Tag: pro wrestling

Dragon Gate 6/4/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued the Rainbow Gate 2023 Tour today with a return home to Kobe for a house show.

Today’s event was held at Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

The announced paid attendance was 394.

Match 1: YAAMTO, Don Fujii & Naruki Doi beat Dragon Kid, Kagetora & Eita. Doi pinned Kagetora.

Match 2: In an Open The Owarai Gate Championship Practice Match, Problem Dragon beat Ichikawa in 25 seconds.

Match 3: ISHIN won a 10 man battle royal, last eliminating La Estrella.

Match 4: Kota Minoura, BxB Hulk, Ben-K & Minorita beat Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Ryoya Tanaka. Minorita pinned Tanaka after Minoritanic.

Match 5: Shun Skywalker & KAI beat Strong Machine J & U-T. KAI pinned U-T after Meteor Impact.

Main Event: Madoka Kikuta, Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu & Jason Lee. Kikuta pinned Shimizu after a rolling lariat.

The next event is Tuesday at Loisir Hotel Toyohashi in Aichi. There will be no broadcast.

In other news, additional matches for Kobe Pro Wrestling Festical on 7/2 have been announced:
Open The Brave Gate Champion Jason Lee vs. ISHIN for the title. But this is conditional on ISHIN making the 82 kg weight limit on 7/1. If he doesn’t, it will be a NON-TITLE match
Open The Triangle Gate Champions Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI vs. Kota Minoura, Minorita & Naruki Doi for the ttiles
Ultimo Dragon vs. Strong Machine J, Shun Skywalker & Diamante in a 4-way Cage Survival Mascara Contra Mascara Match. The ultimate loser will lose their mask
Kenoh (Pro Wrestling NOAH) participation among others

DDT 6/4/23 Results

DDT ran a special charity event in association with the Japan Para-Wrestling Federation today, raising funds for the association which, oddly, currently has only one member-former Olympic medalist Yoshiaki Yatsu who sometimes still competes despite having one prosthetic leg.

Today’s event was held at Odawara Arena Sub Arena in Kanagawa and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 280.

Match 1: Takeshi Masada beat Rukiya.

Match 2: Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani beat Kazuki Hirata & Toi Kojima. Akai pinned Hirata after Quetzalcoatl.

Match 3: Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno beat Takao Soma & Kazuma Sumi in 6 seconds. Iino pinned Sumi after a lariat. Which led to…
Match 3 (Again): Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno beat Takao Soma & Kazuma Sumi. Dieno pinned Sumi after Danshoku Driver.

Match 4: Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul beat Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku. Paul pinned Koroku after Death Valley Bomb.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno beat Akito.

Match 6: Yoshiaki Yatsu, Tetsuya Endo & Jun Akiyama beat Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Makoto Oishi. Yatsu beat Oishi.

Main Event: Yuji Hino, HARASHIMA & Yukio Sakaguchi beat Kazusada Higuchi, MAO & Yuki Ishida. HARASHIMA pinned Ishida after Blue Sword.

The next event is Saturday at Suminoe Maikon Hall in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast.

New Japan 6/4/23 Results

DOMINION, New Japan’s traditional June Osaka blowout event, is now in the books.

Today’s event was held at Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. This event aired as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE 2023 on TV Asahi.

The announced paid attendance was 7040. Depending on the layout, that’s anywhere between 55-80% capacity (it has fixed seating of just under 9000 with movable seating adding up to 4500 more).

Pre-Show: In a Young Lions Challenge where Oskar Leube faces the other 3 Young Lions in 5 minute matches, with increasing prizes of meat from sponsors for each win, Leube went 0-1-2. No meat for you!

Match 1: IWGP US Heavyweight Championship #1 Contender Tournament: Will Ospreay beat Lance Archer to win the tournament. As a result, Ospreay will face Kenny Omega for the title at a later date.

Match 2: Titan, BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi. Titan pinned TAKA after Llave Immortal.

Match 3: Francesco Akira & TJP beat IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA to win the titles. Akira & TJP become the 72nd IWGP Je. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Akira pinned Knight after 2/2.

Match 4: NJPW WORLD TV Champion Zack Sabre Jr. beat Jeff Cobb to retain the title. V10(!) for Sabre.

Match 5: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan and Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL in a 3-way, when Goto pinned Takahashi, to win the vacant IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team and STRONG Tag Team Championships. YOSHI-HASHI & Goto become the 99th IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and 4th STEONG Tag Team Champions. Afterwards, Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin attacked the new champs and joined Bullet Club.

The G1 CLIMAX 33 participants were announced. They include Eddie Kingston from AEW and…Kaito Kiyomiya!!! LET THEM FIGHT!!! (Kazuchika Okada is on notice)

Match 6: NEVER Openweight Champion David Finlay beat El Phantasmo to retain the title. V1 for Finlay.

Match 7: IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi beat Master Wato to retain the title. V5 for Takahashi. The Way to the GrandMaster is not this way for Best Of The Super Junior winner Wato.

Match 8: NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Tomohiro Ishii, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada beat Shota Umino, Claudio Castagnoli & Jon Moxley to retain the titles. Okada pinned Umino after Rainmaker. V1 for the champs. Afterwards, Bryan Danielson issued a challenge to Okada.

Main Event: IWGP World Heavyweight Champion SANADA beat Yota Tsuji to retain the title. V2 for SANADA.

The G1 participants list will be posted later today.

The next event is ALL TOGETHER AGAIN, a joint charity event with All-Japan and Pro Wrestling NOAH, Friday at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. The event will be a live PPV on New Japan World for about $30 beginning at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. The non-PPV version will probably be available in mid-September.

DEVELOPING: Last-Minute NJPW Change For Today

New Japan has announced a last-minute change to the DOMINION card today: The NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championship and IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship matches have had their places on the card swapped. The latter will now be match 7 and the former is now match 8. This is because of Claudio Castagnoli having travel issues. The match is still on though.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling 6/4/23 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continues their spring house show tour today with the last event before their monthly major event next Sunday. With the Big 3 (Miyu Yamashita, Yuka Sakazaki, Maki Itoh) all still overseas until next week and several others still out with injuries, the rest of the roster gets more of the spotlight once again although the missing wrestlers will subdue the potential next week build. Tag matches will be an emphasis today with a pair of 6-women tag matches and one tag match alongside 3 single matches.

Today’s event will be held at Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. This should be another standard weekend matinee house show with a total running time of just under 2 hours.

Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Hikari Noa, Nao Kakuta & Wakana Uehara vs. Mahiro Kiryu, Haru Kazashiro & Runa Okubo
Yuki Kamifuku vs. Toga
Moka Miyamoto vs. Shino Suzuki
Hyper Misao vs. HIMAWARI
Mizuki & Suzume vs. Shoko Nakajima & Kaya Toribami
Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Arisu Endo vs. Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 11:30 PM ET/8:30 PM PT. The stream is scheduled to launch at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT.

8:26 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now…

We are LIVE from Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Looks on the small side for the venue, the ringside seats around the venue aren’t close to full and the “super seats” didn’t sell out in advance. Some fans may still be filing in but I’m going to estimate 175-200, which for these weekend events at the venue is on the low side.

The matches should begin in 15-20 minutes. During opening announcements, the first Up Up Girls solo event in over 4 years was announced. It will be next Saturday (6/10) at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and will feature 3 matches. No live broadcast.

The matches begin at 8:43 PM PT. Looks like hard camera only today.

Match 1: Moka Miyamoto vs. Shino Suzuki. 15 minute time limit
Result: Moka Miyamoto beat Shino Suzuki by submission

Match 2: Yuki Kamifuku vs. Toga. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Kamifuku beat Toga

Match 3: Hikari Noa, Nao Kakuta & Wakana Uehara vs. Mahiro Kiryu, Haru Kazashiro & Runa Okubo. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hikari Noa, Nao Kakuta & Wakana Uehara beat Mahiro Kiryu, Haru Kazashiro & Runa Okubo. Kakuta beat Kazashiro with an arm & neck choke.

Match 4: Hyper Misao vs. HIMAWARI. 15 minute time limit
Result: Hyper Misao beat HIMAWARI

Match 5: Mizuki & Suzume vs. Shoko Nakajima & Kaya Toribami. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mizuki & Suzume beat Shoko Nakajima & Kaya Toribami. Mizuki pinned Toribami after a diving foot stomp.

Main Event: Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Arisu Endo vs. Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku. 20 minute time limit
Result: Time Limit Draw

After the main event, Endo issued a challenge to Tatsumi for the International Princess Championship. But so did Aino. So it will be Aino-Endo for the next title shot on 6/11 with the winner getting to face Tatsumi, probably on 7/8 at SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’23.

The next event, not counting the Up Up Girls one announced today, is “STICK OUT ’23” on 6/11 at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English will begin on 6/10 at 10 PM ET/7 PM PT.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 194.

Dragon Gate 6/3/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued the Rainbow Gate 2023 tour today with a house show in Shizuoka.

Today’s event was held at Fujisan Messe in Shizuoka. There was no broadcast.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Match 1: Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda beat BIGBOSS Shimizu, Jason Lee & U-T. Susumu Mochizuki pinned U-T after Yokosuka Cutter.

Match 2: BxB Hulk & Ben-K beat Kagetora & Ho Ho Lun. Ben-K pinned Lun after a spear.

Match 3: Yuki Yoshioka beat La Estrella.

Match 4: Diamante & KAI beat Kota Minoura & Minorita. Diamante pinned Minorita after a rotating tombstone piledriver.

Match 5: Kzy & Strong Machine J beat Madoka Kikuta & Dragon Dia. Kzy pinned Dia after a running elbow smash.

Main Event: Shuji Kondo, YAMATO & Dragon Kid beat Shun Skywalker, H-Y-O & ISHIN. Kondo pinned H-Y-O after a King Kong lariat.

The next event is tomorrow at Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

DDT 6/3/23 Results

DDT ran the latest Yokohama Unlimited event today, the third in a new series of seemingly monthly standalone house shows in Yokohama.

Today’s event was held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 189, a full house/near sellout.

There were a few last-minute changes to the card because Masa Takanashi was pulled due to a fever. Also, Chris Brookes appeared before the event began to provide an update on his shoulder injury (dislocated shoulder). He expects to be out another month, saying he will return on 7/7 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo.

Match 1: Yuya Koroku beat Kazuma Sumi. This was to have been Takeshi Masada vs. Sumi but Masada was moved to the main event as a replacement for Takanashi.

Match 2: Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno beat Antonio Honda & Rukiya. Iino beat Honda. This was to have been a handicap match but Koroku was moved to the first match to replace Masada.

Match 3: Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani beat Yusuke Okada & Yuki Ishida. Okatani pinned Ishida with a double arm suplex.

Match 4: Sanshiro Takagi & Akito beat Yuki Ueno & Yuni. Takagi beat Yuni with a Texas cloverleaf.

Match 5: MAO & Mei Suruga (Chocolate Pro Wrestling) beat Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata. Suruga pinned Hirata after Comet.

Match 6: Toi Kojima beat Daisuke Sasaki by DQ. Chair use. Afterwards, it was announced Sasaki & MJ Paul would be the team facing Ueno & Kojima for the vacant KO-D Tag Team Championship on 6/25 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

Match 7: Tetsuya Endo & Jun Akiyama beat HARASHIMA & Takao Soma. Endo pinned Soma after Burning Star Press.

Main Event: Yuji Hino & Makoto Oishi beat Kazusada Higuchi & Takeshi Masada. Hino beat Masada with a King Kong sleeper. Brookes apparently watched this match at ringside so message sent by Hino.

The next event is a Japan Para-Wrestling Federation Co-Promoted Charity Event tomorrow at Odawara Sub Arena in Kanagawa, where all disabled (physically or mentally) fans and children under 18 will receive free admission. There will be no live broadcast.

Ganbare Pro 6/3/23 Results (Updated)

Ganbare Pro is running their latest event today, which is Moeka Haruhi’s final appearance before she steps away to donate one of her kidneys to her sister in a potential life-saving operation. The full results are now below

Today’s event is being held at Takashimadaira Community Center in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (likely some time next week). There is no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 131.

Match 1: Ken Ohka beat Yuki Kanzaki.

Match 2: Hikaru Sato beat Shinichiro Tominaga.

Match 3: Moeka Haruhi Farewell For Now Match: Moeka Haruhi, HARUKAZE & Yoshiko Hasegawa beat Rina Amikura, YuuRi & Reala. Haruhi pinned YuuRI after a diving foot stomp. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: Moeka Haruhi won a 15 person battle royal, last eliminating Reala.

Haruhi said her farewell for now after all this. But when she and her sister are healthy again, she (and possibly they) will be back. All the best wishes to Haruhi and her sister.

After this, Sayaka Unagi appeared. Unagi vs. Reala was added to 7/9 at Ota City General Gym.

Match 4: Takao Soma & Takuya Wada beat Shuichiro Katsumura & Shota. Wada pinned Katsumura.

Main Event: Mizuki Watase, Tyson Maeguchi & Takeshi Okada beat Keisuke Ishii, Yumehito Imanari & Illusion. Maeguchi pinned Imanari after a flying knee kick. Afterwards, Wada issued a Spirit Of Ganbare World Tag Team Championship challenge with Katsumura as his partner.

The next event is a Ganbare Women event on 6/17 at GEN Sports Palace in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA.

Injury Report: Last-Minute DDT Changes For Tomorrow

DDT has just announced a last-minute change to tomorrow’s Yokohama Unlimited Vol. 3 event (in a few hours US time): Masa Takanashi is now off. Fever. He was to have teamed with Kazusada Higuchi to face Makoto Oishi & Yuji Hino in the main event. Takeshi Masada is the replacement. Masada was to have faced Kazuma Sumi in the first match. Yuya Koroku is the replacement there. Koroku was to have teamed with Antonio Honda & Rukiya vs. Danshoku Dieno & Yuki Iino in a handicap match. That’s now a tag match.

It’s not known if Takanashi will miss any time past today-he is not scheduled for any other DDT events for at least another week so he probably will not unless it’s determined to be coronavirus (his next DDT appearance is TBA but right now it’s looking to be at least 10-11 days out).

Dragon Gate 6/2/23 Results (Updated)

Dragon Gate continued the Rainbow Gate 2023 Tour today with the second half of the opening Tokyo doubleheader.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on DTAGONGATE NETWORK.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced as these are quick results from the Dragon Gate Official Twitter. (Update: The announced paid attendance was 1038)

Match 1: Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii & Naruki Doi beat Minorita, Daiki Yanagiuchi & Ryoya Tanaka. Mochizuki pinned Yanagiuchi after a face kick.

Match 2: U-T & Ho Ho Lun beat Problem Dragon & Punch Tomonaga. U-T pinned Tominaga after Fuego.

Match 3: Kagetora beat La Estrella.

Match 4: Ben-K, BxB Hulk & Kota Minoura beat YAMATO, Eita & Takashi Yoshida. Hulk pinned Yoshida after First Flash.

Match 5: Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia beat Madoka Kikuta & Dragon Kid. Yoshioka pinned Kid after a frog splash.

Match 6: Shun Skywalker, Diamante, KAI, H-Y-O & ISHIN beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu, JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI, Jason Lee & Strong Machine J. Diamante pinned KAMEI after Verta Finale.

Main Event: Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda beat Open The Twin Gate Champions Kenoh (Pro Wrestling NOAH) & Shuji Kondo to win the titles. Mochizuki & Kanda become the 63rd Open The Twin Gate Champions. Kanda pinned Kondo after reversing a gorilla clutch. Next up: BxB Hulk & Ben-K. That match will happen on 7/2 at Kobe World Hall in Kobe.

The next event is tomorrow at Fujisan Messe in Shizuoka. There will be no broadcast.

UPDATE: It looks like the Open The Owarai Gate Championship, a comedy title, has been reactivated. It was announced that Ichikawa has been named interim champion with a title match set for 7/8 at Shinjuku Face vs. TBA.