The Great Voyage



The Great Voyage is a major professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event held by Pro Wrestling NOAH and it is an annual pay-per-view event. It is 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. The Great Voyage PPV as various events during the year. In 2016 had four shows during the year.

2000
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 Kobashi pinned Akiyama with Burning Hammer.


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2002
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.


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2003

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2004

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First Event
On August 22, 2004 SUWA left the Dragon Gate and sign with the promotion 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 Event
Durning the tour KENTA and Katsuyori Shibata chellenged Mohammed 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.

First Event

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Second Event

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Third Event

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2006

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2007
The show featured four normal tag team matches and two titles matches.One of the matches was reamatch 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 form the Muscle Outlaw'z unit.


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2014
On May 5, 2014 at the Dead or Alive BxB Hulk turned face at the Steel Cage Survival 6 Way Match after he escape Hulk turned on YAMATO and Naruki Doi and quit Mad Blankey and continued to feud with Mad Blankey and they face for the rights to the Mad Blankey name and logo in a Handicap match which was won by Mad Blankey. On June 16 Dragon Kid challenge Flamita for the Open The Brave Gate Championship and the match was set to be on the Kobe World Hall Pro Wrestling Festival. During one of the predule matches Flamita pinned Kid. On July 3 it was announced that Monster Express (Masato Yoshino and Ricochet) would be against CIMA and Matt Sydal it was also announced that Monster Express (Akira Tozawa and Shingo Takagi) would defend the Open The Twin Gate Championship against Millennials (Eita and T-Hawk). Ten days later it was announced that YAMATO would defend the Open the Dream Gate Championship against BxB Hulk. It was later announced that Mad Blankey (Cyber Kong, Kzy and Naruki Doi) would defend the Open The Triangle Gate Championship against Jimmyz (Genki Horiguchi HAGeeMee, Jimmy Susumu and Mr. Kyu Kyu Naoki Tanizaki Toyonaka Dolphin) and also featured an appearance for the NJPW wrestler Jushin Thunder Liger.

Aftermatch
After BxB Hulk defeated YAMATO for the Open the Dream Gate Champion, Naruki Doi offered to put the title around Hulk's waist and after Doi put the title around Hulk's waist Mad Blankey attacked Hulk and Doi put the title on himself and then Mad Blankey attacked Hulk and Masaaki Mochizuki that was on comentary made the save.


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2015
On July 2 it was announced that BxB Hulk and Big R Shimizu would be against Shingo Takagi and the Pro Wrestling Zero1 wrestler Masato Tanaka at the Kobe World Hall Pro Wrestling Festival also it was announced that Dia.Hearts (Dragon Kid, Kzy and Masaaki Mochizuki) would participate in a match for the Open the Triangle Gate Championship it was also announced that T-Hawk would be against Masato Yoshino for the Open the Dream Gate Championship and Eita against Akira Tozawa for the Open the Brave Gate Championship. On July 11 it was announced that CIMA, Gamma and Don Fujii were going to defend the Open the Triangle Gate Champions against Jimmyz (Genki Horiguchi HAGeeMee!!, Jimmy Susumu and Ryo Jimmy Saito) and Dia.Hearts (Dragon Kid, Kzy and Masaaki Mochizuki). It was later announced that YAMATO and Naruki Doi would be against Matt Sydal and Ricochet for the Open The Twin Gate Championship


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2016
On May 5, 2016 at the Dead or Alive all the members of VerserK turned on YAMATO and VerserK tried to assist Kotoka to escape but Yosuke Santa Maria, Kzy and a returning BxB Hulk assisted YAMATO which lead to YAMATO escaping the cage. Before that Yamato had started problems between him and the leader of VerserK Shingo Takagi. The four ended up forming a new unit, which was named Tribe Vanguard on May 28, 2016. On June 12, YAMATO defeated Big R Shimizu to win the annual King of Gate tournament after the match YAMATO challenge Takagi for the Open the Dream Gate Championship and the GM Yagi announced that Takagi would face YAMATO for the Open the Dream Gate Champion at the Kobe World Hall Pro Wrestling Festival also in that night CIMA, Dragon Kid and Peter Kaasa challenge Monster Express (Masato Yoshino, Akira Tozawa and T-Hawk) for the Open the Triangle Gate Championship and Yoshino accepted. Later it was announced that Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Masaaki Mochizuki would face Masakatsu Funaki and Don Fujii at the Kobe World Hall Pro Wrestling Festival. On June 19 Jimmyz (Jimmy Susumu and Jimmy Kagetora) won the Open the Twin Gate Championship after the match Naruki Doi and Brother YASSHI challenge Susumu and Kagetora for the titles. On June 26 Eita challenge Yosuke Santa Maria for the Open the Brave Gate Championship and later that night Tribe Vanguard (BxB Hulk and Kzy) also challenge Monster Express (Masato Yoshino, Akira Tozawa and T-Hawk) for the Open the Triangle Gate Champions and Yoshino also accepted their challenged and announced that they were going to defend the titles in a Nine Man Three Way Six Man Tag Team match. On July 2 it was revealed that Flamita was the mystery member of Tribe Vanguard and that it was officially announced that Jimmy Susumu and Jimmy Kagetora would face Naruki Doi and Brother YASSHI for the Open the Twin Gate Champions. On July 7 it was announced the rest of the matches for the event. On July 13 it was announced that Kotoka would miss the show and the match card was changed.

Live Show
Kobe World Pro Wrestling Festival 2016:


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