(NOAH) EVENT RECAP ~ Global Junior League 2020. Yoka General Gymnasium, Yabu City, Hyōgo, January 19th (Aka "YO-HEY'S HOMECOMING")

Noah held the next stage of Global Junior League today in YO-HEY'S rural hometown, amongst a winter landscape of sparse conifer trees and countryside steel skies.
Naturally, as the local hero, YO-HEY was on autograph duty (he had also dyed half of his hair purple) and naturally there was a long line of fans to meet him. Wife (HAYATA) was put on fan club picture duty (as they tend to go and do everything together). Naomichi Marufuji (who was also doing the fan club pictures), termed YO-HEY "Mr. Peron"... not a reference to Eva Peron, rather a Japanese slang word that YO-HEY is well known for using, and has no direct translation into English (Metal-Noah says the best way to describe it would be like saying "No Sweat")

Inside the hall there were banners today mainly for YO-HEY, but also for HAYATA and RATELS, and although the event was only a small rural one (and not a Yokohama or Korakuen Hall), it speaks a lot for YO-HEY'S popularity with fans who couldn't go, saying that they wish they could have. Even "Weekly Pro" turned out for the occasion.

Sadly, despite all of this, I can only present results for today's show, and very scrape the barrel information.

MATCH ONE
Global Junior League 2020 (Block A)
NOSAWA Rongai vs Junta Miyawaki
WINNER: NOSAWA Rongai with the Shining Wizard (9 minutes, 23 seconds)

This is now the end of Junta Miyawaki's Global Junior League.

MATCH TWO
The Anti Wrestlers Alliance (Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue) vs THE TOUGH (Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura)
WINNER: Masa Kitamiya with the Saito Suplex on Masao Inoue (10 minutes, 54 seconds)

MATCH THREE
Quiet Storm vs El Hijo de Dr Wagner Jnr
WINNER: El Hijo de De Wagner Jnr with the Moonsault Press (8 minutes, 56 seconds)

MATCH FOUR
The Sugiura Army (Takashi Sugiura, Hajime Ohara & Kinya Okada) vs KONGOH (Kenoh, Haoh & Nioh)
WINNER: Kenoh with PFS on Kinya Okada (12 minutes, 40 seconds)

MATCH FIVE
Kaito Kiyomiya & RATELS (Daisuke Harada, Tadasuke & HAYATA) vs STINGER (Yoshinari Ogawa, Kotaro Suzuki, Atsushi Kotoge & Chris Ridgeway)
WINNER: Tadasuke with the 2PAC on Kotaro Suzuki (25 minutes, 55 seconds)

MATCH SIX
Global Junior League 2020 (Block C)
YO-HEY vs Hitoshi Kumano

On this occasion, Noah relaxed the paper tape ban, so there were lots of streamers for YO-HEY, who had a big smile for the hometown crowd (YO-HEY is evidently a lot kinder and happier to be back amongst the local people, than Kenoh is when Noah go to his "fucking countryside")

WINNER: YO-HEY with the Super Face G (13 minutes, 53 seconds)

MATCH SEVEN
AXIZ (Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima) & Minoru Tanaka vs Naomichi Marufuji, Shuhei Taniguchi & Mohammed Yone. 

Go Shiozaki came out wearing the green. I did originally think that he would wear this for title matches only, but I think he wears this for non AXIZ matches, three man tags etc.

Naomichi Marufuji and Minoru Tanaka got into a fight outside the ring, where they wielded tubular balloons at each other (Noah hand these to the fans), and Marufuji's popped first!

WINNER: Go Shiozaki with the Strong Arm Lariat on Mohammed Yone (17 minutes, 34 seconds)

YO-HEY got in the ring after the main event and addressed the crowd, and Shiozaki graciously, who was about to speak, handed the microphone to him. I am afraid I don't know what he said, but as this is YO-HEY, I am sure he is going to have a lot to say backstage.

ATTENDANCE: 407 (overcrowded)
WITH THANKS TO: ᔕ∀το, Evan Like, Saachan, Metal-Noah
PICTURE CREDIT: Noah GHC, PKDX
NOAH'S NEXT SHOW: Tuesday 21st January 2020