(NOAH) CARD ~ NOAH "NEW HOPE DAY 3", July 5th 2020

Noah hold their last empty arena show on the 5th July 2020 at the Chateau ABEMA Studios. The event will be broadcast free on ABEMA at 19:00 JST, and can be viewed here. You will be able to watch the replay for seven days afterwards should you not be able to watch live, and eventually it will be put up on WRESTLEUNIVERSE. 

The interesting thing about today's event is that out of a card of five matches, three of them have never taken place before. 

MATCH ONE

Rene Dupree vs Tadasuke

This is the first singles match between them, Rene Dupree is a sneaky heavyweight, and Tadasuke a sneaky junior. What Tadasuke will lose in height, he may not lose in power being one of the juniors who can fight as a heavyweight. 

Rene remember. Do not shake Tadasuke's hand. 

MATCH TWO

Yoshiki Inamura vs Kinya Okada

Yoshiki Inamura has had a few rivalries growing since his debut in 2018; Kaito Kiyomiya (who says he will be the wall that Inamura will never cross), Akira Hyodo (Big Japan, a same generation wrestler), and of course, Kinya Okada his classmate, who he calls "my rival". Okada who has come a long way from the difficulties of his delayed debut (and with added input from Katsuhiko Nakajima), will be looking for his first win. 

MATCH THREE

FULL THROTTLE (Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara) vs KONGOH (Nioh and Haoh)

A rivalry is starting in the junior warring states period, with this match taking place between the somewhat humorless Kongoh and the somewhat crazy FULL THROTTLE, as Atsushi Kotoge has decided he is the leader, much to Yoshioka's annoyance, and will do anything to make the others accept this, even if he has to force them. 

MATCH FOUR

Daisuke Harada vs Seiki Yoshioka

While this is not the first match between them, this will be their first singles match ever. Both are excited about it as it is something new, and for Harada a nice change from fighting STINGER. 

MATCH FIVE

Kaito Kiyomiya vs Daiki Inaba

This all started when Daiki Inaba came to Noah unannounced on the 31st May and got up on the apron to face off against Kaito Kiyomiya, who had just defeated Yoshiki Inamura. They faced off silently. Inaba later said that he came to Noah to see this "new scenery" of Kiyomiya's, and was going to change it to his own. Kiyomiya, naturally didn't take too well to this outsider saying this, and has vowed to swallow him up into it. It should also be noted that not only is Kiyomiya pursuing a further match against Keiji Mutoh, who he has sworn he will overcome, Inaba is Mutoh's pupil. This will be their first singles match after their tag match (they teamed together) in the closing days of W-1 in December 2019.

Picture credit: Noah.co.jp