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Pro Wrestling NOAH continues the never-ending SUNNY VOYAGE 2025 Tour today with an event in Saitama. Originally scheduled for no live broadcast, a decision was made the other day to change it to a live broadcast. The mayor of Kasukabe City is scheduled to attend in perhaps the most noreworthy item ahead of time.
The promotion has announced Naomichi Marufuji will miss this event due to participation in SETUP Pro Wrestling in Thailand. That match should be available on demand at a later date as the promotion has announced there will be no live broadcast for that event but it will be on demand on about a week. (Update: Late in this event I found out via the socials that the video may be available on YouTube in 1 week so keep an eye on the SETUP Pro Wrestling social media/YT channels)

Today’s event will be held at Kasukabe Fureai Cube in Saitama and, after the aforementioned change of plans, can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. There are only 6 matches scheduled so this will probably be a standard house show with a running time of no more than 2 hours. Also, due to a Tokyo Joshi Pro event running while this one begins there may be a slight delay in posting results.

Today’s lineup:
Kai Fujimura vs. Daiki Odashima
Saxon Huxley & Zozaya vs. LJ Cleary & Black Menso-re
Eita, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki vs. HAYATA, YO-HEY & Tadasuke
Takashi Sugiura, Masa Kitamiya & Ulka Sasaki vs. Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara
Tetsuya Endo & Omos vs. Manabu Soya & Kazuyuki Fujita
OZAWA, Jack Morris, Daga & Yu Owada vs. Kaito Kiyomiya, Galeno, Kenoh & Alejandro

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Updates below will begin at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 15 minutes before the event.

7:55 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Kasukabe Fureai Cube in Saitama, Japan. There is no commentary.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. This is the first time I’m seeing inside this venue, it’s small and the crowd is still filing in but it’s mostly full. The setup, at least from what I can see, appears to be for maybe 400 tops, I’m guessing the total attendance will be around 300. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 570)

The matches will begin shortly.

The mayor of Kasukabe City comes out first to greet the crowd.

The matches begin at 8:03 PM PT/11:03 PM ET.

Match 1: Kai Fujimura vs. Daiki Odashima. 15 minute time limit
Result: Kai Fujimura beat Daiki Odashima

Match 2: Saxon Huxley & Zozaya vs. LJ Cleary & Black Menso-re. 20 minute time limit
Result: Saxon Huxkey & Zozaya beat LJ Cleary & Black Menso-re. Huxley pinned Menso-re after a sitout powerbomb.

Match 3: Eita, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki vs. HAYATA, YO-HEY & Tadasuke. 20 minute time limit
Result: HAYATA, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Eita, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki. HAYATA pinned Eita.

Intermission.

The matches resume at 8:55 PM PT/11:55 PM ET.

Match 4: Takashi Sugiura, Masa Kitamiya & Ulka Sasaki vs. Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara. 30 minute time limit
Result: Takashi Sugiura, Masa Kitamiya & Ulka Sasaki beat Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara. Kitamiya pinned Kotoge after a Saito suplex.

Match 5: Tetsuya Endo & Omos (WWE) vs. Manabu Soya & Kazuyuki Fujita. 30 minute time limit
Result: Tetsuya Endo & Omos beat Manabu Soya & Kazuyuki Fujita. Endo pinned Soya after Burning Star Press. Afterwards, Endo with microphone. Having now gone full heel since leaving DDT by joining Team 2000X, what presumably was a heel promo on Soya followed ahead of their rematch on 2/11 for the GHC National Championship.

Main Event: OZAWA, Jack Morris, Daga & Yu Owada vs. Kaito Kiyomiya, Galeno, Kenoh & Alejandro. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Kaito Kiyomiya, Galeno, Kenoh & Alejandro beat OZAWA, Jack Morris, Daga & Yu Owada. Galeno pinned Owada after Galeno Special. Post-match, Galeno with microphone. Very brief and in English, “I will be next champion”.

The next event is Saturday at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka with a GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match as Kiyomiya & Galeno challenge Jack Morris & Omos for the titles and Eita-HAYATA for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.

UPDATE: The promotion had announced Owada has changed his ring name. It will now be Owadasan.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran their first LIMIT BREAK ex. event of 2025 today, continuing the series of crossover events with wrestlers from other promotions.

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 256.

Match 1: Souki Nagao beat Daiki Odashima.

Match 2: The Reeve Mask 2 & LJ Cleary beat The Reeve Mask 1 & Black Menso-re. CLeary pinned Menso-re after Cow Killing.

Match 3: Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Kohei Kinoshita beat Brian Ishikzawa 7 Keigo Nakamura. Matsunaga pinned Nakamura.

Match 4: Takashi Sugiura, Shuhei Taniguchi & Toi Koji vs. Kazuyuki Fujita, Shuji Ishikawa & GAINA went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

Match 5: Hajime Ohara beat Atsushi Kotoge.

Main Event: Mohammed Yone beat Go Shiozaki by submission.

The next event is Sunday (Saturday US time) at Kasukabe Fureai Cube in Saitama. Naomichi Marufuji will miss the event due to participation in SETUP Pro Wrestling in Thailand. There will be no live broadcast. (UPDATE: See below for changes)

UPDATE: Based on post-match comments, Shiozaki may now be out indefinitely. Knee injury/maintenance. May have been injured coming in based on Yone post-match comments.

In other news, a new title match has been announced for 1/25 at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jack Morris & Onos vs. Kaito Kiyomiya & Galeno (Galeno Del Mal) for the titles.

1/17/25 UPDATE: WRESTLE UNIVERSE just announced via email to subscribers that Sunday’s event will now be a LIVE BROADCAST and will begin Saturday at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH held their first STAR NAVIGATION 2025 event of the year today, a PREMIUM event 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 1535, a legit sellout.

Match 1: Eita, Shuji Kondo, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki beat HAYATA, Yo-HEY, Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi. Eita pinned HAYATA with La Magistral.

Match 2; Ulka Sasaki & Zozaya beat Mohammed Yone & Black Menso-re (Independent/Freelancer). Sasaki pinned Menso-re with a backdrop hold.

Match 3: Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Kotoge, Kazuyuki Fujita & Hajime Ohara beat Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Odashima. Shiozaki pinned Odashima after Go Lariat.

Match 4: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Galeno (Galeno Del Mal) beat Saxon Huxley & LJ Cleary. Wagner Jr. pinned Cleary after Emerald Flowsion. This was Wagner Jr.’s final match in the promotion, at least for some time, as he is now headed back to his native Mexico.

Match 5; Daga & Yu Owada beat Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. Owada pinned Fujimura.

Match 6: Jack Morris & Omos (WWE) beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Harutoki. Omos pinned Harutoki after Last Ride.

Match 7: OZAWA vs. Kenoh went to a no contest. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: In a handicap match, OZAWA, Jack Morris, Omos, Daga, Yu Owada & Yoshitatsu beat Kenoh, Kaito Kiyomiya, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. OZAWA pinned Alejandro after Real Rebel.

Main Event: Tetsuya Endo beat GHC National Champion Manabu Soya to win the title. Endo becomes the 14th GHC National Champion. Next up: REMATCH!!! That match will happen on 2/11, as will the first GHC Heavyweight Championship defense for OZAWA. The challenger: Galeno. After the match, Endo joined Team 2000X.

The next event is tomorrow at G Messe Gunma in Gunma. There will be no live broadcast.

Injury Report: So apparently masks don’t protect you from injuries. Alejandro is now off tomorrow because of an injury suffered today. Facial bruises. He was to have teamed with Kai Fujimura to face Omos. Several changes to the card were made as a result so Omos will now face Tadasuke & Yuto Kikuchi and Fujimura will team with Kenoh to face Daga & Yu Owada. He is not scheduled for the following event on Monday (a LIMIT BREAK ex.) so he has a week to recover. Unless something is broken I doubt he’ll miss any more time.

Pro Wrestling NOAH followed yesterday’s year-opening event with an event today called NEW YEAR REBOOT.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. The live broadcast was only on ABEMA in Japan. (UPDATE: WRESTLE UNIVERSE on demand tomorrow)

UPDATE 2: As of 3 PM PT/6 PM ET today’s event can now be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 480, a super full house/very near sellout.

Match 1; HAYATA, YO-HEY & Yuto Kikuchi beat Eita, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki. HAYATA beat Eita with an armbar.

Match 2; Masaaki Mochizuki (Dragon Gate) & Takashi Sugiura won an 8 team battle royal, last eliminating Ulka Sasaki & Titus Alexander.

Match 3; Tetsuya Endo (DDT) beat Atsushi Kotoge.

Match 4: Jack Morris, Omos (WWE) & Yu Owada beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Galeno Del Mal & Saxon Huxley. Omos pinned Del Mal after a double chokeslam.

Match 5: GHC National Champion Manabu Soya beat Tadasuke to retain the title. V5 for Soya. Apparently Tadasuke decided to cash in his future title shot he won yesterday here for the National Championship. Next up: Possibly Endo, who issued the challenge. We’ll see what happens.

Main Event; Kenoh & Kaito Kiyomiya beat OZAWA & Daga. Kenoh beat Daga with a neck lock.

The next event is 1/11 at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

After the event, DDT announced Endo will be taking an indefinite hiatus from the promotion after their Sunday event to participate regularly in NOAH until further notice.

Also, according to the official NOAH English social media accounts, Yu Owada has now defected to Team 2000X, the heel faction led by Jack Morris, Daga & Yoshitatsu.

UPDATE: After the event, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. announced 1/11 will be bis last NOAH event. He has decided to return to his native Mexico and may be taking a break from wrestling but is not retiring.

UPDATE 3: It’s now official. Soya-Endo for the GHC National Championship has been added to 1/11. And after today’s result Eita has his first…and maybe last for this reign…GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship challenger: HAYATA of course. That match will happen on 1/25 at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka.

UPDATE 4: Today (1/3/25) at the Marigold event, inaugural GHC Women’s Champion Kouki Amarei beat Chika Goto to retain the title in the first title match since the determination match to crown the first champion. V1 for Amarei.

Pro Wrestling NOAH kicked off 2025 in Japan today with their annual year-opening blowout event, NOAH THE NEW YEAR 2025, kicking off their 25th Anniversary campaign.

Today’s event was held at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand only as a PPV on ABEMA in select countries, including the US. It will not be available on WRESTLE UNIVERSE until an unknown later date if at all. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 5088. That’s the best number for the promotion in at least a year. I’m guessing based on the setup that was around 80-85% full (the venue’s normal capacity for wrestling, at least what I can remember pre-pandemic, is around 8400, but it only holds maybe 4-5 events per year).

Pre-show match: Tadasuke won a 13 person battle royal, which included a surprise entry by Dump Matsumoto, last eliminating LJ Cleary. Eliminations were by pinfall, submission or over the top rope. Order of elimination: Yu Owada, Yuto Kikuchi, Dump Matsumoto, Saxon Huxley, Masao Inoue, Shuhei Taniguchi, Zozaya, Harutoki, Masaaki Mochizuki, Titus Alexander, Cleary. As a result, Tadasuke gets a GHC Championship match of his choice in the future.

Match 1: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions HAYATA & YO-HEY beat AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki and Alejandro & Kai Fujimura in a 3-way, when HAYATA pinned Alejandro, to retain the titles. V5 for the champs.

Match 2; Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara beat Kazuyuki Fujita, Black Menso-re (Independent/Freelancer), Tetsuya Endo (DDT) & Shuji Ishikawa. Shiozaki pinned Menso-re after Go Lariat.

Match 3: Kazuyuki FUjita vs. Daiki Odashima went to a 1 minute time limit draw.

Match 4: Galeno Del Mal beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr.

Match 5: KENTA (New Japan) beat Kenoh.

Match 6: In a 3 Falls Match, Eita beat GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga 2-1 to win the title. Eita becomes the 57th GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion.

Match 7: GHC National Champion Manabu Soya beat Masa Kitamiya to retain the title. V4 for Soya.

Match 8: Jack Morris & TBA, revealed earlier this week to be Omos (WWE), beat GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura to win the titles. Morris & Omos become the 68th GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Omos pinned Marufuji after a double chokeslam.

Match 9: Shinsuke Nakamura (WWE) beat Ulka Sasaki.

Main Event: OZAWA (Taishi Ozawa) beat GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya to win the title. OZAWA becomes the 46th GHC Heavyweight Champion. HOLY SHIT!!! HOLY SHIT!!! HOLY SHIT!!! EPIC PROPORTIONS UPSET ALERT!!! This changes everything. And that may be a gross understatement.

The next event is NEW YEAR REBOOT 2025 Thursday at Shinjuku Face. There will be no live broadcast outside of Japan. Unfortunately it’s an ABEMA exclusive with no WRESTLE UNIVERSE broadcast (not even English only) scheduled.

In post-event news, while it’s not a title match at this time Ozawa’s first scheduled match as champion will be 1/11 at Korakuen Hall vs. Kenoh.

The promotion has also announced the following events to celebrate its 25th Anniversary in 2025: 3/2 at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama (part of the NOAH Jr. Tag League 2025), 5/3 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, TBA in late June at TBA in Osaka, and 7/19 & 7/20 at Korakuen Hall.

At Pro Wrestling NOAH’s 1/1 Nippon Budokan event, Jack Morris & TBA are challenging for the GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. At a press conference, Morris just revealed who TBA is. You can watch below FOR FREE on YouTube to find out…

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Pro Wrestling NOAH wraps up their 2024 today with another LIMIT BREAK ex. event. Like other events in the series, it will mostly focus on crossover matches with other promotions, in particular the ZERO1/REAL ZERO1 promotion. A title match will be the main event as (ZERO1) World Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki defends against Junya Matsunaga.

Today’s event will be held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. There are 6 matches and none will probably have more than a 30 minute time limit, including the title match, so I anticipate the event’s total running time being around 2 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Yu Owada vs. Satsuki Nagao
The Reeve Masks 1 & 2 vs. Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Black Menso-re
Hajime Ohara, Shuhei Taniguchi & Kohei Kinoshita vs. Masato Tanaka, Takuya Sugawara & Yoshikazu Yokoyama
Mohammed Yone & Shuji Ishikawa vs. Kazuyuki Fujita & Koji Doi
Atsushi Kotoge vs. Koji Iwamoto
ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki vs. Junya Matsunaga for the title

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Updates below will begin at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 15 minutes before the event.

6:55 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The crowd is sitll filing in and it’s probably the normal smaller-capacity setup (the venue’s normal max capacity is 600), with other events happening now around Tokyo plus seeing a number of empty ringside seats I’ll guess the number will be around 250. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 243)

The matches should begin in a few minutes.

The matches begin at 7:03 PM PT/10:03 PM ET.

Match 1: Yu Owada vs. Satsuki Nagao. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yu Owada beat Satsuki Nagao

Match 2: The Reeve Masks 1 & 2 vs. Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Black Menso-re. 20 minute time limit
Result: The Reeve Mask 1 & 2 beat Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Black Menso-re. Mask 1 pinned Menso-re.

Match 3: Hajime Ohara, Shuhei Taniguchi & Kohei Kinoshita vs. Masato Tanaka (now bald), Takuya Sugawara & Yoshikazu Yokoyama. 20 minute time limit
Result: Masato Tanaka, Takuya Sugawara & Yoshikazu Yokoyama beat Hajime Ohara, Shuhei Taniguchi & Kohei Kinoshita. Tanaka pinned Ohara after Sliding D.

Intermission.

The matches resume at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.

Match 4: Mohammed Yone & Shuji Ishikawa vs. Kazuyuki Fujita & Koji Doi. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mohammed Yone & Shuji Ishikawa beat Kazuyuki Fujita & Koji Doi. Yone pinned Doi after Kinniku Muscle Buster.

Match 5: Atsushi Kotoge vs. Koji Iwamoto. 20 minute time limit
Result: Time Limit Draw

Main Event: ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki vs. Junya Matsunaga for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki beat Junya Matsunaga to retain the title. V3 for Shiozaki.

The next event is NOAH THE NEW YEAR 2025, the year-opening blowout event, on 1/1 at Nippon Budokan. Live streaming as a PPV only on ABEMA in select countries, including the US, will begin on 12/31 at 10:15 PM PT/1:15 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran their final STAR NAVIGATION 2024 event of the year today, also featuring their annual NOAHful Gift holiday-themed matches and more.

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 1205.

Match 1: Luis Mante (Dragon Gate) & Daga beat Eita & Titus Alexander, Naomichi Marufuji & HAYATA and Ulka Sasaki & AMAKUSA in a 4-way when Daga pinned Eita.

Match 2: Kouki Amarei, Takumi Iroha & Utami Hayashishita beat Great Sakuya, Bozilla & Myla Grace. Iroha pinned Grace after Running 3.

Match 3: Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & The Reeve Mask beat Hajime Ohara, Koki Iwamoto & Black Menso-re. Mask pinned Menso-re after The Reeve Press.

Match 4: Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Odashima beat Manabu Soya & Kazuyuki Fujita. Kitamiya pinned Soya after a diving senton.

Match 5: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Yoshitatsu.

Match 6: Go Shiozaki beat Yuji Nagata (New Japan).

Match 7: Alejandro & Junta Claus (Junta Miyawaki) beat Yu Owada & Takashi augiura. Claus pinned Owada after an over the shoulder Falcon Arrow.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Reindeer Fujimura (Kai Fujimura) & Kenoh beat Manabu Soya, Tadasuke & Tree Man (YO-HEY). Kiyomoya pinned Tadasuke after Transformed Shining Wozard.

The next event is a LIMIT BREAK ex. Sunday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring, their final event of the year. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET.

In other news, the promotion announced MONDAY MAGIC will return in 2025, with the next season starting at the end of May and running through June.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 Tour today with another event in Tokyo. None of the matches were announced in advance.

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

The announced paid attendance was 340.

Match 1: AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki beat Tadasuke & Daiki Odashima. Miyawaki pinned Odashima after Falcon Arrow.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya beat Eita & Yu Owada in a 3-way by pinning Owada.

Match 3: Alejandro, Kai Fujimura & Harutoki beat HAYATA, YO-HEY & Yuto Kikuchi. Alejandro pinned HAYATA after Zero Gravity.

Match 4: Kenoh beat Shuhei Taniguchi.

Match 5: Go Shiozaki & Mohammed Yone beat Kazuyuki Fujita & Atsushi Kotoge. Shiozaki pinned Kotoge after Go Lariat.

Match 6: Naomichi Marufuji vs. Ulka Sasaki went to a Double KO.

Match 7: Jack Morris & Daga beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Takashi Sugiura. Morris pinned Sugiura after a tiger driver.

Main Event: GHC National Champion Manabu Soya beat Shuji Kondo to retain the title. V3 for Soya.

The next event is 12/8 at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast (last time this year).

In other news, the full card for 1/1 at Nippon Budokan has been announced:
Pre-show 13 man battle royal. The winner gets a title shot of their choice
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions HAYATA & YO-HEY vs. AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki in a 3-way for the titles
Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara vs. Kazuyuki Fujita, Shuji Ishikawa, Tetsuya Endo & Black Menso-re
Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. Galeno Del Mal
Kenoh vs. Lover (?)
GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga vs. Eita in a 3 1 Hour Matches match for the title
GHC National Champion Manabu Soya vs. Masa Kitamiya for the title
GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura vs. Jack Morris & TBA for the titles
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Ulka Sasaki
GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya vs. OZAWA (Taishi Ozawa) for the title
The event will be a PPV available only on ABEMA. No WRESTLE UNIVERSE until sometime after the event (probably a week).