(NOAH) CARD: LEC Cleanup! presents DEMOLITION STAGE 2021 in FUKUOKA (Fukuoka International Center, Saturday, October 30th)

Noah move up today from Go Shiozaki's Kumamoto to Katsuhiko Nakajima's Fukuoka. As Halloween is approaching, Noah say they will decorate the lobby in true style, which given the title matches contain someone demonic, someone who hides in the dark and wears spiderweb contact lenses and someone who a poster made look he haunts fairgrounds, is pretty apt. 

Event will start at 16:00 JST, and be streamed on both Wrestleuniverse (English commentary available) and ABEMA, which should hopefully be a free broadcast, but will be in Japanese commentary. As you cannot watch a replay on ABEMA unless you are a member, I do not advise that you subscribe to them due to the notorious issues of getting a VPN to work. WrestleUniverse is a far better subscription for the overseas fan. 

MATCH ONE

Hajime Ohara, Kinya Okada & Kai Fujimura vs Kongoh Juniors (Tadasuke, Haoh and Nioh)

Kinya Okada is in a kind of grey area, not really a heavyweight and not really a junior, but nonetheless he is going to find himself thrown into a match where everyone rushes the ring at the same time. 

MATCH TWO

Ikuto Hidaka vs Aleja

Clash of styles and generations, as ground based technical veteran meets high flying aerial next generation.

MATCH THREE

Kongoh (Kenoh & Manabu Soya) vs Funky Express (King Tany and Mohammed Yone)

The two biggest grumps in Kongoh meet the most light hearted people in Noah. Manabu Soya has been increasingly frustrated at his win/loss ratio, either he is the one who loses the match, or he does not get the win if he is on the winning side, perhaps today will change that. As for Kenoh, we have seen in the past how disco and Noah's resident disco dancers enrage him.

MATCH FOUR

STINGER (Yoshinari Ogawa & Seiki Yoshioka) & Yasutaka Yano vs El Perros de Mal Del Japon (Eita, YO-HEY & Kotaro Suzuki)

Yasutaka Yano, who yesterday scored his first big win over NOSAWA Rongai, teams again with Yoshinari Ogawa and Seiki Yoshioka to take on an angry El Perros de Mal Del Japon, who are going to be out for revenge against every single one of their opponents. 

MATCH FIVE

The Sugiura Army (Takashi Sugiura & Kazushi Sakuraba) vs Momo no Seishun (Daisuke Harada & Atsushi Kotoge)

Sugi & Saku reunite after a long time, to take on the junior team of Momo no Seishun, who also team together after a while. Match should be interesting with Kazushi Sakuraba facing Atsushi Kotoge and Daisuke Harada (which he rarely does) and of course what fans love to see, Daisuke Harada vs Takashi Sugiura. 

MATCH SIX

GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship Match

HAYATA vs NOSAWA Rongai

After a long route which started with HAYATA nominating NOSAWA as challenger, which involved NOSAWA'S house of cards pre-match which went spectacularly wrong, a time out draw, and HAYATA getting the win in true NOSAWA (and Ogawa) style by heel tactics and a pin by a rookie over a veteran, an angry NOSAWA and the unusually vocal (for him) HAYATA finally arrive at the end of the road at the title match. NOSAWA has vowed he will wrestle a title match which every single Noah Junior will hate, which he will finish at 59 minutes and 59 seconds. HAYATA as ever, will do his talking in the ring.

MATCH SEVEN

Kaito Kiyomiya, Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba vs The M's alliance (Keiji Mutoh, Naomichi Marufuji & Masaaki Mochizuki)

This semi main is far more than just a group of heavyweights with nothing else to do on the card; Kaito Kiyomiya and Masa Kitamiya (the long neglected and far apart GHC Heavyweight Tag Champions), team with Daiki Inaba (Kiyomiya's very polite friend/rival), against Kiyomiya's nemesis and Inaba's former boss, Keiji Mutoh, Naomichi Marufuji and Masaaki Mochizuki. Hopefully, we will see some movement with the tag belts tonight. 

MATCH EIGHT

GHC Heavyweight Match

Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Masato Tanaka

For a long time Katsuhiko Nakajima has been trying to defeat Masato Tanaka, his one and only victory came yesterday in the very last pre match, and this means that Nakajima now has to do it again and in a singles match, and a title match at that, where he does not have the luxury of his bullet hard opponent being worn down by others in the tag. Nakajima's title reign is either going to be exceedingly (and embarrassingly short) or else cemented as one of the strongest ever. One thing is for certain, Nakajima is going to need to check his ego at the door. 

Picture credit: WrestleUniverse/Pro Wrestling Noah