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Pro Wrestling NOAH 5/4/22 Reaults & News

Pro Wrestling NOAH began their May schedule today with the opener of the Dream On 22 Tour. It began with the first half of a Golden Week doubleheader and was headlined by a GHC Tag Team Title match.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokkyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later time/date. It was an ABEMA-only live broadcast in Japan only.

The announced paid attendance was 645. It appears they are still reduced capacity at Korakuen even though they previously said they intended to run full capacity by now. If still reduced, this likely was a near-sellout.

Match 1: Simon Gotch beat Kinya Okada.

Match 2: NOSAWA Rongai, Texano Jr. & Super Crazy beat Alejandro, Kai Fujimura & Yasutaka Yano. Texano pinned Fujimura after Road To Texas.

Match 3: Dragon Bane, Ninja Mack & Alpha Wolf beat Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Hi69 (formerly Nioh). Wolf pinned Hi69 after Night Wolf.

Match 4: Michael Elgin & Masa Kitamiya beat Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya. Elgin pinned Nakajima after Elgin Bomb.

Match 5: HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa, Chris Ridgeway, Seiki Yoshioka & Yuya Susumu beat Daisuke Harada, Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY, Haoh & Junta Miyawaki. Yoshioka pinned YO-HEY after Buzzsaw Kick.

Match 6: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Ninja Mack.

Match 7: Satoshi Kojima (New Japan Pro Wrestling), Naomichi Marufuji & Masato Tanaka beat Go Shiozaki, Daiki Inaba & Yoshiki Inamura. Kojima pinned Shiozaki after a lariat.

Main Event: Rene Dupree & Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. beat GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Takasho Sugiura & Hideki Suzuki to win the titles. Dupree & Wagner Jr. become the 59th GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Wagner Jr. pinned Sugiura after a moonsault press.

The next event is tomorrow. There has been a late change because Yasutaka Yano is now off due to injuries. Head and face. It’s not known how long he may be out. He was to have teamed with HAYATA, Yuya Susumu & Seiki Yoshioka to face Alejandro, Alpha Wolf, Dragon Bane & Extreme Tiger. Kai Fujimura is the replacement.

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

The usual post-event news dump:
Added to 5/14 at Yokohama Radiant Hall (N INNOVATION) are Chris Ridgeway vs. Seiki Yoshioka and Simon Gotch & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Kaito Kiyomiya & Yuya Susumu.

Added to 5/19 at Yokohama Radiant Hall is HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa & Chris Ridgeway vs. Seiki Yoshioka, Yuya Susumu & Kai Fujimura.

Added to 5/21 at Ota City General Gym (tour ender) is NEW GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Yoshinari Ogawa & Chris Ridgeway vs. Seiki Yoshioka & Yuya Susumu for the titles. At this time this event will be an ABEMA-ONLY live broadcast.

The 2022 N-1 Victory Tournament has been announced. This year’s edition will be the August tour with the exception of 8/3 and will conclude on 9/3. Further details to come.

Pro Wrestling NOAH MAJESTIC 2022 Post-Event News/Fallout

As is typical after a major NOAH event, there is a lot of news/fallout to report:

First up, WWE Hall of Famer and ECW legend Rob Van Dam has been announced for CyberFight Festival 2022 on 6/12. More to come.

Keiji Muto will return on 5/21 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo, He has been out almost all of this year so far due to injury. In his return match, he will team with Naomichi Marufuji & Satoshi Kojima to face Go Shiozaki, Kaito Kiyomiya & Masato Tanaka.

Satoshi Kojima, currently with New Japan Pro Wrestling, is likely going to work the entire May tour and through CyberFight Festival. New Japan is running their annual Best Of The Super Junior Tournament after tomorrow’s (5/1/22) blowout event so the bigger guys are likely going to be inactive for close to 2 months. Kojima is a former GHC Heavyweight Champion and one of extremely few wrestlers to complete the 21st Century Japan Triple Crown of winning the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, All-Japan Triple Crown and GHC Heavyweight Championship during their career. The others? Muto. I believe that’s it. 5/21 will be an English-only live broadcast on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The now-former Nioh, forced to change his ring name after losing a Loser Ring Name Deprivation Match & Hair vs. Hair Match to Haoh on Friday, will be changing his name to Hi69. This was his original ring name when he debuted in the small (and maybe now defunct) KAIENTAI DOJO promotion in the early 2000s before he later changed it to HIROKI, and then to Nioh upon joining NOAH in 2016. His NOAH website profile has been updated with the new name.

Pro Wrestling NOAH WRESTLE UNIVERSE Presents MAJESTIC 2022 Results (4/30/22)

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the main portion of MAJESTIC 2022 today, a full blowout event with 3 title matches and a bit of card shuffling at the top. Kazuyuki Fujita missed the event and had to vacate the GHC Heavyweight Championship due to coronaviris and Kaito Kiyomiya got his wish to face Go Shiozaki for the title, leaving Naomichi Marufuji with a mystery partner in their match.

Today’s event was held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. Keiji Muto was a special guest on commentary.


The announced paid attendance was 2077. Much better than yesterday but still on the low side.

Match 1: Slex & Kai Fujimura beat Alejandro & Yasutaka Yano. Slex pinned Yano after Close Of Business.

Match 2: Manabu Soya, Tadasuke & Hajime Ohara beat King Tany, Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito. Soya pinned Yone after Ballistic.

Match 3: HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa, Chris Ridgeway, Seiki Yoshioka & Yuya Susumu beat NOSAWA Rongai, Eita, Texano Jr., Super Crazy & Kotaro Suzuki by DQ. Eita DQ’d. Low blow.

Match 4: Kazushi Sakuraba & Kendo Ka Shin beat Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii (Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling). Ka Shin pinned Mochizuki.

Match 5: Rene Dupree & Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. (Son of Dr. Wagner Jr.) beat Masato Tanaka & Daiki Inaba. Wagner Jr. pinned Inaba after a moonsault press.

Match 6: Michael Elgin beat Masa Kitamiya.

Match 7: GHC National Champion Masakatsu Funaki beat Simon Gotch by ref stoppage (technical submission) to retain the title. V3 for Funaki.

Match 8: Dragon Bane, Alpha Wolf, Extreme Tiger & Ninja Mack beat Daisuke Harada, Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY & Junta Miyawaki. Bane pinned Miyawaki after Bane Twister.

Match 9: Naomichi Marufuji & TBA, who turned out to be Satoshi Kojima (New Japan Pro Wrestling), beat Yoshiki Inamura & Kinya Okada. Kojima pinned Okada after a lariat.
(This was to have been Marufuji & Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Inamura & Okada, but Kiyomiya was removed due to being placed in the main event. Kojima was the mystery replacement)

Match 10: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Takashi Sugiura & Hideki Suzuki beat Kenoh & Katsuhiko Nakajima to retain the titles. Suzuki pinned Nakajima with a double arm suplex. V1 for the champs. Next up: Dupree & Wagner Jr. That match will happen on Wednesday at Korakuen Hall.

Main Event: Go Shiozaki beat Kaito Kiyomiya to win the vacant GHC Heavyweight Championship. Shiozaki becomes the 38th GHC Heavyweight Champion. And once again the subject of certain Let’s Go! puns. Next up: Kojima. That match will be the potential main event of CyberFight Festical 2022 on 6/12. It should be noted that New Japan is running their annual Best Of The Super Junior Tournament over the next 2 months after tomorrow’s blowout event, so most if not all the heavyweights like Kojima are possibly able to work other events like this.


More fallout and upcoming card updates will be posted in a separate post.

The next event is the Dream On 2022 Tour opener Wednesday at Korakuen Hall. This is an ABEMA-only live stream so WRESTLE UNIVERSE video will be ON DEMAND ONLY. This will be followed by a second event on Thursday that is a WRESTLE UNIVERSE live broadcast, with live streaming beginning at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. Also note that although NOAH’s website lists a 5/7 event in Fukushima for the end of next week, it has been CANCELLED due to damage to the venue (Big Palette Fukushima) following a major earthquake earlier this year.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ABEMA Presents MAJESTIC 2022-N INNOVATION Results (4/29/22)

Pro Wrestling NOAH began the 2-day MAJESTIC 2022 blowout event today with the monthly N INNOVATION event, the new monthly series spotlighting the promotion’s deep Jr. Heavyweight division with their biggest event so far.

Today’s event was held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English. Remember there is now a new trial option that allows new subscribers to watch for 2 weeks FOR FREE! Cancel before the end of day 13 (Japan time) and pay nothing. Take advantage!

The announced paid attendance was 1585. There are still capacity limits in place but still, as has often been the case with their big shows lately, on paper that does not sound like a good number.

Match 1: Ikuto Hidaka beat Kai Fujimura by submission.

Match 2: Slex beat Yasutaka Yano.

Match 3: Kotaro Suzuki vs. Yuya Susumu went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

Match 4: NOSAWA Rongai, Texano Jr. & Super Crazy beat Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Shuji Kondo (Big Japan). Texano pinned Tadasuke after Road To Texas.

Match 5: In a Loser Ring Deprivation Match, also possibly a Hair vs. Hair Match as well, Haoh beat Nioh. As a result, Nioh loses his ring name, and possibly his hair. (Will verify when I watch a replay later today)

Match 6: Extreme Tiger beat Seiki Yoshioka.

Match 7: Shun Skywalker, H•Y•O & SB KENTo (Dragon Gate) beat Daisuke Harada, Alejandro & Junta Miyawaki. Skywalker pinned Alejandro after SSW.

Match 8: Ninja Mack beat Alpha Wolf & Dragon Bane in a 3-way elimination match. Bane first eliminated Wolf, then Mack beat Bane.

Match 9: Yoshinari Ogawa & Chris Ridgeway beat GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Atsushi Kotoge & YO-HEY to win the titles. Ogawa & Ridgeway become the 50th GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Ridgeway beat Kotoge with a stretch muffler hold.

Main Event: HAYATA beat GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion Eita to win the title. HAYATA becomes the 49th GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion.

Detailed match recaps & grades will follow later today. But for now it’s all about Stinger as they have the belts back.

Day 2 is tomorrow with a regular event. And it’s now official-the main event will be Go Shiozaki vs. Kaito Kiyomiya for the vacant GHC Heavyweight Championship. Kiyomiya was to have been in a tag team match with Naomichi Marufuji, who will now have the vaunted TBA as a replacement. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin TONIGHT at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET. So you dedicated fans should stock up on caffeine now and, between WWE, AEW, Tokyo Joshi Pro and this, get ready for an all-night epic wrestling marathon!

The next N INNOVATION will be on 5/14 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. The first match was announced after today’s event, it’s Harada vs. H•Y•O.

BREAKING: 4/30 NOAH Main Event Off (Updated)

Pro Wrestling NOAH announced a short time ago that Saturday’s MAJESTIC 2022 main event is off for now. GHC Heavyweight Champion Kazuyuki Fujita, who was to have defended against Go Shiozaki, has tested positive for the coronavirus. Replacement details TBA.

Updates to come…

UPDATE: The GHC Heavyweight Championship is now VACANT. Fujita has vacated the title. Determination match between Go Shiozaki & TBA on Saturday to crown a new champion will be the replacement. TBA will be announced Friday but Yahoo News Japan reports Kaito Kiyomiya wants to be the TBA even though he’s already in another match.

Pro Wrestling NOAH: New Stips For 4/29 Matches

Pro Wrestling NOAH has announced new stipulations for two matches that are part of N INNOVATION on 4/29:
The match of Dragon Bane vs. Alpha Wolf & Ninja Mack in a 3-way is now an elimination match, meaning instead of one fall it only ends when the other two wrestlers have been beaten.

The match of Haoh vs. Nioh in a Loser Ring Deprivation Match, where the loser also loses their current ring name, now will also be a Hair vs. Hair Match. The loser also will lose their hair.

Friday’s event begins at 4 AM ET/1 AM PT and will be broadcast LIVE and on demand in English on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. (This is an ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan)

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