Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up the N-1 VICTORY Tournament today with the Finals, which in a first-time twist was also for the GHC Heavyweight Championship.
Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE and ABEMA Live (the live broadcast was free on both). You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.
The announced paid attendance was 1537. Not sure how much it may have been affected by weather (hurricane/typhoon-the promotion decided Friday the event would go on as scheduled).
Match 1: Alejandro beat Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Super Crazu in a 4-way by pinning Crazy.
Match 2: Masa Kitamiya beat Junta Miyawaki.
Match 3: Titus Alexander, Ryohei Oiwa & Kai Fujimura beat Jack Morris, Ulka Sasaki & Yu Owada. Alexander pinned Owada after Big Ugly.
Match 4: Manabu Soya & Tavion Heights (WWE) beat Kazuyuki Fujita & Yoshitatsu (Independent/Freelancer). Heights pinned Yoshitatsu after Heights Bomb.
Match 5: Takumi Iroha, Great Sakuya, Miyuki Takase & Sandra Moon beat Miku Aono, Kouki Amarei, Bozilla & Kizuna Tanaka. Iroha pinned Tanaka after a running knee.
Match 6: Josh Briggs (WWE) beat Yoshiki Inamura.
Match 7: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Galeno Del Mal & Luis Mante (Dragon Gate) beat Shun Skywalker (Dragon Gate), Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf. Mante pinned Bane after Vuelta Finale.
Match 8: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura beat Akitoshi Saito & Mohammed Yone by ref stoppage to retain the titles. Sugiura beat Saito with a front neck lock. V2 for the champs.
Match 9: Daga beat GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion AMAKUSA to win the title. Daga becomes the 56th GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion.
Match 10: HAYATA & YO-HEY beat GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Shuji Kondo & Eita to win the titles. HAYATA & YO-HEY become the 61st GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. HAYATA pinned Eita after Hedeck.
Main Event: N-1 VICTORY 2024 Finals: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya beat Kenoh to win the tournament and retain the title. V3 for Kiyomiya. Next up: Since Kiyomiya won the tournament, TBA.
Post-event news/fallout:
Ryohei Oiwa’s training excursion from New Japan to NOAH will end this month. His final NOAH match will be on 9/14 at Korakuen Hall against Kiyomiya in a NON-TITLE match. 9/14 will also have a GHC National Championship match as Ulka Sasaki defends against Manabu Soya.
The next event is NOAH UK TOUR 2024 starting Friday at O2 Academy in Edinburgh, England. The tour is being co-promoted with and tickets sales handled by Progress Wrestling. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.
UPDATE: It has been announced that Kiyomiya will defend the GHC Heavyweight Championship on 9/8 against Ricky Knight Jr. on the final event of the UK tour.
