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DEVELOPING: Forbidden Door Presser Early Tomorrow (6/6/23) (Updated)

A Twitter post by New Japan and upcoming YouTube broadcast by AEW have announced a Forbidden Door related press conference tomorrow with Will Ospreay and Kazuchika Okada scheduled to attend. This is in Japan so live streaming begins at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. It will be available on New Japan World and AEW’s YouTube channel.

More tomorrow.

UPDATE: IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay for the title and Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada were announced for Forbidden Door at the presser.

New Japan News: Another Upcoming Title Match in ROH (SPOILERS!)

At the latest Ring Of Honor TV tapings held yesterday in Orlando, FL, there was another New Japan title match held as part of what should be a couple weeks of TV to air in the upcoming weeks. It’s not known when this will be streamed (could be this Thursday, could be next Thursday or even later on) but if you want to know ahead of time, read on (SPOILERS!).

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News: ALL TOGETHER AGAIN Full Card Announced

The full card for Friday’s ALL TOGETHER AGAIN New Japan/All-Japan/Pro Wrestling NOAH card was finalizes today. New Japan announced the entire card which is as follows:
Pre-show (scheduled for 30 minutes before event): Ryo Inoue, Black Menso-re, Yoh & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Atsushi Kotoge, Seiki Yoshioka, Alejandro & Super Crazy
Main show (in order):
YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Yoshiki Inamura
Kosei Fujita & Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Chris Ridgeway & Sean Legacy
Shota Umino vs. Yoshitatsu
Hokuto Omori & Shuji Ishikawa vs. Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima
Ren Narita, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Junta Miyawaki
Francesco Akira, TJP, Aaron Henare, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb vs. Jun & Rei Saito, Hikaru Sato, Dan Tamura & Ryuki Honda
BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito vs. Yuji Nagata, Suwama & Yuma Anzai
TAKA Michinoku, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & SANADA vs. Jake Lee, YO-HEY & Tadasuke
AMAKUSA, Atsuki Aoyagi & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Master Wato, Rising Hayato & HAYATA
Kaito Kiyomiya, Kento Miyahara & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada, Yuma Aoyagi & Kenoh

With the pre-show match added, the start time is now 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET. The event is available only as a PPV on New Japan World for about $30. The PPV window is expected to be 3 months and commentary will be by the New Japan broadcast team. This suggests the earliest it could possibly be available on AJPW.TV and WRESTLE UNIVERSE (or as a non-PPV on New Japan World) is roughly September 10.

New Japan News: Full G1 Climax 33 Participation List

Following up on yesterday’s announcement at the New Japan event, here is the full entry list for this year’s G1 Climax 33 Tournament:
Kazuchika Okada
Tetsuya Naito
SANADA
Will Ospreay
Hiroshi Tanahashi
David Finlay
Shota Umino
Shingo Takagi
Tomohiro Ishii
Tama Tonga
Tanga Loa
Hikuleo
Hirooki Goto
YOSHI-HASHI
Toru Yano
KENTA
Zack Sabre Jr.
Taichi
El Phantasmo
Eddie Kingston
Ren Narita
EVIL
Chase Owens
Jeff Cobb
Great-O-Khan
Aaron Henare
Gabriel Kidd
Alex Coughlin
Shane Haste
Mikey Nicholls
Yota Tsuji
Kaito Kiyomiya (Pro Wrestling NOAH)

Okada is the 2-time defending champion and going for a 3-peat and should be considered the heavy favorite. Naito is a 2-tine winner, Tanahashi a 3-time winner and Goto a one-time winner. Whoever wins gets a future IWGP World Hevayweight Championship match, traditionally on 1/4 at Tokyo Dome but this is not always the case.

The blocks will be announced Saturday.

Dragon Gate 6/4/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued the Rainbow Gate 2023 Tour today with a return home to Kobe for a house show.

Today’s event was held at Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

The announced paid attendance was 394.

Match 1: YAAMTO, Don Fujii & Naruki Doi beat Dragon Kid, Kagetora & Eita. Doi pinned Kagetora.

Match 2: In an Open The Owarai Gate Championship Practice Match, Problem Dragon beat Ichikawa in 25 seconds.

Match 3: ISHIN won a 10 man battle royal, last eliminating La Estrella.

Match 4: Kota Minoura, BxB Hulk, Ben-K & Minorita beat Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki, Yasushi Kanda & Ryoya Tanaka. Minorita pinned Tanaka after Minoritanic.

Match 5: Shun Skywalker & KAI beat Strong Machine J & U-T. KAI pinned U-T after Meteor Impact.

Main Event: Madoka Kikuta, Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu & Jason Lee. Kikuta pinned Shimizu after a rolling lariat.

The next event is Tuesday at Loisir Hotel Toyohashi in Aichi. There will be no broadcast.

In other news, additional matches for Kobe Pro Wrestling Festical on 7/2 have been announced:
Open The Brave Gate Champion Jason Lee vs. ISHIN for the title. But this is conditional on ISHIN making the 82 kg weight limit on 7/1. If he doesn’t, it will be a NON-TITLE match
Open The Triangle Gate Champions Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI vs. Kota Minoura, Minorita & Naruki Doi for the ttiles
Ultimo Dragon vs. Strong Machine J, Shun Skywalker & Diamante in a 4-way Cage Survival Mascara Contra Mascara Match. The ultimate loser will lose their mask
Kenoh (Pro Wrestling NOAH) participation among others

DDT 6/4/23 Results

DDT ran a special charity event in association with the Japan Para-Wrestling Federation today, raising funds for the association which, oddly, currently has only one member-former Olympic medalist Yoshiaki Yatsu who sometimes still competes despite having one prosthetic leg.

Today’s event was held at Odawara Arena Sub Arena in Kanagawa and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 280.

Match 1: Takeshi Masada beat Rukiya.

Match 2: Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani beat Kazuki Hirata & Toi Kojima. Akai pinned Hirata after Quetzalcoatl.

Match 3: Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno beat Takao Soma & Kazuma Sumi in 6 seconds. Iino pinned Sumi after a lariat. Which led to…
Match 3 (Again): Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno beat Takao Soma & Kazuma Sumi. Dieno pinned Sumi after Danshoku Driver.

Match 4: Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul beat Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku. Paul pinned Koroku after Death Valley Bomb.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno beat Akito.

Match 6: Yoshiaki Yatsu, Tetsuya Endo & Jun Akiyama beat Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Makoto Oishi. Yatsu beat Oishi.

Main Event: Yuji Hino, HARASHIMA & Yukio Sakaguchi beat Kazusada Higuchi, MAO & Yuki Ishida. HARASHIMA pinned Ishida after Blue Sword.

The next event is Saturday at Suminoe Maikon Hall in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast.

New Japan 6/4/23 Results

DOMINION, New Japan’s traditional June Osaka blowout event, is now in the books.

Today’s event was held at Osaka-jo Hall in Osaka and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. This event aired as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE 2023 on TV Asahi.

The announced paid attendance was 7040. Depending on the layout, that’s anywhere between 55-80% capacity (it has fixed seating of just under 9000 with movable seating adding up to 4500 more).

Pre-Show: In a Young Lions Challenge where Oskar Leube faces the other 3 Young Lions in 5 minute matches, with increasing prizes of meat from sponsors for each win, Leube went 0-1-2. No meat for you!

Match 1: IWGP US Heavyweight Championship #1 Contender Tournament: Will Ospreay beat Lance Archer to win the tournament. As a result, Ospreay will face Kenny Omega for the title at a later date.

Match 2: Titan, BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi. Titan pinned TAKA after Llave Immortal.

Match 3: Francesco Akira & TJP beat IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA to win the titles. Akira & TJP become the 72nd IWGP Je. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Akira pinned Knight after 2/2.

Match 4: NJPW WORLD TV Champion Zack Sabre Jr. beat Jeff Cobb to retain the title. V10(!) for Sabre.

Match 5: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan and Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL in a 3-way, when Goto pinned Takahashi, to win the vacant IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team and STRONG Tag Team Championships. YOSHI-HASHI & Goto become the 99th IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and 4th STEONG Tag Team Champions. Afterwards, Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin attacked the new champs and joined Bullet Club.

The G1 CLIMAX 33 participants were announced. They include Eddie Kingston from AEW and…Kaito Kiyomiya!!! LET THEM FIGHT!!! (Kazuchika Okada is on notice)

Match 6: NEVER Openweight Champion David Finlay beat El Phantasmo to retain the title. V1 for Finlay.

Match 7: IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi beat Master Wato to retain the title. V5 for Takahashi. The Way to the GrandMaster is not this way for Best Of The Super Junior winner Wato.

Match 8: NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Tomohiro Ishii, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada beat Shota Umino, Claudio Castagnoli & Jon Moxley to retain the titles. Okada pinned Umino after Rainmaker. V1 for the champs. Afterwards, Bryan Danielson issued a challenge to Okada.

Main Event: IWGP World Heavyweight Champion SANADA beat Yota Tsuji to retain the title. V2 for SANADA.

The G1 participants list will be posted later today.

The next event is ALL TOGETHER AGAIN, a joint charity event with All-Japan and Pro Wrestling NOAH, Friday at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. The event will be a live PPV on New Japan World for about $30 beginning at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. The non-PPV version will probably be available in mid-September.

DEVELOPING: Last-Minute NJPW Change For Today

New Japan has announced a last-minute change to the DOMINION card today: The NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championship and IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship matches have had their places on the card swapped. The latter will now be match 7 and the former is now match 8. This is because of Claudio Castagnoli having travel issues. The match is still on though.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling 6/4/23 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continues their spring house show tour today with the last event before their monthly major event next Sunday. With the Big 3 (Miyu Yamashita, Yuka Sakazaki, Maki Itoh) all still overseas until next week and several others still out with injuries, the rest of the roster gets more of the spotlight once again although the missing wrestlers will subdue the potential next week build. Tag matches will be an emphasis today with a pair of 6-women tag matches and one tag match alongside 3 single matches.

Today’s event will be held at Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. This should be another standard weekend matinee house show with a total running time of just under 2 hours.

Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Hikari Noa, Nao Kakuta & Wakana Uehara vs. Mahiro Kiryu, Haru Kazashiro & Runa Okubo
Yuki Kamifuku vs. Toga
Moka Miyamoto vs. Shino Suzuki
Hyper Misao vs. HIMAWARI
Mizuki & Suzume vs. Shoko Nakajima & Kaya Toribami
Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Arisu Endo vs. Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 11:30 PM ET/8:30 PM PT. The stream is scheduled to launch at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT.

8:26 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now…

We are LIVE from Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Looks on the small side for the venue, the ringside seats around the venue aren’t close to full and the “super seats” didn’t sell out in advance. Some fans may still be filing in but I’m going to estimate 175-200, which for these weekend events at the venue is on the low side.

The matches should begin in 15-20 minutes. During opening announcements, the first Up Up Girls solo event in over 4 years was announced. It will be next Saturday (6/10) at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and will feature 3 matches. No live broadcast.

The matches begin at 8:43 PM PT. Looks like hard camera only today.

Match 1: Moka Miyamoto vs. Shino Suzuki. 15 minute time limit
Result: Moka Miyamoto beat Shino Suzuki by submission

Match 2: Yuki Kamifuku vs. Toga. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Kamifuku beat Toga

Match 3: Hikari Noa, Nao Kakuta & Wakana Uehara vs. Mahiro Kiryu, Haru Kazashiro & Runa Okubo. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hikari Noa, Nao Kakuta & Wakana Uehara beat Mahiro Kiryu, Haru Kazashiro & Runa Okubo. Kakuta beat Kazashiro with an arm & neck choke.

Match 4: Hyper Misao vs. HIMAWARI. 15 minute time limit
Result: Hyper Misao beat HIMAWARI

Match 5: Mizuki & Suzume vs. Shoko Nakajima & Kaya Toribami. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mizuki & Suzume beat Shoko Nakajima & Kaya Toribami. Mizuki pinned Toribami after a diving foot stomp.

Main Event: Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Arisu Endo vs. Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku. 20 minute time limit
Result: Time Limit Draw

After the main event, Endo issued a challenge to Tatsumi for the International Princess Championship. But so did Aino. So it will be Aino-Endo for the next title shot on 6/11 with the winner getting to face Tatsumi, probably on 7/8 at SUMMER SUN PRINCESS ’23.

The next event, not counting the Up Up Girls one announced today, is “STICK OUT ’23” on 6/11 at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English will begin on 6/10 at 10 PM ET/7 PM PT.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 194.

Dragon Gate 6/3/23 Results

Dragon Gate continued the Rainbow Gate 2023 tour today with a house show in Shizuoka.

Today’s event was held at Fujisan Messe in Shizuoka. There was no broadcast.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Match 1: Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda beat BIGBOSS Shimizu, Jason Lee & U-T. Susumu Mochizuki pinned U-T after Yokosuka Cutter.

Match 2: BxB Hulk & Ben-K beat Kagetora & Ho Ho Lun. Ben-K pinned Lun after a spear.

Match 3: Yuki Yoshioka beat La Estrella.

Match 4: Diamante & KAI beat Kota Minoura & Minorita. Diamante pinned Minorita after a rotating tombstone piledriver.

Match 5: Kzy & Strong Machine J beat Madoka Kikuta & Dragon Dia. Kzy pinned Dia after a running elbow smash.

Main Event: Shuji Kondo, YAMATO & Dragon Kid beat Shun Skywalker, H-Y-O & ISHIN. Kondo pinned H-Y-O after a King Kong lariat.

The next event is tomorrow at Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.