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Impact Wrestling “Victory Road” Results (9/8/23)

Impact Wrestling runs their monthly live event, Victory Road, tonight to start a huge weekend for the promotion that includes the taping of their landmark 1000th TV episode tomorrow (that episode will air Thursday). As usual there are a lot of big matches tonight that may spill into next week’s TV and beyond-the first big return tonight is Jordynne Grace. Now that Deonna Purrazzo is no longer Knockouts Champion Grace can get back in the title picture (Grace previously lost a match with a stip that she could never get another title shot while Purrazzo was champion), and ironically that path goes through Purrazzo tonight while current champion Trinity defends the title against Alisha Edwards, who sneakily screwjobbed her way into the title shot via a battle royal win. Elsewhere, the previously anticipated Josh Alexander-Steve Maclin showdown happens tonight, while not for the Impact World Championship the winner could be next in line. Among the other scheduled title matches are Lio Rush defending the X Division Championship against KUSHIDA and Motor City Machine Guns challenging Rascalz for the Impact Tag Team Championship. And Tommy Dreamer competes in what could be his final match when he challenges Kenny King for the Impact Digital Media Championship as Dreamer is putting his career on the line.

Today’s event will be held at Westchester Country Center in White Plains, NY and can be watched LIVE on Impact+ (subscription required), YouTube (Ultimate Insider subscription requited) and FITE ($9.99, includes live broadcast and unlimited on demand replays). There will also be a FREE 30-minute pre-show on all 3 platforms before the event. Including the pre-show this should be a standard monthly live event with a total runtime of approx. 3 1/2 hours. Note the live results below will include delayed results for the pre-show as I will not be able to watch it live due to work schedule conflicts.

Tonight’s current lineup:

Pre-Show:
Alan Angels vs. TBA
Ace Austin & Chris Bey vs. Moose & Brian Myers

Main Show:
Crazzy Steve vs. Black Taurus
Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champions Masha Slamovich & Killer Kelly vs. Gisele Shaw & Savannah Evans for the titles
Impact Digital Media Champion Kenny King vs. Tommy Dreamer for the title AND Dreamer’s career
Impact X Division Champion Lio Rush vs. KUSHIDA for the title
Bully Ray vs. PCO in an Anything Goes match
Deomna Purrazzo vs. Jordynne Grace
Impact Tag Team Champions Rascalz vs. Motor City Machine Guns for the titles
Impact Knockouts Champion Trinity vs. Alisha Edwards for the title
Josh Alexander vs. Steve Maclin

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT.

5 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Westchester Country Center in White Plains, NY. Your hosts are Thom Hannifan & Matt Rehwoldt.

Pre-show:
Match 1: Alan Angels beat TBA, which was Guido Maritato. Open challenge. There were technical issues with the stream for most of this match
Match 2: Ace Austin & Chris Bey beat Moose & Brian Myers. Bey pinned Myers with a rollup.

Main show:
Match 1: Impact X Division Champion Lio Rush vs. KUSHIDA for the title
Result: Impact X Division Champion Lio Rush beat KUSHIDA to retain the title.

Match 2: Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champions Masha Slamovich & Killer Kelly vs. Gisele Shaw & Savannah Evans for the titles
Reuslt: Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champions Masha Slamovich & Killer Kelly beat Gisele Shaw & Savannah Evans to retain the titles. Slamovich pinned Evans after Snowplow.

For at least the second time tonight, Bully Ray tries to kill PCO backstage. Bully tries to light PCO on fire after pouring gasoline on him but PCO sprays some gas in Bully’s eyes before that happens.

Match 3: Crazzy Steve vs. Black Taurus
Result: Crazzy Steve beat Black Taurus

Match 4: Impact Digital Media Champion Kenny King vs. Tommy Dreamer for the title and Dreamer’s career
Result: Tommy Dreamer beat Impact Digital Media Champion Kenny King to become THE NEW IMPACT DIGITAL MEDIA CHAMPION! And his career continues. Heath interference as Sheldon Jean was being ejected was the difference.

Match 5: Deonna Purrazzo vs. Jordynne Grace
Result: Jordynne Grace beat Deonna Purrazzo

Match 6: Bully Ray vs. PCO in an Anything Goes match. No DQs, win only by pinfall or submission in the ring
Result: PCO beat Bully Ray

Match 7: Impact Tag Team Champions Rascalz vs. Motor City Machine Guns for the titles
Result: Impact Tag Team Champions Rascalz beat Motor City Machine Guns to retain the titles. Trey Miguel pinned Chris Sabin with a rollup after Zachary Wentz used spray paint. John Skyler interfered late to help Rascalz.

Match 8: Impact Knockouts Champion Trinity vs. Alisha Edwards for the title
Result: Impact Knockouts Champion Trinity beat Alisha Edwards to retain the title. Eddie Edwards tried to help put Trinity through a table late but Traci Brooks & Frankie Kazarian made the save and Trinity tried to put Edwards through a table (it didn’t quite break, but not for lacki of effort).

It is announced that at the Bound For Glory PPV on October 21, Mike Tenay & Don West will be inducted into the Impact Wrestling Hall OF Fame.

Main Event: Josh Alexander vs. Steve Maclin
Result: Josh Alexander beat Steve Maclin

End Show.

All-Japan 9/8/23 Results

All-Japan began their September tour, the Giant Series 2023, today with an event in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. Former Stardom wrestler and inaugural Wonder Of Stardom Champion Yuzuki Aikawa was a special guest on commentary.

The announced paid attendance was 1675.

Match 1: Yoshitatsu beat Black Menso-re.

Match 2: Naruki Doi, Naoki Tanisaki (Independent/Freelancers) & Hokuto Omori beat Kotaro Suzuki (Pro Wrestling NOAH), Keiichi Sato & MAZADA (Independent/Freelancer). Omori pinned Sato after Worst Of The Worst.

Match 3: Masanobu Fuchi Return Match: Masanobu Fuchi, Kaz Hayashi (GLEAT) & Ryuji Hijikata (Independent/Freelancer) beat Osamu Nishimura, Mitsuya Nagai (Dradition) & Masao Inoue. Fuchi pinned Inoue.

Match 4: T-Hawk, El Lindaman, Shigehiro Irie & Junjae (GLEAT) beat Yoshifuni Iwamoto, Takuya Nomura, Fuminori Abe & Ryo Inoue. T-Hawk pinned Inoue after Night Ride.

Match 5: Jun Akiyama, Sanshiro Takagi & Yusuke Okada (DDT) beat Suwama, Hikaru Sato & Dan Tamura by ref stoppage (technical submission). Akiyama beat Tamura with a front neck lock.

Match 6: KAIRI & Saori Anou beat Sayaka Unagi & Sareee. KAIRI pinned Unagi after Insane Elbow.

Match 7: Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato beat Ryuki Honda, Yusuke Kodama & Masao Hanabata. Yuma Aoyagi pinned Hanabata after Rockstar Buster. After this match, Honda apparently left the GOA faction.

Match 8: G-INFINITY Champions Jun & Rei Saito beat Shuji Ishikawa & Ren Ayabe to retain the titles. Jun Saito pinned Ayabe after Psycho Break. V6 for the champs.

Main Event: Kento Miyahara 15th Anniversary Match: Kento Miyahara beat Yuma Anzai.

The next event is Thursday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

New Japan 9/8/23 Results

New Japan kicked off the Road To DESTRUCTION Tour today with the opening event in Tokyo., coming back from possibly their longest break of the year.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World FOR FREE! It also streamed on ABEMA in Japan. Click below to watch (in Japanese, English is also available):

https://njpwworld.com/p/s_00660_1_1

The announced paid attendance was 1087.

There was a last-minute change to the card because Boltin Oleg was off. Left wrist injury and fever. He was to have faced Zack Sabre Jr. for the NJPW WORLD TV Championship. Ryohei Oiwa was the replacement at Oleg’s request.

Before the event began, a 10 Bell Salute for the legendary Terry Funk, who passed away recently, was held. Funk regularly visited Japan in his prime along with his brother Dory Funk Jr., who remains involved with All-Japan Pro Wrestling.

Match 1: DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru beat Yoh & Ryusuke Taguchi. Kanemaru beat Taguchi with a figure 4.

Match 2: Tomoaki Honma, El Desperado, Ren Narita & Minoru Suzuki beat Oskar Leube, Master Wato, Shota Umino & Yuji Nagata. Narita beat Leube with a cobra twist.

Match 3: Bad Dude Tito, Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls beat Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Haste pinned Yano after Highway To Hell.

Match 4: Yuto Nakashima, Tomohiro Ishii, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada vs. Tiger Mask, Togi Makabe, Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan went to a no contest. Tenzan out of control, breaking ref’s restraint and continuously assaulting Ishii. Tenzan is part of a trio challenging Ishii, Tanahashi & Okada for the NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championship tomorrow.

Match 5: Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Callum Newman, HENARE, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb. Tsuji pinned Newman after Gene Blaster. According to New Japan’s Japanese website, Newman is a new member of United Empire.

Match 6: NJPW WORLD TV Champion Zack Sabre Jr. beat Ryohei Oiwa to retain the title. V13(!) for Sabre. Next up: If Sabre has his way, Kojima. Sabre wants it tomorrow but Kojima is already in a match. Stay tuned…

Main Event: Sho & EVIL beat Taichi & SANADA. EVIL pinned SANADA after EVIL.

The next event is tomorrow. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. This will be a Samurai! TV simulcast for those watching outside Japan.

Impact Wrestling 9/7/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s Impact Wrestling in Toronto, Canada:

This episode was taped on 8/28 and wraps up the fallout from Emergence and the build to Victory Road among other things.

The YouTube pre-show match was Ace Austin vs. Jason Hotch.

Match 1: Deonna Purrazzo beat Dani Luna by submission.

Crazzy Steve promo.

Tommy Dreamer promo. Heath interrupts.

Match 2: Joe Hendry & Yuya Uemura beat Champagne Singh & Shera. Hendry pinned Singh.

Steve Maclin & Bully Ray promo.

Josh Alexander interviewed.

Match 3: Sami Callihan & Rich Swann beat Subculture. Swann pinned Mark Andrews after a 450 splash.

Gisele Shaw promo.

Rascalz promo. The Good Hands interrupt to demand a post-Victory Road Impact Tag Team Title shot.

Match 4: Impact X Division Champion Lio Rush beat Kevin Knight in a NON-TITLE match. Rush continued to beat down Knight afterwards including a Hoverboard Lock which caused KUSHIDA to come out and make the save.

Dirty Dango promo.

Jordynne Grace promo.

Santino Marella in the ring with a table set up for tomorrow’s Knockouts Championship contract signing (Trinity vs. Alisha Edwards). Eddie Edwards seconded Alisha. They signed the contract then taunted each other unti Alisha threw a drink in Trinity’s face, then Trinity head kicked Alisha and they began to fight until Eddie put Trinity through a table. Frankie Kazarian then made the save as cameras cut away to commercial.

Motor City Machine Guns promo.

Main Event: Bully Ray & Steve Maclin beat Josh Alexander & PCO. Bully pinned PCO after a low blow.

Next week: Episode 1000!

Next up is Victory Road, this month’s live event, tomorrow in White Plains, NY. The event is available live on Impact+ for subscribers ($7.99/month or $71.99/year) and YouTube for Ultimate Insiders ($4.99/month) and also as a PPV on FITE ($9.99). Live results are scheduled here beginning tomorrow at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET. The next TV tapings are Saturday including next week’s 1000th episode of Impact. There will be a FREE pre-show on YouTube, Impact+ and FITE beginning at 4:30 PM PT/7:30 PM ET with 2 matches scheduled: Ace Austin & Chris Bey vs. Moose & Brian Myers and an Alan Angels Open Challenge.

Injury Report: TJPW Body Count Rising Again

Tokyo Joshi Pro is going through another tough injury absence stretch. Suzume missed an event lat week but should be back this weekend, however they have announced two new absences-Neko Haruna (again) & Haru Kazashiro. Haruna recently just returned from injury but now is out due to a knee injury. Kazashiro is out due to coronavirus. Both will miss the two events this weekend. Their status beyond that is mot yet known but both should be considered questionable for the upcoming events on 9/15 and 9/17.

More as it becomes available.

Dragon Gate 9/7/23 Results

Dragon Gate continues their September tour, Storm Gate 2023, 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.

The announced paid attendance was 1320, which sounds like a legit sellout.

Match 1: Kzy & Strong Machine J beat Kota Minoura & BxB Hulk. J pinned Hulk after Machine Suplex.

Match 2: U-T, Jason Lee & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI beat Ultimo Dragon, Kagetora & Punch Tominaga. KAMEI pinned Tominaga after JFK.

Match 3: Don Fujii beat Masaaki Mochizuki & Ichikawa in a 3-way by pinning Ichikawa.

Match 4: KAI, H-Y-O & ISHIN beat Shuji Kondo, Ryu Fuda & Daiki Yanagiuchi. H-Y-O pinned Yanagiuchi after a double biceps senton.

Match 5: Naruki Doi, Eita & Takashi Yoshida beat Susumu Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Mochizuki Jr. Eita beat Jr. with a camel clutch.

Match 6: BIGBOSS Shimizu beat Ben-K.

Main Event: Takuma Nishikawa Japan Debut Match: YAMATO, Dragon Kid & Takuma Nishikawa beat Madoka Kikuta, Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia. Nishikawa pinned Dia after Limit Bomb.

The next event is Saturday at Hills Sunpia Yamagata in Yamagata. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

AEW Rampage 9/8/23 Results (SPOILERS!) (Updated)

Here are the quick results for tomorrow’s AEW Rampage in Indianapolis, IN (SPOILERS! MATCH RESULTS ONLY):

UPDATE: In unrelated news, AEW has fired Ace Steel again. Was a question of when following partner/buddy CM Punk being fired last week.

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AEW Dynamite 9/6/23 Results

Here are the LIVE quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Indianapolis, IN:

Orange Cassidy comes out first. This was a last-minute add to the show (about 90 minutes before start). He says no time off despite what the bosses say. As he leaves, out comes the man who beat him Sunday for the AEW International Championship…
Match 1: AEW International Champion Jon Moxley vs. AR Fox for the title
Result: AEW International Champion Jon Moxley beat AR Fox to retain the title.
(Apparently Cassidy was a last-minute add to the lineup and replacing an announced Adam Cole Speaks spot)

Christian Cage tries to recruit Nick Wayne backstage as Fox & Darby Allin watch from the ring.

Match 2: AEW TBS Champion Kris Statlander vs. Emi Sakura for the title
Result: AEW TBS Champion Kris Statlander beat Emi Sakura to retain the title.

Match 3: Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara vs. Aussie Open (Mark Davis & Kyle Fletcher). Don Callis on commentary.
Result: Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara beat Aussie Open. Jericho pinned Fletcher after Judas Effect. Jericho & Guevara argued and shoved each other afterwards until security broke it up. Quite a bit of friendly fire.

Ricky Starks promo.

Bryan Danielson will speak Saturday on Collision.

Callis interviewed. He will reveal Konosuke Takeshita’s next “target” next week.

MJF comes out. Sama Joe soon joined him. Long but hot promo segment that teased a potential MJF-Joe AEW World Championship match on 9/20 if Joe wins the Eliminator Tournament to get the title shot. Joe beat down MJF at the end. MJF tried to fight back but Joe beat him down again and teased a muscle buster before Adam Cole made the save. MJF claimed he couldn’t feel his left arm.
As they took MJF to the back Roderick Strong came out for his match and confronted Cole on the entrance ramp.

Match 4: World Title Eliminator Tournament: Roderick Strong vs. Trent Beretta
Result: Roderick Strong beat Trent Beretta

Toni Storm interviewed. Renee Paquette says there will be a 4-way next week with the winner facing Saraya for the AEW Women’s Championship on 9/20. Storm tries to throw another shoe at Renee on the way out but Renee dodged again.

Friday on Rampage: World Title Eliminator Tournament matches-Penta El Zero M vs. Jay Lethal & Samoa Joe vs. Jeff Hardy. Winners face off Saturday on Collision along with Strong vs. Darby Allin or NIck Wayne.

Adam Page interviewed. Swerve Strickland soon interrupts and buries Page, claiming Page has gotten too comfortable in his spot and taking a back seat to The Elite. Strickland tries to goad Page into a challenge for his spot in the hierarchy but Page just brushes him off until Strickland tries to insult Page’s family. Page snaps but Brian Cage sneaks in for the beatdown.

Also Friday on Rampage: The Young Bucks vs. Angelo Parker & Matt Menard.

Also Saturday on Collision: Bullet Club Gold vs. TBA, Saraya Speaks (with Ruby Soho) and The Acclaimed Speaks.

Next week: Tournament Finals and Britt Baker, Hikaru Shida, Nyla Rose & Toni Storm in a 4-way for a shot at AEW Women’s Champion Saraya on 9/20.

Main Event: World Title Eliminator Tournament: Darby Allin vs. Nick Wayne
Result: Darby Allin beat Nick Wayne by ref stoppage. As a result, Allin will face Roderick Strong in the Semifinals Saturday on Collision. Right before the last commercial Christian Cage & Luchasaurus came out to join commentary.

While not as much All Out fallout as I hoped for, the show got the quick NYC build off to a good start and the matches were all above average or better. The MJF promo segment ran too long but as usual is must-see. Most of the show is at least worth watching.

Finally, announced during the show was that the Full Gear PPV will be on 11/18 at The Forum in Los Angeles.

NOAH News: GHC Title Vacated (Updated)

DEVELOPING: Pro Wrestling NOAH has announced the GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is now VACANT. Previous champions Daga & Chris Ridgeway have vacated the titles because Ridgeway had to leave Japan and return home for personal reasons. They were supposed to defend the titles on 9/24 vs. Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf. Bane & Wolf will now face Ninja Mack & Alejandro on that day for the titles. It’s not known when Ridgeway will be able to return.

UPDATE: In a statement on social media, Ridgeway confirmed the situation and thanked NOAH for being professional and allowing him to return home to deal with these issues. Ridgeway did not elaborate as to the reasons and requested privacy but assured fans that he will be back once everything is resolved.

AEW Collision 8/5/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Collision in Greenville, SC:

AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR beat Big Bill & Brian Cage to retain the titles. FTR pinned Cage after Big Rig. Afterwards, they challenged The Young Bucks to a match at All In England.

AEW TBS Champion Kris Statlander beat Mercedes Martinez to retain the title. Diamante then returned for a post-match beatdown with Martinez on Statlander until Willow Nightingale made the save.

Samoa Joe beat Serpentico. Instant squash. Afterwards, he demands a rematch with CM Punk at All In.

Tony Schiavone interviews The Acclaimed. Sounds like Billy Gunn is done as in retired.

AEW Trios Champions House Of Black beat Action Andretti, Darius Martin & Lee Johnson to retain the titles. Malakai Black pinned Martin after a spinning head kick. House Rules returned for this match, for their stip the challengers chose to have Julia Hart banned from ringside. Afterwards, it is announced they will defend the titles next week against CM Punk & FTR.

QTV.

Christian Cage promo.

Jay White beat Metalik.

CM Punk beat Ricky Starks to retain the “real AEW World Championship”. Ricky Steamboat was special referee. Jim Ross returned to commentary for this match after a month-long absence for health reasons.

I missed the live broadcast due to scheduling conflicts so no comments or thoughts on what happened. Apparently the many title matches was to counterprogram against WWE SummerSlam (which I also did not watch live).

Added to Wednesday on Dynamite: NEW AEW Women’s Champion Hikaru Shida vs. Anna Jay for the title.

Next week: House Of Black-Punk/FTR for the Trios Titles, Statlander & Nightingale vs. Martinez & Diamante and The Acclaimed vs. TBA.

This is the last Collision recap for now due to a pause in site activity this month for planned vacations. I may be back in time for the 8/26 episode but more likely it will be the 9/2 episode.