Noah Star Navigation 2023

Star Navigation 2023 (Night 1)
Promotional poster for the first night of the event featuring El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. and Manabu Soya
Promotion	CyberFight
Brand(s)	Pro Wrestling Noah
Date	February 5, 2023
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Korakuen Hall
Attendance	825 (Night 1) [1]
Pay-per-view chronology
← Previous The Great Muta Final "Bye-Bye" Next → Great Voyage in Osaka 2023
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Star Navigation 2023 was a two-night professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on February 5 and March 9, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Korakuen Hall. The event aired CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. ^{[2] [3]}

The card comprised a total of 17 matches, with eight on the first night and nine on the second, including two matches on Night 2's pre-show. Two of Noah's six championships were on the line. In the main event for Night 1, El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. defeated Manabu Soya to retain the GHC National Championship. In the main event for Night 2, Amakusa defeated Hi69 to retain the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship.

Storylines

The event featured a total of seventeen professional wrestling matches (eight in the first night and nine in the second) that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. ^[4]

Night 1

Preliminary matches

The first night of the event which took place on February 5, started with the confrontation between Tadasuke and Hi69 and Kinya Okada and Daishi Ozawa which solded with the victory of the preceding team. The second bout saw Super Crazy getting a victory over Yasutaka Yano in singles competition. Next up, Timothy Thatcher and Hideki Suzuki of Sugiura-gun defeated Masaaki Mochizuki and Shuhei Taniguchi in tag team action. The fourth bout saw the team of Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Shuji Kondo and Hajime Ohara outmatching Daiki Inaba, Yoshiki Inamura, Ninja Mack and Atsushi Kotoge. In the fifth match, one half of the GHC Tag Team Champions Satoshi Kojima defeated Masa Kitamiya in singles action. Next, Kaito Kiyomiya, Naomichi Marafuji and Takashi Sugiura defeated the team of Jack Morris, Jake Lee and Anthony Greene, bout after Kiyomiya fired up his short-term feud with Morris which eventually concluded with their clash for the GHC Heavyweight Championship seven days later at Great Voyage in Osaka. In the semi main event, GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Yoshinari Ogawa and Eita alongside Nosawa Rongai, Chris Ridgeway and Daga defeated Amakusa, Junta Miyawaki, Alejandro, Yo-Hey and Seiki Yoshioka in an elimination tag team match from which Miwayaki was last eliminated. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Main event

In the main event, El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. defeated Manabu Soya to secure his second consecutive defense of the GHC National Championship. ^[8]

No.	Results [9]	Stipulations	Times [1]
1	Kongo (Tadasuke and Hi69) defeated Kinya Okada and Daishi Ozawa	Tag team match	7:04
2	Super Crazy defeated Yasutaka Yano	Singles match	7:03
3	Sugiura-gun (Timothy Thatcher and Hideki Suzuki) defeated Masaaki Mochizuki and Shuhei Taniguchi	Tag team match	9:53
4	Kongo (Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Shuji Kondo and Hajime Ohara) defeated Daiki Inaba, Yoshiki Inamura, Ninja Mack and Atsushi Kotoge	Eight-man tag team match	7:11
5	Satoshi Kojima defeated Masa Kitamiya	Singles match	10:34
6	Kaito Kiyomiya, Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura defeated Good Looking Guys (Jack Morris, Jake Lee and Anthony Greene)	Six-man tag team match	17:49
7	Yoshinari Ogawa, Eita, Nosawa Rongai, Chris Ridgeway and Daga defeated Amakusa, Junta Miyawaki, Alejandro, Yo-Hey and Seiki Yoshioka	Ten-man elimination tag team match	22:53
8	El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. (c) defeated Manabu Soya	Singles match for the GHC National Championship	20:46
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

Night 2

Star Navigation 2023 (Night 2)
Promotional poster featuring Daisuke Harada
Promotion	CyberFight
Brand(s)	Pro Wrestling Noah
Date	March 9, 2023
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Korakuen Hall
Attendance	1,310 [10]
Tagline(s)	Stay Alive
Pay-per-view chronology
← Previous Keiji Muto Grand Final Pro-Wrestling "Last-Love" Next → Great Voyage in Yokohama 2023

The second night from March 9 show concentrated on the retirement match of Daisuke Harada. On March 2, 2023, Pro Wrestling Noah announced that he was forced to end his career due to sustaining serious injuries. ^{[11] [12]}

Preliminary matches

Two preshow matches have been broadcast on Noah's YouTube channel. In the first one, Shuji Kondo, Tadasuke and Hajime Ohara picked up a win over Kinya Okada, Yasutaka Yano and Daishi Ozawa in six-man tag team action. The second one portraited the confrontation between Super Crazy, Extreme Tiger and Lanzeloth, and Yo-Hey, Seiki Yoshioka and Alejandro, bout solded with the victory of the preceding team. ^[13] The first match of the main card saw a one-minute exhibition match which represented Daisuke Harada's retirement match in which he went into a draw against his "Momo No Seishun Tag" partner Atsushi Kotoge. Next up, Takashi Sugiura, Kazuyuki Fujita and Hideki Suzuki outmatched the team of Naomichi Marufuji, Masaaki Mochizuki and Shuhei Taniguchi. The fifth nout saw Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima and Manabu Soya defeating Yoshiki Inamura and the GHC Tag Team Champions Masa Kitamiya and Daiki Inaba. The preceding team picked up the victory. After the bout concluded, All Japan Pro Wrestling's reigning World Tag Team Champions Yuma Aoyagi and Takuya Nomura laid a challenge for Kenoh and Soya for the second night of AJPW's Dream Power Series event from March 21, 2023. Next up, one half of the reigning GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Eita defeated Hayata as a result of a disqualification after the latter attacked him with the title belt during match. In the seventh match, Chris Ridgeway defeated the other GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion Yoshinari Ogawa by submission. The sixth and seventh matches occurred as a build-up for Eita and Ogawa's junior title defense over Hayata and Ridgeway from Great Voyage in Yokohama 2023. In the semi main event, Jake Lee and Anthony Greene picked up a win over Kaito Kiyomiya and Atsushi Kotoge. The bout also took part in the build-up for the GHC Heavyweight Championship match between Kiyomiya and Lee from Great Voyage. ^[14]

Main event

In the main event of the show, Amakusa defeated Hi69 and secured the second consecutive defense of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship in that respective reign. ^[15]

No.	Results [2]	Stipulations	Times [10]
1P	Kongo (Shuji Kondo, Tadasuke and Hajime Ohara) defeated Kinya Okada, Yasutaka Yano and Daishi Ozawa	Six-man tag team match	5:00
2P	Super Crazy, Extreme Tiger and Lanzeloth defeated Yo-Hey, Seiki Yoshioka and Alejandro	Six-man tag team match	6:23
3	Daisuke Harada vs. Atsushi Kotoge ended in a time-limit draw	One-minute exhibition match [a]	1:00
4	Sugiura-gun (Takashi Sugiura, Kazuyuki Fujita and Hideki Suzuki) defeated Naomichi Marufuji, Masaaki Mochizuki and Shuhei Taniguchi	Six-man tag team match	12:59
5	Kongo (Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima and Manabu Soya) defeated Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba and Yoshiki Inamura	Six-man tag team match	12:11
6	Eita defeated Hayata by disqualification	Singles match	3:47
7	Chris Ridgeway defeated Yoshinari Ogawa by submission	Singles match	10:20
8	Good Looking Guys (Jake Lee and Anthony Greene) defeated Kaito Kiyomiya and Atsushi Kotoge	Tag team match	13:47
9	Amakusa (c) defeated Hi69	Singles match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship	12:15
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match P  – the match was broadcast on the pre-show

Notes

1. This was Harada's special retirement match.

References

1. Kreikenbohm, Philip (February 5, 2023). "NOAH Star Navigation 2023". cagematchn.net. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
2. Pro Wrestling Noah (February 16, 2023). 2023年03月09日 （木） STAR NAVIGATION 2023. noah.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved March 2, 2023.
3. Wrestle Universe. "STAR NAVIGATION 2023 東京・後楽園ホール". wrestle-universe.com. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
4. Grabianowski, Ed (13 January 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications . Retrieved October 9, 2017.
5. "Pro Wrestling NOAH Star Navigation 2023 Full Show Review". iheart.com. iHeartMedia, Inc. February 6, 2023. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
6. Mendoza, Alfredo (February 7, 2023). "Resultados NOAH Star Navigation 2023". planetawrestling.com (in Spanish). Retrieved March 2, 2023.
7. Dark Angelita (February 10, 2023). "NOAH: "Star Navigation 2023" Defensa del título Nacional". Superluchas.com (in Spanish). Retrieved March 2, 2023.
8. Carlan, Lewis (February 5, 2023). "Pro Wrestling NOAH Star Navigation 2023 Results (2/5/2023)". pwmania.com. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
9. Daly, Wayne (February 6, 2023). "NOAH Results: Star Navigation 2023 Day 1 – Tokyo, Japan (2/5)". wrestling-news.net. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
10. Kreikenbohm, Philip (March 9, 2023). "NOAH Star Navigation 2023". cagematch.net. Retrieved March 9, 2023.
11. Pro Wrestling Noah (March 2, 2023). "#BREAKING Daisuke Harada has announced that he will be retiring. 5x GHC HR HVT Champion Harada, 36, has been out injured since August and has been urged to retire by his doctors. Harada will have an exhibition match on Thursday 9 March at Korakuen Hall". twitter.com. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
12. Degano, Simone (March 2, 2023). "Daisuke Harada si ritira: il wreslter NOAH smette a 36 anni". theshieldofwrestling.com (in Italian). Retrieved March 2, 2023.
13. Pro Wrestling Noah (March 9, 2023). 【第2試合まで配信】3.9後楽園は全試合ABEMAで完全無料生中継！原田大輔 引退試合／GHC Jr. AMAKUSA vs Hi69はABEMAで｜プロレスリング・ノア. youtube.com (in Japanese). Retrieved March 9, 2023.
14. Battle News (March 9, 2023). 「一番泣きたいのは俺やぞ！」青春の終わりは涙と笑顔！怪我に泣いて電撃引退の原田大輔が盟友・小峠篤司と1分間のラストマッチ！. battle-news.com. Retrieved March 9, 2023.
15. Carlan, Lewis (March 9, 2023). "Pro Wrestling NOAH's Star Navigation Results (3/9/2023); Daisuke Harada's Final Match". pwmania.com. Retrieved March 9, 2023.

External links

• Pro Wrestling Noah official website