(NOAH) Card ~ NOAH the SPIRIT 2020, Fuji San Messe (Night 2, 22nd March 2020)

Noah will be heading into the shadow of Mount Fuji on their second night of the small tour. The venue is beautiful, especially on a spring day when the skies are a cornflower blue and you can see the sacred mountain towering above. Let's hope that Noah get the same picturesque view as last time.

There will be no fan club session due to the Coronavirus precautions as Noah need to sensibly keep their roster free of any possible contagion and also not put the fans at risk, but Naomichi Marufuji will be on autographs. Please read Noah's guidance on attending shows during this time, and their guidance on keeping everyone safe if you are planning to attend. Please do not attend the event if you are feeling unwell and\or have a sore throat, dry cough, body aches or running a temperature.

Doors open at 4.15 with the event starting at 5pm. All times are in JST.
Event has not been announced to be televised or streamed.

MATCH ONE
YO-HEY vs Kinya Okada

MATCH TWO
Mohammed Yone & Shuhei Taniguchi vs The Anti Wrestlers Alliance (Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue)

Taniguchi seems to like dancing, but I'm not sure that he appreciates disco dancing...

MATCH THREE
The Sugiura Army (Takashi Sugiura, Hideki Sekine Shrek, Hajime Ohara & NOSAWA Rongai) vs Kongoh (Kenoh, Masa Kitamiya, Haoh and Nioh)

Hideki Sekine Shrek makes his debut today both in Noah and The Sugiura Army, out of all his opponents it is probably Masa Kitamiya who will be able to match body size, but ultimately it's Haoh I feel sorry for, but as I always maintain Haoh can use his speed to his advantage.

MATCH FOUR
Kaito Kiyomiya vs Yoshiki Inamura

Noah have called this the "New generation hope single match", the last took place in Yamagata in December 2019, "this is a mortal combat as they stand across from each other with the image of further development".

This is another step in the growing rivalry that Noah are building between the two Noah born heavyweights. Yoshiki Inamura has had his first singles win, but outside of Noah, he will be looking for a big one in it.

MATCH FIVE
STINGER (Yoshinari Ogawa, Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Kotoge) vs RATELS (Daisuke Harada, Tadasuke & HAYATA)

I think if HAYATA looks back over the last few months all he is going to remember is being tortured by STINGER, first his knee and now his ribs. Yesterday's match was stopped because of the sustained attack by STINGER, and YO-HEY will only be at ringside, not in the match today.

Daisuke Harada, however, will have his cold eyes firmly on Ogawa in today's match.

MATCH SIX
AXIZ (Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima) vs Naomichi Marufuji & Minoru Tanaka

With Takashi Sugiura elsewhere on the card and Kazuyuki Fujita absent, there is no pre-match tonight for either Go Shiozaki or Minoru Tanaka, and with no Hitoshi Kumano, its just AXIZ, and it's been a long time since it was just them.

Picture credit: Noah.co.jp