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Ganbare Pro 2/12/24 Results

Ganbare Pro is running a Ganbare Women event today, one of the last ones before the promotion splits from DDT and leaves its future uncertain with a couple members leaving the promotion.

Today’s event was held at Takashimadaira Community Center in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (probably Wednesday or Thursday). There was no live broadcast. (UPDATE: On demand will be available Thursday)

The announced paid attendance was 112.

During opening announcements, Yuna Manase announced she was stepping down as General Manager of Ganbare Women and would return as a wrestler on the 3/9 event.

Match 1; Kizuna Tanaka beat Riara.

Match 2: Ram Kaichow (666) & Sumire Natsu (Independent/Freelancer) beat Kaho Kobayashi & Bunny Oikawa. Natsu pinned Oikawa after Youran.

Match 3: Alex Lee & Yoshiko Hasegawa beat Yappy (Ice Ribbon) & JC Storm. Hasegawa oubbed Yappy after a diving double knee attack.

Main Event: Mio Momomo beat YuuRI.

The next Women event is 3/9. Broadcast plans TBA.

Stardom 2/11/24 Results

After a very tumultuous week for the promotion following the sudden firing of founder & lead producer Rossy Ogawa, Stardom returned to action today in Shizuoka amidst a lot of short-term uncertainty regarding the short-term duture of the promotion.

Today’s event was held at Fujisan Messe in Shizuoka and will be available on demand on Stardom World at a later date.

The announced paid attendance was 506, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Yuzuki & Saya Iida beat Sayaka Kurara & Mai Sakurai. Yuzuki pinned Kurara after a rolling arrow.

Match 2; Momo Watanabe beat Lady C & MIRAI in a 3-way by pinning C.

Match 3: Waka tsukiyama & Maika beat Yuna Mizumori & Tam Nakano. Maika pinned Mizumori after Flame Drop.

Match 4: Miyu Amasaki, Saya Kamitami, AZM & Utami Hayashishita beat Ranna Yagami, Ami Sohrei, Saki Kashima & Syuri. Amasaki pinned Tagami after Tensei.

Match 5: HANAKO, Gina & Mina Shirakawa beat Hazuki, Hanan & Mayu Iwatani. Gina pinned Hazuki after Sanderstruck.

Main Event: Starlight Kid, Ruaka & Natsuko Tora beat Mei Seira, Suzu Suzuki & Giulia. Tora pinned Giulia after a swanton bomb. Afterwards, Tora issued a STRONG Women’s Championship challenge to Giulia. That match will happen Saturday (Friday US time) at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

The next event is tomorrow (tonight US time) at Loisir Hotel Toyohashi in Aichi. It may be a legit advance sellout by event time. It will be available on demand on Stardom World at a later date.

DDT 2/11/24 Results

DDT continued the Into The Fight 2024 Tour today with a house show in Osaka.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Azalea Taisho in Osaka and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (probably Wednesday). There was no live broadcast. (2/12 UPDATE: On demand will be available Wednesday)

The announced paid attendance was 180.

Match 1; MJ Paul beat Kazuma Sumi.

Match 2: Chris Brookes & Hideki Okatani beat Kazuki Hirata & Tsutenkakku. Okatani pinned Hirata after Quetzalcoatl.

Match 3: Yoshitatsu beat Makoto Oishi.

Match 4: Sanshiro Takagi, Jun Akiyama & Toru Owashi beat Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Naya & Rukiya. Akiyama pinned Rukiya after a running knee strike.

Match 5: MAO beat Akito.

Match 6: Tetsuya Endo & Yuki Iino beat HARASHIMA & Takeshi Masada. Endo pinned Masada after a swiveling torture rack bomb.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno & Shunma Katsumata beat Daisuke Sasaki & KANON. Katsumata pinned KANON.

The next event is tomorrow at Higashi Sports Center in Nagoya. There will be no live broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 2/11/24 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 Tour today with an event in Tochigi.

Today’s event was held at New Sunpia Tochigi in Tochigi and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (probably Wednesday). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 238.

Match 1: Ulka Sasaki beat Yu Owada by submission.

Match 2: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Ninja Mack & Alejandro. Bane pinned Alejandro after Santa Maria.

Match 3: Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba beat Takashi Sugiura & Hajime Ohara. Kitamiya pinned Ohara after a Saito suplex.

Match 4: Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Daga, Yoshinari Ogawa & Super Crazy. Huxley pinned Crazy after a neck hanging bomb.

Match 5; Kenoh beat LJ Cleary.

Match 6; Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69 beat Naomichi Marufuji, Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki. Kotoge pinned Miyawaki after Kill Switch.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Ryohei Oiwa, Manaby Soya, HAYATA & Eita beat Jake Lee, Jack Morris, Anthony Greene, YO-HEY & Tadasuke. HAYATA pinned YO-HEY after Hedeck.

The next event is The Reeve Presents LIMIT BREAK.1-Starting Over- Thursday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

New Japan 2/11/24 Results

THE NEW BEGINNING in OSAKA, New Japan’s first major event of February, is now in the books. And it was a new beginning indeed as the promotion said farewell to Will Ospreay (now headed full-time to All Elite Wrestling) and witnessed what likely is Ace vs. Rainmaker-The Final Chapter.

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 in Japan as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING 2024 LIVE on TV Asahi.

The announced paid attendance was 5327, a legit advance sellout. Had they not blocked off about 1/4 of the seating for the stage & entrance area, it could have been even higher. (Also worth nothing that’s higher than the venue’s normal full capacity, which is 5000 for sumo)

Match 1L Yoh & Toru Yano beat Boltin Oleg & Ryusuke Taguchi. Yoh pinned Taguchi with Kid Clutch.

Match 2: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Newman after Shoto.

Match 3: Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita, Sho & EVIL beat Tiger Mask, Tomoaki Honma, El Desperado & Shota Umino. Sho pinned TM 4 after Shock Arrow. Afterwards, Sho stole the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship belt from Desoerado and demanded a title match on 2/23. Desperado agreed…but with a potential stip: If Sho loses, he would leave House Of Torture (and thus Bullet Club) and join STRONG STYLE.

Match 4: TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yuya Uemura, Taichi & SANADA beat BUSHI, Yota Tsuji, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito. SANADA beat BUSHI with Skull End.

Match 5: The Final Chapter-Kazuchika Okada beat Hiroshi Tanahashi. Afterwards, the two embraced in the ring to end their iconic 12 year rivalry between perhaps the two greatest ever in New Japan, or at least in our generation. Okada will appear at the doubleheader later this month in Hokkaido then he is headed elsewhere to continue his career-the rumor mills strongly suggest he is headed to All Elite Wrestling but that is not definite.

Match 6: Chase Owens & KENTA beat IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions El Phantasmo & Hikuleo to win the titles. Owens & KENTA become the 101st IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. KENTA pinned Hikuleo after Taiji Ishimori interference and a belt shot.

Match 7: Zack Sabre Jr. beat Bryan Danielson (All Elite Wrestling). They went nearly 33 minutes.

Main Event: In a Dog Pound Cage Match with staggered alternating entries every 2 minutes, Drilla Moloney, Gabriel Kidd, Alex Coughlin, Clark Connors & David Finlay beat Francesco Akira, TJP, HENARE, Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay. Finlay pinned Ospreay after Overkill. 64 minutes of perhaps the most violence ever seen in New Japan. Afterwards, United Empire stayed behind for a final curtain call for Ospreay as this was his last match in New Japan as a full-time member before he heads to AEW full-time. But with the two promotions having a working agreement, the door will undoubtedly be open for The Aerial Assassin to come back now & then. And he promised the fans they would see him again.

The next event is NJPW PRESENTS CMLL FANTASTICAMANIA 2024, the (usually) annual crossover series with the CMLL promotion in Mexico, beginning tomorrow at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET. The series will run every day over the next 8 days except Wednesday.

Dragon Gate 2/11/24 Results (Doubleheader)

Dragon Gate continues the Truth Gate 2024 Tour today with their monthly same-day (or close to it) doubleheader, which usually is held in their hometown of Kobe or in nearby Fukuoka. Today it’ll be in Fukuoka with 2 events back-to-back, separated by a break of a couple hours between the events. They’re primarily house show lineups with nothing major of note but still a unique way to schedule events and allow fans 2 opportunities to see events in a day. This post will contain live results for the early/first event. Results for the second event will be posted tomorrow.

Today’s events will be held at Acros Fukuoka in Fukuoka and can be watched LIVE on DRAGONGATE NETWORK in Japanese. There will also be an alternate stream with wrestler commentary, a different one for each match. The events will have around 2 hours between them so I anticipate each event having a total running time of around 2 hours.

Today;s lineup (event 1):
Kzy, U-T & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI vs. BxB Hulk, Genki Horiguchi & Yasushi Kanda
Kagetora vs. Gianni Valetta
Strong Machine J & Jason Lee vs. Masaaki Mochizuki & Ryoya Tanaka
BIGBOSS Shimizu vs. Yoshiki Kato
Ultimo Dragon, Luis Mante & Hyo vs. Shun Skywalker, KAI & ISHIN
Madoka Kikuta, Dragon Dia, YAMATO & Susumu Mochizuki vs. Kora Minoura, Ben-K, Dragon Kid & Naruki Doi

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Updates below will begin at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin at 7:45 PM PT/10:45 PM ET for the first event. The second event will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. (Live results are not scheduled for the second event but that is subject to change)

7:45 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Acros Fukuoka in Fukuoka, Japan. Commentary will join later. (Update: There is no commentary on the main stream, only on the Wrestler Commentary version)

The paid attendance will be announced after the events. This is a small venue and I think it normally has a max capacity of close to 500 for wrestling, and the first events of doubleheaders typically draw a smaller crowd than the second. The crowd is still filing in but it looks at least half full, so I’ll predict it’ll be about “average” for these events which is around 375. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 531, a full house/near sellout)

The matches should begin in 15-20 minutes.

Opening greeting & announcements begin at 7:55 PM PT.

The matches begin at 8:07 PM PT but right as intros are about to start we lose the feed. There was some kind of error screen in Japanese right before it cut out so it’s definitely on their end. Looks like they’re working on it so hopefully updates will resume shortly.

The live feed is restored at 8:11 PM PT so only out for about 4 minutes.

When we return Natural Vibes is in the ring then Z-Brats come out. Promo segment. And a minute later the feed cuts out again. Must be some kind of issue with the venue. A few seconds later we get audio back although there’s “waiting for live feed” music mixed in and no video.

Video restored at 8:17 PM PT as the first match has already started. (Post-show note: There were no further technical issues after this)

Match 1: Kzy, U-T & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI vs. BxB Hulk, Genki Horiguchi & Yasushi Kanda. 15 minute (I think) time limit
Result: Kzy, U-T & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI beat BxB Hulk, Genki Horiguchi & Yasushi Kanda. KAMEI pinned Horiguchi.

Match 2: Kagetora vs. Gianni Valetta. 15 minute time limit
Result: Gianni Valetta beat Kagetora. Glorified squash. His Takashi Iizuka-like entrance rampage through the crowd was longer than the match.

Match 3: Strong Machine J & Jason Lee vs. Masaaki Mochizuki & Ryoya Tanaka. 20 minute time limit
Result: Strong Machine J & Jason Lee beat Masaaki Mochizuki & Ryoya Tanaka. J beat Tanaka with a single leg Boston Crab.

Match 4: BIGBOSS Shimizu vs. Yoshiki Kato. 30 minute time limit
Result: No Contest. Z-Brats interference. Heel beatdown until Luis Mante & Hyo made the save. Shimizu & Shun Skywalker promo followed.

Intermission. Updates will resume after the break. (Started at 9 PM PT)

The matches resume at 9:17 PM PT.

Match 5: Ultimo Dragon, Luis Mante & Hyo vs. Shun Skywalker, KAI & ISHIN. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Ultimo Dragon, Luis Mante & Hyo beat Shun Skywalker, KAI & ISHIN. Hyo pinned ISHIN after Samson Driver.

Main Event: Madoka Kikuta, Dragon Dia, YAMATO & Susumu Mochizuki vs. Kora Minoura, Ben-K, Dragon Kid & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer). 1 Hour time limit
Result: Madoka Kikuta, Dragon Dia, YAMATO & Susumu Mochizuki beat Kota Minoura, Ben-K, Dragon Dia & Naruki Doi. YAMATO pinned Minoura after Gallaria.

The second event of today’s doubleheader is scheduled to begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET and can be watched live and on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

UPDATE: Here are the results from Event 2:

The announced paid attendance was 636, a super full house/very near sellout.

Match 1: Madoka Kikuta, Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka beat Kota Minoura, Ben-K & BxB Hulk. Tanaka pinned Hulk.

Match 2: Genki Horiguchi beat U-T.

Match 3: Ultimo Dragon & Masaaki Mochizuki beat Naruki Doi & Kagetora. Dragon pinned Kagetora with La Magistral.

Match 4: Strong Machine J beat ISHIN.

Match 5: Shun Skywalker, KAI, Yoshiki Kato & Gianni Valetta beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu, Jason Lee & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. Valetta pinned KAMEI after a King Kong kneedrop.

Main Event: Susumu Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & YAMATO beat Luis Mante, Hyo & Dragon Kid. Mochizuki pinned Hyo after Jumbo Wins!

The next event is tomorrow at Kokura Kita Gym in Fukuoka. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

AEW Collision 2/10/24 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Collision in Henderson, NV (Las Vegas area):

Match 1: Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Star Jr. & Esfinge (CMLL)
Result: Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli beat Star Jr. & Esfinge. Moxley beat Star with an armbar. Afterwards, Moxley threw out an open challenge to any team, which brought out FTR. They quickly went at it as security and the locker room tried to break it up, without much success. Bedlam all over the place even as they cut to commercial.

Match 2: Daniel Garcia vs. Shane Taylor
Result: Daniel Garcia beat Shane Taylor by submission

Eddie Kingston calls out Bryan Danielson for a match at Revolution in March, and adds that Danielson will have to shake his hand after Kingston wins.

Match 3: Brian Cage vs. The Outrunners in a handicap match
Result: Brian Cage beat The Outrunners. Squash. Cage laid out the Vegas Golden Knights mascot at ringside afterwards, which brought out Hook Cage & Hook brawled to the backstage area.

Adam Copeland interviewed. Daniel Garcia interrupts and this leads to a match between them for Dynamite on Wednesday for possibly an AEW TNT Championship match.

Kris Statlander, Willow Nightingale & Stokely Hathaway interviewed. Nightingale wants an AEW TBS Championship match. Hathaway can’t necessarily make it happen because he claims Tony Khan blocked Hathaway on his phone…

Match 4: Brody King vs. Mark Briscoe
Result: Brody King beat Mark Briscoe

Bryan Keith promo.

Match 5: Deonna Purrazzo vs. Kiera Hogan
Result: Deonna Purrazzo beat Kiera Hogan by submission

Match 6: AEW Women’s Champion Toni Storm vs. Queen Aminata in a NON-TITLE match
Result: Toni Storm beat Queen Aminata. Afterwards, Storm announced her next ‘film” will premiere Wednesday on Dynamite.

Wednesday on Dynamite: The Young Bucks vs. Top Flight, Skye Blue vs. Willow Nightingale, Copeland-Garcia, and we hear from Samoa Joe, Adam Page and Swerve Strickland.

No Collision next week due to NBA All-Star Weekend coverage on TNT. Collision returns in 2 weeks.

Main Event: AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy vs. Tomohiro Ishii (New Japan) for the title
Result: AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy beat Tomohiro Ishii to retain the title.

It felt like a show that happened. Not a bad episode but I wasn’t really excited about anything with the exception of the fact we got TWO women’s matches on AEW programming for the first time in a very long time. Hey, it’s progress!

Dragon Gate 2/10/24 Results

Dragon Gate continued the Truth Gate 2024 Tour today with an event in Okayama.

Today’s event was held at Hotel Saint Inn Kurashiki in Okayama. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 214)

Match 1; Kota Minoura, Ben-K & BxB Hulk beat Madoka Kikuta, Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka. Ben-K pinned Tanaka after a spear.

Match 2: YAMATO & Yasushi Kanda beat Masaaki Mochizuki & Kagetora. Kanda pinned Kagetora after Candy Magic.

Match 3; Ultimo Dragon, Dragon Kid, Susumu Mochizuki & Genki Horiguchi beat BIGBOSS Shimizu, Strong Machine J, Jason Lee & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. Mochizuki pinned Lee after Jumbo Wins!

Match 4: ISHIN & Gianni Valetta beat Kzy & U-T. Valetta pinned U-T after a King Kong kneedrop.

Main Event; Shachihoko BOY, Hyo & Luis Mante beat Shun Skywalker, KAI & Yoshiki Kato. Mante pinned Kato after Super Tigre.

The next event is a doubleheader tomorrow at Acros Fukuoka in Fukuoka. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK for both events will begin TONIGHT at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET for the first event and at midnight PT/3 AM ET for the second event. Live results are scheduled for the first event.

New Japan 2/9/24 Results

New Japan wrapped up the Road To THE NEW BEGINNING 2024 Tour today with a house show in Ibaraki.

Today’s event was held at Koga City Yes Central Athletic Park Hanamomo Gymnasium in Ibaraki. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 657.

Match 1: Shoma Kato & Boltin Oleg beat Katsuya Murashima & Yuji Nagata. Oleg pinned Murashima after Kamikaze.

Match 2: Toru Yano, Yoh & El Desperado beat Yujiro Yakahashi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Sho. Yano pinned Takahashi.

Match 3: Ryusuke Taguchi, Tomoaki Honma & Shota Unino beat Dick Togo, Ren Narita & EVIL. Umino pinned Togo after Death Rider.

Match 4: Taiji Ishimori, Chase Owens & KENTA beat Jado, El Phantasmo & Hikuleo. Ishimori pinned Jado.

Match 5: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Tiger Mask, Togi Makabe, YOSHI-HASHI & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Sabre beat TM 4.

Match 6: Dtilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Gabriel Kidd, Alex Coughlin & David Finlay beat Callum Newman, Francesco Akira, HENARE, TJP & Great-O-Khan. Finlay pinned Newman after Overkill.

Main Event: TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yuya Ueamra, Taichi & SANADA beat BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito. SANADA beat BUSHI with Skull End.

The next event is THE NEW BEGINNING in OSAKA Sunday at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka. The event is a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. The live broadcast is available OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY. This will be a live TV Asahi broadcast in Japan.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 2/10/24 Results (Updated)

Tokyo Joshi Pro wraps up the 2024 Futari-wa Princess Max Heart Tournament today with the Finals, which will award a Princess Tag Team Championship shot to the winners. That match will probably happen at GRAND PRINCESS ’24 in March, The Finals will be Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe vs. Suzume & Arisu Endo, with Tatsumi/Watanabe going for their second tournament victory and Suzume/Endo going for their first. This could result in double duty for Watanabe if Daydream prevails-already set for the likely main event at Ryogoku, when she gets her first Princess Of Princess Championship opportunity, she could add tag team gold, and if she wins both she would also become a rare Triple Crown Champion in TJPW (joining only Tatsumi as wrestlers to ever hold all 3 of the promotion’s titles). Suzume & Endo were perhaps denied a proper title opportunity recently due to health issues affecting former champions Nao Kakuta & Hikari Noa, ultimately getting a title shot but losing in a 3-way, so they are no doubt motivated to get a proper second chance. There is also a title match before that, and one I of course will be watching closely as International Princess Champion Yuki Arai makes her first defense against Juria Nagano, who looks to pull an upset and win gold before she walks away from wrestling.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. This may be a Samurai! TV simulcast in Japan. There is a post-event party/gathering planned at another venue that may keep them on a strict clock today, but given only the title match could go longer than 20 minutes plus the main event, which is no time limit, this event probably won’t run more than 2 1/2 hours so those in the west US can still watch and go out on your Friday night.

Today’s lineup (in order):
Shino Suzuki vs. Haru Kazashiro
Yuki Kamifuku, Mahiro Kiryu & Nao Kakuta vs. Raku, Pom Harajuku & Ram Kaichow (666)
Moka Miyamoto vs. Kaya Toribami
Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao vs. Wakana Uehara & HIMAWARI
Mizuki vs. Zara Zucker
Miyu Yamashita & Toga vs. Ryo Mizunami & Yuki Aino
International Princess Champion Yuki Arai vs. Juria Nagano for the title
Max Heart Tournament Finals: Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe vs. Suzume & Arisu Endo

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Updates below will begin at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET. The event is scheduled to begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET with the opening announcements planned to start 8 minutes before the event.

6 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in about 15 minutes. Updates will resume then.

6:15 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.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. As usual it’s the reduced capacity opposite-hard-camera setup and advance sales seemed to be average, so full capacity would probably be around 1100 but as usual for these events I’ll predict it’ll be around 700. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 674)

The matches should begin in about 20 minutes.

During opening announcements, the former Uta got her ring name (didn’t catch it) along with the other trainee, Kira (thankfully she speaks English as well as Japanese) and it was announced they will debut on 3/3 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Then a second Hyper Misao Produced event is announced for 4/19 in Tokyo at Kitazawa Town Hall. Up Up Girls follows.

The matches begin at 6:44 PM PT/9:44 PM ET. Since it’s a Korakuen event that means STREAMERS!

Match 1: Shino Suzuki vs. Haru Kazashiro. 15 minute time limit
Result: Haru Kazashiro beat Shino Suzuki. Excellent last minute-plus as Kazashiro escaped multiple sleeper hold/rear naked chokes and managed to catch Suzuki with a Japanese leg roll clutch hold for 3. I believe this is her first single victory.

Match 2: Yuki Kamifuku, Mahiro Kiryu & Nao Kakuta vs. Raku, Pom Harajuku & Ram Kaichow (666). 20 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Kamifuku, Mahiro Kiryu & Nao Kakuta beat Raku, Pom Harajuku & Ram Kaichow. Kamifuku pinned Harajuku after Fameasser.

Match 3: Moka Miyamoto vs. Kaya Toribami. 15 minute time limit
Result: Kaya Toribami beat Moka Miyamoto

Match 4: Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao vs. Wakana Uehara & HIMAWARI. 20 minute time limit
Result: Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao beat Wakana Uehara & HIMAWARI. Misao beat HIMAWARI with a chicken wing.

Match 5: Mizuki vs. Zara Zucker. 15 minute time limit
Result: Mizuki beat Zara Zucker

Match 6: Princess Tag Team Champions Ryo Mizunami (Independent/Freelancer) & Yuki Aino vs. Miyu Yamashita & Toga in a NON-TITLE match. 20 minute time limit
Result: Ryo Mizunami & Yuki Aino beat Miyu Yamashita & Toga. Aino beat Toga with Full Nelson of Love & Flame.

Match 7: International Princess Champion Yuki Arai vs. Juria Nagano for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: International Princess Champion Yuki Arai beat Juria Nagano to retain the title. V1 for Arai. Post-match, Arai with microphone. She thanks the crowd then…next up: Yuki Kamifuku. Guess it’s not enough for her to be Queen Of Asia Champion. That match could happen at GRAND PRINCESS ’24 on 3/31 at Ryogoku Kokugikan.

Quick break for ring maintenance.

Main Event: Max Heart Tournament Finals: Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe vs. Suzume & Arisu Endo. No time limit
Result: Suzume & Arisu Endo beat Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe to win the tournament. Suzume pinned Tatsumi after Ring A Bell. Suzume & Endo win the tournament for the first time (the trophies are almost as big as they are!)and, as a result, get a future shot at Princess Tag Team Champions Yuki Aino & Ryo Mizunami. And right on cue afterwards, the champs came out. Aino wasted no time in making it virtually official for GRAND PRINCESS ’24. Suzume & Endo will be undersized underdogs again, in particular against Mizunami, but they just showed they can do it. Suzume thanked the crowd one more time to end the event.

More on the pending title matches-to-be as it becomes available.

The next event is 2/17 at Duo Cerezo in Niigata. There will be no live broadcast.

UPDATE: It’s now official-the 2 title matches hinted at above have now been confirmed for GRAND PRINCESS ’24 on 3/31 (Arai-Kamifuku and Aino/Mizunami-Suzume/Endo along with Miyu Yamashita vs. Miu Watanabe for the Princess Of Princess Championship).