Pro Wrestling NOAH ran Episode 2 of MONDAY MAGIC today, promising the return of an old championship and a former retired legend making an appearance (the latter being The Great Muta, the face-painted/masked in recent years alter-ego of Keiji Muto).
Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
The paid attendance has not yet been announced but it appears to have been a legit advance sellout. There were no same-day tickets available. That means it would have been close to 500.
Match 1: HAYATA beat Daga.
Match 2: Saxon Huxley & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Kai Fujimura & Yu Owada. Huxley pinned Owada after a neck hanging bomb.
Match 3: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Extreme Tiger & Terry Yaki beat Naomichi Marufuji, Alejandro & Junta Miyawaki. Yaki pinned Miyawaki after Yaki Crusher.
Match 4: TBA, revealed at match time to be Masato Tanaka (ZERO1), beat Ninja Mack to win the reactivated GHC Hardcore Championship. Tanaka becomes the 10th GHC Hardcore Champion. (That takes the title’s prior lineage into account although the promotion’s website bills him as the first champion following the reactivation by NOSAWA Rongai)
Main Event: In an Elimination Match, Jake Lee, Jack Morris, Anthony Greene, LJ Cleary, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Kaito Kiyomita, Ryohei Oiwa, Manabu Soya, Masa Kitamiya, Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf. Order of elimination (pinfall, submission, over the top rope): Tadasuke by Kiyomiya, Wolf by Lee, Oiwa by Greene, Greene by Kitamiya, Kitamiya by YO-HEY, Bane by YO-HEY, YO-HEY by Soya, Cleary by Soya, Kiyomiya by Morris, Morris by Soya, Soya by Lee. Lee wins as only remaining member.
Episode 3 is 11/13.
The next event is Thursday at Hiroshima Industrial Hall West Exhibition Hall in Hiroshima. There will be no live broadcast.
UPDATE: Ulka Sasaki, an MMA fighter who competes in Rizin and previously fought in UFC, has been announced for Episode 3 and will participate in an exhibition match vs. TBA.
