Noah Grand Ship In Nagoya 2022

NOAH Grand Ship In Nagoya 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on September 25, 2022, in Nagoya, Japan, at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.[2]

NOAH Grand Ship In Nagoya 2022
Promotional poster featuring Kenoh and Kaito Kiyomiya
PromotionCyberFight
Brand(s)Pro Wrestling Noah
DateSeptember 25, 2022
CityNagoya, Japan
VenueAichi Prefectural Gymnasium
Attendance1,933[1]
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The event featured nine matches with four of Noah's five championships on the line. The main event saw 2022 N-1 Victory winner Kaito Kiyomiya defeat Kenoh to win the GHC Heavyweight Championship for the second time. Other top matches included Satoshi Kojima and Takashi Sugiura defeating Sugiura-gun (Hideki Suzuki and Timothy Thatcher) to win the GHC Tag Team Championship, and Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka defeated Stinger stablemates Chris Ridgeway and Yoshinari Ogawa to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.

Background

Storylines

The event featured nine professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[3]

Event

The event started with the confrontation between rookies Kai Fujimura and Yasutaka Yano and Los Perros del Mal de Japón's Eita and Nosawa Rongai, which solded with the victory of the latter team. The second match of the evening featured Masa Kitamiya and Yoshiki Inamura who picked up a victory against Funky Express (Akitoshi Saito and Mohammed Yone). Next, Alejandro, Extreme Tiger and Ninja Mack defeated Kongo's Hajime Ohara, Hi69 and Tadasuke. The fourth bout saw El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Jack Morris and Naomichi Marufuji defeating Daiki Inaba, Masaaki Mochizuki and Masato Tanaka in six-man tag team action. Next, Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka defeated Stinger stablemates Chris Ridgeway and Yoshinari Ogawa in an internal stable clash for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. Next, Satoshi Kojima and Takashi Sugiura defeated Sugiura-gun's Hideki Suzuki and Timothy Thatcher to capture the GHC Tag Team Championship. Next, Hayata defeated Yo-Hey to secure his fifth consecutive defense of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. The semi main event saw Kazuyuki Fujita and Keiji Muto defeating Kongo's Katsuhiko Nakajima and Masakatsu Funaki in tag team action.[4]

The main event portraited the confrontation between Kenoh and the winner of the 2022 edition of the N-1 Victory Kaito Kiyomiya who won his right to challenge for Kenoh's GHC Heavyweight Championship. The bout concluded with Kiyomiya's win, ending Kenho's reign at 71 days and stopping him from securing his first defense.[5][6]

Results
No.Results[7]StipulationsTimes[1]
1Los Perros del Mal de Japón (Eita and Nosawa Rongai) defeated Kai Fujimura and Yasutaka YanoTag team match4:03
2Masa Kitamiya and Yoshiki Inamura defeated Funky Express (Akitoshi Saito and Mohammed Yone)Tag team match9:47
3Alejandro, Extreme Tiger and Ninja Mack defeated Kongo (Hajime Ohara, Hi69 and Tadasuke)Six-man tag team match11:24
4El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Jack Morris and Naomichi Marufuji defeated Daiki Inaba, Masaaki Mochizuki and Masato TanakaSix-man tag team match13:49
5Stinger (Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka) defeated Stinger (Chris Ridgeway and Yoshinari Ogawa) (c)Tag team match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship26:56
6Satoshi Kojima and Takashi Sugiura defeated Sugiura-gun (Hideki Suzuki and Timothy Thatcher) (c)Tag team match for the GHC Tag Team Championship18:41
7Hayata (c) defeated Yo-HeySingles match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship23:45
8Kazuyuki Fujita and Keiji Muto defeated Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima and Masakatsu Funaki)Tag team match20:35
9Kaito Kiyomiya defeated Kenoh (c)Singles match for the GHC Heavyweight Championship26:14
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

References
  1. Kreikenbohm, Philip (September 25, 2022). "NOAH Grand Ship In Nagoya - Pro-Wrestling Love Forever 2 "Outbreak"". cagematch.net. Retrieved January 1, 2023.
  2. Pro Wrestling Noah (September 25, 2022). 2022年09月25日 （日） 【武藤引退ロード】 GRAND SHIP 2022 in NAGOYA PRO-WRESTLING LOVE FOREVER.2～OUT BREAK〜. noah.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved January 1, 2023.
  3. Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  4. Dark Angelita (September 27, 2022). "NOAH: «Grand Ship 2022 in Nagoya» Kaito Kiyomiya es campeón". superluchas.com (in Spanish). Retrieved January 1, 2023.
  5. Fritz, Syn (September 26, 2022). "Noah Grand Ship In Nagoya 2022". monthlypuroresu.com. Retrieved January 1, 2023.
  6. Pollock, John (September 25, 2022). "POST PURORESU: Burning Spirit, Kiyomiya wins title, AJPW 50th Anniversary". postwrestling.com. Retrieved January 1, 2023.
  7. Daly, Wayne (September 25, 2022). "NOAH Results: Grand Ship In Nagoya – Nagoya, Japan (9/25)". wrestling-news.net. Retrieved January 1, 2023.
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