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AEW Dynamite 6/28/23 LIVE Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada:

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

Live updates below.

Match 1: Jon Moxley vs. Tomohiro Ishii (New Japan). 30 minute time limit
Result: Jon Moxley beat Tomohiro Ishii

Adam Cole interviewed backstage as he arrives. MJF arrives at the same time too. He shows off a new t-shirt for their Blind Eliminator Tag Tournament pairing. Per MJF it’s now available on ShopAEW.com!

BREAKING: The Britt Baker-Ruby Soho Owen Hart Cup match tonight is now off. Baker illness. She caught what Adam Cole had. Postponed to next week. Soho will now face TBA tonight.

Match 2: Orange Cassidy. Keith Lee & El Hijo Del Vikingo vs. Daniel Garcia, Angelo Parker & Matt Menard
Result: Orange Cassidy, Keith Lee & El Hijo Del Vikingo beat Daniel Garcia, Angelo Parker & Matt Menard. Lee pinned Menard after a powerslam.

The TBA for The Young Bucks & Adam Page as their opponent tonight will be Dark Order, as revealed in a taped promo from earlier today.

Match 3: Dark Order (Evil Uno, John Silver, Alex Reynolds) with -1 vs. The Elite (The Young Bucks, Adam Page)
Result: The Elite beat Dark Order. Page pinned Silver after Buckshot Lariat.
After the match, BCC beatdown on The Elite and Eddie Kingston culminates in Jon Moxley challenging The Elite to BLOOD & GUTS, which will happen on 7/19 in Boston, MA.

Jungle Boy promo. He turns full heel and states his intent to beat and take the FTW Title from Hook, also taking shots at Taz on commentary (Hook’s real-life father). Hook comes out and Jungle Boy bails as Hook chases him through the crowd and backstage until Jungle Boy dives into a waiting SUV to bail.

Before that last part of the chase, commentary starts to announce that Dynamite Grand Slam will return to Arthur Ashe Stadium at the US Open in New York later this year. They didn’t get to announce a date yet.

Match 4: Ruby Soho vs. TBA, which is Alexia Nicole (local wrestler)
Result: Ruby Soho beat Alexia Nicole by submission. Squash.

Main Event: Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara vs. Darby Allin & Sting in a Tornado Tag Match (no rules, all 4 are legal at all times, finish must come in ring)
Result: Darby Allin & Sting beat Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara. Sting beat Jericho with Scorpion Deathlock.

The show was fine but the crowd came off HORRIBLE on TV tonight and really weighed the presentation down a lot. Were they really not that hot or was it just how TV presented then?

Friday on Rampage: Matt Hardy & Brother Zay vs. Marshall/TV, Hikaru Shida vs. Taya Valkyrie, Shawn Spears vs. The Blade (THE TOP DRAW!) and ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli vs. Komander for the title.

Saturday on Collision: AEW TBS Champion Kris Statlander vs. Lady Frost for the title, 3 Owen Hart Cup Men’s Tournament matches and MJF vs. TBA. Commentary said it’s live but this week’s episode will be TAPED (taping tomorrow).

Next week: Blind Eliminator Tag Team Tournament begins with Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland vs. Orange Cassidy & Darby Allin and Baker-Soho Take 2.

Injury Report: Another DDT Double Whammy

The injuries have been piling up in DDT lately, and add 2 more to the list today coming out of Sunday’s event-although he didn’t mention it at yesterday’s press conference Sanshiro Takagi is the first one. Torn left calf muscle. Out about a month but scheduled to return at WRESTLE PETER PAN on 7/23. The other injured wrestler is Rukiya. Chest (cracked sternum). Out indefinitely. Changes for this coming weekend’s events have been made.

More as it becomes available.

Dragon Gate 6/26/23 Results

Dragon Gate wrapped up the Rainbow Gate 2023 Tour today with the final event of the month.

Today’s event was held at Sendai Sun Festa in Sendai. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (Update: The announced paid attendance was 372)

Match 1: Madoka Kikuta & Yuki Yoshioka beat KAI & H-Y-O. Kikuta pinned H-Y-O after a rolling lariat.

Match 2: Yasushi Kanda & Genki Horiguchi beat Kagetora & Problem Dragon. Kanda pinned Dragon after Ryu’s.

Match 3: Shun Skywalker, Diamante & ISHIN beat Ultimo Dragon,, Strong Machine J & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. Diamante pinned KAMEI after Vuelta Finale.

Match 4: Masaaki Mochizuki & Susumu Mochizuki beat Dragon Kid & Ryu Fuda. Susumu Mochizuki pinned Fuda after Yokosuka Cutter.

Main Event: YAMATO, Kota Minoura, Ben-K & BxB Hulk beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu, Jason Lee & U-T. YAMATO pinned U-T after Gallaria.

The next event is Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival 2023, the promotion’s biggest annual event, Sunday at Kobe World Hall in Kobe. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin Saturday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET. It will also be available as a PPV in Japan. A special pre-PPV fan event will be held Saturday at Kobe Art Center and will be streamed LIVE FOR FREE on DRAGONGATE NETWORK beginning at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

DDT News: Deathmatch Set For 9/9, More

At a press conference earlier today for their 9/9/23 major event at Ota City General Gum in Tokyo, DDT possibly made an Atsushi Onita exploding deathmatch for the event. Onita & Sanshiro Takagi discussed this at the presser-it took quite a bit to make it happen because the match will be indoors (usually these matches are outdoors or in partially open venues due to smoke and other issues) but Onita had a further demand-that Jun Akiyama be the opponent or Takagi FIRE him. The FIRE part resulted in some DDT comedy because that’s Takagi’s catchphrase/slogan and presumably Onita wanted Akiyama fired if he didn’t accept the match. Takagi said he’ll talk to Akiyama. According to DDT, the last time an indoor deathmatch happened in Tokyo was in 2015. It becomes the second official match for 9/9 along with a KO-D Openweight Championship match. Who defends will depend on the 7/23 result and opponent is TBA.

Also at the presser were MAO & TAKA Michinoku ahead of their match at WRESTLE PETER PAN on 7/23. This is their first meeting since their first in May 2017, which TAKA won. TAKA, now coming up on 50, currently splits his time between his Just Tap Out (JTO) promotion and New Japan.

All-Japan 6/26/23 Results

All-Japan continues the Dynamite Series 2023 Tour today with their last event of the month.

Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. You can also watch the first 4 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (Update: The announced paid attendance was 285)

There were last-minute changes to the first match because Oji Shiiba was injured in practice earlier in the day or in recent days. Meniscus. Out indefinitely. Kenichiro Arai was the replacement. (Update: Right knee according to a press release from GLEAT today noting Shiiba is off their event Saturday)

Match 1: Hikaru Sato & Dan Tamura beat Kenichiro Arai & Black Menso-re. Tamura pinned Menso-re after a powerbomb.

Match 2: Rising Hayato vs. Yutani (GLEAT) went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 3: Manabu Soya (Pro Wrestling NOAH) beat Takao Omori.

Match 4: Takuya Nomura, Fuminori Abe & Ryo Inoue vs. Naruki Doi, Naoki Tanisaki (Independent/Freelancers) & Hokuto Omori went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

Match 5: Kento Miyahara beat Kotaro Suzuki.

Match 6: Daisuke Sekimoto (Big Japan) & Suwama vs. Jun & Rei Saito went to a double countout.

Main Event: Yuji Nagata, Master Wato (New Japan) & Ryuki Honda beat Yuma Aoyagi, Atsuki Aoyagi & Yoshitatsu. Nagata beat Yoshitatsu with Nagata Lock 54.

The next event is Sunday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA but I expect it to be live on AJPW.TV, if so it will begin Saturday at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET and there will be live results.

Injury Report: Top AEW Pro Hurt At PPV (Updated 6/27)

Forbidden Door may have been another major success for AEW last night but there was major injury news breaking at the post-event media scrum: Bryan Danielson announced he was injured in his win over Kazuchika Okada. Fractured arm. Out 6-8 weeks. That makes him extremely questionable for All In UK which is in 9 weeks. The 6-8 weeks is an estimate from trainers.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: According to Danielson’s wife, the former Brie Bella in WWE, x-rays indicate the injury is worse than first thought. Now makes him sound doubtful and perhaps out for All In UK and All Out. May be done for the year too.

Dragon Gate 6/25/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued the Rainbow Gate 2023 Tour today with the second half of a weekend doubleheader in Saitama.

Today’s event was held at Espowa Isanonuma in Saitama. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced. (Update: The announced paid attendance was 306)

Match 1: Madoka Kikuta & Yuki Yoshioka beat Jason Lee & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. Yoshioka pinned KAMEI after Inferno.

Match 2: KAI beat Ryoya Tanaka.

Match 3: Kzy & U-T beat Genki Horiguchi & Problem Dragon. U-T beat Dragon with a ground cobra twist.

Match 4: Kota Minoura & BxB Hulk beat Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda. Hulk pinned Kanda after South Road.

Match 5: YAMATO & BIGBOSS Shimizu beat Ben-K & Minorita. Shimizu pinned Minorita after BIGBOSS Press.

Main Event: Ultimo Dragon, Dragon Kid & Strong Machine J beat Shun Skywalker, Diamante & H-Y-O. Kid pinned H-Y-O after Bible.

The tour-ender is tomorrow at Sendai Sun Festa in Sendai. There will be mo live or on demand broadcast.

For next weekend, the special 7/1 event in Kobe at Kobe Art Center will be broadcast LIVE FOR FREE on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. The start time will likely be 3 AM PT/6 AM ET although there is an event there at midnight PT/3 AM ET. Probably the latter will be free, which will feature all participating 7/2 wtestlers and signing ceremonies for all title matches on 7/2. There also have been some changes for the 7/2 event:
Fallout from the Kenoh 15th Anniversary Event in Pro Wrestling NOAH: The second match, Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii vs. Kenoh & Shuji Kondo match has been changed to Mochizuki & Kenoh vs. Fujii & Kondo.
Also, pre-show match 2, which is KAI & H-Y-O vs. TBA-a rookie selection team-is set. The rookie selection team will be Mochizuki Jr. & Ryoya Tanaka.
The 7/2 event will be available live on PPV in Japan and DRAGONGATE NETWORK outside Japan.

All Elite Wrestling/New Japan Pro Wrestling “Forbidden Door” Results (6/25/23)

The second installment of Forbidden Door, the All Elite Wrestling/New Japan Pro Wrestling crossover event that debuted last year, is on tap today with another lineup of dream matches and crossover title matches. About the only place there isn’t a crossover is the women’s matches (2 scheduled). The main event is expected to be either Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada or IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay for the title while AEW World Champion MJF vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the title may be the opener so MJF can be MJF and get his heel butt outta Toronto. But perhaps not before an impromptu media scrum comedy rant.

Today’s event will be held at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Canada and can be watched LIVE as follows:
US-PPV via cable/satellite and Bleacher Report, participating movie theaters and Dave & Buster’s locations
Canada, Mexico and select other countries-YouTube (PPV) and ppv.com
Japan-New Japan World (PPV)
Elsewhere-FITE and DAZN
There will also be a FREE one hour pre-show on YouTube. The post-event media scrum will also stream on YouTube after the event. Based on planned media scrum start timing this will be, including the pre-show, a 4 1/2-5 hour total running time.

Today’s current lineup:
Pre-Show:
Stu Grayson vs. El Phantasmo
Owen Hart Cup Women’s Quarterfinals: Athena vs. Billie Starkz
Kyle Fletcher, TJP & Jeff Cobb vs. BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi
Swerve Strickland, Brian Cage, Toa Liona & Kaun vs. El Desperado, Rocky Romero, Chuck Taylor & Trent Beretta

PPV:
Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara & Minoru Suzuki vs. Darby Allin, Sting & Tetsuya Naito
Adam Cole vs. Tom Lawlor (CANCELLED)
AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy vs. Daniel Garcia, Katsuyori Shibata & Zack Sabre Jr. in a 4-way for the title
AEW Women’s World Champion Toni Storm vs. Willow Nightingale for the title
Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Shota Umino & Konosuke Takeshita vs. The Young Bucks, Adam Page, Tomohiro Ishii & Eddie Kingston
IWGP World Heavyweight Champion SANADA vs. Jungle Boy for the title
Owen Hart Cup Men’s Quarterfinals: CM Punk vs. Satoshi Kojima
AEW World Champion MJF vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the title
Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada
IWGP US Champion Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay for the title

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Click below to watch the pre-show beginning at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT:

Updates below will begin at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT.

Pre-Show UPDATE: The Adam Cole-Tom Lawlor match tonight is now off as of 1:30 PM PT/4:30 PM ET as Cole is not cleared to compete. Illness. No replacement and per Tony Khan on Twitter the match is cancelled.

Pre-show:
Match 1: Swerve Strickland, Brian Cage, Toa Liona & Kaun vs. El Desperado, Rocky Romero, Chuck Taylor & Trent Beretta
Result: Swerve Strickland, Brian Cage, Toa Liona & Kaun beat El Desperado, Rocky Romero, Chuck Taylor & Trent Beretta. Strickland pinned Romero after a diving foot stomp.

Match 2: Owen Hart Cup Women’s Tournament Quarterfinal: ROH Women’s Champion Athena vs. Billie Starkz in a NON-TITLE match
Result: Athena beat Billie Stakz. As a result, Athena advances to the Semifinals and will face Willow Nightingale.

Match 3: Stu Grayson vs. El Phantasmo
Result: El Phantasmo beat Stu Grayson

Match 4: Kyle Fletcher, TJP & Jeff Cobb vs. BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi
Result: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi beat Kyle Fletcher, TJP & Jeff Cobb. Takagi pinned TJP after MADE IN JAPAN.

PPV:
Match 1: AEW World Champion MJF vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the title
Result: AEW World Champion MJF beat Hiroshi Tanahashi to retain the title.

Match 2: Owen Hart Cup Men’s Quarterfinals: CM Punk vs. Satoshi Kojima
Result: CM Punk beat Satoshi Kojima. As a result, Punk advances to the Semifinals.

News: All Out, the next AEW PPV, will be in Chicago over Labor Day weekend. Week begins with Dynamite & Rampage taping on 8/30 at Now Arena, then Collision on 9/2 at United Center and All Out on 9/3 at United Center.

Match 3: AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy vs. Daniel Garcia, Katsuyori Shibata & Zack Sabre Jr. in a 4-way for the title
Result: AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy beat Daniel Garcia, Katsuyori Shibata & Zack Sabre Jr. in a 4-way by pinning Garcia to retain the title.

Match 4: IWGP World Heavyweight Champion SANADA vs. Jungle Boy for the title
Result: IWGP World Heavyweight Champion SANADA beat Jungle Boy to retain the title. V3 for SANADA. Jungle Boy appeared to turn on Hook afterwards, breaking up The World’s Handsomest Tag Team and surely breaking many female fans’ hearts.

Match 5: Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Shota Umino & Konosuke Takeshita vs. The Young Bucks, Adam Page, Tomohiro Ishii & Eddie Kingston
Result: The Young Bucks, Adam Page, Tomohiro Ishii & Eddie Kingston beat Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Shota Umino & Eddie Kingston. Ishii pinned Yuta after a vertical drop brainbuster.

Match 6: AEW Women’s World Champion Toni Storm vs. Willow Nightingale for the title
Result: AEW Women’s World Champion Toni Storm beat Willow Nightingale to retain the title.

Match 7: IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay for the title
Result: WIll Ospreay beat IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega to win the title. Ospreay becomes the 18th IWGP US Heavyweight Champion.

Match 8: Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara & Minoru Suzuki vs. Darby Allin, Sting & Tetsuya Naito
Result: Darby Allin, Sting & Tetsuya Naito beat Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara & Minoru Suzuki. Sting & Naito pinned Suzuki.

Main Event: Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada
Result: Bryan Danielson beat Kazuchika Okada by submission

End Show.

Click below to watch the post-event media scrum after the event ends, which is scheduled to begin at 8:45 PM PT/11:45 PM ET (and in reality will start 20-30 minutes after that. As of 9 PM PT/Midnight ET is is in “Waiting to start” status):

Tokyo Joshi Pro 6/25/23 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro wrapped up the spring 2023 house show tour today with the final event before SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’23, their annual summer blowout event.

Today’s event was held at Nishitetsu Hall in Fukuoka and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (probably Wednesday). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 437, a super full house/very near sellout.

Match 1: Suzume beat Shino Suzuki.

Match 2: Moka Miyamoto beat Toga.

Match 3: Hyper Misao beat HIMAWARI & Arisu Endo in a 3-way by pinning HIMAWARI.

Match 4: Hikari Noa & Nao Kakuta beat Yuki Arai & Haru Kazashiro. Noa pinned Kazashiro after a running neckbreaker drop.

Match 5: Mizuki beat Mahiro Kiryu.

Match 6: Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku beat Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Kaya Toribami. Aino pinned Toribami after Venus DDT.

Main Event: Miyu Yamashita & Shoko Nakajima vs. Maki Itoh & Yuki Kamifuku went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

The next event is SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’23, the annual summer blowout event, on 7/8 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 7/7 at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

DDT Pro Wrestling “What Are You Doing 2023” Results (6/25/23)

DDT holds their monthly major event today, “What Are You Doing 2023”, the last big event before next month’s WRESTLE PETER PAN which is DDT’s biggest event of the year. This card may have implications for that event, and the full card will be announced at the end of today’s event. 2 matches for vacant titles headline today’s event: First, Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul face Yuki Ueno & Toi Kojima for the KO-D Tag Team Championship, then in the main event MAO, Kazuki Hirata & Yoshihiko face off in a 3-way for the DDT Extreme Championship. As each title match usually has some kind of stip, this time it will be an elimination match. Shunma Katsumata, who had to vacate both titles in May due to injury, will be a special guest witness for the main event.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. You also can watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube, which will be a pre-show dark match and the first match of the main card. Voice actor Kenta Tanaka will be a special guest on commentary today and Katsumata will join commentary for the main event. There will be a pre-show match scheduled to begin 30 minutes before the event. Including the pre-show I anticipate today’s event running close to 3 hours total.

Today’s lineup (in order):
Pre-show: Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno, Yuni & Toru Owashi vs. Akito, Takao Soma, Kazuma Sumi & Rukiya

Main show:
Naruki Doi vs. Takeshi Masada
Ryota Nakatsu, Yuki Ishida, Yuya Koroku & Yusuke Okada vs. Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai, Hideki Okatani & Sanshiro Takagi
HARASHIMA vs. Minoru Fujita
Tetsuya Endo vs. Nick Wayne
Yuji Hino, Jun Akiyama & Makoto Oishi vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Masa Takanashi & Antonio Honda
Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul vs. Yuki Ueno & Toi Kojima for the vacant KO-D Tag Team Championship
MAO vs. Kazuki Hirata & Yoshihiko in a 3-way elimination match for the vacant DDT Extreme Championhip
The entire WRESTLE PETER PAN match card will be announced after the main event

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Updates below will begin at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin at 6:45 PM PT/9:45 PM ET.

6:45 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has just begun. Updates will begin when we go to the venue.

7:05 PM PT UPDATE:Live updates begin now…
We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Ken Kato, Kagehiro Osano & Kenta Tanaka.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Crowd still filing in but the opposite-camera-side bleacher seats are tarped off on either side (only using the middle seats). Not much on the floor outside the bleachers on either side so I’m thinking it’ll be around 650. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 755)

Pre-show match: Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno, Yuni & Toru Owashi vs. Akito, Takao Soma, Kazuma Sumi & Rukiya. 15 minute time limit. Before Pheromones enter, Akito with microphone. Sounds like a comedy promo about Pheromones. Perhaps a request of GM Imabayashi as well. Interrupted by those deplorable Pheromones for their entrance of course.
Result: No Contest. GM Imabayashi Stoppage. Probably to spare Yuni the wrath of those deplorable Pheromones. Naturally this was a comedy match.

Updates will resume when the main show matches begin in about 20-25 minutes (as of 7:20 PM PT). During the opening announcements GM Imabayashi brings out Shota of Ganbare Pro to promote their biggest event of the year, WRESTLE SEKIGAHARA 2, which is on 7/9 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo. The opening start call is delivered by Chris Brookes, who will return from injury in a couple weeks ahead of his KO-D Openweight Championship match against Yuji Hino at WRESTLE PETER PAN, which he earned by winning the KING OF DDT Tournament.

Main show:
The matches begin at 7:35 PM PT. Your host today is Ken Kato. Haruo Murata is in Canada to do Japanese commentary for the All Elite Wrestling/New Japan Pro Wrestling “Forbidden Door” PPV tomorrow for New Japan World (with Miki Motoi).
Match 1: Naruki Doi vs. Takeshi Masada. 30 minute time limit
Result: Naruki Doi beat Takeshi Masada

Match 2: Ryota Nakatsu, Yuki Ishida, Yuya Koroku & Yusuke Okada vs. Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai, Hideki Okatani & Sanshiro Takagi. 30 minute time limit
Result: Ryota Nakatsu, Yuki Ishida, Yuya Koroku & Yusuke Okada beat Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai, Hideki Okatani & Sanshiro Takagi. Ishida pinned Sakaguchi. UPSET ALERT! Sakaguchi beat down Ishida a little more afterwards before storming off.

Big match announcement: DDT BIG BANG 2023 on 9/9 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo will feature a KO-D Openweight Championship match.

The YouTube broadcast ends here. It did not include the pre-show match.

Match 3: HARASHIMA vs. Minoru Fujita. 30 minute time limit
Result: HARASHIMA beat Minoru Fujita by DQ. Fujita low blow on the referee.

Yukio Naya makes a surprise appearance. He announced what sounded like his potential return from injury, which could be at WRESTLE PETER PAN next month. (Update: It will be at WRESTLE PETER PAN)

Match 4: Tetsuya Endo vs. Nick Wayne. 30 minute time limit (Wayne, who just graduated high school a week or so ago and just turned 18 or is about to, is headed to All Elite Wrestling later this summer. He was signed to a deal a couple years ago that would take effect once he was old enough to legally compete in the US, meaning age 18). Endo’s also sporting some light blue/turquoise hair at the ends now.
Result: Tetsuya Endo beat Nick Wayne

Match 5: Yuji Hino, Jun Akiyama & Makoto Oishi vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Masa Takanashi & Antonio Honda. 30 minute time limit. For this match Akiyama came out looking like the “American Badass” version of The Undertaker, wearing Omega gear just for this match. Nice! It looked good on him!
Chris Brookes joins commentary for this match.
Result: Yuji Hino, Jun Akiyama & Makoto Oishi beat Kazusada Higuchi, Masa Takanashi & Antonio Honda. Hino beat Honda with a King Kong sleeper. Mostly comedy match but Hino & Higuchi had their BEEF moments. Afterwards, Oishi with microphone. As he apparently taunted the lsoers and Brookes, Hino snatched the microphone from him. Some comedy before further taunting Brookes as a promo for their match at WRESTLE PETER PAN.

Shunma Katsumata greets the crowd from the commentary area. He joins commentary for the rest of the event.

Match 6: Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul vs. Yuki Ueno & Toi Kojima for the vacant KO-D Tag Team Championship. 1 Hour time limit
During the opening moments, Sasaki attacked Katsumata with one of his crutches at commentary.
Result: Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul beat Yuki Ueno & Toi Kojima to win the vacant KO-D Tag Team Championship. Sasaki & Paul become the 77th KO-D Tag Team Champions. Sasaki beat Kojima with a crossface. KANON appeared and interfered to help at the end despite being injured (arm/elbow in a sling).

Main Event: MAO vs. Kazuki Hirata & Yoshihiko in a 3-way elimination match for the vacant DDT Extreme Championship. 1 Hour time limit
In progress.
Result: Yoshihiko eliminated first by both MAO & Kazuki Hirata. Kazuki Hirata then beat MAO to win the title. Hirata becomes the 58th DDT Extreme Champion. Hirata apparently has also chosen his first challenger: HARASHIMA. Accepted. GM Imabayashi made it official. Sounds like it will be at the next Korakuen event, which is Summer Vacation 2023 on 7/29.

Coming up shortly: The full WRESTLE PETER PAN card. And here it is:
Takeshi Masada vs. Kazuma Sumi
Sanshiro Takagi, Shinichiro Kawamatsu & Yuni vs. Masa Takanashi, Toi Kojima & Rukiya
Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno & Yumehito Imanari vs. Akito, Takao Soma & Yoshitomo Shimohigashi
Naruki Doi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata vs. Minoru Fujita, MJ Paul & KANON and Kotaro Suzuki, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku in a 3-way
Chiitan* & Pokotan vs. Andreza Giant Panda & Super Sasadango Machine
HARASHIMA & Yukio Naya vs. Jun Akiyama & Shigehiro Irie
KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Kazusada Higuchi, Ryota Nakatsu & Yuki Ishida vs. Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani for the titles
TAKA Michinoku vs. MAO
Konosuke Takeshita vs. Yuki Ueno
Daisuke Sasaki vs. El Desperado
DDT Universal Champion Tetsuya Endo vs. Matt Cardona for the title
KO-D Openweight Champion Yuji Hino vs. Chris Brookes for the title

And that’ll do it for today!

The next event is “Yokohama Unlimited SPECIAL” on 7/1 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.