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September 21
, 2010 – Tochigi, 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
Don’t recognize the city this show is taped from? That’s likely because this is one of Dragon Gate’s nothing house shows. Here’s hoping the matches are good enough to make up for the likely lack of atmospheric excitement.
Remember when Masato Yoshino beat YAMATO to win the Open the Dream Gate Championship? Gaora TV does, and they remind us of it. Yoshino decided to pick his challengers by lottery, and the first lottery winner was Ryo Saito. Saito is a former Dream Gate Champion himself, having defeated the seemingly unstoppable Magnitude Kishiwada in 2006. Saito hasn’t challenged for the belt in two and a half years, and he thinks he’s due.
Ryo Saito {W5} & Gamma {W5} vs. Masato Yoshino {W1} & BxB Hulk {W1}
Gamma and Hulk start. Gamma hits a shoulder tackle. Hulk returns the favor. Gamma avoids a dropkick. Yoshino hits Saito with a dropkick. They trade shoulder tackles until Saito hits an overhead suplex. Yoshino and Gamma trade chops in an exchange that Yoshino wins. Hulk hits a roundhouse kick for 2. Saito hits a back elbow. Gamma gives Hulk the Sweet Angel’s Kiss. He spits in Yoshino’s face. He gives him the Osuikougeki. Yoshino hits Saito with the Sling Blade. Hulk hits the uranage. Gamma blocks a standing moonsault with his knees. He hits the G-Factor for 2. Hulk blocks the Blitzen and hits a buzzsaw kick for 2. Familiar segment there. Yoshino powerbombs Saito. Saito avoids the shotgun dropkick and hits a German suplex for 2. Hulk hits a springboard leg lariat for 2. He hits the Mouse. Yosino hits the Torbellino for 2. Gamma canes Hulk. Hulk hits a big boot. Gamma hits a lariat for 2. Saito avoids the First Flash and hits a dragon suplex for 2. He hits the Double Cross for the win at 11:01 shown of 14:28. Run-of-the-mill action here, with the exception of Saito breaking out his heel finisher to intimidate Yoshino. After the match Saito talks trash about the upcoming title match.
Rating: **½
Naoki Tanisaki {DD} & Yasushi Kanda {DD} vs. K-ness & Susumu Yokosuka
They show clips of Tanisaki’s turn on World-1 before the match. Yokosuka took an Implant during the chaotic events, and the tainted victory made him rip up his winner’s contract and leave his belt in the ring. Seems he’s looking for revenge here. The Drunkers attack before the bell. Kanda hits Yokosuka with a shoulder tackle. Yokosuka hits a back elbow. K-ness hits Tanisaki with a leg lariat. He dropkicks Tanisaki’s face. Yokosuka follows suit for 2. He throws Kanda across the ring by his hair. Tanisaki chokes K-ness with a t-shirt. He gets a legsweep and puts on an armbar. K-ness gets to the ropes. K-ness hits a vertical suplex. He hits an enziguiri. Yokosuka cleans house with the Jumbo no Kachi. He hits Tanisaki with a DVD for 2. Tanisaki hits the DH. He hits a kneelift for 2. Yokosuka hits the super exploder for 2. Kanda hits K-ness with a Manhattan drop. K-ness hits a high kick. He hits a swinging DDT for 2. He puts on the Aoki Hikari but Tanisaki makes the save. K-ness and Yokosuka hit the Suka Dora Knee on Tanisaki for 2. Tanisaki hits the DH and Kanda hits a lariat. Kanda hits an exploder and Tanisaki hits the Casanova for 2. Kanda misses the flying elbowdrop. K-ness hits the Shouryuukyaku. Yokosuka hits the Jumbo no Kachi for 2. Tanisaki hits K-ness with a red box attack. Kanda hits a blue box attack. He hits the John Woo and the Ryus for the win at 12:31 shown of 14:22. Dull match overall, with a really crappy finish to top it off. I’m still waiting on the point of this show being featured on this episode of Infinity.
Rating: **
CIMA {W5}, Dragon Kid {W5} & Masaaki Mochizuki {Z} vs. Shingo Takagi {Z}, YAMATO {Z} & KAGETORA {Z}
CIMA and KAGETORA start. KAGETORA rocks it, moving incredibly fast to keep CIMA disoriented. YAMATO hits Kid with a shoulder tackle. Kid hits a head scissor takedown. Mochizuki and Takagi trade strikes. Mochizuki hits a back kick. Takagi attacks the leg and slams him. YAMATO puts on a chinlock. Mochizuki bites his hand to escape. He kicks YAMATO’s arm. CIMA stays on the hand. He gets a clutch for 2. KAGETORA works CIMA’s leg. CIMA gets to the ropes. He hits a bodyslam and a senton. Kid hits a pair of kneedrops for 2. Takagi hits Kid with a Mongolian chop and a senton for 2. KAGETORA hits an elbowdrop. He hits an enziguiri. Kid hits a head scissor takedown. Mochizuki hits YAMATO with a missile dropkick. He hits Takagi with the Sankakugeri. Kid hits the Bermuda Triangle. Mochizuki kicks out YAMATO’s leg. He hits an ax kick. YAMATO puts on an anklelock. Mochizuki sweeps the leg. He hits a chest kick. YAMATO reapplies the anklelock. Mochizuki counters the hold. Takagi makes the save. CIMA hits a head kick for 2. Takagi hits a vertical suplex. He hits an atomic drop. CIMA hits KAGETORA with a vertical suplex while holding Takagi in a leglock. Mochizuki hits KAGETORA with a chest kick. Kid hits the Superdrol. He hits a senton. CIMA hits a senton. Mochizuki hits a back heel kick for 2. KAGETORA avoids the Ultra Hurricanrana. He hits the leaping lariat. Takagi hits a lariat in the corner. Kid collapses. YAMATO punts him and Takagi hits a sit-out powerbomb for 2. YAMATO hits a brainbuster for 2. Kid hits KAGETORA with the stack hurricanrana. Mochizuki hits a chest kick for 2. CIMA hits the Perfect Driver for 2. Mochizuki hits the Ikkakugeri. CIMA and Kid hit a double Tokarev. CIMA hits the Schwein and the Meteora for the win at 14:05 shown of 19:43. KAGETORA just got slaughtered down the stretch there. This almost made up for the dreck that preceded it, as it was Kamikaze and the Veteran Army really trying hard to bring a lot of energy to a completely unenthusiastic crowd.
Rating: ***¼
After the match KAGETORA and YAMATO discuss a singles match to decide which one of them will join Cyber Kong and Takagi in their Triangle Gate match against the WARRIORS. It will happen on October 10th.
During Don Fujii {Z} vs. Stalker Ichikawa vs. Jackson Florida {FB}, Fujii destroys his comedy-minded opponents with shoulder tackles. Ichikawa gets unmasked. Fujii throws a few chokeslams around and pins both opponents.
Naruki Doi {W1} vs. Kenichiro Arai {DD} sees Doi get a little revenge on the Deep Drunkers by manhandling Arai and finishing him with a jackknife pin after Kanda hits an errant blue box attack on his buddy. After the match Doi and Hulk still can’t get along. Doi’s knee is hurt, but he’s going to beat Hulk and Naoki Tanisaki on the next episode of Infinity in their three-way match.