Impact Wrestling “Down Under Tour” Day 1 Results (6/30/23)

Here are the quick results from today’s Impact Wrestling Down Under Tour Day 1 in Wagga Wagga, Australia:

The event is available on demand as a PPV on FITE for $14.99 or as a combo pack including tomorrow’s Day 2 (live and on demand) for $24.99). Today’s event had a total runtime of just under 2 1/2 hours.

A local indigenous elder resident welcomes everyone to the event.

Your hosts are Thom Hannifan & Matt Rehwoldt. The ring announcer is a local (no Dave Penzer).

Match 1: Slex beat Adam Brooks.

Match 2: Gisele Shaw beat Erika Reid by submission.

Match 3: Impact Digital Media Champion Joe Hendry beat Eddie Edwards to retain the title.

Match 4: Killer Kelly beat Aysha by submission.

Match 5: Impact X Division Champion Chris Sabin beat Frankie Kazarian & Robbie Eagles in a 3-way by pinning Eagles to retain the title.

Match 6: Impact Tag Team Champions Ace Austin & Chris Bey beat Moose & Brian Myers in a NON-TITLE match. Bey pinned Myers with a rollup.

Match 7: Impact Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo beat Steph De Lander by submission in a NON-TITLE match.

Main Event: Impact World Champion Alex Shelley beat Steve Maclin to retain the title.

The second event is tomorrow. It will be streamed LIVE on FITE at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET and available on demand immediately afterwards. Like today, tomorrow’s event is $14.99 or $24.99 with the combo pack that also includes on demand replays of both events. Results will be posted midday/early afternoon PT tomorrow once I have a chance to watch the replay.

UPCOMING FREE VIDEO: GLEAT Ver. 6 (7/1/23)

GLEAT will he streaming their 2nd Anniversary GLEAT Ver. 6 event from Tokyo Done City Hall in Tokyo tomorrow LIVE FOR FREE on YouTube. Bookmark/set a reminder for the below video and come back tomorrow at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET to watch (it should be available on demand immediately after the live broadcast ends. Video courtesy of the GLEAT Official YouTube Channel):

Ganbare Pro 6/30/23 Results (With Video)

Ganbare Pro wrapped up the build to their annual biggest event of the year today with a house show dubbed “Ghost Hunters 2023”.

Today’s event was held at Takashimadaira Community Center in Tokyo and while it is not yet available on WRESTLE UNIVERSE, a late decision was made to stream it LIVE FOR FREE on YouTube. It is now available on demand on the Ganbare Pro YouTube channel and can be watched below (the video below runs just over 2 hours, it should be on WRESTLE UNIVERSE sometime next week):

Results below.

The announced paid attendance was 92.

Match 1: Mizuki Watase beat Sotatsu Nakamura by submission.

Match 2: Haruka Umesaki beat Riara. Umesaki was chosen by Sayaka Unagi for this match.

Match 3: HARUKAZE & YuuRI beat Yoshiko Hasegawa & Kaede Matsushita. YuuRI pinned Matsushita after a swanton bomb.

Match 4: Ken Ohka & Kurashi beat Keisuke Ishii & Shota. Kurashi pinned Shota after a diving senton.

Main Event: In an Elimination Match, Shuichiro Katsumura, Minoru Fujita & Yuki Kanzaki beat Yumehito Imanari, Takao Soma & Tyson Maeguchi. Katsumura was the only winner left.

The next event is WRESTLE SEKIGAHARA 2, the promotion’s biggest event of the year, on 7/9 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English will begin on 7/8 at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

AEW Collision 7/1/23 Results (SPOILERS!)

For whatever unknown reason, tomorrow’s AEW Collision in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada is TAPED and was taped last night (they also taped what probably is next week’s Ring Of Honor TV). Below are the quick results for tomorrow’s broadcast (SPOILERS!):

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New Japan News: Top STRONG Name Off Upcoming Events

Ahead of the STRONG Independence Day events in Japan Tuesday & Wednesday, New Japan has announced Fred Rosser is now off both events. Circumstances beyond his control according to Rosser. in a brief statement on New Japan’s English website, Rosser said he will be in Japan “sooner rather than later” so this sounds like it could be due to something travel-related like flight cancellations or visa/passport issues.

The statement can be viewed at the below page:
https://www.njpw1972.com/154373

DEVELOPING: New 3 Musketeers Group in New Japan

Longtime New Japan fans will no doubt have heard lots about The 3 Musketeers-the moniker given to the trio of Keiji Muto, Masa Chono and Shinya Hashimoto when they came up through the New Japan Dojo in the late 1980s. That bane has sort of come back, as the promotion just announced the Reiwa 3 Musketeers group-Shota Umino, Ren Narita & Yota Tsuji. This comes in recognition of their rapid ascents through the ranks in New Japan, in particular Tsuji recently who just came back from a shorter-than-normal international training excursion to Mexico and almost immediately earned an IWGP World Heavyweight Championship shot (he lost to SANADA).

However, they won’t be seen together as a unit in the ring anytime soon because they are not on next week’s Korakuen Hall events and the G1 CLIMAX is right after that. Maybe near the end of the tournament. This is an interesting development nonetheless, let’s see if they can all live up to this lofty moniker.

News: GLEAT Loses Another 7/1 Participant

Ahead of their major 7/1 event Saturday, GLEAT has announced yet another pending change-Komander, who was scheduled to be on the card, is now off. Visa issues. He just worked in All Elite Wrestling & Ring Of Honor this past week but ran into delays trying to get a visa to go to Japan when he returned to Mexico to do so. No replacement named yet.

Impact Wrestling 6/29/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s Impact Wrestling in Atlanta, GA:

This episode was taped last Friday & Saturday as part of 2 days of TV tapings dubbed Summer Sizzler.

The YouTube pre-show match was Johnny Swinger vs. Bhupinder Gujjar.

Match 1: Impact X Division Champion Chris Sabin beat Trey Miguel by DQ to retain the title. Zachary Wentz returned and interfered on Miguel’s behalf and the Rascals (sp?) were reformed. Heel beatdown but Alex Shelley quickly came out to make the save.

Miguel/Wentz promo backstage.

Deonna Purrazzo joins commentary for the next match.

Match 2: Trinity beat Jai Vidal by submission. Gisele Shaw & Savannah Evans beatdown on Trinity immediately afterwards while Purrazzo just watched as she walked around the ring for a bit then made the save.

Pre-show match highlights. Zicky Dice was the referee and helped Johnny Swinger beat Bhupinder Gujjar by a fast 3 count. 1 on the Road To 50. Until…referee Chad Pinder interrupts. Per Santino Marella, of course the win doesn’t count. And if Dice does it again he’ll lose his referee license. Back to 0!

Match 3: Lio Rush (Impact Debut) beat Jack Price. Glorified squash.

Dirty Dango promo from social media earlier this week. Santino responds afterwards. He talks like he’s going to face Dango at Slammiversary.

Frankie Kazarian confronts Eddie & Alisha Edwards backstage.

Match 4: Masha Slamovich beat KiLynn King. Taylor Wilde interfered multiple times but at the end Killer Kelly came out and choked out Wilde with a dog collar chain to help Slamovich. Afterwards, Kelly & Masha teased a potential alliance as they wrapped the collar/chain around each other and left together.

Scott D’Amore promo. Several Impact wrestlers talk about his earlier career days. Tommy Dreamer puts him over as inventor of the Canadian Destroyer. D’Amore interviewed backstage afterwards. Darren McCarty has been added to his Slammiversary match as guest enforcer. The Good Hands then interrupt. They try to talk D’Amore into a match before then, but he says he’ll talk to Santino Marella and try to make The Good Hands vs. PCO in a handicap match for next week.

Match 5: Kenny King beat Yuya Uemura. Before the match begins and they go to commercial, Joe Hendry is seen in the production area backstage telling producer Josh Matthews to cue up some music and video footage. Hendry comes out after the match and cues up a new one of his corny music videos called “The Kenny King Story”. Yes, this was pure comedy and “Stripper Kenny” got a very loud reaction from the crowd.

Added to Slammiversary on 7/15 is Ultimate X with Mike Bailey, Jonathan Gresham, KUSHIDA, Kevin Knight and Angels for an X Division Championship match when they want it.

Nick Aldis comes out. With microphone. He asks Alex Shelley to come out to explain his actions and he promptly does. Shelley with microphone. He tells Aldis this is his ring as champion but Aldis complains about what Shelley did to Jimmy Jacobs last week as they banter back and forth. Shelley takes Aldis’ advice and steps out of the ring to sit in the crowd with the fans. The bantering continues. Aldis says he now has to not only beat Shelley for the Impact World Championship at Slammiversary but also humiliate and embarrass him. They finally start going at it with Aldis using an eye rake to take control and manhandle Shelley all over the place. Aldis goes for a belt shot with the title but Chris Sabin makes the save. But as Aldis goes to leave, Lio Rush sneaks in and ambushes Sabin from behind and the beatdown is on. Aldis then gets the belt shot in on Shelley and Rush does the same to Sabin with the X Division title belt. They pose with the belts to end the show.

Next week: Jonathan Gresham vs. Angels and Eddie Edwards vs. Frankie Kazarian.

Next up are 2 live events tomorrow & Saturday in Wagga Wagga, Australia as part of Impact Down Under 2023. Both events are available live on FITE for $14.99 each or as a combo pack for $24.99, and you also get unlimited on demand replays. Live streaming for both events will begin each day at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET with on demand available immediately after the events end. Results for tomorrow will be posted late that evening after I have a chance to watch the replay. Saturday’s results will be up around midday PT.

AEW Rampage 6/30/23 Results (SPOILERS!)

Here are the quick results for tomorrow’s AEW Rampage in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (SPOILERS!):

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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.