Great Voyage (2024) was a two-day professional wrestling event promoted by Pro Wrestling NOAH (NOAH) annually since 2000. NOAH in 2024 held two events under the Great Voyage name; Great Voyage in Nagoya on March 2, the Great Voyage in Yokohama on March 17. The twentieth event was held in Nagoya and the fourth at the Nagoya International Conference Hall and the third event was held in Yokohama at the Yokohama Budokan. The event aired live on AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
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The Great Voyage 2024 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.
Great Voyage in Nagoya[]
Daga, who defended GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship against Tadasuke
On February 24, 2024, Good Looking Guys (Tadasuke and YO-HEY) defeated Eita and HAYATA to retain the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. Afterwards, Tadasuke challenged Daga to a match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship, with Tadasuke vowing for Good Looking Guys to win all titles in Noah. The following day, Tadasuke and Daga faced each other in a six-man tag team match, which ended by disqualification after Daga attacked Tadasuke with the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. Shortly after, Daga and Yoshinari Ogawa stole the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships.
Great Voyage in Yokohama[]
The Great Voyage in Yokohama will be main evented by Good Looking Guys (Jack Morris and Anthony Greene) defending the GHC Tag Team Championship against the winners of the 2024 Victory Challenge Tag League Kaito Kiyomiya and Ryohei Oiwa. On February 6, NOAH announced the 2024 Victory Challenge Tag League, with the winners of the tournament facing Morris and Greene at Great Voyage in Yokohama for the GHC Tag Team Championship. On March 10, Kiyomiya and Oiwa defeated Real (Saxon Huxley and Timothy Thatcher) in the finals to win the tournament and following the win, they called out reigning champions, Good Looking Guys, and challenged them to a title match, which they accepted. The match was officially announced the following day. Kiyomiya and Oiwa had previously faced Morris and Greene in a title match for the GHC Tag Team Championship on November 4, 2023 at Demolition Stage 2023 in Niigata, which they lost. On March 17, it was announced that Kiyomiya, was forced to withdraw from the event due to a spinal cord concussion sustained during training, leading Real, who finished as the Victory Challenge Tag League runners-up to replace them in the title match.
Also on March 10, YO-HEY and Tadasuke successfully defended the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Stinger (Daga and Yoshinari Ogawa). Afterwards, YO-HEY challenged Daga to a title match, which he accepted.
Matches[]
Great Voyage in Nagoya[]
| # | Matches | Stipulations | Times |
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| 1 | Ninja Mack defeated Alejandro | Singles match | 9:35 |
| 2 | Team NOAH (Akitoshi Saito and Hi69) defeated Hajime Ohara and Junta Miyawaki | Tag team match | 10:52 |
| 3 | Naomichi Marufuji, Super Crazy and Yoshinari Ogawa defeated Good Looking Guys (Anthony Greene, Jack Morris and YO-HEY) | Six-man tag team match | 15:21 |
| 4 | HAYATA defeated LJ Cleary | Singles match | 7:50 |
| 5 | Los Golpeadores (Alpha Wolf and Dragon Bane) defeated Kenoh and Yu Owada | Victory Challenge Tag League match | 12:37 |
| 6 | Daiki Inaba and Masa Kitamiya vs. Manabu Soya and Shuji Kondo ended in a time limit draw | Victory Challenge Tag League match | 20:00 |
| 7 | Daga (c) defeated Tadasuke | Singles match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship | 14:49 |
| 8 | Team NOAH (Atsushi Kotoge and Go Shiozaki) defeated Real (Timothy Thatcher and Saxon Huxley) | Victory Challenge Tag League match | 13:28 |
| 9 | Jake Lee vs. Kazuyuki Fujita ended in a time limit draw | Singles match | 30:00 |
| 10 | Kaito Kiyomiya and Ryohei Oiwa defeated Takashi Sugiura and Ulka Sasaki | Victory Challenge Tag League match | 17:15 |
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Great Voyage in Yokohama[]
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
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| 1 | HAYATA, Ninja Mack and Alejandro defeated Dragón Bane, Alpha Wolf and Super Crazy | Six-man tag team match | 11:21 |
| 2 | Daiki Inaba defeated Shuhei Taniguchi | Singles match | 8:44 |
| 3 | LJ Cleary defeated Hajime Ohara | Singles match | 7:22 |
| 4 | El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. and Shuji Kondo defeated Good Looking Guys (Jake Lee and Tadasuke) | Tag team match | 15:01 |
| 5 | Kenoh defeated Ulka Sasaki by countout | Singles match | 11:38 |
| 6 | Naomichi Marufuji, Takashi Sugiura, Yoshinari Ogawa, Junta Miyawaki and Yu Owada defeated Team NOAH (Go Shiozaki, Muhammad Yone, Akitoshi Saito, Atsushi Kotoge and Hi69) | Ten-man tag team elimination match | 22:17 |
| 7 | Daga (c) defeated YO-HEY | Singles match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship | 14:49 |
| 8 | Good Looking Guys (Jack Morris and Anthony Greene) (c) defeated Real (Saxon Huxley and Timothy Thatcher) | Tag team match for the GHC Tag Team Championship | 21:30 |
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