July 28th, 2023

~ Results for ZERO1 [Fire Festival]
~ News and updates for Osaka Pro & WAVE

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ZERO1 / Tochigi Pro-Wrestling "Fire Festival 2023 / Shiba Festival 2023", 7/28/2023 [Fri] 16:30 @ Shiba Nibori-cho Jido Yuen in Tokyo

~ Ring announced Okki Okita announced that he will moving on from being ZERO1's full time ring announcer following the July 29th show at the Korakuen Hall. Okita has been active with the promotion since its launch as ZERO-ONE in 2001. Though he did make a promise that he would return to make the call for Shinjiro Otani if and when he ever returns to the ring.

(1) A BLOCK Match: Takuya Sugawara vs. Sayaka Unagi
 ◆Winner: Sugawara (9:16) with a Backslide.
~ Sugawara [3 wins, 2 losses = 15 points]
~ Unagi [5 losses = 0 points]
(2) B BLOCK Match: Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Tsugutaka Sato
 ◆Winner: Sekimoto (11:06) with an Argentine Backbreaker.
~ Sekimoto [2 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses = 16 points]
~ Tsugataka [1 win, 1 draw, 3 losses = 8 points]
(3) B BLOCK Match: Chris Vice vs. Rikiya Fudo
 ◆Winner: Fudo (8:56) with the Chomolungma Splash.
~ Fudo [1 win, 4 losses = 5 points]
~ Vice [3wins, 1 ring out 1 loss = 16 points]
(4) A BLOCK Match: Junya Matsunaga vs. Yuko Miyamoto
 ◆Winner: Matsunaga (12:10) following the Bee Sting.
~ Matsunaga [3 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss = 18 points]
~ Miyamoto [3 wins, 2 losses = 15 points]

~ Junya Matsunaga moves on the final as he leads the A BLOCK and then Kengo Mashimo moves on to the final from the B BLOCK.

(5) Aja Kong, Shiba Mask, Satsuki Nagao & Ryo Hoshino vs. Masato Tanaka, Shoki Kitamura, Takumi Baba & Yuki Toki
 ◆Winner: Astro (24:52) with a Firebird Splash on Toki.

~ The full event card for tomorrow's final was announced...

ZERO1 "Fire Festival 2023", 7/29/2023 [Sat] 18:00 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo

(1) Yasu Kubita & Hide Kubota vs. Yoshikazu Yokoyama & Kongozan
(2) Satsuki Nagao & Yuki Toki vs. Hikaru Sato & Shingo
(3) Shoki Kitamura vs. Sayaka Unagi
(4) Fire Festival Special 8-Man Tag Match: Masato Tanaka, Takuya Sugawara, Yuko Miyamoto & Mizuki Watase vs. Chris Vice, Daisuke Sekimoto, Tsugataka Sato & Rikiya Fudo
(5) Junior Special 4WAY Match: Takumi Baba vs. Astro vs. Ryo Hoshino vs. Black Astro

(6) Fire Festival Final Match: (A BLOCK #1) Junya Matsunaga vs. (B BLOCK #1) Kengo Mashimo

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OSAKA PRO NEWS

~ It was announced that Zeus has sustained a broken nose and has this vacated the Osaka Pro Championship due to being unable to defend it on August 20th. 

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WAVE NEWS

~ Matches were announced for a couple shows in August.

WAVE, 8/13/2023 [Sun] 12:30 @ Shinkiba 1stRING in Tokyo

() Yuki Miyazaki vs. ZONES [Evolution]
() Sakura Hirota vs. Sunny [Evolution]
() Kizuna Tanaka & Chi Chi vs. SAKI & Hikari Shimizu

WAVE, 8/26/2023 [Sat] 18:00 @ 2AW Square in Chiba

() Special Challenge Wave: Cohaku vs. Kengo Mashimo [2AW]

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