Pro Wrestling NOAH ran their first major event of the month, NOAH THE BEST, today as the promotion builds to a big end of the year and start of 2024.
Today’s event was held at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The live broadcast was English only due to the usual ABEMA exclusives in Japan. You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.
The announced paid attendance was 1156.
Match 1: LEONA (Dradition) & Kai Fujimura beat Taishi Ozawa & Yu Owada. LEONA beat Owada with a figure 4.
Match 2: Ninja Mack, Alejandro & Extreme Tiger beat Super Crazy, Terry Yaki & Alpha Zoe (?). Alejandro pinned Yaki after Empty Bullet.
Match 3: Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba beat Vinny Massaro & Stallion Rogers. Kitamiya beat Rogers with Prison Lock. Massaro is an American independent wrestler who trained and competed in NOAH some 15+ years ago and was making a return to the promotion.
Match 4: HAYATA & Eita beat Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69. Eita pinned Kotoge after a dropkick.
Match 5: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa beat Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher & Shuhei Taniguchi. Wagner Jr. pinned Taniguchi after Wagner Driver.
Match 6: GHC National Champion Jack Morris beat Hajime Ohara to retain the title. V1 for Morris.
Match 7: Jake Lee, Anthony Greene, LJ Cleary, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, Go Shiozaki, Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki. YO-HEY pinned Miyawaki after a dropkick.
Main Event: Manabu Soya & Tatsumi Fujinami (Dradition) beat Kenoh & Jinsei Shinzaki (Michinoku Pro). Soya beat Kenoh with a dragon sleeper.
Major post-event news/fallout:
After the event, in backstage comments Kitamiya demanded a match against New Japan ironman Tomohiro Ishii. HOSS FIGHT ALERT!!! Please let that happen soon!
The 1/2 main event was set by a surprise appearance by Kota Ibushi, who recently signed with All Elite Wrestling (but it’s a limited deal of sorts and Ibushi won’t be full-time in AEW, he’ll have a lot of freedom to continue working in Japan as he pleases, which was very important to him). It will be Ibushi vs. Marufuji at Ariake Arena in Tokyo.
The next event is 12/10 at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast.
