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Pro Wrestling NOAH 10/30/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the Keiji Muto Retirement Road series today with what possibly was the first pro wrestling event to be held at Tokyo’s new Ariake Arena venue, constructed for the 2020 (delayed to 2021) Summer Olympics in Japan. This marks the halfway point in Muto’s originally planned 5 match retirement series, today’s match was a crossover match with New Japan Pro Wrestling as Muto was opposite perhaps the G.O.A.T. of New Japan, the one & only Hiroshi Tanahashi.

Today’s event was held at Ariake Arena in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The live broadcast earlier was only in English due to being an ABEMA exclusive.

The announced paid attendance was 3739. Because vocal cheering was allowed, that meant 50% capacity (the venue’s normal max capacity will be 12,000). Between that and the layout, this was roughly 75-80% full, a good debut number for the venue.

Pre-Show Dark Match: Kai Fujimura beat Taishi Ozawa.

Main Show:
Before the first match, Go Shiozaki came out to address the crowd. He was wearing a t-shirt that read “I AM NOAH COMEBACK COMMING SOON”. Yes, it was misspelled. Shiozaki is out due to injury. He led the crowd in shouts of “I AM NOAH! WE ARE NOAH!”
Match 1: Manabu Soya, Shuji Kondo & Hajime Ohara beat Shuhei Taniguchi, Alejandro & Extreme Tiger. Kondo pinned Alejandro after a King Kong lariat.

Match 2: Jack Morris & Dante Leon beat Daiki Inaba & YO-HEY. Morris pinned YO-HEY after Inferno.

Match 3: Yoshinari Ogawa, Chris Ridgeway & Yasutaka Yano beat NOSAWA Rongai, Eita & Super Crazy by DQ. Eita DQ’d. NOSAWA weapon use.

Match 4: Hideki Suzuki & Dr. Wagner Jr. beat Takashi Sugiura 7 Masa Kitamiya. Wagner pinned Kitamiya after Wagner Driver.

Before the next match began, a recorded video played…O…M…G…January 1, Nippon Budokan…The Great Muta vs….SHINSUKE NAKAMURA!!! He’s coming home to Japan! (Nakamura has spent the last decade-plus in WWE since leaving New Japan) This will be an ABEMA live broadcast so hopefully in English on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

Match 5: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Atsushi Kotoge & Seiki Yoshioka beat Tadasuke & Hi69 to retain the titles. Kotoge pinned Hi69. V1 for the champs. Afterwards, Shuji Kondo & Hajime Ohara hit the ring to make the next challenge and start a Kongo beatdown of the champs until a mysterious masked man ran in to make the save and clean house. The mystery man then unmasked himself…Haoh! Tadasuke was en fuego because Haoh was expelled from NOAH after losing their last match against each other. But Haoh seems to be back and will now be known as AMAKUSA.

Match 6: Ninja Mack beat GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion HAYATA by ref stoppage (injury) to win the title. Mack becomes the 50th GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion. HAYATA could not continue due to an elbow injury. Never how you want a title match (or any match) to end. The injury occurred just before the 10 minute mark when Mack went for a sequence starting with multple backflips after bouncing off the ropes following a running start, then with HAYATA on the apron Mack backflipped over the ropes into a powerbomb to the floor. The ref checked on HAYATA then began the 20 count. At 5 the ref checked again on HAYATA and stopped it. HAYATA was already clutching his left elbow and wrist area. It might have landed on the hard floor just past where the mats around the ring ended.

Match 7: In a GHC Martial Arts Rules Match, GHC National Champion Masakatsu Funaki beat Kazushi Sakuraba by ref stoppage (submission) to retain the title.V6 for Funaki. The rules made this a very short match, just 199 seconds.

Match 8: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Takashi Sugiura & Satoshi Kojima beat Kenoh & Katsuhiko Nakajima to retain the titles. Kojima pinned Nakajima after Western Lariat. V1 for the champs.

Match 9: Keiji Muto Retirement Series-PRO WRESTLING LOVE FOREVER 3 ~TRIUMPH~: Keiji Muto, Naomichi Marufuji & Yoshiki Inamura beat Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma (New Japan Pro Wrestling). Marufuji pinned Honma after Shiranui.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya beat Kazuyuki Fujita to retain the title. V1 for Kiyomiya. And fulfillment as he avenged his only N-1 VICTORY 2022 loss.

Regarding HAYATA, it was announced after the event he was scheduled to be on the 11/10 event and is now off. The event will feature 5 matches, all GHC title matches. Thus here is who is next up for all the champions at that event (in match order):
Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team (Kotoge/YO-HEY): Kondo & Hajime Ohara
Jr. Heavyweight (Mack): Leon
Heavyweight Tag (Sugiura/Kojima): Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito
National (Funaki): Wagner Jr.
Heavyweight (Kiyomiya): Timothy Thatcher
This event will be live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
More on the HAYATA injury when/if it becomes available. The earlier announcement means he is out at least 2 weeks. There are only 4 events scheduled in November with December’s schedule TBA beyond a special Tokyo Gurentai produced standalone event on 12/20.

The next event is Thursday at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka, which likely will end the SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour. This will be aired on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date, which probably will be 11/6 or 11/7 (there will be no live broadcast).

FREE VIDEO: NOAH THE HOME 10/28/22

Just yesterday Pro Wrestling NOAH announced a 12th installment of it’s YouTube series “NOAH THE HOME”, which launched this past year to help provide their younger wrestlers with much-needed experience and matches during the pandemic. The show is filmed and produced entirely at the NOAH Dojo in a closed setting without fans, only the timekeeper is present along with the referee and wrestlers. It’s seen entirely from a hard camera perspective. They also encourage viewers to donate to help cover costs of producing the show and support the talent but it is not required.

This installment consists of 2 episodes, the first aired earlier today and the second will air tomorrow. You can watch today’s episode FOR FREE on YouTube below (NO SPOILERS WILL BE POSTED HERE):

The second episode is to air tomorrow at (I believe) 4 AM PT/7 AM ET and will be available for free on NOAH’s YouTube channel. Past episodes may be available on YouTube as well.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 10/16/22 Results

ABEMA Presents DEMOLITION STAGE 2022 in FUKUOKA is now in the books as Pro Wrestling NOAH ran a special event in the city today, which took on added build when Keiji Muto was added to the card for his final match in Fukuoka. He was originally scheduled for a pre-event autograph session and to be on commentary.

Today’s event was held at Fukuoka International Center in Fukuoka and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The live broadcast earlier today was in English only due to this being an ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan. If you watch the Japanese replay, skip ahead to about the 31 minute mark to jump past the pre-show talk (the actual event itself ran about 3 hours). You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube for a limited time.

The announced paid attendance was 1195. The venue was only at 50% capacity and they mostly used floor level seating, which made this sound like a poor number but that’s actually up for debate (full capacity with the setup likely would’ve been around 3000, had full capacity been allowed it would’ve been closer to 7000).

Match 1: Manabu Soya beat Taishi Ozawa. Soya’s left face below his eye was busted open during the match.

Match 2: Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito beat Masa Kitamiya & Shuhei Taniguchi. Yone pinned Taniguchi after Kinniku Muscle Buster.

Match 3: NOSAWA Rongai, Eita & Super Crazy beat Yoshinari Ogawa, Yasutaka Yano & Kai Fujimura. Eita pinned Yano after Imperial Uno.

Match 4: Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Chris Ridgeway.

Match 5: Kazuyuki Fujita, Takashi Sugiura & Masato Tanaka beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Daiki Inaba & Yoshiki Inamura. Fujita pinned Kiyomiya after a powerbomb.

Match 6: In an Elimination Match with over the top rope, pinfall and submission eliminations, Atsushi Kotoge, Seiki Yoshioka, YO-HEY & Alejandro beat Shuji Kondo, Hajime Ohara, Tadasuke & Hi69. Order of elimination: Ohara by Alejandro (pinfall), Alejandro by Tadasuke (pinfall), Yoshioka & Kondo by Tadasuke simultaneously (over the top rope), YO-HEY by Tadasuke (over the top rope), Tadasuke by Kotoge (pindall), Hi69 by Kotoge (pinfall). Kotoge wins as last man left.

Match 7: PRO-WRESTLING LOVE FOREVER .EX FUKUOKA FINAL ~TRANS MAGIC~: Keiji Muto, Satoshi Kojima & Ninja Mack beat Naomichi Marufuji, Jack Morris & HAYATA. Mack pinned HAYATA after Ninja Bomb.

Main Event: In a Double Bout Rules match, where there were no pinfalls and the only way to win was by submission, TKO or DQ after 3 warnings, Kazushi Sakuraba & Hideki Suzuki beat Kenoh & Masakatsu Funaki. Sakuraba beat Funaki with a scorpion leglock.

The next event is MUTO RETIREMENT ROAD-ABEMA presents Ariake Gaisen-THE RETURN-PRO-WRESTLING LOVE FOREVER . 3 ~TRIUMPH~ on 10/30 at Ariake Arena in Tokyo. In addition to all 5 GHC Titles being defended, this will feature the 3rd of Muto’s 5 final matches-this time it’s Muto, Naomichi Marufuji & Yoshiki Inamura vs. the New Japan Pro Wrestling trio of Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma. This will be the promotion’s debut at the new venue that opened in 2021 for the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics. The venue will be at 50% capacity max because vocal cheering will be allowed. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin on 10/29 at 11:30 PM PT/2:30 AM ET with a pre-show dark match scheduled to begin at 11:40 PM PT/2:30 AM ET. The main card begins at midnight PT/3 AM ET. This is another ABEMA-exclusive broadcast so Japanese commentary will only be available on demand after the event.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 10/15/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour today with the second half of their latest pre-big show doubleheader.

Today’s event was held at Sendai Sun Arena in Sendai and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date, probably Tuesday or Wednesday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 342.

Match 1: Shuhei Taniguchi beat Taishi Ozawa.

Match 2: Extreme Tiger beat Kai Fujimura.

Match 3: Ninja Mack & YO-HEY beat Eita & Super Crazy by DQ. Eita DQ’d. NOSAWA Rongai interference.

Match 4: Masato Tanaka, Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito beat Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Yoshiki Inamura. Tanaka pinned Inaba after Sliding D.

Match 5: Seiki Yoshioka beat Hi69.

Match 6: Yoshinari Ogawa, Chris Ridgeway & Jack Morris beat Kaito Kiyomiya, HAYATA & Yasutaka Yano. Ridgeway beat Yano with an ankle hold.

Main Event: Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya, Tadasuke & Hajime Ohara beat Takashi Sugiura, Satoshi Kojima, Naomichi Marufuji, Atsushi Kotoge & Alejandro. Kenoh pinned Kojima after PFS.

The next event is ABEMA presents DEMOLITION STAGE 2022 in FUKUOKA tomorrow at Fukuoka International Center in Fukuoka. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin TONIGHT at 10:45 PM PT/1:45 AM ET. The Japanese live broadcast is only on ABEMA and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 10/14/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour today with the start of another doubleheader to lead into Sunday’s big event.

Today’s event was held at Kumamoto Castle Hall Civic Hall in Kumamoto and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (probably Monday or Tuesday). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 317.

Match 1: Kai Fujimura beat Taishi Ozawa.

Match 2: Hajime Ohara beat Extreme Tiger & YO-HEY in a 3-way by pinning Tiger.

Match 3: Yoshinari Ogawa, Jack Morris & Yasutaka Yano vs. NOSAWA Rongai, Eita & Super Crazy went to a double countout.

Match 4: Takashi Sugiura. Satoshi Kojima, Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito beat Naomichi Marufuji, Masato Tanaka, Masa Kitamiya & Shuhei Taniguchi. Kojima pinned Taniguchi after Western Lariat.

Match 5: HAYATA & Chris Ridgeway beat Ninja Mack & Alejandro. Ridgeway beat Alejandro with an ankle hold.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Atsushi Kotoge, Yoshiki Inamura, Daiki Inaba & Seiki Yoshioka beat Kenoh, Katsubiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya, Tadasuke & Hi69. Kiyomiya pinned Tadasuke after Transformed Shining Wizard.

The next event is tomorrow at Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai. This will be taped for on demand delivery on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 10/8/22 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH likely wrapped up the STAR NAVIGATION 2022 Tour today with the second half of a Tokyo doubleheader.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 689.

Match 1: Mohammed Yone beat Taishi Ozawa.

Match 2; NOSAWA Rongai, Eita & Super Crazy beat Shuji Kondo, Hajime Ohara & Hi69. Crazy pinned Ohara after Liger Bomb.

Match 3: Extreme Tiger beat Alejandro.

Match 4: Yoshinari Ogawa, Chris Ridgeway & Yasutaka Yano beat Seiki Yoshioka, YO-HEY & Kai Fujimura. Ridgeway beat YO-HEY with an ankle hold.

Match 5: Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya beat Masa Kitamiya, Yoshiki Inamura & Daiki Inaba. Kenoh pinned Inaba after PFS.

Match 6: Tadasuke beat Atsushi Kotoge.

Match 7: Takashi Sugiura, Satoshi Kojima & Naomichi Marufuji beat Masato Tanaka, Masaaki Mochizuki & Kndo Ka Shin. Kojima pinned Mochizuki after Western Lariat.

Main Event: HAYATA & Jack Morris beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Ninja Mack. HAYATA pinned Mack.

The next event is Friday at Kumamoto Castle Hall Civic Hall in Kumamoto. This event will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There will be no live broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 10/7/22 Results (Updated)

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the STAR NAVIGATION 2022 Tour with the first half of another Tokyo doubleheader today, beginning the build to the next blowout event at the end of the month.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. The live broadcast was only on ABEMA in Japan, but for a limited time you can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 625.

Match 1: Kai Fujimura beat Taishi Ozawa.

Match 2: Yoshinari Ogawa, Jack Morris & Yasutaka Yano beat NOSAWA Rongai, Eita & Super Crazy. Morris pinned NOSAWA.

Match 3: Masato Tanaka, Masaaki Mochizuki & Kendo Ka Shin beat Masa Kitamiya, Shuhei Taniguchi & Daiki Inaba. Tanaka pinned Inaba after Sliding D.

Match 4: Shuji Kondo, Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Hi69 beat Atsushi Kotoge, Seiki Yoshioka, YO-HEY & Alejandro. Tadasuke pinned Yoshioka after Jidanda Lariat.

Match 5: HAYATA & Chris Ridgeway beat Ninja Mack & Extreme Tiger. HAYATA pinned Tiger.

Match 6: Kenoh, Masakatsu Funaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya beat Takashi Sugiura, Satoshi Kojima, Naomichi Marufuji & Kazushi Sakuraba. Nakajima pinned Sugiura after Vertical Spike.

Main Event: Kazuyuki Fujita & Hideki Suzuki beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Yoshiki Inamura. Fujita pinned Inamura after a powerbomb.

The next event is tomorrow. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

In post-event news, the main event of 10/16 (Kenoh & Masakatsu Funaki vs. Sakuraba & Hideki Suzuki) and the GHC National Championship match (Funaki vs. Kitamiya and a just-announced GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match (Kojima & Sugiura vs. Kenoh & Nakajima) for 10/30 have been changed to GHC Martial Arts Rules matches. Those rules are as follows: No pinfalls, win by KO, TKO or submission only, ring outs and other fouls will result in a Yellow Card-3 Yellow Cards ends the match by DQ. If a DQ happens because of 3 Yellow Cards, the titles can change hands.

UPDATE: As of just before 10 AM PT/1 PM ET the replay of today’s event is now available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 9/30/22 Results

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.

DEVELOPING: One More Muto Match!

In an unexpected development, Pro Wrestling NOAH announced today that Keiji Muto has added another match to his Retirement Series. Originally scheduled for a pre-event autograph session at DEMOLITION STAGE 2022 on 10/16 at Fukuoka International Center and then to be on commentary for the live ABEMA broadcast, those have been cancelled as Muto, Satoshi Kojima & Ninja Mack vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Jack Morris & HAYATA has now been added to the card. This came about in many requests from fans and partly from Muto himself. The promotion has apologized for the cancellation of the autograph session and commentary.
The event may be broadcast live in English on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. If not, it should be available on demand outside of Japan as soon as the event ends, or shortly after.

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