As announced yesterday after their 2nd Keiji Muto Retirement Series event, Pro Wrestling NOAH held a press conference today to announce Muto’s 3rd Retirement Series match for 10/30 at Ariake Arena in Tokyo. Throwing back to Muto’s beginning in New Japan Pro Wrestling, it will be a NOAH x NJPW crossover match: Muto, Naomichi Marufuji & Yoshiki Inamura vs. Tomoaki Honma, Togi Makabe and The G.O.A.T. of NJPW, their own Living Legend-Hiroshi Tanahashi. And vocal cheering is allowed at the event, meaning Muto & Tanahashi will tear it down and make the crowd explode when they’re together. And maybe, just maybe, afterwards we’ll get The Living Legends hanging around for some M*THAF***A Air Guitar duets!
It was also announced that Japanese broadcast partner ABEMA will be the exclusive sponsor for the event and will broadcast the event live for free in Japan. Because of this, WRESTLE UNIVERSE will broadcast the event live only in English outside Japan (which is a fair trade-off because the regular English NOAH duo of Stewart Fulton & Mark Pickering is always a real treat to listen to, with plenty of BANG! guaranteed), and will have the original Japanese broadcast available on demand immediately after the event concludes. The Japanese broadcast will feature special guests Rina Matsuki and musician/noted NOAH fan Funky Kato, who composed and performed the promotion’s new theme song “VOYAGE” that is heard at the beginning & end of events (there is also a music video that closes out major event broadcasts).
The full card is TBA besides this match and 3 title matches. The event will start on 10/30 at midnight PT/3 AM ET.
More as it becomes available.
