By Oliver Taylor
DDT Pro-Wrestling
DDT Pro-Wrestling’s King Of DDT tournament kicked off off in the Kanda Myojin Hall today.
The full results were:
• El Lindaman def. Yukio Naya
• Toru Owashi def. Seigo Tachibana
• Danshoku Dieno def. Antonio Honda
• Kazusada Higuchi def. Mizuki Watase
• Yuki Ueno def. Nobuhiro Shimatani
• Daisuke Sasaki def. Tomomitsu Matunaga
• Shunma Katsumata def. Yukio Sakaguchi
• HARASHIMA def. Mad Paulie
• Shinya Aoki def. Yuki Iino
• Makoto Oishi def. Chris Brookes
• T-Hawk def. Kazuki Hirata
• Minoru Tanaka def. Soma Takao
• Konosuke Takeshita def. Naomi Yoshimura
• Akito def. Tetsuya Endo
The updated tournament bracket is:
Left side of the bracket
• Danshoku Dieno vs. Yuki Ueno
• Makoto Oishi vs. T-Hawk
• Daisuke Sasaki vs. Shinya Aoki
• Akito vs. Toru Owashi
Right side of the bracket
• Minoru Tanaka vs. Shunma Katsumata
• HARASHIMA vs. Kazusada Higuchi
• Konosuke Takeshita vs. El Lindaman
The full second round will take place in the Kanda Myojin Hall tomorrow, as well as the Dramatic Challenge battle royale featuring all wrestlers eliminated today.
As such, eligible to compete in the Dramatic Challenge are:
• Antonio Honda
• Chris Brookes
• Kazuki Hirata
• Mad Paulie
• Mizuki Watase
• Naomi Yoshimura
• Nobuhiro Shimatani
• Seigo Tachibana
• Soma Takao
• Tetsuya Endo
• Tomomitsu Matunaga
• Yuki Iino
• Yukio Naya
• Yukio Sakaguchi
The winner of the Dramatic Challenge will face the winner of Minoru Tanaka versus Shunma Katsumata.
The winner of the tournament will face Tetsuya Endo for the KO-D Openweight Championship at Ultimate Party 2020 on November 3 in Ota Ward General Gymnasium.
However, if Endo wins the tournament himself, he has promised he will name Kenny Omega as his next challenger.
All Japan Pro Wrestling
All Japan Pro Wrestling announced the full field for this year’s Champion Carnival today.
Participating in the tournament will be:
A block
• SUWAMA
• Zeus
• Jake Lee
• Kuma Arashi
• Jiro “Ikemen” Kuroshio
B block
• Kento Miyahara
• Shuji Ishikawa
• Yoshitatsu
• Yuma Aoyagi
• Shotaro Ashino
The rescheduled tournament will take place across six shows on the following dates:
• September 12 in Culttz Kawasaki, Kanagawa
• September 13 in Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
• September 15 in Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
• September 21 in Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
• September 26 in Odawara Arena, Kanagawa
• October 5 in Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
The full tournament schedule is:
September 12
• A block: SUWAMA vs. Kuma Arashi
• A block: Jake Lee vs. Jiro “Ikemen” Kuroshio
• B block: Kento Miyahara vs. Yoshitatsu
• B block: Shuji Ishikawa vs. Yuma Aoyagi
September 13
• A block: SUWAMA vs. Jiro “Ikemen” Kuroshio
• A block: Zeus vs. Kuma Arashi
• B block: Shuji Ishikawa vs. Yoshitatsu
• B block: Yuma Aoyagi vs. Shotaro Ashino
September 15
• A block: SUWAMA vs. Jake Lee
• A block: Zeus vs. Jiro “Ikemen” Kuroshio
• B block: Kento Miyahara vs. Shotaro Ashino
• B block: Yuma Aoyagi vs. Yoshitatsu
September 21
• A block: SUWAMA vs. Zeus
• A block: Jake Lee vs. Kuma Arashi
• B block: Kento Miyahara vs. Yuma Aoyagi
• B block: Shuji Ishikawa vs. Shotaro Ashino
September 26
• A block: Zeus vs. Jake Lee
• A block: Jiro “Ikemen” Kuroshio vs. Kuma Arashi
• B block: Kento Miyahara vs. Shuji Ishikawa
• B block: Yoshitatsu vs. Shotaro Ashino
The Champion Carnival final will take place on October 5.
Every show will air live on AJPW TV.
New Japan Pro Wrestling
The seventh Summer Struggle tour show took place today in Korakuen Hall.
The full results were:
• Taiji Ishimori def. Yuya Uemura
• Gedo and Yujiro Takahashi def. Gabriel Kidd and Yota Tsuji
• Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Zack Sabre Jr. def. Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma and Yuji Nagata
• Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Ryusuke Taguchi and Satoshi Kojima def. DOUKI, El Desperado and Minoru Suzuki
• NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships tournament first round match: Kazuchika Okada, SHO and Toru Yano def. BUSHI, SANADA and Shingo Takagi
• NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships tournament first round match: Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii and YOSHI-HASHI vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kota Ibushi and Master Wato
The G1 Climax schedule was also announced during today’s show.
The full schedule is:
• September 19 in Edion Arena Osaka, Osaka
• September 20 in Edion Arena Osaka, Osaka
• September 23 in Hokkaido General Sports Center Hokkai Kiteru, Hokkaido
• September 24 in Hokkaido General Sports Center Hokkai Kiteru, Hokkaido
• September 27 in Kobe World Memorial Hall, Hyogo
• September 29 in Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
• September 30 in Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
• October 1 in Aore Nagaoka, Niigata
• October 5 in Takamatsu City Gymnasium, Kagawa
• October 6 in Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall, Hiroshima
• October 7 in Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall, Hiroshima
• October 8 in Zip Arena Okayama, Okayama
• October 10 in in Edion Arena Osaka, Osaka
• October 11 in Aichi Gymnasium, Aichi
• October 13 in Hamamatsu Arena, Shizuoka
• October 14 in Yokohama Budokan, Kanagawa
• October 16 in Ryōgoku Kokugikan, Tokyo
• October 17 in Ryōgoku Kokugikan, Tokyo
• October 18 in Ryōgoku Kokugikan, Tokyo
The tournament takes place over 19 shows, the same as last year. As such, it would be reasonable to assume this year’s tournament will also feature 20 competitors split into two blocks.
Eight of last year’s competitors would not be able to participate in this year’s tournament due to the current travel restrictions; Bad Luck Fale, Jay White, Jeff Cobb, Jon Moxley, Juice Robinson, KENTA, Lance Archer (who also left the company earlier this year to sign with All Elite Wrestling) and Will Ospreay.
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