The final pre-event press conference for tomorrow’s ALL TOGETHER AGAIN event was held today. Click below to watch the presser (in Japanese only). This is from New Japan’s Japanese YouTube channel but is also available on the All-Japan & Pro Wrestling NOAH YouTube channels and on New Japan World:
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DEVELOPING: Forbidden Door Presser Early Tomorrow (6/6/23) (Updated)
A Twitter post by New Japan and upcoming YouTube broadcast by AEW have announced a Forbidden Door related press conference tomorrow with Will Ospreay and Kazuchika Okada scheduled to attend. This is in Japan so live streaming begins at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. It will be available on New Japan World and AEW’s YouTube channel.
More tomorrow.
UPDATE: IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay for the title and Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada were announced for Forbidden Door at the presser.
New Japan News: Another Upcoming Title Match in ROH (SPOILERS!)
At the latest Ring Of Honor TV tapings held yesterday in Orlando, FL, there was another New Japan title match held as part of what should be a couple weeks of TV to air in the upcoming weeks. It’s not known when this will be streamed (could be this Thursday, could be next Thursday or even later on) but if you want to know ahead of time, read on (SPOILERS!).
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The full card for Friday’s ALL TOGETHER AGAIN New Japan/All-Japan/Pro Wrestling NOAH card was finalizes today. New Japan announced the entire card which is as follows:
Pre-show (scheduled for 30 minutes before event): Ryo Inoue, Black Menso-re, Yoh & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Atsushi Kotoge, Seiki Yoshioka, Alejandro & Super Crazy
Main show (in order):
YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Yoshiki Inamura
Kosei Fujita & Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Chris Ridgeway & Sean Legacy
Shota Umino vs. Yoshitatsu
Hokuto Omori & Shuji Ishikawa vs. Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima
Ren Narita, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Junta Miyawaki
Francesco Akira, TJP, Aaron Henare, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb vs. Jun & Rei Saito, Hikaru Sato, Dan Tamura & Ryuki Honda
BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito vs. Yuji Nagata, Suwama & Yuma Anzai
TAKA Michinoku, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & SANADA vs. Jake Lee, YO-HEY & Tadasuke
AMAKUSA, Atsuki Aoyagi & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Master Wato, Rising Hayato & HAYATA
Kaito Kiyomiya, Kento Miyahara & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada, Yuma Aoyagi & Kenoh
With the pre-show match added, the start time is now 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET. The event is available only as a PPV on New Japan World for about $30. The PPV window is expected to be 3 months and commentary will be by the New Japan broadcast team. This suggests the earliest it could possibly be available on AJPW.TV and WRESTLE UNIVERSE (or as a non-PPV on New Japan World) is roughly September 10.
New Japan News: Full G1 Climax 33 Participation List
Following up on yesterday’s announcement at the New Japan event, here is the full entry list for this year’s G1 Climax 33 Tournament:
Kazuchika Okada
Tetsuya Naito
SANADA
Will Ospreay
Hiroshi Tanahashi
David Finlay
Shota Umino
Shingo Takagi
Tomohiro Ishii
Tama Tonga
Tanga Loa
Hikuleo
Hirooki Goto
YOSHI-HASHI
Toru Yano
KENTA
Zack Sabre Jr.
Taichi
El Phantasmo
Eddie Kingston
Ren Narita
EVIL
Chase Owens
Jeff Cobb
Great-O-Khan
Aaron Henare
Gabriel Kidd
Alex Coughlin
Shane Haste
Mikey Nicholls
Yota Tsuji
Kaito Kiyomiya (Pro Wrestling NOAH)
Okada is the 2-time defending champion and going for a 3-peat and should be considered the heavy favorite. Naito is a 2-tine winner, Tanahashi a 3-time winner and Goto a one-time winner. Whoever wins gets a future IWGP World Hevayweight Championship match, traditionally on 1/4 at Tokyo Dome but this is not always the case.
The blocks will be announced Saturday.
New Japan 6/4/23 Results
DOMINION, New Japan’s traditional June Osaka blowout event, is now in the books.
Today’s event was held at Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. This event aired as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE 2023 on TV Asahi.
The announced paid attendance was 7040. Depending on the layout, that’s anywhere between 55-80% capacity (it has fixed seating of just under 9000 with movable seating adding up to 4500 more).
Pre-Show: In a Young Lions Challenge where Oskar Leube faces the other 3 Young Lions in 5 minute matches, with increasing prizes of meat from sponsors for each win, Leube went 0-1-2. No meat for you!
Match 1: IWGP US Heavyweight Championship #1 Contender Tournament: Will Ospreay beat Lance Archer to win the tournament. As a result, Ospreay will face Kenny Omega for the title at a later date.
Match 2: Titan, BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi. Titan pinned TAKA after Llave Immortal.
Match 3: Francesco Akira & TJP beat IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA to win the titles. Akira & TJP become the 72nd IWGP Je. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Akira pinned Knight after 2/2.
Match 4: NJPW WORLD TV Champion Zack Sabre Jr. beat Jeff Cobb to retain the title. V10(!) for Sabre.
Match 5: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan and Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL in a 3-way, when Goto pinned Takahashi, to win the vacant IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team and STRONG Tag Team Championships. YOSHI-HASHI & Goto become the 99th IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and 4th STEONG Tag Team Champions. Afterwards, Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin attacked the new champs and joined Bullet Club.
The G1 CLIMAX 33 participants were announced. They include Eddie Kingston from AEW and…Kaito Kiyomiya!!! LET THEM FIGHT!!! (Kazuchika Okada is on notice)
Match 6: NEVER Openweight Champion David Finlay beat El Phantasmo to retain the title. V1 for Finlay.
Match 7: IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi beat Master Wato to retain the title. V5 for Takahashi. The Way to the GrandMaster is not this way for Best Of The Super Junior winner Wato.
Match 8: NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Tomohiro Ishii, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada beat Shota Umino, Claudio Castagnoli & Jon Moxley to retain the titles. Okada pinned Umino after Rainmaker. V1 for the champs. Afterwards, Bryan Danielson issued a challenge to Okada.
Main Event: IWGP World Heavyweight Champion SANADA beat Yota Tsuji to retain the title. V2 for SANADA.
The G1 participants list will be posted later today.
The next event is ALL TOGETHER AGAIN, a joint charity event with All-Japan and Pro Wrestling NOAH, Friday at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. The event will be a live PPV on New Japan World for about $30 beginning at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. The non-PPV version will probably be available in mid-September.
DEVELOPING: Last-Minute NJPW Change For Today
New Japan has announced a last-minute change to the DOMINION card today: The NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championship and IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship matches have had their places on the card swapped. The latter will now be match 7 and the former is now match 8. This is because of Claudio Castagnoli having travel issues. The match is still on though.
New Japan News: NJPW STRONG Archive Now On FITE
Good news for fans of New Japan’s now-discontinued NJPW STRONG TV series who don’t subscribe to New Japan World: The entire archive, up to and including this year’s Capital Collision event, is now available on FITE for FITE+ subscribers. Previously you had to pay to watch episodes or but bundle packs that usually consisted of 4 episodes for the price of one, although New Japan has also been releasing past episodes weekly for free on YouTube.
FITE+ is FITE’s subscription service available for $7.99/month or $69.99/year and, for the amount of combat sports content included, both live and on demand, is an indescribable bargain.
Link to the full press release:
https://www.fite.tv/article/huge-stash-of-njpw-strong-events-now-on-fite/
DEVELOPING: New Japan Headed To Mexico
On today’s episode of their weekly “CMLL Informa” news program, airing every Wednesday afternoon on YouTube, Mexico’s CMLL promotion announced they will host New Japan for a special edition of the FANTASTICAMANIA series on June 30 at Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico. 6 matches will make up the event as follows:
Hombre Bala Jr., El Runaz & Capitan Suicida vs. Okumura, Dark Magic & Akuma
Lluvia & Zeuxis vs. Jarochita & Stephanie Vaquer
El Satanico vs. Tiger Mask
El Desperado vs. Mascara Dorada 2.0
Titan, BUSHI & Tetsuya Naito vs. Mistico, Atantis Jr. & Soberano Jr.
CMLL Historic Welterweight Champion Rocky Romero vs. Volador Jr. for the title
Broadcast plans TBA but CMLL normally puts their Friday events on YouTube up 2-3 days after the events. (Live streams are possibly geoblocked outside of Mexico). The event is scheduled to start at 6:30 PM PT/8:30 PM CT/9:30 PM ET (Mexico City is in the US CT time zone) which means this would be a late Saturday morning event in Japan.
New Japan 5/28/23 Results
New Japan wrapped up Best Of The Super Junior 30 today, bringing the curtain down on another exciting chapter of the prestigious Jr. Heavyweight showcase.
Today’s event was held at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese and English. This event aired as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE ’23 on TV Asahi in Japan.
The announced paid attendance was 3132.
Match 1: Boltin Oleg & Togi Makabe beat Oskar Leube & Yuto Nakashima. Makabe pinned Nakashima after a King Kong kneedrop.
Match 2: Clark Connors beat Ryohei Oiwa.
Match 3: Lio Rush & Yoh beat Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles. Rush pinned Fujita after Final Hour.
Match 4: Dan Moloney, Francesco Akira, TJP, Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan beat Kevin Knight, KUSHIDA, Yuji Nagata, Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Henare pinned Tenzan after Streets Of Rage.
Match 5: Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs. Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL went to a no contest. Out of control. Henare & Khan involvement.
Match 6: Mike Bailey, El Desperado, Ren Narita & Shota Umino beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Tomohiro Ishii, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada. Narita beat Taguchi with a cobra twist. Afterards, Umino made a NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championship challenge with Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli (All Elite Wrestling) as his partners.
Main Event: Best Of The Super Junior Finals: Master Wato beat Titan to win the tournament. It’s the first win for Wato and he becomes the youngest winner in history. As a result, Wato will face IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi for the title next week.
The next event is DOMINION, the annual early June blowout event, on 6/4 at Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.