Pro Wrestling NOAH Announces Victory Challenge Tag League Tournament

By: Lewis Carlan

A new tag team tournament is on its way to Pro Wrestling NOAH. The company announced that the Victory Challenge Tag League will commence on February 24th in Yokohama with the finals set for March 10th. The tournament will be held throughout the upcoming Sunny Voyage 2024 tour.

There will be seven teams participating in the inaugural tournament and they are as follows:

• Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba
• Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa
• Go Shiozaki & Atsushi Kotoge
• Takashi Sugiura & Ulka Sasaki
• Manabu Soya & Shuji Kondo
• Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher
• Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf

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「Victory Challenge Tag League」出場チーム
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Pro Wrestling NOAH released the rules for this new tournament:

• Official matches will be competed with 20 minute time limits based on the GHC Championship rules.
• A win earns each team 2 points, a loss earns each team 0 points and a draw earns each team 1 point
• Official matches will be held from February 24 at Yokohama Radiant Hall to March 10 at Kumamoto Castle Hall.
• The top two teams with the highest scores will meet each other in the championship match at Kumamoto Castle Hall on March 10.
• If there is more than one team that reaches the championship, the team that advances to the championship match will be determined by the winner of a playoff match. If the playoff match ends in a draw, another match will take place with the winner advancing to the championship bout.
• The winner of the Victory Challenge Tag League will earn the right to challenge the 66th GHC Tag Team Champions Jack Morris & Anthony Greene on March 17 at Yokohama Budokan.

NOAH did not indicate if this new tag league will be replacing Global Tag League which has been on a hiatus since 2020. Global Tag League had been the annual NOAH tag team tournament from 2008 through 2020. El Hijo de Dr Wagner Jr. and Rene Dupree were the winners of the Global Tag League back in 2020.

The current GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jack Morris and Anthony Greene, who had a successful title defense on February 4th, will be waiting patiently to see who emerges as the winner of the Victory Challenge Tag League. The GLG tandem will be making their fourth defense of the tag titles against one of the seven teams that will be competing in the new tag league with each team posing a real threat of dethroning the current champions.