WWE Superstar Shinsuke Nakamura defeated The Great Muta in the main event of the Pro Wrestling NOAH New Year’s event show which took place at Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
Sources, including F4WOnline noted Nakamura kicked out of Great Muta’s shining wizard. Nakamura, was hit in the face at one point by Muta’s mist. Nakamura hit Muta with mist of his own and then nailed him with the kinshasa and pinned him for the win.
Post Match: Nakamura thanked Muta, calling him his idol. Nakamura celebrated in the ring briefly and then ran up the ramp and helped Muta walk to the stage entrance. Both posed on the stage as pyro went off, as the show went off the air.
The show aired live on Wrestle Universe.
This was Nakamura’s first match outside of WWE since signing with the company back in 2017. During a press conference, Nakamura stated the agreement between WWE and Pro Wrestling NOAH a “miracle.” He also went on to say that this match would not have taken place under the Vince McMahon regime.
Below are the results from the show, courtesy of Fightful.
– Yasutaka Yano defeted Taishi Ozawa
– Masa Kitamiya, Yoshiki Inamura & Daiki Inaba defeated Shuhei Taniguchi, Akitoshi Saito & Mohammed Yone
– Dante Leon, Ninja Mack & Alejandro defeated Shuji Kondo, Hi69 & Tadasuke
– Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki & Mochizuki Jr. defeated Seiki Yoshioka, El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. & Atsushi Kotoge
– Kendo Kashin, Kazuyuki Fujita, NOSAWA Rongai & Hiroshi Hase defeated Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya, Masakatsu Funaki & Hajime Ohara
– Jack Morris defeated Timothy Thatcher
– Jake Lee came out and shook hands with Morris
– GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship: AMAKUSA (c) defeated Junta Miyawaki
– GHC Tag Team Chammpionships: Satoshi Kojima & Takashi Sugiura (c) defeated Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA
– GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships: Yoshinari Ogawa & Eita defeated YO-HEY & Kzy (c) to win the titles.
– Shinsuke Nakamura defeated The Great Muta. Nakamura said “bye bye” to Muta after the match.