January 14, 2011 – Osaka, Japan
Open the Dream Gate Champion: Masato Yoshino
Open the Triangle Gate Champions: CIMA, Dragon Kid & Ricochet
Open the Brave Gate Champion: PAC
Open the Twin Gate Champions: Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii
Open the Freedom Gate Champion: BxB Hulk
On January 10th Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii defeated Naruki Doi & Gamma to win the Open the Twin Gate Championships. They also defeated Genki Horiguchi & Ryo Saito at Final Gate en route to that title match. Now Saito & Horiguchi will get a shot at the Twin Gate titles if they can get through Mochizuki and his Zetsurin buddy Kenichiro Arai.
Masaaki Mochizuki {Z} & Kenichiro Arai {Z} vs. Ryo Saito {W5} & Genki Horiguchi {W5}
Horiguchi and Arai start. They fight it out on the mat for a bit. Saito and Mochizuki trade strikes. Mochizuki hits a back kick. MARAHA! ISAPPA! Saito hits a double stomp on Arai for 2. He puts on a chinlock. He hits a legdrop for 2. Arai goes after Horiguchi’s hair. Mochizuki throws Horiguchi across the ring by his hair for 2. Mochizuki puts on a half crab. He hits pair of kneedrops to the gut. Arai puts on a chinlock. Horiguchi misses an elbow but hits a hurricanrana. Mochizuki boots Saito a couple of times. Saito hits the overhead suplex. Horiguchi hits a dropkick to the leg. He hits a swinging DDT. Mochizuki hits Saito with a chest kick. Saito hits a German suplex for 2. Mochizuki blocks the Beach Break and hits a chest kick. Mochizuki and Arai hit a big boot sandwich on Horiguchi. Mochizuki hits the SicK Kick. Arai hits a springboard headbutt for 2. Mochizuki accidentally hits Arai with a Sankakugeri. He recovers and hits it on Horiguchi. Arai hits a spinebuster for 2. Mochizuki hits the Twister for 2. Horiguchi blocks the Twister III. He gets the Backslide from Heaven for 2. Saito accidentally hits Horiguchi. Mochizuki kicks Saito’s head off. Arai hits a double stomp for 2. Saito comes back with a fisherman superplex for 2. He hits a dragon suplex for the win at 13:10. This was a good amount of fun, keeping Mochizuki looking strong while allowing the new challengers to get over on Arai without completely burying him.
Rating: ***
Saito & Horiguchi will wrestle the champions Mochizuki & Fujii for the Twin Gate titles on February 6th.
Back in October, Naruki Doi and Naoki Tanisaki destroyed their former World-1 ally Masato Yoshino to cement their bond as heels. More recently Gamma has joined this unholy stable, and World-1 has also been targeted by mysterious men in Immortals masks. World-1 has not found allies in Kamikaze, the latter team being sore about a series of recent losses.
YAMATO {K}, Cyber Kong {K} & KAGETORA {K} vs. Masato Yoshino {W1}, BxB Hulk {W1} & Susumu Yokosuka {W1}
Hulk and Kong start. Kong wipes Hulk out with a shoulder tackle. He takes out Hulk’s leg. Hulk hits a dropkick. Yokosuka stomps on YAMATO’s foot and hits a shoulder tackle. YAMATO returns the favor. They trade shoulder tackles until they run out of energy. They get second wins and continue to trade until Yokosuka clotheslines YAMATO to the floor. Yoshino hits KAGETORA with a dropkick. KAGETORA returned the favor. Hulk hits YAMATO with a spin kick. He hits a basement dropkick. Kong slams Hulk’s face into a table. Yokosuka hits YAMATO with a back elbow for 1. Yoshino hits the arm with a double stomp. Hulk hits a roundhouse kick for 2. YAMATO hits the spear. KAGETORA hits a basement dropkick for 2. Kong hits a press slam. Hulk hits a back heel kick. All of Kamikaze stands on Hulk. Hulk comes back with a dropkick to KAGETORA. He hits YAMATO with the axe kick. Yoshino hits Kong with a vertical suplex. He puts YAMATO in the Coumori. Yokosuka hits KAGETORA with an exploder. KAGETORA hits the leaping lariat. He hits an enziguiri for 2. Yokosuka hits a backbreaker for 2. He hits Hulk with the Cyber Cutter. He hits a splash for 2. He clubs Hulk around. Hulk sweeps the leg and hits a senton for 2. Kong cleans house with lariats. Kamikaze gangs up on Yokosuka in the corner. YAMATO hits an enziguiri and a brainbuster. Kong hits a diving elbwodrop. KAGETORA follows suit for 2. YAMATO works Yokosuka’s arm. Yokosuka hits the Jumbo no Kachi. Hulk hits a leg lariat for 2. Yokosuka hits a super exploder for 2. Kong hits a dead lift German suplex. He hits Yoshino with an avalanche. He hits the Pineapple Bomber for 2. KAGETORA hits the Hangetsu and the Genkoniteki for 2. Yoshino avoids YAMATO’s punt but not the big boot and the Galleria. Kong goes for the Cyber Bomb but Yoshino hits a miracle backdrop. Hulk hits KAGETORA with the Mouse. He and Yokosuka hit a Doomsday Dropkick for 2. Hulk hits an enziguiri. He hits the First Flash for 2. KAGETORA catches Yoshino with the Kagenui for 2. Yoshino hits the Torbellino and the Lightning Spiral for the win at 20:36. The last segment between KAGETORA and Yoshino was quite literally too fast to keep up with. The rest of the match was rather outstanding as well, but I expect no less from Kamikaze vs. World-1.
Rating: ****
After the match the Immortal masks stare at World-1 from the balcony. Yoshino tells them to come down and fight, which they do. World-1 gets the upper hand and goes to unmask them but more Immortals come down and destroy World-1. The 9-on-1 battle leaves our heroes completely outmatched. The Immortals use a lot of familiar signature moves, and the golden-masked one even uses the Schwein. The first four unmask revealing Horiguchi, Saito, Dragon Kid and CIMA (under the golden mask). The remaining men unmask revealing the Nameless Nudniks (Doi, Gamma, Tanisaki, Yasushi Kanda & Kzy). Ricochet is also one of the masked men. The two groups celebrate the massive new alliance. Mochizuki brings the Zetsurins down to the ring ready for a fight. Kamikaze comes down to get a piece of the new group as well. Before everyone leaves CIMA tells Cyber Kong to join the group, but he leaves with Kamikaze. Yoshino and Doi argue to end the segment. CIMA gets his group to do the WARRIOR Uuu and form a human pyramid.
The show ends with clips of CIMA, Naruki Doi & Naoki Tanisaki vs. YAMATO {K}, Cyber Kong {K} & KAGETORA {K} from two days later. Tanisaki wins the match for his team after hitting the Casanova and the Implant on KAGETORA. Looks like the new mega-group is off to a good start.