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SANTA MUTA, FREEDOMS BLOOD X'MAS RESULTS FROM KORAKUEN HALL, NEW JAPAN CASTLE ATTACK & MORE FROM JAPAN

Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS

Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS held its Blood X’Mas show in Korakuen Hall today.

The full results were:

• Daisuke Masaoka, Takashi Sasaki and Tomoya Hirata def. Dragon Libre, GENTARO and Tatsuhito Takaiwa
• Minoru Fujita def. Yuya Susumu
• UWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship: Kamui (c) def. Rina Yamashita
• King Of FREEDOM Tag Team Championships deathmatch: Mammoth Sasaki and Violento Jack (c) def. Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu
• Deathmatch: Jun Kasai and Kenji Fukimoto def. Takayuki Ueki and Toshiyuki Sakuda
• King Of FREEDOM World Championship deathmatch: Toru Sugiura def. Masashi Takeda

Kamui made his third defense of the UWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship against Rina Yamashita. Mammoth Sasaki and Violento Jack made their eleventh defense of the King Of FREEDOM Tag Team Championships against Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu.

Toru Sugiura made his seventh defense of the King Of FREEDOM World Championship against Masashi Takeda in the main event.

Pro Wrestling ZERO1

Pro Wrestling ZERO1 held a show in Shinjuku FACE today.

The full results:

• Furinkazan tag team tournament semifinal: Shinjiro Otani and Yumehito Imanari def. Chris Vice and Yoshikazu Yokoyama
• Furinkazan tag team tournament semifinal: Hide Kubota and Yasu Kubota def. El Lindaman and T-Hawk
• Shoki Kitamura vs. Towa Iwasaki
• Hartley Jackson, RAICHO and SUGI def. Satsuki Nagao, Takumi Baba and Tsugutaka Sato
• Hayato Tamura and KANON def. Masato Tanaka and Takuya Sugawara
• Shoki Kitamura def. Towa Iwasaki
• Furinkazan tag team tournament final: Shinjiro Otani and Yumehito Imanari def. Hide Kubota and Yasu Kubota

CIMA appeared after the fifth match to announce he wants face the winner of Hayato Tamura versus Masato Tanaka for the World Heavyweight Championship on January 1 in Korakuen Hall.

Naomichi Marufuji appeared after Shoki Kitamura’s match to accept his challenge for a match at ZERO1’s show in Ry?goku Kokugikan on March 14 next year. Marufuji wrestled the opening match at ZERO1’s first ever show in Ry?goku Kokugikan in 2001.

Shinjiro Otani and Yumehito Imanari won the Intercontinental Tag Team Championships by winning the Furinkazan tag team tournament final. The championships were previously held by Quiet Storm and Yuji Hino but vacated after Hino’s departure from the company was announced.

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling announced a new tour called Castle Attack will take place next February today, culminating with two shows in Osaka-j? Hall on February 27 and 28.

The tour will start on February 14 with four consecutive shows in Korakuen Hall until February 17. The tour then travels to Iwate on February 19, Yamagata on February 20, Fukushima on February 21 before two more shows in Korakuen Hall on February 22 and 25.

Osaka-j? Hall is the yearly home of Dominion. It seems there will be no New Beginning in Osaka tour or even this year, at least not in February.

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate will hold a show in Nagoya Congress Center tomorrow.

The full card is:

• Genki Horiguchi and Susumu Yokosuka vs. Masato Yoshino and Shuji Kondo
• BxB Hulk and Kaito Ishida vs. Kzy and Taketo Kamei
• Diamante, KAI and KAZMA SAKAMOTO vs. Dragon Kid, Problem Dragon and Ultimo Dragon
• Dia Inferno and Eita vs. Dragon Dia and Jason Lee
• Bokutimo Dragon, Naruki Doi, Punch Tominaga and Ryo Saito vs. Keisuke Okuda, U-T, YAMATO and Yosuke Santa Maria
• H.Y.O, HipHip Kikuta and SB KENTo vs. Kota Minoura, La Estrella and Shun Skywalker

Pro Wrestling NOAH

Pro Wrestling NOAH will hold its DIAMOND3 show produced by Kongoh in Korakuen Hall tomorrow.

The full card is:

• Junta Miyawaki vs. Yasutaka Yano
• Manabu Soya vs. Tadasuke
• Akitoshi Saito and Masao Inoue vs. Go Shiozaki and Naomichi Marufuji
• Katsuhiko Nakajima and Masa Kitamiya vs. Kinya Okada and Yoshiki Inamura
• Haoh vs. Nioh
• Daiki Inaba and Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Jinsei Shinzaki and Kenoh

Tomorrow’s show will be the first time Katsuhiko Nakajima and Masa Kitamiya have teamed together in two years, and NOAH’s website hints at possible dissertation between the two.

The match preview on NOAH’s website, translated to English by NOAH expert Hisame, reads: “Will this pure tag for the first time in two years end without incident? Will something new be born? Or will this be the beginning of trouble?”

Keiji Mutoh posted a heartwarming Christmas photo on Twitter notable for the chain around his neck and a huge fake beard.

 

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