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New Japan 10/26/23 Results

New Japan continued the Road To POWER STRUGGLE Tour today with Day 4 of the Super Junior Tag League.

Today’s event was held at Wing Hat Kusakabe in Saitama and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 545.

Match 1: Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe beat Oskar Leube & Yuto Nakashima. Makabe pinned Nakashima after a King Kong kneedrop.

Match 2: Ren Narita & Shota Umino beat Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan. Umino beat Newman with STF.

Match 3: Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Tomohiro Ishii beat Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. YOSHI-HASHI beat Togo with Butterfly Lock.

Super Junior Tag League:
Match 4: Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA beat The DKC & Ryusuke Taguchi. KUSHIDA beat DKC with Hoverboard Lock.
Match 5: Francesco Akira & TJP beat TAKA Michinoku & DOUKI. Akira pinned TAKA after 2/2.
Match 6: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Sho beat MUSASHI & Yoh. Kanemaru pinned Yoh.
Match 7: Drilla Moloney & Clark Connors beat Titan & BUSHI. Moloney pinned BUSHI after Full Clip.
Main Event: Master Wato & El Desperado beat Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles. Desperado pinned Fujita after Pinche Loco.

4 remain tied atop the standings at 3-1, 6 points. 3 are tied at 2-2, 4 points, 2 are tied at 1-3, 2 points and TAKA/DOUKI are just about out of it already at 0-4, 0 points. The Top 2 advance to the Finals.

The next event is Saturday at Tsurugajo Gym in Fukushima. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

Impact Wrestling 10/26/23 Results (Updated 10/27)

Here are the quick results from tonight’s Impact Wrestling in Chicago:

This episode was taped Sunday and is the fallout from Bound For Glory.

There was no YouTube pre-show this week.

It was announced in advance tonight’s broadcast would feature replays of 2 COMPLETE PPV matches: Will Ospreay vs. Mike Bailey and Impact World Champion Alex Shelley vs. Josh Alexander for the title.

The show opens with Thom Hannifan & Matt Rehwoldt introducing things, taped Saturday after the PPV. They made it sound like tonight is going to be a special clip show/PPV recap with no post-PPV matches. Just BFG highlights.

Ospreay-Bailey replay opens the show. Starts right after the bell rang, no entrances shown. When they had to go to commercial during this match, they resumed the replay back a few seconds before the break.

Highlights of the Call Your Shot Gauntlet, a 20-person staggered entry match where the eventual winner gets a future title shot of their choice. When it got down to the last 2, it became a normal match with win only by pinfall or submission. And those last 2 were Jordynne Grace and Bully Ray.

Highlights from the pre-show when Traci Brooks, Mike Tenay & Don West were inducted into the Impact Hall Of Fame.

Highlights from the Impact Tag Team Championship match (Rascalz vs. Bullet Club).

Bullet Club post-match promo.

Highlights from the Impact X Division Championship match that opened the PPV (Chris Sabin vs. KENTA).

Highlights from the Impact Knockouts Championship match (Trinity vs. Mickie James).

Trinity post-match promo.

The full replay of the Impact World Championship match (Alex Shelley vs. Josh Alexander) is the main event segment. They begin at pre-match introductions (no entrances).

The show ends with a replay of the PPV-ending video package announcing the return of TNA (Total Nonstop Action). Impact will change its name back to TNA Wrestling at Hard To Kill on January 13, 2024. Including the Scott D’Amore promo that followed. A funny spot was showing a large room where most if not all the roster that wasn’t in the ring was watching & reacting.

Next week: TBA.

The promotion is now in England for a 4-day tour that will include TV tapings for an upcoming episode of Impact next month and tomorrow will be Turning Point, which will be taped and air on Impact+, FITE and YouTube for Ultimate Insiders on 11/3 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT. Confirmed for Turning Point: Trinity vs. Donna Purrazzo for the Impact Knockouts Championship. And reportedly there is a stip-if Purrazzo loses, she can’t get another title shot while Trinity is champion as Purrazzo is 0-2 against the champ.
Although the event will be taped when it premieres next week. I will not be posting spoilers ahead of time and will be attempting to avoid them so I will hopefully be going into the event not yet knowing what happened.

10/27 UPDATE: On social media, Impact announced there were TV tapings at one of the England events happening this weekend. That episode will air next week.

AEW Rampage 10/27/23 Results (SPOILERS!)

Here are the quick results for tomorrow’s AEW Rampage in Philadelphia (SPOILERS and also Collision SPOILERS!):

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AEW Dynamite 10/25/23 Results (Updated)

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in Philadelphia. PA (Temple University):

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

MJF interviewed by Renee Paquette to open the show. Roderick Strong interrupts briefly. The Devil briefly appears at the end.

No opening video, right to pyro and commentary opening.

Match 1: MJF vs. Juice Robinson for the Dynamite Diamond Ring
Result: MJF beat Juice Robinson to retain the Dynamite Diamond Ring for the next year. Afterwards, Gunn Club beatdown led to The Kingdom & The Acclaimed getting involved, MJF giving Gunn Club an ROH World Tag Team Championship match at Full Gear, accepting Jay White’s challenge for an 8-man tag match next week and MJF vs. Kenny Omega for the AEW World Championship Saturday at Collision.

Wardlow promo.

Match 2: Hook & Rob Van Dam vs. John Silver & Alex Reynolds
Result: Hook & Rob Van Dam beat John Silver & Alex Reynolds. Hook beat Silver with Redrum.

Toni Storm’s newest “film” plays during split-screen commercial, but it sounds like she has a title shot coming up at Full Gear on 11/18. What we don’t yet know is which title. And…is that…Luther as a butler? Haven’t seen him since the days of Streamerpentico before we knew for sure he was actually Jon Cruz the whole time!

Schiavone has his Stingasm and brings out Sting. Darby Allin is with him, right arm in a sling. Tony Khan’s gift to Sting is revealed and it’s…RIC FLAIR! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! But Christian Cage interrupts and makes a challenge to Sting & Allin for a 6-man tag at Full Gear, their choice of partner. Accepted.

Renee interview with Chris Jericho from earlier today.

Match 3: ROH 6-Man Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks & Adam Page vs. The Hardys & Brother Zay for the titles
Result: ROH 6-Man Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks & Adam Page beat The Hardys & Brother Zay to retain the titles. Matt Jackson pinned Zay after BTE Trigger. Immediately afterwards, a video played of Swerve Strickland & Prince Nana inside Page’s house as Page ran to the back. It ended with Strickland leaving a Mogul Embassy shirt in his baby son’s crib.

Adam Copeleand interviewed. Allin & Sting try to recruit him as their partner because he has lost his Edge.

Match 4: AEW Women’s Champion Hikaru Shida vs. Ruby Soho for the title
Result: AEW Women’s Champion Hikaru Shida beat Ruby Soho to retain the title. Toni Storm came out post-match. She gets ANOTHER AEW Women’s Championship shot at Full Gear, and it could very well come against Shida.

MJF interviewed backstage. Samoa Joe interrupts to offer to be MJF’s bodyguard Saturday, which MJF accepts. Then the catch: Joe wants a rematch for the AEW World Championship.

Main Event: Orange Cassidy & Kazuchika Okada (New Japan) vs. Bryan Danielson & Claudio Castagnoli
Result: Bryan Danielson & Claudio Castagnoli beat Orange Cassidy & Kazuchika Okada. Castagnoli pinned Cassidy after a European Uppercut.

During the main event another new PPV, Worlds’ End, is announced for 12/30 in the New York City/Long Island, NY area (Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum).

Friday on Rampage: Santana vs. Ortiz, Skye Blue vs. Willow Nightingale, Anna Jay & Abadon in a 4-way and MJF & Kenny Omega speak.

Saturday on Collision: AEW Women’s Champion Hikaru Shida vs. Friday’s 4-way winner for the title and AEW World Champion MJF vs. Kenny Omega for the title.

Next week: Cassidy-Castagnoli for the AEW International Championship.

This was a solid show that greatly overachieved, but Danielson was possibly injured in the main event and it looked like arm/wrist again and it completely ruined everything. It sucked the life out of the arena and commentary as Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta, Rocky Romero & Hook all came out but despite the tensions cooler heads prevailed as we cut away. But there are understandably a lot of concerns about Danielson, and if Okada injured again, and sadly it made all the good stuff tonight not matter at all because this is what will be most remembered and talked about. I’m still trying to process everything myself. We’ll have to wait for updates and hope for the best for Danielson.

End Show.

UPDATE: After the show ended, Tony Khan posted on Twitter that Danielson left the ring and walked off under his own power without further specifics, but that is hopefully a good sign.

Also added to Rampage post-show is Kyle Fletcher vs. Konosuke Takeshita.

DDT News: 2024 Monthly Big Events Schedule, 27th Anniversary, More

Some DDT and also TJPW news:

DDT announced their 27th Anniversary event today, which is part of their Korakuen Hall 2024 schedule announcement. Except for the first one on 1/3, all 2024 Korakuen events will be Sunday morning starts (Saturday nights US time, meaning always-ideal 6:30/7:30 PM PT) with the 27th Anniversary being early afternoon and again being a planned 5 HOUR event (this is DDT after all). Ticket pre-orders for WRESTLE UNIVERSE members/subscribers will run from 12/7-12/11 and will run $40-130 US. General public sales start 12/14. The Korakuen 2024 dates are as follows (Sunday 11:30 AM JST/Saturday 6:30/7:30 PM PT unless noted): 1/3 (Wednesday, 6:30 PM JST-2:30 AM PT), 1/28, 2/25, 3/17 (27th Anniversary, 2 PM JST-10 PM PT), 4/7, 5/5 (6:30 PM JST), 5/26, 6/30, 8/12 (Monday-holiday in Japan, Sunday night US time), 8/25 (6:30 PM JST), 9/29, 10/20, 11/23 (Saturday-holiday in Japan), 12/22.

In TJPW, a press conference was held today for Friday’s Princess Of Princess Championship match between Miyu Yamashita & Regina. It was comedy at the start as Regina was acting like a tourist, with a cup of coffee & lounging while on her phone. MC/ring announcer Sayuri Namba had to ask Yamashita for help with asking Regina in English to put the phone down. (Side note: Namba does speak some English but not much). DDT posted a funny early-presser pic on their website under the related article. Hopefully they’ll get video on YouTube too.

TJPW also announced Yuka Sakazaki’s final event with the promotion will now be 12/6 at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo. The original plan was 12/1 at Korakuen Hall, but Sakazaki & the promotion decided on 12/6 because Kitazawa Town Hall will be the host for the TJPW 10th Anniversary event that day. Sakazaki appeared and noted she has been medically cleared to return to action (she suffered a neck injury earlier this year and has been out since June) and, when asked about going overseas, just said (translated loosely to English), “everything will go as planned”. (Overseas probably means All Elite Wrestling first & foremost as Sakazaki has always been part of their roster). Her remaining TJPW dates are also set: Friday, 11/3, 11/5, 11/19, 11/23, 11/26, 12/1, 12/6. Except for Friday, all matches are TBA.

New Japan 10/25/23 Results

New Japan continued the Road To POWER STRUGGLE Tour today along with Day 3 of the Super Junior Tag League.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. This was a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.

The announced paid attendance was 1169.

Match 1: Boltin Oleg, Ren Narita & Shota Umino beat Callum Newman, HENARE & Great-O-Khan. Umino pinned Newman after Blaze Blade.

Match 2: Hiromu Takahashi & Yota Tsuji beat Gedo & Taiji Ishimori. Tsuji pinned Gedo after Gene Blaster. Afterwards, Ishimori, Tsuji and Yuto Nakashima all attempted to win the DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship, which has legit 24/7 rules and can be contested for anytime, anywhere by anyone (or anything) as long as a referee is present. All apparently failed…

Match 3: Yuya Uemura, Taichi & SANADA beat Oskar Leube, Tomohiro Ishii & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Uemura pinned Leube with a Kannuki suplex hold.

The promotion announced CMLL FANTASTICA MANIA will return in 2024. The event, a showcase for partner promotion CMLL (Mexico), usually held early each year after Tokyo Dome, will run for 7 events over 8 days-2/12 & 2/13 in Osaka, 2/14 in Kagawa, 2/15 in Aichi, 2/17 in Chiba and 2/18 & 2/19 at Korakuen. More on this as it becomes available.

Super Junior Tag League:
Match 4: The DKC & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Kosei Fujita & Robbie Ragles. Taguchi beat Fujita with Variant Gedo Clutch.
Match 5: MUSASHI & Yoh beat Francesco Akira & TJP. Yoh pinned TJP after Direct Drive.
Match 6: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Sho beat TAKA Michinoku & DOUKI. Sho pinned TAKA after Shock Arrow.
Match 7: Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA beat Drilla Moloney. KUSHIDA pinned Moloney.
Main Event: Master Wato & El Desperado beat Titan & BUSHI. Wato beat BUSHI with Recicentemente 2.

There are now 6 tied for the lead at 2-1, 4 points, 3 tied at 1-2, 2 points and TAKA/DOUKI at 0-3, 0 points. The top 2 will advance to the Finals.

The next event is tomorrow at Wing Hat Kasukabe in Saitama. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

All-Japan News: Upcoming Title Matches, November TV Schedule

Some All-Japan news following this past weekend’s major event:

An All-Japan World Tag Team Championship match has been added to next week’s Hokkaido tour: 11/3 will see Jun & Rei Saito defend the titles vs. Takao Omori & Yoshitatsu.

Next up for Yuma Aoyagi & the Triple Crown: TBA, but it will be on 11/5 in the second event of a doubleheader that day.

The AJPW.TV broadcast schedule for November has been announced (subject to change):
The following events will be LIVE broadcasts: 11/5 (Hotel Emilia Sapporo, Hokkaido-both events-forst event will be 12/4 US time), 11/12 (Korakuen Hall, Tokyo-11/11 US time), 11/19 (Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya), 11/23 (Kira Messe Numazu, Shizuoka), 11/29 (Korakuen)
The following events will be ON DEMAND ONLY (no live broadcasts, available the next day-in the US these should be available the same day): 11/1 (Yotsuba Arena Tokachi Sub Arena (Obihiro), Hokkaido), 11/2 (Asahikawa Local Industry Promotion Center, Hokkaido), 11/3 (Bihoro Sports Center, Hokkaido), 11/4 (Iwamizawa City Hall Akarenga, Hokkaido), 11/15 (Tokorozawa Civic Gymnasium Main Arena, Saitama), 11/26 (Shonan Fujisawa Market Special Ring, Kanagawa)

DEVELOPING: Sumo-Stablemaster Suspended Indefinitely (Updated x2)

Developing sumo news-Nikkan Sports reports Stablemaster Kokonoe has been SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY for allowing a minor (underage) wrestler, who was not identified due to age, to drink alcohol while accompanying Kokonoe on the current autumn tour (exhibition events held throughout Japan in even months between Grand Sumo tournaments). Kokonoe was acting as deputy director for the tour. The minor wrestler is also suspended indefinitely. No word yet on if this will include the November tournament in Fukuoka. Both Kokonoe and the wrestler have apologized in person to the Japan Sumo Association.

UPDATE: According to Nikkan Sports and YouTube channel “Chris Sumo”, the latter being a reliable English-language sumo news source with insider connections, the wrestler was identified as Chiyoshishi. He is 18, which is underage for alcohol consumption in Japan (legal age is 20 or 21), and currently ranked in the Sandanme, but having gone 6-1 at Sd68 in September he would have a slight chance to reach Makushita in November. If he is not suspended for the November Tournament that is. He almost certainly would be above his career best rank so far which is Sd33 in 14 career tournaments (including one Absent tournament). He is definitely done until then-hospitalized for alcohol poisoning and sent home.

UPDATE 2: Chris Sumo now reports Chiyoshishi has retired from sumo. Personal decision and not forced. His latest YouTube video update essentially translates the earlier Nikkan Sports report into English.

BREAKING: Impact Star Signs New Extension

PCO Is Not Human. He also will continue to make an Impact. Coming off a win in a Monster’s Ball match at Bound For Glory, the French-Canadian Frankenstein has signed an extension with the promotion. Terms were not disclosed but he will be part of when the promotion rebrands itself again as TNA Wrestling in January 2024 at Hard To Kill in Las Vegas. That’s where PCO returned to the promotion in January 2022.

Full press release:

TNA Wrestling Signing Confirmed: PCO

New Japan News: Full 10/28 US Card Announced

New Japan returns to the US this Saturday for Fighting Spirit Unleashed, and the full card has been announced today (also the match order):

Pre-Show:
Matt Vandagriff vs. Buck Skynyr
Danny Limelight, Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs vs. Jakob Austin Young, Baliyan Alki & Titus Alexander

PPV:
Satoshi Kojima vs. Fred Rosser, Jeff Cobb & Alex Coughlin in a 4-way for the next STRONG Openweight Championship shot
Lluvia & Johnnie Robbie vs. Stephanie Vaquer & Zeuxis
Tom Lawlor vs. Gabriel Kidd
Atlantis 40th Anniversary Match: Atlantis, Atlantis Jr., Mistico & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Rocky Romero, Soberano Jr., Tiger Mask 4 & Adrian Quest
STRONG Women’s Champion Giulia vs. Hyan for the title
STROKG Tag Team Champions Hikuleo & El Phantasmo vs. Alex Zayne & Lance Archer for the titles
STRONG Openweight Champion Eddie Kingston vs. HENARE for the title
SANADA & Yuya Uemura vs. Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi
NEVER Openweight Champion Tama Tonga vs. Shingo Takagi for the title

The event begins with the pre-show matches at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. The PPV will be streamed LIVE on New Japan World in Japanese (for all paid subscribers, no additional purchase required) and FITE in English ($19.99). The pre-show should air on New Japan World but may not air on FITE.