(NOAH) NOAH WEEKLY NEWSLETTER VOL.149 ~ 15TH NOVEMBER 2021

We see a Dream Team make a bid for gold and sights are set on the Budokan main event! Hisame let’s us know about all the NOAH current events!

NEWS

Kenoh & Katsuhiko: GHC and National double championship match

Kenoh defeated Masaaki Mochizuki for the GHC National at the Yokohama Budokan on Saturday 13th November. Before anyone could announce a challenge, Kenoh spoke on the microphone to announce he had other plans. One of Kenoh’s long cherished dreams is to be a double champion, namely the GHC National Champion and the GHC Heavyweight Champion at the same time. Whenever he has the National (and this is his second title reign, which is ironic as he said he wasn’t interested in it once), he always challenges the GHC Heavyweight Champion to a title vs title match. The fact that the champion was his unit member, Katsuhiko Nakajima, didn’t bother him and he challenged, bluntly saying he wanted to be the GHC Heavyweight Champion at the Nippon Budokan and he was therefore challenging Katsuhiko Nakajima to a belt vs belt match. Nakajima, looking like a wolf who has spied some new tasty prey, came to the ring and said he had no objection to Kenoh’s challenge and would do it. Later when Kenoh was cutting a promo backstage, Nakajima appeared and the two held up their belts glaring at each other. Nakajima smiled eerily and said, “I am looking forward to it, Kenoh”.

Title match has been set for 28th November at the Yoyogi National Stadium No 2 Gymnasium.

Aleja out, Tadasuke in; HAYATA’S next challenger

HAYATA retained the GHC Junior Heavyweight against Aleja at the Yokohama Budokan, and was challenged after the match by Tadasuke. Despite the loss of his Aleja (“Aleja Aleja”) Tadasuke said he was on a roll that night after defeating YO-HEY earlier on, and took the chance when there was a gap for a new challenger. HAYATA and Tadasuke have a long history together before RATELS; teaming together in Osaka Pro, teaming together in Dove. For both this is going to be a very different challenge, HAYATA is not the HAYATA that Tadasuke knew, and for HAYATA this is probably the first challenger he’s had out of the challengers so far (Tadasuke is number seven) who can wrestle like a heavyweight.

Title match has been set for Aichi / Nagoya Congress Center Event Hall, Sunday, December 5th 2021.

Marufuji’s dream, and Kiyomiya’s nightmare; M’s alliance win the GHC Heavyweight Tag Titles

Puroresu once again was witness to a generational struggle between veterans and younger generations of wrestlers, when Naomichi Marufuji and Keiji Mutoh defeated Kaito Kiyomiya and Masa Kitamiya for the tag titles. For Naomichi Marufuji this is a boyhood dream to team with Keiji Mutoh (and a chance to remind his juniors that they are nit going to come him) and for Keiji Mutoh this means that he gets a Grand Slam tag record and does not have to finish the year without wearing a belt. For Kaito Kiyomiya, this was again a nightmare as his nemesis Keiji Mutoh was once again triumphant, although it was not Kiyomiya who Mutoh had pinned. No challengers have come forward as of yet.

“NOSAWA. NOSAWA who lost to me in Kumamoto”

Yoshinari Ogawa’s revenge on the humiliation that Eita had poured him on (literally) was brutal when in a match that ended with Eita using a chair on him which had the match thrown out, he left NOSAWA hanging over the ropes and Eita on the mat after a submission move, he walked off with the GHC Junior Tag Titles. Backstage, NOSAWA was talking about how he and Eita were not going to defend the belts in NOAH when Yasutaka Yano returned them to them. Yano, handing the belt to NOSAWA and shoving Eita’s into his chest, told “NOSAWA. NOSAWA, who lost to me in Kumamoto” that he and Yoshinari Ogawa were teaming up to challenge for the belts. Because Yano is NOAH Born and therefore cannot sustain being rude for long (being stubborn is another matter), when NOSAWA told him to repeat himself as due to his old age he didn’t quite catch it, Yano very politely did and got knocked to the floor, beaten down, covered with water, his shirt ripped and his pants pulled down by Eita on the way out and told by NOSAWA that if Ogawa wanted a title match then he would give one to himself and HAYATA, not this “little boy”. BUT, if Yano really did want a match, then he would give him one, a two on one match which would be Ogawa and Yano vs NOSAWA. The handicap match will take place on Tuesday November 23rd in Niigata, with the title match taking place on the 28th November.

WrestleUniverse uploads

WrestleUniverse will upload Samurai TV NOAH content from 2019. So far they are not uploading anything classic from NOAH’s “Golden Era”, but the fact that NOAH are able to do this is a good start.

Nippon Budokan announcements

NOAH will make two further announcements regarding the Nippon Budokan event at their shows on the 28th November and the 5th December. So far we have had special guest commentators, Funky Kaito doing the theme music and an ABEMA special broadcast.

EVENT RECAPS & POST MATCH PROMOS

GO ON THE DEMOLITION STATE 2021 (November 10th, Korakuen Hall)

Event recap

Post match interviews

DEMOLITION STAGE 2021 IN YOKOHAMA (November 13th, Yokohama Budokan)

Event recap

Post match interviews 

ELSEWHERE IN NOAH

– Tadasuke wondered if the ringside camera was broken as when he went to watch the WrestleUniverse Yokohama Budokan event, he saw only himself talking at it and not to it. Tadasuke didn’t explain however the invisible crowd he was pushing through when making his way to the ring though.

– An eight man tag match will see Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura team with Funky Express (Mohammed Yone and King Tani), Marufuji asked “Gisu” (Sugi) if they were going to be funky. Sugi said yes, so funky that Tani would have no choice but to quit. Sugi had also wondered that Tani was ever the serious soldier from the JSDF.

– “Yoneya”, Mohammed Yone’s restaurant, celebrated ten years in business this past week. Sadly someone stole some of the flowers given to mark the occasion. Yone wondered about such people in the world.

– Daisuke Harada turned 35 on the 13th November. However, he had two complaints; the first was to NOAH GHC for posting a picture of him being photobombed by his older brother, to which he said to them to never ever use that picture ever again and the second complaint was that despite the fact that he and Atsushi Kotoge had arrived at the venue and left the venue at the same time, Kotoge hadn’t even given him a present. Knowing Kotoge he had probably forgotten it was Harada’s birthday.

– Kendo Kashin was thrown off a ledge by King Tani in Yokohama, but no help was forthcoming from either Takashi Sugiura or Kazushi Sakuraba who were more annoyed about losing the match, and then tried to exit the arena only to have to turn around and go back as they were going the wrong way.

CURRENT CHAMPIONS

• GHC Heavyweight Champion: Katsuhiko Nakajima
  Challenger: Kenoh, LEC Cleanup! presents NOAH the BEST 2021, Yoyogi National Stadium Second Gymnasium, Sunday, November 28th
• GHC Junior Champion: HAYATA
  Challenger: Tadasuke, THE WARROAD 2021 in NAGOYA, Aichi / Nagoya Congress Center Event Hall, Sunday, December 5th 2021
• GHC Heavyweight Tag Champions: The M’s alliance (Naomichi Marufuji and Keiji Mutoh)
  Challengers: TBA
• GHC Junior Tag Champions: Perros De Mal Del Japon (NOSAWA Rongai & Eita)
  Challengers: STINGER (HAYATA & Yoshinari Ogawa), LEC Cleanup! presents NOAH the BEST 2021, Yoyogi National Stadium Second Gymnasium, Sunday, November 28th
• GHC National Champion: Kenoh
  Challenger: Katsuhiko Nakajima, LEC Cleanup! presents NOAH the BEST 2021, Yoyogi National Stadium Second Gymnasium, Sunday, November 28th

THIS WEEK IN NOAH

(November schedule)

Wednesday, November 17th: Kinya Okada (29)

Thursday, November 18th: Yoshiki Inamura (29)

LINKS

“I would like to chase a record breaking match”, Mutoh announced the second double tag in history of the Big Three conquest – The GHC Tag signing ceremony

GHC National Match Signing: Mochizuki is calm, Kenoh declares “Stop the middle aged” and declares a Kongoh monopoly on single titles

“It’s all Kashin’s fault” – with all ways blocked at home and in the ring, King Tani to get rid of his anger in Yokohama

“A wonderful card for me to check comparison” Yoshiki Inamura return interview