Great Voyage 2014 in Tokyo Vol. 2: WrestleFile Historical Verdict

Rocky Lobo and Jinzo against Mitsuhiro Kitamiya and Hitoshi Kumano is a short Junior Tag League preview built to establish future tournament participants. Lobo gets the fall on Kumano in 6:06, giving the visiting side the result without costing the developing Kitamiya. The bout is useful for roster context and tournament setup, but its brief runtime keeps it in the undercard-snapshot category rather than making it destination viewing.

Hajime Ohara winning a three-way over Super Crazy and Quiet Storm gives the show a compact stylistic change. Ohara submits Storm in 5:30, reinforcing his technical identity while protecting Super Crazy from the direct loss. The match moves quickly and has clear purpose, but it is primarily connective tissue for the junior-heavyweight and faction stories surrounding the larger championship matches later on the card.

Daisuke Ikeda and Mohammed Yone against Yoshihiro Takayama and Genba Hirayanagi combines veteran credibility with active faction positioning. Yone pins Hirayanagi in 7:17, allowing the Mohammed Bombers side to leave with momentum while Takayama remains protected. The match is brief, yet the combination of Ikeda, Takayama and Yone gives it historical texture beyond a standard midcard tag. It also helps preserve the event's faction context before the championship block begins.

Taiji Ishimori and Atsushi Kotoge defeated Yoshinari Ogawa and Zack Sabre Jr. in 18:15 to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship at Great Voyage 2014 in Tokyo Vol. 2. Kotoge pinned Sabre, securing the title switch for a partnership built from prominent NOAH junior singles performers. Ogawa supplied an experienced technical presence to the defending side, while Sabre had already become recognizable for a submission-oriented style. The challengers' victory established a new champion team and ended Ogawa and Sabre's reign.

The result was directly consequential to the GHC junior tag lineage. It didn't award Ishimori or Kotoge the separate GHC Junior Heavyweight singles belt, which Daisuke Harada defended against Kenoh later that night. Sabre's subsequent international fame may attract modern viewers, but the key historical fact is Kotoge's decisive fall within a serious NOAH championship contest. The near eighteen-minute runtime provided enough space for both teams to work through a developed title match rather than treating the switch as a short surprise.

Daisuke Harada defending the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship against Kenoh is a strong divisional contrast between Harada's compact explosiveness and Kenoh's harder striking style. Harada retains in 16:29 for his third successful defense, keeping the belt stable while Kenoh continues to rise as a more serious NOAH presence. The match matters because both wrestlers would become increasingly important to the promotion's future.

Hirooki Goto and Katsuyori Shibata against Akitoshi Saito and Katsuhiko Nakajima is one of the card's clearest interpromotional attractions. The NJPW team wins in 18:45 with Shibata pinning Saito, keeping Nakajima protected while giving the visitors a decisive result. The match has strong period value because Goto and Shibata were major outside names and Nakajima was becoming a larger part of NOAH's heavyweight future.

Daisuke Sekimoto versus Maybach Taniguchi ends by disqualification in 10:22, so the match is more useful as an angle and interpromotional collision than as a complete singles showcase. Sekimoto's BJW presence gives the bout weight and Taniguchi's character keeps the confrontation distinct from the technical junior title matches. The finish limits the ceiling, but the matchup remains a recognizable snapshot of NOAH's outside relationships.

Takashi Sugiura and Masato Tanaka arrived as the Dangan Yankees GHC Tag Team champions, with Shane Haste and Mikey Nicholls providing a strong test in their first title defense. This wasn't a collection of unrelated heavyweight names. TMDK had spent several years proving it could work as a cohesive unit, while Sugiura and Tanaka combined an intense NOAH mainstay with a hard-hitting visitor. The challengers made the defense more credible than a ceremonial first outing for the champions. After 18:21, Sugiura pinned Haste to retain, giving the title reign a concrete win against established competition rather than an empty defense count.

The match also carried an important booking distinction. Both teams had already been part of NOAH's heavyweight tag story, so the titleholder's success didn't require diminishing TMDK as opponents. Their contribution to the division was apparent even in defeat. The sequence leaves the Dangan Yankees in position for additional defenses and keeps Haste and Nicholls as a meaningful rival pairing. Its A- grade reflects a consequential title bout beneath the heavyweight singles main event.

Naomichi Marufuji ended Yuji Nagata's GHC Heavyweight Championship reign at Great Voyage 2014, winning in 25:29 with the Modified Emerald Flowsion. Nagata represented a particularly important challenger-turned-champion because he had brought New Japan stature to NOAH's top singles title. Marufuji, a foundational homegrown figure from NOAH's earlier years, entered the match with an opportunity to put that championship back on one of the promotion's most recognizable own wrestlers. The finish established his second GHC Heavyweight reign. It was a title change with clear promotional stakes, not simply a familiar rivalry gaining another match result.

The main event completed a major evening that had also featured Dangan Yankees successfully defending the heavyweight tag belts. Against that backdrop, Marufuji's victory gave the company its central singles champion with an established connection to the audience and to NOAH's history. Nagata's outsider reign remained an important chapter, but this result set the next one in motion. The A grade reflects the occasion and the substance of a high-profile title reclamation.