The Great Voyage (2019)

Great Voyage (2019) is an upcoming professional wrestling event promoted by Pro Wrestling NOAH (NOAH) annually since 2000 it's the longest and the biggest PPV in NOAH. NOAH until now produced in 2019 one event under the Great Voyage name; Great Voyage in Yokohama on March 10.

The first event will include four matches contested for NOAH's championships. The main event will be a GHC Heavyweight Championship match between the champion Kaito Kiyomiya and the challenger Naomichi Marufuji.

Great Voyage in Yokohama
The Great Voyage 2019 featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. 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.

The Great Voyage 2019 in Yokohama will be main evented by Kaito Kiyomiya making his third defense of the GHC Heavyweight Championship against his partner Naomichi Marufuji. On February 2, 2019, after Kiyomiya made his second title defense of the GHC Heavyweight Championship against Masa Kitamiya, he was challenged by Marufuji, who made his return from a shoulder injury, with Kiyomiya claiming to be the "new new face of Noah". Kiyomiya and Marufuji were supossed to face each other in the finals of the 2018 Global League on November 25, but Marufuji was forced to pull out of the tournament due to a shoulder injury. While Marufuji was injured Kiyomiya broke his record of the youngest GHC Heavyweight Champion in the title's history at 22 years old. Leading up to the match, Kiyomiya and Marufuji faced each other in a tag team match, where Kiyomiya teamed with Daisuke Harada and Marufuji teamed with Minoru Tanaka. Marufuji would win the match for his team, after submitting Kiyomiya with a Key lock and afterwards bent down to hold the icepack on Kiyomiya's arm, which he had attacked consistently during the match. In a built up to the match, Kiyomiya trained with MMA legend Kazushi Sakuraba to work on his submission move a Chicken Wing Facelock.