NOAH WEEKLY NEWSLETTER VOL.159 ~ 6TH FEBRUARY 2022

NEWS

ZERO1 participation cancelled

Due to Coronavirus, Takashi Sugiura’s ZERO1 World Heavyweight title defense against Takuya Sugawara and the NOAH participation of Funky Express (Mohammed Yone & King Tany), Masa Kitamiya and Yoshiki Inamura, has been cancelled on the 12th February. A new date will be announced. As a result, the NOAH wrestlers will now appear at the NOAH show in Shimada.

 “I want you and the belt to return”

Masaaki Mochizuki gave an interview in which he said he wanted Masakatsu Funaki to return to The M’s alliance after Mochizuki defeated him for the belt. He felt that nothing has changed with Funaki, only his costume.

NOSAWA, YO-HEY, HAYATA & The GHC Junior Tag Challenge

NOSAWA Rongai is refusing to accept that the GHC Junior Tag Champions that he and YO-HEY are challenging are not HAYATA and Yoshinari Ogawa. During the match in Hamamatsu NOSAWA made belt wearing motions to HAYATA, who protested it wasn’t his fault, and even went so far as to tie HAYATA to the steel barriers by his shoelaces. After the match NOSAWA told YO-HEY that if he really wanted him to challenge for the belts with him, then he wanted a singles match with Ogawa (Eita could have HAYATA, but Ogawa wants Eita) and for YO-HEY to “show him more in the ring”.

EVENT RECAPS AND POST MATCH INTERVIEWS

Higher Ground 2022 (Act City Hamamatsu, January 30th)

Event recap Post match interviews

ELSEWHERE IN NOAH

– A comedian recently imitated Kenoh on Japanese television. Kenoh (naturally) fails to see the funny side.

– Keeping up his streak of talking about anatomy in the early hours of the morning, and usually trolling people over Viagra, Takashi Sugiura told everyone that he was hard during his debut match. No. I don’t mean he was tough.

CURRENT CHAMPIONS

• GHC Heavyweight Champion: Katsuhiko Nakajima
  Challenger: Kazuyuki Fujita, “GAIN CONTROL 2022 in NAGOYA”, February 23rd, Aichi / Nagoya Congress Center Event Hall, Nagoya
• GHC Junior Champion: Daisuke Harada
  Challenger: Tadasuke, “STEP FORWARD 2022”, February 9th, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
• GHC Heavyweight Tag Champions: The M’s alliance (Naomichi Marufuji and Keiji Mutoh)
  Challengers: No challengers as of yet
• GHC Junior Tag Champions: STINGER (Yuya Susumu & Seiki Yoshioka)
  Challengers: Perros Del Mal De Japon (YO-HEY & NOSAWA Rongai), “GAIN CONTROL 2022 in NAGOYA”, February 23rd, Aichi / Nagoya Congress Center Event Hall, Nagoya
• GHC National Champion: Masakatsu Funaki
  Challenger: Masaaki Mochizuki, “STEP FORWARD 2022”, Thursday February 10th, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo

THIS WEEK IN NOAH

(February schedule)

Wednesday, February 9th

STEP FORWARD 2022 – Korakuen Hall, Tokyo

Start time: 18:30 JST

Broadcast: ABEMA (Live)

*This should be a free live broadcast, but you can only watch live. You cannot watch a replay unless you are a subscriber. I do not recommend that for anyone outside of Japan that they sign up due to the fact that finding a VPN that is compatible with ABEMA can be expensive, time consuming and frustrating. A subscription to WrestleUniverse would be better as the events are uploaded to the platform after a week or so.

Thursday, February 10th

STEP FORWARD 2022 – Korakuen Hall, Tokyo

Start time: 18:30 JST

Broadcast: WrestleUniverse (Live)

Friday, February 11th

STEP FORWARD 2022 – Korakuen Hall, Tokyo

Start time: 18:30 JST

Broadcast: WrestleUniverse (Live)

Saturday, February 12th

STEP FORWARD 2022 – Shimada City General Sports Centre Sub Arena

Start time: 17:00 JST

Broadcast: TBA

LINKS

“Follow me you bastards!” Kenoh discusses Masakatsu Funaki

Go Shiozaki’s return – the real situation from right shoulder injury to comeback

GIF taken from WrestleUniverse