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Pro Wrestling NOAH today announced the full field for the next tournament, the NEO GLOBAL TAG LEAGUE, coming up in about 2 weeks. This will be a round-robin format tournament with 2 blocks of 6 teams and standard scoring, with the winners of each block advancing to the Finals. Tiebreaker if needed will be head-to-head result.

Participating teams:
Block A: Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI, Kaito Kiyomiya & Harutoki, Tetsuya Endo & HAYATA, Katl Anderson & Doc Gallows, Kid Lykos 1 & 2, Masa Kitamiya & Takashi Sugiura
Block B: Naomichi Marufuji & Kenoh, Yoshiki Inamura & Stallion Rogers, Kazuyuki Fujita & Mohammed Yone, KENTA & Katsumi Inahata, Manabu Soya & Yuki Iino, OZAWA & Tadasuke

On paper Block A looks tough to call, I don’t see the Lykoses having a chance but anyone else can win. Block B looks 50-50 between Marufuji/Kenoh, Soya/Iino and OZAWA/Tadasuke. I would expect the winners to get a GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match afterwards unless Naito/BUSHI win as the current champions.

The tournament begins on 5/23 at Kyoto KBS Hall in Kyoto and runs over 12 events through 6/16 (Finals at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo). All events will be streamed LIVE and on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE but 6/16 is listed as an ABEMA live broadcast so we should get an English-only UNIVERSE stream there.

Pro Wrestling NOAH wraps up their busy Golden Week today with one more event in Tokyo, another Legacy Rise 2026 event. There isn’t much to preview because the entire card will not be announced in advance with one exception-the only confirmed match for today is GHC National Champion Alpha Wolf vs. Naomichi Marufuji for the title. Otherwise it’s wait and see.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English Only. This will be a live & exclusive ABEMA broadcast in Japan, which will be available on demand in Japanese shortly after the event. Since we know of just one match so far it’s impossible to really predict much.

Today’s lineup:
GHC National Champion Alpha Wolf vs. Naomichi Marufuji for the title
All other matches TBA and will not be announced until the event

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 20 minutes before the event.

Pre-Show Update: A since-deleted post on Harutoki’s Twitter, which was shared by NOAH’s English account before that, hints at a Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Masa Kitamiya match today. If Kiyomiya wins, Kitamiya loses his hair. If Kitamiya wins, All Rebellion must disband. But a similar post Kiyomiya made on his Twitter in Japanese about this match is still up.

7:10 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in 10 minutes.

7:20 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Stewart (BANG!) Fulton & Mark Pickering.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Looks like a good holiday matinee crowd still filing in, not sure if it will be a sellout but looks like at least 1250. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1302)

The matches should begin in 15-20 minutes.

All matches were revealed during the opening video. Kiyomiya-Kitamiya is happening. GHC National Championship match is the main event.

The matches begin at 7:33 PM PT/10:33 PM ET.

Match 1: Kenoh & AMAKUSA vs. Eita & Black Menso-re. 15 minute time limit
Result: Kenoh & AMAKUSA beat Eita & Black Menso-re. Kenoh pinned MEnso-re after PFS. Glorified squash.

Match 2: Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & RYUSEI vs. Yuto Koyanagi, Hiroto Tsuruya & Midori Takahashi. 20 minute time limit
Result: Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & RYUSEI beat Yuto Koyanagi, Hiroto Tsuruya & Midori Takahashi. BUSHI beat Koyanagi with a Boston crab.

Match 3: Kazuyuki Fujita, Hajime Ohara, Atsushi Kotoge & Mohammed Yone vs. Manabu Soya, Yuki Iino (DDT), Daiki Odashima & Super Crazy. 20 minute time limit
Result: Manabu Soya, Yuki Iino, Daiki Odashima & Super Crazy beat Kazuyuki Fujita, Hajime Ohara, Atsushi Kotoge & Mohammed Yone, Soya pinned Ohara after PASSION IS.

Match 5: Yoshiki Inamura, Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows, Kid Lykos 1 & 2 vs. OZAWA, Takashi Sugiura, Knull, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yoshiki Inamura, Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows, Kid Lykos 1 & 2 beat OZAWA, Takashi Sugiura, Knull, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka. Inamura pinned Masaoka after a moonsault press.

Intermission. Japanese commentary takes over for the break.

The matches resume at 8:35 PM PT/11:35 PM ET. (about a 12 minute break)

Match 6: Tetsuya Endo & Shane Haste vs. KENTA & Katsumi Inahata. 30 minute time limit
Result: Tetsuya Endo & Shane Haste beat KENTA & Katsumi Inahata. Haste pinned Inahata after a lariat.

Match 7: Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Masa Kitamiya. If Kitamiya loses, he loses his hair. If Kiyomiya loses, All Rebellion must disband. No time limit
Result; Kaito Kiyomiya beat Masa Kitamiya. As a result, Kitamiya loses his hair. After shaving himself bald, Kitamiya with microphone. He says it’s not over yet between him and All Rebellion.

Quick break for ring cleaning.

Main Event: GHC National Champion Alpha Wolf vs. Naomichi Marufuji for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Naomichi Marufuji beat GHC National Champion Alpha Wolf by ref stoppage (technical submission) to win the title. Marufuji becomes the 20th GHC National Champion. The Circle Is Now Complete. Marufuji now has the only NOAH title that has eluded him in his illustrious career. Next up: Wasting no time in interrupting and issuing the challenge is Tadasuke. Yep, means it’s time for another Team 2000X Gauntlet run. (UPDATE: It’s now official. That match will happen on 5/17 at Lives Nagoya in Nagoya)

The next event is 5/13. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

AFTER MAYHEM 2026, a follow up to Pro Wrestling NOAH’s SPRING MAYHEM blowout event yesterday, was held today.

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

The announced paid attendance was 468, a legit sellout.

The match card was not announced in advance.

Match 1: Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI vs. Kenoh & Yoshiki Inamura went to a 10 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Eita & Daiki Odashima beat Hajime Ohara & Katsumi Inahata. Eita pinned Inahata after Numero Uno.

Match 3: Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows & Yuto Koyanagi beat Kid Lykos 1 & 2 & Black Menso-re. Gallows pinned Menso-re after Magic Killer.

Match 4: RYUSEI beat Hiroto Tsuruya.

Match 5: Manabu Soya & Yuki Iino (DDT) beat Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69, Soya pinned Hi69 after PASSION IS. If their new profile pics are how they really look now, Soya & Iino look like barbarians with devil-themed hair strips on otherwise bald heads. To quote Iino, NOT SEXY!

Match 6: Naomichi Marufuji, AMAKUSA, Shuji Kondo & Midori Takahashi beat OZAWA, Alpha Wolf, Knull & Jun Masaoka. Marufuji pinned Knull.

Match 7: Masa Kitamiya, Tadasuke & Kai Fujimura beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Harutoki & Alejandro. Kitamiya pinned Alejandro.

Main Event; KENTA & Tetsuya Endo beat Shane Haste & HAYATA. Endo pinned HAYATA after a shooting star press.

The next event is Tuesday at Korakuen Hall. The card will not be announced in advance, or most of it anyway because they have announced GHC National Champion Alpha Wolf vs. Naomichi Marufuji for the title. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English Only will begin Monday at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET. This will be an exclusive ABEMA live broadcast in Japan.

SPRING MAYHEM RYOGOKU 20026, Pro Wrestling NOAH’s Golden Week blowout event, is in the books.

Today’s event was held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. Keiji Muto & Shinjiro Otani joined Akitoshi Saito as guest former wrestlers on commentary.

The announced paid attendance was 4539. They did not use the full capacity (particularly in the lower level box seats that can seat 4-6 for sumo) so it was not setup for the normal maximum of 15,000. So this number is not as bad as it sounds.

The match order was not announced until event time, in part due to fan voting for the main event.

Pre-show:
Match 1: Atsushi Kotoge, Hi69 & Hajime Ohara beat Yuto Koyanagi, Hiroto Tsuruya & Midori Takahashi. Kotoge beat Takahashi with a Texas cloverleaf.
Match 2: Eita beat Katsumi Inahata.

Main show:
Match 1: KENTA, HAYATA & Tetsuya Endo beat Mohammed Yone, Kazuyuki Fujita & Daiki Odashima. KENTA pinned Odashima after GO 2 SLEEP.

Match 2: In a handicap match, Knull beat Kid Lykos 1 & 2 by pinning 2.

Match 3: Manabu Soya, Saxon Huxley & TBA, revealed at match time to be Yuki Iino (DDT) beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Harutoki & Alejandro and Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura & Tadasuke in a 3-way when Soya pinned Alejandro.

Match 4: Alpha Wolf & Kai Fujimura beat RYUSEI & Angel Reyes. Wolf pinned Reyes after a package piledriver.

Match 5: In a No DQ match, BUSHI beat Kai Fujimura.

Match 6: Naomichi Marufuji & Kenoh beat Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows. Marufuji pinned Gallows.

Match 7: OZAWA beat Tetsuya Naito.

Match 8: Dragon Bane beat GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion AMAKUSA to win the title. Bane becomes the 61st GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion. Next up: Eita. That match will happen on 6/20 at Agematsu Town Community Center in Nagano at the Eita 15th Anniversary Event.

Main Event: Shane Haste beat GHC Heavyweight Champion Yoshiki Inamura to win the title. Haste becomes the 50th GHC Heavyweight Champion. UPSET ALERT!!! Whoa. Seriously. Never saw this coming! But it could be a short reign. Next up: KENTA. That match will happen on 5/13 at Korakuen Hall. As for Inamura, he could get back in the picture quickly on 5/13 but he’ll have to get through old-new nemesis OZAWA first.

More news/fallout presumably to come.

The next event is AFTER MAYHEM 2026 tomorrow at Shinjuku Face. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

Also an important note for Tuesday’s (Monday US time) Korakuen Hall event-the match card will not be announced in advance. That event is an ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan but will be available outside Japan on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only.

Pro Wrestling NOAH has just announced an injury change to upcoming events-rookie Hiroto Tsuruya apparently was injured over the last few days. Concussion, or at least a suspected one. Out indefinitely. Changes to Wednesday’s card have been made. It’s not yet known how long Tsuruya may be out but the promotion stated on social media in English that “His health and safety are our top priority.”

More as it becomes available.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran their monthly Legacy Rise 2036 Tour event today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. In Japanese & English.

The announced paid attendance was 1021.

Match 1: Manabu Soya, Eita, Super Crazy & Daiki Odashima beat Atsushi Kotoge, Mohammed Yone, Hajime Ohara & Katsumi Inahata. Soya pinned Ohara after Ballistic.

Match 2: Kid Lycos 1 & 2 & Hiroto Tsuruya beat Tetsuya Endo, HAYATA & Yuto Koyanagi. 1 pinned Koyanagi after a swanton bomb.

Match 3: Knull beat Midori Takahashi. Squash (81 seconds).

Match 4: Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Harutoki. Anderson pinned Harutoki after Magic Killer.

Match 5: Naomichi Marufuji & Kenoh beat Masa Kitamiya & Alpha Wolf. Marufuji pinned Wolf with a perfect neck hold.

Match 6: OZAWA, Takashi Sugiura & Jun Masaoka beat Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & RYUSEI by DQ. BUSHI DQ’d. Mist attack.

Match 7: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Dragon Bane & Alejandro beat Tadasuke & Kai Fujimura to retain the titles. Alejandro pinned Tadasuke. V2 for the champs.

Main Event: KENTA & Shane Haste beat Yoshiki Inamura & AMAKUSA. Haste pinned Inamura after Bomb valley Death.

The next event is tomorrow at Yamagata Big Wing in Yamagata. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Monday.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the Lethal Odyssey 2026 Tour today in Gunma.

Today’s event was held at G Messe Gunma in Gunma and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 414.

Match 1: Mohammed Yone & Hi69 beat Eita & Katsumi Inahata. Yone pinned Inahata after Kinniku Muscle Buster.

Match 2: Yuto Koyanagi beat Midori Takahashi by submission.

Match 3: Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara beat Super Crazy & Angel Reyes. Kotoge pinned Crazy.

Match 4: Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh & AMAKUSA beat Manabu Soya, Balck Menso-re & Hiroto Tsuruya. AMAKUSA pinned Menso-re after Opening Of The Country.

Match 5: Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & RYUSEI beat Takashi Sugiura, Knull & Jun Masaoka. Naito pinned Masaoka.

Match 6: Shane Haste, Tetsuya Endo & HAYATA beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Harutoki & Daiki Odashima. Haste pinned Harutoki after Bomb Valley Death.

Main Event: OZAWA, Masa Kitamiya, Alpha Wolf, Tadasuke & Kai Fujimura beat Yoshiki Inamura, Dragon Bane, Alejandro, Kid Lykos 1 & 2. Kitamiya pinned Alejandro after Saito Suplex.

The next event is Friday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the Lethal Odyssey 2026 Tour today in Niigata.

Today’s event was held at Bandaijima Multipurpose Square Okama in Niigata. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 781.

Match 1: Dragon Bane & Alejandro beat HIroto Tsuruya & Midori Takahashi. Alejandro pinned Takahashi after Spartana.

Match 2: Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh, AMAKUSA & Yuto Koyanagi beat Mohammed Yone, Hajime Ohara, Katsumi Inahata & Black Menso-re. Kenoh pinned Menso-re after PFS.

Match 3: Alpha Wolf, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka beat Manabu Soya, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69. Tadasuke beat Hi69 with an armbar.

Match 4: Kaito Kiyomiya & Daiki Odashima beat Super Crazy & Hitoshi Kumano. Kiyomiya pinned Crazy after Skywalk Elbow.

Match 5: Takashi Sugiura beat Harutoki by ref stoppage (technical submission).

Match 6: OZAWA, Masa Kitamiya, Knull & Kai Fujimura beat Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI, Angel Reyes & RYUSEI. Knull pinned RYUSEI after Mount Nur.

Main Event; Shane Haste, Tetsuya Endo & HAYATA beat Yoshiki INamura, Kid Lykos 1 & 2. Haste pinned 2 after Bomb Valley Death.

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

APEX CONQUEST 2026 in NAGOYA, Pro Wrestling NOAH’s latest major event, is now in the books.

Today’s event was held at Kinjo Pier Arena in Nagoya and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English. This was an exclusive ABEMA broadcast in Japan.

The announced paid attendance was 1280. That’s just over half capacity for the venue in the promotion’s debut since it reopened in January after a brief closure (it first opened in 2008). The venue’s main arena capacity listed is 2536.

Match 1: Hajime Ohara, Daiki Odashima & Midori Takahashi beat Manabu Soya, Black Menso-re & Yuto Koyanagi. Odashima pinned Menso-re after Dead End.

Match 2: Angel Reyes & RYUSEI beat Eita & Hiroto Tsuruya. RYUSEI beat Tsuruya with a reverse Boston Crab.

Match 3: Knull, Kai Fujimura & Tadasuke beat Atsushi Kotoge, Mohammed Yone & Hi69. Tadasuke pinned Hi69.

Match 4: Kenoh, Naomichi Marufuji & AMAKUSA beat Tetsuya Endo, HAYATA & Katsumi Inahata. AMAKUSA pinned Inabata after Opening Of The Country.

Match 5: Masa Kitamiya & Takashi Sugiura beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Harutoki. Kitamiya beat Harutoki with Stranglehold y.

Match 6: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Dragon Bane & Alejandro beat Kid Lycos 1 & 2 to retain the titles. Bane pinned 2 after Santa Maria. V1 for the champs.

Match 7: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI beat OZAWA & Jun Masaoka to retain the titles. Naito pinned OZAWA. V3 for the champs.

Main event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Yoshiki Inamura beat Alpha Wolf to retain the title. V6 for Inamura.

The next event is Saturday at Bandaijima Mumtipurpose Square Okama in Niigata. There will be no live or on demand broadcast (at this time).

UPDATE: Here is the post-event news/fallout roundup:

Next up for Inamura: Shane Haste, who until a few months ago was part of New Japan but hasn’t been seen in a while. He was a regular in NOAH in his early career along with longtime tag partner Mikey Nicholls. That match will happen on 5/2 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. 5/2 will also have GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion AMAKUSA vs. Dragon Bane for the title. Haste will be part of the White Raven Squad faction in this current run.

It’s time for GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Bane & Alejandro to run the Team 2000X gauntlet as next up are Tadasuke & Fujimura. That match will happen on 4/24 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

New Japan wrestler Tiger Mask 4, who is retiring in July, has been announced for 5/13 at Korakuen and will team with Kenoh to face Marufuji & Alejandro.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran another UNIVERSE MAGIC event yesterday in Tokyo.

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

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: UNIVERSE CUP Semifinals: Naomichi Marufuji beat Hayabusa.

Match 2: UNIVERSE CUP Semifinals: Sanshiro Takagi beat The Great Sasuke.

Match 3: Tokyo Joshi Pro Match: Miyu Yamashita beat Shino Suzuki.

Match 4: Kaito Kiyomiya, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan, Takeshi Masada & Yunehito Imanari beat Masato Tanaka, Isami Kodaka, Taro Nobashi & The Great Mummy. Inanari pinned Mummy after a lariat.

Match 5: Yuna won a 10 woman battle royal, last eliminating Chika Akatsuki.

Main Event: UNIVERSE CUP Finals: Naomichi Marufuji beat Sanshiro Takagi to win the tournament.

The next event is APEX CONQUEST 2026 in NAGOYA Sunday at Kinjo Pier Arena in Nagoya. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English Only will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. This will be a live & exclusive ABEMA broadcast in Japan.