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All-Japan 10/5/23 Results

All-Japan ran a special Rising Hayato Produced event today focused on younger wrestlers and those with less than 10 years of career experience.

Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 332, a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Dan Tamura & Fuminori Abe beat Ryo Inoue & Issei Onitsuka (GLEAT). Abe pinned Inoue.

Match 2: Ryuki Honda, Daiki Shimomura & Leo Isaka (?) beat Soma Watanabe, Jun Tonsho (GLEAT) & ?. Honda pinned ? after Final Vent.

Match 3: Hokuto Omori beat Takahiro Katori.

Match 4: Hayato Tamura, Check Shimatani (GLEAT) & Takaaki Iwasaki beat Jun & Rei Saito & Eien (?) Ieasaki. Tamura pinned Iwasaki after a lariat.

Match 5: Yuma Aoyagi & Takuya Nomura beat Yuma Anzai & Ayato Toshida. Aoyagi pinned Anzai after THE FOOL.

Main Event: Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato beat MAO & Rukiya (DDT). Hayato pinned MAO after Sid Vicious.

A second event of this theme has been announced for 12/21.

The next event is Sunday at Supaku Yamabe in Yamagata. There will be no live broadcast. It will be available on demand on AJPW.TV shortly after the evvent concludes.

DDT News: Full 11/12 Card Announced

DDT has announced the full card for their 11/12 blowout event at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, which is also the Saki Akai Retirement Event. Akai’s final match will be a loaded trios match as she teams with Eruption factionmates Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani to face a CyberFight all-star trio of Naomichi Marufuji from Pro Wresting NOAH, Miyu Yamashita from Tokyo Joshi Pro, and Kazusada Higuchi.

The full card:
KANON & MJ Paul vs. Naruki Doi & Kazuma Sumi, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku, Toi Kojima & Yuki Ishida and Takeshi Masada & Rukiya in a 5-way
Tokyo Joshi Pro 6-woman tag match. Participants will be announced at 10/9 TJPW event
Sanshiro Takagi, Akito, Makoto Oishi & Shinichiro Kawamatsu vs. Yoshitatsu, Yoshihiko, Danshoku Dieno & Super Sasadango Machine
Jun Akiyama, HARASHIMA & Yukio Naya vs. Toshizo, Jun & Rei Saito (All-Japan)
Daisuke Sasaki vs. Tetsuya Endo
Hiromu Takahashi (New Japan) vs. Kazuki Hirata
KO-D Tag Team Champions Takao Soma & Shota vs. Masa Takanashi & Antonio Honda for the titles
DDT Universal Champion Matt Cardona vs. MAO for the title
Saki Akai Retirement Match-“Strong, Noble, Beautiful”-Saki Akai, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Miyu Yamashita & Kazusada Higuchi
Chris Jericho (All Elite Wrestling) vs. Konosuke Takeshita
KO-D Openweight Champion Chris Brookes vs. Yuki Ueno for the title

AEW Dynamite 10/4/23 Results (Updated)

Here are the quick results from tonight’s AEW Dynamite 4th Anniversary event in Stockton, CA:

Renee Paquette interviews Chris Jericho & Kenny Omega backstage to start. Adam Copeland interrupts so we have a bunch of Canadians talking Canadian. Copeland has lost his Edge too.

Match 1: AEW International Champion Rey Fenix vs. Nick Jackson for the title
Result: AEW International Champion Rey Fenix beat Nick Jackson to retain the title.

Roderick Strong-Adam Cole comedy video. Cole’s ankle injury is legit. He’ll be out a while.

Match 2: Griff Garrison vs. (The Returning!) Wardlow
Result: Wardlow beat Griff Garrison by ref stoppage (KO).

Don Callis says Sammy Guevara is not cleared to compete tonight and is out. Kyle Fletcher is the replacement.

Strong-Cole segment replay due to what commentary says were audio issues on TBS. I didn’t notice any issues the first time (streaming on Apple TV).

Match 3: AEW Trios Champions The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn vs. The Butcher, The Blade & Kip Sabian for the titles
Result: AEW Trios Champions The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn beat The Butcher, The Blade & Kip Sabian to retain the titles.

Next week: Swerve Strickland vs. Bryan Danielson for an AEW TNT Title shot (#1 Contender match).

Toni Storm promo.

Bullet Club promo. They bring out MJF and he challenges them to a street fight. That brings out Jay White, who hits Bladerunner on MJF then challenges him for the AEW World Championship at Full Gear. MJF accepts.

Match 4: Chris Jericho & Kenny Omega vs. Konosuke Takeshita & Kyle Fletcher
Result: Chris Jericho & Kenny Omega beat Konosuke Takeshita & Kyle Fletcher. Omega pinned Fletcher after One Winged Angel. Powerhouse Hobbs cane out and beat down Jericho & Omega afterwards.

MJF interviewed in the trainer’s room as The Acclaimed walk in behind them. Max Caster tries to give MJF a shoulder massage but MJF freaks out. He tries to call Adam Cole but gets voicemail.

Match 5: Skye Blue vs. Toni Storm
Result: Toni Storm beat Skye Blue

Friday on Rampage: Jake Hager, Daniel Garcia, Angelo Parker & Matt Menard vs. The Hardys & Best Friends, Kris Statlander & Hikaru Shida vs. Nyla Rose & Marina Shafit and Johnny TV vs. Konamder, Penta El Zero M & Lince Dorado in a 4-way for an ROH World Championship shot.’

Saturday on Collision at a SPECIAL START TIME of 7 PM ET: FTR vs. Ricky Starks & Big Bill for the AEW Tag Team Titles and Toni Storm vs. Kiera Hogan.

Just added to Dynamite next Tuesday: Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Chris Jericho and Jay White vs. Adam Page. MLB Playoffs on TBS next Wednesday-this is the only scheduled postseason baseball pre-emption, anything further would be unscheduled if there are rainouts.

Adam Copeland speaks. He went right to the top of the hour then called out Christian Cage. He wanted them to team again one last time. They hugged out but then Cage turned against Copeland and brought out Lucahsaurus & Nick Wayne for a staredown. Copeland’s first AEW match is Tuesday vs. Luchasaurus although he will be at Collision Saturday. They went nearly 7 minutes on overrun.

It was another average show that felt like another letdown post-PPV, but the International Title match and tag team match were both good and are worth a look. The overrun provided a lot of intrigue so hopefully your DVR got that extra time, there were a lot of issues with TV listings for cable/satellite tonight so be prepared to perhaps seek the overrun out on YouTube.

End Show.

UPDATE: Callis’ comments on Guevara not being cleared were legit, as Guevara was injured at Sunday’s PPV. Concussion. Out indefinitely.

DDT 10/4/23 Results

DDT began the GOD BLESS SDT 2023 Tour today with what was billed as the farewell event for the Pheromones as they had to disband after today. Whether or not that’s good is up to you.

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

The announced paid attendance was 436, a super full house/very near sellout.

The main event was changed from an 8-man tag to a handicap match ahead of time because of a Koju Takeda injury.

Match 1: Takeshi Masada & Kazuma Sumo beat Kazuki Hirata & Makoto Oishi, with Masada pinning Hirata to win the DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship. Masada becomes the 1580th Champion. This set up a double title match on 10/22.

Match 2: Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku beat Hideki Okatani, Yukio Naya & Rukiya. Okada pinned Rukiya after Sudden Death.

Match 3: Tetsuya Endo & Kazusada Higuchi beat Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul. Higuchi pinned Paul after Brain Claw Slam.

Match 4: Yukio Sakaguchi & Saki Akai beat HARASHIMA & Gota Ihashi. Sakaguchi pinned Ihashi after New Face Award. Afterwards, Akai chose Sanshiro Takagi, Akito & Makoto Oishi to get the next KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship match. That match will happen on 10/15 in Hokkaido.

Match 5: Takao Soma & Shota beat KO-D Tag Team Champions Minoru Fujita & KANON to win the titles. Soma & Shota become the 80th KO-D Tag Team Champions. Shota beat Fujita with Gannosuke Clutch. Next up: Masa Takanashi & Antonio Honda. That match will happen on 11/12 at Ryogoku Kokugikan.

Main Event: Pheromones Final-In a Handicap Match, Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno & Yumehito Imanari vs. Akito, Yuki Ueno, MAO & Toi Kojima went to a no contest. GM Imabayashi stoppage. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: Yuki Iino beat GM Imabayashi by submission in 58 seconds. This may not be the end of those deplorable Pheromons as Akito declared a “Pheromone Trial” will begin at midnight tonight (8 AM PT/11 AM ET today). Check the YouTube and the socials…may be the end, may not be…

The next event is Saturday at Sanjo City Welfare Hall in Niigata. There will be no live broadcast.

Injury Report: Another Bum Rush (Updated)

And another absence to add to the growing body count as New Japan just added Lio Rush to the sidelined lists. Illness. Out tomorrow and Thursday. No mention of whether it may be coronavirus related. Ryusuke Taguchi is the replacement.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: Rush posted an update on social media in Japanese to the fans addressing this. Fever. And a very bad one at that-105. No word on his status after Thursday.

Injury Report: GLEAT Flamita Extinguished

GLEAT is among the several Japanese promotions affected by injuries lately, and another one gets added to the count-Flamita was injured at their 9/30 event past weekend. Broken nose. Out indefinitely and will miss their next event on 10/9. No replacement named yet.

More as it becomes available.

Injury Report: Stardom Has A Hernia Problem

Seriously. After announcing Utami Hayashishita was out with a cervical hernia, Stardom has announced so it Natsupoi. Cervical hernia. Out indefinitely. No further details were released.

More as it becomes available.

AEW WrestleDream Results (10/1/23)

Here are the LIVE quick results from tonight’s AEW WrestleDream PPV in Seattle, WA:

Updates will begin at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT.

Pre-show:

Tony Khan promo in the ring paying tribute to Antonio Inoki with Rocky Romero, Katsuyori Shibata and Inoki’s grandchildren.

Match 1: Diamante, Mercedes Martinez, Shane Taylor & Lee Moriarty vs. Satoshi Kojima, Keith Lee, Athena & Billie Starkz
Result: Satoshi Kojima, Keith Lee, Athena & Billie Starkz beat Diamante, Mercedes Martinez, Shane Taylor & Lee Moriarty. Kojima pinned Moriarty after a lariat.

Match 2: Josh Barnett vs. Claudio Castagnoli
Result: Claudio Castagnoli beat Josh Barnett

Match 3: Luchasaurus vs. Nick Wayne
Result: Luchasaurus beat Nick Wayne

Match 4: AEW Trios Champions The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn vs. Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Bad Dude Tito for the titles
Result: AEW Trios Champions The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn beat Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Bad Dude Tito to retain the titles. Max Caster pinned Tito after Mic Drop.

PPV:

Match 1: ROH World Tag Team Champion MJf vs. The Righteous in a handicap match for the titles. Co-champion Adam Cole is out due to injury
Result: ROH World Tag Team Champion MJF beat The Righteous to retain the titles.

Match 2: ROH World Champion & NJPW STRONG Openweight Champion Eddie Kingston vs. Katsuyori Shibata for the titles
Result: ROH World Champion & NJPW STRONG Openweight Champion Eddie Kingston beat Katsuyori Shibata to retain the titles.

Match 3: AEW TBS Champion Kris Statlander vs. Julia Hart for the title
Result: AEW TBS Champion Kris Statlander beat Julia Hart to retain the title.

Match 4: The Young Bucks vs. Lucha Bros, Gunn Club and Hook & Orange Cassidy in a 4-way for an AEW Tag Team Title shot
Result: The Young Bucks beat Gunn Club, Lucha Bros and Hook & Orange Cassidy by pinning Penta El Zero M. As a result, The Bucks get an AEW Tag Team Title shot in the future

Match 5: Swerve Steickland vs. Adam Page
Result: Swerve Strickland beat Adam Page

Match 6: Ricky Starks vs. Wheeler Yuta
Result: Ricky Starks beat Wheeler Yuta

Match 7: Bryan Danielson vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
Result: Bryan Danielson beat Zack Sabre Jr.

Match 8: Will Ospreay, Sammy Guevara & Konosuke Takeshita vs. Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi & Chris Jericho
Result: Will Ospreay, Sammy Guevara & Konosuke Takeshita beat Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi & Chris Jericho. Gievara pinned Jericho.

Match 9: AEW Tag Team Champions FTR vs. Aussie Open for the titles
Result: AEW Tag Team Champions FTR beat Aussie Open to retain the titles. Next up: The Young Bucks again.

Main Event: AEW TNT Champion Christian Cage vs. Darby Allin in a 2/3 Falls Match for the title (In progress update-it’s going, of course, to 3 falls to decide)
Result: AEW TNT Champion Christian Cage beat Darby Allin 2-1 to retain the title. Adam Copeland made his AEW debut during this match. You might know him as that (The Sinister) Edge guy from WWE, but now he has signed with AEW.

End Show.

The post-event media scrum is scheduled for 9 PM PT/midnight ET on YouTube, but on reality it will start 15-20 minutes after that

New Japan 10/1/23 Results (Updated)

New Japan continued the Road To DESTRUCTION Tout today with the second half of a weekend doubleheader in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World FOR FREE! No login or signup required!

Click below to watch in Japanese:

https://njpwworld.com/p/s_00660_11_1

Click below to watch in English:

https://njpwworld.com/p/s_00660_12_1

The announced paid attendance was 1062.

There were some last-minute changes to this event (and yesterday) due to no Yoh. Fever. Out indefinitely.

Before the event, House Of Torture attacked SANADA at the end of a pre-event autograph session.

Pre-Show: In an arm wresting match, Tanga Loa beat Chase Owens. Bullet Club attacked Loa afterwards.

Match 1: Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii beat Boltin Oleg & Oskar Leube. Ishii pinned Leube after a sliding lariat.

Match 2: HENARE & Jeff Cobb beat Yuto Nakashima & Hiroshi Tanahashi. HENARE pinned Nakashima after Rampage.

Match 3: Toya Tsuji & Shingo Takagi beat Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan. Takagi pinned Newman after Pumping Bomber.

Match 4: Best of 7 Series Match 5: Master Wato, Shota Unino & Yuji Nagata beat El Desperado, Ren Narita & Minoru Suzuki. Wato pinned Desperado after Recientemente 2. 2-2-1. So either the team that wins the 6th match takes the series or it will be a draw.

Match 5: Lio Rush, YOSHI-HASHI & Kazuchika Okada beat BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito. YOSHI-HASHI beat BUSHI with Butterfly Lock.

Match 6: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Taichi & SANADA. Kanemaru pinned TAKA.

Main Event: In an Elimination Match, Kevin Knight, KUSHIDA, El Phantasmo, Hikukeo, Tanga Loa & Tama Tonga beat Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Gabriel Kidd, Alex Coughlin, Chase Owens & David Finlay. Tonga was the only winner left, last eliminating Finlay.

The next event is Tuesday at Akita Terrsa on Akita. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. The next 3 events are non-televised with the next broadcast being Saturday’s tour-ender.

UPDATE: After the event New Japan announced Hirooki Goto, who has missed the last couple events due to an MCL injury, is now out the rest of the tour, which covers the rest of this week.