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Ganbare Pro 5/6/23 Results

Ganbare Pro was back in action today with a house show only 24 hours after their Golden Week blowout event, with the first Spirit Of Ganbare World Tag Team Championship match the headliner.

Today’s event was held at Takashimadaira Community Center in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 68.

Before the matches began, clarification from yesterday’s event: Although he made the next challenge, Isami Kodaka WILL NOT get the next Spirit Of Ganbare World Openweight Championship shot right away. He’ll have to earn it by beating Sotatsu Nakamura on 5/28 with the winner getting the next shot.

Match 1: Hong Kong Domestic Policewoman beat Hong Kong International Policeman and Itabashi Dangerous Policeman in a 3-way by pinning Itabashi Dangerous Policeman. Comedy match of course.

Match 2: Moeka Haruhi & HARUKAZE beat YuuRI & Reala. Haruhi pinned Reala after a diving foot stomp.

Match 3: In an Elimination Match (over the top rope rules in effect), Mizuki Watase, Ken Ohka, Keisuke Ishii & Shinichiro Tominaga beat Tatsuhiro Takaiwa, Yumehito Imanari, Takao Soma & Sotatsu Nakamura. Order of elimination (all by over the top rope), Takaiwa by Ohka, Soma by Tominaga, Watase & Nakamura together, Imanari by Ishii. Ohka/Ishii/Tominaga win.

Match 4: Shuichiro Katsumura beat Takuya Wada.

Main Event: Spirit Of Ganbare World Tag Team Champions Hikaru Sato & Tyson Maeguchi beat Dan The Dad & Cody Lang to retain the titles. Maeguchi pinned Lang after a buzzsaw kick. V1 for the champs.

The next event is 5/28 for the monthly tripleheader at Oji Basement MON*STAR in Tokyo. This time there is a Yumehito Imanari produced event along with the normal event and wrestlers group-produced event. There will be no live broadcasts.

GLEAT 5/6/23 Results

GLEAT returned to Tokyo today for the latest G PROWRESTLING event, the 51st as they draw closer to their major summer event on July 1 (the GLEAT 2nd Anniversary event).

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on YouTube. You can also watch below FOR FREE (since they were back in Tokyo it was a free live broadcast, video courtesy of the GLEAT Official YouTube Channel. Skip ahead to 15:45 in the video below to get to the beginning of the event):

The announced paid attendance was 319.

Match 1: Takanori Ito & Masato Kamino beat Kaz Hayashi & Issei Onitsuka. Ito pinned Onitsuka with a German suplex hold.

Match 2: Sayaka Unagi beat Yukari Hosokawa by submission.

Match 3: Yusuke Kodama beat Jun Tonsho & Shinsuya (?) in a 3-way by beating Tonsho.

Match 4: Jun & Rei Saito (All-Japan Pro Wrestling) beat Minoru Tanaka & Yu Iizuka. Rei Saito pinned Iizuka after Drill-A-Hole Piledriver.

Match 5: T-Hawk & El Lindaman vs. Tetsuya Izuchi & Soma Watanabe went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

Main Event: In an Elimination Match, Ryichi Kawakami, Hayato Tamura, Check Shimatani, KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Quiet Storm beat Kaito Ishida, Kotaro Suzuki, Yutani, Hartley Jackson & MAZADA. Order of elimination: Suzuki, Storm, Jackson, KAZMA, Kawakami, MAZADA, Tamura, Yutani, Ishida. Bulk Orchestra wins with Shimatani the only man left.

The next event is 5/14 at Sapporo E-One Stadium in Hokkaido with T-Hawk vs. Check Shimatani for the G-REX Championship. The rest of the card is TBA. Broadcast plans TBA (if not live streamed then it should be available on demand on YouTube a few days later).

DDT Pro Wrestling KING OF DDT 2023 Round 1 Results (5/6/23)

DDT kicks off the annual KONG OF DDT 2023 Tournament today, a single-elimination bracket-style singles tournament to determine the strongest wrestler in DDT. This year’s tournament has 16 participants (not everyone who wanted in got in, at least according to Saki Akai on her Twitter-she wanted in but got left out) and all will be in action today as the entire Round 1 makes up today’s event. Yuki Ueno vs. Naruki Doi will be the main event but on paper the highlight match seems to be Match 5, which is Jun Akiyama vs. Tetsuya Endo in an all-Burning affair, and all winners move on to tomorrow’s Quarterfinals. Kazusada Higuchi is the defensing tournament winner.

Today’s event will be held at Shinjuku Face on Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. It’s not known if there will be any commentary. All the matches have no time limit so it’s hard to predict how long the event will run, my guess will be about 2 1/2 hours.

Today’s lineup (in order, all matches are KING OF DDT Round 1 matches):
Yusuke Okada vs. Kazusada Higuchi
Shunma Katsumata vs. Hideki Okatani
Sanshiro Takagi vs. Yukio Sakaguchi
HARASHIMA vs. Chris Brookes
Jun Akiyama vs. Tetsuya Endo
MAO vs. Takeshi Masada
Kotaro Suzuki vs. KANON
Yuki Ueno vs. Naruki Doi

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.

7:55 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Not a sellout although the super seats and counter seats sold out, I’m guessing based on opening shots and crowd noise it’ll be in the 250-300 range.

The matches will begin shortly.

The matches begin at 8 PM PT. All matches are KING OF DDT Round 1 matches. No time limit. Looks like hard camera views only today.

Match 1: Yusuke Okada vs. Kazusada Higuchi
Result: Kazusada Higuchi beat Yusuke Okada by ref stoppage (KO-headbutt). As a result, Higuchi advances to the Quarterfinals and will face the Shunma Katsumata-Hideki Okatani winner.

Match 2: Shunma Katsumata vs. Hideki Okatani
Result: Hideki Okatani beat Shunma Katsumata. As a result, Okatani advances to the Quarterfinals and will face Kazusada HIguchi. This was mostly an outside the ring brawl scattering the crowd all over the place.

Match 3: Sanshiro Takagi vs. Yukio Sakaguchi
Result: Sanshiro Takagi beat Yukio Sakaguchi. Very short match (under 4 minutes). As a result, Takagi advances to the Quarterfinals and will face the HARASHIMA-Chris Brookes winner.

Match 4: HARASHIMA vs. Chris Brookes
Result: Chris Brookes beat HARASHIMA. As a result, Brookes advances to the Quarterfinals and will face Sanshiro Takagi.

Match 5: Jun Akiyama vs. Tetsuya Endo
Result: Jun Akiyama beat Tetsuya Endo. As a result, Akiyama advances to the Quarterfinals and will face the MAO-Takeshi Masada winner.

Match 6: MAO vs. Takeshi Masada
Result: MAO beat Takeshi Masada. As a result, MAO advances to the Quarterfinals and will face Jun Akiyama.

Match 7: Kotaro Suzuki vs. KANON
Result: Kotaro Suzuki beat KANON. As a result, Suzuki advances to the Quarterfinals and will face the Yuki Ueno-Naruki Doi winner.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno vs. Naruki Doi
Result: Yuki Ueno beat Naruki Doi. As a result, Ueno advances to teh Quarterfinals and will face Kotaro Suzuki.

Much faster event than I expected, the matches went just 1 hour 45 minutes total.

The Quarterfinals are tomorrow. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNVIERSE will begin at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET with live results posted here.

Dragon Gate 5/5/23 Results (Updated)

DEAD OR ALIVE 2023, Dragon Gate’s annual Golden Week blowout event today, is now in the books

Today’s event was held at Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK and vis PPV on SkyPerfecTV in Japan (for the next week).

The paid attendance has not yet been announced as these are quick results via the Dragon Gate Official Twitter.

Match 1: U-T Return Match: Kagetora & Kaito Nagano beat U-T & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. Kagetora pinned U-T.

Match 2: Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Punch Tominaga beat Don Fujii, Takashi Yoshida, Problem Dragon & Minorita. Kanda pinned Dragon after a diving elbow drop.

Match 3: Open The Brave Gate Champion Jason Lee beat Dragon Dia to retain the title. V1 for Lee.

Match 4: Ultimo Dragon & Naruki Doi beat Diamante & H-Y-O. Dragon pinned H-Y-O with La Magistral.

Match 5: Open The Triangle Gate Champions Kota Minoura, Ben-K & BxB Hulk beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu & Strong Machine J to retain the titles. Minoura pinned J after Engranahe. V3 for the champs.

Match 6: Naomichi Marufuji (Pro Wresting NOAH) & Dragon Kid beat YAMATO & Yuki Yoshioka. Marufuji pinned Yoshioka. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: Naomichi Marufuji beat Ichikawa by TKO.

Match 7: Open The Twin Gate Champions Kenoh (Pro Wrestling NOAH) & Shiji Kondo beat KAI & ISHIN to retain the titles. Kenoh pinned ISHIN after PFS. V1 for the champs.

Main Event: Madoka Kikuta beat Open The Dream Gate Champion Shun Skywalker to win the title. Kikuta becomes the 37th Open The Dream Gate Champion.

The next event is tomorrow at Tsushima Cultural Center in Aichi. There will be no live broadcast.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 2710.

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