Gain Control 2022 In Nagoya was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on February 23, 2022, in Nagoya, Japan, at the Nagoya Congress Center. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
The event featured ten matches with three of Noah's five championships on the line. The main event saw Kazuyuki Fujita defeat Katsuhiko Nakajima to win the GHC Heavyweight Championship. Other top matches included Daisuke Harada successfully defending the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship against Super Crazy, and Atsushi Kotoge and YO-HEY defeated Stinger (HAYATA and Yuya Susumu) to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
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Storylines[]
The event 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.
Katsuhiko Nakajima, who defended the GHC Heavyweight Championship against Kazuyuki Fujita.
The Gain Control 2022 In Nagoya was main evented by Katsuhiko Nakajima defending the GHC Heavyweight Championship against Kazuyuki Fujita. On January 16, 2022, at Bumper Crop In Sendai, Fujita confronted Nakajima, after he had successfully defended the GHC Heavyweight Championship against Masa Kitamiya. On February 11, in a six-man tag team match, Fujita scored a direct pinfall victory over Nakajima. Afterwards, Fujita paraded around the ring with the GHC Heavyweight Championship belt, even wearing it over his shoulder, before leaving with the title at backstage.
On February 9, Super Crazy challenged Daisuke Harada to a title match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. Prior to their title match, Crazy pinned Harada, before stating that he would take title back to Mexico, if he won the championship.
On February 11, Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu vacated the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship, after Yoshioka was sidelined with an heel injury. Later that night, during a match between Los Perros del Mal de Japon and Stinger, YO-HEY accidentally attacked Nosawa Rongai, causing Stinger to win the match. Afterwards, Los Perros del Mal de Japon turned on YO-HEY, kicking him out of the stable. This led to Atsushi Kotoge, and the NOAH's juniors making the save, with YO-HEY joining them. Shortly after, in a backstage interview, YO-HEY ask Kotoge to team with him to challenge for the vacant GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
Results[]
| # | Matches | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Funky Express (King Tany and Muhammad Yone) defeated Funky Express (Akitoshi Saito and Masao Inoue) | Tag team match | 11:58 |
| 2 | Nioh defeated Kinya Okada | Singles match | 9:58 |
| 3 | Los Perros del Mal de Japón (Kotaro Suzuki and Nosawa Rongai) defeated Yasutaka Yano and Yoshinari Ogawa | Tag team match | 6:42 |
| 4 | KONGOH (Aleja, Hajime Ohara and Tadasuke) defeated Haoh, Junta Miyawaki and Kai Fujimura | Six-man tag team match | 14:12 |
| 5 | Kendo Kashin vs. Masato Tanaka ended in double count-out | Singles match | 11:01 |
| 6 | Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura defeated Masa Kitamiya and Yoshiki Inamura | Tag team match | 20:22 |
| 7 | Atsushi Kotoge and YO-HEY defeated Stinger (HAYATA and Yuya Susumu) | Tag team match for the vacant GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship | 26:58 |
| 8 | Daisuke Harada (c) defeated Super Crazy | Singles match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship | 18:57 |
| 9 | Daiki Inaba, Go Shiozaki and Kaito Kiyomiya defeated KONGOH (Kenoh, Manabu Soya and Masakatsu Funaki) | Six-man tag team match | 21:21 |
| 10 | Kazuyuki Fujita defeated Katsuhiko Nakajima (c) | Singles match for the GHC Heavyweight Championship | 21:11 |
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