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All-Japan Pro Wrestling 9/23/23 Results

All-Japan wraps up the Giant Series 2023 today with a major event in Tokyo, headlined by 2 title matches. In the first match, Hikaru Sato will try to bring the World Junior Heavyweight Championship back to All-Japan when he faces GLEAT star and current champion El Lindaman for the title. In the main event, Ryuki Honda will try to become the youngest Triple Crown Champion in history when he faces champion Yuma Aoyagi. DDT and Minoru Suzuki participation highlight the undercard along with Hideki Suzuki from Pro Wrestling NOAH making an appearance.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV in Japanese. It will probably be a TV simulcast in Japan on either Samurai! TV or GAORA Sports. Based on the lineup and title matches I anticipate this event having a total runtime of 2 1/2-3 hours so fans will have plenty of time to get to Ryogoku Kokugikan for the penultimate day of sumo, at least for the key top tier bouts.

Today’s lineup (in order):
Yoshitatsu & Osamu Nishinura vs. Black Menso-re & Ren Ayabe
T-Hawk, Kaz Hayashi & Jack Cartwheel vs. Toshizo, Jun & Rei Saito
Shuji Ishikawa & Yuma Anzai vs. Hideki Suzuki & Koji Iwamoto
Kento Miyahara, Rising Hayato & Atsuki Aoyagi vs. Minoru Suzuki, Naruki Doi & Hokuto Omori
Suwama, Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue vs. Yukio Naya, Yuya Koroku & Rukiya
All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion El Lindaman vs. Hikaru Sato for the title
All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Yuma Aoyagi vs. Ryuki Honda for the Triple Crown

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Updates below will begin at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET.

7:29 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now…

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Normally they start muted during opening announcements but not this time. After these finish we go muted for a moment.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Crowd still filing in but it looks like maybe 70% full from what we can see so far, so I’m guessing it’ll be around 900. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1161)

The matches will begin shortly.

The matches begin at 7:35 PM PT. There doesn’t seem to be the usual TV simulcast in Japan but there is Japanese commentary. There is also a notable difference in volume levels when they switch between the hard camera and ringside handheld video camera views (the latter being much lower).

Match 1: Yoshitatsu & Osamu Nishinura vs. Black Menso-re & Ren Ayabe. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yoshitatsu & Osamu Nishimura beat Black Menso-re & Ren Ayabe. Nishimura pinned Yoshitatsu with a backslide.

Match 2: T-Hawk (GLEAT), Kaz Hayashi (GLEAT) & Jack Cartwheel vs. Toshizo, Jun & Rei Saito. 20 minute time limit
Result: T-Hawk, Kaz Hayashi & Jack Cartwheel beat Toshizo, Jun & Rei Saito. Cartwheel pinned Toshizo after a top rope cartwheel. That’s a huge win for the US indy guy who I saw make his AEW debut earlier this year in person.

Match 3: Shuji Ishikawa & Yuma Anzai vs. Hideki Suzuki (Pro Wrestling NOAH) & Koji Iwamoto. 20 minute time limit
Result: Time Limit Draw

Match 4: Kento Miyahara, Rising Hayato & Atsuki Aoyagi vs. Minoru Suzuki, Naruki Doi & Hokuto Omori. 30 minute time limit
Result: Minoru Suzuki, Naruki Doi & Hokuto Omori beat Kento Miyahara, Rising Hayato & Atsuki Aoyagi. Omori pinned Aoyagi. Afterwards, Omori kept Miyahara from leaving and seemingly taunted him in the ring, but his attempt at embarrassing Miyahara led to Omori getting a low blow.

Upcoming event and match announcements include the Jr. Battle Of Glory 2023 for November. Participants: Atsuki Aoyagi, Rising Hayato, Dan Tamura, Hikaru Sato, Fuminori Abe, Naruki Doi, Koki Iwamoto and Ryo Inoue. That tournament starts on 11/12 and ends on 12/6, it will be a round-robin tournament. They also will hold their year-ending event on 12/31 in Tokyo, I think it’ll be at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2. Also a title match for 10/9: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi vs. Jun & Rei Saito for the titles.

Match 5: Suwama, Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue vs. Yukio Naya, Yuya Koroku & Rukiya. 30 minute time limit
Result: Suwama, Dan Tamura & Ryo Inoue beat Yukio Naya, Yuya Koroku & Rukiya. Tamura pinned Rukiya.

Match 6: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion El Lindaman (GLEAT) vs. Hikaru Sato for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion El Lindaman beat Hikaru Sato to retain the title. V3 for Lindaman. Next up: If Lindaman has his way, Naruki Doi. We shall see.

Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Yuma Aoyagi vs. Ryuki Honda for the Triple Crown. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Yuma Aoyagi beat Ryuki Honda to retain the Triple Crown. V4 for Aoyagi. Next up…forget being his partner and fellow All-Japan World Tag Team Champion, Kento Miyahara wants the Triple Crown back! Aoyagi apparently accepts, we’ll see what happens. After Miyahara mic drops and heads off, Aoyagi finishes his post-match promo to end the show.

The next event is NEW AGE CHRONICLE-Z ~JUMP OVER~ on 10/5 at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo. The event features only wrestlers with less than 10 years experience and is based on an idea from Rising Hayato. Broadcast plans TBA. (Update: 10/5 is now a legit advance sellout)

News: Japanese Wrestler Released By WWE

One of the only times this site talks about WWE is developing news just coming out: Amidst a firestorm of talent cuts yesterday after a new TV deal for their SmackDown program was announced (I will be attending next week’s show in Sacramento, CA), most notably near-20 year stalwart Dolph Ziggler, today comes word that Japanese wrestler Ikemen Jiro is gone. Jiro, who previously was Jiro Kuroshio (not his real name) in Japan in WRESTLE-1, competed mainly in the NXT label and mostly on programs seen only on streaming although he had a brief tag team run when New Japan’s KUSHIDA was in WWE prior to his current run in Impact Wrestling. Otherwise he mainly was a comedy wrestler. No word yet on his future plans

Impact Wrestling 9/21/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s Impact Wrestling in White Plains, NY:

This episode was taped on 9/9 and is Part 2 of the 1000th episode special event that began last week.

The YouTube pre-show match was Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champions Masha Slamovich & Killer Kelly vs. Death Dollz for the titles.

Match 1: Ultimate X-with Alan Angels, Zachary Wentz, Mike Bailey, RIch Swann, Samurai Del Sol & Ace Austin-was won by Alan Angels. As a result, Angels gets a future Impact X Division Championship match.

Angels backstage post-match. He says he’s cashing in his title shot against Chris Sabin next week.

Match 2: In a Fox Box Match-10 minute time limit, if it goes the distance the winner will be determined by special judge Chase Stephens-Jake Something beat Dirty Dango in 3:58.

Steve Maclin promo. He quickly gets laid out by Rhino. Santino Marella barges in. Rhino sends a warning before storming off.

Match 3: Eric Young beat Kenny King by DQ. Sheldon Jean interference. This only lasted a few seconds. Scott D’Amore seconded Young. After the DQ, Shark Boy came out and as Deputy Director Of Authority flexed his muscle. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: Eric Young & Scott D’Amore beat Kenny King & Sheldon Jean by DQ. The Design interference almost immediately. Shark Boy again said no. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: Eric Young, Scott D’Amore, Chris Herris & James Storm beat Deaner, Kon, Kenny King & Sheldon Jean. Young pinned Jean after a piledriver.

Feast Or Fired recap before the results are revealed. Busted Open host Dace LaGreca presides over the unveiling backstage, but first a commercial.

Replay of Team 3D reunion last week.

Briefcase reveal in numerical order: 1-Crazzy Steve gets Impact Digital Media Championship shot. 2-Moose gets Impact World Championship shot, but he (and everyone else except Steve) wanted Impact Tag Team Championship Match. 3-Chris Bey gets Impact Tag Team Championship Match. Which means…4-Yuya Uemura gets FIRED. JOYA ends almost as soon as it began. Uemura is probably headed back to New Japan Pro Wrestling and this may be the end of his Young Lion training excursion.

Match 4: Josh Alexander beat Trey Miguel. Zachary Wentz interfered late but got laid out by Alex Shelley outside the ring right before the end. Afterwards, Alexander with microphone. He called out Shelley for finally being in his corner this time after not being there before. Shelley responded that he wanted to hurt them, not help him. Alexander says he’s taking the Impact World Championship back at Bound For Glory. But don’t forget Moose now has a title shot as well.

Official for Bound For Glory: Mike Bailey vs. Will Ospreay. Backstage, Jonathan Gresham hooks up with Bailey to check on him ahead of that match. Then they talk Feast Or Fired as Gresham says he’s back to go for the Impact World Championship and have clean matches, taking a shot at Rascalz. Bailey then says he’s going to talk to management about making yet another match against Gresham.

John Skyler confronts Rascalz about getting an Impact Tag Team Championship match. Austin & Bey interrupt as they’ve now got another shot themselves. Skyler isn’t buying it but Rascalz snuck out.

Now also official for Bound For Glory-Impact World Champion Alex Shelley vs. Josh Alexander for the title.

Main Event: Jordynne Grace, Trinity, Mickie James, Awesome Kong & Gail Kim beat Tasha Steelz, Deonna Purrazzo, Gisele Shaw, Angelina Love & Savannah Evans. Kong pinned Shaw after Implant Buster. Afterwards, The Beautiful People put their paper bag on Jai Vidal after they laid him out. The winning team stood together in the ring to end the special event.

Next week: Impact X Division Champion Chris Sabin vs. Alan Angels for the title, Tommy Dreamer & Heath vs. Kenny King & Sheldon Jean in a Memphis Street Fight, Bailey-Gresham & Yuya Uemura’s goodbye ceremony. (Plans could change but it’s worth noting Uemura vs. Josh Alexander has been advertised over the last week or so for Saturday’s TV tapings)

The next TV tapings are tomorrow & Saturday in Nashville, TN and will take the promotion to the Bound For Glory PPV in October.

AEW Dynamite 9/20/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite in New York City:

Match 1: ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli vs. NJPW STRONG Openweight Champion Eddie Kingston for the titles
Result: NJPW STRONG Openweight Champion Eddie Kingston beat ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli to retain the STRONG title and become THE NEW ROH WORLD CHAMPION!

Christian Cage interviewed. He challenges Darby Allin to a 3-way of AEW TNT Champion Luchasaurus, Cage & Allin for the title Saturday on Collision with no Sting at ringside.

Match 2: Chris Jericho vs. Sammy Guevara
Result: Chris Jericho beat Sammy Guevara. Afterwards, Guevara turned on Jericho and seemingly aligned with Don Callis.

Callis promises more details about what just happened on Rampage.

Match 3: AEW International Champion Jon Moxley vs. Rey Fenix for the title
Result: Rey Fenix beat AEW International Champion Jon Moxley to become THE NEW AEW INTERNATIONAL CHAMPION! UPSET ALERT!

Match 4: AEW Women’s Champion Saraya vs. Toni Storm for the title
Result: AEW Women’s Champion Saraya beat Toni Storm to retain the title.

Main Event: AEW World Champion MJF vs. Samoa Joe for the title
Result: AEW World Champion MJF beat Samoa Joe by ref stoppage to retain the title. Choked him out as promised…albeit with a hidden chain.

I felt the show did not live up to the Grand Slam billing. Just another average show with some glaring issues with camera work and some notable botched spots. Nothing terrible but nothing awesome either.

End Show.

GLEAT 9/20/23 Results (With Full Event Video)

GEAT ran their latest G PROWRESTLING event today, their first event in Tokyo in about a month

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube. Click below to watch (video courtesy of the GLEAT Official YouTube Channel):

The announced paid attendance was 359.

Match 1: Issei Onitsuka & Masato Kamino beat Yu Iizuka & Jun Tonsho. Kamino pinned Tonsho after a lariat.

Match 2: Takanori Ito & Yusuke Kodama beat Check Shimatano & KAZMA SAKAMOTO. Kodama pinned Shimatani after a frog splash.

Match 3: Tetsuya Izuchi beat Jack Cartwheel by submission.

Match 4: Soma Watanabe & Yuya Susumu beat Minoru Tanaka & Kaz Hayashi. Watanabe pinned Hayashi after Firebird Splash.

Match 5: Ryuichi Kawakami, Quiet Storm & Daisuke Sekimoto beat Kotaro Suzuki, Hartley Jackson & Keiichi Sato. Storm pinned Sato after 50cm Arm Lariat.

Match 6: KAIRI, Nanae Takahashi & Yukari Hosokawa beat Kurumi Hiragi, MICHIKO (Michiko Miyagi) & Janai Kai. KAIRI pinned MICHIKO after Insane Elbow.

Main Event: Shuji Ishikawa, Yuma Aoyagi & Atsuki Aoyagi (All-Japan) beat T-Hawk, El Lindaman & Junjie. Ishikawa pinned Junjie after Splash Mountain.

The next event is Sunday at Nagoya Diamond Hall in Nagoya. Broadcast plans TBA.

Injury Report: Someone Not Feeling GLEAT

In another last-minute change to an upcoming event, GLEAT has announced Hayato Tamura is now off tomorrow’s event. Acute bronchitis. Is considered questionable for the following event on 9/24. Updates to follow.

More as it becomes available.

DDT 9/18/23 Results (2 Events)

DDT held 2 separate events yesterday-a mid-major event in Nagoya then a special one-match event held on an actual running bullet train. Yep, only in DDT.

The first event was held at Nagoya International Conference Center Event Hall and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 531, a full house/near sellout.

A public signing ceremony for next week’s KO-D Openweight Championship match between Chris Brookes & Saki Akai was held before the event began.

Match 1: Kazuma Sumi beat Rukiya.

Match 2: Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno beat Sanshiro Takagi & Takeshi Masada and Kazuki Hirata & Akito in a 3-way by ref stoppage (TKO) when Iino beat Masada.

Match 3: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON beat Hideki Okatani, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku. KANON beat Koroku with a cobra twist.

Match 4: Shigehiro Irie, Kazusada Higuchi & Yuki Ishida beat Yuji Hino, Makoto Oishi & Tetsuya Endo. Irie pinned Oishi after Beast Bomber. Afterwards, Hino announced his regular DDT participation will end after this week.

Match 5: In an Exploding Bat & Board Death Match, Jun Akiyama & Kotaro Suzuki beat All-Asia Tag Team Champions Atsushi Onita & Yoshitatsu (All-Japan) to win the titles. Akiyama & Suzuki become the 120th All-Asia Tag Team Champions. Akiyama pinned Yoshitatsu after a sandwich style exploding bat full swing. Next up: TBA but under normal rules-no more death matches.

Match 6: HARASHIMA & Yukio Naya beat Yuki Ueno & Toi Kojima. Naya pinned Kojima after The World’s Largest Backdrop.

Main Event: Minoru Suzuki, Yukio Sakaguchi & Saki Akai beat Chris Brookes, MAO & Antonio Honda. Akai pinned Honda after Quetzalcoatl.

The second event was held on a bullet train from Tokyo to Nagoya and will be available as a PPV via Ticket Pia beginning Saturday. It should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date.

The announced paid attendance was 75, a super full house/very near sellout.

Result: In a Falls Count Anywhere match, Minoru Suzuki beat Sanshiro Takagi in 37:29. Takeshi Masada, Danshoku Dieno, Hikaru Sato, Jun Akiyama & Kazunori Mutakami all somehow got involved. Afterwards, Takagi suddenly retired but it was a false retirement as he attacked Suzuki halfway through the ceremonial 10 count.

The next event is Who’s Gonna TOP? 2023 Sunday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. Live results are scheduled.

Tokyo Joshi Pro 9/18/23 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continues the CITY CIRCUIT Tour today with their twice-yearly SKE48-focused event in Nagoya, featuring a mini-live concert by the group and the last chance for some AA Eye Candy.

Today’s event was held at Nagoya International Conference Center Event Hall in Nagoya and can be watched on demand on WRESTE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 681, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Suzume beat Shino Suzuki.

Match 2: Arisu Endo & Haru Kazashiro beat Kaya Toribami & Runa Okubo. Endo beat Okubo with a camel clutch.

An SKE48 mini-concert featuring Yuki Arai was held. This will only be available on demand for the next month.

Match 3: Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & HIMAWARI beat Hyper Misao, Raku & Pom Harajuku. Tatsumi beat Harajuku with a dragon sleeper. SKE48 member Shiori Aoki was the special referee, making her second such appearance in TJPW.

Match 4: Yuki Kamifuku, Mahiro Kiryu & Toga beat Hikari Noa, Nao Kakuta & Wakama Uehara. Kamifuku pinned Uehara after Fameasser.

Match 5: Mizuki & Shoko Nakajima beat Miyu Yanashita & Maki Itoh. Mizuki pinned Yamashita.

Main Event: Yuki Arai & Saki Akai beat Yuki Aino & Moka Miyamoto. Akai pinned Miyamoto after Double Newcomer Award. Now it’s on to their first and last single match before Akai retires later this year.

The next event is Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Tokyo with Akai returning as Saki-sama one more time alongside May Saint-Michel (Mei Suruga) to face Miu Watanabe & Shino Suzuki in the only official match so far. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 8:30 PM PT/11:30 PM ET.

New Japan 9/17/23 Results

New Japan continued the Road to DESTRUCTION Tour today with the last televised event of this part of the series.

Today’s event was held at Fukuoka Island City Forum in Fukuoka and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1253, a legit sellout.

Match 1: Hiromu Takahashi beat Yuto Nakahsima.

Match 2: Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe beat Boltin Oleg & Oskar Leube. Makabe pinned Leube after a King Kong kneedrop.

Match 3: Yoh, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask & Satoshi Kojima, Yano pinned TM 4.

Match 4: Bad Dude Tito, Shane Haste, Mikey NIcholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Kazuchika Okada. Nicholls pinned YOSHI-HASHI after Highway To Hell.

Match 5: BUSHI, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Callum Newman, HENARE, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb. Tsuji pinned NEwman after Gene Blaster.

Match 6: Best of 7 Series Match 2: El Desperado, Ren Narita & Minoru Suzuki beat Master Wato, Shota Umino & Yuji Nagata. Desperado pinned Wato after Pinche Loco. 1-0 with 1 draw.

Main Event: TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Taichi & SANADA beat Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi, Sho & EVIL. SANADA pinned Togo after a rounding body press.

Also, before the event the results of fan voting for the upcoming KOPW 2023 Title match between Taichi & Sho were announced. Taichi’s rules won so it will be a Seconds Handcuffed Match, meaning all members of House Of Torture will be handcuffed to all members of Just 5 Guys at ringside (no Yoshinobu Kanemaru, who is out due to injury. Sho had proposed a 10 Minute Guaranteed Winner match, which would’ve been a match with a 10 minute time limit, and if it went to a time limit draw Sho would’ve won, Taichi would’ve been banned from using Black Mephisto and Sho also wanted additional rules due to the size difference between them (Sho is a Jr. Heavyweight while Taichi is a Heavyweight). one being Taichi also would have been banned from using Dangerous Backdrop. Taichi’s rules won the vote by a margin of roughly 62.7% to 37.3%. The match will be on 9/24.

The next event is tomorrow at Dejima Messe Nagasaki in Nagasaki. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. None of the 4 events this week will be available live or on demand.