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All-Japan began their September tour, the Giant Series 2023, today with an event in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. Former Stardom wrestler and inaugural Wonder Of Stardom Champion Yuzuki Aikawa was a special guest on commentary.

The announced paid attendance was 1675.

Match 1: Yoshitatsu beat Black Menso-re.

Match 2: Naruki Doi, Naoki Tanisaki (Independent/Freelancers) & Hokuto Omori beat Kotaro Suzuki (Pro Wrestling NOAH), Keiichi Sato & MAZADA (Independent/Freelancer). Omori pinned Sato after Worst Of The Worst.

Match 3: Masanobu Fuchi Return Match: Masanobu Fuchi, Kaz Hayashi (GLEAT) & Ryuji Hijikata (Independent/Freelancer) beat Osamu Nishimura, Mitsuya Nagai (Dradition) & Masao Inoue. Fuchi pinned Inoue.

Match 4: T-Hawk, El Lindaman, Shigehiro Irie & Junjae (GLEAT) beat Yoshifuni Iwamoto, Takuya Nomura, Fuminori Abe & Ryo Inoue. T-Hawk pinned Inoue after Night Ride.

Match 5: Jun Akiyama, Sanshiro Takagi & Yusuke Okada (DDT) beat Suwama, Hikaru Sato & Dan Tamura by ref stoppage (technical submission). Akiyama beat Tamura with a front neck lock.

Match 6: KAIRI & Saori Anou beat Sayaka Unagi & Sareee. KAIRI pinned Unagi after Insane Elbow.

Match 7: Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato beat Ryuki Honda, Yusuke Kodama & Masao Hanabata. Yuma Aoyagi pinned Hanabata after Rockstar Buster. After this match, Honda apparently left the GOA faction.

Match 8: G-INFINITY Champions Jun & Rei Saito beat Shuji Ishikawa & Ren Ayabe to retain the titles. Jun Saito pinned Ayabe after Psycho Break. V6 for the champs.

Main Event: Kento Miyahara 15th Anniversary Match: Kento Miyahara beat Yuma Anzai.

The next event is Thursday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

All-Japan continued the Summer Action Series 2023 tour today, headlined by NEW Triple Crown Champion Yuma Aoyagi making his first defense since winning the Triple Crown.

Today’s event was held at Kunibiki Messe Exhibition Hall in Shimane and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 937.

Match 1: Yuma Anzai vs. Atsuki Aoyagi went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Shuji Ishikawa & Ren Ayabe beat Hikaru Sato & Aigle Blanc. Ishikawa pinned Blanc after Fire Thunder.

Match 3: Suwama & Dan Tamura beat Yuji Nagata (New Japan) & Ryuki Honda. Suwama pinned Honda after Last Ride.

Match 4: AJPW TV 6-Man Tag Team Champions ATM, Takao Omori & Black Menso-re beat Yoshitatsu, ALL Mighty Inoue & Rauza to retain the titles. ATM pinned Rauza after a diving body press. V2 for the champs.

Match 5: Kento Miyahara, Ryo Inoue & Rising Hayato beat Satoshi Kojima, El Lindaman (GLEAT) & Soma Watanabe (GLEAT). Miyahara pinned Watanabe with a shutdown suplex hold.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Yuma Aoyagi beat Hokuto Omori to retain the Triple Crown. V1 for Aoyagi.

The next event is tomorrow at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka. 3 title matches headline including an extreme death match for the All-Asia Tag Team Championship. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

All-Japan continued the Summer Action Series 2023 tour today with an event in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 324.

Match 1: Takao Omori beat Takaaki Iwasaki.

Match 2: Yuma Anzai & Ryo Inoue beat KONO & Toshizo. Inoue pinned Toshizo.

Match 3: Satoshi Kojima & Aigle Blanc beat Yoshitatsu & Black Menso-re. Blanc pinned Menso-re after Desert Eagle.

Match 4: Hikaru Sato & Hideki Suzuki beat Ryuki Honda & Kohei Sato. Suzuki pinned Honda with a double arm suplex. This was to have been Honda & Masao Hanabata vs. Sato & Suzuki but Hanabata was pulled from the card late last week due to illness.

Match 5: Minoru Suzuki, Hokuto Omori, Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) & Naoki Tanisaki (Independent/Freelancer) beat Kento Miyahara, Shuji Ishikawa, Rising Hayato & Ren Ayabe. Omori pinned Miyahara after a skewered jumping elbow.

Main Event: Suwama & Dan Tamura beat UN Tag Team Champions Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi to win the titles. Suwama & Tamura become the second UN Tag Team Champions. Suwama pinned Yuma Aoyagi after Last Ride.

The next event is Saturday at Kunibiki Messe Exhibition Hall in Shimane. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin Friday at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

Ahead of today’s event in a few hours, All-Japan has to make an injury change because Masao Hanabata is now off. Back. Out indefinitely. He was to have teamed with Ryuki Honda to face Hikaru Sato & Hideki Suzuki. Kohei Sato is the replacement.

Also, while not injury-related, All-Japan announced that ring announcer Ryo Okuda has left the promotion as of 7/7. He was with the promotion for 10 years.

All-Japan posted an update on Twitter linking to an English language Facebook post regarding the recent site issues: The site underwent unscheduled maintenance for various issues, namely the event schedule page not working, and an unspecified issue came up during maintenance. The site has been restored and is accessible again but is currently outdated with no new updates since 6/30. Their other social media accounts and AJPW.TV are not affected. They apologize for the inconvenience and there is no ETA for restoration.

Also announced was that Jun & Rei Saito are off the remaining July events. Family issues. This means they will be out a minimum of 2-3 weeks. No word on if this may affect potential GLEAT participation as they are the current G-INFINITY Champions.

More as it becomes available.

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.

All-Japan begins their july schedule today with a second straight major event, this time the focus is on the Aoyagi brothers. Atsuki Aoyagi is currently the All-Japan World Jr. Heavyweight Champion and he’ll look to keep that title while brother Yuma Aoyagi is next to challenge New Japan stalwart Yuji Nagata and try to reclaim the Triple Crown today. The smaller Aoyagi defends against GLEAT star El Lindaman, part of a large contingent of GLEAT participation today.

There also have been some last minute changes to the event due to Shuji Ishikawa and Oji Shiiba being off the event due to injuries. A couple of early matches were changed, most notably adding Tomoaki Honma participation from New Japan as a replacement for Ishikawa. Ryo Kawamura is the other injury replacement, filling in for Shiiba.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV. Since it’s Korakuen and may be a TV simulcast on Japan (either Samurai! TV or GAORA, probably the former) there should be Japanese commentary. With 2 title matches among the 7 matches and based on time limits I would expect this event to have a total running time of between 2 1/2-3 hours but it wouldn’t go more than 4 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Soma Watanabe, Rising Hayato & Ryo Inoue vs. Hikaru Sato, Dan Tamura & Ryo Kawamura
Yoshitatsu & Black Menso-re vs. Kotaro Suzuki & Hartley Jackson
Hokuto Omori & Naoki Tanisaki vs. Ryuki Honda & Masao Hanabata
Suwama, Satoshi Kojima, Kaz Hayashi & Minoru Tanaka vs. Jun & Rei Saito, Toshizo & KONO
Kento Miyahara & T-Hawk vs. Tomoaki Honma & Ren Ayabe
All-Japan World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Atsuki Aoyagi vs. El Lindaman for the title
All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Yuji Nagata vs. Yuma Aoyagi for the Triple Crown

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET.

7:25 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now…

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. As usual the audio is muted for a moment at the start before we go to the opening video.

The paid attendance should be announced after the event. They didn’t announce attendance for their last event and their website has been somewhat broken the last couple days so we’ll see. From what I saw when we went back at the start it looked like a good crowd with some empty bleachers on either side opposite hard camera. Could be near or around 1000. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1047)

The event begins with today’s lineup video. When we return commentary comes online, we have Japanese commentary.

The matches begin at 7:32 PM PT.

Match 1: Soma Watanabe, Rising Hayato & Ryo Inoue vs. Hikaru Sato, Dan Tamura & Ryo Kawamura. 15 minute time limit
Result: Soma Watanabe, Rising Hayato & Ryo Inoue beat Hikaru Sato, Dan Tamura & Ryo Kawamura. Inoue beat Tamura.

Match 2: Yoshitatsu & Black Menso-re vs. Kotaro Suzuki & Hartley Jackson. 20 minute time limit
Result: Kotaro Suzuki & Hartley Jackson beat Yoshitatsu & Black Menso-re. Suzuki pinned Menso-re after a tiger driver.

Match 3: Hokuto Omori & Naoki Tanisaki vs. Ryuki Honda & Masao Hanabata. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hokuto Omori & Naoki Tanisaki beat Ryuki Honda & Masao Hanabata. Omori pinned Honda. Honda was apparently legit knocked unconscious.early on and they rushed to finish He was carried out on a stretcher and did not appear to be moving. More on this as it becomes available.

Match 4: Suwama, Satoshi Kojima, Kaz Hayashi & Minoru Tanaka vs. Jun & Rei Saito, Toshizo & KONO. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jun & Rei Saito, Toshizo & KONO beat Suwama, Satoshi Kojima, Kaz Hayashi & MInoru Tanaka. Jun Saito pinned Suwama after a chokeslam.

Matches for upcoming events in July and August as well as upcoming events are announced. Among the highlights: 7/23 will have All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi vs. Minoru Suzuki & Hokuto Omori for the titles. And on 8/27…Saki Akai (DDT) participation!

Match 5: Kento Miyahara & T-Hawk vs. Tomoaki Honma & Ren Ayabe. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kento Miyahara & T-Hawk beat Tomoaki Honma & Ren Ayabe. Miyahara pinned Ayabe.

Match 6: All-Japan World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Atsuki Aoyagi vs. El Lindaman for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: El Lindaman beat All-Japan World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Atsuki Aoyagi to win the title. Lindaman becomes the 66th All-Japan World Jr. Heavyweight Champion. Next up: Possibly Ryo Inoue, who stormed out to issue the challenge.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Yuji Nagata (New Japan) vs. Yuma Aoyagi for the Triple Crown. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Yuma Aoyagi beat All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Yuji Nagata to win the Triple Crown. Aoyagi becomes the 70th All-Japan Triple Crown Champion. Next up: Unless Shotaro Ashino comes back anytime soon, potentially Hokuto Omori as he came out to issue the challenge. Afterwards, a funny spot as Aoyagi was not exactly Kento Miyahara when it came to handling the 3 belts he now holds as the Triple Crown and All-Japan World Heavyweight Tag Team Champion after he ends Nagata’s impressive nearly 5-month reign as the oldest 55 years old champion.

The next event is 7/8 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

All-Japan continues the Dynamite Series 2023 Tour today with their last event of the month.

Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. You can also watch the first 4 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (Update: The announced paid attendance was 285)

There were last-minute changes to the first match because Oji Shiiba was injured in practice earlier in the day or in recent days. Meniscus. Out indefinitely. Kenichiro Arai was the replacement. (Update: Right knee according to a press release from GLEAT today noting Shiiba is off their event Saturday)

Match 1: Hikaru Sato & Dan Tamura beat Kenichiro Arai & Black Menso-re. Tamura pinned Menso-re after a powerbomb.

Match 2: Rising Hayato vs. Yutani (GLEAT) went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 3: Manabu Soya (Pro Wrestling NOAH) beat Takao Omori.

Match 4: Takuya Nomura, Fuminori Abe & Ryo Inoue vs. Naruki Doi, Naoki Tanisaki (Independent/Freelancers) & Hokuto Omori went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

Match 5: Kento Miyahara beat Kotaro Suzuki.

Match 6: Daisuke Sekimoto (Big Japan) & Suwama vs. Jun & Rei Saito went to a double countout.

Main Event: Yuji Nagata, Master Wato (New Japan) & Ryuki Honda beat Yuma Aoyagi, Atsuki Aoyagi & Yoshitatsu. Nagata beat Yoshitatsu with Nagata Lock 54.

The next event is Sunday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA but I expect it to be live on AJPW.TV, if so it will begin Saturday at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET and there will be live results.

All-Japan rookie/sophomore Yuma Anzai had an early career match when he faced Yuji Negata for the Triple Crown this past week, ultimately a losing effort as the New Japan veteran retained the Triple Crown. And based on the promotion’s announcement on Twitter, he lost more than the match-also some time because he was injured in the match. Torn left triceps. Out indefinitely but at least 2 weeks including 6/26 & 7/2 events. For 6/26, he was to have teamed with Ryo Inoue & Oji Shiiba to face Naruki Doi, Naoki Tanisaki & Hokuto Omori. Takuya Nomura is the replacement.

More as it becomes available.