Pro Wrestling NOAH followed yesterday’s year-opening event with an event today called NEW YEAR REBOOT.
Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. The live broadcast was only on ABEMA in Japan. (UPDATE: WRESTLE UNIVERSE on demand tomorrow)
UPDATE 2: As of 3 PM PT/6 PM ET today’s event can now be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
The announced paid attendance was 480, a super full house/very near sellout.
Match 1; HAYATA, YO-HEY & Yuto Kikuchi beat Eita, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki. HAYATA beat Eita with an armbar.
Match 2; Masaaki Mochizuki (Dragon Gate) & Takashi Sugiura won an 8 team battle royal, last eliminating Ulka Sasaki & Titus Alexander.
Match 3; Tetsuya Endo (DDT) beat Atsushi Kotoge.
Match 4: Jack Morris, Omos (WWE) & Yu Owada beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Galeno Del Mal & Saxon Huxley. Omos pinned Del Mal after a double chokeslam.
Match 5: GHC National Champion Manabu Soya beat Tadasuke to retain the title. V5 for Soya. Apparently Tadasuke decided to cash in his future title shot he won yesterday here for the National Championship. Next up: Possibly Endo, who issued the challenge. We’ll see what happens.
Main Event; Kenoh & Kaito Kiyomiya beat OZAWA & Daga. Kenoh beat Daga with a neck lock.
The next event is 1/11 at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.
After the event, DDT announced Endo will be taking an indefinite hiatus from the promotion after their Sunday event to participate regularly in NOAH until further notice.
Also, according to the official NOAH English social media accounts, Yu Owada has now defected to Team 2000X, the heel faction led by Jack Morris, Daga & Yoshitatsu.
UPDATE: After the event, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. announced 1/11 will be bis last NOAH event. He has decided to return to his native Mexico and may be taking a break from wrestling but is not retiring.
UPDATE 3: It’s now official. Soya-Endo for the GHC National Championship has been added to 1/11. And after today’s result Eita has his first…and maybe last for this reign…GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship challenger: HAYATA of course. That match will happen on 1/25 at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka.
UPDATE 4: Today (1/3/25) at the Marigold event, inaugural GHC Women’s Champion Kouki Amarei beat Chika Goto to retain the title in the first title match since the determination match to crown the first champion. V1 for Amarei.
