Noah The Best 2022

NOAH The Best 2022
Promotional poster featuring El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. and Yoshiki Inamura
Promotion	CyberFight
Brand(s)	Pro Wrestling Noah
Date	November 23, 2022
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Yoyogi National Gymnasium
Attendance	872 [1]
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NOAH The Best 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on November 23, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. ^[2]

Background

Storylines

The event featured eight professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. ^[3]

Event

Event started with the confrontation between Funky Express (Akitoshi Saito and Mohammed Yone) and Kongo (Hi69 and Tadasuke) solded with the victory of the preceding team. Next, Hideki Suzuki defeated Shuhei Taniguchi in singles action. The third match saw Jack Morris picking up a victory over Daiki Inaba in singles competition as well. The fourth bout portraited Masaaki Mochizuki, Masato Tanaka and Naomichi Marufuji picking up a victory against Sugiura-gun (Kazuyuki Fujita, Takashi Sugiura and Timothy Thatcher). Next, Alejandro and Amakusa defeated Dante Leon and Yo-Hey in tag team action. In the sixth match, Kaito Kiyomiya, Masa Kitamiya and Satoshi Kojima defeated Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh and Manabu Soya). In the semi main event, Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka defeated Kongo's Hajime Ohara and Shuji Kondo to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. ^[4]

The main event portraited the confrontation between the reigning champion El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. and Yoshiki Inamura in which the title holder marked his first successful defense of the GHC National Championship. ^[5]

Results

No.	Results [6]	Stipulations	Times [1]
1	Funky Express (Akitoshi Saito and Mohammed Yone) defeated Kongo (Hi69 and Tadasuke)	Tag team match	10:22
2	Hideki Suzuki defeated Shuhei Taniguchi	Singles match	12:56
3	Jack Morris defeated Daiki Inaba	Singles match	13:54
4	Masaaki Mochizuki, Masato Tanaka and Naomichi Marufuji defeated Sugiura-gun (Kazuyuki Fujita, Takashi Sugiura and Timothy Thatcher)	Six-man tag team match	17:27
5	Alejandro and Amakusa defeated Dante Leon and Yo-Hey	Tag team match	11:13
6	Kaito Kiyomiya, Masa Kitamiya and Satoshi Kojima defeated Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh and Manabu Soya)	Six-man tag team match	18:06
7	Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka defeated Kongo (Hajime Ohara and Shuji Kondo) (c)	Tag team match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship	23:40
8	El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. (c) defeated Yoshiki Inamura	Singles match for the GHC National Championship	26:02
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

References

1. Kreikenbohm, Philip (November 23, 2022). "NOAH The Best 2022". cagematch.net. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
2. Pro Wrestling Noah (November 23, 2022). 2022年11月23日 （水） NOAH the BEST 2022. noah.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved December 30, 2022.
3. Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
4. Dark Angel (November 30, 2022). "NOAH: "The Best 2022" Two titles in dispute". superluchas.com. Archived from the original on February 23, 2023. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
5. Black, Ethan (November 23, 2022). "Pro Wrestling Noah The Best Results – November 23, 2022". pwmania.com. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
6. Daly, Wayne (November 23, 2022). "NOAH Results: The Best 2022 – Tokyo, Japan (11/23)". wrestling-news.net. Retrieved December 30, 2022.

External links

• Pro Wrestling Noah official website