Noah 4/10 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH “Spring Navig. 2016 vol. 2”, 4/10/2016 [Sun] 12:00 @ Differ Ariake in Tokyo

(1) GHC Junior Heavyweight Cotendership Tournament 1st Round: Daisuke Harada vs. Atsushi Kotoge
◆Winner: Harada (4:29) with the Katayama German Suplex Hold.
(2) GHC Junior Heavyweight Cotendership Tournament 1st Round: Kenoh vs. Hajime Ohara
◆Winner: Ohara (10:49) with the Muy Bien Clutch.
~ The main event will see Daisuke Harada taking on Hajime Ohara. Ohara appeared to have suffered injured ribs though still managed to capture Kenoh into the flash pin. The medical trainer wrapped Ohara’s stomach following the match.
(3) Mitsuhiro Kitamiya vs. Hitoshi Kumano
◆Winner: Kitamiya (9:09) following a Spear.
~ Kitamiya with an odd statement as he said that today is the “last match as Mitsuhiro Kitamiya”. Which is odd/mysterious since he is booked in the upcoming GTL along with his former DR partner Nakajima. Could he be alluding to a name change for himself?
(4) Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Taichi, TAKA Michinoku & El Desperado vs. Yoshinari Ogawa, Taiji Ishimori, Genba Hirayanagi & Kaito Kiyomiya
◆Winner: Kanemaru (13:17) following the Touch Out on Genba.

~ The teams for this years Global Tag League were announced as follows…

● Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. (Reining GHC Tag Champions)
● Takashi Sugiura & Shelton X Benjamin
● Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka
● Naomichi Marufuji & Toru Yano
● Katsuhiko Nakajija & Mitsuhiro Kitamiya
● Muhammad Yone & Quiet Storm
● Go Shiozaki & Maybach Taniguchi
● (Another team to be announced soon)

~ This years league is set to begin on 4/21 and will two top ranked teams facing off in a final match on 5/4.

(5) Maybach Taniguchi & Akitoshi Saito vs. Muhammad Yone & Quiet Storm
◆Winner: Storm (8:48) following the 50cm Lariat on Saito.
~ The team of Yone and Storm proves successful as they also have a team name of “50 Funky Powers”.
(6) Takashi Sugiura, Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima
◆Winner: Shiozaki (19:11) following the Go-Arm Lariat on Iizuka.
~ Shiozaki remains undefeated for this tour with yet another win over SZKG.



(7) GHC Junior Heavyweight Cotendership Tournament Final Round: Daisuke Harada vs. Hajime Ohara
◆Winner: Ohara (16:01) with the Muy Bien Clutch.
~ Ohara becomes the next challenger for the GHC Junior belt, which is held by Kanemaru.
~ Ohara declared that he will return the belt to NOAH, while Kanemaru came out and plainly stated that Ohara cannot take the belt from him.