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Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate has announced the full card for the first night of its two-night Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival 2021 on July 31 in Kobe World Kinen Hall.

The full card is:

• K-ness, Kenichiro Arai and Yasushi Kanda vs. Konomama Ichikawa, Shachihoko Boy and Super Shisa
• BxB Hulk, H.Y.O and KAI vs. Don Fujii, Masaaki Mochizuki and Ryo Saito
• Ben-K, Gamma, Problem Dragon and Punch Tominaga vs. Funky Jacky Kamei, Takashi Yoshida, U-T and Yosuke Santa Maria
• Eita vs. Kota Minoura
• Open the Triangle Gate Championships: Dragon Dia, Jason Lee and La Estrella (c) vs. Dia Inferno, Diamante and SB KENTo
• Open the Brave Gate Championship: Keisuke Okuda (c) vs. Genki Horiguchi
• “brother” YASSHI, Masato Yoshino, Shuji Kondo, Takuya Sugawara and Toru Owashi vs. Dragon Kid, Kagetora, Naruki Doi, Ultimo Dragon and YAMATO
• Open the Twin Gate Championships: Kaito Ishida and KAZMA SAKAMOTO (c) vs. King Shimizu and Susumu Yokosuka
• Open the Dream Gate Championship: Shun Skywalker (c) vs. Kzy

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling held a show today in Shinjuku FACE.

The full results were:

• Tomomitsu Matsunaga def. Hideki Okatani
• Antonio Honda and Toru Owashi vs. Danshoku Dieno and Kazuki Hirata – No Contest
• Mad Paulie, Tetsuya Endo and Yuji Hino def. Akito, Yuki Iino and Yukio Naya
• Kazusada Higuchi, Sakai Akai and Yukio Sakaguchi def. HARASHIMA, Keigo Nakamura and Naomi Yoshimura
• Daisuke Sasaki and Soma Takao def. Yuki Ueno and Yuya Koroku
• DDT Extreme Championship and Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship No Disqualifications and No Submissions: Shinya Aoki def. Chris Brookes
• Jun Akiyama, Makoto Oishi and Yusuke Okada def. Konosuke Takeshita, MAO and Shunma Katsumata

Mizuki Watase appeared at the beginning of the show and announced he will return at DDT’s show on August 15 in Korakuen Hall. He has been out of action since February due to a fracture in his left arm.

Daisuke Sasaki defeated Yuki Ueno to win the fifth match, promoting Ueno to request that he attempts his seventh defense of the DDT Universal Championship against Sasaki at Wrestle Peter Pan 2021 on August 21 in Fujitsu Stadium.

Shinya Aoki defeated Chris Brookes to win the DDT Extreme Championship. He will defend both the DDT Extreme Championship and Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship against MAO on August 15.

Konosuke Takeshita and Shunma Katsumata will attempt their first defense of the KO-D Tag Team Championships against Jun Akiyama and Makoto Oishi on August 15. Oishi defeated Katsumata to win the main event today.

Two more matches have been announced for Wrestle Peter Pan 2021: Antonio Honda versus Toru Owashi and Danshoku Dieno versus Kazuki Hirata. However, due to time constraints, both matches will take place at the same time (Wrestle Peter Pan 2021 is scheduled to take place with two literal rings in the stadium).

All Japan Pro Wrestling

All Japan Pro Wrestling held a show today in Yokohama.

The full results were:

• Hikaru Sato and Ryuki Honda def. Jun Saito and Rei Saito
• Dan Tamura and Francesco Akira def. Atsuki Aoyagi and Rising HAYATO
• Takao Omori and TAMURA def. Baliyan Akki and Yoshitatsu
• CIMA, El Lindaman and Issei Onitsuka def. Devil Murasaki, Izanagi and Zeus
• SUWAMA def. Koji Iwamoto
• Kento Miyahara, Shotaro Ashino and Yuma Aoyagi def. Hokuto Omori, Jake Lee and Yusuke Kodama

Issei Onitsuka defeated Devil Murasaki to win the fourth match and announced he will team T-Hawk’s place as El Lindaman’s partner to challenge Izanagi and Zeus for the All Asia Tag Team Championships at All Japan’s show on July 22 in Korakuen Hall.

New Japan Pro Wrestling

Jon Moxley made his fifth successful defense of the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship against Karl Anderson on All Elite Wrestling’s Dynamite show last night.

Moxley will attempt his sixth defense of the title against Lance Archer in a Texas Deathmatch on Dynamite next week. It is a rematch from the first night of Wrestle Kingdom 14 on January 4, 2020, when Moxley won the title.

New Japan has uploaded a new interview with Kota Ibushi ahead of his match against Shingo Takagi for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestle Grand Slam on July 25 in the Tokyo Dome. The interview can be read here.

Real Japan Pro Wrestling

Real Japan Pro Wrestling has announced five new matches for its show on July 29 in Korakuen Hall, highlighted by two debuts and a first time ever match.

Tiger Queen, the new female iteration of the legendary Tiger Mask character portrayed by various wrestlers over the last 30 years, will face Rina Yamashita in her debut match.

Additionally, Yuko Miyamoto will debut for Real Japan teaming with Super Rider against Takafumi Ito and TORU.

Masakatsu Funaki will face Masashi Takeda for the first time ever. Although currently one of the best deathmatch wrestlers in the world, Takeda previously trained under Kiyoshi Tamura and has a 11-4-1 record in in mixed martial arts.

Fuminori Abe and Super Tiger will face Hayato Mashita and Masayuki Kono and, lastly, Kendo Kashin and Shogun Okamoto will face Minoru Tanaka and Tatsuhito 

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