Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the first half of a special 25th Anniversary doubleheader today in Tokyo.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English. The live broadcast was an ABEMA exclusive in Japan and will be available in Japanese shortly.
The announced paid attendance was 1596, a legit advance sellout including standing room only tickets.
Match 1: Naomichi Marufuji & Daiki Odashima beat KENTA & Junta Miyawaki. Odashima pinned Miyawaki after Rotating Hell Olympics Part 1.
Match 2: Dragon Bane, Alpha Wolf & Super Crazy beat Shuhei Taniguchi, Will Kroos & Hajime Ohara. Bane pinned Ohara after Twisterbane.
Match 3: Manabu Soya, Daiki Inaba, Saxon Huxley & Yuto Kikuchi beat Ulka Sasaki, AMAKUSA, Eita & Black Menso-re. Soya pinned MEnso-re after Ballistic.
Match 4: Takashi Sugiura & Daga beat Tetsuya Endo & Atsushi Kotoge. Daga pinned Kotoge after Diablo Wings.
Match 5: Jack Morris, Tadasuke, Owadasan & TBA, a supposed new Team 2000X member revealed to be Knull, beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Galeno, Alejandro & Harutoki. Knull pinned Alejandro after a chokeslam.
Match 6: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion YO-HEY beat HAYATA to retain the title. V4 for YO-HEY.
Main Event: Kenoh beat GHC Heavyweight Champion OZAWA by ref stoppage (KO/TKO) to win the title. Kenoh becomes the 47th GHC Heavyweight Champion. Next up: KENTA. That match will happen tomorrow.
The second half of the doubleheader is tomorrow. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin TONIGHT at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET.