Summary

Pro Wrestling NOAH's Spring Mayhem card at Ryogoku Sumo Hall on May 2 ended with major movement at the top of the promotion. Dragon Bane defeated AMAKUSA to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship, and Shane Haste followed by beating Yoshiki Inamura for the GHC Heavyweight Championship.

The show also featured OZAWA defeating Tetsuya Naito in singles action. After the match, OZAWA said he wanted Naito's Los Tranquilos de Japon unit, which includes BUSHI, RYUSEI and Angel Reyes, to become a subsidiary of Team 2000X. Naito rejected the idea in his post-match comments.

Attendance for the event was listed at 4,539.

Results

Dark Match: Atsushi Kotoge, Hi69 and Hajime Ohara defeated Yuto Koyanagi, Hiroto Tsuruya and Midori Takahashi

Dark Match: Eita defeated Katsumi Inahata

White Raven Squad (KENTA, Tetsuya Endo and HAYATA) defeated Muhammed Yone, Kazuyuki Fujita and Daiki Odashima

Handicap Match: Knull defeated Lykos Gym (Kid Lykos #1 and Kid Lykos #2)

Six-Man Three-Way Tag Team Match: Manabu Soya, Saxon Huxley and Yuki Iino defeated Team 2000X (Masa Kitamiya, Takahashi Sugiura and Tadasuke) and Kaito Kiyomiya, Harutoki and Alejandro

Team 2000X (Alpha Wolf and Kai Fujimura) defeated Los Tranquilos de Japon (RYUSEI and Angel Reyes)

No DQ Match: BUSHI defeated Jun Masaoka

Naomichi Marufuji and Kenoh defeated The Good Brothers (Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows)

OZAWA defeated Tetsuya Naito

GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship: Dragon Bane defeated AMAKUSA (c)

GHC Heavyweight Championship: Shane Haste defeated Yoshiki Inamura (c)

OZAWA and Tetsuya Naito add another hook

OZAWA's win over Naito gave Spring Mayhem more than just a strong singles result. It also pushed the Team 2000X story forward immediately, with OZAWA trying to fold Los Tranquilos de Japon into his group's orbit after the bell.

Naito shutting that down keeps the issue alive instead of closing it off in one night. Between that exchange and Team 2000X already beating RYUSEI and Angel Reyes earlier on the card, NOAH now has a clear faction-based thread to follow coming out of Ryogoku.

Dragon Bane and Shane Haste reset NOAH's title picture

Dragon Bane and Shane Haste leaving Ryogoku with championship wins gives NOAH two fresh title scenes at once. The junior heavyweight division has a new champion after AMAKUSA's reign ended, and the heavyweight picture changes just as sharply with Yoshiki Inamura no longer on top.

That matters because Spring Mayhem was positioned as a major event, so both title switches should carry immediate weight on upcoming cards. NOAH also now has the OZAWA-Naito situation running alongside those championship changes, which gives the promotion multiple directions to build from after one show.

Sources

As reported by Fightful.