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All-Japan 12/21/23 Results

All-Japan ran NEW AGE CHRONICLE Z 2 today, the second Rising Hayato-produced event designed for Junior Heavyweights and wrestlers with less than 10 years experience.

Today’s event was held at Shin-Kina 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 335, a legit sellout.

Match 1: Takuya Nomura & Fuminori Abe beat Ryo Inoue & Issei Onitsuka. Nomura pinned Inoue.

Match 2: Yuki Ishikawa & Ren Ayabe beat Hokuto Omori & Takahiro Katori. Ayabe pinned Kotori after Last Shooting.

Match 3: Jun Tonsho, Soma Watanabe & ? beat Seigo Tachibana, Takanori Ito & Takuro Nito (?). ? pinned Tachibana after a divojg senton.

Match 4; Dan Tamura & Hayato Tamura beat Ayato Yoshida & Kazunasa Yoshida and Koki Iwasaki & ? In a 3-way when Hayato Tamura pinned Koki Iwasaki.

Match 5: Jun & Rei Saito beat Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi. Jun Saito pinned Atsuki Aoyagi after Paycho Break.

Main Event: Ryuki Honda & Yuma Anzai beat Rising Hayato & Imabari Towel Mascaras. Anzai pinned Mascaras with a German suplex hold.

A 3rd event in the series will be held on 2/8.

The next event is the year-ending blowout event on 12/31 at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin on 12/30 at 9 PM PT/midnight ET.

Injury Report: DDT Just Keeps Getting DDT’d

DDT is just having horrible luck with injuries the last few months. That continues today and it’s a major one-Chris Brookes is now out. Abdominal pain that turned out to be a tumor. Surgery to happen ASAP. Out several weeks. This means he is out of his final D KING GP Block B match Sunday and Rei Saito gets a win by forfeit. Saito will now face Hideki Okatani instead and will wait for the MAO-Yukio Naya result to determine who wins Block B.

AEW Dynamite 12/20/23 Results (Updated)

Here are the quick results from tonight’s “Holiday Bash” AEW Dynamite from Oklahoma City, OK:

Match 1: Continental Classic Gold Block: Swerve Strickland vs. Rush. Strickland advances to Semifinals with win. Rush must win and Jon Moxley must lose
Result: Swerve Strickland beat Rush
Strickland is 4-1, 12 points. Rush is 3-2, 6 points. That means if Moxley loses tonight, there is a 3-way tie for 1st and we may need a tiebreaker match (Moxley beat Strickland but would have lost to White, Strickland beat White but lost to Moxley)

Match 2: Continental Classic Gold Block: Mark Briscoe vs. Jay Lethal. Both eliminated from contention already
Result: Mark Briscoe beat Jay Lethal
Briscoe is 1-4, 3 points. Lethal is 0-5, 0 points.

MJF & Samoa Joe in the ring. The Devil’s masked men hit the ring but get fought off then The Devil appears on the screen with a challenge for the ROH World Tag Team Championship next week. MJF & Joe accept.

Toni Storm joins commentary for the next match.

Match 3: Saraya vs. Riho. The winner faces Storm for the AEW Women’s Championship on 12/30
Result: Riho beat Saraya. As a result, it’s Storm vs. Riho on 12/30 for the title. Riho laid out Storm before Mariah May laid out Riho.

Storm’s exit was interrupted by Tony Schiavone reading a prepared statement from Christian Cage, who claims he’ll be back on Collision.

MJF & Samoa Joe argue backstage then split up before MJF sees a ski mask on the ground in front of Mogul Embassy’s locker room. When Prince Nana answers MJF physically threatens him, leading to a confrontation with Swerve Strickland. MJF goes so far to suggest Strickland is The Devil and framed Adam Page as The Devil to get to MJF before Joe breaks it up.

Match 4: Roderick Strong vs. Komander
Result: Roderick Strong beat Komander

Saturday on Collision: Thunder Rosa & Abadon vs. Julia Hart & Skye Blue, Brian Cage vs. Keith Lee, Chrsitian Cage appears, AEW Trios Champions The Acclaimed vs. Top Flight & Action Andretti for the titles, and the last Continental Classic Blue Block matches: Claudio Castagnoli vs. Bryan Danielson, Brody King vs. Daniel Garcia and Andrade El Idolo vs. Eddie Kingston.

Jim Ross returns to join commentary for the main event.

Main Event: Continental Classic Gold Block: Jay White vs. Jon Moxley. Moxley has advanced. White must win to force a 3-way tiebreaker
Result: Jay White beat Jon Moxley
Both are 4-1, 12 points. As a result, because of tiebreakers, the Gold Block Final next week will be a 3-way between Moxley, Strickland and White.

Like each of the last 4 weeks with the tournament, not a great show but a good 2 hours. My only real complaint was there were technical issues with the broadcast cutting out or freezing at the start of each match except the main event. Otherwise it was another solid Dynamite, not as good as the first 2 weeks of the tournament but not off by very much.

Friday on Rampage: AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy vs. Rocky Romero for the title. Everything else TBA.

UPDATE: El Hijo Del Vikingo vs. Black Taurus may also be another match for Rampage.

All-Japan News: Popular Foreign Star Returning

In a post on his official Instagram earlier today, Davey Boy Smith Jr., the son of the late WWF Hall Of Famer The British Bulldog, announced he will be returning to All-Japan on 12/31 for the first time in several years. He was planned to be part of the 2020 Champions Carnival Tournament but the pandemic derailed those plans, then his father’s WWE HOF induction was postponed to 0221, and more recently he had emergency surgery for appendicitis and diverticulitis. But Smith has fully recovered and is excited to return on 12/31 for a 6-man tag.

Check out the full Instagram post below:

Pro Wrestling NOAH 12/20/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the final STAR NAVIGATION 2023 event of the year, before the series continues in 2024.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 688.

Match 1: LEONA (Dradition) & Kai Fujimura beat Taishi Ozawa & Yu Owada. Fujimura pinned Owada after a swan dive elbow.

Match 2: Hajime Ohara beat Hi69.

Match 3: Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito beat Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher & Shuhei Taniguchi. Shiozaki pinned Taniguchi after Go Lariat.

Match 4: Terry Yaki beat Extreme Tiger. This was to have been a 3-way including Alejandro but Alejandro was removed last-minute due to the ever vague poor health/physical condition.

Match 5: HAYATA, Eita & Titus Alexander beat Yoshinari Ogawa, Super Crazy & Vinny Massaro. Alexander pinned Massaro after Big Ugly.

Match 6: Naomichi Marufuji beat Atsushi Kotoge.

Match 7: Jake Lee, LJ Cleary, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Kaito Kiyoiya, Ryohei Oiwa, Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki. Lee pinned Miyawaki after a backdrop. Afterwards, the House Of Torture faction in New Japan Pro Wrestling appeared and beat down the losers. EVIL with microphone. Based on translation it sounds like a challenge was issued to Kiyomiya & Miyawaki for a match against EVIL & Dick Togo.

Main Event: Kenoh, Takashi Sugiura & Kazuyuki Fujita beat Manabu Soya, Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba. Kenoh pinned Soya with a Samson Clutch.

The next event, which will be the final event of 2023, is “THE GIFT 2023 in MAKUHARI-KEIJI MUTO HAPPY BIRTHDAY” Saturday at Makuhari Messe Hall 6 in Chiba. There will be no live broadcast.

BREAKING: Last-Minute NOAH Change For Today

A few minutes ago Pro Wrestling NOAH announced that Alejandro is now off today’s Korakuen Hall event. The ever vagus poor health/poor physical condition. He was to have faced Extreme Tiger & Terry Yaki in a 3-way. It’s now a single match. No word on Alejandro’s status going forward but monitor because he is scheduled to be in Dragon Gate Sunday in a match for the Open The Twin Gate Championship.

Dragon Gate 12/19/23 Results

Dragon Gate ran their final Tokyo event of the year today as they continued the Fantastic Gate 2023 Tour.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1343.

Before the event began, it was announced that the Open The Twin Gate Championship is now VACANT. Previous champions Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia vacated the titles today, with Dia returning the belts, due to a Yoshioka injury (eye). It’s a minor injury but this means Yoshioka won’t be able to return for their scheduled title defense Sunday against Kaito Kiyomiya & Alejandro (Pro Wrestling NOAH. Alejandro actually was in Dragon Gate until earlier this year as Aleja). The NOAH duo will now face Ben-K & Kota Minoura for the titles Sunday.

Match 1: Punch Tominaga beat Yoshiki Kato.

Match 2: Kzy, Strong Machine J, BIGBOSS Shimizu, U-T & Jason Lee beat Don Fujii, Genki Horiguchi, Kagetora, Takashi Yoshida & Daiki Yanagiuchi. Shimizu pinned Yanagiuchi after Power BOSS.

Match 3: ISHIN beat JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI by countout.

Match 4: Ultimo Dragon & VIENTO beat Super Crazy & Demus. Dragon pinned Demus after Asai DDT.

Match 5; Kota Minoura, BxB Hulk & Ben-K beat Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda. Minoura pinned Kanda after Golden Rose.

Match 6: YAMATO, Naruki Doi, Dragon Kid & Alejandro beat Dragon Dia, Ryoya Tanaka, Eita & Shuji Kondo. Alejandro pinned Tanaka after a modified Yoshitonic.

Main Event: Madoka Kikuta & Luis Mante beat Shun Skywalker & KAI by DQ. Skywalker DQ’d. Which led to…
Main Event (again): Madoka Kikuta, Luis Mante & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI beat Shun Skywalker, KAI & ISHIN. KAMEI pinned Skywalker after “JACKY” Knife. That’s not insignificant, in particular for KAMEI. I would call that a definite upset.

The next event is tomorrow at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. This is the last non-televised event of the year as both remaining events after this will be live and on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

It was also announced today that the first Korakuen event of 2024 on 1/10 (the first half of a doubleheader) will be a Masaaki Mochizuki 30th Anniversary Event. For his 30th Anniversary match, Mochizuki will face Shingo Takagi, the former Dragon Gate star who began his career in the promotion before moving to New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he reached superstardom and is a former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion among other accolades. Check out the promo poster below for the event, which should be live and on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK (confirmation will come later this month(:

BREAKING: Dragon Gate Titles Vacated

Following up on the Yuki Yoshioka injury (eye) in Dragon Gate, a breaking update-The Open The Twin Gate Championship held by Yoshioka and Dragon Dia is now VACANT. This means Yoshioka will not be back in time for Saturday. They were supposed to defend the titles against Kaito Kiyomiya & Alejandro, who will now face Ben-K & Kota Minoura for the titles.