As noted earlier, today is the 1 year anniversary of the death of NOAH founder and president Mitsuharu Misawa. The promotion returned to it’s homebase, Differ Ariake, today for a special event to remember their gone but never forgotten leader, who will always be in our hearts. Results from Return To Port ’10:
They claimed 1800 paid (overflow). The usual number for non-SEM shows at Differ.
Taiji Ishimori vs. Ricky Marvin went to a 15 minute time limit draw.
Kentaro Shiga & Akira Taue beat Takashi Okita & Kishin Kawabata in 12:01. Taue pinned Okita.
Atsushi Aoki & Shuhei Taniguchi beat Genba Hirayanagi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru in 14:17. Taniguchi pinned Hirayanagi.
Masao Inoue & Akitoshi Saito beat Yuto Aijima & Takuma Sano in 17:34. Saito pinned Aijima after Sickle Of Death.
Takeshi Morishima & Kensuke Sasaki beat Tamon Honda & Takashi Sugiura in 17:24. Sasaki pinned Honma after Northern Lights Bomb.
KENTA, Minoru Suzuki & Yoshihiro Takayama beat Makoto Hashi, Daisuke Ikeda (Futen) & Mohammed Yone in 16:53. KENTA pinned Hashi after GO 2 SLEEP.
Mitsuharu Misawa Memorial Match: Naomichi Marufuji & Go Shiozaki beat Yoshinari Ogawa & Jun Akiyama in 21:34. Shiozaki pinned Ogawa after a Go Lariat.
With the event now over, NOAH has reopened the building to the public to allow fans to leave flowers at the entrance at a specially installed stand to pay tribute to Misawa. The photo of Misawa that hung over the ring at events immediately after his death was also placed at the memorial.
