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Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling held a show today in Niigata.

The full results were:

• Abdullah Kobayashi and Jaki Numazawa def. Kazumasa Yoshida and Yuichi Taniguchi
• Kota Sekifuda and Ryuji Ito def. Kazuki Hashimoto and Kosuke Sato
• Yuji Okabayashi def. Yuya Aoki
• Daisuke Sekimoto and Yasufumi Nakanoue def. Kazumi Kikuta and Takuya Nomura
• Akira Hyodo and Kankuro Hoshino def. Drew Parker and Yuki Ishikawa
• BJW Tag Team Championships: Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani (c) def. Hiroyuki Suzuki and Takuho Kato

Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani made their third successful defense of the BJW Tag Team Championships against Hiroyuki Suzuki and Takuho Kato in the main event.

Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS

Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS held a show today in Yokohama Radiant Hall.

The full results were:

• Shuichiro Katsumura and Yuya Susumu def. GENTARO and Rekka
• Kengo and Rina Yamashita def. Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu
• Mammoth Sasaki, Takahiro Katori and Tatsuhito Takaiwa def. Masashi Takeda, Takayuki Ueki and Toshiyuki Sakuda
• Hardcore: Jun Kasai, Kamui and Kenji Fukimoto def. Daisuke Masaoka, Dragon Libre and Toru Sugiura
• Takashi Sasaki and Tomoya Hirata def. Orca Uto and Violento Jack

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling will hold its fifth G1 Climax 31 show tomorrow in Kobe World Kinen Hall.

The full card is:

• Kosei Fujita vs. Master Wato
• Shingo Takagi vs. Yuji Nagata
• A block: Great-O-Khan vs. Yujiro Takahashi
• A block: Tanga Loa vs. Toru Yano
• A block: KENTA vs. Tomohiro Ishii
• A block: Kota Ibushi vs. Zack Sabre Jr.

Going into the show, the current A block standings are:

1. Great-O-Khan (3-0 record): 6 points
2. Zack Sabre Jr. (2-0 record): 4 points
3. KENTA (2-1 record): 4 points
-. Kota Ibushi (2-1 record): 4 points
-. Shingo Takagi (2-1 record): 4 points
-. Toru Yano (2-1 record): 4 points
-. Yujiro Takahashi (2-1 record): 4 points
8. Tanga Loa (1-1 record): 2 points
9. Tomohiro Ishii (1-2 record): 2 points
10. Tetsuya Naito (0-9 record): 0 points

New Japan will hold the second night of its two-day STRONG taping tomorrow in the Curtis Culwell Center in Fort Worth, Texas. The full card is:

• Texas Bullrope: Hikuleo vs. Juice Robinson
• Chris Bey and El Phantasmo vs. Chris Dickinson and Robbie Eagles
• TJP vs. Yuya Uemura
• Clark Connors and Karl Fredericks vs. Will Ospreay and ‘X’
• Daniel Garcia vs. Jay White
• Lio Rush vs. Taiji Ishimori
• “Filthy” Tom Lawlor and Royce Isaacs vs. Lance Archer and Minoru Suzuki

Pro Wrestling NOAH

Pro Wrestling NOAH will hold a show tomorrow in Korakuen Hall.

The full card is:

• D block: Akitoshi Saito vs. Masa Kitamiya
• A block: Manabu Soya vs. Takashi Sugiura
• B block: Daiki Inaba vs. Kendo Kashin
• C block: Kotaro Suzuki vs. Masato Tanaka
• C block: Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Kazushi Sakuraba
• B block: Kenoh vs. Masaaki Mochizuki
• D block: Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Masakatsu Funaki
• A block: Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Keiji Mutoh

Going into the show, the current N-1 Victory standings are:

A block
1. Kaito Kiyomiya (2-0 record): 4 points
2. Keiji Mutoh (1-0-1 record): 3 points
3. Takashi Sugiura (0-1-1 record): 1 point
4. Manabu Soya (0-2 record): 0 points

B block
1. Masaaki Mochizuki (2-0 record): 4 points
2. Kendo Kashin (1-1 record): 2 points
3. Kenoh (1-1 record): 2 points
4. Daiki Inaba (0-2 record): 0 points

C block
1. Kazushi Sakuraba (1-0-1 record): 3 points
2. Masato Tanaka (1-0-1 record): 3 points
3. Katsuhiko Nakajima (1-1 record): 2 points
4. Kotaro Suzuki (0-2 record): 0 points

D block
1. Kazuyuki Fujita (2-0 record): 4 points
-. Masakatsu Funaki (2-0 record): 4 points
3. Akitoshi Saito (0-2 record): 0 points
-. Masa Kitamiya (0-2 record): 0 points

If Kaito Kiyomiya defeats or draws with Keiji Mutoh, he will win A block with six or five points and an undefeated 3-0 or 2-0-1 record. However, if Mutoh defeats Kiyomiya then he will win A block with five points.

If Masaaki Mochizuki defeats or draws with Kenoh, he will win B block with six or five points and an undefeated 3-0 or 2-0-1 record.

If Kenoh defeats Mochizuki and Kendo Kashin defeats Daiki Inaba, there will be a three-way tie at the top of B block as Kashin defeated Kenoh but lost to Mochizuki, Kenoh lost to Kashin but defeated Mochizuki and Mochizuki defeated Kashin but lost to Kenoh.

If Kenoh defeats Mochizuki and Kashin draws with or loses to Inaba, Kenoh will win B block with four points as he would have the head-to-head tiebreaker against Mochizuki.

If Kazushi Sakuraba defeats Katsuhiko Nakajima and Masato Tanaka defeats Kotaro Suzuki, Sakuraba and Tanaka will finish tied at the top of C block with five points.

If Sakuraba defeats Nakajima and Tanaka draws with Suzuki or Sakuraba draws with Nakajima and Tanaka loses to Suzuki, Sakuraba will win C block with one more point than Tanaka. Obviously, the same situation applies with Sakuraba and Tanaka’s results reversed to allow Tanaka to win C block with one more point than Sakuraba.

If Nakajima defeats Sakuraba and Tanaka loses to Suzuki, Nakajima will win C block with four points. However, if Nakajima defeats Sakuraba and Tanaka draws with Suzuki then Tanaka will win C block as Tanaka has the head-to-head tiebreaker against Nakajima.

The winner of Kazuyuki Fujita versus Masakatsu Funaki will win D block. If the match ends in a draw, Fujita and Funaki will finish tied at the top of D block with five points.

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling will hold a show tomorrow in Korakuen Hall.

The full card is:

• Yuki Ishida vs. Yuya Koroku
• Mizuki Watase and Shinya Aoki vs. Sanshiro Takagi and Yumiko Hotta
• Hideki Okatani and Yusuke Okada vs. Yuki Iino and Yumehito Imanari
• Akito, Daisuke Sekimoto, Kazusada Higuchi and Yukio Naya vs. Keigo Nakamura, MAO, Shunma Katsumata and Yuki Ueno
• Antonio Honda, Naomi Yoshimura and Saki Akai vs. Danshoku Dieno, Masahiro Takanashi and Toru Owashi
• HARASHIMA and Kazuki Hirata vs. Jun Akiyama and Yoshihiko
• Daisuke Sasaki, Mad Paulie and Tetsuya Endo vs. Mad Paulie, Nobuhiro Shimatani and Shuji Ishikawa
• KO-D Openweight Championship: Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Chris Brookes

Konosuke Takeshita will attempt his first defense of the KO-D Openweight Championship against Chris Brookes in the main event.

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