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Tokyo Joshi Pro 11/19/23 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro returned to Osaka today for “The Mountain Top 2023”., which just wrapped up.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka 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 413.

In pre-event announcements, they announced the return date will be 2/24. Also, Hyper Misao is crowdfunding for a new bicycle.

Match 1: Nextgen Tournament Semifinals: HIMAWARI beat Shino Suzuki.

Match 2: Nextgen Tournament Semifinals: Wakana Uehara beat Toga by submission.

Match 3: Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku beat Hyper Misao, Mahiro Kiryu & Haru Kazashiro. Taku pinned Kazashiro after Doctor Yellow.

Match 4: Hikari Noa & Nao Kakuta beat Yuki Kamifuku & Runa Okubo. Noa pinned Okubo after a running neckbreaker drop.

Match 5: Yuki Arai, Suzume & Arisu Endo beat Moka Miyamoto, Juria Nagano & Kaya Toribami. Arai pinned Toribami after Finally.

Match 6: Yuka Sakazaki & Mizuki vs. Ruka Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

Main Event: International Princess Champion Max The Impaler beat Shoko Nakajima to retain the title. V2 for Impaler.

The next event is Thursday at Tsurumi Fruit & Vegetable Market in Kanagawa. There will be no live broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 11/18/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour today with a house show in Nagano.

Today’s event was held at Uematsucho Community Center in Nagano and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 414.

Match 1: Taishi Ozawa beat Yu Owada.

Match 2: Dragon Bane, Alpha Wolf & Extreme Tiger beat Ninja Mack, Alejandro & Terry Yaki. Bane pinned Yaki after Twister Bane.

Match 3: Ryohei Oiwa beat Kai Fujimura.

Match 4: Manabu Soya & Hajime Ohara beat Kenoh & Super Crazy. Soya pinned Crazy after Trajectory.

Match 5: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba, Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki beat Jack Morris, Anthony Greene, LJ Cleary, YO-HEY & Tadasuke. Kitamiya pinned Greene after a diving senton.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, HAYATA & Eita beat Daga, Yoshinari Ogawa & LEONA (Dradition) by DQ in 58 seconds. Ogawa DQ’d. Ref assault. Which led to…
Main Event (again): Kaito Kiyomita, HAYATA & Eita beat Daga, Yoshinari Ogawa & LEONA. Eita pinned Ogawa after Imperial Uno. They went almost 35 minutes.

The next event is Friday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo for this month’s STAR NAVIGATION 2023 Tour event. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET. This is an ABEMA-exclusive broadcast in Japan (Japanese commentary version will be available on demand after the event).

AEW Full Gear 2023 Results (11/18/2023)

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Full Gear PPV in Los Angeles, CA:

Pre-show:
ROH World Champion Eddie Kingston beat Jay Lethal to retain the title.
Claudio Castagnoli beat Buddy Matthews by submission.
ROH Tag Team Champions MJF & Samoa Joe beat Gunn Club to retain the titles. Adam Cole returned during the match.

PPV:
Darby Allin, Adam Copeland & Sting beat Christian Cage, Luchasaurus & Nick Wayne.

MJF is not medically cleared for the main event. Adam Cole will defend the AEW World Championship for him.

AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy beat Jon Moxley to retain the title. (To my dismay this probably means he’s never losing it)

Toni Storm beat AEW Women’s World Cahampion Hikaru Shida to become THE NEW AEW WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPION! Cheated of course.

In a Ladder Match, AEW Tag Team Champions Ricky Starks & Big Bill beat FTR, LFI and Malakai Black & Brody King to retain the titles.

Julia Hart beat AEW TBS Champion Kris Statlander & Skye Blue in a 3-way by pinning Blue to become THE NEW AEW TBS CHAMPION! The House (Pretty Much) Always Wins.

Tony Khan promised a huge free agent signing would be announced and that person would sign their AEW contract tonight. It was revealed to be Will Ospreay. But he won’t be in AEW for a while as his New Japan contract is not up until February. Then he’ll be coming over. Well, at least it wasn’t Iceberg (Bill Goldberg) but some will be disappointed with it not being Mercedes Mone. I was thinking maybe it could be Mickie James.

The Continental Classic Tournament begins Wednesday and they are making ANOTHER new title that will go to the winner-the AEW Continental Champion. AND whoever wins will hold an AEW Triple Crown because Eddie Kingston will be defending both the ROH World Championship and the New Japan STRONG Openweight Championship in every match he’s in. I didn’t care for the tournament before and now I care even less. And AEW doesn’t need more titles unless Tony Khan is trying to sweeten WBD into a new and better TV deal. There are 4 entrants so far after this announcement: Bryan Danielson, Kingston, Andrade El Idolo, Mark Briscoe. (Triple Crown suggests the eventual winner will probably be Kingston). Tournament ends on 12/30 at the Worlds’ End PPV.

In a Texas Death Match (no pinfalls, submissions, DQs, countouts, only win by 10 count down), Swerve Strickland beat Adam Page.

Kenny Omega & Chris Jericho beat The Young Bucks. As a result, The Bucks lose their guaranteed anytime, anywhere AEW Tag Team Championship shot to The Winnipeg Jets.

MJF showed up in an ambulance as Adan Cole was coming out for the main event. Which led to…
AEW World Champion MJF beat Jay White to retain the title.

End Show.

The post-event media scrum will begin shortly (just after midnight ET/9 PM PT) and can be watched LIVE FOR FREE on YouTube.

AEW Collision & Rampage 11/17/23 Results (SPOILERS!)

Here are the quick results from tonight’s LIVE AEW Collision and Rampage from Los Angeles, CA (TAPED on the west coast so this will contain SPOILERS for west feed TNT viewers!):

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New Japan 11/17/23 Results

New Japan began the New Japan Road Tour today, a very short series consisting of just 2 events this year.

Today’s event was held at Yamagata Big Wing in Yamagata and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. (There were a number of technical issues reported today)

The announced paid attendance was 784.

There was a last-second change to the cars at the beginning of the event as Match 6, a 6-man tag on the card was changed from a NON-TITLE match to a NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championship match.

Match 1: Togi Makabe, Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Boltin Oleg, Oskar Leube & Yuto Nakashima. Kojima pinned Nakashima after a lariat.

Match 2: Master Wato & Toru Yano beat Gedo & Taiji Ishimori by DQ. Gedo DQ’d.

Match 3: Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Callum Newman, HENARE & Great-O-Khan. Goto pinned Newman after Shoto.

Match 4: Tiger Mask, Ren Narita, Minoru Suxuki & Yuji Nagata beat BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi. Umino pinned BUSHI after Blaze Blade.

Match 5: Dick Togo, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yuya Uemura & SANADA. Kanemaru beat TAKA with a figure 4.

Match 6: NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Tomohiro Ishii, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Ren Narita & Tomoaki Honma to retain the titles. Tanahashi pinned Narita. V6 for the champs.

Main Event: In a match with restricted moves and Yoshinobu Kanemaru as special referee, Taichi beat KOPW 2023 Champion Sho to win the title. Referee Red Shors Unno made the 3 count when Kanemaru was out. As a result, per another stip for the match, Sho can never wrestle in Yamagata again. Next up: Kanemaru if Taichi gets his wish.

The tour-ender is Sunday at Light Cube Utsunomiya in Tochigi. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

AEW News: In Case You Missed It Last Night…

A HILARIOUS typo was made during a promo graphic for tomorrow’s Collision during the late part of Dynamite. The image below says it all. Hint: One too many D’s. Give whoever did that a raise!

DDT 11/16/23 Results

The post-Saki Akai era began in DDT today with an event featuring a mini-tournament to crown new KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions, the title she gave up upon her retirement Sunday. But Akai thankfully isn’t gone, she is now in a behind-the-scenes position with the promotion so this was her first real event in her new job.

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

The announced paid attendance was 181.

The event opened with a public signing ceremony for a DDT Universal Championship match Sunday between MAO & Demus (Mexico).

The opening was then by SCHADENFREUDE, a new faction formed by Chris Brookes of himself, Masa Takanashi, Antonio Honda and maybe someone else. They promised to begin taking over DDT by winning the KO-ad 6-Man Tag Team Championship today. Sounds more like just renaming CDK.

Match 1: Demus beat Kazuma Sumi. Borderline squash.

Match 2: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship Tournament: Jun Akiyama, Danshoku Dieno & Makoto Oishi beat Chris Brookes, Masa Takanashi & Antonio Honda. Doeno pinned Honda after Danshoku Driver. Yeah, nice backing up that promise Brookes. HAHA.

Match 3: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship Tournament: Yuki Ueno, MAO & Toi Kojima beat Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON. Ueno pinned Paul after BME.

Match 4: Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku beat Takashi Yoshida (Dragon Gate) & Rukiya. Okada pinned Rukiya after Sudden Death.

Match 5: In a DDT Trivia King Death Match, where a trivia question had to be answered correctly after a pinfall/submission to win, DDT Extreme Champion Kazuki Hirata beat MIKAMI to retain the title. V5 for Hirata. They also traded the DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship during this with MIKAMI becoming the 1592nd Champion then Hirata becoming the 1593rd Champion.

Match 6: Sanshiro Takagi, HARASHIMA, Kazusada Higuchi & Akito beat Takao Soma, Shota, Tetsuya Endo & Yukio Naya. Akito beat Soma with a Figure 4. Afterwards, Akito issued a KO-D Tag Team Championship challenge on behalf of himself & Toru Sugiura. That match will happen on 12/2.

Main Event: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship Tournament Finals: Jun Akiyama, Danshoku Dieno & Makoto Oishi beat Yuki Ueno, MAO & Toi Kojima to win the tournament and the vacant titles. Akiyama, Dieno & Oishi become the 53rd KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Dieno pinned Kojima after Danshoku Driver. Afterwards in backstage comments Akiyama announced he will leave the Burning faction by the end of the year. That would leave Endo, Okada & Koroku in the faction.

The next event is a Street Wrestling event Saturday at Tenjin Misaki Sports Park in Fukushima. This is a free one-match event. There will be no live broadcast. Fans that attend are encouraged to take pictures and upload them to the organizer’s official social media accounts for a chance to win prizes.

AEW Dynamite 11/15/23 Results (Updated)

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

Match 1: Jon Moxley & Wheeler Yuta vs. Orange Cassidy & Hook
Result: Jon Moxley & Wheeler Yuta beat Orange Cassidy & Hook. Yuta pinned Hook with a seatbelt.

Adam Page-Swerve Strickland staredown. If either got violent with the other, both are banned the rest of the year and their PPV match Saturday is off. That didn’t happen because Page cut a straight fire promo and also found a loophole-nothing about Prince Nana in there, so Page got a free beatdown on Nana until security broke it up.

Match 2: Skye Blue vs. Red Velvet. The winner gets added to a 3-way Saturday for the AEW TBS Championship against Kris Statlander & Julia Hart
Result: Skye Blue beat Red Velvet. As a result, Blue will face AEW TBS Champion Kris Statlander & Julia Hart in a 3-way for the title at Full Gear.

Miro promo.

RJ City introduces Mariah May to Toni Storm backstage. Storm is having none of it, then demands Luther talk to Tony Khan and book her in a match for Friday.

Match 3: Samoa Joe vs. a jobber. Unintroduced and revealed by commentary to be Jon Cruz.
Result: Samoa Joe beat Jon Cruz by submission. Squash.

Match 4: Penta El Zero M & Komander vs. The Young Bucks
Result: The Young Bucks beat Penta El Zero M & Komander. Matt Jackson pinned Komander after BTE Trigger.

Match 5: Gunn Club beat 2 jobbers in less than 10 seconds. Squash.

Match 6: Kenny Omega, Chris Jericho, Kota Ibushi & Paul Wight vs. Brian Cage, Kyle Fletcher, Powerhouse Hobbs & Konosuke Takeshita in a street fight (sponsored by Like A Dragon Gaiden, a new videogame in the “Yakuza” series from Sega that was released yesterday
Result: Kenny Omega, Chris Jericho, Kota Ibushi & Paul Wight beat Brian Cage, Kyle Fletcher, Powerhouse Hobbs & Konosuke Takeshita. Omega pinned Cage after One Winged Angel.

MJF is main event segment, which is next.

Friday on a LIVE Collision: Dax Hardwood (actually said that on broadcast) vs. Rush, Saraya & Ruby Soho vs. HIkaru Shida & Kris Statlander, Miro vs. Daniel Garcia. Then on a LIVE Rampage: MJF and Jay White interviews and Toni Storm vs. Emi Sakura. More to come on the socials.

MJF promo. Jay White comes out at the end and sets up the Bullet Club beatdown to end the show. Samoa Joe is watching on the monitor backstage as we cut away.

This show didn’t do much for me especially as a PPV go-home, but it wasn’t a bad show. Everything was average or better, the tag match and women’s match are worth watching (the tag match was really good). I didn’t care much for the street fight. Viewer discretion on this one but there’s nothing you need to or should skip outside of a couple quick squashes.

LIVE results for Collision Friday at 8 PM ET and Rampage at 10 PM ET Friday are scheduled. A PPV preview special follows at 11 PM ET, all on TNT. All will be TAPED on the west coast.

UPDATE: After the show, AEW announced on the socials that they’ve officially signed Kota Ibushi.

All-Japan 11/15/23 Results

All-Japan ran Day 2 of the Real World Tag League today.

Today’s event was held at Tokorozawa Municipal Gym in Saitama and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV later today. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 560.

Match 1: Jr. Battle Of Glory: Naruki Doi beat Hikaru Sato.

Match 2: Real World Tag League: Shuji Ishikawa & Ren Ayabe beat Hayato Tamura & Galeno Del Mal. Ishikawa pinned Tamura after a running knee lift.

Match 3: Real World Tag League: Suwama & Hideki Suzuki beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana. Suzuki pinned Tachibana with a double arm suplex.

Match 4: Ryuji Hijikata & Hiroshi Yamato (Independent/Freelancers) beat Black Menso-re & Ryo Inoue. Hijikata pinned Me so-re with a Fisherman’s Buster.

Match 5: Real World Tag League: Katushiko Nakajima & Hokuto Omori beat Ryuki Honda & Yuma Anzai. Nakajima pinned Anzai after Northern Lights Bomb.

Match 6: Jr. Battle Of Glory: Dan Tamura beat Rising Hayato.

Match 7: Jr. Battle Of Glory: Atsuki Aoyagi vs. Koji Iwamoto went to a 10 minute time limit draw.

Match 8: Real World Tag League: Jun & Rei Saito beat Cyrus & Ryan Danielson. Rei Saito pinned Danielson after a diving body press.

Main Event: Real World Tag League: Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi beat Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani. Miyahara pinned Okatani with a shutdown suplex hold.

The next event is Sunday at Nagoya Congress Center Event Hall in Nagoya. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.

Injury Report: Stardom Body Count Keeps Rising

It seems no Japanese promotion has gotten the worst of a recent major injury wave the last couple months than Stardom. That continues today with 2 more casualties-Mayu Iwatani & Waka Tsukiyama. Iwatani-dislocated finger. Out long enough to be off Sunday’s PPV. Tsukiyama-hernia. Out indefinitely but long enough to be “taking time off”. Possible the former happened last weekend at Lonestar Shootout.

More as it becomes available.