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Pro Wrestling NOAH 3/26/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour today with the 3rd day of their 4-day northern Japan tour. Today’s event featured a GHC Jr. Heavyweight Championship match.

Today’s event was held at Mutsu Maeda Arena in Aomori and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date, probably Wednesday morning. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 577.

Match 1: Yasutaku Yano beat Taishi Ozawa.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba beat Kinya Okada & Akitoshi Saito. Kitamiya pinned Okada after Saito Suplex.

Match 3: Ninja Mack & Aleandro beat Super Crazy & Extreme Tiger. Mack pinned Tiger after Ninja Bomb.

Match 4: Saxon Huxley beat Mohammed Yone.

Match 5: YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Yoshinari Ogawa & HAYATA. YO-HEY pinned Ogawa after a dropkick.

Match 6: Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya, Hajime Ohara & Hi69 beat Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, Shuhei Taniguchi, Atsushi Kotoge & Seiki Yoshioka. Nakajima pinned Kotoge after Vertical Spike.

Match 7: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion AMAKUSA beat Lancelot to retain the title. V3 for AMAKUSA.

Main Event: Jake Lee, Jack Morris & Anthony Greene beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Yoshiki Inamura. Morris pinned Wagner after a tiger driver.

The next event is tomorrow at Hachinohe Yutori 1F Multipurpose Large Hall in Aomori. Because of today’s events, some matches have been changed, most notably the main event is now a 10 Man Captains Fall Match between GLG & Kongo. It’s an elimination match but when/if the Captain is eliminated the match immediately ends. GLG will reveal their captain tomorrow. Kongo captain will be Hi69.
There will be no live broadcast.

In other news, the full card for ABEMA presents GREEN JOURNEY 2023 in SENDAI on 4/16 (the next major event) has been announced:
Yasutaka Yano vs. Taishi Ozawa
Hideki Suzuki, Timothy Thatcher & Saxon Huxley vs. Yoshiki Inamura, Kinya Okada & Sean Legacy
Maya Yukihi vs. Sumire Natsu
Naomichi Marufuji, Kaito Kiyomiya, Ninja Mac, Atsushi Kotoge & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Kenoh, Jinsei Shinzaki, Shuji Kondo, Hajime Ohara & Hi69
Dralistico, Dragon Bane & Alejandro vs. Extreme Tiger, Alpha Wolf & Lancelot
GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba vs. Takashi Sugiura & Shuhei Taniguchi for the titles
GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Yoshinari Ogawa & Eita vs. YO-HEY & Tadasuke for the titles
GHC National Champion Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. Jack Morris for the title
GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion AMAKUSA vs. HAYATA for the title
GHC Heavyweight Champion Jake Lee vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima for the title

At this time the event will be an ABEMA-only live broadcast. We should know closer to event time if WRESTLE UNIVERSE will have a live English-only broadcast. If not, it should be available on demand after the event.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 3/25/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour today with the second day of their 4-day tour of northern Japan.

Today’s event was held at Morioka Gym in Iwate and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 297.

Match 1: Kinya Okada beat Taishi Ozawa.

Match 2: Atsushi Kotoge, Seiki Yoshioka & Alejandro beat Yoshinari Ogawa, HAYATA & Yasutaka Yano. Kotoge pinned Yano after Kill Switch.

Match 3: Naomichi Marufuji & Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. beat Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito. Wagner pinned Saito after Wagner Driver.

Match 4: Takashi Sugiura, Shuhei Taniguchi & Saxon Huxley beat Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Yoshiki Inamura. Taniguchi pinned Inaba after a face kick.

Match 5: Lancelot, Extreme Tiger & Super Crazy beat Kaito Kiyomiya, AMAKUSA & Ninja Mack. Lancelot beat AMAKUSA with Samson Clutch.

Main Event: In a 3 Falls Match, Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya, Hajime Ohara & Hi69 beat Jake Lee, Jack Morris, Anthony Greene, YO-HEY & Tadasuke.
Fall 1: Lee pinned Ohara.
Fall 2: Hi69 pinned YO-HEY.
Fall 3: Kenoh pinned Tadasuke.
Kongo wins 2-1.

The next event is tomorrow at Mutsu Maeda Arena in Aomori with AMAKUSA vs. Lancelot for the GHC Jr. Heavyweight Championship. There will be no live broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 3/24/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUBNY VOYAGE 2023 Your today with the start of a 4-day trip through northern Japan for daily house shows.

Today’s event was held at Akita Selion Plaza in Akita and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Monday at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. There was no live broadcast.

The announced pid attendance was 246.

Match 1: Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito beat Kinya Okada & Taishi Ozawa. Saito pinned Ozawa after Iron Claw Slam.

Match 2: Yoshiki Inamura beat Yasutaka Yano.

Match 3: Hajime Ohara & Hi69 beat Atsushi Kotoge & Seiki Yoshioka. Hi69 pinned Kotoge after Stuka Splash.

Match 4: Kaito Kiyomiya, Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba beat Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Shuhei Taniguchi. Kitamiya pinned Taniguchi after Saito Suplex.

Match 5: AMAKUSA, Ninja Mack & Alejandro beat Lancelot, Super Crazy & Extreme Tiger. AMAKUSA pinned Crazy.

Match 6: Manabu Soya vs. Saxon Huxley went to a double countout.

Match 7: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Yoshinari Ogawa & HAYATA beat Jack Morris, YO-HEY & Tadasuke. Wagner pinned Morris after La Serviente Azteca.

Main Event: Kenoh & Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Jake Lee & Anthony Greene. Nakajima pinned Greene after Vertical Spike.

The next event is tomorrow at Morioka Gym in Iwate. There will be no live broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 3/19/23 Results (Updated)

GREAT VOYAGE 2023 in YOKOHAMA, the latest installment of Pro Wrestling NOAH’s signature blowout event series, is now in the books.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1308. The venue was at 50% capacity and only has a full max capacity of 3000, so this actually is much better than it sounds given the sellout would’ve been around 1500. Possibly a super full house as it’s near 90% full.

Match 1: Yasutaka Yano beat Taishi Ozawa.

Match 2: Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY, Seiki Yoshioka & Alejandro beat Shuji Kondo, Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Hi69. Kotoge pinned Tadasuke.

Match 3: Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Kinya Okada.

Match 4: Hideki Suzuki & Saxon Huxley beat Mohammed Yone & Yoshiki Inamura. Huxley pinned Yone after a neck hanging bomb.

Match 5: Shuhei Taniguchi beat Takashi Sugiura.

Match 6: Jake Morris & Anthony Greene beat Naomichi Marufuji & Hijo de. Dr. Wagner Jr. Morris pinned Wagner after Tiger Driver.

Match 7: Extreme Tiger & Lancelot beat AMAKUSA & Ninja Mack. Lancelot beat AMAKUSA after Broken Bomb.

Match 8: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba beat Kenoh & Manabu Soya to retain the titles. Kitamiya pinned Soya after a diving senton. V1 for the champs.

Match 9: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Yoshinari Ogawa & Eita beat HAYATA & Chris Ridgeway to retain the titles. Ogawa beat Ridgeway with a Figure 4. V2 for the champs.

Main Event: Jake Lee beat GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya to win the title. Lee becomes the 42nd GHC Heavyweight Chanpion. This went 35 1/2 minutes. Next up: Nakajima. That match will happen on 4/16 at Xebio Arena Sendai as will Wagner Jr. vs. Morris for the GHC National Championship. Kitamiya & Inaba will also defend the GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Sugiura & Taniguchi and women’s action returns to NOAH with Maya Yukihi vs. Sumire Natsu.

The next event is Friday at Akita Selion Plaza in Akita to start 4 straight days with events continuing the never-ending SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour. There will be no live broadcast (all 4 events will be available on demand next week).

UPDATE: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion AMAKUSA vs. Lancelot for the title has been added to 3/26 as fallout from this event.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 3/14/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the never-ending SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour today with the final house show before next weekend’s blowout event.

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

The announced paid attendance was 254.

Match 1: Shuhei Taniguchi & Yaustaku Yano beat Kinya Okada & Taishi Ozawa. Yano pinned Ozawa.

Match 2: Kenoh beat Daiki Inaba by ref stoppage (KO).

Match 3: Manabu Soya beat Masa Kitamiya.

Match 4: Extreme Tiger, Super Crazy & Lancelot beat Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Hi69. Lancelot pinned Hi69 after Spanish Fly.

Match 5: HAYATA beat Yoshinari Ogawa.

Match 6: Chris Ridgeway beat Eita.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya & YO-HEY beat Jake Lee & Anthony Greene. Kiyomiya pinned Greene with a Japanese leg roll clutch hold.

The next event is GREAT VOYAGE 2023 in YOKOHAMA Sunday at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. This is an ABEMA-exclusive broadcast so Japanese will only be available on demand. (The venue likely will be at only 50% capacity so the attendance will likely sound worse than it actually is)

Pro Wrestling NOAH 3/9/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the never-ending STAR NAVIGATION 2023 Tour today, an event that abruptly took on a different tone last week when top Jr. Heavyweight Daisuke Harada announced he was being forced to retire due to a neck injury suffered last year. He returned today for a quick exhibition match before retiring.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The live broadcast was English only as it was an ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan.

The announced paid attendance was 1310. The promotion didn’t say this but based on recent capacity numbers for Korakuen events this may have been a legit sellout. If not it likely was close.

Match 1: Shuji Kondo, Tadasuke & Hajime Ohara beat Konya Okada, Yasutaka Yano & Taisho Ozawa. Tadasuke pinned Ozawa after Jidanda Lariat to the back of the head.

Match 2: Super Crazy, Extreme Tiger & Lancelot beat YO-HEY, Seiki Yoshioka & Alejandro. Lancelot pinned Yoshioka after Lancelot Fly.

Match 3: Daisuke Harada Retirement Match: In an Exhibition Match, Daisuke Harada vs. Atsushi Kotoge went to a 1 minute time limit draw.

Match 4: Takashi Sugiura, Kazuyuki Fujita & Hideki Suzuki beat Naomichi Marufuji, Masaaki Mochizuki & Shuhei Taniguchi by ref stoppage. Sugiura beat Taniguchi with a front neck lock.

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

Match 6: Eita beat HAYATA by DQ. Belt use.

Match 7: Chris Ridgeway beat Yoshinari Ogawa by submission.

Match 8: Jake Lee & Anthony Greene beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Atsushi Kotoge. Lee pinned Kotoge after a skewered front high kick.

Main Event: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion AMAKUSA beat Hi69 to retain the title. V2 for AMAKUSA.

The next event is Tuesday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama, continuing the also-never-ending SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET (for those in the US, remember the spring time change happens this Sunday so we go forward 1 hour).

NOAH News: Kenoh 15th Anniversary Event, Muto PPV Now Available To All

Some NOAH news:

A Kenoh 15th Anniversary event has been announced for 6/24/23 at Tokugin Tokoni Arena (formerly Tokushima City Gym) in Tokushima. Ticket details have been announced but not on sale dates. Kenoh started out in the small Michinoku Pro promotion in northeastern Japan as Ou Kuboshi (sp?) in 2008 before coloring his jet-black hair blonde and changing his name to Kenoh and moving up to NOAH and forming the Kongo faction.

If you weren’t able to watch it live or didn’t want to pay $30-40 extra for it, the 2/21 Keiji Muto Retirement Event is now available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE for all monthly paying subscribers. Both Japanese and English commentary versions are available. The January Tokyo Joshi Pro 10th Anniversary PPV is now available to all as well.

Additionally, there was some NOAH participation in today’s Michinoku Pro event. You will be able to watch it on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE starting Wednesday.

BREAKING: Top NOAH Jr. Heavyweight Retiring

At a press conference earlier today, top Pro Wrestling NOAH Jr. Heavyweight Daisuke Harada announced he will retire at the 3/9 event at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Harada is retiring due to a neck injury suffered last August on doctor’s advice, and will finish his career with a 1 minute exhibition match against Atsushi Kotoge. There likely will be a retirement ceremony afterwards. The match eill be the 3rd match on the card.

Harada debuted in Osaka Pro in 2006 and has been with NOAH since 2013, and has been one of the top Jr. Heavyweights in NOAH over the last decade and formed one of the top tag teams in Japan with Kotoge dating back to Osaka Pro.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 2/21/23 Results (Updated x3)

It was the end of an era today in Japan as The Living Legend, Keiji Muto, took his final curtain call and retired after nearly 40 years in wrestling. If there was a major accomplishment to be won in Japan, he probably won it and more since coming out of the New Japan Dojo in 1984 as part of the famed 3 Musketeers with Masa Chono and the late Shinya Hashimoto. The puroresu world came together today under the Pro Wrestling NOAH banner to wish Muto a fond farewell.

Today’s event was held at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo and can be watched on demand as a PPV ONLY on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. You have one week to watch. No word on when/if a non-paywall version will be available. But you can also watch the first 5 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 30,096.

Match 1: Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba beat Yoshiki Inamura & Yasutaka Yano. Kitamura pinned Yano after Saito Suplex.

Match 2: Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling Provided Match: Yuka Sakazaki, Miyu Yamashita, Shoko Nakajima & Rika Tatsumi beat Mizuki, Maki Itoh, Miyu Watanabe & Yuki Arai. Sakazaki pinned Arai after Magical Girl Chicken Bastard. (For The Love Of God…)

Match 3: Jake Lee, Jack Morris & Anthony Greene beat Takashi Sugiura, Satoshi Kojima & Timothy Thatcher. Lee pinned Thatcher after a skewered front high kick.

Match 4: Yoshinari Ogawa, Eita, HAYATA, Chris Ridgeway & Daga beat Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY, Seiki Yoshioka, Alejandro & Junta Miyawaki. Ridgeway beat Miyawaki with a leg capture chicken wing. This marked the return of HAYATA from an injury that cost him the GHC Jr. Heavyweight Championship last year in a match against Ninja Mack.

Match 5: DDT Provided Match: MAO, Shunma Katsumata, Yuki Ueno & Toui Kojima beat Tetsuya Endo, Hideki Okatani, Yuya Koroku & Takeshi Masada. Ueno pinned Masada after WR.

Match 6: Naomichi Marufuji, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Ninja Mack beat Shun Skywalker, KAI & Diamante (Dragon Gate). Wagner pinned KAI after a moonsault press.

Match 7: Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya beat Kento Miyahara, Suwama & Yuma Aoyagi (All-Japan). Kenoh pinned Aoyagi after PFS.

Match 8: NOSAWA Rongai Retirement Match: Gedo & Taiji Ishimori (New Japan) beat NOSAWA Rongai & MAZADA. Ishimori pinned NOSAWA after Bloody Cross.

Match 9: Hiromu Takahashi (New Japan) beat AMAKUSA.

Match 10: Kazuchika Okada (New Japan) beat Kaito Kiyomiya. This was changed last-minute to No Time Limit. (It went about 16 1/2 minutes)

Main Event: Keiji Muto Retirement Match: Tetsuya Naito (New Japan) beat Keiji Muto. They went almost 30 minutes. Which led to…
Impromptu Special Match: Masa Chono beat Keiji Muto by submission in 97 seconds. Tiger Hattori was special referee. Proper sendoff, no better way than against his fellow Musketeer, still the coolest cat in the house after all these years.

Just as I was about to post this, GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Jake Lee for the title was announced for 3/19.

The next event is 3/9 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. This is currently scheduled to be an ABRMA-only live broadcast, so it should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE immediately after the event.

UPDATE: Some notes from post-match comments:
Satoshi Kojima says he is now done on NOAH. Immediate future TBA.
Junta Miyawaki reportedly is returning to Mexico and will stay there indefinitely for further training and experience.
Lee made a GHC Heavyweight Championship challenge after Okada-Kiyomiya.
Some NOAH crossover matches were hinted at for the 2/27 All-Japan event, in particular with Kongo involvement. Possibly an All-Japan World Tag Team Title match involving Soya & Kenoh and maybe Miyahara-Nakajima, who have a lot of history from their days in Kensuke Office/Diamond Ring.
Muto says his retirement is definite and no in-ring comebacks. He plans to continue training for health reasons (he has two artificial knees and needs to keep his leg strength built up to be able to keep walking). Before his comments he received a ceremonial flower bouquet from SKE48 member Jurina Matsui, who occasionally is a guest commentator for events on ABEMA & WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

UPDATE 2: The Dragon Gate Official English Facebook Page reports Diamante suffered an elbow injury during his match. Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. expressed concern for Diamante in post-match comments. Out at least the rest of this week and off Dragon Gate events tomorrow and Saturday.

UPDATE 3: The 3/9 event will now be LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only. It’s an ABEMA-only stream in Japan.

FREE VIDEO: 2/21/23 Tokyo Dome Press Conference

The final press conference for the Keiji Muto Retirement Event tomorrow at the Tokyo Dome was held earlier today. You can watch below FOR FREE (this is the version from New Japan’s YouTube channel. It is also available on Pro Wrestling NOAH’s YouTube):

https://www.youtube.com/live/gBXx9CXODQc?feature=share