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Pro Wrestling NOAH

Pro Wrestling NOAH held the second night of its two-day Departure event today in Korakuen Hall, albeit with changes to the card due to YO-HEY testing positive for COVID-19.

In addition to YO-HEY, Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada, Eita, Junta Miyawaki and NOSAWA Rongai all missed today’s show.

The full results were:

• Hajime Ohara def. Kai Fujimura
• Kinya Okada and Kotaro Suzuki def. Yasutaka Yano def. Yoshinari Ogawa
• Daiki Inaba, Kaito Kiyomiya and Masa Kitamiya def. Akitoshi Saito, Mohammed Yone and Shuhei Taniguchi
• HAYATA, Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu def. Aleja, Haoh and Tadasuke
• Kazushi Sakuraba and Takashi Sugiura def. Masaaki Mochizuki and Masato Tanaka
• Keiji Mutoh, Masakatsu Funaki and Naomichi Marufuji def. Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh and Manabu Soya

Kotaro Suzuki challenged HAYATA for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship after the fourth match. The title bout will officially take place at NOAH’s show on September 3 in Yokohama Radiant Hall.

NOAH announced the full field for this year’s N-1 Victory during today’s show. The full field is:

A block
• Kaito Kiyomiya
• Keiji Mutoh
• Manabu Soya
• Takashi Sugiura

B block
• Daiki Inaba
• Kazunari Murakami
• Kenoh
• Masaaki Mochizuki

C block
• Katsuhiko Nakajima
• Kazunari Murakami
• Kotaro Suzuki
• Masato Tanaka

D block
• Akitoshi Saito
• Kazuyuki Fujita
• Masa Kitamiya
• Masakatsu Funaki

The winner will challenge Naomichi Marufuji (who is not competing in the tournament) for the GHC Heavyweight Championship at NOAH’s show on October 10 in EDION Arena Osaka.

The tournament will start on September 12 on Korakuen Hall. NOAH will then air three empty arena shows on September 18, 19 and 20 on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The tournament will end with two shows on September 26 and October 3 in Korakuen Hall.

The full schedule is:

September 12 on Korakuen Hall
• A block: Keiji Mutoh vs. Takashi Sugiura
• B block: Kazunari Murakami vs. Kenoh
• C block: Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Masato Tanaka
• D block: Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Masa Kitamiya

September 18
• A block: Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Manabu Soya
• B block: Daiki Inaba vs. Masaaki Mochizuki
• C block: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Kotaro Suzuki
• D block: Akitoshi Saito vs. Masakatsu Funaki

September 19
• A block: Keiji Mutoh vs. Manabu Soya
• B block: Daiki Inaba vs. Kenoh
• C block: Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Kotaro Suzuki
• D block: Akitoshi Saito vs. Kazuyuki Fujita

September 20
• A block: Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Takashi Sugiura
• B block: Kazunari Murakami vs. Masaaki Mochizuki
• C block: Kazunari Sakuraba vs. Masato Tanaka
• D block: Masa Kitamiya vs. Masakatsu Funaki

September 26 in Korakuen Hall
• A block: Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Keiji Mutoh
• A block: Manabu Soya vs. Takashi Sugiura
• B block: Kenoh vs. Masaaki Mochizuki
• B block: Daiki Inaba vs. Kazunari Murakami
• C block: Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Kazushi Sakuraba
• C block: Kotaro Suzuki vs. Masato Tanaka
• D block: Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Masakatsu Funaki
• D block: Akitoshi Saito vs. Masa Kitamiya

Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS

Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS has announced the full card for its show on August 11 in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring.

The full card is:

• Jun Kasai vs. Takahiro Katori
• Deathmatch: Kamui and Minoru Fujita vs. Kenji Fukimoto and Rina Yamashita
• Battle Royal: Brahman Kei vs. Brahman Shu vs. Dragon Libre vs. GENTARO vs. Kengo vs. Lekka vs. Takashi Sasaki vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Tomoya Hirata vs. Yuya Susumu
• Hardcore: Daisuke Masaoka and ‘X’ vs. Mammoth Sasaki and Toru Sugiura
• Deathmatch: Masashi Takeda vs. Takayuki Ueki vs. Toshiyuki Sakuda vs. Violento Jack

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling has uploaded a new interview with David Finlay ahead of his match against Jay White for the NEVER Openweight Championship at Resurgence on August 14 in The Torch at L.A. Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The interview can be read here.

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling has announced Chihiro Hashimoto and HARASHIMA will face Yukio Naya and Yukio Sakaguchi at its show on August 29 in Sendai.

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