(NOAH)"I want you to bleed me dry", resolution of the 58 year old. Keiji Mutoh suddenly joins Noah

15th February 2021
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On February 15th, CyberFight Co., Ltd. held a meeting at the ABEMA Towers Seminar Room in Tokyo from 3pm and announced that Keiji Mutoh will join Pro Wrestling Noah and Jun Akiyama will join DDT Pro Wrestling as of today. Mutoh has a two-year contract and Akiyama has a one-year contract.

Mutoh made his debut in 1984 with New Japan Pro Wrestling. He served as the president of All Japan, which he transferred to in 2002, and launched a new promotion, WRESTLE-1 in 2013. When WRESTLE-1's activity was suspended last year, he has participated in Noah as a freelancer, and at the Nippon Budokan event held on February 12th he defeated Go Shiozaki and won the GHC Heavyweight Championship for the first time. He is now 58 years old.

At the press conference Mutoh said, "I don't know if I will decay in this ring, but now that I have signed the contract, I want this promotion to bleed me dry". Mutoh spoke the famous lines he had said when he joined All Japan. 

Akiyama made his debut in All Japan in 1992, and then transferred to Noah, which was newly launched in 2001. He returned to All Japan in 2013, and then went to DDT on a transfer in July of last year. His contract with All Japan expired at the end of last year, and he has been participating in DDT as a freelancer from this year. He is now 51 years old.

Sanshiro Takagi, the President of CyberFight said, "By joining the CyberFight group, these two, who can be said to be the treasures of the pro wrestling world, will be the driving force in aiming to become the number one in the pro wrestling world."

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