Noah The New Year 2025

NOAH The New Year 2025
Promotional poster featuring various participants
Promotion	CyberFight
Brand(s)	Pro Wrestling Noah
Date	January 1, 2025
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Nippon Budokan
Attendance	5,088 [1]
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NOAH The New Year 2025 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah and took place on January 1, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Nippon Budokan. Broadcasting was made on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. It was the first pay-per-view promoted by Noah in 2025. ^[2]

Eleven matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Ozawa defeated Kaito Kiyomiya to win the GHC Heavyweight Championship. In other prominent matches, WWE United States Champion Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Ulka Sasaki, Team 2000X (Jack Morris and Omos) defeated Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura to win the GHC Tag Team Championship, and Kenta defeated Kenoh. The event was also notable for the debut of WWE superstar Omos.

Background

Storylines

The event featured eleven 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

The event started with three preshow bouts broadcast live on Noah's YouTube channel. In the first one, Tadasuke won the Noah The Rumble by last eliminating LJ Cleary. In the second bout, Hayata and Yo-Hey defeated Amakusa and Junta Miyawaki and All Rebellion (Alejandro and Kai Fujimura) in a three-way tag team match to secure the fifth consecutive defense of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in that respective reign. In the third bout, Go Shiozaki, Muhammad Yone, Atsushi Kotoge and Hajime Ohara picked up a victory over Kazuyuki Fujita, Shuji Ishikawa, Tetsuya Endo and Black Menso-re in eight-man tag team competition. ^[4]

In the first main card match, Kazuyuki Fujita wrestled Daiki Odashima into a time-limit draw. The stipulation of the match was that Odashima had to pin Fujita in under one minute time in order to pick up the victory. Next up, Galeno del Mal defeated El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. in a special singles match. The sixth bout saw Kenta outmatching Kenoh in a Noah 25th Anniversary special match. Next up, Eita defeated Daga to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship, ending the latter's reign at 122 days and one defense. ^[5]

In the eighth match, Manabu Soya defeated Masa Kitamiya to secure the third consecutive defense of the GHC National Championship in that respective reign. Next up, Jack Morris and Omos defeated Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura to win the GHC Tag Team Championship, ending the latter team's reign at 199 days and four defenses. Omos became the first ever WWE-signed wrestler to ever win a title of another promotion while under contract with them. ^[6]

In the first bout of the double main event, the reigning WWE United States Champion Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Ulka Sasaki in a non-title match. In the final confrontation of the event, Ozawa defeated Kaito Kiyomiya to win the GHC Heavyweight Championship, ending the latter's reign at 242 days and seven defenses. ^[7]

Results

No.	Results [8]	Stipulations	Times [1]
1	Tadasuke won by last eliminating LJ Cleary [a]	Noah The Rumble	23:54
2	Ratel's (Hayata and Yo-Hey) (c) defeated Amakusa and Junta Miyawaki and All Rebellion (Alejandro and Kai Fujimura) by pinfall	Three-way tag team match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship	8:20
3	Team Noah (Go Shiozaki, Muhammad Yone, Atsushi Kotoge and Hajime Ohara) defeated Kazuyuki Fujita, Shuji Ishikawa, Tetsuya Endo and Black Menso-re by pinfall	Eight-man tag team match	8:25
4	Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Daiki Odashima ended in a time-limit draw	Singles match	1:00
5	Galeno del Mal defeated El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. by pinfall	Singles match	9:52
6	Kenta defeated Kenoh by pinfall	Noah 25th Anniversary special match	15:24
7	Eita defeated Daga (c) 2–1	Two-out-of-three falls match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship	12:36
8	Manabu Soya (c) defeated Masa Kitamiya by pinfall	Singles match for the GHC National Championship	12:51
9	Team 2000X (Jack Morris and Omos) defeated Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura (c) by pinfall	Tag team match for the GHC Tag Team Championship	10:48
10	Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Ulka Sasaki by pinfall	Singles match [9]	14:57
11	Ozawa defeated Kaito Kiyomiya (c) by pinfall	Singles match for the GHC Heavyweight Championship	29:34
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

Notes

1. The other participants were Daiki Odashima, Yu Owada, Harutoki, Shuhei Taniguchi, Yuto Kikuchi, Masao Inoue, Saxon Huxley, Zozaya, Masaaki Mochizuki, Titus Alexander and Dump Matsumoto.

References

1. Kreikenbohm, Philip (January 1, 2025). "NOAH The New Year 2025". cagematch.net. Retrieved January 1, 2025.
2. "ABEMA presents NOAH "THE NEW YEAR" 2025". noah.co.jp. Pro Wrestling Noah . Retrieved December 14, 2024.
3. Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
4. 【第2試合まで無料】1.1日本武道館決戦はABEMA PPVで全試合独占生中継！「第2試合」までNOAH公式YouTubeチャンネルにて無料同時中継！. youtube.com (in Japanese). Pro Wrestling Noah. January 1, 2025. Retrieved January 1, 2025.
5. Thompson, Andrew (January 1, 2025). "Eita becomes two-time GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion at NOAH The New Year 2025". POSTWrestling . Retrieved January 1, 2025.
6. Mukherjee, Subhojeet (January 1, 2025). "Omos and Jack Morris Win GHC Tag Team Titles at NOAH The New Year 2025 Event". ringsidenews.com. Retrieved January 1, 2025.
7. Thompson, Andrew (January 1, 2025). "OZAWA def. Kaito Kiyomiya to become GHC Heavyweight Champion at NOAH The New Year 2025". POSTWrestling . Retrieved January 1, 2025.
8. Lambert, Jeremy (January 1, 2025). "NOAH New Year Results (1/1): Kaito Kiyomiya, Shinsuke Nakamura, Omos, KENTA In Action". fightful.com. Retrieved January 1, 2025.
9. M. Gomez (October 14, 2024). "Shinsuke Nakamura returns to Pro Wrestling NOAH on New Year's Day". cagesideseats.com. Retrieved December 14, 2024.

External links

• Pro Wrestling Noah official website