Pro-Wrestling NOAH “Navig. with Emerald Spirits 2018”, 6/26/2018 [Tue] 19:00 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo
1,517 Spectators (crowded)
(1) Maybach Taniguchi, Mitsuya Nagai (DRADITION), KAZMA SAKAMOTO (FREE) & Cody Hall vs. KENSO (FREE), Chang Jian Feng, Lin Dong Xuan & Sun Yilin
◆Winner: KAZMA (10:35) following a Running Knee on Yilin.
~ KAZMA was then invited to join the growing Maybach Army, which now stands at four members.
(2) Hajime Ohara & Junta Miyawaki vs. Seiya Morohashi & LEONA (DRADITION)
◆Winner: LEONA (8:55) with a Figure Four Leg Lock on Miyawaki.
(3) Hi69, Minoru Tanaka (FREE) & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Tadasuke, HAYATA & YO-HEY
◆Winner: Minoru (9:37) with the Minoru Special on Tadasuke.
(4) Muhammad Yone & Quiet Storm vs. Atsushi Kotoge & Kaito Kiyomiya
◆Winner: Yone (10:22) following the Funky Buster Bomb on Kotoge.
(5) Naomichi Marufuji, Akitoshi Saito & Masato Tanaka (ZERO1) vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima, Masa Kitamiya & Go Shiozaki
◆Winner: Saito (11:17) following the Death Brand on Kitamiya.
~ Saito will yet another direct win over Kitamiya, as he called out a challenge for the GHC Tag belts. With his tag partner to be Marufuji.
~ Naomichi Marufuji announced the card for his upcoming 20th Anniversary show on September 1st, as Hideo Itami, who is still active in the WWE, will make a special one-night return to compete against his former rival Marufuji in a singles match.
The full event card was also announced for the show as well which is as follows…
Naomichi Marufuji 20th Anniversary Show “Hishou / Soaring“, 9/1/2018 [Sat] 15:00 @ Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo
(1) Muhammad Yone & Junta Miyawaki vs. Mitsuo Momota (Riki Enterprise) & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi (FREE)
(2) Akitoshi Saito, Masao Inoue & Kishin Kawabata (FREE) vs. Takuma Sano, Tamon Honda & Shiro Koshinaka (all FREE)
(3) Quiet Storm & Tadasuke vs. Takao Omori (AJPW) & Cody Hall
(4) HAYATA & YO-HEY vs. Shuji Kondo & Kaz Hayashi (both WRESTLE-1)
(5) Hi69, Minoru Tanaka (FREE) & Kotaro Suzuki (FREE) vs. Hajime Ohara, Hitoshi Kumano & Seiya Morohashi (FREE)
(6) Katsuhiko Nakajima, Masa Kitamiya & Taiyo Kea (FREE) vs. Go Shiozaki, Kaito Kiyomiya & Yoshinari Ogawa
(7) Kenoh, Atsushi Kotoge & Maybach Taniguchi vs. Sanshiro Takagi, HARASHIMA & Danshoku Dieno (all DDT)
(8) Takashi Sugiura & Daisuke Harada vs. Jun Akiyama & Atsushi Aoki (both AJPW)
(9) Marufuji’s 20th Anniversary Match: Naomichi Marufuji vs. Hideo Itami (WWE)
(6) GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship Match: [36th Champion] Daisuke Harada vs. [Challenger] Hitoshi Kumano
◆Winner: Harada (15:26) with the Katayama German Suplex Hold.
~ 6th successful title defense.
~ No next challenger was decided, but six out of the sevent teams came out as prelude to next month’s Junior Tag League.
(7) GHC Heavyweight Championship Match: [31st Champion] Takashi Sugiura vs. [Challenger] Kenoh
◆Winner: Sugiura (26:23) following an Avalanche style Olympic Qualifying Slam.
~ 3rd successful title defense.
~ After the match, Shiozaki came forward to make the direct challenge to Sugiura.
~ Also of note, Kenoh was helped out of the ring by Kotoge and Kiyomiya.
http://puroresuspirit.net/2018/04/noah-event-cards-for-may-june-2018/
http://puroresuspirit.net/2018/06/noah-event-cards-for-july-august-2018/
~ Also to note, The Aggression (Nakajima and Kitamiya) were also at ringside, but are not involved in the current challenge build. But they made it known that they shall be involved in what ever transpires in the future.
