Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up the N-1 VICTORY 2026 today with the Finals.
Today’s event was held at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese & English. Harutoki, who is out long-term due to injury, was a special guest on English commentary.
The announced paid attendance was 2077. Based on the setup I estimate they used the venue at about 85% capacity, particularly with upper level arena seating.
Pre-show match: Atsushi Kotoge & Yuto Koyanagi beat Black Menso-re & Hiroya Namiki. Kotoge pinned Namiki after a bat hanging drop.
Match 1: Kazuyuki Fujita & Titus Alexander beat Yoshiki Inamura & Chen. Alexander pinned Chen after Big Ugly.
Match 2: Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura, Alpha Wolf & Kai Fujimura beat Kenoh, Mohammed Yone, Hi69 & Hiroto Tsuruya. Kitamiya pnned Tsuruya after Saito suplex.
Match 3: KENTA, Shane Haste & Tetsuya Endo beat Manabu Soya, Yuki Iino & Shuji Kondo. Haste pinned Iino after Ayers Rock Bottom.
Match 4: Kouga & Daiki Odashima beat Tetsuya Naito & RYUSEI. Odashima pinned RYUSEI.
Match 5: BUSHI & M.P.I. (Mysterious Phantom Invader) beat Naomichi Marufuji & HAYATA. M.P.I. pinned Marufuji after a modified powerbomb.
Match 6: YO-HEY & Jun Masaoka beat GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Dragon Bane & Alejandro to win the title. YO-HEY & Masaoka become the 66th GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Masaoka pinned Alejandro after Ambitions. Next up: Odashima and…Alejandro again?
Main Event: N-1 VICTORY Finals: OZAWA beat Kaito Kiyomiya to win the tournament. As a result, OZAWA will face GHC Heavyweight Champion Tetsuya Naito for the title on 10/25 at Ryogoku Kokugikan. Looks like after being down for a bit, Team 2000X is about to be back on top of NOAH, much to the dismay of fans.
The next event is 10/11 at Chres Kochi in Kochi. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Monday/early Tuesday.
In initial news/fallout, there will be a post-event press conference streaming live FOR FREE on YouTube TONIGHT at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET. In addition to OZAWA & Marufuji being present, it also features other big news broken on NOAH’s English social media accounts-Shuhei Taniguchi will be present after announcing backstage that he is retiring. He plans to do 2 retirement matches. More as it becomes available.
Also backstage, Kondo challenged HAYATA for the GHC 200 Championship. More as it becomes available.
The participants and matches for the NOAH Jr. Grand Prix 2 were also announced. This will be a single-elimination bracket format event held in November. The participants: Kai Fujimura, BUSHI, Kid Lykos 1 & 2, Alejandro, Tsunagu Sato (Michinoku Pro), Daiki Odashima, Shuji Kondo, Yo-HEY, Jun Masaoka, Tadasuke, Hi69, HAYATA, Dragon Bane, Sidney Akeem (fka Reggie in WWE), TBA which will be the 10/15 Yuto Koyanagi-Hiroya Namiki winner. The tournament starts on 11/9 and ends on 11/28.
UPDATE: Based on translation of social media comments from Kenta Kobashi, it sounds like the Taniguchi second and final retirement match/event may be on 1/10 at Korakuen. Further details forthcoming at tonight’s presser.