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FMW-E ANNOUNCES FULL SEPTEMBER LINEUP, DRAGON GATE'S FOURTH GATE OF ADVENTURE IN TOKYO AND MORE FROM JAPAN

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate held its fourth The Gate Of Adventure 2021 tour show today in Korakuen Hall.

The full results were:

• Ben-K and Keisuke Okuda def. BxB Hulk and Dia Inferno
• Kenichiro Arai, Naruki Doi and Ryo Saito def. Konomama Ichikawa, Shachihoko Boy and Yosuke Santa Maria
• Masaaki Mochizuki, Problem Dragon and Ultimo Dragon def. Punch Tominaga, Takashi Yoshida and Yasushi Kanda
• Strong Machine F, Strong Machine G and Strong Machine J def. Funky Jacky Kamei, Genki Horiguchi and U-T
• Kota Minoura and Shun Skywalker def. Diamante and KAI via DQ
• H.Y.O, Kaito Ishida and SB KENTo def. Dragon Dia, Jason Lee and La Estrella, Dragon Kid, Kagetora and YAMATO & King Shimizu, Kzy and Susumu Yokosuka

Ben-K, KAI and Masaaki Mochizuki will face off in a three-way match at Dragon Gate’s show on September 8 in Korakuen Hall. The winner will challenge YAMATO for the Open the Dream Gate Championship at Dragon Gate’s show on September 20 in Ota City General Gymnasium, which will be YAMATO’s first defense of the title.

Also on September 20, Dragon Gate’s newest rookies Ishin Iihashi and Riki Iihashi will debut against Don Fujii and Yasushi Kanda.

Elsewhere, Dragon Gate’s Ultimo Dragon might be traveling to wrestle in America soon, as Sports Illustrated reported yesterday that Masked Republic has successfully applied for and has been granted a group visa for 49 international wrestlers.

As well as Dragon, All Japan Pro Wrestling’s TAJIRI and Michinoku Pro Wrestling founder Great Sasuke are also in the group.

Sports Illustrated’s full report can be read here.

Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS

Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS held a show today in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring.

The full results were:

• Jun Kasai def. Takahiro Katori
• Deathmatch: Kenji Fukimoto and Rina Yamashita def. Kamui and Minoru Fujita
• Battle Royal: Dragon Libre def. Brahman Kei, Brahman Shu, GENTARO, Kengo, Lekka, Takashi Sasaki, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Tomoya Hirata & Yuya Susumu
• Hardcore: Mammoth Sasaki and Toru Sugiura def. Chris Brookes and Daisuke Masaoka
• Deathmatch: Toshiyuki Sakuda def. Masashi Takeda, Takayuki Ueki & Violento Jack

Daisuke Masaoka’s mystery partner was DDT Pro-Wrestling star Chris Brookes.

Pro Wrestling NOAH

Pro Wrestling NOAH has announced Kazunari Murakami will miss its N-1 Victory tournament due to a left sciatic nerve injury.

Murakami was scheduled to compete in B block against Daiki Inaba, Kenoh and Masaaki Mochizuki.

NOAH has also announced Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada, Junta Miyawaki and NOSAWA Rongai will return at its show on August 15 in Kawasaki.

The updated card for the show is:

• Akitoshi Saito, Mohammed Yone and Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Kai Fujimura, Kinya Okada and Yasutaka Yano
• Daiki Inaba vs. Masa Kitamiya
• Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada and Junta Miyawaki vs. Ikuto Hidaka, Kotaro Suzuki and NOSAWA Rongai
• Hajime Ohara vs. Kaito Kiyomiya
• GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships: Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu (c) vs. Aleja and Tadasuke
• Daisuke Nakamura, Kazushi Sakuraba, Kazuyuki Fujita and Kendo Kashin vs. Haoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh and Manabu Soya
• Great Muta and Marufuji vs. HAYATA and Yoshinari Ogawa
• GHC National Championship and World Heavyweight Championship: Masato Tanaka vs. Takashi Sugiura

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the full card for its Death Mania IX 2021 show on September 5 in Nagoya.

The full card is:

• Hiroyuki Suzuki and Takuho Kato vs. Kazumi Kikuta and Takuya Nomura
• Akira Hyodo and Kankuro Hoshino vs. Jaki Numazawa and Masaya Takahashi
• Abduallah Kobayashi and Kazumasa Yoshida vs. Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu
• Intelligent Sensational Grand Passion Mask No. 4, Shinya Ishida and Yusaku Ito vs. Kazuki Hashimoto, Kosuke Sato and Kota Sekifuda
• Shigehiro Irie vs. Yuya Aoki
• Kengo Takai vs. Yuji Okabayashi
• Deathmatch: Michio Kageyama and Takumi Tsukamoto vs. Ryuji Ito and Yuki Ishikawa
• Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani vs. Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Hino
• BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship: Yasufumi Nakanoue (c) vs. Fuminori Abe
• BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship: Drew Parker (c) vs. Yuko Miyamoto

Yuji Okabayashi will miss Big Japan’s show on August 13 in Yokohama while recovering from COVID-19, Big Japan announced today. The updated card is:

• Kosuke Sato vs. Yuichi Taniguchi
• Abdullah Kobayashi and Jaki Numazawa vs. Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu
• Akira Hyodo and Kankuro Hoshino vs. Ryuji Ito and Yuki Ishikawa
• Takuho Kato vs. Takuya Nomura
• Hiroyuki Suzuki Kazuki Hashimoto vs. Kazumi Kikuta and Kota Sekifuda
• Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani vs. Yasufumi Nakanoue and Yuya Aoki

Big Japan has also announced Hideki Sekine will face Daisuke Sekimoto in a singles match in his debut on October 28 in Twin Messe Shizuoka.

Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling Explosion

Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling Explosion has announced the full card for its show on September 12 at the Tsurumi Fruit & Vegetable Market.

The full card is:

• Monster Leather, Mr. Atomic and Toshiya Kawarai vs. Naoshi Sano, Takumi Sakurai and Yuichi Taniguchi
• Atsushi Onita, Mecha Pandita and Ricky Fuji vs. Kazuki Enosawa, Mammoth Sasaki and Raijin Yaguchi
• Women’s deathmatch tournament: Akane Fujita vs. Thekla
• Women’s deathmatch tournament: An Chamu vs. Miss Mongolia
• HASEGAWA vs. Shadow WX
• Abdullah Kobayashi and Risa Sera vs. Atsushi Onita and Suzu Suzuki

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