(NOAH) Nakajima and Shiozaki become the era's 46th GHC tag champions

8th December 2018
Tokyo Sports

The team of Katsuhiko Nakajima (30) and Go Shiozaki (36), were crowned as the 46th champions out of the four teams competing at Noah's Korakuen Hall event in Tokyo in the "GHC Tag Champions Tournament".

In the final match with Kenoh (33) and Masa Kitamiya (30), the generation clash was dynamic. 
After the match they accepted a challenge from Yuji Hino (33) and Maybach Taniguchi (42), who have joined the heel stable "The Hooligans", and they will make their first defense of the belts in Kanagawa at the Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium on the 16th.

Nakajima's aim for the belt is to further the generation struggle, which this year has seen the fight between the veterans and younger wrestlers.
"Shiozaki and I, had the same debut, 2004. If you think carefully about it, we are the mid generation between the veterans and the young", Nakajima says.
While the GHC Heavyweight champion, Takashi Sugiura (48), showed strength not weakness, while Kaito Kiyomiya (22) is gaining momentum, he emphasized "I cannot lose to both the young and the experienced. In that sense, my thoughts are familiar with Shiozaki's."

The mid generation are expecting a counterattack; "next year, there will be a conflict in three generations...no, this is a war". Making this declaration Shiozaki agrees with him and says, "We will make it exciting"

The Ark's mat is entering a new era.

Link to original article from Tokyo Sports (in Japanese)