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Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the first half of STAR NAVIGATION 2022 today, a doubleheader that serves as their final build to CyberFight Festival ’22.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. The live broadcast was available only on ABEMA in Japan.

The announced paid attendance was 455.

Match 1: Hajime Ohara beat Alejandro.

Match 2: Mohammed Yone & Akitoshi Saito beat Shuhei Taniguchi & Kai Fujimura. Saito pinned Fujimura after Sickle Of Death.

Match 3: HAYATA & Daiki Inaba beat YO-HEY & Kinya Okada. HAYATA pinned Okada with a crucifix.

Match 4: Atsushi Kotoge beat Extreme Tiger.

Match 5: Daisuke Harada & Haoh beat Tadasuke & Hi69 by DQ. Tadasuke DQ’d. Ref assault.

Match 6: Satoshi Kojima beat Manabu Soya.

Match 7: Yoshinari Ogawa, Seiki Yoshioka & Yuya Susumu beat Open The Triangle Gate Champions NOSAWA Rongai, Eita & Kotaro Suzuki to win the titles. Ogawa, Yoshioka & Susumu become the 79th Open The Triangle Gate Champions. Yoshioka pinned NOSAWA after a buzzsaw kick. These are the trios/6-man titles in Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling.

Match 8: Masato Tanaka, Masaaki Mochizuki & Simon Gotch beat Kenoh, Masakatsu Funaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima. Tanaka pinned Funaki.

Main Event: Takashi Sugiura, Hideki Suzuki, Rene Dupree, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. & Timothy Thatcher beat Go Shiozaki, Kaito Kiyomiya, Michael Elgin, Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura. Thatcher beat Inamura with a Fujiwara armbar.

The second event is tomorrow. 2 late changes were announced for tomorrow: TBA in the 4th match, who may also be added to CyberFight Festival, is Thatcher, and Ogawa/Yoshioka/Susumu vs. Kotoge/Harada/YO-HEY is now for the Open The Triangle Gate Championship. Live streaming of the event is ABEMA ONLY, but it will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE afterwards.

Other post-event news:
GHC National Champion Masakatsu Funaki vs. Masato Tanaka for the title and Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Simon Gotch have been announced for 6/19 at Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe. This event will be taped for on demand broadcast at a later date (no live broadcast).

Announced for the next N INNOVATION on 6/23 at Shinjuku Face is Haoh vs. Tadasuke in a Loser Expulsion Match-the loser must leave NOAH.

Pro Wrestling NOAH began the SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour, a short 2-event series that is part of several short series that make up the June schedule around next weekend’s CyberFight Festival ’22.

Today’s event was held at Aore Nagaoka in Niigata and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 273.

Match 1: Haoh beat Kai Fujimura.

Match 2: Rene Dupree beat Kinya Okada.

Match 3: Seiki Yoshioka & Yuya Susumu beat NOSAWA Rongai & Kotaro Suzuki. Yoshioka pinned Suzuki after a buzzsaw kick.

Match 4: Atsushi Kotoge, Extreme Tiger & Alejandro beat Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Hi69. Kotoge pinned Hi69 after Kill Switch.

Match 5: Simon Gotch, HAYATA & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Kaito Kiyomiya, Daisuke Harada & YO-HEY went to a no contest. NOSAWA Rongai & Kotaro Suzuki interference.

Match 6: Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya beat Michael Elgin, Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura. Nakajima beat Inamura.

Main Event: Go Shiozaki, Takashi Sugiura & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Satoshi Kojima, Mohammed Yone & Daiki Inaba. Shiozaki pinned Yone after Go Lariat.

Next up is STAR NAVIGATION 2022 Tuesday & Wednesday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Tuesday features a title match for the Open The Triangle Gate Championship, the 6-man tag team title of Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling. Both events will be ABEMA-only live broadcasts and will not be available live outside of Japan. The next live WRESTLE UNIVERSE event is CyberFight Festival ’22 next Sunday.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran a NOAH SANCTUARY event today, the latest in their occasional series of fan-centered events, which served as both build towards CyberFIght Festival ’22 with DDT participation and also as a farewell-for-now for Junta Miyawaki, who is heading off on an overseas training excursion.

Today’s event was held at Club Citta Kawasaki aka Noah Special Arena in Kawasaki, Japan and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 162, which was a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Yoshiki Inamura vs. Kazusada Higuchi (DDT) went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: YO-HEY & Extreme Tiger beat Haoh & Alejandro. YO-HEY pinned Haoh with YO-ROLL.

Match 3: Michael Elgin & Masa Kitamiya beat Simon Gotch & Kinya Okada. Elgin pinned Okada after Elgin Bomb.

Match 4: Junta Miyawaki Send-Off Match-Kaito Kiyomiya beat Junya Miyawaki.

Match 5: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON (DDT) beat Kenoh, Hajime Ohara & Hi69. Sasaki beat Hi69 with a Mystica crossface.

Main Event: Satoshi Kojima (New Japan), Mohammed Yone & Atsushi Kotoge beat Go Shiozaki, Shuhei Taniguchi & Daisuke Harada. Kojims pinned Taniguchi after a Western Lariat. This was to have been Kojima, Naomichi Marufuji & Kotoge vs. Shiozaki, Taniguchi & Harada but Marufuji was removed a couple days ago due to knee pain. Yone was the replacement.

The next event is the SUNNY VOYAGE 2022 Tour opener Sunday at Aore Nagaoka in Niigata. There is no live broadcast scheduled but it will be on demand at a later date. There are no live broadcasts scheduled again until after CyberFight Festical ’22 (there are 2 Korakuen Hall events next week on Tuesday & Wednesday but both are ABEMA-only live streams, the next live broadcast excluding CyberFight Festival will not be until 6/22).

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.