(NOAH) Kiyomiya breaks Marufuji in 3rd championship defense, decoration of the promotions new ship

Tokyo Sports Web
11th March 2019

The rebirth of Pro Wrestling Noah came in the first big match at the Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium on March 10th when the GHC Heavyweight Champion, Kaito Kiyomiya (22) defeated Naomichi Marufuji (39) and succeeded in his first defense. The new ship was decorated.

Although it was a hard fight against the attack of the genius, the champion displayed power to return the Shiranui with a chicken wing. The fight culminated in a fierce atomic type Tiger bomb, which decorated the defense.

After the match he called, "the guy who is smoldering about being in the opening match, come out!"
He nominated Kenoh (34) as his partner at "Global Tag League 2019" (opens in Osaka on April 6th) and said, "your strength is necessary to see the view". The former champion responded, "lets shine even more than before, and make a major change to the scene" ~ and a powerful combination was born.

LIDET Entertainment became the new owners of Noah in February; the logo of the group, the mat and the theme songs, that have continued since the launch of Noah in 2000, have been renewed, with innovative stage equipment and lighting.

At the beginning of the event, there was an announcement made about Mitsuharu Misawa (46), "Mitsuharu Misawa aimed to show you pro-wrestling, that would give you peace of mind", and a great cheer came out.
After the event green ribbons were produced with English text that read, "Misawa-san, you will forever live in our hearts as we set out on a new voyage".

As a group, it became clear that as well as learning from the past, there is a a clear attitude that aims at a new era. Kiyomiya, who has taken the role of steering, says "I want to see a new landscape that has not been seen yet. Also, I am looking forward to focusing on Kenoh after Global Tag League."

In the GHC Heavyweight Tag Championship, the champions "AXIZ" Go Shiozaki (37) and Katsuhiko Nakajima (30) fought hard against the team of Eddie Edwards (35) and Masa Kitamiya (30).
Nevertheless, Nakajima succeeded in their first defense by sinking Kitamiya with a Vertical Spike.

Minoru Tanaka (46) defeated the champion, Daisuke Harada (32) to be the 39th GHC Junior Champion. Tanaka has now had three Junior champions of three major organisations, he says "New Japan, All Japan, Noah, W-1, Zero One, FMW...I have had all the juniors. Next is the present IWGP Junior. I will compete against him."

Yoshinari Ogawa (52) and Kotaro Suzuki (40), the GHC Junior Tag Champions, succeeded in defending against Tadasuke (33) and HAYATA (31) for their first defense. Ogawa, the technician, put aside HAYATA with the figure four leglock, which was a requiem to the late Destroyer (88 years of age).

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