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Dragon Gate 8/3/23 Results (Updated)

Dragon Gate wrapped up the KING OF GATE 2023 Tournament today with the Wemifinals and Finals.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1258, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: KING OF GATE Semifinals: BIGBOSS Shimizu beat Madoka Kikuta. This virtually guarantees the eventual winner gets an Open The Dream Gate Championship match as a reward now that Kikuta, the current champion, will not win.

Match 2: KING OF GATE Semifinals: Kota Minoura beat H-Y-O.

Match 3: Susumu Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Mochizuki Jr. vs. Shun Skywalker, KAI & ISHIN went to a double countout.

Match 4: Naruki Doi, Ben-K, BxB Hulk & Minorita beat Dragon Kid, Punch Tominaga, Yoshiki Kato & Daiki Yanagiuchi. Ben-K pinned Yanagiuchi after a powerbomb.

Match 5: Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii beat Shuji Kondo & Takashi Yoshida. Fujii beat Yoshida with Gedo Clutch.

Match 6: YAMATO, Kagetora, Eita, Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Doa beat Kzy, Strong Machine J, U-T, Jason Lee & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. YAMATO pinned KAMEI after Galleria.

Main Event: KING OF GATE Finals: Kota Minoura beat BIGBOSS Shimizu to win the tournament.

Next up is The Gate Of Adventure 2023 Tour beginning tomorrow at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. There are no broadcasts scheduled until 8/13 with half of the remaining tour events, including DANGEROUS GATE 2023 on 8/20 at Ota City General Gym, available on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

UPDATE: It’s now official-for winning KING OF GATE Minoura will face Kikuta for the Open The Dream Gate Championship. That match will happen on 8/20.

AEW Dynamite 8/3/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s Episode 200 of AEW Dynamite in Tampa, FL:

Match 1: Chris Jericho & Konosuke Takeshita vs. Daniel Garcia & Sammy Guevara
Result: Chris Jericho & Konosuke Takeshita beat Daniel Garcia & Sammy Guevara. Jericho pinned Garcia after a behind-the-back baseball bat cheap shot from Don Callis.

Matt Menard confronts Jericho backstage. Mandatory JAS meeting next week and Jericho is to be there.

Jack Perry-Jerry Lynn face-off. But Lynn backs off due to claiming it would be “child abuse” and he wouldn’t be medically cleared to compete anyway, so he brings out fellow ECW legend Rob Van Dam in his place. Perry bailed, then tried to come back with a cheap shot with a chair but it was avoided and Perry bailed into the crowd, even teasing using a girl in the front row as a shield.

Match 2: Jon Moxley vs. Trent Beretta & Penta El Zero M in a 3-way Anything Goes match
Result: Trent Beretta beat Jon Moxley & Penta El Zero M in a 3-way by pinning Penta. Afterwards, BCC & Best Friends brawled and Chuck Taylor challenged BCC to a parking lot fight at Daily’s Place in Jacksonville Friday on Rampage.

Van Dam challenges Perry to a match for the FTW Title for next week.

MJF comes out. He plays up to the crowd then calls out Adam Cole. This all builds up to MJF giving Cole an AEW World Championship match and it will be the main event of All In London. It will be a PPV via cable/satellite providers and Bleacher Report in the US and FITE elsewhere on 8/27 at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT.

Match 3: The Young Bucks & Kenny Omega vs. Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal & Satnam Singh
Result: The Young Bucks & Kenny Omega beat Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal & Satnam Singh. Omega pinned Lethal after One Winged Angel. The end came as Sonjay Dutt, Karen Jarrett, Brandon Cutler, The Hardys & Adam Page all got involved.

Swerve Strickland & AR Fox promo. This leads into a video they made where they visit Buddy Wayne’s wrestling school (a ring in a garage) and beat down Nick Wayne, then they use Wayne’s cell phone to call Darby Allin and threaten him over Allin not calling Fox when he signed to AEW. Strickland says it’s just the beginning.

Match 4: ROH World Tag Team Champions Aussie Open vs. El Hijo Del Vikingo & Komander for the titles
Result: ROH World Tag Team Champions Aussie Open beat El Hijo Del Vikingo & Komander to retain the titles. Kyle Fletcher pinned Komander after Corealis.

Main Event: AEW Women’s World Champion Toni Storm vs. Hikaru Shida for the title
Result: Hikaru Shida beat AEW Women’s World Champion Toni Storm to become THE NEW AEW WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPION! Ruby Soho & Saraya interference throughout, in the end it backfired when they threw Shida’s Singapore Cane in. Storm used the spray paint can afterwards to blind Shida, but couldn’t get 3 with Storm Zero. A small package got Shida the 3 count and the title.

Overall, to me it was another Dynamite that happened, a totally average show. Could have been much better but bad cut-away timing and editing/timing weighed it down. I have been enjoying Collision more lately, it seems to be more of what I like. There was nothing really bad tonight, but nothing really great either.

Friday on Rampage: Parking Lot Fight at Daily’s Place, Anna Jay vs. Skye Blue, Swerve Strickland & AR Fox vs. TBA and Keith Lee & The Hardys vs. The Butcher, The Blade & Kip Sabian.

BREAKING: The Elite Remain All Elite (Updated)

In huge contract news, AEW has announced that The Elite-The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega and Adam Page-have all signed contract extensions with AEW. Terms were not disclosed but they are “long-term” and “multi-year” deals. The promotion put out a press release confirming the deals, and all spoke to Sports Illustrated about the new contracts.

The Bucks had recently been rumored to be considering a jump to WWE once their current contracts were up but decided to stay put. They along with Omega are also Executive Vice Presidents in AEW.

UPDATE: There are now reports that Dark Order, or at least most of their current members, have also signed extensions with AEW. Evil Uno announced this on Ywitter while joking about them not getting a press release. Which ones signed new deals, though, is not yet clear.

New Japan 8/2/23 Results

New Japan ran Day 12 of the G1 CLIMAX 33 today, the penultimate day of Blocks C & D.

Today’s event was held at Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall in Hiroshima and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. This was a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.

The announced paid attendance was 2006.

All matches were G1 CLIMAX matches, 20 minute time limit.

Match 1: Block D: Alex Coughlin beat Hiroshi Tanahashi. UPSET ALERT!!!

Match 2: Block C: Mikey Nicholls beat EVIL.

Match 3: Block D: Toru Yano beat Shane Haste.

Match 4: Block C: HENARE beat Tomohiro Ishii.

Match 5: Block D: Hirooki Goto beat Jeff Cobb.

Match 6: Block C: Eddie Kingston beat Tama Tonga.

Match 7: Block D: Tetsuya Naito beat Zack Sabre Jr.

Main Event: Block C: Shingo Takagi beat David Finlay.

With one match left, 5 still have a chance to advance in Block C (top 2 move on). Nicholls, HENARE & Ishii are out. Here’s how it will play out on their final day: The Finlay-Kingston winner advances. If EVIL beats Takagi, EVIL advances. If Takagi beats EVIL, he needs a Tonga loss or draw to advance. If Takagi and Tonga both win, they will need a tiebreaker because their head-to-head result was a draw. Tonga needs a win and Takagi-EVIL to be a Double DQ or no contest to advance (something that means no points for both). Now if Finlay-Kingston is a draw, blow everything up because it then gets too complicated. In Block D, Cobb, Sabre & Naito are tied for the lead but there is serious final day chaos potential. Let’s start with simple-Cobb advances if he beats Haste. Naito advances if he beats Tanahashi. Sabre must beat Goto AND Cobb or Naito must lose or draw (Sabre lost to both Cobb & Naito). Yano, Haste & Coughlin are out. Tanahashi & Goto need miracles and can also blow up everything.

Day 13 is Saturday at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka with the final day of Blocks A & B. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

New Japan 8/1/23 Results

New Japan ran Day 11 of the G1 CLIMAX 33 today, the penultimate day of Blocks A & B.

Today’s event was held at Takamatsu City General Gym 1 in Kagawa and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1559.

All matches were G1 CLIMAX matches, 20 minute time limit.

Match 1: Block A: Hikuleo beat Kaito Kiyomiya.

Match 2: Block B: Great-O-Khan beat YOSHI-HASHI.

Match 3: Block A: Ren Narita beat Chase Owens by submission.

Match 4: Block B: El Phantasmo beat Taichi.

Match 5: Block A: SANADA beat Gabriel Kidd. As a result, SANADA wins Block A.

Match 6: Block B: Tanga Loa beat Will Ospreay by countout.

Match 7: Block A: Yota Tsuji beat Shota Umino.

Main Event: Block B: Kauzchika Okada beat KENTA. As a result, Okada clinches a top 2 spot on Block B and advances to the Quarterfinals.

With one match left, SANADA will win Block A but 2nd is completely up for grabs-mathematically everyone still has a chance but the final matchups all but eliminate Owens & Narita as they are on 2-4, 4 points and second place currently is 3-3, 6 points. In Block B, Okada will advance while Ospreay only needs to beat or draw against Phantasmo to advance. Loa, Phantasmo & Taichi all still have a chance. KENTA, YOSHI-HASHI & Khan are now out.

Day 12 is tomorrow at Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall in Hiroshima with Blocks C & D. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

Dragon Gate 7/30/23 Results

Dragon Gate wrapped up their July schedule yesterday with the penultimate event of KING OF GATE 2023. There were no tournament matches but the main event featured a tag match between all who made the Semifinals.

Yesterday’s event was held at Kadamatsu Sports Park Gym in Yamaguchi. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 339.

Match 1: Dragon Kid, Dragon Dia & Yuki Yoshioka beat Don Fujii, Genki Horiguchi & U-T. Dia pinned Horiguchi after DDDDT.

Match 2: Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda beat Ichikawa & Shachihoko BOY. Kanda pinned Ichikawa after a BOY moonsault press accidentally hit Ichikawa.

Match 3: Shun Skywalker, KAI & ISHIN beat YAMATO, Ryu Fuda & Kaito Nagano. ISHIN pinned Fuda after Capital Punishment.

Match 4: Kzy, Jason Lee & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI beat BxB Hulk, Ben-K & Minorita. KAMEI pinned Minorita after Torbejino Cross.

Main Event: Madoka Kikuta & Kota Minoura beat BIGBOSS Shimizu & H-Y-O. Kokuta pinned H-Y-O after a rolling lariat.

The Tournament concludes Thursday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo with the Semifinals and Finals. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

Stardom 7/30/23 Results

Stardom continued the 5 STAR GP today with an event in Saitama.

Today’s event was held at Konosu Municipal Gym in Saitama and will be available on demand on Stardom World at a later date.

The announced paid attendance was 412.

Match 1: Ruaka & Natsuko Toura beat Miyu Amasaki & Konan. Ruaka pinned Konan after Freezer Bomb.

Match 2: Thekla & Giulia beat Yuna Mizumori & Tam Nakano. Giulia pinned Mizumori after Glorious Driver.

Match 3: Mariah May & Mina Shirakawa beat Momo Kohgo & Hazuki. Shirakawa pinned Kohgo after Implant DDT.

Match 4: Koguma, Saya Iida & Mayu Iwatani beat Lady C, AZM & Utami Hayashishita. Koguma pinned C after a diving body press.

Match 5: Megan Bay, Mei Hoshirai & Maika beat HANAKO, Saki Kashima & Syuri. Bay pinned HANAKO after F5.

5 STAR GP:
Match 6: Blue Block: MIRAI beat Hanan.
Main Event: Red Block: Natsupoi beat Suzu Suzuki.

The next event is Saturday at Suehiro Gym in Ishikawa. It will be available on demand on Stardom World at a later date.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/30/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up July with the last SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour event for a couple months today.

Today’s event was held at Ishikawa Industrial Exhibition Hall 3 in Ishikawa and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (likely Wednesday). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 1125, a full house/near sellout. Keiji Muto attended this event, which no doubt helped bring a lot of fans in.

Match 1: Kai Fujimura beat Yu Owada.

Match 2: Akitoshi Saito & Super Crazy beat Mohammed Yone & Taishi Ozawa. Crazy pinned Ozawa after a moonsault press.

Match 3: Ninja Mack beat Hajime Ohara.

Match 4: Stallion Rogers, Seiki Yoshioka & Alejandro beat Anthony Greene, YO-HEY & Tadasuke. Yoshioka pinned YO-HEY after Crash Driver.

Match 5: Daiki Inaba beat Shuhei Taniguchi.

Match 6: HAYATA & Eita beat Yoshinari Ogawa & LEONA (Dradition). HAYATA pinned LEONA after 403 Impact.

Match 7: Kenoh, Adam Brooks & Lance Anoa’i beat Masa Kitamiya, Manabu Soya & Yoshiki Inamura. Brooks pinned Inamura after Aussie Buster.

Match 8: Naomichi Marufuji, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki beat Kazushi Sakuraba, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69. AMAKUSA pinned Kotoge after Opening Of The Country.

Main Event: Jake Lee & Jack Morris beat Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima. Lee pinned Shiozaki after FBS.

The next event is an N-1 VICTORY 2023 Eve Festival Saturday at Saturday at Hotel Metropolitan Edmont in Tokyo, This will include autograph sessions, merchandise sales and an N-1 Rumble, a 16 man battle royal with all tournament participants. The match will be broadcast live on ABEMA and the Pro Wrestling NOAH Japanese YouTube channel beginning at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

New Japan 7/30/23 Results

New Japan ran Day 10 of the G1 CLIMAX 33 today, Day 5 of Blocks C & D.

Today’s event was held at Aichi Prefectural Gym in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 3545.

All matches were G1 CLIMAX matches, 20 minute time limit.

Match 1: Block C: David Finlay beat HENARE.

Match 2: Block D: Toru Yano beat Jeff Cobb. Flash win (it cheats aka red mist).

Match 3: Block C: Eddie Kingston beat Mikey Nicholls.

Match 4: Block D: Tetsuya Naito beat Alex Coughlin.

Match 5: Block C: EVIL beat Tomohiro Ishii.

Match 6: Block D: Zack Sabre Jr. beat Shane Haste.

Match 7: Block C: Shingo Takagi vs. Tama Tonga went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

Main Event: Block D: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Hirooki Goto.

In Block C. EVIL & Finlay are tied at the top at 4-1, 8 points with 2 matches left. Nicholls & HENARE are now out of contention. The draw today really hurt Takagi, but he still is in it because his last 2 matches are Finlay & EVIL. Finlay’s other remaining match is Kingston, while EVIL’s other match is Nicholls. Kingston still has a chance too, his remaining matches are Finlay & HENARE. In Block D, Cobb & Sabre are tied at 4-1, 8 points, with Tanahashi & Naito 2 points back and still in it. Haste & Goto are on life support with tiebreakers their only hope, Goto has the better chance there because Sabre & Cobb are his remaining 2 opponents. Haste has Cobb & Yano. Despite a win today Yano is out of it as is Coughlin. Tanahashi next has Coughlin and Naito gets Sabre before they face off in their final match, a potential eliminator for 2nd and advancement.

Day 11 is Tuesday at Takamatsu City General Gym 1 in Kagawa with Blocks A & B. The main event will be Kazuchika Okada vs. KENTA. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.