News, results & more from Japanese Pro Wrestling & Sumo
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:
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).
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:
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 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
Here are the quick results for tomorrow’s AEW Rampage from Chicago, IL (SPOILERS!):
Continue reading “AEW Rampage 6/23/23 Results (SPOILERS!)”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.
All-Japan rookie/sophomore Yuma Anzai had an early career match when he faced Yuji Negata for the Triple Crown this past week, ultimately a losing effort as the New Japan veteran retained the Triple Crown. And based on the promotion’s announcement on Twitter, he lost more than the match-also some time because he was injured in the match. Torn left triceps. Out indefinitely but at least 2 weeks including 6/26 & 7/2 events. For 6/26, he was to have teamed with Ryo Inoue & Oji Shiiba to face Naruki Doi, Naoki Tanisaki & Hokuto Omori. Takuya Nomura is the replacement.
More as it becomes available.
Separate from today’s press conference, Pro Wrestling NOAH had also announced Takashi Sugiura will be absent from upcoming events due to injury. Eye. In a reply to the announcement on Twitter, Sugiura confirmed the injury and said he will have surgery. Out indefinitely. The original post from Sugiura, quoting NOAH’s original post in Japanese, is below.
More as it becomes available.
Pro Wrestling NOAH held a press conference earlier today (available on YouTube), and after he mentioned making an announcement on Twitter, some fans were worries that perhaps Naomichi Marufuji was going to announce his retirement or something worrisome…thankfully that was not the case. His announcement was a 25th Anniversary event to be held on 9/17 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Not too many hints about it were dropped during a media Q&A session so we’ll have to wait and see.
Also part of the presser was a signing ceremony for the GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match Thursday at Korakuen. It will be YO-HEY & Tadasuke defending against Chris Ridgeway & Daga.
And finally, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kento Miyahara appeared to promote their 7/15 Korakuen match. Based on photos posted by NOAH, it got physical and Miyahara laid out Nakajima. Watch the video below for that. Do keep in mind that their careers together go back to almost their beginning in the now-closed Kensuke Office/Diamond Ring promotion (Nakajima is basically an adopted som of owners and Hall of Famers Kensuke Sasaki & Akira Hokuto). They have teamed and feuded over their entire 15-year-plus careers so this is definitely going to be a hoss fight level match
The press conference can be watched below (in Japanese. Video courtesy of Pro Wrestling NOAH Japanese official YouTube channel):