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New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling held its third and final Wrestle Grand Slam show today in the MetLife Dome.

The full results were:

• Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb def. Kazuchika Okada and Tomohiro Ishii
• IWGP Junior Tag Team Championships: El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru def. El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori (c)
• IWGP Tag Team Championships: Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr. (c) def. Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI & SANADA and Tetsuya Naito
• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: Robbie Eagles (c) def. Hiromu Takahashi
• IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Shingo Takagi (c) def. EVIL

El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru defeated El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori to win the IWGP Junior Tag Team Championships in the second match.

Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr. made their first successful defense of the IWGP Tag Team Championships against Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI as well as SANADA and Tetsuya Naito in a three-way tag team match third on the card after Taichi pinned YOSHI-HASHI while Sabre Jr. trapped Naito in a submission.

New Japan then announced full field for this year’s G1 Climax tournament after the third match. The full field is:

A block
• Great-O-Khan
• KENTA
• Kota Ibushi
• Shingo Takagi
• Tanga Loa
• Tetsuya Naito
• Tomohiro Ishii
• Toru Yano
• Yujiro Takahashi
• Zack Sabre Jr.

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• Chase Owens
• EVIL
• Hirooki Goto
• Hiroshi Tanahashi
• Jeff Cobb
• Kazuchika Okada
• SANADA
• Taichi
• Tama Tonga
• YOSHI-HASHI

Robbie Eagles made his first successful defense of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Hiromu Takahashi in the fourth match.

After the bout, El Desperado came to the ring to challenge Eagles for the title. Eagles, of course, defeated El Desperado to win the title at the first Wrestle Grand Slam show on July 25 in the Tokyo Dome. Eagles accepted El Desperado’s challenge on the condition that he and Tiger Mask could challenge El Desperado and Kanemaru for their newly won IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships.

Shingo Takagi made his second successful defense of the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against EVIL in the main event.

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling held its Death Mania IX 2021 show today in Nagoya.

The full results were:

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

Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani made their first successful defense of the BJW Tag Team Championships against Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Hino.

Yasufumi Nakanoue made his sixth successful defense of the BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship against Fuminori Abe.

Nakanoue was challenged by Takuya Nomura after the bout and their non-title match at Big Japan’s show on September 20 in Sapporo will now be Nakanoue’s seventh defense of the title.

Yuko Miyamoto defeated Drew Parker to win the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship in the main event.

As a result, Miyamoto will attempt his first defense of the title against Ryuji Ito at Big Japan’s show on September 20 while Parker will team with Yuki Ishikawa against Jaki Numazawa and Jun Kasai on the show.

Following today’s results, the updated card for September 20 is:

• Kazumi Kikuta vs. Kosuke Sato
• Abdullah Kobayashi, Takuho Kato and Yuichi Taniguchi vs. Brahman Kei, Brahman Shu and Leatherface
• Banana Senga and Tsutomu Oosugi vs. Kota Sekifuda and Tatsuhiko Yoshino
• Kazumasa Yoshida and Noriyuki Yoshida vs. Keiki Suzuki and Ryota Hama
• Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi vs. Shuji Ishikawa and Yuya Aoki
• Deathmatch: Akira Hyodo and Kankuro Hoshino vs. Masashi Takeda and Masaya Takahashi
• Drew Parker and Yuki Ishikawa vs. Jaki Numazawa and Jun Kasai
• BJW Tag Team Championships: Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani (c) vs. Kazuki Hashimoto and Kohei Sato
• BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship: Yasufumi Nakanoue (c) vs. Takuya Nomura
• BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship: Yuko Miyamoto (c) vs. Ryuji Ito

Hashimoto and Kamitani will attempt their second defense of the BJW Tag Team Championships against Kazuki Hashimoto and Kohei Sato.

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate held its second Storm Gate 2021 tour show today in Mercure Hotel Yokosuka.

The full results were:

• Kagetora, Naruki Doi and Strong Machine J def. Dragon Dia, Jason Lee and Kota Minoura
• Genki Horiguchi and Ho Ho Lun def. Ultimo Dragon and Yasushi Kanda
• La Estrella and Shun Skywalker def. Dia Inferno and Diamante via DQ
• Ben-K, KAI and Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Dragon Kid, Keisuke Okuda and YAMATO – No Contest
• Funky Jacky Kamei, King Shimizu, Susumu Yokosuka and U-T def. BxB Hulk, Eita, H.Y.O and Kaito Ishida

 Ben-K, KAI and Masaaki Mochizuki versus Dragon Kid, Keisuke Okuda and YAMATO was ruled a no contest because Ben-K, KAI and Mochizuki, who will face off in a three-way match at Dragon Gate’s fourth Storm Gate 2021 tour show on September 8 in Korakuen Hall to determine YAMATO’s first challenger for the Open the Dream Gate Championship, fought each other.

Dragon Gate will hold its third Storm Gate 2021 tour show tomorrow in Yokohama Hodogaya Kokaido. The full card is:

• Dragon Dia, Jason Lee and La Estrella vs. Funky Jacky Kamei, Genki Horiguchi and Susumu Yokosuka
• Ho Ho Lun and Naruki Doi vs. Ultimo Dragon and Yasushi Kanda
• Ben-K, Keisuke Okuda and Masaaki Mochizuki vs. BxB Hulk, KAI and H.Y.O
• King Shimizu and U-T vs. Kota Minoura and Shun Skywalker
• Dia Inferno, Diamante, Eita and Kaito Ishida vs. Dragon Kid, Kagetora, Strong Machine J and YAMATO

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling held a show today in Osaka.

The full results were:

• Keigo Nakamura and Naomi Yoshimura def. Yukio Sakaguchi and Yuya Koroku
• Yuki Iino def. Mad Paulie
• Akito, Mizuki Watase and Yukio Naya def. HARASHIMA, Kazuki Hirata and Toru Owashi
• HARASHIMA, Kazuki Hirata and Toru Owashi def. Akito, Mizuki Watase and Yukio Naya
• Daisuke Sasaki, Soma Takao and Tetsuya Endo def. Hideki Okatani, Jun Akiyama and Yusuke Okada
• Danshoku Dieno vs. Shunma Katsumata – No Contest
• Konosuke Takeshita, MAO and Yuki Ueno def. Antonio Honda, Chris Brookes and Kazusada Higuchi

Danshoku Dieno versus Shunma Katsumata was ruled a no contest because the referee fainted after Dieno applied the Lip Lock.

DDT has announced Inaba no Buffalo and Magnitude Kishiwada will face Jun Akiyama and Yusuke Okada at its show on October 17 in Osaka produced by referee Yukinori Matsui.

Pro Wrestling ZERO1

Pro Wrestling ZERO1 has announced the full card for its show on September 9 in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring.

The full card is:

• Tenka-Ichi Junior semifinal: Junta Miyawaki vs. Shoki Kitamura
• Tenka-Ichi Junior semifinal: Fuminori Abe vs. Hide Kubota
• Genta Hiriki and Satsuki Nagao vs. Junya Matsunaga and Tsugutaka Sato
• Chris Vice and Yoshikazu Yokoyama vs. Hartley Jackson and Takafumi
• Masato Tanaka and Takuya Sugawara vs. Ricky Fuji and Shinjiro Otani
• Andy Wu and Keo Isaka vs. Arata and Takumi Baba
• Tenka-Ichi Junior final: Fuminori Abe/Hide Kubota vs. Junta Miyawaki/Shoki Kitamura

Pro Wrestling NOAH

Pro Wrestling NOAH will hold a show tomorrow in Shinjuku FACE.

The full card is:

• Junta Miyawaki and Kinya Okada vs. Kai Fujimura and Yasutaka Yano
• Ikuto Hidaka vs. Mohammed Yone
• Manabu Soya vs. Shuhei Taniguchi
• Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada and Hajime Ohara vs. HAYATA, Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu
• Elimination: Akitoshi Saito, Daiki Inaba, Kaito Kiyomiya and Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Kenoh, Kotaro Suzuki, Masa Kitamiya and Takashi Sugiura

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