Tag: pro wrestling noah

Pro Wrestling NOAH finished up the preliminary round of the NOAH Jr. Tag League today in Hiroshima.

Today’s event was held at Hiroshima Industrial Hall East Exhibition Hall in Hiroshima and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 460.

Match 1: Naomichi Marufuji, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara beat AMAKUSA, Junta Miyawaki & Zozaya. Marutuji pinned Zozaya after True Tiger King.

Match 2: Takashi Sugiura beat Black Menso-re by countout.

Match 3: Kaito Kiyomiya & Galeno beat Ulka Sasaki & Anthony Greene. Kiyomiya pinned Greene after Shining Lancer.

Match 4: Kenoh & KENTA beat Masa Kitamiya & Mohammed Yone. Kenoh pinned Yone after PFS.

Match 5: NOAH Jr. Tag League Block A: Mark Trew & Kieron Lacey beat Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. Trew pinned Alejandro after True Star Press. As a result, Trew & Lacey win Block A. They will face Block B winners AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki in the Finals (AMAKUSA/Miyawaki win Block B on tiebreakers).

Match 6: NOAH Jr. Tag League lock A: HAYATA & YO-HEY beat Eita & Daiki Odashima. HAYATA pinned Odashima after Honami.

Main Event: OZAWA, Tetsuya Endo & Owadasan vs. Manabu Soya, Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi went to a double countout. Which led to…
Main Event (again): Manabu Soya, Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi beat OZAWA, Tetsuya Endo & Owadasan. Soya pinned Endo.

The next event is MEMORIAL VOYAGE 2025 in YOKOHAMA on 3/2 at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama with the NOAH Jr. Tag League Finals and GHC Heavyweight Champion OZAWA vs. GHC National Champion Manabu Soya in a Lumberjack Deathmatch for both titles. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 3/1 at 9:45 PM PT/12:45 AM ET. This is an ABEMA exclusive broadcast so the WRESTLE UNIVERSE live broadcast will be edited and in English only.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the NOAH Jr. Tag League today in Fukuoka.

Today’s event was held at Acros Fukuoka in Fukuoka and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 505.

Match 1: Ulka Sasaki & Zozaya beat Eita & Daiki Odashima. Zozaya pinned Odashima after De Madrid al Cielo.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya beat Black Menso-re by submission.

Match 3: NOAH Jr. Tag League Block B: Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi beat Jun Masaoka & Gaia Hox. Kikuchi pinned Hox after Chaos Break.

Match 4: NOAH Jr. Tag League Block B: AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki beat Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara. Miyawaki pinned Kotoge.

Match 5: Kenoh & KENTA beat Mohammed Yone & Anthony Greene. KENTA beat Yone with GAME OVER.

Match 6: OZAWA, Tetsuya Endo & Owadasan beat Manabu Soya, HAYATA & YO-HEY. OZAWA pinned YO-HEY after Big Ben Edge.

Main Event: Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, Mark Trew & Kieron Lacey beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Galeno, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. Sugiura pinned Fujinura after Olympic Yosen Slam.

The next event is tomorrow at Kumamoto Castle Hall in Kumamoto. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2025 Tour today with an event in Yokohama.

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 340, a legit sellout.

Match 1; NOAH Jr. Tag League Block B: Jun Masaoka & Gaia Hox beat AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki. Masaoka pinned Miyawaki

Match 2: Anthony Greene beat Black Menso-re (Independent/Freelancer) & Zozaya in a 3-way by pinning Menso-re.

Match 3: Kaito Kiyomiya & Galeno beat Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara. Kiyomiya pinned Ohara after Shining Lancer.

Match 4: NOAH Jr. Tag League Block A: Mark Trew & Kieron Lacey beat Eita & Daiki Odashima. Trew pinned Odashima after Black Flag.

Match 5: Tetsuya Endo beat Yuto Kikuchi.

Match 6: Kenoh & KENTA beat Masa Kitamiya & Ulka Sasaki. KENTA pinned Sasaki after GO 2 SLEEP.

Match 7: NOAH Jr. Tag League Block A: HAYATA & YO-HEY beat Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. YO-HEY pinned Fujimura after a dropkick.

Main Event: Manabu Soya & Tadasuke beat OZAWA & Owadasan. Soya pinned Owadasan after Ballistic.

The next event is Thursday at Acros Fukuoka in Fukuoka. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH just wrapped up a live emergency press conference right now (which can be watched FOR FREE on YouTube) and the big announcement seemed to be what I thought it would be given he was appearing: KENTA has returned to the promotion. That means his contract with New Japan expired in January (almost all of them are renewed annually, or not, after Tokyo Dome & New Year Dash!!) and he became a free agent before appearing in NOAH again yesterday at Korakuen Hall.
And not to be outdone, Kenoh is also livestreaming this and more on his YouTube channel.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: For the rest of this month and 3/2 he will be competing on all events, teaming with Kenoh on each event.

An English translation of Q&A at the presser is available on NOAH’s official website:
https://www.noah.co.jp/news/6680/

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran a STAR NAVIGATION PREMIUM event today in Tokyo, a weekday matinee for a holiday in Japan. The event just concluded and also featured the start of the NOAH Jr. Tag League.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese & English. This was an exclusive ABEMA broadcast in Japan and the English version is edited as a result. I had planned to do live results but was unable to because of last-minute schedule conflicts. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1560, a legit sellout.

Match 1: AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki beat Anthony Greene & Zozaya. Miyawaki pinned Zozaya.

Match 2: Harutoki beat Owadasan.

Match 3: Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Kazuyuki Fujita beat Masa Kitamiya, Ulka Sasaki & Shuji Kondo. Marufuji pinned Sasaki with a triangle hold counter.

Match 4; NOAH Jr. Tag League Block B: Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi beat Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara. Tadasuke pinned Kotoge. Borderline squash that wwent only about 2 1/2 minutes.

Match 5; NOAH Jr. Tag League Block A: Mark Trew & Kieron Lacey beat HAYATA & YO-HEY. Trew pinned YO-HEY after True Star Press.

Match 6: Manabu Soya beat GHC National Champion Tetsuya Endo to win the title. Soya becomes the 15th GHC National Champion.

Match 7: NOAH Jr. Tag League Block A: Alejandro & Kai Fujimura beat Eita & Daiki Odashima. Alejandro pinned Eita after a huracanrana.

Match 8: Kenoh & KENTA (New Japan) beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Shuhei Taniguchi. KENTA pinned Taniguchi after GO 2 SLEEP.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion OZAWA beat Galeno to retain the title. V1 for OZAWA. Next up: Despite just winning the GHC National Championship back, Soya was out quickly to make the challenge. More to possibly come later today.

The next event is Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 11:30 PM PT/2:30 AM ET. As far as upcoming events go, all remaining February and all March events will be live and immediately on demand afterwards except for 3/20. 3/2 is TBD because of likely being an ABEMA exclusive (might be live outside Japan in English only).

UPDATE: It’s now official. DOUBLE TITLE MATCH! OZAWA-Soya for both titles. That match will happen on 3/2 at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama. Also announced for 3/2 are Naomichi Marufuji vs. Masa Kitamiya and the NOAH Jr. Tag League Finals. No outside Japan broadcast plans are set for 3/2 yet because it looks like an ABEMA exclusive. Hopefully we’ll be able to get an English only live broadcast on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. We’ll find out as the event gets closer.

UPDATE 2: An emergency press conference has been announced for 2/12 at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET with Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA in attendance. This has me thinking KENTA could be possibly headed back to NOAH after a long time (he started with the promotion before going to WWE, then to New Japan after his WWE run ended). We shall see.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2025 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 380.

Match 1: Naomichi Marufuji & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Takashi Sugiura & Shuji Kondo. Marufuji pinned Kondo with Financier Clutch.

Match 2: Mohammed Yone & Black Menso-re beat Anthony Greene & Zozaya. Yone pinned Zozaya after Kinniku Muscle Buster.

Match 3: Kenoh beat Owadasan.

Match 4: Masa Kitamiya & Ulka Sasaki beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Harutoki. Kitamiya pinned Harutoki after Saito Suplex.

Match 5: Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi beat Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara and AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki in a 3-way when Tadasuke pinned Kotoge.

Match 6: Mark Trew & Kieron Lacey beat HAYATA & YO-HEY, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura and Eita & Daiki Odashima in a 4-way when Trew pinned Odashima.

Main Event: Galeno & Manabu Soya beat OZAWA & Tetsuya Endo. Soya pinned Endo.

The next event is Tuesday at Korakuen Hall for a STAR NAVIGATION PREMIUM event featuring the start of the NOAH Jr. Tag League and OZAWA-Galeno for the GHC Heavyweight Championship. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY IN ENGLISH ONLY will begin Monday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. This will be a live ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continues the SUNNY VOYAGE 2025 Tour today with an event in Tokyo. While it’s mainly a house show the big attraction is a massive autograph session held for fans with most if not all the roster that is available participating. I expect the main event to be a tag match that will continue the build to the upcoming GHC Heavyweight Championship match between OZAWA & Galeno.

There have been late changes made to the card because Ulka Sasaki is now off. The always vague poor health. He was to have been in a 6-man tag match, which was changed to a tag match and Shuji Kondo was moved to another match, changing it from a single match to a 3-way.

Today’s event will be held at Tama Mirai Messe in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. There are only 6 matches and the main event may be the only one with more than a 30 minute time limit, but despite that I anticipate it having a running time of only about 2 hours.

Additionally, as of earlier today the full NOAH THE NEW YEAR event from 1/1, which originally was only available as a PPV on ABEMA in select countries, is now available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE for all monthly paying subscribers with no further paywalls in Japanese and English.

Today’s lineup:
Manabu Soya vs. Owadasan
Tadasuke vs. Shuji Kondo & Black Menso-re in a 3-way
Takashi Sugiura & Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Mohammed Yone & Masa Kitamiya
Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh & Kai Fujimura vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Shuhei Taniguchi & Zozaya
HAYATA, YO-HEY, Eita & Daiki Odashima vs. Atsushi Kotoge, Hajime Ohara, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki
OZAWA & Tetsuya Endo vs. Galeno & Alejandro

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. The livestream is scheduled to begin 15 minutes before the event.

9:55 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Tama Mirai Messe in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The venue has a maximum capacity for wrestling of about 900 I believe, they’re probably using much smaller today and I can’t see much from hard camera but what I see is largely full. I’ll predict it’ll be near 400. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 524)

The matches will begin in a few minutes.

The matches begin right on schedule at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. Looks like hard camera-only views today.

Match 1: Manabu Soya vs. Owadasan. 15 minute time limit
Result: Manabu Soya beat Owadasan by submission

Match 2: Tadasuke vs. Shuji Kondo & Black Menso-re (Independent/Freelancer) in a 3-way. 20 minute time limit
Result: Tadasuke beat Shuji Kondo & Black Menso-re in a 3-way by pinning Menso-re.

Match 3: Takashi Sugiura & Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Mohammed Yone & Masa Kitamiya. 20 minute time limit
Result: Takashi Sugiura & Kazuyuki Fujita beat Mohammed Yone & Masa Kitamiya. Sugiura pinned Yone after Olympic Yosen Slam.

Intermission.

The matches resume at 10:50 PM PT/1:50 AM ET (about a 10 minute break).

Match 4: Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh & Kai Fujimura vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Shuhei Taniguchi & Zozaya. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh & Kai Fujimura beat Naomichi Marufuji, Shuhei Taniguchi & Zozaya. Kenoh pinned Taniguchi after PFS.

Match 5: HAYATA, YO-HEY, Eita & Daiki Odashima vs. Atsushi Kotoge, Hajime Ohara, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki. 30 minute time limit
Result: Atsushi Kotoge, Hasjime Ohara, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki beat HAYATA, YO-HEY, Eita & Daiki Odashima. AMAKUSA pinned Odashima after Opening Of The Country.

Main Event: OZAWA & Tetsuya Endo (with Yoshitatsu) vs. Galeno & Alejandro. 1 Hour time limit
Result: OZAWA & Tetsuya Endo beat Galeno & Alejandro. OZAWA pinned Alejandro after Big Ben Edge. Afterwards, OZAWA unmasked Galeno as part of a heel beatfown until Kiyomiya & Kenoh made the save and covered up Galeno’s face. We never saw his face. This match also showed that, for those who didn’t know, Yoshitatsu is about the only person in NOAH that gets booed despite Team 2000X all being heels.

A neat & tidy event over in just under 2 hours even with the intermission even if the ending doesn’t send the crowd home happy, and it didn’t.

The next event is Saturday at Shinjuku Face. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET. Also, although it does not say this on NOAH’s website, the 2/11 Korakuen Hall event, listed as only an ABEMA live broadcast, will also be available live outside Japan on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only.

Pro Wrestling NOAH has announced changes to this weekend’s events, to include a special CyberFight joint event with the promotions under the umbrella-Ulka Sasaki is now off these events. The always vague poor health (likely illness). He will miss an autograph session tomorrow and Sunday’s NOAH event in Tokyo. On Sunday he was to have teamed with Takashi Sugiura & Kazuyuki Fujita to face Masa Kitamiya, Mohammed Yone & Shuji Kondo. Kondo has been removed from the match to make it a tag match, and will now be moved into Match 2, which was supposed to be Tadasuke vs. Black Menso-re but will now be a 3-way. Sasaki should be back for the next event after this on 2/8.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2025 Tour today with a Junta Miyawaki hometown event.

Today’s event was held at Takamatsu Symbol Tower in Kagawa and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE tomorrow. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 394.

Match 1: Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara beat Masa Kitamiya, LJ Cleary & Zozaya. Kotoge pinned Zizaya after Kill Switch.

Match 2: HAYATA, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Shuhei Taniguchi, Saxon Huxley & Black Menso-re (Independent/Freelancer). Tadasuke pinned Menso-re with Tadasuke Clutch.

Match 3: Takashi Sugiura beat Problem Dragon (Dragon Gate).

Match 4: Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura beat Manabu Soya, Eita, Ulka Sasaki & Daiki Odashima. Kiyomiya pinned Odashima after Shining Wizard.

Match 5: OZAWA & Tetsuya Endo beat Galeno & Harutoki. Endo pinned Harutoki after Burning Star Press.

Main Event: Naomichi Marufuji, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki beat Jack Morris, Daga & Owadasan. Miyawaki pinned Owadasan after Sunshine Driver.

The next event is 2/2 at Tama Mirai Messe in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

In other news, the full field for the 2025 NOAH Jr. Tag League has been announced. It will be 8 teams in 2 blocks of 4 as follows:
Block A: HAYATA & YO-HEY, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura, Eita & Daiki Odashima, Mark Trew & Kieron Lacey
Block B: Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki, Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi, Jun Masaoka & Gaia Hox
The tournament will be a round-robin format with 15 minute time limits for matches. The winner of each block advances to the Finals. If there is a tie between teams in each block, the tiebreaker is head-to-head result. If said match was a draw, there will be a tiebreaker rematch. The tournament will be held from 2/11-2/22 with the Finals on 3/2 at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama. The winners presumably will get a GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match unless HAYATA & YO-HEY win as they are the current champions.

UPDATE: The promotion announced after the event that the GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is now VACANT. The transfer of half the titles from the WWE-bound Omos to Daga after Saturday’s title defense will not be recognized and the titles have been declared vacant.

UPDATE 2: As of 2 PM PT/5 PM ET on 1/27 this event is now available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2025 Tour today with an event in Osaka.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 752.

Match 1; Masa Kitamiya & Ulka Sasaki beat Shuhei Taniguchi & Zozaya. Kitamita pinned Zozaya with Saito Suplex.

Match 2: Saxon Huxley beat Daiki Odashima.

Match 3: Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Manabu Soya beat Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara. Soya pinned Ohara after Ballistic.

Match 4: YO-HEY, Tadasuke & Yuro Kikuchi beat AMAKUSA, Junta Miyawaki & LJ Cleary. Kikuchi pinned Cleary after Chaos Break.

Match 5: OZAWA, Tetsuya Endo, Daga & Owadasan (Yu Owada) beat Kenoh, Harutoki, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. OZAWA pinned Alejandro after Big Ben Edge.

Match 6: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Eita beat HAYATA to retain the title. V1 for Eita. Despite being the champ and winning that’s still a mild upset in my book given HAYATA is far and away the top class of NOAH Junior Heavyweights.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jack Morris & Omos (WWE) beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Galeno to retain the titles. Omos pinned Kiyomiya after Last Ride. V1 for the champs. Afterwards, there were reports Omos has given his half of the championship to Daga as a replacement because reportedly he is headed back to WWE. More as it becomes available.

The next event is tomorrow at Takamatsu Symbol Tower in Kagawa. There will be no live broadcast. However, it will reportedly be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Monday instead of the usual 3 days after.