[4.0] "One of the weirdest and inconsistent shows I've ever watched. The length of this card certainly didn't do it any favors aswell. Anyways I walked away from this enjoying 3 matches alot. Those matches being Ogawa and Zach/Tanahashi and HAYATA, Ishii/Kitamiya, and ofcourse the Kenoh/Soya co mainevent. I'm not gonna drag the mainevent more then it allready has been dragged but it was and is definitely a low point of the show and of NOAH as a whole."

[4.0] "This show could have been so much better if the main event didn't exist, or the very least was heavily cut for time and swapped with the semi-main. What should be a show remembered for Kenoh and Soya's great title match is instead remembered as a testament to how much NOAH squandered the momentum they got after Mutoh's retirement run. The main event was one of the most flagrant displays of idiocy in all of recent wrestling history. Everyone involved from management to the performers looked like idiots for going through with it. Anyways, the rest of the show was a mixed bag to begin with. There were some great matches, but there were also some pretty noteworthy misses. Nothing that would have hurt the show too bad had it not been for the main event disaster though. [MOTN: Kenoh vs. Manabu Soya]"

[6.0] "Overall kind of a disappointing NOAH event, with a fine card, nothing that stood out when first announced other than the Ibushi/Marufuji card which was a head scratcher. I'd rate the matches individually [but my account is too new, so, oh well] but overall the show was 2.5 out of 5 stars. I wasn't blown away by the Kenoh and Soya match and I'm a big fan of both. The crowd was DEAD and the pacing was a little off which led to a few miffed spots but I still give it a solid 3 out of 5. The Ishi/Kitamiya was expectedly great, as many folks thought it would be so a solid 4 out of 5 stars. I don't even want to talk about the Ibushi match and I'll leave it at that."

[8.0] "Absolutely an underwhelming way to end the show, but those saying it was some kind of disgrace to wrestling are way overblowing it in my opinion. Kenoh & Soya put in a low end MOTY contender and Ishii & Kitamiya delivered even more than I hoped. Add to that an actually enjoyable HoT match and you have a pretty great show! 8/10"

[9.0] "It's a thoroughly sincere event, with both the lineup of competitors and the content of the matches making a significant impact. Regardless, as an annual spring opening event, it is commendable. However, the main competition falls short of expectations, which is the reason for not being able to give it a perfect score."

[7.0] "Great card. Ends poorly and is a bit bumpy in regards to quality but still some great matches in here and overall very consistent."

[6.0] "Great card overall. Early show got off to an expected-but-unspectacular start with a great junior heavyweight tag match thrown in, but it feels like things really kicked off with Ishii vs Kitamiya. Another NOAH vs NJPW match followed, and then we got the interesting debut of... the Great Muta's kayfabe daughter? Huh. Well, that's an interesting gimmick. Sugiura vs Sasaki followed, I always enjoy Sugiura but this was just a run of the mill mid-card match. Ogawa/ZSJ vs HAYATA/Tanahashi followed, obviously building the big NJPW World TV title match in two days time. Ogawa/ZSJ are of course a historically great tag team, and this match was very fun. Daga then beats Eita in the junior title match which was fairly great, and... oh, god, REALLY? ! Even when I switch to another promotion, I can't escape these HoT twats! Ugh, anyway, here comes the big one. Kenoh vs Soya, heavyweight title. I feel like Soya isn't quite heavyweight title level but I suppose he is a guy who can easily be pushed there for a tour to fill a gap and then brough backdown. Kenoh, of course, being Kenoh, puts on a huge barnburner with him. I don't really know if I should comment on the main event, but... first, Kenoh vs Soya SHOULD have been the main event here. Second... Ibushi used to be one of my favourite wrestlers of all time, so while this match wasn't the ABSOLUTE bollocks... it was *heartbreaking* seeing him clearly in agony the entire match. Marufuji tries to get an out-of-it, agonized Ibushi out of second gear for what's written down as 33 minutes but will feel to the viewer more like eight hours, Ibushi walking into the match with a broken bloody ankle and then apparantly BREAKING THE OTHER ONE with a moonsault to the outside. GOOD, GREAT, AWESOME, THIS WILL DEFINITELY GO WELL. Mercifully this match (which has legitimately reduced the crowd to stunned silence, unable to believe what's happening in front of them) is concluded with three Kamigoyes as Ibushi stumbles over onto Marufuji's body after the last one. He can't even stand after the match, his ankles are that borked. Nor can he take the mic to send the crowd home. Jake Lee and Kento Kiyomiya come down to the ring, probably a mixture of concern for Ibushi and sheer desire to rip his head off, and usher him out. Ibushi, in tears, leaves on his own two feet, and is reportedly taken out of the arena in an ambulence. Fantastic. Lee and Kiyomiya attempt to, rather sheepishly, cut babyface "please continue to support us" promos to close us out and send the crowd home... happy? They don't seem like their heart is in it as we end the show. Honestly, if you cut out the main event, you're left with a fairly solid night of wrestling that I would recommend to new viewers of NOAH who are perhaps NJPW fans wanting a pre-game for Wrestle Kingdom. But bloody hell, guys, who let this main event happen? It really drags down the whole thing and just further cements the fact that the heavyweight title should've main evented. Either way, Ibushi needs to finally quit the nonsense about refusing surgery, take the Kenny Omega Recommended Course For People Who Are Held Together With Six Year Old Athletic Tape And Hopes And Fucking Dreams, and if he isn't going to do that and continue to self-destruct like this, then... he needs to retire instead. It's a sour note to end on, but NOAH The New Year 2024 is a 6.0 out of 10. Without that main event, you can bump it up to a 7.0 or 7.5. With 5 out of 10 being "average" because we use the scale PROPERLY, this means I consider this to be a SOLID show."

[9.0] "For me it was a very good, exciting show. There were two very good matches and several good ones, but in my opinion none of the matches were bad, not even the main event, which was scored very low by the scores. I base my opinion not only on my nearly forty years of watching professional wrestling, but also on my martial arts background."

"I'm very new to watching Noah and this was disappointing, I enjoyed Kenoh vs Manabu Soya and expected the main event to be even better but was left greatly disappointed, I'll keep checking out Noah in 2024 hopefully it's more like Kenoh and Manabu Soya rather than the mess of a main event. English commentary is very important to me, and I was happy to see the show had it, and the commentary team was great!"

"I can safely say that Tomohiro Ishii vs Masa Kitamiya is the best match Ive seen all year, and Kota Ibushi vs Naomichi Marafuji is the worst."

[5.0] "If the main wasnt there, I could have said that this is an event with highs and lows, giving a 7. Truth be told NOAH isn't in a great spot right now especially with AJPW seemingly catchup with a recent hot streak but at the end of the day, it's a 7 because of the amount of talents they have. The main showcase the exact opposite of that and why NOAH isn't a 9, it's the horrible decisions they make and reliance on outside talents that is ultimately driving their shows away from being what the ark should be. Horrible way to open a new year."

[5.0] "This was a really disappointing event in my opinion, it lasted five hours and a half, so it was really tiring, and some matches just didn't delivered. The main event was horrible, sadly it will be forever remembered as an unfortunate moment in wrestling history... the rest of the show had nothing really special, aside from Ishii vs Kitamiya, and Kenoh vs Soya, the true main event. This shows proofs how bad NOAH is doing recently."

[7.0] "This was my first ever full live NOAH show that I've watched. I really enjoyed it being a big fan of NJPW, a lot of great matches on the show and getting to know alot of the wrestlers I had never heard of was really cool. I've become a fan of Alpha Wolf and Dragon Bane aswell as Manabu Soya. I 100% plan on watching the next event with Go Shiozaki and KENOH headlining. Tragically the main event did nothing but leave a bad taste in my mouth as Marufuji tries his best to get something out of Kota Ibushi who is clearly a shell of his former self."

[5.0] "A show that would've been way better if they cut out at least 4 matches including that horrific main event. Kenoh and Soya 100 percent deserved that main event spot!"

[8.0] "A decent show which was way to long had too many matches and had a very bad main event the world title match should have gone on last"

[5.0] "I feel sorry for everyone who put on a good show before that terrible main event. From the reaction it seemed that maybe Ibushi lied about his condition but that is on NOAH to have a doctor check. Ishii vs Masa Kitamiya was excellent. It was good to see Daga defend. Soya also gave it his all but came up short. What a horrible ending though."

[6.0] "It was a pretty solid show overall even if at some points people could argue it felt more like a "Wrestle Kingdom 18 preview show" with so much NJPW wrestlers on the card but most of the purely NOAH matches delivered or were at least fun and short enough. The crowd was hot for some matches, cold for others like the joshi one or the main event. I don't blame them. The GHC Heavyweight Championship match delivered and had the crowd going crazy at the end so that's a good thing and Kaito was made to look like a hero in that elimination tag match. Sadly this show contains one of the worst main events I've ever seen so I can't give it more than a 6 because I think that match really left a bad taste in everyone's mouth and the main event obviously has an important place in a show, it's the finale, everything builds to it, it's supposed to achieve something besides making you feel like you're watching a pathetic performance."