Pro Wrestling NOAH continues the NEO Global Tag League today with the last day of Block A. The winners of the block after today’s matches will advance to the Finals. That scenario is pretty simple-the winner of today’s match between Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI and Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows will advance to the Finals. If it goes to a draw, tiebreakers mean there will be a rematch. It can only get complicated if it somehow winds up being a no contest meaning Team 2000X finds a way to ruin everything like they do so well.
Today’s event will be held at Kasai Sports Center in Aomori and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. There are 8 matches planned and no mention of whether or not there will be an intermission but it probably will wind up being a standard house show with a running time of around 2 hours.
Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Alejandro vs. RYUSEI
KENTA, Katsumi Inahata & Eita vs. Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara
Manabu Soya, Yuki Iino,. Hiroto Tsuruya & Yuto Koyanagi vs. OZAWA, Tadasuke, Kai Fujimura & Jun Masaoka
Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Black Menso-re
Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh, AMAKUSA & Midori Takahashi vs. Yoshiki Inamura, Stallion Rogers, Hi69 & Daiki Odashima
NEO Global Tag League Block A:
Kid Lykos 1 & 2 vs. Masa Kitamiya & Takashi Sugiura
Kaito Kiyomiya & Alejandro* vs. Tetsuya Endo & HAYATA
Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI vs. Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows
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Updates below will begin at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 10 minutes before the event.
*-Alejandro is in 2 matches right now because he was a tag league replacement for Harutoki, who had to be pulled earlier this week due to injury.
7:50 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in 5-10 minutes.
7:56 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
We are LIVE from Kasai Sports Center in Aomori, Japan. There is no commentary.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The seating chart on NOAH’s website had me thinking the setup would be for around 500, based on estimated advance sales I’ll predict it’ll be between 350-400. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 654. Clearly a lot I couldn’t see on the hard camera which was our only viewpoint today)
The matches should begin in about 5 minutes.
The matches begin right on time at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.
Match 1: Alejandro vs. RYUSEI. 10 minute time limit
Result: Alejandro beat RYUSEI
Match 2: KENTA, Katsumi Inahata & Eita vs. Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara beat KENTA, Katsumi Inahata & Eita. Yone pinned Inahata after Kinniku Muscle Buster.
Match 3: Manabu Soya, Yuki Iino,. Hiroto Tsuruya & Yuto Koyanagi vs. OZAWA, Tadasuke, Kai Fujimura & Jun Masaoka. 20 minute time limit
Result: OZAWA, Tadasuke, Kai Fujimura & Jun Masaoka beat Manabu Soya, Yuki Iino, Hiroto Tsuruya & Yuto Koyanagi. Tadasuke pinned Koyanagi after a double running knee strike.
Match 4: Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Black Menso-re. 20 minute time limit
Result: Kazuyuki Fujita beat Black Menso-re in about 6 seconds. Which led to…
Match 4 (Again): Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Black Menso-re. 20 minute time limit
Result: Kazuyuki Fujita beat Black Menso-re in about 15 seconds.. Which led to…
Match 4 (yet again): Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Black Menso-re. 20 minute time limit
Result: Kazuyuki Fujita beat Black Menso-re in less than a minute. Some fans still wanted more but they get no more.
Match 5: Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh, AMAKUSA & Midori Takahashi vs. Yoshiki Inamura, Stallion Rogers, Hi69 & Daiki Odashima. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yoshiki Inamura, Stallion Rigers, Hi69 & Daiki Odashima beat Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh, AMAKUSA & Midori Takahashi. Inamura pinned Takahashi.
NEO Global Tag League Block A:
Match 6: Kid Lykos 1 & 2 vs. Masa Kitamiya & Takashi Sugiura. 30 minute time limit
Result: Masa Kitamiya & Takashi Sugiura beat Kid Lykos 1 & 2. Sugiura pinned 2 after Olympic Yosen Slam.
Match 7: Kaito Kiyomiya & Alejandro vs. Tetsuya Endo & HAYATA. 30 minute time limit
Result: Tetsuya Endo & HAYATA beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Alejandro. Endo pinned Alejandro after Burning Star Press.
Main Event: Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI vs. Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows. 30 minute time limit
Result: Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows beat Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI. Gallows pinned BUSHI after Magic Killer. As a result, Anderson & Gallows win Block A and advance to the Finals. Now they wait to see who wins Block B, which we will know Saturday. And whoever wins the tournament likely gets a GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship shot now too.
The next event is MONDAY MAGIC Inside Out Season Final Monday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.