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Tokyo Joshi Pro 1/29/23 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continued the Futari-wa Princess Max Heart Tournament today with the Semifinals.

Today’s event was held at Kasukabe Fureai Cube in Saitama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 251, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Mahiro Kiryu beat HIAMWARI.

Match 2: Mizuki beat Wakana Uehara by submission.

Match 3: Raku beat Yuki Aino & Neko Haruna in a 3-way by pinning Haruna.

Match 4: Yuki Arai, Suzume & Arisu Endo beat Hikari Noa, Nao Kakuta & Kaya Toribami. Suzume pinned Toribami after Ring A Bell.

Futari-wa Princess Max Heart Tournament Semifinals:
Match 5: Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh beat Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano. Itoh beat Nagano with Itoh Punish.
Main Event: Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao beat Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe. Nakajima pinned Tatsumi after a diving senton.
As a result, the Finals will be Yamashita/Itoh vs. Nakajima/Misao. That will happen on 2/11.

The next event is “Beyond the origin, to the future” tomorrow at Twin Box Akihabara in Tokyo, the promotion’s 10th Anniversary event. It will be a one-day single-elimination tournament, matches will not be in a ring but on small mats with no ropes, 5 minute time limits and only 1 or 2-count pinfalls. The entire roster will participate with the following exceptions: Yuka Sakazaki (in the US for All Elite Wrestling), Yuki Kamifuku (in Singapore for events), Yuki Arai (not scheduled to participate) and Wakana Uehara (scheduling conflicts), so 19 total. This will be a closed event with no fans in attendance and will be available as a PPV on WRESTLE UNIVERSE for around $27 for non-subscribers and around $20 for monthly subscribers (a 20% discount for subscribers). You must order the PPV via the website version of the service and not the mobile app, then you can use the app to watch. The live broadcast will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET. It’s not known when the replay will be available on demand for all subscribers.

Dragon Gate 1/28/23 Results

Dragon Gate ran the penultimate event of the Open The New Year Gate 2023 Tour today.

Today’s event was held at Fukuyama Big Rose in Hiroshima and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

The announced paid attendance was 274.

Match 1: Yuki Yoshioka & Dragon Dia beat BIGBOSS Shimizu & Jason Lee. Yoshioka pinned Lee after Battle Hook.

Match 2: Madoka Kikuta beat Punch Tominaga.

Match 3: Dragon Kid beat JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI & Eita in a 3-way by pinning KAMEI.

Match 4: Susumu Mochizuki, Mochizuki Jr. & Yasushi Kanda beat Ultimo Dragon, YAMATO & Genki Horiguchi. Kanda pinned Horiguchi after Yokosuka Cutter.

Match 5: Kzy beat Shachihoko BOY.

Main Event: Kota Minoura, Ben-K, BxB Hulk & Minorita beat Shun Skywalker, KAI, ISHIN & H-Y-O. Hulk pinned H-Y-O after First Flash.

The tour-ender is tomorrow at Heartful Mikumo Sports Culture Center in Mie. There will be no live broadcast.

DDT “Sweet Dreams! 2023″Results (1/29/23) (Updated)

DDT wraps up the “Sweet Dreams!” 2023 Tour today with their monthly major event, and it’s a major one indeed. There is an epic hoss fight alert for the main event-a few months ago Kazusada Higuchi & Yuji Hino completely re-wrote the epic chop-fest in a 30 minute time limit draw as part of the D KING GP 2022. Today, the rematch for the KO-D Openweight Championship. DDT is known for its wacky comedy wrestling but it has some serious and incredible matches, and with a 1 Hour time limit there’s certainly early MOTY potential here with a lot of big beefy goodness. There are also 2 more title matches (one of which could frighteningly see those deplorable Pheromones win the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship), the D GENERATIONS CUP Tournament continuing and Where The **** Is Daisuke Sasaki? Will he decide to suddenly re-appear today? Because of that last item, Card Subject To Change.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. There will be a pre-show with two matches including, since it’s time for the WWE Royal Rumble, a royal rumble-style comedy match of their own. Both pre-show matches will be part of the stream, which will start 45 minutes before the scheduled event time. Including the pre-show the event’s total running time should be just over 3 hours so if, like me, you have a split-screen/multi-screen setup to watch both events that will be going the entire time. You will also be able to watch the pre-show and the first 2 main show matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

Today’s lineup:
Pre-show:
Comedy “Royal Rumble”. At least 25 entrants listed so far
Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata vs. MJ Pawl & KANON, Antonio Honda & Akito and Yuya Koroku & Yuki Ishida in a 4-way

Main Show:
D GENERATIONS CUP: Hideki Okatani vs. Kazuma Sumi
D GENERATIONS CUP: Keigo Nakamura vs. Takeshi Masada
Shinya Aoki, Yuki Ueno & Toui Kojima vs. Tanomusaku Toba, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hikaru Machida
Naruki Doi, Jun Akiyama & Takao Soma vs. HARASHIMA, Chris Brookes & Yukio Naya
KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Tetsuya Endo, Kotaro Suzuki & Yusuke Okada vs. Danshoku Dieno, Yuki Iino & Koju Takeda for the titles
KO-D Tag Team Champions MAO & Shunma Katsumata vs. Makoto Oishi & Shiori Asahi for the titles
KO-D Openweight Champion Kazusada Higuchi vs. Yuji Hino for the title
If Daisuke Sasaki shows up, things may change

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 8:45 PM ET/5:45 PM PT. The pre-show matches are scheduled to begin at 8:50 PM ET/5:50 PM PT.

8:30 PM ET UPDATE: The live stream has launched early and is now running. The matches should begin in 20 minutes.

8:49 PM ET UPDATE: Live updates begin now…
We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Ken Kato, Haruo Murata & Kagehiro Osano.

Pre-show Match 1: Battle Royal. Eliminations by pinfall, submission and over the top rope.
Result: Fuminori Abe won. This was a comedy battle royal with most wrestlers appearing as parody/spoofs of other popular wrestlers from Japan and WWE, except for Abe & Sanshiro Takagi.
Pre-show Match 2: Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata vs. MJ Pawl & KANON, Antonio Honda & Akito and Yuya Koroku & Yuki Ishida in a 4-way. 10 minute time limit
Result: MJ Pawl & KANON beat Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata, Antonio Honda & Akito and Yuya Koroku & Yuki Ishida in a 4-way when KANON beat Honda.

The main show will begin at 9:30 PM ET/6:30 PM PT (about 8 minutes after the pre-show matches ended).

The paid attendance will be announced after the event but it’s still reduced capacity and vocal cheering is allowed. There still were tickets available earlier today so I’m guessing it’ll wind up around 550.

Updates will resume when the main show matches begin.

Apparently it’s MAO’s birthday as Shunma Katsumata sang Happy Birthday to him during GM Imabayashi’s opening announcements.

When the main broadcast begins at 9:30 PM ET/6:30 PM PT Takumi Yamagata replaces Haruo Murata on commentary. Your other hosts are (still) Ken Kato & Kagehiro Osano.

Main Show:
The matches begin at 9:36 PM ET/6:36 PM PT.
Match 1: D GENERATIONS CUP: Hideki Okatani vs. Kazuma Sumi. 15 minute time limit
Result: Hideki Okatani beat Kazuma Sumi

Match 2: D GENERATIONS CUP: Keigo Nakamura vs. Takeshi Masada. 15 minute time limit
Result: Keigo Nakamura beat Takeshi Masada

The YouTube broadcast ends here. Quick break for a few moments. During the break, Samuray Del Sol (the former Kalisto in WWE) vs. Yuki Ueno is announced for 3/21.

Your new host is Haruo Murata with Kagehiro Osano.

Match 3: Shinya Aoki, Yuki Ueno & Toui Kojima vs. Tanomusaku Toba, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hikaru Machida. 30 minute time limit
Result: Shinya Aoki, Yuki Ueno & Toui Kojima beat Tanomusaku Toba, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hikaru Machida. Aoki pinned Machida.

Match 4: Naruki Doi, Jun Akiyama & Takao Soma vs. HARASHIMA, Chris Brookes & Yukio Naya. 30 minute time limit
Result: HARASHIMA, Chris Brookes & Yukio Naya beat Naruki Doi, Jun Akiyama & Takao Soma. HARASHIMA pinned Soma after Blue Sword.

Match 5: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Tetsuya Endo, Kotaro Suzuki & Yusuke Okada vs. Danshoku Dieno, Yuki Iino & Koju Takeda for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Tetsuya Endo, Kotaro Suzuki & Yusuke Okada beat Danshoku Dieno, Yuki Iino & Koju Takeda to retain the titles. Endo pinned Dieno after Burning Star Press. V1 for the champs. Next up: Super Sasadango Machine, Yuki Ueno & Shinya Aoki. Machine appeared via taped promo. That match will happen on 2/26 at Korakuen.

Match 6: KO-D Tag Team Champions MAO & Shunma Katsumata vs. Makoto Oishi & Shiori Asahi for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Resule: KO-D Tag Team Champions MAO & Shunma Katsumata beat Makoto Oishi & Shiori Asahi to retain the titles. Katsumata pinned Oishi. V1 for the champs. Next up: Sanshiro Takagi & ? (Not sure if it was Fuminori Abe or someone else). Probably on 2/26 but they teased something involving Burlesqe Tokyo. Yeah, misspelled that way.

Main Event: KO-D Openweight Champion Kazusada Higuchi vs. Yuji Hino for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Yuji Hino beat KO-D Openweight Champion Kazusada Higuchi to win the title. Hino becomes the 80th KO-D Openweight Champion. Beyond epic hoss fight and then some, barely 5 minutes in and they both looked like huge slabs of rare Wagyu Beef. Drop the $7.50 or whatever a month for WRESTLE UNIVERSE because you NEED to see this match. And infinite credit to Higuchi for one of the best reigns ever and really taking his role as the new generation flagbearer for DDT seriously and with great pride. Next up: Hino nominated Yukio Naya…but hold on, because out came the eternal pride of DDT since Day 1, HARASHIMA. GM Imabayashi decided there will be a determination match between Naya & HARASHIMA for the next title shot on 2/26. So that means Hino’s first defense will probably come at the 5 Hour anniversary event on 3/21 at Korakuen.

The next event is 2/5 at Osaka Azalea Taisho in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 777, a legit sellout.

The KO-D Tag Team Championship match of MAO & Shunma Katsumata vs. Sanshiro Takagi & Fuminori Abe will happen on 2/24 at Burlesque Tokyo club in Tokyo. Tickets just went on sale for the event and will be limited to 98.

New Japan 1/28/23 Results

New Japan continued the Road to THE NEW BEGINNING Tour today with another non-televised house show event, the first following reports that the Japanese government has lifted all restrictions on capacity and vocal cheering at live events in place since the coronavirus pandemic began. However, vocal cheering was not allowed today.

Today’s event was held at Koga City ES Central Sports Park Hanamomo Gyn in Ibaraki. There was no live broadcast and no on demand video will be available.

The announced paid attendance was 934.

Match 1: Great-O-Khan beat Ryohei Oiwa by submission.

Match 2: Tiger Mask & Toru Yano beat Oskar Leube & Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Yano pinned Leube.

Match 3: Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo beat Master Wato & Tomoaki Honma. Phantasmo pinned Honma after Sudden Death.

Match 4: Jado & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Gedo & KENTA. Tanahashi beat Gedo with a Texas Cloverleaf.

Match 5: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Yuto Nakashima, YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Foto & Tomohiro Ishii. Haste pinned Nakashima after Dynamic Bomb.

Match 6: Francesco Akira, TJP, Aaron Henare & Will Ospreay beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi. Ospreay pinned TAKA after Hidden Blade.

Main Event: Yoh, Ryusuke Taguchi, Shota Umino, Togi Makabe & Kazuchika Okada beat BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito. Yoh pinned BUSHI after Direct Drive.

The next event is Monday at Iwate Prefectural Gym in Iwate. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

Ganbare Pro 1/28/23 Results (3 Events)

Ganbare Pro ran a special tripleheader of house shows today, beginning with a morning matinee as a regular event, followed by a mid-afternoon Shuichiro Katsumura Produced event and finally an evening wrestler-produced evevnt.

Today’s events were held at Oji Basement MON*STAR in Tokyo and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There were no live broadcasts.

Event 1:
The announced paid attendance was 75.

Match 1: Young Ganbare Cup: Yuki Kanzaki beat Sotatsu Nakamura by submission.

Match 2: Young Ganbare Cup: Kentaro Hachisu beat Yumehito Imanari.

Match 3: Yuna Manase beat Yoshiko Hasegawa.

Match 4: Takao Soma, Shinichiro Tominaga & HARUKAZE beat Keisuki Ishii, Shota & Yuuri. Soma pinned Shota after a reverse Gory Special Bomb.

Main Event: Mizuki Watase & Taison Maeguchi beat Ken Ohka & Tanomusaku Toba. Watase pinned Toba after an elbow butt.

Event 2:
The announced paid attendance was 79.

Match 1: In a 3-man grappling match series, Shuichiro Katsumura went 2-0-1 as follows:
Katsumura beat Sotatsu Nakamura.
Katsumura beat HARUKAZE.
Katsumura vs. HARASHIMA (DDT) went to a 5 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Yumehito Imanari, Shinichiro Tominaga & Moeka Haruhi beat Ken Ohka, Maori Kawashima & Yuuri. Haruhi pinned Yuuri after 79.5MHz.

Match 3: Takuya Wada beat Hong Kong International Policemen by ref stoppage in just 26 seconds. Which led to…
Takuya Wada beat Hong Kong International Policeman by submission.

Main Event: HARASHIMA, Mizuki Watase & Keisuke Ishii beat Shuichiro Katsumura, Takeshi Okada & Taison Maeguchi. HARASHIMA pinned Okada after Blue Sword.

Event 3:
The announced paid attendance was 92, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Young Ganbare Cup; Yumehito Imanari beat Yuki Kanzaki by submission.

Match 2: Young Ganbare Cup: Kentaro Hachisu vs. Sotatsu Nakamura went to a double countout.

Match 3: Moeka Haruhi & Itsuki Aoki beat Yuna Manase & Yuuri. Aoki pinned Yuuri after a frog splash.

Match 4: Young Ganbare Cup Finals: Yumehito Imanari beat Kentaro Hachisu to win the tournament. Of course the veteran and part of those deplorable Pheromones wins.

Main Event: In a survival elimination tag team match (eliminations by pinfall, submission, over the top rope), where the first team to be left with only one man remaining loses, Keisuke Ishii, Shota, Shinichiro Tominaga & Hartley Jackson beat Mizuki Watase, Ken Ohka, Shuichiro Katsumura & Takao Soma. Order of elimination: Katsumura, Soma, Ohka, Shota, Jackson, either Watase or Ohka. Because the Watase team had only one man left at that point, they could not continue and thus lost. The match in total went over 46 minutes.

The next event is 2/23 with another tripleheader. Broadcast plans TBA.

New Japan 1/27/23 Results

On a pivotal day in Japan where the Japanese government apparently lifted all capacity and vocal cheering restrictions for events despite another coronavirus surge, New Japan held their first house show of the year as wrestlers celebrated the lifting of these restrictions that have been in place for years.

Today’s event was held at Funabashi City General Gym in Chiba. There was no live broadcast and no on demand video will be available.

The announced paid attendance was 760.

Match 1: Aaron Henare beat Yuto Nakashima.

Match 2: Tiger Mask & Togi Makabe beat Oskar Leube & Huroyoshi Tenzan. Makabe pinned Leube after a King Kong kneedrop.

Match 3: Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo beat Jado & Master Wato. Phantasmo pinned Jado after Sudden Death.

Match 4: Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Gedo & KENTA by DQ. Gedo DQ’d.

Match 5: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Ryohei Oiwa, YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto. Nicholls pinned Oiwa after a sliding lariat.

Match 6: Francesco Akira, TJP, Great-O-Khan & Will Ospreay beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi. Ospreay pinned TAKA after Hidden Blade.

Main Event: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Yoh, Ryusuke Taguchi, Shota Umino, Tomoaki Honma & Kazuchika Okada. Takahashi pinned Taguchi after Time Bomb 2.

The next event is tomorrow at Koga City ES Central Sports Park Hanamomo Gym in Ibaraki. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

Additionally, last Saturday’s NJPW-NOAH crossover event is now available on New Japan World for all subscribers (no more PPV). If you are a WRESTLE UNIVERSE subscriber, their version will premiere on the service TONIGHT at 10 PM ET/7 PM PT and should be available on demand later this weekend (their version was an ABEMA PPV and their PPV window runs until early tomorrow).

(Correction: WRESTLE UNIVERSE on demand version is now available per their Japanese Twitter)

(Further clarification on above: Only the Japanese version is now on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. Tonight will be the premiere of the English version)

DEVELOPING: GLEAT Announces UWF Championship Tournament

In a series of posts on Twitter, GLEAT has announced a tournament to crown an inaugural Lidet UWF Champion. Based on Akira Maeda’s 1980s-1990s promotion of hybrid wrestling & shootfighting, UWF matches are featured on GLEAT and sometimes G PROWRESTLING events and combine wrestling with MMA, with differences being there are no pinfalls and no closed fist strikes and matches end by KO with a 10 count down like in boxing or by TKO-fighters start with 5 points and lose a point for each down and rope break. Lose 5 points and that ends it. There are also tag team fights called Double Bouts, but only one fighter on each team is ever in at one time.

The tournament will have 8 participants and begin on 3/7 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo with the Quarterfinals and some non-tournament fights, and the rest plus championship belt reveal on 4/12 at Korakuen Hall. The participants and first fights are are Soma Watanabe vs. Hikaru Sato, Takanori Ito vs. Dan Tamura, Tetsuya Izuchi vs. Shinya Aoki and Yu Iizuka vs. Minoru Tanaka.

More as it becomes available.

Impact Wrestling 1/26/23 Results

Here are the quick results from tonight’s IMPACT Wrestling from Atlanta, GA, not including the results from the Before The Impact pre-show available FOR FREE on YouTube:
These results are from the YouTube Ultimate Insiders version that begins 30 minutes after the AXS TV airing starts, it’s the same program just with no ads. Note that the program was taped several weeks ago however I DO NOT read spoilers before the show airs so I have no advance knowledge of what happened.

The pre-show match was Zicky Dice vs. Carlie Bravo.

Match 1: Impact X Champion Trey Miguel beat Mike Jackson to retain the title. Jackson is maybe the oldest active wrestler in the world at 73.

Match 2: KUSHIDA & Kevin Knight beat The Good Hands (John Skyler & Jason Hotch). KUSHIDA beat Hotch with a kimura.

Match 3: Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champions Death Dollz (Taya Valkyrie & Jessicka) beat Gisele Shaw & Tara to retain the titles. Jessicka pinned Shaw after Sick Driver after Tara turned on Shaw.

There will be 3 weekends of Chicago events in April, July & October as part of a first-ever season pass ticket package. October will include Bound For Glory, Impact’s biggest PPV of the year.

Match 4: Bullet Club (Ace Austin & Chris Bey) beat Major Players (Matt Cardona & Brian Myers). Austin pinned Cardona with a Bey-assisted bridge,

Match 5: Jonathan Gresham beat Sheldon Jean.

Main Event: Rich Swann beat Rhino, Eddie Edwards, Chris Sabin, Moose and Sami Callahan in a Golden 6 Shooter 6-way elimination match (eliminations by pinfall, submission or DQ), last eliminating Callahan. Order of elimination: Rhino by Callahan, Edwards by Sabin, Sabin by Moose, Moose by Swann, Callahan by Swann. As a result, Swann will face Impact World Champion Josh Alexander for the title at No Surrender on 2/24 in Las Vegas, NV.

Next week (announced tonight): Bullet Club vs. Knight/KUSHIDA & Gisele Shaw vs. Savannah Evans,

FREE VIDEO: Jay Briscoe Tribute Special

In case you missed it from other posts, here is the full Jay Briscoe Tribute Special put together by All Elite Wrestling & Ring Of Honor which premiered overnight after the west feed replay of AEW Dynamite (FYi: Running time is over 3 hours):