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Pro Wrestling NOAH

Pro Wrestling NOAH aired an empty arena show today on ABEMA and WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The full results were:

• Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Yoshiki Inamura – Time Limit Draw (15 minutes)
• Haoh and Nioh def. Hajime Ohara and Junta Miyawaki
• Kenoh def. Masao Inoue
• Katsuhiko Nakajima and Tadasuke def. Kinya Okada and Masa Kitamiya
• Kazuyuki Fujita def. Manabu Soya
• Eita, Ikuto Hidaka and NOSAWA Rongai def. HAYATA, Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu
• Masaaki Mochizuki and Masato Tanaka def. Akitoshi Saito and Mohammed Yone
• Yoshinari Ogawa def. Kaito Kiyomiya
• Daisuke Harada and Takashi Sugiura def. Atsushi Kotoge and Naomichi Marufuji

The Great Muta made a surprise appearance after Kenoh defeated Masao Inoue to spray his signature green mist. He also sprayed a drone with red mist.

Dragon Gate’s Eita made a surprise appearance to team with Ikuto Hidaka and NOSAWA Rongai against HAYATA, Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu. After the match, Eita announced he will enter the battle royal to determine Atsushi Kotoge’s next challenger for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship on June 26.

 

 

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Takashi Sugiura defeated Naomichi Marufuji in the main event. Sugiura then challenged Marufuji for GHC Heavyweight Championship.

NOAH has announced new matches for its empty arena shows on June 26 and 27 and shows on June 30 in Korakuen Hall and July 11 in Sendai. The announced cards are:

June 26
• Kinya Okada vs. Manabu Soya
• HAYATA and Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Kai Fujimura and Yasutaka Yano
• Elimination: Akitoshi Saito, Masao Inoue, Mohammed Yone and Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Kazunari Murakami, Kazushi Sakuraba, Kendo Kashin and Takashi Sugiura
• Kaito Kiyomiya and Yoshiki Inamura vs. Masaaki Mochizuki and Naomichi Marufuji
• Battle royal: Daisuke Harada vs. Eita vs. Hajime Ohara vs. Haoh vs. Ikuto Hidaka vs. Junta Miyawaki vs. Nioh vs. NOSAWA Rongai vs. Seiki Yoshioka vs. Tadasuke
• Steel Cage hair-versus-hair: Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Masa Kitamiya

June 27
• GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship: Atsushi Kotoge (c) vs. TBD
• Kazushi Sakuraba and Takashi Sugiura vs. Masato Tanaka and Naomichi Marufuji
• Great Muta vs. Kenoh

June 30 in Korakuen Hall
• Kazunari Murakami, Kazushi Sakuraba, Takashi Sugiura and ‘X’ vs. Masaaki Mochizuki, Masato Tanaka, Naomichi Marufuji and Yuko Miyamoto

July 11 in Sendai
• GHC Heavyweight Championship: Naomichi Marufuji (c) vs. Takashi Sugiura

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate held its fifth Rainbow Gate 2021 tour show today in Orocity Hall.

 

 

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The full results were:

• Kota Minoura and Shun Skywalker def. Keisuke Okuda and Punch Tominaga
• Kzy, Susumu Yokosuka and U-T def. Don Fujii, Ultimo Dragon and Yosuke Santa Maria
• Diamante and SB KENTo vs. Dragon Dia and Jason Lee – No Contest
• Genki Horiguchi and King Shimizu def. Ryo Saito and Yasushi Kanda
• Ben-K, Dragon Kid, Kagetora and YAMATO def. BxB Hulk, Eita, H.Y.O and KAI

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling will hold its first Kizuna Road tour show tomorrow in Korakuen Hall.

The full card is:

• Minoru Suzuki vs. Yuya Uemura
• Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yota Tsuji
• Dick Togo, EVIL, Jado and Yujiro Takahashi vs. Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano and YOSHI-HASHI
• El Phantasmo, Gedo and and Taiji Ishimori vs. Kazuchika Okada, SHO and YOH
• BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito vs. El Desperado, Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Zack Sabre Jr.

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