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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.

Today is a date with DEATHTINY…for the last time as Pro Wrestling NOAH hosts the retirement event for 30-year-plus veteran Akitoshi Saito in his homwtown. The respected veteran has been in NOAH full-time since 2009 but has competed there since the beginning through the best and worst of times…he was in the ring when the death of NOAH founder and Japanese icon Mitsuharu Misawa happened (after taking Saito’s finisher Misawa suffered a medical emergency and was left paralyzed, he died soon after) but carried on and honored Misawa’s memory, and today he’ll participate in one final match against current NOAH icon Naomichi Marufuji. Surprisingly it’s probably not the main event-that may be a GHC Heavyweight Championship match as Kaito Kiyomiya defends the title against Takashi Sugiura. Both the GHC Junior Heavyweight and Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships will be defended too, but this event is all about mid-50-something (actually 59) Saito and his farewell to a career that began way back in 1990.

Today’s event will be held at Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English. This is a live ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan so the UNIVERSE version will be edited/clipped, but the full version should be available on demand after the event. You will also be able to watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube. I’m gonna try to make it through the whole event as I expect it to be blowout level with a running time of close to 4 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Galeno Del Mal & Alpha Wolf vs. Junta Miyawaki, Yu Owada & Daiki Odashima
Mohammed Yone, Shuhei Taniguchi, AMAKUSA & Hitoshi Kumano vs. Anthony Greene, LJ Cleary, Eita & Harutoki
Kenoh, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura vs. Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara
Ulka Sasaki vs. Jack Morris
Manabu Soya & Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Masa Kitamiya & Shuji Kondo
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YO-HEY & HAYATA vs. Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi for the titles
GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga vs. Dragon Bane for the title
Akitoshi Saito Retirement Match: Akitoshi Saito vs. Naomichi Marufuji
GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Takashi Sugiura for the title

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. The WRESTLE UNIVERSE stream is scheduled to begin at 9:45 PM PT/12:45 AM ET and the YouTube broadcast is scheduled to begin at 9:50 PM PT/12:50 AM ET.

9:45 PM PT UPDATE: The WRESTLE UNIVERSE stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in about 15 minutes.

9:50 PM PT UPDATE: The YouTube broadcast is now live. It is a simulcast of the ABEMA broadcast and is in Japanese.

10 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya, Japan. English commentary will start in a few minutes.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Setup is for maybe 60-65% capacity (the venue’s full capacity, primarily for sumo, is 7500) but from the early shot the trend of what appears to be not good big event crowds outside Korakuen Hall is going to continue. I see a lot of empty sears especially on the lower level. Admittedly hoping for at least 2000 but that could be a stretch, just too much happening in west Japan with the New Japan/Stardom Crossover event in Osaka and the Grand Sumo Tournament in Fukuoka. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1788)

The matches begin at 10:05 PM PT/1:05 AM ET. Your hosts are Stewart (BANG!) Fulton & Mark Pickering.

Match 1: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Galeno Del Mal & Alpha Wolf vs. Junta Miyawaki, Yu Owada & Daiki Odashima. 15 minute time limit
Reslut: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Galeno Del Mal & Alpha Wolf beat Junta Miyawaki, Yu Owada & Daiki Odashima. Wagner Jr. pinned Owada after a sitout powerbomb.

Match 2: Mohammed Yone, Shuhei Taniguchi, AMAKUSA & Hitoshi Kumano vs. Anthony Greene, LJ Cleary, Eita & Harutoki. 20 minute time limit
Reslut: Anthony Greene, LJ Cleary, Eita & Harutoki beat Mohammed Yone, Shuhei Taniguchi, AMAKUSA & Hitoshi Kumano. Eita beat Taniguchi with a modified armbar.

The YouTube broadcast ends here.

Match 3: Kenoh, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura vs. Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara. 20 minute time limit
Result: Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara beat Kenoh, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. Shiozaki pinned Alejandro after Go Lariat.

Match 4: Ulka Sasaki vs. Jack Morris. 30 minute time limit
Result: Ulka Sasaki beat Jack Morris

Match 5: Manabu Soya & Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Masa Kitamiya & Shuji Kondo. 30 minute time limit
Result: Masa Kitamiya & Shuji Kondo beat Manabu Soya & Kazuyuki Fujita. Kitamiya pinned Soya after Saito Suplex. Afterwards, everyone continued to go at it.

Intermission. The first half of the event went really fast, just 65 minutes for 5 matches. Updates will resume in a few minutes.

The matches resume at 11:20 PM PT/2:20 AM ET (15 minute intermission).

Match 6: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YO-HEY & HAYATA vs. Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions HAYATA & YO-HEY beat Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi to retain the titles. HAYATA pinned Kikuchi after 403 Impact. V4 for the champs.

Junta Miyawaki joins Japanese commentary for the next match.

Match 7: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga vs. Dragon Bane for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga beat Dragon Bane to retain the title. V1 for Daga. Next up: Eita. If what he says holds true, that match will happen on 1/1 at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. (UPDATE: It’s now official)

Match 8: Akitoshi Saito Retirement Match: Akitoshi Saito vs. Naomichi Marufuji. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Naomichi Marufuji beat Akitoshi Saito. It went 15 minutes.

Retirement ceremony for Saito. Short but powerful with the final call coming as he walked back to the top of the entrance ramp.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Takashi Sugiura for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC Heavyweight Champino Kaito Kiyomiya beat Takashi Sugiura to retain the title. V6 for Kiyomiya. Kiyomiya had ALL REBELLION join him for the show-ending promo, but at the end Taishi Ozawa turned on Kiyomiya and laid him out with his crutch as Team 2000X hit the ring for the heel beatdown. Ozawa has officially defected and turned heel. A shocking ending.

The next event is MONDAY MAGIC Season 3 Episode 4 Monday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

UPDATE: Right before the WRESTLE UNIVERSE live stream ended, Sugiura post-match backstage comments with Marufuji were interrupted by Wagner Jr. & Del Mal, who made a GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship challenge. That match will happen on 11/30 at the second event of a doubleheader at Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo.

Pro Wrestling NOAH reached the halfway point of MONDAY MAGIC Season 3 today with the 3rd episode.

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 it may have been a legit sellout or very close. Only a few seats and a limited number of standing room only tickets were available today.

Match 1: Shuji Kondo & Shuji Ishikawa beat Masato Tanaka & Takuya Sugawara (ZERO1). Kondo pinned Sugawara after a King Kong lariat.

Match 2: AMAKUSA beat Starboy Charlie, Alejandro, Eita & Dragon Bane in a 5-way by pinning Alejandro.

Match 3; The result of Manabu Soya, Masa Kitamiya & Ulka Sasaki vs. Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Anthony Greene & Vinny Massaro isn’t listed right now.

Match 4: Titus Alexander beat Kevin Blackwood to win the WCP World Heavyweight Championship.

Match 5: Kouki Amarei won a 10 woman battle royal, last eliminating Sadie Gibbs, to become the inaugural GHC Women’s Champion. Over the top rope only eliminations. Order of elimination: Chiguya Nagayo, Nightshade, Yuu, Bojira, Utami Hayashishita, Takumi Iroha, Miku Aono, Miyuki Takase, Great Sakuya, Gibbs. Because Sakuya didn’t win that’s an upset in my book.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya & Kai Fujimura beat Takashi Sugiura & Yu Owada. Fujimura pinned Owada after a swan dive elbow.

Episode 4 is 11/18.

The next event is “DEATHTINY”, the Akitoshi Saito Retirement Event, Sunday at Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin Saturday at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. This is a live ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan so the WRESTLE UNIVERSE version will be edited/clipped. I will try to do live results.

Pro Wrestling NOAH hasn’t yet posted results from today’s MONDAY MAGIC Season 3 Episode 3 (it is available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE) but one result has been revealed on the socials: Kouki Amarei won a 10 woman battle royal to become the inaugural GHC Women’s Champion. To me, anyone but Great Sakuya winning would be an upset so yeah, that’s an upset to me.

Results will be posted when available.

The next event is “DEATHTINY”, the Akitoshi Saito Retirement Event, Sunday at Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya. Saito will face Naomichi Marufuji in his final match. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin Saturday at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. This is a live ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan so the live version will be edited/clipped. The full unedited version should be available on demand after the event.

Pro Wrestling NOAH made the likely final stop on the Akitoshi Saito retirement tour today in Osaka ahead of his retirement match next weekend.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. Originally scheduled for no live broadcast, it was changed to be live and immediate on demand rather than the normal 3-day wait.

The announced paid attendance was 614.

Before the event, a public weigh-in was held to determine the status of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match scheduled, as it was contingent on Shuhei Taniguchi making weight. Results weren’t announced but apparently he did.

Match 1: Masa Kitamiya, AMAKUSA & Black Menso-re (Independent/Freelancer) beat Anthony Greene, LJ Cleary & Yu Owada. Kitamiya pinned Owada after Saito Suplex. For those who missed it, Menso-re was actually Cristobal until a recent event where he was forced to unmask.

Match 2: Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi beat Junta Miyawaki & Daiki Odashima. Tadasuke pinned Odashima after Outcast.

Match 3: Kenoh, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura beat Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara. Alejandro pinned Kotoge after Blank Bullet.

Match 4: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Jack Morris & Daga. Bane pinned Daga after a huracanrana.

Match 5: Ulka Sasaki beat Harutoki.

Match 6: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions HAYATA & YO-HEY beat Shuhei Taniguchi & Eita to retain the titles. HAYATA pinned Taniguchi with a schoolboy. V3 for the champs.

Match 7: Kaito Kiyomiya & Naomichi Marufuji beat Takashi Sugiura & Akitoshi Saito. Kiyomiya pinned Saito after Transformed Shining Wizard.

Main Event: GHC National Champion Manabu Soya beat Go Shiozaki to retain the title. V2 for Soya.

The next event is MONDAY MAGIC Season 3 Episode 3 Monday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. The match card will not be announced in advance as usual except for a 10 woman battle royal to crown the first GHC Women’s Champion. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran this month’s STAR NAVIGATION 2024 event today in Tokyo.

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 916.

Pre-show match; LJ Cleary beat Hajime Ohara.

Match 1: N INNOVATION Tournament Semifinals: Dragon Bane beat Yuto Kikuchi.

Match 2: N INNOVATION Tournament Semifinals: Junta Miyawaki beat AMAKUSA.

Match 3: Shuhei Taniguchi, Eita & Shuji Kondo beat HAYATA, YO-HEY & Tadasuke. Taniguchi pinned HAYATA after Maybach Bomb Zwei.

Match 4: Jack Morris & Daga beat Ulka Sasaki & Daiki Odashima. Morris pinned Sasaki after GLK.

Match 5: Anthony Greene, Aloha Wolf, Luis Mante (Dragon Gate) & Gaia Hox beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. Wolf pinned Alrjandro after Wolf Driver.

Match 6: Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone & Atsushi Kotoge beat Manabu Soya, Harutoki & Yu Owada. Kotoge pinned Owada after Kill Switch.

Match 7: Kazuyuki Fujita beat Masa Kitamiya.

Match 8: N INNOVATION Tournament Finals: Alpha Wolf beat Junta Miyawaki to win the tournament. As a result, Wolf gets a GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship shot against Daga on 11/17.

Main Event: Takashi Sugiura beat Naomichi Marufuji by ref stoppage (technical submission). As a result, Sugiura will face GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya for the title on 11/17. Marufuji will now be the final opponent for the retiring Akitoshi Saito that day.

The next event is Saturday at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET, but may be moved up as the Shuhei Taniguchi public weigh-in will be held 20 minutes before the event. If Taniguchi weighs in at 220 pounds/100 kg or less, his match with Eita vs. HAYATA & YO-HEY is for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. If Taniguchi weighs over 220 pounds, it’s a NON-TITLE match.

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

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

The announced paid attendance was 282.

Match 1: Hajime Ohara beat Daiki Odashima.

Match 2: Jack Morris & Daga beat Ulka Sasaki & Atsushi Kotoge. Daga pinned Kotoge after Diablo Wings.

Match 3: Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura beat Anthony Greene, Dragon Bane, Alpha Wolf & LJ Cleary. Kenoh pinned Cleary after PFS.

Match 4: HAYATA, Yuto Kikuchi & Yu Owada beat Shuhei Taniguchi, Eita & Shuji Kondo. HAYATA pinned Taniguchi.

Match 5: Manabu Soya, Takashi Sugiura & Masa Kitamiya beat Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone & Kazuyuki Fujita. Kitamiya pinned Yone after Saito Suplex.

Match 6: N INNOVATION Tournament: AMAKUSA beat Tadasuke.

Main Event: N INNOVATION Tournament: Junta Miyawaki beat YO-HEY.

The next event is Wednesday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English (it’s also an ABEMA simulcast) will begin at )remember the time change!) 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET. Also, because of changes made to upcoming broadcast schedules, EVERY NOVEMBER EVENT IS NOW LIVE ON WRESTLE UNIVERSE! They also will be available on demand immediately after each event. In fact, this now means all but one event until mid-January 2025 will be available live & on demand immediately afterwards on the service (the only one that won’t be live now is 12/8 at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka).

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 Tour today with an event in Niigata, the last Akitoshi Saito appearance there before bis retirement.

Today’s event was held at Bandaijima Multipurpose Hall Large Okama in Niigata and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast. (UPDATE: Said later date will be 10/31 at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET on 11/1)

The announced paid attendance was 753.

Match 1: HAYATA, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat AMAKUSA, Junta Miyawaki & Atsushi Kotoge. Tadasuke pinned AMAKUSA after a lariat.

Match 2: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Galeno Dr Mal beat Anthony Greene & Alpha Wolf. Wagner Jr. pinned Wolf with a small package.

Match 3: Jack Morris & Daga beat Ulka Sasaki & LJ Cleary. Morris pinned Cleary after a toger driver.

Match 4: Manabu Soya, Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Ofashima beat Shiji Kondo, Eita & Hajime Ohara. Soya beat Ohara with a dragon sleeper.

Match 5: Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue. Shiozaki pinned Inoue after Go Lariat.

Match 6: N INNOVATION Tournament Quarterfinals: Yuto Kikuchi beat Yu Owada.

Match 7: N INNOVATION Tournament Quarterfinals: Dragon Bane beat Kai Fujimura.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh & Alejandro beat Naomichi Matufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Jun Kumano. Kiyomiya pinned Kumano after Transformed Shining Wizard.

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

Big news coming out of yesterday’s MONDAY MAGIC event: Pro Wresting NOAH has announced a new title-the GHC Women’s Championship. To be awarded at the next MONDAY MAGIC event on 11/11, a 10-woman staggered battle royal will determine the inaugural champion. Participants will not be announced prior to the match. I think Great Sakuya is a lock though.