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Tokyo Joshi Pto had announced a late injury change for Sunday’s event-Free WiFi may not be as reliable because Nao Kakuta is off the event. Back injury. Out indefinitely. She was to have teamed with Kaya Toribami to face Shoko Nakajima & Arisu Endo. It’s now a 3-way. Kakuta was on the 6/25 card announced today so hopefully she will be back for that event.
More as it becomes available.
Here are the quick results from tonight’s Impact Wrestling in Columbus, OH:
This episode was taped Saturday and begins the fallout from Friday’s Against All Odds live event.
The YouTube pre-show match was Champagne Singh & Shera vs. Laredo Kid & Jack Price. (Singh & Shera won)
Motor City Machine Guns open the show. They get interrupted by Nick Aldis, Trey Miguel & Kenny King who all seem to want title matches (Aldis of course will face NEW Impact World Champion Alex Shelley for the title at Slammiversary). THEN Gisele Shaw cuts in. After a “Yep” from Shelley and a few words towards Shaw and her ranting, that brings out Trinity. She went right after Jai Vidal and stared down Shaw…NOW Deonna Purrazzo joins the party. Finally out comes Santino Marella. He makes MCMG, Aldis, Trinity & Purrazzo vs. Miguel, King, Sheldon Jean, Savannah Evans & Shaw as the main event. He calls Evans Savannah Georgia. HAHA.
Steve Maclin promo.
The Design promo.
Match 1: Rich Swann beat Moose.
Pre-show footage where Heath attacked Champagne Singh & Shera after their victory. Heath promo follows.
Moose walks backstage and gets confronted by Brian Myers. He wants Moose to team with him and go for the Impact World Tag Team Championship.
Bully Ray comes out. Commentary noted earlier he apparently has filed a complaint with promotion owner Anthem Sports & Entertainment (as Anthen Wrestling Exhibitions) over the actions of Scott D’Amore at Against All Odds. He rants and complains until D’Amore comes out. He’s heard from the Anthem board and that his actions were unbecoming as Impact President. Bully says D’Amore only needs to say Bully was right and he was wrong. D’Amore said the board strongly advised he should take a leave of absence as President. Bully plays the “Bret Screwed Bret” card and tells D’Amore to leave the ring. D’Amore then tosses the mic away and takes down Bully and starts wailing away until Steve Maclin rushes out for the beatdown on D’Amore. Maclin soon goes under the ring for a pair of chairs, but surprisingly not tables. Bully chokes D’Amore with a chair and as Maclin prepares to smash it into D’Amore’s throat, the lights go out and we see lightning strikes. When the lights come back on, PCO is in the ring. He takes several chair shots and bends over but doesn’t go down before coming back to life and cleaning house. D’Amore with microphone. He forgot one more detail before he left-at Slammiversary they have a tag match! Bully & Maclin vs. D’Amore & PCO in his hometown! OOOOO CANADA!
Maclin & Bully ranting backstage after we return from commercial. Apparently Frankie Kazarian overheard them nearby and interjects himself into their argument, then Eddie Edwards does as well. Bully threatens them and Alisha Edwards before walking off. Edwards proposes they make peace despite their differences over Alisha’s objections and says they’re good.
Match 3: Impact World Tag Team Champions Ace Austin & Chris Bey beat Decay in a NON-TITLE match. Bey pinned Crazzy Steve after 1…2…Sweet. Borderline squash. As Ace & Bey head backstage, MCMG talk to them and show respect to Ace & Bey.
Bhupinder Gujjar interviewed backstage. He gets an episode of “Diary” next week on AXS TV before Impact (and should be on Impact+ and YouTube after that). Interview interrupted by Dirty Dango. He takes a shot at Gia Miller before walking off. Commentary then announces 2 episodes of Diary air each week this month before Impact on AXS TV, with Gujjar & Trey Miguel next week.
Main Event: Main Event: Motor City Machine Gune, Nick Aldis, Trinity & Deonna Purrazzo beat Trey Miguel, Kenny King, Gisele Shaw, Savannah Evans & Sheldon Jean. Alex Shelley pinned Jean after Cradle Shock. Afterwards, Aldis handed Shelley the title belt but laid him out with a cheap shot, seemingly starting a heel turn for the PPV.
Next week: oVe vs. Brian Myers & The Good Hands, The Design vs. Jonathan Gresham & Mike Bailey, Taylor Wilde vs. Killer Kelly and Bully Ray & Brian Myers vs. Eddie Edwards & Frankie Kazarian. This will be the last Columbus show as Impact then heads to Atlanta, GA for 2 days of TV tapings before heading to Australia on 6/30 & 7/1 for live events. The Atlanta tapings will take them to the Slammiversary PPV on 7/15 with PPV fallout on 7/16 to go to their next Chicago tapings at the end of July. The 6/30 & 7/1 standalone Australia events will be available LIVE and on demand only on FITE for $14.99 each or both for $24.99 (on demand will be available immediately after the live events). Both live events begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. Results for both will be posted after I have a chance to watch on demand replays.
Steve Maclin will get his rematch for the Impact World Championship against Shelley on 6/30. On 7/1 Impact Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo vs. Gisele Shaw for the title is set, and if Shaw wins the title she defends on 7/15 against Purrazzo & Trinity in a 3-way.
All-Japan began the Dynamite Series 2023 today with a mid-major event in Tokyo.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.
The announced paid attendance was 984.
Match 1: Black Menso-re & Oji Shiiba beat Ryuki Honda & Masao Hanabata. Menso-re pinned Hanabata.
Match 2: Kotaro Suzuki & Yutani (GLEAT) beat Yoshitatsu & Rising Hayato. Suzuki pinned Yoshitatsu after Endless Waltz.
Match 3: El Lindaman & Yu Iizuka (GLEAT) beat Hikaru Sato & Dan Tamura. Lindaman pinned Tamura with a German suplex hold.
Match 4: Satoshi Kojima, Taiyo Kea & Kaz Hayashi beat Minoru Suzuki, Naruki Doi & Hokuto Omori. Kea pinned Omlri after TKO34th.
Match 5: Yuji Nagata (New Japan), Takuya Nomura & Funinori Abe beat Suwama, Yuka Anzai & Ryo Inoue. Nagata beat Inoue with Nagata Lock 54.
Match 6: Shuji Ishikawa 20th Anniversary Match: Shuji Ishikawa, Kohei Sato & Ren Ayabe beat Jun & Rei Saito & KONO. Ishikawa pinned KONO after a giant slam.
Match 7: All-Japan World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Atsuki Aoyagi beat Kaito Ishida (GLEAT) to retain the title. V1 for Aoyagi.
Main Event: Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi beay All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Kenoh & Manabu Soya (Pro Wrestling NOAH) to win the titles. Miyahara & Aoyagi become the 96th All-Japan World Tag Team Champions. Miyahara pinned Soya with a shutdown suplex hold. This comes a day or so after Kenoh announced his plans to have the titles transferred to NOAH. Kongo Bongo’d and plans foiled. Not a good month-plus continuing for Kenoh as they’ve lost all their titles and Kongo is seemingly falling apart.
The next event is Saturday at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo with Nagata-Anzai for the Triple Crown. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.
Here are the quick results (matches only) for tomorrow’s AEW Rampage in Washington, DC (SPOILERS!):
Continue reading “AEW Rampage 6/16/23 Results (SPOILERS!)”Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Washington, DC:
AEW World Champion MJF vs. Adam Cole in a NON-TITLE match (aka Eliminator) went to a 30 minute time limit draw. Cole would’ve gotten a rematch for the title had he won. Perfect heel wrestling by MJF. Must-see.
Sammy Guevara interviewed. He announces when he & Tay Melo have their first baby later this year or early next year it will be a girl. Then he shifts to other priorities, which leads to Darby Allin & Chris Jericho getting involved. This all leads to potentially Guevara & Jericho vs. Allin & Sting next week.
IWGP World Heavyweight Champion SANADA (New Japan) appears in a pre-taped promo in Japanese. Open Challenge for the title at Forbidden Door.
Gunn Club interviewed. They want The Hardys next week.
AEW TNT Champion Wardlow beat Jake Hager to retain the title. Christian Cage & Luchasaurus seen backstage afterwards with a bloody & beaten Arn Anderson. Wardlow-Luchasaurus for the title will happen at Collision Saturday.
Hiroshi Tanahashi (New Japan) pre-taped promo in Japanese. Challenge issued to MJF for Forbidden Door.
AEW Women’s Champion Toni Storm beat Skye Blue by submission to retain the title. Ruby Soho seconded Storm. No Saraya. Likely just heel acting by Saraya.
Jungle Boy accepts SANADA’s open challenge.
The Elite (The Young Bucks & Adam Page) beat Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta). Page pinned Yuta after Buckshot Lariat. After the match things got crazy including the return of Eddie Kingston, Konosuke Takeshita getting involved then, Kenny Omega laying out Takeshita and finally Will Ospreay appearing and laying out Omega with Stormbreaker, then adding Hidden Blade as Dynamite went off the air.
Another very good show with excellent Forbidden Door build throughout. MJF-Cole was an A+ match and a definite must-see just for the Masters’ Class on champion heel wrestling by MJF.
Friday on Rampage, presumably at regular time: Will Ospreay vs. TBA. Nothing else announced on TV, perhaps due to time constraints. If there were announcements I missed them.
Added to the Collision premiere Saturday: AEW TNT Champion Wardlow vs. Luchasaurus for the title, Willow Nightingale & Skye Blue vs. Toni Storm & Ruby Soho, Buddy Matthews vs. Andrade El Idolo, Miro vs. TBA.
Confirmed for Forbidden Door: AEW World Champion MJF vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the title, and IWGP World Heavyweight Champion SANADA vs. Jungle Boy for the title, joining the already-announced Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada and IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay for the title.
New Japan continued the New Japan Road Tour today with the 3rd of this week’s 4 non-televised house shows.
Today’s event was held at Kuki City Gym in Saitama. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 629.
Match 1: Ryohei Oiwa vs. Kosei Fujita went to a 10 minute time limit draw.
Match 2: Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe beat Boltin Oleg & Oskar Leube. Makabe pinned Leube after a King Kong kneedrop.
Match 3: Master Wato, Yoh, Toru Yano & Hirooki Goto beat Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Wato beat Togo with Vendeval.
Match 4: Francisco Akira, TJP & Great-O-Khan beat Gedo, Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney. Khan beat Gedo with Subaru Sheep Killer.
Match 5: Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin beat Yuto Nakashima & YOSHI-HASHI. Coughlin pinned Nakashima after a hijack piledriver.
Match 6: Tiger Mask, El Desperado, Ren Narita & Shota Umino beat Ryusuke Yaguchi, Tomohiro Ishii, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada. Umino pinned Taguchi after Death Slider.
Main Event: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Taichi & SANADA. Tsuji pinned TAKA after a spear.
The next event is Friday at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.
Following up on a prior news item, Tokyo Joshi Pro has found a replacement opponent for Nyla Rose on 7/8, where she was to have faced Yuka Sakazaki before Sakazaki was ruled out due to a neck injury. Miu Watanabe is the replacement.
Remember that WRESTLE UNIVERSE is now running a 1 week free trial for first time subscribers, so if you’ve never tried the service before sign up a couple days before the event and watch this event FOR FREE! And get it just for the chance Watanabe gets Rose up for a Giant Swing!
DDT continued the What Are You Doing 2023 Tour today with a house show in Tokyo.
Today’s event was held at Asakusa Flower Theater in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 233, a legit sellout.
Before the event, a comedy duo performed live in the ring for the crowd.
Match 1: Daisuke Sasaki beat Kazuma Sumi by submission.
Match 2: Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno beat Toru Owashi & Antonio Honda. Iino pinned Honda.
Match 3: Yoshihiko & Kazuki Hirata beat Yuki Ueno & MAO. Yoshihiko pinned MAO after Reincarnation. Afterwards, Yoshihiko was added to the DDT Extreme Championship match between MAO & Hirata on 6/25, making it a 3-way elimination match, and it will be the main event.
Match 4: Sanshiro Takagi & Akito beat Tetsuya Endo & Yuya Koroku. Takagi pinned Koroku after Stone Cold Stunner. Afterwards, Endo may have kicked Koroku out of BURNING.
A performance by comedy duo Impossible provided intermission entertainment for the crowd.
Match 5: Kazusada Higuchi, Ryota Nakatsu & Yuji Ishida beat Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada & Rukiya. Ishida pinned Rukiya after Flame Palm.
Match 6: MJ Paul beat Toi Kojima by DQ. Chair use.
Main Event: Yuji Hino, HARASHIMA & Makoto Oishi beat Yukio Sakaguchi, Masa Takanashi & Hideki Okatani. Hino beat Takanashi with King Kong sleeper.
The next event is Friday at Hakodate City General Wholesale Center in Hokkaido. There will be no live broadcast. The promotion also announced that Kenta Tanaka, a Japanese voice actor, will be a special guest on commentary on 6/25.
New Japan continued the New Japan Road Tour today with the second of this week’s no -televised house shows.
Today’s event was held at Shirakawa City Central Gym in Fukushima. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 523.
Match 1: Ryohei Oiwa vs. Oskar Leube went to a 10 minute time limit draw.
Match 2: Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe beat Boltin Oleg & Yuto Nakashima. Makabe pinned Nakashima after a King Kong kneedrop.
Match 3: Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Yoh, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI. EVIL pinned Tenzan after EVIL.
Match 4: Francesco Akira, TJP & Aaron Henare beat Gedo, Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney. Henare beat Gedo with Ultima.
Match 5: Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin beat Ryusuke Taguchi & Hirooki Goto. Kidd pinned Taguchi after a leg trap piledriver.
Match 6: Master Wato, Tomohiro Ishii, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada beat Tiger Mask, El Desperado, Ren Narita & Shota Umino. Wato beat TM 4 with Vendeval.
Main Event: Main Event: TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Taichi & SANADA beat BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito. SANADA beat BUSHI with Skull End.
The next event is tomorrow at Kuki City Central Gym in Saitama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.
Dragon Gate continued the Rainbow Gate 2023 Tour today with a non-televised event in Nagasaki.
Today’s event was held at Sasebo City Sports Cultural Center in Nagasaki. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.
The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 406)
Match 1: Kota Minoura, BxB Hulk & Minorita beat Don Fujii, BIGBOSS Shimizu & U-T. Minoura pinned U-T after R-301.
Match 2: Masaaki Mochizuki & Dragon Kid beat Shun Skywalker & H-Y-O. Kid pinned H-Y-O after Christo.
Match 3: Diamante, KAI & ISHIN beat Ultimo Dragon, Kagetora & Ryu Fuda. ISHIN pinned Fuda after a modified scrap buster.
Match 4: Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda beat YAMATO & Genki Horiguchi. Kanda pinned Horiguchi after Ryu’s.
Main Event: Madoka Kikuta, Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia beat Kzy, Strong Machine J & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. Kikuta pinned KAMEI after a rolling lariat.
The next event is Saturday at Naha City Bunka Tembusukan in Okinawa, the first half of a weekend doubleheader there. There will be no live or on demand broadcast