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March 1, 2011 – Tokyo, 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: Genki Horiguchi & Ryo Saito
Open the Freedom Gate Champion: YAMATO
Open the United Gate Champioms: Masato Yoshino & PAC
PAC © {W1} vs. Ricochet {BW} [Open the Brave Gate Championship Match]
PAC offered this match to Ricochet as a way of staying out of the Blood Warriors after World-1 lost custody of him in a match. Ricochet hits a spin kick for 2 at the bell. He hits a dropkick. PAC hits a missile dropkick. He hits a sick tope. He puts on a front facelock and hits a suplex for 1. They trade strikes until Ricochet hits a reverse hurricanrana. He catches PAC in midair with a spin kick. The camera work did a lot to mask the lack of contact there. Ricochet hits the Sasuke Special. PAC hits a back heel kick. Ricochet hits the Ace Crusher for 2. He blocks a handspring somethingorother and dumps PAC on his face. He hits a tiger flip. PAC hits the German suplex for 2. He comes off the second rope with a Phoenix Splash for 2. He blocks a Frankensteiner but misses a 630 senton. PAC hits the 630 senton for 2. He hits the Backslide Driver for 2. He calls for the double moonsault but PAC blocks it with a German superplex. That gets 2. PAC hits a sit-out powerbomb for 2. He hits the 360 Shooting Star Press for the win at 8:54 shown of 15:48. I’ve never really seen anything like this match before. The high flying wasn’t anything unprecedented, but the way that the match consisted of little else but managed to keep from feeling one-dimensional was really quite impressive. Definitely worth checking out, and here’s hoping for more matches between these two so they can develop something cool.
Rating: ***½
Yasushi Kanda {BW}, Dragon Kid {BW}, Genki Horiguchi {BW} & Ryo Saito {BW} vs. YAMATO {K}, Cyber Kong {K} & KAGETORA {K} [Survival Elimination Match]
This is a thirty minute elimination match. When you eliminate an opponent you are given the opportunity to bring back one eliminated member of your own team. The match ends when everyone has been eliminated on one team or the time limit expires, at which time the team with the most active members wins. The Blood Warriors are having this new type of match with every other stable in Dragon Gate. With Shingo Takagi injured, Akira Tozawa in America and Taku Iwasa retired, there were only three active members of Kamikaze to fight. As such they’re going in this with a handicap. Everyone brawls to start. The Warriors isolate YAMATO. YAMATO catches Kid with a spear. Kanda hits an exploder. He hits a low blow. Kid hits the Ultra Hurricanrana for 2. KAGETORA stops MARAHA! ISAPPA! Saito catches him with an overhead suplex. He hits a German suplex for 2 when Kong pulls him up with a giant swing. Kong cleans house with lariats. Horiguchi catches him with the Backslide from Heaven to eliminate the big man. Kanda hits KAGETORA with the Jon Woo. KAGETORA gets the Kagenui to eliminate Kanda and revive Kong. Kong hits Kid with a press slam. He hits the Twin Gate champs with lariats. He blocks the Backslide from Heaven and hits an avalanche. Horiguchi counters the Pineapple Bomber to the Backslide from Heaven to eliminate Kong and revive Kanda. Kanda hits KAGETORA with a side slam for 2. Kid hits the stack hurricanrana. Saito hits the Superfly Splash. Kanda hits the flying elbowdrop for 2. KAGETORA hits Kid with the Hangetsu. Kid eliminates KAGETORA with the Bible. YAMATO is all alone against all of the Blood Warriors. He goes after Kanda. Kanda and Saito hit a double flapjack. Kid hits the Messiah. Saito hits a dragon suplex for 2. YAMATO is jelly-legged. Kanda hits him with the blue box. He sends Kanda over the top rope and dropkicks him to the floor to eliminate him. KAGETORA and Kong won’t revive so Horiguchi asks them what they’re doing. YAMATO gets on the microphone and says they aren’t reviving because there is a fourth member of the Kamikaze team. Shingo Takagi’s music plays and he hits the ring! He cleans house. He hits Horiguchi with a DVD and the Pumping Bomber. He hits MADE IN JAPAN to eliminate Horiguchi and revive KAGETORA. He hits Kid with a one-handed powerbomb. He clotheslines him over the top to eliminate him and revive Kong. Saito hits YAMATO with a dragon suplex. YAMATO pops up and hits an enziguiri. He hits a brainbuster for 2. He hits the Galleria to eliminate Saito and get the win at 11:10 shown of 19:36. I like that the abused YAMATO was able to get the final pin of the match, and Takagi’s return made him look like a monster.
Rating: ***¾
After the match Takagi tells the Twin Gate Champions that he wants a shot a their belts, with YAMATO on PPV. A graphic at the top of the screen lets us know that the PPV has been cancelled because of damage sustained at the venue because of the earthquakes. The match would happen a few weeks later in a safer part of the country. Takagi goes on to say that he’s not the only Kamikaze member returning today and brings out Taku Iwasa!!! Iwasa is coming out of retirement!
Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Gamma [Dream Key Match]
They trade kicks to start. Mochizuki wins that exchange and beats on Gamma in the corner. Gamma tries to spit in his face but Referee Kinta blocks it. Mochizuki goes for the apron kick but Gamma sends him to the floor. Gamma whips Mochizuki into the post. He hits a Tombstone Piledriver on the apron. Mochizuki blocks a dive with a kick to the face. He hits an axe kick to the back. He kicks Gamma’s head off for 2. Gamma hits a low blow. Referee Kinta intercepts the cane. Gamma shoves Mochizuki into Kinta. Naoki Tanisaki tries to interfere but Don Fujii intercepts them. Mochizuki hits Gamma with the Ikkakugeri. He hits a superplex. He hits a buzzsaw kick for 2. He hits a big boot and goes for the Twister III but Gamma blocks it and kicks him to the floor. Gamma hits a quebrada. Damn, dude means business. He hits a Tombstone Piledriver on the floor. Mochizuki hits a missile dropkick. Gamma hits a Tree of Woe dropkick. He hits an avalanche Blitzen for 2. He calls for the Sky Twister Press but Mochizuki avoids it. Mochizuki hits a chest kick. He hits the Twisting Ikkakugeri. Gamma counters the Twister II to a roll up. He hits Mochizuki with the cane and spits in his face. He calls for the avalanche Tombstone Piledriver but Mochizuki escapes and hits the Gamma Special! He hits the Illusion. Gamma hits a superkick. Mochizuki hits the Saikyou High Kick to the back and the Twister III for the win at 12:28 shown of 19:15. This was Gamma’s best singles match in a long time, mostly on the strength of stuff that he did. Mochizuki, as usual, can do no wrong of his own.
Rating: ***¾
After the match Mochizuki celebrates with his key and promises to win the title from Masato Yoshino. The show ends with Naruki Doi and Kenichiro Arai cutting opposing promos about their upcoming match against each other to determine the number one contender for PAC’s title.