(NOAH) EVENT RECAP: MIDSUMMER CLASH 2022 (Ishikawa Industrial Exhibition Hall No. 3, Sunday July 31st)

Today's event was not only the last event before Noah's 22nd birthday on 5th August, but the last event of July. With DEPARTURE and the N-1 in August, we now head into the autumn schedule. You can watch today's show on WrestleUniverse from 3rd August at 18:00 JST. As the event was not broadcast (aside from Noah putting the semi main live on Instagram), I have more information on some matches than others, and practically nothing on the main event. 

Fans arrived at the arena to find Kazuyuki Fujita and a mysterious masked man practicing, whoever it was looked like a larger version of Alejandro, turned it out it was Kendo Kashin probably wearing an Alejandro mask. 

"I feel that these two are already in a teacher-apprentice relationship. The weight is different if you teach the technique directly rather than just handing it over"

What fans didn't see was that earlier Keiji Mutoh had been teaching Kaito Kiyomiya The Shining Wizard (which he looked to be practicing on Yasutaka Yano). Noah will make the video available in YouTube at a later date. Later, Fujita and Kashin were on autographs, so many people came that it threatened to delay the start of the event and Noah announced they would hold it afterwards

MATCH ONE 

Mohammed Yone & Alexander Otsuka vs Akitoshi Saito & Kinya Okada

Winner: Mohammed Yone with the Kinniku Buster on Kinya Okada (11 minutes, 19 seconds)

Alexander Otsuka pulled a funky disco pose with Yone at the curtain

MATCH TWO

Atsushi Kotoge vs Kai Fujimura

Winner: Atsushi Kotoge with Bat Hanging* (9 minutes, 24 seconds)

(Note, this is a kind of Water Wheel Drop move)

I had wondered if this match was an assessment by Atsushi Kotoge, after the match he said that he was more confident in Fujimura following today. 

MATCH THREE

Ninja Mack, Dante Leon & YO-HEY vs Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Hi69

Ninja Mack was once again the target for Kongoh, in particular it seemed Tadasuke. Ninja Mack had his revenge however, when he dived at them from the balcony. 

WINNER: Ninja Mack with the Ninja Bomb on Tadasuke (12 minutes, 43 seconds)

I believe Hajime Ohara may have stayed near the entry following the dive and was helped out by a trainee, fans are worried he may have injured his shoulder. 

MATCH FOUR

Masa Kitamiya & Stallion Rogers vs Daiki Inaba & Anthony Green

WINNER: Stallion Rogers with the Missile Headbutt on Daiki Inaba (13 minutes, 50 seconds)

Hiroshi Hase, the governor of Kanazawa, came to the ring and made a short speech. Keiji Mutoh came to the ring and he appointed him Tourism Ambassador for Ishikawa prefecture (what this means is he will do promotional activities) and then mentioned a participation in his retirement road. Hase was worried about participating as to how it might look to the people of the prefecture ("You are retiring? I can't appear"), but Mutoh asked them to forgive him as today there was a good reaction, and he will adjust his schedule a little. Hase says he will have to train a little. 

MATCH FIVE

STINGER (HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa & Yuya Susumu) vs The Noah Junior Regulars (Daisuke Harada, Seiki Yoshioka & Alejandro)

STINGER wore the green baseball jackets again. They usually do this when they want to make a point to someone. Today it was to Seiki Yoshioka, that they are the core of the Noah Juniors as they have the belts (except the one that Eita has stolen and is parading around DragonGate), not the Noah Junior Regulars. In a nice touch, after Harada's entry, YO-HEY collected up the blue feathers and gave them to a fan. 

During the match, HAYATA, with his sadistic smile, tore off Alejandro's mask and put it on the corner post. Alejandro's face was quickly covered by YO-HEY and Atsushi Kotoge, and for a while it came down to three on two as Alejandro went to get his spare. 

WINNER: Yuya Susumu with the Cross Face Lock on Alejandro (13 minutes, 51 seconds)

Ogawa had no intention of giving the mask back, and a fight broke out when Daisuke Harada tried. 

MATCH SIX

Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi vs The Sugiura Army (Kazuyuki Fujita & Kendo Kashin)

Kendo Kashin, who had Yuji Nagata on his chest today, came to the ring carrying a small rice straw rice barrel model. Probably one he had stolen from the entrance and wasn't meant to be removed, which he proceeded to beat Shuhei Taniguchi with. In the ring, he offered him a handshake. Which embarrassingly, Taniguchi took and ended up

being attacked. Kashin took Taniguchi to the side of the ring, and held him by the barriers (in the ring the referee held back Shiozaki) as Hase chopped Taniguchi. Taniguchi soon had his revenge by reversing this, and Kashin was the one who got chopped. He was also chopped by Shiozaki too. In true Kashin style, this was when he was doing a leg sub on Taniguchi. As was the double team with Fujita on Shiozaki.

It was a brutal fight between Fujita and Shiozaki, comedy between Kashin and Taniguchi (who went to fight at the back of the hall at the merchandise stands) although Taniguchi did have his moments when fighting Fujita. 

WINNER: Kazuyuki Fujita with a Power Bomb on Shuhei Taniguchi (13 minutes, 57 seconds)

Kashin was attacking Shiozaki outside of the ring. It wasn't a good idea (then again this is Kashin) as he was swiftly knocked the floor. After celebrating, Fujita got the beers out and gave one to Hase. The three of them chugged, Hase downing his (practically the whole can) in one go. Kashin's mischief was not finished yet, and he got into a fight with Taniguchi backstage when he threw a bottle of water at him, and even Fujita joined in.

MATCH SEVEN

Kongoh (Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya) vs Kaito Kiyomiya, Satoshi Kojima & Takashi Sugiura 

WINNER: Kaito Kiyomiya on Manabu Soya, Noah did not mention the finisher (20 minutes) 

Kiyomiya, (who was run over by The Great Muta the last time Noah were in Kanazawa) closed out the show by thanking everyone for their support, and their support during the N-1. 

With thanks to: Kei, Dannystoy2, Toshiro_UKR, Teto3rin, YUJI, ウィタンWitan

GIF credit: Noah Official Twitter, Noah Official Instagram

Picture credit: Shu Nishinaga