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KENTA to take part in NOAH Budokan Hall event on January 1

Posted on by Bryan Rose

KENTA is set to make his return to Pro Wrestling NOAH on January 1st.

It was announced this evening at the NOAH the BEST 2021 event that KENTA, who currently wrestles for New Japan Pro Wrestling, will be part of NOAH’s event at Budokan Hall on January 1st. It wasn’t specified who he will face.

KENTA graduated from the All Japan Pro Wrestling dojo in 2000 but quickly joined NOAH later in the year along with most of AJPW’s roster. He spent the next 14 years winning major championships in both NOAH’s junior heavyweight and heavyweight divisions, including winning the GHC Heavyweight Championship on one occasion. He left to join WWE in 2014, and upon his departure from WWE in 2019, he joined NJPW, where he has remained since.

On January 8, NOAH will take part in the third night of Wrestle Kingdom 8 at the Yokohama Arena for a show called NJPW vs. NOAH, a supercard featuring wrestlers from both companies. No matches have been announced for the show.

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.