Pro Wrestling NOAH

Pro Wrestling NOAH is a federation of Catch to the Japan, founded in 2000 by old the star of the All Japan Pro Wrestling, Mitsuharu Misawa. Name “NOAH” (French Noah) refers to the history of the bible of Noah, in which each species survived in an arch the flood and took part in the revival of the world, a history put in parallel with the departures of all-in wrestlers of All Japan. The logo of the NOAH is besides an arc with a dove holding an olive branch.

The Pro Wrestling NOAH is primarily a continuation of the system of All Japan in the Nineties, with an access granted to the all-in wrestlers of other federations, something that before the former promoter of All Japan Giant Baba, did not authorize. It also includes/understands a strong division of junior heavyweight (cruiserweight=poids-moyens), whose All Japan was relatively misses some in the Nineties by the fact that young people the star rising were not proposed enough, like Yoshinobu Kanemaru, KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji, which quickly became of the references in this division.

Like the New Japan Pro Wrestling, the NOAH has simple titles and in teams for divisions heavyweight (weight-heavy) and junior. The title are known as GHC (Total Honored Crown). In spite of the fact of not being regarded as the federation number 1 in Japan because of the great history of the NJPW, with its returned and its tele audiences, NOAH had to make exceed its rivals in all the fields since 2005. NOAH in addition could exceed the NJPW in some lieus key, like the Tokyo Dome.

The specialized journalist in wrestling, Dave Meltzer, qualifies the NOAH as best of all the federations of wrestling. Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi of March 1st, 2003, and Kenta Kobashi vs Jun Akiyama of July 10th, 2004 are classified as “match five stars” by the Wrestling Observer which also named them as better matches for their years respective. The Wrestling Observer also named NOAH as being best promotion in 2004 and 2005, and the best weekly show televised in 2003.

NOAH work in agreement with the Boxing ring off Honor, World League Wrestling, Westside Xtreme wrestling and Pro Wrestling ZERO1-max.

A league innatendue called Pro Wrestling SEM was recently announced. Similar to the system of the " Young Lions" NJPW, it will function to facilitate the drive of the young talents. Naomichi Marufuji and KENTA will be the trainers. The name “Pro Wrestling SEM” is once more drawn from the history of the Bible, Noah whose his/her oldest son was called Sem.

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