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event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand

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. It took place on February 23, 2022, in Nagoya, Japan, at the Nagoya Congress Center. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. The event featured ten matches with three of Noah's five

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on the line. The main event saw

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defeat Katsuhiko Nakajima to win the

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for the first time. Other top matches included Daisuke Harada successfully defending the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship against

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, and Atsushi Kotoge and Yo-Hey defeated Stinger ( Hayata and

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) to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.

Storylines

The event featured ten

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that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed

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, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Event

The event started with the internal stable clash of Funky Express' teams of King Tany and

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, and

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and Masao Inoue solded with the victory of the preceding team. In the second match,

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defeated Kinya Okada in singles action. Next, Kotaro Suzuki and Nosawa Rongai picked up a victory over Yasutaka Yano and

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. The fourth bout saw Aleja, Hajime Ohara and Tadasuke defeating

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and Kai Fujimura in six-man tag team action. Aleja, began showing compassion towards real life brother Kai Fujimura, after stopping Tadasuke's attack on him, hinting his defection from Kongo which eventually happened two days later on February 25 at "Noah Step Forwrard". Next, Kendo Kashin vs.

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ended in a double count-out. In the sixth match, Naomichi Marufuji and

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defeated

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and Yoshiki Inamura. The seventh bout saw Atsushi Kotoge and Yo-Hey defeating Hayata and

to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. Next up, Daisuke Harada retained the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship for the second time in a row against

. In the semi main event, the team of

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, Go Shiozaki and

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defeated Kongo ( Kenoh, Manabu Soya and

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). In the main event,

defeated Katsuhiko Nakajima to win the

for the first time in his career, ending Nakajima's reign at 136 days. After the match concluded, Fujita received a challenge from

Results

References

External links

Pro Wrestling Noah official website
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