The Great Voyage

**The Great Voyage** is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event held by Pro Wrestling NOAH and it is an annual pay-per-view event. It was intially Noah's the biggest, and arguably the most important, event of the year, equivalent to the WWE's WrestleMania and the NJPW's January 4 Dome Show and Dragon Gate's Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival until it was replaced by NOAH The New Year as Noah's biggest event. The Great Voyage PPV has various events during the year. In 2016, the event had four shows during the year and in 2019 had the lowest shows with one, being discontinued due to the COVID-19 pandemic, before returning in 2021 with two shows.

## Information

### City

Tokyo, Japan

Before the show start there was a minute of silence for the death of Yoshihiro Momota which his brother Mitsuo was holding a picture of him in his hands and all wrestlers gathered around the ring. The third match was the debut of Takashi Sugiura who made his debut as a wrestler. The former judoka and wrestlers joined All Japan Pro Wrestling just before the split to, came up with afterwards to NOAH and is thus the first debuting rookie of Pro Wrestling NOAH. On the last match Kenta Kobashi pinned Jun Akiyama with Burning Hammer.

Match results

## Information

### City

Tokyo, Japan

The show featured 3 title matches one was NJPW title match between Tsuyoshi Kikuchi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru against El Samurai and Masayuki Naruse and two GHC title matches between Mitsuharu Misawa against Yoshihiro Takayama and Akitoshi Saito and Jun Akiyama against Takeshi Morishima and Takeshi Rikio.

Match results

## Information

### City

Tokyo, Japan

The event featured two singles matches, four tag team matches and one six-man tag team match. The main event featured a title match for the GHC Tag Team Championship.

Match results

## Information

### City

Tokyo, Japan

This event featured some six-man tag team matches and tag team matches and one singles match. The event featured to title matches one for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship and one for the GHC Tag Team Championship.

Match results

## Information

### Date

02005-01-08-0000January 8, 2005
02005-09-18-0000September 18, 2005
02005-11-05-0000November 5, 2005

### Attendance

16,000
16,200
16,000

## Storylines

### First Event

On August 22, 2004 SUWA left Dragon Gate and sign with Pro Wrestling Noah and soon after his arrival, on September 18, 2005, SUWA challenged KENTA for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship which he accept and the match was made official and they went to a series of confrontations between the two, including a violent match that ended in his opponent getting disqualified for assaulting the referee. Also feautred anthoer title match between Mitsuharu Misawa and Takeshi Rikio for GHC Heavyweight Championship.

### Second and Third Event

Durning the tour KENTA and Katsuyori Shibata challenged Muhammad Yone and Takeshi Morishima for the GHC Tag Team Championship which they accepted and Yoshinobu Kanemaru chellenged Scorpio GHC Openweight Hardcore Championship which he accepted and also Akira Taue chellenged Kenta Kobashi for the GHC Heavyweight Championship.

## Information

### City

Tokyo, Japan

The show featured two six-man tag team matches, one eight- man tag team match between Akira Taue, Atsushi Aoki, Mushiking Terry and Taiji Ishimori against SUWA and Voodoo Murders (Shuji Kondo, TARU and "brother" YASSHI), two tag team matches, one singles match between Takeshi Morishima and Go Shiozaki. The main event featured a GHC Heavyweight Championship title match between the champion Naomichi Marufuji and Mitsuharu Misawa.

Match results

## Information

### City

Osaka, Japan

The show featured four normal tag team matches and two titles matches. One of the matches was rematch for the GHC Heavyweight Championship between Naomichi Marufuji and Mitsuharu Misawa but this time Misawa as the champion and featured GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match between Kotaro Suzuki and Ricky Marvin against Dragon Gate's Genki Horiguchi and Naruki Doi from the Muscle Outlaw'z unit.

Match results

## Information

### Date

02008-06-14-0000June 14, 2008
02005-09-18-0000September 18, 2005

### Attendance

3,600
3,300

### Venue

Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

### City

Yokohama, Japan
Osaka, Japan

The 2008 Great Voyage was held on 02008-06-14-0000June 14, 2008 and on 02005-09-18-0000September 18, 2005. The first event was in Yokohama at the Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium and the second event was in Osaka at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. The first event featured one title match for the GHC Heavyweight Championship and the second event featured two title matches one for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship and another for the GHC Heavyweight Championship. Both events featured no title changes.

## Information

### Date

02009-09-27-0000September 27, 2009
02009-10-03-0000October 3, 2009

### Attendance

17,000
6,400

### Venue

Nippon Budokan
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

### City

Tokyo, Japan
Osaka, Japan

The 2009 Great Voyage featured two nights, the first night was held on 02009-09-27-0000September 27, 2009 and the second night was held on 02009-10-03-0000October 3, 2009. The first night was in Tokyo at the Nippon Budokan and the second event was in Osaka at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. Both events featured one title match and both events featured no title changes. The event also featured a qualifyng for the Junior Heavyweight League.

## Information

### City

Yokohama, Japan

The 2010 Great Voyage in Yoohama was held on 02010-03-21-0000March 21, 2010 it was held at the Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall. The event featured one title match and it featured no title changes. The event also featured some matches of the Global League Tournament with the main event being Naomichi Marufuji against Yoshihiro Takayama in a Global League Tournament match. During the event Katsuhiko Nakajima was replaced in his match by Satoshi Kajiwara.

Match results

## Footnotes

1. ↑ This match first ended in a disqualification win for KENTA, but was restarted under no disqualification rules.