(NOAH) CHRONOLOGY: Kaito Kiyomiya & Masa Kitamiya - GHC Heavyweight Tag Championship
Number of title reigns: As a team 0, Kaito Kiyomiya 2, Masa Kitamiya 5
Number of defenses: 0
Lost: WRESTLE UNIVERSE presents DEMOLITION STAGE 2021 in YOKOHAMA - Saturday November 13th, Yokohama Budokan
Total number of days held: 115 days
Challengers
1. The M's alliance (Naomichi Marufuji & Keiji Mutoh)
VS The M's alliance (Naomichi Marufuji & Keiji Mutoh)
WRESTLE UNIVERSE presents DEMOLITION STAGE 2021 in YOKOHAMA, Yokohama Budokan, Saturday, November 13, 2021
Kaito Kiyomiya, Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba vs The M's alliance (Keiji Mutoh, Naomichi Marufuji & Masaaki Mochizuki)
This was a story of generations versus generations, and the separate stories which link Daiki Inaba, Kaito Kiyomiya, Masa Kitamiya and Naomichi Marufuji to Keiji Mutoh in particular. The most enduring story was Kaito Kiyomiya and Keiji Mutoh, and so they started the match with Mutoh taking the young man down to the mat. More than anyone else perhaps, Kiyomiya was more eager than anyone to fight his seniors. He took almost an elemental delight in locking Mutoh in the Figure 4. By the end of their bout, Mutoh looked as if he didn't quite recognize this young man as the idealistic boy he had known. Kiyomiya even went as far in mocking The Shining Wizard, which is a definite break from the polite boy he was when it came to his seniors, and the darker more jaded person he was now. This was too much for Mutoh, and he showed him exactly how it was done, and afterwards what he was going to do.
WINNER: Keiji Mutoh with the Shining Wizard on Daiki Inaba (21 minutes, 7 seconds)
Mutoh then called for the microphone and addressed the three who were staggering off, supporting Inaba;
"You two seem to be the GHC Tag Team Champions!? Can Marufuji and I come to take the belts?"
Kiyomiya (leaving Inaba on the floor, where they dumped him) scrambled into the ring and accepted by saying that his wish had come true. This was a more confident and more angry, and more rude Kiyomiya. For Naomichi Marufuji, the chance to team with, challenge for belts and be champion with Keiji Mutoh, was a dream come true.
3rd November 2021, Yokohama Radiant Halls
Noah ran a mystery card event, of which the main was the first pre match between Naomichi Marufuji and Kaito Kiyomiya. Kiyomiya, unlike his last match or really any matches before that since July, actually came to the ring carrying the belt, which he tapped and then shoved in Naomichi Marufuji's face in a style that was very like Kenoh.
The match was almost over as soon as it had begun, which would have been humiliating for Kiyomiya. Marufuji struck a high knee on Kiyomiya's chin and went for the pin, Kiyomiya kicked out and rolled out of the ring. It got to the count of 19 before Kiyomiya got back in, and Marufuji had already been celebrating. After this, Kiyomiya's wrestling was wild eyed and angry, in a way its almost as if he is rebelling against himself and the sweet summer child dreams he had before. Marufuji kept him in a lock for a while, but when released and therefore getting the upper hand later, Kiyomiya was screaming like a demon. Quick pins and the crowd gasping at Marufuji's hook kick, but it was Kiyomiya who managed to grab the momentum.
WINNER: Kaito Kiyomiya with the backwards pin (17 minutes, 49 seconds)
The fans let out something between a cry and a gasp at this upset. Kiyomiya, with an almost elemental look in his eyes, stared Marufuji down and indicated the win on his fingers. Humiliated by the loss and the belt being shoved in his face for the second time, Marufuji snatched a Kiyomiya sign from a fan and went to break it over his knee. Fortunately he got no further as someone made a screaming noise (probably the owner of the sign) and he gave it back. Kiyomiya saw him out of the arena by standing on the turnbuckle and holding the belt up. Backstage Marufuji wrote on his Twitter a warning message to the "young people" he was facing; he was in good condition, and this was "to be continued". He wrote "to be continued" a few times as if to underscore the matter. While Marufuji sulked, Kaito Kiyomiya spoke on the microphone and closed out the event;
"Noah keeps progressing. What is the hot topic this year? Keiji Mutoh and Naomichi Marufuji...it shouldn't be like this. We have to go! At the GHC tag on the 13th November at the Yokohama Budokan, we will protect the belt from those two, and Kitamiya and I will go to the core of this ring"
10th November, Korakuen Hall
Final pre-match
Kaito Kiyomiya, Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba vs The M's alliance (Keiji Mutoh, Naomichi Marufuji & Masato Tanaka
Kaito Kiyomiya came to the ring with a completely different vibe to his partners; to Daiki Inaba this was a match to win against some seniors, Masa Kitamiya is generally angry usually, but Kiyomiya's vibe was dark and almost malicious. Before the match, Naomichi Marufuji had commented that he was going to pay back Kiyomiya for pinning him in Yokohama, but he might just concentrate on his "bearded partner". Kitamiya got in the ring, looked at Marufuji and stroked his chin.
Kiyomiya and his first nemesis, Keiji Mutoh started the match. Mutoh may move stiffly these days, but he is still capable of moving quickly, and Daiki Inaba (who has his own issues with Mutoh from the W-1 days) found that his jaw had become a target. Marufuji did get to concentrate on Kiyomiya's "bearded partner" and found that he was no selling his kick combination, Kitamiya hit the floor only to bounce back up. More than Mutoh and Kiyomiya, which is kind of the secondary story here, the feud over the belts is more between Kiyomiya and Marufuji and when they want to war the fans clapped along with each chop and each elbow, it ended with Marufuji doing something that Ogawa would be proud of, an eye rake. This was going to be the least of anyone's problems.
WINNER: Naomichi Marufuji with the Osu Suplex Hold on Kaito Kiyomiya (20 minutes)
Kaito Kiyomiya was furious, and followed the ref around the ring complaining, but it was no good. The referees decision was final, the count was three and the match was over. Kiyomiya's face twisted into total rage.
Mutoh dug his fingers in by making belt motions, something the watching Masato Tanaka seemed to be joining in with. Kiyomiya said something like "Never!" as the two teams faced off, and as Mutoh made three count pin motions, Kiyomiya stormed off angrily and flung the curtain open to get backstage. Marufuji spoke on the microphone;
"Kaito Kiyomiya and Masa Kitamiya are wonderful champions, but hasn't the history of tag teams been neglected? Only singles get featured, but people who have had great tags have worn the belts! I have been watching Noah's history for a long time, and I want to give back to Noah with the tag belts! Mutoh and I may have different thoughts and feelings, but we both have the desire to win the belts. I want to make history by capturing them in Yokohama with Mutoh."
Naomichi Marufuji later spoke more on history. The pin he had used, the Osu Suplex, was a move he hadn't used for years (it was used originally by Mighty Inoue) and the type of Shiranui he had done in the match was a form he had used in a singles match with Kenta Kobashi a long time ago. For Marufuji, this title challenge is another one of those Mutoh dreams which had characterized Mutoh's title reign, for Kaito Kiyomiya if there is any history, then it's a dark and threatening one.
Title match
WRESTLE UNIVERSE presents DEMOLITION STAGE 2021 in YOKOHAMA - Saturday November 13th, Yokohama Budokan
For Kaito Kiyomiya there were two walls to climb here; Naomichi Marufuji, who he had overcome before, and his greatest rival, Keiji Mutoh. It's no wonder that Kiyomiya has ditched the brown hair for black, which makes him look even more of a contrast to his earlier lighter self. Kiyomiya is no longer a dreamy young man who had summer dreams of a new view, he's now a young man who fights for his place. The time of dreaming is over, today was reality.
The match started with Kiyomiya and Mutoh, Kiyomiya managing to knock Mutoh down outside the ring and then raising his arms in despair when Mutoh tagged in Marufuji, unfortunately for Kiyomiya he has never realized that most of the time Mutoh was putting on his old man act that worked so well in wearing him down. Marufuji wasn't interested in Kiyomiya during the first tag exchange (not for the moment at least) and he tagged in Masa Kitamiya. As Mutoh would later admit, his knees were a target and with very Ogawa like mannerisms, Kiyomiya put Mutoh in the Figure Four. The difference is that whereas Ogawa is usually controlled (unless he spies Kotaro), he has a wildness to him that Ogawa does not. Marufuji understood this about Kiyomiya and took pleasure in goading him into losing his head, which meant that the challengers could capitalize. Kitamiya also targeted Mutoh's knees, and put him in the Prison Lock. Marufuji interrupted this by kicking him in the face. Kitamiya is not the easiest person to knock down with kicks, and Marufuji had to turn it into high gear to get him to his knees. Mutoh was waiting and hit the Shining Wizard. Significantly, once again it was not Mutoh pinning Kiyomiya, or vice versa.
WINNER: Keiji Mutoh with the Shining Wizard on Masa Kitamiya (30 minutes, 27 seconds)
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Vs The M's alliance (Naomichi Marufuji and Keiji Mutoh)
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