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AJPW Champions Night 3 - 3/21/2022; NOAH Great Voyage 2022 in Fukuoka - 3/21/2022; New Japan Cup 2022 Night 13 - 3/21/2022; Dragon Gate, STARDOM Results

All Japan Pro Wrestling

Champions Night 3 took place yesterday, and you can see it on AJPW.tv. Despite being called Champions Night, only two title matches were on the card. Jake Lee made his return to the ring following his facial injury in January too.

Champions Night 3 - 3/21/2022, Tokyo Ota Ward Gymnasium (AJPW.tv)

Hiroshi Yamao, Andy Wu & Seigo Tachibana d. Ryo INoue, SUGI & Takato Nakano (Yamato > Inoue, Fisherman’s Suplex Hold, 9:39)

Yoshitatsu, Raimu Imai & Carbell Ito d. Izanagi, Shigehiro Irie & SUSHI (Yoshitatsu > SUSHI, Yoshitatsu Rhapsody, 10:23)

Dan Tamura [Evolution] & Abdullah Kobayashi [BJW] d. Takao Omori & Black Menso-re (Kobayashi > Menso-re, Diving Bakachinger Elbow Drop, 11:31)

Last Man Standing: Shotaro Ashino [Evolution] d. Ryuki Honda [TOTAL ECLIPSE] (KO, 12:31)

Tatsumi Fujinami, Mitsuya Nagai & LEONA [Dradition] d. Yuma Aoyagi, Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising HAYATO [NEXTREAM] (Fujinami > Atsuki, Dragon Sleeper, 12:16)

World Juniorheavyweight Championship: Hikaru Sato [Evolution] © d. Hokuto Omori [TOTAL ECLIPSE] (Backdrop Hold, 16:39) - Sato succeeds his 1st defense

Jake Lee Return Match - Voodoo Murders v. TOTAL ECLIPSE Special 10-Man Match: Suwama, TARU, Shuji Kondo, KONO & Toshizo [Voodoo Murders] NC Jake Lee, TAJIRI, Koji Doi, Kuma Arashi & Yusuke Kodama [TOTAL ECLIPSE] (12:51)

Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship: Kento Miyahara [NEXTREAM] © d. Shuji Ishikawa (Shutdown Suplex, 32:28) - Miyahara succeeds his 2nd defense

Kento Miyahara remains the Ace Of Our Hearts. We won’t know his next challenger until Champion Carnival 2022 takes place next month. Cards for those shows are starting to get announced. I’ll be posting them in an Upcoming Events post soon.

Jake Lee’s return match was a match of heel stables past and present in AJPW, with the return of Voodoo Murders, and it went about as expected, ending in a no-contest. No belts changed hands on this night. Ashino v. Honda was a Last Man Standing match, which I don’t think they announced beforehand. Oh well. Tatsumi Fujinami, his son LEONA and Mitsuya Nagai dropped by from Dradition.

The next 2022 Dream Power Series event is on Sunday from Saitama. Two title matches are on that show too, but in the undercard.

Pro Wrestling NOAH

Yesterday also had NOAH’s Great Voyage In Fukuoka, which you can see now on both ABEMA and Wrestle Universe. I think. Several title matches took place here as well.

Great Voyage 2022 in Fukuoka - 3/21/2022, Fukuoka International Center (ABEMA)

Masa Kitamiya, Yoshiki Inamura & Kinya Okada d. King Tany, Muhammad Yone & Akitoshi Saito [Funky Express] (Kitamiya > Tany, Saito Suplex, 10:59)

Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Nio [Kongo] d. Hao, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura (Tadasuke > Fujimura, Jidanda Lariat, 13:07)

Naomichi Marufuji [M’s Alliance] d. Yasutaka Yano (Headlock, 11:01)

HAYATA & Yoshinari Ogawa [STINGER] d. Eita & Super Crazy [Perros del Mal de Japon] (HAYATA > Eita, DQ, 9:54)

Kaito Kiyomiya & Daiki Inaba d. Daisuke Harada & Junta Miyawaki (Kiyomiya > Miyawaki, Stretch Plum, 17:33)

Go Shiozaki d. Masaaki Mochizuki [M’s Alliance] (Strongarm Lariat, 16:49)

GHC Juniorheavyweight Tag Team Championship: Atsushi Kotoge & YO-HEY © d. NOSAWA Rongai & Kotaro Suzuki [Perros del Mal de Japon] (YO-HEY > Rongai, Dropkick, 23:06) - Kotoge/YO-HEY succeed their 1st defense

Takashi Sugiura, Hideki Suzuki, Kazushi Sakuraba & Kendo Kashin [Sugiura-gun] d. Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Masakatsu Funaki & Manabu Soya [Kongo] (Suzuki > Soya, European Clutch, 18:22)

GHC Heavyweight Championship: Kazuyuki Fujita [Sugiura-gun] © d. Masato Tanaka [M’s Alliance] (Powerbomb, 31:28) - Fujita succeeds his 1st defense

NOAH going the complete opposite direction of AJPW, trending much older in their champions. Kazuyuki Fujita blows, I hate him, I wish he’d go away. Hideki Suzuki gets a win over Kongo on the way to his GHC National title challenge against Masakatsu Funaki on Thursday. YO-HEY gets a direct win over the man who kicked him out of Perros del Mal de Japon. Go Shiozaki gets a singles win against the veteran Mochizuki, on the way to his singles match against Katsuhiko Nakajima tomorrow. It’s always good to see Funky Express, yeah?

Tomorrow’s Korakuen Hall show is on ABEMA, Thursday’s is on Wrestle Universe.

Just Fine! 2022 - 3/23/2022, Tokyo Korakuen Hall (ABEMA)

Tadasuke [Kongo] v. Kai Fujimura

King Tany & Muhammad Yone [Funky Express] v. Masaaki Mochizuki [M’s Alliance] & Kinya Okada

Daisuke Harada, Alejandro & Junta Miyawaki v. NOSAWA Rongai, Kotaro Suzuki & Super Crazy [Perros del Mal de Japon]

Kaito Kiyomiya & HAYATA [STINGER] v. Yoshinari Ogawa [STINGER] & Yasutaka Yano

Takashi Sugiura [Sugiura-gun], Hideki Suzuki [Sugiura-gun] & Masato Tanaka [M’s Alliance] v. Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Yoshiki Inamura

Eita [Perros del Mal de Japon] v. YO-HEY

Naomichi Marufuji [M’s Alliance], Atsushi Kotoge & Hao v. Manabu Soya, Hajime Ohara & Nio [Kongo]

Katsuhiko Nakajima [Kongo] v. Go Shiozaki

- 3/24/2022, Tokyo Korakuen Hall (Wrestle Universe)

Masaaki Mochizuki [M’s Alliance], King Tany [Funky Express], Kinya Okada & Yasutaka Yano v. Masa Kitamiya, Muhammad Yone [Funky Express], Yoshiki Inamura & Junta Miyawaki

Alejandro v. Super Crazy [Perros del Mal de Japon]

Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY & Hao v. Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Nio [Kongo]

Masato Tanaka [M’s Alliance] v. Daisuke Harada

NOSAWA Rongai, Eita & Kotaro Suzuki [Perros del Mal de Japon] v. HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa & Yuya Susumu [STINGER]

Naomichi Marufuji [M’s Alliance] v. Daiki Inaba

Takashi Sugiura [Sugiura-gun], Go Shiozaki & Kaito Kiyomiya v. Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya [Kongo]

GHC National Championship: Masakatsu Funaki [Kongo] (c) v. Hideki Suzuki [Sugiura-gun]

New Japan Pro Wrestling

The semifinals for this year’s New Japan Cup are set, and they are good ones. You can see yesterday’s quarterfinal matches on NJPWWorld.

- 3/21/2022, Niigata Ao-re Nagaoka

Satoshi Kojima, Tiger Mask IV & Yuto Nakashima d. Togi Makabe, Ryohei Oiwa & Kosei Fujita (Kojima > Oiwa, Koji Cutter, 7:15)

Toru Yano [CHAOS], Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS] & Hiroshi Tanahashi d. Taichi, Minoru Suzuki & DOUKI [SZKG] (Tanahashi > DOUKI, High Fly Flow, 10:27)

Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens, Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo [Bullet Club] d. Tama Tonga [GoD], Tanga Loa [GoD], Jado [GoD], Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato (ELP > Taguchi, CR II, 9:39)

SHO, EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi [Bullet Club] d. El Desperado, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & TAKA Michinoku [SZKG] (Yujiro > TAKA, Big Juice, 10:39)

Jeff Cobb, Great O-Khan & Aaron Henare [United Empire] d. Hirooki Goto [CHAOS], YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS] & Tomoaki Honma (Cobb > Honma, Tour Of The Islands, 10:45)

Kazuchika Okada & YOH [CHAOS] d. Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables] (YOH > BUSHI, Five Star Clutch, 10:08)

New Japan Cup 2022 Quarterfinal: Shingo Takagi [Los Ingobernables] d. Hiromu Takahashi [Los Ingobernables] (Last Of The Dragon, 23:43)

New Japan Cup 2022 Quarterfinal: Zack Sabre Jr. [SZKG] d. Will Ospreay [United Empire] (Selected Technical Works Vol.2, 23:04)

I’m a little miffed in a way that Hiromu didn’t get the win over his stablemate, but then again, his stablemate pretty much carried the promotion last year, and it’s about time he gets recognized for that. I’m also a little disappointed in a weird way that Ospreay didn’t go over Sabre; it’s not out of any love for Ospreay, but Shingo deserved to finally get a big win over him, after last year’s defeats, and not being able to defend the IWGP World Heavyweight title against the pretender. Seems a little backwards booking-wise. Shingo v. Sabre will be good regardless.

Hiroshi Tanahashi made the post-match save against the combined Guerrillas of Destiny / Team Six Or Nine tandem, after the Bullet Club beat them down in defeat. Post-match, Tama Tonga said he was a little annoyed that he had to be saved by Tana when before GoD were the ones delivering the beatdowns. But hey, more character and story development eh?

NJPW is off until Saturday, when the semi-finals and Finals take place at Osaka-jo Hall. If you are watching the current sumo basho in Osaka, don’t be surprised if you see Kazuchika Okada show up on one of the final days as it’s wrapping up. Okada was sighted at the Osaka basho (which always takes place in March) in 2018 and 2019, however this is the first running of this basho in Osaka since the pandemic, as March 2020 was cancelled ourright, and March 2021 was held in Ryogoku Kokugikan. Regardless, here’s the lineups for the weekend tour-ender.

Dragon Gate

The Glorious Gate 2022 tour continued this week. Today’s show was the homecoming for Dragon Dia, with a special title match main event added on Sunday for that occasion. That show was not streamed live, but will be on Dragon Gate Network soon.

Glorious Gate 2022 – Final Burst Out! K-Ness Forever Night 6 - 3/21/2022, Saitama Fureai Cube Kasukabe

Naruki Doi, Kota Minoura, Kaito Ishida & Minorita [Gold Class] d. YAMATO, Dragon Kid, Ben-K & Keisuke Okuda [HIGH-END] (Minoura > Okuda, R-301, 12:01)

Kagetora [HIGH-END] d. Ishin Iihashi (Armlock, 8:57)

Jason Lee & Ho Ho Lun d. Genki Horiguchi & Jacky “Funky” Kamei [Natural Vibes] (Lee > Kamei, Maximum Driver, 8:16)

Diamante [Z-Brats] d. Takuma Fujiwara (Vuelta Finale, 9:19)

Dragon Dia & Yuki Yoshioka [D’Courage] d. Yasushi Kanda & Strong Machine J (Yoshioka > J, Inferno, 9:35)

Kzy, Susumu Yokosuka, Big Boss Shimizu & U-T [Natural Vibes] d. KAI, HYO, SB KENTo & Shun Skywalker [Z-Brats] (U-T > HYP, Hikari no Wa, 14:28)

Glorious Gate 2022 – Final Burst Out! K-Ness Forever Night 7 - 3/22/2022, Nagano Suzaka Municipal Gym

Kota Minoura, Kaito Ishida & Minorita [Gold Class] d. Ben-K [HIGH-END], Keisuke Okuda [HIGH-END] & Ryu Fuda (Minoura > Fuda, R-301, 11:51)

Jason Lee & Ho Ho Lun d. Yasushi Kanda & Strong Machine J (Lee > J, Game Of Death, 7:08)

KAI, Diamante & Shun Skywalker [Z-Brats] d. Kzy, U-T & Jacky “Funky” Kamei [Natural Vibes] (Skywalker > Kamei, SSW, 9:18)

Susumu Yokosuka [Natural Vibes], Big Boss Shimizu [Natural Vibes], Genki Horiguchi [Natural Vibes] & Toru Owashi [DDT] d. YAMATO [HIGH-END], Dragon Kid [HIGH-END], Kagetora [HIGH-END] & Ishin Iihashi (Shimizu > Iihashi, Big Boss Press, 9:48)

Open The Twin Gate Championship: Dragon Dia & Yuki Yoshioka [D’Courage] © d. HYO & SB KENTo [Z-Brats] (Dia > HYO, Firebird Splash, 15:32) - D’Courage succeed their 3rd defense

Dia wins in his hometown, as SB KENTo makes a challenge to Dia for his Open The Brave Gate title. That match has now been set for Dead Or Alive 2022, on 5/5/2022. This also is the first match since the formation of Gold Class that has not seen Naruki Doi in the match. Not for nothing, Jason Lee & Ho Ho Lun as a tandem did pretty good on these two shows. It may not be a long lasting thing, but could be fun while it lasts?

DG take tomorrow off, and resume on Thursday in Tottori.

STARDOM

STARDOM ran their final show before this weekend’s big events at Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan. A title match, as well as a supposed final team-up took place on this one.

- 3/21/2022, Aichi Nagoya Congress Center

MIRAI [Donna del Mondo] d. Miyu Amasaki [Queen’s Quest]

Koguma & Hanan [STARS] d. Hazuki [STARS] & Momo Kohgo (Koguma > Kohgo, 8:15)

Maika, Himeka, Natsupoi & Mai Sakurai [Donna del Mondo] d. Tam Nakano, Mina Shirakawa, Unagi Sayaka & Waka Tsukiyama [Cosmic Angels] (Himeka > Tsukiyama, JP Coaster, 10:47)

Saki Kashima, Rina, Starlight Kid & Momo Watanabe [Oedo Tai] d. AZM, Utami Hayashishita, Saya Kamitani & Lady C [Queen’s Quest] (Rina > C, Hydrangea, 11:18)

Giulia & Syuri [Donna del Mondo] d. Mayu Iwatani & Saya Iida [STARS] (Giulia > Iida, Bianca, 14:15)

The one title not being defended at Ryogoku gets a spotlight here. Giulia & Syuri declared that this was the final teamup of AliKaba (Alto Livello KABALIWAN), and that they will go their separate ways as partners, as they clash in the main event on Saturday. Apparently Syuri plans to have a bodyguard in her employ soon, whomever that might be, to Ryogoku. So there may be some changes afoot for DdM.

This weekend will be the two Sumo Hall supercards, that have a ton of title matches, the return of KAIRI, and Prominence make appearances too.

STARDOM World Climax 2022 The Best - 3/26/2022, Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan

Saya Iida [STARS] v. MIRAI [Donna del Mondo]

6-Woman Tag Gauntlet Match: Himeka, Natsupoi & Mai Sakurai [Donna del Mondo] v. Mina Shirakawa, Waka Tsuiyama & Momo Kohgo [Cosmic Angels] v. Saki Kashima, Fukigen Death & Ruaka [Oedo Tai] v. AZM, Lady C & X [Queen’s Quest]

Maika & Thekla [Donna del Mondo] v. Risa Sera & Suzu Suzuki [Prominence]

Pirate Princess STARDOM Revival: Mayu Iwatani [STARS] & KAIRI v. Tam Nakano & Unagi Sayaka [Cosmic Angels]

STARDOM World Climax 2022 The Top - 3/27/2022, Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan

Cinderella Rumble: 20+ wrestlers

LOSER Kamitani/Hayashishita v. MIRAI [Donna del Mondo]

Hazuki [STARS] v. Momo Watanabe [Oedo Tai]

Pirate Princess STARDOM Revival: KAIRI v. Starlight Kid [Oedo Tai]

LOSER Syuri/Giulia, Maika, Himeka & Thekla [Donna del Mondo] v. Risa Sera, Suzu Suzuki, Akane Fujita & Mochi Miyagi [Prominence]

Other News

2AW ran a PPV event from Korakuen Hall yesterday, the main event of which saw Kengo Mashimo beat friend of the blog Shigehiro Irie for the 2AW Openweight title, the former Champion of Strongest-K back when the company was Kaientai Dojo. Mashimo is the 6th champion, ending Irie’s reign at 144 days with three successful defenses prior to yesterday.

Marvelous, Kyushu Pro, Dove, BURST, PURE-J, Team DERA, and P.P.P. ran shows the last couple of days as well.

Back Thursday, although it seems like the only shows to report will be NOAH and Dragon Gate. Which, you know, is OK.

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