The Green Guide to the Sugiura Army Produce, "All Dogs Gather! Bark at Korakuen" (27th December, Korakuen Hall 2019)


The Sugiura Army (Takashi Sugiura, Hajime Ohara and NOSAWA Rongai) will be holding their produce event on December 27th 2019 at Korakuen Hall. This will be Noah's last event of 2019. Bell sounds at 18.30 JST. 

While it doesn't look like the other three members of The Sugiura Army (Hideki Suzuki, Kazuyashi Fujita and Kazushi Sakuraba) will be involved in the booking, they will more than likely appear on the show, as will rookie Kinya Okada (too junior to be involved in any booking decisions, and currently not an official member).

In keeping with the theme of dogs, there will be a lifesize cardboard cutout of Takashi Sugiura and his two dogs (Kenta and Chachamaru) at Korakuen Hall for the fans to pose with on the day. The dogs will not be appearing themselves at the produce. 

ABOUT
Mitsuharu Misawa started the tradition in the early 2000s by letting KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji do their own produce shows. This tradition has continued beyond the Misawa era with produce shows done by "Super Violent Army" and RATELS. These smaller shows are booked and planned by the wrestlers themselves, they plan everything from who is going to be on the card to how the matches will finish. It is a mark of Noah finally being able to get back on their feet that after the dark years, these things can come round again.

CARD 


Kenoh vs Chikhara
(This match was arranged after The Kongoh Produce, when after Sugiura had pinned Inamura, he told Kenoh that he was going to arrange a special match for him with a superstar, and put him at the start of the event, with someone who failed their Noah try out sixteen years ago and is making their first appearance. Chikhara is the grandson of Rikidozan.)

KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Kinya Okada vs Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura

Kaito Kiyomiya & Shuhei Taniguchi vs AXIZ (Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima)
(Junta Miyawaki was originally meant to team with Kaito Kiyomiya, but due to having a dislocated right shoulder, he has been pulled from Noah's remaining 2019 events, and the 4th January card).

RATELS Special 4way Survivor Match: HAYATA vs YO-HEY vs Tadasuke vs Daisuke Harada
(AKA, the traditional year end RATELS squabble)

Hajime Ohara 15th debut anniversary match: Hajime Ohara, Ultimo Dragon* & Shiro Koshinaka vs NOSAWA Rongai, MAZADA & FUJITA (aka Tokyo Gurentai) ((lit Tokyo Thugs))
(Ultimo Dragon was Hajime Ohara's teacher) 

Doctor Marufuji Jnr vs El Hijo de Dr Wagner Junior
(Doctor Marufuji Jnr is Naomichi Marufuji)

BATTLE OF THE TOUGHEST: Takashi Sugiura & Kazushi Sakuraba vs Kazuyuki Fujita & Hideki Suzuki

(FYI - there are four confirmed dog lovers on this card, Takashi Sugiura, Go Shiozaki, Kaito Kiyomiya and HAYATA).

FAQ

Will this show be televised?
The show will be\was streamed through Noah's official YouTube channel. You can go to the link here.

I am afraid that I don't know how long Noah will keep the show up for, so if you are reading this a few days\weeks after the event has aired, it might not be there. Noah are random in how long they keep their live events up, while everything else gets taken down in a matter of days and cut into individual matches, the RATELS produce went very quickly, but the Kongoh produce stayed up for a while.

Will there be a DVD\Blu-Ray release?
Noah currently have no distribution service.

Will I be able to buy merchandise?
Only if you go to the venue, produce merchandise is not put online.

Are any titles going to be defended?
Unlikely, titles are generally not defended at produce shows, although challenges have started to be made.

EVENT RECAP
POST MATCH INTERVIEWS

LINKS
"It has been a long road, but it has been good to persist" Rikidozan's grandson reports participation in Noah in front of the grace of his grandfather on the anniversary of his death
27th December 2019 - Naomichi Marufuji misses Sugiura Army Produce, instead the mysterious masked man "Doctor Marufuji Jnr"
"All Dogs Gather! Bark at Korakuen!" Sugiura Army Produce card 
"Who is the strongest guy in The Sugiura Army?"
Although unannounced home visit was a failure, finally a communication as Takashi Sugiura and The Beast Kazuyuki Fujita, crash in the main event.

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