(NOAH) "Don't you have any feelings of being a wrestler? You're clinging to past glory" - Kenoh cuts down Yuji Nagata on YouTube, who he will be fighting at the Budokan.

20th June 2024

Hochi News

Pro Wrestling Noah's Kenoh of "ALL REBELLION", updated his YouTube channel, "The Kenoh Channel", on the 20th where he savagely cut down his opponent at the Nippon Budokan on July 13th. 

The main event at the Budokan is a title match between the GHC Heavyweight Champion, Kaito Kiyomiya, and Yoshiki Inamura, now known as "YOICHI". A special singles match between AJ Styles from WWE and Naomichi Marufuji, announced at the Yokohama BUNTAI on the 16th June, is the semi final. With AJ Style's surprise appearance at The Budokan, wrestling fans around the world are looking forward to the biggest big match of the year, but Kenoh's opponent is New Japan Pro Wrestling's Yuji Nagata. To this, Kenoh expressed his displeasure, saying, "It makes no sense at all", and questioned the fact that while he and Nagata have faced each other in the past when he was in "Super Violent Army", but now, "there's no story behind it. It's so sudden" He continued, "It feels like New Japan Pro Wrestling. I love our company, New Japan Pro Wrestling." 

In response to these comments, viewers suggested setting up a "YouTuber Showdown" between the two as a since Nagata, like Kenoh, has a YouTube channel and updates it frequently. Kenoh responded by confessing that he enjoys Nagata's YouTube channel saying that he enjoys it and, "I subscribe to the channel and watch it. It's fun". He laughed and said, "The updates are crazy. It's like he's got a lot of free time". 

Kenoh also mentioned that Nagata had said on YouTube that he (Nagata) was "70% YouTuber, 20% promoter, and 10% wrestler", and then cut him down saying, "You're an idiot. There is no way I'd lose to a 10% wrestler, right? It's normal to make such a ridiculous statement, isn't it? Don't you have any feelings of being a wrestler?" Regarding the content of the video, Kenoh said, "It's all in the past. He's just clinging to past glory." He then asserted arguing, "What I mean by what I do on YouTube is how much I want people to enjoy watching future wrestling. We don't see eye to eye because we have different ideas about that. If we don't think about how to make future matches as entertaining as possible, there's no future in the wrestling world". Nagata slammed him, saying, "As for why he's doing it, he's just killing time and wanting recognition for himself. I can only see it as something exposed by someone who was in the wrestling world long ago. It's interesting, but I don't like it."

Kenoh expressed doubts and discomfort about the match making, and even slammed Nagata's YouTube, but in the end he said, "The match has been decided. I'm going to try to make it as entertaining as possible", predicting that he would use YouTube to create drama for the "storyless" Nagata match.

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