New Japan Pro Wrestling vs NOAH! “WRESTLE KINGDOM 17 in Yokohama Arena” all match cards decided!
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2023.01.06
New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Pro-Wrestling Noah face off in Yokohama for the first time in about a year! All match cards for “WRESTLE KINGDOM 17 in Yokohama Arena” on Saturday, January 21 have been decided.
In the main event (the 9th match), Tetsuya Naito and Kenoh clash in the “L.I.J. vs. Kongo Single 5th Match” battle. A one-on-one duel with the prestige of the unit between the leaders of LIJ and Kongo is realized. Following last year’s confrontation, L・I・J and Kongo have another exciting encounter. Victory is a proposition for both Naito, who has advanced techniques and inside work, and Kenoh, who uses powerful blows as a weapon, as the central characters of the unit. Which one will push the right arm up at the end?
The semi-final (8th match) is a vice-captain match of “L・I・J vs. Kongo Single 5th Match”, where “KOPW 2023” holders Shingo Takagi and Katsuhiko Nakajima face off. Takagi and Nakajima have played singles twice in the past, with Nakajima winning both times. Takagi wants to be honest for the third time. Please pay attention to the match between strong players.
The 7th match will be a middle-of-the-line match of “L・I・J vs. Kongo Singles 5th Match”, where former tag partners SANADA and Manabu Soya will face off.
From 2010 to 2011, SANADA (then Seiya Sanada) and Soya won the Asian Tag Team Championship twice in All Japan Pro Wrestling as a tag team “es”. And after the dissolution of the tag, they worked hard as rivals of the same generation. A one-on-one duel between the two players who will fight over time will not be easy.
The 6th match is the second match of “L.I.J vs. Kongo Singles 5th Match”, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi will face Hajime Ohara.
Hiromu Takahashi won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship 4-way match at the Tokyo Dome on January 4th this year, and has achieved his fifth title crown, so he cannot be defeated as a champion. Ohara, on the other hand, was the same as Kazuchika Okada when he was in the Toryumon era, and is a technician who competed with KUSHIDA in “Hustle” and “SMASH”. What kind of battle will the encounter between the influential people bring about?
The 5th match is BUSHI vs Tadasuke, the vanguard match of “L・I・J vs. Kongo Singles 5th Match”.
Both of them have a common point of debuting in 2007. In addition, the two who have reached New Japan and Noah from other groups, respectively, and are vomiting in the junior front, will hit each other with their fighting spirit aiming for the first win in the fifth match.
In the fourth match, Kazuchika Okada pitted Togi Makabe against Kaito Kiyomiya & Yoshiki Inamura.
Okada and Kiyomiya faced each other as a tag team at last year’s 1.8 Yokoari (Okada & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Keiji Mutoh & Kiyomiya). At that time, although he struggled, he was defeated by Okada, and Kiyomiya cried with frustration, and Okada hit Kiyomiya with harsh words. On the other hand, Makabe and Inamura met for the first time last year at 10.30 Noah Ariake. Despite being a six-man tag team (Muto & Marufuji & Inamura vs. Tanahashi & Makabe & Honma), Yoshiki Inamura carved into Makabe’s body with a rugged and powerful fight. What kind of battle will the match between the two camps, which is not shallow, be like, and what kind of spectacle will be seen after the match?
The third match was between Tiger Mask, Ryusuke Taguchi, and Master Watto against Noah regular army AMAKUSA, Junta Miyawaki, and Alejandro.
The 6-person tag team between juniors from both groups will be a speedy and thrilling battle, where each will clash with pride and stubbornness.
The second match is El Desperado vs YO-HEY (Noah Regular Army), a one-on-one duel between junior warriors representing both groups.
The two faced off in a tag team match on 1.8 last year (Desperado & DOUKI vs YO-HEY & NOSAWA out of the question). When Desperado commented after the match, “YO-HEY, it’s funny. Don’t do it from the start.”
There is no doubt that the singles confrontation between the two that will finally come true will be something you can’t take your eyes off for a moment.
The first match is a mixed 8-man tag team from both teams, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Toru Yano & Satoshi Kojima & Takashi Sugiura vs Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA & El Phantasmo & Gedo.
The only mixed confrontation in the all-out battle. Which team’s chemical reaction will surpass?
In the 0-2 match, Tomohiro Ishii, accompanied by Young Lion Oscar Loibe, faces Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba of the Noah regular army.
In last year’s 1.8 Yokoari, Ishii had a fierce hand-to-hand fight with Yoshiki Inamura. This time as well, it is inevitable that Noah will rock the outside with a fierce head-to-head match with Kitamiya, the most powerful fighter.
Also, as a good-looking Roibe who was selected this time, I want to leave a mark here. Kitamiya and Inaba, who has won the WRESTLE 1 Championship twice in the past, will be difficult opponents, but they will aim for victory with Ishii, who is a veteran of the past.
In the 0-1 match, Ryohei Oiwa & Akio Fujita vs Yasutaka Yano & Daitsugu Ozawa, the young men from both teams clash.
Fujita and Yano went head-to-head in last year’s 1.8 horizontal battle. For both of them, it is a rematch over the year, and I would like to add black and white.
A battle between young players, including Oiwa, who works hard with Fujita, and Ozawa, who just made his debut in September last year, ignites the beginning of the rivalry.
■ “WRESTLE KINGDOM 17 in Yokohama Arena”
January 21, 2023 (Sat) Doors open at 15:00 / Match starts at 17:00
Kanagawa/Yokohama Arena
https://www.njpw.co.jp/400431