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Keiji Mutoh signs two-year contract with Pro Wrestling NOAH

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Keiji Mutoh has signed a two-year contract with Pro Wrestling NOAH after winning the GHC Heavyweight title.

During a joint press conference with new DDT KO-D Openweight champion Jun Akiyama, Mutoh confirmed that he has joined the NOAH roster full time for the next two years. When the contract ends, Mutoh will be 60 years old. 

Akiyama, 51, announced that he has joined the DDT roster on a full-time basis. He won the KO-D title Sunday morning at Kawasaki Strong 2021, pinning champion Tetsuya Endo. NOAH and DDT are under the same parent company, CyberAgent.

Mutoh won the championship at Budokan Hall on February 12th, pinning Go Shiozaki to win the championship for the first time. Kaito Kiyomiya came out and challenged Mutoh after the match. The match has now been announced for the March 14th Great Voyage in Fukuoka show.

With his GHC Heavyweight title win, Mutoh has become the third person to win the IWGP Heavyweight, AJPW Triple Crown, and GHC Heavyweight titles, the other two being Kensuke Sasaki and Yoshihiro Takayama.

Big Audio Nightmare: A look at Keiji Mutoh’s GHC Championship win

Posted on by Adam Summers

The original alternate programming is back with Mike Sempervive and I and there’s much to discuss about the Japanese wrestling scene.

Those topics include but are not limited to the new GHC Champion at 58 years old Keiji Mutoh, everything about good and bad about NOAH’s Return to Budokan, NJPW’s New Beginning tour and Gedo pushing the envelope, a tour around the Joshi landscape, and much more!

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Keiji Mutoh wins GHC Heavyweight title at NOAH Destination 2021

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Keiji Mutoh is the new GHC Heavyweight Champion.

Mutoh pinned Go Shiozaki Friday morning at NOAH’s Destination 2021 in Budokan Hall to win the GHC Heavyweight title for the first time. He pinned Shiozaki following a hurricanrana. This ends Shiozaki’s fourth reign with the championship, which started on January 4, 2020 and lasted for 405 days.

After the match, Kaito Kiyomiya came out and challenged Mutoh to a title match. Kiyomiya won his match earlier in the show, where he teamed with Yoshiki Inamura to defeat Jun Akiyama and Naomichi Marufuji in a generational tag team match.

Other title matches on the show had Kenou defeating Masakatsu Funaki to retain the GHC National title, Seiki Yoshioka defeating Daisuke Harada to win the GHC Junior title for the first time, and HAYATA & Yoshinari Ogawa defeating Ikuto Hidaka and Kotaro Suzuki to retain the GHC Junior Tag Team titles.

NOAH announcned a live attendance number of 4,196 for their return to Budokan Hall.