Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the penultimate day of the N-1 VICTORY 2022 Tournament today, narrowing the field of 8 still with a chance to reach the finals down to 2…hopefully, because there were some insane possibilities with tiebreakers.
Today’s event was held at Culttz Kawasaki in Kawasaki City and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
The announced paid attendance was 825.
Match 1: Pre-shoe dark match: Shuhei Taniguchi, Daiki Inaba & Yoshiki Inamura beat Mohammed Yone, Akitoshi Saito & Stallion Rogers. Inaba pinned Rogers.
Match 2: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Masaaki Mochizuki beat Anthony Greene.
Match 3: N-1 VICTORY Block B: Jack Morris beat Masa Kitamiya. As a result, Kitamiya is eliminated from Finals contention.
Match 4: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. beat Masato Tanaka. As a result, Tanaka is eliminated from Finals contention.
Match 5: N-1 VICTORY Block B: Masakatsu Funaki beat Takashi Sugiura by submission. This went just 57 seconds.
Match 6: In a Captains Fall Match, where the match immediately ended if the Captain of a team was eliminated, HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa (C), Yuya Susumu & Kai Fujimura vs. NOSAWA Rongai, Eita (C), Kotaro Suzuki & Super Crazy went to a No Contest. Chris Ridgeway interference.
Match 7: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Hideki Suzuki beat Go Shiozaki. As a result, Shiozaki is eliminated from Finals contention.
Match 8: N-1 Victory BLOCK B: Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Kinya Okada by ref stoppage. Okada injury.
Match 9: Dragon Bane, Alpha Wolf & Alejandro beat Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Hi59. Wolf pinned Hi69 after Wolf’s Tusk.
Match 10: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Kazuyuki Fujita beat Kenoh. As a result, Hideki Suzuki wins Block A and advances to the Finals.
Main Event: N-1 VICTORY Block B: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Satoshi Kojima. As a result, Kiyomiya wins Block B and advances to the Finals.
The Final is Saturday at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka. The full card has been announced:
Super Crazy vs. Hajime Ohara
Jack Morris & Daiki Inaba vs. Anthony Greene & Stallion Rogers
HAYATA, Yuya Susumu & Kai Fujimura vs. Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY & Seiki Yoshioka
Masakatsu Funaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Shuji Kondo vs. Masa Kitamiya, Mohammed Yone & Alejandro
Takashi Sugiura & Satoshi Kojima vs. Shuhei Taniguchi & Yoshiki Inamura
Dragon Bane vs. Alpha Wolf
Naomichi Marufuji, Go Shiozaki, Masato Tanaka & Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Kazuyuki Fujita, Kendo Ka Shin, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Timothy Thatcher
GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Yoshinari Ogawa & Chris Ridgeway vs. Eita & Kotaro Suzuki for the titles
The Great Muta, Great-O-Khan (New Japan Pro Wrestling) & NOSAWA Rongai vs. Kenoh, Manabu Soya & Tadasuke
N-1 VICTORY 2022 Finals: Hideki Suzuki vs. Kaito Kiyomiya
Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English will begin Saturday at midnight PT/3 AM ET.
Injury Report: Okada was legit injured against Nakajima. Mandibular fracture. Out indefinitely. This is the second time in less than 3 months Nakajima has legit injured an opponent with his stiff strikes-remember in June 2022 at CyberFight Festival 2022 he knocked DDT star Tetsuya Endo out with a concussion that cost him nearly 2 months of action AND the KO-D Openweight Championship.
