February, 7 2010 – Fukuoka, Japan
Championship rundown:
Open the Dream Gate Champion: Naruki Doi
Interim Open the Twin Gate Champions: CIMA & Gamma
Open the Triangle Gate Champions: Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii & Akebono
Open the Brave Gate Champion: K-ness
Open the Freedom Gate Champion: BxB Hulk
The show starts with clips of all the history between Don Fujii and YAMATO. YAMATO is currently vying for a shot at Naruki Doi’s Dream Gate title, but Fujii has decided to be an obstacle along the way. These two have had issues for the better part of the past two years, and have fought in plenty of singles matches against each other. That includes an empty arena match, which was clipped for reasons I can’t understand. Why record extra stuff in front of no fans? At any rate, YAMATO will have to get through Fujii if he wants momentum going into his Dream Key match against Takuya Sugawara.
YAMATO {K} vs. Don Fujii {Z}
The fight apparently started in the locker room, as they fight down the ramp to the ring. YAMATO chokes Fujii with the belt from his robe. Fujii comes back with a jab t to the face and a clothesline to the floor. Masaaki Mochizuki is on commentary, and he holds YAMATO for Fujii. They brawl around the building. Fujii grabs an unused section of guardrail and throws it at YAMATO. He puts YAMATO on a dolly and rolls him into the apron. He attacks Akira Tozawa for old time’s sake. YAMATO comes back with the sleeper hold. Fujii looks to be out so YAMATO pins him. It only gets 2. YAMATO goes to dump powder on Fujii’s head, harkening back to their matches from YAMATO’s time in the Muscle Outlaw’z/Real Hazard. Fujii gets the powder but hits Referee Yagi with it by mistake. YAMATO spears Yagi by mistake. Fujii hits a German suplex and a lariat. He brings a table into the ring and whips YAMATO into it. He hits a chokeslam on the collapsed table. He dumps the bag of powder over YAMATO’s head and goes for a roll up. It gets 2. He hits a lariat and a chokeslam but YAMATO catches him with a roll up for the win at 7:06 shown of 13:29. This was silly and bad, like all of their matches against each other have been.
Rating: *½
Shingo Takagi enters the ring and immediately makes us forget about the cruddy match we just watched by reintroducing an old friend of his. CYBER MUTHAFUCKING KONG comes out to the ring rocking long hair and a suit! He’s rejoined Takagi and will be a part of Kamikaze upon his return. He cries about his return to Dragon Gate. Somehow the world just feels right now.
K-ness © {RH} vs. PAC {W1} [Open the Brave Gate Championship Match]
World-1 was very confident that PAC would bring the belt back to the stable. They trade holds to start. PAC flips around and hits a dropkick. He hits an armdrag and puts on a front facelock. He dropkicks the back for 2. K-ness hits the Ashi Yokosuka. He slams PAC’s leg to the mat. He hits a few dropkicks the leg. He hits a shinbreaker and puts on a figure 4 leglock. PAC gets to the ropes. He collapses under his own weight when trying to charge K-ness. The excellent selling goes out the window when he lands on his feet after a back flip off the top and hits a leg lariat. He hits a slingshot Ace Crusher. He hits a twisting quebrada to the floor. Back in the ring he hits a standing corkscrew SSP for 2. He hits a high kick. He hits the shooting star press but his leg is too hurt to go for the cover right away, and he only gets 2. He hits a German suplex for 2. K-ness blocks the British Airways and hits the Darkness Driver for 2. He hits the Kaishaku for 2. He hits the Shouryuukyaku for 2. He hits the Darkness Buster for the win at 9:44 shown of 17:57. This was incredibly awkward. Everything was executed fine, but K-ness was seriously devalued and the crowd wasn’t into any of PAC’s high spots.
Rating: **¼
After the match Super Shisa comes out and challenges K-ness for a shot at the title. K-ness accepts the challenge. They will fight for the title on February 27th.
CIMA {W5}, Gamma {W5} & Masaaki Mochizuki {Z} vs. Naruki Doi {W1}, Masato Yoshino {W1} & BxB Hulk {W1} vs. Susumu Yokosuka {RH}, Genki Horiguchi {RH} & Takuya Sugawara {RH} [Elimination Match]
CIMA was injured, so he was replaced by Kid in this match so that he could be healthy for his title defense three days later. Hulk, Mochizuki and Sugawara start. Sugawara takes a double chest kick. Hulk hits Mochizuki with a dropkick. Yoshino hits Horiguchi and Gamma with a supercharged dropkick. Kid’s WARRIORS-5 gear is pretty sweet. Yokosuka knocks him to the floor and trades shoulder tackles with Doi. Doi tricks Yokosuka into leaving himself open for a dropkick. Kid hits Doi with the Déjà Vu. Yokosuka hits a backbreaker and mocks his old WARRIORS pose. A big Mark Nulty Special chain breaks out. Gamma has trouble getting a piece of the action, so he gives Hulk the Osuikougeki instead. Sugawara and Yasushi Kanda drag Hulk into the crowd and choke him with a chair. Hulk comes back with a missile dropkick. Kid hits the Messiah DDT. Doi powerbombs Kid into Sugawara. Horiguchi hits the inverted DDT. Yoshino hits the Sling Blade. Yokosuka hits the Jumbo no Kachi on the apron. He hits it on Gamma as well. He hits Mochizuki with the Sankakugeri. Mochizuki hits a lariat. Yokosuka hits the Twister. That ruled. Hulk hits a leg lariat. Gamma hits a cane shot. Kid hits a super reverse hurricanrana. Yokosuka hits the Jumbo no Kachi. Mochizuki hits a chest kick. He hits Hulk with the Saikyou High Kick. Kid hits Yokosuka with the Ultra Hurricanrana for 2 when Sugawara distracts the referee. Horiguchi, who wants to wrestle fair in 2010, argues with Sugawara about the move. Hulk hits a high kick on Gamma. World-1 hits a triple kick. Hulk hits a leg lariat for 2. Gamma and Mochizuki hit a double head kick on Yoshino. Gamma hits the Gamma Special for 2. Yoshino pulls Gamma in the way of the Sankakugeri. He gets the Speed Star on Gamma to eliminate him at 11:05 shown of 24:48. Sugawara goes right after Yoshino. Doi blocks the Shiisanpuuta. Sugawara blocks the Muscular Bomb. Doi hits the Bakatare Sliding Kick. World-1 triple-teams Horiguchi for 2. Yokosuka hits a lariat to the back on Hulk. He hits an avalanche Aikata. He hits the Jumbo no Kachi for 2. Sugawara hits the Shiisanpuuta for 2. He goes for another but Hulk blocks it and SpeedMuscle goes to work on Real Hazard. Kanda hits a box attack. Horiguchi freaks out on him. Sugawara hits a box attack and Horiguchi gets the Backslide from Hell for 2. Kanda powders Horiguchi. Yoshino hits the Torbellino and Doi hits the Bakatare Sliding Kick for the win at 14:45 shown of 28:25. Everything involving Mochizuki and Yokosuka was excellent. The rest was decent enough, but served mostly just to sow the seeds of dissention in Real Hazard.
Rating: ***¼
After the match the Real Hazard divisions become visible. K-ness and Yokosuka come to Horiguchi’s aid, and the rest of the crew beats on them. So at this point all the talent lies on the clean-fight side of the group.
Next week Sugawara and YAMATO go at it in a no rope, no disqualification match for the Dream Key. Also SpeedMuscle, who dominated tonight, get their shot at CIMA and Gamma’s Twin Gate belts.
