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Impact Wrestling 7/21/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s Impact Wrestling in Windsor, Canada:

This episode was taped Sunday and begins the fallout from Saturday’s Slammiversary PPV.

The YouTube pre-show match was Crazzy Steve vs. Alan Angels.

Slammiversary highlights open the show. A shocking moment at the end after the main event when Josh Alexander returned. He’ll be part of tonight’s show.

Scott D’Amore opens the show in the ring. It looks like his mother is at ringside in the crowd. He puts Sunday teammates Eric Young & Darren McCarty over and thanks the crowd before announcing his leave of absence as President of Impact is over, but he is acting Director Of Authority tonight because Santino Marella has a match. He runs down what else is on tap for tonight. As he prepares to introduce the first match and Jake Something, The Good Hands interrupt. They confront D’Amore over his being a roadblock for them in Impact. Jason Hotch telegraphs the impending beatdown so D’Amore takes his jacket off and puts them in a match with Rich Swann & Sami Callihan right now. (Something faces Kevin Knight later tonight)

Match 1: Sami Callihan & Rich Swann beat The Good Hands. Swann pinned Jason Hotch.

Bullet Club promo post-Slammiversary. They get their Impact World Tag Team Title rematch tonight. Raskalz interrupt and try to start something so Bullet Club starts a fight but security quickly breaks it up as D’Amore storms in. He ejects Raskalz just as Johnny Swinger & Zicky Dice show up. D’Amore changes the gimmick so that if Swinger wins just one match instead of 50 he gets a title shot. He just has to beat Dice and if he doesn’t, he has to leave Impact. Then D’Amore changes it to Loser Leaves Impact (fired).

Eric Young interviewed backstage. Nick Aldis interrupts. He tries to recruit young in his war against certain unnamed people in the promotion. Young instead talks Aldis into a match and Aldis accepts.

Match 2: Jake Something beat Kevin Knight.

Match 3: Courtney Rush beat Savannah Evans. Lots of interference from Gisele Shaw, Jai Vidal & Death Dollz.

Trinity promo post-Slammiversary.

The Coven promo.

Impact announces Slammiversary drew their 4th highest attendance for an event in the last 4 years.

Jonathan Gresham interview with Thom Hannifan from earlier today. Apparently he’s disgruntled.

Match 4: Dirty Dango beat Santino Marella. Johnny Bravo interfered as a helmeted mystery man to help.

Gisele Shaw & Savannah Evans run into Masha Slamovich & Killer Kelly backstage. Right as Jai Vidal gets unceremoniously dumped at their feet.

Alisha & Eddie Edwards promo.Traci Brooks & Frankie Kazarian quickly interrupt and all fight as security tries to break it up.

Match 5: Impact World Tag Team Champions Subculture beat Ace Austin & Chris Bey to retain the titles. Mark Andres pinned Chris Bey with a rollup. Despite being ejected earlier, Raskalz interfered late behind the ref’s back.

Replay of X Division Championship match at Slammiversary. No update on Chris Sabin.

Josh Alexander comes out for the main event segment. He cuts a long, deep promo and says he’s fully cleared to compete and is going after the Impact World Championship he had to vacate due to injury. After Alexander calls him out, Alex Shelley comes out. Challenge accepted, but then Lio Rush comes out. He hints at exercising Option C to become the Impact World Champion. This brings out KUSHIDA, who earned an Impact X Division title shot when he wants by winning Ultimate X at Slammiversary. He says No Option C until he cashes in his title shot. And now for whatever reason Bully Ray comes out. Then Moose & Brian Myers sneak into the ring and the beatdown is on. Moose holds the X and Bully tells Rush to take a belt shot on KUSHIDA but Rush bails instead and KUSHIDA gets laid out again as we cut away to end the show.

Next week: Swinger-Dice Loser Leaves Impact, Trinity & Dani Luna vs. The Coven and Young-Aldis.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 7/21/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the never-ending SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour today with an event in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 389. Sounds close to a full house/near sellout as that’s just under 80% of max capacity.

Match 1: Taishi Ozawa beat Yu Owada.

Match 2: AMAKUSA, Hajime Ohara & Junta Miyawaki beat Yoshinari Ogawa, Super Crazy & Kai Fujimura. Miyawaki pinned Fujimura after a modified guillotine drop.

Match 3: Ninja Mack beat Stallion Rogers.

Match 4: Lance Anoa’i & Adam Brooks beat Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura. Anoa’i pinned Inamura after Samoan Splash.

Match 5: Go Shiozaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Hi69 beat Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh & Atsushi Kotoge. Hi69 pinned Kotoge after Stuka Splash.

Match 6: Eita beat LEONA (Draditon).

Match 7: Jake Lee, Jack Morris, Anthony Greene, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Manabu Soya, Daiki Inaba, Shuji Kondo, Seiki Yoshioka & Alejandro. YO-HEY pinned Alejandro after a dropkick.

Main Event: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion HAYATA beat Atsuki Aoyagi (All-Japan) to retain the title. V3 for HAYATA.

The next event is Sunday at G Messe Gunma C Hall in Gunma. There will be no live broadcast.

AEW Dynamite 7/19/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Boston, MA:

Updates will begin at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT.

Because of the main event being BLOOD & GUTS and the complex setup requiring 2 rings to be completed ahead of time, the 2 ring setup will be in place for all matches tonight as well as the post-show Rampage taping.

Live results below.

Match 1: FTW Champion Hook vs. Jungle Boy for the title
Before intros Jungle Boy was seemingly buried and he came out wearing a black biker jacket & matching black leather pants, introduced as just Jack Perry. So apparently Jungle Boy is dead and Perry is now a full heel.
Result: Jack Perry beat FTW Champion Hook to become THE NEW FTW CHAMPION! First loss for Hook. Heel tactics by using a title belt shot after a ref bump and slow count to win.

Match 2: Britt Baker vs. TBA. TBA is Kayla Sparks. This was just added during match 1
Result: Britt Baker beat Kayla Sparks by submission. Squash.

Match 3: Blind Eliminator Tag Team Tournament Finals: MJF & Adam Cole vs. Daniel Garcia & Sammy Guevara
Result: MJF & Adam Cole beat Daniel Garcia & Sammy Guevara to win the tournament. MJF pinned Garcia. As a result, MJF & Cole will face AEW Tag Team Champions FTR for the titles on the 7/29 Collision. FTR came out for the staredown to start the build.

BLOOD & GUTS will begin after the current commercial. They will have pretty much the entire second hour so plan on the match going a minimum of 45 minutes.

Friday on Rampage: Royal Rampage for an AEW TNT Title shot at All Out (20 entrants in 2 rings), Kris Statlander vs. Marina Shafir for the TBS Title and QT Marshall, Aaron Solo & Johnny TV vs. The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn.

Saturday on Collision: Acclaimed/Gunn vs. House OF Black for the AEW Trios Title. More TBA on Rampage.

Main Event; BLOOD & GUTS. 2 start for 5 minutes, then a new entrant comes in every 3 minutes. Blackpool Combat Club won a coin flip so they have the advantage until everyone enters. The match officially begins when all 10 men have entered, the only way to win is by submission or surrender.
Order of entry: 1-Claudio Castagnoli. 2-Kenny Omega. 3-Pac. 4-Adam Page. 5-Jon Moxley. 6-Nick Jackson. 7-Wheeler Yuta. 8-Matt Jackson. 9-Konosuke Takeshita. 10-Kota Ibushi
Result: The Elite beat Blackpool Combat Club. Page & one of the Jacksons beat Yuta by surrender (choke out with a chain)

End Show.

Your opinion of this show will largely depend on your opinion of Blood & Guts (I thought it delivered as advertised). For me it made this episode perhaps the best one of the year although they’ll come up with something huge for the New York City return in September. Everything else was good and the opening match will send the Hook-Perry feud nuclear. The tag team match was great comedy. I am very curious about where Hook goes from here now that he’s no longer unbeaten.

New Japan 7/19/23 Results

New Japan ran Day 4 of the G1 CLIMAX 33 today, the second day of Blocks C & D.

Today’s event was held at Xebio Arena Sendai in Sendai and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1657.

All matches were G1 CLIMAX matches, 20 minute time limit.

Match 1: Block D: Zack Sabre Jr. beat Toru Yano.

Match 2: Block C: David Finlay beat Mikey Nicholls.

Match 3: Block D: Jeff Cobb beat Alex Coughlin.

Match 4: Block C: EVIL beat Eddie Kingston.

Match 5: Block D: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Shane Haste.

Match 6: Block C: HENARE beat Shingo Takagi.

Match 7: Block D: Tetsuya Naito beat Hirooki Goto.

Main Event: Block C: Tama Tonga beat Tomohiro Ishii.

Day 5 is Friday at Aore Nagaoka in Niigata with Blocks A & B, including a SANADA-Yota Tsuji rematch (SANADA beat Tsuji to retain the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at DOMINION in June) in the main event. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

New Japan 7/18/23 Results

New Japan ran Day 3 of the G1 CLIMAX 33 today, the second day of Block A & B matches.

Today’s event was held at Yamagata City Sports Center in Yamagata and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1239.

All matches were G1 CLIMAX matches, 20 minute time limit.

Match 1: Block A: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Chase Owens.

Match 2: Block B: KENTA beat Great-O-Khan.

Match 3: Block A: Gabriel Kidd beat Hikuleo.

Match 4: Block B: Taichi beat Tanga Loa.

Match 5: Block A: Ren Narita vs. Yota Tsuji went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

Match 6: Block B: Will Ospreay beat YOSHI-HASHI.

Match 7: Block A: SANADA beat Shota Umino.

Main Event: Block B: Kazuchika Okada beat El Phantasmo.

Day 4 is tomorrow at Xebio Arena Sendai in Sendai with Blocks C & D. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

Dragon Gate 7/17/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued the KING OF GATE 2023 today, wrapping up Round 2 and setting the Quarterfinals.

Today’s event was held at Kusakabe Fureai Cube in Saitama. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 420.

Match 1: BxB Hulk & Minorita beat Jason Lee & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. Minorita pinned KAMEI after Victor Minorita.

Match 2: Dragon Kid, Susumu Mochizuki, Naruki Doi & Kagetora beat Ultimo Dragon, YAMATO, Shachihoko BOY & Daiki Yanagiuchi. Mochizuki pinned Yanagiuchi after Jumbo Wins!!

Match 3: KING OF GATE Round 2: Kota Minoura beat Punch Tominaga.

Match 4: Shun Skywalker, KAI & H-Y-O beat Masaaki Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Mochizuki Jr. H-Y-O pinned Jr. after Neko Tamashi.

Match 5: KING OF GATE Round 2: Shuji Kondo beat ISHIN.

Main Event: Madoka Kikuta, Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu & U-T. Yoshioka pinned U-T after Inferno.

The next event is Saturday at Kobe Art Center in Kobe. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

DDT 7/17/23 Results

DDT had a special outdoor mini-event planned in Tokyo today, because the weather was excellent it was able to go on as scheduled.

Today’s event was held at Sumida Park Breeze Plaza in Tokyo and may be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

Because this was a free event with no paid admissions, the attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Tetsuya Endo, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku beat Hideki Okatani, Toi Kojima & Kazuma Sumi. Koroku pinned Sumi after a moonsault press.

The mayor of Sumida Ward appeared with Sanshiro Takagi & Shinichiro Kawamatsu and greeted the crowd.

A talk show with Yukio Naya was held. Naya will return from injury this weekend.

Match 2: HARASHIMA & Kazuki Hirata vs. Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno went to a no contest. Pheromones Being Pheromones.

Match 3: Chris Brookes, Shinichiro Kawamatsu & Yuni beat Kazusada Higuchi, Yuki Ishida & Makoto Oishi. Brookes pinned Oishi after a Kawamatsu sky tree bomb.

Next up is participation in a special match Saturday at Handmade In JapanFes2023 in Tokyo, which will be HARASHIMA vs. MAO, Hideki Okatani & Kazuma Sumi in a 4-way. There will be no live broadcast.

The next event is WRESTLE PETER PAN 2023, the promotion’s biggest annual event, Sunday at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 7/17/23 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continued the Tokyo Princess Cup today with the last event of an opening weekend series of Round 1 matches. Today’s event was a midday matinee as it was a holiday in Japan.

Today’s event was held at Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 202.

Match 1: Suzume beat Haru Kazashiro.

Match 2: Raku & Pom Harajuku beat Hyper Misao & Shino Suzuki. Raku pinned Suzuki after Doctor Yellow.

Match 3: Mizuki, Mahiro Kiryu & Neko Haruna beat Arisu Endo, HIMAWARI & Runa Okubo. Mizuki beat Okubo with a crossface.

Match 4: Miyu Yamashita, Shoko Nakajima, Wakana Uehara & Toga beat Rika Tatsumi, Hikari Noa, Moka Miyamoto & Kaya Toribami. Yamashita pinned Toribami after Attitude Adjustment.

Match 5: Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1: Yuki Kamifuku beat Hikari Noa.

Main Event: Tokyo Princess Cup Round 1: Miu Watanabe beat Yuki Aino. As a result, the 3rd Queterfinals will be Kamifuku vs. Watanabe. That match will be on 7/29.

The next event is Saturday with the last 2 Round 1 matches-Arisu Endo vs. Mahiro Kiryu and Hikari Noa vs. Yuki Arai. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 8:30 PM PT/11:30 PM ET.

GLEAT 7/16/23 Results

GLEAT ran their latest G PROWRESTLING event yesterday, the first event since their anniversary event at the start of the month.

Yesterday’s event was held at Uneda Sky Building StellarHall in Osaka and will be available on demand on YouTube tomorrow morning. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 244.

Match 1: Minoru Tanaka, Keiichi Sato & Yuya Susumu beat Kaz Hayashi, Yu Iizuka & Jun Tonsho. Sato pinned Tonsho with a leg lock clutch hold.

Match 2: Issei Onitsuka & Yusuke Kodama beat Seiichi Ikemoto & Fire Katsumi. Kodama pinned Katsumi after Mad Splash.

Match 3: Kotaro Suzuki & Hartley Jackson beat Magnitude Kishiwada & Junjae. Suzuki pinned Junjae with La Magistral. Afterwatds, Keiicho Sato joined Black Generation International after Kaito Ishida extended an invite. Yuya Susumu also was asked to join but didn’t answer.

Match 4: Quiet Storm beat Ryuichi Kawakami. Afterwards, Storm apparently tried to leave Bulk Orchestra but was talked out of it. Then Kawakami announced he & Galeno Dep Mar will challenge G INFINITY Champions Jun & Rei Saito for the titles on 8/4.

During intermission here CIMA held a special 5 minute training session with Commissioner Masato Yoshino, a former wrestler who spent most of his career in Dragon Gate with CIMA. Yoshino was one of the fastest wrestlers ever during a career cut short by injury, able to run the ring ropes with blinding speed. Seiki Yoshioka may be the closest thing I’ve seen to Yoshino in terms of speed.

Match 5: T-Hawk & Shigehiro Irie beat Hayato Tamura & KAZMA SAKAMOTO. T-Hawk pinned SAKAMOTO after Cerberus.

Main Event: El Lindaman, Soma Watanabe & Check Shimatani beat Takanori Ito, Tetsuya Izuchi & Galeno Del Mar. Lindaman pinned Ito with a German suplex hold. Afterwards, Ishida announced he would return from injury on 8/4 and Lindaman recruited several participants in the match for a 10-man tag against a Kota Ibushi-led team on 8/4.

The next event is GLEAT Ver. MEGA on 8/4 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, their debut at the famed sumo venue. Broadcast plans TBA. The venue will probably be at 70-75% capacity as the mass/box seats that hold up to 4 people for sumo will only be used at half capacity (2 per box).