NOAH WEEKLY NEWSLETTER VOL.97 ~ 23RD AUGUST 2020

Hisame let’s us know the newest member of M’s Alliance, KONGO has a new member and Takashi Sugiura has a new hat! Read and enjoy the mean green news feed!

NEWS

KONGOH’S NEW MEMBER. TADASUKE. 

Tadasuke defeated YO-HEY in 10 minutes and 18 seconds on the 20th August at Korakuen Hall. Although YO-HEY stood no chance against Tadasuke’s heavyweight strength and Tadasuke could have eventually got the legitimate win, he chose to do this in heel fashion by causing a ref distraction, and then punching YO-HEY on the back of the head. With YO-HEY dealt with, it was on to Daisuke Harada, who had made the comment that in RATELS, Tadasuke had never been anything more than fourth place. Tadasuke was going to remember and not going to forgive that remark.

In the match at Shinkiba 1st RING on the 22nd, Harada proved a little more difficult, attacking the moment he got into the ring and with a strength that can compete with Tadasuke’s, Tadasuke didn’t need to resort to using the referee for his own ends, and he wasn’t even concerned about the win; Tadasuke had gone to the Red Side and came back with new friends. Haoh and Nioh came out and interfered with the match. YO-HEY got into the ring and a melee brawl broke out, as the bell sounded in the background, the new Kongoh juniors knocked both Harada and YO-HEY down and then celebrated before leaving. Backstage Tadasuke said that since they (Kongoh) do what they want, he was going to do what he wants, and that was making Harada get a taste of what it feels like to be humiliated, and if he was 4th, then Harada was 5th and YO-HEY 6th, even lower than them both.

Tadasuke was not on the card in the afternoon event, but Daisuke Harada and YO-HEY were in a six man tag versus Kongoh. Tadasuke made his first appearance with his new friends, using a pistol motion in the Kongoh line up and lurking outside the ring baiting both Harada and YO-HEY. There is a mutual hatred between Kenoh and Harada, and Kenoh took great pleasure in winding Harada up about Tadasuke’s defection, and at one point pinning him down so Tadasuke could taunt him. Tadasuke bought a new dimension to Kongoh, before now all they had ever been were angry they had never had that feel of being actual bad guys who would stoop to win by any means, Tadasuke has bought in the crafty heel element, which he used to the full by tripping Harada, and sneaking into the ring to do the chain elbow drop with his new unit and exiting quickly before the referee caught him. After the match, Kenoh started yelling at Harada and YO-HEY, which caused Harada to lose his temper and charge the ring and attack Tadasuke. Tadasuke eventually threw him out (as YO-HEY was cornered by Yoshiki Inamura), and made hand dusting motions.

Kenoh, loving every moment of this victory over Harada, introduced Tadasuke as the new member of KONGOH, and said that he had joined because he wanted his own freedom to do what he wanted, and in Kongoh he would make the NOAH ring shine like a diamond and never “in fourth place”. Backstage, Harada said sarcastically that he was happy that Tadasuke had found “new friends”, but the fact would always remain; he would always be “fourth place”. The war between Harada, YO-HEY and Kongoh (Haoh, Nioh and Tadasuke) will continue in Kawasaki on the 30th. Fans are predicting another twist to the story.

Tadasuke has confirmed he will not be changing his ring name.

GOLD FEVER: FULL THROTTLE GET THEIR TAG TITLE CHALLENGE

Hajime Ohara caused shock waves when he got Yoshinari Ogawa (the master of nasty submission moves), to tap out on the 22nd in Shinkiba. No longer able to ignore FULL THROTTLE’S challenge which Kotoge made on the spot, (at the start of the match Yoshinari Ogawa’s reaction to Atsushi Kotoge was very very funny), the challenge has been set for the 30th in Kawasaki. The title challenge now means that all of FULL THROTTLE, will have the chance to take all the belts from STINGER. While Yoshioka wants the belt as it will be his first in NOAH and it will place him at the centre of the NOAH juniors, and Kotoge wants it to cement his leadership and the unit’s credibility as a force to be reckoned with by ending STINGER’S dominance, Hajime Ohara wants it because the title match is not only taking place in his hometown, but Kultz Kawasaki is the event he has been helping to arrange for the past three years and it has become very iconic as NOAH’s last event of the summer before the N-1 Victory begins. A title match there has been something he has been hoping to arrange since 2018.

EVENT RECAPS & POST MATCH PROMOS

“Go For It!” ~ 20th August 2020 (Korakuen Hall)

~ Post match interviews

“NOAH, THE SPIRIT” ~ 22nd August 22nd (Shinkiba 1st RING)

~ Post match interviews

ELSEWHERE IN NOAH

~ Following the “Talk Battle” with Naomichi Marufuji, Akira Maeda has joined The M’S Alliance

~ Go Shiozaki almost fell over at the AXIZ talk at MEGARAGE when he and Katsuhiko Nakajima took the stage.

~ Mohammed Yone was presented with flowers by Naomichi Marufuji for his 25th anniversary. This was apparently a complete surprise to him. He was planning a special box office to commemorate it, but factors such as change of NOAH ownership and the Coronavirus prevented this.

~ NOAH referee, Shu Nishinaga, also celebrated an anniversary in wrestling this past week (20th August), with a milestone of thirty years in wrestling. Having been part of the walkout from All Japan to NOAH, twenty years of his career has been in NOAH.

~ Unsurprisingly, Kenoh has decided that CyberFight are his enemies and exist solely to keep him and Kongoh down. He also isn’t too pleased that Kazushi Sakuraba would rather challenge for the GHC Heavyweight Tags and not the GHC National.

~ Yoshiki Inamura has voiced for the first time ever his own dissatisfaction with NOAH’s management, asking why THE TOUGH were not given a shot at the tag titles.

~ Takashi Sugiura told Go Shiozaki, “What is this “I AM NOAH?” Asshole, I’ve been doing this for 20 years.”

~ Naomichi Marufuji and HARASHIMA will have their replacement tag against CIMA and the HAYATA like Soma Takao on the 3rd November 2020 at DDT’S Ultimate Party 2020. The match had to be postponed from earlier in the year due to the Coronavirus.

~ AXIZ did an Instagram live chat, and Go Shiozaki bought his dog into the chat to wave.

~ Takashi Sugiura had to wear the Sanrio hat…

CURRENT CHAMPIONS

• GHC Heavyweight Champion: Go Shiozaki
• GHC Junior Champion: Kotaro Suzuki
  Challenger: Seiki Yoshioka (30th August, Kawasaki)
• GHC Heavyweight Tag Champions: Belts vacated
• GHC Junior Tag Champions: STINGER (HAYATA & Yoshinari Ogawa)
  Challengers: FULL THROTTLE (Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara, 30th August, Kawasaki)
• GHC National Champion: Kenoh

THIS WEEK IN NOAH

• Monday 24th August: Shuhei Taniguchi, Kaito Kiyomiya and Daiki Inaba will be doing an online internet signing.
• Wednesday 26th August: Kaito Kiyomiya will be appearing at MEGARAGE
• Friday 28th August: Naomichi Marufuji celebrates 22 years in wrestling (debuted 1998)
• Saturday 29th August: Yoshiki Inamura makes his first radio appearance on Coast FM
• Sunday 30th August: “KAWASAKI! GO!” at Kultz Kawasaki

BROADCASTS

No broadcast has yet been announced for “KAWASAKI! GO!”

The first night of the N-1 Victory on the 18th September, will be streamed live through WRESTLE UNIVERSE. It will also be broadcast live at 18:30 JST on Samurai TV.

How to watch Pro Wrestling NOAH

LINKS

Memories of The Yokohama Bunka Gym: It was good to see one final GHC Match (Kuniko Yamada’s Variety of Life)

Picture credit: Noah GHC 

GIF’S taken from WRESTLE UNIVERSE