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BREAKING: 5/14 New Japan Event Changes

In a development with AEW ramifications, New Japan just announced Trent Beretta is now off tomorrow’s Capital Collision event. Coronavirus. He was to have teamed with Kazuchika Okada to face Jay White & Hikuleo. Rocky Romero is the replcement, meaning there are other card changes:
Romero was in a 10-man tag and will now be replaced by The DKC, who was to have faced Kevin Knight in a non-televised pre-show match. Nick Comoroto is the replacement.

This development likely means Trent can’t be at AEW’s events next week in Houston.

Impact Wrestling Under Siege 2022 Results (LIVE)

As part of this site’s debut of Impact Wrestling coverage, it will be providing LIVE results below of tonight’s Impact: Under Siege PPV event. At least 7 matches are on tap featuring Impact’s stop stars but also Ring Of Honor and New Japan Pro Wrestling participation. 4 title matches are scheduled and in the main event, Impact World Champion Josh Alexander defends the title against New Japan’s Tomohiro Ishii.

Today’s event will be held at the Promowest Pavilion in Cincinnati, OH and can be watched LIVE on Impact+ with a qualifying subscription. If you do not have Impact+, it’s also available on FITE for $9.99. Purchase on FITE includes the live broadcast and unlimited on demand replays. I will be watching on FITE.

Tonight’s current lineup (subject to change):
Alex Shelley vs. Mike Bailey
Chris Sabin vs. Steve Maclin
Impact Knockouts World Champion Tasha Steelz vs. Havok for the title
Jay White, Chris Bey, Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson & El Phantasmo vs. Eddie Edwards, Kenny King, Matt Taven, Mike Bennett & Vincent
AAA Reina De Reinas Champion Taya Valkyrie vs. Deonna Purrazzo for the title
Impact World Tag Team Champions Violent By Design (some combination of Eric Young, Deaner and Joe Doering) vs. The Briscoes for the titles
Impact World Champion Josh Alexander vs. Tomohiro Ishii for the title

Refresh the page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT.

UDPATE: Results begin at 7:30 PM ET/4:30 PM PT to include a FREE pre-show.
Pre-show:
Match 1: Heath & Rhino vs. Raj Singh & Shera
Result: Heath & Rhino beat Raj Singh & Shera. Rhino pinned Singh (I think?) after GORE!
Match 2: Laredo Kid vs. Mike Bailey & Rich Swann in a 3-way
Result: Rich Swann beat Laredo Kid & Mike Bailey in a 3-way by pinning Kid.

Changes to the card: Impact X Division Champion Ace Austin vs. Trey Miguel for the title has been added. Apparently no Shelley-Bailey because of what just happened.
Updates will resume when the main show begins.

Main Show:
Brief freeze at the mandatory FBI warning screen at the start.
We are LIVE from the Promowest Pavilion in Cincinnati, OH. Your hosts are Thom Hannifan & Matthew Rehwoldt.

Match 1: Madison Rayne (with Tenille Dashwood) vs. Gisele Shaw (with Alisha)
Result: Gisele Shaw beat Madison Rayne
Grade: C

Match 2: Steve Maclin vs. Chris Sabin
Result: Chris Sabin beat Steve Maclin. There was a false finish where Maclin pinned Sabin with a rollup but Maclin was holding the rope for leverage and the match continued.
Grade: A

Match 3: AAA Reina De Reinas Champion Taya Valkyrie vs. Deonna Purrazzo for the title
Result: AAA Reina De Reinas Champion Taya Valkyrie beat Deonna Purrazzo to retain the title. Immediately afterwards, Purrazzo laid out Valkyrie with the title and beat her down until the lights went out. When they came on, Mia Yim returned to Impact and hit the ring. (Well, I guess she decided not to go to All Elite Wrestling, where her fiance, Keith Lee, now competes). Yim fought Purrazzo until she escaped from a package piledriver attempt.
Grade: C+

Match 4: Impact X Division Champion Ace Austin vs. Trey Miguel for the title
Result: Impact X Division Champion Ace Austin beat Trey Miguel to retain the title. MAustin is now headed to New Japan Pro Wrestling for the Best Of The Super Junior Tournament
Grade: A-

Match 5: Jay White, Chris Bey, Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson & El Phantasmo vs. Eddie Edwards, Kenny King, Matt Taven, Mike Bennett & Vincent
Result: Eddie Edwards, Kenny King, Matt Taven, Mike Bennett & Vincent beat Jay White, Chris Bey, Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson & El Phantasmo. Bennett pinned Anderson.
Grade: C+

Match 6: Impact Knockouts World Champion Tasha Steelz vs. Havok for the title
Result: Impact Knockouts World Champion Tasha Steelz beat Havok to retain the title.
Grade: C+

Match 7: Impact World Tag Team Champions Violent By Design (Deaner & Eric Young) vs. The Briscoes for the titles
Result: The Briscoes beat Impact World Tag Team Champions Violent By Design to become THE NEW IMPACT WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS! Mark Briscoe pinned Deaner after Doomsday Device.

Grade: B

Moose promo in the ring. He threatens to hold the main event and show hostage but Sami Callahan returns to Impact and lays out Moose. Callahan was put out for months thanks to a neck injury at the hands of Moose, during which time he has intensely feuded with “Busted Open” radio show host Dave LaGreca.

Main Event: Impact World Champion Josh Alexander vs. Tomohiro Ishii for the title. During his entrances, commentary notes Alexander was in a major car crash on the way to the event yesterday, his new truck totaled as part of a 6-car wreck. Thankfully Alexander was not hurt and is here.
Result: IMPACT World Champion Josh Alexander beat Tomohiro Ishii to retain the title.
Grade: A+
MOTY Candidate.

Overall show grade: B+
Don’t be fooled by the $10 price tag for this PPV, normally the major Impact ones are $40. This was a $40 quality event, solid as a whole and an absolute bargain. You can skip the odd-numbered matches except the Tag Team Title match while all the even numbered matches and the main event are must-watch. That main event alone is worth paying $40 for. Also go find the pre-show on YouTube and watch the 3-way, which was a dark horse candidate for match of the night before the main event happened.

The next PPV is Slammiversary on June 19 in Nashville, TN.

End Show.

5/8/22-5/14/22 Events Schedule

Here is the schedule of events for 5/8/122-5/14/22, in addition to daily Grand Sumo Tournament Results for the May 2022 Tournament running from 5/8/22-5/22/22 (all times PT, schedule subject to change):
5/9/22:
8 PM-CyberFight Festival 2022 Full Card Announcement Press Conference. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE and YouTube.

5/10/22:
3 AM-DDT Pro Wrestling “DDT FREE -May”, Shinjuku Face, Tokyo, Japan. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE

5/11/22:
5 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Dynamite”, Long Island, NY. LIVE on TBS (US), New Japan World (Japan ONLY) and FITE (other areas)

5/13:
TBA-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Rampage”. TAPED on TNT. Broadcast time likely will depend on NHL Playoffs coverage schedules.

5/14:
1:30 AM-Pro Wrestling NOAH N INNOVATION, Yokohama Radiant Hall, Yokohama, Japan. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
5 PM-New Japan Pro Wrestling Capital Collision, Washington, DC. Live streaming on FITE ($19.99) and New Japan World (aroound $23 plus monthly subscription fees)
8 PM-Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, Ryogoku KFC Hall, Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE

New Japan 5/6/22 Results (Special Event)

New Japan ran a special standalone TakaTaichiMania 2.5 event today produced by Taichi & TAKA Michinoku, the second such exclusive PPV put on by the Suzuki-gun faction this year.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on New Japan World only as a standalone PPV for an additional 3000 yen (about $23-24 US) on top of a monthly subscription. It will be behind this paywall until August 6.

The paid attendance was not announced. Note the matches were listed as Match 4-7 so there may have been more than what New Japan listed:

Match 1: Minoru Suzuki beat Ren Ayabe (JUST TAP OUT). JTO is a promotion run by TAKA Michinoku which he started after moving on from his former KAIENTAI DOJO.

Match 2: TAKA Michinoku & Yoshinobu Kanemaru beat Dick Togo & Gedo. Kanemaru beat Gedo with a Samson clutch.

Match 3: Taichi & Yoshitatsu 20th Anniversary Match: Taichi beat Yoshitatsu. Yoshitatsu, real name Naofumi Yamamoto (I think), changed his name when he left New Japan for a chance in WWE over a decade ago, and continues using the name after being released following a largely failed stint there. It was absolutely not his fault, he was just badly misused by Creative.

Main Event: In a Hardcore match, Jun Kasai (Freedoms) & Tomoaki Honma beat DOUKI & El Desperado. Kasai pinned DOUKI after a reverse Tiger driver. They teased a potential Kasai-Desperado match in the future afterward.

New Japan Free Match Monday 5/2/22

It’s Monday, which means it’s New Japan Free Match Monday! Every Monday New Japan takes a classic match from New Japan World and makes it available FOR FREE!

This week it’s the 2018 Best Of The Super Junior, as we see Taiji Ishimori vs. Hiromu Takahashi from 6/4/2018:

https://youtu.be/35dQtEtgLaw

New Japan Pro Wrestling WRESTLING DONTAKU ’22 Results (5/1/22)

WRESTLING DONTAKU ’22, New Japan’s annual May Golden Week blowout event, is now in the books. An absolutely loaded card punctuated the Fukuoka spectacular highlighted by, for the 3rd time this year, Tetsuya Naito trying once again to take the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship fron Kazuchika Okada. Was it the charm? Let’s find out!
Today’s event was held at the Fukuoka PayPay Dome in Fukuoka and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese and English. (If you’re signing up just to watch today, the monthly subscription fee for May is currently $7.37 US. Still an incredible bargain)
The announced paid attendance was 8162. It looks like they had all the seating on the floor and not other seating around the stadium, which is used mainly for baseball, but still this represents the highest non-Tokyo Dome attendance so far this year-only Night 1 at Tokyo Dome drew higher. Remember there are still pandemic-related capacity restrictions at virtually all venues in Japan due to coronavirus safety protocols. This event was broadcast as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE 2022 on TV Asahi. The first match begins at the 11:30 mark of the replay. (The whole event’s runtime is just over 4 hours but if you fast forward through entrances & exits you’ll save a lot of time). Togi Makabe & Jushin Thunder Liger are the guests on Japanese commentary.
Match 1: TAKA Michinoku, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. beat BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Shiro Koshinaka. Taichi pinned Takagi with a rollup & leg pinning bridge after a sumo throw.(This was to have been TAKA, Taichi & Sabre vs. BUSHI, Takagi & Tatsumi Fujinami, but Fujinami was pulled late last week due to coronavirus. Koshinaka was the replacement)
Match 2: Hiromu Takahashi beat Yoh.
Match 3: Tanga Loa beat Yujiro Takahashi.
Match 4: IWGP Jr. heavyweight Tag Team Champions Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato beat DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru to retain the titles. Taguchi pinned Kanemaru with a rollup into a bridge. V2 for the champs.
Match 5: Chase Owens & Bad Luck Fale beat IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan and HIrooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI, when Owens pinned Goto, to win the titles. Fale & Owens become the 94th IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.
Best Of The Super Junior 29 Participants are announced. They are: Hiromu Takahashi (3-time champion who will be going for his 3rd straight victory, Block A), Ryusuke Taguchi (2012 winner, Block A), Master Wato (Block B), Yoh (Block A-that guarantees a Hiromu Takahashi match again), Robbie Eagles (Block B), BUSHI (Block B), Yoshinobu Kanemaru (Block A), DOUKI (Block B), El Desperado (Block B), Taiji Ishimori (Block A), Sho (Block A-that guarantees a Yoh match), El Phantasmo (Block B), Titan (from the CMLL promotion in Mexico, Block B), TJP (Block B), Clark Connors (Debut-from the LA Dojo, Block A), Wheeler Yuta (Debut-from All Elite Wrestling, Block B), Alex Zayne (Block A), Ace Austin (from Impact Wrestling, Block A), Francesco Akira (Debut, Block A), El Lindaman (GLEAT, Block B)
Match 6: Tama Tonga beat NEVER Openweight Champion EVIL to win the title. Tonga becomes the 36th NEVER Openweight Champion.
Match 7: Taiji Ishimori beat IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion El Desperado by submission to win the title. Ishimori becomes the 92nd IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion.
Match 8: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Tomohiro Ishii to win the vacant IWGP US Heavyweight Championship. Tanahashi becomes the 14th IWGP US Heavyweight Champion
Main Event: IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada beat Tetsuya Naito to retain the title. V4 for Okada. Next up: Jay White. He returned and led a Bullet Club beatdown of Okada to end the show.
The next event is Capital Collision on 5/14 in Washington, DC. Broadcast plans are still undecided.

New Japan 4/28/22 Results

New Japan wrapped up the Golden Fight Series tour today with the final event of April before this weekend’s annual Golden Week blowout event.

Today’s event was held at KDDI Ishin Hall in Yamaguchi. There was no live broadcast and on demand video will not be available.

The announced paid attendance was 762.

Match 1: Ryusuke Taguchi beat Kosei Fujita by submission.

Match 2: Master Wato beat Yuto Nakashima by submission.

Match 3: Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Tiger Mask, Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe. Goto pinned Honma.

Match 4: DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Zack Sabre Jr. & El Desperado beat Gedo, Chase Owens, Bad Luck Fale & Taiji Ishimori. DOUKI pinned Gedo after a doving foot stomp.

Match 5: BUSHI & Shingo Takagi beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. Takagi pinned TAKA after Pumping Bomber.

Match 6: Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Jado, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa. Sho beat Jado with Snake Bite.

Main Event: Yoh & Kazuchika Okada beat Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito. Yoh beat Takahashi with 5 Star Clutch.

The next event is WRESTLING DONTAKU ’22, the annual early May blowout event, Sunday at the Fukuoka PayPay Dome in Fukuoka. Live broadcast on New Japan World in Japanese and English will begin Sunday at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

BREAKING: New Japan 5/1 Card Changes

BREAKING: WRESTLING DONTAKU ’22 has been forced to see last-minute lineup changes as New Japan has announced both Tatsumi Fujinami & Will Ospreay are now off Sunday’s event. Coronavirus. Ospreay’s absence is significant because he was to have faced Hiroshi Tanahashi for the vacant IWGP US Heavyweight Championship. Tomohiro Ishii is the replacement and will face Tanahashi now. The outcome could now affect Capital Collosion on 5/14 because Ishii is to face Eddie Kingston, so if Ishii wins it maybe could become a title match. Fujinami was to have been in the opening 6-man tag. A mystery opponent will step in.

New Japan 4/27/22 Results

New Japan continued the Golden Fight Series Tour today with the penultimate event of the tour.

Today’s event was held at Hiroshima Big Rose in Hiroshima. There was no live broadcast and on demand video will not be available.

The announced paid attendance was 749.

Match 1: Kosei Fujita beat Ryohei Oiwa.

Match 2: El Desperado & DOUKI beat Tiger Mask & Master Wato. Desperado pinned TM 4 after Pinche Loco.

Match 3: Zack Sabre Jr. & Yoshinobu Kanemaru beat Togi Makabe & Ryuauke Taguchi. Sabre beat Makabe with an armbar.

Match 4: Tomoaki Honma, Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori, Chase Owens & Bad Luck Fale. Yano pinned Gedo.

Match 5: Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. Takahashi pinned TAKA with Nameless Hiromu Roll.

Match 6: Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Jado, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa. Sho pinned Jado.

Main Event: Yoh & Kazuchika Okada beat BUSHI & Tetsuya Naito. Okada pinned BUSHI after Rainmaker.

The tour-ender is tomorrow at KDDI Ishim Hall in Yamaguchi. This is a non-teevised event.

New Japan 4/25/22 Results

New Japan continued the Golden Fight Series today with the laat televised event of the tour. It was more loaded with a title match and a KOPW 2022 Trophy main event, maybe the first such match (thankfully) not featuring Toru Yano.

Today’s event was held at Hiroshima Sun Plaza in Hiroshima and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese.

The announced paid attendance was 1118.

Match 1: Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe beat Yuto Nakashima & Tiger Mask. Honma pinned Nakashima after Kokeshi.

Match 2: Zack Sabre Jr., DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru beat Ryohei Oiwa, Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi. Sabre pinned Oiwa.

Match 3: Gedo & Taiji Ishimori beat TAKA Michinoku & El Desperado. Ishimori pinned Gedo after Bloody Cross.

Match 4: Chase Owens & Bad Luck Fale beat YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Owens pinned YOSHI-HASHI after Rocket Launcher Elbow.

Match 5: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Yoh, Toru Yano & Kazuchika Okada. Naito pinned Yano.

Match 6: NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa to retain the titles. Takahashi pinned Loa after Big Juice. V3 for the champs.

Main Event: In a 30 Count Falls match, where the first wrestler to accumulate a cumulative total of 30 counts on pinfall attempts, Shingo Takagi beat KOPW 2022 Trophy holder Taichi to win the trophy.

The next event is Wednesday at Hiroshima Big Rose. None of the remaining tour events will be televised or available on demand.

The next scheduled broadcast is WRESTLING DONTAKU ’22 Sunday at Fukuoka PayPay Dome in Fukuoka. Live streaming on New Japan World in Japanese and English will begin Sunday at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

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