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Special: Sendai Girls Pro Wrestling 7/15/24 Results

For the first time, Sendai Girls Pro Wrestling, a small women’s promotion based in Sendai founded by current WWE wrestler Meiko Satomura, will be featured on the site as they have a major event in Tokyo today. This event became big a few weeks ago because of the main event-Mika Iwata went into Stardom and won the Wonder Of Stardom Championship from Saori Anou in an upset. Today they run it back, but this time it’s a double title match as Iwata also puts her Sendai Girls World Championship on the line. Which promotion will continue holding the other’s championship hostage? Momo Watanabe also comes over from Stardom to face DASH Chisako in a hardcore match. There also is a second title match as the Sendai Girls Tag Team Championship will be defended by Manami & Ryo Mizunami, the latter fans of Tokyo Joshi Pro may be familiar with from her occasional appearances there as a freelancer. Hall of Famer Aja Kong will also be participating as will Sareee, who returned to Japan earlier this year after being released by WWE, and also competing is TNA Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace, who has been competing in WWE and against WWE wrestlers in TNA. In other words, this is a loaded event.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. Meiko Satomura will be on commentary. This is the first time in a long time I’ve watched them live or on demand (Sendai Girls events are now available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE as of a couple months ago) and I don’t know how they do time limits for matches but I’m guessing this will be a standard Korakuen event with a running time of around 2 1/2 hours.

Today’s lineup:
YUNA vs. Yura Suzuki
Sakura Hirota vs. Yu
Aja Kong, Hiroyo Matsumoto & ZONES vs. Veny, Millie McKenzie & Miyuki Takase
Nina Samuels & Lena Kross vs. Sareee & ChiChi
Chihiro Hashimoto vs. Jordynne Grace
DASH Chisako vs. Momo Watanabe in a hardcore match
Sendai Girls World Tag Team Champions Manami & Ryo Mizunami vs. Yurika Oka & Mio Momono for the titles
Sendai Girls World Champion & Wonder Of Stardom Champion Mika Iwata vs. Saori Anou for the titles

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Updates below will begin at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET.

7 PM PT UPDATE: Live stream launch has been pushed back to 7:15 PM PT/10:15 PM ET.

7:15 PM PT UPDATE: Live streaming has begun. We should be going to the venue shortly.

7:27 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Your host is Katsuo (?) Ichikawa. We hopefully will be joined by Meiko Satomura later.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. They’re using the “smaller promotion” reduced bleacher setup with only the middle open, but otherwise the venue already looks close to full and the reserved seats are still filling up fast. Could be a sellout, and seems to be heading for close to 1000.

The matches will begin shortly.

Meiko Satomura comes out to begin the event. For those unfamiliar with the promotion, Satomura is a co-founder of Sendai Girls along with fellow wrestler Jinsei Shinzaki. (Based on what she says, this is also a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan) She greets the crowd and puts over some of the big names appearing today in brief comments. This is followed by the announcement of today’s lineup.

The matches begin at 7:38 PM PT/10:38 PM ET. Meiko Satomura joins commentary as the first match begins.

Match 1: YUNA vs. Yura Suzuki. 10 minute time limit
Result: Yura Suzuki beat YUNA

Match 2: Sakura Hirota (aka Shin Sakura Hirota) vs. Yuu. 10 minute time limit
Result: Yuu beat Sakura Hirota. Comedy match. Crazy spot where a ringside usher/monitor had to help Yuu do a top rope tightrope walk (Yuu is a large woman wrestler) but ultimately failed and took the low blow spot on the rope.

Match 3: Aja Kong (OZ Academy), Hiroyo Matsumoto & ZONES vs. Veny (Independent/Freelancer), Millie McKenzie & Miyuki Takase. 15 minute time limit. (Note: Veny in the past has also been known as Asuka in Japan and Veny outside Japan to avoid confusion with WWE wrestler Asuka, formerly known as Kana in Japan)
Result: Aja Kong, Hiroyo Matsumoto & ZONES beat Veny, Millie McKenzie & Miyuki Takase. Kong pinned Takase after a diving elbow drop.

Match 4: Nina Samuels & Lena Kross vs. Sareee & ChiChi. 15 minute time limit
Result: Nina Samuels & Lena Kross beat Sareee & ChiChi. Kross pinned ChiChi.

Quick break to prepare the ring area for the next match.

Match 5: DASH Chisako vs. Momo Watanabe (Stardom) in a hardcore match. 20 minute time limit
Result: DASH Chisako beat Momo Watanabe. I admit to being surprised this wasn’t a time limit draw. But it was crazy fun. US fans would’ve given them a “Fight Forever” chant for sure.

Quick break for ring cleaning.

Match 6: Chihiro Hashimoto vs. Jordynne Grace (TNA Wrestling). 20 minute time limit
Result: Jordynne Grace beat Chihiro Hashimoto. Great women’s hoss fight match. Afterwards, Grace with microphone. Speaking in English, she put Hashimoto over as the reason she came back to Korakuen Hall after previously facing her in 2019. Grace hoped this isn’t the end of the story as she wants one more to make it best-of-3. Hashimoto screamed in Japanese before walking off, I’m assuming that was enthusiastically accepting.

Match 7: Sendai Girls World Tag Team Champions Manami (WRESTLE UNIVERSE incorrectly called her Aimi) & Ryo Mizunami vs. Yurika Oka & Mio Momono for the titles. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yurika Oka & Mio Momono beat Sendai Girls World Tag Team Champions Manami & Ryo Mizunami to win the titles. Oka & Momono become the 19th Sendai Girls World Tag Team Champions. Oka pinned Manami. Based on their gimmicks, a “banana” and “melon” are the new champs…

Main Event: Sendai Girls World Champion & Wonder Of Stardom Champion Mika Iwata vs. Saori Anou (Stardom) for the titles. 30 minute time limit
Result: Saori Anou beat Sendai Girls World Champion & Wonder Of Stardom Champion Mika Iwata to win the titles. Anou becomes the 14th Sendai Girls World Champion and the 22nd Wonder Of Stardom Champion. Now the tables are turned. Sendai Girls just lost their top title to Stardom. Post-match, Anou with microphone. She began to address Iwata but was quickly interrupted by DASH Chisako. Sounds like she wants next. The question is will it be for one title or both? We shall see, but Anou appeared to accept so it’s likely on at some point. (Postscript: Probably just the Sendai Girls World Championship as Anou will now defend the Wonder Of Stardom Championship on 7/27/2024 vs. Natsupoi)

If this is your first time watching Sendai Girls, this will be a great introduction to their current product (they have been around for 19 years though) as this was a major event on paper and it delivered. WRESTLE UNIVERSE is once again offering their acclaimed 1 week free trial for first-time subscribers…take advantage to watch this event. I’m gonna be keeping up with them more now again, haven’t followed them in over a decade and it’s time to start again. This was a really good event top to bottom and is worth 2 1/2 hours of your time. And all events going forward will be on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE and occasionally live too.

Stardom 7/13/24 & 7/14/24 Results

Stardom continued their long weekend in western Japan with events yesterday & today.

Yesterday’s event was held at Yamato Arena in Osaka and can be watched on demand on Stardom World.

The announced paid attendance was 351.

Match 1: Syuri & Saki Kashima beat Saya Kamitani & Ranna Yagami. Syuri beat Yagami with Ground Suzaku.

Match 2: Hanan beat Aya Sakura.

Match 3; Waka Tsukiyama bear Rian & Sayaka Kurara in a 3-way by pinning Rian.

Match 4: Mina Shirakawa beat Momo Kohgo by submission.

Match 5: Maika & Gina beat Konami & Lady C. Gina beat C with Ground Suzaku,

Match 6: Starlight Kid, AZM, Mei Seira & Miyu Amasaki beat Tam Nakano, Saori Anou, Natsupoi & Yuna Mizumori. Amasaki pinned Mizumori after Heavenly.

Main Event: Mayu Iwatani, Hacuki, Koguma & Saya Iida beat Momo Watanabe, Natsuko Tora, Ruaka & Fukigen. Iida pinned Ruaka after Heavenly.

Today’s event was held at Shiga Prefectural Cultural Industry Exchange Center Event Hall in Shiga and will be available on demand on Stardom World at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 405.

There was a last-minte change to the event due to Mina Shirakawa being removed from the event. Illness. She was to have teamed with Maika to face Tam Nakano & Yuna Mizumori. Gina was the replacement, meaning she competed in 2 matches.

Match 1; Saori Anou & Aya Sakura beat Natsupoi & Sayaka Kurara. Anou pinned Kurara.

Match 2; Hazuki beat Rian by submission.

Match 3: Starlight Kid & Mei Seira beat Gina & Waka Tsukiyama. Seira pinned Tsukiyama after Shooting Star.

Match 4: AZM & Miyu Amasaki beat Saki Kashima & Lady C. AZM pinned C.

Match 5: Natsuko Tora, Momo Watanabe & Ruaka beat Mayu Iwatani, Koguma & Momo Kohgo. Ruaka pinned Kohgo after a neck hanging bomb.

Match 6: Maika & Gina beat Tam Nakano & Yuna Mizumori. Maika pinned MIzumori after MIchinoku Driver 2.

Main EVent; Syuri & Konami beat Hanan & Saya Iida. Syuri pinned Iida after Drift Flame.

The next event is Friday at Sendai Pit in Sendai. There will be no live broadcast.

All-Japan 7/14/24 Results

All-Japan continued the Summer Action Series 2024 Tour today with an event in Shizuoka.

Today’s event was held at Shimizu Marine Building in Shizuoka and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV tonight at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET. There was no live broadcast. (Note for the replay: There is an intermission after the 3rd match)

The announced paid attendance was 417.

Match 1: Dan Tamura & Hideki Suzuki beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana. Suzuki beat Tachibana with a cobra twist.

Match 2: Rei Saito beat MUSASHI (Michinoku Pro).

Match 3: Shotaro Ashino & Hideki Sekine beat Suwama & Hikaru Sato. Sekine beat Sato with an ankle hold.

Match 4: Yuma Aoyagi beat Seiki Yoshioka.

Match 5: Jun Saito & Naruki Doi beat Kento Miyahara & Ryo Inoue. Saito pinned Inoue after a jackhammer.

Main Event: Yuma Anzai, Rising Hayato, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Hokuto Omori, Cyrus, Kumaarashi & Jack Kennedy. Honda pinned OMori after Final Vent.

The next event is Evolution 6 tomorrow at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. The event is a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

New Japan Pro Wrestling “CMLL FANTASTICAMANIA USA” Results (7/13/24)

Before the G1 CLIMAX gets underway and officially begins the Road To Tokyo Dome, New Japan returns to the USA today for their next stateside event, CMLL FANTASTICAMANIA USA. An extension of the popular crossover event with the CMLL promotion in Mexico normally held in Japan in February, this event will feature matches with New Japan wrestlers facing off against CMLL wrestlers. There also are 3 title matches scheduled. However, those matches also have come with a lot of controversy that’s overshadowed the event-earlier this week it was announced that CMLL Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer, who was to have defended the title against Lluvia, was off the event. At first it was called personal reasons, but then rumors started-and were very quickly confirmed-that “personal reasons” was actually signing with WWE. Vaquer was stripped of the title and the CMLL Women’s Tag Team Championship she held and both promotions began putting out statements and doing damage control, but it’s safe to say Vaquer will not be back with either promotion for a long time and perhaps never (never say “never” in wrestling, but this is nuclear heat). Lluvia will now face Viva Van (representing New Japan) & Willow Nightingale (representing All Elite Wrestling) in a 3-way for the vacant title. The Main Event will feature NEW IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion DOUKI & Mistico vs. Rocky Romero & Volador Jr.

Today’s event will be held at Mt. Pleasant High School in San Jose, CA and can be watched LIVE on New Japan World as a PPV in Japanese & English. The PPV costs $19.99 in the US (2990 yen in Japan, which is just under $20) and includes on demand replays until 8/30, but that date is subject to change. The event’s page lists a tentative running time of 2 1/2 hours and it could go nearly 5 hours if every match went the distance, but I anticipate it being around the “normal” PPV running time of 3 hours. (Also, there is no pre-show scheduled)

Today’s lineup:
Adrian Quest & The DKC vs. Vento & Cucuy
MLW World Tag Team Champions Satoshi Kojima & OKUMURA vs. Rugido & Magnus for the titles
Lluvia vs. Viva Van & Willow Nightingale in a 3-way for the CMLL Women’s World Championship
Zack Sabre Jr. & Bad Dude Tito vs. Hechicero & Virus
Yota Tsuji vs. Barbaro Cavernario
STRONG Openweight Champion Gabriel Kidd vs. Ultimo Guerrero for the title
DOUKI & Mistico vs. Rocky Romero & Volador Jr.

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

5:30 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now…

We are LIVE from Mt. Pleasant High School in San Jose, CA. Your Japanese hosts are several who I didn’t catch names for but include Taiji Ishimori, Miki Motoi & Mima Shimoda. Your English hosts are Miguel Castro & Veda Scott. We don’t have our usual US ring announcer either.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. This is a high school gym setup, it looks like floor seating has around 650 and was 85-90% sold as of earlier today so it’ll depend on how much bleacher seating there is. But it’s a small setup so I’m guessing it’ll be around 800. From the first looks at the crowd it definitely is not a sellout. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 906)

Opening video with card rundown then right to the action.

Match 1: Adrian Quest vs. The DKC, Vento & Cucuy in a 4-way (I misread this earlier as being a tag match). 30 minute time limit
Result: The DKC beat Adrian Quest, Vento & Cucuy in a 4-way by pinning Quest.

Match 2: MLW World Tag Team Champions Satoshi Kojima & OKUMURA vs. Rugido & Magnus for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: MLW World Tag Team Champions Satoshi Kojima & OKUMURA beat Rugido & Magnus to retain the titles. Kojima pinned Rugido.

Match 3: Lluvia vs. Viva Van & Willow Nightingale in a 3-way for the vacant CMLL Women’s World Championship. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Willow NIghtingale beat Lluvia & Viva Van in a 3-way by pinning Van to become the CMLL Women’s World Champion. Lluvia immediately confronted Nightingale and demanded a rematch for the title and came to blows over it for a moment. To be continued, I’d say.

Match 4: Zack Sabre Jr. & Bad Dude Tito vs. Hechicero & Virus. 30 minute time limit
Result: Hechicero & Virus beat Zack Sabre Jr. & Bad Dude Tito. Hechicero beat Tito with an armbar.

Match 5: Yota Tsuji vs. Barbaro Cavernario. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yota Tsuji beat Barbaro Cavernario

Match 6: STRONG Openweight Champion Gabriel Kidd vs. Ultimo Guerrero for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: STRONG Openweight Champion Gabriel Kidd beat Ultimo Guerrero to retain the title. V1 for Kidd. Afterwards, Kidd with microphone. He announced that at the next US event on 8/30 in Washington, DC, he was calling his shot and demanding Lio Rush.

Main Event: DOUKI & Mistico vs. Rocky Romero & Volador Jr. 30 minute time limit
Result: DOUKI & Mistico beat Rocky Romero & Volador Jr. Mistico beat Romero with La Mistica. Afterwards, Mistico indicated he wanted a shot at the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship and held up his MLW championship belt, perhaps hinting at a double title match should it happen. Afterwards, Mistico with microphone in Spanish. He put DOUKI over before indeed asking for that title match and also suggesting it be a double title match. Accepted by DOUKI. They shook hands and posed before Mistico put over the event and finished things off to send the crowd home happy.

They actually kept to the running time the ticket sales page hinted at, which means mainly short if not slightly rushed matches as only the main event went over 15 minutes (just short of 25 minutes. The matches as a whole were fine although the CMLL style of lucha libre is not for everyone. It wasn’t a bad event by any means but not quite worth $20 for PPV. If you didn’t buy the live broadcast, wait until it leaves the paywall and becomes available for all New Japan World subscribers then check it out-that hopefully will be in September.

End Show.

The next US event will be CAPITAL COLLISION on 8/30 at Entertainment & Sports Arena in Washington, DC.

The next event is the G1 CLIMAX 34 Tournament starting on 7/20 at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 7/13/24 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro finished up the build to SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’24 today with the final house show before the event.

Today’s event was held at Itabashi Green Hall in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 194.

There were late changes to the card because Nao Kakuta & Moka Miyamoto were off the event. Kakuta is out due to a lower back injury that has her uncertain for the last 2 weeks of her career. Miyamoto is out due to the ever-vague poor health/physical condition.

Match 1; Kaya Toribami beat Chika Nanase by submission.

Match 2: HIMAWARI beat Kira Summer by submission.

Match 3: Maki Itoh & Yuki Kamifuku beat Wakana Uehara & Toga. Kamifuku pinned Uehara after Fameasser. (Lately I’ve noticed the Google Translate built into DDT’s website now translates it as “Famous Master”. Haha)

A mini talk show with the injured Nao Kakuta, Hyper Misao & Neko Haruna was held.

Match 4: Arisu Endo, Suzume & Haru Kazashiro beat Mahiro Kiryu, Shino Suzuki & Uta Takami. Endo pinned Suzuki after The 10th Law.

Main Event: Rika Tatsumi, Shoko Nakajima, Mizuki & Runa Okubo beat Miu Watanabe, Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku. Tatsumi beat Harajuku with White Dragon Sleeper.

The next event is SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’24, the quarterly blowout event, on 7/20 at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese & English will begin Friday at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET with live results scheduled.

All-Japan 7/13/24 Results

All-Japan continued the Summer Action Series 2024 today with a major event in Osaka.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 958.

Match 1: Hideki Suzuki & Hikaru Sato beat Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue. Suzuki beat Inoue with a ground cobra twist.

Match 2: 2.5 Wrestling Provided Match: Super Delfin & Super W beat Hirakataniisan & Flying Penguin. W pinned Penguin after Super Flash.

Match 3: Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi, Cyrus & Jack Kennedy beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan, MUSASHI (Michinoku Pro), Seiki Yoshioka & Seigo Tachibana. Omori pinned Tachibana after a frog splash.

Match 4; Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Shotaro Ashino & The Bodyguard (Independent/Freelancer). Honda pinned Ashino after Final Vent.

Match 5: Naruki Doi beat All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Rising Hayato to win the title. Doi becomes the 69th All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion.

Match 6: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito beat Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi to retain the titles. Jun Saito pinned Aoyagi after DOOM. V2 for the champs.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Yuma Anzai beat Suwama to retain the Triple Crown. V3 for Anzai. Next up: TBA, but that match will happen on 8/3 at Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai.

The next event is tomorrow at Shimizu Marine Building in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast. It should be available on demand at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/13/24 Results (Updated)

DESTINATION 2024, Pro Wrestling NOAH’s latest signature blowout event, is in the books.

Today’s event was held at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand as a PPV only on ABEMA in select countries including the US for the next week. You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 4196. Not sure what the setup was for (the venue’s normal capacity is around 8500, I imagine it was set up for closer to 6000) but on paper this sounds like a decent number and much better than for recent major events capacity-wise.

Match 1: Alejandro & Cristobal beat Ninja Mack & Junta Miyawaki and Hajime Ohara & Super Crazy in a 3-way when Alejandro pinned Crazy.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya, Manabu Soya & Daiki Inaba beat Takashi Sugiura, Kazuyuki Fujita & Shuhei Taniguchi. Soya pinned Taniguchi after a jumping DDT.

Match 3: Shuji Kondo, Eita & AKIRA (Independent/Freelancer0 beat Yoshinari Ogawa, Ryohei Oiwa & Yu Owada. Eita pinned Owada after Imperial Uno.

Match 4; Kenoh beat Yuji Nagata (New Japan).

Match 5: GLG FInal Match: Jake Lee, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Jack Morris, Anthony Greene & LJ Cleary. Lee pinned Cleary after FBS. Per Lee’s earlier announcement, GLG has now disbanded.

Match 6: Go Shiozaki beat ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion Akitoshi Saito to win the title. Shiozaki becomes the 34th ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion.

Match 7: Ulka Sasaki beat GHC National Champion HAYATA by ref stoppage (techinical submission) to win the title. Sasaki becomes the 12th GHC National Champion.

Match 8: AMAKUSA beat GHC Juntior Heavyweight Champion Daga to win the title. AMAKUSA becomes the 55th GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion.

Match 9: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Galeno Del Mal beat Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf. Wagner Jr. pinned Wolf after Wagner Driver.

Match 10: AJ Styles (WWE) beat Naomichi Marufuji.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya beat YOICHI to retain the title. V2 for Kiyomiya. Next up: Probably the N-1 VICTORY Tournament winner, unless it’s Kiyomiya.

The next event is The Reeve Presents LIMIT BREAK ex. on 7/20 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. LIve streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.

The usual post-event news/fallout:
Injury Report: Daiki Inaba was injured during his match. Torn meniscus. Out indefinitely.

After the event, YOICHI announced he was changing his ring name back to Yoshiki Inamura.

The next Nippon Budokan event will be NOAH THE NEW YEAR on 1/1/2025.

The full N-1 VICTORY schedule and field was announced, there will be 16 participants in 2 blocks of 8. More significantly, there is more WWE participation as WWE has recently shown more openness to working with other promotions (at least in their NXT brand, which has some programs going with US-based TNA Wrestling although they did allow AJ Styles to come over today and let Shinsuke Nakamura return to Japan to face Keiji Muto at the start of this year). The full field:
Block A: Kaito Kiyomiya, Go Shiozaki, Masa Kitamiya, Ryohei Oiwa, Jack Morris, Dragon Bane, Luis Mante (Dragon Gate, some graphics call him Lewis Mante), Josh Briggs (WWE).
Block B: Kenoh, Manabu Soya, Ulka Sasaki, Yoshiki Inamura, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Alpha Wolf, Titus Alexander, Tavion Heights (WWE).
Both Briggs & Heights are part of WWE’s NXT label.
Shiozaki is the defending tournament champion. The tournament begins on 8/4 and ends on 9/1 (all tournament events except 8/18 will stream LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE, but there will be no live broadcast on 8/18 and 8/12 may only be on ABEMA). The winner in each block will advance to the Finals on 9/1. Tiebreakers will be head-to-head result. If that was a draw, a tiebreaker match will be held.

UPDATE: Akitoshi Saito announced his retirement after losing to Shiozaki. it’s not yet clear if it’s immediate or at a later date. If it’s immediate, Saito is walking away after 33 1/2 years in the ring. His exact age isn’t lnown vut I believe he is in his mid-50s. They also are acting like Jake Lee is leaving the promotion and jumping to New Japan, but he was already announced for this year’s G1 CLIMAX tournament so it’s not known if this is a permanent move or just an angle to cover for the appearance. Lee is apparently now part of Bullet Club. We’ll find out in September, I guess.

Stardom 7/12/24 Results

Stardom ran the first event of a tripleheader weekend in Osaka today.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched on demand on Stardom World. They made a late change to a live broadcast for today instead of on demand later.

The announced paid attendance was 335.

There were late changes to the card due to Ami Sohrei being off the card. Injury treatment. Also, Thekla is suspended for all 3 events.

Match 1: Hanan beat Rian.

Match 2: Saki Kashima beat Aya Sakura.

Match 3: Saya Iida & Momo Kohgo beat Yuna Mizumori & Sayaka Kurara. Iida pinned Kurara after a lariat.

Match 4: Syuri, Konami, Ranna Yagami & Lady C beat Natsuko Tora, Momo Watanabe, Ruaka & Fukigen. Syuri pinned Fukigen after Drift Flame.

Match 5; Tam Nakano, Saori Anou & Natsupoi beat Mina Shirakawa, Gina & Waka Tsukiyama and Mayu Iwatani, Koguma & Hazuki in a 3-way when Nakano pinned Tsukiyama.

Match 6: Starlight Kid beat Miyu Amasaki.

Main Event: Maika & Saya Kamitani beat AZM & Mei Seira. Kamitani pinned Seira.

The next event is tomorrow at Yamato Arena in Osaka. Live streaming on Stardom World will begin TONIGHT at 9 PM PT/midnight ET.

Injury Report: Less Magnificent Stardom Weekend Ahead

Stardom has announced last-minute changes to their 3 events in Osaka this weekend because Ami Sohrei is now off. Undisclosed injury suffered in practice (accidental). Out indefinitely. Sohrei made the announcement and apologized on her social media accounts and these were shared by Stardom’s official accounts. Changes have been made to this weekend’s events. Updates to follow regarding her status.

In related news, Stardom announced that tomorrow’s event at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka has been changed from on demand only at a later date to a LIVE broadcast on Stardom World. It will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

Injury Report: Potential Early TJPW Farewell (Updated)

Tokyo Joshi Pro has announced changes forSaturday’s event in Tokyo stemming from two injury absences. Both are concerning ahead of SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’24 because two key wrestlers are affected-Moka Miyamoto & Nao Kakuta. Miyamoto-the always-vague poor health/physical condition. Kakuta-lower back. It’s not known if either will miss additional time, but Kakuta will be at the event and participate in a mini-talk show with Hyper Misao & Neko Haruna, who are also out with injuries. But this is the final event before the quarterly blowout event so both have only a week to recover. Miyamoto is to team with Yuki Arai to challenge for the Princess Tag Team Championship next week and Kakuta will have one of her last matches before retiring the following week.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: The YMZ promotion, which is tun by longtime wrestler Kaori Yoneyama when she’s not wrestling in Stardom as Fukigen, has announced that Kakuta will not be able to wrestle at their 7/16 event as planned but will still appear.