(NOAH) Nagoya 24th February 2020 Special ~ GHC Tag Championship ~ Bison Smith & Akitoshi Saito vs Kensuke Sasaki & Takeshi Morishima (September 21st 2009)

The 13th June Tag title match was the first since the "Last Match" in Hiroshima; Kensuke & Morishima, "the belts do not sleep"
Saito: Thank you for the significance of this belt!

SEPTEMBER 21ST 2009: NAGOYA INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER
GHC TAG CHAMPIONSHIP ~ Bison Smith & Akitoshi Saito vs Kensuke Sasaki & Takeshi Morishima
(Bison & Saito's first defense)

※Photographs and article provided by Pro Wrestling Martial Arts DX

Kensuke & Morishima beat Bison & Saito and succeeded in crowning themselves for the first time in a first GHC Tag Championship match which were held since Misawa's "Last Match". The belts were entrusted to them by Saito who wept, he had defended the belt for about a year and four months. Kensuke & Morishima vowed to activate the tag front by "engraving it in the heart".

"The belts do not sleep" Kensuke & Morishima
First tag title match on 13th June, since President Misawa passed away. 

About three months had passed since 13th June in Hiroshima when President Misawa died, and to Saito who was still in shock, Kensuke and Morishma said, "the belts do not sleep."

From the beginning the match is an ebb and flow of offense and defense, as the super heavyweight bodies are prepared to bump into each other. If Kensuke and Morishima take it in turns to beat up on Bison, then the championship team relentlessly attack Morishima outside the ring alternately. In the closing stages of the match, the champions drove Morishima down in a combined iron claw slam, and the challengers retaliated with an avalanche style brainbuster\human bomb attack, none of them however took the three count. Furthermore, the lariat and the backdrops became jumbled together and ended with four people lying spread eagled on the mat, in a super exhausting match.

It was Bison's "Suicide Bomb" that won the match. To stop Morishima's dive attack, Bison set up an avalanche Frankensteiner, but Bison fell on his head and his movement slowed down. Nevertheless, he managed to slam Morishima with a series of iron claws, however, it took time to do due to the earlier damage.
As Bison was aiming for the Bisontennial, Kensuke aimed a lariat at the wild buffalo. Assisted by Morishima, he fired off a Northern Lights Bomb. Morishima rushed in with the lariat, and finally took the backdrop in 3 counts.

After the match, Bison could not be pulled to his feet easily due to the damager to his head. Asako, trainers and others rushed in, but when Kensuke and Morishima rose, all four embraced. It was the moment when the Tag Championship was freed from the "Hiroshima Curse".

SAITO: "Thank you for the significance of this belt"

After the match, Saito who was in tears, gave the belts to the new champions saying "thank you for the significance of this belt".
"Because of Hiroshima, the champion team who I was prepared for, was really strong. What that team has created is really amazing. I want to carve the last of Saito's microphone into my heart", Takeshi Morishma said.
Kensuke Sasaki took the microphone and said, "I want to keep up that momentum".

In other words, the "Revival of the tag front" is the ultimate proposition, more and more if their schedule matches. They will always do a title match when they team.
Morishima, who promised a high-speed defense said, "First its the memorial match for the president*. I will clash with Tenryu, and I would like to go to the Budokan with a belt".
Kensuke emphasized, "We are still in the hop stage of hop, step and jump. There is still much more to do. The goal is a to be more than a team than "The Hell Raisers"*

*Mitsuharu Misawa
*Road Warriors

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