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Pro Wrestling ZERO1

Pro Wrestling ZERO1 held its sixth Fire Festival show today in Fukuoka.

The full results were:

• Towa Iwasaki and Tsugutaka Sato def. Hide Kubota and Takumi Baba
• El Lindaman and SUGI def. Shinjiro Otani and Shoki Kitamura
• B block: Masato Tanaka def. Shogun Okamoto
• A block: Quiet Storm def. Yoshikazu Yokoyama
• A block: Yuji Hino def. Takuya Sugawara
• A block: Hartley Jackson def. T-Hawk
• B block: Hayato Tamura def. Chris Vice via referee stoppage

Following today’s show, the updated tournament standings are:

A block
1. T-Hawk (4-1 record): 19 points
2. Hartley Jackson (3-1 record): 15 points
-. Yuji Hino (3-2 record): 15 points
4. Quiet Storm (2-2 record): 10 points
-. Yoshikazu Yokoyama (1-2-2 record): 10 points
6. Takuya Sugawara (1-3-1 record): 8 points
7. Towa Iwasaki (0-2-1 record): 3 points

B block
1. Chris Vice (3-2-1 record): 18 points
2. Masato Tanaka (3-2 record): 15 points
-. Tsugutaka Sato (3-2 record): 15 points
4. Hayato Tamura (3-1 record): 14 points
5. Yuko Miyamoto (2-2 record): 10 points
6. Shogun Okamoto (1-2-1 record): 8 points
7. Takafumi (1-5 record): 5 points

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling announced the full schedule for this year’s D-Oh Grand Prix today.

The tournament will start on November 22 and end on December 27. It will take place over eight shows.

The full schedule is:

• November 22 in Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
• November 27 in Narimasu Act Hall, Tokyo
• November 28 in Narimasu Act Hall, Tokyo
• November 29 in Azalea Taisho Hall, Osaka
• December 4 in Narimasu Act Hall, Tokyo
• December 6 in Narimasu Act Hall, Tokyo
• December 12 in Narimasu Act Hall, Tokyo
• December 27 in Korakuen Hall, Tokyo

DDT has also added two more matches to this week’s DDT TV SHOW! episode.

Antonio Honda, Danshoku Dieno and Soma Takao will face off in a triple threat while Chris Brookes and Shota will team against HARASHIMA and Yuki Ueno.

The updated match card is:

• Antonio Honda vs. Danshoku Dieno vs. Soma Takao
• Chris Brookes and Shota vs. HARASHIMA and Yuki Ueno
• Kazuki Hirata and Naomi Yoshimura vs. Saki Akai and Yukio Sakaguchi
• Elimination: Akito, Konosuke Takeshita, Shinya Aoki and Shunma Katsumata vs. Hideki Okatani, Jun Akiyama, Makoto Oishi and Mizuki Watase
• Daisuke Sasaki and Hiroshi Yamato vs. Mad Paulie and Tetsuya Endo

The episode will air at 7pm JST, 11am BST, 6am ET this Saturday.

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate has announced the full cards for its October 16, 17, 18 and 19 The Gate of Victory 2020 tour shows.

The full cards are:

October 16 in Kariya Industrial Promotion Center, Aichi
• BxB Hulk, Dia Inferno and Eita vs. Dragon Dia, Kzy and Yosuke Santa Maria
• Masaaki Mochizuki and Taketo Kamei vs. Naruki Doi and Ryotsu Shimizu
• Punch Tominaga vs. Shuji Kondo
• Dragon Kid, Susumu Yokosuka and Ultimo Dragon vs. Kento Kobune, Kota Minoura and U-T
• Ben-K, Jason Lee, Keisuke Okuda and YAMATO vs. Diamante, H?Y?O, KAI and Kaito Ishida

October 17 in Kobe Sambo Hall, Hyogo
• Ben-K, Jason Lee and Kota Minoura vs. Kento Kobune, Madoka Kikuta and Taketo Kamei
• Genki Horiguchi and Masaaki Mochizuki vs. U-T and Yosuke Santa Maria
• KAI and Kaito Ishida vs. Keisuke Okuda and YAMATO
• Dragon Kid, Kagetora and Shuji Kondo vs. Masato Yoshino, Susumu Yokosuka and Ultimo Dragon
• Dia Inferno and Eita vs. Dragon Dia and Kzy
• BxB Hulk, Diamante, H?Y?O and Takashi Yoshida vs. Naruki Doi, Punch Tominaga, Ryo Saito and Ryotsu Shimizu

October 18 in Fukuyama Big Rose, Hiroshima
• Kento Kobune, Susumu Yokosuka and Taketo Kamei vs. Naruki Doi, Punch Tominaga and Ryotsu Shimizu
• Keisuke Okuda vs. U-T
• Ben-K and Jason Lee vs. Genki Horiguchi and Masato Yoshino
• BxB Hulk, Diamante and Kaito Ishida vs. Dragon Kid, Shachihoko Boy and Ultimo Dragon
• Dia Inferno, Eita, H?Y?O and KAI vs. Dragon Dia, Kota Minoura, Kzy and YAMATO

October 19 in Matsue Kunibiki Messe, Shimane
• Genki Horiguchi, Kagetora and Ultimo Dragon vs. Kota Minoura, Problem Dragon and Yosuke Santa Maria
• Susumu Yokosuka vs. U-T
• Ben-K and Kzy vs. Diamante and Eita
• Don Fujii, Madoka Kikuta and Yasushi Kanda vs. Naruki Doi, Punch Tominaga and Ryotsu Shimizu
• Dia Inferno, H?Y?O, KAI and Kaito Ishida vs. Dragon Dia, Jason Lee, Keisuke Okuda and YAMATO

The October 17 show will air live on the Dragon Gate Network at 7pm JST, 11am BST, 6am ET.

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling will hold its fifteenth G1 Climax show tomorrow in Hamamatsu Arena.

Only a limited number of wresters will compete on each G1 Climax show for precautionary reasons. As such, A block competitors will not compete on the undercard of shows featuring B block tournament matches and vice versa.

Tomorrow’s show is exclusively A block wrestlers. Each tournament show will start with a singles match between two young lions (Gabriel Kidd, Yota Tsuji or Yuya Uemura) followed by five tournament matches.

The full card is:

• Gabriel Kidd vs. Yuya Uemura
• A block: Jeff Cobb vs. Will Ospreay
• A block: Kota Ibushi vs. Yujiro Takahashi
• A block: Shingo Takagi vs. Taichi
• A block: Jay White vs. Minoru Suzuki
• A block: Kazuchika Okada vs. Tomohiro Ishii

Going into the show, the current A block standings are:

1. Jay White (5-2 record): 10 points
-. Kazuchika Okada (5-2 record): 10 points
-. Kota Ibushi (5-2 record): 10 points
-. Will Ospreay (5-2 record): 10 points
5. Jeff Cobb (3-4 record): 6 points
-. Minoru Suzuki (3-4 record): 6 points
-. Shingo Takagi (3-4 record): 6 points
-. Taichi (3-4 record): 6 points
-. Tomohiro Ishii (3-4 record): 6 points
10. Yujiro Takahashi (0-6 record): 0 points

The show will air live on NJPW World at 6:30pm JST, 10:30am BST, 5:30am ET.

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