New GHC Heavyweight Champion crowned.
The vacant GHC Heavyweight Championship was on the line in the main event of Pro Wrestling NOAH’s ‘Majestic’ show at Ryōgoku Sumo Hall. Go Shiozaki competed against Kaito Kiyomiya for the title and it was Shiozaki emerging victorious to become champion once again.
In February 2021, Shiozaki lost the GHC Heavyweight belt to Keiji Muto. Following that loss, the newly crowned champion took time away from NOAH to have shoulder surgery. The title was recently vacated due to former champion Kazuyuki Fujita contracting COVID.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s Satoshi Kojima made his return to NOAH and teamed with Naomichi Marufuji and they took on Kinya Okada and Yoshiki Inamura. As the new GHC Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki was addressing the crowd, he was approached by Kojima and a challenge was issued and accepted.
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🎤潮崎豪、GHCヘビー級王座へ返り咲き‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
＼潮崎「I am NOAH！！！」#noah_ghc #轟音のヘビー #wrestleUNIVERSE pic.twitter.com/Ng1WKcALiW
— プロレスリング・ノア ｜PROWRESTLING NOAH (@noah_ghc) April 30, 2022
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🎤小島聡がGHCヘビーへ挑戦表明🔥🔥🔥
＼小島「GHCヘビー級チャンピオン、潮崎豪。次のチャレンジャーは俺だ！」
【4.30両国 WRESTLE UNIVERSEで見逃し配信中】今なら登録から2週間無料‼⇒https://t.co/gqGdMMuvMH…#轟音のヘビー #wrestleUNIVERSE #noah_ghc #njpw #njpw pic.twitter.com/kTfEGktZdi
— プロレスリング・ノア ｜PROWRESTLING NOAH (@noah_ghc) April 30, 2022
📢4.30両国 バックステージコメント
小島聡「どれだけハードルを上げてくれるんだ、史上最強の史上最大のⅩって。(今後の参戦も？)普通に単発だけで終わらせるんだったら、ノアのTシャツを着て行かなかったと思ってる。それ見て判断してもらって結構」#noah_ghc #轟音のヘビー #wrestleUNIVERSE pic.twitter.com/PsdEzsciVA
— プロレスリング・ノア ｜PROWRESTLING NOAH (@noah_ghc) April 30, 2022
Other highlights from the ‘Majestic’ event included GHC Tag Team Champions Hideki Suzuki and Takashi Sugiura retaining their titles and then being confronted by René Duprée and El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr.
Simon Gotch made his NOAH debut by challenging Masakatsu Funaki for the GHC National Title. Funaki retained in their bout.
POST Wrestling will have a full recap of this event on the site.
