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GREAT VOYAGE 2024 in NAGOYA, the late-winter edition of Pro Wrestling NOAH’s signature event series, is in the books.

Today’s event was held at Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. As usual with the big events, this was an ABEMA exclusive broadcast so the live stream was English only outside Japan and edited/clipped at the start and end. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube, No Stewart Fulton on English commentary today, just regular co-host Mark Pickering and, when he wasn’t doing his day job, now-full time NOAH ring announcer G-Man.

The announced paid attendance was 809. It didn’t look like they used the full capacity setup for the venue, which is 3000, but even if they used the smaller Event Hall (1800) or the even smaller third vemue space (1400), this still sounds like their usual weak big event numbers.

Match 1; Ninja Mack beat Alejandro.

Match 2; Akitoshi Saito & Hi69 beat Hajime Ohara & Junta Miyawaki. Saito pinned Miyawaki after Sickle Of Death.

Match 3: Naomichi Marufuji, Yoshinari Ogawa & Super Crazy beat Jack Morris, Anthony Greene & YO-HEY. Ogawa pinned YO-HEY.

Match 4; HAYATA beat LJ Cleary.

Match 5: Victory Challenge Tag League: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Kenoh & Yu Owada. Bane pinned Owada after Twister Bane.

Match 6: Victory Challenge Tag League: Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba vs. Manabu Soya & Shuji Kondo went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

Match 7: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga beat Tadasuke to retain the title. V4 for Daga.

Match 8: Victory Challenge Tag League: Go Shiozaki & Atsushi Kotoge beat Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher. Shiozaki pinned Huxley after Go Lariat.

Match 9: Jake Lee vs. Kazuyuki Fujita went to a 30 minute time limit draw.

Main Event: Victory Challenge Tag League: Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa beat Takashi Sugiura & Ulka Sasaki. Kiyomiya beat Sasaki with a Figure 4.

The next event is tomorrow at Toyama Techno Hall in Toyama. There will be no live broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran Day 2 of the Victory Challenge Tag League today.

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

The announced paid attendance was 301.

Match 1: Alejandro beat Junta Miyawaki & Hajime Ohara in a 3-way by pinning Miyawaki.

Match 2: Jake Lee beat Shuhei Taniguchi.

Match 3: HAYATA & Ninja Mack beat Anthony Greene & LJ Cleary. HAYATA pinned Cleary.

Match 4: Victory Challenge Tag League: Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher beat Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf. Huxley pinned Wolf after a neck hanging bomb.

Match 5: Victory Challenge Tag League: Takashi Sugiura & Ulka Sasaki beat Shuji Kondo & Manabu Soya. Sugiura pinned Soya after a huracanrana.

Match 6: Daga, Yoshinari Ogawa & Super Crazy beat Jack Morris, YO-HEY & Tadasuke by DQ. Tadasuke DQ’d. Deadly weapon use.

Match 7: Victory Challenge Tag League: Go Shiozaki & Atsushi Kotoge beat Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba. Shiozaki pinned Inaba after Go Lariat.

Main Event: Victory Challenge Tag League: Kenoh & Yu Owada vs. Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

The next event is GREAT VOYAGE 2024 in NAGOYA Saturday at Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English ONLY will begin Friday at 9:45 PM PT/12:45 AM ET. I will try and do live results of conditions permit. This is an ABEMA exclusive broadcast, that version with Japanese commentary will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE shortly after the event ends.

Pro Wrestling NOAH kicked off the Victory Challenge (VC) 2024 Tag League today, a new tag team tournament featuring 8 teams in a round-robin format.

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 309. They didn’t say so but that may be a full house/near sellout as the venue’s normal full capacity is 350.

Match 1: Hajime Ohara beat Junta Miyawaki.

Match 2: Jake Lee, Jack Morris & LJ Cleary beat HAYATA, Ninja Mack & Alejandro. Cleary pinned Alejandro after Cattle Killing.

Match 3: VC Tag League: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba. Bane pinned Inaba after Twister Bane.

Match 4: VC Tag League: Manabu Soya & Shuji Kondo beat Kenoh & Yu Owada. Kondo pinned Owada after a King Kong lariat.

Match 5: Anthony Greene, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Daga, Yoshinari Ogawa & Super Crazy by DQ. Daga DQ’d.

Match 6: VC Tag League: Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa. Thatcher beat Oiwa with a Fujiwara armbar.

Main Event: VC Tag League: Takashi Sugiura & Ulka Sasaki beat Go Shiozaki & Atsushi Kotoge. Sasaki beat Kotoge with Shining Triangle.

The next event is Wednesday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

Injury Report: Naomichi Matufuji apparently suffered an injury at the previous event or in the days since. Sprained right knee. Out Wednesday. It’s not yet known if he will miss any additional time. He currently is still on the card for GREAT VOYAGE 2024 in NAGOYA next weekend.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continues the never-ending STAR NAVIGATION 2024 Tour today with a rare weekday matinee, which actually makes for very convenient live viewing for US fans as a result. In addition to serving as build for the upcoming Victory Challenge Tag League, there are 2 title matches headlining the event. First, since GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jack Morris & Anthony Greene won’t be defending the titles for a while (until after the tag league), Greene decided to challenge Morris for the GHC National Championship in the meantime so the champs will face off for the “Red belt”. After that, their factionmates, YO-HEY & Tadasuke, will defend the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in the main event against the odd couple pairing of HAYATA & Eita, who are unpredictable together to sya the least given their history.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only. This is yet another ABEMA exclusive broadcast that is otherwise available only in Japan so their commentary and some audio will be muted and some parts of video may be edited out (that version will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese shortly after the event). This may be changing soon as WRESTLE UNIVERSE announced a major overhaul in its service to take effect in one month, including more like Korakuen broadcasts and much more. There will be a price increase though, it’s going from 900 Japanese yen/month to 1298 yen/month (from about $6 US to around $8.75) It’s hard to predict how long this event will go but I imagine WRESTLE UNIVERSE won’t want it to go too long to avoid having to broadcast THREE events live at the same time, but with 2 title matches among 8 total I’m guessing it’ll go in the range of 3 hours.
Late add: You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

Today’s lineup:
Hi69 vs. Alejandro
Daga & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Hajime Ohara & Super Crazy
Ninja Mack vs. Junta Miyawaki
Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba, Takashi Sugiura & Ulka Sasaki vs. Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Kotoge, Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf
Kenoh, Yu Owada, Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa vs. Manabu Soya, Shuji Kondo, Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher
Naomichi Marufuji & Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Jake Lee & LJ Cleary
GHC National Champion Jack Morris vs. Anthony Greene for the title
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YO-HEY & Tadasuke vs. HAYATA & Eita for the titles

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Updates below will begin at 6:15 PM PT/9:15 PM ET. The event is scheduled to begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

6:15 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream ha started. We should be going to the venue in a few minutes.

6:30 PM PT UPDATE: Gonna be joining later than scheduled. Guess we gotta wait for all that ABEMA exclusive stuff to finish up.

6:35 PM PT UPDATE: Reload and we seem to be good, so live updates begin now…
We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Stewart (BANG!) Fulton & Mark Pickering. For some matches, they will be joined by ring announcer G-Man (he of the undoubtedly plastic chin).

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Haven’t gotten a good look at the crowd or setup yet but looks and sounds like a decent crowd so far, hopefully at least 1000. (It’s not quite the full capacity setup and not a sellout but it looks like it’s going to be over 1000 and maybe over 1100) (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1115)

Match 1: Hi69 vs. Alejandro. 15 minute time limit
Result: Alejandro beat Hi69

Match 2: Daga & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Hajime Ohara & Super Crazy. 20 minute time limit
Result: Daga & Yoshinari Ogawa beat Hajime Ohara & Super Crazy. Daga pinned Ohara after Diablo Wings.

The YouTube broadcast ends here.

Match 3: Ninja Mack vs. Junta Miyawaki. 20 minute time limit
Result: Ninja Mack beat Junta Miyawaki. Mack may have suffered a left knee or upper leg injury during the match.

Match 4: Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba, Takashi Sugiura & Ulka Sasaki vs. Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Kotoge, Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf. 30 minute time limit
Result: Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Kotoge, Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Masa Kiramiya, Daiki Inaba, Takashi Sugiura & Ulka Sasaki. Kotoge pinned Inaba after Kill Switch.

Match 5: Kenoh, Yu Owada, Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa vs. Manabu Soya, Shuji Kondo, Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher. 30 minute time limit
Result: Manabu Soya, Shuji Kondo, Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher beat Kenoh, Yu Owada, Kaito Kiromiya & Ryohei Oiwa. Soya pinned Owada after Ballistic. Afterwards, the participants from Match 4 return to the ring with microphone for tag league promos.

Match 6: Naomichi Marufuji & Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Jake Lee & LJ Cleary. 30 minute time limit
Result: Naomichi Marufuji & Kazuyuki Fujita beat Jake Lee & LJ Cleary. Marufuji pinned Cleary after a Spanish Fly.

Match 7: GHC National Champion Jack Morris vs. Anthony Greene for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC National Champion Jack Morris beat Anthony Greene to retain the title. V3 for Morris.

Main Event: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YO-HEY & Tadasuke vs. HAYATA & Eita for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat HAYATA & Eita to retain the titles. Tadasuke pinned Eita after a piledriver. V3 for the champs. Afterwards, Tadasuke with microphone. He challenged Daga for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. Daga responded in English & Spanish…accepted. With a catch: Daga & Yoshinari Ogawa get a shot at the Tag Team Titles. More to come on all this later today. After this, YO-HEY encouraged Tadasuke to sing, which led to some comedy karaoke to send the crowd home happy.

The next event is tomorrow at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama for the start of the Victory Challenge Tag League. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 11:30 PM PT/2:30 AM ET.

UPDATE: Eita was injured during the main event. Sprained left knee. Out indefinitely. Also, Daga-Tadasuke for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship will happen on 3/2 at GREAT VOYAGE 2024 in NAGOYA and Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. participation has been announced for 3/17.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 Tour today with a house show in Gunma.

Today’s event was held at G Messe Gunma in Gunma and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (probably Tuesday). There was no live broadcast. (UPDATE: Wednesday for on demand)

The announced paid attendance was 334.

Match 1: Daga beat Super Crazy & Alejandro in a 3-way by pinning Crazy.

Match 2; Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Masa Kitamiya & Ninja Mack. Bane pinned Mack after Twister Bane.

Match 3: Daiki Inaba & Hajime Ohara beat Kenoh & Yu Owada. Inaba pinned Owada after DDD.

Match 4: Saxon Hucley, Timothy Thatcher & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69. Thatcher beat Hi69 with a Fujiwara armbar.

Match 5: HAYATA beat Tadasuke.

Match 6; Jake Lee & Jack Morris beat Anthony Greene & LJ Cleary. Morris beat Cleary with a cobra twist.

Match 7: Eita beat YO-HEY.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Ryohei Oiwa, Manabu Soya & Junta Miyawaki beat Naomichi marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, Yoshinari Ogawa & Ulka Sasaki. Soya pinned Sugiura after a jumping DDT.

The next event is Friday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo with 2 title matches and more. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin Thursday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET (this is another ABEMA exclusive broadcast). Live results will be posted.

Pro Wrestling NOAH began a new special event series today called LIMIT BREAK, presented by sponsor The Reeve. Today’s event was dubbed LIMIT BREAK.1-STARTING OVER.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1212.

Match 1; TAKA Michinoku (New Japan) beat Hi69.

Match 2: Shuji Ishikawa beat Yu Owada. This was Ishikawa’s NOAH debut after leaving All-Japan.

Match 3: In a No Pinfalls Special Rules match, Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Daisuke Sekimoto (Big Japan) went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 4: Masato Tanaka (ZERO1) beat Mohammed Yone.

Match 5: Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma (New Japan) beat Kazuyuki Fujita & Akitoshi Saito. Makabe pinned Saito after a King Kong kneedrop.

Main Event: Jun Akiyama (DDT) & Yuji Nagata (New Japan) vs. Go Shiozaki & Atsushi Kotoge went to a 30 minute time limit draw.

A second LIMIT BREAK event will be held on 3/20 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama.

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

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 Tour today with an event in Tochigi.

Today’s event was held at New Sunpia Tochigi in Tochigi and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (probably Wednesday). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 238.

Match 1: Ulka Sasaki beat Yu Owada by submission.

Match 2: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Ninja Mack & Alejandro. Bane pinned Alejandro after Santa Maria.

Match 3: Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba beat Takashi Sugiura & Hajime Ohara. Kitamiya pinned Ohara after a Saito suplex.

Match 4: Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Daga, Yoshinari Ogawa & Super Crazy. Huxley pinned Crazy after a neck hanging bomb.

Match 5; Kenoh beat LJ Cleary.

Match 6; Go Shiozaki, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69 beat Naomichi Marufuji, Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki. Kotoge pinned Miyawaki after Kill Switch.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Ryohei Oiwa, Manaby Soya, HAYATA & Eita beat Jake Lee, Jack Morris, Anthony Greene, YO-HEY & Tadasuke. HAYATA pinned YO-HEY after Hedeck.

The next event is The Reeve Presents LIMIT BREAK.1-Starting Over- Thursday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 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 214.

Match 1; Kenoh beat Yu Owada.

Match 2: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf beat Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69. Wolf pinned Hi69 after Wolf Driver.

Match 3: Sacon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Hajime Ohara. Huxley pinned Ohara after a neck hanging bomb.

Match 4: Eita beat Tadasuke.

Match 5: Jack Morris & LJ Cleary beat Jake Lee & Anthony Greene. Morris pinned Greene after a tiger driver.

Match 6: Kaito Kiyomiya, Ryohei Oiwa & Ninja Mack beat Manabu Soya, Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki. Oiwa pinned Miyawaki.

Main Event: HAYATA beat YO-HEY.

The next event is Sunday at New Sunpia Tochigi in Tochigi. There will be no live broadcast.

After the event, a late change to the upcoming Victory Challenge Tag League Tournament was announced: It was decided today that Kenoh & Yu Owada would participate as a team after the first match, so they have been added to expand the field to 8 teams.

Also, there is both NOAH and All-Japan participation tomorrow in a special event at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Nippon Television (NTV), a longtime broadcaster of Japanese wrestling. The event will be available only in Japan on G+ and Hulu, no word on when/if it may be available on WRESTE UNIVERSE or AJPW.TV.

CROSS OVER 2024 in SENDAI, Pro Wrestling NOAH’s next major event, is on tap today with 3 big title matches at the top of the card. First up is a GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship match between Daga & Hajime Ohara. The second title match is GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jack Morris & Anthony Greene defending against the masked duo of Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf. Finally, in the main event, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. challenges Kenoh for the GHC Heavyweight Championship. The son of Mexican legend Dr. Wagner Jr. recently had perhaps the greatest GHC National Championship reign to date and now looks to end the current reign of the “Fist King” and add another notch to his already-impressive record in the promotion.

Today’s event will be held at Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English. The live stream is ENGLISH ONLY due to ABEMA exclusive broadcast rights (their stream is free but only available in Japan). Japanese commentary will be available on demand later today after the event. You can also watch the first 2 matches LIVE FOR FREE on YouTube via the Pro Wrestling NOAH Official YouTube channel. With 8 matches on the card and the 3 title matches it’s tricky to predict how long the event will run, but I’m anticipating the main event going 30+ minutes so it probably will run 3 1/2-4 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Ninja Mack vs. Alejandro & LJ Cleary in a 3-way
Manabu Soya, Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba, HAYATA & Eita vs. Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone, Akitoshi Saito, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69
Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Ulka Sasaki vs. Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher & Shuhei Taniguchi
Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa vs. Yoshinari Ogawa & Yu Owada
Jake Lee, YO-HEY & Tadasuke vs. Kazuyuki Fujita, Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki
GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga vs. Hajime Ohara for the title
GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jack Morris & Anthony Greene vs. Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf for the titles
GHC Heavyweight Champion Kenoh vs. Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. for the title

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Updates below will begin at 9:45 PM PT/12:45 AM ET. The event is scheduled to begin at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

9:45 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has started. Updates will begin in a few minutes when we go to the venue.

10 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now…

We are LIVE from Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai, Japan. Your hosts are Stewart Fulton & Mark Pickering.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. While the venue has a capacity of over 5000, it looks like their setup will be for 3000 tops, and probably not even close to that as their major events like these seem to draw poor numbers on paper. Let’s hope for at least 1000. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1104)

The matches will begin shortly.

The matches begin at 10:05 PM PT.

Match 1: Ninja Mack vs. Alejandro & LJ Cleary in a 3-way. 20 minute time limit
Result: LJ Cleary beat Ninja Mack & Alejandro in a 3-way by pinning Alejandro.

Match 2: Manabu Soya, Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba, HAYATA & Eita vs. Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone, Akitoshi Saito, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69. 20 minute time limit
Result: Manabu Soya, Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba, HAYATA & Eita beat Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone, Akitoshi Saito, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69. Kitamiya beat Hi69 with Prison Lock.

The YouTube broadcast ends here.

Match 3: Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Ulka Sasaki vs. Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher & Shuhei Taniguchi. 20 minute time limit
Result: Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Ulka Sasaki beat Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher & Shuhei Taniguchi. Sasaki beat Taniguchi with Shining Triangle.

Match 4: Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa vs. Yoshinari Ogawa & Yu Owada. 20 minute time limit
Result: Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa beat Yoshinari Ogawa & Yu Owada. Kiyomiya pinned Owada after a tiger driver.

Match 5: Jake Lee, YO-HEY & Tadasuke vs. Kazuyuki Fujita, Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jake Lee, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Kazuyuki Fujita, Shuji Kondo & Junta Miyawaki. Lee pinned Miyawaki.

Match 6: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga vs. Hajime Ohara for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga beat Hajime Ohara to retain the title. V3 for Daga.

Match 7: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jack Morris & Anthony Greene vs. Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jack Morris & Anthony Greene beat Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf to retain the titles. Morris pinned Bane after a tiger driver. V3 for the champs.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kenoh vs. Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. beat GHC Heavyweight Champion Kenoh to win the title. Wagner Jr. becomes the 44th GHC Heavyweight Champion. UPSET ALERT!!! And based on the crowd’s reaction that’s a massive understatement. Wagner didn’t even get to catch his breath before Jake Lee came out with GLG in tow. Lee with microphone. Challenge issued. We’ll find out when that may happen in a few hours.

The next event is Thursday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

UPDATE: Here’s all the post-event news/fallout so far:
Wagner-Lee is now official. That match will happen on 3/31 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.
A new tag team tournament, Victory Challenge Tag League, has been announced. There will be 7 teams entered in the tournament, which will be round-robin format with GHC Championship Match Rules and a 20 minute time limit for all matches. The top 2 advance to the Finals and the eventual winners will face GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jack Morris & Anthony Greene for the titles on 3/17 at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama. The entered teams: Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba, Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa, Go Shiozaki & Atsushi Kotoge, Takashi Sugiura & Ulka Sasaki, Manabu Soya & Shuji Kondo, Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher, Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf. The tournament begins on 2/24 and ends on 3/10.
Before Morris & Greene defend their titles, they will first face each other as Greene is the next challenger for Morris and the GHC National Championship. That match will happen on 2/23 at Korakuen Hall. Could be a bad day for the GLG champs as YO-HEY & Tadasuke will also defend the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship that day against HAYATA & Eita.