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New Japan 11/1/22 Results

New Japan continued the BURNING AUTUMN ’22 Tour today with a house show, making their first visit to Echizen City.

Today’s event was held at Aisin Sports Arena on Fukui. There was no live broadcast and no on demand video will be available.

The announced paid attendance was 604.

Match 1: DOUKI beat Yuto Nakashima by submission.

Match 2: Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe beat Kosei Fujita & Alex Zayne. Makabe pinned Fujita.

Match 3: Ren Narita beat Ryohei Oiwa by submission.

Match 4: David Finlay, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Gideon Gray, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb. Finlay pinned Gray after Trash Panda.

Match 5: Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Dick Togo & EVIL. Taichi beat Togo with Taichi-type Gedo Clutch.

Match 6: Jado, Master Wato & Hikuleo beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & KENTA. Wato beat Gedo with Vendeval.

Match 7: Hiromu Takahashi & SANADA beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado. SANADA beat Kanemaru with Skull End.

Main Event: Titan, BUSHI & Tetsuya Naito beat Francesco Akira, TJP & Aaron Henare. Naito pinned Henare after Destino.

The next event is tomorrow at Yoshitsune Arena in Ishikawa. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

DEVELOPING: New Japan 11/5 Title Match Off (Updated)

Updating the ongoing drama between New Japan and NEVER Openweight Champion Karl Anderson around the scheduled 11/5 title match in Osaka, the match is now off. The promotion claims it has still not received a response from Anderson so the match has bern cancelled. He was to have defended the title against Hikuleo. In fallout from recent live events, Hikuleo will now face Yujiro Takahashi on 11/5 in a NON-TITLE match.

Despite rumors this could happen, Anderson has not yet been stripped of the title. He is missing the event due to claiming he will instead be at a WWE event in Saudi Arabia that day.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: In related news, New Japan has added IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions FTR vs. Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb for the titles to 11/5.

New Japan 10/30/22 Results

New Japan continued the BURNING AUTUMN ’22 Tour today with an event featuring the final Quarterfinals of the NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament. The Semifinals would be set today ahead of the tour-ender on 11/5, where we’ll find out who will face off to become the first champion at Tokyo Dome in January.

Today’s event was held at Makuhari Messe Industrial Exhibition Hall 1 in Chiba and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 493.

Match 1: DOUKI beat Kosei Fujita by submission.

Match 2: Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb beat Ryohei Oiwa & Yuto Nakashima. Khan pinned Oiwa after Imperial Drop. Afterwards, Khan & Cobb called out IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions FTR, who are to be at the 11/5 tour-ender to defend the titles (FTR beat the United Empire duo to win the titles).

Match 3: Master Wato & Hikuleo beat Dick Togo & EVIL. Hikuleo pinned Togo after a chokeslam.

Match 4: Alex Zayne, Tiger Mask & David Finlay beat TAKA Michinoku, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. Finlay pinned TAKA after Trash Panda.

Match 5: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado beat Gedo & Taiji Ishimori. Kanemaru beat Gedo with a Figure 4.

Match 6: Titan, BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Gideon Gray, Francesco Akira, TJP & Aaton Henare. Takahashi pinned Gray.

Match 7: NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament Quarterfinals: Ren Narita beat Toru Yano.

Main Event: NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament Quarterfinals: SANADA beat KENTA. As a result, SANADA will face Narita in the Semifinals. The other Semifinal is EVIL vs. Zack Sabre Jr.

The next event is Tuesday at Echizen City AW-I Sports Arena in Fukui. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 10/30/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the Keiji Muto Retirement Road series today with what possibly was the first pro wrestling event to be held at Tokyo’s new Ariake Arena venue, constructed for the 2020 (delayed to 2021) Summer Olympics in Japan. This marks the halfway point in Muto’s originally planned 5 match retirement series, today’s match was a crossover match with New Japan Pro Wrestling as Muto was opposite perhaps the G.O.A.T. of New Japan, the one & only Hiroshi Tanahashi.

Today’s event was held at Ariake Arena in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The live broadcast earlier was only in English due to being an ABEMA exclusive.

The announced paid attendance was 3739. Because vocal cheering was allowed, that meant 50% capacity (the venue’s normal max capacity will be 12,000). Between that and the layout, this was roughly 75-80% full, a good debut number for the venue.

Pre-Show Dark Match: Kai Fujimura beat Taishi Ozawa.

Main Show:
Before the first match, Go Shiozaki came out to address the crowd. He was wearing a t-shirt that read “I AM NOAH COMEBACK COMMING SOON”. Yes, it was misspelled. Shiozaki is out due to injury. He led the crowd in shouts of “I AM NOAH! WE ARE NOAH!”
Match 1: Manabu Soya, Shuji Kondo & Hajime Ohara beat Shuhei Taniguchi, Alejandro & Extreme Tiger. Kondo pinned Alejandro after a King Kong lariat.

Match 2: Jack Morris & Dante Leon beat Daiki Inaba & YO-HEY. Morris pinned YO-HEY after Inferno.

Match 3: Yoshinari Ogawa, Chris Ridgeway & Yasutaka Yano beat NOSAWA Rongai, Eita & Super Crazy by DQ. Eita DQ’d. NOSAWA weapon use.

Match 4: Hideki Suzuki & Dr. Wagner Jr. beat Takashi Sugiura 7 Masa Kitamiya. Wagner pinned Kitamiya after Wagner Driver.

Before the next match began, a recorded video played…O…M…G…January 1, Nippon Budokan…The Great Muta vs….SHINSUKE NAKAMURA!!! He’s coming home to Japan! (Nakamura has spent the last decade-plus in WWE since leaving New Japan) This will be an ABEMA live broadcast so hopefully in English on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

Match 5: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Atsushi Kotoge & Seiki Yoshioka beat Tadasuke & Hi69 to retain the titles. Kotoge pinned Hi69. V1 for the champs. Afterwards, Shuji Kondo & Hajime Ohara hit the ring to make the next challenge and start a Kongo beatdown of the champs until a mysterious masked man ran in to make the save and clean house. The mystery man then unmasked himself…Haoh! Tadasuke was en fuego because Haoh was expelled from NOAH after losing their last match against each other. But Haoh seems to be back and will now be known as AMAKUSA.

Match 6: Ninja Mack beat GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion HAYATA by ref stoppage (injury) to win the title. Mack becomes the 50th GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion. HAYATA could not continue due to an elbow injury. Never how you want a title match (or any match) to end. The injury occurred just before the 10 minute mark when Mack went for a sequence starting with multple backflips after bouncing off the ropes following a running start, then with HAYATA on the apron Mack backflipped over the ropes into a powerbomb to the floor. The ref checked on HAYATA then began the 20 count. At 5 the ref checked again on HAYATA and stopped it. HAYATA was already clutching his left elbow and wrist area. It might have landed on the hard floor just past where the mats around the ring ended.

Match 7: In a GHC Martial Arts Rules Match, GHC National Champion Masakatsu Funaki beat Kazushi Sakuraba by ref stoppage (submission) to retain the title.V6 for Funaki. The rules made this a very short match, just 199 seconds.

Match 8: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Takashi Sugiura & Satoshi Kojima beat Kenoh & Katsuhiko Nakajima to retain the titles. Kojima pinned Nakajima after Western Lariat. V1 for the champs.

Match 9: Keiji Muto Retirement Series-PRO WRESTLING LOVE FOREVER 3 ~TRIUMPH~: Keiji Muto, Naomichi Marufuji & Yoshiki Inamura beat Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma (New Japan Pro Wrestling). Marufuji pinned Honma after Shiranui.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya beat Kazuyuki Fujita to retain the title. V1 for Kiyomiya. And fulfillment as he avenged his only N-1 VICTORY 2022 loss.

Regarding HAYATA, it was announced after the event he was scheduled to be on the 11/10 event and is now off. The event will feature 5 matches, all GHC title matches. Thus here is who is next up for all the champions at that event (in match order):
Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team (Kotoge/YO-HEY): Kondo & Hajime Ohara
Jr. Heavyweight (Mack): Leon
Heavyweight Tag (Sugiura/Kojima): Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito
National (Funaki): Wagner Jr.
Heavyweight (Kiyomiya): Timothy Thatcher
This event will be live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
More on the HAYATA injury when/if it becomes available. The earlier announcement means he is out at least 2 weeks. There are only 4 events scheduled in November with December’s schedule TBA beyond a special Tokyo Gurentai produced standalone event on 12/20.

The next event is Thursday at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka, which likely will end the SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour. This will be aired on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date, which probably will be 11/6 or 11/7 (there will be no live broadcast).

New Japan 10/28/22 Results

New Japan continued the BATTLE AUTUMN ’22 Tour today with a house show featuring the wrestlers that were not in the USA for the PPVs the last two days.

Today’s event was held at Kumagaya Citizen Gym in Saitama. There was no live broadcast and no on demand video will be available.

The announced paid attendance was 866.

Match 1: Ryohei Oiwa beat Yuto Nakashima.

Match 2: Tiger Mask beat Kosei Fujita.

Match 3: DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Togi Makabe & Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Taichi pinned Tenzan after a Yokozuna type raised elbow

Match 4: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Dick Togo & EVIL. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Togo.

Match 5: Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii beat Ren Narita & Tomoaki Honma. Ishii pinned Honma after a vertical drop brainbuster.

Match 6: Jado, Alex Zayne & Hikuleo beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & KENTA. Zayne pinned Gedo after Cinnamon Twist.

Match 7: Master Wato, David Finlay & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat TAKA Michinoku, El Desperado & Zack Sabre Jr. Finlay pinned TAKA after Trash Panda.

Main Event: Titan, BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito beat Francesco Akira, TJP, Aaron Henare, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb. Naito pinned Henare after Destino.

The next event is tomorrow at Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall 1 in Chiba. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

New Japan Pro Wrestling “Rumble On 44th Street” Results (10/28/22)

New Japan is back in the US for their next PPV tonight Rumble On 44th Street. Coming off a surprise-filled special event last night that cane off quite well, this more structured event is still loaded with big names from New Japan and All Elite Wrestling among others, and both NJPW STRONG titles are on the line. As a bonus, there is an SWA Championship match, a women’s title that must always be defended against foreigners not from the champion’s native country.

Today’s event will be held at Palladium Times Square in New York City and can be watched live as a PPV on FITE in English and New Japan World in Japanese. On FITE the event is available for $24.99 and includes the live broadcast and unlimited on demand replays. It also is available as part of a combo pack including unlimited replays of last night’s special event (which you should check out) for $29.99, a $10 savings compared to buying both events separately. The New Japan World broadcast costs 2990 Japanese yen (around $20-21) plus the monthly New Japan World subscription fee if you are not a current subscriber (so add about $7 for that). I will be watching on FITE as I pre-purchased the combo pack. There also will be a FREE pre-show 30 minutes before the PPV begins.

If you’re planning to watch alongside other events, get ready for lots of split-screen as I expect tonight’s event, including pre-show, to run close to 3 1/2 hours. Finally, because I will miss the pre-show and will be using the DVR functionality on FITE to watch from the beginning after missing the first part of the event due to work conflicts, the results below will be NEAR LIVE and about 20-30 minutes behind real time.

Tonight’s lineup:
Pre-Show:
Mina Shirakawa & Waka Tsukiyama vs. Kylie Rae & Tiara James
PPV:
Yoh & Rocky Romero vs. Sho & Yujiro Takahashi
STRONG Openweight Champion Fred Rosser vs. Jonathan Gresham for the title
STRONG Tag Team Champions Aussie Open vs. Motor City Machine Guns and The DKC & Kevin Knight in a 3-way for the titles
Homicide, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino vs. Tom Lawlor & West Coast Wrecking Crew
Clark Connors vs. Minoru Suzuki
SWA World Champion Mayu Iwatani vs. KiLynn King for the title
KOPW 2022 Trophy Holder Shingo Takagi vs. El Phantasmo in a Street Fight for the title
Kazuchika Okada & Eddie Kingston vs. Jay White & Juice Robinson

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Updates below will begin at around 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT.

Pre-Show: Kylie Rae & Tiara James beat Mina Shirakawa & Waka Tsukiyama by TKO. Rae beat Tsukiyama.

8:30 PM ET UPDATE: Updates begin below.

We are (NEAR) LIVE from Palladium Times Square in New York City. Your hosts are Ian Ricccaboni, Matt Rehwoldt & Alex Kozlov.
The paid
Match 1: Sho & Yujiro Takahashi vs. Yoh & Rocky Romero. 20 minute time limit
Result: Sho & Yujiro Takahashi beat Yoh & Rocky Romero. Takahashi pinned Romero after a Sho spanner shot from outside the ring. (Side note: Yoh dyed his hair blonde for these events. Usually it’s black). After the match, Lio Rush returned to break up the heel beatdown on Yoh.

Match 2: STRONG Tag Team Champions Aussie Open vs. Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley) and The DKC & Kevin Knight in a 3-way for the titles. 30 minute time limit
Result: Motor City Machine Guns beat STRONG Tag Team Champions Aussie Open and The DKC & Kevin Knight in a 3-way, when Sabin pinned Knight, to win the titles. Motor City Machine Guns become the second STRONG Tag Team Champions.

Alex Coughlin comes out. With microphone. He calls out JR Kratos but also issues a challenge to everybody, both in the US and Japan. He finishes by saying “he’ll be back” next month at the World Tag League.

Match 3: STRONG Openweight Champion Fred Rosser vs. Jonathan Gresham for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: STRONG Openweight Champion Fred Rosser beat Jonathan Gresham to retain the title. V5 for Rosser.

New Japan will return to San Jose, CA on 2/18/2023 for their next US event, the second installment of Battle of the Valley.

Match 4: Homicide, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino vs. Tom Lawlor & West Coast Wrecking Crew. 30 minute time limit
Result: Homicide, Wheeler Yuta & Shota Umino beat Tom Lawlor & West Coast Wrecking Crew. Umino pinned Jorel Nelson after Death Rider.

Match 5: Clark Connors vs. Minoru Suzuki. 30 minute time limit. MMA legend Ken Shamrock is in Connors’ corner.
Result: Minoru Suzuki beat Clark Connors

At this point (9:55 PM ET) results are LIVE the rest of the way.

Match 6: SWA World Champion Mayu Iwatani (Stardom) vs. KiLynn King for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: SWA World Champion Mayu Iwatani beat KiLynn King to retain the title. (Side note: The title has a unique rule-defenses can’t be against wrestlers from the champion’s native country/ethnic background. So as long as Iwatani is champion, a Japanese woman can’t challenge for the title)

Match 7: KOPW 2022 Trophy holder Shingo Takagi vs. El Phantasmo in a Street Fight for the trophy. 1 Hour time limit
Result: KOPW 2022 Trophy holder Shingo Takagi beat El Phantasmo to retain the trophy.

Quick break for ring cleaning. The ring sweeper gets some chants from front row fans as we go to a promo video for the main event.

Main Event: Kazuchika Okada & Eddie Kingston vs. Jay White & Juice Robinson. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Jay White & Juice Robinson beat Kazuchika Okada & Eddie Kingston. White pinned Kingston after Bladerunner. Afterawrds, White with microphone for a post-main event heel promo to not necessarily send the crowd home happy.

End Show. Including the pre-show, the event ran about 3 1/2 hours.

The next US event likely will be the 2/18/23 event announced earlier tonight.

Back on the Japan side of things, the next event of the BATTLE AUTUMN ’22 Tour is tomorrow at Kumagaya Citizen Gym in Saitama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 982.

New Japan Pro Wrestling “The Night Before The Rumble On 44th Street: A Halloween Special” Results (10/27/22)

New Japan has a special pre-PPV event scheduled tonight in the US ahead of their next PPV tomorrow, taking on a Halloween theme for these events. Fans are encouraged to wear Halloween costumes to tonight’s event, as far as what’s on tap it all is a surprise-no matches will be announced on advance and fans in attendance won’t know each match until entrances happen.

Today’s event will be held at Palladium Times Square on New York City and can be watched LIVE on PPV via FITE in English. There will be no New Japan World broadcast and it will not be available on demand until a later date (probably early next year). The event is available as a standalone PPV for $14.99 or as a combo pack including tomorrow’s event for $29.99 (tomorrow’s event by itself is $24.99). Either purchase gets you the live broadcast and unlimited on demand replays.

Because the event starts as I am beginning my commute home from work, the results below will be NEAR LIVE as FITE streams have DVR functionality so I will rewind to the start when I join the stream and watch from there. These results will be about 15-20 minutes behind real time as a result (I may catch up to live by the end though). Tonight’s event likely will run 2 1/2-3 hours.

Tonight’s lineup is all a mystery and each match will not be revealed until entrances happen.

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We are LIVE from Palladium Times Square in New York City. Your hosts are Ian Riccaboni & Matt Rehwoldt in costumes.
The paid attendance may be announced after the event, there were tickets available earlier today but commentary is saying a sellout. Small venue but it looks like it’ll maybe be in the low 1000s.

Match 1: Kevin Knight & The DKC vs. Rocky Romero & Alex Kozlov
Result: Kevin Knight & The DKC beat Rocky Romero & Alex Kozlov. Knight pinned Kozlov with a rollup.

Match 2: Crowbar vs. Fred Rosser. 20 minute time limit
Result: Fred Rosser beat Crowbar
After the match, Jonathan Gresham came out. This may be his first appearance anywhere since leaving All Elite Wrestling & Ring Of Honor a couple months ago. Rosser had an open challenge for tomorrow for the STRONG Openweight Championship. Had because Gresham has accepted.

Match 3: Aussie Open (Mark Davis & Kyle Fletcher) vs. S.A.T. (Joel & Jose Maximo). 20 minute time limit
Result: Aussie Open beat S.A.T. Fletcher pinned one of the Maximos after Corealis.

Match 4: Mighty Mante vs. Smiley, Mascara Dorada & Mike Bailey in a 4-way. 30 minute time limit
Result: Mike Bailey beat Mighty Mante, Smiley & Mascara Dorada in a 4-way by pinning Mante.

Match 5: Tracy Williams vs. Minoru Suzuki. 30 minute time limit
Result: Minoru Suzuki beat Tracy Williams. Afterwards, Suzuki teased giving the referee a Gotch-style piledriver but spared him.

Match 6: Jake Something vs. Shingo Takagi. 30 minute time limit
Result: Shingo Takagi beat Jake Something (I incorrectly said Tracy Williams before)

Main Event: Elimination Match (over the top rules as well as pinfall/submission): Tom Lawlor, West Coast Wrecking Crew (Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs), El Phantasmo, Juice Robinson & Jay White vs. Amazing Red, Eddie Kingston, Homicide, Yoh, Jon Moxley & Kazuchika Okada. No time limit
Result: Amazing Red, Eddie Kingston, Homicide, Yoh, Jon Moxley & Kazuchika Okada beat Tom Lawlor, West Coast Wrecking Crew, El Phantasmo, Juice Robinson & Jay White. Order of elimination: Yoh by Nelson & Isaacs, Nelson by Red, Red by Isaacs, Isaacs by Homicide, Homicide by Lawlor, Phantasmo by Moxley, Lawlor by Moxkey, Okada by White, Robinson by Moxley, White by Moxley & Kingston. Moxley & Kingston win. Afterwards, Kingston with microphone to call out White and bury him ahead of his 1/4/23 IWGP World Heavyweight Championship defense against Okada, then handing the microphone to Moxley to cut the show-ending promo to send the crowd home happy.

This definitely was full of surprises as advertised with appearances by STRONG and local NYC indy talent as well as some current & former Impact & ROH talent among others. Mike Bailey is always awesome and AEW provided great surprises at the end with Moxley & Kingston, some flashbacks to the past with S.A.T, and much more. A fun prequel ahead to tomorrow’s main PPV that’s worth watching.

End Show. The event ran just under 3 hours.

The main feature is tomorrow. Live streaming on FITE in English and New Japan World in Japanese (as a separate PPV for 2990 Japanese yen) will begin at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT with a FREE pre-show match scheduled for 7:30 PM ET/4:30 PM PT. Tomorrow’s current lineup:
Pre-show: Waka Tsukiyama & Mina Shirakawa vs. Kylie Rae & Tiara James
Main Show:
Rocky Romero & Yoh vs. Yujiro Takahashi & Sho
STRONG Tag Team Champions Aussie Open vs. Motor City Machine Guns and The DKC & Kevin Knight in a 3-way for the titles
Homicide, Shota Umino & Wheeler Yuta vs. Tom lawlor & West Coast Wrecking Crew
Clark Connors vs. Minoru Suzuki
STRONG Openweight Champion Fred Rosser vs. Jonathan Gresham for the title
SWA World Champion Mayu Iwatani vs. KiLynn King for the title
KOPW 2022 Trophy Holder Shingo Takagi vs. El Phantasmo in a Street Fight for the trophy
Kazuchika Okada & Eddie Kingston vs. Jay White & Juice Robinson (main event)
NEAR LIVE results are scheduled to begin at around 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT, but the exact time is subject to change. Regardless, full results will be posted.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 625. Friday’s PPV is now sold out so the number will be around the same, maybe a little higher.

New Japan 10/27/22 Results

Nee Japan continued the BURNING AUTUMN ’22 Tour today with the beginning of the Quarterfinals of the NJPW WORLD TV Tournament.

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

The announced paid attendance was 700, a legit sellout. Reduced capacity due to vocal cheering allowed.

Match 1: Aaron Henare beat Ryohei Oiwa.

Match 2: Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii beat Yuto Nakashima & Ren Narita. Ishii pinned Nakahima.

Match 3: Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb beat Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe. Cobb pinned Honma after Tour of the Islands.

Match 4: Titan, BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi beat Gideon Gray, Francesco Akira & TJP. Titan pinned Gray after Angel Immortal.

Match 5: Alex Zayne, Master Wato, Hikuleo & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat TAKA Michinoku, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & Taichi. Wato beat TAKA with Vendeval.

Match 6: SANADA & Tetsuya Naito beat Gedo & KENTA. Naito pinned Gedo.

Match 7: NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament Quarterfinals: EVIL beat YOSHI-HASHI.

Main Event: NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament Quarterfinals: Zack Sabre Jr. beat David Finlay. As a result, Sabre will face EVIL in the Semifinals on 11/5.

The next event is The Night Before The Rumble On 44th Street: A Halloween Special TONIGHT at Palladium Times Square in New York City. Live streaming on FITE will begin at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT (this is a PPV in English). There is no live broadcast on New Japan World.

The BATTLE AUTUMN tour resumes Saturday at Kumagaya Citizen Gym in Saitama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

New Japan 10/26/22 Results

New Japan continued the BATTLE AUTUMN ’22 Tour today with the first of back-to-back cheering events allowed, that also would finish setting the Quarterfinals of the NJPW WORLD TV Championship.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese. This was a Samurai! TV broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 700, a legit sellout. Reduced capacity due to vocal cheering allowed.

There was a last-minute change to the card because DOUKI was removed shortly before the event began. Fever. Rapid test for coronavirus was negative but kept out as a precaution. He was to have teamed with El Desperado & Taichi to face Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & KENTA. Gedo was also removed as a result.

Match 1: Gideon Gray & Aaron Henare beat Kosei Fujita & Yuto Nakashima. Henare pinned Fujita after Rampage.

Match 2: Alex Zayne, Tiger Mask & David Finlay beat TAKA Michinoku, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Zack Sabre Jr. Zayne pinned TAKA after Cinnamon Twist.

Match 3: Hikuleo & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Dick Togo & EVIL. Hikuleo pinned Togo after a chokeslam. Afterwards, Hikuleo called out Karl Anderson.

Match 4: Taiji Ishimori & KENTA beat El Desperado & Taichi. KENTA pinned Taichi after a low blow.

Match 5: Hiromu Takahashi & SANADA beat Master Wato & Togi Makabe. SANADA pinned Makabe with O’Connor Bridge.

Match 6: Francesco Akira, TJP & Jeff Cobb beat Titan, BUSHI & Tetsuya Naito. Akira pinned BUSHI after 2/2 (a combined sandwich-type Fireball with TJP).

Match 7: NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament: Toru Yano beat Great-O-Khan. The Great Muta (Keiji Muto) appeared to help Yano win.

Main Event: NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament: Ren Narita beat Tomohiro Ishii. As a result, Narita will face Yano in the Quarterfinals.

The next event is tomorrow with the start of the tournament Quarterfinals. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

DEVELOPING: New Japan-Karl Anderson Update (Updated)

New Japan’s English website has provided an update on Karl Anderson and the NEVER Openweight Championship, which he is to defend on 11/5 against Hikuleo in Osaka. Those plans have been thrown in disarray because Anderson & Doc Gallows have seemingly returned to WWE and are now advertised for an 11/5 event in Saudi Arabia. New Japan has attempted to contact Anderson over the last several days but he has not responded. The promotion’s stance is Anderson defends or he will be forced to vacate the title and return the belt immediately.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: Anderson has responded on Twitter, saying he will not vacate the title and will defend the belt on his own time and NJPW should contact his booker/agent…who is Gallows according to Anderson.

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