Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the penultimate day of the Victory Challenge Tag League today.
Today’s event was held at Fukuoka Island City Forum in Fukuoka and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
The announced paid attendance was 434.
Match 1: Ninja Mack & Alejandro beat Hajime Ohara & Super Crazy. Alejandro pinned Crazy after a Canadian destroyer.
Match 2: HAYATA beat Junta Miyawaki.
Match 3: Jake Lee, Anthony Greene & LJ Cleary beat Mohammed Yone, Akitoshi Saito & Hi69. Lee pinned Yone after FBS.
Match 4: VC Tag League: Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher beat Manabu Soya & Shuji Kondo. Thatcher beat Soya with a Fujiwara armbar.
Match 5: VC Tag League Go Shiozaki & Atsushi Kotoge vs. Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf went to a 20 minute time limit draw.
Match 6: Naomichi Marufuji, Daga & Yoshinari Ogawa beat Jack Morris, YO-HEY & Tadasuke. Ogawa pinned YO-HEY.
Match 7: VC Tag League: Kenoh & Yu Owada beat Takashi Sugiura & Ulka Sasaki. Owada pinned Sasaki.
Main Event: VC Tag League: Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa beat Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba. Kiyomiya pinned Inaba after Transformed Shining Wizard.
Standings:
1-Huxley/Thatcher, 4-2, 8 points
2-Bane/Wolf, 3-2-1, 7 points
3-Shiozaki/Kotoge, 3-2-1, 7 points
4-Kiyomiya/Oiwa, 3-2-1, 7 points
5-Kitamiya/Inabaa, 2-3-1, 5 points
6-Kenoh/Owada, 2-3-1, 5 points
7-Soya/Kondo, 2-3-1, 5 points
8-Sugiura/Sasaki, 2-4, 4 points (OUT)
The top 2 after tomorrow’s matches advance to the Finals on the same event. Mathematically only Sugiura/Sasaki are out Everyone else still has a chance but the 5 point teams will need tiebreakers and miracles to advance as well as the Shiozaki/Kotoge-Kiyomiya/Owada match ending in a Double DQ or No Contest, something that awards no points. The only sure thing is Huxley/Thatcher advance if they beat Kenoh/Owada.
The Finals are tomorrow at Kumamoto Castle Hall Civic Hall in Kumamoto, also featuring a GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at some odd times in the US because of the time change tomorrow morning (1 hour forward at 2 AM local time)-midnight PT/1 AM MT/3 AM CT/4 AM ET.
In other news, the May & June schedules have been announced:
5/4-Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo (WRESTLE MAGIC 2024, LIVE PPV. If you subscribe to WRESTLE UNIVERSE before the new price increase on 3/22, or are a current subscriber as of that date, you will get a coupon in a few weeks for 1000 yen-around $6.50 US-off the purchase price)
5/18-Yokohama Radiant Hall, Yokohama
5/21-Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
5/22-Korakuen
5/28-Kobe Sambo Hall, Kobe
5/29-Shinjuku Face, Tokyo (LIMIT BREAK Ver. 2)
6/1-Yokohama Radiant Hall
6/2-Fujisan Messe, Shizuoka
6/9-Korakuen
6/16-Yokohama BUNTAI, Yokohama (ABEMA Presents GRAND SHIP 2024 in YOKOHAMA)
6/22-Osaka Prefectural Gym 2, Osaka
