KEIJI MUTO GRAND FINAL PRO-WRESTLING “LAST” LOVE ～HOLD OUT～: WrestleFile Historical Verdict

Masa Kitamiya and Daiki Inaba defeating Yoshiki Inamura and Yasutaka Yano gives the Tokyo Dome card a direct NOAH opening before the interpromotional parade begins. Kitamiya pins Yano after the Saito Suplex in 7:21, keeping the result straightforward and giving two established heavyweights the first win of the event. It is useful scene-setting rather than destination viewing, but the match grounds the show in NOAH's own roster before the wider wrestling world takes over.

The TJPW eight-woman tag brings a different pace and audience energy to the starting block. Yuka Sakazaki scores the fall in 11:38, and the match works as a compact showcase for a roster that would otherwise have no place on a traditional NOAH supercard. Its archival value is less about storyline consequence than about the event's ambition to present multiple Japanese promotions inside the Tokyo Dome on one retirement-night bill.

Anthony Greene, Jack Morris and Jake Lee defeating Takashi Sugiura, Satoshi Kojima and Timothy Thatcher is a concise introduction to Good Looking Guys on NOAH's largest stage of the era. The younger trio gets the result in 7:14 without turning the veterans into props. As a match it is brief, but historically it captures Jake Lee's arrival period and gives the promotion's current heavyweight direction a visible place before the card shifts into broader interpromotional showcases.

Eita, Yoshinari Ogawa, HAYATA, Daga and Chris Ridgeway beating Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY, Seiki Yoshioka, Alejandro and Junta Miyawaki is a compressed junior-heavy faction showcase. Ridgeway wins by submission in 6:23. The pace is designed for representation rather than a long-form program, and that makes it one of the easier matches to skim, but the lineup still documents how deeply the junior division was woven into NOAH's identity even on a Tokyo Dome card.

The DDT eight-man tag is another deliberate cross-promotional snapshot rather than a major story beat. Shunma Katsumata, MAO, Toui Kojima and Yuki Ueno defeat Tetsuya Endo, Yuya Koroku, Hideki Okatani and Takeshi Masada in 9:06. The match supplies variety and gives DDT a visible platform inside a NOAH-produced Dome event. Its strongest value is institutional: the retirement card is functioning as a gathering point for multiple strands of modern Japanese wrestling.

Naomichi Marufuji, Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. and Ninja Mack defeating Shun Skywalker, KAI and Diamante gives the NOAH-versus-DRAGONGATE portion a clear home-team result without flattening the visitors. Ninja Mack scores the fall after the moonsault press in 11:20. Marufuji's presence adds company history while Wagner and Mack represent a more international, current NOAH. The match is lively enough to watch on its own and useful as a portrait of the roster's range.

Kenoh, Katsuhiko Nakajima and Manabu Soya defeating Kento Miyahara, Suwama and Yuma Aoyagi is one of the strongest non-singles attractions on the card because it places NOAH and All Japan's heavyweight identities directly against one another. Kenoh pins Aoyagi after the PFS in 15:37. The result gives NOAH the home promotion's bragging rights while preserving the larger stars, and the matchup carries more long-term archival interest than the earlier showcase tags.

Gedo and Taiji Ishimori defeating NOSAWA Rongai and MAZADA is intentionally compact at 4:43 and works primarily as NOSAWA's farewell setting. Ishimori, a former NOAH junior star, gives the match another layer of company history, while Gedo ties it to New Japan's presence on the show. The bout is not built to steal time from the final three singles matches, but it succeeds as a concise closing note for one of NOAH's most divisive backstage and on-screen figures.

Hiromu Takahashi defeating AMAKUSA gives the card a clean junior champion-versus-champion style attraction even without a title at stake. Hiromu wins with Time Bomb II in 11:02, and the match benefits from being concise rather than overextended. AMAKUSA gets a Tokyo Dome showcase against one of the most recognizable junior heavyweights in Japan, while Hiromu's win reinforces New Japan's strength before the card moves to the heavier interpromotional confrontation above it.

Kazuchika Okada defeated Kaito Kiyomiya at Keiji Muto's retirement event in 16:32, finishing with the Rainmaker. Kiyomiya was the reigning GHC Heavyweight Champion and had been involved in a tense build with Okada across promotion lines. Their meeting was therefore more than an exhibition placed beneath a retirement match: it put New Japan's biggest modern star against NOAH's leading young champion, with an audience invested in the conflict over status and credibility.

Okada won decisively, an outcome that left the NOAH champion without the symbolic victory he sought. No GHC title changed hands because the match was not a GHC championship defense. The harsh competitive result stands alongside the celebration of Muto's career as the most consequential interpromotional contest on the card. Kiyomiya's loss became part of the ongoing discussion around his development, while Okada's finish reinforced the hierarchy established on this particular night.

Tetsuya Naito defeated Keiji Muto in 28:58 at the Tokyo Dome in the advertised Pro-Wrestling 'Last' Love retirement match. Muto's long career had moved through New Japan, All Japan and other promotions, so the occasion was framed as the conclusion of a major figure's time as an active wrestler. Naito represented a later generation connected to that history and approached the bout as a competitive opponent rather than allowing an unearned ceremonial victory. Destino supplied the official finish.

The event was built around the farewell, which made the loss itself part of a meaningful ending. Muto's age and physical limitations informed the pacing, but the match still had an identifiable winner and substantial in-ring time. Its importance isn't equivalent to the earlier Okada-Kiyomiya contest, which carried interpromotional rivalry stakes. Naito and Muto delivered the card's promised career-closing centerpiece, and its official result belongs to that retirement story.

Masahiro Chono defeating Keiji Muto in 1:37 is less a conventional match than an epilogue. After losing to Naito, Muto calls Chono into the ring for one last spontaneous bout, with Tiger Hattori serving as special referee. Chono wins by STF. The segment is short by design, but its historical value is enormous because it reunites two pillars of their generation for Muto's actual final bell. It turns the retirement from a planned main event into a personal closing scene.