NOAH from today at Differ Ariake:
They claimed 1800 paid (overflow).
Takuma Sano & Mitsuo Momota beat Junji Izumida & Ippei Ota in 13:25. Sano pinned Ota after Northern Lights Bomb.

Yoshinari Ogawa & Taiji Ishimori beat Mohammed Yone & Atsushi Aoki in 13:17. Ishimori pinned Aoki with a horizontal cradle.

Bison Smith, Akitoshi Saito & Davey Richards beat Takeshi Rikioh, Masao Inoue & Akihiko Ito in 25:15. Richards beat Ito with a chickenwing.

GHC Hardcore Champion Kishin Kawabata & Kentaro Shiga beat Akira Taue & Genba Hirayanagi in 24:54. Kawabata pinned Hirayanagi with a diving senton to retain the title.

Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura beat Kensuke Sasaki & Kento Miyahara in 17:31. Marufuji beat Miyahara with a Cobra Clutch-style triangle choke.

Kenta Kobashi & Tamon Honda beat Buchanan & Keith Walker in 14:05. Honda pinned Walker after Dead End 5.

Jun Akiyama beat Katsuhiko Nakajima in 19:12.

GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima, GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru, & Kotaro Suzuki beat Mitsuharu Misawa, KENTA & Ricky Marvin in 18:01. Kanemaru pinned Marvin after Touch Out.

Dragon Gate from today at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring:
No attendance figures available.
K-ness & Oniyo beat Yuki Sato & Shinobu in 14:13. Oniyo beat Sato with Oniyo Clutch.

Keni'chiro Arai & Koichiro Arai beat Super Shisa & Shisa BOY in 11:24. Koichiro pinned BOY after Sakauchi.

Masaaki Mochizuki, El Blazer, & Takeshi Minaminno beat Fujita Jr Hayato, Munenori Sawa, & Yuta Yoshikawa in 14:54 by TKO. Mochizuki beat Yoshikawa.

Shingo Takagi & Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Masato Tanaka went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

Dick Togo beat Don Fujii in 14:48.

New Japan from today at Twin Messe Shizuoka (IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title Tournament Round 1):
They claimed 1200 paid (sellout).
Riki Choshu, Masahiro Chono, Shiro Koshinaka & Super Strong Machine beat Tiger Mask 4, Ryusuke Taguchi, Mitsuhide Hirasawa & Kazuchika Okada in 7:53. Koshinaka pinned Okada after a diving hip attack.

Wataru Inoue & Koji Kanemoto beat Shinsuke Nakamura & Jimmy Rave in 10:24. Inoue pinned Rave after Oracion Flame.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi beat Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma in 10:34. Nakanishi pinned Honma after Hercules Cutter.

Hirooki Goto, Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller beat Makabe, Toru Yano & Karl Anderson in 12:05. Fuller pinned Anderson after a union chokeslam.

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title Tournament Round 1 (Note: This is an elimination tournament):
Yujiro beat Tetsuya Naito in 11:17.
AKIRA beat Jado in 15:19.
Prince Devitt beat Gedo in 10:40.
Jushin Liger beat Minoru in 6 minutes.
The participants and blocks for the upcoming G1 Climan tournament:
Block A: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Manabu Nakanishi, Wataru Inoue, Giant Bernard, Makabe, Shinjiro Otani, TBA
Block B: Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Yuji Nagata, Shinsuke Nakamura, Hirooki Goto, Toru Yano, Toshiaki Kawada (appearing as a freelance talent), Yutaka Yoshie

Sunday results:
NOAH from Act City Hamamatsu:
They claimed 1700 paid.
Kishin Kawabata & Masashi Aoyagi beat Junji Izumida & Mitsuo Momota in 11:22. Aoyagi pinned Momota after an enziguri.

Takuma Sano beat Genba Hirayanagi in 8:53.

KENTA, Taiji Ishimori & Ricky Marvin beat GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Davey Richards & Ippei Ota in 17:35. Marvin pinned Ota after Santa Maria.

Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura beat Akira Taue & Masao Inoue in 13:01. Sugiura pinned Inoue with a horizontal cradle.

Mitsuharu Misawa, Yoshinari Ogawa & Kotaro Suzuki beat Akitoshi Saito, Bison Smith & Kentaro Shiga in 20:45. Suzuki pinned Shiga with a horizontal cradle.

GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima & Mohammed Yone beat Buchanan & Keith Walker in 11:25. Morishima pinned Walker after the backdrop suplex.

Jun Akiyama, Takeshi Rikioh & Atsushi Aoki beat Kenta Kobashi, Tamon Honda & Akihiko Ito in 28:19. Aoki beat Ito with a cross armbreaker.

Full 7/18 Budokan card (undercard matches announced):
Masao Inoue & Mitsuo Momota vs. Junji Izumida & Genba Hirayanagi
Takuma Sano & Ippei Ota vs. Kishin Kawabata & Kentaro Shiga
Akira Taue, Yoshinari Ogawa & Kotaro Suzuki vs. Tamon Honda, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Akihiko Ito
Jun Akiyama, Atsushi Aoki & Davey Richards vs. Akitoshi Saito, Mohammed Yone & Ricky Marvin
Mitsuharu Misawa, Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura vs. Kenta Kobashi, Yoshihiro Takayama & Katsuhiko Nakajima
Special Singles Match: KENTA vs. Kensuke Sasaki
GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Taiji Ishimori for the title
GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima vs. Takeshi Rikioh for the title

New Japan from Korakuen:
They claimed 1835 paid.
Tetsuya Naito beat Nobuo Yoshihashi (debut) in 5:37.

Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller beat Toru Yano & Karl Anderson in 8:10. Fuller pinned Anderson after a union chokeslam.

Jado, Gedo, Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Shiro Koshinaka, Super Strong Machine & Kazuchika Okada in 8:32.

Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto beat Yuji Nagata & Wataru Inoue in 14:44. Nakamura pinned Inoue after Landslide.

Manabu Nakanishi beat Makabe in 13:28.

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title Tournament Round 2:
Prince Devitt beat Yujiro in 8:29.
AKIRA beat Jushin Liger in 13:44.
Koji Kanemoto beat Jimmy Rave in 10:43.
Tiger Mask 4 beat Ryusuke Taguchi in 12:30 by countout.
The semis & finals are Tuesday. Semis will be TM 4 vs. AKIRA and Kanemoto vs. Devitt.

DDT "KING OF DDT" from Korakuen (every match had a special stip or was a title match):
They claimed 1522 paid.
Fancoise☆Takagi beat Masa-ko Takanashi & Hoshitan-ko in a Woman Substitute Triple Threat Match in 5:41 by pinning Takanashi. As a result, Sanshiro Takagi wins the DDT Extreme Title from Masa Takanashi and becomes the 7th DDT Extreme Champion.

Omori Dream Fair World Champion Daichi Kakimoto beat Keisuke Ishii in 6:18 to retain the title.

Arnold Sukesukejaneka beat Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Michael Nakazawa in 12:22 to win the title. Sukesukejaneka becomes the 761st Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion.

Michael Nakazawa beat Danshoku Dieno, Muscle Sakai, Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Yukihiro Abe, Rion Mizuki, Daisuke Sasaki, Gorgeous Matsuno, & Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Arnold Sukesukejaneka in a battle royal, last beating Sakai to win the title. Nakazawa becomes the 763rd Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion.

Arnold Sukesukejaneka beat Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Michael Nakazawa in 12:34 to win the title. Sukesukejaneka becomes the 764th Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion.

In a 6 man street fight, Antonio Honda, KUDO & Yasu Urano beat Touru Owashi, Koo & Super Vampire in 8:56. KUDO pinned Vampire after a diving double knee drop.

KO-D Tag Team Champions MIKAMI & Tanomusaku Toba beat JARASHIMA & Poison Sawada JULIE in 12:02 to retain the titles. MIKAMI pinned JULIE.

Independent Jr. Heavyweight Champion Kota Ibushi beat TAKA Michinoku in 10:09 by KO (right high kick) to retain the title.

KO-D Openweight Champion Dick Togo beat Seiya Morohashi in 19:14 to retain the title.

New Japan: Koji Kanemoto is OUT of the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title Tournament due to a right knee injury. As a result, Prince Devitt gets a free pass into the final, where he'll face either AKIRA or Tiger Mask 4. No word on how long Kanemoto will be out or when the injury happened.

New Japan from today at Korakuen (All matches except the first one, which did not air as part of the event broadcast on Japanese TV, were New Japan vs. Zero-One MAX):
They claimed 1300 paid.
Kazuchiko Okada beat Nobuo Yoshihashi in 4:54.

Riki Choshu & Mitsuhide Hirasawa beat Takao Omori & Shito Ueda in 5:59. Choshu pinned Ueda after a lariat.

Yujiro beat Osamu Namiguchi in 4:08.

Ryouji Sai & Minoru Fujita beat Ryusuke Taguchi & Tetsuya Naito in 13:50. Sai pinned Naito after Nachi Waterfall.

Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Daisuke Sekimoto beat Jushin Liger & AKIRA in 9:31. Takaiwa pinned AKIRA after an avalanche-style Death Valley Bomb.

Wataru Inoue & Tiger Mask 4 beat Ikuto Hidaka & Munenori Sawa in 13:29. Inoue pinned Sawa after Oracion Flame.

Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Masato Tanaka & Shinjiro Otani went to a 30 minute time limit draw.

Nagata vs. Tanaka went to a 5 minute time limit draw.

Head-to-head: New Japan wins 3-2-2.

DDT: News & notes from Sunday's Korakuen show:
Arnold Sukesukejaneka was an imaginary invisible foreigner from the United States, which was brought over to participate at the show.

Not mentioned in the results was that Muscle Sakai became the 762nd Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion by beating Sukesukejaneka to win the title. Sakai then dropped it to Michael Nakazawa in the battle royal.

After the fifth match, JARASHIMA told Poison Sawada JULIE that he has already sold 1,000 Maracas and that it was time for him to go back to being normal. Sawada then gave JARASHIMA an antidote, which turned him back to normal and HARASHIMA told Sawada that Jakai Tensho would do well without him and he then did his usual after match pose. (Note: HARASHIMA & JARASHIMA are the same person. Also, JULIE is a male. He's also known as just Poison Sawada)

Kota Ibushi will likely next defend the Independent Jr. Heavyweight Title against Madoka after accepting Madoka's challenge yesterday.

KO-D Openweight Champion Dick Togo will likely defend against Antonio Honda in the future, although there may be another opponent first, to be determined on 7/20. before the show ended, DDT Commissioner Gorgeous Matsuno held a special meeting in the ring with the DDT Sekigun and Matsuno announced that he wanted to get an appropriate KO-D Openweight Title challenger and that a special one night, 8 man tournament would be held on 7/20 to determine the challenger. Matsuno then revealed the following 8 participants: HARASHIMA, Kota Ibushi, MIKAMI, Tanomusaku Toba, KUDO, Yaru Urano, Daichi Kakimoto & Hoshitango. Also likely for the cars is NEW DDT Extreme Champion Sanshiro Takagi vs. Masa Takanashi (the former Champion) in a T2P Lucha Libre Classica Rules Match with a hexagon ring.

NOAH/All-Japan: According to Jun Akiyama, Kensuke Office has pulled their participation out of All-Japan for now and will work exclusively with NOAH for the immediate future.

Suwama & Akira Raijin vs. Taiyo Kea & Minoru Suzuki has been added to AJPW's 7/20 event at Korakuen.

New Japan from today at Korakuen (new IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion crowned):
They claimed 1985 paid (sellout).
Mitsuhide Hirasawa beat Nobuo Yoshihashi in 4:39.

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title Tournament Semifinals:
Prince Devitt beat Koji Kanemoto by forfeit (injury-see earlier posts).
Tiger Mask 4 beat AKIRA in 9:44.

Jimmy Rave, Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito beat Jushin Liger, Ryusuke Taguchi & Kazuchika Okada in 7:21. Rave beat Okada with a crab hold.

Manabu Nakanishi, Shiro Koshinaka, Super Strong Machine & Wataru Inoue beat Jado, Gedo, Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma in 10:28. Inoue pinned Gedo after Oracion Flame.

Shinsuke Nakamura, Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller beat Makabe, Toru Yano & Karl Anderson in 10:49. Fuller pinned Anderson after FB.

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title Tournament Final: Tiger Mask 4 beat Prince Devitt in 12:07 to win the title. Tiger Mask 4 wins the title for the 4th time and becomes the 54th IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Takashi Iizuka in a Lumberjack Death Match in 23:15. GBH beatdown on Tenzan after the match until save by Tenzan's "secret supporter", revealed to be Satoshi Kojima.

NOAH results from today later.

Edit: NOAH from today at Osaka:
They claimed 1500 paid (sellout).
Keith Walker beat Ippei Ota in 5:16.

Kishin Kawabata, Kentaro Shiga & Genba Hirayanagi beat Masao Inoue, Mitsuo Momota & Masashi Aoyagi in 10:57. Shiga pinned Momota with an inside cradle.

KENTA, Taiji Ishimori & Ricky Marvin beat GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Magnitude Kishiwada & Davey Richards in 16:01. KENTA beat Richards with an Arm Height Octopus Hold.

Mitsuharu Misawa, Yoshinari Ogawa & Mushiking Terry beat Jun Akiyama, Akira Taue & Atsushi Aoki in 13:03. Terry pinned Aoki after Mist Crush.

GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima & Takashi Sugiura beat Yoshihiro Tayakama & Takuma Sano in 14:54. Morishima pinned Sano after the back drop suplex.

Takeshi Rikioh beat Buchanan in 12:41.

Naomichi Marufuji beat Mohammed Yone in 15:25.

Akitoshi Saito & Bison Smith beat Kenta Kobashi & Tamon Honda in 27:52. Smith pinned Honda after Bisontenial.
Next event is tomorrow in Kochi.

New Japan: The "X" for a wrestler TBA in the G-1 Climax is Satoshi Kojima.
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Makabe & Toru Yano will defend against Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller on 7/21 at Tsukisamu.

NOAH from Wednesday (7/9) at Kochi:
They claimed 1300 paid.
Kishin Kawabata beat Mitsuo Momota in 8:55.

Mohammed Yone beat Masao Inoue in 14:36.

GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Kotaro Suzuki & Davey Richards beat KENTA, Taiji Ishimori & Ippei Ota in 19:21. Richards beat Ota with a Texas Cloverleaf.

Akira Taue & takeshi Rikioh beat Buchanan & Keith Walker in 12:56. Rikioh pinned Walker after Musou.

Mitsuharu Misawa, Yoshinari Ogawa, & Ricky Marvin beat GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima, Naomichi Marufuji, & Atsushi Aoki in 20:18. Marvin pinned Aoki after Santa Maria.

Akitoshi Saito & Bison Smith beat Jun Akiyama & Kentaro Shiga in 14:30. Saito pinned Shiga after Sickle Of Death.

Yoshihiro Takayama, Taskuma Sano, & Takashi Sugiura beat Kenta Kobashi, Tamon Honda, & Akihiko Ito in 29:29. Sugiura pinned Ito after Olympic Yosen Slam.

This message was edited by DCRage on Jul 09 2008.

Dragon Gate from Thursday at Korakuen:
No attendance figures available.
Akira Tozawa, Shinobu, & El Generico beat Gamma, Genki Horiguchi, & Yasushi Kanda in 8:53. Generico pinned Horiguchi after a Vertical Drop brainbuster.

YAMATO beat Hollywood Stalker Ichikawa in 1:35 by ref stoppage.

Anthony W. Mori beat TAKEMURA in 6:24.

Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii beat Dragon Kid & Pac in 10:58.

Ryo Saito & Susumu Yokosuka beat Naoki Tanisaki & m.c.KZ in 13 minutes. Saito pinned KZ with a Dragon Suplex hold.

NOSAWA Rongai & MAZADA beat Taku Iwasa & Keni'chiro Arai in 10:25. NOSAWA pinned Arai after using a chair while the ref wasn't looking. As a result, NOSAWA & MAZADA will challenge Open The Twin Gate Champions Ryo Saito & Susumu Yokosuka for the titles at a later date.

Shingo Takagi, Cyber Kong, & YAMATO beat Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino, & B x B Hulk in 24:53. Kong pinned Yoshino after Cyber Bomb.

YAMATO went after CIMA after match 2, along with other RH members and Tokyo Gurentai. They attempted to cut his hair. Shingo stopped them, causing a bit of tension amongst the others. Typhoon made the save, which lead directly into match 3. After the main there was further discord between Shingo and Kong, for Shingo having aided CIMA.

All-Japan: Satoshi Kojima will return on 7/20 at Korakuen. Kojima stated that he begged President Keiji Mutoh to let him back on the cards and will participate in the entire "SUMMER ACTION SERIES 2008" tour from 7/20 to 8/3. Kojima said that although the G1 Climax was on his mind, that All Japan will always be his home and wanted to return in All Japan. Koji also promised that although he was with the VM side of his return match on 7/20, that you would see a different Koji than they were getting over the last year as he had been working hard for his return, even spending a week in America on special training. On 7/20 he teams with TARU to face Mutoh & Osamu Nishimura.

New Japan: The promotion has announced it's post-G1 September tour, "CIRCUIT 2008 NEW JAPAN GENERATION". The full schedule:
9/4-Chichibu Citizen Gymnasium; 9/5-Korakuen; 9/7-Yamagata; 9/8-Zepp Sendai; 9/12-Tsukaba Kapio; 9/13-Sagamihara; 9/14-Utsunomiya Suzumenomiya Gymnasium; 9/15-Tatebayashi Citizen Gymnasium; 9/19-Tottori; 9/20-Yokkaichi; 9/21-Kobe; 9/23-"ONLY ONE NIGHT ~AREA W~" at Wakayama

DDT: Full card for 7/20 at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring:
Next KO-D Openweight Title Contendership One Day Tournament First Round matches:
MIKAMI vs. Yasu Urano
Kota Ibushi vs. Hoshitango
Daichi Kakimoto vs. Tanomusaku Toba
HARASHIMA vs. KUDO
Semis & Finals

Delay Chuukei Match: Dick Togo vs. Antonio Honda. The Delay Chuukei Match's description was something about people fighting 2 relays until death.

Seiya Morohashi & Yukihiro Abe vs. Daisuke Sasaki & Keisuke Ishii

Michael Nakazawa & Tomomitsu Matsunaga vs. Poison Sawada JULIE & Gorgeous Matsuno

Danshoku Dieno & Muscle Sakai vs. Touru Owashi & Koo

DDT Extreme Champion Sanshiro Takagi vs. Masa Takanashi in a Hexagon Ring T2P Lucha Libre Classica Rule Match for the title

DDT talent producing Beer Garden Pro-Wrestling Series shows in August: 8/4-HARASHIMA; 8/5-Suicide Boyz (MIKAMI & Tanomusaku Toba); 8/6-Kota Ibushi; 8/7-KUDO & Yasu Urano; 8/8-Belt Hunter Hunter (Yoshiaki Yago, Danshoku Dieno, Muscle Sakai, Masa Takanashi); 8/9-Union; 8/10-DDT.

NOAH from today at Akashi:
They claimed 900 paid.
Taiji Ishimori beat Genba Hirayanagi in 7:09.

Kentaro Shiga & Kishin Kawabata beat Mitsuo Momota & Takuma Sano in 10:58. Shiga pinned Momota with a horizontal cradle.

Ricky Marvin & Keith Walker beat Akira Taue & Atsushi Aoki in 9:31. Marvin pinned Aoki after Santa Maria.

Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugira beat KENTA & Ippei Ota in 13:21. Sugiura pinned Ota with a German Suplex hold.

Mitsuharu Misawa, Yoshinari Ogawa & Mushiking Terry beat Akitoshi Saito, Masao Inoue & Davey Richards in 16:30. Terry pinned Richards after Mist Crash.

GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima & Mohammed Yone beat Bison Smith & Buchanan in 14:26. Morishima pinned Buchanan after the back drop suplex.

Jun Akiyama, Takeshi Rikioh, & Yoshinobu Kanemaru beat Kenta Kobashi, Tamon Honda & Akihiko Ito in 25:11. Kanemaru pinned Ito after Touch Out.

Full card for The Kensuke Office-Produced "SEMex TAKE THE DREAM VOL. 6" on 8/17 at Korakuen:
KAGETORA vs. Genba Hirayanagi
Catfish Man & TBA vs. Kikurato (Kikutaro?) & TBA
Ultimo Dragon, Takeshi Minnamino, & Amigo Suzuki vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Taiji Ishimori & Ippei Ota
4 vs. 4 Tag Survival Match: Kensuke Sasaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kento Miyahara, & Takashi Okita vs. Kenta Kobashi, KENTA, Atsushi Aoki, & Akihiko Ito
My thoughts on this card: DAMN!!! Now that's a card!

This message was edited by DCRage on Jul 11 2008.

Saturday results (title changes):
NOAH from Strait Messe Shimonoseki:
They claimed 1500 paid (sellout).
Taiji Ishimori beat Ippei Ota in 10:13.

Kishin Kawabata & Kentaro Shiga beat Masao Inoue & Mitsuo Momota in 14:10. Kawabata pinned Momota with a backslide.

Akira Taue & Takuma Sano beat Akitoshi Saito & Yuto Aijima in 14:02. Sano pinned Aijima after Northern Lights Bomb.

KENTA & Ricky Marvin beat GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Genba Hirayanagi in 10:46. Marvin pinned Hirayanagi after Santa Maria.

Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura beat Buchanan & Davey Richards in 18:30. Marufuji pinned Richards after Shiranui.

Mitsuharu Misawa, Yoshinari Ogawa & Kotaro Suzuki beat Jun Akiyama, Takeshi Rikioh & Atsushi Aoki in 19:27. Suzuki pinned Aoki after Blue Destiny.

GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima & Mohammed Yone beat Bison Smith & Keith Walker in 14:01. Yone pinned Walker after a Double Impact-style Rolling Thunder.

Kenta Kobashi, Tamon Honda & Akihiko Ito beat Kensuke Sasaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kento Miyahara in 29:21. Ito pinned MIyahara with a Dragon Suplex hold.

Dragon Gate from Friday at Hyogo:
No attendance figures available. No match times available.
Dragon Kid, Anthony W. Mori, & Pac beat Akira Tozawa, Yuki Ono, & El Generico. Pac pinned Tozawa after 360 SSP.

Don Fujii beat Hollywood Stalker Ichikawa.

Masaaki Mochizuki beat Genki Horiguchi.

Ryo Saito & Susumu Yokosuka beat Naoki Tanisaki & Super Shisa. Yokosuka pinned Shisa after Genkai.

B x B Hulk & Jushin Liger beat Shingo Takagi & Cyber Kong. Hulk pinned Kong after Nadare-Shiki E.V.O.

YAMATO, Yasushi Kanda, & Gamma beat Open The Triangle Gate Champions Taku Iwasa, Keni'chiro Arai, & Shinobu to win the titles. YAMATO, Kanda, & Gamma become the 20th Open The Trinagle Gate Champions. Gamma pinned SHinobu after a Nadare-Shiki Tombstone.

Title change from Friday: Open The Owarai Gate Champion Jackson Florida beat Johnson Florida by ringout, but by getting more fan support Johnson Florida wins the title and becomes the 6th Open The Owarai Gate Champion.

DG announced 4 title matches for its 7/27 card:
m.c.KZ vs. Genki Horiguchi for the vacant Open The Brave Gate Title
Open The Twin Gate Champions Ryo Saito & Susumu Yokosuka vs. MAZADA & NOSAWA Rongai
NEW Open The Triangle Gate Champions YAMATO, Yasushi Kanda, & Gamma vs. Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino, & Naoki Tanisaki vs. Dragon Kid, Anthony W. Mori, & Pac vs. Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii, & Magnitude Kishiwada in a 4-way match for the titles
Shingo Takagi vs. B x B Hulk for the vacant Open The Dream Gate Title

First matches for 9/5 in L.A.:
El Generico vs. Genki Horiguchi
Hollywood Stalker Ichikawa vs. Necro Butcher in a Dangerous Comedy Match
Taku Iwasa & Keni'chiro Arai vs. Dragon Kid & Dos Caras
A title match TBA is planned. Hayabusa will be avialable for photo sessions and autographs.

New Japan: LOCK UP from Shinjuku FACE:
They claimed 485 paid (sellout).
Tetsuya Naito & Kuniyoshi Wada beat GENTARO & Yusaku Obata in 14:58. Wada pinned Obata.

Daisuke Sekimoto & Takashi Sasaki beat Yujiro & Kazuchika Okada in 12:09. Sekimoto pinned Okada with a German Suplex hold.

Tomoaki Honma beat Hisamaru Tajima in 10:34.

Jado & Gedo vs. Mitsuya Nagai & Arashi went to a no contest in 12:13.

Kintaro Kanemura, Masao Orihara & Tetsuhiro Kuroda beat Riki Choshu, Atsushi Onita & Shiro Koshinaka in 7:19. Kanemura pinned Koshinaka with a horizontal cradle. Choshu & Onita didn't get along.

Tomohiro Ishii beat WEW Heavyweight Champion Mammoth Sasaki in 18:38 to win the title. Ishii becomes the 16th WEW Heavyweight Champion.

DDT: Kota Ibushi participation in El Dorado Friday: KAGETORA beat Ibushi in 27:45.

Sunday results:
NOAH from Hakata Starlanes:
They claimed 2400 paid (overflow).
Masao Inoue beat Genba Hirayanagi in 13:35.

Tamon Honda, Yuto Aijima & Akihiko Ito beat Kishin Kawabata, Kentaro Shiga & Ippei Ota in 19:56. Honda pinned Ota after Dead End.

Naomichi Marufuji & Mohammed Yone beat Buchanan & Keith Walker in 13:30. Yone pinned Walker after a Diving Guillotine Drop.

Akitoshi Saito, Bison Smith & Davey Richards beat Akira Taue, Yoshinari Ogawa & Ricky Marvin in 14:35. Smith pinned Marvin after Bisontenial.

Yoshihiro Tayakama, Takuma Sano & Takashi Sugiura beat Jun Akiyama, Takeshi Rikioh & Atsushi Aoki in 19:20. Snao pinned Aoki after Northern Lights Bomb.

Mitsuharu Misawa beat Katsuhiko Nakajima in 14:16.

GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima vs. Kensuke Sasaki went to a 30 minute time limit draw.

GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Kotaro Suzuki beat GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions KENTA & Taiji Ishimori in 31:13 to win the titles. Kanemaru & Suzuki become the 10th GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Suzuki pinned KENTA after Requiem.
Next show is the tour-ender Friday at Budokan, with The Kensuke Office-produced 16th SEM coming up on Wednesday.
August SEMs are scheduled for 8/7 at Differ Ariake and 8/17 at Korakuen.

Dragon Gate from Ishikawa:
Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii beat Akira Tozawa & Taku Iwasa in 11:17. Fujii pinned Tozawa after HIMEI.

K-ness & Bungy Takada beat Jackson Florida in 7:56.

Keni'chiro Arai & El Generico beat Super Shisa & Anthony W. Mori in 13:51. Generico pinned Shisa after aa Vertical Drop Brainbuster.

Yasushi Kanda & Cyber Kong beat B x B Hulk & Naoki Tanisaki in 16:11. Kong pinned Tanisaki after Cyber Bomb.

Ryo Saito, Susumu Yokosuka, Dragon Kid, & Pac beat Shingo Takagi, YAMATO, Gamma, & Genki Horiguchi in 19:37. Pac pinned Horiguchi after SSP.

New Japan from Green Dome Maebashi Sub Arena:
They claimed 1200 paid (sellout).
Kazuchika Okada beat Nobuo Yoshihashi in 4:26.

Tiger Mask 4, Ryusuke Taguchi & Yujiro beat Super Strong Machine, Taichi Ishikari & Mitsuhide Hirasawa in 8:18. TM 4 pinned Hirasawa after a middle kick to the face.

Riki Choshu & Shiro Koshinaka beat Jado & Gedo in 6:37. Choshu pinned Gedo after a lariat.

Takashi Iizuka beat Tetsuya Naito in 7:12 by ref stoppage.

Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller beat Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma in 12:10. Fuller pinned Honma after FB.

Masa Chono, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Wataru Inoue beat Makabe, Toru Yano & Karl Anderson in 13:30. Tenzan pinned Anderson after TTD.

Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi, Jushin Liger & AKIRA beat Shinsuke Nakamura, Hirooki Goto, Minoru & Prince Devitt in 13:50. Nakanishi pinned Minoru after Argentine backbreaker.

Late Sunday news:
New Japan: Shiro Koshinaka & Kengo Kimura have been added to Red Shoes Unno's 20th Anniversary show on on 8/26 at Korakuen. Dragon Gate is sending Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii to participate on the show.

All-Japan: The promotion held a public press conference to announce the joining of former 6th level Makushita, Ryota Hama. Hama, a native from Ibaraki city, Osaka, stands at 176cm tall and 185kg wide (or roughly 6'4", 296), and his sumo won/loss/draw record was 235/169/114. Hama began his sumo career training at the age of 15 back in 1994 and recently retired this summer doing to knee injuries. Hama admitted to the press that he was a big fan of pro-wrestling during his schoolchild years and wanted to learn the foundation of pro-wrestling. Keiji Mutoh stated that he is holding out hope for the newcomer, and almost seemed as if he was intent on rushing Hama into the ring, as even Kaz Hayashi stated that Hama was not ready to assume a full wrestling load. Mutoh reminded the press of the last sumo to come out of the "Mutoh Room", citing Akebono's progress over the years as a wrestler and his beginnings in All Japan back in 2005, and that Hama would be just fine. When asked on the differences between sumo and pro-wrestling, Hama stated that while in sumo you needed instantaneous power, while in pro-wrestling you need an abundance of tenacity, and that the sit-ups and running that the newcomers and young wrestlers participate in are very "tight". Hama closed by saying he wanted to aim his style after Yutaka Yoshie, who could move his weight around efficiently and gracefully.

The promotion also announced a Taiwan show for 11/16 at Taipei Dome.

DDT Exercise Show from a flea market Sunday:
Yukihiro Abe & Daisuke Sasaki beat Keisuke Ishii & Rion Mizuki in 8:51. Sasaki pinned Ishii with a German Suplex hold.

KUDO & Yasu Urano beat Michael Nakazawa & Tomomitsu Matsunaga in 14:09. KUDO pinned Nakazawa after a Vertical Drop-Style Diving Double Knee Drop.

In a 16, yes 16, man tag match, KUDO, Yasu Urano, Danshoku Dieno, Muscle Sakai, Kota Ibushi, Rion Mizuki, Daisuke Sasaki & Keisuke Ishii beat Sanshiro Takagi, Tanomusaku Toba, Daichi Kakimoto, Michael Nakazawa, Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Yukihiro Abe, Futoshi Miwa & Jun Inomata in 11:30. Ibushi pinned Inomata after a running powerbomb.
Throughout the day at the flea market, Rikiya Shindo drew portraits of fans, MIKAMI sold old DDT show DVDs, Sanshiro Takagi arm wrestled fans, Tanomusaku Toba sold 18 year old and over material and Muscle Sakai sold the jumping box that was used 2 years ago at the Wrestling Exposition show.
There was no music equipment, so Rikiya Shindo introduced the wrestlers and sang their entrance themes, though he forgot the themes of both of the young teams in the first match.
Michael Nakazawa did some bench pressing before his match.
Inomata, who is retired, was at the event as a fan and ended up participating in the main event.

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NOAH: Results from The 16th SEM today at Differ Ariake (lots of outsider participation):
They claimed 452 paid.
Davey Richards beat Masa Takanashi in 6:57.

Takeshi Minaminno beat Genba Hirayanagi in 8:42.

Kota Ibushi & KAGETORA beat Taiji Ishimori & Ippei Ota in 14:19. Ibushi pinned Ota with a Dragon Suplex hold.

Naomichi Marufuji beat Bear Fukuda in 12:24.

KENTA, Atsushi Aoki, & Akihiko Ito vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kento Miyahara, & Takashi Okita went to a 30 minute time limit draw.

New Japan from today at Hakodate:
They claimed 1500 paid (sellout).
Tetsuya Naito beat Nobuo Yoshihashi in 6:58.

Tiger Mask 4, Ryusuke Taguchi & Kazuchika Okada beat Super Strong Machine, Taichi Ishikari & Mitsuhide Hirasawa in 9:04. TM 4 beat Hirasawa with a cross armbreaker.

Takashi Iizuka beat Yujiro in 6:33.

Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller beat Jado & Gedo in 10:01. Bernard pinned Gedo after FB.

Yuji Nagata & Wataru Inoue beat Makabe & Karl Anderson in 12:28. Inoue pinned Anderson after Oracion Flame.

Masa Chono, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Shiro Koshinaka beat Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma in 10:35. Tenzan pinned Honma after TTD.

Riki Choshu, Manabu Nakanishi, Jushin Liger & AKIRA beat Shinsuke Nakamura, Hirooki Goto, Minoru & Prince Devitt in 14:53. Nakanishi pinned Devitt after Argentine backbreaker.

More NOAH news:
Upcoming tour start & end dates:
Autumn Navigation '08: Starts 10/5 at Korakuen, ends 10/25 at Budokan
Winter Navigation '08: Starts 11/14 at Korakuen, ends 12/7 at Budokan
They will run a Fan Appreciation Show '08 on 9/23 at Differ Ariake leading into GREAT VOYAGE '08 In Osaka on 9/27.

7/17 Edit: New Japan from Thursday at Muroran City:
They claimed 1300 paid.
Yujiro beat Nobuo Yoshihashi in 5:49.

Jado & Gedo beat Ryusuke Taguchi & Kazuchika Okada in 10:09. Jado beat Okada with Crossface Of Jado.

Shiro Koshinaka, Super Strong Machine & Tetsuya Naito beat Riki Choshu, Taichi Ishikari & Mitsuhide Hirasawa in 9:35. Machine pinned Hirasawa after a diving senton.

Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller beat Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii in 12:29. Fuller pinned Ishii after Fusion Bomb.

Masa Chono, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Tiger Mask & Jushin Liger beat Shinsuke Nakamura, Hirooki Goto, Minoru & Prince Devitt in 15 minutes. Tenzan pinned Minoru after TTD.

AKIRA beat Takashi Iizuka in 3:58 by DQ.

Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi, Wataru Inoue & AKIRA beat Makabe, Takashi Iizuka, Tomoaki Honma & Karl Anderson in 11:09. Nakanishi pinned Anderson after Argentine backbreaker.

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NOAH from today at Budokan:
They claimed 9500 paid. Rather low but not unexpected.
Junji Izumida and Genba Hirayanagi beat Masao Inoue and Mitsuo Momota in 10:07. Izumida pinned Momota after Meteorite.

Kishin Kawabata and Kentaro Shiga beat Takuma Sano and Ippei Ota in 11:04. Kawabata pinned Ota after a divign senton.

Akira Taue, Yoshinari Ogawa & Kotaro Suzuki beat Tamon Honda, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Akihiko Ito in 11:12. Suzuki pinned Ito after Blue Destiny.

Akitoshi Saito, Mohammed Yone & Ricky Marvin beat Jun Akiyama, Atsushi Aoki & Davey Richards in 16:26. Marvin pinned Aoki after Santa Maria.

Mitsuharu Misawa, Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura beat Kenta Kobashi, Yoshihiro Takayama & Katsuhiko Nakajima in 17:46. Sugiura beat Nakajima with an ankle hold.

Kensuke Sasaki beat KENTA in 22:23.

GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru beat Taiji Ishimori in 15:35 to retain the title.

GHC Heavyweight Champion Takeshi Morishima beat Takeshi Rikioh in 13:24 to retain the title. Next up: Kensuke Sasaki.

Announced teams for the NTV Cup Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Tournament 8/23-9/6: KENTA & Taiji Ishimori, The Briscoes, Atsushi Aoki & Akihiko Ito (aka The Jobbers), Ricky Marvin & Eddie Edwards, Bryan Danielson & Davey Richards, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kota Ibushi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Kotaro Suzuki

More NOAH news/notes:
Said Morishima-Sasaki title match is September 6.

The gaijin and freelance talent for Shiny Navigation '08: Bryan Danielson, Jay Briscoe, Mark Briscoe, Davey Richards, Eddie Edwards, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kota Ibushi. Danielson, The Briscoes, Richards, & Edwards will work all shows. Nakajima & Ibushi dates TBA.

NTV Cup matches will be contested under GHC Title Match rules with 30 minute time limits.

Full card for The 17th SEM on 8/7 at Differ Ariake:
Takeshi Minnamino vs. Ippei Ota
Genba Hirayanagi vs. Davey Richards
Kazushi Miyamoto vs. Akihiko Ito
Naomichi Marufuji & Atsushi Aoki vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima & Takashi Okita
KENTA vs. Kento Miyahara

Full card for The SEMex at Korakuen on 8/17:
KAGETORA vs. Genba Hirayanagi
Numazu-man & TBA vs. Kikutaro (Ebessan) & TBA
Ultimo Dragon, Takeshi Minnamino, & Amigo Suzuki vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Taiji Ishimori, & Ippei Ota
Special Survival 8 Man Tag Match, No Time Limit: Kensuke Sasaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kento Miyahara, & Takashi Okita vs. Kenta Kobashi, KENTA, Atsushi Aoki, & Akihiko Ito

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Weekend news/results:
Dragon Gate from Saturday at the TV West Japan 50th Anniversary Event:
Cyber Kong beat m.c.KZ in 7:11.

Keni'chiro Arai & El Generico beat Ryo Saito & Pac in 12:51. Generico pinned Pac after Vertical Drop Brainbuster.

Masato Yoshino won the TV West Japan 50th Anniversary Battle Royal in 12:28, last eliminating Akira Tozawa. Order of elimination: Anthony W. Mori, Yasushi Kanda, Taku Iwasa, Super Shisa, Shingo Takagi, Naoki Tanisaki, Susumu Yokosuka, Naruki Doi, YAMATO, Tozawa.

All-Japan from today at Korakuen:
No attendance figures available.
NOSAWA Rongai, MAZADA & TAKEMURA beat Masanobu Fuchi, Nobutaka Araya & Nobukazu Hirai in 8:04. MAZADA pinned Araya with a horizontal cradle.

Hiroshi Yamato Return: Ryuji Hijikata & Manabu Soya beat Seiya Sanada & Hiroshi Yamato in 11:56. Hijikata beat Yamayo with a jujigatamae.

ZODIAC, Silver King & "brother" YASSHI beat El Samurai, Phil Atlas & Antonio Thomas in 8:48. ZODIAC pinned Thomas after Murder Bomb.

Junior Division League:
Block A: Shuji Kondo beat KAI in 18:49.
Block B: Kaz Hayashi beat T28 in 13:52.

Satoshi Kojima Return: Keiji Mutoh & Osamu Nishimura beat Satoshi Kojima & TARU in 18:31. Nishimura pinned Kojima with an inside cradle.

Taiyo Kea & Minoru Suzuki beat Suwama & Akira Raijin in 24:07. Suzuki pinned Raijin after a Gotch-style piledriver.

New Japan from Saturday at Tottori Dome:
They claimed 1100 paid.
Mitsuhide Hirasawa beat Nobuo Yoshihashi in 6:40.

Jado & Gedo beat Tiger Mask 4 & Taichi Ishikari in 11:22. Gedo beat Ishikari with Gedo Clutch.

Takashi Iizuka beat Kazuchika Okada in 5:52 by ref stoppage.

Shiro Koshinaka, Super Strong Machine & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Riki Choshu, Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito in 7:25. Koshinaka pinned Naito after a powerbomb.

Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller beat Makabe & Tomoaki Honma in 12:08. Fuller pinned Honma after Fusion Bomb.

Shinsuke Nakamura, Hirooki Goto, Minoru & Prince Devitt beat Masa Chono, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Jushin Liger & AKIRA in 15:11. Nakamura pinned AKIRA after Landslide.

Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi & Wataru Inoue beat Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii & Karl Anderson in 12:07. Nakanishi pinned Anderson after Hercules Cutter.

Today at Asahikawa Taisetsu Arena:
They claimed 1300 paid.
Yujiro, Tetsuya Naito & Kazuchika Okada beat Super Strong Machine, Taichi Ishikari & Nobuo Yoshihashi in 12:16. Naito beat Yoshihashi with a single leg crab hold.

Wataru Inoue, Tiger Mask 4 & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Jado, Gedo & Karl Anderson in 11:28. Inoue pinned Anderson after Triangle Lancer.

Jr. Summer Struggle 1: Jushin LIger beat Prince Devitt in 10:41.

Jr. Summer Struggle 2: AKIRA beat Minoru in 13:52.

Takashi Iizuka beat Mitsuhide Hirasawa in 8:07 by ref stoppage.

Shinsuke Nakamura, Hirooki Goto, Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller beat Makabe, Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma in 17:05. Nakamura pinned Honma after Landslide.

Riki Choshu, Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi beat Masa Chono, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Shiro Koshinaka in 9:33. Nakanashi pinned Koshinaka after Argentine Backbreaker.

Full card for tomorrow at Tsukisamu Green Dome:
Tiger Mask 4, Taichi Ishikari & Nobuo Yoshihashi vs. Yujiro, Tetsuya Naito & Kazuchika Okada
Shiro Koshinaka, Super Strong Machine & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Jado, Gedo & Tomoaki Honma
Wataru Inoue vs. Takashi Iizuka
Riki Choshu, Yuji Nagata & Mitsuhide Hirasawa vs. Shinsuke Nakamura, Hirooki Goto & Milano Collection AT
Masa Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Tomohiro Ishii & Karl Anderson
IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jushin Liger & AKIRA vs. Minoru & Prince Devitt for the titles
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Makabe & Toru Yano vs. Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller for the titles
IWGP Heavyweight Champion Keiji Mutoh vs. Manabu Nakanishi for the title

New Japan from today at Tsukisami Green Dome (title change):
They claimed 5700 paid (sellout).
Tiger Mask 4, Taichi Ishikari & Nobuo Yoshihashi beat Yujiro, Tetsuya Naito & Kazuchika Okada in 6:57. Ishikari pinned Okada after Black Mephisto.

Jado, Gedo & Tomoaki Honma beat Shiro Koshinaka, Super Strong Machine & Ryusuke Taguchi in 7:39. Honma pinned Machine after a diving body press.

Wataru Inoue beat Takashi Iizuka in 8:57 by DQ.

Shinsuke Nakamura, Hirooki Goto & Milano Collection AT beat Riki Choshu, Yuji Nagata & Mitsuhide Hirasawa in 10:46. Nakamura pinned Hirasawa after Landslide.

Masa Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Tomohiro Ishii & Karl Anderson in 8:46. Tenzan pinned Anderson after TTD.

Minoru & Prince Devitt beat IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jushin Liger & AKIRA in 17:44 to win the titles. Minoru & Devitt win the titles for the 2nd time and become the 21st IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Devitt pinned AKIRA with a cradle.

IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Makabe & Toru Yano beat Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller in 18:46 to retain the titles. Yano pinned Fuller after Oni Koroshi.

IWGP Heavyweight Champion Keiji Mutoh beat Manabu Nakanishi in 23:50 to retain the title.

DDT from Sunday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring (1-day tournament to determine the next KO-D Openweight Title challenger):
They claimed 395 paid (overflow).
First Round:
KUDO beat HARASHIMA in 10:06.
Tanomusaku Toba beat Daichi Kakimoto in 1:25.
Kota Ibushi beat Hoshitango in 4:59.
MIKAMI vs. Yasu Urano went to a double countout in 5:46. Which led to...
MIKAMI vs. Yasu Urano went to a double countout in 2:46. Which led to...
Yasu Urano beat MIKAMI in 1:47 by countout.

Non-tournament matches:
Seiya Morohashi & Yukihiro Abe beat Daisuke Sasaki & Keisuke Ishii in 9:45. Abe beat Ishii with a camel clutch.

DDT Extreme Champion Sanshiro Takagi beat Massa Takanashi in a Hexagon Ring T2P Lucha Libre Classica Rule Match in 7:15 to retain the title.

Michael Nakazawa & Tomomitsu Matsunaga beat Poison Sawada JULIE & Mitsuya Jagai in 5:11. Nakazawa pinned JULIE.

Tournament Semifinals:
KUDO beat Tanomusaku Toba in 5:25.
Kota Ibushi beat Yasu Urano in 19:50.

Non-tournament match:
Touru Owashi & Koo beat Danshoku Dieno & Muscle Sakai in 1:42. Koo beat Dieno by TKO.

Tournament Final: Kota Ibushi beat KUDO in 16:53 to win the tournament. As a result, Ibushi will likely be the next to challenge KO-D Champion Dick Togo for the title, which could make Ibushi a double champion along with his Independent Jr. Heavyweight Title.

Dick Togo beat Antonio Honda in a Delay Chuukei Match in 85:06. Seriously.

Dragon Gate from Sunday (2 shows):
TV West Japan 50th Anniversary:
Naoki Tanisaki beat Akira Tozawa in 4:50.

Susumu Yokosuka & Anthony W. Mori beat Super Shisa & Shisa BOY in 12:02. Yokosuka pinned BOY after Mugen.

Taku Iwasa & Keni'chiro Arai beat B x B Hulk & m.c.KZ in 13:31. Iwasa pinned KZ.

Ryo Saito, Dragon Kid, & Pac beat Shingo Takagi, Cyber Kong, & Genki Horiguchi in 10:24. Pac pinned Horiguchi after SSP.

From Hakata Starlanes:
No match times available.
Anthony W. Mori, Dragon Kid, & Pac beat Taku Iwasa, Keni'chiro Arai, & El Generico. Kid pinned Generico after Ultra Huracanrana.

K-ness beat Jackson Florida by ref stoppage.

Cyber Kong beat Akira Tozawa.

Naoki Tanisaki & m.c.KZ beat Super Shisa & Shisa BOY. KZ pinned BOY after KZ Time.

Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii beat Susumu Yokosuka & Ryo Saito and Yasushi Kanda & YAMATO in a 3-way elimination match (team eliminated when one man beaten). Fujii pinned Kanda after Nice German, then Mochizuki pinned Saito after a Shin Saikyou High Kick.

Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino, & B x B Hulk beat Shingo Takagi, Gamma, & Genki Horiguchi. Hulk pinned Horiguchi after FTX.

Dragon Gate from today at Kumamoto:
Ryo Saito, Susumu Yokosuka, & Pac beat Taku Iwasa, Keni'chiro Arai, & El Generico in 16:02. Pac pinned Generico after SSP.

ICHIKAWA (Hollywood Stalker Ichikawa) beat Jackson Florida & K-ness in a 3-way by Florida submission.

Don Fujii & Masaaki Mochizuki beat Super Shisa & Bungy Takada in 11:25. Fujii pinned Shisa after Nodowa Elbow.

YAMATO & Cyber Kong beat Dragon Kid & Anthony W. Mori in 14:47. Kong pinned Mori after Cyber Bomb.

Shingo Takagi, Gamma, Yasushi Kanda, & Genki Horiguchi beat Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino, B x B Hulk, & Naoki Tanisaki in 14:58. Horiguchi pinned Tanisaki with Backslide From Hell.

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The more the better for Liger, I think it only further cements his legacy as one of the greatest Jr. Heavyweights ever, if not the greatest. I mean, who else might be in his league besides Kanemoto, Tiger Mask 4, maybe a couple others? Yeah, could make a case for KENTA, but give him a few more years.

Dragon Gate: After yesterday's show, ICHIKAWA stole the Open The Owarai Gate belt from Johnson Florida and because repeated attempts to contact the title belt commissioner were met with only his voicemail, ICHIKAWA has just been recognized as the title holder and thus becomes the 7th Open The Owarai Gate Champion.
Hollywood Stalker Ichikawa will make US appearance on 8/2 & 8/3. He'll be wrestling while CIMA also makes appearances to sell tickets for the 9/5 show.

New Japan: Keiji Mutoh wants to next defend the IWGP Heavyweight Title on the 8/31 All-Japan event at Ryogoku. This would mark the first outside defense since 1996 in the UWF-i. President Sugehayashi of New Japan responded to Mutoh's request saying that it was totally not out of the question and he would propose it to the board of directors and have a decision as soon as possible. No word on a challenger but it's said the likely next one will be the G1 Climax winner. If that's the case, we'll know who at the end of the 8/17 show.

DDT: Yukihiro Abe & Masa Takanashi participation in STYLE-E on 7/19:
Masato Shibata & Masashi Takeda beat Ken Ohka & Yukihiro Abe in 12:40. Takeda pinned Abe.
Masa Takanashi beat STYLE-E Openweight Champion Kazuhiro Tamura in 25:07 to win the title and become the 4th STYLE-E Openweight Champion.

Misc.: The end of the Michael Nakazawa (DDT) vs. m.c.KZ (Dragon Gate) match from CHIKARA King Of Trios Night 3 was featured on this week's CHIKARA Podcast-A-Go-Go.

7/23 edit: New Japan from TONYAMACHI Big Sight:
They claimed 600 paid (overflow).
Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito beat Kazuchika Okada & Nobuo Yoshihashi in 10:38. Yujiro beat Yoshihashi with a crab hold. (I've noticed that almost every opening match in NJPW ends this way)

Shiro Koshinaka, Jushin Liger & AKIRA beat Milano Collection AT, Minoru & Prince Devitt in 10:56. Koshinaka pinned Minoru after a jumping hip attack.

Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller beat Manabu Nakanishi & Mitsuhide Hirasawa in 9:52. Fuller pinned Hirasawa after Fusion Bomb.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Tiger Mask 4 & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Jado, Gedo & Tomoaki Honma in 11:20. Tenzan beat Gedo with Anaconda Vice.

Riki Choshu, Yuji Nagata & Wataru Inoue beat Makabe, Takashi Iizuka & Karl Anderson in 10:26. Nagata pinned Anderson with a backdrop hold.

Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto beat Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii in 9:29. Nakamura pinned Ishii after Landslide.

Dragon Gate: New 2 minute promo video ahead of the US show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqGDV44JwOY

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All-Japan: Hiroshi Hase on Minoru Suzuki's request to make his 8/3 tag match where he & Taiyo Kea defend their All-Japan Tag Team Titles against Triple Crown Champion Suwama & Osamu Nishimura a match for the Tag Titles and Triple Crown: NO. Hase said it's Tag Titles only and try to control your greed. As for Suwama, Keiji Mutoh stated Suwama's next Triple Crown defense likely will be on 8/31 at Ryogoku.

All-Japan from yesterday at Kushiro Tottori Dome:
No attendance figures available.
T28 beat Antonio Thomas in 8:03.

Kaz Hayashi & El Samurai beat KAI & Hiroshi Yamato in 12:58. Samurai beat Yamato with a chicken wing.

ZODIAC & Silver King beat Akira Raijin & Nobutaka Araya in 7:34. ZODIAC pinned Araya after nodawa-otoshi.

Junior Heavyweight Division League Block A: Ryuji Hijikata beat MAZADA in 14:24.

Junior Heavyweight Division League Block B: TAKEMURA beat Phil Atlas in 13:54.

Satoshi Kojima & TARU beat Osamu Nishimura & Seiya Sanada in 12:43. Kojima pinned Sanada after a lariat.

Keiji Mutoh, Suwama & Manabu Soya beat Taiyo Kea, Minoru Suzuki & NOSAWA Rongai in 13:54. Mutoh pinned NOSAWA after Shining Wizard.

Dragon Gate: It's been revealed that Hollywood Stalker Ichikawa's character ICHIKAWA is a parody of The Great Sasuke. It's based on when Sasuke occasionally dons a blue mask and becomes SASUKE, a heel character.

New Japan from today at Date City Hobara Gymnasium (Date City? Hmmm...):
They claimed 500 paid.
Minoru beat Kazuchika Okada in 5:18.

Prince Devitt beat Tetsuya Naito in 7:27.

Giant Bernard & Rick Fuller beat Tiger Mask 4 & Mitsuhide Hirasawa in 10:34. Fuller pinned Hirasawa after Fusion Bomb.

Jado, Gedo & Karl Anderson beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Ryusuke Taguchi & Yujiro in 11:48. Anderson pinned Yujiro after Gun Stun.

Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi & Wataru Inoue beat Shinsuke Nakamura, Hirooki Goto & Milano Collection AT in 15:52. Nakanishi pinned Milano after Hercules Cutter.

Riki Choshu, Shiro Koshinaka, Super Strong Machine, Jushin Liger & AKIRA beat Makabe, Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma in 10:23. Choshu pinned Honma after a lariat.

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DDT: Kenny Omega is headed to the promotion. He's scheduled to make his debut on 8/4 on the HARASHIMA-produced "Beer Garden Pro Wresling" event, and also work the Kota Ibushi-produced event 2 days later. He'll also work 8/31 at Korakuen. Omega had emailed DDT president Sanshiro Takagi recently about possibly working for DDT in the future, as he considers himself the uncrowned king of fighting outside of the ring. He also sent Takagi a couple of YouTube video links which featured him fighting by a riverside and in a kitchen. Yeah, DDT material alright.

Kota Ibushi participation in El Dorado yesterday: Brahman Shu beat Ibushi in 10:32.

New Japan: Full cards for the G1 Climax shows have been revealed. Each card will consist of 6 tournament matches and 2 special tag matches. The 8/16 event at Ryogoku also features NEW IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Minoru & Prince Devitt defending against Jushin Liger & AKIRA, the team they just beat for the belts. Also featured on that day is Kurt Angle & Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & AJ Styles in a NJPW/TNA crossover match.

PREMIUM: Jushin Liger is working his magic for the promotion. For the promotion's 8/30 event at Korakuen he's assembled 3 big matchups featuring top Jr. Heavyweight talent from all over Japan:
Tiger Mask 4, El Samurai & Great Sasuke vs. Tokyo Gurentai (NOSAWA, MAZADA & TAKEMURA)
Minoru, Mineo Fujita & GENTARO vs. Ikuto Hidaka, MIKAMI & Makoto Oishi
Jushin Liger & Shuji Kondo vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Magnitude Kishiwada

NOAH: The 8th and final team for the NTV Cup Tournament will be Naomichi Marufuji & Kento Miyahara.

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