Event recap ~ Premium Prelude, Yokohama Radiant Halls, Yokohama (Night 3,11th October 2019)

"Nothing is going to stop me"

Typhoon Hagibis is one of the worst typhoons to hit Japan in recent years, with rail services, airways, the Rugby World Cup, Formula 1 and some wrestling promotions cancelling their various products (I think it may have been a different story had Noah been in the countryside on Saturday which is when the typhoon is expecting to slam into Japan). Noah, however, did not cancel and the show went ahead as planned, although the promotion did make a point of pleading with people that they shouldn't come out if it put them in danger, especially in a town that is besides the ocean. As late as it was when they got back to Tokyo, Noah started fortifying their homes against what was to come.
I am unsure at the time of writing how many people came to the show, but the venue looked very fall, and people who attended commented on how hot it got.

Kaito Kiyomiya, Daisuke Harada and HAYATA (who hid behind the belt, while most people have it on their shoulder), manned the Noah's Ark Photoclub pictures, and Takashi Sugiura was on merchandise duty.

MATCH ONE
Atsushi Kotoge vs Hitoshi Kumano

Atsushi Kotoge fled from the ring at one point due to Kumano's ferocious attack, and so Kumano sat on the ropes to hold them open for him.

WINNER:Atsushi Kotoge with the Backslide Pin* (10 minutes, 39 seconds)
*In Japanese this is known as "Upside Down"

MATCH TWO
STINGER (Yoshinari Ogawa, Kotaro Suzuki & Chris Ridgeway) vs Minoru Tanaka, Junta Miyawaki & Sonico.

"See you at Sumo Hall"

Prior to the event starting, Chris Ridgeway took to his Twitter to say that today in this match he had his sights set on Minoru Tanaka, prior to their match at Sumo Hall.
Tanaka responded with posting angry faces.

At the start of the match, Yoshinari Ogawa started complaining again. His gripe this time was about SONICO being in a mask (which he didn't really trust), and then he went on to torture Junta Miyawaki. Ridgeway vs Miyawaki raised the heat in the all ready hot hall with the crowd on fire for it.

WINNER: Chris Ridgeway via submission "The Riddy Special" on Sonico (13 minutes, 3 seconds)

After the match Minoru Tanaka and Chris Ridgeway squared up, with Tanaka doing the finger point at Ridgeway...

MATCH THREE
Shiro Koshinaka & The Return of The Dark Agents (Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue) vs 50 Funky Powers (Mohammed Yone & Quiet Storm) & Seiya Morohashi.

Exciting match with Mohammed Yone and Shiro Koshinaka brawling in the crowd, at which point Koshinaka dared touch Yone's afro...

Seiya Morohashi provoked Koshinka, but at the start of the match with The Return of The Dark Agents standing on the ring apron, the three opponents were still in it and facing Koshinaka. Koshinaka expressed surprise at three people.

WINNER: Shiro Koshinaka with a powerbomb on Seiya Morohashi (9 minutes, 7 seconds)

MATCH FOUR
AXIZ (Katsuhiko Nakajima & Go Shiozaki) vs Shuhei Taniguchi & Hi69.

Hi69 pulled out a lot of high flying maneuvers, and Taniguchi and Shiozaki squared up and hammered the hell out of each other.
Katsuhiko Nakajima kicked Hi69 with a somewhat vicious looking kick when he walked casually along the ring apron, and knocked him down to the floor.

WINNER: Go Shiozaki with the Gowan Lariat on Hi69 (16 minutes) 

MATCH FIVE
The Sugiura Army (Takashi Sugiura, Hajime Ohara & Kinya Okada) vs Kongoh (Kenoh, Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura)

After bouncing off the ropes and crashing into Masa Kitamiya (and vice versa), Takashi Sugiura was knocked down, and he rolled over and tagged in Kinya Okada by telling him that, "the old man is tired".

Very good interaction between Kinya Okada and Yoshiki Inamura

WINNER: Yoshiki Inamura with the Splash Mountain on Kinya Okada (17 minutes, 42 seconds)

MATCH SIX
Kaito Kiyomiya, HAYATA & Daisuke Harada vs Naomichi Marufuji, Tadasuke & YO-HEY.

Naomichi Marufuji looked very happy today in this very rare card as he got to join in with Tadasuke's fist pose (with no Daisuke Harada to stop him), but his elated mood didn't seem to last for long as he turned his back on Kaito Kiyomiya when he held the GHC Heavyweight belt up, and was seen to be glaring at him later. After that when they were in the ring together, he "dog eared" Kiyomiya. I am unsure of the interaction between Marufuji and Harada, but they were said to be amusing, so it seems that they haven't quite buried the hatchet yet.

WINNER: YO-HEY with the YO-ROLL on HAYATA (18 minutes, 12 seconds)

After the match (after Naomichi Marufuji had slunk away) YO-HEY got on the microphone and addressed HAYATA, saying to Wife (HAYATA) that it was going to be "the same" at Sumo Hall, and yes, he said "same" because he knew that HAYATA did not like to speak and was not going to do it.
Then, after the handshake between YO-HEY & HAYATA (HAYATA looking weary), RATELS left the ring.

Then Kongoh came marching to the ring, led by a very angry looking Kenoh (Noah should have played "March of The Empire"), and got in the ring to face Kiyomiya. Kiyomiya then had his arms grabbed by Masa Kitamiya and Yoshiki Inamura, and forced to his knees.
Kenoh bent down so he was almost face to face with him, grabbed Kiyomiya's hair, and on the microphone started screaming at him.

"You are really good. Spoiled by the company...no, by the parent compan, LIDET. I am made to leave, and Kongoh forced to break up? You are pampered, it is favoritism? You are so spoiled, you are not strong! 
We will end this repression, and get the bents!  

Kenoh was so angry, he said that Sumo Hall was in December!
It was AXIZ who came to the rescue (Fans are wondering why Taniguchi did not come to the rescue), and everyone squared up to each other in the ring; the brothers\senior students Katsuhiko Nakajima & Masa Kitamiya, the blonde brothers Kenoh and Kaito Kiyomiya, and finally Go Shiozaki and Yoshiki Inamura.

Kenoh spoke, "You three....handsome guys, but you have no heart. We have belief."
Kiyomiya replied that it was pointless for Kenoh (he didn't add "San") to hold a grudge against LIDET, (he later said you could not make a bright future if you held one), and he himself liked LIDET, the same way he liked the atmosphere in the hall today. He vowed to defeat Kenoh at Sumo Hall.

Kongoh retreated, and Kiyomiya shook hands with AXIZ against their common enemies (Kongoh are challenging for all three heavyweight belts, with Kiyomiya of course being the GHC Heavyweight champion that Kenoh is challenging for, and AXIZ holding the GHC Heavyweight tag belts which THE TOUGH are challenging for). 

After the match, Kiyomiya went round the hall shaking hands with everyone

WITH THANKS TO: Metal Noah, Abeshin, Yama, Gong Ex, Hae, Mekun, Teshi, Shikazu, Naoki
PICTURE CREDIT: Noah GHC, PKDK, Yoshiki Inamura
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