(NOAH CHRONOLOGY) GHC JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT TAG CHAMPIONSHIP: STINGER (SEIKI YOSHIOKA & YUYA SUSUMU)
Number of title reigns (as a team): 0
Number of defenses: 1
Lost: N-1 VICTORY 2021 Night 1 (12th September 2021)
Total number of days held: 43
Challengers
1. Kongoh Juniors (Tadasuke & Aleja)
2. Atsushi Kotoge & Hajime Ohara
VS KONGOH JUNIORS (TADASUKE & ALEJA)
15th August 2021, Kultz Kawasaki (Kawasaki Go!)
In usual manic style, Tadasuke made the challenge on behalf of himself and his new toy, Aleja, (who Tadasuke is staring in wonder at), following Aleja pinning Seiki Yoshioka on the first night of Noah's "DEPARTURE" shows on the 6th August at Korakuen Hall.
He told the GHC Junior Tag Champions that...
"Hey! Junior Tag Champions! Which one of you is Yoshioka, and which one of you is Susumu? We are more suitable for the belts than handsome guys like you with no personality! This is a challenge statement!"
There was never meant to be a pre match before the title match, but this changed rapidly due to YO-HEY developing a fever soon after the event had finished and the card being changed for night two (6th August), and so STINGER stalked out from the perpetual shadows they live in, with Seiki Yoshioka looking darkly angry to start the match against the one who pinned him last time, Aleja. The match very much focused on this rivalry, with HAYATA working to keep out the others and Tadasuke (winding up by manically headbanging in the corner) making out that he doesn't know the difference between Yoshioka and Susumu, his jets were cooled by Yoshioka however, who pinned him with the Crash Driver. As this is the Noah Juniors there had to be a situation where six people in the ring squared up to each other, the tag champions held their belts up to Kongoh with Aleja and Yoshioka getting in each others faces, a fight threatened to break out when Yoshioka shoved his belt at him. After the match Tadasuke posted a picture of the finish, and said he didn't know who it was doing this to him as he still couldn't tell the difference between them. As the match had ended with Tadasuke getting the Crash Driver, and Aleja held in a submission by Susumu, Susumu said that he wanted the challengers to burn this image into their minds.
Title match
Tadasuke made his traditional ABEMA camera spot, adjusting his glasses and talking about Aleja as STINGER made their entry. Seiki Yoshioka had a wild look in his eyes (I swear they almost turn red), his rope break on Aleja was full of contempt as he pushed him away roughly.
Tadasuke motioned throughout the match about Aleja in the manner of "This guy...this fuckin' guy..." , and who can blame him? Kuniko Yamada certainly couldn't as she joined in the applause for him, and then there was the moment when Aleja saved Tadasuke by going over Yoshioka and not under him when Yuya Susumu had Tadasuke in the second submission and Yoshioka was trying to keep him out of the ring. Tadasuke, however, was naturally growing wilder and wilder, the more the excitement and the momentum took him as the match progressed. Even using sneak movements like making the ref think that Yoshioka was up to something, and then knocking Yoshioka down when he was distracted. While Tadasuke when he goes wild rides the momentum, Headbanging Tadasuke is a sign of his peak manic level, which means although it is powerfully enhanced (his heavyweight strength meant he had no difficulty in holding Susumu up for a while, and then throwing the much lighter Aleja afterwards and using a clever assist in lariating Yoshioka who had Aleja ready for the Crash Driver, which reversed the move and meant Aleja almost got the pin), it usually gives his opponents time to recover as he wastes time showboating to the crowd.
WINNER: Yuya Susumu with the Cross Face Lock on Tadasuke (18 minutes, 54 seconds)
Tadasuke said his dreams of holding a title (he has held one, but for a very short period of time), were not over and he would be back.
VS ATSUSHI KOTOGE & HAJIME OHARA
12th September 2021, Korakuen Hall
After Yuya Susumu was defeated with the Finnish Forearm by Hajime Ohara on the 3rd September (Yokohama Radiant Halls, "Noah Junior Yokohama Ovation"), Atsushi Kotoge challenged for the titles on behalf of himself and Ohara;
"Ohara, we won. That means...Susumu! Yoshioka! Ohara, you and I, let's challenge for that junior tag belt. If we take it, hot hot hot! We will liven up the junior fight!"
In usual style, STINGER made no comment and simply held up the belts. Backstage they were a little more talkative, saying they would accept the challenge, even though their opponents had no chance in taking the belts. Susumu wondered on his official Twitter if the opponents even knew what day it was they were asking on (it was Yoshinari Ogawa's 36th debut anniversary), but he did admit, he liked that kind of big talk. Title match will take place at Korakuen Hall on the on the 12th September.
"A new season"
Atsushi Kotoge
As soon as STINGER emerged from the shadows at Shinjuku FACE on the 6th September, (shadows which somehow seemed to follow them as the venue was kind of dimmed even more for their entry), there was a square up between the tag champions and their challengers. Daisuke Harada probably knew not to get too close to HAYATA. As this is a Noah Junior match, it escalated into chaos quickly with Yuya Susumu sucker punching the opposition (especially Kotoge) and this triggered a mass brawl between both teams. After this they settled down, but there was the feeling that someone had set a pan of water to boil and it was going to erupt any moment. This chaos was counterproductive however and both teams realized they needed to watch how far it went as it cost the challenger team the win at one point as the ref couldn't count down a pin that would have won Kotoge the match as he was dealing with Ohara, and this gave STINGER the opportunity to turn the tide.
Daisuke Harada naturally wanted HAYATA. HAYATA was not going to give Harada what he wanted for long, and soon tagged Seiki Yoshioka in. When he was in the ring (albeit the focus was on the tag champions and their challengers), HAYATA was even more coldly sadistic than ever. Harada once said that HAYATA going over to STINGER turned him into someone he didn't know, this must have been a stranger then to Harada who has had countless battles with HAYATA since. Even by Noah Junior matches this was a hard, fast and chaotic match with STINGER making lightning fast attacks on opponents, striking hard and fast and looking like a bolt of static energy in the night sky.
WINNER: Yuya Susumu with the Cross Face Lock on Hajime Ohara (21 minutes, 6 seconds)
After the winning team had their arms raised (the ref having to call HAYATA over), the usual chaos broke out when Susumu spoke on the microphone to bait his opponents;
"Fucking challengers. You challenge by casually teaming up just because you happened to win? Don't be stupid. Hot Noah Junior, Kotoge? What is hot? Your fire has gone out. Is it originating from your challenge? I don't have any transmission. What is the new Noah Junior? Don't show me the unfinished thing!"
A shoving match broke out, and then after further provocation Kotoge attacked Susumu and the traditional Noah Junior mass brawl broke out. After it had been broken up, Kotoge was seen lying on his back and banging his feet on the apron. Backstage, Susumu said he didn't think a title match was worth it and wouldn't even be bringing his belt to the title match. Later Kotoge said that it was rare for people who had been fighting them to have to bring a microphone into it afterwards, was Susumu trying to create heat? Susumu later retracted his stance of not giving them a title match. He could not resist one last chance to be sarcastic by telling Kotoge that his interview (see the link at the bottom of the page), moved him so much that he was going to grant them a shot.
Title match
Hajime Ohara and Atsushi Kotoge came out somewhat manically, with Daisuke Harada and Junta Miyawaki at ringside to give support. So hyper where they that at one point it looked like Ohara fell over Kotoge. There was no such joy from STINGER, who in contrast to the blue skies, joy and rainbows that their opponents radiated, looked as if they had emerged from a cave in the underworld to look wearily at them. Seiki Yoshioka in particular was not amused by Ohara's wiggling...
Very fast paced match with Hajime Ohara bringing out new submissions, and Yuya Susumu applying everything he could to Ohara to wear him down. Ohara doesn't have the sadistic or malicious edge that Susumu does, although he matches him as a technician. STINGER were determined to end the match quickly, but it was a match full of near falls and pin breaks, swinging between both STINGER and their opponents quickly. Each time it looked like it was over, it started up again with Kotoge wrestling on pure momentum until he decided to pull out the finisher as his last resort.
WINNER: Atsushi Kotoge with the Killswitch on Seiki Yoshioka (15 minutes, 10 seconds)
Next Champions: Hajime Ohara & Atsushi Kotoge
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