(NOAH) "Why can't I be on the cover?!" Kenoh storms into the Weekly Pro editorial office in fierce protest!

25th July 2025

BBM Japan.com 

On the evening of the 24th, Noah's Kenoh burst into the editorial office of Weekly Pro at Chuo Ward, Tokyo. 

In front of a quiet office building, Kenoh's loud voice rang out, clutching a current issue of Weekly Pro Wrestling. "Why am I not on the cover? Why is it KENTA? Why am I lying on the ground? This pisses me off! Who worked harder these past two days? I'm seriously angry. I'm here to complain to Weekly Pro Wrestling! I'm going to burst in! They're taking me for a fool. They're clearly making fun of me. If Hikaru Inoue*, who does Noah, is there, I might beat him up! I've been serializing for seven years, but he has no respect for me. I'm going to do the Kenoh Channel Beat Takeshi style! Come on!"

The cover of this week's issue of Weekly Pro Wrestling is of KENTA, who has been crowned the GHC Heavyweight Champion for the first time in eleven years.

Kenoh is pictured at his feet, knocked out.

Kenoh took the GHC Heavyweight Championship from OZAWA at Noah's Korakuen Hall event on July 19th. The impact of stopping the impregnable defense road that the "Sudden Reiwa Mutant" had built for more than half a year after becoming the fastest champion in history in January this year was certainly one of the most notable events in the world of professional wrestling last week. Kenoh lost the GHC Heavyweight Championship to KENTA at Korakuen Hall on July 20th, the following day, making it an unexpected half day reign. Although he made history as the shortest GHC Heavyweight title holder, he fought fiercely for over fifty minutes over two days, with twenty-two minutes and eleven seconds against OZAWA, and twenty-eight minutes and four seconds against KENTA. He can be said to be the MVP of the two consecutive NOAH 25th Anniversary Korakuen shows which were sold out on both days. 

Kenoh stormed into the Weekly Pro Wrestling editorial department with a force reminiscent of Beat Takeshi's Friday Raid (December 1986), but out of consideration for the other editors who were working hard, he didn't shout as he usually did, and was quickly persuaded to move to nearby Hamacho Park. Kenoh's anger gradually subsided when he heard that Noah had been featured on the cover, ahead of the opening two matches of New Japan's G-1 CLIMAX 35 and an interview with Aaron Wolf* judo gold medalist who will make his pro wrestling debut at the Tokyo Dome on January 4th next year. When he saw Black Mensore, who happened to be passing by, talking about how he was on the cover of this week's issue by chance, "I didn't have a match that day, but I came as a second. It was worth not having a match to be on the cover", Kenoh casually confessed that he was not completely opposed to being on the cover, saying, "It would have been fine if it was just me and KENTA..."

Continuing the conversation, Kenoh also asked why he wasn't on the cover of the highly acclaimed "25 Years of Noah", which is packed with the promotions history from its founding to the present, snapping ""Why am I not on the cover? That's weird!" However, he promised his fans, "If I win the N-1 VICTORY in September, I'll be on the cover alone. Please support me! So, after the August 16th Korakuen show, let's go! Next time, I'll be on the cover with a bang!"   

Translated from BBM Japan

Picture credit: BBM Japan

Notes

Hikaru Inoue: The long suffering man who has done Kenoh's column with him. 

Aaron Wolf: In the very same issue, Kenoh said in his weekly column that he was so angry that Aaron Wolf didn't come to Noah despite being on commentary, that he actually went to Ryotokuji University where Aaron was working, “to beat him up”.