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October 10, 2010 – Fukuoka, 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
KAGETORA was on the team that earned Kamikaze a shot at the Triangle Gate belts. YAMATO assumed he’d be taking KAGETORA’s place in the actual title match, but a number of factors, including a singles loss to Triangle Gate Champion Genki Horiguchi and crowd fervor behind KAGETORA made necessary a match between the two Kamikaze members for the spot.
KAGETORA {K} vs. YAMATO {K}
YAMATO hits a shoulder tackle to start. KAGETORA hits a dropkick. YAMATO sneaks up behind him and dropkicks his knee. He steps on KAGETORA’s face. He hits a neckbreaker for 2. He works the neck. He puts on the Mark Nulty Special. KAGETORA gets to the ropes. KAGETORA hits the leaping lariat. He hits a leg lariat. KAGETORA comes back with the Genkonitteki for 2. YAMATO avoids the Hangetsu and gets a backslide for 2. He gets another for 2. He punts KAGEOTRA and hits a brainbuster for 2. He puts on a crossface but KAGETORA gets to the ropes. YAMATO puts on the sleeper hold. KAGETORA avoids the Galleria and gets a roll up for 2. He gets a clutch for 2. YAMATO hits a big boot but KAGETORA gets the Kagenui for the win at 7:43 shown of 15:26. You could tell exactly what chunk of the match was lopped off, and it made the flow of the whole thing really odd. I dig YAMATO was using the backslide on KAGETORA because he knew he himself was weak against it. The last minute was great, and a totally believable way for KAGETORA to defeat the likely winner YAMATO.
Rating: **¾
K-ness & Susumu Yokosuka vs. Masaaki Mochizuki {Z} & Don Fujii {Z} vs. Shingo Takagi {K} & Cyber Kong {K} [Elimination Match]
K-ness, Kong and Fujii start. Kong overpowers both opponents. Fujii hits a slew of shoulder tackles but Kong won’t go down. K-ness tries, but that goes about as well as you’d expect. Even together they can’t knock Kong down. Fujii takes a hit. K-ness puts Kong on the floor with a head scissor takedown. The partners tag in and knuckle up. Takagi overpowers M2. Takagi and Yokosuka hit Mochizuki with a double back elbow. Takagi hits Yokosuka with a gutbuster. Yokosuka clotheslines Takagi’s legs and Mochizuki hits the apron kick. Mochizuki hits the Topé Masaaki. Things break down as everyone brawls around the building. In the ring Takagi hits K-ness with a backbreaker. Yokosuka dropkicks Kong’s knee. He hits Takagi with the Ashi Yokosuka. Mochizuki hits an ax kick. Yokosuka comes back with the Jumbo no Kachi. K-ness hits Fujii with a high kick. He hits Takagi with a swinging DDT. Mochizuki hits a chest kick. K-ness sweeps the leg and puts on the Ashi Yokosuka. Fujii makes the save. Kong hits Fujii with an avalanche. Fujii hits a back suplex. Yokosuka hits a lariat and helps Fujii hit a double chokeslam. Fujii chokeslams Yokosuka but Yokosuka rolls through the impact for 2. Kong cleans house with the Pineapple Bomber. Mochizuki hits Takagi with a missile dropkick. He hits the Sankakugeri. Takagi and Kong hit lariats. Kong hits the elevated elbowdrop for 2. Kong hits a powerbomb for 2. He and Takagi hit Fujii with a double shoulder tackle. Mochizuki kicks the crap out of Kong. Kong hits an avalanche. Takagi hits the Pumping Bomber for 2. Takagi clotheslines Kong by mistake. Mochizuki hits the Saikyou High Kick and Fujii hits the Nice German to eliminate Kong at 10:49 shown of 16:41. K-neSuka roll up the Zetsurins for 2. They hit Fujii with the SukaDora Knee for 2. K-ness hits the Kaishaku for 2. Mochizuki kicks K-ness on the apron. He hits Yokosuka with the Ikkakugeri. Fujii hits a lariat and a German suplex. Mochizuki hits a buzzsaw kick and the Twister for 2. K-ness hits the Shouryuukyaku. Yokosuka rolls Fujii up for 2. He hits an exploder. Fujii hits a lariat for 2. Yokosuka hits the Jumbo no Kachigatame but Fujii counters to a roll up for 2. Yokosuka hits another Jumbo no Kachigatame for the win at 14:08 shown of 19:56. The pace was more deliberate than one might be used to in a Dragon Gate match with this many teams, but everyone hit each other nice and hard, making the fight feeling realistic. Not sure what the point of the whole exercise was, especially since it’s starting to feel like nobody in the company can believably beat the Twin Gate champs.
Rating: ***¼
Masato Yoshino © {W1} vs. Ryo Saito {W5} [Open the Dream Gate Championship Match]
Yoshino decided to pick his challengers by lottery, and Saito was the first lucky sonofagun to be selected. To show Yoshino how serious he is about the title Saito brought back his heel finisher, the Double Cross, and promised to use it to win the match. They lock up to start. Saito avoids a supercharged dropkick and hits a hurricanrana. Yoshino puts on the Coumori. He hits a dropkick from the floor to the apron. He works the neck. Saito gets to the ropes. Yoshino rams his arm against the post and apron. Saito hits a German suplex on the floor. Yoshino beats the count so Saito hits him with a dropkick. Yoshino kicks the arm. He hits a double stomp to the arm. He hits the Ude Yoshino. He puts on the Sol Naciente. Saito walks around to counter to a pin for 2. Yoshino smacks the crap out of Saito. Saito blocks the Lightning Spiral and hits a German suplex. He hits the dragon suplex for 2. He looks to finish with the Premium Bridge but Yoshino gets to the ropes. Yoshino hits another Ude Yoshino. He hits the Lightning Spiral for 2. He goes for the avalanche version but Saito blocks that and hits a fisherman superplex. It gets 2. Yoshino blocks another Premium Bridge. Saito blocks the Torbellino and hits the Premium Bridge for 2. He goes for the Double Cross but Yoshino counters to a schoolboy for 2. Saito cuts back from a schoolboy for 2. Yoshino hits another Lightning Spiral for 2. He hits the Torbellino. To be safe he hits it again and puts on the Sol Naciente. Saito won’t fade so Yoshino Kais it up and gets the win at 13:47 shown of 27:49. Too much was clipped, but what was left was some of the best wrestling Saito has participated in (on his own) in years. He just looked incredibly strong, and thankfully for him the Double Cross wasn’t used, so it still has some mystique behind it.
Rating: ***½
After the match Yoshino goes back to his box o’ names to pick out his next challenger and comes up with CIMA. CIMA says he’s not interested in the match because he’s looking to take a less active role in Dragon Gate. Whether or not the match will happen is left open-ended.
CIMA {W5}, Gamma {W5} & Super Shisa {Z} vs. Dr. Muscle {DD}, Yasushi Kanda {DD} & Kenichiro Arai {DD} ends when CIMA nails Muscle with the Meteora. After the match CIMA and Gamma try to unmask the doctor but the Deep Drunkers save him. Muscle hits Shisa with the Shiisanpuuta. As if his identity was ever in question.
Naruki Doi {W1} & PAC {W1} vs. Dragon Kid {W5} & Genki Horiguchi {W5} ended when Kid caught Doi with the Ultra Hurricanrana. After the match Doi announces that PAC’s first Brave Gate challenger would be K-ness. K-ness probably got the shot for speaking broken English to PAC. I sure appreciate the effort. Dragon Kid isn’t happy about having to wait, especially after cutting an even funnier broken English promo. The whole segment here was priceless.
The show ends with Yoshino vowing to fight CIMA for the title. He’s got to get that monkey off of his back, since he’s never defeated CIMA on PPV, though he does hold a win over him in a Brave Gate match on Infinity.
