Pro Wrestling NOAH held a special charity fundraiser event for Noto Peninsula earthquake recovery efforts today in Ishikawa. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to disaster relief efforts.
Today’s event was held at Ishikawa Prefectural Industrial Exhibition Hall 3 in Ishikawa and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 1316, a full house/near sellout.
Match 1: Yu Owada beat Kai Fujimura.
Match 2: Shuji Kondo & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Mohammed Yone & Atsushi Kotoge. Kondo pinned Kotoge after a King Kong lariat.
Match 3: Super Crazy beat Hi69.
Match 4: Eita & Ninja Mack beat Hajime Ohara & Junta Miyawaki. Mack pinned Ohara after a whirlwind kick.
Match 5: Manabu Soya, Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura beat Ryohei Oiwa, Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf. Inamura pinned Wolf after Musou.
Match 6: Jack Morris, Daga & Yoshinari Ogawa beat HAYATA, YO-HEY & Tadasuke. Morris pinned Tadasuke after a tiger driver.
Main Event: Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, AMAKUSA & Hiromu Takahashi (New Japan) beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh, Alejandro & Cristobal by ref stoppage. AMAKUSA beat Cristobal.
The next event is the N-1 VICTORY Tournament beginning on 8/4 at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English Only will begin Saturday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET…and even better, the WRESTLE UNIVERSE broadcast will be available to everyone FOR FREE! This is an ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan.
UPDATE: The main event stoppage was due to a Cristobal injury. Possible concussion. Hospitalized as a precaution but has since been released. Out indefinitely. Card changes for the future TBA but he was not part of the N-1 field.