Pro Wrestling NOAH ran this month’s STAR NAVIGATION 2025 event today in Tokyo, featuring the start of the NOAH Jr. Grand Prix, a single-elimination Junior Heavyweight tournament.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
The announced paid attendance was 1560, a legit sellout with standing room overflow.
There was a late change to the card due to Tetsuya Endo being pulled off the event. Flu. He was to have been in a 3-way tag match. HAYATA was the replacement.
Match 1: Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh & Jack Morris beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Harutoki & Mohammed Yone. Kenoh pinned Yone after Round Fist.
Match 2: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Manabu Soya & Saxon Huxley and Ulka Sasaki & HAYATA in a 3-way when Wolf pinned HAYATA.
NOAH Jr. Grand Prix Round 1:
Match 3: Kai Fujimura beat Junta Miyawaki.
Match 4: Shuji Kondo beat Black Menso-re.
Match 5: Ninja Mack (Independent/Freelancer) beat Alejandro.
Match 6: Hiromu Takahashi (New Japan) beat Daiki Odashima.
Match 7: Hank Walker & Tank Ledger (WWE) beat GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Masa Kitamiya & Takashi Sugiura to win the titles. Walker & Ledger become the 73rd GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Ledger pinned Sugiura after Collision Course. Next up: Potentially a rematch but to get it, Sugiura & Kitamiya must first beat Marufuji & KENTA in a determination match for the next title shot. That match will happen on 11/15 at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka.
Main Event: Yoshiki Inamura beat GHC Heavyweight Champion KENTA to win the title. Inamura becomes the 49th GHC Heavyweight Champion. Third time’s the charm. After a first failed attempt as a young prospect, a second failed attempt after an excursion and brief name change to YOICHI, an excursion to WWE and now returning as a cowboy of sorts, he finally breaks through and wins the big one. Next up: The true obligatory rite of passage…Kiyomiya. That match will happen on 11/21 at Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai.
The next event is tomorrow at Espoir Isanuma in Saitama. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Wednesday.
In other news, a new title match has been added to 1/1 at Nippon Budokan-GHC National Champion Dragon Bane vs. Alpha Wolf for the title.
UPDATE: Kiyomiya also announced that 3 new wrestlers-Midori Takahashi, Hiroto Tsuruyа and Yuto Koyanagi-are schedsuled to debut on 12/7.