09/23/02 NOAH show, new GHC TAG & Heavyweight champs...

[Luds]

Well after a lot of talkin' here are the results and some comments...

1) Mitsuo Momota & Masashi Aoyagi > Kishin Kawabata & Haruka Eigen in 8:33 when Momota pinned Kawabata after a jumping back kick.
2) KENTA > Yasuhiro Suzuki in 12:07 with a German Suplex Hold.
3) Takashi Sugiura, Jun Izumida & Akira Taue > Makoto Hashi, Daisuke Ikeda & Kentaro Shiga in 18:57 when Izumida pinned Hashi after an F5.
4) Kenta Kobashi > Mohammed Yone in 11:47 with a lariat.
5) Masao Inoue & Tamon Honda > Takuma Sano & Yoshinari Ogawa in 18:12 when Inoue pinned Sano.
6) IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title: Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru (C) > Masayuki Naruse & El Samurai in 14:33 when Kanemaru pinned Naruse after a brainbuster to retain the titles (first defence). After the match, Jado & Gedo made a challenge.
7) GHC Tag Team Title: Akitoshi Saito & Jun Akiyama > Takeshi Rikio & Takeshi Morishima (C) in 22:47 when Saito pinned Morishima to win the titles.
8) GHC Heavyweight Title: Mitsuharu Misawa > Yoshihiro Takayama (C) in 23:50 when Misawa pinned Takayama after a Running Elbow Smash

Results from Ichiban.

[Peru-Yakuza]

Are Misawa and Inoki jobbing Takayama to Nakanishi?

[Luds]

I think so since Takayama did the job last time they met...

[JustS2pendous]

Well Takayama was champ for a month, that makes sense. I guess Misawa was getting the title all along but just didn't want to take it off of mini-misawa.