November 12, 2010 – Kobe, Japan
Open the Dream Gate Champion: Masato Yoshino
Open the Triangle Gate Champions: Naoki Tanisaki, Yasushi Kanda & Takuya Sugawara
Open the Brave Gate Champion: PAC
Open the Twin Gate Champions: Susumu Yokosuka & K-ness
Open the Freedom Gate Champion: BxB Hulk
Remember when Gamma lost his mind and spent weeks attacking K-ness as a way of asking for multiple undeserved shots at the Open the Twin Gate Championship? Well if you don’t Infinity will remind you. He’s gone so far off the deep end that he’s lost almost all support from his fellow WARRIORS and is promising a mystery partner will join him when he challenges for the belts at the Gate of Destiny. But first, Genki Horiguchi gets his back at a small show in a non-title match against the champions.
Gamma {W5} & Genki Horiguchi {W5} vs. K-ness & Susumu Yokosuka
Gamma attacks K-ness with the cane before the match. Yokosuka hits Horiguchi with a shoulder tackle. Horiguchi hits a head scissor takedown. Gamma blindly gets in Horiguchi’s way as he beats on K-ness. K-ness comes back with an enziguiri. Yokosuka hits Horiguchi with a back elbow. Horiguchi wants to work the leg and asks for Gamma’s help. Gamma can only be bothered for a moment before going back to work on K-ness. He rips off Super Shenlong’s mask and chokes K-ness with it. He finally helps Horiguchi focus on Yokosuka. K-ness attacks from behind and beats the crap out of Gamma. Horiguchi and Yokosuka trade strikes in the ring. Yokosuka hits a knee to the gut. He hits a double kneedrop. K-ness hits a back elbow and takes a cheap shot at Gamma. He hits a snap suplex. He puts on a half crab. Gamma hits a dropkick to save. Yokosuka hits a backbreaker on Horiguchi. He puts on the Cobra Clutch but Gamma pulls Horiguchi to the ropes. Horiguchi hits a backdrop. He hits the swinging DDT. Gamma hits K-ness with a dropkick. K-ness returns the favor. They brawl on the floor. Yokosuka hits Horiguchi with an exploder. Horiguchi hits a reverse DDT for 2. Yokosuka blocks a moonsault with his knees. He and K-ness hit the SukaDora Knee for 2. Gamma hits a cane shot. K-ness hits Horiguchi with the Darkness Bottom. He hits the Shouryuukyaku. He puts on the Aoki Hikari. Gamma makes the save with a violent cane assault. Yokosuka makes the save. Gamma spits in his face. Yokosuka hits a lariat for 2. Gamma hits a back suplex. He hits a superkick and the Gamma Special for 2 when K-ness smacks him with a chair. Gamma hits K-ness with the cane. Horiguchi tries to stop him so Gamma hits Horiguchi with the cane. The referee tries to take the chair from K-ness and gets hit in the stomach for his trouble. Yokosuka stops K-ness, but Gamma gets the chair and hits everyone with it. The referee throws the match out at 11:54 shown of 12:33. This was all style over substance, as the confrontations between Gamma and K-ness distracted from everything going on in the ring. Down the stretch things started to pick up, but then broke down for the finish.
Rating: **¼
After the match the WARRIORS and World-1 (now K-neSuka allies) have to keep Gamma and K-ness apart. That proves to be difficult. Once the violence stops Gamma and K-ness go back and forth on the microphone. Who will Gamma’s mystery partner be?
Shingo Takagi {K}, YAMATO {K} & Cyber Kong {K} vs. Naruki Doi, Takuya Sugawara & Yasushi Kanda
Kamikaze beat the WARRIORS to gain entrance to the Triangle Gate match at Gate of Destiny. This is something of a preview, though Doi will be replaced with Naoki Tanisaki and the Zetsurins will have a team in the Gate of Destiny match. Kanda and YAMATO start. They fight over an armbar. Kanda quits first and goes to the ropes. YAMATO hits a shoulder tackle. Kanda hits an armdrag. He avoids the punt. Kong overpowers Sugawara. He hits a shoulder tackle. Takagi and Doi trade armdrags. Takagi and Kong hit a double shoulder tackle. Kong hits a splash for 2. YAMATO puts on a chinlock. Kanda spits all over YAMATO’s face. Kamikaze stands three-strong on Kanda. Takagi hits a kneedrop for 2. Kong works the shoulder. Kanda gets to the ropes. He goes to the eyes. Sugawara hits a fistdrop and puts on a chinlock. He hits YAMATO with a vertical suplex. Doi gets a roll up for 2. He and Kanda hit a double back elbow. Kanda hits a flapjack for 2. Doi hits a neckbreaker onto Sugawara’s knees. He hits a senton for 2. Sugawara hits a bodyslam. He puts on a Camel Clutch. YAMATO gets to the ropes. He blocks the Jon Woo and hits a vertical suplex. He dropkicks Doi off the apron. He hits a spear. He hits Kanda with an enziguiri. Kong cleans house. He hits Sugawara with an elevated elbowdrop for 2. Sugawara hits an enziguiri. Kong hits a lariat for 2. Takagi hits Kanda with a back bodydrop. He hits a fisherman buster. Kanda hits the Jon Woo but Takagi no-sells it and hits a senton for 2. Doi hits the Dai Bosou. Sugawara hits a side slam for 2. Doi hits a back elbow. Takagi hits the Alabamaslam. Kong hits an avalanche and a lariat. YAMATO hits an exploder for 2. Kong hits his massive slam. Kanda hits a diving lariat. Takagi hits the Pumping Bomber. Sugawara hits the Ace Crusher. He hits YAMATO with TCO for 2. Doi hits the Doi 555 and the Bakatare Sliding Kick for 2. Kanda hits the flying elbowdrop for 2. He hits the Jon Woo and the Ryus for the win at 20:05. Well, they sure phoned this in. Takagi and Kong looked like gods while YAMATO continues his downward spiral into loserdom. The final stretch was solid, even if it took FOREVER to get there.
Rating: ***
Naoki’s Nameless Nudniks tell Kamikaze they don’t have a chance at the Gate of Destiny. They leave and Takagi rallies his troops.
The rest of the show is hype for the Gate of Destiny:
PAC defeated Susumu Yokosuka in the finals of a tournament to win the Open the Brave Gate Championship. He has since defended against K-ness. Now he’ll have to get through Dragon Kid on PPV to keep the title around his waist.
CIMA & Gamma were unable to get the Open the Twin Gate Championships from K-neSuka. In the aftermath of the match CIMA shoved Gamma, and has since attacked Genki Horiguchi en route to getting another shot at the tag titles. He has also relentlessly attacked K-ness whenever he can. Now for the big reveal. Gamma’s partner in his Twin Gate match against K-neSuka will be Naruki Doi! I can’t say I understand why they didn’t actually show Gamma’s turn from the WARRIORS to Doi’s stable, which occurred the night after this episode of Infinity (and I think will air on the next episode of Infinity). Maybe it didn’t come off that well live, I dunno. Because of Gamma’s turn from the WARRIORS and Veteran Army to Doi’s team, he would be replaced by Kenichiro Arai in Anthony W. Mori’s retirement match.
The Nameless Nudniks defeated the WARRIORS to win the Open the Triangle Gate Championships. Kamikaze defeated the WARRIORS to get a shot at the belts at the Gate of Destiny. The Zetsurins were already scheduled to get a shot on the PPV, so now all three teams will go at it.
Masato Yoshino has been picking his Dream Gate challengers by lottery instead of by Dream Key Matches. He first picked Ryo Saito, who he soundly defeated (mostly by avoiding the Double Cross). Then he picked CIMA. CIMA was hesitant to accept the match at first, wanting to transition into a veteran, non-contender role. He has since decided that he wants the title one more time, getting confidence after pinning Dragon Gate star Takagi and bringing back the Mad Splash.
The Pos.HEARTS will reunite to send Anthony W. Mori off PPV in style. It will be Mori, BxB Hulk and Super Shisa taking on Mori’s old buddy Ryo Saito, Genki Horiguchi and NOSAWA Rongai.
Stalker Ichikawa continues to get cheap pops by losing to big stars on Dragon Gate PPVs. Buy the PPV to find out who his opponent will be this month.
Kzy and KAGETORA will fight in singles action. Kzy wants to prove himself to Doi. He and KAGETORA still have beef stemming from the Loser Leaves Real Hazard match earlier in the year. Also, KAGETORA has befriended Kzy’s new enemy Kenichiro Arai, bonding over their mutual ability to binge drink.
