Tokyo Joshi Pro wraps up their time at The Collective for this year today with a crossover event featuring matches against the women of Game Changer Wrestling (GCW). 6 of the 8 matches are direct crossovers while one match is a TJPW single match and a 6-woman tag match will have both sides on each team. 6 single matches are the majority of the card with 2 tag team matches. The likely main event on paper features Rina Yamashita, Masha Slamovich & Maki Itoh vs. Miyu Yamashita, Shoko Nakajima & Yuki AIno. No relation between the Yamashitas for those wondering.
As was the case earlier today/yesterday, there are some last-minute changes because Nao Kakuta is off due to illness and Sawyer Wreck is also off due to injury. Because of that, a planned tag match of Wreck & Allie Katch vs. Mizuki & Kakuta is now Allie vs. Mizuki. SAKI has also been added to the opening TJPW match to make it a 3-way.
Today’s event will be held at Penns Landing Caterers in Philadelphia, PA and can be watched LIVE on TrillerTV/FITE in English only with a Triller+ subscription ($7.99/month or $69.99/year). It will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. Due to a potential scheduling conflict I may be joining this event in progress and watching from the beginning and catching up so there may be near live results instead (if that happens I hope to be no more than 30 minutes behind). (Update: I made it home and got set up with a few minutes to spare, so proper live results) While there seemingly are no time limits the many events at the venue keeps them on a tight clock and near the end they’ll be up against the start of WWE WrestleMania so I imagine that, like several other events so far here, it will probably run just under 2 hours, which puts it up against the first half-hour of WrestleMania.
Today’s lineup:
Suzume vs. Pom Harajuku & SAKI in a 3-way
Session Moth Martina vs. Raku
Dark Sheik vs. Yuki Kamifuku
Steph De Lander vs. Hyper Misao
Shazza McKenzie vs. Arisu Endo
Allie Katch vs. Mizuki
Billie Starkz & Janai Kai vs. Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi
Rina Yamashita, Masha Slamovich & Maki Itoh vs. Miyu Yamashita, Shoko Nakajima & Yuki Aino
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Updates below will begin at 11:30 AM PT/2:30 PM PT.
11:30 AM PT UPDATE: Live stream begins. We go to the venue in 30 seconds. And right on cue…
We are LIVE from Penns Landing Caterers in Philadelphia, PA. Commentary should join momentarily.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. According to DDT’s website there were some tickets still available but the venue looks close to sold out again. Hopefully it’ll be a sellout of 750 or at worst close. (Based on what I saw during the first match it’s not a sellout. I think it’s gonna be in the 650-700 range). (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 672, a full house/near sellout)
Right to the action. Your hosts are Dave Prazak & Veda Scott. And once again we have STREAMERS!!!
Match 1: Suzume vs. Pom Harajuku & SAKI in a 3-way
Result: Suzume beat Pom Harajuku & SAKI in a 3-way by pinning Harajuku.
Match 2: Session Moth Martina vs. Raku
Result: Session Moth Martina beat Raku. This was a great comedy match, Martina really played along well with Raku’s “sleepy” antics and Raku even got “intoxicated” early on as Martina had a (presumably) empty beer can she brought out with her. The fans didn’t like the result but loved the match.
Match 3: Dark Sheik vs. Yuki Kamifuku
Actually…last-second change of match order, it seems. This will come up later. Which led to…
Match 3 (Take 2): Shazza McKenzie vs. Arisu Endo
Result: Arisu Endo beat Shazza McKenzie
Match 4: Steph De Lander vs. Hyper Misao
Result: Steph De Lander beat Hyper Misao. They went hardcore with some really fun stuff including several moments when they both had skewers stuck in their heads, actually a great look! Naturally the fans hated the result because De Lander is associated with Matt Cardona, who everyone hates.
Alright, try that original Match 3 again…
Match 5: Dark Sheik vs. Yuki Kamifuku
Result: Dark Sheik beat Yuki Kamifuku
Match 6: Billie Starkz & Janai Kai vs. Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi. The entrance music for Watanabe/Tatsumi got botched as they started inadvertently playing Mizuki’s music before the transition and that got a “You F’d Up!” chant from the crowd. Another match order change. Which led to…
Match 6 (Take 2): Allie Katch vs. Mizuki
Result: Mizuki beat Allie Katch
Try that again, take 2…
Match 7: Billie Starkz & Janai Kai vs. Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi.
Result: Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi beat Billie Starkz & Janai Kai. Watanabe pinned Kai after Daydream.
Main Event: Rina Yamashita, Masha Slamovich & Maki Itoh vs. Miyu Yamashita, Shoko Nakajima & Yuki Aino
Result: Rina Yamashita, Masha Slamovich & Maki Itoh beat Miyu Yamashita, Shoko Nakajima & Yuki Aino. Itoh beat Aino with Itoh Punish.
For those keeping score, GCW wins 4-3.
Like yesterday’s TJPW event, this one was a lot of fun even though of course I didn’t like some of the results (no, I’m not a Mizuki or Itoh fan). The match order changes thankfully were no big deal as everything went on as planned and the event ran a neat & tidy 2 hours (they cut away as soon as the main event ended so anything we see post-match will come via fan uploads to the socials). Another event that is definitely worth watching as both GCW and TJPW fans will find plenty to enjoy.
End Show.
In TJPW news from Japan, Yuki Arai’s participation schedule for May & June was announced today, which is subject to change. Hopefully it will because, disappointingly, it’s only 2 events-the next 2 Korakuen Hall events on 5/6 (the annual Golden Week blowout event) and 6/9.
The next event is 4/13 at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, which will be the final event for Juria Nagano before she leaves TJPW and wrestling. Her final matches will be a trios match then a single match against Moka Miyamoto. The event is a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 8:30 PM PT/11:30 PM ET with live results scheduled.