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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.

New Japan 5/26/23 Results

New Japan ran the Semifinals of Best Of The Super Junior 30 today, which would determine who advances to this weekend’s Finals.

Today’s event was held at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese and English FOR FREE!

Click below to watch in Japanese:
https://njpwworld.com/p/s_00651_22_1

Click below to watch in English:
https://njpwworld.com/p/s_00651_23_1

The announced paid attendance was 1330.

Match 1: Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles beat Gedo & Clark Connors. Fujita pinned Gedo with O’Connor Bridge.

Match 2: Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan beat Tomoaki Honma & Toru Yano. Khan pinned Honma after Imperial Drop.

Match 3: Dan Moloney, Francesco Akira & TJP beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA. Akita pinned Taguchi after 2/2.

Match 4: Lio Rush, Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Togo after Shoto. Afterwards, Khan & Henare made an IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship challenge for DOMINION.

Match 5: Tomohiro Ishii, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada beat Boltin Oleg, Oskar Leube & Shota Umino. Ishii pinned Leube.

Match 6: DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Taichi & SANADA beat BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito. SANADA beat BUSHI with Skull End.

Match 7: Best Of The Super Junior Semifinals: Master Wato beat Mike Bailey.

Main Event: Best Of The Super Junior Semifinals: Titan beat El Desperado.

As a result, the Final is Wato vs. Titan.

The Final is Sunday at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

New Japan News: Another Upcoming Title Match in ROH (SPOILERS!)

After last night’s AEW Dynamite, Ring Of Honor taped what is believed to be the 6/1 episode of their weekly TV show on HonorClub. Turns out there was another New Japan title match. The result is below (if you’re paying $9.99 a month to watch this will contain SPOILERS! The match also likely will be added to New Japan World at a later date).

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Injury Report: Late Mone Cash Out

Although they waited 4 days to do so, New Japan has finally confirmed what the world already knew-Mercedes Mone was injured at Resurgence. Right ankle. New Japan only said she underwent a “thorough appraisal immediately after her match and began treatment”. It happened in the main event when she lost to Willow Nightingale for the STRONG Women’s Championship. This cones amidst unconfirmed rumors Mone signed for more dates with NjPW and Stardom but is now out indefinitely amidst persistent rumors-and more hopes from the internet-that she could be headed to All Elite Wrestling.

More as it becomes available.

New Japan 5/24/23 Results

New Japan ran Day 10 of Best Of The Super Junior today, finishing up Block B and setting the second half of the Semifinals. Whoever came out on top today get Mike Bailey & Titan next.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese and English.

The announced paid attendance was 819, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Oskar Leube & Mike Bailey beat Yuto Nakashima & Lio Rush. Leube pinned Nakashima after a flying body attack.

Match 2: Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI & Taichi. EVIL pinned TAKA after EVIL.

Match 3: Titan & Hiromu Takahashi beat Ryusuke Taguchi & KUSHIDA. Titan pinned Taguchi after a swan dive foot stomp.

Best Of The Super Junior Block B:
Match 4: BUSHI beat Francesco Akira.
Match 5: Dan Moloney beat Clark Connors by countout.
Match 6: Master Wato beat Kevin Knight.
Match 7: Yoshinobu Kanemaru beat Yoh by submission. As a result, Wato advances to the Semifinals.
Main Event: El Desperado beat Robbie Eagles by submission. As a result, Desperado advances to the Semifinals.
Because both finished tied at the top, Desperado wins Block B on tiebreaker over Wato, which was head-to-head result. That means the Semifinals will be Wato vs. Bailey and Desperado vs. Titan.

The Semifinals are Friday at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo. Live streaming on New Japan World and ABEMA will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET, and even better, everyone will be able to watch the entire event FOR FREE! No account or login required!

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