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N Innovation 2022

2022 Pro Wrestling Noah event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ116179011 ↗
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N Innovation 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on December 23, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Shinjuku Face. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. It was the last pay-per-view promoted by Noah in 2022.

Six matches were contested at the event, and two of Noah's five championships were on the line. The main event saw Amakusa defeat Dante Leon for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. In another prominent match, Kzy and Yo-Hey defeated Stinger stablemates Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.

Background

Storylines

The event featured six professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Event

Prior to the event, Kai Fujimura sustained an injury, therefore the show's card suffered minor changes.

The event has been opened by the singles confrontation between one of the promotion's veteran Hi69 and rookie Shoki Kitamura which ended with the latter's victory.

Editorial summary

“N Innovation 2022” enters the record as 2022 Pro Wrestling Noah event. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Innovation, Wrestling and Noah can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Innovation, Wrestling and Noah.
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“N Innovation 2022” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Innovation, Wrestling and Noah provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q116179011. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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