Noah The Best 2022

{{Infobox professional wrestling event

|name = NOAH The Best 2022

|image = File:Noah_The_Best_2022_poster.jpg

|caption = Promotional poster featuring El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. and Yoshiki Inamura

|alt =

|promotion = CyberFight

|brand = Pro Wrestling Noah

|date = November 23, 2022

|city = Tokyo, Japan

|venue = Yoyogi National Gymnasium

|attendance = 872{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=356464|title=NOAH The Best 2022|work=cagematch.net|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|date=November 23, 2022|access-date=January 28, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241202014116/https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=356464|archive-date=December 2, 2024|url-status=live}}

|buyrate =

|tagline =

|event = Noah The Best

|lastevent = Global Honored Crown

|nextevent = N Innovation

|lastevent2 = 2021

|nextevent2 =

}}

NOAH The Best 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on November 23, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.{{cite web|url=https://www.noah.co.jp/schedule/421/|script-title=ja:2022年11月23日（水） NOAH the BEST 2022|work=noah.co.jp|author=Pro Wrestling Noah|language=ja|date=November 23, 2022|access-date=January 28, 2023}}

Eight matches were contested at the event, and two of Noah's five championships were on the line. The main event saw El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. defeat Yoshiki Inamura to retain the GHC National Championship. In another prominent match, Full Throttle (Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka) defeated Kongo stablemates Hajime Ohara and Shuji Kondo to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.

Background

=Storylines=

The event featured eight 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.{{cite web|url=http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/pro-wrestling.htm|title=How Pro Wrestling Works|last=Grabianowski|first=Ed|access-date=August 21, 2017|work=HowStuffWorks, Inc.|publisher=Discovery Communications|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131129050844/http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/pro-wrestling.htm|archive-date=November 29, 2013}}

=Event=

Event started with the confrontation between Funky Express (Akitoshi Saito and Mohammed Yone) and Kongo (Hi69 and Tadasuke) solded with the victory of the preceding team. Next, Hideki Suzuki defeated Shuhei Taniguchi in singles action. The third match saw Jack Morris picking up a victory over Daiki Inaba in singles competition as well. The fourth bout portraited Masaaki Mochizuki, Masato Tanaka and Naomichi Marufuji picking up a victory against Sugiura-gun (Kazuyuki Fujita, Takashi Sugiura and Timothy Thatcher). Next, Alejandro and Amakusa defeated Dante Leon and Yo-Hey in tag team action. In the sixth match, Kaito Kiyomiya, Masa Kitamiya and Satoshi Kojima defeated Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh and Manabu Soya). In the semi main event, Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka defeated Kongo's Hajime Ohara and Shuji Kondo to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, ending the latter team's reign at 13 days and no defenses.{{cite web|url=https://superluchas.com/en/noah-the-best-2022-dos-titulos-en-disputa/|title=NOAH: "The Best 2022" Two titles in dispute|work=Superluchas.com|author=Dark Angel|date=November 30, 2022|access-date=January 28, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223232112/https://superluchas.com/en/noah-the-best-2022-dos-titulos-en-disputa/|archive-date=February 23, 2023|url-status=live}}

The main event portraited the confrontation between the reigning champion El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. and Yoshiki Inamura in which the title holder marked his first successful defense of the GHC National Championship in that respective reign.{{cite web|url=https://www.pwmania.com/pro-wrestling-noah-the-best-results-november-23-2022|title=Pro Wrestling Noah The Best Results – November 23, 2022|work=pwmania.com|first=Ethan|last=Black|date=November 23, 2022|access-date=January 28, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128110459/https://www.pwmania.com/pro-wrestling-noah-the-best-results-november-23-2022|archive-date=January 28, 2023|url-status=live}}

Results

{{Pro Wrestling results table

|results = {{cite web|url=https://www.wrestling-news.net/noah-the-best-2022-results/196232/|title=NOAH Results: The Best 2022 – Tokyo, Japan (11/23)|work=wrestling-news.net|first=Wayne|last=Daly|date=November 23, 2022|access-date=January 28, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221123234925/https://www.wrestling-news.net/noah-the-best-2022-results/196232/|archive-date=November 23, 2022|url-status=live}}

|times =

|match1 = Funky Express (Akitoshi Saito and Mohammed Yone) defeated Kongo (Hi69 and Tadasuke) by pinfall

|stip1 = Tag team match

|time1 = 10:22

|match2 = Hideki Suzuki defeated Shuhei Taniguchi by pinfall

|stip2 = Singles match

|time2 = 12:56

|match3 = Jack Morris defeated Daiki Inaba by pinfall

|stip3 = Singles match

|time3 = 13:54

|match4 = Masaaki Mochizuki, Masato Tanaka and Naomichi Marufuji defeated Sugiura-gun (Kazuyuki Fujita, Takashi Sugiura and Timothy Thatcher) by pinfall

|stip4 = Six-man tag team match