(NOAH) Post match interviews ~ Sunday 23rd June 2019, Takaoka Ekol, Toyama ("NOAH the SPIRIT 2019, Night Three)
TANAKA: One of the "48 Assassination techniques*" exploded, and got the win perfectly today. I'm not saying that we are going after the heavyweight tag, just because we beat a former heavyweight tag champion. (Points to the belt) After the defense in April, there has been no defensive battle. I have been involved in title matches since I was in New Japan, and I love the tension of title matches. I would like to do it once per tour. I also understand the problem with the schedule that there has been a tag league, and its now the singles league. However, this junior wrestler...oh, Hi69-kun, please listen...
(Hi69 puts his hand to his ear as if he is listening)
TANAKA (cont): This junior wrestler has not even challenged, and he has not said at all what he think of this belt, or of the Noah juniors. When I got this belt, I always said it would be "my long cherished wish", and I have said that every day. It is not something that everyone says. I don't need to, but I want to do a defense to retain the belt (rough). Well, the league is close. So, who will be the Noah Jnr "Teppen"*, who will be the strongest? I will tell you. I will go to the final with Hi69. Our blocks are different, but I will win mine (A Block). Leave it to Minoru Tanaka!
*From the Kinnikuman manga
*TV program whereby the participants go through a process of eliminations following various sports (i.e. swimming, arm wrestling etc)
Q: You defeated KAZMA in a single match ahead of the tag championship?
NAKAJIMA: It is the last day of the pre-matches today. Next is the title match. I believe that everything is coming to AXIZ. Losing it, getting it back, losing it. But, think carefully about it - what happens to AXIZ each time?
Q: Maybe you are growing stronger?
NAKAJIMA: There is no "maybe". We are growing stronger, and more so than the second time we put them on, and then more than the second time. You can overcome a crisis by chance, and the center of Noah, that is AXIZ! Sugiura, KAZMA SAKAMOTO...give those belts back to us, AXIZ.
Q: You took the win over Ogawa?
YO-HEY: Somebody made a mistake yesterday in Nagano, and so the pinfall was taken. Today, he was beaten, and I took it back from Yoshinari Ogawa. I am happy, and my left nipple is bulging.
YO-HEY covers it up.
Q: So, Harada...
HARADA: No, don't say anything about that last comment.
Q: No, I'm not going to ask about YO-HEY'S left nipple, but the situation that is ongoing within RATELS.
HARADA: From now on its the single league, and war. I declare this team opponents. Only one of them is in a separate block, but he is still an opponent. I will win this year.
YO-HEY: What now? What now? Because the single league starts from today, all members should do our best, and everyone is not good enough to compete with RATELS in the finals, lets do our pose, our best pose before the finals. Lets do this...
The four of them try to do it very hesitantly, and then immediately jump back into a fighting pose.
SUGIURA: Have you finally caught fire? A little came out, and you finally caught it. This is coming from the challenger! It's quite the story. It is a credit to me, the champion, that it feels like you have finally caught fire. Don't you think?
Q: Well, there is a part that looks like that
SUGIURA: Write it down
Q: Do you feel that there is any menace from Shiozaki?
SUGIURA: I said that I had lit the fire. Hey, what threat is there to feel? (rough)
Q: KAZMA lost to Nakajima?
SUGIURA: It is a different from a tag, a tag is 1 + 1 which becomes two or even three.
Q: Ohara, have you gained momentum for the league?
OHARA: Is this Tsukioka? I fought Kumano. The lower back attack, the lariat and the Argentina work well, but it won't beat me. I am creating a new identity in the Sugiura Army. I am practicing the front neck lock that I did today, its not perfect, but I am practicing it day and night. That will be my new weapon, but just the Muy Bien. Look forward to what I have in store for you.
Q: You won the main event in Kitamiya's hometown?
KIYOMIYA: The opponents may have had the opportunity, but I have to create more and more of a setting from now on. I lost yesterday, and there was not going to be another loss in a row.
Q: A challenger has still not come forward for the GHC Heavyweight?
KIYOMIYA'S answer doesn't translate well, but in summary he says something like it looks like he is sidestepping the issue if he doesn't mention that Kongoh haven't challenged for it. But even if Kongoh doesn't he wants to try various things.
Q: Can you nominate someone?
KIYOMIYA: I think there is a way for me to get someone.
Q: Taniguchi has been tagging with Kiyomiya daily, what is your response to that?
TANIGUCHI: I gain strength from what he says, and from how he fights. I want to do my best not to lose. As a team I think the more we increase our degree of completion, we can get results as a tag.
Q: Do you want to aim at the tag belts?
KIYOMIYA: I have a dream; two championships. When I say "new scene", it is the dream that I have painted as a champion. The greatest dream that I have is to "make this promotion number one", and I will change the landscape one bit at a time towards that. There are many dreams I have, that I want to challenge in.
Link to original article from Noah.co.jp (in Japanese)
Picture credit: Noah GHC
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