Pro Wrestling NOAH 9/15/2025 N-1 Victory 2025 Day 5
Day 4 is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/pro-wrestling-noah-9142025-n-1-victory.html
Go Shiozaki & Mohammed Yone vs. AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki
Yone and Jun go at it. Yone clean breaks him and poses. They shoulder battle and Yone knocks him over. Jun running forearms him then dropkicks him. Jun then does Yone's pose.
Go and Ama fight. Ama waistlocks him and Go throws him off. Ama stomps his foot and side headlocks him. Ama's springboard is caught. He then springboard back elbows Go. Go takes corner attacks. Go shoulders over his opponents. Ama sits up top and is chopped down to the floor by Go. Ama is then sent into the stage.
Ama's back is double clubbed on. Yone slams him then legdrops him for 2. Yone cranks on Ama's head then stomps him. Go chops Ama down. Ama tries chops. Ama cradles him for 2. Ama trips him then slingshot dropkicks him.
Jun top rope dropkicks Go when he is tagged in. Jun tornado ddt's him for 2. Go chops him down then GO is hit with a double dropkick. Ama topes Yone outside and Jun triangle plancha's Go outside.
Go takes corner attacks. Ama top rope hurricanrana's him for 2. Yone takes running forearms. Go lariats jun down then hits a delayed fisherman's buster for 2. Go running lariats him and wins.
Thoughts: It was your usual opening. Yone didn't get a ton in here. Go hit a nice lariat or two and Jun did basic flying.
Black Menso-re & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Daiki Odashima & Kai Fujimura
Dai and Maru go at it. Dai waistlocks him. Maru backs him up on the ropes and clean breakers him. Maru side headlocks him then shoulders him over. Dai headscissors and dropkicks him out.
Kai and Menso go at it. Menso ducks a lock up and is kicked. Menso armdrags and dropkicks him out. Kai's head is banged off the apron. Menso takes a double dropkick inside. Kai flying forearms Menso in the corner then hits 3 suplexes on him for 2.
Menso eye pokes Kai and then rope walks. Maru joins him but they can't get around each other. Maru superkicks him for some reason and gets him crotched. Kai is held for a double team but Menso eye pokes Maru on accident. Menso is sent into Maru. Maru almost chops Menso on a failed double team then just chops him anyway. Dai top rope crossbodies Menso and Kai final cuts Menso to win.
Thoughts: It was short and stupid with Marufuji turning on his own partner and costing his team the match.
N-1 Victory 2025 Block B Match - Jack Morris vs. Harutoki
Haru cartwheels out of a pump kick then shoulders Jack over. Haru slingshot armdrags Jack then back elbows him. Jack pump kicks him of the apron then plancha's him outside. Jack is on top and is kicked down. Haru topes Jack.
Jack is sent shoulder first into the post and takes an armbreaker. Jack enzugiri's him from the apron then top rope dropkicks him for 2. Jack stomps him and delay suplexes him. Jack back elbows Haru.
Haru hits forearms and Jack drops him with one for 2. Haru step up enzugiri's him. Haru enzugiri's him in the corner then backpack drops him for 2.
Haru facekicks him. Haru totally misses a running boot but Jack sells it anyway. Jack suplexes him. Jack flying knees him for 2. Jack then falcon arrows him for 2. Haru back body drops him. Haru does some stupid running elbow move where he jumps over the top rope. Haru then top rope crossbodies him for 2. Har double underhook suplexes him for 2.
Haru misses a top rope moonsault. Haru backrolls him into a pin attempt for 2. Jack spinebusters him then pumping knees him for 2. Jack flying knees him then hits a tiger driver to win.
Thoughts: It got a little better by the end but I didn't like it that much. There was no real story to it and Haru's offense wasn't the best here.
N-1 Victory 2025 Block B Match - Ricky Knight Jr. vs. Galeno
They lock up. Gal clean breaks him and back rolls. Gal flying shoulders him over. Gal hits a step up knee in the corner then sliding lariats him for 2. Rick hits a dropkick then tope con hilos him. Rick pulls on Gal's nose and stomps his hand.
They trade forearms and chops. Gal hits a forearm and a senton for 2. Gal hits chops and forearms. Rick hits 2 corner dropkicks. Rick bridging ddt's him for 2. Gal half-nelson suplexes him then Rick no sells it and flying knees him.
Rick hook kicks him then springboard forearms him in the back of the head. Gal revers suplexes him for 2. Gal goes up top and is kicked. Rick flying hurricanrana's him down from the mat then 450's him off the top for 2. Rick enzugiri's him. Gal hits chops and Rick hook kicks again. Gal headbutts him and running lariats him for 2.
Gal does a twisting double underhook suplex and wins.
Thoughts: I didn't like it. Ricky did some no selling here and a bunch of indy offense. Gal didn't really use his size either against him.
N-1 Victory 2025 Block A Match - Daga vs. Masa Kitamiya
Masa grabs a ring boy outside and Daga throws him in. Daga boots him and side headlocks him. They shoulder battle and pose at each other. Daga hits armdrags then misses a dropkick. Masa shoulders him over for 2. Masa slams him.
Masa stomps him and sits on his back with a chinlock. Masa hits punches. Daga hits shots then Masa shoulders him over. Masa chokes him on the ropes. Daga hits a dropkick then running lariats him. Daga then topes him outside twice.
Daga slingshot swantons him then chinlocks him. Masa misses a corner spear and is german'd. Masa running lariats him. They trade chops. Daga enzugiri's him. Daga sunset flips him for 2. Daga superkicks him then suplexes him for 2.
Daga backdrops him for 2. Masa backdrops him for 2. Daga hurricanrana's him then Masa piledrivers him for 2. Masa goes a strangle hold alpha on him and submits him.
Thoughts: I didn't like it. Daga controlled Masa for a lot of this despite being much smaller and Masa didn't really look like the dominant heavy he should have. Masa also didn't really work the arm/neck/shoulder to lead up to the strangle hold alpha finish.
N-1 Victory 2025 Block B Match - Kenoh vs. Daiki Inaba
They lock up. They boot each other and Ken facekicks him twice. DI shoulders him over. DI misses a splash. Ken hits kicks and DI shoulders him over. Ken is thrown out. DI slams him on the floor then misses a splash on the floor from the apron.
Ken kicks him outside and throws him onto the stage. Ken suplexes him on the stage. Ken kicks him in the back for 2. They trade forearms. Ken spin kicks him in the gut. Ken facekicks him for 2.
Ken sits on his back with a chinlock. DI ropebreaks. DI misses a flying shoulder. DI suplexes Ken. DI forearms Ken off the apron. DI then splashes Ken off the apron on the floor. DI misses a 2nd rope diving shoulder. Ken flying double knees him from behind for 2.
Ken ankle locks him. DI is put in tree of woe. Ken misses a corner dropkick while DI hangs. He tries it again but stops himself from missing. Ken then pulls him down when he sits up in tree of woe and kicks him.
DI hits a flying corner spear. DI corner cannonballs him for 2. DI 2nd rope diving spears him for 2. Ken does a weird kick to the gut and PK's him for 2. DI tries to roll him up for 2. Ken rolls at him with an ankle lock and DI ropebreaks. They trade forearms for kicks. Ken spinning high kicks him for 2. Ken dragon screws him for 2. Ken hits a big slap then spinning heel kiks him. Ken PK's him. Ken crossfaces him and DI taps out.
Thoughts: I liked it. DI couldn't hit any of his offense in the first half as Ken was ready for it. Ken avoided his attacks. DI like the fun underdog he is, kept trying though. He did get a couple of them in but Ken still had the edge mentally here. It told a different story than usual and was fun.
N-1 Victory 2025 Block A Match - Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Ulka Sasaki
KK side headlock takeovers him and is put in a headscissors. They repeat and reverse the spot. KK side headlocks him. KK euros Ulka over the bottom rope then top rope dropkicks him for 2. KK side headlock takeovers him twice. Ulka headscissors him. KK headstands out and is put in an armbar. KK ropebreaks.
KK stalls outside. KK is hit with armdrags and an armlock. Ulka takes him down by the arm with an armlock. KK tries to slam him to get out but Ulka holds on. Ulka ties up KK's arm around the ropes and kicks it. Ulka ties up both of KK's arms and pulls. KK ropebreaks.
Ulka kimura's him then hits a strike combo. Ulka flying kicks him. KK gets up and is slapped. KK flying knees him. Ulka pulls him down by the arm and does a rings of saturn variation.
Ulk running cutters him for 2. Ulka leg slices him for 2. Ulka hits a big forearm then a sitout double underhook suplex for 2. KK tiger suplexes him for 2. KK shining wizards him for 2. KK shoulderbreakers him. KK goes for a top rope elbow drop but Ulka turns it into an armbar.
KK tries a pin out of it. KK dropkicks him in the knee then hits another shining wizard. KK hits a top rope elbow drop and wins.
Thoughts: I liked it. Ulka worked the arm and went for submissions. Kaito escaped them and eventually got the pin. They protected Ulka here and made him look better than he is by keeping it short and simple.
N-1 Victory 2025 Block A Match - Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Tetsuya Endo
They battle on the lock up. Kaz clean breaks him and is slapped. Kaz hits a hard lariat then throws him out. Kaz chases Endo then is cradled by him as he tries to get in. Kaz suplexes him then yanks on his leg. Kaz prison locks him. Endo hits slaps while in it then is chopped. Kazn figure fours him and Endo ropebreaks.
Kaz running back elbows him in the corner then suplexes him for 2. Endo hurricanrana's him. Kaz goes for a chokeslam and is kicked. Endo dropkicks him. Kaz lariats him. Endo suplexes him. Enzo pumping knees him in the corner. Endo then top rope ssp's him for 1. Kaz sits up then Endo crucifixes him for the win when Kaz yells "come on". Kaz then shoves the ref down and eventually out.
Thoughts: It was shorter thankfully but wasn't anything too special. The finish was dumb with Kaz kicking out of the top rope ssp then getting pinned a second later anyway.
Endo talks on the mic after.
Overall thoughts: It remains hard to get excited about this tournament. The talent just isn't there for the most part and it's hard to make up for it. Kenoh vs Inaba was easily the match of the night and Kaito/Ulka was the second best match. The main was dumb. We had Marufuji basically throwing matches in the undercard as well. I'd give it a 5 out of 10 and would not recommend it.
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