Tokyo Joshi Pro is in Kobe today for what is being billed as possibly their last show at today’s venue (only the venue, which reportedly may be either shutting down or not holding wrestling events anymore).
Today’s event will be held at Kobe Art Center in Kobe and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday. There will be no live broadcast, however there are TENTATIVE plans to stream the main event and perhaps other matches using the UNIVERSE CAST feature that is part of WRESTLE UNIVERSE. That will be a last-minute decision so this is a tentative placeholder if that happens. If not, full results will be posted when they become available.
The event is scheduled to begin at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET so hopefully we’ll know plans by then. The main event likely will be Miu Watanabe & Shino Suzuki vs. Mizuki & Uta Takami as this seems to be a Mizuki-centric event. Miyu Yamashita & Kaya Toribami are off this event due to an excursion to Thailand. They will also miss Sunday’s event as a result.
UPDATE (Pre-show): There are now last-second changes to the card due to Yuki Kamifuku being pulled off the event. The always-vague poor health. Also out Sunday. She was to have teamed with Wakana Uehara to face Yuki Aino & Kira Summer. It’s now Uehara-Summer and what was Rika Tatsumi vs. Pom Harajuku & Mahiro Kiryu in a 3-way is now Tatsumi & Kiryu vs. Aino & Harajuku. For Sunday she was to have faced Shion Kanzaki. Changes TBA.
7:30 PM PT UPDATE: Waiting for streaming updates from TJPW.
It appears they didn’t do Universe Cast so we’ll have to wait for Tuesday for video. Here are the results:
The announced paid attendance was 273.
Match 1: Haru Kazashiro beat Shion Kanzaki.
Match 2: Wakana Uehara beat Kira Summer.
Match 3: Yuki Aino & Pom Harajuku beat Rika Tatsumi & Mahiro Kiryu. Aino pinned Kiryu after Venus DDT.
Match 4: Aja Kong (OZ Academy), Raku & Ren Konatsu beat Hyper Misao, Mifu Ashida & Sarah Phoenix. Kong pinned Ashida after a jumping elbow drop. Kong retains the DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship as far as I know.
Match 5: Yuki Arai & HIMAWARI beat Shoko Nakajima & Chika Nanase. Arai pinned Nanase after a deformed brainbuster.
Match 6: Suzume & Arisu Endo beat MIRAI (Michinoku Pro) & Toga. Suzume pinned Toga after Ring A Bell.
Main Event: Mizuki & Uta Takami beat Miu Watanabe & Shino Suzuki. Mizuki pinned Suzuki with Cutie Special.
The next event is tomorrow at Okayama Future Hall in Okayama for a Yuki Aino hometown event. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Wednesday.
UPDATE 2: Unexpected post-event backstage development!
Rika Tatsumi beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Aja Kong to win the title. Tatsumi becomes the 1806th Champion. Please keep Kiryu far way from her…