Great Voyage 2018 in Yokohama: WrestleFile Historical Verdict

LEONA defeated NOAH rookie Junta Miyawaki in the 5:15 singles opener of Great Voyage 2018 in Yokohama on March 11, 2018. The finish was a figure-four leglock SUBMISSION, not a pinfall as the prior Event File had claimed: two independent contemporaneous March 2018 event accounts explicitly identify both the figure-four hold and LEONA as the winner. One review also describes Miyawaki escaping early danger with a near-fall small package and exchanges of strikes before the veteran got the hold. The first match was not for a championship, and no other part of the card's four GHC title bouts should be folded into this developmental opener. The outcome belongs to LEONA, while the result remained a short showcase of Miyawaki's early NOAH experience before the card moved toward Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Go Shiozaki and the heavyweight championship switch. The original B-minus/7.1 and event-guide Skim level are retained because historical-accuracy correction does not imply this five-minute opener is essential viewing.

Tadasuke and YO-HEY defeating Hajime Ohara and Hitoshi Kumano is a fast junior tag designed to keep the RATEL'S group visible before the championship block. Tadasuke pins Kumano in 8:58, giving his team a useful win over former junior-title holders. The bout does not alter the championships directly, yet it reinforces the depth of NOAH's junior roster and helps the event build toward two later junior title matches.

Cody Hall and KAZMA SAKAMOTO against Masao Inoue and Ryota Nakatsu functions as a short heavyweight undercard match with a veteran-versus-outsider feel. KAZMA scores the decision in 7:47. Its strongest value is contextual: Hall and KAZMA represent the promotion's willingness to mix freelancers and outside talent into ordinary tour structure, while Inoue provides a familiar NOAH veteran presence around a younger guest in Nakatsu.

Maybach Taniguchi and Mitsuya Nagai defeating KENSO and Jay Bradley is another crossover-heavy tag that sits between the opening junior material and the more meaningful second half. Taniguchi wins in 9:34, keeping one of NOAH's established heavyweights strong. The match is useful as a snapshot of the promotion's freelance ecosystem, though its result carries less long-term weight than the title changes that follow later on the card.

Naomichi Marufuji and Atsushi Kotoge defeating Shiro Koshinaka and Akitoshi Saito gives the middle of the show a veteran attraction built around Marufuji and Koshinaka. Kotoge gets the fall in 11:01, allowing the younger partner to benefit from sharing the ring with several established names. The match does not redirect the championships, but it gives the card an identifiable NOAH historical through-line before the newer generation takes over the final five bouts.

Go Shiozaki defeating Kaito Kiyomiya is one of the card's most valuable hindsight matches because it places an established former GHC Heavyweight Champion opposite the wrestler who would become the company's next major homegrown centerpiece. Shiozaki wins in 12:47, so the result still reflects the hierarchy of early 2018, but Kiyomiya's presence high on a major Yokohama card shows how quickly NOAH was moving him toward more serious heavyweight responsibility.

Yoshinari Ogawa and Minoru Tanaka defeating Taiji Ishimori and Hi69 for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship creates the first title change of the night. Ogawa pins Hi69 in 13:46, giving the veteran pairing the belts. The reign would be unusually brief because the titles were vacated the next day after Ishimori announced his departure from NOAH, which makes the match a distinctive transition point in the junior division rather than the start of a stable championship run.

Daisuke Harada retaining the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship against HAYATA is the one title match on the show that preserves its existing champion. Harada wins in 17:29, keeping the singles junior belt within RATEL'S-era internal competition while other divisions change hands around him. That stability helps the card avoid becoming a complete reset and gives Harada a credible defense against a familiar rival whose later NOAH junior career would become much more substantial.

Katsuhiko Nakajima and Masa Kitamiya defeated Muhammad Yone and Quiet Storm to capture the GHC Tag Team Championship at Great Voyage 2018 in Yokohama. Nakajima had already developed an important singles résumé in NOAH, but this result showed that he could translate his hard-hitting style into a championship partnership with Kitamiya. Their opponents were an established combination of power and experience. Yone and Quiet Storm had the cohesion of reigning champions, giving the challengers a meaningful obstacle rather than simply two names awaiting a predetermined handover. The result put the heavyweight tag titles on a new pairing.

The timing was important because the main event also featured a separate GHC Heavyweight title change. NOAH could therefore present two reshuffled championship pictures on the same destination show without combining their outcomes. Nakajima and Kitamiya's victory added a fresh direction for the tag division, while the singles title was handled independently. The A- grade reflects a successful, consequential championship match in a particularly eventful night for heavyweight competition.

Takashi Sugiura defeated Kenoh for the GHC Heavyweight Championship at Great Voyage 2018 in Yokohama, ending Kenoh's reign and returning the title to one of NOAH's most established wrestlers. The championship change had an unusually personal dimension because Sugiura and Kenoh had won the vacant GHC Tag Team Championship together the previous year. Their shared history made this meeting more than a generic veteran-against-upstart scenario. Kenoh entered as the reigning singles champion, while Sugiura had proven across several eras that he could perform in the promotion's most demanding heavyweight programs.

Sugiura's win also completed a night in which Nakajima and Kitamiya captured the GHC Tag Team titles. With both major heavyweight championships changing hands, Great Voyage 2018 offered a decisive picture of where the roster was heading. Kenoh's defeat didn't erase his previous defenses or his rise into the top division, but it altered his immediate role. The A grade recognizes a major singles title change rooted in a rivalry with its own tag-team history.