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Pro Wrestling NOAH

Pro Wrestling NOAH aired an empty arena show today.

The full results were:

• Yoshiki Inamura def. Kinya Okada
• Ikuto Hidaka and Kotaro Suzuki def. Kai Fujimura and Yasutaka Yano
• Shuhei Taniguchi def. Akitoshi Saito, Masao Inoue & Mohammed Yone
• Eita, NOSAWA Rongai and YO-HEY def. Seiki Yoshioka, Yoshinari Ogawa and Yuya Susumu
• Haoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya, Nioh and Tadasuke def. Daisuke Harada, Hajime Ohara, Junta Miyawaki, Kaito Kiyomiya and Masa Kitamiya
• GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship: HAYATA def. Atsushi Kotoge (c)
• Masato Tanaka and Naomichi Marufuji def. Kazushi Sakuraba and Takashi Sugiura
• Great Muta def. Kenoh

Shuhei Taniguchi is now the king of Funky Express after defeating Akitoshi Saito, Masao Inoue and Mohammed Yone in a four-way match.

Tadasuke pinned Hajime Ohara to win the fifth match, prompting Haoh and Tadasuke to challenge Daisuke Harada and Ohara for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships.

HAYATA defeated Atsushi Kotoge to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship.

During the main event, Kenoh set his kick pad on fire using lighter fluid and delivered a flaming kick to Great Muta.

NOAH has made a series of announcements for its show on July 11 in Sendai. First, Harada and Ohara will attempt their first defense of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships against Haoh and Tadasuke.

Kazushi Sakuraba, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kendo Kashin, Masaaki Mochizuki and Masato Tanaka have all been confirmed to appear at the show.

Lastly, Kaito Kiyomiya and Kotaro Suzuki will face Keiji Mutoh and Yoshinari Ogawa.

Speaking of Suzuki, his junior heavyweight faction with Eita, Ikuto Hidaka, NOSAWA Rongai and YO-HEY has seemingly been given an official name: Perros del Mal de Japón.

NOAH also announced the full card for its show on June 30 in Korakuen Hall. The full card is:

• Akitoshi Saito, Shuhei Taniguchi and Mohammed Yone vs. Junta Miyawaki, Kinya Okada and Yasutaka Yano
• Seiki Yoshioka vs. YO-HEY
• Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada and Hajime Ohara vs. Haoh, Nioh and Tadasuke
• HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa and Yuya Susumu vs. Ikuto Hidaka, Kotaro Suzuki and NOSAWA Rongai
• Kaito Kiyomiya, Masa Kitamiya and Yoshiki Inamura vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh and Manabu Soya
• Kazunari Murakami, Kazushi Sakuraba, Takashi Sugiura and ‘X’ vs. Masaaki Mochizuki, Masato Tanaka, Naomichi Marufuji and Yuko Miyamoto

Seiki Yoshioka versus YO-HEY was originally scheduled to take place at NOAH’s Mitsuharu Misawa memorial show on May 31 in Korakuen Hall, but was cancelled after YO-HEY tested positive for COVID-19.

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate held its eighth Rainbow Gate 2021 tour show today in Izumi City Plaza.

The full results were:

• BxB Hulk, Diamante and KAI def. Dragon Dia, Kota Minoura and Shun Skywalker
• Ben-K, Dragon Kid and Kagetora def. Jason Lee, Masaaki Mochizuki and Takashi Yoshida
• Keisuke Okuda and YAMATO def. Hiroaki Moriya and Shoichi Uchida
• K-ness and Susumu Yokosuka def. H.Y.O and SB KENTo
• Eita and KAZMA SAKAMOTO def. King Shimizu and U-T
• Gamma, Genki Horiguchi and Kzy def. Naruki Doi, Punch Tominaga and Ryo Saito

Dragon Gate will hold its ninth Rainbow Gate 2021 tour show tomorrow in Tottori Sangyo Gym. The full card is:

• Genki Horiguchi and Yasushi Kanda vs. Jason Lee and Shun Skywalker
• Dragon Kid, Keisuke Okuda and Punch Tominaga vs. Ho Ho Lun, Masaaki Mochizuki and Ryo Saito
• Diamante and KAI vs. Dragon Dia and Kota Minoura
• Ben-K, Kagetora and YAMATO vs. Inaba’s Buffalo, Naruki Doi and Problem Dragon
• Eita, H.Y.O, KAZMA SAKAMOTO and SB KENTo vs. Funky Jacky Kamei, King Shimizu, Kzy and Susumu Yokosuka

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling will hold a show tomorrow in Korakuen Hall.

The full card is:

• Kazumasa Yoshida and Kazumi Kikuta vs. Keiki Suzuki and Takuho Kato
• Isami Kodaka and Kazuki Hashimoto vs. Kota Sekifuda and Tatsuhiko Yoshino
• Deathmatch: Abdullah Kobayashi, Jaki Numazawa and Minoru Fujita vs. Hideyoshi Kamitani, Masaya Takahashi and Yuki Ishikawa
• Deathmatch: Akira Hyodo and Kankuro Hoshino vs. Takumi Tsukamoto and Yuko Miyamoto
• Kosuke Sato, Ryota Hama and Yasufumi Nakanoue vs. Shigehiro Irie, Yuji Okabayashi and Yuya Aoki
• Daichi Hashimoto vs. Yuya Aoki
• Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor final: Drew Parker vs. Ryuji Ito

Ryuji Ito and Drew Parker will face off in the Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor tournament final in the main event. The winner of the match will then challenge Takumi Tsukamoto for the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship at Big Japan’s show on July 23 in Korakuen Hall, which will be Tsukamoto’s second defense of the title.

Big Japan has announced the full card for its outside show on July 11 in Hokkaido. The full card is:

• Kosuke Sato and Kota Sekifuda vs. Takuho Kato and Yuya Aoki
• Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani vs. Kazuki Hashimoto and Takuya Nomura
• Falls Count Anywhere deathmatch: Abdullah Kobayashi and Jaki Numazawa vs. Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu
• Daisuke Sekimoto and Yasufumi Nakanoue vs. Kazumasa Yoshida and Noriyuki Yoshida
• Singapore cane match: Kazumi Kikuta and Yuko Miyamoto vs. Ryuji Ito and Yuichi Taniguchi
• Deathmatch: Akira Hyodo and Kankuro Hoshino vs. Drew Parker and Yuki Ishikawa
• Leatherface vs. Yuji Okabayashi

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling will hold its ninth Kizuna Road tour show tomorrow in Nagoya Congress Center Event Hall.

The full card is:

• Ryusuke Taguchi and Tiger Mask vs. Yota Tsuji and Yuya Uemura
• DOUKI, El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. El Phantasmo, Jado and Taiji Ishimori
• Dick Togo, EVIL and Yujiro Takahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano and YOH
• Hirooki Goto, SHO, Tomohiro Ishii and YOSHI-HASHI vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Master Wato, Satoshi Kojima and Yuji Nagata
• BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kota Ibushi, Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma

All Japan Pro Wrestling

All Japan Pro Wrestling junior heavyweight star and Hard Hit owner Hikaru Sato lost to Kanto Fuchigami by technical knockout in the second round at PANCRASE 322 today.

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