(NOAH) Post match promos - 14th May 2018 - Hakata Stalene

KATSUHIKO NAKAJIMA

Q: Look back on the match?

NAKAJIMA: The impression of today? (Singing) I'm glad I could get one more...I thought of that.

Q: Don't you have anything else to say?

NAKAJIMA: Well, although it was a pre-championship match, we have a belt to capture, and the pre-fights will not exist. The championship match is more intense than fighting pre-matches. Like in life, customers are looking for something. There is no difference, there is no choice.

Q: You dared to strangle with the sleeper?

NAKAJIMA: Come on now...I thought I'd get him to go to sleep.

Q: I feel something sprouting within me.

NAKAJIMA: Yeah, thats true. I have even surprised myself. We are committed to the belt. There is no meaning if it is not for it. Well, I think we will go get it, and return it.

TAKASHI SUGIURA

Q: Was it a counterattack against Marufuji?

SUGIURA (To a reporter wearing a t-shirt with "WEEKEND" written on it): How was it? Your weekend?

Q: Did he show that his strength was not inferior?

SUGIURA: Oh. He thinks he doesn't despite his experience.

Q: I felt Marufuji's energy in the pre-match.

SUGIURA: There is some energy sometimes...sometimes I don't have a sense that he does, sometimes it happens quickly at times. Sometimes its hard to grasp? It feels like it. Its like a snake.

Q: Is is difficult?

Sugiura's answer doesn't translate well, but basically he talks about the electricity between them.

Q: Have you set your mind to winning?

SUGIURA: Yes. I will take the win directly from him.

Q: You are going to set your mind to the upcoming battle with...

SUGIURA: I don't have to tell you I am thinking about it! So in return, YOU, what is this? Weekend? Weekend? Does this feel like the weekend? It is not showing on your face!

MASA KITAMIYA
"The champion team is weak. Kiyomiya was strangled by Kiyomiya was he not? It is natural for us to defend against such guys. I fell, but if I do not pay for it, then I will not be able to put the belt on again. If we do not challenge for the belts, they will keep them. The belts do not shine with them, the tag front is not exciting. We do, The Aggression make the tag front interesting. It is over!"

DAISUKE HARADA

Q: Was it a pretty tough fight?

HARADA: To be honest, I thought that it would be an easier win, and it would be over in fifteen minutes, but it took nearly as twice as long, (29 minutes)...it was hard for me!

Q: That was a perfectly executed Katayama German, its return was unexpected.

HARADA: Well, it is a title match. Recently I have been doing more than one, and I had better improve it even more...and things like that. I do not know the next challenger, but I would like to decide it in a single shot I think.

Q: You pointed at Hi69 after the match?

HARADA: Lets do it again! I want to do it once more as champion, it is embarrassing if I finish as champion only doing it once.

Q: You aim yourself to improve the status of the juniors, but what about the championship fight today in Hakata?

HARADA: There was a lot of responsibility - it is the end of the pre-matches and the fight for the belt. I had to have a sense of responsibility.

Q: I feel that the status of the junior is rising?

HARADA: Well...I don't think it is there yet...I feel like I am being tested this year, I think the real match is going to come.

Q: Next form will be the GHC Junior Tag against Hi69?

HARADA: To be honest, I tried not to think about the junior tag until today was over, after all that is the whole reason for fighting Hi69. I could never have defended this if I refused. So from tomorrow...no this evening, I want to think of Hi69 and Minoru Tanaka.

Q: No one has challenged you?

HARADA: I will take whoever comes, if you think you can beat me, come to me and wait and see.

Link to original article from Noah.co.jp (in Japanese)