Muta and Nakamura clashed in the main event.
Closing out Pro Wrestling NOAH’s first show of 2023 was Great Muta (Keiji Muto) taking on WWE’s Shinsuke Nakamura.
Both talents had special entrances and violinist Lee England Jr. played Nakamura to the ring. In the match, Muta used his red and green mist on Nakamura. There was a point when Nakamura removed mist from the mouth of Muta, sprayed it back on him and then proceeded to follow up with the ‘Kinshasa’ to secure the victory.
Muto stood on the entrance ramp as Nakamura spoke to the crowd. Shinsuke then walked with Muto to the beginning of the entrance area and they stood alongside one another.
SHINSUKE NAKAMURA、キンシャサ！！！！！ @ABEMA で視聴中 https://t.co/yGSJIPTUKV #noah_ghc pic.twitter.com/ODrRiS5mQN
— プロレスリング・ノア ｜PROWRESTLING NOAH (@noah_ghc) January 1, 2023
ムタとSHINSUKE NAKAMURA、ありがとう。 @ABEMA で視聴中 https://t.co/yGSJIPTUKV #noah_ghc pic.twitter.com/kngd9isq5F
— プロレスリング・ノア ｜PROWRESTLING NOAH (@noah_ghc) January 1, 2023
In Muta’s post-match sit-down with the press, he repeatedly said Nakamura was ‘good’. Nakamura expressed his gratitude in his post-match comments as well. Below are the complete results from the show:
- Yasutaka Yano def. Taishi Ozawa
- Masa Kitamiya, Yoshiki Inamura & Daiki Inaba def. Shuhei Taniguchi, Akitoshi Saito & Mohammed Yone
- Dante Leon, Ninja Mack & Alejandro def. Shuji Kondo, Hi69 & Tadasuke
- Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Mochizuki Jr. def. Seiki Yoshioka, El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. & Atsushi Kotoge
- Kendo Kashin, Kazuyuki Fujita, NOSAWA Rongai & Hiroshi Hase def. Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya, Masakatsu Funaki & Hajime Ohara
- Jack Morris def. Timothy Thatcher
- GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship: AMAKUSA (c) def. Junta Miyawaki
- GHC Tag Team Championships: Satoshi Kojima & Takashi Sugiura (c) def. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA
- GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships: Yoshinari Ogawa & Eita def. YO-HEY & Kzy (c)
- GHC Heavyweight Championship Match: Kaito Kiyomiya (c) def. Kenoh
- Shinsuke Nakamura def. The Great Muta
