Click below for the quick results for this Saturday’s AEW Rampage, airing at 10 PM ET/PT on TNT (SPOILERS!):
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AEW Dynamite 5/10/23 Results
Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Detroit, MI:
Claudio Castagnoli beat Rey Fenix in a Double Jeopardy Match. As a result, Castagnoli and a partner of his choice get a future match against Lucha Bros for the ROH Tag Team Titles. Had Fenix won, he would’ve gotten a rematch later for the ROH World Title.
AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy beat Daniel Garcia to retain the title.
MIRO IS HERE! And so is Thunder Rosa!
In a No Holds Barred Match, Julia Hart beat Anna Jay.A.S.
AEW Trios Champions House Of Black beat Best Friends & Bandido to retain the titles. Brody King pinned Chuck Taylor after Dante’s Inferno. The champs have what are called House Rules for title matches now-20 counts outside the ring are enforced, no rope breaks, DQs are enforced, and the challengers can choose one rule. They chose witches are banned from ringside, meaning no Julia Hart. After the match, Orange Cassidy was seen laid out backstage at the hands of Kyle Fletcher (New Japan), who seems to be the next International Championship challenger.
In a Steel Cage Match, Jon Moxley beat Kenny Omega. Don Callis turned on Omega at the end to set up the result.
A better show than in recent weeks but a little short of PPV quality. Nothing terrible though, main event is must-see and it sets up next week. But seeing Miro back had me very excited.
This week on Rampage airing Saturday at 10 PM ET/PT: The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn vs. The Butcher, The Blade & Kip Sabian, Toni Storm vs. Allysin Kay, Kyle Fletcher vs. Action Andretti and Swerve Strickland & Brian Cage vs. John Silver & Alex Reynolds.
Next week: Ricky Starks vs. Jay White, Toni Storm/Ruby Soho/Saraya vs. Britt Baker/Jamie Hayter/Hikaru Shida, Roderick Strong vs. Chris Jericho with Adam Cole & JAS banned from ringside and Tony Khan’s next major announcement. Given WBD Upfronts (media previews of the coming TV season) are that morning it’s all but guaranteed to relate to TV, possibly confirming the long-rumored new Saturday TV show called Collision.
Injury Report: Crippled Champions Carnival Winner (Updated x2)
All-Japan announced potentially major injury news today-Champions Carnival winner Shotaro Ashino, who is scheduled to face Yuji Nagata for the Triple Crown in a few weeks, is in danger of losing his chance because of injury suffered in the Finals. Left ulna fracture. Out indefinitely. The title match is in just over 2 weeks so status is uncertain. This may also cause Ashino to miss the Hana Kimura Memorial Event on 5/23.
More as it becomes available.
UPDATE: An UNOFFICIAL French-language All-Japan Twitter account is saying Ashino is off 5/29, when the Triple Crown match will happen. T-Hawk, who lost to Ashino in the Champions Carnival Finals, is the replacement.
Official confirmation to come.
UPDATE 2: On 5/12 (Japan time), All-Japan announced a determination match between Ryuki Honda & T-Hawk for the 5/29 title match will happen on 5/18 at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo. The winner will face Nagata for the Triple Crown on 5/29 while the loser will face Yuma Anzai on 5/29.
News: Upcoming New Japan TAMASHII Events Postponed, Impact Replacing
In a press release today, Impact Wrestling announced they are headed to Australia in June & July for the first time. The events will be held on 6/30 & 7/1 Australia time as part of a 4-day tour from 6/29-7/2, with the events being held in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. The press release notes the events will be broadcast worldwide on FITE, Impact broadcast partners, digital and social media which suggests they should also be available for Impact+ and YouTube Ultimate Insider subscribers and also AXS TV in the US. Tickets go on sale Saturday (Sunday in Australia).
These events replace planned New Japan TAMASHII events and Oceania Cup, the latter of which is postponed due to NJPW scheduling & talent availability issues. While there are no NjPW events during this time and no press release has been put out from New Japan about this, the events would be less than a week after the Forbidden Door 2 joint event with All Elite Wrestling in Canada. The TAMASHII dates had not yet been announced.
More as it becomes available.
FREE VIDEO: The Firm Deletion Full Match (5/5/23)
While AEW taped and aired The Firm Deletion Match this past Friday on Rampage, what did air on Rampage was edited for time and not the full match. Although it was uploaded to Bleacher Report before, AEW has now uploaded the whole match, which went about 20 minutes, to YouTube. Check it out below:
News: First All Together Again Matches Announced
The first matches for All Together Again, the joint New Japan/All-Japan/NOAH charity fundraiser event in June, were announced today. 3 trios matches are set for the card which are as follows:
YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Yoshiki Inamura
BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito vs. Yuji Nagata, Suwama & Yuma Anzai
Kaito Kiyomiya, Kento Miyahara & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada, Yuma Aoyagi & Kenoh
I can see that last match being the main event, and it’s probably going to be Kiyomiya & Okada fighting amongst themselves constantly and a match maybe happening around it given their history.
More matches TBA. The event is scheduled for 6/9 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and will be available as a PPV on New Japan World.
Injury Report: GLEAT Wrestler Out This Weekend
In a press release they put out today, GLEAT announced Masato Kamino is injured and off of Sunday’s G PROWRESTLING event in Hokkaido. Meniscus. Out indefinitely. He was to have teamed with Takanori Ito & Yusuke Kodama to face Minoru Tanaka, Kaz Hayashi & Noriyuki Yoshida. No replacement named yet.
More as it becomes available.
New Japan News: Upcoming Title Match in US (SPOILERS!)
New Japan’s Zack Sabre Jr. was among those who appeared at this past weekend’s Ring Of Honor TV tapings in Orlando, FL and while it’s not known when it will air, there was an NJPW WORLD Tv Title match as part of the tapings. It could air as soon as Thursday (new episodes of ROH TV premiere Thursdays on HonorClub, available only in the US for $9.99/month). If you want to know what happened click below as this contains SPOILERS! (The match should also be available on New Japan World at a later date)
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Following up on the conclusion of the Champions Carnival, All-Japan has announced that Triple Crown Champion Yuji Nagata vs. Shotaro Ashino for the Triple Crown will happen on 5/29 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Ashino won the Champions Carnival in an upset, beating T-Hawk in the Finals to earn the opportunity.
This will be the second defense for Nagata, who has mostly stayed away from New Japan since winning the title and had made frequent appearances in All-Japan.
News: Fujinami Launching New Effort
It seems that Tatsumi Fujinami, 69 with 52 years experience in the ring, is never really going to retire. Still remaining active mainly in his Dradition promotion, Hochi News reports (in a story shared by Dradition) that Fujinami is starting another new promotion, with translation indicating it will be called “Dragon Stadium” and it will feature young wrestlers who recently debuted hand-selected by Fujinami. They mainly will be selected from promotions he is currently active in, which would mean Dradition primarily and possibly others. Fujinami intends to apply training methods he learned from the late Antonio Inoki & Karl Gotch in the promotion and that is “a project to create a new stage for young people that conveys the Dragonism cultivated in the Showa era (which ended 5 years ago in the Japanese calendar) to the present in Reiwa”.
Original source (in Japanese):
https://hochi.news/articles/20230505-OHT1T51030.fhtml
