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All Japan Pro Wrestling

All Japan Pro Wrestling aired its seventh Champion Carnival show today.

The full results were:

• Izanagi def. Black Menso~re
• Hokuto Omori, TAJIRI and Yusuke Kodama def. Dan Tamura, Francesco Akira and Koji Iwamoto
• Atsuki Aoyagi, Rising HAYATO and Yuma Aoyagi def. Ryuki Honda, Takao Omori and Yoshitatsu
• Champion Carnival: Shotaro Ashino def. Shinjiro Otani
• Champion Carnival: Kohei Sato def. Shuji Ishikawa
• World Junior Heavyweight Championship: CIMA (c) def. Hikaru Sato
• Champion Carnival: Jake Lee def. Zeus
• Champion Carnival: Kento Miyahara def. SUWAMA

CIMA made his second successful defense of the World Junior Heavyweight Championship against Hikaru Sato. The match will take place at the company’s show on May 16 in Ota Ward Gymnasium

Following today’s show, the updated Champion Carnival standings are:

1. Jake Lee (4-2 record): 8 points
-. Kento Miyahara (4-2 record): 8 points
-. Kohei Sato (4-2 record): 8 points
4. Shotaro Ashino (3-3 record): 6 points
-. SUWAMA (3-3 record): 6 points
-. Yuma Aoyagi (3-3 record): 6 points
-. Zeus (3-3 record): 6 points
8. Shinjiro Otani (2-3-1 record): 4 points
9. Shuji Ishikawa (2-4 record): 4 points
10. Koji Doi (1-4-1 record): 2 points

All Japan’s newest rookies Jun Saito and Rei Saito will debut against Daisuke Sekimoto and Yasufumi Nakanoue on May 16.

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate held its penultimate The Gate of Passion 2021 tour show today in Takaoka Ecouer.

The full results were:

• Kzy, Susumu Yokosuka and U-T def. Bokutimo Dragon, Ho Ho Lun and Ryo Saito
• Ben-K def. Kagetora
• Diamante, Kaito Ishida and SB KENTo def. Dragon Kid, Ultimo Dragon and Yasushi Kanda
• SB KENTo def. Konomama Ichikawa
• Keisuke Okuda and YAMATO def. Don Fujii and Takashi Yoshida
• Jason Lee, Kota Minoura, La Estrella and Shun Skywalker def. BxB Hulk, Eita, H.Y.O and HipHop Kikuta

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling held a show today in Nagano.

The full results were:

• Tomomitsu Matsunaga def. Hideki Okatani
• Chris Brookes and Toi Kojima def. Saki Akai and Yukio Sakaguchi
• Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship: Saki Akai def. Chris Brookes (c)
• Tetsuya Endo and Yuji Hino def. Kazusada Higuchi and Yuya Koroku
• Akito, Kazuki Hirata and Toru Owashi vs. Antonio Honda, Danshoku Dieno and Yukio Naya – No Contest
• Akito, Kazuki Hirata and Toru Owashi vs. Antonio Honda, Danshoku Dieno and Yukio Naya – No Contest
• Akito, Kazuki Hirata and Yukio Naya def. Antonio Honda, Danshoku Dieno and Toru Owashi
• Daisuke Sasaki, Mad Paulie and Soma Takao def. MAO, Shunma Katsumata and Yuki Ueno
• Jun Akiyama, Makoto Oishi and Yusuke Okada def. HARASHIMA, Keigo Nakamura and Yuki Iino

Chris Brookes pinned Saki Akai to win the second match and won the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship in the process. However, Akai won the title back immediately afterwards.

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling held a show today in Tokyo.

The full results were:

• Drew Parker and Yuki Ishikawa def. Keiki Suzuki and Kota Sekifuda
• Jaki Numazawa and Ryuji Ito def. Kankuro Hoshino and Masaki Morihiro
• Kazumi Kikuta and Ryota Hama def. Kota Sekifuda and Yuji Okabayashi
• Yokohama Shopping Street 6-Man Tag Team Championships: Daichi Hashimoto, Hideyoshi Kamitani and Yuya Aoki (c) def. Akira Hyodo, Kosuke Sato and Takuya Nomura

Daichi Hashimoto, Hideyoshi Kamitani and Yuya Aoki made their third successful defense of the Yokohama Shopping Street 6-Man Tag Team Championships in the main event.

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling will hold its twelfth Road to Wrestling Dontaku tour show tomorrow in Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall.

The full card is:

• El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki and Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. SHO, Tiger Mask and YOH
• DOUKI, Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Jado, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa
• Dick Togo, EVIL, Gedo, Taiji Ishimori and Yujiro Takahashi vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Master Wato, Ryusuke Taguchi and Toru Yano
• BUSHI and Shingo Takagi vs. Jeff Cobb and Will Ospreay
• Aaron Henare vs. SANADA
• Great-O-Khan vs. Tetsuya Naito

Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS

Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS’ Masashi Takeda has responded to criticism surrounding his hardcore match against Suzu Suzuki at yesterday’s Ice Ribbon show.

Takeda tweeted (using the DeepL translator from Japanese to English): “People are making a lot of noise about last night’s match, but I just did my best to respond to her desire to have a match in that style. I felt that she was serious about her feelings. I don’t want people to criticize her just because of an article without knowing how she got to the match or how she felt. Well, criticism comes with the territory, so I’ll put it to one side and continue on my way. She’ll get stronger again.”

 

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