Make sure you sign the most important petition of all time!
And while you’re clicking on links, check out my Dragon Gate blog.
September 17, 2010 – Tokyo, Japan
Open the Dream Gate Champion: Masato Yoshino
Open the Triangle Gate Champions: CIMA, Gamma & Genki Horiguchi
Open the Brave Gate Champion: PAC
Open the Twin Gate Champions: Susumu Yokosuka & K-ness
Open the Freedom Gate Champion: BxB Hulk
On the last episode of Infinity, World-1 fell to the WARRIORS after a ton of friendly fire down the stretch. After the match the losing triangle team argued and scrapped until a three way match was made for early October. For now Tanisaki and Hulk will have to get along, because they have a triangle tag match against the WARRIORS and the Deep Drunkers to contend with.
BxB Hulk {W1} & Naoki Tanisaki {W1} vs. Gamma {W5} & Dragon Kid {W5} vs. Kzy {DD} & Yasushi Kanda {DD}
Kid is still channeling Jack Evans in his pre-match shtick. He starts with Hulk and Kzy. Hulk starts to dance but Kzy attacks him. Kzy dances but his opponents hit him with a quadruple dropkick. Kanda hits Tanisaki with a Manhattan drop. Gamma hits Kanda with a dropkick. Kanda hits Gamma with a Manhattan drop. He does the same to Tanisaki. He wants to hit them with the John Woo but ends up hitting it on Kzy by mistake. Kid hits a head scissor takedown on Kanda. Hulk hits a senton on Kid. Gamma spits in Hulk’s face. Hulk hits a spin kick. He puts Kanda in the Mark Nulty Special. Kid puts it on Hulk and the inevitable chain breaks out. Gamme gives everyone in the chain the Osuikougeki, including Kid. Kanda and Kzy hit Hulk with a double exploder. Hulk hits Kzy with the uranage. Kid hits Kzy with the Messiah for 2. Kanda hits a flapjack for 2. Kid hits Kzy with the stack hurricanrana. Tanisaki hits the Casanova, getting 2 for Gamma. Gamma clotheslines Tanisaki for 2. Hulk stomps Tanisaki by mistake. He hits an accidental spin kick and dropkick too. Kanda hits Kid with the John Woo. Hulk hits Kzy with the Mouse and a lariat. He hits an enziguiri. Tanisaki hits Hulk with the blue box in a spot that doesn’t look accidental at all and doesn’t stop Kzy from getting the winning pin at 8:11. Total throwback to Everyday Pro Wrestling here, with some spots even lifted from the 2004 comedy matches that took place there. All in all an entertaining way to throw away eight minutes of your day.
Rating: **½
After the match Hulk and Tanisaki argue. Tanisaki is very condescending. Hulk is furious. They start to fight when Dr. Muscle crawls out to the ring. He attacks Hulk and gives him the Implant. He asks Tanisaki for a handshake but Tanisaki won’t go for it, saying he and Hulk are still friends. Dr. Muscle leaves with the Drunkers. Hulk attacks Tanisaki after the fact and leaves alone. Sadly, the segment was totally flat and heatless.
K-ness © & Susumu Yokosuka © vs. Naruki Doi {W1} & Masato Yoshino {W1} [Open the Twin Gate Championship Match]
The champions are coming off an amazing win over the Zetsurins at World, while the challengers earned this match by winning their third Summer Adventure Tag League tournament. Doi and K-ness start. They trade holds to a stalemate. The commentators made note of the fact that Yoshino’s World-1 singlet now feature his Blood Generation colors. Yokosuka hits Yoshino with a backbreaker. He hits another. K-ness hits a dropkick to the face for 2. Yoshino hits a stunner. Yokosuka puts Doi in a seated abdominal stretch. Doi and Yoshino come back with a double-team sequence. Yoshino puts on a leglock. Yokosuka gets to the ropes. K-ness hits a back elbow for 2. Doi works K-ness’ arm. Yoshino hits a double stomp to the arm. Doi puts on an armbar. K-ness gets to the ropes. Doi puts on a cross armbreaker but K-ness gets to the ropes. K-ness hits a vertical suplex. He hits an enziguiri. Yoshino puts Yokosuka in the Coumori. Yokosuka hits the Jumbo no Kachi on the apron. He hits Doi with an exploder. Doi hits a dropkick but misses the hanging senton. Yokosuka hits a lariat. He and K-ness hit the Suka Dora Knee for 2. K-ness puts Yoshino in the Judas but Yoshino quickly counters to a roll up for 2. K-ness blocks the Sling Blade and hits an enziguiri. An awesome exchange leads to Yoshino getting the Rings of Saturn. He hits Yokosuka with the Sling Blade for 2. Yokosuka hits the super exploder and K-ness hits the Darkness Driver for 2. Doi hits both opponents with the Dai Bosou. He hits Yokosuka with the Doi 555. K-ness hits a high kick. Doi gets a schoolboy for 2. K-ness hits a back heel kick and the Kaishaku. Doi blocks the Mugen. Yokosuka blocks the Muscular Bomb. He hits the Jumbo no Kachi. He and K-ness hit the Genkai for 2. K-ness kicks Yoshino’s head off from the apron. Yokosuka hits Doi with another Jumbo no Kachi. He hits the Jumbo no Kachigatame but Doi cuts back for 2. K-ness hits the Shouryuukyaku. Yokosuka hits the Jumbo no Kachi for 2. Yoshino takes a Jumbo no Kachi for Doi. He hits the Lightning Spiral. He hits K-ness with the Ude Yoshino and the Torbellino. He puts on the Sol Naciente. Yokosuka makes the save. Yoshino hits Yokosuka with a suicide dive. K-ness catches Doi with a sunset flip for 2. He gets the rolling cradle for 2. Doi cuts back for 2. Yoshino hits another Torbellino. Doi hits the Bakatare Sliding Kick for 2. Tanisaki smacks Yoshino with a chair. He runs in and hits the Implant. He hits Yokosuka with the Implant and then drops him on top of Yoshino, giving the champions the win at 21:25. Well the finish sucked, but the match leading up to it was as good as the match between these two teams from January. Intensely fast action, excellent reversals and all the other fun you’d expect from these four.
Rating: ****
Doi drags Tanisaki into the ring after the match. Hulk shoves Doi away because he’s angry at him too. Tanisaki won’t engage them in violence… that is until the Deep Drunkers come out and get his back. He hugs them and they attack World-1. This of course came to the surprise of nobody, as the trigger on Tanisaki’s turn to the Drunk Side should probably have happened a couple months earlier. The Drunkers and World-1 argue until a six-man tag match between the two stables is made for October 13th. The losers of the match will disband.
Kotoka {W1} & Super Shenlong vs. Jun Izumida & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi ended when Kikuchi powerbombed Kotoka into oblivion just under four minutes into the five-minute time limit match. Stalker Ichikawa came out and challenged Kikuchi to a match on October 13th.
Ryo Saito {W5} vs. Makoto Hashi saw a lot of Saito enjoying Hashi’s man boobs. In a cute moment, Hashi goes to the ropes to get Saito to stop molesting him. Saito used the molestation to pin Hashi. Afterwards he asks Hashi to team with him in October.
In a match that should have been showed in non-digest form, YAMATO {K} vs. Genki Horiguchi {W5} ended when Horiguchi caught YAMATO with the Backslide from Heaven. I was so looking forward to this match and could not be more disappointed that only seconds of it were shown.
CIMA {W5}, Masaaki Mochizuki {Z} & Don Fujii {Z} vs. Shingo Takagi {K}, Cyber Kong {K} & KAGETORA {K} ended when Kong pinned CIMA with the Cyber Bomb. That’s not a bad rebound from the loss to Yoshino last week. Kong uses the win to challenge the WARRIORS to a Triangle Gate match along with Shingo Takagi and YAMATO. Horiguchi accepts the match on the WARRIORS’ behalf, but KAGETORA would have something to say about that in the weeks to come.
The show wraps up with Gamma attacking K-ness after the main event. He cements his challenge for the Twin Gate belts. He and CIMA will challenge on October 3rd.
