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New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling superstar Minoru Suzuki will appear at four of Game Changer Wrestling’s throughout September and October, effectively ruling him out of this year’s G1 Climax.

Suzuki will compete at GCW’s shows on September 17 in Los Angeles, September 24 in New York City, October 10 in Atlantic City and October 23 in Los Angeles.

It is worth noting Impact Wrestling is set to hold its Bound For Glory pay-per-view on October 23 in Las Vegas, and while New Japan stars are set to future on the card, it seems Suzuki will be pre-occupied with his GCW commitments.

North California promotion West Coast Pro Wrestling has announced Suzuki will appear at its No Leaf Clover show celebrating the company’s third anniversary on October 8 in San Francisco.

Pro Wrestling NOAH

Pro Wrestling NOAH has announced Nioh will miss its show on August 28 in Takaoka due to slight coughing symptons.

The updated card for the show is:

• Akitoshi Saito vs. Kinya Okada
• Kai Fujimura vs. YO-HEY
• Mohammed Yone and Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura
• Aleja vs. Kotaro Suzuki
• Hajime Ohara, Junta Miyawaki and Yasutaka Yano vs. HAYATA, Seiki Yoshioka and Yoshinari Ogawa
• Atsushi Kotoge, Daiki Inaba, Daisuke Harada, Kaito Kiyomiya and Masa Kitamiya vs. Haoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh, Manabu Soya and Tadasuke

Nioh is scheduled to return at NOAH’s show on September 3 in Yokohama Radiant Hall.

Speaking of which, NOAH has announced the full cards for its show on August 29 in Kanazawa and September 3. The full cards are:

August 29 in Kanazawa
• Junta Miyawaki vs. Yasutaka Yano
• Akitoshi Saito vs. Kotaro Suzuki
• Alexander Otsuka and Takashi Sugiura vs. Mohammed Yone and Shuhei Taniguchi
• Aleja, Haoh and Tadasuke vs. Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada and Hajime Ohara
• Seiki Yoshioka vs. YO-HEY
• Daiki Inaba, Kinya Okada and Masa Kitamiya vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh and Manabu Soya
• Great Muta, Marufuji and NOSAWA Rongai vs. HAYATA, Kaito Kiyomiya and Yoshinari Ogawa

September 3 in Yokohama Radiant Hall
• Haoh and Nioh vs. Kai Fujimura and Yasutaka Yano
• Aleja vs. YO-HEY
• Daisuke Harada vs. Tadasuke
• Atsushi Kotoge, Hajime Ohara and Junta Miyawaki vs. Seiki Yoshioka, Yoshinari Ogawa and Yuya Susumu
• Kaito Kiyomiya vs. NOSAWA Rongai
• GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship: HAYATA (c) vs. Kotaro Suzuki

Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS

Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS has announced the full card for its show on August 30 in Korakuen Hall.

The full card is:

• GENTARO, Kengo and Yuya Susumu vs. Kamui, Mammoth Sasaki and Takahiro Katori
• UWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship: Tatsuhito Takaiwa (c) vs. Rekka
• Hardcore: Dragon Libe, Tomoya Hirata and Toru Sugiura vs. Kenji Fukimoto, Minoru Fujita and Rina Yamashita
• Deathmatch: Daisuke Masaoka and Takashi Sasaki vs. Orca Uto and Toshiyuki Sakuda
• Deathmatch: Jun Kasai vs. Takayuki Ueki
• King Of FREEDOM World Championship: Violento Jack (c) vs. Masashi Takeda

Tatsuhito Takaiwa will attempt his second defense of the UWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship against Rekka.

Violento Jack will attempt his first defense of the King Of FREEDOM World Championship against Masashi Takeda in the main event.

GLEAT

GLEAT has announced the full card for its show on September 1 in Shinjuku FACE.

The full card is:

• Ayato Yoshida and Takanori Ito vs. Jun Tonsho and Shigehiro Irie
• Michiko Miyagi and Rina Yamashita vs. Ryo Mizunami and Yuu
• Issei Onitsuka vs. Yu Iizuka
• KAZMA SAKAMOTO vs. Soma Watanabe
• CIMA, Kaz Hayashi and Minoru Tanaka vs. Koji Iwamoto, ‘X’ and ‘X’
• El Lindaman and T-Hawk vs. Hayato Tamura and Ryuichi Kawakami

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the full cards for its shows on September 11 in Yokohama Radiant Hall.

The full cards are:

Afternoon
• Hiroaki Taniguchi vs. Kosuke Sato
• Daisuke Sekimoto and Takuya Nomura vs. Kazumasa Yoshida and Yuji Okabayashi
• Drew Parker and Masaki Morihiro vs. Jaki Numazawa and Ryuji Ito
• Akira Hyodo and Hideyoshi Kamitani vs. Kazuki Hashimoto and Kohei Sato
• Kankuro Hoshino and Nobuhiro Shimatani vs. Kota Sekifuda and Onryo
• Hiroyuki Suzuki and Takuho Kato vs. Kazumi Kikuta and Yuya Aoki

Evening
• Junya Matsunaga vs. Takumi Baba
• Hiroyuki Suzuki and Takuho Kato vs. Yusaku Ito and Yuya Aoki
• Akira Hyodo and Kankuro Hoshino vs. Masaki Morihiro and Onryo
• Drew Parker and Nobuhiro Shimatani vs. Jaki Numazawa and Ryuji Ito
• Hiroaki Taniguchi and Kazumi Kikuta vs. Kazumasa Yoshida and Yuji Okabayashi
• Genta Hiriki, Satsuki Nagao, Shoki Kitamura and Takafumi vs. Kazuki Hashimoto, Kosuke Sato, Kota Sekifuda and Takuya Nomura
• Abdullah Kobayashi and Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani

Big Japan will hold a show tomorrow in Yokohama Radiant Hall. The full card is:

• Hiroyuki Suzuki and Takuho Kato vs. Kazumi Kikuta and Yuji Okabayashi
• Abdullah Kobayashi and Jaki Numazawa vs. Kazumasa Yoshida and Yuichi Taniguchi
• Akira Hyodo, Kankuro Hoshino and Ryuji Ito vs. Drew Parker, Hideyoshi Kamitani and Yuki Ishikawa
• Daichi Hashimoto and Kosuke Sato vs. Kazuki Hashimoto and Kohei Sato
• Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Yuya Aoki
• Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura vs. Kota Sekifuda and Yasufumi Nakanoue

Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling Explosion

Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling Explosion has announced Atsushi Onita will face Shadow WX in the main event of its show on September 12 at the Tsurumi Fruit & Vegetable Market.

Onita was originally scheduled to team with Suzu Suzuki against Abdullah Kobayashi and Risa Sera in a deathmatch. Instead, Suzuki will team with a mystery partner.

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling will hold its Wrestle Peter Pan 2021 show tomorrow in Fujitsu Stadium.

The full card is:

• Hideki Okatani and Yuya Koroku vs. Keigo Nakamura and Yukio Naya
• Explosion deathmatch: Akito, Atsushi Onita, Maki Itoh and Sanshiro Takagi vs. Hikari Noa, Kuro-chan, Super Sasadango Machine and Tetsuhiro Kuroda
• El Unicorn, HARASHIMA, Naomi Yoshimura, Raimu Imai and Yusuke Okada vs. Ilusion, Mizuki Watase, TAMURA, Yuji Okabayashi and Yuki Iino
• Antonio Honda vs. Toru Owashi & Danshoku Dieno vs. Kazuki Hirata
• Hardcore: Chris Brookes and Jun Kasai vs. MAO and Shunma Katsumata
• KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championships: Soma Takao, Tetsuya Endo and Yuji Hino (c) vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Saki Akai and Yukio Sakaguchi
• DDT Universal Championship: Yuki Ueno (c) vs. Daisuke Sasaki
• KO-D Openweight Championship: Jun Akiyama (c) vs. Konosuke Takeshita

There will be two rings, one of which will be used for the explosion deathmatch. Antonio Honda versus Toru Owashi and Danshoku Dieno versus Kazuki Hirata will happen simultaneously with one match in each ring.

Soma Takao, Tetsuya Endo and Yuji Hino will attempt their third defense of the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championships against Kazusada Higuchi, Saki Akai and Yukio Sakaguchi.

Yuki Ueno will attempt his seventh defense of the DDT Universal Championship against Daisuke Sasaki.

In the main event, Jun Akiyama will attempt his fourth defense of the KO-D Openweight Championship against King of DDT winner Konosuke Takeshita.

There is a great preview for the show on Dramatic DDT’s website, which can be viewed here. Beyond the preview, Dramatic DDT is a fantastic resource and an absolute treasure trove of information for existing and new fans of the company alike.

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate will hold its eighth The Gate of Adventure 2021 tour show tomorrow in KBS Hall.

The full card is:

• Dragon Dia, Kota Minoura and Shun Skywalker vs. Dragon Kid, Kagetora and YAMATO
• BxB Hulk and SB KENTo vs. Jason Lee and Naruki Doi
• Ryo Saito, Strong Machine J and Yosuke Santa Maria vs. Susumu Yokosuka, Ultimo Dragon and Yasushi Kanda
• Keisuke Okuda vs. U-T
• Ben-K and Masaaki Mochizuki vs. KAI and Kaito Ishida
• Diamante, Eita and H.Y.O vs. Genki Horiguchi, King Shimizu and Kzy

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