Noah The New Year 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on January 1, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the

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. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. It was the first

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promoted by Noah in 2022. The event featured ten matches with four of Noah's

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on the line. The main event saw Katsuhiko Nakajima defeat Go Shiozaki to retain the

GHC Heavyweight Championship The is the professional wrestling world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the Japanese promotion CyberFight currently defended in the Pro Wrestling Noah brand division. It is one of CyberFight's two top men's world titles, alon ...

. Other top matches included Kenoh successfully defending the GHC National Championship against

Kaito Kiyomiya is a Japanese professional wrestler who works for Pro Wrestling Noah, where he is the current GHC Heavyweight Champion in his second reign. Early life Kiyomiya grew up a lifelong fan of professional wrestling, citing Mitsuharu Misawa as his bigg ...

, Keiji Muto and Naomichi Marufuji defeated M's Alliance stablemates Masaaki Mochizuki and

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to retain the

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, and Hayata defeated

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to retain the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship.

Background

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. The official theme song for the event was "Voyage" by

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Event

Preliminary matches

The event started with the confrontation between the teams of

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and Kinya Okada, and Kai Fujimura and Yasutaka Yano which solded with the victory of the preceding team. In the second bout, Funky Express (

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, King Tany and

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) defeated

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( Manabu Soya,

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and Tadasuke) in six-man tag team action. Next,

( Aleja and

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) outmatched the team of Stinger ( Seiki Yoshioka and

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). The fourth bout saw Hajime Ohara, Momo No Seishun Tag ( Atsushi Kotoge and Daisuke Harada) and Último Dragón picking a victory over ''

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'' ( Eita, Kotaro Suzuki, Nosawa Rongai and Yo-Hey) in eight-man tag team action. Next up, Kazuyuki Fujita and Kendo Kashin defeated Ikuto Hidaka and Masakatsu Funaki. In the sixth match, Hayata secured the eighth consecutive defense of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship against Stinger stablemate

. In the seventh match, Keiji Muto and Naomichi Marufuji defended the

for the first time against M's Alliance stablemates Masaaki Mochizuki and

. Next up, Kenta and Sugiura-gun ( Kazushi Sakuraba and Takashi Sugiura) defeated

Daiki Inaba is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently competes as a freelancer, majorly for Pro Wrestling Noah. He's best known for his time in Wrestle-1, where he was a two-time Wrestle-1 Champion, and the winner of the 2019 Wrestle-1 Grand Prix. ...

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and Yoshiki Inamura. In the semi main event, Kenoh secured the second consecutive defense of the GHC National Championship against

Main event

In the main event, Katsuhiko Nakajima defeated Go Shiozaki to mark his third consecutive defense of the

Results

References

External links

Pro Wrestling Noah official website
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