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Pro Wrestling NOAH has announced a late change to tomorrow’s (5/30) NOAH SANCTUARY event-Naomichi Marufuji is now off the event. Knee pain. He was to have teamed with Satoshi Kojima & Atsushi Kotoge to face Daisuke Harada, Shuhei Taniguchi & Go Shiozaki. Mohammed Yone is the replacement.
It’s not known if Marufuji will miss any further time, this does not appear to be new injuries. After this event the promotion is off until Sunday, when they have a quick stretch of 3 events in 4 days before taking a nearly 2-week break with only CyberFight Festival ’22 in the middle.

Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up the Dream On 2022 Tour today with a major event, headlined by 3 title matches and the return of Keiji Muto, who has been out most of the year so far due to injury.

Today’s event was held at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English. Japanese audio will be available at a later date.

The announced paid attendance was 924. If the venue is at 1/3 capacity, that would possibly be close to a sellout. If it’s at half capacity, it’s an okay number.

Match 1: Kazuyuki Fujita beat Kinya Okada by submisison.

Match 2: Yoshiki Inamura & Kai Fujimura beat Daiki INaba & Junta Miyawaki. INamura pinned Miyawaki after a shoulder tackle.

Match 3: Shuhei Taniguchi beat Mohammed Yone.

Match 4: Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara, Hi69 & Shuji Kondo (Big Japan) beat Daisuke Harada, Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY & Haoh. Kondo pinned Haoh after a King Kong lariat.

Match 5: Takashi Sugiura, Hideki Suzuki & Masaaki Mochizuki beat Masakatsu Funaki, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya. Mochizuki pinned Soya after a running low face kick.

Match 6: Kenoh beat Simon Gotch by ref stoppage (technical submission).

Match 7: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Yoshinari Ogawa & Chris Ridgeway vs. Seiki Yoshioka & Yuya Susumu went to a NO CONTEST. Perros Del Mal De Japon interference. As a result, Ogawa & Ridgeway retain the titles but it will not count as a successful defense.

Match 8: GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion HAYATA beat Extreme Tiger to retain the title. V1 for HAYATA.

Match 9: Michael Elgin & Masa Kitamiya beat GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Rene Dupree & Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. to win the titles. Elgin & Kitamiya become the 60th GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Elgin pinned Wagner Jr. after a Double Impact type powerbomb.

Main Event: Go Shiozaki, Kaito Kiyomiya & Masato Tanaka beat Keiji Muto, Naomichi Marufuji & Satoshi Kojima. Shiozaki pinned Kojima after Go Lariat.

The next event is a NOAH SANCTUARY event on 5/30 at the Noah Special Arena aka Club Citta Kawasaki in Kawasaki City. It’s also going to be the final event for Junta Miyawaki for a while as it appears he’s going off on a training excursion. After that will be 3 events in early June that will be the final build to CyberFight Festival 2022-6/5 at Aore Nagaoka In Niigata, 6/7 at Korakuen Hall and 6/8 at Korakuen. 6/5 will be taped for on demand delivery at a later date. 6/7 will be live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. 6/8 will be ABEMA only for live and WRESTLE UNIVERSE on demand at a later date. 6/7 has a title match scheduled as the Open The Triangle Gate Championship, a 6-man/trios title in Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling, will be defended by Perros Del Mal de Japon.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the penultimate event of the Dream On 2022 Tour today, the second half of a Yokohama doubleheader with last weekend’s N INNOVATION event.

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 147.

Match 1: Extreme Tiger & YO-HEY beat Haoh & Alejandro. Tiger pinned Alejandro after a reverse face bomb.

Match 2: Rene Dupree vs. Michael Elgin went to a double countout.

Match 3: Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Hi69 beat Daisuke Harada, Yoshiki Inamura, Atsushi Kotoge, Junta Miyawaki & Kinya Okada. Nakajima pinned Miyawaki after a face kick.

Match 4: Kaito Kiyomiya beat Simon Gotch by submission.

Match 5: HAYATA, Seiki Yoshioka & Yuya Susumu beat Yoshinari Ogawa, Chris Ridgeway & Kai Fujimura by DQ. Ridgeway DQ’d. Title belt use.

Match 6: Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. beat Masa Kitamiya by submission.

Main Event: Satoshi Kojima & Naomichi Marufuji beat Go Shiozaki & Daiki Inaba. Kojima pinned Inaba after a western lariat.

The tour-ender is Saturday at Ota Cuty General Gym in Tokyo. 3 title matches and the return of Keiji Muto headline. This is an ABEMA exclusive broadcast, but WRESTLE UNIVERSE will have a live English broadcast beginning at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the Dream On 22 Tour today with the second half of their Golden Week doubleheader, following yesterday’s event with a more regular show (no title matches, because I guess ABEMA gets preferential treatment).

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

The announced paid attendance was 487.

Match 1: Slex beat Kinya Okada.

Match 2: Texano Jr. & Super Crazy beat Atsushi Kotoge & Haoh. Texano pinned Haoh after Road To Texas.

Match 3: Katsuhiko Nakajima & Hi69 beat Shuhei Taniguchi (apparently he’s not King Tany anymore?) & Mohammed Yone. Nakajima pinned Taniguchi after Vertical Spike.

Match 4: Extreme Tiger, Alpha Wolf, Dragon Bane & Alejandro beat HAYATA, Seiki Yoshioka, Yuya Susumu & Kai Fujimura. Bane pinned Fujimura after Alas De Kebradora (?). This was to have been Yasutaka Yano teaming with Stinger but Yano was out due to injuries.

Match 5: Naomichi Marufuji, YO-HEY & Ninja Mack beat Kenoh, Tadasuke & Hajime Ohara. Mack pinned Tadasuke after Ninja Bomb.

Match 6: Michae Elgin beat Manabu Soya.

Match 7: Simon Gotch, Yoshinari Ogawa & Chris Ridgeway beat Kaito Kiyomiya, Daisuke Harada & Junta Miyawaki. Ridgeway pinned Miywwaki with a package German suplex hold.

Match 8: Satoshi Kojima (New Japan) beat Yoshiki Inamura.

Main Event: Go Shiozaki, Masato Tanaka, Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba beat Takashi Sugiura, Hideki Suzuki, Rene Dupree & Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. Kitamiya beat Wagner Jr. with Prison Lock.

After the event, the promotion announced it has signed Ninja Mack to an annual contract. He will be returning to the US for now but will return to NOAH at different times in the future, with his next tour scheduled to begin in July.

The next event is 5/14 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama for this month’s N INNOVATION event. An event on Saturday at Big Palette Fukushima is still listed but has been CANCELLED due to the venue sustaining damage from a major earthquake in March.

As is typical after a major NOAH event, there is a lot of news/fallout to report:

First up, WWE Hall of Famer and ECW legend Rob Van Dam has been announced for CyberFight Festival 2022 on 6/12. More to come.

Keiji Muto will return on 5/21 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo, He has been out almost all of this year so far due to injury. In his return match, he will team with Naomichi Marufuji & Satoshi Kojima to face Go Shiozaki, Kaito Kiyomiya & Masato Tanaka.

Satoshi Kojima, currently with New Japan Pro Wrestling, is likely going to work the entire May tour and through CyberFight Festival. New Japan is running their annual Best Of The Super Junior Tournament after tomorrow’s (5/1/22) blowout event so the bigger guys are likely going to be inactive for close to 2 months. Kojima is a former GHC Heavyweight Champion and one of extremely few wrestlers to complete the 21st Century Japan Triple Crown of winning the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, All-Japan Triple Crown and GHC Heavyweight Championship during their career. The others? Muto. I believe that’s it. 5/21 will be an English-only live broadcast on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The now-former Nioh, forced to change his ring name after losing a Loser Ring Name Deprivation Match & Hair vs. Hair Match to Haoh on Friday, will be changing his name to Hi69. This was his original ring name when he debuted in the small (and maybe now defunct) KAIENTAI DOJO promotion in the early 2000s before he later changed it to HIROKI, and then to Nioh upon joining NOAH in 2016. His NOAH website profile has been updated with the new name.