​Noah returned to the Fukushima National Sports Memorial Gymnasium today for the final show before they return to Korakuen Hall tomorrow to decide who will go on to face each other in the finals on the 16th September at Osaka Edion Arena. The last time Noah where here, Atsushi Kotoge sustained the injury to his arm in February 2019 following "The Revolutionary Cloak Splash".

In a nice touch, the banners today were hung in square alcoves, giving the appearance of them being on monitors, as Go Shiozaki was on autograph duty, and STINGER the Noah's Ark fanclub.

I am afraid that on some matches I have only been able to present results, on others I have only had information relating to what happened after, and some only a few snippets about what happened in it. A lot of fans are of the opinion now that a streaming service is long overdue.

​MATCH ONE
Seiya Morohashi vs Kinya Okada
WINNER: Seiya Morohashi with the Boston Crab (7 minutes, 35 seconds)

MATCH TWO
Hajime Ohara & El Hijo de Dr Wagner Jnr vs Hi69 & Sonico

Said to be a very good exchange between El Hijo de Dr Wagner Jnr and Sonico. At one point in the match, Hajime Ohara and El Hijo de Wagner Jnr pulled a pose on the ropes with Sonico, which was very reminiscent of Ohara's days tagging with Kenoh in Kenohara.

WINNER: Hajime Ohara with the Mui Bien on Sonico (9 minutes, 42 seconds).

MATCH THREE
Naomichi Marufuji & 50 Funky Powers (Mohammed Yone & Quiet Storm) vs The Return of The Dark Agents (Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue) & Junta Miyawaki.

Naomichi Marufuji and Junta Miyawaki started the match off. Miyawaki noted to also be extensively taped on his shoulder and lower arm.
Despite the fact that he didn't win (and he came very close to beating Quiet Storm), he was said to be "shining" today.

WINNER: Quiet Storm with the 50cm Lariat on Junta Miyawaki (13 minutes, 14 seconds)

MATCH FOUR
STINGER (Yoshinari Ogawa, Kotaro Suzuki, Atsushi Kotoge & Chris Ridgeway) vs RATELS (HAYATA, Daisuke Harada, Tadasuke & YO-HEY)

Hajime Ohara and NOSAWA Rongai sat at a table at the back of the hall and watched the match, they have a personal stake in it, now that all three groups are at each other.

WINNER: Tadasuke with the 2PAC on Atsushi Kotoge (12 minutes, 55 seconds)

After the match, NOSAWA got into the ring and began bating everyone again, in specific Suzuki. Naturally, after what happened yesterday, Ogawa wasn't too pleased to see him. I am not sure of what was said, but if a fight didn't break out, things certainly got rough (shoving etc), and it looked like RATELS were the last people left in the ring.
Tadasuke got on the mic and did another shrieking manic promo with his fist raised and RATELS joining in (HAYATA crammed himself into the corner).

On the way back, YO-HEY did his strange umbrella\walking stick pose for a fan photograph.

MATCH FIVE
The Sugiura Army (Takashi Sugiura & KAZMA SAKAMOTO) vs Kongoh (Kenoh & Yoshiki Inamura)
WINNER: Kenoh with the diving footstamp on KAZMA (9 minutes, 31 seconds)

MATCH SIX
Kaito Kiyomiya, Shuhei Taniguchi & Minoru Tanaka vs Kumaxiz (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Go Shiozaki, Hitoshi Kumano)
WINNER: Kaito Kiyomiya with the Tiger Suplex on Hitoshi Kumano (15 minutes, 59 seconds)
​

​MATCH ONE
Chris Ridgeway vs Sonico

"BritWres meets Lucha"

Handshake before the match, which turned ugly as in true STINGER style, Ridgeway started kicking Sonico, and then was told off by the referee as the bell hadn't even rung and he was attacking his legs.
Ridgeway went to remove Sonico's boot (like he did Harada) to get submission moves in, which bought a cheer from the crowd as they knew what was coming, as this has kind of become his trademark. During the match, Ridgeway managed to put the ankle lock on Sonico on the top turnbuckle. 

Short opening match in which Ridgeway managed to keep Sonico grounded. Unusually for him he kept a t-shirt on to wrestle in, which is probably due to being ill recently.

WINNER: Chris Ridgeway via ankle lock submission (6 minutes, 36 seconds) 

MATCH TWO
The Return of The Dark Agents (Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue) vs KAZMA SAKAMOTO & El Hijo de Doctor Wagner Jnr

Everything was going okay until Akitoshi Saito tagged Masao Inoue in, as he got kicked between the legs by KAZMA, slapped, El Hijo de Dr Wagner Jnr beat him up, and then both he and KAZMA punched him between them in the corner. Poor old man with gout later got chopped.
Naturally, Akitoshi Saito was far more dominant, and both inside and outside the ring was shouting instructions to Inoue.

WINNER: El Hijo de Doctor Wagner Jnr with the moonsault on Masao Inoue (7 minutes, 4 seconds)

MATCH THREE
Minoru Tanaka, Hi69, Junta Miyawaki & Seiya Morohashi vs RATELS (HAYATA, Daisuke Harada, Tadasuke & YO-HEY)

The crowd grew louder with the entry of RATELS...but there were lots of "Junta" calls too, and Minoru Tanaka towel flicked YO-HEY when he was standing on the turnbuckle during entry.

Match started with HAYATA vs Minoru Tanaka (Tanaka lost the GHC Junior Heavyweight to HAYATA, so he has a score to settle).

A lot of high spots in the match - Hi69's moonsault from the second rope onto Tadasuke in the crowd, Daisuke Harada with a diving footstamp from the top turnbuckle, and HAYATA almost knocked Miyawaki out with an Enziguri. 

I think RATELS felt refreshed in this match as they weren't fighting STINGER, and Tadasuke spoke yesterday about how good it felt to have a break from it.

WINNER: Tadasuke with the OutKast on Seiya Morohashi (14 minutes, 17 seconds)

​WINNER: Takashi Sugiura with the front lock neck choke via submission (21 minutes, 38 seconds)

After the match Takashi Sugiura cut a short promo thanking Marufuji and thanking everyone for coming to Yokohama Radiant Halls today.
As for Marufuji, he said that the tickets were sold out, there was a live stream on YouTube, but Takashi Sugiura was too strong, and he could not win.

You can view the show retrospectively via Noah's Official YouTube channel (please consider subscribing). I am afraid that I don't know how long the show in its entirety will be kept up before Noah chop it into separate matches, but you should be able find these on the official channel if the link is now defunct.

NOAH'S NEXT SHOW: Sunday 8th September 2019, Fukushima National Sports Memorial Gymnasium 
ATTENDANCE: 360
WITH THANKS TO: Metal Noah, Abeshin, Kei
PICTURE\GIF CREDIT: Noah GHC

​After their long tour in Japan's warm south, Noah started the final few dates of the inaugural N-1 VICTORY in Tsukuba, Ibaraki (which is only an hour and a half to and from Tokyo, so a lot of them traveled via public transport or in a shared car) which is the metropolitan area of Japan, the area (Yokohama, Fukushima, Tokyo) which will host the final few nights.

The card today was changed as Chris Ridgeway has fallen ill, and so Tadasuke stepped out of RATELS and into the opening match. Daisuke Harada commented that they were a man down, but it was still RATELS vs STINGER.

I am afraid that I don't have much information on some of today's event, so it is a little scattered in some places I have only been able to give a retrospective comment, in other something which happened after the match, and while in other matches just the result.

​MATCH ONE
Tadasuke vs Kinya Okada

Tadasuke commented about this match (although it was an easy win for him), that it was refreshing to face someone else after so long fighting STINGER.

WINNER: Tadasuke with the lariat (7 minutes, 39 seconds)

Tadasuke took out a rookie heavyweight with his lariat which should give you an indication of how strong he is; a rookie yes, but this is still a heavyweight he took down with it.

MATCH TWO
The Return of The Dark Agents (Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue) vs THE TOUGH\KONGOH (Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura)

The Tough took down Masao Inoue by attacking his old gouty legs, then Masa Kitamiya put him in the Prison Lock.

WINNER: Masa Kitamiya with the Prison Lock (10 minutes, 59 seconds)

MATCH THREE
Minoru Tanaka & Junta Miyawaki vs Hi69 & Sonico

Fans commented on Sonico's t-shirt as it matched his mask and red contact lensed eyes, and when he pulled it over his head it briefly matched his mask. There also appears to be a rivalry developing with Junta Miyawaki.

WINNER: Minoru Tanaka with the Arm Criss-Cross on Sonico (10 minutes, 36 seconds)

​Pro Wrestling Noah returned to Korakuen Hall today to kick off the second part of N-1 VICTORY. Sadly the venue was not sold out with only 835 in attendance, but those who did come were on their feet and enthusiastic since the start.
Personally, I would rather see a small excited crowd, than a small bored one.

Noah also announced that they would be live streaming the show via their YouTube channel, which had about 17,871 people worldwide tune in. Naturally, some of the theme music had to be muted as a result as Noah do not own the rights. However, the technology they use does have a slight lag at times, but on the whole the broadcast went well.

Previous to all of this, NOSAWA Rongai had announced that he would be bringing another "friend" to Korakuen Hall today, which he termed as "The Last Successor", and Noah also had an announcement to make during the interval about a future participant, although this was not announced prior to the event.

Naomichi Marufuji (who celebrated his 21st anniversary in pro-wrestling with a small party at Yamada Maru ((the former "Muscle Grill", which I believe he now owns)), which included Takashi Sugiura (and I like to think KENTA, although I doubt it), was on autograph duty.
Alex Hammerstone took charge of the Noah's Ark fanclub pictures.

MATCH ONE
50 Funky Powers & Sonico vs The Return of The Dark Agents (Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue) & Junta Miyawaki.

Lots of calls from the audience for Junta Miyawaki (and Sonico too), when they both locked up.
Energetic opening match with fast paced exchanges between Miyawaki and Sonico, which the crowd got behind. This is something that I think people would like to see more of.

WINNER: Sonico with the Swanton Bomb on Junta Miyawaki (8 minutes, 57 seconds)

At the end of the match, Mohammed Yone (with characteristic kindness), stopped Sonico from exiting the ring after the match and told him to go and stand on the opposite turnbuckle to celebrate his win.

​MATCH TWO
Yoshiki Inamura vs Kinya Okada

Battle of the big thicc beefy boys, which was dominated by the far more experienced and advanced Inamura. Sadly, Okada's career has been blighted due to injury which prevented him from debuting at the same time as Inamura, and then he had another spell which put him behind further.
The match was short, but the crowd were screaming at the end when Inamura had Okada in the Boston Crab.

WINNER: Yoshiki Inamura with the Boston Crab (3 minutes, 49 seconds)

Okada rolled out of the ring.
Inamura stood and watched him, hands on hips.

​Then NOSAWA Rongai appeared and got into the ring. He had bought with him "The Last Successor", Kazuyuki Fujita, and he challenged Inamura to a singles match with him at Osaka.
Inamura's response was to first yell into the microphone (he did that afterwards as well) and then attacked Fujita. A fight broke out (with the crowd chanting for Inamura "Ina-kun...Ina-kun"), and which NOSAWA had to break up), which was a nice little taster of the match to come.
This will be a very good experience for Inamura, who says he realizes this is a big chance for him.

MATCH THREE
STINGER (Yoshinari Ogawa, Kotaro Suzuki, Atsushi Kotoge & Chris Ridgeway) vs RATELS (HAYATA, Daisuke Harada, Tadasuke & YO-HEY)

RATELS came out first, and the got jumped by STINGER who did not wait for their own entrance. Kotoge attacking Harada (who hadn't even taken his jacket off). In the end it was Ogawa who helped Harada off with his jacket.
By flinging it into the crowd.

​Tadasuke got into the ring like a manic whirlwind, knocking STINGER off the apron twice, and YO-HEY joined in with his fist pose on the apron (Harada was on the floor, HAYATA just watched).
Fast paced match, which made you quite understand why people in the countryside said that it was near impossible to take pictures. The crowd screamed when HAYATA did a massive over the top rope somersault.

Harada and Kotoge managed to roll back into the ring on the count of seventeen (everyone was outside the ring), and Harada got the pin.

WINNER: Daisuke Harada with the deformation pin on Atsushi Kotoge (9 minutes, 18 seconds)

The fight wasn't over, as Harada and Kotoge continued to go at it with the ref getting knocked down in the process, and then Kotoge angrily standing over him to protest the decision.
Harada told him to get lost.

Interestingly, Tadasuke didn't stay with the rest of RATELS to celebrate the win, and YO-HEY got into the ring with the GHC Junior Heavyweight on his shoulder.
HAYATA did a double take as he started parading around with it, and then asked for the belt back.
YO-HEY handed it over.
HAYATA was hesitant to take it, despite YO-HEY'S pleadings, but he did.
YO-HEY then tried to kick him.
HAYATA ducked.
YO-HEY made it look like it was all a jest, HAYATA didn't quite believe him.
YO-HEY is probably THE ONLY person who can irritate HAYATA. Many have tried. All have failed.
Thing is, they know each other too well.

MATCH FOUR
Katsuhiko Nakajima, Hi69, Hitoshi Kumano & Minoru Tanaka vs The Sugiura Army (Takashi Sugiura, KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Hajime Ohara) & El Hijo de Dr Wagner Jnr.

As music is not allowed, this makes a good substitute for "When Love Comes To Town"

Katsuhiko Nakajima and El Hijo de Dr Wagner Junior started the match. El Hijo making the mistake of offering his hand to, and then than shaking hands with Nakajima (who kicked him in the stomach).

The former Backbreakers (Hajime Ohara and Hitoshi Kumano) faced off, and Kumano still has a little blue in his hair left over from the Atsushi Aoki memorial show earlier this month.
Kick and chop battle between Takashi Sugiura and Katsuhiko Nakajima.

KAZMA SAKAMOTO did "the scream", which was imitated by both Takashi Sugiura and Hajime Ohara (I think this may be the first time that I know of that Ohara has done it).

Big applause for El Hijo de Dr Wagner Junior during the match, especially the moonsault at the end.

WINNER: El Hijo de Dr Wagner Junior with the Moonsault Press on Hi69 (11 minutes, 38 seconds)

The Sugiura Army then posed together to celebrate their win.
I guess El Hijo de Dr Wagner Jnr is now a member, as he was wearing a "Company Dog" t-shirt.

Noah had a long drive (about seven hours) from Kumamoto to Takamatsu, Shikoku, where unsurprisingly most of the roster (save Takashi Sugiura, who couldn't sleep, and Atsushi Kotoge who photographed a cute dog), fell asleep. It's not surprising given how grueling and intense this short tour has been. After today's show its a short 2 -3 hours drive to Osaka (Mohammed Yone is sad as it means he can't eat udon noodles), and from there back to Tokyo, and for the majority of the roster (except those appearing in TAKAYAMANIA on Monday), it is three days off until N-1 resumes again on the 29th. ​

There is only so far that Harada can be pushed, and he threw one of his tantrums (although he didn't throw anything or kick anything this time), and started battering Ridgeway with the chair, and then later trapped him under it while he sat on it.

The match was restarted three times:
1. Mass brawl with the two legal men, Atsushi Kotoge & Tadasuke getting counted out (1 minute, 25 seconds)
2. Chris Ridgeway hit Daisuke Harada with a chair (1 minute, 16 seconds)
3. Chris Ridgeway hit Daisuke Harada with a chair (12 minutes, 7 seconds)

MATCH FOUR
The Sugiura Army (Takashi Sugiura & Hajime Ohara) & El Hijo de Dr Wagner Jnr vs Kongoh (Kenoh, Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura)

El Hijo de Dr Wagner Jnr took the fight to Kongoh, knocking Kenoh off of the top turnbuckle with what appeared to be a roundhouse kick, and squaring off with Masa Kitamiya.

WINNER: Takashi Sugiura with the Olympic Slam on Yoshiki Inamura (14 minutes, 55 seconds)

Afterwards when his team posed for the win, Sugiura stood with his mouthguard looking like a cigar. Like. A. Boss.
​

​MATCH FIVE
Kaito Kiyomiya & Alex Hammerstone vs Naomichi Marufuji & Minoru Tanaka 

"The team of champions, Kiyomiya and Hammerstone"

Hammerstone got chopped by Marufuji, while Kiyomiya was tortured by Minoru Tanaka (who it looks like did his Fireball splash too). I think there was also some kind of test of strength between Marufuji and Hammerstone. Sadly, I don't have too many details on this match.

WINNER: Kaito Kiyomiya with the Tiger Suplex on Minoru Tanaka (13 minutes, 6 seconds)

MATCH SIX
N-1 VICTORY
Katsuhiko Nakajima vs Shuhei Taniguchi

Nakajima had spent most of the past week winding Taniguchi up, and he did this also in the match by doing his usual grin and the rope choke where he poses for pictures for fans.
Taniguchi, however, swore that he would not lose, and kicked out the Vertical Spike at 2. I don't really have too many details on the match itself, but fans are saying that it was intense.

WINNER: Time out draw

NEXT NOAH EVENT: 25th August, Osaka Edion Arena 2
ATTENDANCE: 247
WITH THANKS TO: Peke Poko, Ehime Yosuke, Nodapooh
PICTURE CREDIT: Noah GHC

​Kumamoto is Go Shiozaki's hometown, and naturally, he was on autograph duty. There was a long line to greet him, and when he got in the ring for his match he was given flowers.

After the event Akitoshi Saito thanked everyone for coming and (in one of his poetic moments) said, "thank you for the heat that chased away the rain".

I am afraid that it is another one of those times when I don't really have too much information on the opening matches aside from results, and then information on others is sporadic (for example, I don't have much info on the main event, or what Go Shiozaki said on the microphone afterwards).

MATCH ONE
The Return of The Dark Agents (Akitoshi Saito & Masao Inoue) vs Hitoshi Kumano & Junta Miyawaki.
WINNER: Akitoshi Saito with the Suicludees on Junta Miyawaki (8 minutes, 12 seconds)

MATCH TWO
Hi69 & Minoru Tanaka vs The Sugiura Army (NOSAWA Rongai & Kinya Okada)
WINNER: Minoru Tanaka with the Arm criss-cross on Kinya Okada (8 minutes, 44 seconds)

​MATCH THREE
The Sugiura Army (Takashi Sugiura, KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Hajime Ohara) vs 50 Funky Powers (Mohammed Yone & Quiet Storm) & Sonico

Fast paced match, and as Hajime Ohara seems to like carrying a towel to the ring, he has now the "Sugiura Army\Company Dog" one, which he proudly displays.

One fan noticed that following a spot to the outside of the ring on Hajime Ohara, Sonico appeared to be injured on landing. Noah later announced that he had suffered a sprained ankle (so hopefully nothing too serious), he says himself that with ice, rest and "watching the best wrestlers in the world", he will get better. There have been a lot of well wishes from fans for his recovery. 

WINNER: Hajime Ohara with the Mui Bien on Sonico (11 minutes, 9 seconds)

MATCH FOUR
STINGER (Yoshinari Ogawa, Kotaro Suzuki, Atsushi Kotoge & Chris Ridgeway) vs RATELS (HAYATA, Daisuke Harada, Tadasuke & YO-HEY)

"I stole a belt & shoe & a SMILE"
(Chris Ridgeway. One fan said that one of Harada's boots signed by him would be a good thing).

Mass brawl outside the ring, both teams so intent on laying into each other that no one seemed to notice the bell. Not that this match lasted for long.

​Daisuke Harada had his ankle attacked again by Chris Ridgeway. Ridgeway also attacked his leg with a chair (which got him disqualified), and then when Harada was on the floor after being battered with it, sat and laughed at him.

WINNER: Daisuke Harada due to Chris Ridgeway getting disqualified for using a chair (1 minute, 24 seconds)

​Both fans, RATELS and STINGER requested that the match be restarted, which led a much longer match (13 minutes, 16 seconds) to a double count out between Atsushi Kotoge & Tadasuke.
Outside the ring, Ridgeway again took off Harada's left boot (which he apparently stole later), and then tortured his bare foot again.

Judging by the blurry pictures taken by fans, the match seemed to be another one done at the speed of light.

MATCH FIVE
Kaito Kiyomiya, Shuhei Taniguchi & Alex Hammerstone vs Kongoh (Kenoh, Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura)

Except for Kenoh and Kiyomiya, this was a proper hoss match when Hammerstone and Taniguchi collided with Kitamiya and Inamura.

​"In each official N-1 VICTORY match, each wrestler fought for the win! But, it's just getting started, and I don't know which wrestler will win!"
Noah decorated the venue beautifully today with a big curtain which had the N-1 official picture on it which made it very striking as it hung behind the ring. It looked really impressive when the venue lights were dimmed, and a single spotlight was shone on it. 

There was a long line of people to see Katsuhiko Nakajima at the merchandise booth. He was videoed signing of the "YES" towel, and then holding it up and grinning.

MATCH ONE 
Yoshiki Inamura vs Kinya Okada

The two rookies turned rivals, Yoshiki Inamura (the ever growing tank from "Kongoh"\"THE TOUGH") and his classmate, Kinya Okada ("The Sugiura Army") opened the show.

WINNER: Yoshiki Inamura with the Boston Crab (8 minutes, 33 seconds)

MATCH TWO
Junta Miyawaki vs Sonico

Fast moving match, which Miyawaki (not a Lucha wrestler), managed to pretty much keep pace in and at one point doing a dive to the outside (not a moonsault or anything though, although it was top rope).

WINNER: Sonico with the AMF (8 minutes, 8 seconds)

At the end of the match when Chris Ridgeway got Daisuke Harada in the ankle lock, someone (most likely Yoshinari Ogawa) draped the IPW Junior Heavyweight belt over Ridgeway's shoulder.
Ridgeway had a big smile on his face as Harada screamed, and then tapped out. 

​WINNER: Chris Ridgeway with the Ankle Hold on Daisuke Harada (11 minutes, 17 seconds)

MATCH FIVE
Kaito Kiyomiya & Alex Hammerstone vs 50 Funky Powers (Mohammed Yone & Quiet Storm).

Alex Hammerstone (who one fan said thought he looked a little like Gellert Grindelwald from "Fantastic Beasts") continued his dominance in Noah by showing that he is not only very strong, he is also very agile for a man of his size. He manhandled Mohammed Yone, and gave 50 Funky Powers a massive lariat.

WINNER: Alex Hammerstone with the Pendulum Nightmare on Quiet Storm (8 minutes, 57 seconds)

After the match, the two champions held up their belts to each other.

MATCH SEVEN
N-1 VICTORY
Kenoh vs Shuhei Taniguchi

Shuhei Taniguchi had the advantage today standing 6ft to Kenoh's 5'9, and outweighing him by about 136kg, but Kenoh, as outnumbered as he was by (fractional) size and weight, took Taniguchi down despite the Wyvern clutch and the lariats, with strong kicks to the legs.

WINNER: Kenoh with the diving footstamp (12 minutes, 51 seconds)

Afterwards Shuhei Taniguchi wrote something on Twitter afterwards that indicated either a concussion or else he was drunk.

MATCH EIGHT
N-1 VICTORY
Takashi Sugiura vs Masa Kitamiya

Brutal match which was not an easy fight for either competitor, and it came very close to going to a time out draw before Sugiura got the win at the last moment.
​

​"It was maybe more than ten years ago when I came to Noah last"

Old fans are coming back to Noah.

Noah held the inauguration of the very first "elite" heavyweight league, the "N-1 VICTORY" today. House was not sold out, but it was full, and the crowd was excited.

Some local children gave a karate demonstration in the ring before the event started (Noah usually have a demonstration of some sort going on beforehand, sometimes they let the local children play in the ring, and very often Yoshinari Ogawa holds classes for the roster in technique which everyone, no matter what level, benefits from). They were later joined by Katsuhiko Nakajima, (his background is in Karate, which is part of the reason why he was often at odds with KENTA who did kickboxing).
I'm not exactly sure what he said, but it looks like Nakajima gave some kind of speech.
Speaking of children, after the event a little girl (fourth grade) gave Naomichi Marufuji a handmade card which said that she came to see Noah today for the first time and had a lot of fun.

Mohammed Yone celebrates 25 years in wrestling today.

I am afraid that today was a day of lots of pictures, but not too much saying what was going on, so I have only been able in some cases to give a result, and in others elaborate a little more.

Event will be broadcast on Samurai on Sunday August 25th at 10pm JST.

​Opening ceremony
As per tradition, the competitors came out to the ring as their names were announced. Everyone was wearing N-1 t-shirts, and they lined up in their respective blocks.
As far as I know everyone managed to behave themselves, there was no arguments or squaring up, Kenoh swearing and stamping off, or Marufuji winding him up by holding the ropes open for him.

MATCH ONE
The Sugiura Army (KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Kinya Okada) vs Junta Miyawaki & Sonico

Not really too much to say about the opening I am afraid, except it was a good match (and Okada and SAKAMOTO wore the dog t-shirts)

WINNER: KAZMA SAKAMOTO with the Pop-Up-Powerbomb on Sonico (5 minutes, 58 seconds)

Sound problems occurred and the event was delayed a little, fortunately it was sorted out quickly.
Atsushi Kotoge was seen peeping out of the curtain during the downtime.

MATCH TWO
STINGER (Atsushi Kotoge & Chris Ridgeway) vs RATELS (Daisuke Harada & Tadasuke)

Atsushi Kotoge is noted to have some weight now that he has become a junior again, and he was semi-hyper again today. He seemed to suddenly cheer up when going to the ring.

Kotoge got the win over Tadasuke, while Ridgeway held Harada outside the ring in a headlock.

WINNER: Atsushi Kotoge with the Kill Switch on Tadasuke (10 minutes, 20 seconds)

In his backstage interview, a much happier looking Atsushi Kotoge said that STINGERS goal is to have all the junior belts.

MATCH FOUR
STINGER (Yoshinari Ogawa, Kotaro Suzuki, Atsushi Kotoge & Chris Ridgeway) vs RATELS (HAYATA, Daisuke Harada, Tadasuke & YO-HEY)

"It's just the beginning"
Tadasuke

Atsushi Kotoge introduced new ringwear today, and in keeping with the more somber style of STINGER (Chris Ridgeway says that the name must be written all in caps), he was dressed in dark clothes with just a little hint of pink.

The match was said to be a very fast paced one, so much so that fans said pictures were near impossible to take. The action got going when the bell was still vibrating after being rung, both teams not wasting a moment to lay into each other...and crazy Tadasuke also made an appearance.
The moment the bell rang with its chimes still in the air, Kotoge attacked Harada.

WINNER: Atsushi Kotoge with the Killswitch on Daisuke Harada (14 minutes, 21 seconds)

After the match, Atsushi Kotoge said in the interview that people were "tired of watching the camaraderie​ of RATELS".

MATCH FIVE
Kaito Kiyomiya & Junta Miyawaki vs THE TOUGH\KONGOH (Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura)

"Noah's new scenery in green and orange"

Kaito Kiyomiya and Junta Miyawaki teamed up to take on fellow Noah born Yoshiki Inamura, who was with THE TOUGH partner, Masa Kitamiya.
Miyawaki used a lot of judo techniques, and at one point he and Kiyomiya used a double submission on Kitamiya.

WINNER: Masa Kitamiya with the Saito Suplex on Junta Miyawaki (14 minutes, 32 seconds)

After the match Masa Kitamiya spoke on the microphone to say that he would win the N-1.

Shuhei Taniguchi was the one who showed the most momentum in this match (fans said he "woke up"), ignoring Kenoh when he demanded the tag, taking advantage of his size and power, to throw around Marufuji, lariat both himself and Shiozaki, and then and subdue Takashi Sugiura after Sugi had taken the kicks.

WINNER: Shuhei Taniguchi with the Wyvern Catch on Takashi Sugiura (24 minutes 2 seconds)

Yes. You read that right.
Noah's resident porn loving Terminator, tapped out.

Taniguchi made a typically short promo on the microphone after the match, by simply saying that he would win the N-1 (and then thanking everyone for coming today).
Takashi Sugiura said later, "so you got an unexpected win...wait until the N-1 final".

NOAH'S NEXT EVENT: Sunday 18th August 2018, Opening night of N-1 VICTORY, Nagoya
ATTENDANCE: 294 people (full house)
WITH THANKS TO: Maki, Atsuka, Hae, MK Bomber, Naoki, iwasborn, Kei, Lily, Shikazu,       PICTURE CREDIT: Katsuhiko Nakajima, PKDX, Noah GHC, Naomichi Marufuji ​