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New Japan 7/20/24 Results

New Japan kicked off the G1 CLIMAX 34, the promotion’s biggest tournament of the year, today and with that we are officially on the Road To Tokyo Dome.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. This event aired live as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE 2024 in TV Asahi in Japan.

The announced paid attendance was 4177.

All matches were G1 CLIMAX matches, 30 minute time limit.

Match 1: Block B: Boltin Oleg beat Ren Narita. UPSET ALERT!!!

Match 2: Block A: Callum Newman beat Shota Umino. UPSET ALERT!!!

Match 3: Block B: HENARE beat El Phantasmo.

Match 4: Block A: Zack Sabre Jr. beat Great-O-Khan.

Match 5: Block B: Jeff Cobb beat Hirooki Goto.

Match 6: Block A: Jake Lee beat SANADA.

Match 7: Block B: Yuya Uemura beat David Finlay.

Match 8: Block A: EVIL beat Gabriel Kidd.

Match 9: Block B: Konosuke Takeshita beat Yota Tsuji.

Main Event: Block A: Shingo Takagi beat Tetsuya Naito.

Day 2 is tomorrow. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin TONIGHT at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. If time and conditions permit I will try to do live results.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/20/24 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran another LIMIT BREAK ex. event today, continuing their series of crossover events with other promotions.

Today’s event was held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 252.

Match 1: Jun Akiyama (DDT) beat Yu Owada.

Match 2: Yasu & Hide Kubota (Independent/Freelancers) beat Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Takumi Saito (Independent/Freelancers). Yasu Kubota pinned Saito after a swanton bomb.

Match 3: Yoshitatsu beat Junya Matsunaga (ZERO1).

Match 4: Akira Iwamoto & Yuko Kikuchi (Independent/Freelancers) beat Atsushi Kotoge & Kohei Kinoshita (Independent/Freelancer). Iwamoto pinned Kinoshita after Solitary Art.

Match 5: Mohammed Yone, Hi69 & Haruto Ki (Independent/Freelancer) beat Masato Tanaka, Chris Weiss & Takuya Sugawara (ZERO1). Hi69 pinned SUhawara after Stuka Splash.

Main Event: Go Shiozaki & Kazuyuki Fujita beat Akitoshi Saito & Shuji Ishikawa. Shiozaki pinned Saito after Go Lariat.

The next event is tomorrow at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo for the monthly STAR NAVIGATION ’24 event. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English Only will begin TONIGHT at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET with live rtesults being provided. This will be an ABEMA exclusive broadcast. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

In other news, regarding Akitoshi Saito’s retirement announcement recently, a press conference with Saito about this will be held Monday. It will be streamed live on YouTube beginning Sunday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET.

Tokyo Joshi Pro “SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’24” LIVE Results (7/20/24)

Tokyo Joshi Pro’s quarterly blowout event, SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’24, kicks off a big weekend of wrestling across Japan today. Their annual summer tentpole event is a morning matinee event and is loaded up with 9 matches including 2 title matches and familiar foreign talent returning. In the main event, Princess Of Princess Champion Miu Watanabe defends the title against Rika Tatsumi. Can Watanabe keep her reign alive against her Daydream partner & friend or will Tatsumi become a 2-time champion? In the second title match, Yuki Arai looks to become a 2-time Princess Tag Team Champion by adding the title to her International Princess Championship, this time teaming with Moka Miyamoto to challenge Suzume & Arisu Endo for the titles. Elsewhere, Japanese veteran & AEW part-timer Emi Sakura makes a special appearance and Hall of Famer Aja Kong faces Shoko Nakajima.

There have been late changes to the card because Nao Kakuta & Mahiro Kiryu are off the original lineup. Kakuta is out due to a lower back injury that has put her retirement match next week in potential jeopardy. She was to have faced Yuki Kamifuku. Kakeru Sekiguchi is the replacement. Kiryu is off due to the always-vague poor health/physical condition (probably illness). She was to have teamd with Yuna Manase & Kaya Toribami to face Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku. Moeka Haruhi, who just returned to Ganbare Pro this past weekend after an extended absence to be a kidney donor to save her sister’s life, is the replacement for her second match back. Haruhi also has joined Ganbare after spending most of the last decade as a freelancer.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese & English. Former SKE48 member Marika Tani makes her regular major-event appearance as a guest on Japanese commentary. Fans will be allowed to throw streamers/paper tape today. There will be a post-event party/gathering at a nearby venue after the event which may affect running times slightly although schedules are subject to change, but this probably will be a normal major event in terms of running time and go around 2 1/2 hours. The longest it could possibly go would be a little over 3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Wakana Uehara, Toga & Runa Okubo vs. HIMWARI, Shino Suzuki & Haru Kazashiro
Chika Nanase vs. Kira Summer
Mei Suruga vs. Uta Takami
Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku vs. Yuna Manase, Moeka Haruhi & Kaya Toribami
Yuki Kamifuku vs. Kakeru Sekiguchi
Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh vs. Emi Sakura & Mizuki
Aja Kong vs. Shoko Nakajima
Princess Tag Team Champions Suzume & Arisu Endo vs. Yuki Arai & Moka Miyamoto for the titles
Princess Of Princess Champion Miu Watanabe vs. Rika Tatsumi fro the title

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Updates below will begin at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin at 6:40 PM PT/9:40 PM ET.

6:40 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in a few minutes.

6:50 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Haruo Murata, Kagehiro Osano, Sayoko Mita & Marika Tani. Your English hosts are Mr. Haku & Baliyan Akki.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Usual reduced capacity setup and crowd still filing in but it looks mostly full already, so it should be at least in the 700-750 range. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 873)

The matches should begin in 20-25 minutes.

During Sayuri Namba’s opening announcements, they announce the year-end event for 12/29 and the 2025 opener for Tokyo Dome morning on 1/4/25, both at Korakuen. She then brings out Nao Kakuta to address the crowd, appearing even though she can’t compete today due to a back injury. Up Up Girls then come out. (Looks like matches will begin around 7:15 PM PT)

The matches begin at 7:20 PM/10:20 PM ET.

Match 1: Wakana Uehara, Toga & Runa Okubo vs. HIMWARI, Shino Suzuki & Haru Kazashiro. 20 minute time limit
Result: Wakana Uehara, Toga & Runa Okubo beat HIMAWARI, Shino Suzuki & Haru Kazashiro. Toga pinned Suzuki after Rock Bottom.

Match 2: Chika Nanase vs. Kira Summer. 15 minute time limit
Result: Kira Summer beat Chika Nanase. Kira’s first career victory!

Match 3: Mei Suruga (Chocolate Pro Wrestling) vs. Uta Takami. 15 minute time limit
Result: Mei Suruga beat Uta Takami by submission. More of a comedy match.

Match 4: Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku vs. Yuna Manase (Ganbare Pro), Moeka Haruhi (Ganbare Pro) & Kaya Toribami. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku beat Yuna Manase, Moeka Haruhi & Kaya Toribami. Aino pinned Toribami after Venus DDT. Comedy match of course.

Match 5: Yuki Kamifuku vs. Kakeru Sekiguchi (Independent/Freelancer). 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Kamifuku beat Kakeru Sekiguchi. Nao Kakuta, who was supposed to have faced Kamifuku, was at ringside for the match. Post-match, Kamifuku with microphone. She briefly put Kakuta over then Kakuta came in to apologize for not being able to compete and thanked the crowd for coming out. She hoped they would come to her retirement match Thursday.

Match 6: Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh vs. Emi Sakura (Chocolate Pro Wrestling/All Elite Wrestling) & Mizuki. 20 minute time limit
Result: Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh beat Emi Sakura & Mizuki. Yamashita pinned Mizuki after Skull Kick. And for good measure Sakura gave Mizuki a tilt-a-whrl backbreaker afterwards. Happy Happy!

Match 7: Aja Kong (OZ Academy) vs. Shoko Nakajima. 20 minute time limit
Result: Aja Kong beat Shoko Nakajima

Match 8: Princess Tag Team Champions Suzume & Arisu Endo vs. Yuki Arai & Moka Miyamoto for the titles. 30 minute time limit (This is the first time I’ve ever seen Suzume without her traditional jet-black hair! She dyed it blonde today, also has a new outfit)
Result: Princess Tag Team Champions Suzume & Arisu Endo beat Yuki Arai & Moka Miyamoto to retain the titles. Endo beat Miyamoto with a camel clutch. V2 for the champs.

Main Event: Princess Of Princess Champion Miu Watanabe vs. Rika Tatsumi fro the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: Princess Of Princess Champion Miu Watanabe beat Rika Tatsumi to retain the title. V3 for Watanabe. Next up: Probably the Tokyo Princess Cup winner at WRESTLE PRINCESS 5 unless Watanabe wins.

The next event is the Nao Kakuta Retirement Event (they call it graduation) Thursday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo. Hopefully Kakuta will be able to compete in her final match. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

News: Japan Pro Wrestling Federation Approaching Incorporation

The Japan Pro Wrestling Federation, an alliance being formed by 11 Japanese promotions-New Japan Pro Wrestling, All-Japan Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling NOAH, DDT, Dragon Gate, Big Japan, Ganbare Pro, Kyushu Pro, Tokyo Joshi Pro, Stardom and Diana-appears to be headed towards incorporation following a pair of ALL TOGETHER events held in May & June as fundraisers for Noto Peninsula earthquake recovery efforts. An executive structure has also been agreed upon once incorporation is completed: CyberFight Co. Vice President & DDT wrestler Sanshiro Takagi (who is about to go on indefinite hiatus) will be the Representative Director, while Executive Directors will be Kyushu Pro Chairman Ryota Chikuzen, DRAGONGATE Co. Director Ryo Saito, and New Japan Board OF Directors Chairman Naoki Sugabayashi. Also in attendance were DDT General Manager Hisaya Imabayashi & New Japan President Hiroshi Tanahashi.
The Federation will continue to hold meetings and other events to consider and disseminate measures for the professional wrestling world.

More as it becomes available.

Injuey Report: No Limit Break for ZERO1 Wrestler

Pro Wrestling NOAH has announced a change to this Saturday’s LIMIT BREAK ex. event: REAL ZERO1 wrestler Satsuki Nagao is now off the card. Unspecified injury. He was to have faced Yoshitatsu. Junya Matsunaga (also from REAL ZERO1) is the replacement.

Injury Report: Early Summer Sunsets

More injury news from Tokyo Joshi Pro ahead of SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’24 this Saturday, and it’s unfortunate because of the two absences now, Nao Kakuta remains one of them. Existing lower back injury. She was to have faced Yuki Kamifuku. Kakeru Sekiguchi is the replacement. Kakuta will participate in a post-event autograph session, but now there should be worry about her status for her final match scheduled for next week and if this injury could be career-ending without one last match. Additionally, Mahiro Kiryu is now off too. The always-vague poor health/physical condition. She was to have teamed with Yuna Manase & Kaya Toribami to face Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku. Moeka Haruhi, who just returned from a long absence to be a kidney donor to her sister, is the replacement. Haruhi will be at the post-event party but no Kiryu, so refunds will be offered to affected fans.

Injury Report: Rmphasis on Sore in Sohrei

Updating recent injury news from Stardom, it was announced that Ami Sohrei, who missed recent events due to injury, is now out long-term. Torn left ACL. Apparently she competed through it for at least 2 years. Out indefinitely but will be months and she is out of the upcoming 5STAR GP.

In other injury news, It was also announced Sayaka Kurara is out this week. Undisclosed injury treatment. Out Friday & Sunday. Expected to return next Tuesday.

More as it becomes available.

News: Freelancer Joins Ganbare Pro

At their event yesterday in Tokyo (results to be posted when available), Ganbare Pro announced that Moeka Haruhi, who has been a regular in the promotion since July 2018 as a freelancer, has joined the promotion effective immediately. She had also been working in a front office and support capacity since the promotion left CyberFight Corporation (owner of DDT, Tokyo Joshi Pro, Pro Wrestling NOAH and WRESTLE UNIVERSE) in April. Yesterday marked Haruhi’s return to action after being out since last year to be a living kidney donor to help save her sister’s life and to recover from the operation.

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.