(NOAH) THE GREEN GUIDE TO THE N-1 VICTORY 2020

EVENT DETAILS
The N-1 Victory is a heavyweight singles league, which has replaced Noah's "Global League" in 2019, and was won by Kenoh. The participants will compete in a tournament in two blocks for points, with the two highest scoring winners from both blocks facing off in the finals. The winner will both win the league, and automatically get a chance to challenge the GHC Heavyweight Champion for the title (at the time of writing this is Go Shiozaki). The Noah juniors have their own league, "Global Junior League". 

The GHC Heavyweight champion last year was Kaito Kiyomiya, who set a precedent by not appearing in the league, although naturally not being the champion he is taking part this year. 

SCORING
Win: 2 points
Draw: 1 point
Defeat: 0 points (wrestlers who cannot compete for whatever reason, even due to injury, will automatically lose against their opponents and receive 0 points for each match unable to be fought)

2020 PARTICIPANTS

Block A

Go Shiozaki

Kaito Kiyomiya (1st appearance)

Masa Kitamiya

Manabu Soya (1st appearance)

Masaaki Mochizuki

Kazushi Sakuraba (1st appearance) 

Block B

Kenoh

Naomichi Marufuji

Takashi Sugiura

Katsuhiko Nakajima

Shuhei Taniguchi

Yoshiki Inamura (1st appearance) 

DATES & MATCH SCHEDULES

The league will run from September 18th with the finals being held in October 4th at Korakuen Hall. The league champion will face the GHC Heavyweight Champion on the 11th October in Osaka at the Edion Arena No1 Stadium. 

Friday September 18th: Nagoya International Congress Centre, Aichi (18:30 JST)

A Block: Go Shiozaki vs Manabu Soya

A Block: Kaito Kiyomiya vs Masaaki Mochizuki

B Block: Kenoh vs Katsuhiko Nakajima

B Block: Takashi Sugiura vs Yoshiki Inamura

Sunday September 20th: New Sunpia Takasaki, Gunma (16:00 JST)

A Block: Masaaki Mochizuki vs Kazushi Sakuraba

A Block: Masa Kitamiya vs Manabu Soya

B Block: Takashi Sugiura vs Shuhei Taniguchi

B Block: Naomichi Marufuji vs Yoshiki Inamura

Tuesday September 22nd: Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (18:30 JST)

A Block: Go Shiozaki vs Kazushi Sakuraba

A Block: Kaito Kiyomiya vs Masa Kitamiya

B Block: Naomichi Marufuji vs Takashi Sugiura

B Block: Kenoh vs Shuhei Taniguchi

Wednesday September 23rd: Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (13:00 JST)

A Block: Kaito Kiyomiya vs Manabu Soya

A Block: Masa Kitamiya vs Kazushi Sakuraba

B Block: Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Shuhei Taniguchi

B Block: Kenoh vs Yoshiki Inamura

Saturday September 26th: Bandaijima Multipurpose Plaza Okama, Niigata (18:00 JST)

A Block: Go Shiozaki vs Masa Kitamiya

A Block: Masaaki Mochizuki vs Manabu Soya

B Block: Naomichi Marufuji vs Shuhei Taniguchi
B Block: Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Yoshiki Inamura

Sunday October 4th: Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (11:30 JST)

A Block: Go Shiozaki vs Kaito Kiyomiya

A Block: Masaaki Mochizuki vs Masa Kitamiya

A Block: Kazushi Sakuraba vs Manabu Soya

B Block: Naomichi Marufuji vs Katsuhiko Nakajima  

B Block: Takashi Sugiura vs Kenoh

B Block: Shuhei Taniguchi vs Yoshiki Inamura

Sunday October 11th: Osaka Edion Arena 1st Stadium

N-1 Victory championship match: The winner of Block A vs the winner of Block B

Noah will hold an online pre-event interview (as is traditional) with all participants on the 17th September at 7pm JST, this will be broadcast via their official YouTube channel

BROADCASTS

This will be updated as Noah announce broadcasts. If it is not here, it has not been announced. 

I am not sure whether ABEMA will be streaming their shows free and worldwide. 

Friday September 18th

~ Broadcast live at 18:30 JST on Samurai TV and WRESTLE-UNIVERSE

Sunday September 20th

~ Broadcast on WRESTLE-UNIVERSE (Fixed camera) 

Tuesday September 22nd
~ ABEMA live broadcast 18:30 JST 

Wednesday September 23rd (all shows start at 13.00)

~ WRESTLE-UNIVERSE live broadcast

~ FITE TV  live broadcast (FITE TV will have English commentary, and will be available to purchase for $14.99). You will not be able to watch the FITE broadcast through WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
~ The evening show starts at 18:30 JST and will be broadcast live on ABEMA 

Saturday September 26th

~ Broadcast on WRESTLE-UNIVERSE (Fixed camera) 

October 4th

~ ABEMA live broadcast 11:00 JST

October 11th

~ ABEMA live broadcast 3.30 JST

You can read a guide on how to watch Pro Wrestling Noah here. 

Picture credit: Noah.co.jp