawaki pinned Tadasuke.

Match 3: Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, Masa Kitamiya & Yu Owada beat Daga, Super Crazy, Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf. Kitamiya pinned Crazy after Saito Suplex.

Match 4: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Galeno Del Mal beat Manabu Soya & Ulka Sasaki. Wagner Jr. pinned Soya after Wagner Driver.

Match 5: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Daiki Odashima by submission.

Match 6: Jack Morros vs. Anthony Greene & LJ Cleary in a 3-way went to a no contest.

Main Event: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YO-HEY & HAYATA beat Hajime Ohara & Atsushi Kotoge to retain the titles.YO-HEY pinned Kotoge after Super Face-G. V2 for the champs.

The next event is a special crossover event with Progress Wrestling & Defy Wrestling Saturday at TURBINENHALLE 2 in Oberhausen, Germany. It will be available for live streaming on the Progress Wrestling streaming service Progress Plus, which is available worldwide for the equivalent of 7.99 British Pounds/month, or about $10.70/US, or 79.99 Pounds/year (about $107 US), beginning at 5 AM PT/8 AM ET. It will also be available on demand on the service immediately after the live event.

The next Japan event is 10/7. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

10/2/24 UPDATE: Saturday’s event will also be available on TrillerTV/FITE for Triller+ subscribers. That service is available for $7.99/month. (Although because I was a subscriber before a price hike and have remained so, I get to keep my old rate of $49.99/year)

New Japan 9/29/24 Results

DESTRUCTION, New Japan’s annual fall Kobe blowout event, is now in the books.

Today’s event was held at Kobe World Hall in Kobe and can be watched on demand OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY on New Japan World. This event aired in Japan as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE 2024 on TV Asahi.

The announced paid attendance was 4528, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Dragon Dia (Dragon Gate), Ryusuke Taguchi & Shota Umino beat Tiger Mask, Tomoaki Honma & Yuji Nagata. Umino pinned Honma after Death Rider.

Match 2: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Yota Tsuji beat Francesco Akira, Callum Newman & Jeff Cobb. Takahashi beat Akira with a Figure 4.

Match 3: Hirooki Goto vs. Gabriel Kidd went to a double countout. Which led to…
Match 3 (again): In a No DQ match, Hirooki Goto beat Gabriel Kidd.

Match 4: Kosei Fujita, Zack Sabre Jr. & TBA, revealed at match time to be the returning Ryohei Oiwa, beat TAKA Michinoku, Taichi & SANADA. Oiwa pinned TAKA after THE GRIP (sleeper hold into a rolling lariat). This was Oiwa’s return match after finishing up his training excursion in Pro Wrestling NOAH, and it appears he is joining TMDK.

Match 5: NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL to retain the titles. Tanahashi pinned Takahashi after High Fly Flow. V2 for the champs.

Match 6: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion DOUKI beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru to retain the title. V2 for DOUKI. Next up: Possibly Sho, who laid out DOUKI afterwards.

Match 7: Shingo Takagi beat NEVER Openweight Champion HENARE to win the title. Takagi becomes the 46th NEVER Openweight Champion.

Match 8: IWGP Global Champion David Finlay beat YOSHI-HASHI to retain the title.V2 for Finlay. Next up: TBA but post-match happenings hint at possibly Goto.

Main Event: IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Tetsuya Naito beat Great-O-Khan to retain the title. V1 for Naito. They went 30+ minutes. Next up: Sabre. As previously announced, that match will happen on 10/14 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.

The next event is Saturday at Kumagaya CIty Municipal Gym in Saitama to start the Road To KING OF PRO WRESTLING 2024 Tour. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. In fact, unless plans change last-minute the entire tour will be non-televised (5 events between Saitama, Shizuoka, Ibaraki and Nagano). They’ll make up for it by broadcasting the entire next tour in part because it will have a tournament.

Stardom 9/29/24 LIVE Results (Updated)

Stardom runs their monthly NEW BLOOD event today, the 15th installment of their developmental series for younger and less-experienced wrestlers. The feature match is another Future Of Stardom Championship match-having broken big sister Hanan’s successful defense record last time out by beating twin sister Hina, champion Rina looks to keep her unbeaten record reign going against Aya Sakura. Several other rookies and young talent will be featured as well.

Today’s event will be held at Tokorozawa Sakura Town Japan Pavilion Hall A in Saitama and can be watched LIVE on Stardom World. There likely will be no commentary. Only the main event will likely have longer than a 20 minute time limit if it does so with 6 matches the event probably will run a maximum of 2 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Rian vs. Tomoka Inaba
Sayaka Kurara vs. Soi
Lady C & Ranna Yagami vs. Azusa Inaba & Ruaka
HANAKO vs. Echika Miyabi
Hina vs. Miyu Amasaki
Future Of Stardom Champion Rina vs. Aya Sakura for the title

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Updates below will begin at 9 PM PT/midnight ET.

8:30 PM PT UPDATE; You can also watch the entire event live FOR FREE on YouTube or below.

9 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Tokorozawa Sakura Town Japan Pavilion Hall A in Saitama. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The venue looks small but the lighting is dark enough that I can’t get a good look at the seating. From what I can see I’m guessing it’ll be around 200. I will be watching on YouTube because this stream has 1080p60fps video quality (at least on the hard cameras) available and livestreams have DVR functionality (not readily available on Stardom World). (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 326)

Match 1: Rian vs. Tomoka Inaba. 15 minute time limit
Result: Tomoka Inaba beat Rian by submission

Match 2: Sayaka Kurara vs. Soi. 15 minute time limit
Result: Sayaka Kurara beat Soi

Match 3: Lady C & Ranna Yagami vs. Azusa Inaba & Ruaka. 15 minute time limit
Result: Lady C & Ranna Yaganmi beat Azusa Inaba & Ruaka. C pinned Inaba.

Match 4: HANAKO vs. Echika Miyabi. 15 minute time limit
Result: HANAKO beat Echika Miyabi by submission

Intermission. 10-15 minute break.

The matches resume at 10:05 PM PT/1:05 AM ET.

Match 5: Hina vs. Miyu Amasaki. 15 minute time limit
Result: Miyu Amasaki beat Hina

Main Event: Future Of Stardom Champion Rina vs. Aya Sakura for the title. 15 minute time limit
Result: Future Of Stardom Champion Rina beat Aya Sakura to retain the title. V12(!) for Rina. The record run continues. Came close to going the distance, in which case Rina would have retained. Next up: Looks like Amasaki. Rina hinted at it happening Saturday in Nagoya at STARDOM NAGOYA GOLDEN FIGHT 2024 (which will be a PPV). We should know if it will happen then in a day or two.

The next event is Wednesday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA but it likely will be a live Stardom World broadcast.

UPDATE: It’s now official. Rina-Amasaki will happen Saturday. The legendary Dump Matsumoto, perhaps Japan’s greatest female heel wrestler ever and subject of the new Netflix series “The Queen Of Villians”, has also been added to Saturday along with ZAP and will team with Natsuko Tora, Konami, Momo Watanabe & Ruaka to face Maika, Mina Shirakawa, Gina, HANAKO, Waka Tsukiyama & Rian. Expect forks and lots of blood. (Side note: I binge-watched The Queen Of Villians last week. Overblown and overdoes it on the violence but it’s an entertaining look at women’s pro wrestling in Japan in the 1970s-1980s and is based on actual events despite being fiction. It’s worth 5-6 hours of your time. The English dubbed version features the voices of current WWE wrestler Alexa Bliss and former WWE wrestler Nikki Bella. Content warning-there are scenes depicting domestic violence against women & children)

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