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WWE Live at Joe Louis Arena
Chris Jericho pinned Kevin Owens
Zack Ryder, Curtis Axel, & Damien Sandow defeated Los Matadores & Bo Dallas
Sheamus pinned Fandango
Neville pinned Stardust
Tag Team champions Titus O’Neal & Darren Young defeated Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods
Paige & Charlotte defeated Brie Bella & Alicia Fox
Cesaro pinned Rusev
Heavyweight champion Seth Rollins pinned Dean Ambrose in a street fight match.
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By James Girouard
8/15 WWE house show report from Sioux Falls, SD (Denny Sanford Premier Center)
R-Truth vs. King Barrett
Both guys got decent reactions coming out. Truth won clean with lie detector in a match that was mostly comedy.
Sasha (w/Naomi & Tamina Snuka) vs. Bayley
Crowd didn’t really know who Bayley was, but a light NXT chant did break out at one point. Work was fine, but nowhere near the level of an NXT women’s match. Naomi and Tamina interfered liberally throughout the match and Sasha ended up winning by reversing a rollup and holding the tights.
Bray Wyatt did a taped promo on the jumbotron. Got mostly booed with a few light cheers. Didn’t say anything of note.
Jack Swagger vs. Adam Rose
Swagger got a shockingly huge reaction for someone who’s rarely on TV. Crowd didn’t care about Rose at all. I know this will come as a shock, but Jack Swagger is a very good worker and this was a solid match. Swagger won clean with the ankle lock.
Ryback vs. Big Show vs. The Miz for the Intercontinental Title
Miz got the biggest heel reaction of the show to this point. Show got cheered initially, but worked the match as a heel. Ryback was cheered and got some “Feed Me More” chants, but it wasn’t an overwhelming reaction. Match was mostly built around Show and Ryback working power spots and Miz running in to break up pins. Ryback ended up spearing Big Show and hitting shellshock on the Miz to retain. Match was just ok.
Roman Reigns got a big babyface pop while the ring announcer was shilling merchandise.
Jimmy Uso vs. Heath Slater
This was the first match after intermission and neither got much reaction. Slater worked hard as a heel to get the fans into it, but it really was nothing special. Jimmy ended up winning after a superkick.
Lucha Dragons vs. The Ascension
Fans were into chanting “Lucha”, but did not care at all about the Ascension. Match went nearly 15 minutes and was mostly Konnor and Viktor beating on Sin Cara and it wasn’t particularly good. Things picked up when Kalisto got the hot tag and he ran through his offense. Sin Cara ended up getting the pin with a swanton after Kalisto hit Viktor with the Salida del Sol.
Roman Reigns vs. Bray Wyatt in a streetfight
Wyatt got a mixed reaction, while Reigns was about 98 percent cheered. Match was typical WWE streetfight fare – there was brawling outside the ring, numerous weapons shots and each guy got put through a table for a nearfall. Finish came when Luke Harper interfered but Reigns was able to fight him off, run Wyatt into a chair and then spear him for the pin. Good match, easily the best thing on the show.
Biggest face pops: Reigns, Swagger, Lucha Dragons
Biggest heel heat: The Miz, Wyatt, Barrett
By Travis Lee Kriens
1. R Truth over Wade Barrett
2. Sasha Banks over Bayley
3. Jack Swagger over Adam Rose
4. Ryback pins Miz, Big Show also in the triple threat. Miz spent the first half of the match outside.
Intermission
5. Jimmy Uso over Heath Slater
6. Lucha Dragons over the Ascension. Second best match.
7. Roman Reigns over Bray Wyatt in a street fight. Both went through tables. Luke Harper ran in for the finish with his music playing. Crowd wanted Ambrose. He wasn’t there. Best match of the night. Went 25 minutes. Two this is awesome chants.
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The last day of NJPW’s 25th annual G1 Climax airs live on NJPW World at 2:00 a.m. ET from Ryogoku Sumo Hall in Tokyo, Japan:
It opened with Delirious doing an interview in English. He put over that ROH has the best wrestling in the U.S. and New Japan has the best wrestling in Japan and together they present the best wrestling in the world. He announced that in 2016 that ROH would be promoting shows in Japan. It got a polite response and some “ROH” chants. It sounded like something similar to Fantastica Mania.
JUSHIN LIGER & YOHEI KOMATSU & SHO TANAKA VS. RYUSUKE TAGUCHI & MASCARA DORADA & DAVID FINLAY
Fast paced opener but they were limited on time. Everything was crisp but Tanaka & Komatsu had a better chance to show their stuff on Sunday’s show. Taguchi pinned Komatsu after imitating Nakamura and then doing a near bom a ye hip attack combination after Dorada and Finlay took out Liger and Tanaka with dives.
HIROYOSHI TENZAN & SATOSHI KOJIMA & CAPTAIN NEW JAPAN VS. YUJI NAGATA & MANABU NAKANISHI & JAY WHITE
Decent match. Kojima, Nagata and White were all good but it was a quick in and out match with mostly crisp work and guys doing their signature spots. The finish saw Tenzan & Kojima hit the 3-D on White and Tenzan used the Anaconda vise for the subission. Fans booed Captain.
YOSHI-HASHI VS. MICHAEL ELGIN
Crowd was very into this one. Elgin was a big hit on all the Tokyo shows. The match was what you’d expect but the crowd was into it a lot more than a match of this type. Yoshi-Hashi got some offense in, good near falls, before missing a swanton. Elgin came back with a spinning chop, a spinning elbow, a power bomb into the buckles and a spinning Elgin bomb.
TORU YANO & TOMOHIRO ISHII & KAZUSHI SAKURABA VS. BAD LUCK FALE & YUJIRO TAKAHASHI & TAMA TONGA
Yujiro came out with Peter, a hot female dancer in a catwoman costume. Not much to this match. The big thing was Yano giving Yujiro a low blow and and Peter checked it out and gave an “X” sign. Finish was the double low blow on Yujiro and Fale by Yano, and then Ishii pinned Yujiro afer a brainbuster. Tonga looked good, the rest were just there.’
TOMOAKI HONMA & TETSUYA NAITO & TOGI MAKABE VS. HIROOKI GOTO & KATSUYORI SHIBATA & KOTA IBUSHI
Fun match, ending with Ibushi pinning Honma clean with the Phoenix splash. Lots of heat for Shibata vs. Naito and everything involving Honma. Toned down given the talent involved.
During intermission they announced that Wrestle Kingdom 10 would take place on 1/4 at the Tokyo Dome. Nobody was exactly surprised. However, the next thing was a surprise as Genichiro Tenryu came out and started arguing with Gedo. Gedo brought up Kazuchika Okada’s name and Okada came out. Okada told Tenryu that he should be happy that he wasn’t around when Tenryu was in his prime. Seemed to set up Okada vs. Tenryu as the main event for Tenryu’s retirement show in November.
YOUNG BUCKS VS. BOBBY FISH & KYLE O’REILLY FOR IWGP JR. TAG TITLES
Fish & O’Reilly regained the title with Chasing the dragon first on Matt on the floor and then on Nick in the ring and Fish pinning him. A ton of moves and well timed. Crowd wasn’t that into it early on but they did get the crowd as the match went on. Cody Hall interfered a lot including at once point carrying O’Reilly to the back and Fish had to work several minutes on his own until O’Reilly came back. Lots of fast creative spots back and forth.
KUSHIDA VS. RICOCHET FOR IWGP JR. TITLE
Excellent match ending with Kushida using the hoverboard lock, or Kimura, on Ricochet after Ricochet had missed the 630. Both congrataulated each other after and hugged. Ricochet seemed to be asking for one more match. This wasn’t out of his world athletic like Ricochet vs. Ibushi last year. Not a lot of mind blowing moves, with the highlights being Ricochet doing this incredible running flip over the post dive and Kushida, on the top rope did a flip dive on the post and landed badly on the floor like he’d been power bombed on the floor.
KAZUCHIKA OKADA & MICHAEL BENNETT & MATT TAVEN VS. A.J. STYLES & KARL ANDERSON & DOC GALLOWS
Good fast paced match with a surprise finish as Styles pinned Okada after the Styles clash. This pretty much locks that Okada vs. Styles will be on a fall PPV for the IWGP title likely in either September or October. All the stuff with Okada and Styles was excellent, but it was really Anderson and Taven that were in much of the time. Maria did one spot where she tried to seduce Anderson. Styles tried to calm him down until Anderson basically told him to look at her and Styles stared dancing and was all mesmerized. Gallows yelled at both and wanted to punch her but they both stopped him, and then all three turned around into kicks.
The first G-1 champion Mr. August, Masahiro Chono came out to help announce the main event. Keiji Muto, who lost to Chono in the first G-1, also came out. Muto got a huge reaction and Chono got a good reaction. They are playing their stuff over the house mic before the match starts.
HIROSHI TANAHASHI VS. SHINSUKE NAKAMURA FOR THE G-1 FINALS
All I can say is the main event was unbelievable. They went more than 32:00 and it ended with them both on the ropes throwing elbows and slaps and then Tanahashi with Nakamura on the middle rope with his back to the ring, hit a crossbody and they crashed to the ground. Tanahashi then followed with a high fly flow to the back and a regular high fly flow and got the pin. They shook hands when it was over. Chono then handed Tanahashi the G-1 flag to wave. Both kicked out of the others’ finishers and this was basically the pull all stops out match after the great main events each man had the last two nights. So it looks like another Okada vs. Tanahashi Tokyo Dome main event.
From Joe Louis Arena:
– Chris Jericho pinned Kevin Owens
– Zack Ryder, Curtis Axel, & Damien Sandow defeated Los Matadores & Bo Dallas
– Sheamus pinned Fandango
– Neville pinned Stardust
– WWE Tag Team champions Titus O’Neal & Darren Young defeated Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods
– Paige & Charlotte defeated Brie Bella & Alicia Fox
– Cesaro pinned Rusev
– WWE Champion Seth Rollins pinned Dean Ambrose in a street fight match.
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From Sioux Falls, SD (Denny Sanford Premier Center)
R-Truth vs. King Barrett
Both guys got decent reactions coming out. Truth won clean with lie detector in a match that was mostly comedy.
Sasha (w/Naomi & Tamina Snuka) vs. Bayley
Crowd didn’t really know who Bayley was, but a light NXT chant did break out at one point. Work was fine, but nowhere near the level of an NXT women’s match. Naomi and Tamina interfered liberally throughout the match and Sasha ended up winning by reversing a rollup and holding the tights.
Bray Wyatt did a taped promo on the jumbotron. Got mostly booed with a few light cheers. Didn’t say anything of note.
Jack Swagger vs. Adam Rose
Swagger got a shockingly huge reaction for someone who’s rarely on TV. Crowd didn’t care about Rose at all. I know this will come as a shock, but Jack Swagger is a very good worker and this was a solid match. Swagger won clean with the ankle lock.
Ryback vs. Big Show vs. The Miz for the Intercontinental Title
Miz got the biggest heel reaction of the show to this point. Show got cheered initially, but worked the match as a heel. Ryback was cheered and got some “Feed Me More” chants, but it wasn’t an overwhelming reaction. Match was mostly built around Show and Ryback working power spots and Miz running in to break up pins. Ryback ended up spearing Big Show and hitting shellshock on the Miz to retain. Match was just ok.
Roman Reigns got a big babyface pop while the ring announcer was shilling merchandise.
Jimmy Uso vs. Heath Slater
This was the first match after intermission and neither got much reaction. Slater worked hard as a heel to get the fans into it, but it really was nothing special. Jimmy ended up winning after a superkick.
Lucha Dragons vs. The Ascension
Fans were into chanting “Lucha”, but did not care at all about the Ascension. Match went nearly 15 minutes and was mostly Konnor and Viktor beating on Sin Cara and it wasn’t particularly good. Things picked up when Kalisto got the hot tag and he ran through his offense. Sin Cara ended up getting the pin with a swanton after Kalisto hit Viktor with the Salida del Sol.
Roman Reigns vs. Bray Wyatt in a street fight
Wyatt got a mixed reaction, while Reigns was about 98 percent cheered. Match was typical WWE streetfight fare – there was brawling outside the ring, numerous weapons shots and each guy got put through a table for a nearfall. Finish came when Luke Harper interfered but Reigns was able to fight him off, run Wyatt into a chair and then spear him for the pin. Good match, easily the best thing on the show.
Biggest face pops: Reigns, Swagger, Lucha Dragons
Biggest heel heat: The Miz, Wyatt, Barrett
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Tonight:
The last day of NJPW’s 25th annual G1 Climax airs live on NJPW World at 2:00 a.m. from Ryogoku Sumo Hall in Tokyo, Japan:
Jushin Liger & Yohei Komatsu & Sho Tanaka vs. Ryusuke Taguchi & Mascara Dorada & David Finlay
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima & Captain New Japan vs. Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi & Jay White
Yoshi-Hashi vs. Michael Elgin
Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii & Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi & Tama Tonga
Tomoaki Honma & Tetsuya Naito & Togi Makabe vs. Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata & Kota Ibushi
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: The Young Bucks (c) vs. reDRagon
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Kushida (c) vs. Ricochet
Kazuchika Okada & Michael Bennett & Matt Taven vs. A.J. Styles & Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura for the G-1 Climax and a shot at the IWGP Heavyweight Championship at Wrestle Kingdom.
Evolve has an iPPV tonight at 6:00 p.m. ET live on WWNLive.com from La Boom in Woodside, NY:
Timothy Thatcher vs. Zack Sabre Jr. for the Evolve title
Johnny Gargano vs. Ethan Page
Rich Swann vs. Drew Gulak
Chris Hero vs. Mike Bailey
Trent Baretta vs. Rey Hours
Biff Busick vs. Tracy Williams
WWE has three shows tonight: Sioux Falls, SD (Roman Reigns vs. Bray Wyatt), Detroit, Michigan (Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose for WWE title, Kevin Owens vs. Cesaro plus Chris Jericho), and Coral Springs, FL (NXT).
Evolve has an iPPV tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET live on WWNLive.com from the Sportatorium in Deer Park, NY:
Timothy Thatcher vs. Biff Busick
Chris Hero vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
Trent Baretta vs. Caleb Konley
Johnny Gargano vs. TBA
Ethan Page vs. Rich Swann
Drew Gulak & Tracy Williams vs. Mike Bailey & Rey Hours
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1988 Hisashi Shinma back in New Japan
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Giant Baba Brody memorial show 8/29
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2000 Pride 8/27 card review -Kazushi Sakuraba beats Renzo Gracie
Pro wrestling Olympians
ECW puts on 2 of best shows in company history at Hammerstein Ballroom
Andy Hug passes away
Fox News runs feature on backyard wrestling
Fishman loses mask to La Parka
Aug 27 (18) Summerslam 8/19 card coverage-Edge wins IC, Rock wins WCW title
2001 New Japan’s Kazuyuki Fujita loses in 0:49 to Mirco Cro Cop in shoot
Brian Johnston suffers stroke
G-1 Climax an example of what New Japan does right
Reviews of “Faded Glory” & “No Holds Barred: Evolution”
Appears WWF will not air PPV on DirecTV
Savio Vega announces retirement
WOW magazine in grave danger
Sept 2 (18) Hall of Fame issue-Kobashi, Toyota & McDaniel voted in
2002 Summerslam 8/28 card coverage-Brock Lesnar becomes youngest champ,
Shawn Michaels the show stealer again, RVD wins IC title
WWE finance review
Tiger Ali Singh files lawsuit vs WWE
Jacques Rougeau 8/24 card will feature the return of Bret Hart to Montreal
by Brian Hoops
1940 – In Kansas City, Kansas; Orville Brown beat Bobby Bruns in 2 of 3 falls, Don McIntyre beat Andy Mexiner and Jack Hader beat Leo Jensen
1942 – Steve Casey defeated the French Angel for the AWA (Boston
version) World Heavyweight Title in Boston, Massachusetts.
1961 – In Minneapolis, Minnesota; AWA Champion Verne Gagne beat Hard Boiled Haggerty dq, AWA US Champion Gene Kiniski beat Roy McClarty, Mr. M (Big Bill Miller) beat Bob Rassmussen and Dale Lewis beat Tiny Mills
1970 – Bobby Shane defeated Nick Bockwinkel to win the Georgia TV Title
in Atlanta, Georgia.
1972 – In Tampa, Florida at the Fort Homer Hesterly Armory; Eddie Graham beat Redbeard, Mr Wrestling Tim Woods beat Paul Jones, Bob Orton & Hiro Matsuda beat Nick Bockwinkel & Ray Stevens to win Florida Tag Titles and Bob Orton beat Bob Roop
1974 – In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;AWA Champion Verne Gagne beat Nick Bockwinkel, The Crusher & Ivan Putski beat Baron Von Raschke & Superstar Billy Graham in 2 of 3 falls; Larry Hennig no contest Geoff Portz, Ray Stevens beat Billy Robinson and Jim Brunzell & Bull Bullinski beat Big K & Buddy Wolff
1979 – In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Stan Hansen & Bobby Duncum beat Verne Gagne & Mad Dog Vachon to win AWA Tag Team Titles (title change not acknowledged in United States), Greg Gagne dcor AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel, Paul Ellering beat Jesse Ventura, Super Destroyer Mark II beat Billy Robinson, Steve Olsonoski beat Ron Ritchie and Buddy Wolff beat Peter Sandor Szabo Attendance was 5,000
1981 – In Rockford, Illinois; AWA Tag Team Champions Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell beat Adrian Adonis & Jesse Ventura, Tito Santana beat Sheik Adnan dq, In a Handicap Match; Hulk Hogan beat Eddie Boulder & Chris Curtis & Tony Leone, Brad Rheingans beat Ben DeLeon and George Gadaski beat Nacho Barrera
1981 – Wahoo McDaniel and Terry Funk defeated Tully Blanchard and Gino
Hernandez for the Southwest Tag Team Title in San Antonio, Texas.
1988 – Memphis, TN at Mid South Coliseum; In a 90 minute time limit, AWA Champion Jerry Lawler beat Kerry Von Erich,
RPMs beat Scott Steiner & Billy Travis to win Southern tag title, Jeff Jarrett & Bill Dundee beat Jimmy Golden & Mongolian Stomper,
Brickhouse Brown beat Gary Young dq, CWA Champion Phil Hickerson beat Ray Odyssey and
World Class Light Heavyweight Champion Eric Embry beat Shawn Baxter
1994 – Dante & The Great Mephisto defeated PG-13 for the USWA Tag Team
Title in Memphis, Tennessee.
1995 – Keiji Mutoh defeated Shinya Hashimoto to win New Japan Pro
Wrestling’s 5th Annual G1-Climax Tournament.
2004 – Randy Orton defeated Chris Benoit to win the Raw World Title at SummerSlam in
Toronto, Canada. Also, Edge defeated Chris Jericho and Batista to retain the Intercontinental Title.
2010 – At SummerSlam, Melina defeated Alicia Fox to win the Divas Title.
by Randy Perkins
– Singles match: PJ Black (Justin Gabriel) beat Sonjay Dutt.
– Six-man tag team match: Vordell Walker, Peter Kassa and Brad Attitude beat Cliff Compton, Jason Kincaid and Ali Akbar.
– Singles match: Tessa Blanchard beat Lei’D Tapa. Post-match, Tapa beat down Blanchard.
– Jeff Jarrett walked down to the ring to thank the fans for coming out. Jarrett plugged his appearance at WrestleCade this November in Winston-Salem. Matt Hardy appeared on the big screen to challenge to Jarrett for the main event of WrestleCade. Jarrett accepted.
– Tag team match: The Bravado Brothers beat The Washington Bullets
– OMEGA Heavyweight Championship match: Trevor Lee © beat Andrew Everett.
– Jeff Hardy walked down to the ring and praised both Lee and Everett in a promo.
– Singles match: Nick Aldis (Magnus) beat Lance Hoyt.
This is tonight’s lineup for the G-1 Climax finals at Sumo Hall in Tokyo. The show begins at 2 a.m. Eastern time and 11 p.m. Pacific time on New Japan World:
Jushin Liger & Yohei Komatsu & Sho Tanaka vs. Ryusuke Taguchi & Mascara Dorada & David Finlay
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima & Captain New Japan vs. Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi & Jay White
Yoshi-Hashi vs. Michael Elgin
Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii & Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi & Tama Tonga
Tomoaki Honma & Tetsuya Naito & Togi Makabe vs. Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata & Kota Ibushi
IWGP jr. tag titles: Young Bucks vs. Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly
IWGP jr. title: Kushida vs. Ricochet
Kazuchika Okada & Michael Bennett & Matt Taven vs. A.J. Styles & Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura for the G-1 championship