Keiji Muto Grand Final Pro-Wrestling "Last" Love

On June 12, 2022 at CyberFight Festival, Muto announced that he would be retiring in 2023.[4] A few days later, Noah announced the dates of Muto's retirement tour, with his final match taking place in the Tokyo Dome on February 21.[5][6]

The event featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[7]

On January 21 at Wrestle Kingdom 17 night 2, Tetsuya Naito defeated Kenoh in the main event. After the match, Keiji Muto came to ring and asked Naito to be he his final opponent in his retirement match at Keiji Muto Grand Final Pro-Wrestling "Last" Love which Naito accepted the proposition by Muto, setting up the match for February 21.[8]

At the same event, Kazuchika Okada and Togi Makabe took on Kaito Kiyomiya and Yoshiki Inamura in a tag team match. Before the match started Kiyomiya wanted to start the match with Okada but Okada let Makabe start for his team instead. During the match, Okada was wrestling Inamura until Kiyomiya came in the ring and attacked Okada by kicking him in the face which resulted in Okada retaliating, causing both Okada and Kiyomiya to brawl outside of the ring until the match eventually ended in a no contest. As Okada left the ring, Kiyomiya challenged Okada to a match only for Okada to return and to continue brawling with Kiyomiya until both men was pulled away by their tag team partners, officials and staff. A match was set between Okada and Kiyomiya for the Tokyo Dome on the following day.[8][9]

The event started with three pre-show matches broadcast on Noah's YouTube channel.[10] In the first one, GHC Tag Team Champions of the time Masa Kitamiya and Daiki Inaba picked up a victory over Yoshiki Inamura and Yasutaka Yano in tag team competition. Next, a dispute between wrestlers from Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling took place with the team of Yuka Sakazaki, Miyu Yamashita, Shoko Nakajima and Rika Tatsumi defeating Mizuki, Maki Itoh, Miu Watanabe and Yuki Arai. The last pre-show match saw Good Looking Guys (Jake Lee, Jack Morris and Anthony Greene) outmatching Sugiura-gun (Takashi Sugiura and Timothy Thatcher) and Satoshi Kojima.[11]

The first match of the main event saw Stinger (Hayata, Chris Ridgeway), Yoshinari Ogawa, Eita, and Daga defeating Atsushi Kotoge, Yo-Hey, Seiki Yoshioka, Alejandro and Junta Miyawaki. Hayata and Ridgeway still held grudges against Ogawa as they were still number one contenders for Ogawa's and Eita's GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship at the time. Next up, a clash between DDT Pro-Wrestling teams took place in the fifth match of the night. The37Kamiina (Mao, Shunma Katsumata, Yuki Ueno and Toy Kojima) picked up a victory over Burning (Tetsuya Endo and Yuya Koroku), Hideki Okatani and Takeshi Masada in eight-man tag team action. The sixth match saw Naomichi Marufuji, El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. and Ninja Mack defeating Dragon Gate's Z-Brats (Shun Skywalker, Kai and Diamante). Next up, Kongo (Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima and Manabu Soya) defeated All Japan Pro Wrestling's Kento Miyahara, Suwama and Yuma Aoyagi. The eighth match represented Nosawa Rongai's retirement match in which he teamed up with his old Tokyo Gurentai stablemate and tag team partner Mazada to fall short to New Japan Pro Wrestling's Taiji Ishimori and Gedo of the Bullet Club. The ninth and tenth matches portraited confrontations between singles champions of both Noah and NJPW. In the first one, the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi defeated GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Amakusa, bout succeeded by the confrontation between IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada and GHC Heavyweight Champion Kaito Kiyomiya solded with the victory of Okada.[12][13]

As it was scheduled from weeks before, the event was planned to have a single main event match in which Keiji Muto was expected to face Tetsuya Naito. The bout concluded with Naito's victory, ending a long-term competition between the two wrestlers originated from Naito's looking for Muto since his debut. However, after the match ended, Muto challenged old rival, fellow Three Musketeer and former nWo Japan stablemate Masahiro Chono who joined the commentary table to a short match and even nominated NJPW referee legend Tiger Hattori who was also sitting ringside to officiate the bout. The match concluded with Chono's win which occurred after executing his signature STF hold for the victory.[14]