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BREAKING: New Japan US Event Change for Saturday (Updated x2)

New Japan just announced a major change to Saturday’s CMLL FANTASTICAMANIA USA event: Stephanie Vaquer is now off. Personal reasons. She is no longer part of CMLL or NJPW per a statement from CMLL. As a result, the CMLL Women’s World Championship is now VACANT. Vaquer was to have defended the title against Lluvia. Lluvia will now face Willow Nightingale & Viva Van in a 3-way for the vacant title.

UPDATE: While not official, Mexico-based website RECORD reports (in Spanish) Vaquer has signed-or is about to sign-a multi-year deal-with WWE. Having to leave New Japan is confirmation she’s not headed to All Elite Wrestling. Said WWE deal reportedly started to come together after the Forbidden Door event.

UPDATE 2: It’s now official. WWE Hall Of Famer Shawn Michaels, who now oversees the NXT brand, posted a “welcome” post to Vaquer on Twitter at around 2:30 PM PT/5:30 PM ET, indicating she’s headed to NXT. So she is WWE-bound.

DDT 7/10/24 Results

DDT continued their current tour today with an event in Tokyo.

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

The announced paid attendance was 308, a full house/near sellout.

Before the event, a public signing ceremony for the KO-D Tag Team Championship match on 7/21 was held.

Match 1: Makoto Oishi & Akito beat Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata. Akito pinned Hirata with Gedo Clutch.

Match 2: Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Iino & Yuya Koroku beat Jun Akiyama, Takao Soma & Keigo Nakamura. Endo pinned Nakamura after Yurikamome.

Match 3; Sanshiro Takagi & Yuni beat Danshoku Dieno & Kazuma Sumi. Takagi pinned Sumi after an avalanche-style brainbuster.

Match 4; KANON 5th Anniversary Match: TAKA Michinoku (New Japan) beat KANON.

Match 5: HARASHIMA beat Daisuke Sasaki & Masa Takanashi in a 3-way by pinning Sasaki.

Match 6: Go Shiozaki (Pro Wrestling NOAH) beat Yuki Iino.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata & To-y beat MAO, Chris Brookes & Antonio Honda. To-y pinned Honda after a Frankensteiner,

The next event is Saturday at Iwate Education Hall Multipurpose Hall in Iwate. There will be no live broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/8/24 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up a 3-day weekend in Hokkaido today with one more house show event.

Today’s event was held at Hakodate General Wholesale Center Distribution Hall in Hokkaido and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (scheduled for Friday). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 332.

Match 1: Black Menso-re (Independent/Freelancer) beat Tadasuke & Junta Miyawaki in a 3-way by pinning Miyawaki.

Match 2: Anthony Greene beat Daiki Inaba.

Match 3: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Super Crazy. Bane pinned Crazy.

Match 4: Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Eita beat Jake Lee, LJ Cleary & YO-HEY. Marufuji pinned Cleary after Shiranui.

Match 5; Daga & Ulka Sasaki vs. HAYATA & AMAKUSA went to a double countout. Which led to…
Match 5 (again): HAYATA & AMAKUSA beat Daga & Ulka Sasaki. HAYATA pinned Sasaki.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh, Alejandro & Cristobal beat YOICHI, Masa Kitamiya, Ryohei Oiwa & Yu Owada. Kiyomiya pinned Owada after Transformed Shining Wizard.

The next event is ABEMA Presents DESTINATION 2024 Saturday at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. Live streaming only on ABEMA as a PPV in select countries (including the US) in Japanese and English will begin Friday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET. Note that while it can be watched in a web browser, you must download the ABEMA iOS/Android app to purchase the PPV, which before event day costs 3500 Japanese yen (around $22 US) plus additional fees. On event day or after the event )on demand) it goes up to 4000 yen (around $27 US) and will be available on demand until 8 AM on 7/21. That means it will be at least a week or more after the event before it could show up on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. (UPDATE: You also will be able to watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube)

Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/7/24 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the second half of their weekend Hokkaido doubleheader today.

Today’s event was held at Chateraise Gateau Kingdom Sapporo in Hokkaido and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 445.

Match 1: Alejandro & Cristobal beat YO-HEY & Tadasuke. Alejandro pinned Tadasuke.

Match 2: Junta Miyawaki beat Yu Owada.

Match 3: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba. Wolf pinned Inaba after a Bane moonsault press.

Match 4: Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. beat Jake Lee, Anthony Greene & LJ Cleary. Wagner Jr. pinned Greene after Wagner Driver.

Match 5: HAYATA, AMAKUSA & Eita beat Daga, Super Crazy & Ulka Sasaki. HAYATA pinned Sasaki with Gedo Clutch.

Main Event: YOICHI & Ryohei Oiwa beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Kenoh. YOICHI pinned Kiyomiya after a diving body press.

The next event is tomorrow at Hakodate General Wholesale Center Distribution Hall. There will be no live broadcast.

In other news, GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Shuji Kondo & Eita vs. Alejandro & Cristobal for the titles was announced after today’s event. That match will happen on 7/21 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

BREAKING: Stardom Wrestler Suspended (Updated)

It doesn’t matter how much a heel you are in wrestling in the ring-outside the ring there are boundaries. Those lines were crossed in Stardom and, for doing so, Thekla has been suspended and had her salary temporarily reduced. The suspension appears to be for 1 week as it means 3 events-7/12, 7/13 and 7/14. The salary docking is for the same time.

This is because of Thekla assaulting staff (cameramen) at today’s event and bad behavior at a recent meeting.

UPDATE: Here is footage of what caused Thekla to get suspended courtesy of the Stardom Official English Twitter:

BREAKING: Japanese Icon Hospitalized After Match

A scary situation unfolded today at a Tenryu Project event in Japan (a promotion run by longtime wrestler Geni’chiro Tenryu)…a match for the promotion’s 6-man tag team titles had to be stopped when Minoru Suzuki was involved in what is being called a “serious accident” and was taken to a hospital emergency room. The diagnosis: Could have been much worse. Concussion. No internal bleeding or other injuries. Out indefinitely but was released from the hospital and will be monitored for a few days. Suzuki naturally vowed to come back, the question is when.

More as it becomes available.

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Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/6/24 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 Tour today with an event in Hokkaido, the first half of a weekend doubleheader.

Today’s event was held at Chateraise Gateau Kingdom Sapporo in Hokkaido and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 414.

Match 1: Super Crazy beat Junta Miyawaki.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba beat Anthony Greene & LJ Cleary. Kitamiya beat Cleary with Prison Lock.

Match 3: Dragon Bane beat Alpha Wolf.

Match 4: Naomichi Marufuji, HAYATA & Eita vs. Jake Lee, YO-HEY & Tadasuke went to a no contest. Ulka Sasaki interference.

Match 5: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Daga beat Takashi Sugiura & AMAKUSA. Daga pinned AMAKUSA after Diablo Wings.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh, Alejandro & Cristobal beat YOICHI, Ulka Sasaki, Ryohei Oiwa & Yu Owada. Kiyomiya pinned Owada after Transformed Shining Wizard.

The next event is tomorrow. There will be no live broadcast.

DDT 7/5/24 Results

DDT held another of their at least semi-annual Beer Garden Pro Wrestling events yesterday in Tokyo.

Yesterday’s event was held at Ueno Park Outdoor Stage 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 630, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Kazuki Hirata & Kazuma Sumi beat Shinichiro Kawamatsu & Illusion. Hirata pinned Illusion.

Match 2: In a Positive Thinking Deathmatch, where a team would also lose if negative comments were made by one of their members, HARASHIMA, Keigo Nakamura & Yuki Ishida beat Danshoku Dieno, Jun Akiyama & Makoto Oishi by Akiyama negative comment.

A new collaboration between a clothing maker and DDT was announced, so we got some fanservice and Takeshi Masada got to be the lucky guy standing between the two lovely ladies that were there as the famed model/promo girls.

Ryuichi Kawakami, just released from his GLEAT contract Monday, made an unexpected appearance. He announced DDT participation, which will happen at the end of the month, and that brought Yukio Naya out for a confrontation. HOSS FIGHT ALERT!!!

Match 3: In a No DQ I Quit Match, Antonio Honda beat Invisible Leonardo DiCaprio.

Match 4: In a Falls Count Anywhere Match, Sanshiro Unagi (Sanshiro Takagi) & Sayaka Unagi (Independent/Freelancer) vs. Brahmans Shu & Kei went to a no contest. Out of control. Too much carnage for ref Daisuke Kiso.

Match 5: In a Falls Count Anywhere match, Chris Brookes, Masa Takanashi & Yukio Naya beat Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Iino & Yuya Koroku. Naya pinned Koroku after a chokeslam onto an inflatable pool.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata & To-y beat Daisuke Sasaki, KANON & MAO. Ueno pinned MAO after July 2. For this event only MAO joined Damnation TA as he split from The37Kamiina ahead of his KO-D Openweight Championship match against Ueno at WRESTLE PETER PAN on 7/21.

The next event is a charity tournament presented by the Japan Disabled Wrestling Federation tomorrow at Odawara Arena Sub Arena in Kanagawa. Fans with disabilities and their caregivers can get free admission. There will be no live broadcast. It will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 7/6/24 Results

Ahead of her retirement later this month, Tokyo Joshi Pro held a Nao Kakuta Produced event today dubbed “CROSS”, featuring outside participation and more.

Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. I had planned to do live results but was unable to due to a lengthy cable/internet outage in my area that was not resolved until after the event.

The announced paid attendance was 284, a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Himeka beat Cherry & Sho Sekiguchi (?). This was supposed to have been Cherry vs. Sekiguchi with Himeka as special referee but instead Himeka pinned both.

Match 2; Arisu Endo won a 5 woman battle royal, last eliminating Pom Harajuku. The other participants were Suzume, Mizuki & Yuki Arai. All were dressed as Nao Kakuta.

Match 3: Meika Ozaki beat HIMAWARI.

Main Event: Saori Anou & Natsupoi (Stardom) beat Nao Kakuta & Tae Honma. Natstpoi pinned Kakuta after Fairy Gift. AIna Aiba was guest ring announcer.

The next event is an Up Up Girls second unit special event tomorrow at Ueno Park Outdoor Stage in Tokyo. There will be no live broadcast.

Dragon Gate 7/5/24 Results

Dragon Gate ran their monthly Tokyo event today as they begin the final push to their biggest event of the year in just over 2 weeks.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1374, a super full house/very near sellout.

Match 1: Shuji Kondo beat Kota Minoura.

Match 2: KAI & ISHIN beat Susumu Yokosuka & Kagetora. ISHIN pinned Kagetora.

Match 3: Ultimo Dragon, BxB Hulk, Minorita & Ryu Fuda beat Yasushi Kanda, Toru Owashi (DDT), Punch Tominaga & Daiki Yanagiuchi. Minorita pinned Yanagiuchi after Minoritonic.

Match 4: Strong Machine J, BIGBOSS Shimizu & U-T beat Madoka Kikuta, Ryoya Tanaka & Pa Estrella. U-T pinned Estrella after Birnjabe Perfect.

Match 5: Kzy, Flamita, Luis Mante & JACKY KAMEI beat Dragon Kid, Naruki Doi, Shun Skywalker & Jason Lee. KAMEI pinned Kid.

Match 6: Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Mochizuki Junior went to a Double KO.

Main Event: YAMATO & Dragon Dia beat Ben-K & Hyo. Dia pinned Hyo after countering Samson Driver.

The next event is tomorrow at Fujisan Messe in Shizuoka. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.