(NOAH CHRONOLOGY) MochiMaru (Naomichi Marufuji & Masaaki Mochizuki) ~ GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
Number of title reigns: Naomichi Marufuji (7) Masaaki Mochizuki (0)
Number of defenses: 2
Lost: April 19th, "Noah The Chronicle" 19th April 2020, Tokyo
Total number of days held: 107 days
Challengers
1. Takashi Yoshida & Diamante
2. The winners of Global Tag League 2020: The Sugiura Army International (El Hijo De Dr Wagner Jnr & Renee Dupree)
Chronology
Prior to "HIGHER GROUND 2020" starting, Naomichi Marufuji announced that he was going to have minor surgery done on his right knee, to remove some calcified bone. He had said that he had gotten caught up in his personal life and life in the ring to have it done before now, and he had found a way to "fix" it, but now it had gone past that point and he needed surgery. So, with Marufuji out of action, it fell to Masaaki Mochizuki to handle any title challenges, and it happened for the very first time ever in DragonGate on February 8th at Korakuen Hall.
Mochizuki came to the ring, and made an open challenge. He said he had been given permission by both Marufuji and Noah to do this. The challenge was answered by Takashi Yoshida and Diamante of the renegade faction R.E.D. Yoshida told Mochizuki that the GHC Heavyweight tag titles would look better on themselves, they were "big and cool", whereas Mochizuki was a puny old man, and they would take the belts and go to Noah. The title match was held on March 5th at Korakuen Hall, in DragonGate.
Vs The Sugiura Army International (El Hijo De Dr Wagner Jr & Rene Dupree)
MochiMaru then left their seats and got into the ring. Now, when Marufuji gets the Noah microphones something always seems to go wrong, and whatever he said first couldn't be heard.
El Hijo De Dr Wagner Jnr held up his hand, unfurled three fingers one at a time, and told Marufuji that he could either speak in "Spanish, Japanese or English", and put one hand behind his ear in anticipation.
Marufuji (although he knows more English than he likes to let on), spoke in Japanese and said that they won the league, but they would defend the belts. Mochizuki said that he could only speak Japanese, and that they would not lose twice in a row to the same opponents.
The champions remained in the ring, while the winners left with their trophies (Dupree said later that he wanted a Sapporo beer), and MochiMaru addressed the people at home. Marufuji spoke and said that although they had lost the league, they were still aiming for "Best Tag 2020" at the Tokyo Sports Awards in January 2021.
Naomichi Marufuji got into the ring, squared up to Rene Dupree and did the "I'm watching you" gesture, so Dupree went to tweak his nose. Marufuji managed to move just in time, but during the match he tweaked his nose before chopping him!
Dupree again used his height to good advantage in the lock up by holding his arm in the air and making Masaaki Mochizuki jump for it (and Mochi is 5'9), in the end Mochi bought him down by kicking him.
Mochimaru worked again on El Hijo de Dr Wagner Jnr's knee that he had injured during Global Tag League, El Hijo De Dr Wagner Jnr found that when he couldn't use anything else, he used his head. His head also came into use in the early stages of the match, when he clamped his teeth down on Marufuji's fingers.
The champion team worked hard to keep Dupree and Wagner apart, Dupree outside the ring and Wagner having his knee attacked in it (or outside on the barrier at one point, another barrier moment was when Marufuji went for a dive and ended up upside down on it).
However, the night ultimately belonged to the team of the Mexican and the Canadian wrestlers, who as El Hijo De Dr Wagner Jnr put it, "had the balls to win Global Tag League" and would bring a "tornado to Noah", when El Hijo De Dr Wagner Jnr pinned Mochizuki following a moonsault.
NEXT CHAMPIONS: The Sugiura Army International (El Hijo De Dr Wagner Jnr & Rene Dupree)
LINKS
Mochizuki Raises! DragonGate's first GHC Tag challenge
Mochizuki & Marufuji on The Golden Ace "Pro Wrestling Award, Best Tag" will not be given up"
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