SPRING MAYHEM RYOGOKU 20026, Pro Wrestling NOAH’s Golden Week blowout event, is in the books.
Today’s event was held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. Keiji Muto & Shinjiro Otani joined Akitoshi Saito as guest former wrestlers on commentary.
The announced paid attendance was 4539. They did not use the full capacity (particularly in the lower level box seats that can seat 4-6 for sumo) so it was not setup for the normal maximum of 15,000. So this number is not as bad as it sounds.
The match order was not announced until event time, in part due to fan voting for the main event.
Pre-show:
Match 1: Atsushi Kotoge, Hi69 & Hajime Ohara beat Yuto Koyanagi, Hiroto Tsuruya & Midori Takahashi. Kotoge beat Takahashi with a Texas cloverleaf.
Match 2: Eita beat Katsumi Inahata.
Main show:
Match 1: KENTA, HAYATA & Tetsuya Endo beat Mohammed Yone, Kazuyuki Fujita & Daiki Odashima. KENTA pinned Odashima after GO 2 SLEEP.
Match 2: In a handicap match, Knull beat Kid Lykos 1 & 2 by pinning 2.
Match 3: Manabu Soya, Saxon Huxley & TBA, revealed at match time to be Yuki Iino (DDT) beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Harutoki & Alejandro and Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura & Tadasuke in a 3-way when Soya pinned Alejandro.
Match 4: Alpha Wolf & Kai Fujimura beat RYUSEI & Angel Reyes. Wolf pinned Reyes after a package piledriver.
Match 5: In a No DQ match, BUSHI beat Kai Fujimura.
Match 6: Naomichi Marufuji & Kenoh beat Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows. Marufuji pinned Gallows.
Match 7: OZAWA beat Tetsuya Naito.
Match 8: Dragon Bane beat GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion AMAKUSA to win the title. Bane becomes the 61st GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion. Next up: Eita. That match will happen on 6/20 at Agematsu Town Community Center in Nagano at the Eita 15th Anniversary Event.
Main Event: Shane Haste beat GHC Heavyweight Champion Yoshiki Inamura to win the title. Haste becomes the 50th GHC Heavyweight Champion. UPSET ALERT!!! Whoa. Seriously. Never saw this coming! But it could be a short reign. Next up: KENTA. That match will happen on 5/13 at Korakuen Hall. As for Inamura, he could get back in the picture quickly on 5/13 but he’ll have to get through old-new nemesis OZAWA first.
More news/fallout presumably to come.
The next event is AFTER MAYHEM 2026 tomorrow at Shinjuku Face. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.
Also an important note for Tuesday’s (Monday US time) Korakuen Hall event-the match card will not be announced in advance. That event is an ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan but will be available outside Japan on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only.