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Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate will hold its Memorial Gate 2021 show tomorrow in Wakayama Prefectural Gym.

The full card is:

• Genki Horiguchi, Kzy, Susumu Yokosuka and U-T vs. Gurukun Mask, Ho Ho Lun, Punch Tominaga and Shachihoko Boy
• Bokutimo Dragon, Ryo Saito and Ultimo Dragon vs. BxB Hulk, Diamate and Kaito Ishida
• Ben-K vs. HipHop Kikuta
• Wakayama Tornado Winning Match: Dragon kid, Keisuke Okuda and YAMATO vs. Eita, KAI and SB KENTo vs. Jason Lee, Kota Minoura and La Estrella
• Open the Twin Gate Championships: Masaaki Mochizuki and Takashi Yoshida (c) vs. Kenichiro Arai and Yasushi Kanda
• Open the Dream Gate Championship: Shun Skywalker (c) vs. KAZMA SAKAMOTO

The Wakayama Tornado Winning Match will start as a three-way match between three members of the opposing teams and a new member will enter every 60 seconds.

The match will be contested under tornado rules until all members have entered. If a member is pinned before all team members have entered the match, the team is eliminated.

Masaaki Mochizuki and Takashi Yoshida will attempt their first defense of the Open the Twin Gate Championships against Kenichiro Arai and Yasushi Kanda

Shun Skywalker will attempt his third defense of the Open the Dream Gate Championship against KAZMA SAKAMOTO in the main event.

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling will hold its fourth Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor show tomorrow in Osaka.

The full card is:

• Akira Hyodo and Kankuro Hoshino vs. Drew Parker and Kazuki Hashimoto
• Abdullah Kobayashi and Yuichi Taniguchi vs. Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani
• Hiroaki Taniguchi and Yasufumi Nakanoue vs. Takuho Kato and Takuya Nomura
• Billy Ken Kid, HUB and Tsubasa vs. Daisuke Sekimoto, Kota Sekifuda and Yuya Aoki
• Kazumi Kikuta and Yuki Ishikawa vs. Ryuji Ito and Yuji Okabayashi
• Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor A block: Jaki Numazawa vs. Violento Jack
• Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor B block: Shunma Katsumata vs. Yuko Miyamoto

Going into the show, the current Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor standings are:

A block
1. Masaya Takahashi (2-0 record): 4 points
2. Violento Jack (1-0 record): 2 points
3. Jaki Numazawa (0-1 record): 0 points
4. Abdullah Kobayashi (0-2 record): 0 points

B block
1. Takumi Tsukamoto (2-0 record): 4 points
2. Drew Parker (1-0 record): 2 points
3. Shunma Katsumata (0-1 record): 0 points
4. Yuko Miyamoto (0-2 record): 0 points

Pro Wrestling ZERO1

Pro Wrestling ZERO1 will hold a show tomorrow at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.

The full card is:

• Baliyan Akki, Hiroshi Yamato, Koju Takeda, Kosuke Sato, Leo Isaka and TAMURA vs. Genta Hidiki, Junya Matsunaga, Raimu Imai, Shoki Kitamura, Takafumi and Takumi Baba
• Dump Matsumoto and Jaguar Yokota vs. Kyoko Inoue and Shinobu Kandori
• Carbell Ito, Hartley Jackson and Naoshi Sano vs. Chris Vice, Shogun Okamoto and Yoshikazu Yokoyama
• Ayato Yoshida and Takuro Niki vs. Kengo Mashimo and Tatsuya Hanami
• Fuminori Abe and Hayato Mashita vs. Super Rider and Super Tiger
• CIMA, El Lindaman, Issei Onizuka and T-Hawk vs. Kaz Hayashi, Soma Watanabe, Takanori Ito and Yu Iizuka
• Kaito Kiyomiya and Junta Miyawaki vs. Kinya Okada and Yoshiki Inamura
• Dan Tamura and SUWAMA vs. Ryuki Honda and Shuji Ishikawa
• Aja Kong, Ren Ayabe, Shinjiro Otani and Yumehito Imanari vs. ASUKA, Hayato Tamura, Masato Tanaka and Takuya Sugawara

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced it will reveal the new IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at its Road to Sakura Genesis 2021 tour show on March 30 in Korakuen Hall.

 

Ibushi is the new title’s first holder by virtue of being the last man to hold the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and IWGP Intercontinental Championship, and he will attempt his first defense of the title against Will Ospreay at Sakura Genesis on April 4.

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling has announced the signing of Yusuke Okada.

Okada first appeared in DDT on January 3 and has regularly wrestled since January 9. He said he is committed to defeating Yuki Ueno to win the DDT Universal Championship.

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