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ALL TOGETHER AGAIN 6/9/23 Results

In 2011, shortly after the devastating earthquake that caused catastrophic destruction in Fukushima Prefecture and other areas of Japan, the Big 3 promotions-New Japan Pro Wrestling, All-Japan Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling NOAH-came together for ALL TOGETHER, a joint charity fundraiser effort to support recovery causes. Today, with Japan still struggling to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, they reunited for ALL TOGETHER AGAIN and another joint fundraiser effort for pandemic recovery.

Today’s event was held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World only as a PPV for about $30 US. I expect the PPV window to be 3 months. You can also watch the pre-show FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 6569.

Pre-show match: Ryo Inoue, Black Menso-re, Yoh & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Super Crazy, Alejandro, Seiki Yoshioka & Atsushi Kotoge. Yoh pinned Kotoge after Direct Drive.

Japanese musician FUNKIST performed the event’s theme song to open the event.

Match 1: YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Tomohiro Ishii beat Yoshiki Inamura, Daiki Inaba & Masa Kitamiya. Goto pinned Inaba after Shoto.

Match 2: Sean Legacy & Chris Ridgeway beat Kosei Fujita & Zack Sabre Jr. Ridgeway beat Fujita with Uncle Lock.

Match 3: Shota Umino beat Yoshitatsu.

Match 4: Katsuhiko Nakajima & Go Shiozaki beat Hokuto Omori & Satoshi Kojima. Nakajima pinned Omori after Vertical Spike. Kojima was a late replacement for Shuji Ishikawa (fever).

Match 5: Ren Narita, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki beat Junta Miyawaki, Takashi Sugiura & Naomichi Marufuji. Desperado pinned Miyawaki after Pinche Loco.

Match 6: Francesco Akira, TJP, Aaron Henare, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb beat Dan Tamura, Hikaru Sato, Ryuki Honda, Jun & Rei Saito. Alira pinned Tamura after Fireball.

Match 7: Yuma Anzai, Suwama & Yuji Nagata beat BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito. Suwama pinned BUSHI after Last Ride.

Match 8: Tadasuke, YO-HEY & Jake Lee beat TAKA Michinoku, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & SANADA. Lee pinned TAKA after FBS.

Match 9: AMAKUSA, Atsuki Aoyagi & Hiromu Takahashi beat HAYATA, Rising Hayato & Master Wato. Aoyagi pinned Hayato after Firebird Splash.

Main Event: Kenoh, Yuma Aoyagi & Kazuchika Okada beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Kento Miyahara & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Okada pinned Tanahashi after Rainmaker. After the match, Okada invited Antonio Inoki’s grandchildren into the ring to help lead the late New Japan founder’s signature “1…2…3…DA!” shout to close the event.

As all 3 now return to “normal”, next up for New Japan is the New Japan Road ~Road to STRONG~ Tour beginning tomorrow at Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall 1 in Chiba. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. This will be a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.

Injury Report: DDT Double Whammy

On top of Tokyo Joshi Pro losing Yuka Sakazaki for a while, DDT announced today that Yuki Ishida is also now out of action. Fever & gastroenteritis. Ugh. Out indefinitely but will miss both events this weekend. Changes to the lineups have been made.

More as it becomes available.

BREAKING: TJPW Title Vacant, Injury Changes (Updated)

Tokyo Joshi Pro has announced major changes to Sunday’s event and more…The Princess Tag Team Championship is now VACANT. Previous champions Yuka Sakazaki and Mizuki have been forced to vacate the titles due to a Sakazaki injury. Neck. Out indefinitely but it’s going to be at least a month and, as can be the case with neck injuries, possibly much longer. They were supposed to have defended the titles Sunday against Miu Watanabe & Rika Tatsumi. No new plans determined yet. Sakazaki’s 7/8 match vs. Nyla Rose is now off as well. No replacement named yet.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: Because of this, what had been the title match 9n 6/11 has been changes to Tatsumi & Watanabe vs. Mizuki in a handicap match. Sakazaki will be at the event to address the fans. Yuki Aino vs. Arisu Endo for the next International Princess Championship shot is now the main event.

Impact Wrestling 6/8/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s Impact Wrestling from London, Ontario, Canada:

This episode was taped on late May as part of the post-Under Siege tapings.

The YouTube pre-show match was Sereziya Sparx vs. Tara Rising.

Match 1: Chris Bey beat Jaosn Hotch. The Good Hands immediately beat down Bey & Ace Austin afterwards.

Heath interviewed backstage.

Dirty Dango promo.

Match 2: Heath beat Champagne Singh. Squash.

The Design promo.

Match 3: Impact Digital Media Champion Joe Hendry beat Sheldon Jean in a NON -TITLE match. Squash. Afterwards, Hendry immediately calls out Dirty Dango. Hendry then cues up a bad comedy parody video “featuring” Dango. (Earlier this year he did similar with Matt Cardona aka “Edge’s bitch”. This is similar based on when Dango was Fandango in WWE). Bad in the “so bad it’s funny” sense. After this, Kenny King ambushed Hendry and the beatdown was on but Santino Marella quickly intervened. Jean was left alone in the ring and got the Cobra.

Gisele Shaw promo. She claims she put Jordynne Grace out indefinitely (potential write-off as Grace is a free agent) and calls out Trinity and Deonna Purrazzo for tomorrow.

Match 4: Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champions The Coven (Taylor Wilde & KiLynn King) beat Death Dollz (Courtney Rush & Jessicka) to retain the titles. Wilde pinned Rush.

Steve Maclin interviewed backstage. On cue Bully Ray joins him.

Pre-show footage of Masha Slamovich beating down both women in the pre-show match, including choking one with a chain as a message sent to Killer Kelly ahead of tomorrow’s dog collar match.

Match 5: Impact X Division Champion Trey Miguel beat Bhupinder Gujjar in a NON-TITLE match. Afterwards, Miguel with microphone. He puts himself over ahead of tomorrow’s title rematch against Chris Sabin.

Johnny Swinger interviewed backstage. He says Zicky Dice is going to school to become a referee and help him get to 50 wins and winning titles.

Trinity & Deonna Purrazzo interviewed to promote their Knockouts Title match at Slammiversary in July and tag match against Shaw & Savannah Evans tomorrow.

Main Event: Rich Swann & Moose beat Nick Aldis & Jonathan Gresham. Moose pinned Gresham after a powerbomb. They kept fighting post-match and Heath joined in to send Moose packing, leading to Heath & Aldis going at it and Bully Ray sneaking in to lay out Swann. Then PCO joined the fray to get everyone in tomorrow’s 8-4-1 match into the ring. PCO stood tall alone to end the show.

Next up is Against All Odds tomorrow in Columbus, OH. The event will be streamed live on Impact+, YouTube for Ultimate Insiders (subscription required, $4.99/month) and is also available as a PPV on FITE for $9.99 (purchase includes the live event and unlimited on demand replays). There will be a FREE pre-show on YouTube and FITE at 7:30 PM ET/4:30 PM PT before the PPV begins at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT. Live results will be posted for the YouTube broadcast of the PPV.

FREE VIDEO: ALL TOGETHER AGAIN Press Conference (6/7/23)

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:

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.

News: WRESTLE UNIVERSE Free Trial Is Back!

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AEW Dynamite 6/7/23 Results

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)