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Something I was previously unaware of coming out of Sunday until Pro Wrestling NOAH mentioned it was just mentioned as being covered in this week’s issue of Weekly Pro-at his hometown event at Culttz Kawasaki, Hajime Ohara announced after his match that he is headed to the sidelines. Right knee. Out indefinitely but will be having surgery soon so probably done for the year. He vowed to return to the event next year as GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion so all we know it is sounds like a long break.

More as it becomes available.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the unofficial official annual Hajime Ohara hometown event today in Kanagawa.

Today’s event was held at Culttz Kawasaki in Kanagawa and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 1575.

There were last-minute changes made to the card due to RYUSEI being pulled off the event. Coronavirus.

Match 1: Mohammed Yone, Hi69 & Yuto Koyanagi beat Tetsuya Endo, Hiroto Tsuruya & Hiroya Namiki. Hi69 beat Namiki.

Match 2: Eita beat Black Menso-re & Midori Takahashi in a 3-way by pinning Takahashi.

Match 3: Kaito Kiyomiya & Shuji Kondo beat OZAWA & Masa Kitamiya. Kiyomiya beat Kitamiya with a figure 4.

Match 4: Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh & AMAKUSA beat Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & Super Crazy. AMAKUSA pinned Crazy after Opening Of The Country.

Match 5: GHC 200 Champion HAYATA beat Katsumi Inahata to retain the title. V1 for HAYATA.

Match 6: Tadasuke & Alpha Wolf beat Hajime Ohara & Atsushi Kotoge. Tadasuke pinned Ohara.

Match 7: Kai Fujimura, YO-HEY & Jun Masaoka beat Alejandro, Dragon Bane & Daiki Odashima. Fujimura pinned Odashima after Death Hanger.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Manabu Soya & Yuki Iino beat Yoshiki Inamura & Kazuyuki Fujita to retain the titles. Iino pinned Inamura with Passion Clutch. V2 for the champs.

The next event is Saturday at Fukuyama Big Rose in Hiroshima. There will be no live broadcast. On demand 8/31.

Injury Report: Midori Takahashi was injured during the second match. Dislocated shoulder. Out at least a week and will miss Saturday and 8/30. Cards were already announced so changes have been made. It looks like Super Crazy will be the replacement both days.

UPDATE: The expected 9/15 GHC National Championship match in Kumamoto between Naomichi Marufuji & AMAKUSA is now official. Announced post-event although it had been hinted at for a few weeks

Pro Wrestling NOAH resumed the Lethal Odyssey 2026 Tour today in Shizuoka.

Today’s event was held at Shimizu Marine Building in Shizuoka. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 286.

There were last-minute changes to the card due to RYUSEI being pulled off the event. Coronavirus. Yes, it’s still a thing and still a big issue. Also out tomorrow.

Match 1: HAYATA beat Hiroya Namiki by submission.

Match 2: BUSHI beat Kenoh & Black Menso-re in a 3-way by pinning Menso-re.

Match 3: Yoshiki Inamura & Super Crazy beat Dragon Bane & Alejandro. Inamura pinned Alejandro after Beast Bomb.

Match 4: Tetsuya Endo beat Yuto Koyanagi.

Match 5: Atusshi Kotoge, Hi69 & Midori Takahashi beat Naomichi Marufuji, Katsumi Inahata & Yuto Koyanagi. Kotoge pinned Koyanagy after a bat hanging drop.

Match 6: Kaito Kiyomiya, Eita, Daiki Odashima & AMAKUSA beat OZAWA, Kai Fujimura, Alpha Wolf & Jun Masaoka. Kiyomiya beat Masaoka with a figure 4.

Main Event: Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura & Tadasuke beat Manabu Soya, Yuki Iino & Shuji Kondo. Kitamiya beat Kondo with Prison Lock.

The next event is tomorrow at Culttz Kawasaki in Kanagawa. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran another Legacy Rose 2026 event today in Tokyo.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1292.

Match 1: Hiroya Namiki Debut Match: Daiki Odashima beat Hiroya Namiki. Namiki, 24, is about 5’8” and 77 kg/about 170 pounds so he is/will be a Junior Heavyweight. They went just short of 8 minutes.

Match 2: Naomichi Matufuji & Kenoh beat AMAKUSA & Black Menso-re. Marufuji pinned Menso-re after a round fist.

Match 3: Yoshiki Inamura, Kazuyuki Fujita, Katsumi Inabata & Hiroto Tsuruya beat Manabu Soya, Yuki Iino (DDT), Super Crazy & Yuto Koyanagi. Inamura pinned Koyanagi after Musou.

Match 4: OZAWA, Alpha Wolf & Jun Masaoka beat KENTA, Shane Haste & Midori Takahashi. OZAWA pinned Takahashi after a sean dive moonsault.

Match 5: Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & RYUSEI beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Kid Lykos 1 & 2. Naito pinned 2.

Match 6: Tadasuke beat YO-HEY by DQ. Ref assault. (Post-script: This apparently led to YO-HEY turning on Manabu Soya and joining Team 2000X)

Match 7: GHC200 Inaugural Champion Tournament Final: HAYATA beat Tetsuya Endo to win the tournament and become the inaugural GHC200 Champion. This was originally a Semifinal match but the other Semifinal didn’t happen because all the potential participants were eliminated per tournament rules (time limit draw meant both wrestlers were out).

Match 8: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Dragon Bane & Alejandro beat Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69 to retain the titles. Alejandro pinned Hi69 after Sperlana. V5 for the champs.

Main Event: Kai Fujinura beat GhC Junior Heavyweight Champion Eita to win the title. Fujimura becomes the 63rd GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion. UPSET ALERT!!! It probably took a lot of Team 2000X assistance, but nevertheless is an upset in my book.

In major post-event news/fallout, the full field for this year’s N-1 VICTORY Tournament has been announced. It’s a 2-block round-robin format event with 16 participants. The fireld is as follows:

Block A: Kaito Kiyomiya, Shane Haste, Kazuyuki Fujita, Takashi Sugiura, Yoshiki Inamura, Yuki Iino, Chen (a newcomer from Southeast Asia), Alpha Wolf. That guarantees another HOSS FIGHT ALERT!! because of Inamura & Fujita facing off. (Post-script: Chen already has a profile on NOAH’s website as a participating player, alongside several other international wrestlers who appear occasionally. He is a 13-year veteran from Singapore who signed with WWE in 2017 and left the promotion earlier this year)

Block B: Kenoh, Tetsuya Endo, Kouga (from England’s Progress Wrestling), Masa Kitamiya, KENTA, Manabu Soya, Titus Alexander, OZAWA.

The most notable name missing is Marufuji, presumably because he is GHC National Champion.

The tournament runs from 9/12-10/4. All events will be available live and immediately on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The next event is Saturday at Shimizu Marine Building in Shizuoka. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

UPDATE: During this event, AMAKUSA issued a GHC National Championship challenge to Marufuji. AMAKUSA wants it in Kumamoto, his home area. That could possibly mean 9/15 at Kumamoto Castle Hall, assuming that event goes on as planned in the wake of the massive earthquake in the area recently. Updates to follow.

It was also announced that the next challengrs for GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Manabu Soya & Yuki Iino will be…Inamura & Fujita. Interesting. That match will happen on 8/23 at Culttz Kawasaki in Kanagawa.

UPDATE 2: It’s now official. Matufuji-AMAKUSA will happen on 9/15 in Kumamoto. Also official is Naito’s first title challenger-the 2026 N-1 VICTORY winner. That match will happen on 10/25 at Ryogoku Kokugikan. Also set if Fujimura’s first challenger-Alejandro. That match will happen on 9/23z

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran their latest Legacy Rise 2026 event today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English. This was an exclusive ABEMA broadcast in Japan.

The announced paid attendance was 1589, a legit advance sellout including standing room only tickets.

Match 1: Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge, Hajime Ohara & Hi69 beat Dragon Bane, Alejandro, SHuji Konfo & Katsumi Inahata. Kotoge pinned INahata after a bat hanging drop.

Match 2: Kid Lykos 1 & 2 beat Yuto Koyanagi & Midori Takahashi, BUSHI & RYUSEI and Super Crazy & Black Menso-re in a 4-way when 1 pinned Takahashi.

Match 3: Eita & Daiki Odashima vs. Kai Fujimura & Jun Masaoka went to a double countout in 51 seconds. Which led to…
Match 3 (again): Kai Fujimura & Jun Masaoka beat Eita & Daiki Odashima by DQ. Eita DQ’d.

GHC200 Inaugural Championship Tournament Quarterfinals:
Match 4: HAYATA beat Masa Kitamiya by countout.
Match 5: Tetsuya Endo beat AMAKUSA.

Match 6: YO-HEY Return Match: OZAWA, Takashi Sugiura & Tadasuke beat Manabu Soya, Yuki Iino (DDT) & YO-HEY. Tadasuke pinned YO-HEY.

GHC200 Inaugural Championship Tournament Quarterfinals:
Match 7: Kenoh vs. Alpha Wolf went to a 200 second time limit draw. Both eliminated.
Match 8: Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Yoshiki Inamura went to a 200 second time limit draw. Both eliminated.

Match 9: GHC National Champion Naomichi Marufuji beat KENTA to retain the title. V4 for Marufuji.

Main Event: Tetsuya Naito beat GHC Heavyweight Champion SHane Haste to win the title. Naito becomes the 51st GHC Heavyweioght Champion. As expected, Destino. Kinda saw this one coming, although it was funny build when the built-in English translation option on NOAH’s official website was sometimes calling Haste “Shane McMahon” this past week. Yikes.

The next event is tomorrow. The full card is TBA still and in particular the GHC200 Semifinals & Finals-because only HAYATA & Endo advanced they may wind up being the Finals as they are the only Semifinal due to everyone else being eliminated, which could also mean rematches at a later date. We’ll see what happens. Both GHC Junior Heavyweight titles will also be defended tomorrow. 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 Shizuoka.

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

The announced paid attendance was 289.

Match 1: Kaito Kiyomiya beat hiroto Tsuruya. Potential squash.

Match 2: Katsumi Inahata beat Black Menso-re.

Match 3: Hajime Ohara beat Yuto Koyanagi & Midori Takahashi in a 3-way by pinning Koyanagi.

Match 4: Manabu Soya, Yuki Iino (DDT) & Daiki Odashima beat AMAKUSA, Kid Lykos 1 & 2. Soya pinned 2 after Passion IS.

Match 5: Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh & Eita beat Alpha Wolf, Tadasuke & Kai Fujimura. Eita pinned Fujimura.

Match 6: KENTA, HAYATA & Tetsuya Endo beat Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & RYUSEI. KENTA beat RYUSEI with Relic Lock.

Main Event: Yoshiko Inamura, Dragon Bane, Alejandro & Shuji Kondo beat OZAWA, Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura & Jun Masaoka. Inamura pinned Masaoka after DIS CHARGE.

The next event is 8/9 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo with Shane Haste (who NOAH’s English website translator now sometimes hilariously calls Shane McMahon) vs. Tetsuya Naito for the GHC Heavyweight Championship. The event is a legit advance sellout with only a few standing room only tickets left. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. This is an exclusive ABEMA live broadcast.

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

Today’s event was held at Green Dome Maebashi Sub-Event Area in Gunma and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Monday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 310.

Match 1: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Yuto Koyanagi.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura, Tadasuke & Jun Masaoka beat Manabu Soya, Yuki Iino (DDT), Hiroto Tsuruya & Midori Takahashi. Sugiura pinned Takahashi after Olympic Yosen Slam.

Match 3: Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & RYUSEI beat Yoshiki Inamura, Dragon Bane & Katsumi Inahata. Naito beat Inahata with a knee lock.

Match 4: Tetsuya Endo, Kid Lykos 1 & 2 beat AMAKUSA, Atsushi Kotoge & Black Menso-re. 2 pinned Menso-re after Full Moon.

Match 5: Alejandro beat Hi69.

Match 6: KENTA & HAYATA beat Naomichi Marufuji & Mohammed Yone. KENTA beat Yone with Relic Lock.

Main Event: OZAWA, Alpha Wolf & Kai Fujimura beat Kenoh, Eita & Daiki Odashima. Fujimura pinned Eita after Death Hanger.

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

In a social media post in English a short time ago, Pro Wrestling NOAH announced that YO-HEY, who has been out nearly a year due to injury (orbital bone and then other surgery), will return on 8/9 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. He will team with Manabu Soya & Yuki Iino to face OZAWA, Takashi Sugiura & Tadasuke.

Before the injuries occurred, YO-HEY was the reigning GHC Junior He He has also won the GHC Junior Heavavyweight Champion, making 4 successful defenses in his first reign before losing the title to Hiromu Takhaashi. He also has won the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championchip 7 times…once, ironically, with Tadasuke. They reigned for 5 months and made 7 successful defenses in 2024,

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran a house show today in Kanagawa as the minds & hearts of many were with Kumamoto Prefecture after a major earthquake struck the region yesterday. 13 have been confirmed dead from damage including the collapse of a shopping mall that just reopened after repair work following the massive quake from a decade ago. My heart goes out to those lost and suffering. (While I did not visit Kumamoto on my first trip to Japan last year I was in nearby Nagasaki Prefecture for a day, which was also affected)

Today’s event was held at Hodogaya Public Hall in Kanagawa. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 387.

Match 1: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Yuto Koyanagi by submission.

Match 2: OZAWA, Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura & Jun Masaoka beat Kid Lykos 1 & 2, Katsuni Inahata & Hiroto Tsuruya. Masaoka pinned Tstruya after Ambitions.

Match 3: Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI beat Shuji Kondo & Super Crazy. Naito beat Crazy with a Corriendo neck hold.

Match 4: Midori Takahashi beat RYUSEI.

Match 5: Yoshiki Inamura, Atsushi Kotoge, Mohammed Yone & Hi69 beat Manabu Soya, Yuki Iino (DDT), Dragon Bane & Alejandro. Inamura pinned Iino after DIS CHARGE.

Match 6: Alpha Wolf, Kai Fujimura & Tadasuke beat Kenoh, Eita & Daiki Odashima. Tadasuke pinned Odashima after Cat King.

Main Event: KENTA, HAYATA & Tetsuya Endo beat Naomichi Marufuji, AMAKUSA & Black Menso-re. KENTA beat Menso-re with Relic Lock. Post-match comments included AMAKUSA sending prayers & well-wishes to his native Kumamoto.

The next event is Saturday at Green Dome Marbashi Sub Arena in Gunma. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Monday.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran their (at least) annual Noto Peninsula Earthquake Recovery charity event yesterday in Ishikawa.

Yesterday’s event was held at Ishikawa Industrial Exhibition Hall 3 in Ishikawa and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE tomorrow. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 1331, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Midori Takahashi by submission.

Match 2: Hajime Ohara beat Black Menso-re.

Match 3: Masa Kitamiya, Takashi Sugiura & Jun Masaoka beat Yoshiki Inamura, Kid Kylos 1 & 2. Kitamiya pinned 2 after Saito Suplex.

Match 4: Dragon Bane, Alejandro & Hiroto Tsuruya beat Tetsuya Endo, HAYATA & Yuto Koyanagi. Bane pinned Koyanagi after Santa Maria.

Match 5: KENTA beat Daiki Odashima by submission.

Match 6: OZAWA, Tadasuke, Kai Fujimura & Alpha Wolf beat Manabu Soya, Yuki Iino (DDT), Eita & Katsumi Inahata. Fujimura pinned Inahata after Death Hanger.

Main Event: Naomichi Marufuji, Kenoh & AMAKUSA beat Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & RYUSEI. Matufuji pinned RYUSEI after a round fist.

The next event is Wednesday at Hodogaya Public Hall in Kanagawa. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.