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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.

AEW Collision 7/29/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Collision in Hartford, CT:

Match 1: Buddy Matthews vs. Andrade El Idolo in a Ladder Match. The only way to win is climb the ladder and retrieve Andrade’s mask hanging above the ring
Result: Andrade El Idolo wins by retrieving the mask.

Match 2: Darby Allin vs. TBA. After commercial, TBA is revealed to be Minoru Suzuki (New Japan Pro Wrestling)
Result: Darby Allin beat Minoru Suzuki

Toni Storm promo. She defends the AEW Women’s Championship Wednesday on Dynamite against Hikaru Shida.

Match 3: ROH TV Champion Samoa Joe vs. Gravity in a NON-TITLE match
Result: Samoa Joe beat Gravity. Squash.

CM Punk interviewed in the ring. Initial reaction mixed as usual, but more negative than positive. Not by much, I’d say 60-40 negative. He reveals his bag has “his” AEW World Championship belt and he spray paints an “X” on it which represents Punk, he’s back to being straight-edge and he is the real champion because he was never pinned or submitted for the title. Ricky Starks then comes out. They agree to a match next week for Punk’s version of the title, with wrestling legend Ricky Steamboat as guest referee.

Match 4: Gunn Club & Juice Robinson vs. El Hijo Del Vikingo, Action Andretti & Darius Martin
Result: Gunn Club & Juice Robinson beat El Hijo Del Vikingo, Action Andretti & Darius Martin. Colten Gunn pinned Martin after 3:10 To Yuma.

Match 5: Kiera Hogan vs. Mercedes Martinez
Result: Mercedes Martinez beat Kiera Hogan by submission

Main Event: AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR vs. MJF & Adam Cole for the titles. TV Time Remaining, which is about 25 minutes at the start
Result: AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR beat MJF & Adam Cole to retain the titles. Cash Wheeler pinned MJF.

Added to next week: AEW TBS Champion Kris Statlander vs. Mercedes Martinez for the title.

Another good show this week as Collision has established itself as a solid second program separate from Dynamite. Still some issues with commercials and timing that need to be worked on as well as women’s booking. The ladder match is a must-see.

End Show.

DDT Pro Wrestling “Summer Vacation 2023” Results (7/30/23)

Not even a week removed from WRESTLE PETER PAN, their biggest annual event, DDT has their monthly Tokyo big event on tap today, Summer Vacation 2023. With it being just that in Japan, the promotion is offering free admission to elementary & middle school students accompanied by paying adults today for what looks like another loaded card. In the main event, Konosuke Takeshita will continue his recent heel turn in All Elite Wrestling by now aligning himself with the Damnation T.A. faction, teaming with Daisuke Sasaki & KANON to face The37Kamiina trio of Yuki Ueno, MAO & Toi Kojima. As usual there is also a title match today as DDT Extreme Champion Kazuki Hirata looks to pull out all the stops-literally and figuratively-for a comedy handicap/Captains Fall/2 Count Falls defense against HARASHIMA. Ever seen Grilled Yakitori Chicken in a wrestling match as a participant? You will today! Only in DDT.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. Kentaro Kumagi, a Japanese voice actor who also is a lifelong wrestling fan, will be a special guest on commentary. There is a pre-show match scheduled before the event so it will start around 15 minutes earlier than the listed start time. Including the pre-show match the event’s total running time should be between 2 1/2-3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Pre-show: Yuni vs. Kazuma Sumi

Main show:
Minoru Fujita & MJ Paul vs. Takao Soma & Rukiya
Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno vs. Akito & Naruki Doi
Yuji Hino, Makoto Oishi & Yukio Naya vs. Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku
Yukio Sakaguchi 50th Birthday Match: Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani vs. Shuji Ishikawa, Tanomusaku Toba & Masa Takanashi
Chris Brookes, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Kotaro Suzuki & Yuki Ishida
DDT Extreme Champion Kazuki Hirata, Broom, Kokeshi Door, Chair, Grilled Yakitori Chicken & Hirata’s Merry Fighters vs. HARASHIMA in a Handicap Captains Fall 2 Count Falls match for the title
Konosuke Takeshita, Daisuke Sasaki & KANON vs. Yuki Ueno, MAO & Toi Kojima

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Updates below will begin at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. The pre-show match is scheduled to begin at 7:15 PM PT/10:15 PM ET.

7 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has started. We should be going to the venue in about 15 minutes for the pre-show match.

7:15 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now…
We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Haruo Murata, Kagehiro Osano & special guest Kentaro Kumagi.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The crowd is still filing in but they’re using the same reduced hard-camera-view bleacher setup as Tokyo Joshi Pro did yesterday so it’ll be less than full capacity.Too early to predict potential attendance as the crowd is still coming in. (Main show update: I’m thinking it’s gonna be around 550 but by the end of the event I changed my thoughts to be closer to 800) (Update: The announced paid attendance was 761)

Pre-show match: Yuni vs. Kazuma Sumi. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuni beat Kazuma Sumi

Updates will resume when the main show matches begin.

No opening announcements today, we go right to opening video. Your hosts are Ken Kato, Kagehiro Osano & Kentaro Kumagi.

The matches begin at 7:36 PM PT.

Match 1: Minoru Fujita & MJ Paul vs. Takao Soma & Rukiya. 30 minute time limit
Result: Minoru Fujita & MJ Paul beat Takao Soma & Rukiya. Paul pinned Rukiya.

Akito & Naruki Doi promo.

Match 2: Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno vs. Akito & Naruki Doi. 30 minute time limit
Result: Danshoku Dieno & Yuki Iino beat Akito & Naruki Doi. Dieno pinned Akito after Danshoku Driver. Comedy match of course. Afterwards, Saki Akai came out. She asked for a match against Dieno. Dieno accepted. GM Imabayashi made it official for the next Korakuen event Dieno then brought Iino back in the ring and spread his butt for Akai to see, sending her running back to the backstage area. The match would probably be on 8/27 as the next Korakuen before that on 8/12 is Saki’s 10th Anniversary event and that match is already set.

Match 3: Yuji Hino, Makoto Oishi & Yukio Naya vs. Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuji Hino, Makoto Oishi & Yukio Naya beat Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku. Hino pinned Koroku after Fuckin’ BOMB.

GM Imabayashi heads to the ring for what are normally his show-opening announcements. First, for the upcoming Saki Akai 10th Anniversary match, the TBA in the 6-woman tag match is revealed as Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling’s Shoko Nakajima. The earlier-made Dieno-Akai match is also made official for 8/27.

Your host from here on out is Haruo Murata. There must have been a YouTube simulcast up to this point that wasn’t advertsided.

Match 4: Yukio Sakaguchi 50th Birthday Match: Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani vs. Shuji Ishikawa, Tanomusaku Toba & Masa Takanashi. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani beat Shuji Ishikawa, Tanomusaku Toba & Masa Takanashi. Sakaguchi pinned Toba after God’s Right Knee. Sakaguchi addressed the fans afterwards as well as receiving 50th birthday gifts. I missed some of this due to internet issues and some streaming issues once these were resolved. Back up and running as intros for the next match began.

Match 5: Chris Brookes, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Kotaro Suzuki & Yuki Ishida. 30 minute time limit
Result: Chris Brookes, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada beat Kazusada Higuchi, Kotaro Suzuki & Yuki Ishida. Brookes pinned Ishida after Praying Mantis Bomb.

Match 6: DDT Extreme Champion Kazuki Hirata, Broom, Kokeshi Door, Chair, Grilled Yakitori Chicken & Hirata’s Merry Fighters vs. HARASHIMA in a Handicap Captains Fall 2 Count Falls match for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: DDT Extreme Champion Kazuki Hirata beat HARASHIMA to retain the title. V1 for Hirata. This was so many levels of indescribably hilarious. Next up: Possibly Sakaguchi, who made the challenge from the timekeeper/announcer & GM Imabayashi’s table. It’s made official for next month. (Update: That match will happen on 8/13)

Quick break for ring cleaning.

Main Event: Konosuke Takeshita, Daisuke Sasaki & KANON vs. Yuki Ueno, MAO & Toi Kojima. 30 minute time limit
Result: Konosuke Takeshita, Daisuke Sasaki & KANON beat Yuki Ueno, MAO & Toi Kojima. Sasaki beat Ueno with a crossface. During the post-match promo, Shunma Katsumata came out still on crutches, leading to Sasaki attacking him but Damnation T.A. bailed afterwards and Takeshita ducked a crutch shot from MAO before rolling out of the ring. Afterwards, Ueno & The37Kamiina reinforced their alliance and did their signature call to end the show.

The next event is 8/6 at Yamagata Big Wing in Yamagata. There will be no live broadcast.

Post-show note: If Sakaguchi/Akai/Okatani retain the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship in their upcoming defense in All-Japan on 8/27, which is also for the All-Japan 6-Man Tag Team Championship, they will defend on 9/9 at Ota City General Gym vs. Yankee 2 Pistols & Ram Kaichow. Also set for 9/9 is Takeshita & Sasaki vs. Ueno & MAO.

Dragon Gate 7/29/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued the KING OF GATE 2023 Tournament today the last of the Quarterfinals matches, meaning after today we’ll have the full Semifinals set.

Today’s event was held at Tsushima City Cultural Hall in Aichi. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Match 1: Shun Skywalker, KAI & ISHIN beat BIGBOSS Shimizu, Jason Lee & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. Ishin pinned KAMEI after a chokeslam.

Match 2: Ben-K & Yoshiki Kato beat Takashi Yoshida & Ryoya Tanaka. Ben-K pinned Tanaka after a spear.

Match 3: Dragon Kid & Genki Horiguchi beat Punch Tominaga & Ho Ho Lun. Kid pinned Tominaga after Golgotha.

Match 4: Kota Minoura, BxB Hulk & Minorita beat Susumu Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Mochizuki Jr. Minoura pinned Jr. after Golden Rose.

Match 5: Madoka Kikuta & Yuki Yoshioka beat Kzy & U-T. Kikuta pinned U-T after Inferno.

Main Event: KING OF GATE 2023 Quarterfinals: H-Y-O beat Dragon Dia.

The Semifinals and Finals will be on 8/3.

The next event is tomorrow at Kudamatsu Sports Park Gymnasium in Yamaguchi with no tournament matches but a special tag match featuring the Semifinalists-Kota Minoura & Madoka Kikuta vs. BIGBOSS Shimizu & H-Y-O. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

Stardom 7/29/23 Results

Stardom continued the 5 STAR GP today with Day 2 of the tournament.

Today’s event was held at Nagano Prefectural Budokan in Nagano and will be available on demand on Stardom World at a later date.

The announced paid attendance was 302.

Match 1: Thekla beat HANAKO.

Match 2: Hanan & AZM beat Ruaka & Rina. AZM pinned Ruaka after Azumi Sushi.

Match 3: Miyu Amasaki & Utami Hayashishita beat Momo Kohgo & Hazuki. Hayashishita pinned Kohgo after Shocking Baszler.

Match 4: Saki Kashima & Syuri beat Yuna Mizumori & Natsupoi. Kashima pinned Mizumori after Recuperation.

Match 5: Megan Bay, Mei Hoshirai & Suzu Suzuki beat Koguma, Saya Iida & Mayu Iwatani. Bay pinned Iida after F5.

5 STAR GP Blue Block:
Match 6: Giulia beat Hanan.
Match 7: Saori Anou beat Mariah May.
Main Event: Mina Shirakawa beat MIRAI.

The next event is tomorrow at Konosu City Gym in Saitama. It will be available on demand on Stardom World at a later date.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/29/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour today with a house show in Niigata.

Today’s event was held at Aore Nagaoka in Niigata and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (likely Tuesday). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 345.

Match 1: Kai Fujimura beat Yu Owada.

Match 2: Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69 beat Daiki Inaba & Taishi Ozawa. Kotoge pinned Ozawa after a moonault press.

Match 3: Adam Brooks, Super Crazy & Seiki Yoshioka beat Yoshinari Ogawa, LEONA (Dradition) & Stallion Rogers. Crazy pinned LEONA.

Match 4: Lance Anoa’i beat Shuhei Taniguchi.

Match 5; Katsuhiko Nakajima & Mohammed Yone beat Naomichi Marufuji & Hajime Ohara. Nakajima pinned Yone after Vertical Spike.

Match 6: Jake Lee, Jack Morris, Anthony Greene, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Masa Kitamiya, Manabu Soya, Yoshiki Inamura, Ninja Mack & Alejandro. Morris beat Kitamiya with a cobra twist.

Main Event: Go Shiozaki, HAYATA & Eita beat Kenoh, AMAKUSA & \Junta Miyawaki. Shiozaki pinned Miyawaki after a short range Go Lariat.

The next event is tomorrow at Ishikawa Industrial Exhibition Hall 3 in Ishikawa. There will be no live broadcast.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling 7/29/23 Results (Updated)

Tokyo Joshi Pro continues the Tokyo Princess Cup Tournament today with the Quarterfinals. All 4 matches are on tap today with a random draw afterwards to determine the Semifinals pairings (it may not be as the bracket suggests). The tournament matches today are Miyu Yamashita vs. Moka Miyamoto, Rika Tatsumi vs. Shoko Nakajima, Yuki Kamifuku vs. Miu Watanabe and Yuki Arai vs. Arisu Endo. On paper Yamashita and the Tatsumi-Nakajima winner seem to be the favorites left but anything is possible. 3 non-tournament matches open the event and feature most of the rest of the roster. A special autograph and fan photo event at a separate location in Tokyo follows the event.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The broadcast should begin 10-15 minutes before the scheduled event start time. Due to the after-event party they’ll be on a slightly strict time limit although the event time is subject to change, even though there is no time limit for the tournament matches-that means nonetheless the event’s total runtime probably will not be more than 2 1/2 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Juria Nagano & Kaya Toribami vs. Wakana Uehara & HIMAWARI
Hyper Misao, Nao Kakuta & Yuki Aino vs. Mahiro Kiryu, Pom Harajuku & Neko Haruna
Mizuki, Toga, Haru Kazashiro & Runa Okubo vs. Hikari Noa, Raku, Suzume & Shino Suzuki
Tokyo Princess Cup Quarterfinals:
Yuki Arai vs. Arisu Endo
Miu Watanabe vs. Yuki Kamifuku
Rika Tatsumi vs. Shoko Nakajima
Miyu Yamashita vs. Moka Miyamoto

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Updates below will begin at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. The event is scheduled to begin at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET.

7 PM PT UPDATE: The stream has begun. According to the page on WRESTLE UNIVERSE, the match order has changed slightly from above-Tatsumi vs. Nakajima apparently will be the main event while Yamashita-Miyamoto will be Match 6. The first 5 matches otherwise should be in order as listed above.

7:22 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now…
We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Haruo Murata, Kagehiro Osano & Sayoko Mita. If you’re watching in English, your hosts are Chris Brookes, Baliyan Akki & Ash.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The crowd is still filing in but it’s reduced capacity on the opposite hard-camera side where the commentary setups are. Sellouts lately have been close to 1500 but with this setup they’ll probably top out closer to 1000 and normally they do in the 500s-600s at Korakuen recently. (From the opening shots it’s early but definitely on the low side. Maybe they’ll get to around 500) (Update: The announced paid attendance was 437)

The matches should begin in 15-20 minutes.

During opening announcements two new trainees are introduced. Didn’t get names but one looked to be a teenager while the second one was from Australia based on her slow and uncertain Japanese…props for trying and managing to get through her intro in Japanese! (Updates: their tentative ring names are Chika & Kira, respectively)

Then announced for an event later this year in Nagoya is…OMG, the match I hoped would maybe happen before Saki Akai retires later this year…Saki Akai vs. Yuki Arai! AA Eye Candy faces each other for the first, last and only time, at least in singles action. Could this be Saki passing the torch to Yuki? FEELS!!! (Update: That match will happen on 9/18 in Nagoya)

The matches begin at 7:48 PM PT.

Match 1: Juria Nagano & Kaya Toribami vs. Wakana Uehara & HIMAWARI. 20 minute time limit
Result: Juria Nagano & Kaya Toribami beat Wakana Uehara & HIMAWARI. Nagano pinned HIMAWARI after a spinning head kick.

Match 2: Hyper Misao, Nao Kakuta & Yuki Aino vs. Mahiro Kiryu, Pom Harajuku & Neko Haruna. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hyper Misao, Nao Kakuta & Yuki Aino beat Mahiro Kiryu, Pom Harajuku & Neko Haruna. Misao pinned Kiryu with La Magistral. This ended very quickly, just a couple minutes. Comedy promos afterwards. Which led to…
Match 2 (Again): Hyper Misao, Nao Kakuta & Yuki Aino vs. Mahiro Kiryu, Pom Harajuku & Neko Haruna. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hyper Misao, Nao Kakuta & Yuki Aino beat Mahiro Kiryu, Pom Harjauku & Neko Haruna. Kakuta beat Harajuku with a combination toe hold/guillotine choke.

Match 3: Mizuki, Toga, Haru Kazashiro & Runa Okubo vs. Hikari Noa, Raku, Suzume & Shino Suzuki. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hikari Noa, Raku, Suzume & Shino Suzuki beat Mizuki, Toga, Haru Kazashiro & Runa Okubo. Noa pinned Toga with a blizzard suplex hold.

Quick break for ring repairs/maintenance.

Match 4: Tokyo Princess Cup Quarterfinals: Yuki Arai vs. Arisu Endo. No time limit
Result: Yuki Arai beat Arisu Endo. As a result, Arai advances to the Semifinals. Halfway there! Now the wait for the rest of the matches and the random draw afterwards to find out who’s next.

Match 5: Tokyo Princess Cup Quarterfinals: Miu Watanabe vs. Yuki Kamifuku. No time limit
Result: Yuki Kamifuku beat Miu Watanabe. As a result, Kamifuku advances to the Semifinals. She’s really turning heel based on her antics.

Match 6: Tokyo Princess Cup Quarterfinals: Miyu Yamashita vs. Moka Miyamoto. No time limit
Result: Miyu Yamashita beat Moka Miyamoto. As a result, Yamashita advances to the Semifinals. One step closer to finally taking that Princess Of Princess Championship away from Mizuki.

Main Event: Tokyo Princess Cup Quarterfinals: Rika Tatsumi vs. Shoko Nakajima. No time limit
Result: Rika Tatsumi beat Shoko Nakajima by submission. As a result, Tatsumi advances to the Semifinals.

The Semfinalists come out. It sounds like the draw will happen at a later time on TJPW’s official YouTube channel. Tatsumi finishes the post-main event promo to end the event.

The Semifinals will be on 8/12.

The next event is 8/5 at Duo CEREZO in Niigata for a Shoko Nakajima hometown event, featuring Yuki Arai participation and Aja Kong vs. Super Sasadango Machine (DDT). There will be no live broadcast.

UPDATE: The Semifinal draw was held at the post-event party. The matches will be Arai vs. Yamashita & Tatsumi vs. Kamifuku.

Inpact Wrestling 7/27/23 Results

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

This episode was taped on 7/16 and wraps up the fallout from Slammiversary.

The YouTube pre-show match was Yuya Uemura & Joe Hendry vs. Kenny King & Sheldon Jean.

Match 1: Trinity & Dani Luna beat The Coven (Taylor Wilde & KiLynn King. Trinity pinned Wilde. Immediately afterwards, Deonna Purrazzo came out. She said she’s getting her Impact Knockouts Championship rematch at Emergence, the next monthly live event.

Backstage footage from after last week of Lio Rush, Brian Myers & Moose talking before Bully Ray cuts in. Rush says he’s not here to make friends but Moose isn’t asking for that. Bully makes it simple-Rush is with them or against them and wants an answer tonight.

Dirty Dango promo. Johnny Bravo appears in part of it. He is now Alpha Bravo, Dango’s personal security

Match 2: In a Loser Leaves Impact Match, Johnny Swinger beat Zicky Dice. As a result, Swinger gets an Impact World Championship shot and Dice must leave Impact. Comedy match and Swinger won with feet on the ropes.

Pre-show match highlights. Yuya Uemura pinned Kenny King as Uemura & Joe Hendry beat King & Sheldon Jean. Hendry & Santino Marella almost let Urmura talk himself into an Impact Digital Media Championship shot, but Hendry has a rematch as former champion. Santino hinted at a 3-way. Hendry agreed, so Santino makes the match for next week. Some good comedy from Uemura by way of his broken English.

Nick Aldis promo. No more Jimmy Jacobs to interview Aldis (he’s reportedly gone to All Elite Wrestling).

Match 3: Gisele Shaw beat Masha Slamovich.

Jake Something promo.

Traci Brooks talks to Frankie Kazarian. She wants to go ask for 5 minutes in the ring with Alisha Edwards.

Match 4: Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA beat Moose & Brian Myers. Shelley pinned Myers. Bully Ray immediately came out afterwards for the heel beatdown but Josh Alexander quickly made the save.Lio Rush then quickly ran out to beat down Shelley. That brought out Chris Sabin to join the fray. They cleaned house and laid out Rush. Sabin seems good now after what happened at Slammiversary.

Alan Angels promo. He challenges Heath to a match.

Rascalz promo from outside the venue last week when they were kicked out. They want Subculture then made the mistake of picking on Mike Bailey as he arrived.

Match 5: Zachary Wentz beat Mike Bailey. Trey Miguel seconded Wentz and was ejected by the ref but refused to leave, allowing Wentz to spray Bailey in the face with paint to cheat.

Emergence (8/27) Matches announced: Time Machine & Josh Alexander vs. Bully Ray, Moose, Brian Myers & Lio Rush and Trinity-Purrazzo for the Impact Knockouts Championship. Emergence will be available on Impact+ for subscribers, YouTube for Ultimate Insiders and as a PPV on FITE.

Main Event: Eric Young beat Nick Aldis. Afterwards, The Design ambushed Young from behind and laid him out. Deaner demanded Kon continue to punish Young, who has history with them when they were Violent By Design, and Kon chokeslammed Young. Then Deaner ordered Kon to chokeslam Young yet again and he did. Deaner finished Young then with the Antisote spike DDT then sat on Young’s chest and posed sadistically to end the show.

Next week: King vs. Uemura & Hendry in a 3-way for the Impact Digital Media Championship.

The next TV tapings are tomorrow & Saturday in Chicago and will take them to Emergence at the end of August (4 weeks).

DEVELOPING: Impact Returning To UK

In a press release, Impact Wrestling has announced they are returning to the UK in October for the first time since January 2016. It will include 3 events-10/26 in Glasgow, Scotland; 10/27 in Newcastle, England and 10/28 in Coventry, England. Several top names including Alex Shelley, Moose, Joe Hendry, Deonna Purrazzo and more have been announced as well as the Impact return of Scotland standout Grado.

Tickets go on sale on 8/4 via Impact’s website. No word on potential broadcasts for the events (namely if they may be PPVs on FITE, they would be 2 PM ET/11 AM PT starts in the US.

More as it becomes available.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 7/27/23 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro held a special summer athletic competition today, a break from traditional wrestling for a variety of unusual and comedy-themed activities with everyone divided into two teams for the unique event.

Today’s event was held at Sugamiku Resort Pleasure Forest in Kanagawa and is available on demand as a PPV on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. The event can be purchased until 8/2 and is available for 3500 Japanese yen (around $26) for non-monthly subscribers and 2800 yen (around $20) for monthly paying subscribers. It may be available to all paying subscribers at a later date (probably October at the earliest).

This was a closed event with no fans in attendance. The format was 5 events with 1 point for the winners, most points at the end wins.

Match 1: In a Falls Count Anywhere match, Rika Tatsumi, Hikari Noa & Nao Kakuta (Red Team) beat Pom Harajuku, Suzume & Yuki Arai (White Team). Tatsumi pinned Harajuku after Twist Of Fate.

Match 2: In a Spider Climbing Competition, where apparently the most combined distance climbed wins (and it was teams simultaneous and fighting each other), Mizuki, Miu Watanabe & Kaya Toribami (White Team) beat Yuki Aino, Moka Miyamoto & Arisu Endo 31.4 meters-22.9 meters.

Match 3: In a Steel Maze Battle, a series of 3 single battles where the first to escape a multi-level structure won, Raku, Nao Kakuta & Hyper Misao (Red Team) beat Suzume, Mahiro Kiryu & Yuki Kamifuku (White Team) 2-1.

Match 4: In a Sumo Pushing competition held in a small cage high above the ground (everyone was tethered to bungee cords and had to walk across suspension bridges to reach the structure), Red Team beat White Team 2-1. Nao Kakuta (Red) beat Pin Harajuku (White), Miu Watanabe (White) beat Moka Miyamoto (Red), Raku (Red) beat Yuka Sakazaki (White).

Main Event: In a Cavalry Deathmatch, pitting the entire teams against one another and the first to claim the opponent’s leader’s headband was the winner, White Team beat Red Team. The leaders were Yuki Arai & Moka Miyamoto, Arai won by claiming Miyamoto’s headband. White got 1 million points for winning and won the competition 1 million-3.

As a reward for winning, the White team got to enjoy a luxurious BBQ and party afterwards. And Arai being the big winner at the end made me very happy of course.

The next event is Saturday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo for the Tokyo Princess Cup Quarterfinals. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET. Live results will be posted here.