NOAH "3rd Great Voyage", 11/5/05 (NTV/G+ Live)
Tokyo Nippon Budokan
16,600 Fans - Super No Vacancy

1. Tamon Honda, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Mitsuo Momota beat Jun Izumida, Kishin Kawabata & SUWA (7:39) when Honda used the Dead End on Kawabata.
2. Akitoshi Saito, Masao Inoue & Takashi Sugiura beat Yoshinari Ogawa, Kentaro Shiga & Ricky Marvin (14:07) when Inoue used an Argentine Backbreaker on Shiga.
3. Takuma Sano beat Mushiking Terry (14:07) with a Northern Light bomb.
4. Jun Akiyama & Shiro Koshinaka beat Minoru Suzuki & Naomichi Marufuji (17:39) when Akiyama used the Sternness Dust Alpha on Marufuji.
5. GHC Hardcore Openweight Title: Scorpio © beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru (12:33) with the 450 Splash (1st defense).
6. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiosaki (24:5 when Sasaki used a lariat on Shiosaki.
7. Mitsuharu Misawa beat Genichiro Tenryu (14:27) with a running elbow smash.
8. GHC Tag Team Title: Mohammed Yone & Takeshi Morishima © beat KENTA & Katsuyori Shibata (27:50) when Morishima used a backdrop on KENTA (1st defense).
9. GHC Heavyweight Title: Akira Taue beat Takeshi Rikio © (20:43) with the Ore Ga Taue to become the 8th champion.


I'm pretty indifferent. On the negative side, it's Akira Taue, who's getting up there in age and is really slowing down, but on the positive side, it's not Takeshi Rikio, who did nothing for me as champ. Thoughts?

Akira Taue as champion is completely not the right thing. If they were going to give him the title it should've been last September when he challenged Kobashi.

Well, since Tosh is no longer strictly with AJPW, he might as well pop in and take the title setting up the big Toyko Dome match next year against either Misawa or Kobashi.

This is probably the must see match of this show regardless of the title change or Misawa/Tenryu...........which I must see...........SOON.

Apparently Misawa/Tenryu sucked. Bad.

The tag match, on the other hand, is getting rave reviews. May have to track down/download.