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Pro Wrestling NOAH kicked off 2025 in Japan today with their annual year-opening blowout event, NOAH THE NEW YEAR 2025, kicking off their 25th Anniversary campaign.

Today’s event was held at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand only as a PPV on ABEMA in select countries, including the US. It will not be available on WRESTLE UNIVERSE until an unknown later date if at all. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 5088. That’s the best number for the promotion in at least a year. I’m guessing based on the setup that was around 80-85% full (the venue’s normal capacity for wrestling, at least what I can remember pre-pandemic, is around 8400, but it only holds maybe 4-5 events per year).

Pre-show match: Tadasuke won a 13 person battle royal, which included a surprise entry by Dump Matsumoto, last eliminating LJ Cleary. Eliminations were by pinfall, submission or over the top rope. Order of elimination: Yu Owada, Yuto Kikuchi, Dump Matsumoto, Saxon Huxley, Masao Inoue, Shuhei Taniguchi, Zozaya, Harutoki, Masaaki Mochizuki, Titus Alexander, Cleary. As a result, Tadasuke gets a GHC Championship match of his choice in the future.

Match 1: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions HAYATA & YO-HEY beat AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki and Alejandro & Kai Fujimura in a 3-way, when HAYATA pinned Alejandro, to retain the titles. V5 for the champs.

Match 2; Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara beat Kazuyuki Fujita, Black Menso-re (Independent/Freelancer), Tetsuya Endo (DDT) & Shuji Ishikawa. Shiozaki pinned Menso-re after Go Lariat.

Match 3: Kazuyuki FUjita vs. Daiki Odashima went to a 1 minute time limit draw.

Match 4: Galeno Del Mal beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr.

Match 5: KENTA (New Japan) beat Kenoh.

Match 6: In a 3 Falls Match, Eita beat GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga 2-1 to win the title. Eita becomes the 57th GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion.

Match 7: GHC National Champion Manabu Soya beat Masa Kitamiya to retain the title. V4 for Soya.

Match 8: Jack Morris & TBA, revealed earlier this week to be Omos (WWE), beat GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura to win the titles. Morris & Omos become the 68th GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Omos pinned Marufuji after a double chokeslam.

Match 9: Shinsuke Nakamura (WWE) beat Ulka Sasaki.

Main Event: OZAWA (Taishi Ozawa) beat GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya to win the title. OZAWA becomes the 46th GHC Heavyweight Champion. HOLY SHIT!!! HOLY SHIT!!! HOLY SHIT!!! EPIC PROPORTIONS UPSET ALERT!!! This changes everything. And that may be a gross understatement.

The next event is NEW YEAR REBOOT 2025 Thursday at Shinjuku Face. There will be no live broadcast outside of Japan. Unfortunately it’s an ABEMA exclusive with no WRESTLE UNIVERSE broadcast (not even English only) scheduled.

In post-event news, while it’s not a title match at this time Ozawa’s first scheduled match as champion will be 1/11 at Korakuen Hall vs. Kenoh.

The promotion has also announced the following events to celebrate its 25th Anniversary in 2025: 3/2 at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama (part of the NOAH Jr. Tag League 2025), 5/3 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, TBA in late June at TBA in Osaka, and 7/19 & 7/20 at Korakuen Hall.

At Pro Wrestling NOAH’s 1/1 Nippon Budokan event, Jack Morris & TBA are challenging for the GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. At a press conference, Morris just revealed who TBA is. You can watch below FOR FREE on YouTube to find out…

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Pro Wrestling NOAH wraps up their 2024 today with another LIMIT BREAK ex. event. Like other events in the series, it will mostly focus on crossover matches with other promotions, in particular the ZERO1/REAL ZERO1 promotion. A title match will be the main event as (ZERO1) World Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki defends against Junya Matsunaga.

Today’s event will be held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. There are 6 matches and none will probably have more than a 30 minute time limit, including the title match, so I anticipate the event’s total running time being around 2 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Yu Owada vs. Satsuki Nagao
The Reeve Masks 1 & 2 vs. Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Black Menso-re
Hajime Ohara, Shuhei Taniguchi & Kohei Kinoshita vs. Masato Tanaka, Takuya Sugawara & Yoshikazu Yokoyama
Mohammed Yone & Shuji Ishikawa vs. Kazuyuki Fujita & Koji Doi
Atsushi Kotoge vs. Koji Iwamoto
ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki vs. Junya Matsunaga for the title

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Updates below will begin at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 15 minutes before the event.

6:55 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The crowd is sitll filing in and it’s probably the normal smaller-capacity setup (the venue’s normal max capacity is 600), with other events happening now around Tokyo plus seeing a number of empty ringside seats I’ll guess the number will be around 250. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 243)

The matches should begin in a few minutes.

The matches begin at 7:03 PM PT/10:03 PM ET.

Match 1: Yu Owada vs. Satsuki Nagao. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yu Owada beat Satsuki Nagao

Match 2: The Reeve Masks 1 & 2 vs. Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Black Menso-re. 20 minute time limit
Result: The Reeve Mask 1 & 2 beat Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Black Menso-re. Mask 1 pinned Menso-re.

Match 3: Hajime Ohara, Shuhei Taniguchi & Kohei Kinoshita vs. Masato Tanaka (now bald), Takuya Sugawara & Yoshikazu Yokoyama. 20 minute time limit
Result: Masato Tanaka, Takuya Sugawara & Yoshikazu Yokoyama beat Hajime Ohara, Shuhei Taniguchi & Kohei Kinoshita. Tanaka pinned Ohara after Sliding D.

Intermission.

The matches resume at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.

Match 4: Mohammed Yone & Shuji Ishikawa vs. Kazuyuki Fujita & Koji Doi. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mohammed Yone & Shuji Ishikawa beat Kazuyuki Fujita & Koji Doi. Yone pinned Doi after Kinniku Muscle Buster.

Match 5: Atsushi Kotoge vs. Koji Iwamoto. 20 minute time limit
Result: Time Limit Draw

Main Event: ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki vs. Junya Matsunaga for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki beat Junya Matsunaga to retain the title. V3 for Shiozaki.

The next event is NOAH THE NEW YEAR 2025, the year-opening blowout event, on 1/1 at Nippon Budokan. Live streaming as a PPV only on ABEMA in select countries, including the US, will begin on 12/31 at 10:15 PM PT/1:15 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran their final STAR NAVIGATION 2024 event of the year today, also featuring their annual NOAHful Gift holiday-themed matches and more.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1205.

Match 1: Luis Mante (Dragon Gate) & Daga beat Eita & Titus Alexander, Naomichi Marufuji & HAYATA and Ulka Sasaki & AMAKUSA in a 4-way when Daga pinned Eita.

Match 2: Kouki Amarei, Takumi Iroha & Utami Hayashishita beat Great Sakuya, Bozilla & Myla Grace. Iroha pinned Grace after Running 3.

Match 3: Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & The Reeve Mask beat Hajime Ohara, Koki Iwamoto & Black Menso-re. Mask pinned Menso-re after The Reeve Press.

Match 4: Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Odashima beat Manabu Soya & Kazuyuki Fujita. Kitamiya pinned Soya after a diving senton.

Match 5: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Yoshitatsu.

Match 6: Go Shiozaki beat Yuji Nagata (New Japan).

Match 7: Alejandro & Junta Claus (Junta Miyawaki) beat Yu Owada & Takashi augiura. Claus pinned Owada after an over the shoulder Falcon Arrow.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Reindeer Fujimura (Kai Fujimura) & Kenoh beat Manabu Soya, Tadasuke & Tree Man (YO-HEY). Kiyomoya pinned Tadasuke after Transformed Shining Wozard.

The next event is a LIMIT BREAK ex. Sunday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring, their final event of the year. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET.

In other news, the promotion announced MONDAY MAGIC will return in 2025, with the next season starting at the end of May and running through June.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 Tour today with another event in Tokyo. None of the matches were announced in advance.

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

The announced paid attendance was 340.

Match 1: AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki beat Tadasuke & Daiki Odashima. Miyawaki pinned Odashima after Falcon Arrow.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya beat Eita & Yu Owada in a 3-way by pinning Owada.

Match 3: Alejandro, Kai Fujimura & Harutoki beat HAYATA, YO-HEY & Yuto Kikuchi. Alejandro pinned HAYATA after Zero Gravity.

Match 4: Kenoh beat Shuhei Taniguchi.

Match 5: Go Shiozaki & Mohammed Yone beat Kazuyuki Fujita & Atsushi Kotoge. Shiozaki pinned Kotoge after Go Lariat.

Match 6: Naomichi Marufuji vs. Ulka Sasaki went to a Double KO.

Match 7: Jack Morris & Daga beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Takashi Sugiura. Morris pinned Sugiura after a tiger driver.

Main Event: GHC National Champion Manabu Soya beat Shuji Kondo to retain the title. V3 for Soya.

The next event is 12/8 at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast (last time this year).

In other news, the full card for 1/1 at Nippon Budokan has been announced:
Pre-show 13 man battle royal. The winner gets a title shot of their choice
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions HAYATA & YO-HEY vs. AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki in a 3-way for the titles
Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara vs. Kazuyuki Fujita, Shuji Ishikawa, Tetsuya Endo & Black Menso-re
Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. Galeno Del Mal
Kenoh vs. Lover (?)
GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga vs. Eita in a 3 1 Hour Matches match for the title
GHC National Champion Manabu Soya vs. Masa Kitamiya for the title
GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura vs. Jack Morris & TBA for the titles
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Ulka Sasaki
GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya vs. OZAWA (Taishi Ozawa) for the title
The event will be a PPV available only on ABEMA. No WRESTLE UNIVERSE until sometime after the event (probably a week).

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran a doubleheader today in Tokyo, with the first event featuring only single matches where each match featured a current or former GHC Heavyweight or National Champion, and the second event being a regular house show.

Today’s events were held at Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

There were many last-minute changes to the second event card based on the results of the first event.

Event 1:
The announced paid attendance was 264.

Match 1: Go Shiozaki beat Kai Fujimura.

Match 2: Jack Morris beat Tadasuke.

Match 3: Kenoh beat Yuto Kikuchi.

Match 4: Ulka Sasaki beat Alejandro.

Match 5: Masa Kitamiya beat HAYATA.

Match 6: Manabu Soya vs. YO-HEY went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Harutoki.

Event 2:
The announced paid attendance was 314.

Match 1: Mohammed Yone beat Yu Owada.

Match 2: Manabu Soya & Go Shiozaki vs. Masa Kitamiya & Ulka Sasaki went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 3: Jack Morris & Daga beat Shuhei Taniguchi & Eita. Daga pinned Eita after Diablo Wings.

Match 4: HAYATA, YO-HEY, Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi beat Atsushi Kotoge, AMAKUSA, Junta Miyawaki & Daiki Odashima. YO-HEY pinned Odashima after a dropkick.

Match 5: Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh, Alejandro, Kai Fujimura & Harutoki beat Anthony Greene, Dragon Bane, Alpha Wolf, LJ Cleary & Black Menso-re (Independent/Freelancer). Kiyomiya pinned Menso-re after Transformed Shining Wizard.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Galeno Del Mal to retain the titles. Marufuji beat Del Mal with a neck lock. V4 for the champs.

The next event is tomorrow at Shinjuku Face. The matches will not be announced in advance. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET. This will also be a live ABEMA broadcast in Japan so there will be Japanese commentary only.

UPDATE: Next up for the tag champs-Jack Morris & TBA, who he will reveal tomorrow. Likely to happen on 1/1 at Nippon Budokan.

UPDATE 2: If a post Taishi Ozawa has made on the socials is legit, he could be the next challenger for Kiyomiya & the GHC Heavyweight Championship on 1/1. He posted a photo holding a contract for the match which he has signed, but Kiyomiya hasn’t yet. Click below and judge for yourself.

https://twitter.com/noah_taishi/status/1862853443712659623

Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up the current season of MONDAY MAGIC today with the final episode.

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

The paid attendance has not been announced but it was a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Ulka Sasaki & Junta Miyawaki vs. Go Shiozaki & Atsushi Kotoge went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Daga beat Eita, HAYATA, AMAKUSA & Alejandro in a 5-way by pinning Alejandro.

Match 3: Bozilla & Nagisa Nozaki vs. Great Sakuya & Takumi Iroha went to a double countout.

Match 4: Naomichi Marufuji beat Yu Owada.

Match 5: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Galeno Del Mal, Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Titus Alexander, Kevin Blackwood, Vinnie Massaro & Anthony Greene. Wagner Jr. pinned Massaro after a moonsault press.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya beat Brian Kendrick to retain the title. V7 for Kiyomiya.

The next event is a doubleheader Saturday at Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo. The first event will be a CHALLENGE BOUT 1 ON 1 event with only single matches, each match featuring a current or former GHC Heavyweight or National Champion to include current champions Kaito Kiyomiya & Manabu Soya. The second event will be a regular SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 event with a GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match scheduled. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE for both events will begin Friday at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET with the second event Saturday at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET. I am planning to do live results for the first event.

Also in case you missed it, the 1/1 event at Nippon Budokan will (unfortunately) be a PPV only on ABEMA. The earliest it might be available on WRESTLE UNVIERSE if plans don’t change is 1/15.

Pro Wrestling NOAH runs another LIMIT BREAK ex. event today, a rare weekend matinee event continuing the series of house shows focused on crossover matches with wrestlers from other promotions. That’s the case in all of the matches today including the main event which is a title match as Go Shiozaki defends the ZERO1 World Heavyweight Championship, commonly just called World Heavyweight Championship, against Shuji Ishikawa.

Today’s event will be held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. I don’t know what the time limits will be yet but nothing will probably be more than 30 minutes, and with just 6 matches I anticipate the event will run just over 2 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Daiki Odashima vs. Junya Matsunaga
The Reeve Mask vs. Black Menso-re
Kazuyuki Fujita, Shuhei Taniguchi & Yu Owada vs. Chris Weiss, Satsuki Nagao & Takuya Sugawara
Mohammed Yone vs. Tomomitsu Matsunaga
Atsushi Kotoge & Kohei Kinoshita vs. Koji Iwamoto & Brian Ishizaka
ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki vs. Shuji Ishikawa for the title

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Updates below will begin at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET.

6:55 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It’s a small setup (the venue’s maximum capacity is roughly 600) but looks like it’ll be mostly full, at least from what we can see on camera. I’ll guess it’ll be in the 200-250 range. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 245)

The matches should begin in a few minutes.

Heads-up, there may be an intermission at the halfway point. It’s also a hard-camera only view.

The matches begin at 7:05 PM PT/10:05 PM ET.

Match 1: Daiki Odashima vs. Junya Matsunaga. 20 minute time limit
Result: Junya Matsunaga beat Daiki Odashima

Match 2: The Reeve Mask vs. Black Menso-re. 20 minute time limit
Result: Draw. Double submission. They both gave up at the same time even though Mask has Menso-re in an armbar. Comedy match.

Match 3: Kazuyuki Fujita, Shuhei Taniguchi & Yu Owada vs. Chris Weiss, Satsuki Nagao & Takuya Sugawara. 20 minute time limit
Result: Chris Weiss, Satsuki Nagao & Takuya Sugawara beat Kazuyuki Fujita, Shuhei Tnaiguchi & Yu Owada. Nagao pinned Owada.

Intermission.

The matches resume at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.

Match 4: Mohammed Yone vs. Tomomitsu Matsunaga. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mohammed Yone beat Tomomitsu Matsunaga

Match 5: Atsushi Kotoge & Kohei Kinoshita vs. Koji Iwamoto & Brian Ishizaka. 20 minute time limit
Result: Atsushi Kotoge & Kohei Kinoshita beat Koji Iwamoto & Brian Ishizaka. Kotoge pinned Ishizaka after Kill Switch. Afterwards, Kotoge with microphone. He challenged Iwamoto to a match for the next LIMIT BREAK event. Seemingly accepted.

Main Event: ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki vs. Shuji Ishikawa for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki beat Shuji Ishikawa to retain the title. V2 for Shiozaki. It almost went the distance, just short of 29 minutes.

The next event is MONDAY MAGIC Season 3 FINAL Monday at Shinjuku Face with GHC Heavyweight Champoion Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Brian Kendrick for the title. The event is a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the penultimate episode of MONDAY MAGIC Season 3 today.

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

The paid attendance was not announced but if not a legit sellout it again was very close (only a few tickets were left before the event).

Match 1: Eita beat LJ Cleary.

Match 2: Kevin Blackwood & Anthony Greene beat Ulka Sasaki & Yu Owada. Blackwood pinned Owada after a diving foot stomp.

Match 3: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Black Menso-re.

Match 4: Kouki Amarei, Natsumi Showzuki & Bozilla beat Miyuki Takase, Sadie Gibbs & Hyan. Bozilla pinned Hyan after a powerbomb.

Match 5: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Galeno Del Mal beat Alejandro & Kai Fujimura, Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf and HAYATA & YO-HEY in a 4-way when Del Mal pinned Alejandro.

Main Event: GHC Hardcore Champion Shuji Ishikawa beat Masato Tanaka to retain the title. V1 for Ishikawa.

The next event is a LIMIT BREAK ex. event Sunday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. I will attempt to do live results but this is dependent on other event conflicts (namely a DDT event at the same time).

UPDATE: The first match for the finale next week has apparently been revealed on the socials: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Brian Kendrick for the title.