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Forgot about this one yesterday…Pro Wrestling NOAH continued what is now the LEGACY RISE 2026 Tour-what was STAR NAVIGATION during the pandemic-yesterday in Tokyo with the kickoff of the 2026 NOAH Jr. Tag League.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1522, a legit sellout with standing room only tickets sold on the day.

NOAH Jr. Tag League:
Match 1: Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka beat Eita & Katsumi Inahata. Tadasuke pinned Inahata after Tadasuke Crush.
Match 2: Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69 beat AMAKUSA & Black Menso-re. Hi69 pinned Menso-re with Samson Clutch.

Match 3: Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh, Hajime Ohara & Yuto Koyanagi beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Harutoki, Hiroto Ysuruya & Midori Takahashi. Kenoh pinned Takahashi after PFS.

Match 4: KENTA, HAYATA & Tetsuya Endo beat Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & TBA, which was revealed before the event to be Ryusei. KENTA beat Ryusei with GAME OVER.

Match 5: Yoshiki Inamura, Galeno & Manabu Soya beat OZAWA, Masa Kitamiya & Takashi Sugiura. Inamura beat Sugiura with a neck lock.

NOAH Jr. Tag League:
Match 6: Alpha Wolf & Kai Fujimura beat Daga & Daiki Odashima. Fujimura beat Odashima.
Main Event: Dragon Bane & Alejandro beat Mark Trew & Kieron Lacey. Alejandro pinned Lacey after Zero Gravity.

The next event is MONDAY MAGIC RISING SUN SEASON FINAL Monday at Shinjuku Face. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. Also a heads-up for the next event after that on Wednesday at Korakuen-it will be an English Only live broadcast on UNIVERSE because it is an ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran Episode 3 of MONDAY MAGIC RISING SUN SEASON today.

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

The paid attendance was not announced.

The match card was not announced in advance.

Match 1: AMAKUSA beat Dragon Bane & Atsushi Kotoge in a 3-way by pinning Kotoge.

Match 2: Chase Emery beat Soda Pop (?).

Match 3: Great Sakuya & Alivia Rose beat ZONES & Dream Girl Ellie and Marie Malenko & Sofia Sivan in a 3-way when Sakuya pinned Ellie.

Match 4: Titus Alexander won an 8 man battle royal, last eliminating Archie Cole. Order of elimination: Jacob Crane, Nathan De Wind, Rich Port Ayala (?), Galeno, Iker Navarro, HAYATA, Cole.

Match 5: Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh & Masakatsu Funaki vs. Daichi Hashimoto, Masaaki Mochizuki & Hikaru Sato went to a 20 minute time limit draw.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Izzy James

The final episode of the season is 2/9.

The next event is Friday at Korakuen Hall to begin the NOAH Jr. Tag League. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET. (If you missed the comment on social media they made changes in that some tournament events were going to be on demand only but all events will now be live)

UPDATE: While not yet officially announced, Mayu Iwatani vs. Great Sakuya for the GHC Women’s Championship may happen on 2/9 if Iwatani gets what she asked for today. (I didn’t know Iwatani won the title from Takumi Iroha because I currently do mot follow Marigold)

UPDATE 2: It’s now official. Also announced for 2/9 is GHC Hardcore Champion Titus Alexander vs. Masato Tanaka for the title.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran Episode 2 of MONDAY MAGIC RISING SUN SEASON today.

Today’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: Daga & Daiki Odashima beat Archie Cole & Dragon Bane. Odashima pinned Cole after Dead End

Match 2: Galeno beat Black Menso-re.

Match 3: Tetsuya Endo & Nathan De Wind beat Daisuke Sekimoto & Jack Morris and Danny Duggan & Harutoki in a 3-way when De Wind pinned Duggan

Match 4: Great Sakuya, ZONES & Amare beat Miyuki Takase, Mio Momomo & Hibiscus Mii. ZONES pinned Mii after a lariat.

Match 5: Yoshiki Inamura & Titus Alexander beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Iker Navarro. Inamura pinned Navarro after DIS CHARGE.

Main Event: Alejandro, Dragon Kid & Hayabusa beat HAYATA, MAZADA & Shuji Kondo. Alejandro pinned MAZADA after Zero Gravity.

Episode 3 is 2/2. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

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

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 665.

Match 1: Eita, Daiki Odashima, Katsumi Inahata, Yuto Koyanagi & Midori Takahashi beat Manabu Soya, Tetsuya Endo, AMAKUSA, Black Menso-re & Hiroto Tsuruya. Inahata pinned Tsuruya.

Match 2: Kaito Kiyomiya, Galeno & Harutoki beat Mohammed Yone, Quiet Storm (GLEAT) & Hajime Ohara. Kiyomiya pinned Ohara after a skywalk elbow.

Match 3: Masa Kitamiya, Jun Masaoka (Independent/Freelancer) & Tadasuke beat Kenoh, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69. Kitamiya beat Hi69 with Stranglehold y.

Match 4: Naomichi Marufuji beat Alejandro.

Match 5: BUSHI beat HAYATA.

Match 6: Yoshiki Inamura, Jack Morris & Dragon Bane beat OZAWA, Takashi Sugiura & Kai Fujimura by DQ. Fujimura DQ’d. T-shirt choking.

Main Event: GHC National Champion Alpha Wolf beat Daga to retain the title. V1 for Wolf.

The next event is MONDAY MAGIC RISING SUN SEASON Episode 2 tomorrow at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran a very rare untelevised event today in Shizuoka.

Today’s event was held at Shimizu Marine Building in Shizuoka. There was no live broadcast and, as discovered earlier today, there will be no on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 292.

Match 1: Hajime Ohara & Katsumi Inahata beat Yuto Koyanagi & Midori Takahashi. Ohara pinned Takahashi after Jandalarin.

Match 2: Hi69 beat Atsushi Kotoge & Black Menso-re in a 3-way by pinning Menso-re.

Match 3: Tetsuya Endo & HAYATA beat AMAKUSA & Hiroto Tsuryua. Endo beat Tsuruya with a Fujiyama knee lock.

Match 4: Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh & Alejandro beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Harutoki & Alejandro. Marufuji pinned Harutoki after a round fist.

Match 5: Alpha Wolf, Kai Fujimura & Jun Masaoka beat Manabu Soya, Daga & Daiki Odashima. Wolf pinned Odashima after La Pesadilla.

Main Event: OZAWA, Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura & Tadasuke beat Yoshiki Inamura, Jack Morris, Galeno & Dragon Bane. Sugiura pinned Bane after Olympic Yosen Slam.

The next event is tomorrow at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET. Including tomorrow, the next 8 events will be live broadcasts.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the 2026 debut event of MONDAY MAGIC today, kicking off the year’s first season of their serial Monday events.

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

The paid attendance was not announced.

The matches were not announced in advance.

Match 1: Alejandro vs. Ryoya Tanaka (Dragon Gate) went to a 10 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Shigehiro Irie (GLEAT) & Danny Duggan beat Manabu Soya & Hiroshi Yamato (Independent/Freelancer). Digga pinned Yamato after a tombstone piledriver.

Match 3: Archie Cole, Dragon Bane & Iker Navarro beat Jack Morris, Galeno & Nathan de Wind. Cole pinned de Wing after a swanton bomb.

Match 4: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer).

Match 5: Mayu Iwatani & Miku Aono beat ZONES & ChiChi. Iwatani pinned ZONES after a moonsault press.

Main Event: Titus Alexander beat GHC Hardcore Champion HAYATA to win the title. Alexander becomes the 14th GHC Hardcore Champion. NOAH says the 4th because they do not recognize the title history prior to 2023.

Episode 2 of the new RISING SUN season is next Monday.

The next event is Saturday at Shimizu Marine Building in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast. On demand plans TBA.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the LEGACY RISE 2026 Tour yesterday in Gunma.

Yesterday’s event was held at Green Done Maebashi Sub Arena in Gunma and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Thursday (and only on UNIVERSE, the paid ABEMA add-on does not include on demand replays, only live broadcasts). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 297.

Match 1: Eita & Harutoki beat Katsumi Inahata & Hiroto Tsuruya. Eita beat Inahata.

Match 2: AMAKUSA & Black Menso-re beat Yuto Koyanagi & Midori Takahashi. Menso-re pinned Koyanagi after Snake Boy.

Match 3: KENTA, HAYATA & Tetsuya Endo beat Manabu Soya, Mohammed Yone & Shuhei Taniguchi. HAYATA pinned Taniguchi after 403 Impact.

Match 4: In a 3-way to determine 2 participants in the upcoming NOAH Jr. Tag League, Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69 beat Hajime Obara. Kotoge won first by pinning Hi69 then Bi69 won second by pinning Ohara.

Match 5: Alejandro beat Kai Fujimura by DQ. During the match, Fujimura turned heel and became the latest to defect to Team 2000X.

Match 6: Kaito Kiyomiya, Galeno, Daga & Daiki Odashima beat Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura, Alpha Wolf & Tadasuke. Daga pinned Wolf. Afterwards, Daga issued a GHC National Championship challenge to Wolf.

Main Event: Yoshiki Inamura, Will Kroos, Jack Morris & Dragon Bane beat Naomichi Marifuji, Kenoh, Kazuyuki Fujita & Shuji Kondo. Kroos pinned Kondo after a diving body press. Based on post-match comments, Kroos finished up his current NOAH stint today and will be returning home to Europe. He promised to come back though. And Inamura continued to build towards a desired GHC Heavyweight Championship match with Kenoh, if he ever finishes with Team 2000X.

The next event is MONDAY MAGIC RISING SUN SEASON Episode 1 Monday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

In other news coming out today, Daga-Wolf was quickly made official post-event. That match will happen on 1/25 at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka.

The (almost) full Jr. Tag League field was announced: Daga/Odashima, Bane/Alejandro, Kotoge/Hi69, AMAKUSA/Menso-re, Mark Trew/Kieron Lacey, Tadasuke/Jun Masaoka, Wolf/Fujimura, TBA (one team). It’s a round-robin format tournament starting on 2/6, the top 2 teams will meet in the Finals on 3/1.

Having also ended the monthly STAR NAVIGATION Tour last year that dated back tot he pandemic, Pro Wrestling NOAH ran their first monthly Tokyo tentpole event of 2026 today, LEGACY RISE 2026.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese & English. The live broadcast was English only due to being an exclusive ABEMA live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 1489, a super full house/very near sellout.

Match 1: Shuhei Taniguchi, Atsushi Kotoge, Hajime Ohara & Hi69 beat Katsumi Inahata, Yuto Koyanagi, Hiroto Tsuruya & Midori Takahashi. Kotoge pinned Koyanagi after a bat drop.

Match 2: Jack Morris, Galeno, Will Kroos, Daga & Dragon Bane beat Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh, Manabu Soya, Eita & Mohammed Yone. Kroos pinned Eita after a diving body press.

Match 3: KENTA beat Ulka Sasaki. It sounds like this may be Sasaki’s match before leaving the promotion for a while for an international excursion.

Match 4: Takashi Sugiura, Alpha Wolf, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka (Independent/Freelancer) beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Harutoki, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. Wolf beat Alejandro.

Match 5: Tetsuya Endo beat OZAWA.

Match 6: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion AMAKUSA beat Daiki Odashima to retain the title. V1 for AMAKUSA.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Yoshiki Inamura beat Masa Kitamiya to retain the title.V3 for Inamura. Next up: Sugiura, as it now seems Inamura must run the Team 2000X gauntlet to get to his wish of a Kenoh defense. That match will happen on 2/11.

The next event is tomorrow at Green Dome Maebashi in Gunma. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Thursday.

Pro Wrestling NOAH headed on the road (outside Tokyo) for the first time in 2026, their first stop being Miyagi Prefecture for a Tetsuya Endo hometown event.

Today’s event was held at Shiroishi White Cube in Miyagi and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 422.

Match 1: Mohammed Yone & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Hiroto Tsuruya &Midpri Takahashi. Yone pinned Takahashi.

Match 2: Hi69 & Yuto Koyanagi beat AMAKUSA & Black Menso-re. Hi69 pinned Menso-re after Stuka Splash.

Match 3: Masa Kitamiya & Tadasuke beat Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara. Kitaniya beat Ohara with Stranglehold y.

Match 4: Jack Morris, Manabu Soya, Daga & Daiki Odashima beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Harutoki, Alejandro & Kai Fujinura. Daga pinned Alejandro after an Odashima Dead End.

Match 5: Yoshiki Inamura, Will Kroos & Dragon Bane beat Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh & Katsuni Inahata. Inamura pinned Inahata after Musou.

Main Event: KENTA, Tetsuya Endo, Ulka Sasaki & HAYATA beat OZAWA, Takashi Sugiura, Alpha Wolf & Jun Masaoka (Independent/Freelancer). Endo pinned Masaoka after Burning Star Press.

The next event os LEGACY RISE 2026 tomorrow at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo with Inamura-Kitamiya for the GHC Heavyweight Championship. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET. This is an exclusive ABEMA live broadcast in Japan.

Pro Wrestling NOAH followed up their year-opening signature event yesterday with today’s NEW YEAR REBOOT 2026 event.

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

The announced paid attendance was 468, a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Shuhei Taniguchi, Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara bear Yuto Koyanagi, Hiroto Tsuruya & Midori Takahashi. Kotoge pinned Koyanagi after a bat drop.

Match 2: Takashi Sugiura, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka beat Hatutoki, Alejandro & Kai Fujimura. Masaoka pinned Alrhandro after Ambitions.

Match 3: KENTA, HAYATA, Ulka Sasaki & Tetsuya Endo beat Jack Morris, Mohammed Yone, Eita & Hi69. Sasaki beat Hi69 with an armbar. Afterwards, Sasaki announced he was leaving the promotion, at least temporarily, to go to the US. More as it becomes available.

Match 4: Naomichi Marifuji beat Katsumi Inabata by ref stoppage.

Match 5: Kenoh, Daga & Daiki Odashima beat Kaito Kiyomiya, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki. Daga beat Miyawaki with a spinning leg lock.

Match 6: Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows beat Manabu Soya & Saxon Huxley. Anderson pinned Soya after Magic Killer.

Main Event: OZAWA, Masa Kitamiya & Alpha Wolf beat Yoshiki Inamura, Will Kroos & Dragon Bane. Kitamiya pinned Bane after a diving senton.

The next event is 1/10 at Shiroishi White Cube in Miyagi for a Tetsuya Endo hometown event. There will be no live broadcast