For whatever unknown reason, tomorrow’s AEW Collision in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada is TAPED and was taped last night (they also taped what probably is next week’s Ring Of Honor TV). Below are the quick results for tomorrow’s broadcast (SPOILERS!):
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New Japan News: Top STRONG Name Off Upcoming Events
Ahead of the STRONG Independence Day events in Japan Tuesday & Wednesday, New Japan has announced Fred Rosser is now off both events. Circumstances beyond his control according to Rosser. in a brief statement on New Japan’s English website, Rosser said he will be in Japan “sooner rather than later” so this sounds like it could be due to something travel-related like flight cancellations or visa/passport issues.
The statement can be viewed at the below page:
https://www.njpw1972.com/154373
DEVELOPING: New 3 Musketeers Group in New Japan
Longtime New Japan fans will no doubt have heard lots about The 3 Musketeers-the moniker given to the trio of Keiji Muto, Masa Chono and Shinya Hashimoto when they came up through the New Japan Dojo in the late 1980s. That bane has sort of come back, as the promotion just announced the Reiwa 3 Musketeers group-Shota Umino, Ren Narita & Yota Tsuji. This comes in recognition of their rapid ascents through the ranks in New Japan, in particular Tsuji recently who just came back from a shorter-than-normal international training excursion to Mexico and almost immediately earned an IWGP World Heavyweight Championship shot (he lost to SANADA).
However, they won’t be seen together as a unit in the ring anytime soon because they are not on next week’s Korakuen Hall events and the G1 CLIMAX is right after that. Maybe near the end of the tournament. This is an interesting development nonetheless, let’s see if they can all live up to this lofty moniker.
News: GLEAT Loses Another 7/1 Participant
Ahead of their major 7/1 event Saturday, GLEAT has announced yet another pending change-Komander, who was scheduled to be on the card, is now off. Visa issues. He just worked in All Elite Wrestling & Ring Of Honor this past week but ran into delays trying to get a visa to go to Japan when he returned to Mexico to do so. No replacement named yet.
Impact Wrestling 6/29/23 Results
Here are the quick results from tonight’s Impact Wrestling in Atlanta, GA:
This episode was taped last Friday & Saturday as part of 2 days of TV tapings dubbed Summer Sizzler.
The YouTube pre-show match was Johnny Swinger vs. Bhupinder Gujjar.
Match 1: Impact X Division Champion Chris Sabin beat Trey Miguel by DQ to retain the title. Zachary Wentz returned and interfered on Miguel’s behalf and the Rascals (sp?) were reformed. Heel beatdown but Alex Shelley quickly came out to make the save.
Miguel/Wentz promo backstage.
Deonna Purrazzo joins commentary for the next match.
Match 2: Trinity beat Jai Vidal by submission. Gisele Shaw & Savannah Evans beatdown on Trinity immediately afterwards while Purrazzo just watched as she walked around the ring for a bit then made the save.
Pre-show match highlights. Zicky Dice was the referee and helped Johnny Swinger beat Bhupinder Gujjar by a fast 3 count. 1 on the Road To 50. Until…referee Chad Pinder interrupts. Per Santino Marella, of course the win doesn’t count. And if Dice does it again he’ll lose his referee license. Back to 0!
Match 3: Lio Rush (Impact Debut) beat Jack Price. Glorified squash.
Dirty Dango promo from social media earlier this week. Santino responds afterwards. He talks like he’s going to face Dango at Slammiversary.
Frankie Kazarian confronts Eddie & Alisha Edwards backstage.
Match 4: Masha Slamovich beat KiLynn King. Taylor Wilde interfered multiple times but at the end Killer Kelly came out and choked out Wilde with a dog collar chain to help Slamovich. Afterwards, Kelly & Masha teased a potential alliance as they wrapped the collar/chain around each other and left together.
Scott D’Amore promo. Several Impact wrestlers talk about his earlier career days. Tommy Dreamer puts him over as inventor of the Canadian Destroyer. D’Amore interviewed backstage afterwards. Darren McCarty has been added to his Slammiversary match as guest enforcer. The Good Hands then interrupt. They try to talk D’Amore into a match before then, but he says he’ll talk to Santino Marella and try to make The Good Hands vs. PCO in a handicap match for next week.
Match 5: Kenny King beat Yuya Uemura. Before the match begins and they go to commercial, Joe Hendry is seen in the production area backstage telling producer Josh Matthews to cue up some music and video footage. Hendry comes out after the match and cues up a new one of his corny music videos called “The Kenny King Story”. Yes, this was pure comedy and “Stripper Kenny” got a very loud reaction from the crowd.
Added to Slammiversary on 7/15 is Ultimate X with Mike Bailey, Jonathan Gresham, KUSHIDA, Kevin Knight and Angels for an X Division Championship match when they want it.
Nick Aldis comes out. With microphone. He asks Alex Shelley to come out to explain his actions and he promptly does. Shelley with microphone. He tells Aldis this is his ring as champion but Aldis complains about what Shelley did to Jimmy Jacobs last week as they banter back and forth. Shelley takes Aldis’ advice and steps out of the ring to sit in the crowd with the fans. The bantering continues. Aldis says he now has to not only beat Shelley for the Impact World Championship at Slammiversary but also humiliate and embarrass him. They finally start going at it with Aldis using an eye rake to take control and manhandle Shelley all over the place. Aldis goes for a belt shot with the title but Chris Sabin makes the save. But as Aldis goes to leave, Lio Rush sneaks in and ambushes Sabin from behind and the beatdown is on. Aldis then gets the belt shot in on Shelley and Rush does the same to Sabin with the X Division title belt. They pose with the belts to end the show.
Next week: Jonathan Gresham vs. Angels and Eddie Edwards vs. Frankie Kazarian.
Next up are 2 live events tomorrow & Saturday in Wagga Wagga, Australia as part of Impact Down Under 2023. Both events are available live on FITE for $14.99 each or as a combo pack for $24.99, and you also get unlimited on demand replays. Live streaming for both events will begin each day at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET with on demand available immediately after the events end. Results for tomorrow will be posted late that evening after I have a chance to watch the replay. Saturday’s results will be up around midday PT.
AEW Rampage 6/30/23 Results (SPOILERS!)
Here are the quick results for tomorrow’s AEW Rampage in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (SPOILERS!):
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Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada:
Updates will begin at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT.
Live updates below.
Match 1: Jon Moxley vs. Tomohiro Ishii (New Japan). 30 minute time limit
Result: Jon Moxley beat Tomohiro Ishii
Adam Cole interviewed backstage as he arrives. MJF arrives at the same time too. He shows off a new t-shirt for their Blind Eliminator Tag Tournament pairing. Per MJF it’s now available on ShopAEW.com!
BREAKING: The Britt Baker-Ruby Soho Owen Hart Cup match tonight is now off. Baker illness. She caught what Adam Cole had. Postponed to next week. Soho will now face TBA tonight.
Match 2: Orange Cassidy. Keith Lee & El Hijo Del Vikingo vs. Daniel Garcia, Angelo Parker & Matt Menard
Result: Orange Cassidy, Keith Lee & El Hijo Del Vikingo beat Daniel Garcia, Angelo Parker & Matt Menard. Lee pinned Menard after a powerslam.
The TBA for The Young Bucks & Adam Page as their opponent tonight will be Dark Order, as revealed in a taped promo from earlier today.
Match 3: Dark Order (Evil Uno, John Silver, Alex Reynolds) with -1 vs. The Elite (The Young Bucks, Adam Page)
Result: The Elite beat Dark Order. Page pinned Silver after Buckshot Lariat.
After the match, BCC beatdown on The Elite and Eddie Kingston culminates in Jon Moxley challenging The Elite to BLOOD & GUTS, which will happen on 7/19 in Boston, MA.
Jungle Boy promo. He turns full heel and states his intent to beat and take the FTW Title from Hook, also taking shots at Taz on commentary (Hook’s real-life father). Hook comes out and Jungle Boy bails as Hook chases him through the crowd and backstage until Jungle Boy dives into a waiting SUV to bail.
Before that last part of the chase, commentary starts to announce that Dynamite Grand Slam will return to Arthur Ashe Stadium at the US Open in New York later this year. They didn’t get to announce a date yet.
Match 4: Ruby Soho vs. TBA, which is Alexia Nicole (local wrestler)
Result: Ruby Soho beat Alexia Nicole by submission. Squash.
Main Event: Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara vs. Darby Allin & Sting in a Tornado Tag Match (no rules, all 4 are legal at all times, finish must come in ring)
Result: Darby Allin & Sting beat Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara. Sting beat Jericho with Scorpion Deathlock.
The show was fine but the crowd came off HORRIBLE on TV tonight and really weighed the presentation down a lot. Were they really not that hot or was it just how TV presented then?
Friday on Rampage: Matt Hardy & Brother Zay vs. Marshall/TV, Hikaru Shida vs. Taya Valkyrie, Shawn Spears vs. The Blade (THE TOP DRAW!) and ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli vs. Komander for the title.
Saturday on Collision: AEW TBS Champion Kris Statlander vs. Lady Frost for the title, 3 Owen Hart Cup Men’s Tournament matches and MJF vs. TBA. Commentary said it’s live but this week’s episode will be TAPED (taping tomorrow).
Next week: Blind Eliminator Tag Team Tournament begins with Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland vs. Orange Cassidy & Darby Allin and Baker-Soho Take 2.
Injury Report: Another DDT Double Whammy
The injuries have been piling up in DDT lately, and add 2 more to the list today coming out of Sunday’s event-although he didn’t mention it at yesterday’s press conference Sanshiro Takagi is the first one. Torn left calf muscle. Out about a month but scheduled to return at WRESTLE PETER PAN on 7/23. The other injured wrestler is Rukiya. Chest (cracked sternum). Out indefinitely. Changes for this coming weekend’s events have been made.
More as it becomes available.
Dragon Gate 6/26/23 Results
Dragon Gate wrapped up the Rainbow Gate 2023 Tour today with the final event of the month.
Today’s event was held at Sendai Sun Festa in Sendai. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.
The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (Update: The announced paid attendance was 372)
Match 1: Madoka Kikuta & Yuki Yoshioka beat KAI & H-Y-O. Kikuta pinned H-Y-O after a rolling lariat.
Match 2: Yasushi Kanda & Genki Horiguchi beat Kagetora & Problem Dragon. Kanda pinned Dragon after Ryu’s.
Match 3: Shun Skywalker, Diamante & ISHIN beat Ultimo Dragon,, Strong Machine J & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. Diamante pinned KAMEI after Vuelta Finale.
Match 4: Masaaki Mochizuki & Susumu Mochizuki beat Dragon Kid & Ryu Fuda. Susumu Mochizuki pinned Fuda after Yokosuka Cutter.
Main Event: YAMATO, Kota Minoura, Ben-K & BxB Hulk beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu, Jason Lee & U-T. YAMATO pinned U-T after Gallaria.
The next event is Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival 2023, the promotion’s biggest annual event, Sunday at Kobe World Hall in Kobe. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin Saturday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET. It will also be available as a PPV in Japan. A special pre-PPV fan event will be held Saturday at Kobe Art Center and will be streamed LIVE FOR FREE on DRAGONGATE NETWORK beginning at midnight PT/3 AM ET.
DDT News: Deathmatch Set For 9/9, More
At a press conference earlier today for their 9/9/23 major event at Ota City General Gum in Tokyo, DDT possibly made an Atsushi Onita exploding deathmatch for the event. Onita & Sanshiro Takagi discussed this at the presser-it took quite a bit to make it happen because the match will be indoors (usually these matches are outdoors or in partially open venues due to smoke and other issues) but Onita had a further demand-that Jun Akiyama be the opponent or Takagi FIRE him. The FIRE part resulted in some DDT comedy because that’s Takagi’s catchphrase/slogan and presumably Onita wanted Akiyama fired if he didn’t accept the match. Takagi said he’ll talk to Akiyama. According to DDT, the last time an indoor deathmatch happened in Tokyo was in 2015. It becomes the second official match for 9/9 along with a KO-D Openweight Championship match. Who defends will depend on the 7/23 result and opponent is TBA.
Also at the presser were MAO & TAKA Michinoku ahead of their match at WRESTLE PETER PAN on 7/23. This is their first meeting since their first in May 2017, which TAKA won. TAKA, now coming up on 50, currently splits his time between his Just Tap Out (JTO) promotion and New Japan.