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Tokyo Joshi Pro 6/24/23 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continued the spring (now technically summer) house show tour today with the start of a weekend in western Japan, highlgithed by the return of Miyu Yamashita and (for a couple weeks) Maki Itoh from extended international excursions. Itoh is going away again in mid-July while Yamashita came back from what was, by all accounts, an incredibly successful 3-month trip to the US and Europe and brought back more titles with her.

Today’s event was held at Kobe Art Center in Kobe and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (probably Tuesday). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 316, a super full house/very near sellout.

During the opening announcements, a TJPW INSPIRATION mini-event was announced for 8/17 at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo, to include Mizuki vs. Eiger (Aiger). Eiger is a longtime wrestler whose persona is essentially a ghost. Mostly has competed in the OZ Academy promotion and is a bit of a comedy wrestler.

Match 1: Kaya Toribami beat Haru Kazashiro.

Match 2: Nao Kakuta beat Toga.

Match 3: Yuki Kamifuku beat Shino Suzuki & Hikari Noa in a 3-way by pinning Suzuki.

Match 4: Yuki Arai beat HIMAWARI by submission. Interesting…(scorpion deathlock aka sharpshooter)

Match 5: Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao beat Raku & Pom Harajuku. Nakajima pinned Harajuku with a Northern Lights suplex hold.

Match 6: Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe beat Yuki Aino & Mahiro Kiryu. Tatsumi pinned Kiryu after Daydream Eternity.

Main Event: Miyu Yamashita, Maki Itoh & Moka Miyamoto beat Mizuki, Suzume & Arisu Endo. Itoh beat Endo with Itoh Deluxe.

The next event is tomorrow at Nishitetsu Hall in Fukuoka, the final event before SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’23. Unfortunately for us outside the venue, there will be no live broadcast. You’ll have to wait for on demand, which should be available Wednesday.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 6/24/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH star Kenoh held a 15th Anniversary Event in his hometown today, which has to make one wonder-would the eternal stone-faced Kongo leader actually smile? Or even force a smirk? Or something else perhaps?

Today’s event was held at Tokushima City Gym in Tokushima and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on the Kenoh YouTube Channel, which also streamed the event live. You can also watch below (the total running time is about 3 hours; the broadcast begins at the 20 minute mark and has Japanese commentary, the matches begin at about the 38 minute mark…note that while the hard camera view is in HD, other ringside camera views will be lower quality: it is not available on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at this time):

The announced paid attendance was 1321.

Match 1: Hi69 beat Taishi Ozawa.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura beat Daiki Inaba & Stallion Rogers. Inamura pinned Rogers after Musou.

Match 3: Ninja Mack beat Dante Leon.

Match 4: Go Shiozaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Mohammed Yone & GAINA (Independent/Freelancer) beat Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher, Kazuyuki Fujita & Shuhei Taniguchi. Shiozaki pinned Taniguchi after Go Lariat.

Match 5: Yoshinari Ogawa, Chris Ridgeway & Daga beat Atsushi Kotoge, Seiki Yoshioka & Super Crazy. Daga pinned Kotoge after Diablo Wings.

Match 6: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Kaito Kiyomiya, HAYATA & Eita beat Jake Lee, Jack Morris, YO-HEY & Tadasuke. Kiyomiya beat Tadasuke with a double armbar.

Main Event: Kenoh 15th Anniversary Match: Kenoh, Masakatsu Funaki, Manabu Soya, Shuji Kondo & Hajime Ohara beat Naomichi Marufuji, Masato Tanaka, Kazushi Sakuraba, AMAKUSA & Alejandro. Kenoh pinned Alejandro after Ring Of Fire. Then, the huge shocker…Kongo is no more. Kenoh has disbanded the iconic heel faction. This has resulted in the promotion announcing changes to the 7/9 card-and interestingly, one is the main event where Kenoh will now team with longtime archrival Kaito Kiyomiya against Manabu Soya & Daiki Inaba.

The next event is 7/9 at Tama Mirai Messe in Tokyo. Besides the aforementioned changes, the event also features GHC National Champion Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. AMAKUSA for the title, fallout from Thuesday’s event. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

Dragon Gate 6/23/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued the Rainbow Gate 2023 Your today with an event in Chiba.

Today’s event was held at Chiba Port Arena in Chiba. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (Update: The announced paid attendance was 286)

Match 1: Kzy & Strong Machine J beat YAMATO & Problem Dragon. Kzy pinned Dragon after a running elbow smash.

Match 2: Kota Minoura & Naruki Doi beat Genki Horiguchi & Kagetora. Minoura pinned Horiguchi after R-301.

Match 3: KAI & ISHIN beat Jason Lee & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. ISHIN pinned KAMEI after Death Penalty.

Match 4: Ultimo Dragon, Shuji Kondo & Dragon Kid beat Shun Skywalker, Diamante & H-Y-O. Dragon pinned H-Y-O with La Magistral.

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

Main Event: Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda beat Ben-K, BxB Hulk & Minorita. Kanda pinned Minorita after a diving elbow drop.

The next event is tomorrow at Espowa Isanonuma in Saitama, the first half of a weekend doubleheader there. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

UPCOMING FREE VIDEO: GLEAT 6/24/23 Live Event Stream

On their official YouTube channel today, GLEAT announced tomorrow’s G PROWRESTLING Ver. 55 event at Nishitetsu Hall in Fukuoka will be broadcast LIVE FOR FREE! Bookmark this page or set a reminder in the video and come back to watch live tomorrow at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET. It also will be available on demand a few minutes after the event concludes.

The below video is courtesy of the GLEAT Official YouTube channel:

Impact Wrestling 6/22/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s Impact Wrestling from Columbus, OH:

This episode was taped on 6/10 and wraps up the fallout from Against All Odds.

The YouTube pre-show match was Nevaeh vs. Jody Threat.

Match 1: Brian Myers & The Good Hands beat oVe (Sami Callihan, Jake Crist, Madman Fulton). Myers pinned Crist. Moose interference set up the finish.

Eddie Edwards & Frankie Kazarian talk backstage. Edwards swears on their trainer’s (Killer Kowalski) grave that Kazarian can trust him completely tonight.

Callihan is en fuego backstage and goes off on Rich Swann when they cross paths. But Swann has Callihan’s back again from now on.

Match 2: Dirty Dango beat Bhupinder Gujjar. Squash. Afterwards, Santino Marella came out to give Dango the Cobra in retaliation for the sneak attack that happened a while back.

Pre-show match highlights where Jody Threat beat Nevaeh. They shake hands and be nice backstage before Nevaeh geeks out meeting Death Dollz. Nevaeh remembers them under their old names/personas though. Death Dollz have a comedy huddle but Nevaeh overhears them because she’s right next to them. She sends them off on a ridiculous story quest.

Zicky Dice being quizzed backstage by a referee with some “help” from Johnny Swinger. Dice passes and is now an official Impact referee. Swinger sees an easy screwjob path to 50 wins now.

Match 3: Jonathan Gresham & Mile Bailey beat The Design (Angels & Kon). Bailey pinned Angels after Ultima Weapon.

Trinity interviewed backstage. She challenges Jai Vidal to a match for next week.

Jimmy Jacobs reads a prepared statement from Nick Aldis, apparently he’s not appearing this week due to threats on social media. Alex Shelley interrupts. Jacobs says Aldis will appear next week and has even reserved a front row seat for Shelley. Jacobs makes a smart remark as Shelley wants away and gets laid out for it. (This might be the last appearance or one of them for Jacobs in Impact, reportedly his contract is up and he may be moving on)

Match 4: Killer Kelly beat Taylor Wilde. Afterwards, KiLynn King starts to beat down Kelly but Masha Slamovich soon comes out with a dog collar. She teases going after Kelly again but instead goes after The Coven until they bail. They tease perhaps making nice after all their recent fighting but Slamovich bails as Kelly makes a peace offer of sorts.

Replay of Scott D’Amore-Bully Ray/Steve Maclin/PCO happenings last week

D’Amore interviewed backstage.

Match 5: Impact Digital Media Champion Joe Hendry beat Yuya Uemura to retain the title. Once the match began there was a quick interruption as Kenny King & Sheldon Jean came out and joined commentary. King seemed to issue a silent challenge for the title after the match.

Upcoming event match rundown. Hendry vs. Eddie Edwards for the Dgital Media Championship and Impact X Division Champion Chris Sabin vs. Frankie Kazarian for the title are announced to 6/30. On 7/1, Motor City machine Guns will face Ace Austin & Chris Bey for the Impact Tag Team Championship.

Main Event: Bully Ray & Steve Maclin beat Eddie Edwards & Frankie Kazarian. Maclin pinned Kazarian. Edwards inadvertently superkicked Kazarian when he had Maclin in a chicken wing and that set up the finish.

Next week: Sabin vs. Trey Miguel rematch for the X Division Championship, Trinity vs. Jai Vidal and Nick Aldis explains his actions to Alex Shelley.

The next TV tapings are tomorrow & Saturday in Atlanta, GA. This should cover the next 3 weeks of TV which will take them to the Slammiversary PPV on 7/15 and fallout TV tapings on 7/16, which should take them to the next Chicago TV tapings at the end of July. A reminder that the 6/30 and 7/1 Australia events will be available live and on demand only on FITE (2 AM PT/5 AM ET live starts each day, $14.99 for each date or $24.99 for both. I have pre-ordered both dates so on demand results will be posted late evening on 6/30 and around midday on 7/1 after I have a chance to watch each date).

AEW News: Popular Jobber Moving On

In a video clip posted to Twitter today, AEW wrestler Fuego De Sol announced he is finished with the promotion and will become a free agent. No word on specific details but he apparently had been injured for some time and is now cleared to return, so my thinking is this is an expiring contract and Fuego is moving on, and likely is not on bad terms with Tony Khan.

Fuego had been a long-tome jobber/enhancement talent in AEW, earning a contract after a standout performance on the premiere episode of AEW Rampage. He lost in a high-stakes match but was awarded a contract in a surprise spot with help from Sammy Guevara. He did win a few matches along the way in AEW too. His profile page has been removed from AEW’s website and Fuego said he will be accepting bookings starting July 1. That being said, he does have an independent match against fellow AEW wrestler Matt Sydal tomorrow in the Dallas, TX area, but this probably was planned or cleared beforehand even though Sydal made the challenge in a reply to Fuego’s post.

You can view the clip in the Twitter post below:

TJPW News: Another 7/8 Card Change

Tokyo Joshi Pro has announced yet another change to the 7/8 SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’23 card…but this time it’s a good one. A match between Hikari Noa and Vertvixen, returning to the promotion after a well-received first tour of Japan earlier this year, was already announced. But now, at the request of Vertvixen, the match has been changes to be for her DEFY Women’s Championship. DEFY is a Seattle, Washington-based independent promotion.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 6/22/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the STAR NAVIGATION 2023 Tour today with their latest Tokyo event, featuring the announcement of this year’s N-1 VICTORY 2023 entrants.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The live broadcast was English only due to being an ABEMA exclusive. You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1022.

Match 1: Katsuhiko Nakajima & Seiki Yoshioka beat Manabu Soya & Hajime Ohara. Nakajima pinned Ohara after Hari-te.

Match 2: Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher, Hideki Suzuki, Kazuyuki Fujita & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Masa Kitamiya, Akitoshi Saito, Mohammed Yone, Yoshiki Inamura & Stallion Rogers. Taniguchi pinned Rogers with a half nelson suplex. Taniguchi is now part of Suzuki’s Real faction.

Match 3: Jake Lee & Jack Morris beat Daiki Inaba & Sean Legacy. Morris beat Legacy with a cobra twist.

Match 4: Kaito Kiyomiya, HAYATA & Eita beat Yoshinari Ogawa, LEONA (Dradition) & Kai Fujimura. Kiyomiya pinned Fujimura after a deformed tiger driver.

Match 5: Shuji Kondo beat Hi69.

Match 6: Naomichi Matifuji, AMAKUSA & Atsushi Kotoge beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Ninja Mack & Dante Leon. AMAKUSA pinned Wagner.

Match 7: Chris Ridgeway & Daga beat GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YO-HEY & Tadasuke to win the titles. Ridgeway & Daga become the 57th GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Daga pinned YO-HEY after Justice.

Main Event: Kenoh beat Go Shiozaki.

Here is the N-1 VICTORY Tournament field as announced today:
Block A: Jake Lee, Kenoh, Masa Kitamiya, Jack Morris, Yoshiki Inamura, Timothy Thatcher, Adam Brooks, Yuki Yoshioka (Dragon Gate)
Block B: Go Shiozaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Manabu Soya, Daiki Inaba, Saxon Huxley, Lance Anoai, Yuma Anzai (All-Japan)

In other news/fallout, GHC National Champion Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. AMAKUSA for the title was announced for 7/9 at Tama Mirai Messe in Tokyo. This event will be a live WRESTLE UNIVERSE broadcast.

The next event is the Kenoh 15th Anniversary Event Saturday at Tokushima City Gym in Tokushima. This event will be streamed live FOR FREE on the Kenoh YouTube Channel beginning at midnight PT/3 AM ET. The link is below:

https://www.youtube.com/@kenoh_ch

AEW Dynamite 6/21/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Chicago, IL:

Gunn Club beat The Hardys. Colten Gunn beat Jeff Hardy after 3:10 to Yuma. Juice Robinson interference set up the upset. CM Punk showed up unannounced after the match. He’ll be at Collision Saturday.

Mark Briscoe beat Jeff Jarrett in a Concession Stand Brawl. A street fight that started at a concession stand setup. Garbage comedy match.

Sammy Guevara, Chris Jericho & Minoru Suzuki beat Action Andretti, Darius Martin & AR Fox. Jericho beat Fox with Liontamer/Walls Of Jericho. Missed the first part of this match with streaming issues.

What was supposed to be a Blind Tag Tournament was changed earlier today to just a draw for the 8-team tournament. Brackets announced next week but we do know the first team…Adam Cole and MJF.

Daniel Garcia & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Orange Cassidy & Katsuyori Shibata. Missed finish due to streaming issues.

AEW TBS Champion Kris Statlander beat Taya Valkyrie to retain the title.

In the Main Event segment, Eddie Kingston announced the 5th member of the 10-man tag Sunday with The Young Bucks & Adam Page vs. BCC is Tomohiro Ishii. This led to Bryan Danielson calling out Kazuchika Okada, who came out. After a Wheeler Yuta cheap shot, they set up a Busaiku Knee but Okada dodged and Danielson hit Yuta. Dnaielson bailed and left Yuta to take Rainmaker to end the show.

I had a lot of unusual streaming issues tonight so I missed quite a bit of important spots (I watch via the TBS app because I am on the west coast). From what I did saw, it felt meh for a PPV go home show.

Friday on Rampage (what I caught): Jungle Boy vs. DOUKI, Rocky Romero & Best Friends vs. United Empire & Swerve Strickland, The Acclaimed vs. TBA, Anna Jay.A.S. vs, Skye Blue in the Owen Hart Cup Women’s Tournament, MJF Appears for the first time EVER on Rampage and Adam Cole appears.

Saturday on Collision in Toronto, Canada: CM Punk, FTR and maybe someone else vs. Bullet Club Gold, Swerve Strickland vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Brody King vs. Andrade El Idolo, Nyla Rose vs. Willow Nightingale in the Owen Hart Cup Women’s Tournament, Christian Cage appears and Sting & Darby Allin reveal their Forbidden Door tag team partner for their match vs. Jericho/Guevara/Suzuki.