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DDT News: Title Change Happens…

DDT earlier today posted a video on the socials showing what appeared to be Kazuki Hirata fishing on a cold, rainy night in Japan. Then Yuki Ueno showed up. I can’t embed the video below but stuff happened.

https://twitter.com/ddtproENG/status/1859235037163778254

Ueno choked out Hirata and a passerby walked by…who just happened to be referee Daisuke Kiso, and he had his referee shirt on! Which led to…

Yuki Ueno beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Kazuki Hirata to win the title. Ueno becomes the 1695th Champion.

God Bless DDT.

All-Japan 11/20/24 Results

All-Japan continued the World’s Strongest Tag League today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Stellar Ball in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 715.

Match 1: Ryuki Honda, Ren Ayabe & MUSASHI beat Suwama, Cyrus & Ryo Inoue. MUSASHI pinned Inoue after Estrella Futuro.

World’s Strongest Tag League:
Match 2: Block B: Hikaru Sato & Yuko Miyamoto beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana. Miyamoto pinned Tachibana.
Match 3: Block A: Hokuto Omori & Kumaarashi beat Shotaro Ashino & Dan Tamura. Kumaarashi pinned Ashino after a diving senton.
Match 4: Block A: Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai beat Makoto Oishi & Mike D. Vecchio. Anzai pinned Oishi after Gimlet.
Match 5: Block A: Jun & Rei Saito beat Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo. Rei Saito pinned Sekimoto after BBQ Bomb.
Main Event: Block B: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Yuma Aoyagi & Fuminori Abe. Miyahara pinned Aoyagi with a shutdown suplex hold.

Standings-wise, the Saitos have all but clinched a Semifinals spot (the top 2 in each block advance) as they are 4-0, 8 points with 2 matches left so they just need to win one or have other results go their way. Omori & Kumaarashi are second at 4 points but have 3 matches left. Nobody is out of it but Yoshioka & MUSASHI can’t finish first now as they are on 1 point with 3 matches left. Block B is wide open, the top 4 all are on 4 points but Miyahara & Smith still have 4 matches left while most teams have 3, but Aoyagi & Abe are in trouble despite being on 4 points because they have only 2 matches left now.

The next event is Saturday at Tokorozawa Sakura Town Japan Pavilion in Saitama. There will be no live broadcast. It should be available on demand that evening.

New Japan 11/19/24 Results

New Japan began the World Tag League, their annual year-end Heavyweight tag team tournament, today. The opening day featured Block A matches..

Today’s event was held at Ashikaga Municipal Gym in Tochigi and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 573.

Pre-show Match: Shoma Kato beat Yasutora Yasuda.

Match 1: Taiji Ishimori, Tome & Stevie Filip beat Katsuya Murashima, Jado & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Tome Filip pinned Murashima after Mother Of All Bombs.

Match 2: Dick Togo, Ren Narita & EVIL beat Tiger Mask, Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano. EVIL pinned TM 4 after Magic Killer.

Match 3: DOUKI, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi beat Jacob Austin Young, HENARE & Great-O-Khan. DOUKI beat Young with Italian Stretch 32.

Match 4: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls beat BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsiuua Naito. Haste pinned BUSHI after Electric Blue.

World Tag League Block A:
Match 5: Callum Newman & Jeff Cobb beat Tomoaki Honma & Shota Umino. Cobb pinned Honma after Tour of the Islands.
Match 6: Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi beat Alex Zayne & TBA (mystery partner), revealed at match time to be Ryusuke Taguchi. Tsuji pinned Taguchi after Gene Blaster.
Match 7: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Chase Owens & KENTA. Goto pinned Owens after Shoto.
Main Event: Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat SANADA & Gabriel Kidd. Oiwa pinned Kidd.

The next event is Thursday at Funabashi Arena in Chiba. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET. This will be a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.

All-Japan News: Title Match Announced For Weekend Event

With a few off days until their current tour resumes, All-Japan today announced a title match for this coming weekend: On Saturday at the event in Tokorozawa there will be an All-Japan 6-Man Tag Team Championship match as Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus defend against Ryo Inoue, Masayuki Kono & Ryuji Hijikata. If Kono looks/sounds familiar it’s because he also appears occasionally as KONO, aligned with Voodoo Murders and sometimes the Saitos.

Saturday’s event will begin Friday at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV Saturday at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET. There will be no live broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 11/18/24 Results (Updated)

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the penultimate episode of MONDAY MAGIC Season 3 today.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The paid attendance was not announced but if not a legit sellout it again was very close (only a few tickets were left before the event).

Match 1: Eita beat LJ Cleary.

Match 2: Kevin Blackwood & Anthony Greene beat Ulka Sasaki & Yu Owada. Blackwood pinned Owada after a diving foot stomp.

Match 3: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Black Menso-re.

Match 4: Kouki Amarei, Natsumi Showzuki & Bozilla beat Miyuki Takase, Sadie Gibbs & Hyan. Bozilla pinned Hyan after a powerbomb.

Match 5: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Galeno Del Mal beat Alejandro & Kai Fujimura, Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf and HAYATA & YO-HEY in a 4-way when Del Mal pinned Alejandro.

Main Event: GHC Hardcore Champion Shuji Ishikawa beat Masato Tanaka to retain the title. V1 for Ishikawa.

The next event is a LIMIT BREAK ex. event Sunday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. I will attempt to do live results but this is dependent on other event conflicts (namely a DDT event at the same time).

UPDATE: The first match for the finale next week has apparently been revealed on the socials: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Brian Kendrick for the title.

DDT 11/17/24 Results

DDT headed to Miyagi today, far away from everyone else in western Japan, for the first MAO hometown event in 6 years.

Today’s event was held at Matsuyama B&G Marine Center in Miyagi and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 523, a super full house/very near sellout.

During opening announcements, MAO was appointed Global Ambassador for Osaki City, his hometown.

Match 1; Makoto Oishi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Kazuma Sumi by submission.

Match 2; Danshoku DIeno & Kazuki Hirata beat Toru Owashi & Antonio Honda. Hirata pinned Honda.

Match 3: MJ Paul & Demus beat Yukio Naya & Diego. Paul pinned Diego after Death Valley Bomb.

Match 4: Daisuke Sasaki, KANON & Illusion beat Takeshi Masada, Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Yuni. Sasaki beat Matsunaga with a crossface. Matsunaga was a late replacement for Shunma Katsumata, who was off this event due to a left knee injury suffered a few days ago.

Match 5; Jun Akiyama & HARASHIMA beat Keigo Nakamura & Yuki Ishida. HARASHIMA pinned Ishida after Blue Sword.

Match 6: Tetsuya Endo & Yuya Koroku beat Akito & To-y. Koroku pinned To-y after a transformed Triangle Lancer.

Main Event: MAO & Yuki Ueno vs. Minoru Suzuki & Chris Brookes went to a 30 minute time limit draw.

The next event is “Get Alive 2024” Saturday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET with live results scheduled.

All-Japan 11/17/24 Results

All-Japan continued the World’s Strongest Tag League today in Yamagata.

Today’s event was held at Fujishima Gym in Yamagata and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 511.

Match 1: Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan beat Hokuto Omori, Kuamarashi & Aizawa No. 1. Ashino pinned Aizawa with a German suplex hold.

Match 2: Mike D. Vecchio beat Seigo Tachibana.

Match 3: World’s Strongest Tag League Block B: Yuma Aoyagi & Fuminori Abe beat Suwama & Hideki Suzuki. Aoyagi pinned Suwama.

Match 4; Kento Miyahara, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Ryo Inoue beat Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai & Taishin Nagao. Inoue pinned Nagao after Daikannon Suplex.

Match 5: World’s Strongest Tag League Block B: Cyrus & Hartley jackson beat Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe. Cyrus pinned Honda after a reverse splash.

Main Event: World’s Strongest Tag League Block A: Jun & Rei Saito beat MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka. Jun Saito pinned MUSASHI after Psycho Break,

Standings-wise, Block A is all Saitos at 3-0, 6 pts. They are 3 points ahead of second place. Block B has 3 tied at 2-1, 4 pts. The top 2 in each block will advance to the Semifinals.

The next event is Wednesday at Stellar Ball at Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

HISTORIC X-OVER 2 Results (11/17/24) (Updated x2)

New Japan & Stardom held HISTORIC X-OVER 2, the second crossover event featuring both promotions under the same umbrella, made much easier now that New Japan is the official owner of Stardom. Some matches featured wrestlers from both promotions but actual intergender (male vs. female) wrestling was prohibited with one exception.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Tokyo and can be watched on demand as a PPV on New Japan World and Stardom World. It’s $34.99 on New Japan World and about a dollar more on Stardom World. The PPV viewing window is until next Sunday, after that it may be available on Stardom World for monthly subscribers. You can also watch the pre-show FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (Stardom is claiming it was over 3500) (UPDATE 2: The announced paid attendance was 3547)

Pre-show match: Aya Sakura & HANAKO beat Sayaka Kurara & Ranna Yagami. HANAKO pinned Kurara after JP Coaster.

Match 1: Saori Anou & Tam Nakano beat Tomoka Inaba & Syuri. Nakano pinned Inaba after Violet Screwdriver.

Match 2: Miyu Amasaki, AZM & Mei Seira beat Rina, Ruaka & Konami. AZM pinned Rina after a diving foot stomp.

Match 3: Francesco Akira, Callum Newman & Jeff Cobb beat Tiger Mask, Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano. Akira pinned TM 4 after Fireball.

Match 4: Saya Kamitani, Natsuko Tora, Drilla Moloney & Gabriel Kidd beat Saya Iida, Hanan, Ryusuke Taguchi & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Kidd pinned Taguchi aftera piledriver.

Match 5: In a No DQ Hardcore Match, KOPW 2024 Champion Great-O-Khan beat Suzu Suzuki to retain the title. Had Khan lost, he also would have lost his hair (braid & beard).

Match 5: Natsupoi & Taichi beat Thekla & Clark Connors. Natsupoi pinned Thekla after Fairy Real Gift.

Match 7: IWGP Women’s Champion Mayu Iwatani beat Momo Watanabe to retain the title. V8 for Iwatani. Next up: If she gets what she wants, AZM on 1/4 at the Tokyo Dome. (UPDATE: It’s now official)

Main Event: Maika & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Starlight Kid & El Desperado. Maika pinned Kid after Michinoku Driver 2.

For New Japan, the next event is the World Tag League, their annual year-end Heavyweight tag team tournament, starting Tuesday at Ashikaga Municipal Gym in Tochigi. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

For Stardom, the next event is Wednesday at Aomori Budokan in Aomori. There will be no live broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH “DEATHTINY” LIVE Results (11/17/24) (Updated)

Today is a date with DEATHTINY…for the last time as Pro Wrestling NOAH hosts the retirement event for 30-year-plus veteran Akitoshi Saito in his homwtown. The respected veteran has been in NOAH full-time since 2009 but has competed there since the beginning through the best and worst of times…he was in the ring when the death of NOAH founder and Japanese icon Mitsuharu Misawa happened (after taking Saito’s finisher Misawa suffered a medical emergency and was left paralyzed, he died soon after) but carried on and honored Misawa’s memory, and today he’ll participate in one final match against current NOAH icon Naomichi Marufuji. Surprisingly it’s probably not the main event-that may be a GHC Heavyweight Championship match as Kaito Kiyomiya defends the title against Takashi Sugiura. Both the GHC Junior Heavyweight and Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships will be defended too, but this event is all about mid-50-something (actually 59) Saito and his farewell to a career that began way back in 1990.

Today’s event will be held at Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English. This is a live ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan so the UNIVERSE version will be edited/clipped, but the full version should be available on demand after the event. You will also be able to watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube. I’m gonna try to make it through the whole event as I expect it to be blowout level with a running time of close to 4 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Galeno Del Mal & Alpha Wolf vs. Junta Miyawaki, Yu Owada & Daiki Odashima
Mohammed Yone, Shuhei Taniguchi, AMAKUSA & Hitoshi Kumano vs. Anthony Greene, LJ Cleary, Eita & Harutoki
Kenoh, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura vs. Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara
Ulka Sasaki vs. Jack Morris
Manabu Soya & Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Masa Kitamiya & Shuji Kondo
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YO-HEY & HAYATA vs. Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi for the titles
GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga vs. Dragon Bane for the title
Akitoshi Saito Retirement Match: Akitoshi Saito vs. Naomichi Marufuji
GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Takashi Sugiura for the title

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. The WRESTLE UNIVERSE stream is scheduled to begin at 9:45 PM PT/12:45 AM ET and the YouTube broadcast is scheduled to begin at 9:50 PM PT/12:50 AM ET.

9:45 PM PT UPDATE: The WRESTLE UNIVERSE stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in about 15 minutes.

9:50 PM PT UPDATE: The YouTube broadcast is now live. It is a simulcast of the ABEMA broadcast and is in Japanese.

10 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya, Japan. English commentary will start in a few minutes.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Setup is for maybe 60-65% capacity (the venue’s full capacity, primarily for sumo, is 7500) but from the early shot the trend of what appears to be not good big event crowds outside Korakuen Hall is going to continue. I see a lot of empty sears especially on the lower level. Admittedly hoping for at least 2000 but that could be a stretch, just too much happening in west Japan with the New Japan/Stardom Crossover event in Osaka and the Grand Sumo Tournament in Fukuoka. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1788)

The matches begin at 10:05 PM PT/1:05 AM ET. Your hosts are Stewart (BANG!) Fulton & Mark Pickering.

Match 1: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Galeno Del Mal & Alpha Wolf vs. Junta Miyawaki, Yu Owada & Daiki Odashima. 15 minute time limit
Reslut: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Galeno Del Mal & Alpha Wolf beat Junta Miyawaki, Yu Owada & Daiki Odashima. Wagner Jr. pinned Owada after a sitout powerbomb.

Match 2: Mohammed Yone, Shuhei Taniguchi, AMAKUSA & Hitoshi Kumano vs. Anthony Greene, LJ Cleary, Eita & Harutoki. 20 minute time limit
Reslut: Anthony Greene, LJ Cleary, Eita & Harutoki beat Mohammed Yone, Shuhei Taniguchi, AMAKUSA & Hitoshi Kumano. Eita beat Taniguchi with a modified armbar.

The YouTube broadcast ends here.

Match 3: Kenoh, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura vs. Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara. 20 minute time limit
Result: Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara beat Kenoh, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. Shiozaki pinned Alejandro after Go Lariat.

Match 4: Ulka Sasaki vs. Jack Morris. 30 minute time limit
Result: Ulka Sasaki beat Jack Morris

Match 5: Manabu Soya & Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Masa Kitamiya & Shuji Kondo. 30 minute time limit
Result: Masa Kitamiya & Shuji Kondo beat Manabu Soya & Kazuyuki Fujita. Kitamiya pinned Soya after Saito Suplex. Afterwards, everyone continued to go at it.

Intermission. The first half of the event went really fast, just 65 minutes for 5 matches. Updates will resume in a few minutes.

The matches resume at 11:20 PM PT/2:20 AM ET (15 minute intermission).

Match 6: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YO-HEY & HAYATA vs. Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions HAYATA & YO-HEY beat Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi to retain the titles. HAYATA pinned Kikuchi after 403 Impact. V4 for the champs.

Junta Miyawaki joins Japanese commentary for the next match.

Match 7: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga vs. Dragon Bane for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga beat Dragon Bane to retain the title. V1 for Daga. Next up: Eita. If what he says holds true, that match will happen on 1/1 at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. (UPDATE: It’s now official)

Match 8: Akitoshi Saito Retirement Match: Akitoshi Saito vs. Naomichi Marufuji. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Naomichi Marufuji beat Akitoshi Saito. It went 15 minutes.

Retirement ceremony for Saito. Short but powerful with the final call coming as he walked back to the top of the entrance ramp.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Takashi Sugiura for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC Heavyweight Champino Kaito Kiyomiya beat Takashi Sugiura to retain the title. V6 for Kiyomiya. Kiyomiya had ALL REBELLION join him for the show-ending promo, but at the end Taishi Ozawa turned on Kiyomiya and laid him out with his crutch as Team 2000X hit the ring for the heel beatdown. Ozawa has officially defected and turned heel. A shocking ending.

The next event is MONDAY MAGIC Season 3 Episode 4 Monday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

UPDATE: Right before the WRESTLE UNIVERSE live stream ended, Sugiura post-match backstage comments with Marufuji were interrupted by Wagner Jr. & Del Mal, who made a GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship challenge. That match will happen on 11/30 at the second event of a doubleheader at Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo.

DDT 11/16/24 Results

DDT continued their current tour back in Japan today in Yokohama.

Today’s event was held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 287, a super full house/very near sellout.

Before the event began, a KO-D Tag Team Championship signing ceremony was held. After that…

Kazuma Sumi beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yoshihiko to win the title. Sumi becomes the 1694th Champion.

Match 1: Yuki Ueno, To-y & Diego beat HARASHIMA, Toru Owashi & Yuki Ishida. Diego pinned Ishida after VHS.

Match 2: Danshoku Dieno & Kazuki Hirata beat Takao Soma & DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Kazuma Sumi, with Hirata pinning Sumi to win the title. Hirata becomes the 1695th Champion. Which led to…
Yuki Ueno beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Kazuki Hirata by submission to win the title. Ueno becomes the 1696th Champion.

Match 3: Jun Akiyama & Shinya Aoki beat Yukio Naya & Keigo Nakamura. Aoki beat Nakamura with a full nelson hold. Afterwards, Naya challenged AKiyama to a match. Accepted. That match will happen on 12/28 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.

Match 4: Tetsuya Endo beat Shunma Katsumata.

Match 5: MAO beat Yuya Koroku.

Main Event: Chris Brooks, Masa Takanashi, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada beat Daisuke Sasaki, KANON, Illusion & Demus. Takanashi pinned KANON after Uwabami.

The next event is tomorrow at Matsuyama B&G Marine Center in Miyagi. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Wednesday.

Injury Report: Katsumata is now off tomorrow’s event. Left knee injury suffered today. It’s not yet known how long he’ll be out.He was to have teamed with Takeshi Masada & Yuni to face Daisuke Sasaki, KANON & Illusion. Tomomitsy Matsunaga is the replacement.

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