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BREAKING: Top NOAH Jr. Heavyweight Retiring

At a press conference earlier today, top Pro Wrestling NOAH Jr. Heavyweight Daisuke Harada announced he will retire at the 3/9 event at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Harada is retiring due to a neck injury suffered last August on doctor’s advice, and will finish his career with a 1 minute exhibition match against Atsushi Kotoge. There likely will be a retirement ceremony afterwards. The match eill be the 3rd match on the card.

Harada debuted in Osaka Pro in 2006 and has been with NOAH since 2013, and has been one of the top Jr. Heavyweights in NOAH over the last decade and formed one of the top tag teams in Japan with Kotoge dating back to Osaka Pro.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 2/21/23 Results (Updated x3)

It was the end of an era today in Japan as The Living Legend, Keiji Muto, took his final curtain call and retired after nearly 40 years in wrestling. If there was a major accomplishment to be won in Japan, he probably won it and more since coming out of the New Japan Dojo in 1984 as part of the famed 3 Musketeers with Masa Chono and the late Shinya Hashimoto. The puroresu world came together today under the Pro Wrestling NOAH banner to wish Muto a fond farewell.

Today’s event was held at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo and can be watched on demand as a PPV ONLY on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. You have one week to watch. No word on when/if a non-paywall version will be available. But you can also watch the first 5 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 30,096.

Match 1: Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba beat Yoshiki Inamura & Yasutaka Yano. Kitamura pinned Yano after Saito Suplex.

Match 2: Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling Provided Match: Yuka Sakazaki, Miyu Yamashita, Shoko Nakajima & Rika Tatsumi beat Mizuki, Maki Itoh, Miyu Watanabe & Yuki Arai. Sakazaki pinned Arai after Magical Girl Chicken Bastard. (For The Love Of God…)

Match 3: Jake Lee, Jack Morris & Anthony Greene beat Takashi Sugiura, Satoshi Kojima & Timothy Thatcher. Lee pinned Thatcher after a skewered front high kick.

Match 4: Yoshinari Ogawa, Eita, HAYATA, Chris Ridgeway & Daga beat Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY, Seiki Yoshioka, Alejandro & Junta Miyawaki. Ridgeway beat Miyawaki with a leg capture chicken wing. This marked the return of HAYATA from an injury that cost him the GHC Jr. Heavyweight Championship last year in a match against Ninja Mack.

Match 5: DDT Provided Match: MAO, Shunma Katsumata, Yuki Ueno & Toui Kojima beat Tetsuya Endo, Hideki Okatani, Yuya Koroku & Takeshi Masada. Ueno pinned Masada after WR.

Match 6: Naomichi Marufuji, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Ninja Mack beat Shun Skywalker, KAI & Diamante (Dragon Gate). Wagner pinned KAI after a moonsault press.

Match 7: Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya beat Kento Miyahara, Suwama & Yuma Aoyagi (All-Japan). Kenoh pinned Aoyagi after PFS.

Match 8: NOSAWA Rongai Retirement Match: Gedo & Taiji Ishimori (New Japan) beat NOSAWA Rongai & MAZADA. Ishimori pinned NOSAWA after Bloody Cross.

Match 9: Hiromu Takahashi (New Japan) beat AMAKUSA.

Match 10: Kazuchika Okada (New Japan) beat Kaito Kiyomiya. This was changed last-minute to No Time Limit. (It went about 16 1/2 minutes)

Main Event: Keiji Muto Retirement Match: Tetsuya Naito (New Japan) beat Keiji Muto. They went almost 30 minutes. Which led to…
Impromptu Special Match: Masa Chono beat Keiji Muto by submission in 97 seconds. Tiger Hattori was special referee. Proper sendoff, no better way than against his fellow Musketeer, still the coolest cat in the house after all these years.

Just as I was about to post this, GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Jake Lee for the title was announced for 3/19.

The next event is 3/9 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. This is currently scheduled to be an ABRMA-only live broadcast, so it should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE immediately after the event.

UPDATE: Some notes from post-match comments:
Satoshi Kojima says he is now done on NOAH. Immediate future TBA.
Junta Miyawaki reportedly is returning to Mexico and will stay there indefinitely for further training and experience.
Lee made a GHC Heavyweight Championship challenge after Okada-Kiyomiya.
Some NOAH crossover matches were hinted at for the 2/27 All-Japan event, in particular with Kongo involvement. Possibly an All-Japan World Tag Team Title match involving Soya & Kenoh and maybe Miyahara-Nakajima, who have a lot of history from their days in Kensuke Office/Diamond Ring.
Muto says his retirement is definite and no in-ring comebacks. He plans to continue training for health reasons (he has two artificial knees and needs to keep his leg strength built up to be able to keep walking). Before his comments he received a ceremonial flower bouquet from SKE48 member Jurina Matsui, who occasionally is a guest commentator for events on ABEMA & WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

UPDATE 2: The Dragon Gate Official English Facebook Page reports Diamante suffered an elbow injury during his match. Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. expressed concern for Diamante in post-match comments. Out at least the rest of this week and off Dragon Gate events tomorrow and Saturday.

UPDATE 3: The 3/9 event will now be LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only. It’s an ABEMA-only stream in Japan.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 2/12/23 Results

GREAT VOYAGE 2023 in OSAKA, the latest in Pro Wrestling NOAH’s signature blowout event series, is in the books. Today’s loaded event featured 3 title matches and a pre-event appearance by Keiji Muto for the final time ahead of his retirement event next week.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 2092. Apparently they had reduced capacity compared to New Japan’s event the day before (50% here) so it’s not as bad as it sounds.

Match 1: Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito beat Kinya Okada & Taishi Ozawa. Yone pinned Ozawa after Kinniku Muscle Buster.

Match 2: Chris Ridgeway & Daga beat Tadasuke & Hajime Ohara. Daga pinned Tadasuke after Magnum.

Match 3: Kazuyuki Fujita, Hideki Suzuki & Timothy Thatcher beat Masato Tanaka, Masaaki Mochizuki & Yoshiki Inamura. Suzuki pinned Inamura.

Match 4: Katsuhiko Nakajima, Masakatsu Funaki, Shuji Kondo & Hi69 beat Naomichi Marufuji, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., AMAKUSA & Ninja Mack. Hi69 pinned AMAKUSA after Michinoku Driver (Velo).

Match 5: El Desperado (New Japan) & NOSAWA Rongai beat YO-HEY & Yasutaka Yano. Desperado pinned Yano after Pinche Loco.

Match 6: Kenoh & Manabu Soya beat Jake Lee & Anthony Greene. Soya pinned Greene after a jumping DDT.

Match 7: Dralistico beat Atsushi Kotoge.

Match 8: Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba beat GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Takashi Sugiura & Satoshi Kojima to win the titles. Kitamiya & Inaba become the 63rd GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Kitamiya beat Kojima with Decapitated Prison. Next up: Kenoh & Soya. That match will happen at GREAT VOYAGE 2023 in YOKOHAMA on 3/19 at Yokohama Budokan.

Match 9: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Yoshinari Ogawa & Eita beat Junta Miyawaki & Alejandro to retain the titles. Eita pinned Alejandro after Imperial Uno. V1 for the champs. Next up: Ridgeway & the returning HAYATA. That match will happen on 3/19.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya beat Jack Morris to retain the title. V4 for Kiyomiya.

The next event is chocoZAP Presents KEIJI MUTO GRAND FINAL PRO WRESTLING LAST LOVE ~HOLD OUT~, Muto’s retirement event, on 2/21 at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo. This will be a PPV ONLY broadcast on WRESTLE UNIVERSE for about $38 for non-subscribers and about $30 for subscribers. Purchase includes the live event and replays for one week. There is no word on when it may be available for all UNIVERSE subscribers if at all (for comparative purposes, as of this past Friday the January Tokyo Joshi Pro PPV is still not available at all following the one week replay period). The event will begin at 2 AM ET/11 PM PT.

NOAH News: Late Changes to 2/11 Event

Pro Wrestling NOAH has announced late changes to GREAT VOYAGE 2023 in OSAKA on 2/11 because Seiki Yoshioka is now off the event. Cervical sprain. He was to have teamed with YO-HEY to face NOSAWA Rongai & El Desperado. Yasutaka Yano is the replacement. As a result, the first match is changed from a 6-man tag match to a tag match as Super Crazy is now off as well. It will now be Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito vs. Kinya Okada & Taishi Ozawa. Yano was to have teamed with Okada & Ozawa. Crazy was to have teamed with Yone & Saito.

At this time Yoshioka is still expected to be on the card for Tokyo Dome on 2/21.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 2/5/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the never-ending STAR NAVIGATION 2023 Tour (it will now extend into at least April per schedule announcements today) today with an event headlined by a GHC National Championship match.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. You can also watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 825. Vocal cheering was allowed, not sure what capacity limit was if any.

Match 1: Kinya Okada Return Match: Tadasuke & Hi69 beat Kinya Okada & Taishi Ozawa. Hi69 pinned Ozawa after Trance Rave.

Match 2: Super Crazy beat Yasutaka Yano.

Match 3: Timothy Thatcher & Hideki Suzuki beat Masaaki Mochizuki & Shuhei Taniguchi. Thatcher beat Taniguchi with a Fujiwara armbar.

Match 4: Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Shuji Kondo & Hajime Ohara beat Daiki Inaba, Yoshiki Inamura, Ninja Mack & Atsushi Kotoge. Nakajima pinned Inamura after Vertical Spike.

Match 5: Satoshi Kojima beat Masa Kitamiya.

Match 6: Kaito Kiyomiya, Takashi Sugiura & Naomichi Marufuji beat Jack Morris, Jake Lee & Anthony Greene. Kiyomiya pinned Greene with a tiger suplex hold.

Match 7: In an Elimination Match, Yoshinari Ogawa, Eita, NOSAWA Rongai, Chris Ridgeway & Daga beat AMAKUSA, Junta Miyawaki, ALejandro, YO-HEY & Seiki Yoshioka. Order of elimination: AMAKUSA by Eita, Yoshioka by Daga, YO-HEY by Daga, Alejandro by Eita, Miyawaki by Eita. A Clean Sweep! Nobody on the winning team was eliminated.

Main Event: GHC National Champion Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. beat Manabu Soya to retain the title. V2 for Wagner Jr.

The next event is GREAT VOYAGE 2023 in OSAKA on 2/12 at Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka. Keiji Muto will be at the event but is not scheduled to participate (of bigger concern is a report that at the Great Muta Final Event he partially tore both hamstrings, although both tears were said to be very small-at a recent event appearance in Japan he was in a wheelchair). Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin Saturday at 11 PM PT/Sunday at 2 AM ET. This is an ABEMA-only broadcast in Japan so Japanese audio will not be available until when the on demand version is uploaded shortly after the event concludes.

In other news, the promotion announced additional dates for the March schedule and the April schedule. The majority of the events will be continuing the SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour and a STAR NAVIGATION 2023 Tour event at the end of April. March wraps up with a 4-day run of events in north & northeastern Japan, while April is headlined by ABEMA presents GREEN JOURNEY 2023 in SENDAI on 4/16 at Xebio Arena Sendai in Sendai, followed by a Korakuen Hall return on 4/29 that will lead in to ABEMA presents MAJESTIC 2023, their Golden Week blowout event on 5/4 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo (this one as well as 4/16 will probably be English-only on WRESTLE UNIVERSE if they are available live).

Pro Wrestling NOAH 2/4/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the never-ending SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour with their first event in nearly 2 weeks after a post-Great Muta Final Event break.

Today’s event was held at Green Dome Maebashi in Gunma and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 309. Because this had been decided on before recent government changes regarding guidelines for events, no vocal cheering today.

Match 1: Shuhei Taniguchi beat Taishi Ozawa.

Match 2: Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY & Seiki Yoshioka beat Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Hi69. Kotoge pinned Tadasuke after Kill Switch.

Match 3: Satoshi Kojima, Naomichi Marufuji & Ninja Mack beat Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & SUper Crazy. Kojima pinned Inaba after Western Lariat.

Match 4: Anthony Greene beat Mohammed Yone.

Match 5: Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya beat Takashi Sugiura, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Timothy Thatcher. Soya pinned Wagner after Trajectory.

Match 6: AMAKUSA, Junta Miyawaki & Alejandro beat Yoshinari Ogawa, Chris Ridgeway & Yasutaka Yano. Miyawaki pinned Yano.

Main Event: Jack Morris & Jake Lee beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Yoshiki Inamura. Morris pinned Inamura after GLK (Good Looking Knee).

The next event is tomorrow at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, continuing the also-never-ending STAR NAVIGATION 2023 Tour. Kinya Okada will return tomorrow from injury and a GHC National Championship match headlines the event. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ABEMA Presents GREAT MUTA FINAL “BYE-BYE” Results (1/22/23)

As the Keiji Muto Retirement Road enters the home stretch, the final month of The Living Legend’s nearly 40-year career begins today with the final scheduled appearance of his iconic face painted/masked alter-ego, The Great Muta. First used early in Muto’s career when he competed overseas including in the US for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and more recently revived occasionally for special appearances, the persona has always been a more heel/darker side of Muto famous for his colored mist sprays, each supposedly having a different effect. And some occasional fire breathing as his recent rivalry with Kenoh showed. For Muta’s final match, former WCW partner Sting will return to Japan for the first time in over 25 years, and All Elite Wrestling star Darby Allin will make his Japan debut as part of Muta’s team and will face off against famliar faces from Muta’s past-Hakushi, AKIRA & Naomichi Marufuji. There’s plenty more on the rest of the card including NOAH having a women’s match for the second time as Sumire Natsu & Maya Yukihi return to face Saori Anou & Jungle Kyona and much more, but of course it’s all about not the final Bye-Bye, but the final M****F**** BYE-BYE! It’s going to be a lot of fun.

Today’s event will be held at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only. It’s an ABEMA exclusive in Japan so Japanese audio will only be available on demand later. The event will also be available as a LIVE PPV on FITE in English for $19.99, which includes the live broadcast and unlimited on demand replays. While that’s a lot more than a month of WRESTLE UNIVERSE, it’s more convenient than signing up and then cancelling after paying around $7.50 for the rest of the month, and you essentially own a copy of the event to watch anytime (you just can’t download and watch offline). You will also be able to watch the first 3 matches FOR FREE on YouTube. If you’re staying up late in the US to watch plan on an all-nighter and load up on caffeine as I anticipate the event having a total running time of about 4 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Atsushi Kotoge & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Hajime Ohara & Hi69
Saori Anou & Jungle Kyona vs. Sumire Natsu & Maya Yukihi
Timothy Thatcher vs. Masaaki Mochizuki
Yoshinari Ogawa, Eita & NOSAWA Rongai vs. Junta Miyawaki, Alejandro & Yasutaka Yano
Jake Lee, Jack Morris & Anthony Greene vs. Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Yoshiki Inamura
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Hideki Suzuki in a GHC Martial Arts Rules match
AMAKUSA, Ultimo Dragon & Ninja Mack vs. YO-HEY, Kzy & Dante Leon
Kaito Kiyomiya, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Takashi Sugiura & Satoshi Kojima vs. Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Masakatsu Funaki & Manabu Soya
The Great Muta Final Match: The Great Muta, Sting & Darby Allin vs. Hakushi, AKIRA & Naomichi Marufuji
A couple hours before the event it was also announced that the full card for the Keiji Muto Retirement Event on 2/21 at the Tokyo Dome would be announced during today’s event.

Refresh the page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 12:15 AM ET/9:15 PM PT. The event is scheduled to begin at 1 AM ET/10 PM PT but the WRESTLE UNIVERSE stream is set to begin 45 minutes before.

9:15 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has just started. Updates to follow when we go to the venue.

9:30 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates start now…
We are LIVE from Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan. For now we only have low-volume but audible Japanese commentary. No English commentary yet, I’m guessing that’ll come on at start time when the FITE broadcast starts. Akitoshi Saito is a guest on Japanese commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. I’m not sure what the capacity limit is but vocal cheering is allowed and advance ticket sales seemed good. Based on the New Japan event earlier today and their draw, I’m thinking 4000-5000 will be good. It looks like at least 10-15% of the available seating is not available due to the layout so if it were full capacity, that’s probably somewhere in the 15,000 range (the venue’s normal capacity is 18,000).

A promo video plays for the main event. Afterwards commentary shows off some of the limited edition goods available today at the venue. Grab that Great Muta special edition 8-disc Blu-Ray box set for about 40,000 yen if you can! (around $300 US).

At 9:50 PM PT they show highlights of the New Japan/NOAH event earlier today. After this plays the Japanese commentary is fully muted on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

At 10 PM PT/1 AM ET English announcer G-man welcomes us to the show as FITE joins in. Attendance-wise, the venue really filled up over the last 20 minutes so it should be a very good number.

The matches begin at 10:05 PM PT/1:05 AM ET. And now we have our English commentary. Your hosts are Stewart Fulton & Mark Pickering. Daisuke Harada joins Japanese commentary.

Match 1: Atsushi Kotoge & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Hajime Ohara & Hi69. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hajime Ohara & Hi69 beat Atsushi Kotoge & Seiki Yoshioka. Hi69 pinned Yoshika after Stuka Splash.

Mohammed Yone rotates in to Japanese commentary.

Match 2: Saori Anou & Jungle Kyona vs. Sumire Natsu & Maya Yukihi. 20 minute time limit
Result: Saori Anou & Jungle Kyona beat Sumire Natsu & Maya Yukihi. Kyona pinned Natsu after Jungle Buster.

Match 3: Timothy Thatcher vs. Masaaki Mochizuki. 30 minute time limit
Result: Timothy Thatcher beat Masaaki Mochizuki by submission.

The YouTube broadcast ends here.

Match 4: Yoshinari Ogawa, Eita & NOSAWA Rongai vs. Junta Miyawaki, Alejandro & Yasutaka Yano. 30 minute time limit
Result: Junta Miyawaki, Alejandro & Yasutaka Yano beat Yoshinari Ogawa, Eita & NOSAWA Rongai by DQ. Eita DQ’d. Ripping Alejandro’s mask off. They chased each other into the upper levels of the arena afterwards.

Match 5: Jake Lee, Jack Morris & Anthony Greene vs. Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Yoshiki Inamura. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jake Lee, Jack Morris & Anthony Greene beat Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Yoshiki Inamura. Lee pinned Inamura.

The 2/21 card for Keiji Muto’s retirement event is announced:
Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba vs. Toshiki Inamura & Yasutaka Yano
Tokyo Joshi Pro Match: Miyu Yamashita, Rika Tatsumi, Shoko Nakajima & Yuka Sakazaki vs. Mizuki, Miu Watanabe, Maki Itoh & Yuki Arai (YES!)
Takashi Sugiura, Satoshi Kojima & Timothy Thatcher vs. Jake Lee, Jack Morris & Anthony GreeneEita, HAYATA, Daga, Yoshinari Ogawa & Chris Ridgeway vs. Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY, Seiki Yoshioka, Alejandro & Junta Miyawaki
MAO, Shunma Katsumata, Yuki Ueno & Toui Kojima vs. Tetsuya Endo, Hideki Okatani, Yuya Koroku & Takeshi Masada
Shun SKywalker, KAI & Diamante vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Ninja Mack
Kento Miyahawa, Suwama & Yuma Aoyagi vs. Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya
Intermission
NOSAWA Rongai Retirement Match: NOSAWA Rongai & MAZADA vs. Gedo & Taiji Ishimori
Kazuchika Okada vs. Kaito Kiyomiya (OH HELL YEAH!)
And finally…IT’S OFFICIAL! Keiji Muto Retirement Match…Keiji Muto vs. Tetsuya Naito! Heads-up…it’s going to be a PPV on ABEMA so may not be available outside Japan.

Match 6: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Hideki Suzuki in a GHC Martial Arts Rules match. No pinfalls. Win only by submission or TKO. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kazushi Sakuraba beat Hideki Suzuki by ref stoppage (technical submission).

Match 7: AMAKUSA, Ultimo Dragon & Ninja Mack vs. YO-HEY, Kzy & Dante Leon. 30 minute time limit. They changed this last-second to Lucha Libre rules (no touch needed for tags).
Result: AMAKUSA, Ultimo Dragon & Ninja Mack beat YO-HEY, Kzy & Dante Leon. Mack pinned YO-HEY after a twisting corkscrew splash.

Match 8: Kaito Kiyomiya, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Takashi Sugiura & Satoshi Kojima vs. Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Masakatsu Funaki & Manabu Soya. 45 minute time limit
Result: Kaito Kiyomiya, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Takashi Sugiura & Satoshi Kojima beat Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Masakatsu Funaki & Manabu Soya. Wagner pinned Soya after a moonsault press.

Main Event: The Great Muta Final Match: The Great Muta, Sting & Darby Allin vs. Hakushi, AKIRA & Naomichi Marufuji. 1 Hour time limit
Result: The Great Mura, Sting & Darby Allin beat Hakushi, AKIRA & Naomichi Marufuji. Muta pinned Hakushi after Shining Wizard. They all then made their way to the back. The WRESTLE UNIVERSE/FITE broadcast ends here just before 1:30 AM PT, so just under 3 1/2 hours total.

The next event is 2/4 at Green Dome Maebashi in Gunma. There will be no live broadcast.

POST-SHOW UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 8433. Depending on the exact available capacity that’s probably in the 75-80% full range. Excellent number and almost 3000 more than what the New Japan/NOAH event earlier in the day managed at the same venue.

It’s also been confirmed that 2/21 will be a PPV on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English. If you are not a member/subscriber it will cost 5000 yen (roughly $38-40). If you are a member it will cost 4000 yen (around $30-32). Pre-orders begin Tuesday. It will be a PPV on ABEMA in Japanese.

New Japan 1/21/23 Results (SPOILERS!)

New Japan ran the second half of WRESTLE KINGDOM 17 today, reviving a popular and successful format from last year where they held a crossover event with/against Pro Wrestling NOAH. Every match featured some kind of combination of both promotions with the headlining feature being a 5 match singles series between the LIJ and Kongo factions from NJPW and NOAH, respectively.

Because the event is only available as a PPV, although New Japan has posted results already on their website I am trying to hide results below for those who want to try and avoid SPOILERS before the event can be watched without PPV, which will be in one week. Therefore, only click below or continue reading if you want to know right away what happened!

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Pro Wrestling NOAH 1/15/23 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the never-ending SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 Tour today with a house show that served as the final event before a huge weekend ahead on Yokohama. The event also featured a big pre-event autograph session for fans.

Today’s event was held at Fujisan Messe in Shizuoka and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday. There was no live broadcast, although the 7th match did stream live on Instagram.

The announced paid attendance was 380, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Atsushi Kotoge beat Yasutaka Yano.

Match 2: Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura beat Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito. Kitamiya pinned Saito after Saito Suplex.

Match 3: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & YO-HEY beat Manabu Soya & Tadasuke. YO-HEY pinned Tadasuke after a dropkick.

Match 4: Timothy Thatcher beat Seiki Yoshioka by submission.

Match 5: Junta Miyawaki & Alejandro beat Yoshinari Ogawa & NOSAWA Rongai by DQ. NOSAWA DQ’d. Weapon use.

Match 6: Takashi Sugiura beat Daiki Inaba.

Match 7: Jack Morris & Jake Lee beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Shuhei Taniguchi. Lee pinned Taniguchi after Giant Killing.

Main Event: Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Hajime Ohara, Shuji Kondo & Hi69 beat Satoshi Kojima, Naomichi Marufuji, Ninja Mack, AMAKUSA & Dante Leon. Ohara beat Leon with Mui Bien Clutch.

The next event is ABEMA PRESENTS GREAT MUTA FINAL BYE-BYE, the final career appearance by Keiji Muto’s masked/face painted alter-ego, on 1/22 at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama. All Elite Wresting participation is featured as Darby Allin makes his Japan debut and Sting returns to Japan one last time. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin at 1 AM ET/Saturday at 10 PM PT. The event is also available as a PPV on FITE. The promotion also will participate in New Japan Pro Wrestling’s WRESTLE KINGDOM 17 in YOKOHAMA Saturday. That event will be available as a PPV only on New Japan World beginning at 3 AM ET/midnight PT then will be available to all subscribers on New Japan World and WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only one week later.

After the event, the promotion announced that Kinya Okada, who has been out several months due to injury, will return on 2/5.

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