(NOAH) "She's been treating me to meat every month since I was a rookie", Fighting Spirit Award winner Kaito Kiyomiya thanks Kuniko Yamada

Tokyo Sports

8th January 2025

 Noah's Kaito Kiyomiya (28), who received the Fighting Spirit Award at the 51st "Tokyo Sports Newspaper 2024 Pro Wrestling Grand Prix", expressed his gratitude for the "surprise".

 

 At the awards ceremony held at a hotel in Tokyo on the 8th, he smiled and said, "I'm happy to receive the prestigious Pro Wrestling Grand Prix Fighting Spirit Award", and as the zodiac sign for 2025 is the snake, he said with resolve, "My goal for this year is to shed my old skin. I lost the belt, so I'd like to use this opportunity to show a new side of myself, and do my best to show a new Kaito Kiyomiya"

 Entertainer Kuniko Yamada (64) was in attendance at the awards ceremony, to which Kiyomiya commented, "I happened to meet her at my favorite restaurant yesterday, and when I was leaving she said, "I'll see you soon", and I was like, "Huh?", but then she said this today*, which really surprised me". He recalled that, "Kuniko has treated me to meat every month since I was a rookie, and she's been supporting me ever since". 

 Kiyomiya lost the GHC Heavyweight Championship at Noah's Nippon Budokan event on the 1st, and was unable to get off to a good start, but can he bounce back with the power of meat?

Picture credit: Tokyo Sports

Notes

Kuniko Yamada: Kuniko (whose favorite wrestler is Masa Kitamiya, as "he likes chubby girls"), presented the award to Kaito Kiyomiya and teased him that due to "scandalous pictures", his reputation was no longer so good. The audience roared with laughter.