NOAH the CHRONICLE vol.3: WrestleFile Historical Verdict

Haoh and Nioh beating Tadasuke and YO-HEY gives the opener a compact Kongo-versus-junior-division structure. Haoh scores the decision in 8:13 with a jackknife-style cradle, giving his team a clean result without asking the match to carry larger championship stakes. Its value is mainly roster context: the junior scene was shifting rapidly in 2020, and the opening result places Kongo's smaller-unit representatives on the winning side before the card moves into more historically important material.

Atsushi Kotoge, Hajime Ohara and Seiki Yoshioka defeating Kotaro Suzuki, Yoshinari Ogawa and Kinya Okada is another faction-oriented six-man that helps define NOAH's junior landscape. The match runs 11:01 and ends with Yoshioka scoring the submission. Full Throttle gets a useful win over a Stinger-linked combination, while Okada absorbs the result instead of one of the established junior champions. That keeps the hierarchy readable and adds context before HAYATA's title match later in the show.

Naomichi Marufuji, Masaaki Mochizuki and Yuko Miyamoto defeating Katsuhiko Nakajima, Shuhei Taniguchi and Mohammed Yone gives the middle of the event a veteran-heavy attraction with several distinct styles. Marufuji gets the fall in 15:40 after the Shin Tiger King. The match does not change a championship, but it places Marufuji and Mochizuki together during NOAH's twentieth-anniversary presentation and gives Nakajima another high-level setting shortly before his 2020 singles resurgence becomes a central company story.

HAYATA defeating Daisuke Harada for the IPW:UK Junior Heavyweight Championship is the card's only title change. HAYATA wins in 15:06 with the Headache, ending Harada's reign on his first defense. The result carries extra context because the breakup of RATEL'S had already altered the junior division, and HAYATA defeating a former leader gives that split a championship consequence. It is not a GHC title change, but it is one of the show's clearest internal storyline advances.

Takashi Sugiura, Kazushi Sakuraba and Kendo Kashin defeating Masa Kitamiya, Manabu Soya and Yoshiki Inamura is a fifteen-minute showcase for the Sugiura-gun side. Sakuraba submits Inamura with a rolling arm lock at 15:18, allowing the veteran team to win without pinning Kitamiya or Soya. The result reinforces Sugiura-gun as a serious heavyweight unit while continuing Inamura's education against accomplished veterans. It is useful connective tissue for NOAH's faction picture, even if the match is not essential on its own.

Keiji Mutoh defeated Kaito Kiyomiya in a 27:07 special singles match at The Chronicle Vol. 3, finishing with a figure-four leglock. Kiyomiya had been one of NOAH's most visible younger heavyweight champions during 2019, while Mutoh embodied several earlier generations of Japanese main-event wrestling. A match between them was therefore more than an age-gap exhibition. The younger wrestler needed a strong performance against a celebrated name, and the veteran had to demonstrate that his technical offense could still decide a major bout. Mutoh's submission win offered the decisive answer on this night.

The result became more interesting after Mutoh entered NOAH's heavyweight championship picture the following year. It gave his eventual rise inside the promotion an earlier singles victory over a homegrown leading figure. The outcome may have disappointed viewers hoping for Kiyomiya's symbolic breakthrough, but that tension is part of why the match endures as a meaningful generational confrontation. The A- grade reflects the quality and context of the bout without converting it into a title defense that did not occur.

Go Shiozaki and Kenoh fought to a 60-minute time-limit draw in a double-championship main event at The Chronicle Vol. 3. Shiozaki defended the GHC Heavyweight title, while Kenoh brought the GHC National Championship to the same match. Both belts were at stake, and neither wrestler could defeat the other within the allotted hour. The result allowed Shiozaki to register his fourth successful heavyweight defense and Kenoh his first defense of the National belt. Neither man left as a double champion, which makes the exact finish essential when describing the stakes.

During NOAH's twentieth-anniversary year, the pairing presented two leading members of the roster as peers rather than positioning the National champion as an automatic step below the heavyweight holder. The draw also demanded a very different form of endurance from the 27-minute Mutoh-Kiyomiya match earlier on the card. Wrestling for a full hour without a winner was an intentional statement about the competitors' standing, not an abandoned title change. The A grade recognizes a centerpiece performance with an unusually demanding stipulation.