The final pre-event press conference for tomorrow’s ALL TOGETHER AGAIN event was held today. Click below to watch the presser (in Japanese only). This is from New Japan’s Japanese YouTube channel but is also available on the All-Japan & Pro Wrestling NOAH YouTube channels and on New Japan World:
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News: ALL TOGETHER AGAIN Late Change
There has been a late change to the ALL TOGETHER ACAIN card for tomorrow as All-Japan has announced Shuji Ishikawa is now off the event. Fever. Also off All-Japan’s event on Sunday. For tomorrow he was to have teamed with Hokuto Omori to face Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima. Satoshi Kojima is the replacement. For Sunday he was to have been in an 8-man tag match. Kohei Sato is the replacement.
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AEW Rampage 6/9/23 Results (SPOILERS!)
Here are the quick results for tomorrow’s AEW Rampage in Colorado Springs, CO (SPOILERS!):
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Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Colorado Springs, CO:
AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy beat Swerve Strickland to retain the title.
Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta beat Best Friends & Rocky Romero. Moxley beat Romero with a rear naked choke.
MJF promo interrupted by Adam Cole. This seemed to set up Cole as the next challenger for the AEW Woeld Championship.
In a Texas Tornado Match (no tags, no DQs, all 4 legal at all times), Jungle Boy & Hook beat Preston Vance & Dralistico. Jungle Boy beat Dralistico with Snare Trap.
Konosuke Takeshita beat Damon Abe. Squash.
AEW TBS Champion Kris Statlander beat Anna Jay.A.S. to retain the title.
Jay White beat Ricky Starks. Juice Robinson & FTR were banned from ringside but Gunn Club interfered after a ref bump at the end.
Off-Topic: Remembering The One & Only Iron Sheik
A short time ago the entire wrestling world lost one of the true giants of the sport-The Iron Sheik has died. He was 81. The cause of death is not known yet except that, according to his family and his official Twitter, he died peacefully.
Born Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri in Iran, he was an amateur wrestler in the 1960s and a two-time assistant coach for the US National Olympic team in the 1970s before breaking into pro wrestling. Verne Gagne’s wife came up with the idea of making him a villainous heel and this he became The Iron Sheik. He is a former WWF(E) World Heavyweight Champion and Tag Team Champion and competed for 3 decades before retiring in 2010. After retirement he cultivated a massive Twitter following through his all-caps posting about anything & everything, always interjected with hilarious shots at “the blonde jabroni Hulk Hogan”. There has also been a movie and, more recently, an A&E TV special about his life and career (I have the movie and absolutely recommend it). He was inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame in 2005 and the NWA Hall Of Fame in 2008.
I join the pro wrestling community in sending my deepest condolences to the family and friends of “Sheiky Baby”, no doubt one of the greatest and most iconic & endearing characters ever in the ring. Social media in particular will never be the same without him. In his own Twitter words, THE ONE TRUE IRON SHEIK CLASS. LOVE YOU FOREVER BUBBA. RESPECT THE LEGEND FOREVER
The original post from The Iron Sheik’s official Twitter account with the news is below (and for those curious, nothing from Hulk Hogan yet. At least not on Twitter)
GLEAT 6/7/23 Results
Ahead of their major anniversary event in July, GLEAT held a major event dubbed GLEAT Ver. EX today to begin setting the stage for that event and more to come.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hal in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube. The video is also available in this post:
The announced paid attendance was 732.
Pre-show match: Issei Onitsuka & Yusuke Kodama beat Yu Iizuka & Yuya Susumu. Kodama pinned Iizuka after Mad Splash.
Match 1: Yutani, Emperador Azteca & Kotaro Suzuki beat Jun Tonsho, Keiichi Sato & Oji Shiiba. Suzuki pinned Sato after a tiger driver.
Match 2: Kaz Hayashi & Minoru Tanaka beat T-Hawk & El Lindaman. Tanaka pinned Lindaman after Minoru Special.
Match 3: Atsuki Aoki & Rydeen Hagane beat Yukari Hosokawa & Sayaka Unagi. Aoki pinned Hosokawa after a frog splash. Afterwards, Michiko Miyagi made a surprise appearance, her first since being forced to leave GLEAT after losing to Unagi earlier this year despite efforts to keep her onboard, but Miyagi refused. She wants Unagi again. As a result, an 8-woman tag match of Unagi, Aoki, Hagane & Hosokawa vs. Miyagi and presumably 3 TBAs had been made for 7/1 at Tokyo Dome City Hall.
Match 4: Soma Watanabe beat Tetsuya Izuchi. As a result, Watanabe gets the next G-REX Championship match against current champion T-Hawk.
Match 5: Kaito Ishida, Flamita, Hartley Jackson & Bandido beat Ryuichi Kawakami, KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Quiet Storm & Galeno Del Mar. Ishida pinned SAKAMOTO with a small package hold. Afterwards, Ishida demanded a match between Bulk Orchestra and 60seconds where the losing faction must disband. Agreed to by Commissioner Masato Yoshino. That match will happen on 7/1.
A promised major announcement by CIMA was made…on 8/4, GLEAT makes their Ryogoku Kokugikan debut!
Match 6: Jun & Rei Saito (All-Japan) beat G-INFINITY Champions Hayato Tamura & Check Shimatani to win the titles. The Saitos become the 3rd G-INFINITY Champions. Rei Saito pinned Shimatani after a diving body press. Next up: Hayashi & Tanaka. That match will happen on 7/1.
Main Event: Lidet UWF Championship Tournament Finals: Takanori Ito beat Shinya Aoki by TKO (10 count down) to win the tournament and the title and become the inaugural Lidet UWF Champion. And immediately the first challenger appeared…Fujita “Jr.” Hayato. That match will happen on 7/1.
The next event is 6/17 at Umeda Sky Building Stellar Hall in Osaka for G PROWRESTLING Ver. 54. Since it’s Osaka there likely will be no live broadcast but it should be available on YouTube 2-3 days after the event.
Dragon Gate 6/6/23 Results
Dragon Gate continues the Rainbow Gate 2023 Tour today with a U-T hometown event.
Today’s event was held at Loisir Hotel Toyohashi in Aichi. There was/is no broadcast.
The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (Update: The announced paid attendance was 258)
(Update: After posting these I learned there were last-minute changes to the card because Shun Skywalker was off the event. The always-vague poor physical condition. No word on if he will miss any more time but maybe not given the next event is 4 days away)
Match 1: Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda beat Ben-K & Minorita. Kanda pinned Minorita after Ryu’s.
Match 2: Masaaki Mochizuki beat Daiki Yanagiuchi.
Match 3: Kota Minoura & BxB Hulk beat YAMATO & Ryoya Tanaka. Minoura pinned Tanaka.
Match 4: BIGBOSS Shimizu beat La Estrella.
Match 5: Madoka Kikuta, Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia beat Dragon Kid, Genki Horiguchi & Problem Dragon. Yoshioka pinned Dragon after Inferno.
Main Event: KAI, Diamante, H-Y-O & ISHIN beat Kzy, Jason Lee, Strong Machine J & U-T. H-Y-O pinned U-T after a diving senton.
The next event is Saturday and there are 2 events that day-first is a special mini-event at HI Hirose Super Combo Kashima Kamijima Store in Kumamoto, then there is an event at Inari Kunimidai Gym in Saga. There will be no broadcasts.
UPCOMING LIVE VIDEO: GLEAT 6/7/23 Full Event
Earlier today on Twitter, GLEAT announced tomorrow’s “GLEAT Ver. EX” event will be a LIVE FREE broadcast on YouTube. The live video has been scheduled, you can set a reminder, bookmark the below video and come back tomorrow (6/7) beginning at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET to watch. It will be available on demand after the event concludes. (Video courtesy of the GLEAT Official YouTube channel)
DEVELOPING: Forbidden Door Presser Early Tomorrow (6/6/23) (Updated)
A Twitter post by New Japan and upcoming YouTube broadcast by AEW have announced a Forbidden Door related press conference tomorrow with Will Ospreay and Kazuchika Okada scheduled to attend. This is in Japan so live streaming begins at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. It will be available on New Japan World and AEW’s YouTube channel.
More tomorrow.
UPDATE: IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay for the title and Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada were announced for Forbidden Door at the presser.