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DRAGON GATE KICKING OFF KOBE PRO-WRESTLING FESTIVAL TOMORROW, LUCHA STAR HEADING TO NOAH, NJPW SUMMER STRUGGLE AND MORE

By Oliver Taylor on 2021-07-30 13:12:00

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate will hold the first night of its two-day Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival event tomorrow in Kobe World Kinen Hall.

The full card is:

• K-ness, Kenichiro Arai and Yasushi Kanda vs. Konomama Ichikawa, Shachihoko Boy and Super Shisa
• BxB Hulk, H.Y.O and KAI vs. Don Fujii, Masaaki Mochizuki and Ryo Saito
• Ben-K, Gamma, Problem Dragon and Punch Tominaga vs. Funky Jacky Kamei, Takashi Yoshida, U-T and Yosuke Santa Maria
• Eita vs. Kota Minoura
• Open the Triangle Gate Championships: Dragon Dia, Jason Lee and La Estrella (c) vs. Dia Inferno, Diamante and SB KENTo
• Open the Brave Gate Championship: Keisuke Okuda (c) vs. Genki Horiguchi
• “brother” YASSHI, Masato Yoshino, Shuji Kondo, Takuya Sugawara and Toru Owashi vs. Dragon Kid, Kagetora, Naruki Doi, Ultimo Dragon and YAMATO
• Open the Twin Gate Championships: Kaito Ishida and KAZMA SAKAMOTO (c) vs. King Shimizu and Susumu Yokosuka
• Open the Dream Gate Championship: Shun Skywalker (c) vs. Kzy

Dragon Dia, Jason Lee and La Estrella will attempt their first defense of the titles against Dia Inferno, Diamante and SB KENTo. Then, the winners will defend the titles against “brother” YASSHI, Shuji Kondo and Toru Owashi on the second night of Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival on August 1.

Keisuke Okuda will attempt his sixth defense of the Open the Brave Gate Championship against Genki Horiguchi. Then, the winner will defend the title against Kagetora on the second night of Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival on August 1.

Kaito Ishida and KAZMA SAKAMOTO will attempt their first defense of the Open the Twin Gate Championships against King Shimizu and Susumu Yokosuka. Then, the winners will defend the titles against Ben-K and Dragon Kid on the second night of Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival on August 1.

In the main event, Shun Skywalker will attempt his fifth defense of the Open the Dream Gate Championship against King of Gate winner Kzy. Then, the winner will defend the title against YAMATO on the second night of Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival on August 1.

For more reading on the main event, check out Mike Spears’ article covering the subject on Voices of Wrestling here. His writing on Dragon Gate is among the best and appointment reading before any of Dragon Gate’s biggest shows.

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling held its sixth Summer Struggle tour show today in Korakuen Hall.

The full results were:

• Satoshi Kojima, Tiger Mask and Yuji Nagata def. Togi Makabe, Yota Tsuji and Yuya Uemura
• Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Master Wato and Ryusuke Taguchi def. Kazuchika Okada, SHO and YOH
• Hiroshi Tanahashi and Toru Yano def. Chase Owens and Gedo
• Hirooki Goto, Robbie Eagles, Tomohiro Ishii and YOSHI-HASHI def. DOUKI, Minoru Suzuki, Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr.
• Elimination: BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito def. El Phantasmo, EVIL, Taiji Ishimori and Yujiro Takahashi

After the fourth match, Tomohiro Ishii demanded that if Minoru Suzuki, Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr. unsuccessfully challenge himself, Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships (scheduled to take place at New Japan’s eighth Summer Struggle tour show on August 1 in Korakuen Hall), Suzuki-gun must rebrand as Taichi-gun.

New Japan will hold its seventh Summer Struggle tour show tomorrow in Korakuen Hall. The full card is:

• Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma vs. Yota Tsuji and Yuji Nagata
• Chase Owens, El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano and Yuya Uemura
• Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Master Wato and Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Kazuchika Okada, Robbie Eagles and Tiger Mask
• BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito vs. Dick Togo, EVIL, Gedo and Yujiro Takahashi
• Elimination: El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki, Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Hirooki Goto, SHO, Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI and YOH

GLEAT

GLEAT has announced three new matches for its show on August 4 in Shinjuku FACE.

Michiko Miyagi will face Momoka Hanazono, Minoru Tanaka will face Soma Watanabe, and El Lindaman and Issei Onitsuka will face Takanori Ito and Yu Iizuka

The updated card is:

• Michiko Miyagi vs. Momoka Hanazono
• Minoru Tanaka vs. Soma Watanabe
• Hayato Tamura vs. Ryuichi Kawakami
• El Lindaman and Issei Onitsuka vs. Takanori Ito and Yu Iizuka

The opening match of the show has not been announced yet.

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling has cancelled Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura’s scheduled BJW Tag Team Championships defense against Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto at its show on August 8 in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring.

The match has been cancelled because Kodaka is currently isolating. He was recently in close contact with SAGAT, who tested positive for COVID-19. The match would have been Abe and Nomura’s second defense of the titles.

Big Japan will hold two shows tomorrow in Tokyo, as well as two more shows on August 1. A tag team tournament will take place across all four shows.

The full card for tomorrow’s shows are:

Afternoon
• Masaya Takahashi vs. Yuki Ishikawa
• Yuichi Taniguchi vs. Yuya Aoki
• Tournament: Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu vs. Hideyoshi Kamitani and Masaki Morihiro
• Tournament: Abdullah Kobayashi and Jaki Numazawa vs. Akira Hyodo and Kankuro Hoshino
• Kosuke Sato vs. Takuya Nomura

Evening
• Abdullah Kobayashi and Jaki Numazawa vs. Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu
• Hideyoshi Kamitani vs. Masaki Morihiro
• Tournament: Takuya Nomura and Yuichi Taniguchi vs. Yuki Ishikawa vs. Yuko Miyamoto
• Tournament: Kosuke Sato and Yasufumi Nakanoue vs. Ryuji Ito and Yuya Aoki
• Akira Hyodo vs. Kankuro Hoshino

Pro Wrestling NOAH

Luchador El Hijo del Alebrije will soon travel to Japan to compete for Pro Wrestling NOAH, he announced at International Wrestling Revolution Group’s show last night.

IWRG and NOAH announced a working relationship in September 2019, although the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic halted any planned talent exchanges that might have been planned. However, luchadors Dragon Bane and El Hijo de Canis Lupus were able to briefly wrestle in NOAH at the end of 2019 and start of 2020.

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