(ALL JAPAN\NOAH) "Let's do it", Kiyomiya & Miyahara about Okada's 2020 All-Star Plan

4th February 2020
Tokyo Sports

The continuation of the dream...
On the 3rd, the Triple Crown heavyweight champion, Kento Miyahara (30) and Noah's Ace, Kaito Kiyomiya (23), attended the Setsubun ceremony on the 3rd at Ikegami Honmonji in Tokyo.
In response to the "2020 All Star" event proposed by New Japan's Kazuchika Okada (32), and calling for good luck while sowing beans, they shared their thoughts about the main wrestlers in the pro wrestling world.

On January 16th Okada advocated the All-Star event that would cross the boundaries of promotions on January 16th at the Tokyo Sports "2019 Wrestling Awards".
Based on the experience of winning MVP and Best Bout, he said about Kiyomiya and Miyahara "I guess it is interesting to have many people from other promotions, and I guess it might be an All-Star match. I think it would be interesting to be able to do professional wrestling with the younger generation, such as Miyahara or Kiyomiya, and hopefully it can be realized."

On the other hand, Miyahara, who is the face of a long established promotion said cautiously, "Personally I am very interested in it, but it does depend on the voices of the fans."
The background to this is the formative experience as wrestlers.
When he was just a young member of Kensuke Office, he experienced "ALL TOGETHER" which was the charity tournament for the Great East Japan Earthquake reconstruction support held by Tokyo Sports Newspaper, with wrestlers from three promotions of New Japan, All Japan and Noah.
"I remember that all the wrestlers were wonderful from their entrance. I think it would be interesting to do that in our generation now, and I want to do it. I would like to say to Okada and Kiyomiya, "lets do a fight that surpasses that".

Kiyomiya immediately answered, "I hope we can do it."
In February 2012, when the second "ALL TOGETHER" was held in Sendai, which was the last of the events, he was only 15 years old, and he had a dream of an all-star match. It was to be a tag between Keiji Muto and Mitsuharu Misawa, against Go Shiozaki and Hiroshi Tanahashi. "I want to experience such an exciting fight too."

Early, Kiyomiya is locked on Okada as his opponent, who he met at the award ceremony he attended for the second year running after winning the "Fighting Spirit Award".
"We only made small talk, but I got a good impression. I want to see Kazuchika Okada fighting before me,"

There is a good chance that for the aces of All Japan and Noah, talks will move forward and the opportunity for the actualization for the All Star will increase.

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