NOAH 5/17 Results

5/17 – Korakuen Hall drawing 1,700 fans (G+)
1. Pen Pals (Kishin Kawabata & Kentaro Shiga) beat Masao Inoue & Mitsuo Momota in 13:03 when Kawabata used a jackknife hold on Momota.
2. Jun Izumida & Naoki Sano defeated Tamon Honda & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi in 7:27 when Sano used a diving footstomp on Kikuchi.
3. Kotaro Suzuki beat Ted DiBiase Jr. in 11:22 with a rolling cradle.
4. Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura defeated Eddie Edwards & Ricky Marvin in 9:36 when Sugiura used the Olympic Slam on Edwards. Marufuji was attacked by Manabu Hara/Kazunari Murakami/Katsumi Usuda before the match and after it was over with Murakami demanded a match against Marufuji on 6/8 in Yokohama.
5. Jun Akiyama/Yoshinobu Kanemaru/Takeshi Rikio beat Taiji Ishimori/KENTA/Akitoshi Saito in 18:55 when Kanemaru used the Touch Out on Ishimori.
6. Handicap Match: Bison Smith defeated Akihiko Ito & Yoshinori Ota in 7:12 with the Bisontennial on Ito. Bison continued to pound on both men after the match plus Kotaro Suzuki until Mitsuharu Misawa came to the ring which forced Bison to stop and stare at him before leaving.
7. Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa beat Shuhei Taniguchi & Akira Taue in 4:13 when Ogawa pinned Taniguchi after a union Tiger Driver.
8. D-Lo Brown/Bull Buchanan/TAKA Michinoku defeated Takeshi Morishima/Go Shiosaki/Mohammed Yone in 20:32 when D-Lo used the Lo-Down on Shiosaki. TAKA told Akiyama & Rikio to shine up their GHC Tag Titles because they will be losing them on 6/8 in Yokohama. TAKA then said that once RO&D wins the titles they would then bring them back to the United States making them truly global.