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| Promotion | CyberFight | ||
| Brand | Pro Wrestling Noah | ||
| Date | July 13, 2024 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Nippon Budokan | ||
| Attendance | 4,196[1] | ||
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NOAH Destination 2024 was aprofessional wrestling event promoted byCyberFight's sub-brandPro Wrestling Noah and took place on July 13, 2024, inTokyo, Japan, at theNippon Budokan. Broadcasting was made onCyberAgent'sAbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming serviceWrestle Universe.[2]
Eleven matches were contested at the event, including three on the pre-show, and three of Noah's sixchampionships were on the line. The main event sawKaito Kiyomiya defeatYoichi to retain theGHC Heavyweight Championship. In other prominent matches,WWE'sAJ Styles defeatedNaomichi Marufuji,Amakusa defeatedDaga to win theGHC Junior Heavyweight Championship,Ulka Sasaki defeatedHayata to win theGHC National Championship, andGo Shiozaki defeatedAkitoshi Saito to win theZero1 World Heavyweight Championship.
The event featured tenprofessional wrestling matches that resulted from scriptedstorylines, where wrestlers portrayedvillains,heroes, orless distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[3]
During theGrand Ship In Yokohama event from June 16, 2024,Pro Wrestling Noah andWWE announced a joint collaboration via video in which they revealed thatAJ Styles was set to faceNaomichi Marufuji atNoah Destination 2024.[4]
The preshow of the event included three bouts. In the first one,Alejandro and Cristobal picked up a victory over the teams ofNinja Mack andJunta Miyawaki, andHajime Ohara andSuper Crazy in three-way tag team competition, and in the second one,Masa Kitamiya,Manabu Soya andDaiki Inaba defeatedTakashi Sugiura,Kazuyuki Fujita andShuhei Taniguchi in six-man tag team action, and in the third one,GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team ChampionsShuji Kondo andEita alongsideAkira defeatedYoshinari Ogawa,Ryohei Oiwa and Yu Owada in another six-man tag team bout. All the preshow matches were broadcast live on Noah'sYouTube channel.[5]
In the first main card bout,Kenoh defeatedYuji Nagata in singles competition. Next up,Jake Lee,Yo-Hey andTadasuke defeated stablematesJack Morris,Anthony Greene andLJ Cleary in the dissolution match of theGood Looking Guys unit. After the bout concluded,New Japan Pro Wrestling'sGedo came down the aisle and presentedJake Lee as the newest member ofBullet Club War Dogs. In the sixth bout of the night,Go Shiozaki defeatedAkitoshi Saito to win theZero1 World Heavyweight Championship, ending the latter's reign at 104 days and three successful defenses after previously coming up unsuccessful against him atNoah Limit Break 2, roughly one month prior to the event. After the bout concluded, Saito announced his retirement from professional wrestling. The seventh bout sawUlka Sasaki defeatingHayata to win theGHC National Championship, ending the latter's reign at 93 days and no successful defenses. After the bout concluded, Hayata was shown backstage accompanied byYo-Hey andTadasuke with whom he composed the stable of Ratel's until 2020. Given the fact that Yo-Hey and Tadasuke remained unitless afterGood Looking Guys' dissolution the same night, they offered a hand to Hayata which the latter accepted, thus hinting the reunion of their old unit. In the eighth match,Amakusa defeatedDaga to win theGHC Junior Heavyweight Championship, ending the latter's reign at 252 days and six successful defenses. Next up,El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. andGaleno del Mal picked up a victory overDragón Bane andAlpha Wolf in tag team competition.
In the semi main event,WWE'sAJ Styles defeatedNaomichi Marufuji in singles action.[6][7][8]
In the main event,Kaito Kiyomiya defeatedYoichi to secure the second consecutive defense of theGHC Heavyweight Championship in that respective reign.[9][10][11]
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