Great Voyage 2019 in Yokohama: WrestleFile Historical Verdict

Kenoh, Hajime Ohara, Hitoshi Kumano and Kinya Okada open the event with a short win over Hi69, YO-HEY, Seiya Morohashi and Junta Miyawaki. Kenoh pins Miyawaki after the diving foot stomp in 5:45, giving one of NOAH's established heavyweights the decisive moment while several junior and younger wrestlers fill out the match. It is efficient roster-setting work rather than destination viewing, but it puts Kenoh on the board before the new-era themes become explicit later.

Maybach Taniguchi defeating Yoshiki Inamura closes Inamura's seven-match trial series with another loss. Taniguchi wins in 4:05 with the Maybach Bomb Zwei, leaving Inamura 0-7 in a sequence designed to expose him to wrestlers who had already carried major NOAH responsibility. The bout is brief, yet the developmental framing gives it more meaning than an ordinary undercard squash because Inamura's future value comes from surviving the series and continuing upward.

Akitoshi Saito, Shiro Koshinaka and Masao Inoue beating Mohammed Yone, Quiet Storm and Mitsuya Nagai is a veteran-heavy six-man tag that gives the lower card a familiar NOAH and independent-wrestling texture. Koshinaka pins Nagai after the diving hip attack in 7:18. The match has almost no championship consequence, but its compact length keeps it from interrupting a show whose real historical material starts with the singles match that follows.

Takashi Sugiura against KAZMA SAKAMOTO works as a concise bridge into the championship half of the event. Sugiura wins by referee stoppage with a front neck lock in 8:01, reaffirming his heavyweight status after his 2018 title reign while KAZMA's post-match alliance with NOSAWA Rongai hints at the personnel combinations that would shape parts of NOAH's next phase. The result is predictable, but the surrounding faction movement gives the match useful period context.

Yoshinari Ogawa and Kotaro Suzuki make their first successful GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship defense against Tadasuke and HAYATA in 11:36. Ogawa forces the submission with a figure-four leglock, preserving a veteran championship pairing against challengers tied to the younger RATEL'S generation. The match is not the evening's biggest junior result, but it reinforces the generational tension that runs through the card and gives the title block a stable opening before the singles belt changes hands.

Minoru Tanaka defeating Daisuke Harada for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship is the night's only title change and a strong historical marker in Tanaka's long junior career. He wins in 21:36 with the FIRE BALL splash, becoming the 39th champion after years of success across several Japanese promotions. Harada's loss interrupts an important NOAH junior reign, while Tanaka's victory gives the division a veteran champion with a career-spanning claim to nearly every major domestic junior title.

Katsuhiko Nakajima and Go Shiozaki defended the GHC Tag Team Championship against Masa Kitamiya and Eddie Edwards at Great Voyage 2019 in Yokohama. The reigning champions brought considerable singles experience into the partnership, but their opponents were not a makeshift team lacking credibility. Kitamiya had already won GHC tag gold, while Edwards had international experience and a history of competing in NOAH. Nakajima and Shiozaki's victory marked their first successful defense, giving their new championship reign an actual result against recognized challengers instead of merely the prestige of two famous names paired together.

The contest also featured familiar relationships within NOAH's heavyweight group. Kitamiya had previously partnered with Nakajima, creating a rivalry in which recent title history could be tested directly. That connection added interest without changing the recorded two-versus-two teams. The victory left Nakajima and Shiozaki in position for additional defenses, and it set up the GHC Heavyweight main event as a separate championship story. The A- grade reflects a credible opening defense between four wrestlers with meaningful careers.

Kaito Kiyomiya defeated Naomichi Marufuji to retain the GHC Heavyweight Championship at Great Voyage 2019 in Yokohama. This was Kiyomiya's third successful defense and a particularly useful test of his credibility as a young titleholder. Marufuji carried the history of NOAH's early decades into the ring and had himself occupied the championship position, so the challenger was well placed to expose any shortcomings in an emerging star. By winning, Kiyomiya demonstrated that his reign could survive established promotion leaders rather than relying on a favorable draw of challengers.

The match closed a show on which Nakajima and Shiozaki had also retained the GHC Tag Team Championship. Together, the results reinforced a heavyweight roster with both experienced veterans and newer focal points. Marufuji's loss shouldn't be treated as evidence that his broader career was finished. It was a direct title-match defeat at a particular stage, and that mattered chiefly because Kiyomiya needed convincing defenses. The A grade reflects an important affirmation of the champion's standing.