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Dragon Gate announced that the Twin Gate match for Final Gate is going to be YAMATO and BxB Hulk challenging Big R and Eita. Considering that's 3/4ths of my 2018 MOTY, this is easily one of my most anticipated matches in the near future.
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Dragon Gate got a new logo. https://twitter.com/dragongatekido/status/1202139782136004608
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Thauros posted:i kinda dig the logo but question why a new one was necessary at all. also having a logo featuring animal that symbolizes the company facing forward and baring its fangs strikes me as a bit new japanish but it's not "n-1" level and i seem to be the only one who even saw it that way It’s been pretty turbulent back stage in Dragon Gate this past year and a half with CIMA leaving and Okamura stepping down as president and the takeover of the Yoshino/Doi/Kido regime and the return of Ultimo. Guess they view it as a similar situation to the original Dragon Gate/Toryumon break, and a new logo and corporate poo poo to match the new situation was seen as necessary.
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Stalker, Fujii, and Maria is an incredibly powerful team, and I'm glad the magic of Doi Darts brought it to us.
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/dg_jae/status/1207063190028177414?s=20 Finally a real legend on the show. They should book a match between Jae and Stalker.
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I think a Dragon Gate gen team is getting the Twin Gate, probably either the YAMATO/Ben-K team or the Kzy/Dragon Dia team. Since Toryumon has the Dream Gate, and RED has the Triangle and Brave gates, I think they'll want to balance out the factions at the beginning of the year by giving the Dragon Gate Gen the other "main" title.
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It'd probably be YAMATO/Ben-K but my thinking was A. They're high on Dragon Dia, and the mini-push he got at the end of 2019 might be prepping him for bigger things this year, and giving him a surprise flash win over Hulk seems like something DG would do, and B. I'm thinking they might want to give Kzy a belt, since he's essentially the co-leader of the Dragon Gate gen with YAMATO, and YAMATO doesn't really need a belt at his moment.
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Hellblazer187 posted:I just signed up for DG network. Someone link me to some stuff I should watch. A good starting point would be the 2019 Kobe World show, which was the first Dragon Gate show to get English commentary, and serves as a good starting off point for the current stretch of what DG is doing: https://dragongate.live/title/?program=match_KPF2019_EC. My show of the year. Also the 2011 Kobe World show in the middle of the Blood Warriors/Junction Three war is a candidate for Dragon Gate's Show of the Decade, every match is fantastic or tons of fun: https://dragongate.live/title/?program=kobe_world&episode=1350 For a non-major show, check Infinity 550, which features a recap of Dead or Alive 2019, and then has the opening matches of the King of Gate tournament at Korakuen Hall the following week, which are all very good and was low-key one of my favorite shows of 2019. https://dragongate.live/title/?program=comp_infinity2019&episode=12
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Hellblazer187 posted:I'll watch the Kobe show. I'm watching the PAC/BenK match right now. Have they done any English commentary since then? If so I'll watch anything in English and then just catch upcoming shows with Japanese commentary. I have to admit I'm really not understanding now to navigate this. If I wanted to like, for instance watch the 2019 King of Gate I'm not sure how I'd do that. In the NJPW thread we always say "go watch the G1" to get caught up on everyone. Would that be essentially the equivalent? Oh the website and it's layout are awful, it constantly logs me out for no reason while trying to get to shows, and the archives are spotty because of dumb TV rights poo poo with GAORA. But this is still an improvement over buying each show individually using like three separate Japanese websites to try and buy something. Anyways, the other shows with English commentary are Dangerous Gate, Gate of Destiny, Final Gate, and the two December Korakuen shows. The upcoming Korakuen on the 15th will also have English commentary. King of Gate is weird because it's not huge in the way the G1 is so a lot of the matches are spread out over a bunch of essentially house shows as they tour for that month, rather than being an appointment event like the G1, so not everything makes tape and sometimes what does is essentially unedited no commentary hard cam footage. The finals are here on Infinity 513: https://dragongate.live/title/?program=comp_infinity2019&episode=16 Essentially the archives are incomplete and you should yell at Jae on twitter about it. Dimebags Brain fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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Hellblazer187 posted:Ok let's say I wanted to watch one of those. How would I go about finding final gate? I tried searching and came up with nothing. One of the things about the Dragon Gate Network is that shows are taken down after a week until they are eventually aired a month or two later on GAORA TV. This sucks and everyone knows it sucks but it's a concession they had to make to GAORA (who are part owners of DG) to even get the network. If you can't find it it's because GAORA hasn't let them put it up yet.
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Punch McLightning posted:So what’s the best way to actually watch Dragon Gate this year? The easiest way to watch current Dragon Gate is the DG Network as long as you’re willing to watch within a week of the show airing, you shouldn’t have a problem accessing those shows.
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All the Japanese smarks are just intimidated by how cool and sexy and handsome YAMATO is.
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Those Dragon Gate Trios look very intriguing.
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So on the 31st, Dragon Gate is running a Toryumon Reuinion show at Korakuen Hall that'll have English commentary, probably Larry Dallas and Jae. The exact card hasn't been annonced but they have announced a bunch of the people involved: Ryo Saito (Cycler gimmick) Genki Horiguchi (Surfer gimmick) Kenichiro Arai Super Shisa Shachihoko Machine Don Fujii Second Doi Dragon Kid K-ness. Kagetora Konomama Ichikawa Toru Owashi Henry III Sugawara Koichiro Arai Masahiro Takanashi Takeshi Minamino Kanjuro Matsuyama Amigo Suzuki Hisamaru Tajima CHANGO Tsubo Genjin With M2K and more interestingly, Italian Connection reuniting. If it's for a match, this will be Milano Collection A.T.'s first match in at least a decade. 〈M2K〉 Masaaki Mochizuki Yasushi Kanda Susumu Mochizuki 〈Italian Connection〉 YOSSINO “brother” YASSINI Condotti Shuji Milano Collection a.t.
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Ah drat I've been had. I should have read closer.
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Hellblazer187 posted:With it being billed as Toryumon Reuinion show, is it expected to fit into the broader storylines going on in DG overall? It's being presented as a separate show being run by Ultimo Dragon, that while being aired on the Dragon Gate Network, is supposedly completely separate from the broader Dragon Gate world. Though I suppose it's always possible that R.E.D. could show up and crash the party.
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Ultimo's theme slaps and his feud with "Audio Muted For Copyright Reasons" is the most infuriating part of his current Dragon Gate run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XxWx7IEb6s And it's not for a single wrestler, but the theme for the Blood Warriors faction might be the best wrestle song ever/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4hKLnIbOSs Dimebags Brain fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Jan 28, 2020 |
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Toryumon show should be lots of fun, and having Jae on commentary will be a godsend since he's probably the single most knowledgeable english speaking person in the world when it comes to Toryumon.
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forkboy84 posted:That NOAH/MLW deal lasted about 3 seconds. CIMA and T-Hawk were on the most recent MLW tapings, judging from CIMA’s Instagram.
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Finally, all us Ho Ho Lunatics out here getting our Ho Ho Lun fix.
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Ishida vs Horiguchi should be good.
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The Marafuji/Mochizuki team sounds cool. So many kicks.
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Gamma being a Punch fanboy is a wonderful joke.
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Apparently while every show was cancelled, Dragon Gate put Jae and Larry Dallas to work and had them go back and retroactively do commentary for Dead or Alive 2019. They pretend it's live but you can tell that's not true because they audio is well-mixed. If you've ever wanted to watch the clusterfuck cagematch but have been intimidated by the whole, I have no clue what the storylines are for this clusterfuck match, here's your chance. https://dragongate.live/title/?program=comp_20190506_apg&episode=1
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The 2011 show is one of the best wrestling shows I’ve ever seen, and the 2019 one has English commentary if you’re into that.
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Hopefully after seeing how WWE has handled Tozawa, Uhaa, PAC, and Ricochet, Dragon Gate will stay far away from them.
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So this weeks free Dragon Gate shows are the last three Dead or Alive shows, which is the big yearly show built around the big clieterfuck apuestas Cage match main event. https://twitter.com/DragonGateEN/status/1249567850290962434 Obviously the main events here are the draw, as they’re all entertaining high stakes clusterfucks worth watching. However 2017 has an awesome Brave Gate match between Kagetora and Takehiro Yamamura and a great Twin Gate match between CK-1 (CIMA and Dragon Kid) and T-Hawk and El Lindaman. 2018 has a great Twin Gate match between T-Hawk and Eita vs Big R Shimizu and Ben-K as well as an excellent Triangle Gate between MaxiMuM and Natural Vibes. 2019 once again has a fantastic Brave gate match between U-T and secret wrestler of the year Susumu Yokuska, and a great Dream Gate match where PAC murders Dragon Kid with the most insane Falcon Arrow ever.
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Watching the 2017 DoA has me all nostalgic. The Yamamura match against Kagetora was bittersweet, because Yamamura is so incredibly good and at the time, it wasn't a question of if he'd be a future Dream Gate champ but whether he or Ben-K would get it first. But only a couple months later he'd suffer an injury that took him out for over a year, and now three years later it's questionable if he'll ever wrestle again, not to mention that it probably won't be in Dragon Gate since he left with CIMA. The CK-1 match was so good too, it got me to go back to the Kobe World and Gate of Destiny Twin Gate defenses which are both spectacular. I remember the reaction at the time of their reign among western Dragon Gate fans was incredibly negative, to the point it felt like I had fallen into an alternative dimension and was watching a completely different title reign than everyone else. Their defenses against North Tribe, Kzy/Maria, T-Hawk/Lindaman, Speed Muscle, and Big Ben were all amazing and told a consistent throughline story of a veteran team that might been just a step behind physically, but where the ultimate wily veterans completely aware of their surroundings and able to capitalize on every mistake their younger opponents made to just barely scrape out a win, with each match forcing them to dig deeper and deeper. It was compelling stuff. Plus they were super over with the live crowds. The only negative is that Kid got injured like two weeks before they were defintely going to drop the belts to the newly reformed T-Hawk and Eita team. And finally, R.I.P. Cyber Kong.
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This week's(?) free Dragon Gate content is the 2014, 2015, and 2016 Dead or Alive shows. https://twitter.com/DragonGateEN/status/1253177773721436160 The 2014 DoA was the first Dragon Gate show I ever watched and it blew me away. Still one of the best wrestling shows of the last decade. You've got the aforementioned fantastic Flamita/Susumu match that basically made Flamita, an awesome Twin Gate match between Shingo/Tozawa and Mochizuki/Fuji, a real fun Triangle Gate match with the classic Millennial's team of T-Hawk, Eita, and U-T, the best singles match of Ricochet's career defending the Dream Gate against full top heel YAMATO, and the first appearance of the really wacky and convoluted DoA cage match that culmnated in an amazing face turn for BxB Hulk and kicked off his nearly flawess run for the rest of the year. Also has Gamma and Maria getting really weird. A must watch show. The 2015 DoA was ok but everything outside of the Tozawa/Dragon Kid Brave Gate match was pretty underwhelming. That year's DoA match was marred by another failed attempt to get T-Hawk over. The whole 2016 show was focused around the all Verserk cage match, with most of the show being matches where the loser was forced to become a delegate for one of the entrants in the main event and risk their own hair. This culminated in what is to me maybe the best cage match any company's put on. It's absolutely a must watch. YAMATO and Naruki Doi's performances are out of this world.
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https://dragongate.live/title/?program=comp_BigEventsFeature The Dead or Alive's of the past decade are all free right now. 2014 was my first Dragon Gate show and it's an all timer show.
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Jae superfanned his way into being an official announcer for Dragon Gate, something I think we can all agree is very cool.
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Dragon Gate has announced that King of Gate will be going ahead this month in a series of empty arena shows. https://twitter.com/DragonGateEN/status/1257664161443528706 Dragon Gate posted:
I don't know who Dragon Dia pissed off to get put in a singles match against Cyber Kong.
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I dunno, watching a show at 10:00pm rather than 3:00am is really nice for me.
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Lol, Ben-K has really been acquiring mass during quarantine.
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Dragon Gate decided instead of spending money to make their network not rear end, that they'd rather use it to get a crane-camera. And heck, they were right.
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Also the Dead or Alive Cage Match is happening September 21st. Participants are Eita, BxB Hulk, Big R Shimizu, YAMATO, Kai, and Masato Yoshino.
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Dragon Gate knows what the people have been missing in quarantine, and it's convoluted bullshit! First, the main event for the August 12th's Korakuen Hall show. Dragon Gate English posted:【The Gate of Adventure 2020 Series Card Information】 Leading to the cage match at Dangerous Gate on September 21st. Dragon Gate English posted:【Dangerous Gage 2020 Steel Cage Rules #1】
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