NJPW x NOAH: Wrestle Kingdom 17 & Great Muta Final Bye-Bye POST Show

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Originally published at NJPW x NOAH: Wrestle Kingdom 17 & Great Muta Final Bye-Bye POST Show - POST Wrestling | WWE AEW NXT NJPW Podcasts, News, Reviews

John Pollock & Wai Ting review Wrestle Kingdom 17 in Yokohama Arena: NJPW x NOAH featuring Los Ingobernables de Japon vs Kongo in a Best of 5 series and an incredible angle between NJPW & NOAH champions Kazuchika Okada and Kaito Kiyomiya. Plus, Keiji Muto selects his opponent for his final retirement match.

They then discuss the main event of Great Muta Final Bye-Bye featuring the final match of Keiji Muto’s legendary Great Muta persona as he teams with Darby Allin & Sting against Jinsei “Hakushi” Shinzaki, Naomichi Marufuji & AKIRA.

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January 21, 2023
Yokohama, Japan
Yokohama Arena

  • LIJ vs. Kongo: Tetsuya Naito vs. Kenoh
  • LIJ vs. Kongo: Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Shingo Takagi
  • LIJ vs. Kongo: SANADA vs. Manabu Soya
  • LIJ vs. Kongo: Hajime Ohara vs. Hiromu Takahashi
  • LIJ vs. Kongo: BUSHI vs. Tadasuke
  • Kazuchika Okada & Togi Makabe vs. Kaito Kiyomiya & Yoshiki Inamura
  • Alejandro, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki vs. Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi & Tiger Mask
  • YO-HEY vs. El Desperado
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi, Satoshi Kojima, Takashi Sugiura & Toru Yano vs. BULLET CLUB (El Phantasmo, Gedo & KENTA) & Naomichi Marufuji
  • Pre-Show: Daiki Inaba & Masa Kitamiya vs. Oskar Leube & Tomohiro Ishii
  • Pre-Show: Kosei Fujita & Ryohei Oiwa vs. Taishi Ozawa & Yasutaka Yano

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I watched the entire Great Muta Final Bye Bye show on a whim late Saturday night. Agreed that Hakushi was incredible. Also worth seeing from this card were Timothy Thatcher vs. Masaaki Mochizuki, and apparently the first ever women’s match in NOAH history. Thank you so much for that recap of the post-main event promo.

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Agreed on all counts regarding the Okada/Kiyomiya angle. I really, -REALLY- hope that this angle and match gives Kiyomiya something more concrete and long-lasting to build upon than “the next Misawa” or “the kid Mutoh just can’t give a proper rub to”.

Also, all the kudos to Jinsei Shinzaki for an amazing entrance and having his bump card at the ready. Thinking back, Hakushi was probably the first Japanese wrestler I ever saw who wasn’t saddled with the usual racist “evil foreigner” BS and I loved his matches with Bret as a kid. Would be nice to see him port this appearance into some work at places with a bit more profile than Michinoku Pro.

…And thanks very much for flagging the hilarity of the post-card shenanigans. I watched the whole show but tuned out before getting to see that comedy of errors.

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