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Pro Wrestling NOAH ran this month’s STAR NAVIGATION 2024 event today ahead of their next blowout event next weekend.

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

The announced paid attendance was 938.

There were late changes to the card because Ninja Mack & HAYATA, who originally were not part of the event due to New Japan participation, were added to the event when the promotion learned they would not be part of today’s NJPW event.

Match 1: Ninja Mack & Hajime Ohara beat Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69. Mack pinned Hi69 after Phoenix Splash.

Match 2: Anthony Greene beat Takashi Sugiura.

Match 3: HAYATA, Starboy Charlie & Yu Owada beat Daga, Yoshinari Ogawa & Super Crazy. Charlie pinned Crazy after Cosmic World.

Match 4: AMAKUSA Return Match: AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki beat Alejandro & Cristobal. AMAKUSA pinned Cristobal after Opening of the Country.

Match 5: Ryohei Oiwa, Ulka Sasaki & Titus Alexander beat Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Shuhei Taniguchi. Oiwa pinned Inaba after Doctor Bomb.

Match 6: Naomichi Marufuji beat Jack Morris by submission.

Match 7: Shuji Kondo & Eita beat GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YO-HEY & Tadasuke to win the titles. Kondo & Eita become the 60th GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. Eita pinned YO-HEY after Imperial Uno.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya & Kenoh vs. Gabriel Kidd (New Japanj & Jake Lee went to a double countout.

In post-event news, it was announced that DESTINATION 2024, the July return to Nippon Budokan, will be-unfortunately for us outside Japan-only available live as a PPV on ABEMA. If available worldwide, which ABEMA generally is not, it is 3500 Japanese yen (around $22 US) if purchased before July 12, and 4000 yen (around $26) if purchased the day of the event-July 13-until the PPV window presumably ends on July 21. Also, Black Menso-re participation has been announced for 7/8 in Hokkaido.

The next event is ALL TOGETHER in SAPPORO Saturday at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kita Yell in Hokkaido. The live broadcast will be a PPV only on ABEMA for 2500 yen (around $15 US).

The next regular event is GRAND SHIP 2024 in YOKOHAMA on 6/16 at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in English only will begin Saturday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET. This is another ABEMA exclusive broadcast in Japan.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran a LIMIT BREAK .2 event today, featuring almost all crossover matches with wrestlers from other promotions.

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

The announced paid attendance was 402.

Match 1; Daisuke Sekimoto (Big Japan) beat Yu Owada.

Match 2: Mohammed Yone & Yuto Kikuchi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Shuji Ishikawa & Black Menso-re (Independent/Freelancers). Yone pinned Menso-re after Kinniku Muscle Buster.

Match 3: Tetsuya Endo & Yuki Iino (DDT) beat Hi69 & Harutoki (Independent/Freelancer). Endo pinned Narutoki after Burning Star Press.

Match 4: Jun Akiyama (DDT) beat Atsushi Kotoge.

Match 5: Kazuyuki Fujita, Yoshitatsu (DDT) & Genta Yubari (Independent/Freelancer) beat Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Naya & Tomomitsu Matsunaga (DDT). Fujita pinned Matsunaga after a face kick.

Main Event: ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion Akitoshi Saito vs. Go Shiozaki went to a 30 minute time limit draw. As a result, Saito retains the title. V2 for Saito.

The next LIMIT BREAK event will be LIMIT BREAK .ex on 7/20 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama.

The next event is Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.

Pro Wrestling NOAH continued the SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 Tour today in Kobe.

Today’s event was held at Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date (probably Wednesday). There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 780, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Shuji Kondo & Eita beat Starboy Charlie & Yu Owada. Eita pinned Owada after Imperial Uno.

Match 2: Titus Alexander beat LJ Cleary.

Match 3: Go Shiozaki & Mohammed Yone beat Shuhei Taniguchi & Daiki Inaba. Shiozaki pinned Taniguchi after Go Lariat.

Match 4; Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura & Ulka Sasaki beat Jake Lee, Jack Morris & Anthony Greene. Marufuji pinned Greene after Shiranui.

Match 5: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Atsushi Kotoge & Hi69 to retain the titles. YO-HEY pinned Hi69 after a dropkick. V7 for the champs. Next up: Kondo & Eita. That match will happen on 6/9 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh, Alejandro & Cristobal beat Masa Kitamiya, Ryohei Oiwa, Junta Miyawaki & Andy Wu. Kiyomiya pinned Miyawaki after Hontai Shining Wizard.

The next event is The Reeve Presents LIMIT BREAK .2 Wednesday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.

In other news, the full card for GRAND SHIP 2024 in YOKOHAMA on 6.16 is set and one more title match has been added: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jack Morris & Anthony Greene vs. Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura for the titles.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the second half of a STAR NAVIGATION 2024 doubleheader today, a ONE NIGHT DREAM special event.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1488, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Ulka Sasaki beat Hikaru Sato (All-Japan).

Match 2: Jack Morris, Anthony Greene, LJ Cleary & YO-HEY beat Ryohei Oiwa, Daiki Inaba, Junta Miyawaki & Yu Owada. Cleary pinned Miyawaki after Irish Goodbye 2.

Match 3: Takumi Iroha, Miyuki Takase & Nagisa Nozaki beat Great Sakuya, Brooke Havok & Yuu. Takase pinned Havok.

Match 4: Titus Alexander & Starboy Charlie beat Kaito Kiyomiya & Alejandro. Charlie pinned Alejandro after a 450 splash.

Match 5: Tomohiro Ishii (New Japan) beat Masa Kitamiya.

Match 6: Tetsuya Naito & Shingo Takagi (New Japan) beat Jake Lee & Tadasuke. Takagi pinned Tadasuke after Last Of The Dragon.

Main Event: Kenoh beat Minoru Suzuki.

The next event is Sunday at Kobe Sambo Hall on Kobe. There will be no live broadcast.

In post-event news, Miyuki Takase vs. Great Sakuya has bern added to GRAND SHIP 2024 in YOKOHAMA on 6/16.

A double whammy of injuries for Pro Wrestling NOAH today as they have just announced 2 absences: Yoshinari Ogawa & Hajime Ohara. Ogawa-unspecified injury suffered on 4/26. Ohara-concussion. Both out indefinitely. No potential card changes yet as they mostly have not been announced.

More as it becomes available.

WRESTLE MAGIC, Pro Wrestling NOAH’s Golden Week blowout event, is in the books.

Today’s event was held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE as a PPV. You have until 4 AM PT/7 AM ET on 5/12 to purchase the replay. It costs 3800 Japanese yen (around $25 US), but qualifying UNIVERSE members-those who kept their subscription through March’s price increase-can get it for 2800 yen (around $19 US). You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The announced paid attendance was 3512. They ran a greatly reduced capacity setup-the venue’s capacity is nearly 15,000 for sumo but I imagine between the setup and using the lower level box seats at about 1/3 capacity (2 per box instead of the usual 4-6) that probably reduced the setup to around 6000-7000.

Note that half the card’s 12 matches were not announced ahead of time. That was basically all the non-title matches except for the women’s match.

Match 1: Shuji Ishikawa beat GHC Hardcore Champion Ninja Mack to win the title. Ishikawa becomes the 12th GHC Hardcore Champion. NOAH recognizes him as the 3rd because they do not recognize the title’s prior lineage before it was re-activated this past year.

Match 2: Titus Alexander & Starboy Charlie beat Ryohei Oiwa & Daiki Inaba. Charlie pinned Inaba after a 450 splash.

Match 3: Masa Kitamiya beat Takashi Sugiura.

Match 4: AKIRA (Independent/Freelancer), HAYATA & Eita beat Jun Kumano, Junta Miyawaki & Yu Owada. AKIRA pinned Owada after a moonsault press.

Match 5: GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YO-HEY & Tadasuke beat Shuji Kondo & “brother” YASSHI and Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf in a 3-way elimination match to retain the titles. YO-HEY eliminated YASSHI then Wolf. V6 for the champs.

Match 6: Kenoh beat YAMATO (Dragon Gate).

Match 7: In a GHC Martial Arts Rules match, Ulka Sasaki & Kazushi Sakuraba beat Hikaru Sato (All-Japan) & Shuhei Taniguchi by TKO. Sasaki beat Taniguchi.

Match 8: Giulia, Utami Hayashishita, MIRAI & Mai Sakurai beat Nagisa Nozaki, Great Sakuya, Miyuki Takase & Takumi Iroha. Giulia pinned Nozaki after Northern Lights Bomb. The winners are all part of former Stardom boss Rossy Ogawa’s new Marigold promotion, which for at least the first few months will have their events streamed live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

Match 9: Jake Lee & TAJIRI (Independent/Freelancer) beat Naomichi Marufuji & Hajime Ohara. TAJIRI pinned Ohara after Buzzsaw Kick.

Match 10: GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Daga beat Alejandro to retain the title. V6 for Daga.

Match 11: GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jack Morris & Anthony Greene beat TBA & TBA, revealed at match time to be Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima (New Japan), to retain the titles. Morris pinned Kojima after Shooting Star Press. V8 for the champs. Another open challenge.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya beat GHC Heavyweight Champion Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. to win the title. Kiyomiya becomes the 45th GHC Heavyweight Champion.

The next event is ALL TOGETHER, the return of the joint promotional charity fundraiser event, this time for Noto Peninsula earthquake recovery efforts, Monday at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. This installment will feature New Japan, Pro Wrestling NOAH and DDT Pro Wrestling as well as a Stardom match. Live streaming worldwide will be only on ABEMA as a PPV beginning at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET. As far as when it may be available on demand on New Japan World & WRESTLE UNIVERSE, it probably would be at least 2 weeks afterwards as the PPV viewing window is until 5/19.

As for NOAH itself, the next regular event is 5/18 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.

UPDATE: Shortly after this was posted, the usual post-major event news/fallout began dropping:

2 matches have been announced for 5/22 at Korakuen Hall: Kenoh vs. Minoru Suzuki & Ulka Sasaki vs. Hikaru Sato.

MONDAY MAGIC will return for Season 3 this fall. Dates TBA.

The N-1 VICTORY Tournament will return later this year. The schedule was announced:
8/4-Yokohama Budokan, Yokohama
8/9, 8/10, 8/11-Korakuen Hall
8/12-Culttz Kawasaki, Kanagawa
8/17-Tama Mirai Messe, Tokyo
8/18-Sendai Pit, Sendai
8/25-Nagoya International Conference Center, Nagoya
9/1-Osaka Prefectural Gym, Osaka (Finals)
Further details TBA.

Pro Wrestling NOAH ran the latest LIMIT BREAK event today, dubbed LIMIT BREAK ex. This series features more crossover matches with non-NOAH wrestlers.

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

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Match 1: Yoshitatsu (DDT) beat Yu Owada.

Match 2: Atsushi Kotoge & Black Menso-re (Independent/Freelancer) beat Jun Akiyama & Rukiya (DDT). Kotoge pinned Rukiya after Kill Switch.

Match 3: Tetsuya Endo (DDT) beat Hi69.

Match 4: Go Shiozaki, Kazuyuki Fujita & Mohammed Yone vs. Shuji Ishikawa (Independent/Freelancer), Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya (DDT) went to a 20 minute time limit draw. Which led to…
Extra Time (10 minutes): Go Shiozaki, Kazuyuki FUujita & Mohammed Yone beat Shuji Ishikawa, Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya. Shiozaki pinned Iino after Go Lariat.

Main Event: ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion Akitoshi Saito beat Yuki Nagao to retain the title. V1 for Saito.

The next event is WRESTLE MAGIC 2024 on 5/4 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE as a PPV ONLY will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. The PPV is available worldwide for 3800 Japanese yen (about $25 US) but those who were UNIVERSE subscribers prior to the price increase in March and remained subscribers at the start of April can buy the PPV for only 2800 yen (around $18 US). The event can be purchased until 5/12 at 4 AM PT/7 AM ET, the viewing window after purchase & the event is TBA. Currently there are 6 matches for the card-5 title matches and a special women’s match-with more TBA the day of the event.

Pro Wrestling NOAH has announced an injury change to Friday’s event, and if it lingers it will have major title implications as the absent wrestler is Alejandro. Cervical spine strain. Out Friday. If he missed any more time it would affect major upcoming events including Dragon Gate’s 5/5 event as he is half of the Open The Twin Gate Champions with Kaito Kiyomiya. It’s bot yet known if he will miss additional time.

For Friday, he was to have been in a 6-man tag match. That has been changed to a 5-way.

More as it becomes available.