(NOAH) Manabu Soya, Yoshioka Seiki move towards championships...the Noah mat is turbulent, even in empty arena matches.

ABEMA Times\Yahoo.co.jp

23rd April 2020

Currently, the empty area match in professional wrestling is an "alternative measure" when normal entertainment is impossible. However, drama is born when fighting continues in such a situation, and it is not enough to simply have a match. There are many promotions that are holding title matches during the empty audience era, and Pro Wrestling Noah is one of them.

The annual Global Tag League event was held with no spectators in all matches. The winning team of El Hijo De Dr Wagner Jnr and Rene Dupree, immediately challenged for the GHC Tag Championship, with the main event being broadcast online on the 19th.
From the technical side, the veteran team of Naomichi Marufuji & Masaaki Mochizuki, was better, but the challengers also showed a powerful counterattack, with El Hijo De Dr Wagner Jnr taking the fall from Mochizuki via Moonsault Press. Although this is a one shot moonsault, it seems that it does a large amount of damage because it looks as if his head crashes into the opponent's face. After the match, Mochizuki said, "Don't do a lot of wrestling". Marufuji also recalls the defeat as, "it was difficult for me to convey it." After taking the championship from winning the league, the foreign duo "The Sugiura Army International", immediately jumped to the top of the tag front. Although it was an empty audience arena, the scene was seen by many fans on the broadcast.

There has also been a new shift on the singles front.
Manabu Soya appeared as a the new member of the unit "Kongoh" led by Kenoh. After winning the 12 man tag against Noah members with a lariat, he and Go Shiozaki, the GHC Heavyweight Champion, stared at each other.
Soya was a top WRESTLE-1 wrestler, but after the promotions activity ceased, he asked Noah if he could have a new place. Based on his achievements, he may well be one of Shiozaki's rivals.

Seiki Yoshioka entered Noah's junior heavyweight division from WRESTLE-1. Yoshioka, who teamed up with Hajime Ohara to challenge for the GHC Junior Tag Championship, lost to HAYATA & YO-HEY, but proved to be a strong wrestler with a fast paced attack and defense. YO-HEY also welcomed the shift to activate the Noah Jnrs saying, "No matter how you look at it, he is a strong enemy".

The next challengers for the tag, are likely to be Kotaro Suzuki and Yoshinari Ogawa, who had fought each other for the GHC Junior Championship that day.
Suzuki became the new champion by beating the tag partner he had betrayed. However, Ogawa's ability was recognized by Suzuki, and bowing to him with the belt, Suzuki appealed to form another tag and unite for the tag challenge.

After looking at what happened in these matches, you can state that things were turbulent in just one event.

Noah is currently cancelling their May shows. However, the action in the ring does not stop, and will be the power to restart the box office.

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