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Ring Of Honor “Final Battle 2022” Results (12/10/22)

Ring Of Honor holds it’s traditional final major event of the year today, Final Battle 2022, but compared to last year’s very sad theme where it marked the potential end of the promotion, there is a feeling of great optimism this year under All Elite Wrestling owner/founder Tony Khan’s ownership, in part because many are anticipating a new TV or streaming deal to get ROH back on the air is going to be announced soon, possibly this weekend. In the meantime, they wrap up the year with one final loaded card mixing up both ROH and AEW stars for 6 title matches. The main event will be a rematch of Chris Jericho and Claudio Castagnoli for the ROH World Championship, but there’s a stip with huge AEW implications-if Castagnoli loses and doesn’t win the title back, he must leave Blackpool Combat Club and join Jericho Appreciation Society. Just before that should be another Instant Classic as FTR defend the ROH Tag Team Championship one more time against The Briscoes in a Double Dog Collar Match.

Today’s event will be held at College Park Center at University Of Texas-Arlington in Artlington, TX and can be watched LIVE on PPV via major cable/satellite providers and Bleacher Report in the US. Outside of the US, it can be watched on ppv.com and FITE. There will also be a FREE 1 hour pre-show on YouTube before the PPV and the post-event media scrum will also stream on YouTube. Based on the media scrum planned start time and pre-show, this could be a marathon event with a total runtime of potentially 4-5 hours. Note that the earlier start time is because they didn’t want to go head-to-head with WWE and, in particular, UFC tonight-the latter has a PPV at 10 PM ET and AEW’s own MJF is scheduled to be in attendance. Also, they claimed on last night’s AEW Rampage there was no college football to go against in this time slot. Clearly Tony Schiavone doesn’t know about the tradition that is America’s Game-Army vs. Navy. ROH is going against it. (GO NAVY! BEAT ARMY!)

Today’s current lineup:
Pre-show:
Top Flight vs. The Kingdom
Willow Nightingale vs. Trish Adora
Jericho Appreciation Society vs. Shinobi Samurai Squad
Jeff Cobb vs. Mascara Dorada

PPV:
Blake Christian & AR Fox vs. Rush & Dralistico
Shane Taylor Promotions vs. Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland
ROH 6-Man Tag Team Champions Dalton Castle & The Boyz vs. Gates Of Agony for the titles
ROH Pure Champion Daniel Garcia vs. Wheeler Yuta for the title
ROH Women’s Champion Mercedes Martinez vs. Athena for the title
ROH TV Champion Samoa Joe vs. Juice Robinson for the title
ROH Tag Team Champions FTR vs. The Briscoes in a Double Dog Collar Match for the titles
ROH World Champion Chris Jericho vs. Claudio Castagnoli for the title. If Castagnoli loses, he must join JAS

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Updates below will begin at 3 PM ET/Noon PT. The Post-Event Media Scrum is currently scheduled to begin at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT.

2:45 PM ET UPDATE: The Pre-Show stream began at 11:40 AM PT/2:40 PM ET. The matches should begin in about 15 minutes.

2:53 PM ET UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from College Park Center at University Of Texas-Arlington in Artlington, TX. We see Bobby Cruise in the ring with microphone for a couple minutes before the feed cuts away again.

The stream resumes at 3 PM ET/Noon PT. Your hosts are Ian Riccaboni & Caprice Coleman.

Pre-show:
Match 1: Mascara Dorada vs. Jeff Cobb
Result: Jeff Cobb beat Mascara Dorada

Match 2: Matt Menard & Angelo Parker vs. Shinobi Shadow Squad (Eli Isom & Cheeseburger)
Result: Matt Menard & Angelo Parker beat Shinobi Shadow Squad. Parker pinned Isom.

Match 3; Willow Nightingale vs. Trish Adora
Result; Willow Nightingale beat Trish Adora

Match 4: Top Flight (Darius & Dante Martin) vs. The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett)
Result: Top Flight beat The Kingdom. Darius pinned Bennett. Maria Kanellis was ejected from ringside to set it up.

Updates will resume when the PPV begins.

PPV:
Match 1: Blake Christian & AR Fox beat Rush & Dralistico. Fox pinned Dralistico after 450 Splash.

Match 2: Athena beat ROH Women’s World Champion Mercedes Martinez to become THE NEW ROH WOMEN”S WORLD CHAMPION!

Match 3: Keith Lee & Swerve Strickland beat Shane Taylor Promotions (Shane Taylor & JD Griffey). Lee pinned Griffey after a fireman’s carry powerslam.

Match 4: The Embassy (Toa Liona, Kaun, Brian Cage) beat ROH 6-Man Tag Team Champions Dalton Castle & The Boyz to become THE NEW ROH 6-MAN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS!

Match 5: Wheeler Yuta beat ROH Pure Champion Daniel Garcia to become THE NEW ROH PURE CHAMPION!

Match 6: In a Dog Collar Match, The Briscoes beat ROH World Tag Team Champions FTR to become THE NEW ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS!

Match 7: ROH TV Champion Samoa Joe beat Juice Robinson to retain the title.

Main Event: Claudio Caatagnoli beat ROH World Champion Chris Jericho to become THE NEW ROH WORLD CHAMPION!

End Show.

The post-event media scrum on YouTube will begin shortly (as of 7:10 PM ET). (UPDATE: It is now scheduled to start at 7:15 PM ET)

UPDATE: At the end of the media scrum, Tony Khan revealed more about TV plans for ROH: For now, it will be on the re-launched HonorClub. It also will include all prior ROH TV content and more plus this and upcoming PPVs 90 days after they occur. For now the monthly price will stay the same as before-$9.99. You can go to watchroh.com to subscribe. Live events will likely stay on Bleacher Report as long as owner Warner Bros. Discovery wants it. Plans for the return of weekly TV will be revealed as the time gets closer. So the good news is it’s on the way and now seems to be when rather than if. Khan also noted that .while it will be a little later for PPV buy estimates due to the early start time, the live gate and attendance was the biggest ever for the Final Battle event.

Guests at the scrum were Athena, Claudio Castagnoli and Samoa Joe (who also had the AEW TNT Title belt and was acting very much in AEW character, making for some humorous moments). It ended at about 8:35 PM ET, running about 80 minutes. The whole thing can be watched on demand on YouTube.

AEW Rampage 12/9/22 Results

Here are the quick results from last night’s AEW Rampage in Austin, TX:
Jon Moxley beat Konosuke Takeshita.

Regina di WAVE Champion HIkaru Shida beat The Bunny to retain the title. And earn a shot at AEW Women’s Champion Jamie Hayter.

Lee Moriarty & Big Bill (W. Morrissey) beat Clayton Bloodstome & Izzy James. Bill pinned James after a chokeslam. Squash.

AEW All-Atlantic Champion Orange Cassidy beat TBA, picked by Kip Sabian and revealed to be Trent Seven, to retain the title.

This show came a week after the program’s worst ratings yet, leading Tony Khan to promise a fully loaded show tonight. Only the opening match is worth watching though, it was outstanding.

A Ruby Soho & Tay Melo Speaks segment advertised for the show never happened. Instead they’ll have a match next week on Dynamite.

Next Week: Winter Is Coming aka the annual “IT’S STINK! (Sting)” episode of Dynamite. Main Event is AEW World Champion MJF vs. Ricky Starks for the title AND the Dynamite Diamond Ring.

New Japan 12/10/22 Results

New Japan ran the final day of the Super Jr. Tag League today, which would see the top 2 teams in the standings advance to the Finals. 5 teams still had a chance to make it so there were a lot of possibilities.

Today’s event was held at Uwajima City Overall Gym in Ehime and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1001.

Match 1: Kosei Fujita & Ryohei Oiwa beat Oskar Leube & Yuto Nakashima. Fujita pinned Nakashima. The Young Lion Fujita gets the victory in his hometown.

Match 2: Match 2: El Desperado, Lance Archer & Minoru Suzuki beat Master Wato, Tomoaki Honma 7 YOSHI-HASHI. Archer beat Honma with EBD Claw.

Match 3: Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Gedo, Taiji ishimori & Bad Luck Fale. Naito pinned Gedo.

Super Jr. Tag League:
Match 4: Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA beat Robbie Eagles & Tiger Mask. Knight pinned TM 4 after a high-angle DDT.
Match 5: Dick Togo & Sho beat Clark Connors & Ryusuke Taguchi. Sho pinned Taguchi after Shock Arrow.
Match 6: DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru beat El Lindaman & Alex Zayne. DOUKI pinned Lindaman with Suplex De La Luna. As a result, the winners of the final 2 matches, if there were winners, would advance to the Finals.
Match 7: Lio Rush & Yoh beat Titan & BUSHI. Rush pinned BUSHI after Final Hour.
Main Event: Ace Austin & Chris Bey beat Francesco Akira & TJP. Bey pinned Akira after Rock-a-bye-Bey.
As a result, Rush/Yoh and Austin/Bey advance to the Finals.

The Final is Wednesday. The next event is tomorrow at Atelier Himeji in Hyogo with the final day of the World Tag League. The event is a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling 12/10/22 Results

Tokyo Joshi Pro continues the CITY CIRCUIT 2022 series with a visit to Hamamatsu City in Shizuoka Prefecture today. For the most part it’s a regular house show but there is a title match on tap-Miyu Yamashita will defend the EVE Championship against Rio, and it’s been decided that it will have EVE rules. This differs from a regular title match in that there are no countouts, and if a wrestler isn’t fighting with enough spirit after ref warnings, they can be DQ’d.

Also, once again there are several missing names from the lineup-Maki Itoh & Yuki Kamifuku are out due to being in Malaysia, while Nao Kakuta continues to be absent due to stage performances.

Today’s event will be held at Entetsu Hall in Shizuoka and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. Since there are 4 single matches on the 6 match card it should be an average house show length-wise, with an anticipated total running time of just under 2 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Suzume vs. Kaya Toribami
Hyper Misao vs. Mahiro Kiryu
Hikari Noa vs. Neko Haruna
Yuka Sakazaki & Mizuki vs. Raku & Pom Harajuku
Shoko Nakajima, Yuki Aino & Arisu Endo vs. Miu Watanabe, Rika Tatsumi & Moka Miyamoto
Pro Wrestling EVE Champion Miyu Yamashita vs. Rio for the title

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Updates below will begin at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT.

11 PM ET UPDATE: Live updates start now.

We are LIVE from Entetsu Hall in Shizuoka, Japan. There is no commentary. Already technical issues at the start but they hopefully fixed it by restarting the stream.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event but vocal cheering is allowed so lower capacity. Most tickets were sold in advance but it looks like a potential sellout, likely in the 150-200 range.

The matches begin at 11:15 PM ET. We may be hard-camera only again even though there’s one video cameraman at ringside.

In the early moments of the event, TJPW announced on Twitter the Shizuoka return date is 5/13/23 at Act City Hamamatsu Exhibition Event Hall.

Match 1: Suzume vs. Kaya Toribami. 15 minute time limit
Result: Suzume beat Kaya Toribami

Match 2: Hyper Misao vs. Mahiro Kiryu. 15 minute time limit
Result: Hyper Misao beat Mahiro Kiryu

Match 3: Hikari Noa vs. Neko Haruna. 15 minute time limit
Result: Hikari Noa beat Neko Haruna

Quick break for ring maintenance.

Match 4: Yuka Sakazaki & Mizuki vs. Raku & Pom Harajuku. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yuka Sakazaki & Mizuki beat Raku & Pom Harajuku. Sakazaki pinned Harajuku after a diving body press.

Match 5: Shoko Nakajima, Yuki Aino & Arisu Endo vs. Miu Watanabe, Rika Tatsumi & Moka Miyamoto. 20 minute time limit
Result: Miu Watanabe, Rika Tatsumi & Moka Miyamoto beat Shoko Nakajima, Yuki Aino & Arisu Endo. Watanabe pinned Endo after Teardrop.

Main Event: Pro Wrestling EVE Champion Miyu Yamashita vs. Rio for the title. EVE Rules (no countouts, can be DQ’s for lack of fighting spirit after referee warnings). 30 minute time limit
Result: Pro Wrestling EVE Champion Miyu Yamashita beat Rio to retain the title. V2 for Yamashita.

The next event is “Angel And Rabbit” Thursday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, which will be a Mizuki 10th Anniversary event. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 215, a super full house/very near sellout.

FREE VIDEO: IMPACT “Instant Classic” (12/8/22)

On last night’s Impact Wrestling, which was preciously taped, Impact World Champion Josh Alexander had an open challenge for the title and defended against former X Champion Mike Bailey as a result. What transpired was a 1 HOUR match that is being called an Instant Classic. If you missed it, or (like me) you don’t get AXS TV or subscribe to their streaming service (or YouTube premium plans), they just added the ENTIRE MATCH UNCUT on YouTube. Watch FOR FREE below:

New Japan 12/8/22 Results

New Japan ran the penultimate day of the World Tag League today, with 5 teams still with a chance to make the Finals and one team being able to lock up a spot.

Today’s event was held at Kochi Prefectural Gym in Kochi and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 942.

Match 1: Bad Luck Fale beat Yuto Nakashima.

Match 2: Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan beat Oskar Leube & Ryohei Oiwa. Henare pinned Leube after Rampage.

Match 3: Kevin Knight, KUSHIDA, Master Wato & Tomoaki Honma beat Gedo, Chris Bey, Ace Austin & Taiji Ishimori. Knight pinned Gedo after a high angle DDT.

Match 4: Titan, Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi beat DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado. Takagi beat DOUKI with STF.

World Tag League:
Match 5: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Kidd after Shoto.
Match 6: Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi. EVIL pinned Tanahashi after EVIL.
Match 7: Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls beat Aussie Open. Nicholls pinned Kyle Fletcher after Tank Buster.
Main Event: SANADA & Tetsuya Naito beat Lance Archer & Minoru Suzuki. Naito pinned Suzuki after Destino.

Aussie Open remains the leaders but their preliminary tournament is done as they were one of the teams to get a free win because of the Fale/Chase Owens withdrawal. The top 2 make the Finals and 4 teams still have a chance, but not all will qualify because two of the teams tied for 2nd, Haste/Nicholls and Goto/YOSHI-HASHI, meet on the final day. Naito/SANADA must beat Yujiro/EVIL to have a chance. If there is a 3-way tie, if head-to-head results determine the final then it gets very messy outside of Aussie Open needing Goto/YOSHI-HASHI to win. Best-case for them is Haste/Nicholls-Goto/YOSHI-HASHI going to a draw, if there is a winner either way it costs Aussie Open a potential tiebreaker (they lost to both).

The final day is Sunday. The next event is tomorrow at Uwajima City Overall Gym in Ehime with the final day of the Super Jr. Tag League. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.

New Japan News: TAMASHII Debut Streaming Soon

Good news for New Japan fans outside Australia & New Zealand-the debut events of the TAMASHII sub-label, originally not televised, are coming to New Japan World next week. You’ll be able to watch both events on demand starting Wednesday at 10 PM ET/7 PM PT. The events were held on 11/10 in Christchurch, New Zealand and 11/12 in Sydney, Australia.

Until then, be sure to check out LION’S ROAR on demand on New Japan World, spotlighting the NZ Dojo and head trainer Bad Luck Fale, that helped give birth to TAMASHII. No word yet on when the label’s next events will be.

BREAKING: All-Japan Losing 3 Wrestlers

In a series of news items just posted, All-Japan has announced 3 wrestlers are leaving the promotion at the end of the year: Izanagi, TAJIRI and the biggest loss of the trio-Jake Lee. Their contracts are expiring on December 31. All will continue to appear for the promotion until then.

Lee is a 2-time All-Japan Triple Crown Champion and has been one of the promotion’s top stars since the coronavirus pandemic began. TAJIRI is known to fans worldwide from his prior time in ECW, WWF/E and almost everywhere else around the world. TAJIRI seems to plan to keep going elsewhere as he’s well into his third decade as an active wrestler.

More as it becomes available.

DDT News: Upcoming Title Match Schedule Announced

In an interesting news item, DDT announced the schedule for upcoming title matches for the first quarter of 2023. Of course this all comes with the mandatory “subject to change” caveat, but here is what they announced:

1/3, Korakuen Hall: KO-D Tag Team Championship, DDT Universal Championship (participants TBA on 12/14. For the Universal Championship it will be a match to determine the next challenger).
1/13, Shinjuku Face: DDT Universal Champion Yuki Ueno vs. 1/3 winner for the title.
1/21, Yokohama Radiant Hall: DDT Extreme Champion (12/29 Jun Akiyama-Super Sasadango Machine winner) vs. TBA for the title.
1/29, Korakuen Hall: KO-D Openweight Champion (12/29 Kazusada Higuchi-Ueno winner) vs. TBA for the title, KO-D Tag Team Championship (1/3 winners vs. TBA for the titles), KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship. (12/29 winners of Naruki Doi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata vs. Tetsuya Endo, Koraro Suzuki & Yusuke Okada vs. TBA for the titles).
2/18, Nagoya Conference Center: DDT Universal Championship (TBA), DDT Extreme Championship (TBA).
2/26, Korakuen Hall: KO-D Tag Team Championship, KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship.
3/21, Korakuen Hall: Multiple including KO-D Openweight Championship (this will be the DDT 26th Anniversary Event and they plan to make it at least a 5-hour event)

All-Japan 12/7/22 Results

All-Japan wrapped up the World’s Strongest Tag League today as well as finishing the Jr. Battle Of Glory with a tiebreaker match to determine the winner.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 801.

Match 1: Ryo Inoue & Hikaru Sato beat Hokuto Omori & Rising Hayato. Sato pinned Hayato after Death Valley Bomb.

Match 2: Shuji Ishikawa & Cyrus beat Ryuki Honda & Izanagi. Cyrus pinned Izanagi after a reverse splash.

Match 3: Takao Omori & Masao Inoue beat All-Asia Tag Team Champions Yusuke Kodama & Masao Hanabata, Yoshitatsu & TAJIRI and Black Menso-re & ATM in a 4-way, when Inoue pinned Kodama, to win the titles. Omori & Inoue become the 117th All-Asia Tag Team Champions.

Match 4: World’s Strongest Tag League: Jake Lee & Yuma Aoyagi beat Koji Doi & Kuma Arashi. Aoyagi pinned Arashi.

Match 5: World’s Strongest Tag League: Yuji Nagata & Yuma Anzai beat Suwama & KONO. Anzai pinned Suwama with a German suplex hold. UPSET ALERT!!! That’s indescribably huge, All-Japan’s clear top star got pinned by a rookie.

Match 6: Kento Miyahara & Takuya Nomura beat Jun & Rei Saito by ref stoppage. Nomura beat Jun Saito with a sleeper hold. That ended the tournament, but it meant there was a tie, so a tiebreaker match between Miyahara/Nomura and Ishikawa/Cyrus would be held.

Match 7: Jr. Battle Of Glory Finals: Atsuki Aoyagi beat Dan Tamura to win the tournament. This was a tiebreaker match with no time limit. Aoyagi beat Tamura in the final tournament match to force a rematch.

Main Event: World Tag League Finals: Kento Miyahara & Takuya Nomura beat Shuji Ishikawa & Cyrus to win the tournament. Miyahara pinned Ishikawa with a shutdown suplex hold.

The next event is #ajpw XMASEVE 4 on 12/21 at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.