Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour today, wrapping up their September schedule with an event featuring a GHC National Championship match.
Today’s event was held at Bandaijima Multipurpose Square Ogama in Niigata and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Monday at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. There was no live broadcast.
There were a few last-minute changes to the card because Yoshinari Ogawa was a late removal from the event. Head injury. He was to have been in a 6-man tag match. Kai Fujimura was the replacement.
The announced paid attendance was 516.
Match 1: Yoshiki Inamura beat Taishi Ozawa.
Match 2: Super Crazy beat Yasutaka Yano.
Match 3: Ninja Mack, Extreme Tiger & Alejandro beat Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Hi69. Mack pinned Ohara after Ninja Bomb.
Match 4: Takashi Sugiura & Satoshi Kojima beat Shuhei Taniguchi & Daiki Inaba. Kojima pinned Taniguchi after Western lariat.
Match 5; Atsushi Kotoge, Seiki Yoshioka & YO-HEY beat HAYATA, Chris Ridgeway & Kai Fujimura. YO-HEY pinned Fujimura after a dropkick.
Match 6: GHC National Champion Masakatsu Funaki beat Masa Kitamiya by ref stoppage (technical submission) to retain the title. V5 for Funaki. Next up: Kazushi Sakuraba. That match will happen on 10/30 at Ariake Arena in Tokyo.
Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Naomichi Marufuji & Jack Morris beat Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya. Kiyomita pinned Soya after Transformed Shining Wizard.
The next event is 10/7 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo for the start of a doubleheader continuing the STAR NAVIGATION 2022 Tour. This will be an ABEMA ONLY live broadcast in Japan and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later time.
On a side note, for WRESTLE UNIVERSE subscribers the monthly subscription for October 2022, if you are renewing today (I was charged yesterday) is currently $6.25 US.
