BREAKING: WRESTLING DONTAKU ’22 has been forced to see last-minute lineup changes as New Japan has announced both Tatsumi Fujinami & Will Ospreay are now off Sunday’s event. Coronavirus. Ospreay’s absence is significant because he was to have faced Hiroshi Tanahashi for the vacant IWGP US Heavyweight Championship. Tomohiro Ishii is the replacement and will face Tanahashi now. The outcome could now affect Capital Collosion on 5/14 because Ishii is to face Eddie Kingston, so if Ishii wins it maybe could become a title match. Fujinami was to have been in the opening 6-man tag. A mystery opponent will step in.
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AEW Rankings 4/27/22
Below are the official AEW Updated Rankings for 4/27/22 (Source: AEW official Twitter):
BREAKING: 4/30 NOAH Main Event Off (Updated)
Pro Wrestling NOAH announced a short time ago that Saturday’s MAJESTIC 2022 main event is off for now. GHC Heavyweight Champion Kazuyuki Fujita, who was to have defended against Go Shiozaki, has tested positive for the coronavirus. Replacement details TBA.
Updates to come…
UPDATE: The GHC Heavyweight Championship is now VACANT. Fujita has vacated the title. Determination match between Go Shiozaki & TBA on Saturday to crown a new champion will be the replacement. TBA will be announced Friday but Yahoo News Japan reports Kaito Kiyomiya wants to be the TBA even though he’s already in another match.
DEVELOPING: DDT 5/1 Card Change
DDT has just announced a change to the card for 5/1 (Sunday) at Yokohama Budokan: Gorgeous Matsuno is now off due to family circumstances. He was to have teamed with Sanshiro Takagi, Yoshiaki Yatsu, Akito & Kazuki Hirata to face KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions Poison Sawada JULIE, Takashi Sasaki, GENTARO, MIKAMI & Tanomusaku Toba for the titles. Gota Ihashi is the replacement and the match is still for the titles.
Tokyo Joshi Pro Upcoming Cards Updates
Tokyo Joshi Pro has announced the full cards for this week’s events and an update for 5/5 at Osaka Prefectural Gym #2:
First, 5/5-the second official match is Saki Akai & Yuki Kamifuku vs. Miu Watanabe & Miyu Yamashita. The first official match (previously announced) is Yuki Arai, Suzume, Moka Miyamoto & Arisu Endo vs. all the current champions at the time (Maki Itoh is set, meaning there likely will be no International Princess Championship match on 5/3). Those other 3, and the rest of the card, will be announced after the 5/3 event.
The full cards for this week’s events, both at Ryogoku KFC Hall (and unless she tests positive for the coronavirus, Shoko Nakajima will be back for both):
4/29 (Friday):
Miu Watanabe vs. Neko Haruna
Yuki Aino vs. Kaya Toribami
Hikari Noa & Nao Kakuta vs. Rika Tatsumi & Arisu Endo
Miyu Yamashita vs. Moka Miyamoto
Shoko Nakajima & Pom Harajuku vs. Hyper Misao & Suzume
Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Raku vs. Maki Itoh, Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu
4/30 (Saturday):
Yuki Aino vs. Arisu Endo
Suzume vs. Kaya Toribami
Maki Itoh vs. Moka Miyamoto
Rika Tatsumi vs. Raku & Neko Haruna in a 3-way
Miyu Yamashita & Miu Watanabe vs. Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu
Shoko Nakajima, Yuka Sakazaki & Mizuki vs. Hyper Misao, Nao Kakuta & Hikari Noa
Pom Harajuku will miss Saturday due to family circumstances.
Both events will be brodcast LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE beginning Thursday and Friday at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT.
Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling 4/24/22 Results
Tokyo Joshi Pro continues their Spring ’22 house show tour with the first event of a very busy week-3 events are scheduled over the next 6 days leading into their big Golden Week doubleheader the following week (Golden Week is a week-long holiday in Japan and is full of major events). One notable name who will not be present today is Shoko Nakajima-she was in England today for a match in Pro Wrestling EVE, one of the top women’s promotions in Europe. Her status for next week’s events will depend on current coronavirus re-entry protocols for Japanese citizens-if the mandatory isolation/quarantine period is longer than 3 days, she is probably out of both events but should be good for May unless she gets the virus.
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. If you’re going to stay up late to watch, lots of single matches will make this a fast event-I anticipate the total running time being just under 2 hours (post-show update: Total event runtime was just 100 minutes).
Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Yuki Aino vs. Mahiro Kiryu
Rika Tatsumi vs. Kaya Toribami
Hyper Misao vs. Raku
Yuki Kamifuku & Neko Haruna vs. Suzume & Arisu Endo
Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh vs. Miu Watanabe & Pom Harajuku
Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Yuki Arai vs. Hikaru Noa, Nao Kakuta & Moka Miyamoto
Updates below will begin at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT.
10:56 PM ET: Live stream has started.
We are LIVE from Ryogoku KFC Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
The matches should begin in about 20 minutes.
The matches begin at 11:15 PM ET.
Match 1: Yuki Aino vs. Mahiro Kiryu. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Aino beat Mahiro Kiryu.
Match 2: Rika Tatsumi vs. Kaya Toribami. 15 minute time limit
Result: Rika Tatsumi beat Kaya Toribami by submission.
Match 3: Yuki Kamifuku & Neko Haruna vs. Suzume & Arisu Endo. 20 minute time limit
Result: Suzume & Arisu Endo beat Yuki Kamifuku & Neko Haruna. Suzume pinned Haruna after Ring A Bell.
Match 4: Hyper Misao vs. Raku. 15 minute time limit
Result: Hyper Misao beat Raku by submission.
Match 5: Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh vs. Miu Watanabe & Pom Harajuku. 20 minute time limit
Result: Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh beat Miu Watanabe & Pom Harajuku. Itoh beat Harajuku with Iroh Perish.
Main Event: Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Yuki Arai vs. Hikaru Noa, Nao Kakuta & Moka Miyamoto. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hikari Noa, Nao Kakuta & Moka Miyamoto beat Yuka Sakazaki, Miizuki & Yuki Arai. Noa pinned Mizuki with a bridge after whipping Mizuki into an exposed corner where Kakuta removed the turnbuckle padding.
This will be updated tomorrow with attendance. They may claim a legit sellout but opposite hard camera there were a couple empty seats.
The next event is Friday (4/29). Live broadcast on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Thursday (4/28) at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT.
Post-Show UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 205, a legit sellout, but probably was a little less in actuality.
Also, according to WRESTLE UNIVERSE the 5/3 major event at Korakuen Hall will have English commentary as well as Japanese.
