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All-Japan 4/27/24 Results

All-Japan ran Day 5 of the Champions Carnival today.

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 867.

Match 1: Shotaro Ashino, Seigo Tachibana & MUSASHI (Michinoku Pro) beat Hikaru Sato, Dan Tamura & Road Crew. Tachibana pinned Tamura after Yankee Hammer.

Champions Carnival:
Match 2: Block A-Hokuto Omori beat Ren Ayabe.
Match 3: Block B-Hideki Suzuki beat Hartley Jackson by submission.
Match 4: Block A-Kento Miyahara beat Cyrus.

Match 5: Yuma Aoyagi, Rising Hayato & The Bodyguard (Independent/Freelancer) beat Suwama, Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) & Ryo Inoue. Bodyguard pinned Inoue after Rising Dragon.

Champions Carnival:
Match 6-Block A-Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan.
Match 7: Block B-Jun Saito beat Ryuki Honda.
Main Event: Block B-Rei Saito beat Yuma Anzai.

Standings:
Block A:
1-Miyahara, 3-1, 6 points
2-Ashino, 3-1, 6 points
3-Smith, 2-1, 4 points
4-Kuroshio, 2-1, 4 points
5-Aoyagi, 2-2, 4 points
6-Cyrus, 1-2, 2 points
7-Ayabe, 1-3, 2 points
8-Omori, 1-3, 2 points

Block B:
1-Jun Saito, 4-1, 8 points
2-Anzai, 3-2, 6 points
3-Rei Saito, 2-1, 4 points
4-Suwama, 2-1, 4 points
5-Suzuki, 2-2, 4 points
6-Crew, 1-2, 2 points
7-Honda, 1-3, 2 points
8-Jackson, 0-3, 0 points

The winner of each block advances to the Finals. If there are ties, a tiebreaker match will be held.

Day 6 is tomorrow at Nagoya International Conference Center Event Hall in Nagoya. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

New Japan 4/27/24 Results (Updated)

New Japan continued the Road To WRESTLING DONTAKU Tour today in Hiroshima with the final televised event before next weekend’s blowout event.

Today’s event was held at Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall in Hiroshima and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 2145.

Pre-show match: Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano beat Ray Paloma & HANZO. Oleg pinned Paloma after Kamikaze.

Match 1: Taiji Ishimori, Chase Owens & KENTA beat Tiger Mask, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Owens pinned TM 4.

Match 2: Francesco Akira & Jeff Cobb beat Kosei Fujita & Zack Sabre Jr. Cobb pinned Fujita after Tour of the Islands.

Match 3: El Desperado, Shota Umino & Tomohiro Ishii beat Yujirro Takahashi, Ren Narita & EVIL. Umino pinned Takahashi after Death Rider.

Match 4: Katsuya Murashima & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Shoma Kato & Tomohiro Ishii. Tanahashi beat Kato with a Texas cloverleaf.

Match 5: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Sho beat TAKA Michinoku & DOUKI. Kanemaru pinned TAKA with Samson Clutch.

Match 6: STRONG Tag Team Champions Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls beat El Phantasmo & Hikuleo to retain the titles. Nicholls pinned Hikuleo. V1 for the champs.

Match 7: In a Rural Revitalization 3 Falls Match, Yuya Uemura beat KOPW 2024 Champion Great-O-Khan 2-1 to win the title.

Main Event: In an elimination match, BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Gabriel Kidd, David Finlay & Jake Lee (Pro Wrestling NOAH). Naito was the winner, last eliminating Lee.

The next event is Wrestling Satsuma No Kuni, the traditional standalone end-of-April event named for the original name of Kagoshima Prefecture, Monday at Kagoshima Arena in Kagoshima. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

UPDATE: After this was posted I learned there were last-minute changes to the event due to SANADA being off. Illness.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 4/27/24 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continues their Spring house show tour today with the final event before YES! WONDERLAND, their annual Golden Week blowout event. As such, this will represent the final builds for the 2 title matches on 5/6 (not 3 because Yuki Arai won’t defend the International Princess Championship. That may be held back for July). Interestingly there is just one single match today as trios matches feature the champions opposite their challengers one last time, an opportunity for one side to build more momentum.

While this probably didn’t affect the card at all, Kaya Toribami will miss this event due to an overseas tour.

Today’s event will be held at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. It’s still a house show and no match should have more than a 20 minute time limit, so with 6 matches I anticipate this event will run just under 2 hours.

Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Rika Tatsumi vs. Nao Kakuta & Chika Nanase in a 3-way
Kira Summer vs. Mahiro Kiryu
Maki Itoh & Uta Takami vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Toga
Mizuki & Shino Suzuki vs. Raku & Pom Harajuku
Suzume, Arisu Endo & Haru Kazashiro vs. Wakana Uehara, HIMAWARI & Runa Okubo
Miu Watanabe & Moka Miyamoto vs. Shoko Nakajima & Yuki Aino

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 8:30 PM PT/11:30 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin at 8:15 PM PT/11:15 PM ET.

8:28 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. They turned the lights down right away for the opening announcements but based on advance sales it has me thinking around 200 initially. A legit sellout at the venue is 294. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 223)

The matches should begin in about 10 minutes.

The matches begin at 8:45 PT/11:45 PM ET. The hard camera is higher-up than normal and at an angle today.

Match 1: Kira Summer vs. Mahiro Kiryu. 15 minute time limit
Result: Mahiro Kiryu beat Kira Summer by submission

Match 2: Rika Tatsumi vs. Nao Kakuta & Chika Nanase in a 3-way. 20 minute time limit
Result: Rika Tatsumi beat Nao Kakuta & Chika Nanase in a 3-way by beating Nanase.

Match 3: Maki Itoh & Uta Takami vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Toga. 20 minute time limit
Result: Maki Itoh & Uta Takami beat Yuki Kamifuku & Toga. Itoh beat Toga with Itoh Punish.

Match 4: Mizuki & Shino Suzuki vs. Raku & Pom Harajuku. 20 minute time limit
Result: Raku & Pom Harajuku beat Mizuki & Shino Suzuki. Raku pinned Suzuki after Doctor Yellow.

Match 5: Suzume, Arisu Endo & Haru Kazashiro vs. Wakana Uehara, HIMAWARI & Runa Okubo (her left eye has what looks like a massive bandage/wrap on her left cheek just under her eye, hopefully not anything serious). 20 minute time limit
Result: Wakana Uehara, HIMAWARI & Runa Okubo beat Suzume, Arisu Endo & Haru Kazashiro. HIMAWARI pinned Kazashiro.

Main Event: Miu Watanabe & Moka Miyamoto vs. Shoko Nakajima & Yuki Aino. 20 minute time limit
Result: Shoko Nakajima & Yuki Aino beat Miu Watanabe & Moka Miyamoto. Nakajima pinned Miyamoto after a diving senton.

The next event is YES! WONDERLAND ’24, the annual Golden Week blowout event, on 5/6 at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 5/5 at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET.

DDT 4/26/24 Results

DDT ran the first event of a special collaboration today with Zeekstar, a Tokyo-based pro handball team.

Today’s event was held at Sumida General Gym in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 687.

Pre-show match: Kazuma Sumi beat Yuni & Illusion in a 3-way by pinning Yuni.

Match 1: Keigo Nakamura Return Match: DDT Universal Champion MAO beat Keigo Nakamura to retain the title. V8 for MAO.

Match 2: Kazusada Higuchi & Yuya Koroku beat Yukio Naya & Rukiya. Higuchi beat Rukiya with a Canadian backbreaker.

Match 3: KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes, Masa Takanashi, Antonio Honda, Takeshi Masada & Mecha Mummy beat Toru Owashi, Hiroshi Yamato, Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Takao Soma & Shuichiro Kawamatsu to retain the titles. Masada pinned Matsunaga. V2 for the champs.

Match 4: Sanshiro Unagi (Sanshiro Takagi) beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Sayaka Unagi to win the title. Sanshiro becomes the 1626th Champion. Which led to…

Sayaka Unagi beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Sanshiro Unagi to win the title. Unagi becomes the 1627th Champion. Which led to…

Sanshiro Unagi beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Sayaka Unagi to win the title. Sanshiro becomes the 1628th Champion.

Match 5: Tetsuya Endo & Yuki Iino beat Shunma Katsumata & To-y. Endo pinned To-y after Burning Star Press.

Intermission. During which…

Jister (a member of Zeekstar Tokyo) beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Sanshiro Unagi to win the title. Jister becomes the 1629th Champion.

Match 6: HARASHIMA beat Kazuki Hirata.

Match 7: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON beat DDT 6-Man Tag Team Champions Jun Akiyama, Danshoku Dieno & Makoto Oishi to win the titles. Sasaki, Paul & KANON become the 54th KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Sasaki beat Oishi with a crossface.

Main Event: KO-D Openweight Champion Yuki Ueno beat Akito to retain the title. V4 for Ueno.

The next event is Sunday at Sapporo Sunplaza Kanaeda Room in Hokkaido. There will be no live broadcast.

New Japan 4/26/24 Results

New Japan continued the Road To WRESTLING DONTAKU Tour today in Osaka.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 751.

Match 1: Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii beat Katsuya Murashima, Shoma Kato & Tomoaki Honma. Oleg pinned Kato after Kamikaze.

Match 2: Taiji Ishimori, Chase Owens & KENTA beat Tiger Mask, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. KENTA pinned TM 4.

Match 3: El Desperado, Shota Umino & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Dick Togo, Ren Narita & EVIL. Umino pinned Togo after Death Rider.

Match 4: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho & Yujiro Takahashi beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI & Taichi. Takahashi pinned TAKA after Big Juice.

Match 5: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Jado, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, El Phantasmo & Hikuleo. Fujita beat Jado with a chicken wing.

Match 6: Yuya Uemura & SANADA beat Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan. SANADA pinned Newman.

Main Event: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Gedo, Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Gabriel Kidd & David Finlay. BUSHI pinned Gedo after Fable.

The next event is tomorrow at Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall in Hiroshima. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

New Japan 4/25/24 Results

New Japan continued the Road To WRESTLING DONTAKU Tour today in Fukui.

Today’s event was held at Fukui Industrial Hall Building 1 Exhibition Hall in Fukui. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 632.

Match 1: Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano & Tomihiro Ishii beat Katsuya Murashima, Shoma Kato & Tomoaki Honma. Oleg pinned Murashima after Kamikaze.

Match 2: Taiji Ishimori, Chase Owens & KENTA beat Tiger Mask, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Owens pinned TM 4 after a package driver.

Match 3: El Desperado, Shota Umino & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Dick Togo, Ren Narita & EVIL. Umino pinned Togo after Death Rider.

Match 4: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho & Yujiro Takahashi beat TAKA Michimoku, DOUKI & SANADA. Kanemaru pinned TAKA with Samson Clutch.

Match 5: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Jado, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, El Phantasmo & Hikuleo. Fujita beat Jado with a chicken wing.

Match 6; Yuya Uemura & Taichi beat Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan. Taichi pinned Newman after Tensho Cross Fang.

Main Event; BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Gedo, Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Gabirel Kidd & David Finlay. BUSHI pinned Gedo after Fable.

The next event is tomorrow at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

AEW Dynamite 4/24/24 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s LIVE NATIONWIDE AEW Dynamite from Daily’s Place (Jacksonville, FL):

As the show begins, The Young Bucks & Jack Perry are shown arriving earlier today. Security tries to keep Perry out but they get blown off.

Orange Cassidy comes out but gets a beatdown by Trent Beretta quickly. Chuck Taylor then comes out. Trent tells Taylor to make a decision and Taylor lays out Trent before demanding a parking lot fight because Taylor isn’t going to be medically cleared to compete. Trent leaves.

Jon Moxley promo.

Match 1; AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland vs. Kyle Fletcher in a NON-TITLE match. Usual “eliminator” gimmick meaning a title rematch for Fletcher if he wins
Result: Swerve Strickland beat Kyle Fletcher. Feed went out during split-screen commercial.

Next week: Kenny Omega returns. Hometown appearance (Winnipeg, Canada).

Thunder Rosa interviewd. Deonna Purrazzo interrupts and things quickly get heated.

Match 2: Mina Shirakawa (Stardom) vs. Anna Jay
Result: Mina Shirakawa beat Anna Jay. More split-screen issues. Anna broke up the post-match celebration and choked out Mariah May until Toni Storm made the save. Then Serena Deeb came out and sat next to the AEW Women’s Championship belt Storm left on the stairs of the entrance and called her shot to the camera.

Willow Nightingale Championship Celebration Mercedes Mone interrupts and tensions quickly boil over ahead of their AEW TBS Championship match at Double Or Nothing. Mone bitch-slaps Nightingale at the end. Very hot starting build.

Match 3: Casino Gauntlet Match. Staggered entry like a battle royal but first pinfall/submission wins and gets an AEW International Championship shot at Double Or Nothing.
Order of entry: Jay White, Dante Martin, Penta El Zero M, Kyle O’Reilly, Will Ospreay, Lance Archer, Komander, Jay Lethal
Result: Will Ospreay won by pinning Komander. As a result, Ospreay will face AEW International Champion Roderick Strong for the title at Double Or Nothing

Chris Jericho promo. He puts himself over as new FTW Champion and lays the roots for his next faction as The Learning Tree. Big Bill comes out wanting to be his first recruit.

Main Event: IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jon Moxley vs. Powerhouse Hobbs for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Jon Moxley beat Powerhouse Hobbs by ref stoppage (technical submission) to retain the title. V1 for Moxley.

Next week: FTW Champion Chris Jericho vs. Katsuyori Shibata for the title.

Jack Perry & Tony Khan face-to-face meeting in the ring follows the main event. About 7 minutes TV time left. They shook hands & hugged it out, which was the dead giveaway as Perry smiled at the camera. He then laid out Khan with a microphone punch to the midsection then The Elite came out. The Young Bucks hit a Meltzer Driver on Khan and left him laid out in the ring before leaving. Once they were gone the roster began spilling into the ring as we cut away. Commentary either was cut off or was dead silent after the driver.

There apparently were a lot of technical issues tonight. A lot was said about major audio issues but I had no such problems, just with no picture-in-picture during commercials. I could see the commercials fine but no matches. The lineup wasn’t much on paper but thankfully it was not as bad as it looked. Turned out to be an average to just-above-average show despite no real Dynasty fallout, but some of the Double Or Nothing build got off to a hot start, in particular with Mone-Nightingale. I loved the ending of course but the aforementioned women’s segment is must-see.

Saturday on Collision LIVE NATIONWIDE after NBA Playoffs coverage on TNT (or 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT, whichever is later): Bullet Club vs. Top Flight & Action Andretti for the Trios Championships, Toni Storm vs. Anna Jay.
Saturday On Rampage after Collision:: Thunder Rosa vs. Deonna Purrazzo and Trent Beretta vs. Chuck Taylor in a Parking Lot Fight

All-Japan 4/24/24 Results

All-Japan ran Day 4 of the Champions Carnival today.

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 527.

Match 1: Rei Saito, Hikaru Sato & Dan Tamura beat Ryo Inoue, Hartley Jackson & Seigo Tachibana. Tamura pinned Tachibana after a powerbomb.

Champions Carnival:
Match 2: Block A-Kuroshio TOKYO Japan beat Hokuto Omori.
Match 3: Block B-Jun Saito beat Road Crew.
Match 4: Block A-Cyrus beat Ren Ayabe.
Match 5: Block B-Hideki Suzuki beat Ryuki Honda.

Match 6: Kento Miyahara & Rising Hayato beat Davey Boy Smith Jr. & MUSASHI (Michinoku Pro). Miyahara pinned MUSASHI with a shutdown suplex hold.

Champions Carnival:
Match 7: Block A-Shotaro Ashino beat Yuka Aoyagi.
Main Event: Block B-Yuma Anzai beat Suwama by ref stoppage (technical submission).

Day 5 is Saturday at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

Injury Report: NOAH High-Flyer Grounded

Pro Wrestling NOAH has announced an injury change to Friday’s event, and if it lingers it will have major title implications as the absent wrestler is Alejandro. Cervical spine strain. Out Friday. If he missed any more time it would affect major upcoming events including Dragon Gate’s 5/5 event as he is half of the Open The Twin Gate Champions with Kaito Kiyomiya. It’s bot yet known if he will miss additional time.

For Friday, he was to have been in a 6-man tag match. That has been changed to a 5-way.

More as it becomes available.

New Japan 4/23/24 Results

New Japan continued the Road To WRESTLING DONTAKU Tour today with the second half of a Tokyo doubleheader.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 887.

Match 1: Taiji Ishimori, Chase Owens & KENTA beat Shoma Kato, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Ishimori beat Kato with Bone Lock.

Match 2: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Katsuya Murashima, El Desperado, El Phantasmo & Hikuleo. Fujita pinned Murashima.

Match 3: NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL to retain the titles. Tanahashi pinned Takahashi after High Fly Flow. V1 for the champs.

LIJ vs. Bullet Club 5 Match Series:
Match 4: Yota Tsuji beat Gedo in 5 seconds.
Match 5: Gabriel Kidd beat BUSHI.
Match 6: Shingo Takagi beat Clark Connors.
Match 7: Drilla Moloney beat Tetsuya Naito. Jake Lee (Pro Wrestling NOAH) interference helped.
Main Event: David Finlay beat Hiromu Takahashi.
Bullet Club wins 3-2.

The next event is Thursday at Fukui Industrial Center Exhibition Hall 1 in Fukui. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.