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Pro Wrestling ZERO1
Pro Wrestling ZERO1 held a show in Korakuen Hall today.
The full results:
• Kazuki Hashimoto def. Satsuki Nagao
• Soma Watanabe and Takanori Ito def. Shoki Kitamura and Takumi Baba
• Hartley Jackson and Yuko Miyamoto def. Chris Vice and Yoshikazu Yokoyama
• Hide Kubota and Yasu Kubota def. Asuka and Takuya Sugawara
• CIMA, El Lindaman and T-Hawk def. Aja Kong, Shinjiro Otani and Yumehito Imanari
• World Heavyweight Championship: Masato Tanaka def. Hayato Tamura (c)
Hide Kubota and Yasu Kubota challenged Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto to a future match.
Asuka challenged El Lindaman to a match at ZERO1’s twentieth anniversary show in Ry?goku Kokugikan on March 14.
Masato Tanaka defeated Hayato Tamura to bring the World Heavyweight Championship back to ZERO1. CIMA challenged Tanaka afterwards and the match will take place at Ry?goku Kokugikan.
All Japan Pro Wrestling
All Japan Pro Wrestling will hold a show in Korakuen Hall tomorrow.
The full card is:
• Atsuki Aoyagi and Rising HAYATO vs. Izanagi and Shigehiro Irie
• Dan Tamura and Hikaru Sato vs. Koji Doi and Kuma Arashi
• Francesco Akira, Jake Lee and TAJIRI vs. Hokuto Omori, Shotaro Ashino and Yusuke Kodama
• Black Menso~re, Osamu Nishimura, Ryuki Honda and Takao Omori vs. Chikara, Ryuji Hijikata, Takayuki Ueki and Yoshitatsu
• Masato Tanaka vs. Zeus
• Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura vs. Ikuto Hidaka and Koji Iwamoto
• Battle Royal
• World Tag Team Championships: Shuji Ishikawa and SUWAMA (c) vs. Kento Miyahara and Yuma Aoyagi
The show will be Ikuto Hidaka’s first match in All Japan since unsuccessfully challenging Koji Iwamoto for the World Junior Heavyweight Championship in September. It will be Fuminori Abe’s first since the second night of the Champion Carnival (also in September) and Takuya Nomura’s first since the first Atsushi Aoki memorial show in August 2019.
Shuji Ishikawa and SUWAMA will attempt their sixth defense of the World Tag Team Championships against Kento Miyahara and Yuma Aoyagi. SUWAMA will defend the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship against Aoyagi the next day.
Big Japan Pro Wrestling
Big Japan Pro Wrestling will hold a show in Korakuen Hall tomorrow.
The full card is:
• Kazuki Hashimoto and Kosuke Sato vs. Kota Sekifuda and Tatsuhiko Yoshino
• Kazumi Kikuta and Ryuichi Kawakami vs. Takuya Nomura and Yuya Aoki
• Abdullah Kobayashi, Kuma Arashi and Ryota Hama vs. Daichi Hashimoto, Daisuke Sekimoto and Takuho Kato
• Hardcore: Akira Hyodo, Hideyoshi Kamitani and Kankuro Hoshino vs. Drew Parker, Jaki Numazawa and Masaya Takahashi
• Deathmatch: Isami Kodaka, Masashi Takeda and Yuko Miyamoto vs. Ryuji Ito, Shunma Katsumata and Yuki Ishikawa
• BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship: Yuji Okabayashi (c) vs. Yasufumi Nakanoue
• BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship: Minoru Fujita (c) vs. Takumi Tsukamoto
Yuji Okabayashi will make his third defense of the BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship against Yasufumi Nakanoue. Minoru Fujita will make his fourth defense of the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship against Takumi Tsukamoto in the main event.
Big Japan has announced T-Hawk will face Yuya Aoki for the first time ever at its show in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring on January 19.
The updated card for the show is:
• Jaki Numazawa and Masaki Morihiro vs. Takuho Kato and Yuichi Taniguchi
• Drew Parker and Kosuke Sato vs. El Lindaman and Kota Sekifuda
• Daichi Hashimoto, Ryuichi Kawakami and Takuya Nomura vs. Kazuki Hashimoto, Kazumi Kikuta and Yasufumi Nakanoue
• T-Hawk vs. Yuya Aoki
Two other matches are planned for the show. Quiet Storm will appear but his match has not been announced.
Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS
Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS will hold a show in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring tomorrow, highlighted by a new tournament to determine Toru Sugiura’s next challenger for the King Of FREEDOM World Championship.
The full card is:
• Tournament semifinal: Tomoya Hirata vs. Toshiyuki Sakuda
• Tournament semifinal: Daisuke Masaoka vs. Kenji Fukimoto
• Alejandro, Kengo and Yuya Susumu vs. Brahman Kei, Brahman Shu and Tatsuhito Takaiwa
• Dragon Libre, GENTARO and Takashi Sasaki vs. Jun Kasai, Masashi Takeda and Rina Yamashita
• Kamui and Toru Sugiura vs. Mammoth Sasaki and Violento Jack
• Tournament final
The winner of the contendership tournament will face Sugiura for the title at FREEDOMS’ show in Korakuen Hall on February 9.
New Japan Pro Wrestling
New Japan Pro Wrestling continued its interview series in the build up to Wrestle Kingdom 15 with Tetsuya Naito today.
Topics discussed include the 1982 Club, his dad being a big Kota Ibushi fan, the dangers of wrestling and much more.
The full interview with Naito can be read here.
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