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New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling held its eleventh New Japan Cup tour show today in Twin Messe Shizuoka.

The full results were:

• Yuya Uemura def. Gabriel Kidd
• Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb def. Yota Tsuji and Yuji Nagata
• Bad Luck Fale and KENTA def. Juice Robinson and Toa Henare
• BUSHI, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito def. Chase Owens, EVIL and Taiji Ishimori
• Quarterfinal match (bottom right bracket): David Finlay def. Jay White
• Quarterfinal match (top right bracket): Will Ospreay def. SANADA

David Finlay scored a major upset victory against Jay White in their New Japan Cup quarterfinal match. He will face Will Ospreay in the semifinals, who defeated SANADA in their tournament match today.

All Japan Pro Wrestling

All Japan Pro Wrestling held a show with only one match on the card for the first time in company history today in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring.

Shuji Ishikawa defeated Jun Kasai to win the GAORA TV Championship in a deathmatch.

Kasai won the title from Yoshitatsu in January and managed one successful defense against Black Menso~re in February.

Elsewhere, Ishikawa’s former tag team partner SUWAMA made a visit to Nagoya Ogawa’s dojo in Chigasaki today.

Ogawa and SUWAMA had a heated confrontation at a press conference last December and both men have since openly talked about the possibility of facing each other, most notably in January when SUWAMA casually mused the idea of defending the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship against Ogawa in Ry?goku Kokugikan.

Back in 2013, SUWAMA promised fans in Chigasaki that he’d fight Ogawa one day. SUWAMA told Tokyo Sports today he feels it’s time to fulfill his promise.

Tokyo Sports’ article on SUWAMA’s trip can be read here.

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling will hold a show in Nagoya tomorrow.

The full card is:

• Toi Kojima vs. Yusuke Okada
• Akito, Saki Akai and Yukio Naya vs. Danshoku Dieno, Kazuki Hirata and Toru Owashi
• Hideki Okatani vs. Konosuke Takeshita
• Mad Paulie, Soma Takao and Yuji Hino vs. MAO, Shunma Katsumata and Yuki Ueno
• Antonio Honda and Yuki Iino vs. Daisuke Sasaki and Tetsuya Endo
• Chris Brookes, Kazusada Higuchi and Keigo Nakamura vs. HARASHIMA, Jun Akiyama and Makoto Oishi

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate will continue its Glorious Gate 2021 tour tomorrow in Kobe Sambo Hall.

The full card is:

• Keisuke Okuda vs. Punch Tominaga
• Bokutimo Dragon and Ryo Saito vs. Diamante and KAI
• Don Fujii, Masaaki Mochizuki and Takashi Yoshida def. Gamma, Ultimo Dragon and Yasushi Kanda
• Royal Sambo Battle Royal: Dia Inferno vs. Eita vs. H.Y.O vs. HipHop Kikuta vs. Ho Ho Lun vs. Jason Lee vs. K-ness vs. Kagetora vs. Konomama Ichikawa vs. Kzy vs. Problem Dragon vs. Super Shisa vs. Yosuke Santa Maria
• BxB Hulk, KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Kaito Ishida and SB KENTo vs. Kota Minoura, La Estrella, Shachihoko Boy and Shun Skywalker
• Ben-K, Dragon Kid and YAMATO vs. Genki Horiguchi, Susumu Yokosuka and U-T

GLEAT

GLEAT’s Kaz Hayashi, Soma Watanabe and Yu Iizuka will compete at JUST TAP OUT Professional Wrestling’s show tomorrow in Korakuen Hall.

The GLEAT trio will face Eagle Mask, Ren Ayabe and TAKA Michinoku in a six-man tag team match.

Watanabe was previously scheduled to team with Takanori Ito at JTO’s show on January 15 in Korakuen Hall but he was forced to withdraw after testing positive for COVID-19.

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