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Pro Wrestling NOAH has just announced a last-minute change to their 7/9 event: Atsushi Kotoge is now off. Fever. He was to have faced Hi69. Taishi Ozawa is the replacement. No mention of any potential coronavirus tests done so for now it appears Kotoge will hopefully only miss this event as there is nearly a week until the next event after this.

More as it becomes available.

Pro Wrestling NOAH star Kenoh held a 15th Anniversary Event in his hometown today, which has to make one wonder-would the eternal stone-faced Kongo leader actually smile? Or even force a smirk? Or something else perhaps?

Today’s event was held at Tokushima City Gym in Tokushima and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on the Kenoh YouTube Channel, which also streamed the event live. You can also watch below (the total running time is about 3 hours; the broadcast begins at the 20 minute mark and has Japanese commentary, the matches begin at about the 38 minute mark…note that while the hard camera view is in HD, other ringside camera views will be lower quality: it is not available on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at this time):

The announced paid attendance was 1321.

Match 1: Hi69 beat Taishi Ozawa.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura beat Daiki Inaba & Stallion Rogers. Inamura pinned Rogers after Musou.

Match 3: Ninja Mack beat Dante Leon.

Match 4: Go Shiozaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Mohammed Yone & GAINA (Independent/Freelancer) beat Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher, Kazuyuki Fujita & Shuhei Taniguchi. Shiozaki pinned Taniguchi after Go Lariat.

Match 5: Yoshinari Ogawa, Chris Ridgeway & Daga beat Atsushi Kotoge, Seiki Yoshioka & Super Crazy. Daga pinned Kotoge after Diablo Wings.

Match 6: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Kaito Kiyomiya, HAYATA & Eita beat Jake Lee, Jack Morris, YO-HEY & Tadasuke. Kiyomiya beat Tadasuke with a double armbar.

Main Event: Kenoh 15th Anniversary Match: Kenoh, Masakatsu Funaki, Manabu Soya, Shuji Kondo & Hajime Ohara beat Naomichi Marufuji, Masato Tanaka, Kazushi Sakuraba, AMAKUSA & Alejandro. Kenoh pinned Alejandro after Ring Of Fire. Then, the huge shocker…Kongo is no more. Kenoh has disbanded the iconic heel faction. This has resulted in the promotion announcing changes to the 7/9 card-and interestingly, one is the main event where Kenoh will now team with longtime archrival Kaito Kiyomiya against Manabu Soya & Daiki Inaba.

The next event is 7/9 at Tama Mirai Messe in Tokyo. Besides the aforementioned changes, the event also features GHC National Champion Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. AMAKUSA for the title, fallout from Thuesday’s event. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the STAR NAVIGATION 2023 Tour today with their latest Tokyo event, featuring the announcement of this year’s N-1 VICTORY 2023 entrants.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The live broadcast was English only due to being an ABEMA exclusive. You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 1022.

Match 1: Katsuhiko Nakajima & Seiki Yoshioka beat Manabu Soya & Hajime Ohara. Nakajima pinned Ohara after Hari-te.

Match 2: Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher, Hideki Suzuki, Kazuyuki Fujita & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Masa Kitamiya, Akitoshi Saito, Mohammed Yone, Yoshiki Inamura & Stallion Rogers. Taniguchi pinned Rogers with a half nelson suplex. Taniguchi is now part of Suzuki’s Real faction.

Match 3: Jake Lee & Jack Morris beat Daiki Inaba & Sean Legacy. Morris beat Legacy with a cobra twist.

Match 4: Kaito Kiyomiya, HAYATA & Eita beat Yoshinari Ogawa, LEONA (Dradition) & Kai Fujimura. Kiyomiya pinned Fujimura after a deformed tiger driver.

Match 5: Shuji Kondo beat Hi69.

Match 6: Naomichi Matifuji, AMAKUSA & Atsushi Kotoge beat Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Ninja Mack & Dante Leon. AMAKUSA pinned Wagner.

Match 7: Chris Ridgeway & Daga beat GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YO-HEY & Tadasuke to win the titles. Ridgeway & Daga become the 57th GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Daga pinned YO-HEY after Justice.

Main Event: Kenoh beat Go Shiozaki.

Here is the N-1 VICTORY Tournament field as announced today:
Block A: Jake Lee, Kenoh, Masa Kitamiya, Jack Morris, Yoshiki Inamura, Timothy Thatcher, Adam Brooks, Yuki Yoshioka (Dragon Gate)
Block B: Go Shiozaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Manabu Soya, Daiki Inaba, Saxon Huxley, Lance Anoai, Yuma Anzai (All-Japan)

In other news/fallout, GHC National Champion Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. AMAKUSA for the title was announced for 7/9 at Tama Mirai Messe in Tokyo. This event will be a live WRESTLE UNIVERSE broadcast.

The next event is the Kenoh 15th Anniversary Event Saturday at Tokushima City Gym in Tokushima. This event will be streamed live FOR FREE on the Kenoh YouTube Channel beginning at midnight PT/3 AM ET. The link is below:

https://www.youtube.com/@kenoh_ch

Separate from today’s press conference, Pro Wrestling NOAH had also announced Takashi Sugiura will be absent from upcoming events due to injury. Eye. In a reply to the announcement on Twitter, Sugiura confirmed the injury and said he will have surgery. Out indefinitely. The original post from Sugiura, quoting NOAH’s original post in Japanese, is below.

More as it becomes available.

Pro Wrestling NOAH held a press conference earlier today (available on YouTube), and after he mentioned making an announcement on Twitter, some fans were worries that perhaps Naomichi Marufuji was going to announce his retirement or something worrisome…thankfully that was not the case. His announcement was a 25th Anniversary event to be held on 9/17 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Not too many hints about it were dropped during a media Q&A session so we’ll have to wait and see.

Also part of the presser was a signing ceremony for the GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match Thursday at Korakuen. It will be YO-HEY & Tadasuke defending against Chris Ridgeway & Daga.

And finally, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kento Miyahara appeared to promote their 7/15 Korakuen match. Based on photos posted by NOAH, it got physical and Miyahara laid out Nakajima. Watch the video below for that. Do keep in mind that their careers together go back to almost their beginning in the now-closed Kensuke Office/Diamond Ring promotion (Nakajima is basically an adopted som of owners and Hall of Famers Kensuke Sasaki & Akira Hokuto). They have teamed and feuded over their entire 15-year-plus careers so this is definitely going to be a hoss fight level match

The press conference can be watched below (in Japanese. Video courtesy of Pro Wrestling NOAH Japanese official YouTube channel):

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour today with a house show in Osaka.

Today’s event was held at Osaka ATC Hall in Osaka and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 335.Match 1: Mohammed Yone & Super Crazy beat Stallion Rogers & Kai Fujimura. Crazy pinned Fujimura.

Match 2: Manabu Soya beat Hi69.

Match 3: HAYATA & Eita beat Dante Leon & Alejandro. HAYATA pinned Alejandro after a moonsault press.

Match 4: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Yoshinari Ogawa & Chris Ridgeway beat Sean Legacy, AMAKUSA & Seiki Yoshioka. Wagner Jr. pinned AMAKUSA after Wagner Driver.

Match 5: Kaito Kiyomiya, Masa Kitamiya, Yoshiiki Inamura & Daiki Inaba beat Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher, Hideki Suzuki & Shuhei Taniguchi. Kiyomiya pinned Taniguchi after a transformed Shining Wizard.

Match 6: Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Kenoh & Hajime Ohara. Shiozaki pinned Ohara after Go Lariat.

Match 7: Daga beat YO-HEY.

Main Event: Jack Morris, Jake Lee & Tadasuke beat Takashi Sugiura, Naomichi Marufuji & Atsushi Kotoge. Tadasuke pinned Kotoge after Good Looking Piledriver.

The next event is Thursday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo to continue the also-never-ending STAR NAVIGATION 2023 tour. In addition to a GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match, the N-1 VICTORY Tournament participants for this year will be announced (no Kaito Kiyomiya due to New Japan participation). Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. This is an ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan.

UPDATE: The promotion announced on Twitter that Marufuji has an announcement to make at NOAH’s press conference later this week. It will happen at midnight PT/3 AM ET Tuesday and will stream live on the Pro Wrestling NOAH official YouTube channel. Updates will follow.

GREEN JOURNEY 2023 in Nagoya, Pro Wrestling NOAH’s latest major event today, is now in the books.

Today’s event was held at Nagoya International Conference Center Event Hall in Nagoya and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. The live broadcast was only in English due to being an ABEMA-exclusive broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 833. That sounds bad for a major event like this, but depending on the setup the capacity was likely only in the 1000-1200 range (the absolute maximum for the venue would be 1800).

Match 1: Akitoshi Saito, Seiki Yoshioka & Stallion Rogers beat Mohammed Yone, Alejandro & TaishI Ozawa. Yoshioka beat Ozawa with a crossface.

Match 2: Hajime Ohara beat Hi69.

Match 3: Kaito Kiyomiya, AMAKUSA & Super Crazy beat Hjo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Yoshinari Ogawa & Kai Fujimura. Kiyomiya beat Fujimura with a double arm lock.

Match 4: Hideki Suzuki beat Shuhei Taniguchi.

Match 5: Naomichi Marufuji & Eita beat Daiki Inaba & Atsushi Kotoge. Eita pinned Kotoge after Imperial Uno.

Match 6: Jack Morris, YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Sean Legacy, Chris Ridgeway & Daga. Morris pinned LEgacy after a tiger driver.

Match 7: Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Kenoh & Manabu Soya. Nakajima pinned Soya after Vertical Spike.

Match 8: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion HAYATA beat Dante Leon to retain the title. V2 for HAYATA.

Match 9: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher beat Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura to retain the titles. Huxley pinned Kitamiya after a neck hanging bomb. V1 for the champs.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Jake Lee beat Takashi Sugiura to retain the title. V3 for Lee.

The next event is tomorrow at Osaka ATC Hall in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast.

Pro Wrestling NOAH resumed the never-ending SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour today with a house show in Yokohama, the first official event of Mitsuharu Misawa Memorial Month.

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 310, a legit advance sellout.

There was a last-second change to this event because Junta Miyawaki suffered an injury at yesterday’s ALL TOGETHER AGAIN event. Spinal cord concussion. Out 2 weeks and will miss all of this month’s events (that means he will officially be out a month because after 6/24 the promotion is off until 7/9). Match 2 was changed as a result. It was also announced that Kaito Kiyomiya is off all events from 7/15 until the end of August due to New Japan participation in the annual G1 CLIMAX tournament. This will be the first time Kiyomiya has participated in the tournament. But don’t get too excited about a potential 3rd Kazuchika Okada fight forever…the way the blocks are, it could only happen if both make the Semifinals or Finals. That could also keep him out of this year’s N-1 VICTORY Tournament depending on when it will start. (Update: Kiyomiya will not be in N-1 VICTORY this year because of it)

Match 1: Seiki Yoshioka vs. Eita went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Yoshinari Ogawa & LEONA (Dradition) beat Atsushi Kotoge & Kai Fujimura. LEONA beat Fujimura with a Figure 4.

Match 3: Chris Ridgeway beat Tadasuke by submission.

Match 4: Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Manabu Soya & Hajime Ohara. Nakajima pinned Ohara after Vertical Spike.

Match 5: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Sean Legacy.

Match 6: Masa Kitamiya, Yoshiki Inamura, Dante Leon & Alejandro beat HAYATA, Daiki Inaba, Super Crazy & Stallion Rogers. Leon pinned Crazy after Inferno.

Match 7: Jake Lee & YO-HEY beat Takashi Sugiura & AMAKUSA. Lee pinned AMAKUSA after FBS (Face Break Shot).

Main Event: Kenoh beat Hi69.

The next event is GREEN JOURNEY 2023 in NAGOYA on 6/17 at Nagoya International Conference Center Event Hall in Nagoya. 3 title matches headline including GHC Heavyweight Champion Jake Lee vs. Takashi Sugiura for the title in the main event. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET. This is an ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan (Japanese commentary will only be available on demand after the event).