(NOAH) N-1 VICTORY 2022 GUIDE


PARTICIPANTS

A BLOCK
Kenoh (current GHC Heavyweight Champion, won the inaugural year's competition in 2019)
Kazuyuki Fujita
Go Shiozaki
Masato Tanaka
Masaaki Mochizuki
Hideki Suzuki
El Hijo Del Dr Wagner Jnr
Anthony Greene

B BLOCK
Masakatsu Funaki
Kaito Kiyomiya
Katsuhiko Nakajima (winner of N-1 Victory 2020 & 2021)
Takashi Sugiura
Masa Kitamiya
Satoshi Kojima
Kinya Okada (replaces Timothy Thatcher)
Jack Morris

Timothy Thatcher drops out
Due to visa issues, Timothy Thatcher had to drop out of B Block. His spot was taken by Kinya Okada who defeated Yoshiki Inamura for the vacant slot at DEPARTURE 2022 on the 5th August

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

Thursday, August 11th
Start time: 16:00 JST
Venue: Yokohama Budokan
Broadcast: ABEMA (Live)

Block A
Kazuyuki Fujita vs Go Shiozaki
Kenoh vs El Hijo Del Dr Wagner Jnr
Masaaki Mochizuki vs Hideki Suzuki
Masato Tanaka vs Anthony Greene

Block B
Takashi Sugiura vs Satoshi Kojima
Kaito Kiyomiya vs Jack Morris
Masakatsu Funaki vs Kinya Okada
Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Masa Kitamiya

Saturday, August 13th
Start time: 17:30 JST
Venue: EDION Arena Osaka 2nd Stadium
Broadcast: WrestleUniverse (Live)

Block A
Go Shiozaki vs Anthony Greene
Kazuyuki Fujita vs El Hijo Del Dr Wagner Jnr
Kenoh vs Masaaki Mochizuki
Masato Tanaka vs Hideki Suzuki

Block B
Masakatsu Funaki vs Katsuhiko Nakajima
Kaito Kiyomiya vs Masa Kitamiya
Satoshi Kojima vs Kinya Okada

Sunday, August 14th
Start time: 16:00 JST
Venue: Hiroshima Sun Plaza
Broadcast: WrestleUniverse (Live)

Block A
Kenoh vs Masato Tanaka
Go Shiozaki vs Masaaki Mochizuki
El Hijo Del Dr Wagner Jnr vs Anthony Greene

Block B
Kaito Kiyomiya vs Katsuhiko Nakajima
Satoshi Kojima vs Jack Morris
Takashi Sugiura vs Kinya Okada
Masakatsu Funaki vs Masa Kitamiya

Wednesday, August 17th
Start time: 18:30 JST
Venue: Sendai Sunplaza Hall
Broadcast: WrestleUniverse (Live)

Block A
Kenoh vs Go Shiozaki
Kazuyuki Fujuta vs Hideki Suzuki
Masaaki Mochizuki vs El Hijo Del Dr Wagner Junior

Block B
Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Takashi Sugiura
Masa Kitamiya vs Satoshi Kojima
Kinya Okada vs Jack Morris

Friday, August 19th
Start time: 18:30 JST
Venue: Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
Broadcast: ABEMA (Live)

Block A
Masato Tanaka vs Masaaki Mochizuki
Kenoh vs Hideki Suzuki
Kazuyuki Fujita vs Anthony Greene

Block B
Masakatsu Funaki vs Kaito Kiyomiya
Takashi Sugiura vs Masa Kitamiya
Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Jack Morris

Saturday, August 20th 
Start time: 18:30 JST
Venue: Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
Broadcast: WrestleUniverse (Live)

Block A
Kazuyuki Fujita vs Masato Tanaka
Go Shiozaki vs El Hijo Del Dr Wagner Jnr
Hideki Suzuki vs Anthony Greene

Block B
Masakatsu Funaki vs Satoshi Kojima
Kaito Kiyomiya vs Kinya Okada
Takashi Sugiura vs Jack Morris

Saturday, August 27th
Start time: 17:00 JST
Venue: Nagoya Congress Event Centre
Broadcast: ABEMA (Live)

Block A
Go Shiozaki vs Masato Tanaka
Kazuyuki Fujita vs Masaaki Mochizuki
Hideki Suzuki vs El Hijo Del Dr Wagner Jnr
Kenoh vs Anthony Greene

Block B
Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Satoshi Kojima
Kaito Kiyomiya vs Takashi Sugiura
Masa Kitamiya vs Kinya Okada
Masakatsu Funaki vs Jack Morris

Sunday, August 28th
Start time: 16:00 JST
Venue: Cultz Kawasaki
Broadcast: WrestleUniverse (Live)

Block A
Go Shiozaki vs Hideki Suzuki
Kenoh vs Kazuyuki Fujita
Masato Tanaka vs El Hijo Del Dr Wagner Jnr
Masaaki Mochizuki vs Anthony Greene

Block B
Kaito Kiyomiya vs Satoshi Kojima
Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Kinya Okada
Masakatsu Funaki vs Takashi Sugiura
Masa Kitamiya vs Jack Morris

Saturday, September 3rd 
Start time: 16:00 JST
Venue: EDION Arena Osaka 1st Stadium
Broadcast: WrestleUniverse (Live)

Winner of A Block vs Winner of B Block
- Winner wins the N-1 Victory 2022, and gets a shot at the GHC Heavyweight Champion (should Kenoh not be in the finals that is)

Point scoring
Win = 2 points
Draw = 1 points
Loss = 0 points

Notes about broadcasts
- WrestleUniverse will have English commentary for all nights. 

Unless you are living in Japan or have a VPN you know is compatible with ABEMA, please do not subscribe to the service. For fans living outside of Japan, a subscription to WrestleUniverse would be better as they show more Noah shows than ABEMA, and usually the events get uploaded very quickly. ABEMA broadcasts are only in Japanese, you can only watch them live, and this is the only Noah they show. They do not broadcast old shows as these belong to Samurai TV. 

AKITOSHI SAITO'S N-1 EVALUATION

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