(NOAH) CARD: NOAH the Best Final Chronicle 2020 (6TH December, Yoyogi 2nd Gymnasium, Tokyo)
ABEMA will be a free worldwide broadcast, and will start the show from 2.30pm JST (event begins at 3pm, with the doors opening at 1.30). Kenta Kobashi (who is very excited about seeing Go Shiozaki's defense against Takashi Sugiura, and in any case loves the excitement of big events) will be the special guest commentator, alongside M's Alliance member, Jurina Matsui. Please note that while this broadcast is free, the commentary will naturally be in Japanese. You will be able to view the event for seven days after broadcast, after that it will be placed on WRESTLEUNIVERSE, which you will need a subscription to in order to be able to view.
FITE will be the English language version of the event, with Mohammed Yone joining the team as a guest commentator during the show. You can purchase this for $19.99, which includes unlimited replays. The PPV will not be available to purchase in Japan.
Noah have also announced they will be making a major announcement; fans are predicting this will either be an announcement of Noah running the Budokan, or an event at The Tokyo Dome, or else some other large venue. Fans have also had an announcement of their own, no matter who wins in the main event, they will light up the arena with green lights to celebrate Noah's 20th anniversary and the fact that who in the end says "I am Noah", WE are ALL Noah.
MATCH ONE
Kinya Okada vs Yasutaka Yano
Just like Go Shiozaki before him, Yasutaka Yano (who is kind of growing up in Noah on the fringes of the big arena era, if not exactly the stadium era that Shiozaki knew), finds himself wrestling in a big venue in the first few months of his career. To Shiozaki in the same position, this was normal as Noah were running the Tokyo Dome and The Budokan etc back then on a regular basis, for Yano this is a special event which is the difference as Noah no longer run those venues or anything approaching their size habitually anymore.
MATCH TWO
Momo No Seishun (Daisuke Harada, Atsushi Kotoge & Junta Miyawaki) vs The Kongoh Juniors (Tadasuke, Haoh and Nioh)
Daisuke Harada and Tadasuke take the final pre-match before their title match in Nagoya on the 19th December to a big stage. Not only will this be their final chance to even the scores with each other, but as it is being done on a major show, fans are predicting that something big is going to happen.
MATCH THREE
FULL THROTTLE (Hajime Ohara, YO-HEY & Seiki Yoshioka) vs Kongoh (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya & Masa Kitamiya)
YO-HEY joked that since this is such a heavyweight match for him and his team, he would best off worrying about what his hair color was. This is a bit of an odd match as these six don't really have any reason to be in the ring together, so it may be that we see a FULL THROTTLE GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Title challenge, or else one of the Kongoh heavyweights challenge the winner of the GHC Heavyweight or the GHC National for the title.
MATCH FOUR
GHC JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT TAG CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
Kotaro Suzuki was the only person to turn up at the match signing yesterday. STINGER claimed they couldn't attend as they were in a "traffic jam", with oddly, Oriente also claiming that he was likewise delayed due to traffic. During the press conference, Kotaro used his phrase, "Ogawa magic", which refers to the mind games that Ogawa can play to get people do to his bidding, which Kotaro may well find, Oriente has been affected by.
NOSAWA Rongai did warn Kotaro that he was going to regret not teaming with him when he offered, is he going to be proved right? Whatever happens, Kotaro is not finished with STINGER just yet, taking the belts is not enough, he wants to destroy them completely and no one can irritate Ogawa like Kotaro can. Simply put, Ogawa created a monster, and a monster who knows him far too well.
MATCH FIVE
GHC NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Kenoh defends the National Championship against Kazushi Sakuraba, who is the latest person to wind Kenoh up. Sakuraba hasn't actually done this by trash talking or underhand tactics, his easy going demeanor has irritated Kenoh (who is easily irritated, especially by people who seem to have the capacity to enjoy themselves), who not only branded him (and Takashi Sugiura) an "old man who gets drunk in an Izakaya" but has loudly asked just where the Sakuraba who was "intense" and had a "blood lust from the PRIDE ERA", had gone. Kenoh became so wound up by the fact that Sakuraba dares smile (Kenoh refers to this as "fucking around") and the fact that he thinks he "deliberately turned the microphone off" to respond to him after Kenoh was yelling at him at Korakuen Hall after a pre-match, that he actually attacked him during the press conference.
Both Kenoh and Kazushi Sakuraba have a very similar martial arts background as Kenoh has Nippon Kempo, which is very similar to Sakuraba's MMA, so much so that Kenoh said Sakuraba pulled out moves that he (a teacher, a national champion, and co director of an academy) didn't know.
Expect a match very different, but no less intense than Kenoh's last title match (against Kaito Kiyomiya), with Sakuraba fighting to become a double champion, and Kenoh fighting to defend the belt which he wants to show to Jinsei Shinzaki (his teacher), at the Kongoh produce later in the month.
MATCH SIX
The M's Alliance (Naomichi Marufuji, Keiji Mutoh, Masakatsu Funaki & Yuko Miyamoto) vs Kaito Kiyomiya, Shuhei Taniguchi, Daiki Inaba & Yoshiki Inamura
A strategically placed match to break the tension between the two intense title matches which will see the veteran team of the M's Alliance take on an (except for Shuhei Taniguchi), much younger team. Kaito Kiyomiya says that he is looking forward to fighting Mutoh again, but his interest has been peaked by the possibility of fighting Masakatsu Funaki.
The last time he was at Yoyogi, twenty-five year old Naomichi Marufuji was in the main event as he and KENTA were the GHC Junior Heavyweight tag champions, and he himself was the Noah Hardcore champion (believe me, this has nothing to do with barbed wire or light tubes).
MATCH SEVEN
GHC HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
Go Shiozaki defends the GHC Heavyweight against Takashi Sugiura. Sugiura vs Shiozaki is a unique match up in Noah as it not only combines a junior wanting to overcome his senior, but it also incorporates a senior being jealous of a junior. Sugiura has been with Noah since the beginning, and has watched all the young boys grow up (for example he has known both Marufuji and Kiyomiya since they were teenagers, and Shiozaki since he entered Noah at the age of 21), and so has claim to the saying "I AM NOAH", which he has told Shiozaki that he can say to him when Sugiura is victorious. For Go Shiozaki, Sugiura is the ideal opponent and he had been waiting for him to challenge. Expect a classic "Golden Era" match to close Noah's 20th anniversary year, and to usher in the anniversary of Takashi Sugiura's eventful twenty years in wrestling, no matter whether he wins or loses.
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