(NOAH) EVENT RECAP: ALL OUT ATTACK 2021 ~ NIGHT 2 (Saturday 22nd May, Yokohama Radiant Hall)

With a bigger show tomorrow in Niigata, Noah held a smaller, more junior dominated event, in Yokohama today. Attendance was good with a lot of fans coming out from the local area and Tokyo, but one person found that while he could buy a ticket this time, he wasn't allowed to watch while wearing a mask. This person was of course DDT'S Super Sasadango Machine, who turned up today, bought a ticket and then was told by Noah's Iron Lady who runs the Reception Desk, that in addition to not being allowed to wear a mask, Takashi Sugiura wasn't here today, and so what was his business? Sasadango said that he was a masked wrestler, he couldn't take off his mask, and neither could he wear a surgical mask (not even a free Misawa Memorial one that THE LEAVE had given people) because he would suffocate, and now that he knew that Sugiura wasn't here, there was little point in staying. Sasadango had read Sugiura's comments, and had taken to heart one comment where he said he was "allergic" to him, so kindly he had bought some anti allergy tablets, Allegra, which Kazushi Sakuraba did the advert for. Handing these over, and the noodles he had also bought, he left calling to the fans to be excited about "Noah, DDT and CyberFight Festival" before vanishing from the arena to applause. Ironically, he had been sitting in the same seat that Kendo Kashin took when stalking Kenoh. 

Today's event was broadcast live on WrestleUniverse. You will be able to view this only if you are a subscriber to the service. 

MATCH ONE

Yoshiki Inamura vs Kinya Okada

Noah's rookie ref found himself referring a easier than usual match, as it had two polite and non troublesome Noah born in it. It is unusual that two heavyweights would open the show, but today's card is not really a normal one, and fans felt that the match was wasted as an opener. Kinya Okada worked throughout the match to keep Yoshiki Inamura down, but Inamura had a surprise for both him and the fans by breaking out a new move.

WINNER: Yoshiki Inamura with a deformed Canadian Backbreaker  (9 minutes, 6 seconds)

MATCH TWO

Kotaro Suzuki & YO-HEY vs Kai Fujimura & Yasutaka Yano

Sepia unhappy YO-HEY. No colors, only black and white. No crazy lock ups, no smile, no colorful tongue. Nothing. 

Yano started off against his hero, Kotaro Suzuki, and did the flip move which Kotaro himself had once used. Cocky Fujimura, however, tried to knock Kotaro off of the apron. The ref only slightly managed to stop him getting in, after which Yano and Fujimura double teamed YO-HEY, which Kotaro did not see as a threat. The rookies were punished throughout the match with Kotaro and YO-HEY taking their frustrations out on them. 

WINNER: Kotaro Suzuki with a body elbow to Yasutaka Yano (10 minutes, 59 seconds)

MATCH THREE

Funky Express (Mohammed Yone, Shuhei Taniguchi & Masao Inoue) vs Kongoh (Haoh, Nioh & Tadasuke)

Tadasuke came to the ring today without his traditional red leather jacket, and wore only a Kongoh t-shirt, and Akitoshi Saito came out looking unhappy and thus proving that YO-HEY is not the only miserable person. 

Little Haoh started off against Big Yone, and quickly demonstrated that he hated Disco as much as everyone else. Despite the fact that Tadasuke is really the only one out of the three of them that could possibly go head to head with the heavyweights, The Kongoh Juniors did quite well against them, and at one point in the match, Haoh almost pinned Taniguchi. That was until they stopped to celebrate and Taniguchi obliterated Tadasuke and Nioh, which left Haoh alone with three heavyweights. He was taken out so thoroughly that the referee had to check on him as he wasn't moving. 

WINNER: Shuhei Taniguchi with the Funky Press on Haoh (15 minutes, 44 seconds)

The Kongoh Juniors had lost to Kongoh's current enemies, and Tadasuke was seen slapping the mat on losing. Akitoshi Saito watched them leave looking like he would have preferred to have been even on the losing team if it meant joining them. 

MATCH FOUR

Kaito Kiyomiya vs NOSAWA Rongai

NOSAWA, who had come to the ring flanked by an unsmiling YO-HEY and Kotaro Suzuki, actually started the match off in a civilized manner by offering a handshake, which Kaito Kiyomiya politely accepted. For once there was no funny business in it, but this being NOSAWA, the match wasn't going to stay civilized and after a period of actually wrestling, he rolled out of the ring and for a few moments took a seat in the crowd. YO-HEY was seen to be slightly squaring up to Kiyomiya. Kiyomiya got out of the ring and was smashed in the  by a massive chair shot by NOSAWA. The ref was furious as he gave NOSAWA a stern warning, even shoving him. 

In the ring, fans saw the very rare sight of Kaito Kiyomiya bleeding. And bleed he did, his face turned crimson and his body was covered in blood which stretched down to his legs, there was blood on the mat, on the referee, and when the fight went out of the ring and into the crowd, on seats. NOSAWA made it worse by gouging the wound. More foul play (as Giant Baba would have termed it) followed, with Kotaro distracting the ref and YO-HEY throwing NOSAWA a chair, following this the fight went into the crowd again and ended with a count out thanks to NOSAWA throwing chairs at Kiyomiya.  

WINNER: NOSAWA Rongai via count out (12 minutes, 55 seconds)

Kaito Kiyomiya erupted in a way that no one had ever seen before, or even thought he was capable of. He and Kenoh had their fights and their rivalry, and their shoving matches, but this was no longer meek and mild Kiyomiya. This was something else. No one had ever seen Kiyomiya actually throw the referee out of the ring, beat his friend Yoshiki Inamura down with two elbows and then a few stomps when he attempted to stop him from chasing NOSAWA (who had hightailed it backstage), and then return to rough the ref up and scruff the front of his shirt. As one fan put it, this was the "new side of Kiyomiya". Backstage, Kiyomiya said he didn't know if this was pro wrestling, and left screaming loudly. 

MATCH FIVE

Elimination match

Momo No Seishun (Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada, Hajime Ohara & Junta Miyawaki) vs STINGER (Yoshinari Ogawa, HAYATA, Yuya Susumu & Seiki Yoshioka)

Any other match between eight Noah juniors all in one ring would start off with the traditional division brawl, but elimination matches seem to be the best way to get them to behave. The first half of the match, until Atsushi Kotoge was eliminated by Yoshinari Ogawa at 29 minutes and 43 seconds, and Yuya Susumu was eliminated by Kotoge at 23 minutes and 40 seconds, was between the GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion, and his challenger. The second saw more of a fight over the GHC Junior Tag challenge. Fortunately NOSAWA didn't show his face and therefore there was no outside interference, but this was left to HAYATA who tripped Harada from the apron, and aside from this and the mass brawls which broke out at times, the match was generally free from the bonfire it could have become.

Hajime Ohara eliminated Seiki Yoshioka with the Tres Fleur (submission, 18 minutes, 39 seconds)

Atsusuhi Kotoge eliminated Yuya Susumu with the Killswitch (pinfall, 23 minutes, 40 seconds)

HAYATA eliminated Junta Miyawaki with the Cross Fix (pinfall, 27 minutes, 46 seconds)

Yoshinari Ogawa eliminated Atsushi Kotoge (over the top rope, 29 minutes, 43 seconds)

Yoshinari Ogawa and Daisuke Harada eliminated each other (36 minutes and 38 seconds)

HAYATA defeated Hajime Ohara with the 403 Impact (39 minutes, 57 seconds) 

Momo No Seishun gathered round Hajime Ohara, who had been run ragged by STINGER, Daisuke Harada holding an ice pack to the back of Ohara's neck. Yoshinari Ogawa, overjoyed that his team had won, went to help HAYATA up and STINGER basically celebrated by rubbing it in their opponents faces when their victory was announced and their arms raised. Fans noted how Ogawa trusts HAYATA, but the question remains, can he really trust him? Ogawa himself raised concerns about the relationship of the other three in STINGER that he could not share. Backstage, and using rare bad language for him, Ohara could only apologize for losing to STINGER for the second time, with Daisuke Harada repeating "Tomorrow...Tomorrow...Tomorrow". 

Attendance: 151 (full to capacity under the amount of tickets Noah are allowed to sell currently)

With thanks to: Gong-Ex, Tantaunwa, Abeshin, Kei

GIFS taken from WrestleUniverse & Noah Official YouTube.

Noah's next show: 23rd May 2021