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Pro Wrestling NOAH 6/16/24 Results (Updated x2)

GRAND SHIP 2024 in YOKOHAMA, Pro Wrestling NOAH’s mid-June blowout event, is in the books.

Today’s event was held at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English. The live broadcast in Japanese was only in Japan on ABEMA. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1815. This was the first time they ran this new venue, intended to be an eventual replacement for Yokohama Budokan, and while the venue’s listed capacity is 5000 I don’t know what the actual setup was. Until that is possibly known it makes the number once again sound on the low side.

Match 1: LJ Cleary beat Ninja Mack & Super Crazy in a 3-way by pinning Crazy.

Match 2: Chris Weiss, Takuya Sugawara, Yuki Nagao, Yasu & Hide Kubota beat Akitoshi Saito, Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69. Weiss pinned Hi69 after a package piledriver.

Match 3: Shuhei Taniguchi & Titus Alexander beat Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba. Alexander pinned Inaba after Big Ugly.

Match 4: AMAKUSA, Hajime Ohara & Junta Miyawaki beat Shuji Kondo, Eita & Yu Owada. AMASKUA pinned Owada after Opening of the Country.

Match 5: Takumi Iroha beat Great Sakuya.

Match 6: Jake Lee, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Kenoh, Alejandro & Cristobal. Lee pinned Cristobal after FBS.

Match 7: Yoshinari Ogawa & Ulka Sasaki beat HAYATA & Ryohei Oiwa. Sasaki beat HAYATA with a modified heel hook.

Match 8: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga beat Starboy Charlie to retain the title. V7 for Daga.

Match 8: Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura beat GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jack Morris & Anthony Greene to win the titles. Marufuji & Sugiura become the 67th GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Sugiura pinned Greene after Olympic Yosen Slam.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya beat Gabriel Kidd (New Japan) to retain the title. V1 for Kiyomiya. Next up: YOICHI. Never heard of him? Me neither. That match will happen on 7/13 at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. Also, as a result of what happened in Match 7, GHC National Champion HAYATA vs. Ulka Sasaki for the title will also happen on 7/13.

During the event a major announcement from a major WWE superstar was promised. It happened and it was…AJ Styles vs. Naomichi Marufuji on 7/13. The Phenomenal One returns to Japan! The 7/13 event, as a heads-up, will be an ABEMA-only PPV.

The next event is The Reeve Presents LIMIT BREAK.3 GO!, a Go Shiozaki 20th Anniversary event, Wednesday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.

UPDATE: It was also announced that Manabu Soya will return on 7/13 from injury, and that GLG will be disbanded after 7/13 (hinted at based on backstage comments with Lee headed back to New Japan for the G1 CLIMAX Tournament).

UPDATE 2: YOICHI is the former Yoshiki Inamura. He had been competing internationally since September.

New Japan 6/16/24 Results

New Japan began the NEW JAPAN SOUL 2024 tour today, finishing up a packed long weekend of events in Hokkaido.

Today’s event was held at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kita Yell in Hokkaido and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 2370.

Pre-show match: Yutora Yasuda & Hiroki Nagai Debut Match: Yutora Yasuda vs. Hiroki Nagai went to a 10 minute time limit draw. Two new Young Lions making their official debut here.

Match 1: Callum Newman, Francesco Akira, Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb & TJP beat Katsuya Murashima, Shoma Kato, Tomoaki Honma, Tomohiro Ishii & Satoshi Kojima. Akira pinned Kato after Fireball.

Match 2: DOUKI & Taichi beat Yoshinoby Kanemaru & Ren Narita. DOUKI pinned Kanemaru with Jorge Rivera Special.

Match 3: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Dick Togo & EVIL. Goto pinned Togo after Shoto.

Match 4: Titan & Tetsuya Naito beat TAKA Michinoku & Yuya Uemura. Titan pinned TAKA after a swan dive foot stomp.

Match 5: Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Yota Tsuji to win the titles. Oleg, Yano & Tanahashi bevome the 29th NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Oleg pinned BUSHI after Kamikaze. Immediate rematch meant the new champs never had a chance. That and apparently the new regime means, to my dismay, keeping these titles on Yano, ugh.

Match 6: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Drilla Moloney & Clark Connors beat Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles to retain the titles. Connors pinned Fujita after Full Cip. V3 for the champs.

Match 7: HENARE beat NEVER Openweight Champion Shingo Takagi to win the title. HENARE becomes the 45th NEVER Openweight Champion. ALso immediate rematch, the first time went to a Double KO.

Match 8: IWGP Global Champion David Finlay beat SANADA to retain the title. V1 for Finlay.

Main Event: In a Steel Cage Match, El Desperado beat IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Sho to win the title. Desperado becomes the 96th IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion. Next up: If Desperado gets his way, DOUKI.

During the event, the field for this year’s G1 CLIMAX Tournament were announced. It will be 20 over 2 blocks this year. The lineups:
Block A: Tetsuya Naito, Shota Umino, Shingo Takagi, SANADA, Great-O-Khan, Zack Sabre Jr., Gabriel Kidd, EVIL, Jake Lee, TBA
Block B: Hirooki Goto, El Phantasmo, Yota Tsuji, Yuya Uemura, Jeff Cobb, HENARE, David FInlay, Ren Narita, Konosuke Takeshita, TBA
The TBA in each block will be the winner of a qualifying tournament, which has 6 possible entrants for each block. Block A has Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, Callum Newman, KENTA, Chase Owens and Yujiro Takahashi. Block B has Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano, Boltin Oleg, Taichi, Satoshi Kojima & TJP. Block A seems wide open with everyone except Newman having a real chance. Block B would be a shocker if Tanahashi doesn’t advance, but the only other one with a real chance to me is Taichi.
The tournaments start soon and will end on 7/5.

The next event is Tuesday at Aomori Budokan in Aomori. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. After this and Wednesday’s event, it’s all live & on demand on New Japan World until at least the end of the G1 CLIMAX. Also, according to New Japan’s Japanese website there will be a Shingo Takagi 20th Anniversary event on 9/7 at Aimesse Yamanashi in Yamanashi.

ALL TOGETHER 6/15/24 Results

The latest ALL TOGETHER event for Noto Peninsula fundraiser efforts was held today in Hokkaido.

Today’s event was held at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kita Yell in Hokkaido and can be watched on demand as a PPV only on ABEMA in select countries including the US.

The announced paid attendance was 2156.

Pre-show match: Tomoaki Honma & Toru Yano beat Andreza Giant Panda & Takeya Dou. Yano pinned Dou.

Match 1: Kosei Fujita, Robbie Eagles & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Yu Owada, HAYATA & Ulka Sasaki. Sabre beat Owada with an armbar.

Match 2: AZM vs. Starlight Kid went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 3: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Daichi Hashimoto & Daisuke Sekimoto. Goto pinned Hashimoto after Shoto.

Match 4: Kazusada Higuchi, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb beat Tetsuya Endo, Ryohei Oiwa & Boltin Oleg. Cobb pinned Oiwa after Tour of the Islands.

Match 5: Yuya Uenura, Taichi & SANADA beat Kento Miyahara, Naomichi Marufuji & Hiroshi Tanahashi. SANADA pinned Tanahashi with O’Connor Bridge.

Match 6: Masa Kitamiya beat Tomohiro Ishii.

Match 7: Titan, BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi beat Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, LJ Cleary, Anthony Greene & Jack Morris. Tauji pinned Cleary after Gene Blaster.

Match 8: YO-HEY, David Finlay & Gabriel Kodd beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh & Alejandro by ref stoppage. Kidd beat Alejandro.

Main Event: Tetsuya Naito beat Jake Lee

TNA Wrestling “Against All Odds” 2024 Results (6/14/24)

Here are the quick results from tonight’s TNA Wrestling “Against All Odds” live PPV in Chicago, IL (available on demand on TNA+ with subscription or on Triller/FITE for $9.99):

Pre-show (FREE on YouTube):
Sami Callihan beat Jonathan Gresham.

TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions Masha Slamovichi & Alisha Edwards beat Allysin Kay & Marti Belle to retain the titles. Edwards pinned Belle.

PPV:
Mike Santana & Steve Maclin beat The Rascalz. Santana pinned Trey Miguel after a discus lariat.

PCO beat Rich Swann. Afterwards, Steph De Lander accepted a date with PCO.

TNA World Tag Team Champions Brian Myers & Eddie Edwards beat Nic & Ryan Nemeth to retain the titles. Edwards pinned Ryan Nemeth after Boston Knee Party. Dirty Dango interference helped.

Frankie Kazarian beat Joe Hendry. Ace Steel, advertised to be in Hendry’s corner, wasn’t after all until post-match. (It’s Chicago and he’s got connections to Mr. See I’m A Punk, who must be teased or appear anytime a major promotion is in Chicago)

TNA X Champion Mustafa Ali beat Trent Seven to retain the title. Campaign Singh & Mike Bailey were banned from the building.

Ace Austin & Chris Bey beat Josh Alexander & Eric Young. Bey pinned Young.

TNA Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace beat Tatum Paxley (WWE) to retain the title. Open challenge. Answered by one from WWE NXT.

In a Broken Rules Match, TNA World Champion Moose beat Matt Hardy to retain the title. Broken Rules meant No DQs. Post-match the heel beatdown by The System was on until Jeff Hardy returned to make the save. Which means it’s probably safe to say Jeff is done with All Elite Wrestling amidst rumors his contract was about up (if not already).

15 Years Ago, A Dark Day In Japanese Wrestling

Today is one of Japanese wrestling’s darkest days in recent memory-the 15th anniversary of the death of legendary wrestler and Pro Wrestling NOAH founder Mitsuharu Misawa, who died after suffering a medical emergency during a match. He led the mass exodus from All-Japan Pro Wrestling at the end of the 20th century to form NOAH. As they do every June, NOAH has dedicated the entire month to honoring their founder with a variety of events and tributes, including this one from the official NOAH English language Twitter:

MITSUHARU MISAWA, FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS!

AEW Dynamite 6/12/24 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Des Moines, IA:

Swerve Strickland promo. The Elite interrupts. They tease BLOOD & GUTS, meaning it’s almost that time of year again…

AEW TNT Championship Ladder Match Qualifier: Jack Perry beat Dustin Rhodes.

Rush beat a jobber. Squash. MJF came out immediately afterwards.

Roderick Strong, Kyle Fletcher & Konosuke Takeshita beat Orange Cassidy, Mark Briscoe & Kyles O’Reilly. Fletcher pinned Briscoe after a piledriver. Trent Beretta joined the heel beatdown afterwards, Willow Nightingale tried to make the save but was dragged out of the tunnel by Kris Statlander instead.

New Japan video package. Looks like Shingo Takagi is in the Owen Hart Cup this year (DA DA DAAAAA!).

Samoa Joe & Hook beat Tony Nese &Ari Daivari. Double submission.

AEW TBS Champion Mercedes Mone beat Zeuxis (CMLL) to retain the title. Had Zeuxis won, the Mone-Stephanie Vaquer match at Forbidden Door would only have been for the NJPW STRONG Women’s Championship.

TV Time with Chris Jericho. Private Party is the guest. They wanted to be trained by Jericho until they swerved, sending Big Bill & Bryan Keith packing before beating down Jericho and bailing before Bill & Keith could make the save.

Daniel Garcia beat Nick Comoroto.

It’s now official…BLOOD & GUTS on 7/24 in Nashville, TN.

AEW International Champion Will Ospreay beat Rey Fenix to retain the title. Strickland comes out to stare afterwards.

Friday on Rampage: Toni Storm vs. Alex Windsor.

Saturday on Collision: BCC vs. Rocky Romero/Shane Haste/Mikey Nicholls/Lio Rush, House Of Black vs. Gunn Club & Juice Robinson, Thunder Rosa vs. Deonna Purrazzo in a No DQ match, Lee Moriarty vs. Dante Martin in a TNT Championship Ladder Match qualifier and Christian Cage Father’s Day Special.

Next week: MJF vs. Rush (opening match with no commercials) and AEW Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks vs. The Acclaimed in a NON-TITLE match with the usual Eliminator gimmick.

GLEAT 6/9/24 Results

GLEAT held another Ver. EX event Sunday in Nagoya as the Kaz Hayashi retirement series continues.

Sunday’s event was held at Nagoya International Conference Center Event Hall in Nagoya and can be watched on demand on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 832.

Match 1: Takehiro Yamamura, Seiki Yoshioka, Junjie, Tomoaki Honma (New Japan) & Shuji Ishikawa (Independent/Freelancer) beat MICHIKO, KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Quiet Storm, Riki Aitaka & Kumaarashi. Ishikawa pinned MICHIKO after Fire Thunder.

Match 2: Mason & Mansoor beat Soma Watanabe & Jun Tonsho. Mansoor pinned Tonsho after Centerfold.

Match 3: Kotaro Suzuki, Hartley Jackson & Keiichi Sato beat Takanori Ito, Issei Onitsuka & So Daimonji. Sato pinned Ito. Afterwards, Daimonji turned on Ito and joined Black Generation International.

Katsuhiko Nakajima was seen in the crowd.

Match 4: Kazuyuki Fujita & Kendo Ka Shin beat T-Hawk & Shigehiro Irie. Fujita pinned T-Hawk after Beast Bomb.

Match 5: Kaito Ishida & Tetsuya Izuchi beat SBK & YAKUMA. Ishida pinned SBK. As a result, Ishida & Izuchi get the next shot at the G INFINITY Championship held by Kaz Hayashi & CIMA. That match will happen on 7/1 at Tokyo Dome City Hall.

Match 6: G-REX Champion Hayato Tamura beat El Lindaman to retain the title. V5 for Tanura. Next up: Yuki Iino (DDT). That match will happen on 7/1.

Main Event: In an electric blast death match, Kaz Hayashi, CIMA & Minoru Tanaka beat Atsushi Onita, Ryuichi Kawakami & Yoshitatsu. Hayshi pinned Toshitatsu after an exploding bat attack. After the match, Kawakami attacked Lidet Entertainment President Hiroyuki Suzuki with the exploding bat and declared an anti-regime, also seemingly leaving Bulk Orchestra. GLEAT announced today that, following his actions, his contract with the promotion will be terminated after the 7/1 event.

The next event is 6/23 Umeda Stellar Hall in Osaka. Broadcast plans TBA but since it’s Osaka there likely will be no live broadcast.

Injury Report: Top Guys, Out

Wrestlers are tough. Maybe too tough for their own good, often competing through injuries and risking worse. AEW’s Dax Harwood did just that, and even worse he didn’t tell them until it blew up recently after working through it for 2 months, so now half of FTR is out. Lower back. Out indefinitely. Happened during a piledriver spot on April 21 and aggravated it last Saturday causing a hematoma the size of a football. Yeah, that’s bad. Had he not gotten it taken care of he was risking forced retirement. He apologized for keeping it a secret and now we wait to see how long it’s Top Guys, Out.

(In case you’re wondering about Cash Wheeler recently, namely potential legal troubles, he’s good. Reported assault with deadly weapon charges in North Carolina were dropped)

All-Japan 6/10/24 Results (Updated)

All-Japan ran their own Noto Peninsiula earthquake recovery fundraiser event today, separate from the recent and upcoming ALL TOGETHER events which they have not been part of this time around.

Today’s event was held at Nanao City Tazuruhama Gym in Ishikawa and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV either tonight or tomorrow morning. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance has not been announced.

Match 1: Jun & Rei Saito beat Hokuto Omori & Kumaarashi. Jun Saito pinned Omori after a jackhammer.

Match 2: Shotaro Ashino beat Seigo Tachibana by submission.

Match 3: Suwama, Dan Tamura & Seiki Yoshioka beat Ren Ayabe, Hideki Suzuki & Fuminori Abe. Suwama pinned Abe after Last Ride.

Main Event: Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Rising Hayato beat Kento Miyahara, Yuma Aoyagi & MUSASHI (Michinoku Pro). Anzai pinned MUSASHI after Gimlet.

The next event is 6/24 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo with the only match announced so far being Anzai vs. Suzuki for the Triple Crown. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

6/14 UPDATE: You can now watch this event FOR FREE on YouTube: