NOAH - The Ark Will Live On

Summer · June 22, 2020

Week 4, May 2020

World News:

Breaking News: COVID-19 sudden disappearance. We ask if God spared us.

Pro-Wrestling News:

Interim NOAH President and DDT Owner Sanshiro Takagi relinquish his position to NOAH and AJPW Legend, Kenta Kobashi. Promises that the old NOAH will still burn deep inside of this new one. Announces that NOAH will return to having fans back for the upcoming NOAH The Spirit Tour*

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Info for start of save

Starting Date: Week 1 | June 2020

User Character: Kenta Kobashi (Owner/CEO/President)

Starting Budget: 300,000 (Up from the original 100k)

Starting Size: Small

First show for the save will be NOAH The Best 2020 as I will recap everything from NOAH The Spirit to then.

Summer · June 22, 2020

BRAVE

FULL THROTTLE

Members: Atsushi Kotege | Hajime Ohara | Hitoshi Kumano | Seiki Yoshioka

KONGOH

STINGER

Members: Yoshinari Ogawa (leader) | Kotaro Suzuki (deputy) | Chris Ridgeway | HAYATA

STRONGHEARTS

Members: CIMA (leader) | El Lindaman (deputy) | T-Hawk (deputy) | Dezmond Xavier | Zachary Wentz

Sugiura-Gun

Factionless/NOAH

Summer · June 22, 2020

Update: Pre-NOAH The Best 2020

CHAMPIONSHIPS

GHC Heavyweight

"Gowan" Go Shiozaki (4th Reign) (v/5)

Reign Started:

Week 1 | January 2020 (NOAH Sunrise 2020)

Previous Champs (since diary started):

N/A

GHC National Championship

"Master Of Suplex" Shotaro Ashino (1st Reign) (v/2)

Reign Started: Sunday | Week 1 | July 2020 (NOAH New Hope 2020)

Previous Champions (since diary started):

- Katsuhiko Nakajima (1st Reign) (v/1)

GHC Jr. Heavyweight Championship

"Kicking King" Masaaki Mochizuki (1st Reign) (v/1)

Reign Started:

Sunday | Week 2 | October 2020 (NOAH Global Jr. League 2020)

(A/N: Two things, I know that the IRL Jr. League happened but I needed to redo the schedule for this save. Also Mochi won the title along with the tournament due to an injury to then champ CIMA.)

Previous Champions (Since Diary Started):

- CIMA (1st Reign) (v/2)

- Kotaro Suzuki (4th Reign) (v/0)

GHC Tag Team Championships

The Big Guns (Chris Hero (1) and Yuji Hino (1)) (v/1)

Reign Started:

Sunday | Week 2 | September 2020 (N-1 Victory Finals 2020)

Previous Champions (since diary started):

- Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto (1) and Yuji Okabayashi (1)) (v/2)

- Kaito Kiyomiya (2) and Keiji Mutoh (1) (v/2)

- El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. (1) and Rene Dupree (1) (v/0)

GHC Jr. Tag Team Championships

#STRONGHEARTS (T-Hawk and El Lindaman) (1st Reign) (v/3)

Reign Started:

Sunday | Week 4 | June 2020

Previous Champions (since diary started):

- STINGER (HAYATA (5) and Yoshinari Ogawa (5)) (1st Reign) (v/0)

TOURNAMENTS

N1 Victory

2020 Winner:

"Waruhiko" Katsuhiko Nakajima (1)

Defeated Kaito Kiyomiya in the finals

Global Tag League

2020 Winners:

El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. and Rene Dupree

Global Jr. League

2020 Winner:

"Kicking King" Masaaki Mochizuki (1)

defeated El Lindaman in the finals

Global Jr. Tag Tournament

2020 Winners:

STRONGHEARTS (T-Hawk (1) and El Lindaman (1))

defeated YO-HEY & Daisuke Harada in the finals.

Summer · June 22, 2020

Reserved for misc.

Munit · June 22, 2020

Pretty cool stuff here, I always wanted to follow a modern day NOAH diary. Cool to see you doing something with hero, good luck.

tryker2710 · June 22, 2020

I love NOAH and cant believe they put a title on Rene Dupree in the modern day so you have my vote of confidence

Summer · June 23, 2020

Recap Part 1 - Global Jr. Tag Tournament and NOAH The Spirit

- The first tour of the Kobashi era was also the first tournament of the reign as president with the one night Global Jr. Tag Tourney and NOAH The Spirit tour combined into one tour. The main event was set immediately for the tour end show was on Night 1 of the tour as Naomichi Marufuji defeated Takashi Sugiura in a number 1 contenders match and the winner would face GHC Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki. The Protege of Misawa vs. The Protege of Kenta Kobashi in the main event of NOAH The Spirit was set.

- Along with that was the huge announcement of Chris Hero's signing. Hero would be immediately be given a title match against GHC National Champion Katsuhiko Nakajima.

- On the very first NOAH The Spirit tour show, the pairing of Keiji Mutoh and Kaito Miyomiya defeated the very strongly booked Sugiura-Gun International pairing of Rene Dupree and El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. to win the GHC Tag Team Championships. Their first defense was immediately set for the Global Jr. Tag Tournament event against Kongoh's Kenoh and Manabu Soya.

Global Jr. Tag Tournament
Thursday | Week 4 | June 2020
Finah Show Rating: 69 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Main Event/Global Jr. Tag Tournament Finals:
STRONGHEARTS (T-Hawk & El Lindaman) defeated YO-HEY & Daisuke Harada
Finish: Night Ride from T-Hawk to YO-HEY in 15:10
Rating: 63

Semi-Main/GHC Tag Team Championships
Kaito Miyomiya & Keiji Mutoh © defeated Kongoh (Kenoh & Manabu Soya)
Finish: Tiger Suplex Hold from Kaito to Soya in 19:50
Rating: 65

Special Tag Team Match:
AXIZ (Go Shiozaki and Katsuhiko Nakajima) defeated Chris Hero and Naomichi Marufuji
Finish: Burning Lariat from Go to Marufuji in 20:04
Rating: 70

Global Jr. Tag Tournament Semi-Finals
STRONGHEARTS defeated Back Breakers (Hitoshi Kumano & Hajime Ohara)
Finish: Deadlift German from Lindaman to Kumano in 12:11
Rating: 55

Global Jr. Tag Tournament Semi-Finals
YO-HEY & Harada defeated STINGER (HAYATA & Yoshinari Ogawa)
Finish: Gamen-G from YO-HEY to Ogawa in 9:00
Rating: 53

Six-Man Tag Team Match:
Minoru Tanaka, Masaaki Mochizuki, and Kazushi Sakuraba defeated Sugiura-Gun (Takashi Sugiura, Kendo Kashin, and Dick Togo)
Finish: Armbar from Sakuraba to submit Togo in 14:53
Rating: 63

GHC Tag Team Championship No.1 Contendership Match:
Yuji Hino and Hideki Suzuki defeated Sugiura-Gun International (Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. and Rene Dupree
Finish: F-ING BOMB from Hino to Dupree in 13:01
Rating: 60

Global Jr. Tag Tournament Rd 1:
STINGER (Yoshinari Ogawa & HAYATA) defeated Full Throttle (Seiki Morihashi & Atsushi Kotege)
Finish: Headache from HAYATA to Seiki in 7:00
Rating: 51

Global Jr. Tag Tournament Rd 1:
Backbreakers (Kumano & Ohara) defeated Kongoh (Nio & Hao)
Finish: Tequila Sunrise from Ohara to submit Hao in 5:00
Rating: 51

Global Jr. Tag Tournament Rd1:

YO-HEY & Harada defeated STINGER (Kotaro Suzuki and Chris Ridgeway)
Finish: Package German Suplex Hold from Harada to Ridgeway in 6:40
Rating: 60

Global Jr. Tag Tournament Rd1:
STRONGHEARTS defeated Kinya Okada and Junta Miyawaki
Finish: Cerberus from T-Hawk to Junta in 4:00
Rating: 41

Summer · June 23, 2020

<div style="text-align:center;"><img alt="m0Ubl7a.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/m0Ubl7a.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> NOAH The Spirit 2020 Sunday | Week 4 | June 2020 Rating: 70</div> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="50923" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;"> Main Event/GHC Heavyweight Championship Match: "Gowan" Go Shiozaki defeated "Immortal Genius" Naomichi Marufuji Finish: Burning Lariat from Shiozaki in 20 minutes Rating: 71 Semi-Main/GHC National Championship Match: "Waruhiko" Katsuhiko Nakajima defeated "Knockout Artist" Chris Hero Finish: Vertical Spike Brainbuster from Nakajima in 20 minutes Rating: 65 (Apparently Hero and Nakajima have poor chem as opponents) GHC Tag Team Championship Match: Kaito Kiyomiya & Keiji Mutoh © defeated Hideki Suzuki & Yuji Hino Finish: Tiger Suplex Hold from Kaito to Hideki in 15 minutes Rating: 68 Special Singles Match: "The Killing Machine" Takashi Sugiura defeated "MMA Innovator" Kazushi Sakuraba Finish: Avalanche Olympic Slam from Sugi in 17 minutes Rating: 63 GHC Jr. Championship Match: "Aku no Hana" CIMA defeated "Tiger Emperor" Kotaro Suzuki © (v/0) Finish: Schwein from CIMA in 15 minutes Rating: 52 (Kotaro suffered an injury mid-match) GHC Jr. Tag Team Championship Match: STRONGHEARTS (T-Hawk & El Lindaman) defeated STINGER (HAYATA and Yoshinari Ogawa) Finish: Night Ride from T-Hawk to Ogawa in 13 minutes Rating: 55 Tag Team Debut Match: Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi) defeated Kongoh (Kenoh and Manabu Soya) Finish: Deadlift German Suplex Hold from Sekimoto to Soya in 20 minutes Rating: 65 Six-Man Tag Team Match: Full Throttle (Ohara, Kumano, and Kotege) defeated YO-HEY, Daisuke Harada, and Minoru Tanaka Finish: Killswitch/Unprettier from Kotoge to Minoru Tanaka in 15 minutes Rating: 55 </div></div></blockquote>

Summer · June 23, 2020

Recap Part 2 - NOAH Stand Alone shows

With the success of NOAH The Spirit, things were looking up. Instead of focusing on a singular big show, President Kobashi announced three small events all of them being held at important venues in the Tokyo Area. First was NOAH New Hope. Both major champions defend their belts against outsiders. Nakajima would defend against he is familiar with in Shotaro Ashino and meanwhile Go Shiozaki's challenge was answered by Yuji Hino.

Along with that Strong BJ challenged Kaito Kiyomiya & Keiji Mutoh for the GHC Tag Team Championships and YO-HEY & Daisuke Harada faced former Jr Tag Champs Ogawa and HAYATA to see who would face STRONGHEARTS who were busy with commitments with a certain elite promotion.

NOAH New Hope 2020
Saturday | Week 1 | July 2020
Final Show Rating: 67
Location: Korakuen Hall (2,005 in attendance)

Here are the match matches from the event.

Main Event|GHC Heavyweight Championship Match:
"Gowan" Go Shiozaki © (v/2) defeated "The F-ING BOMB" Yuji Hino
Finish: Multiple Burning Lariats followed by a Moonsault to retain.
Rating: 65

Semi-Main|GHC National Championship Match:
"Master Of Suplex" Shotaro Ashino defeated "Waruhiko" Katsuhiko Nakajima ©
Finish: T-Bone Suplex to win the title.
Rating: 67

GHC Tag Team Championship Match:
Strong BJ defeated Kaito Kiyomiya & Keiji Mutoh ©
Finish: Deadlift German Suplex from Sekimoto to Kaito to win the tag titles.
Rating: 70

Special Singles Match|No1 Contenders Match for the National Title:
Naomichi Marufuji defeated Kenoh
Finish: Emerald Flowsion to win the match
Rating: 68

Tag Team No1 Contenders Match for the GHC Jr. Tag Team Titles:
YO-HEY & Daisuke Harada defeated STINGER (HAYATA & Ogawa)
Finish: Super Gamen-G from YO-HEY to HAYATA. A moment of revenge for YO-HEY over his former RATEL'S partner.
Rating: 60

After NOAH New Hope, next came the first "tribute" shows with NOAH Holy War 2020. An event normally a self-produced show of Toshiaki Kawada but since he was now a NOAH Road Agent, it was going to a NOAH event. The card had the singles match that NOAH had been building for a while, one of the greatest wrestlers period Keiji Mutoh against "The Ace of NOAH" Kaito Kiyomiya in the main event.

Along with a double semi-main with Shotaro Ashino's first defense against Naomichi Marufuji and a dream tag match as Strong BJ defended their titles against AXIZ.

NOAH Holy War 2020
Sunday | Week 2 | July 2020
Final Show Rating: 70
Location: Ebina Movement Park Gym (3,108 in attendance)

Here are the major matches from the event.

Main Event Dream Match:
"The Great Master" Keiji Mutoh defeated "The Ace of NOAH"
Finish: Keiji Mutoh won by countering a Tiger Suplex attempt and rolling up Kaito.
Rating: 63

Semi-Main|GHC Tag Team Championship Match:
AXIZ and Strong BJ © (v/0) fought to a 30-minute time limit draw
Rating: 77

GHC National Championship Match:
"Master Of Suplex" Shotaro Ashino © (v/0) defeated "Immortal Genius" Naomichi Marufuji
Finish: Grapevine Ankle Lock to make Marufuji submit and retain.
Rating: 69

The final show of this trilogy stand-alone events was NOAH Take The Dream, a name based on the iconic theme song of NOAH Road Agent and former GHC Heavyweight Champ Kensuke Sasaki. The main event saw Keiji Mutoh hot off his win over Kaito Kiyomiya challenging Go Shiozaki for the GHC Heavyweight Title and try to join Sasaki himself and Yoshihiro Takayama in a prestigious club of people who have the IWGP Heavyweight, GHC Heavyweight, and AJPW Triple Crown. To be at his strongest, Keiji channeled his dangerous alter ego The Great Muta.

After his loss, an offer from Marufuji came to Kaito. He was looking to reform an old faction of his that fans knew as BRAVE. He believed that Sugiura-Gun and Kongoh were getting out of hand. Sugiura at this point had recruited Chris Hero and Yuji Hino to join his faction.

NOAH Take The Dream
Friday | Week 4 | July 2020
Location: Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium (4,157 in attendance)
Final Show Rating: 73

Here are the notable matches from the event.

Main Event|GHC Heavyweight Championship Match:
"Gowan" Go Shiozaki defeated The Great Muta
Finish: Top Rope Moonsault to retain
Rating: 75

Semi-Main|BRAVE returns|Six-Man Tag Team Match:
BRAVE (Kaito Kiyomiya, Naomichi Marufuji, and Shuhei Taniguchi) defeated Sugiura-Gun (Takashi Sugiura, Yuji Hino, and Chris Hero)
Finish: Kaito won with a Tiger Suplex Hold to Chris Hero
Rating: 69

GHC Jr. Heavyweight Championship Match:
"Aku No Hana" CIMA defeated "The Skywalker" Atsushi Kotoge
Finish: CIMA retained with a Schwein
Rating: 65

GHC Jr. Tag Team Championships Match:
STRONGHEARTS (T-Hawk & El Lindaman) defeated YO-HEY & Daisuke Harada
Finish: STRONGHEARTS retained after T-Hawk nailed two Cerberus Knee Strikes to YO-HEY.
Rating: 63

Dalton · June 23, 2020

Love me some NOAH. I'll be following.

kasainity433 · June 23, 2020

awesome stuff man, hope you keep going!

Summer · June 24, 2020

<div style="text-align:center;"><img alt="ZmPfdSb.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/ZmPfdSb.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Recap Part 3 - N-1 Victory 2020 Tournament Kobashi and co. were getting closer and closer to NOAH The Best and the proof of that was the return of the yearly N-1 Victory tournament. Consisting of two blocks of seven, the tournament was designed to find a contender for Go- Shiozaki. For the past two years going back to when the tournament was still called Global League, the GHC Heavyweight Champion sat out the tournament. This time around Go Shiozaki insisted on participating after the big kickoff show in Korakuen Hall and notched up another title defense against eternal rival Takashi Sugiura. </div> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="50923" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">N-1 Victory 2020 Kickoff show Sunday| Week 1| August 2020 Location: Korakuen Hall (2,005 in attendance/SELLOUT) Final Show Rating: 73 Here are the three important matches from the event. Main Event|GHC Heavyweight Championship Match: "Gowan" Go Shiozaki defeated "Killing Machine" Takashi Sugiura Finish: Multiple Burning Lariats followed by a Go Flasher to retain. Rating: 78 (Go and Sugi have excellent chemistry together) Semi-Main|GHC Tag Team Championships Match: Strong BJ (Yuji Okabayashi & Daisuke Sekimoto) defeated Kaito Kiyomiya & Keiji Mutoh Finish: Golem Splash from Yuji to Keiji to retain Rating: 73 Six-Tag Team Match Katsuhiko Nakajima & BRAVE (Naomichi Marufuji and Shuhei Taniguchi) defeated Kongoh (Kenoh, Masa Kitamiya, and Yoshiki Inamura) Finish: Ko-Oh from Marufuji to Inamura for the win. Rating: 70 (Marufuji suffered an injury mid-match that would leave him out of the tournament but he would be back for the finals show)</div> </div></blockquote> <div style="text-align:center;">After the kickoff show the 16 competitors were revealed for N-1 Victory 2020 and the tournament was stacked! With Michael Elgin of IMPACT Wrestling joining for the whole tournament, former-AJPW (he left due to a pay dispute) Joe Doering joining the stacked NOAH roster for an incredible tournament. For the first time, juniors were being allowed with Mochizuki and Ogawa due to their heavyweight experience. Below are the results of the blocks and the results from the finals show. Due to Marufuji suffering an injury, this opened the door for his BRAVE stablemate Shuhei Taniguchi to get an opportunity to compete. A Block 1. Kaito Kiyomiya - 10 points|5-0-2 2. Go Shiozaki - 9 points|4-1-2 3. Michael Elgin - 9 points|4-1-2 4. Daisuke Sekimoto - 8 points|4-0-3 5. Joe Doering - 8 points|4-0-3 6. Chris Hero - 6 points|3-0-4 7. Masa Kitamiya - 4 points|2-0-5 8. Yoshinari Ogawa - 2 points|1-0-6 B Block 1. Katsuhiko Nakajima - 10 points|5-0-2 2. Shotaro Ashino - 9 points|4-1-2 3. Takashi Sugiura - 9 points|4-1-2 4. Kenoh - 8 points|4-0-3 5. Yuji Hino - 6 points|3-0-4 6. Yuji Okabayashi - 6 points|3-0-4 7. Masaaki Mochizuki - 4 points|2-0-5 8. Shuhei Taniguchi - 4 points|2-0-5 Top 5 matches from the group stage: 1. Takashi Sugiura fought Shotaro Ashino to a 30-minute draw - 81 (Day 12) 2. Chris Hero def. Daisuke Sekimoto - 79 (Day 3) 3. Kenoh def. Katsuhiko Nakajima - 77 (Day 2) 4. Kaito Kiyomiya def. Go Shiozaki - 77 (Day 13) 5. Go Shiozaki def. Chris Hero - 73 (Day 11)</div> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="50923" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">N-1 Victory Finals Sunday| Week 2| September 2020 Final Show Rating: 74 Location: Ota-War Gymnasium (5,000 SELLOUT) Here are the notable matches from the event. N-1 Victory 2020 Finals: "Waruhiko" Katsuhiko Nakajima defeated "The Ace of NOAH" Kaito Kiyomiya Finish: Two Vertical Spike Brainbusters to win his first N-1 Victory Tournament Rating: 77 GHC Tag Team Championship Sugiura-Gun (Chris Hero & Yuji Hino) defeated Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi) © (v1) Finish: A barrage of Rolling Elbows from Hero to Yuji to win GHC Tag Titles. Rating: 80 GHC Jr. Heavyweight Championship Match: "Aku No Hana" CIMA defeated "Osaka Suplex Prince" Daisuke Harada Finish: Meteora from CIMA to retain Rating: 60 (CIMA got injured during this match which caused him to vacate the belt and miss Global Jr. League) GHC Jr. Tag Team Championship Match: STRONGHEARTS (T-Hawk & El Lindaman) defeated Back Breakers (Hitoshi Kumano & Hajime Ohara) Finish: Cerberus from T-Hawk to Kumano to retain. Rating: 60 Tag Team Match: Go Shiozaki & Hideki Suzuki defeated Sugiura-Gun (Takashi Sugiura & Shotaro Ashino) Finish: Hideki Suzuki forced Ashino to tap out with a Fujiwara Armbar. Rating: 69 (Apparently Go and Hideki have no chem as partners) Post match: Hideki challenged Ashino for a future National Title match.</div> </div></blockquote>

Dalton · June 24, 2020

So with Nakajima going over Kaito in the finals and Go losing to Kaito during the tournament, that sets up two challengers for Go I presume. And it looks like Hero is tearing it up, so I expect a push to follow!

Summer · June 24, 2020

So with Nakajima going over Kaito in the finals and Go losing to Kaito during the tournament, that sets up two challengers for Go I presume. And it looks like Hero is tearing it up, so I expect a push to follow!

Yeah, Hero didn't start off too hot with a poor National Title match but I put him and Hino for a one-off tag match at Holy War against Sakuraba and Mochi. Turned out they clicked really well and have great chemistry with one another, so it gave me a chance to book two of my favorite guys as a team.

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