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Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 Tour today in Shizuoka.

Today’s event was held at Act City Hamamatsu in Shizuoka and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Thursday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 289.

Match 1: Yoshitatsu beat Daiki Odashima.

Match 2: Junta Miyawaki beat Tadasuke & Yu Owada in a 3-way by pinning Owada.

Match 3: Mohammed Yone & Kai Fujimura beat AMAKUSA & Super Crazy. Yone pinned Crazy after Kinniku Muscle Buster.

Match 4: Ulka Sasaki & Eita beat Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf. Eita pinned Wolf.

Match 5: YO-HEY beat Hajime Ohara.

Match 6: HAYATA vs. Atsushi Kotoge went to a no contest.

Match 7: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Galeno Del Mal beat Manabu Soya & Shuji Kondo. Wagner Jr. pinned Kondo after a jumping DDT.

Main Event: Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Masa Kitamya beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh & Alejandro. Kitamiya pinned Alejandro after Saito Suplex.

The next event is Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama for a LIMIT BREAK ex. event. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 Tour today in Tokyo.

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

The announced paid attendance was 285.

Match 1: Kenoh beat Daiki Odashima.

Match 2: Shuji Kondo & Eita beat Dragon Bane & Tadasuke. Kondo pinned Tadasuke after a King Kong lariat.

Match 3: Takashi Sugiura & Ulka Sasaki beat Shuhei Taniguchi & Kai Fujimura. Sasaki pinned Taniguchi with a backdrop hold.

Match 4: Daga & Alpha Wolf beat AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki. Daga pinned Miyawaki with La Magistral.

Match 5: Galeno Del Mal beat Yu Owada.

Match 6: Manabu Soya, HAYATA & YO-HEY beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara. Soya pinned OHara after Michinoku Driver 2.

Main Event: Naomichi Marufuji & Masa Kitamiya beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Alejandro. Kitamiya beat Kiyomiya with Prison Lock.

The next event is Monday at Act City Hamamatsu in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH resumed the never-ending SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 Tour today in Saitama.

Today’s event was held at Kaaukabe Fureai Cube in Saitama and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Thursday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 356.

Match 1: AMAKUSA beat Daiki Odashima by submission.

Match 2: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Mohammed Yone & Shuhei Taniguchi. Bane pinned Taniguchi after Twister Bane.

Match 3: Super Crazy beat Yu Owada.

Match 4: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Galeno Del Mal & Daga beat Manabu Soya, Ulka Sasaki & Junta Miyawaki. Daga pinned Miyawaki with La Magistral.

Match 5: Shuji Kondo, Eita, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara beat HAYATA, YO-HEY, Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi. Kotoge pinned YO-HEY after Kill Switch.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh, Alejandro & Cristobal beat Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, Masa Kitamiya & Kai Fujimura. Alejandro pinned Sugiura.

The next event is Saturday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

In fallout from today, Kotoge & Ohara have been given a GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship shot. That match will happen on 9/30. And despite being a Junior Heavyweight, Alejandro’s stunning upset by pinning Sugiura today means a GHC Heavyweight Championship chance with Kenoh as his partner. That match will happen on 10/14 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran this month’s STAR NAVIGATION 2024 event today, saying farewell to Ryohei Oiwa before the Young Lion returns to New Japan upon completion of his traditional training excursion, which he chose to spend in Japan instead of going overseas like most do.

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 due to ABEMA exclusives in Japan. Former NOAH wrestler Tamon Honda was a special guest on Japanese commentary. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1391.

Match 1: Daiki Odashima Debut Match: Yu Owada beat Daiki Odashima by submission. Odashima was trained by Honda so he got to watch his latest protege begin his pro career.

Match 2: Shuji Kondo & Eita beat Shuhei Taniguchi & Kai Fujimura. Eita pinned Fujimura after Imperial Uno.

Match 3: Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Masa Kitamiya beat Kenoh, Alejandro & Cristobal. Kitamiya pinned Cristobal after Saito suplex.

Match 4: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Galeno Del Mal & Daga beat Dragon Bane, Alpha Wolf & Super Crazy. Del Mal pinned Crazy after Galeno Special.

Match 5: HAYATA, YO-HEY, Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi beat AMAKUSA, Atsushi Kotoge, Hajime Ohara & Junta Miyawako. YO-HEY pinned Kotoge after a dropkick. This was the first official NOAH match for Kikuchi as a member of the promotion (he previously competed on some LIMIT BREAK events, he previously was a member of Dotonbori Pro Wrestling but joined NOAH on 9/1 on the recommendation of Daisuke Harada).

Match 6: Manabu Soya beat GHC National Champion Ulka Sasaki to win the title. Soya becomes the 13th GHC National Champion.

Main Event: Ryohei Oiwa Final NOAH Match: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Ryohei Oiwa by submission. The match went over 27 minutes. As noted earlier, Oiwa is now headed back to New Japan although when he will resume competing there is not yet known.

The usual post-big event news/fallout:
First up for Soya: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., the most dominant GHC National Champion to date. That match will happen on 10/14 at Korakuen
GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Masa Kitamiya for the title is also now official for 10/14.
10/14 will be the final Korakuen match for Akitoshi Saito before his retirement in November. That match will be Saito, Shiro Koshinaka & AKIRA vs. Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone & Atsushi Kotoge.
The 4th match now set for 10/14 is Josh Barnett & Ulka Sasaki vs. Masakatsu Funaki & Kazyyuki Fujita.
Daiki Odashima, after his debut today, faces AMAKUSA tomorrow then gets quite the step up after that in his third career match-Kenoh. That match will happen on 9/21 at Shinjuku Face.

The next event is Monday at Kasukabe Fureai Cube in Saitama. There will be no live broadcast.

UPDATE: In outside-the-ring news, congratulations to NOAH semi-regular LJ Cleary on his announcement of becoming engaged to current WWE wrestler Lyra Valkyria, which was made on Cleary’s Instagram.

Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up their UK weekend tour earlier today with the final event in England.

Today’s event was held at the Electric Ballroom in London, England. There was no live broadcast and no on demand broadcast T this time.

The announced paid attendance was 304.

Match 1: LJ Cleary beat AMAKUSA.

Match 2: Manabu Soya beat Gene Munny.

Match 3: Kenoh & Ulka Sasaki beat Kieron Lacey & Mark Trew. Sasaki pinned Lacey with a backdrop hold.

Match 4: Dragom Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Jack Morris & Tate Mayfairs. Bane pinned Mayfairs after Santa Maria.

Match 5: Naomichi Marufuji & Saxon Huxley beat Axel Tiacher & Taishi Ozawa. Huxley pinned Ozawa after a neck hanging bomb.

Match 6: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions HAYATA & YO-HEY beat Kid Lycos & Lycos 2 to retain the titles. YO-HEY pinned Lycos after Super Face G. V1 for the champs.

Match 7: Progress Wrestling Men’s World Champion Luke Jacobs beat Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura in a 3-way by pinning Inamura to retain the title.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya beat Ricky Knight Jr. to retain the title. V4 for Kiyomiya.

The next event is Saturday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin at 2:40 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. This will be an ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan.

UPDATE: Next up for Kiyomiya-if he has his way, Masa Kitamiya. When is TBA. Also, Inamura states post-match he will not return to NOAH and instead go on another international training excursion.

UPDATE 2 (9/11/24): All 3 UK events will be available on WRESTLE UNIVERSE on 9/26 at 6 AM PT/9 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH is on a weekend tour of the UK this weekend, running 2 events co-produced with the independent promotion Progress Wrestling. The tour wraps up today but we now have results from the first 2 events.

Friday;s event was held at O2 Academy n Edinburgh, Scotland. There was no live broadcast and it’s not known if it will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date.

The announced paid attendance was 240.

Match 1; AMAKUSA & TO-HEY beat Mark Trew & Kieron Lacey. YO-HEY pinned Trew after a dropkick.

Match 2: Naomichi Marufuji & Grado beat HAYATA & Tate Mayfairs. Marufuji pinned Mayfairs after Shiraniu.

Match 3: Ulka Sasaki beat LJ Cleary by submission.

Match 4: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf vs. Kid Lycos & Lycos 2 went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 5: Kenoh beat Gene Munny.

Match 6: Axel Tischer beat Taishi Ozawa.

Match 7: Yoshiki Inamura beat Will Kroos.

Match 7: Ricky Knight Jr. beat Manabu Soya. I think…NOAH’s official website also has graphics that suggest it could have been a Double KO.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya & Masa Kitamiya beat Jack Morris & Saxon Huxley. Kiyomiya pinned Hucley after Transformed Shining Wizard.

Yesterday’s event was held at The O2 Ritz in Manchester, England.

The announced paid attendance was 420.

Match 1: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Mark Trew & Kieron Lacey. Bane pinned Trew after Santa Maria.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya beat Gene Munny.

Match 3: Luke Jacobs beat Taishi Ozawa.

Match 4: Kid Lycos & Lycos 2 beat Jack Morris & YO-HEY. Lycos pinned YO-HEY after a oackage DDT. This led to a card change for today’s event, namely the Lycoses getting a GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship shot.

Match 5: Naomichi Marufuji & AMAKUSA Beat Ulka Sasaki & LJ Cleary. Marufuji pinned Cleary after Shiranui.

Match 6: Yoshiki Inamura beat Charlie Sterling.

Match 7: Saxon Huxley & HAYATA beat Manabu Soya & Tate Mayfairs. Huxley pinned Mayfairs after a neck hanging bomb.

Main Event: Ricky Knight Jr. & Axel Tischer beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Kenoh. Knight pinned Kiyomiya after Goodnight Dricer. Momentum for their previously-announced GHC Heavyweight Championship match today.

The tour-ender is today at The Electric Ballroom in London, England, and is currently in progress as of this post. Results will be posted when available. There is no live broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up the N-1 VICTORY Tournament today with the Finals, which in a first-time twist was also for the GHC Heavyweight Championship.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE and ABEMA Live (the live broadcast was free on both). You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1537. Not sure how much it may have been affected by weather (hurricane/typhoon-the promotion decided Friday the event would go on as scheduled).

Match 1: Alejandro beat Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Super Crazu in a 4-way by pinning Crazy.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya beat Junta Miyawaki.

Match 3: Titus Alexander, Ryohei Oiwa & Kai Fujimura beat Jack Morris, Ulka Sasaki & Yu Owada. Alexander pinned Owada after Big Ugly.

Match 4: Manabu Soya & Tavion Heights (WWE) beat Kazuyuki Fujita & Yoshitatsu (Independent/Freelancer). Heights pinned Yoshitatsu after Heights Bomb.

Match 5: Takumi Iroha, Great Sakuya, Miyuki Takase & Sandra Moon beat Miku Aono, Kouki Amarei, Bozilla & Kizuna Tanaka. Iroha pinned Tanaka after a running knee.

Match 6: Josh Briggs (WWE) beat Yoshiki Inamura.

Match 7: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Galeno Del Mal & Luis Mante (Dragon Gate) beat Shun Skywalker (Dragon Gate), Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf. Mante pinned Bane after Vuelta Finale.

Match 8: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura beat Akitoshi Saito & Mohammed Yone by ref stoppage to retain the titles. Sugiura beat Saito with a front neck lock. V2 for the champs.

Match 9: Daga beat GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion AMAKUSA to win the title. Daga becomes the 56th GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion.

Match 10: HAYATA & YO-HEY beat GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Shuji Kondo & Eita to win the titles. HAYATA & YO-HEY become the 61st GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. HAYATA pinned Eita after Hedeck.

Main Event: N-1 VICTORY 2024 Finals: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya beat Kenoh to win the tournament and retain the title. V3 for Kiyomiya. Next up: Since Kiyomiya won the tournament, TBA.

Post-event news/fallout:
Ryohei Oiwa’s training excursion from New Japan to NOAH will end this month. His final NOAH match will be on 9/14 at Korakuen Hall against Kiyomiya in a NON-TITLE match. 9/14 will also have a GHC National Championship match as Ulka Sasaki defends against Manabu Soya.

The next event is NOAH UK TOUR 2024 starting Friday at O2 Academy in Edinburgh, England. The tour is being co-promoted with and tickets sales handled by Progress Wrestling. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

UPDATE: It has been announced that Kiyomiya will defend the GHC Heavyweight Championship on 9/8 against Ricky Knight Jr. on the final event of the UK tour.

Pro Wrestling NOAH finished up the preliminary rounds of the N-1 VICTORY Tournament today, which would set up the Finals for next weekend.

Today’s event was held at Nagoya International Conference Center in Nagoya and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 843.

Match 1: Manabu Soya & Yu Owada beat Luis Mante (Dragon Gate) & Shuhei Taniguchi. Soya beat Taniguchi with a dragon sleeper.

Match 2: N-1 VICTORY Block B: Alpha Wolf beat Titus Alexander.

Match 3: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Masa Kitamiya beat Ryohei Oiwa.

Match 4; Akitoshi Saito, Mohammed Yone & Kai Fujimura beat Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Hajime Ohara. Saito pinned Ohara after Sickle Of Death.

Match 5: N-1 VICTORY Block B: Ulka Sasaki beat Tavion Heights (WWE) by submission.

Match 6: N-1 VICTORY lock A: Josh Briggs (WWE) beat Dragon Bane.

Match 7: In an Elimination Match (with over the top rope eliminations), AMAKUSA, Shuji Kondo, Eita, Alejandro & Junta Miyawaki beat Daga, Super Crazy, HAYATA, YO-HEY & Tadasuke. Order of elimination: Crazy by Miyawaki, Alejandro by YO-HEY, Miyawaki by Tadasuke, Tadasuke by Eita, Amakusa & Daga simultaneously, YO-HEY by Eita, Kondo by HAYATA, HAYATA by Eita. Eita wins.

Match 8: N-1 VICTORY Block B: Kenoh beat Yoshiki Inamura.

Main Event: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Jack Morris.

Final Standings:
Block A:
1-Kiyomiya, 4-1-2, 10 pts
2-Briggs, 5-2, 10 pts
3-Morris, 4-3, 8 pts
4-Mante, 4-3, 8 pts
5-Kitamiya, 3-3-1, 7 pts
6-Oiwa, 3-3-1, 7 pts
7-Bane, 3-4, 6 pts
8-Atsushi Kotoge , 0-7, 0 pts (injured)
As a result of tiebreakers, Kiyomiya wins Block A and advances to the Finals (he beat Briggs in their match).

Block B:
1-Kenoh, 5-1-1, 11 pts
2-Soya, 5-2, 10 pts
3-Alexander, 4-3, 8 pts
4-Heights, 4-3, 8 pts
5-Sasaki, 3-4, 6 pts
6-Inamura, 3-4, 6 pts
7-Wolf, 2-3-1, 5 pts
8-Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., 1-7, 2 pts (injured)
As a result, Kenoh wins Block B and advances to the Finals.

The Final is Kiyomiya vs. Kenoh, and in an unexpected twist it will now be for the GHC Heavyweight Championship held by Kiyomiya.

The Final is 8/1 at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English ONLY will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. This is an ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan so it will be edited/clipped for live. The full unedited version including in Japanese will be available on demand after the event.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the N-1 VICTORY Tournament today in Sendai.

Today’s event was held at Sendai Pit in Sendai and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE later this week. There was no live broadcast. (This was the only scheduled non-live broadcast event of the tournament)

The announced paid attendance was 388.

Match 1; Kenoh & Alejandro beat Jack Morris & Super Crazy. Kenoh pinned Crazy after Kenoh Special.

Match 2: AMAKUSA beat Daga & Hajime Ohara in a 3-way by pinning Ohara.

Match 3; N-1 VICTORY Block B: Titus Alexander beat Ulka Sasaki.

Match 4: N-1 VICTORY Block A: Ryohei Oiwa beat Dragon Bane.

Match 5: HAYATA, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Junta Miyawaki, Kai Fujimura & Yu Owada. Tadasuke beat Owada with a spinning toehold.

N-1 VICTORY:
Match 6: Block B: Manabu Soya beat Alpha Wolf.
Match 7: Block A: Josh Briggs beat Luis Mante.
Match 8: Block B: Tavion Heights beat Yoshiki Inamura.
Main Event: Block A: Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Masa Kitamiya went to a 30 minute time limit draw.

Standings:
Block A:
1-Morris, 4-2, 8 pts
2-Briggs, 4-2, 8 pts
3-Mante, 4-3, 8 pts (OUT)
4-Kiyomiya, 3-1-2, 8 pts
5-Oiwa, 3-2-1, 7 pts
6-Dragon Bane, 3-2, 6 pts (OUT)
7-Kitamiya, 2-3-1, 5 pts (OUT)
8-Atsushi Kotoge, 0-8, 0 pts (OUT)

Block B:
1-Soya, 5-2, 10 pts
2-Kenoh, 4-1-1, 9 pts
3-Titus Alexander, 4-2, 8 pts (OUT)
4-Heights, 4-2, 8 pts
5-Inamura, 3-3, 6 pts (OUT)
6-Sasaki, 2-4, 4 pts (OUT)
7-Wolf, 1-4-1, 3 pts (OUT)
8-Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., 1-7, 2 pts (OUT)

The winner of each block advances to the Finals (I incorrectly stated in prior results posts it was the top 2). In Block A, that means if there is a winner between Kiyomiya & Morris in their upcoming match, the winner advances. If it’s a draw, Briggs advances with a win (Bane). Oiwa needs a win and a Kiyomiya-Morris no contest/double DQ/something resulting in no points to advance as he beat Morris but went to a time limit draw against Kiyomiya. Mante can’t advance because of tiebreakers. In Block B, Soya needs a Kenoh loss, Alexander loss or draw and Heights loss or draw to advance. Kenoh advances with a win or draw. Alexander can’t advance because his losses were Soya & Kenoh. Heights can’t advance only because he lost to Soya but may have a tiebreaker chance in a 3-way because he beat Kenoh.

The next event is 8/25 at Nagoya International Conference Center in Nagoya. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET.