(NOAH) CARD: SUNNY VOYAGE 2023 (Kobe Sambo Hall, Sunday May 21st)
*Current Champions (and their challengers)*
GHC Heavyweight Champion: Jake Lee
Challenger: Takashi Sugiura
GREEN JOURNEY 2023 in NAGOYA (Nagoya International Conference Center Event Hall - Saturday, June 17th)
GHC Junior Champion: HAYATA
Challenger: Dante Leon
GREEN JOURNEY 2023 in NAGOYA (Nagoya International Conference Center Event Hall - Saturday, June 17th)
GHC Heavyweight Tag Champions: REAL (Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher)
Challengers: THE TOUGH (Yoshiki Inamura & Masa Kitamiya)
GREEN JOURNEY 2023 in NAGOYA (Nagoya International Conference Center Event Hall - Saturday, June 17th)
GHC Junior Tag Champions: Good Looking Guys (YO-HEY & Tadasuke)
Challengers: Atsushi Kotoge & Seiki Yoshioka
"SUNNY VOYAGE 2023" (Shinjuku Face - Wednesday, May 31st)
GHC National Champion: El Hijo Del Dr Wagner Jnr
Challenger: TBA
MATCH ONE
Alejandro & Super Crazy vs Kongoh (Hajime Ohara & Hi69)
With the influx of Luchadores into Noah recently, Alejandro seems to have slipped away from teaming with Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka, and joined up with his fellow Lucha. Tonight he teams with Super Crazy against a team who don't believe in fun of any kind, the Kongoh Juniors.
MATCH TWO
HAYATA, Dragon Bane & Lanzelot vs Dante Leon, Xtreme Tiger & Alpha Wolf
This match is going to get wild as not only do we have two brothers who go to war against each other whenever they are on opposing teams (Dragon Bane and Alpha Wolf), Xtreme Tiger and Lanzelot, the match also has HAYATA vs Dante Leon in their second GHC Junior Heavyweight pre match. HAYATA defeated Dante's team, but not Dante himself. He will be looking to do just that in this maelstrom, which may or may not involve a ringside table getting trashed, in a match where everyone is no doubt going to be flying everywhere.
MATCH THREE
THE TOUGH (Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura) & Daiki Inaba vs Kazuyuki Fujita, Kendo Kashin & Masato Tanaka
No pre match tonight for THE TOUGH as Real (Timothy Thatcher and Saxon Huxley) are not in Kobe tonight, but they face a challenge of another kind, especially Yoshiki Inamura. Masato Tanaka has long been a rival of Inamura's, and he has said that each time they fight it becomes harder and harder to defeat him. Tanaka has been successful in the past, but with Inamura picking up the win over a tag champion (Saxon Huxley), Inamura is certainly on the cusp of big victories.
MATCH FOUR
Kaito Kiyomiya, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki vs STINGER (Yoshinari Ogawa & Chris Ridgeway) & Sean Legacy
STINGER no doubt see this as a warm up for the next match (which they are not in, but will no doubt interfere in), but for Yoshinari Ogawa there is a chance to assess the returning Junta Miyawaki.
MATCH FIVE
Eita vs Daga
Grudge match which will not doubt end in a bloody chaos. Kobe is Eita's hometown, and he has sworn that he will create a bloodbath for Daga, who screwed him over and joined STINGER, and "drown him in a sea of blood". The last time Eita had a singles match with STINGER (Yoshinari Ogawa) the match was pure chaos with Chris Ridgeway and Daga interfering at every opportunity, but tonight things are slightly more easier with HAYATA on Eita's side. Who knows what will happen? Eita says that "anything is possible".
MATCH SIX
AXIZ (Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima) vs Kongoh (Masakatsu Funaki & Shuji Kondo)
AXIZ (who will be signing autographs before the event tonight) haven't had much luck since they reformed, or rather Go Shiozaki's two matches since he returned haven't resulted in victories as he has been the one that has been pinned each time. Expect an MMA style fight between Masakatsu Funaki and Katsuhiko Nakajima (who have a lot in common, and not just their names) and a chop war between Shuji Kondo and Go Shiozaki.
MATCH SEVEN
Good Looking Guys (Jake Lee, Anthony Green, YO-HEY & Tadasuke) vs Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, Atsushi Kotoge & Seiki Yoshioka
Jake Lee defended the GHC Heavyweight against Naomichi Marufuji, and then nominated Takashi Sugiura as his challenger. Jake was given a taste of Sugiura in that match, when he would have been choked out by the front neck lock, had it not been for Tadasuke breaking the hold. Tonight, he gets to experience Takashi Sugiura, who will turn the dial up a notch. Facing Sugi in a match is one thing, when you are challenged by him is another. Also going on in this match is the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag challenge by Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka to Good Looking Guys YO-HEY and Tadasuke. YO-HEY fell to Kotoge in their last match and Kotoge made the challenge. With Jake targeting Sugiura, the juniors fighting each other (no change there), this leaves Anthony Green and Naomichi Marufuji. The last time this happened, Marufuji picked some hairs off of Green's chest before chopping him. This match is going to be wild on so many levels.
MATCH EIGHT
All Japan World Heavyweight Tag
Kongoh (Kenoh & Manabu Soya) vs Voodoo Murders (Suwama & KONO)
The All Japan World Heavyweight Tag, currently being held by Noah wrestlers, is being fought tonight in Kobe, on Noah show, and in a Noah ring. This has been a feud which has involved body bags (Kenoh and Manabu Soya getting stuffed into them, Suwama says he's going to make a massive one to stuff them both in), trash bags (Kenoh dressing in one to scream at Suwama on The Kenoh Channel), and threats/boasts such as Kenoh saying he will force Suwama into joining Kongoh when Voodoo Murders lose and make him sign over the rights to the All Japan World Heavyweight Tag so that it can always be defended in Noah and by Noah, who will have control over it, and Suwama saying that if Kongoh lose then he will make them join Voodoo Murders and "show them hell in All Japan". Kenoh's fury, which matches Suwama's fury will be unleashed. KONO comes to Noah for the first time since 2012, and while he hasn't had much to do with this feud, I do wonder if the others in Voodoo Murders who have, will be at ringside. This is going to be a war for not just belts, but territory too.
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