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That or the relentless Japan injury/illness bug strikes again in Stardom. Curious in timing and circumstances because this time it’s Giulia. The ever-vague poor health/physical condition. Out this weekend. For tomorrow, she was to have been in a 3-way 6-woman tag match. Mei Seira is the replacement. For Sunday, TBA. This is all amidst rumors she is leaving Stardom at the end of the month.
More as it becomes available.
Tokyo Joshi Pro has announced the latest Japan injury casualty today…they hopefully won’t need a hero anytime soon because the sidelined one this time is Hyper Misao. Acute back pain. Out tomorrow. Status beyond that is uncertain but since she is not on the next event after this, that gives her 2 weeks to recover before GRAND PRINCESS ’24…assuming she is in good enough shape to he a hero opposite Max The Impaler and Aja Kong. I’d ride that Hyper Bike straight out of Ryogoku Kokugikan.
More as it becomes available.
Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 Tour today with a house show in Gifu.
Today’s event was held at Gifu Memorial Center Gym in Gifu and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE sometime next week. There was no live broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 145.
There were some last-minute changes as the promotion announced Jake Lee was off this event due to a concussion. Status going forward remains uncertain.
Match 1: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wold beat Ninja Mack & Alejandro. Bane pinned Mack after a reverse Frankensteiner.
Match 2: Takashi Sugiura beat Hi69.
Match 3: Manabu Soya, Shuji Kondo & Daiki Inaba beat Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher & Shuhei Taniguchi. Inaba pinned Taniguchi.
Match 4: Go Shiozaki beat Junta Miyawaki.
Match 5: Mohammed Yone, Akitoshi Saito & Atsushi Kotoge beat Naomichi Marufuji, Masa Kitamiya & Hajime Ohara. Kotoge pinned Ohara after Kill Switch.
Match 6: Ulka Sasaki & HAYATA beat Kenoh & Yu Owada. Sasaki beat Owada with Shining Triangle.
Match 7: Anthony Greene beat Ryohei Oiwa.
Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Yoshinari Ogawa, Daga & Super Crazy beat Jack Morris, LJ Cleary, YO-HEY & Tadasuke. Kiyomiya pinned Cleary after a modified tiger driver.
The next event is GREAT VOYAGE 2024 in YOKOHAMA Sunday at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin Saturday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET. This is an ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan.
GLEAT ran their latest major event, GLEAT Ver. 10, yesterday in Tokyo.
Yesterday’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube.
The announced paid attendance was 598.
Match 1: Takehiro Yamamura, Issei Onitsuka, Yusuke Kodama, Yuya Susumu & Kumaarashi beat Kotaro Suzuki, Hartley Jackson, Quiet Storm, Junjie & JD Lee. Kumaarashi pinned Lee after a diving senton.
Match 2: G INFINITY Championship Tournament: Kaz Hayashi & CIMA beat Ryuichi Kawakami & KAZMA SAKAMOTO. Hayashi pinned Kawakami.
Match 3: G INFINITY Championship Tournaemtn: T-Hawk & Seiki Yoshioka beat Kaito Ishida & Jordan Oliver. T-Hawk pinned Oliver after Ready To Wear.
Match 4: Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana beat Soma Watanabe & Jun Tonsho. Kuroshio pinned Tonsho after a jumping high kick.
Match 5: El Lindaman beat Check Shimatani. Afterwards, Lindaman announced a 10th Anniversary match for 4/4 against trainee Go Miyake.
Match 6: Shuji Ishikawa & Tetsuya Izuchi beat Riki Aitaka & Yu Iizuka. Izuchi beat Aitaka with a reverse armbar.
Match 7: So Daimonji beat Takamori Ito.
Intermission. Before this, a GLEAT x DDT crossover event was announced for 6/6 at Korakuen.
Match 8: Chihiro Hashimoto (Sendai Girls) beat MICHIKO.
Match 9: G INFINITY Championship Tournament: Kaz Hayashi & CIMA beat T-Hawk & Seiki Yoshioka to win the tournament and the titles. Hayashi & CIMA become the 4th G INFINITY Champions. CIMA pinned Yoshioka after Meteora. Next up: Possibly Quiet Storm & Kumaarashi.
Main Event: G-REX Champion Hayato Tamura beat Minoru Tanaka to retain the title. V3 for Tamura.
The next event is G PROWRESTLING Ver. 70 Saturday at Umeda Stellar Hall in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast.
Here are the quick results for tomorrow’s AEW Rampage in Boston, MA (SPOILERS!):
Continue reading “AEW Rampage 3/15/24 Results (SPOILERS!)”Here are the quick results from tonight’s “Big Busine$$” episode of AEW Dynamite in Boston, MA:
The biggest worst kept secret in AEW is unveiled first-Mercedes Mone, fka Sasha Banks, is now part of AEW.
AEW World Champion Samoa Joe beat Wardlow by ref stoppage (technical submission) to retain the title.
The Young Bucks & Kazuchika Okada beat Pac, Penta El Zero M & Eddie Kingston. Okada pinned Kingston after Rainmaker.
Will Ospreay promo. Build to the upcoming Bryan Danielson match.
Jay White beat Darby Allin. This will be Allin’s last match for some time (if not ever in worst-case) as he is off to legit climb Mt. Everest at the end of the month. Post-match, Bullet Club finally turned on The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn.
Hook & Chris Jericho beat Gates Of Agony. Hook beat Bishop Kaun with Redrum.
Willow Nightingale beat Riho.
Due to a prior commitment, I was not able to watch the live broadcast. Therefore no comments/thoughts on the show yet.
Friday on Rampage: Orange Cassidy & Trent Beretta vs. Evil Uno & John Silver, Undisputed Kingdom vs. Top Flight & Action Andretti and Toni Storm & Mariah May vs. TBA.
Next week: Hook cs. Chris Jericho, AEW Continental Croan Champion Eddie Kingston vs. Kazuchika Okada for the titles, AEW TNT Champion Christian Cage vs. Adam Copeland in an I Quit Match for the title and Mercedes Mone appears.
Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 Tour today in Hyogo.
Today’s event was held at Atelier Himeji in Hyogo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Monday. There was no live broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 298.
Match 1: Super Crazy beat Yu Owada.
Match 2: Shuji Kondo, HAYATA & Alejandro vs. Ninja Mack, Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf went to a 15 minute time limit draw.
Match 3: YO-HEY & LJ Cleary beat Daga & Yoshinari Ogawa by DQ. Daga DQ’d. Ogawa ref assault.
Match 4: Kenoh beat Tadasuke.
Match 5: Saxon Huxley, Tinothy Thatcher & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Ulka Sasaki. Taniguchi pinned Inaba with a half nelson suplex.
Match 6: Jack Morris beat Ryohei Oiwa.
Match 7: Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge, Akitoshi Saito & Hi69 beat Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, Manabu Soya, Hajime Ohara & Junta Miyawaki. Shiozaki pinned Ohara after Go Lariat.
Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Anthony Greene by submission.
The next event is tomorrow at Memorial Center Gym in Gifu. There will be no live broadcast.
New Japan ran Day 7 of the New Japan Cup today, beginning the second half of Round 2.
Today’s event was held at Zip Arena Okayama in Okayama and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.
The announced paid attendance was 1207.
Match 1: Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb beat Tomoaki Honma & Toru Yano. Khan beat Honma with Subaru Sheep Koller.
Match 2: Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Callum Newman, Francesco Akira & TJP. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Newman after Shoto.
Match 3: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Jack Perry beat Ryusuke Taguchi & Shota Umino. Perry pinned Taguchi after a running knee strike.
Match 4: DOUKI, Yuya Uemura, Taichi & SANADA beat Gedo, Chase Owens, KENTA & David Finlay. DOUKI beat Gedo with Italian Stretch 32.
Match 5: Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita. Sabre pinned Takahashi after a running low kick.
Match 6: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji & Tetsuya Naito beat El Desperado, Togi Makabe, El Phantasmo & Tanga Loa. Tsuji pinned Makabe after Gene Blaster.
New Japan Cup Round 2:
Match 7: EVIL beat Hikuleo.
Main Event: Shingo Takagi beat Gabriel Kidd.
As a result, the third Quarterfinals match will be EVIL vs. Takagi.
Day 8 is Friday at Kanaoka Park Gym in Osaka. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.
At a press conference earlier today, Tokyo Joshi Pro wrestler Nao Kakuta announced she will retire at the end of July. Kakuta attended with Representative Tetsuya Koda and made it sound like she wanted to focus on other work she has outside wrestling, including possibly her work as an actress (she regularly performs in theater). A specific retirement date and match are TBA.
More as it becomes available.
With the titles vacant since Kazuchika Okada left the promotion, New Japan has just announced a one night tournament to crown new NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions. It will happen on 4/14 when they hold an event in Taipei, Taiwan. No further details revealed.
More as it becomes available.