Sunday roundup:
NOAH from Saturday at Hiroshima (Kenta & KENTA together in tag match):
They claimed 2700 paid (overflow).
Mushiking Terry beat Ryuji Yamaguchi in 10:49.

Kishin Kawabata, Kentaro Shiga & Masashi Aoyagi beat Masao Inoue, Mitsuo Momota & Ippei Ota in 12:24. Shiga pinned Ota after Shiga Shooter.

Akitoshi Saito, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Yuto Aijima beat Mohammed Yone, Taiji Ishimori & Shuhei Taniguchi in 13:25. Saito pinned Taniguchi after Sickle Of Death.

Bison Smith, Bryan Danielson & Ricky Marvin beat GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima, Atsushi Aoki & Akihiko Ito in 16:33 by submission. Danielson beat Ito with Cattle Mutilation.

Kenta Kobashi, KENTA, & Tamon Honda beat D-Lo Brown, Buchanan & Bobby Fish in 19:56. KENTA pinned Fish after GO 2 SLEEP. (Too bad this wasn't at Budokan, I'd have liked to see the Kentas together)

Global Tag League '08:
Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano beat Akira Taue & Go Shiosaki in 21:43. Sano pinned Shiosaki after Northern Lights Bomb.

Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa beat Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima in 18:46. Ogawa pinned Nakajima after an avalanche-style backdrop.

Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikioh beat Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura in 23:06. Rikioh pinned Sugiura after Musou.

New Japan from Saturday at Hasuda:
They claimed 1800 paid (sellout).
Taichi Ishikari beat Kazuchika Okada (debut) in 9 minutes.

Shiro Koshinaka, Jushin Liger & AKIRA beat Yujiro, Mitsuhide Hirasawa & Tetsuya Naito in 7:36. Koshinaka pinned Hirasawa after a jumping hip attack.

Hirooki Goto beat Tomoaki Honma in 9:02.

Manabu Nakanishi, Wataru Inoue & Tiger Mask 4 beat Toru Yano, Jado & Gedo in 12:30. TM 4 pinned Gedo with a Japanese leg roll clutch hold.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Takashi Iizuka beat Makabe & Tomohiro Ishii in 12:48 by DQ.

Shinsuke Nakamura, Giant Bernard, Milano Collection AT & Minoru beat Hiroshi Tanahashi, Koji Kanemoto, Ryusuke Taguchi & Karl Anderson in 17:20. Nakamura pinned Anderson after Landslide.

New Japan from today at Korakuen:
They claimed 2000 paid.
Milano Collection AT & Minoru beat Shiro Koshinaka & Super Strong Machine in 10 minutes. Milano pinned Koshinaka after Milanokatame!

Makabe, Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Takashi Iizuka & Kazuchika Okada in 7:09. Ishii pinned Okada after a powerbomb. Karl Anderson attacked Tenzan after the match.

Wataru Inoue beat Jado in 15:33.

IWGP Jr. heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jushin Liger & AKIRA beat Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito in 18:52 to retain the titles. AKIRA pinned Naito after Old Boy.

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Manabu Nakanishi & Tiger Mask 4 beat Shinsuke Nakamura, Hirooki Goto & Giant Bernard in 17:20. TM 4 pinned Goto with a small package.

Ryusuke Taguchi beat Tatsuhito Takaiwa in 10:11.

Zero-One MAX World Heavyweight Champion Masato Tanaka beat Koji Kanemoto in 20:40 to retain the title. After the match, Tanaka demanded a singles match with the soon-to-return Yuji Nagata.

Liger will work the DDT event on 5/6 at Korakuen. This will be Liger's first appearance for the promotion.

DDT from Friday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring:
They claimed 225 paid (overflow).
Daisuke Sasaki beat Yukihiro Abe in 5:15.

HARASHIMA & Tomomitsu Matsunaga beat Touru Owashi & Seiya Morohashi in 7:04 by DQ.

Scramble Sakura no Zouka Bath House 6 Person Tag Death Match: Yumiko Hotta, Sanshiro Takagi & Poison Sawada JULIE beat Yoshiaki Yago, Kazuhiro Tamura & Masa Takanashi in 7:21. Hotta pinned Takanashi after Pyramid Driver.

Ryouji Sai beat Daichi Kakimoto in 13:37.

Danshoku Dieno beat Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion GENTARO in 20:52 to win the title. Dieno becomes the 741st Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion. (Not making that up)

KO-D Tag Team Title Determination League: MEN'S Teioh & Danshoku Dieno beat GENTARO & Hoshitango in 5:06. Teioh beat Hoshitango with a spinning toehold.

Antonio Honda beat Koo in 9:39 by countout.

KO-D Tag Team Title Determination League: MIKAMI & Tanomusaku Toba beat KUDO & Yasu Urano in 19:39. MIKAMI & Toba finish with the most points and thus win the league and the titles. They become the 26th KO-D Tag Team Champions.

Kota Ibushi ROH participation:
Friday-Davey Richards beat Ibushi by submission.
Saturday-Claudio Castagnoli beat Ibushi.

More events still to come later today including NOAH, Hustle, and a major K-DOJO show at Korakuen among others.

Edit: More results (title changes):
NOAH from today at Hakata Starlanes (major star power main event):
They claimed 2400 paid.
Mitsuo Momota beat Ippei Ota in 8:22.

Tamon Honda & Yuto Aijima beat Kentaro Shiga & Kishin Kawabata in 21:10. Aijima pinned Kawabata after a vertical brainbuster suplex.

Bryan Danielson, Taiji Ishimori, & Atsushi Aoki beat Kotaro Suzuki, Ricky Marvin, & Akihiko Ito in 13:06 by submission. Danielson beat Ito with Cattle Mutilation.

Akira Taue & Go Shiosaki beat Takuma Sano & Masao Inoue in 16:22. Shiosaki pinned Inoue after Go Flasher.

Jun Akiyama, Takeshi Rikioh, & Yoshinobu Kanemaru beat D-Lo Brown, Buchanan, & Bobby Fish in 17:20. Kanemaru pinned Fish after Touch Out.

Global Tag League '08:
Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa beat Takeshi Morishima & Mohammed Yone in 1:48 by DQ.

Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura vs. Bison Smith & Akitoshi Saito went to a 30 minute time limit draw.

Kensuke Sasaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima, & Ryuji Yamaguchi beat Kenta Kobashi, KENTA, & Shuhei Taniguchi in 34:12. Nakajima pinned Taniguchi with a German Suplex hold.

Dragon Gate from Nagoya Aichi:
No attendance figures available.
Naruki Doi, Yasushi Kanda, Genki Horiguchi, & Gamma beat CIMA, Ryo Saito, Dragon Kid, & Susumu Yokosuka in 14:36. Kanda pinned Kid after Kid Mistaken Singapore Cane attack to CIMA, CIMA mask attack to Kid, then Kanda Blue Box to Kid and finally a small package.

Akira Tozawa beat Syachihoko Machine in 8:37.

Taku Iwasa & Keni'chiro Arai beat Masaaki Mochizuki & Super Shenlong in 10:05. Iwasa pinned Shenlong with that long Japanese name move.

YAMATO beat B x B Hulk in 14:23.

Shingo Takagi & Cyber Kong beat Don Fujii & Naoki Tanisaki in 16:06. Takagi pinned Fujii after MADE IN JAPAN.

Anthony W. Mori beat Open The Brave Gate Champion Masato Yoshino in 21:59 to win the title. Mori becomes the 8th Open The Brave Gate Champion. However, due to Yasushi Kanda interfering to help Mori win the title, Mori was unhappy with this and decided to give up the belt voluntarily, so the title is now VACANT. A tournament will be held to crown a new Champion.

K-DOJO CLUB-K SUPER ev.7 from Korakuen:
They claimed 1113 paid.
Bambi Return Match: Shiori Asahi, Makoto Oishi & Bambi beat Kazuya Kawasaki, Rinne Mitsuki & Shima Tsubaki in 6:18. Asahi pinned Kawasaki after a reverse leg split.

Yuu Yamagata beat Toshie Uematsu in 8:31.

Kunio Toshima, Mr.X, PSYCHO & Saburo Inematsu beat NOSAWA Rongai, MAZADA, TAKEMURA & Magnitude Kishiwada in 11:26. PSYCHO pinned NOSAWA after High Fly Bomb.

YOSHIYA & Apple Miyuki won the WEW Hardcore Tag Team Title Royal Rumble, last eliminating Shiori Asahi & Makoto Oishi at 13:56 to win the vacant titles. YOSHIYA & Miyuki become the 20th WEW Hardcore Tag Team Champions. Order of elimination:
KAZMA & MIYAWAKI beat Kaji Yamato & Taishi Takizawa at 6:38.
KAZMA & MIYAWAKI beat Yuki Sato & Kazuhiro Tamura at 7:02.
Shiori Asahi & Makoto Oishi beat Taku Anzawa & Hiro Tonai at 7:03.
KAZMA & MIYAWAKI beat Teppei Ishizaka & Quiet Storm at 8:13.
YOSHIYA & Apple Miyuki beat KAZMA & MIYAWAKI at 11:43.
YOSHIYA & Apple Miyuki beat Shiori Asahi & Makoto Oishi at 13:56 to win.

Osaka Pro Singles Champion Tigers Mask beat Daigoro Kashiwa in 11:33 to retain the title.

STRONGEST-K Tag Team Champions TAKA Michinoku & JOE beat Madoka & Boso Boy Raito in 17:11 to retain the titles. TAKA pinned Madoka after Heavy Killer 1.

Yuji Hino beat Champion Of STRONGEST-K Kengo Mashimo in 23:57 to win the title. Hino becomes the 6th Champion Of STRONGEST-K.
The promotion announced the Golden Week series but this time with a special theme to each show as they will all be specially produced by the various factions of K-DOJO-5/1 by Gekirin, 5/2 by KASHIWA DOJO, 5/3 by Omega, 5/4 by Kengo Mashimo and 5/5 by Team Handsome.
They'll be back to the usual Sunday doubleheaders at Chiba Bluefield next week.

This message was edited by DCRage on Apr 13 2008.

All-Japan: To celebrate his 40th birthday and 20th anniversary in wrestling, Minoru Suzuki is going to do his own independent event. Scheduled for 6/17 at Korakuen, Suzuki stated he wanted to form a card that represented all aspects of his career, with just about every organization being involved. When asked about the youngman battle royal, Suzuki stated that the guys included so far would be the ones to pull their organizations, and that them having no bond between organizations was strange and disturbing. Suzuki finished that when he approached each organization, there were no problems so for fans to expect more youngmen to fill out the battle royal.
Jushin Thunder Liger & Takaku Fuke vs. Kikutaro & Mecha Mummy
Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Hikaru Sato
Exhibition: Minoru Suzuki vs. Morris Smith
Battle Royal: Tetsuya Naito, Seiya Sanada, Ippei Ota, KUSHIDA, Ryuji Yamaguchi & Other Players
Naomichi Marufuji, NOSAWA Rongai & MAZADA vs. Kaz Hayashi, The Great Sasaki & TAKA Michinoku
Minoru Suzuki vs. Yoshihiro Takayama

Edit: NOAH from today at Kumamoto Hall:
They claimed 2200 paid (overflow).
GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Bryan Danielson beat Taiji Ishimori & Ippei Ota in 12:48. Kanemaru pinned Ota after Touch Out.

GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura beat Bobby Fish & Ryuji Yamaguchi in 16:24. Sugiura pinned Fish after Olympic Yosen Slam.

Bison Smith, Akitoshi Saito & Yuto Aijima beat Tamon Honda, Kishin Kawabata & Masao Inoue in 15:28. Smith pinned Inoue after Bisontennial.

D-Lo Brown & Buchanan beat Takuma Sano & Kentaro Shiga in 13:43. D-Lo pinned Shiga after Shining Wizard.

Mitsuharu Misawa, Yoshinari Ogawa & Kotaro Suzuki beat Jun Akiyama, Takeshi Rikioh & Atsushi Aoki in 20:20. Suzuki pinned Aoki after Blue Destiny.

Akira Taue, Go Shiosaki & Ricky Marvin beat Kenta Kobashi, KENTA & Akihiko Ito in 27:47. Shiosaki pinned Ito after go Flasher.

Global Tag League '08: Takeshi Morishima & Mohammed Yone vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima went to a 30 minute time limit draw.

New Japan: Masa Chono has started a new promotion to replace WRESTLE LAND, dubbed PREMIUM. Madly. Madness. Maelstrom. Main. Majesty. These are the keywords of New Japan's latest brand. Chono is an influential man in the professional wrestling industry, and his special shows will bring together wrestlers in "premium" pairings that would be hard to set up elsewhere. The card below is an example of that. Tatsumi Fujinami, now considered a member of Legend, has appealed for Hiroshi Tanahashi to step up and face he and Jushin Liger in a tag match on the show. The card:
Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Ryouji Sai vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma
Super Strong Machine & Hiro Saito vs. Jado & Gedo
Riki Choshu, Shiro Koshinaka & AKIRA vs. Masato Tanaka, Takao Omori & Mitsuya Nagai
Tatsumi Fujinami & Jushin Liger vs. TBA
Manabu Nakanishi vs. Yutaka Yoshie
Masa Chono & Kohei Sato vs. Shinjiro Otani & Daisuke Sekimoto
The show is set for 5/5 at Korakuen.

This message was edited by DCRage on Apr 15 2008.

quote DCRage

All-Japan: To celebrate his 40th birthday and 20th anniversary in wrestling, Minoru Suzuki is going to do his own independent event. Scheduled for 6/17 at Korakuen, Suzuki stated he wanted to form a card that represented all aspects of his career, with just about every organization being involved. When asked about the youngman battle royal, Suzuki stated that the guys included so far would be the ones to pull their organizations, and that them having no bond between organizations was strange and disturbing. Suzuki finished that when he approached each organization, there were no problems so for fans to expect more youngmen to fill out the battle royal.

WOOHOO! Also, Liger and Mecha Mummy in the same match is awesome. Also, it sucks Yoshino lost his title, more so that it was vacated following the match.

Kanda was quite the troublemaker on the show, he interfered in at least one other match. Let's see what happens on 5/5 in the 6 man match, he could be walking out bald (loser loses his hair or mask).

DG will also run their first-ever USA shows in September: 9/5 in LA, 9/8 in Hawaii.

All-Japan: TAKEMURA thanked the All-Japan directors for allowing him a singles match with Osamu Nishimura, saying that their prompt action is highly appreciated. TAKEMURA swore to strike and crush Nishimura, and told the press that he would retire Nishimura in Korakuen, and urged the fans to carry their legs to Korakuen in order to view this. Nishimura responded to TAKEMURA's comments saying that when TAKEMURA started "Muga" in 1995, he was a good friend who did both official and personal affairs, and when he joined New Japan in 2001, he remembers it like yesterday, but said that TAKEMURA will hold a grudge with him that must be settled in the middle of the ring after jumping from "Muga World" to All-Japan. Nishimura said that he has seen TAKEMURA awaken after the incident in Nagano last year, and although it had been over five months since the incident that he wanted to finally hang the last conclusion in Korakuen on April 20th.

NOAH: Scheduled participation for Coventry Skydome (England) show on 6/21: Mitsuharu Misawa, Jun Akiyama, Takeshi Morishima, Naomichi Marufuji, Mohammed Yone, Go Shiozaki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, KENTA, Junji Izumida, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi, Kotaro Suzuki, Taiji Ishimori, Atsushi Aoki.
The only announced match so far is Misawa & Marufuji vs. Shiozaki & Kenta Kobashi.

The promotion also is selling limited edition copies of the 10/27-12/2 Double Budokan DVD. These 30 copies have been personally autographed by Kobashi and are available for $50 via NOAH's website only (they're selling them through eBay first-come first-serve, the cost includes the DVD plus shipping, says they ship worldwide) As of this posting, only 18 remain and once they're gone, they're gone forever.

New Japan from today at Kumagaya:
They claimed 1180 paid.
Tomohiro Ishii & Karl Anderson beat Mitsuhide Hirasawa & Kazuchika Okada in 8:32. Anderson beat Okada with a crabhold.

Shiro Koshinaka beat Tomoaki Honma in 8:40.

Wataru Inoue & Tetsuya Naito beat Jushin Liger & AKIRA in 11:34. Inoue pinned AKIRA after Oracion Flame.

Milano Collection AT & Minoru beat Tiger Mask 4 & Taichi Ishikari in 11:05. Minoru pinned Ishikari after Minoru Special.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Takashi Iizuka, Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Makabe, Toru Yano, Jado & Gedo in 12:33 by submission. Tenzan beat Gedo with Anaconda Vice.

Shinsuke Nakamura, Hirooki Goto & Giant Bernard beat Hiroshi Tanahashi, Manabu Nakanishi & Yujiro in 15:40. Nakamura pinned Yujiro after Landslide.

This message was edited by DCRage on Apr 16 2008.

NOAH from today at Kagoshima (Global Tag League update w/standings):
They claimed 1300 paid.
Masao Inoue & Ricky Marvin beat Tamon Honda & Ippei Ota in 13:21. Marvin pinned Ota with a side-roll cradle hold.

Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, & Taiji Ishimori beat Takuma Sano, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, & Bobby Fish in 15:04. Ishimori pinned Fish after a modified DDT.

Bison Smith, Akitoshi Saito, & Bryan Danielson beat GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima, Mohammed Yone, & Akihiko Ito in 19:30 by submission. Danielson beat Ito with Cattle Mutilation.

GHC Hardcore Champion Kishin Kawabata beat Yuto Aijima in 22:56 to retain the title.

Akira Taue, Go Shiozaki, & Kentaro Shiga beat Mitsuharu Misawa, Yoshinari Ogawa, & Kotaro Suzuki in 17:48. Shiga bat Suzuki with a neck lock hold.

Kenta Kobashi, KENTA, & Atsushi Aoki beat Kensuke Sasaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima, & Kento Miyahara in 28:50. Aoki pinned Miyahara after Assault Point. (Man, were there enough Ks in this match? Say all 5 5 times fast, haha)

Global Tag League '08: Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikioh beat D-Lo Brown & Buchanan in 20:50. Akiyama pinned Buchanan after a wrist clutch Exploder.

GTL Standings (never got around to checking & posting before; 2 points for win, 1 point for time limit draw, 0 points for loss, non-time limit draw, DQ, countout, etc.):
Akiyama/Rikioh: 3-1-1, 7 points
Sano/Takayama: 3-1-1, 7 points
Sasaki/Nakajima: 2-2-2, 6 points
Misawa/Ogawa: 2-1-1, 5 points
Smith/Saito: 2-1-1, 5 points
Marufuji/Sugiura: 1-1-3, 5 points
Brown/Buchanan: 2-3, 4 points
Morishima/Yone: 1-2-2, 4 points
Taue/Shiozaki: 1-4-1, 3 points
If there is a tie at the end on 4/27, a tiebreaker match will be held.

Edit: Dragon Gate from Thursday at Korakuen:
No attendance figures available.
CIMA, Anthony W. Mori, & El Blazer beat Masato Yoshino, Naruki Doi, & Yasushi Kanda in 16:57. Mori pinned Kanda after Elegant Magic.

Masaaki Mochizuki beat Akira Tozawa in 9:17.

Taku Iwasa & Keni'chiro Arai beat Don Fujii & Shisa BOY in 11:31.

Gamma & Genki Horiguchi beat YAMATO & Naoki Tanisaki in 12:15. Gamma pinned Tanisaki.

Open The Triangle Gate Champions Shingo Takagi, B x B Hulk, & Cyber Kong beat Ryo Saito, Susumu Yokosuka, & Dragon Kid in 28:23 to retain the titles. Takagi pinned Yokosuka after Last Falconry.
A bit of backstabbing & unit problems highlighted the show.

The participants are set for the tournament to crown a new Open The Brave Gate Champion: Anthony W. Mori, Pac, Masato Yoshino, Gamma, Genki Horiguchi, Super Shisa, Naoki Tanisaki, El Blazer. The tournament starts 4/25 at Site Kobe, with semis & finals on 4/27 at Hakata Starlanes.
Takagi, Hulk, & Kong will next defend the Open The Triangle Gate titles next month against Gamma, Horiguchi, & YAMATO.

New Japan: Hiroshi Tanahashi is off the May tour due to knee ligament damage. Usually this type of injury is serious, so he could be out for quite a while. Watch for lots of lineup changes as Tanahashi & IWGP Heavyweight Champion Shinsuke Nakamura were booked against each other in tag matches on virtually every card.
Yuji Nagata will return on 5/2 at Korakuen. Opponent TBA.

This message was edited by DCRage on Apr 18 2008.

All-Japan: The injuries and other problems are hitting ahead of tomrorow's Korakuen show. Ryuji Yamaguchi is out a while due to torn ligaments in both legs (ouch) and ZODIAC is off tomorrow's show due to travel problems. Shuji Kondo will replace ZODIAC in the 6 man tag match scheduled.

A bit of other news:
Triple Crown Champion Kensuke Sasaki had words for Suwama. Sasaki stated that he remembers of their first singles encounter over 3 years ago, during his trial series as young "Kohei Suwama". Sasaki stated that every year Suwama changes, but that Sasaki himself hadn't, and wasn't even looking onwards to Aichi, as he wants Suwama to bring his toughest fight to Korakuen this Sunday first.

Suwama returned to his alma mater, Chuo University for this first time since joining All Japan in 2004 and under went "starting point revolution training", saying he was highly motivated and wanted to become strong, sparring with various students at the University. Suwama promised victory in the preliminary skirmish this Sunday at Korakuen, leading to his capture of the Triple Crown in Aichi.

Taiyo Kea sent in a press release stating these past few months have been the most trying for him during his 14 years as a member of All-Japan. Kea acknowledged that he had been on a terrible losing streak as of late, and that TARU's constant invitation to join the Voodoo Murders hasn't made matters any easier, in fact, it's shaken him down to the very core. Kea sent a call to all of his ardent supporters from the last 14 years to show up at Korakuen this Sunday and support him, as he will tell the world of his decision then.

The June schedule was released, it's just 4 shows at the end of the month: 6/22-Korakuen, 6/24-Yonezawa City, 6/25-Sakata City, 6/28-Osaka.

New Japan from Friday at Kyoto Westin Hotel West Building 4F (RISE PRESENTS: RISING DINNER & PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING, a special "dinner and a wrestling card" event for lucky fans):
They claimed 500 paid (overflow).
Shiro Koshinaka, Jushin Liger & AKIRA beat Manabu Nakanishi, Tiger Mask 4 & Taichi Ishikari in 9:28. Koshinaka pinned Ishikari after a powerbomb.

Makabe, Toru Yano, Jado, Gedo & Tomohiro Ishii beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Takashi Iizuka, Yujiro, Mitsuhide Hirasawa & Tetsuya Naito in 8:06. Ishii pinned Hirasawa after a lariat.

Wataru Inoue & Koji Kanemoto beat Ryusuke Taguchi & Kazuchika Okada in 11:49. Inoue beat Okada with a crabhold.

Giant Bernard beat Karl Anderson in 4:33.

Shinsuke Nakamura & Minoru beat Hirooki Goto & Milano Collection AT in 13:37. Nakamura pinned MIlano after Landslide.

New Japan from today at Anan Sports Center Sub Arena:
They claimed 745 paid.
Karl Anderson beat Taichi Ishikari in 9:02.

GAINA (Osaka Pro) beat Kazuchika Okada in 7:38.

Shiro Koshinaka, Jushin Liger & AKIRA beat Yujiro, Mitsuhide Hirasawa & Tetsuya Naito in 9:20. AKIRA pinned Hirasawa after Musasabi Press.

Hirooki Goto & Milano Collection AT beat Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma in 11:38. Goto pinned Honma after Shouten.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Takashi Iizuka, Wataru Inoue & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Makabe, Toru Yano, Jado & Gedo in 11:33 by submission. Tenzan beat Gedo with Anaconda Vice.

Shinsuke Nakamura, Giant Bernard & Minoru beat Manabu Nakanishi, Koji Kanemoto & Tiger Mask 4 in 15:47. Bernard pinned TM 4 after a corner press.

NOAH from today at Fukuyama:
They claimed 1200 paid.
Kentaro Shiga beat Mitsuo Momota in 9:06.

Taiji Ishimori beat Akihiko Ito in 10:02.

Kotaro Suzuki & Bobby Fish beat GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Atsushi Aoki in 12:38. Fish pinned AOki after Fish Hook.

Tamon Honda & Masao Inoue beat Takuma Sano & Kishin Kawabata in 15:44. Honda pinned Inoue after Dead End.

D-Lo Brown & Buchanan beat Akira Taue & Yuto Aijima in 12:29. D-Lo pinned Aijima after Lo-Down.

Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA beat Go Shiozaki & Bryan Danielson in 16:03. Marufuji pinned Danielson with Perfect Inside Cradle.

GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima, Mohammed Yone & Takashi Sugiura beat Mitsuharu Misawa, Yoshinari Ogawa & Ricky Marvin in 15:47. Sugiura pinned Marvin after Olympic Yosen Slam.

Global Tag League '08: Bison Smith & Akitoshi Saito beat Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikioh in 23:02. Smith pinned Rikioh after Bisontennial.

Sunday roundup:
NOAH from Osaka (Prefectual Gym #2):
They claimed 1800 paid (overflow).
Masashi Aoyagi beat Ippei Ota in 6:51.

D-Lo Brown, Buchanan & Ricky Marvin beat GHC Hardcore Champion Kishin Kawabata, Kentaro Shiga & Masao Inoue in 15:45. Buchanan pinned Inoue after Iron Bomb.

KENTA, Taiji Ishimori & Kotaro Suzuki beat GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Bryan Danielson & Bobby Fish in 15:20. Suzuki pinned Fish after Blue Destiny.

Akira Taue, Go Shiozaki & Atsushi Aoki beat Kenta Kobashi, Tamon Honda & Akihiko Ito in 29:35. Shiozaki pinned Ito after Go Flasher.

Global Tag League '08:
Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikioh beat Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa in 2:31. Rikioh pinned Ogawa after Musou.
GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima & Mohammed Yone beat Bison Smith & Akitoshi Saito in 26:06. Morishima pinned Saito after the back drop suplex.
GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura beat Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano in 21:40 by submission. Marufuji beat Sano with a Cobra Clutch-style triangle choke.

Announced participation for WWA in Seoul on 4/30: Jun Akiyama, Mohammed Yone, Kentaro Shiga, Kishin Kawabata,
Junji Izumida, Go Shiozaki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Ricky Marvin.

Dragon Gate from Saturday at Kyoto:
Susumu Yokosuka, Dragon Kid, & Anthony W. Mori beat Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino, & Genki Horiguchi in 14:53.

Dr. Muscle beat B x B Hulk in 3:51 after YAMATO interfered.

Don Fujii & Shisa BOY beat Masaaki Mochizuki & Super Shenlong in 12:07 by submission Fujii beat Shenlong with a boston crab.

Taku Iwasa & Keni'chiro Arai beat Ryo Saito & Naoki Tanisaki in 13:04.

CIMA vs. YAMATO went to a No Contest in 9:11 after Hulk interfered.

Yasushi Kanda, Gamma, & Magnitude Kishiwada beat Shingo Takagi, Cyber Kong, & Shinobu in 16:28. Kanda pinned Shinobu after Ryu's.

Today at Mie:
Taku Iwasa & Keni'chiro Arai beat B x B Hulk & Super Shisa in 11:50.

Cyber Kong beat Open The Owarai Gate Champion Jackson Florida & Hollywood Stalker Ichikawa in a 3-way match in 10:39 by pinning both, but Florida received the required fan support and thus retains the title.

Shingo Takagi beat Anthony W. Mori in 12:52.

Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino beat K-ness & Naoki Tanisaki in 11:37. Yoshino pinned K-ness.

Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii, & Tetsuhiro Kuroda beat Magnitude Kishiwadas Red & Blue & Daisuke Sekimoto in 16:36. Fujii pinned Blue after Nice German.

CIMA, Ryo Saito, Susumu Yokosuka, & Dragon Kid beat YAMATO, Yasushi Kanda, Genki Horiguchi, & Gamma i n17:04. CIMA pinned Horiguchi after Schwein.

All-Japan: Today at Korakuen, Taiyo Kea declined membership to VM and has instead formed a new unit with Minoru Suzuki and the Tokyo Gurentai.
They claimed 1200 paid.
Masanobu Fuchi & Nobutaka Araya beat Hajime Suruga & Kento Miyahara in 10:57 Araya pinned Miyahara after a lariat.

KAI beat T28 in 7:26.

Silver King, "brother" YASSHI & Al Daivari beat Ryuji Hijikata, Seiya Sanada & Hiroshi Yamato in 11:40. Daivari pinned Yamato after Magic Carpet.

Minoru Suzuki, NOSAWA Rongai & MAZADA beat Nobukazu Hirai, Kaz Hayashi & El Samurai in 13 minutes. Suzuki pinned Hirai after a Gotch-style piledriver.

Osamu Nishimura beat TAKEMURA in 12;13 after NOSAWA & MAZADA interfered.

Keiji Mutoh, Taiyo Kea & Joe Doering beat TARU, Shuji Kondo & Voodoo Mask in 10:42. Kea pinned Mask after TKO34th.

Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Suwama & Manabu Soya in 26:40. Sasaki beat Soya with Strangle hold.

New Japan from today at Kokura:
They claimed 1025 paid.
Tomohiro Ishii beat Mitsuhide Hirasawa in 4:23.

Shiro Koshinaka, Jushin Liger & AKIRA beat Yujiro, Tetsuya Naito & Kazuchika Okada in 10:25. Koshinaka pinned Okada after a diving hip attack.

Hirooki Goto beat Karl Anderson in 9:32.

Makabe & Gedo beat Tiger Mask 4 & Taichi Ishikari in 11:46. Makabe pinned Ishikari after a top rope King Kong kneedrop.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Takashi Iizuka beat Toru Yano & Tomoaki Honma in 11:13 by DQ (Honma DQ'd).

Shinsuke Nakamura, Giant Bernard, Milano Collection AT & Minoru beat Manabu Nakanishi, Wataru Inoue, Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi in 18:07. Nakamura pinned Taguchi after Landslide.

K-DOJO Chiba Bluefield Doubleheader:
CLUB-K 1000:
They claimed 40 paid.
MIYAWAKI beat Ryuichi Sekine in 5:27.

Taku Anzawa beat Hiro Tonai in 7:05.

Boso Boy Raito & Boso Boy Left beat KAZMA & Shiori Asahi in 10:39. Left pinned Asahi after a Flying Front Cradle.

CLUB-K 3000:
They claimed 82 paid.
PSYCHO beat Taishi Takizawa in 9:31.

Yuu Yamagata beat Bambi in 3:11 by DQ.

Daigoro Kashiwa, Teppei Ishizaka & Mantaro Kawasaki beat Kengo Mashimo, Madoka & Kaji Yamato in 13:51 by submission. Ishizaka beat Yamato with a Nekketsu Armlock.

Kunio Toshima, Mr.X & Saburo Inematsu beat TAKA Michinoku, JOE & Hiro Tonai in 17:32. Inematsu pinned Tonai after Death Valley Bomb.

YOSHIYA & Apple Miyuki beat Yuji Hino & Makoto Oishi in 13:49. YOSHIYA pinned Oishi after Double Cross Boot.

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So how exactly does the Open the Owari Great title work?

The Open The Owarai Gate title is more or less a comedy thing (Owarai means "comedy" in Japanese-so the title's literal translation is "Open The Comedy Gate"). Here's the description from DGUSA, the DG site of the puroresufan.com network:

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The title was conceived during Stalkers' (Hollywood Stalker Ichikawa) first trip to the US in May 2007, on request of the Pro Wrestling Guerrila commissioner. The title is unusual in that it doesn't change hands on victory or defeat. Defenses are based solely on laughter and applause of the audience. Stalker, as first champion, was given a free ticket for 10 successful defenses. However, before the defense vs. Kikutaro, the ticket was destroyed forcing him to defend on his own merit.

I have yet to see one of these matches but I imagine it's along the lines of what you'd see in promotions like CHIKARA with some of their wackier characters.

Thanks for clearing that up.

No problem.

NOAH from today at Ena City Hall:
They claimed 700 paid.
Tsuyoshi Kikuchi beat Genba Hirayanagi in 7:41.

Bryan Danielson & Ricky Marvin beat GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Ippei Ota in 12:35. Marvin pinned Ota after Santamalia.

Akira Taue, Masao Inoue, & Go Shiozaki beat Kentaro Shiga, Junji Izumida, & Masashi Aoyagi in 16:47. Inoue beat Aoyagi with a neck lock hold.

GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima, Mohammed Yone, & Atsushi Aoki beat Akitoshi Saito, KENTA, & Taiji Ishimori in 12:15. Morishima pinned Ishimori after the back drop suplex.

Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikioh beat Bison Smith & Bobby Fish in 12:22. Rikioh pinned Fish after Musou.

Mitsuharu Misawwa, Yoshinari Ogawa, & Kotaro Suzuki beat Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, & Akihiko Ito in 16:363. Suzuki pinned Ito after Blue Destiny.

Global Tag League '08: D-Lo Brown & Buchanan beat Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano in 10:42. Brown pinned Sano after Lo-Down.

Full card for Sunday at Budokan:
Genba Hirayanagi & Akihiko Ito vs. Ippei Ota & Kento Miyahara

Kishin Kawabata, Kentaro Shiga, & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Masao Inoue, Junji Izumida, & Mitsuo Momota

Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taiji Ishimori vs. Bryan Danielson & Atsushi Aoki

Akira Taue, Kotaro Suzuki, & Ricky Marvin vs. D-Lo Brown, Buchanan, & Bobby Fish

Kenta Kobashi, KENTA, & Tamon Honda vs. Yoshihiro Takayama, Takuma Sano, & Go Shiozaki
Global Tag League '08 (match order will be determined after Friday's event):
Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Bison Smith & Akitoshi Saito
Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikioh vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima
Takeshi Morishima & Mohammed Yone vs. Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura

The promotion has announced the May & June schedule:
5/11-Fukuchiyama City (Burning Navigation-Kenta Kobashi Returns Home)

Northern Navigation '08 Tour:
5/15-Korakuen
5/16-The 13th SEM at Differ Ariake
5/17-Differ Ariake
5/18-Tsukuba Kapio
5/21-Toyama
5/23-Niigata
5/24-Sendai
5/26-Aomori
5/27-Hakodate
5/28-The 14th SEM at Sapporo
5/30-Kushiro
6/1-Hokkaido

6/14-GREAT VOYAGE '08 at Yokohama

New Japan from today at Oita:
They claimed 750 paid.
Mitsuhide Hirasawa beat Kazuchika Okada in 7:04.

Karl Anderson beat AKIRA in 8:02.

Shiro Koshinaka, Super Strong Machine & Jushin Liger beat Wataru Inoue, Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito in 12:17. Machine pinned Yujiro after a diving senton.

Hirooki Goto & Minoru beat Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma in 11:28. Goto pinned Honma after Shouten.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Takashi Iizuka, Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Makabe, Toru Yano, Jado & Gedo in 11:47. Iizuka beat Jado with a sleeper hold.

Shinsuke Nakamura, Giant Bernard & Milano Collection AT beat Manabu Nakanishi, Tiger Mask & Taichi Ishikari in 15:56. Milano pinned Ishikari after Victoria Milanese.

Dragon Gate: Dragon Kid is out until Saturday with a dislocated shoulder. The injury is not as serious as first thought. He will miss tomorrow's Pro Wrestling and Kakutogi Festival of Spring Special 2008 at Korakuen, so the DG offer match on the card is now as follows: Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino, & Genki Horiguchi vs. CIMA, Susumu Yokosuka, & Ryo Saito.

Full card for Friday at Hyogo:
Shingo Takagi, B x B Hulk & Cyber Kong vs. Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii & Super Shenlong
Open the Brave Gate Tournament 1st Round: Genki Horiguchi vs. El Blazer
Open the Brave Gate Tournament 1st Round: Gamma vs. Pac
Taku Iwasa & Keni'chiro Arai vs. Akira Tozawa & Yuki Ono
CIMA, Ryo Saito, Susumu Yokosuka, & K-ness vs. Naruki Doi, Yasushi Kanda, YAMATO, & Dr. Muscle
Open the Brave Gate Tournament 1st Round: Naoki Tanisaki vs. Super Shisa
Open the Brave Gate Tournament 1st Round: Masato Yoshino vs. Anthony W. Mori

Announced for Sunday at Hakata Starlanes:
Taku Iwasa & Keni'chiro Arai vs. Shingo Takagi & B x B Hulk
Open The Brave Gate Semifinals & Finals. Winner of finals wins the title
Open The Dream Gate Champion CIMA vs. Ryo Saito for the title

Kensuke Office from Saturday at Kensuke Office Yoshikawa Exercise Hall:
They claimed 150 paid (sellout).
Numazu Man beat Kikutaro in 10:55.

Manabu Hara & Daichi Kakimoto beat Kento Miyahara & Yuta Yoshikawa in 16:24. Hara pinned Yoshikawa with a German Suplex hold.

Katsuhiko Nakajima & Takashi Okita beat Bear Fukuda & CHANGO in 14:31. Nakajima pinned CHANGO with a German Suplex hold.

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NOAH from today at Zepp Nagoya:
They claimed 1000 paid (overflow).
Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Masashi Aoyagi beat Masao Inoue & Genba Hirayanagi in 10:14. Kikuchi pinned Hirayanagi after Fireball Bomb.

Junji Izumida & Kentaro Shiga beat Takeshi Rikioh & Akihiko Ito in 11:45. Izumida pinned Ito after Mukado Domu.

Ricky Marvin, Bryan Danielson & Bobby Fish beat Naomichi Marufuji, Kotaro Suzuki & Ippei Ota in 15:48. Fish pinned Ota after Fish Hook.

Takashi Sugiura, KENTA & Taiji Ishimori beat Jun Akiyama, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Atsushi Aoki in 11:40. KENTA pinned Aoki after GO 2 SLEEP.

Global Tag League '08:
Akira Taue & Go Shiozaki vs. Bison Smith & Akitoshi Saito went to a 30 minute time limit draw.

Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa beat Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano in 12:14. Misawa pinned Sano.

Takeshi Morishima & Mohammed Yone beat D-Lo Brown & Buchanan in 23:26. Morishima pinned Brown after a modified German suplex.

New Japan: Yuji Nagata's return match on 5/2 at Korakuen is taking shape. It will be Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi, & Koji Kanemoto vs. a Zero-One MAX team that is likely to be led by Masato Tanaka.

All-Japan: Keiji Mutoh & Akebono held talks yesterday for the latest installment of the "KEIJI MUTOH SHOW" set to air next month on Samurai! TV. Out of the talks came Akebono admitting to wanting to be the next F-1 Tag Title challenger, citing the "Mutoh Festival" on 6/10 in Korakuen as a possible date, and that if Suwama won the Triple Crown, that he would like to face Suwama in a singles match in order to see how much the two have grown since Akebono graduated from All Japan. (Can anyone say squash?)

All-Japan from today at Ehime ITEM:
They claimed 2700 paid (overflow).
MAZADA beat Hiroshi Yamato in 13:06.

Osamu Nishimura & El Samurai beat Nobutaka Araya & Nobukazu Hirai in 11:55. Nishimura pinned Araya with an inside cradle.

Kaz Hayashi, Joe Doering & Hajime Suruga beat T28, Seiya Sanada & Manabu Soya in 16:28. Doering pinned T28 after a lariat.

Al Daivari beat KAI in 6:25. (I am about 100% certain that Al Daivari is former WWE wrestler Shawn Daivari)

Taiyo Kea, Minoru Suzuki & TAKEMURA beat Kensuke Sasaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Takashi Okita in 20:43. TAKEMURA pinned Okita after M9.

TARU, ZODIAC & Silver King beat Keiji Mutoh, Suwama & Ryuji Hijikata in 15:41. King pinned Hijikata after Death Valley Bomb.

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New Japan: For the NJPW vs. Zero-One MAX 6 man tag on 5/2, Masato Tanaka has chosen Ryouji Sai & Ikuto Hidaka as his partners.

New Japan from today at Hakata Starlanes:
They claimed 1080 paid.
Jushin Liger & AKIRA beat Mitsuhide Hirasawa & Tetsuya Naito in 9:56. AKIRA pinned Hirasawa after a Musasabi press.

Christopher Daniels beat Taichi Ishikari in 7:40.

Hirooki Goto & Minoru beat Tomohiro Ishii & Karl Anderson in 9:18. Goto pinned Anderson after Shouten.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Takashi Iizuka beat Jado & Gedo in 3:07 by DQ (Gedo DQ'd).

Makabe, Toru Yano, Jado, Gedo & Tomohiro Ishii beat Tenzan, Iizuka, Wataru Inoue, Tiger Mask 4 & Kazuchika Okada in 8:22. Ishii pinned Okada after a lariat.

New Japan vs. ZERO1-MAX - Do or Die I: Manabu Nakanishi & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Takao Omori & Osamu Namiguchi in 8:53. Taguchi pinned Namiguchi after Dodon.

New Japan vs. ZERO1-MAX - Do or Die II: Masato Tanaka & Tatsuhito Takaiwa beat Koji Kanemoto & Yujiro in 11:54. Tanaka pinned Yujiro after Sliding D.

Riki Choshu, Masa Chono & Shiro Koshinaka beat Shinsuke Nakamura, Giant Bernard & Milano Collection AT in 12:27. Chono pinned Milano after Shining Yakuza Kick.

DDT from today at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring:
They claimed 157 paid.
KUDO beat Rion Mizuki in 7:48.

GENTARO & Hoshitango beat Naoshi Sano & Guts Ishijima in 2:40. Hoshitango beat Sano with a chinlock.

Michael Nakazawara & Tomomitsu Matsunaga beat Danshoku Dieno & Masa Takanashi in 8:31. Nakazawara pinned Takanashi after Union Neckbreaker.

Yasu Urano beat Daisuke Sasaki in 11:20.

Daichi Kakimoto, Kota Ibushi & Yukihiro Abe beat MIKAMI, Tanomusaku Toba & Poison Sawada JULIE in 14:20. Kakimoti pinned JULIE with a German Suplex hold.

Dick Togo, Touru Owashi, Koo & Seiya Morohashi beat HARASHIMA, Sanshiro Takagi, Yoshiaki Yago & Antonio Honda in 16:10. Togo pinned Honda after a diving senton.

Dragon Gate match result from yesterday's ProWrestling & Kakutogi Festival of Spring Special 2008 at Korakuen: CIMA, Susumu Yokosuka, & Ryo Saito beat Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino, & Genki Horiguchi. CIMA pinned Horiguchi after Schwein.

Dragon Gate: Dragon Kid's injury, that wasn't said to be as serious as first though, actually is as serious as first thought. He's now out through the end of next week.

Yesterday's results:
DG Arena:
Super Shisa beat Super Shenlong in 11:31.

Naoki Tanisaki beat Tozawa in 6:52.

Shisa BOY & Katsuo beat TAKUYA & Hideki Tsuno in 7:02 by DQ (mask attack). Which led to...
Shisa BOY, Katsuo, & Kouji Shishido beat TAKUYA, Hideki Tsuno, & Riki Senshu in 12:34. BOY pinned TAKUYA with a schoolboy. The match was originally to have been Shishido vs. Senshu.

El Dorado at Korakuen:
Spark Aoki vs. Masato Inabe went to a 5 minute draw.

Tsutomu Osugi & Hercules Senga beat Yuki Sato & Daisuke Sasaki in 7:36. Osugi pinned Sasaki after Tsuki no Ishi.

Kinya Oyanagei vs. Antonio Honda went to a 15 minute draw.

In a Anywhere Free Weapon No DQ Match, Brahmans Shu & Kei, Ken45, & Go beat Bear Fukuda, Jumping Kid Okimoto, Motosugu Shimizu, & CHANGO in 13:03. Ken45 pinned Okimoto after Doba Worm Attack into Guitar Attack into 5 Count Coffin Burial.

The Great Sasuke beat "brother" YASSHI in 12:55.

UWA Tag Team Champions KAGETORA & Kota Ibushi beat Touru Owashi & Takuya Sugawara in 20:37 to retain the titles. KAGETORA pinned Sugawara after Genkonitteki.

Magnitude Kishiwada beat Shuji Kondo in 19:40.

El Dorado will be running more shows the rest of the year. They will now do bi-monthly events at Korakuen and 2 monthly events at Shinjuku FACE.

All-Japan from Thursday at Takamatsu:
They claimed 850 paid.
TAKEMURA beat Manabu Soya in 7:50.

Kaz Hayashi & El Samurai beat Ryuji Hijikata & KAI in 13:48. Hayashi pinned KAI after Final Cut.

Osamu Nishimura & Joe Doering beat Nobutaka Araya & Nobukazu Hirai in 12:55. Doering pinned Araya after a jumping powerbomb.

Silver King beat T28 in 11:10.

TARU, ZODIAC & Al Daivari beat Taiyo Kea, Minoru Suzuki & MAZADA in 17:17. ZODIAC pinned MAZADA after Murder Bomb.

Keiji Mutoh, Suwama & Seiya Sanada beat Kensuke Sasaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Takashi Okita in 21:30. Sanada pinned Okita with a German Suplex hold.

New Japan from today (Friday) at Hakata Starlanes:
They claimed 1170 paid.
Shiro Koshinaka, Super Strong Machine & AKIRA beat Taichi Ishikari, Mitsuhide Hirasawa & Kazuchika Okada in 9:06. AKIRA pinned Okada after a Musasabi press.

Christopher Daniels beat Tetsuya Naito in 11:14.

Wataru Inoue & Tiger Mask 4 beat Jado & Gedo in 10:43. Inoue pinned Gedo after Triangle Lancer.

Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii beat Hirooki Goto & Milano Collection AT in 12:19. Yano pinned Milano after Uragasumi.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Takashi Iizuka beat Makabe & Tomoaki Honma in 11:51 by DQ (Makabe DQ'd).

New Japan vs. ZERO1-MAX - Do or Die III: Manabu Nakanishi & Yujiro beat Takao Omori & Osamu Namiguchi in 13:24. Yujiro pinned Namiguchi after an Intercollege slam.

New Japan vs. ZERO1-MAX - Do or Die IV: Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Masato Tanaka & Tatsuhito Takaiwa in 16:12 by submission. Kanemoto beat Takaiwa with an ankle hold.

Riki Choshu, Masahiro Chono & Jushin Liger beat Shinsuke Nakamura, Giant Bernard & Minoru in 11:10. Choshu pinned Minoru after a lariat.

DDT: Kota Ibushi vs. PSYCHO for the Independent Jr. Heavyweight title is now set for the K-DOJO 5/5 show at Chiba Bluefield.

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NOAH from today at Ishikawa:
They claimed 2400 paid (sellout).
Kotaro Suzuki beat Genba Hirayanagi in 12:51.

Takuma Sano beat Junji Izumida in 11:58.

Bryan Danielson, Ricky Marvin, & Bobby Fish beat KENTA, Taiji Ishimori, & Atsushi Aoki in 15:54. Danielson pinned Aoki after reversing an armbar.

Bison Smith, Akitoshi Saito, & Masao Inoue beat GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima, Mohammed Yone, & Akihiko Ito in 18:16. Inoue pinned Ito after an Argentine backbreaker.

Jun Akiyama, Takeshi Rikioh, & GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru beat Kenta Kobashi, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi, & Shuhei Taniguchi in 26:07. Kanemaru pinned Kikuchi after Touch Out.

Global Tag League '08:
Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa beat Akira Taue & Go Shiozaki in 18:54. Ogawa pinned Shiozaki after an Avalanche-style back drop suplex.

D-Lo Brown & Buchanan beat Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura in 28:02. D-Lo pinned Sugiura after Lo Down.
Global Tag League Standings:
Misawa/Ogawa-9 points
Akiyama/Rikioh-9 points
Brown/Buchanan-8 points
Morishima/Yone-8 points
Smith/Saito-8 points
Takayama/Sano-7 points
Marufuji/Sugiura-7 points
Sasaki/Nakajima-6 points
Taue/Shiozaki-4 points
Here's how it looks for each team that has a match Sunday:
Misawa/Ogawa-If they beat Smith & Saito they either win or face Akiyama & Rikioh in a tiebreaker.
Akiyama/Rikioh-Same as Misawa/Ogawa. They face Sasaki & Nakajima.
Morishima/Yone-They need help. They have to win, both Misawa/Ogawa & Akiyama/Rikioh must lose, then they'd have a tiebreaker against Smith & Saito.
Smith/Saito-Same as Morishima/Yone.
Marufuji/Sugiura-Tiebreaker is the only way. They have to beat Morishima & Yone and hope Akiyama & Rikioh lose and Misawa/Ogawa vs. Smith/Saito ends in a non-time limit draw (that would mean no points).
Sasaki/Nakajima-no chance.
Everyone else is done.

Full card for Burning Navigation (Kenta Kobashi Returning Home) on 5/11 in Fukuchiyama City:
Mohammed Yone vs. Akihiko Ito

Kentaro Shiga & Mitsuo Momota vs. Junji Izumida & Masashi Aoyagi

KENTA & Taiji Ishimori vs. Atsushi Aoki & Ippei Ota

Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Genba Hirayanagi vs. Kotaro Suzuki & Ricky Marvin

Takashi Sugiura & Takuma Sano vs. Tamon Honda & Shuhei Taniguchi

Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikioh vs. Akitoshi Saito & Kishin Kawabata

Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 20th Anniversary Match: Kenta Kobashi, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi, & Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Akira Taue, Yoshinari Ogawa, & Masao Inoue

Lots of 4/23 & 4/25 Action Shots From The Honolulu Office

Dragon Gate from Friday at Hyogo:
Shingo Takagi, B x B Hulk, & Cyber Kong beat Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii, & Super Shenlong in 8:41. Hulk pinned Shenlong after Nadare-shiki EVO.

Taku Iwasa & Keni'chiro Arai beat Akira Tozawa & Yuki Ono in 13:26.

CIMA, Ryo Saito, Susumu Yokosuka, & K-ness beat Naruki Doi, Yasushi Kanda, YAMATO, & Dr. Muscle in 11:53 by DQ (mask attack on K-ness).

Open The Brave Gate Tournament 1st Round:
El Blazer beat Genki Horiguchi in 6:10.
Gamma beat Pac in 8:48.
Naoki Tanisaki beat Super Shisa in 12:08.
Anthony W. Mori beat Masato Yoshino in 17:42.

Updated Sunday card for Hakata Starlanes as a result of Friday's matches:
Open The Brave Gate Tournament:
Gamma vs. El Blazer
Naoki Tanisaki vs. Anthony W. Mori
Finals: Gamma-Blazer winner vs. Tanisaki-Mori winner

Taku Iwasa & Keni'chiro Arai vs. Shingo Takagi & B x B Hulk

Open The Dream Gate Champion CIMA vs. Ryo Saito for the title

4/26 results:
All-Japan from Saturday at Fukuyama:
They claimed 1200 paid.
Seiya Sanada beat Hajime Suruga in 11:10.

MAZADA beat T28 in 11:46.

Kaz Hayashi, SUSUMU & Forerunner beat Nobutaka Araya, Nobutaka Araya & Detective HOGO in 16:25. SUSUMU pinned HOGO.

Keiji Mutoh, Joe Doering, Ryuji Hijikata & HANZO beat TARU, ZODIAC, Silver King & Al Daivari in 14:36 by DQ (ZODIAC DQ'd due to TARU interference).

Taiyo Kea, Minoru Suzuki & TAKEMURA beat Osamu Nishimura, El Samurai & Manabu Soya in 25:45 by submission. Suzuki beat Soya with a rear naked choke.

Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Suwama & KAI in 16:52. Sasaki pinned KAI after a lariat.

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A huge Sunday roundup, one of the biggest Sundays in recent puroresu memory...2 words: title changes. Some of these are really something. Here we go:
NOAH from today at Budokan (Global Tag League '08 Finals):
They claimed 11,500 paid (sellout).
Genba Hirayanagi & Akihiko Ito beat Ippei Ota & Kento Miyahara in 13:25. Ito pinned Miyahara with a German Suplex hold.

GHC Harcdore Champion Kishin Kawabata, Kentaro Shiga & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi beat Masao Inoue, Junji Izumida & Mitsuo Momota in 13:08. Kikuchi pinned Momota with a cradle.

GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taiji Ishimori beat Bryan Danielson & Atsushi Aoki in 11:54. Ishimori pinned Aoki after a modified DDT.

D-Lo Brown, Buchanan & Bobby Fish beat Akira Taue, Kotaro Suzuki & Ricky Marvin in 18:34. D-Lo pinned Marvin after Lo Down.

Yoshihiro Takayama, Takuma Sano & Go Shiosaki beat Kenta Kobashi, Tamon Honda & Go Shiozaki in 22:13. Sano pinned Honda after Northern Lights Bomb.

Global Tag League '08:
GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura beat GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima & Mohammed Yone in 24:47. Sugiura pinned Morishima after Olympic Yosen Slam. (I'd like to see how this came off on the DVD)
Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikioh in 22:17. Sasaki pinned Rikioh after Northern Lights Bomb.
Bison Smith & Akitoshi Saito beat beat Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa in 17:16 to win the Global Tag League. Saito pinned Ogawa after Sickle Of Death. Smith & Saito finish with 10 points to take the title. 3-way tie for 2nd with 9 points.

Dragon Gate from today at Hakata Star Lanes:
No attendance figures available as usual. No match times available.
Masato Yoshino, YAMATO, & Yasushi Kanda beat Susumu Yokosuka, Pac, & Super Shisa. Kanda pinned Shisa after a diving elbow drop.

Open The Brave Gate Tournament Semis:
Gamma beat El Blazer.
Anthony W. Mori beat Naoki Tanisaki.

Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii beat Naruki Doi & Genki Horiguchi. Fujii pinned Horiguchi after Nice German.

Taku Iwasa & Keni'chiro Arai beat Shingo Takagi & B x B Hulk.

Gamma beat Anthony W. Mori to win the Open The Brave Gate Tournament. Gamma becomes the 9th Open The Brave Gate Champion. Not for long though. Gamma threw away the 8 pieces of the belt and declared himself the Open The Gamma Gate Champion.

Open The Dream Gate Champion CIMA beat Ryo Saito to retain the title.
The promotion's final big 12/28 show was announced for 12/28 in Fukuoka. As for the Dream Gate, no word on the next challenger but YAMATO demanded a shot.

New Japan from today in Osaka:
They claimed 6000 paid (sellout).
Jado, Gedo & Karl Anderson beat Yujiro, Mitsuhide Hirasawa & Kazuchika Okada in 5:30. Anderson pinned Okada after Gun Stun.

Milano Collection AT & Minoru beat Shiro Koshinaka & AKIRA in 6:14. Milano pinned AKIRA after Victoria Milanese.

Hirooki Goto & Giant Bernard beat Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma in 8:33. Bernard pinned Honma after Bernard Driver.

New Japan vs. ZERO1-MAX: Masato Tanaka & Shinjiro Otani beat Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi in 12:56. Tanaka pinned Taniguchi after Sliding D.

Riki Choshu, Masa Chono & Jushin Liger beat Manabu Nakanishi, Tiger Mask 4 & Tetsuya Naito in 8:52. Chono pinned Naito after Shining Yakuza Kick.

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Wataru Inoue beat Christopher Daniels in 19:28 to retain the title.

IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Makabe & Toru Yano beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Takashi Iizuka in 15:14 to retain the titles. Makabe pinned Tenzan after a top rope King Kong kneedrop.

Keiji Mutoh beat IWGP Heavyweight Champion Shinsuke Nakamura in 22:34 to win the title. Mutoh wins the title for the 4th time and becomes the 49th IWGP Heavyweight Champion. And is taking the belt to All-Japan with him.
Full details hopefully coming later.

K-DOJO Chiba Bluefield Doubleheader:
CLUB-K 1000:
They claimed 34 paid.
Mr.X beat Ryuichi Sekine in 8:01.

Kaji Yamato beat Shima Tsubaki in 5:06.

Kunio Toshima & Saburo Inematsu beat JOE & Hiro Tonai in 17:37. Toshima pinned Tonai after a dropkick.

CLUB-K 3000:
They claimed 61 paid.
Kengo Mashimo, Madoka & Taishi Takizawa beat Daigoro Kashiwa, Teppei Ishizaka & Mantaro Kawasaki in 12:31. Madoda beat Kawasaki with a crossface lock.

Shiori Asahi & Bambi beat Yuu Yamagata & Kaji Yamato in 10:20. Asahi pinned Yamato after a scissors DDT.

PSYCHO beat MIYAWAKI in 10:24.

Taku Anzawa Final Combine 1st: TAKA Michinoku beat Taku Anzawa in 12:45.

Yuji Hino, KAZMA & Makoto Oishi beat YOSHIYA, Apple Miyuki & Quiet Storm in 16:24. Hino pinned Miyuki after a powerbomb.

They run a series of 6 straight days of shows at Chiba Bluefield starting Thursday.

The next big show on the schedule is All-Japan this Tuesday with 3 title matches including Kensuke Sasaki vs. Suwama for the Triple Crown.