KENTA Comments On Winning GHC Heavyweight Championship

For the first time in more than 10 years, KENTA is the GHC Heavyweight Champion. He defeated Kenoh at Pro Wrestling NOAH’s ‘New Departure’ event to win the championship, just one day after Kenoh had won the very same championship from OZAWA. In his first interview after the win, KENTA discussed what the moment meant to him. Here are the highlights:

On the win: “Of course, I’m happy, but NOAH is on a roll right now, and I’ve become the champion again. I feel a sense of responsibility to maintain that momentum. After I left NOAH, many things happened, I made many choices, and I came back to NOAH. I was able to create something, so I knew my choice was not wrong, and I think that a lot of things have come together to get me to this point.”

On giving credit to Kenoh for his performance over the weekend: “Looking back on these two days, I think Kenoh was clearly the MVP. He really helped to energize the crowd. As someone who was with NOAH from the beginning, Kenoh isn’t a native member, but he’s done so much for NOAH. I want to work together to make NOAH even better. Of course, there’s the joy of winning the belt, but these two days also brought out those feelings.”