#junta miyawaki

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Junta Miyawaki

Koshibari seoi nage // Sunshine Driver

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Saitos, Junta and Chihiro is an inspired combo.

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Match Card Changes for NOAH Events on June 18th and 22nd

Due to the injury Junta Miyawaki sustained at "All Together Again" last week and due to Shuhei Taniguchi's defection to REAL; match cards for "Sunny Voyage 2023 in Osaka" and "Star Navigation 2023 in Korakuen" have been changed.

Here are the original match cards for both events:

Now, here's the revised match cards for both events. Starting off with "Sunny Voyage 2023 in Osaka" taking place tomorrow (June 18, 2023).

Opening Match has been changed from a 8-man tag to a standard tag match as it'll be Stallion Rogers and Kai Fujimura facing Mohammed Yone and Super Crazy

Match #4 has been changed as Alejandro replaces Atsushi Kotoge to team up with Dante Leon to face the team of HAYATA and Eita.

Match #5 has been changed as Shuhei Taniguchi and Daiki Inaba have been added to what is now a 8-man tag-team match. It'll be all four members of REAL facing off against Kaito Kiyomiya, Masa Kitamiya, Yoshiki Inamura, and Daiki Inaba. And note about Kaito Kiyomiya. This 8-man tag match will be one of his last matches with Pro Wrestling NOAH before he heads over to NJPW to compete in G1 Climax 33 starting on July 15th. As of this typing, his final NOAH event before the G1 will be on July 9th in Hachioji. He is expected to return to the NOAH ring on September 3rd in Osaka.

And the main event has been changed as Atsushi Kotoge replaces Junta Miyawaki to team up with Takashi Sugiura and Naomichi Marufuji to face GLG members Jake Lee, Jack Morris, and Tadasuke.

Now...here's the changed match card for "Star Navigation 2023: Kenoh vs. Go Shiozaki" taking place on June 22nd in Korakuen Hall. Note that this card is not yet finalized. That finalization will come pending on what happens in Osaka on June 18th.

Originally slated for nine matches, match card for the event has been decreased to 8 as the original match #2 (Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Stallion Rogers) has been combined with the original match #3 (REAL+Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Masa Kitamiya, Yoshiki Inamura, Daiki Inaba, and Mohammed Yone) to become one whole match.

Also, Atsushi Kotoge replaces Junta Miyawaki in 6-man tag action. He was originally not booked to compete in this event.

With that said, here's the new match lineup for June 22 which again is subject to change pending on what happens tomorrow in Osaka:

Opening Match: Manabu Soya and Hajime Ohara vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima and Seiki Yoshioka

NEW Match #2: Masa Kitamiya, Yoshiki Inamura, Daiki Inaba, Stallion Rogers, and Mohammed Yone vs. Timothy Thatcher, Saxon Huxley, Hideaki Suzuki, Shuhei Taniguchi, and Kazuyuki Fujita

NEW Match #3 (Originally Match #4): Takashi Sugiura and Sean Legacy vs. Jake Lee and Jack Morris

NEW Match #4 (Originally Match #5): Yoshinari Ogawa, LEONA, and Kai Fujimura vs. Kaito Kiyomiya, Eita, and HAYATA

NEW Match #5 (Originally Match #6): Hiroki vs. Shuji Kondo

NEW Match #6 (Originally Match #7): Naomichi Marufuji, AMAKUSA, and Atsushi Kotoge vs. Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Dante Leon, and Ninja Mack

Semi-Main Event: GHC Junior Tag Team Championship: Chris Ridgeway and Daga (Challenger Team) vs. YO-HEY and Tadasuke (Champion Team)

Main Event: Kenoh vs. Go Shiozaki

Also...N-1 Victory 2023 participants are expected to be announced and as of right now, only Jake Lee has been announced as a participant. Find out on Thursday who will join him in what is considered one of the most grueling tournaments of the summer.

"Sunny Voyage 2023 in Osaka" takes place on June 18th with the video of the event to air on Wrestle Universe on June 21st at 5:00 AM Eastern.

"Star Navigation 2023 Episode 5: Kenoh vs. Go Shiozaki" airs on ABEMA in Japanese and Wrestle Universe in English on June 22nd at 6:30 PM Local Time/5:30 AM Eastern/4:30 AM Central/2:30 AM Pacific. Go to timeanddate.com and type in the city you're currently living in to find the start time in your area.

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ryan @pujoshi tagged me to do the wrestling 2024 tag meme, ty ryan!! i have so far strictly avoided this for 2024 bc its been so hard keeping up with even only Noah but it was good to think through the year in farewell

⭐ mvp/wrestler of the year: Kaito Kiyomiya. its not even a question. you look at what an ace is and he checks all the boxes

⭐ match of the year: usually i pick the match i rewatched most but i did that for exactly 0 matches of 2024 (brain bad). actually sorry to go for a whiteboy but kaito vs jack in the n-1 fucking Slammed unexpectedly

⭐ favorite feud: Kaito/Kenoh leading into the formation of AR. i have a Lot of thoughts and criticisms about the general lack of non-title feuds in noah up until recently, but this satisfied my cravings

⭐ favorite tag team/faction: GLG. loved those guys. they were so creative and fun in the ring and had a great balance of hot men. jack/ag gave me exactly what i love about tag wrestling

⭐ favorite show: Star Navigation March 31st i enjoyed thoroughly. also lets give it to Monday Magic, both spring and autumn. always enjoyable, even though the Cursedness base rate is higher but thats wrestling for ya

⭐ breakout star: Ulka Sasaki, beautiful man with big ideas who isnt afraid to get owned. Junta "I have found my identity now" Miyawaki.

⭐ horniest moment: listen. i looked into my gif folders and theres too many gifs named like "katsu bulge" or "ulka sex sex neck" or "mounts kaito" for me to choose from. okay actually lets go with ogawa/yo-hey insane mating press pin

⭐ most anticipated in 2025: need them to come over to europe again so i can ask ozawa whose sweat tastes best. also Katsuhiko maybe wrestling more often again. also at least 1 more Noah faction

tagging: @namajague @f00t-fic @kayzeejinx @axel-mania @heffalumpfreezone

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NOAH "THE NEW YEAR" 2024 Review (Jan 2nd, 2024, Ariake Arena, Tokyo)

1, GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Title 3-Way Elimination Match - Alpha Wolf & Dragon Bane (c) vs. Alejandro & Ninja Mack vs. YO-HEY & Tadasuke ***3/4

2, Jake Lee, Jack Morris & Anthony Greene vs. El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Titus Alexander & Vinnie Massaro **1/2

3, Masa Kitamiya vs. Tomohiro Ishii ****1/2+

4, Go Shiozaki vs. Satoshi Kojima ****

5, Great Sakuya & Nagisa Nozaki vs. Haruka Umesaki & Miyuki Takase **1/2

6, Takashi Sugiura vs. Ulka Sasaki ***

7, Hiroshi Tanahashi & HAYATA vs. Zack Sabre Jr. & Yoshinari Ogawa ***1/2

8, GHC Jr. Heavyweight Championship - Daga (c) vs. Eita ***

9, NOAH/NJPW vs. House of Torture 12 Man Elimination Match - Kaito Kiyomiya, Shota Umino, Daiki Inaba, Shuji Kondo, Ryohei Oiwa & Junta Miyawaki vs. EVIL, Ren Narita, SHO, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Yujiro Takahashi & Dick Togo ***3/4

10, GHC Heavyweight Championship - Kenoh (c) vs. Manabu Soya ****1/2

11, Naomichi Marufuji vs. Kota Ibushi *

This was my first full NOAH show I've watched in forever and it was a great watch. They pulled in a great crowd of over 5K, it had very good matches up and down the card, two fantastic bouts, but unfortunately it ended with one of the worst matches you're likely to see all year...

Things started hot with the Jr. Tag Title 3-Way. You know what to expect here; lots of crazy spots, not much in the way of traditional "psychology", and 100mph action. The crowd loved this and it was a great way to kick things off. There was confusion over the elimination nature of this one, and had it ended after after the first fall, I think I'd have liked it more, but it was a great little opener with the GLG duo of YO-HEY and Tadasuke eliminating both opponents at 8:48 and 12:24 respectively to win the straps. Things cooled down a tad with the next match, which was decent enough but just your standard 6-Man, which saw the GLG were victorious again.

The next match was something of a Dream Match for me, one that's been teased for a good couple of years now as Ishii and Kitomiya, two of my favourite guys from their respective companies, had an absolute war that is a strong MOTYC only two days in! You know what to expect here, it was tsandard Ishii big match fair, which is always tremendous. They pounded each other with chops, Lariats, headbutts, forearms punches and suplexes for 15:04, before Ishii got the win with the Vertical Drop Brainbuster. Amazing. The next match too was excellent as Go Shiozaki went over ageless veteran Satoshi Kojima, in a battle of the Go-wan Lariats! This was great, and kept relatively short at 13:56. Shiozaki won after an exchange of Lariats. Go formed a new faction called Team NOAH in the post-match.

Next up we got a couple of interesting debuts. "The Great Muta's daughter" Great Sakuya (Riko Kawahata) debuted in a doubles clash which ended in a DQ after she blew the dreaded Dokukiri in poor Umesaki's face. This was very silly, and the crowd were dead for it, but whilst it certainly wasn't great, it certainly wasn't bad either. The next match was better as former MMA fighter Ulka Sasaki battled NOAH legend Takashi Sugiura in a nice little exhibition. Sasaki looked good here, and it featured some good sequences, before Sugiura naturally won at the 11 minute mark with the Olympic Yossen Slam.

After intermission we got the ZSJ/Ogawa vs. Tana/HAYATA tag match. This was really good, as you'd expect, though at nearly 18 minutes it was a little long. They teased a lot of stuff with Zack and Tanahashi for their TV Title match at the Dome tomorrow. Sabre Jr. won for his team when he submitted HAYATA with a crazy leg stretch. The GHC Jr. Title bout was decent enough, as Daga retained over Eita in exactly 13 minutes. I expected a bit more here, and it ultimatly came off as a bit of a squash as Daga dominated the whole thing, despite the crowd really wanting Eita to win. The 6 on 6 Elimationation match was actually a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it. Like everyone else, I'm at the end of my tether with this HoT stuff (and don't even get me started on Narita's inexplicably asinine inclusion in this nonsense), BUT, this match proves if done right, it can be pretty great. Obviously we got all the token House silliness like the never-ending stream of low blows, interference and incompetent refereeing, but it built really well as it boiled down to Kaito and EVIL, with Kiyomiya looking like a hero as he overcame the odds and sent EVIL to the floor with a Shining Wizard at the 26:14 mark to win for the babyfaces.

The first half of the Double Main Event; Kenoh's GHC Heavyweight Title defence against former tag partner Manabu Soya came next and it was another fantastic, hard-hitting war, and another early MOTYC. We all know Kenoh's great, and I've always been a fan of Soya since his All Japan days, but he's kind of lingered in the NOAH mid-card since arriving and gotten lost in the shuffle somewhat. Well this was a coming out party if ever there were one, both guys looked fantastic here, and I was worried someone was going to get legit KO'd at points, given how hard they were hitting each other. Kenoh missed a Moonsault knee drop by a considerable margin at the end there, but recovered well by devastating the big man with some headkicks and got the submission win at 28:36 with the Kenoh Special. Excellent, excellent match. Shiozaki came out in the post match and challenged Strong Fist to a title match, which will be happening on January 13th. Count me in as these two always have great matches together. And this is where I'd recommend everyone just turn this show off...

The Marufuji/Ibushi main event *sigh*... look I'm sure everyone already knows about this match, something that once upon a time was a dream match, but in the harsh realities of 2024, was an abject nightmare. This match was all kinds of bad, as Ibushi came into this thing banged up to oblivion and physically incapable of doing... anything, really. AND IT WENT 33:26!!! Which honestly felt like a good couple of hours watching live. Ibushi announced he was working through a broken hand and foot in the days prior, and when he made his entrance with tears streaming down his face, I feared the worst. The reality is this match shouldn't have happened, or if it did, have it go like 10 minutes maximum or something. And certainly don't have it be the main event! It was total insanity to book this to go north of 30 minutes. But even then, nobody made Ibushi try to do his signature spots in this thing. The guy couldn't even get himself up to go over the ropes on a backdrop, so what made him think attempting a Moonsault to the floor was a wise move? Well, he seemingly broke his ankle doing so, and the match only descended into more of a train wreck from there. The crowd were dead, almost like they were at a funeral, the "action" was a level lower than snail pace, and watching it was a profoundly sad experience. I never thought I'd see the day when the Keiji Muto of 2023 looked more mobile and having more business being in the ring than Kota Ibushi ever. Ibushi won with Kamigoye to put everyone out of their misery, none more so than the two guys in the match, then there was a totally bizarre post match where Kiyomiya and Jake Lee came out and seemingly banished Ibushi from NOAH. Ibushi could barely stand or walk on his way to the back, and this is a match I'll never watch again in my life. I had thought about giving this a DUD, but I couldn't be that harsh given the circumstances. Also, Marufuji did try his best out there, bless him. But the fact is Ibushi needs some time away from the ring to heal. I mean, this could be the end of his illustrious in-ring career, which is beyond heartbreaking, and he's looked a shadow of his former self since he returned to wrestling last Spring, but he wasn't even the same person out there on this show.

All in all, this was a great supershow from NOAH, marred slightly by a catastrophically bad main event, for obvious reasons. But I recommend everyone check it out up the fab Kenoh/Soya match, and just pretend the Ibushi/Maru match never happened.

NDT

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using @thistledropkick's post as an excuse to also do the wrestling 2024 tag meme!

im gna go ahead n tag @maxbuck @jupiterjunebug @bang-bang-gang and @pujoshi if u feel inclined to do it :)

MVP/wrestler of the year

Match of the year

favorite feud

favorite tag team/faction

favorite show

breakout(ish) star

horniest moment

most anticipated in 2025

its long as hell so its going under a readmore lmao

wrestler of the year

this is a pretty tough question. i got into a lot of new promotions this year and fell in love with so many people i didnt even know existed before, but I think it has to be miu watanabe. her run as princess of princess champion has been fantastic, proving herself to be new pillar of the company. with yukas departure and miyu+maki doing a lot more work overseas there is definitely places at the top of the (very chillaxed) tjpw food chain and miu has been filling that role. watching her go from an underdog to the benchmark in a little over a year has been so satisfying amd every match she had during her run was great. i think losing to mizuki capped off her reign well and im excited to see what the future holds for the new ace of tjpw!

honorary mentions for: jacky kamei, who quickly became my favorite guy in the world this year, mika iwata who, despite being hampered by some confusing booking did a great job defending the senjo title against some fun opponents, and also saori anou about a hundred times, and chris brookes who makes my list every year

match of the year

honestly this was gonna be puro but something happened to me in august, so its swerve strickland vs bryan danielson. it is the live wrestling bias, and the fact that that show was so good it made me actually keep up with aew for a grand total of 2 weeks before i realized i hate that fucking company, but also its just a damn good match. theyre both guys who are willing to go the extra mile and some more for a spectacle, and anyway, its a good memory

honorary mentions: chris brookes vs daisuke sasaki (both of them), dragon dia vs junta miyawaki which is just, so fucking good. go watch it yall. and miu watanabe vs ryo mizunami

favorite feud

gold class vs z-brats! starting out with minoura losing his hair, and betraying riiita, and the whole thing leading to big hug disbanding somehow. it was a gut wrenching thing to watch, especially with big hug disbanding because of the whole situation. i almost stopped watcjing wrestlimg early in the year and dragongate really pulled me back. its just very effective storytelling and i felt like my life was at stake at points

honorary mentions: toni storm and mariah may, i dont watch aew but i salute lesbianism

breakout(ish) star

CHI CHI!!!!!!! i started watching sendai girls and evolution joshi this year just to put things on while working and i really fell in love with her. shes been great eith the revived senjo jr title, she has great kicks and she just had a great match against stardoms aya sakura which you should watch as well. shes been wrestling for something like a year and honestly, it doesnt show. im so excited to keep up with her career, she has great things ahead of her

favorite tag team/faction

big hug you will be sorely missed!! this is the category where i will not be able to pick a favorite, so let me list some good ones. i loved big hug. i loved that they loved each other so much, they worked so well together. finally mante was able to use kamei as a weapon with his permission. they were so fun. im still upset

not hug, also, were really good. their tah title run was fun as hell its the definition of Dudes Rock. their whole coworkers who hate each other shtick is really good and its incorporated into their moveset and teamwork really well, with doi being reluctant to help dk at points and moments of miscommunication, but they always manage to make it work

team 200kg had such a fantaszic year, two absolute powerhouses walking into the ring to a rock ballad with a comical amount of belts. chihiro hashimoto has always been a really great heavy hitter but this was the year when yuu really became her equal. the yuu roll is the most electrifying move in wrestlimg argue with the wall. their ajpw tv title run with shuji ishikawa was great, just 3 big strong people suplexing fools through the floor. one of those teams you would be insane to dislike

favorite show

so we got two shows tied here. dragongate's dead or alive 2024 show is what finally got me into the promotion after seeing 2 of my friends gush about it for over a year, and i was kicking myself for not getting in on it soomer to be honest. that show made me so invested in jacky kamei in about half an hour that i was clutching my knees and screaming and crying basically the entire time. greatest cage escape spot ever. im putting the entire show here and not just the cagematch because that show also had the twin gate match where not hug won the titles and that was also heaps of fun, and anyways its the worst dg show i ever watched it deserves the spot

tjpw x eve was not, i dont think, on a lot of peoples radars, but it was magical in a lot of ways. obviously tjpw had to kind of send the b team, but to us teej heads there is no such thing as the b team and everybody in that building who had to stand because they fucked up the seating tickets was absolutely Elated to see himawari. raku got a huge cheer, and a you sick fuck chant, i got to see aja kong live and in person which made me almost faint on the spot. i love eve as well and half the british wrestlers on that show had to go and wrestle a 4 woman hardcore match later that day on a revpro show i also attended, so massive props to them. miyu said in her promo closing the show that she wanted this crossover to happen for a very long time and she hoped she could do a much better one next time, which im also hoping for!

horniest moment

this seems to be the year of kissing men so its not easy to pick but it is probably everything that happened in that despe/chris match. i can only dare hope that we can surpass ourselves next year

most anticipated im 2025

as opposed to last year, im excited about plenty of things! im excited to watch meiko satomuras retirement series as it draws to a close, im excited to see how chris brookes's championship reign goes. im very hyped for suzume as international princess champion and im just generally excited to see what dragongate has to offer me this year. im also tentatively hyped for some new japan stuff, the wk weekend shows were, not necessarily great but i think they set up some stuff that could be. and ofc im excited for wrestlimg to suprise me again this year!

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Cyber Fight 2021.06.06

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Junta did a LOVELY throw earlier in the match too (right before Owada-san pushed the ref and then booted him in the balls 🤭)

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NOAH results for June 19, 2018

Pro-Wrestling NOAH “Navig. with Emerald Spirits 2018”, 6/19/2018 [Tue] 18:30 @ Aizu Wakamatsu City Bunka Center in Fukushima 302 Spectators (crowded)

(1) Cody Hall vs. Junta Miyawaki ◆Winner: Hall (4:50) following a Sitdown Side Chokeslam.

(2) Atsushi Kotoge, Hajime Ohara & Hitoshi Kumano vs. Maybach Taniguchi, Tadasuke & Masao Inoue ◆Winner: Kotoge (12:50) with the Kakumei Manto (Revolutionary…

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Match Card and Order Changed for "Green Journey 2023 in Nagoya"

Pro Wrestling NOAH has announced that due to injury, Junta Miyawaki will not be participating in any of the remaining June events including "Green Journey 2023 in Nagoya" and "Star Navigation 2023" on June 22nd.

Down below is the original match card:

Now down below is the revised match card with a small order change to the original one above:

What has changed from the original match card is the first four matches have all been moved

Original Opening Match: Hajime Ohara vs. Hiroki

New Opening Match: Akitoshi Saito, Seiki Yoshioka, and Stallion Rogers vs. Muhammed Yone, Alejandro, and Taishi Ozawa

Original Match #2: Akitoshi Saito, Seiki Yoshioka, and Stallion Rogers vs. Muhammed Yone, Alejandro, and Super Crazy

New Match #2: Hajime Ohara vs. Hiroki

Original Match #3: Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Hideaki Suzuki

New Match #3: Kaito Kiyomiya, AMAKUSA, and Super Crazy vs. Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Yoshinari Ogawa, and Kai Fujimura

Original Match #4: Kaito Kiyomiya, AMAKUSA, and Junta Miyawaki vs. Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Yoshinari Ogawa, and Kai Fujimura

New Match #4: Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Hideaki Suzuki

The rest of the match card remains the same despite the card change.

And a note about the seventh match before revealing the revised match card for June 22nd. As of June 10, 2023, it is unknown whether it'll stay as a standard non-title tag match (Kenoh and Soya are AJPW World Tag Team Champions as of this typing) or if they'll add Kento Miyahara and Yuma Aoyagi to the mix or if that Tag Title match will take place at a date after June 24th since Kenoh and Soya are mostly booked the rest of the month. Stay tuned to all social media fronts for any changes (if any are made).

And now...here's the revised card for June 22nd which will also include the announcement of the N-1 Victory 2023 participants where it is now guaranteed that unless you're Kenoh or Nakajima, a new N-1 Victory winner will be crowned.

Opening Match: Manabu Soya and Hajime Ohara vs. Seiki Yoshioka and Katsuhiko Nakajima

Match #2: Stallion Rogers vs. Shuhei Taniguchi

Match #3: Masa Kitamiya, Yoshiki Inamura, Daiki Inaba, and Mohammed Yone vs. Saxon Huxley, Timothy Thatcher, Kazuyuki Fujita, and Hideaki Suzuki

Match #4: Takaishi Sugiura and Sean Legacy vs. Jake Lee and Jack Morris

Match #5: Yoshinari Ogawa, LEONA, and Kai Fujimura vs. Kaito Kiyomiya, HAYATA, and Eita

Match #6: Hi69 vs. Shuji Kondo

Match #7: Naomichi Marufuji, AMAKUSA, and Atsushi Kotoge vs. Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Ninja Mack, and Dante Leon

Semi-main: GHC Junior Tag Team Championship: Chris Ridgeway and Daga (Challenger Team) vs. YO-HEY and Tadasuke (Champion Team)

Main Event: Go Shiozaki vs. Kenoh

Everyone, please pray Junta Miyawaki makes a speedy recovery.

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Junta Miyawaki is a cool wrestler.

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