Pro Wrestling NOAH Legend Naomichi Marufuji To Participate In Saki Akai’s Final Match

By Lewis Carlan Last updated Oct 5, 2023

DDT Pro-Wrestling’s Saki Akai will be wrestling in the final match of her career on November 12th at DDT Pro’s Ultimate Party 2023 Event.

Akai’s final match was revealed today as she will be teaming with Hideki Okatani and Yukio Sakaguchi, who she holds the KO-D and AJPW TV Six-Man Tag Team Championships with as they face Pro Wrestling NOAH legend Naomichi Marufuji, Kazusada Higuchi and TJPW superstar Miyu Yamashita.

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Marufuji commented on Akai’s retirement match during a press conference today:

In this way, I’m not going to end it on a happy note, nominating me and saying, “I’m glad I finally got to fight Marufuji,” so I’m going to instill fear in you at the very end and make you graduate.
Naomichi Marufuji

"In this way, I'm not going to end it on a happy note, nominating me and saying, "I'm glad I finally got to fight Marufuji," so I'm going to instill fear in you at the very end and make you graduate."

Naomichi Marufuji to Saki Akai regarding her retirement match. pic.twitter.com/yswlgLEVBP
— Pro-Wrestling Noah Eng (Hisame, 冰雨) (@Hi5ame) October 5, 2023

Here is the updated card for DDT Ultimate Party 2023:

Five-Way Tag Team Match: Damnnation T.A (Kanon & M.J. Paul) vs. Naruki Doi & Kazuma Sumi vs. Toy Kojima & Yuki Ishida vs. Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku vs. Takeshi Masada and Rukiya
Sanshiro Takagi, Akito, Makoto Oishi & Shinichiro Kawamatsu vs. Yoshitatsu, Yoshihiko, Danshoku Dino & Super Sasadango Machine
Jun Akiyama, HARASHIMA & Yukio Naya vs. Voodoo-Murders (Jun Saito, Rei Saito & Toshizo)
Daisuke Sasaki vs. Tetsuya Endo
Hiromu Takahashi vs. Kazuki Hirata
KO-D Tag Team Championships: Soma Takao & Shota (c) vs. Masahiro Takanashi & Antonio Honda
DDT Universal Championship: Matt Cardona (c) (w/ Steph De Lander) vs. MAO
Saki Akai’s Retirement Match: Saki Akai, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Kazusada Higuchi & Miyu Yamashita
Chris Jericho vs. Konosuke Takeshita
KO-D Openweight Championship: Chris Brookes (c) vs. Yuki Ueno

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