(NOAH) A complete introduction to the 28th October Fukuoka International Centre event that you cannot miss as the decisive battles approach!

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24th October 2023

Noah's big autumn extravaganza will be held in Fukuoka this year, with the Fukuoka International Center show being held for the third consecutive year, and will be held on the 28th. The main event of the fall will be the GHC Heavyweight Championship match, in which Kenoh will challenge the champion, Jake Lee. In "Stop The Jake", Kenoh challenges as the last stronghold.

Kenoh was the first to inflict a loss on Jake, who had boasted an undefeated record since joining Noah in the A Block of the N-1 VICTORY 2023 in Kawasaki on August 27th. Jake, who won the title match against the N-1 Champion Go Shiozaki in Nagoya on September 24th, nominated Kenoh himself to, "repay his debt". Kenoh also agreed saying it was "natural". He said in a straight on no to the "Jake administration", "If Jake, an outsider, is the champion, then Noah will never see a spectacular view. I will take Noah to a place where that view can be seen!". 

After taking the belt from Kaito Kiyomiya, Jake defeated all of the previous GHC Heavyweight Champions, including Katsuhiko Nakajima, Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura and Go Shiozaki. As a past champion, Kenoh becomes the "last stronghold". Will Kenoh, who has established his own presence and popularity this year through his matches against New Japan and on his YouTube channel, make a comeback aiming for a "superb view" or will it be a "complete domination" by Jake? The answer will be found in Fukuoka.

In the GHC National Championship, which will be the first "new generation foreigner showdown" in six months, Jack Morris will once again challenge the champion, El Hijo Del Dr Wagner Jnr. At the Nagoya event on September 24th, Wagner won the grudge match against Psycho Clown, in his bloody sixth defense, which he dedicated his professional wrestling life to. It was Morris who came forward after the match. Both are new generation foreign talent, who have studied at Noah. They are both friends and rivals, who have shared the joys and sorrows in a foreign land. They clashed for the same title in Sendai in April of this year, and Wagner Jnr won. It's been about half a year since then, and Wagner Jnr has had a series of successful defenses, further increasing his presence as a champion, while Morris has also made great strides in the N-1 this summer and won the GHC Tag Team Championship. This rematch will see both men move up another level. 

The GHC Junior Tag Team match between the Lucha Brothers, "Los Golpeadores", Dragon Bane and Alpha Wolf and YO-HEY and Tadasuke is also a rematch for the first time in six months, with their positions reversed. At the Korakuen Hall event in April, YO-HEY and Tadasuke, who were the champions at the time, successfully defended the title by defeating the challenge of Bane & Wolf. Although Bane & Wolf lost, they bought the main event of the Holy Land of Korakuen to a boil, and used this as an opportunity to make great strides and quickly take over the championship that had been ceded to Chris Ridgeway & Daga in September. On the other hand, YO-HEY and Tadasuke have not lost momentum, even after losing the titles. During the summer, they kept each venue excited with "GLG" calls and racked up consecutive wins, with YO-HEY taking the pin from champion, Dragon Bane, leading to the challenge. Even in the junior tag, a rematch will take place with both sides moving up one stage. 

Also, the "Last Noah Match" will be held for Katsuhiko Nakajima, who suddenly left Noah at the end of September. At the age of thirty-five, and on the twentieth anniversary of his career, he decided that he wanted to "compete on my own", and a graduation match will be held in his hometown of Fukuoka. Following in the footsteps of "AXIZ" with his unique partner, Go Shiozaki, and facing off against Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura, who have been supporting Noah together in recent years, coincidentally, this is the same card as the main event of the 2018 Mitsuharu Misawa June 13th Korakuen Hall event, which was the starting point for the formation of AXIZ. Memories, love, gratitude and cheer. This looks to be a fight filled with all sorts of emotions. 

Manabu Soya, Masa Kitamiya and Daiki Inaba, have a mutual understanding to fight together jointly at the 24th September in Nagoya. They will form their first trio, and have a head to head confrontation with REAL, which will be a test of their new power. 

The champion, HAYATA and the challenger, Daga, will have their final pre match for the GHC Junior Championship on November 4th in Niigata. The new generation cross promotion tag team of Kaito Kiyomiya and Ryohei Oiwa will also be challenging for the GHC tag in Niigata, will be facing the champion, Anthony Green, in a tag team match for the final time. 

Also, Seiki Yoshioka, who will be on hiatus after this, will appear in the first match. Standing in the same corner as his partner and benefactor, Shuji Kondo, after fully enjoying the ten man tag with the members who have made the Noah Juniors exciting, he will enter the preparation period for his "new challenge". 

Translated from Noah.co.jp

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