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NTV 70th Anniversary Special Event 2/9 Results

All-Japan and Pro Wrestling NOAH were part of a special event today celebrating the 70th Anniversary of broadcast network NTV (Nippon Television), a longtime partner and supporter of pro wrestling across their various networks. Crossover matches were part of the event that featured talk segments and more.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and aired in Japan on G+ and Hulu. It is not known when/if it may be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE and/or AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 1625, a legit sellout. That may be the best Korakuen number for any event since the start of the pandemic (they haven’t run legit full capacity, normally 2100 but can be as high as 2350-since 2020).

Match 1; Jun & Rei Saito vs. Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher went to a double countout in 65 seconds. Which led to…
Match 1 (again): Jun & Rei Saito beat Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher. Rei Saito pinned Hixley after a diving body press.

Match 2: Yuna & Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato beat Kento Miyahara, Dan Tamura & Ryuki Honda. Yuma Aoyagi pinned Honda.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Yuma Anzai.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 2/8/24 Results

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

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 214.

Match 1; Kenoh beat Yu Owada.

Match 2: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69. Wolf pinned Hi69 after Wolf Driver.

Match 3: Sacon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Hajime Ohara. Huxley pinned Ohara after a neck hanging bomb.

Match 4: Eita beat Tadasuke.

Match 5: Jack Morris & LJ Cleary beat Jake Lee & Anthony Greene. Morris pinned Greene after a tiger driver.

Match 6: Kaito Kiyomiya, Ryohei Oiwa & Ninja Mack beat Manabu Soya, Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki. Oiwa pinned Miyawaki.

Main Event: HAYATA beat YO-HEY.

The next event is Sunday at New Sunpia Tochigi in Tochigi. There will be no live broadcast.

After the event, a late change to the upcoming Victory Challenge Tag League Tournament was announced: It was decided today that Kenoh & Yu Owada would participate as a team after the first match, so they have been added to expand the field to 8 teams.

Also, there is both NOAH and All-Japan participation tomorrow in a special event at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Nippon Television (NTV), a longtime broadcaster of Japanese wrestling. The event will be available only in Japan on G+ and Hulu, no word on when/if it may be available on WRESTE UNIVERSE or AJPW.TV.

New Japan 2/8/24 Results

New Japan ran the penultimate event of the Road To THE NEW BEGINNING tour today.

Today’s event was held at Iwaki City Gym in Fukushima. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 889.

Match 1: Katsuya Murashima & Boltin Oleg beat Shoma Kato & Toru Yano. Oleg pinned Kato after Kamikaze.

Match 2: Yujiro Takahashi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Sho beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Yuji Nagata & El Desperado. Sho pinned Taguchi.

Match 3: Yoh, Tiger Mask & Shota Umino beat Dick Togo, Ren Narita & EVIL. Umino pinned Togo after Death Rider.

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

Match 5: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Tomoaki Honma, Togi Makabe, YOSHI-HASHI & Hiroshi Tamahashi. Sabre beat Honma with Clarky Cat.

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

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

The tour-ender is tomorrow at Koga City Yes Central Athletic Park Hanamomo Gym in Ibaraki. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

All-Japan 2/8/24 Results

All-Japan ran the third Rising Hayato Produced NEW AGE CHRONICLE Z event today, focused on younger and less experienced wrestlers.

Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring and can be watched on demand on YouTube. It was to have been live on AJPW.TV but was bot due to technical issues and an emergency decision was made to stream it for free on YouTube. It will be available on demand on AJPW.TV at a later time. The YouTube video is joined in progress (it appears to start after intros for the first match so it’s missing the first few minutes of the event). I attempted to link to/embed it here but the provider doesn’t allow it. (The AJPW.TV version is now available on the service, they are still looking into the technical issues)

The announced paid attendance was 335, a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Soma Watanabe beat Ryo Inoue.

Match 2: Hideki Sekine beat Imabari Towel Mascaras.

Match 3: Jun & Rei Saito beat Shotaro Ashino & Kumaarashi. Rei Saito pinned Lumaarashi after Iginari Saito Splash.

Match 4: Yuma Aoyagi, Yuma Anzai & Ryuki Honda beat Hokuto Omori, Ren Ayabe & So Daimonji. Anzai pinned Ayabe with a German suplex hold.

Main Event: Dan Tamura & Hayato Tamura beat Rising Hayato & TBA, revealed at match time to be Rising Atsuki. Dan Tamura pinned Atsuki after a powerbomb. It was originally announced that Atsuki Aoyagi would not be part of the event due to working as a producer for the event…clearly a well-played swerve.

There will be a 4th event in the series on 4/11-the series has been extremely successful so far as every event has been a legit advance sellout well ahead of time as they spotlight wrestlers with less than 10 years experience.

The next event is 2/20 at Korakuen Hall with 3 title matches including Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Rei Saito for the Triple Crown. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1;30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

AEW Dynamite 2/7/24 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Phoenix, AZ:

Match 1: Swerve Strickland vs. Adam Page. The winner will face AEW World Champion Samoa Joe for the title at Revolution
Result: 30 Minute Time Limit Draw. As a result, BOTH are #1 contenders and there will be a 3-way for the title at Revolution

Match 2: AEW Women’s Champion Toni Storm vs. Red Velvet in a NON-TITLE match. If Velvet wins she gets the first post-Revolution title shot. Deonna Purrazzo on commentary
Result :Toni Storm beat Deonna Purrazzo

Match 3: Jon Moxley, Bryan Danielson & Claudio Castagnoli vs. Hechicero, Volador Jr. & Mascara Dorada (CMLL)
Result: Jon Moxley, Bryan DanielsoN & Claudio Castagnoli beat Hechicero, Volador Jr. & Mascara Dorada. Castagnoli pinned Hechicero after a low blow.

After the match, they cut to backstage and catch the end of a Undisputed Kingdom beatdown on Chuck Taylor.

Tony Khan makes his BIG ANNOUNCEMENT…an event called Big Bu$iness on 3/13 in Boston. EPIC FAIL YET AGAIN.

Match 4; Chris Jericho vs. Konosuke Takeshita
Result: Konosuke Takeshita beat Chris Jericho by submission

Main Event: AEW Tag Team Champions Ricky Starks & Big Bill vs. Darby Allin & Sting in a Tornado Tag Match for the titles
Result: Darby Allin & Sting beat AEW Tag Team Champions Ricky Starks & Big Bill to become THE NEW AEW TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS! Sting pinned Starks after a scorpion deathdrop. Sting’s son came out to the ring to celebrate, but The Young Bucks cut that short with a baseball bat-fueled beatdown of all of them.

Strickland-Page is a definite MOTY contender and elevated what otherwise was another average but not bad Dynamite. It just took out a lot of energy from me. The big announcement fell flat for now but we’ll see what happens in 5 weeks, I guess.

Friday on Rampage: Best Friends vs. Undisputed Kingdom.

Saturday on Collision: Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli vs. 2 more of those CMLL guys (Star Jr. & Esfinge) and AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy vs. Tomohiro Ishii (New Japan) for the title (announced last week).

BREAKING: TNA Names New President, D’Amore Fired

TNA Wrestling has announced on Twitter that former Executive VP and President Scott D’Amore has been terminated today by Anthem Sports & Entertainment after 20+ years and replaced by Anthony Cicone. No specific reason given as to why.

Read the full press release below:

Anthony Cicione Named President of TNA Wrestling

More as it becomes available.

Dragon Gate 2/7/24 Results (Updated 2/9)

Dragon Gate continued the Truth Gate 2024 Tour today with their monthly Tokyo event.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK in Japanese and English.

The announced paid attendance was 1394, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Dragon Kid & Shuji Kondo vs. Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) & YAMATO went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Don Fujii beat Daiki Yanagiuchi.

Match 3: Kota Minoura, Ben-K & BxB Hulk beat Kagetora, Takashi Yoshida & Punch Tominaga. Ben-K pinned Tominaga after a spear.

Match 4: Eita beat Jason Lee.

Match 5: Ultimo Dragon, Luis Mante & Hyo beat Madoka Kikuta, Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka. Mante pinned Tanaka after Vuelta Finale.

Match 6: M3K Final & Mochizuki Jr. Sendoff Match: Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda beat Madaaki Mochizuki & Mochizuki Jr. Susumu Mochizuki pinned Mochizuki Jr. after Jumbo Wins! Jr. is now headed on a training excursion to Europe and apparently the M3K faction is now disbanded.

Main Event: In an elimination match, Shun Skywalker, KAI, ISHIN, Yosjiki Kato & Gianni Valetta beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu, U-T, Strong Machine J & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. Order of elimination: KAI by J, U-T by Valetta, Kato by Shimizu, J by ISHIN, Kzy by Valetta, Shimizu & Valetta simultaneously, Skywalker by KAMEI, KAMEI by ISHIN.

The next event is Saturday at Hotel Saint In Kurishiki in Okayama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. However, later that night in the US both events of a doubleheader at Acros Fukuoka in Fukuoka will be live on DRAGONGATE NETWORK beginning Saturday at 7:45 PM PT/10:45 PM ET for the first event and 11:45 PM PT/2:45 AM ET for the second event. Live results are scheduled for the first event.

In news coming out of today, 2 title matches were announced for CHAMPION GATE 2024 on 3/3: Open The Brave Gate Champion Hyo vs. Yasushi Kanda for the title and Open The Dream Gate Champion Luis Mante vs. Susumu Mochizuki for the title.

Also, the field for this year’s Rey de Parejas Tournament was announced: Block A is Kota Minoura & Ben-K, BIGBOSS Shimizu & Strong Machine J, Dragon Kid & Naruki Doi, Toru Owashi & Shuji Kondo, KAI & Gianni Valetta, and a team from Ryukyu Dragon Pro Wrestling (Update: That team is Mozoku Tominaga & Shuri Joe). Block B is Luis Mante & Hyo, Madoka Kikuta & Dragon Dia, Kzy & U-T, Jason Lee & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI, YAMATO & Susumu Mochizuki and Shun Skywalker & Yoshiki Kato. Usual round-robin tournament format, the top 2 teams in each block will advance to the Semifinals. If there are ties, tiebreaker matches will be held. The tournament starts on 3/6 at Korakuen and ends on 4/10 at Korakuen. At this time only those 2 events and 3/30 ate scheduled for DRAGONGATE NETWORK broadcasts but that is subject to change.

2/9 UPDATE: There may have been some name changes after this event. Dragon Gate’s official news blog is indicating Masaaki Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda may now be going by their real names going forward, meaning they would be Shigeaki Mochizuki & Hiroyuki Kanda, respectively.

DDT 2/7/24 Results (Updated)

DDT held a retirement event for Yukio Sakaguchi today as the promotion mainstay and the son of famous wrestler Seiji Sakaguchi called it a career.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTE UNIVERSE. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced but it was a legit advance sellout. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 500, a legit full capacity sellout)

Match 1: Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi beat Danshoku Dieno & Kazuki Hirata. Brookes pinned Hirata after Praying Mantis Bomb.

Match 2: Jun Akiyama, Yoshitatsu & Takao Soma beat Toru Owashi, Akito & Kazuma Sumi. Soma pinned Sumi after Perfect Driver.

The normally opening announcements were here after the YouTube broadcast ended. On 4/21 there will be a “Spoiler-Free Vol. 1” event at Tsurumi Fruit & Vegetable Matket in Kanagawa. From 4/25-4/27 there will be a collaboration event with a pro handball team at Sumida City Gym in Tokyo. And in an impromptu decision, Ken Ohka appeared and was granted a match with Sanshiro Takagi on 3/17.

Match 3: In a hardcore match, Hideki Okatani beat MJ Paul. As a result, Okatani gets the next shot at the DDT Extreme Championship against Shunma Katsumata. That match will happen on 3/17 at Korakuen Hall.

Match 4: Ryuki Honda & Yuka Anzai (All-Japan) beat Takeshi Masada & Rukiya. Anzai pinned Rukiya with a German suplex hold.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno, MAO & Shunma Katsumata beat Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Naya & Makoto Oishi. Ueno beat Oishi with a sleeper hold.

Match 6: Tetsuya Endo & Yuki Iino beat KO-D Tag Team Champions Daisuke Sasaki & KANON to win the titles. Endo & Iino become the 82nd KO-D Tag Team Champions. Endo pinned Sasaki after Burning Star Press.

Main Event: Yukio Sakaguchi Retirement Match: HARASHIMA beat Yukio Sakaguchi.

The next event is Sunday at Osaka Azalea Taisho in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast.

UPDATE: The first challengers for Endo/Iino are set-Honda & Anzai. That match will also happen on 3/17.

Injury Report: More New Japan Changes For This Week (Updated)

Updating ongoing issues, New Japan has announced more injury changes for this weekend’s remaining house shows: Jeff Cobb remains out indefinitely (left thigh) and will miss both events and Satoshi Kojima, just back from another US event, is also off both events. Left MCL. Tomohiro Ishii is also off the rest of this week’s events due to being in All Elite Wrestling this Saturday (announced last week). Great-O-Khan, YOSHI-HASHI & Ryusuke Taguchi are the respective replacements. No word on how long Kojima is out.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: Kojima is now off the upcoming CMLL Fantasticamania series, meaning at least 2 more weeks.