(NOAH) EVENT RECAP: FAN MEETING 2022 - LETS ENJOY THE N-1 100 TIMES! - Saturday 23rd July

My thanks of course go to Nodapooh, TMC (Tomochin), Rie, Kushidalove69, Kenchan_79, Asm Yucchi, and SaricoChan for the information on the two fan events today. 

To explain, two events took place today; Kongoh (Kenoh and Katsuhiko Nakajima) were in Nagoya and Kaito Kiyomiya and Go Shiozaki were in Osaka. The format of both events were the same, a talk show, a rock paper scissors tournament (naturally, Kenoh chose rock as it is in the shape of a fist), a lottery with signed goods and an autograph and photo session to finish off. There will be a further two events on Sunday the 24th with again Kenoh and Nakajima (Sendai) and Go Shiozaki and Kaito Kiyomiya (Hiroshima). 

Fans were worried about Go Shiozaki following his neck injury, but he seems well enough to travel to both Osaka and then further down south and back to Tokyo afterwards...and talk about his pets to the fans at the event, giggle the whole way through it and photobomb Kiyomiya when he was signing autographs. He even teased Kaito Kiyomiya that his talk was so exciting, it overran. In fact the talk was so fun, the Osaka autograph session took place much later than it should. Shiozaki also spoke about the famous glare off with Kazuyuki Fujita, they both found it the most exhausting part of the match. 

Kenoh, who brought the GHC Heavyweight with him and sat with it in his lap as fans thought the staff might have forgotten to arrange a special holder for it, held the talk show (Nakajima will do it tomorrow). Fans said he had "sparkly eyes" and like Nakajima, he smiled the whole way through it. Fans asked a multitude of questions about the N-1, Kenoh's love of the sea, and about food and Kongoh members. I'm not sure why, but the food in Aichi did not agree with some of Noah and as for Kongoh and as far as Hajime Ohara's changed personality is concerned, it appears he is even aloof with Kongoh. Food also seemed to be a theme in Osaka, as Kaito Kiyomiya said his favorite topping (and I presume this is with Takoyaki) was black salt pepper mayonnaise, and he also said because he was trying to increase his body mass he was on a strict daily diet of protein which included a lot of eggs, oatmeal, chicken, potato and the dojo staple, chanko. He was asked if he could flex his pecs like Satoshi Kojima, and he gave a demonstration to the crowd. 

Katsuhiko Nakajima, who did a talk before the lottery (he may also have joined Kenoh at one point) smiled the whole way throughout the talk, and even posed directly for fan pictures by looking into the lens as he spoke. 

Picture credit: Katsuhiko Nakajima