GREAT VOYAGE 2023 in YOKOHAMA, the latest installment of Pro Wrestling NOAH’s signature blowout event series, is now in the books.
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 being an ABEMA exclusive in Japan.
The announced paid attendance was 1308. The venue was at 50% capacity and only has a full max capacity of 3000, so this actually is much better than it sounds given the sellout would’ve been around 1500. Possibly a super full house as it’s near 90% full.
Match 1: Yasutaka Yano beat Taishi Ozawa.
Match 2: Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY, Seiki Yoshioka & Alejandro beat Shuji Kondo, Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Hi69. Kotoge pinned Tadasuke.
Match 3: Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Kinya Okada.
Match 4: Hideki Suzuki & Saxon Huxley beat Mohammed Yone & Yoshiki Inamura. Huxley pinned Yone after a neck hanging bomb.
Match 5: Shuhei Taniguchi beat Takashi Sugiura.
Match 6: Jake Morris & Anthony Greene beat Naomichi Marufuji & Hijo de. Dr. Wagner Jr. Morris pinned Wagner after Tiger Driver.
Match 7: Extreme Tiger & Lancelot beat AMAKUSA & Ninja Mack. Lancelot beat AMAKUSA after Broken Bomb.
Match 8: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba beat Kenoh & Manabu Soya to retain the titles. Kitamiya pinned Soya after a diving senton. V1 for the champs.
Match 9: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Yoshinari Ogawa & Eita beat HAYATA & Chris Ridgeway to retain the titles. Ogawa beat Ridgeway with a Figure 4. V2 for the champs.
Main Event: Jake Lee beat GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya to win the title. Lee becomes the 42nd GHC Heavyweight Chanpion. This went 35 1/2 minutes. Next up: Nakajima. That match will happen on 4/16 at Xebio Arena Sendai as will Wagner Jr. vs. Morris for the GHC National Championship. Kitamiya & Inaba will also defend the GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Sugiura & Taniguchi and women’s action returns to NOAH with Maya Yukihi vs. Sumire Natsu.
The next event is Friday at Akita Selion Plaza in Akita to start 4 straight days with events continuing the never-ending SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour. There will be no live broadcast (all 4 events will be available on demand next week).
UPDATE: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion AMAKUSA vs. Lancelot for the title has been added to 3/26 as fallout from this event.
