Pro Wrestling NOAH’s monthly STAR NAVIGATION 2025 Tour event for this month just finished up. I joined the event in progress but did not do live results due to illness and recovering from my recent trip to Japan plus watching on about a 45-minute tape delay. Here are the quick results.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The live broadcast was English only outside Japan due to ABEMA exclusives. You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.
The announced paid attendance was 1562, a legit advance sellout. Standing room only tickets were sold today.
Match 1: Mohammed Yone & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Shuji Kondo & Daiki Odashima. Yone pinned Odashima after Kinniku Muscle Buster.
Match 2: Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara beat Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. Kotoge pinned Fujimura after Kill Switch.
Match 3: Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Masa Kitamiya beat Tetsuya Endo, Daga & Owadasan. Sugiura pinned Owadasan after Olympic Yosen Slam. During the match, Endo turned on and defected from Team 2000X.
Match 4: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat HAYATA. Yuto Kikuchi, Eita & Super Crazy and AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki in a 4-way when Wolf pinned Kikuchi.
Match 5: Daiki Inaba Return Match: Kenoh, KENTA & Ulka Sasaki beat Manabu Soya, Saxon Huxley & Daiki Inaba. Kenoh beat Inaba with Kenoh Special.
Match 6: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion YO-HEY beat Tadasuke to retain the title. V1 for YO-HEY. Next up: Miyawaki.
Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion OZAWA beat Kaito Kiyomiya to retain the title. V5 for OZAWA. As a result, Kiyomiya may now have to join Team 2000X. Next up: Endo & Sugiura in a 3-way.
More news/fallout when it becomes available.
The next event is Friday at Aizuwakamatsu City Cultural Center in Fukushima. There will be no live broadcast.
UPDATE: The post-event news/fallout:
It’s now official-OZAWA next defends in aforementioned 3-way. That match will happen on 6/3 at Korakuen as will YO-HEY vs. Miyawaki and an Atsushi Kotoge 20th Anniversary match of Kotoge vs. Super Delfin.
Announced for 5/31 at Shinjuku Face is GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Kenoh & Ulka Sasaki vs. some combination of Manabu Soya, Saxon Huxley & Daiki Inaba for the titles.
Announced for 5/24 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama is GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf vs. HAYATA & Yuto Kikuchi for the titles.
The N-1 VICTORY Tournament will return this year in September. The schedule was announced today with further details TBA. The schedule is as follows:
9/8-Korakuen
9/11-Okayama Convention Center, Okayama
9/13-Hiroshima Industrial Hall East Exhibition Hall, Hiroshima
9/14-Acros Fukuoka, Fukuoka
9/15-Kumamoto Castle Hall Civic Hall, Kumamoto
9/17-Osaka Prefectural Gym 2, Osaka
9/20-Act City Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
9/21-Light Cube Utsunomiya, Tochigi
9/23-Korakuen (Finals)
