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NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
yeah yammy's had that on his rear end since kamakaze.

white/red/sparkles is hella boring to me as a unit color and just feels like -akatsuki- with hulk design. but the colors would fit everyone but kzy so it wouldn't surprise me. i'm pulling for purple. no unit's really had it since tozawajuku (i'm not counting deep drunkers/never count deep drunkers)

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NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

Tonfa posted:

Watching Dead or Alive 2011. Is there a story behind Red Shoes in lion mark ref gear being the ref for the big matches? There's no crossover talent on the show.

Yeah. Before Mr. Nakagawa became the 2nd in command behind Yagi, there was a referee named Kinta Tamaoka (he actually figured into Muscle Outlaw'z back in the day as a heel ref). He was arrested for using cocaine in a public bathroom and was fired. Red Shoes filled in for a while before Nakagawa and the other guy (never learned his name) became refs.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
Peter Kaasa, best known for his EVOLVE appearances will be on tour with DG starting the 31st

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

Thauros posted:

Does he seem like a good fit there then? I very rarely watch Evolve.

He's Uhaa level jacked and does flips. CIMA probably got full wood watching his tape

edit here's a highlight video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uERyAZCe58

NotQuiteQuentin fucked around with this message at 16:36 on May 22, 2016

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
ugh like OG needed more people.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

Thauros posted:

You'd think Monster Express would've been more logical since they're kinda low on members and tradionally had gaijin

exactly my thoughts. i could even get down with kaasa in verserk or yamahulk-gun but cima loves his flips and midbreath

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
The YAMAHulk unit is called Tribe Vanguard, playing both on the North Tribe team of Hulk/Kzy and Hulk's experience as a Japanese Defense Force Ranger. Their scheme is camo (so like WARRIORS 5/WARRIORS) and green.

https://twitter.com/zionsion0403/status/736523674195353600

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

sticklefifer posted:

Just caught up on the show from last week. Peter Kaasa impressed me more than I thought. He's a huge muscular dude but he's flippy as hell. He missed his target a few times so his aim's not great yet, but his technique is solid.

apparently kaasa's been hitting horiguchi HARD lately with his finish so I wonder if they're gonna try to get him to scale it back

Tozawa won the playoff with Eita but couldn't win two matches in a night against his Big Six rival YAMATO and the battle of former dia.hearts members had Big R get his biggest win of his career against Mocchy. So tomorrow is the final of YAMATO vs Big R.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

KungFu Grip posted:

Kotoka apparently broke his jaw pretty badly recently?

and now we learn the predilections of cima as kaasa's probably winning the triangle in ten days while roddy got the boot after an injury scare with doi.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
Past booking make me think that TV will win but CIMA's love of muscle bois who do flips trumps all.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
so kobe world is this sunday. as REAL LIFE has consumed me I haven't been able to put out an ITG or preview this but it looks like a real good show, and the best show in japan that day. (I WILL FIGHT ANYONE WHO DISMISSES THE GREATNESS OF A DON FUJII/FUNAKI TAG TEAM. STEP UP AND GET PUNCHED IN THE NECK)

http://sp.live.nicovideo.jp/i18ngate/lv268862999

2160 yen pre order

2700 yen otherwise

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

sticklefifer posted:

That is the most :psyduck: team.

congrats big r, you are most definitely not eating the fall for probably the debut tonight.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
First two matches were a lot of fun!

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
that senior citizen special was everything i wanted for in that match and more.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
triangle gate 9/4 in okinawa vs saito/horiguchi/kanda. they never tape okinawa. so it's fair to say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

also another kid debuted this week, hyou watanabe. he doesn't have nearly the buzz that shun or hiro had, but odds are he's pretty solid. his debut made tape and it was 15 minutes in kobe, so that's promising.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
The Jimmyz unseat Monster Express as Triangle Gate Champions. Kind of remarkable due to it being untaped in Okinawa in a show that was a joint produce with Ryukyu Dragon Pro Wrestling (Guruken Mask's promotion). MX had a remarkable, if incredibly low-key title reign. Ended 2nd in length and tied for 1st all time in defenses.

SATL wraps up on the 7th.

B Block has been finalized as Dragon Kid and Eita won the block and Osaka 06 came in second. A Block had YASSHI/Doi winning all the matches to finish first. Currently MarrahaIsappa and Yokosuka Ichoume are tied in second with Genki/Ryo holding the tiebreak. HOWEVER. The last match in the round robin is Big T (2 pts behind second) and Marilyns (0 points). If Big T wins, it's a crazy 3 way tie between them and the JImmyz Teams.

so the semi's and finals look like this:

DK/Eita vs A Block 2nd place
YASSHI/Doi vs Osaka 06.

And we are 17 days away from YAMATO vs Tozawa. You should probably get your hankies ready.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
Tozawa was officially announced for the WWE Cruiserweight Division. It's totally dusty in here.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
if you want a r good history of tozawa, one of my good friends at vow put one out

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2016/09/21/sun-ring-song-akira-tozawa/

or you can read my fanboy crying dork rear end at @insidedgcast

i'm so nervous either way the main event can go.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
i don't post a lot here anymore, but that's mainly cause i've been busy in real life and joined vow doing dragon gate coverage/co-hosting their dg podcast.

here's a preview i contributed to about final gate!

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2016/12/22/dragon-gate-final-gate-2016-preview-predictions/

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
2/4 Monster Express vs VerserK vs Dia.Hearts
5/5 Cage Match
6/2 Eita vs Susumu
7/24 Shingo vs YAMATO
10/2 VerserK vs MX
11/3 Takagi/YAMATO/Hulk vs Tozawa/Yoshino/Doi
12/1 Vets vs Rookies
12/20 Doi Darts 12-man

are ones I'd consider in the matches of the year tier. about 20 more that I'd consider a rung below that. It's been a very very solid year, both storyline and ringwork wise.

also i expect there to be a biggish shake-up in 2017. TV needs some major support, VerserK needs a solid number 3, OG has no purpose since: Eita's been doing his own thing, Punch is garbage and Kaito/Hiro have more of a competition with the '16ers than anything within the unit, and you have Yoshino-gun/Doi with the Towel Jumpsuits.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
Here's another list from my friend/co-host. They liked the Dream Gate match at Final Gate a whole lot more.

https://twitter.com/toshanshuinLA/status/813211742079746048

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

Tonfa posted:

just get YASSHI in there full time :weedass:

not really MOTYC level but CIMA has had a year of low key excellence. CIMA/Tozawa from somewhere in May/June and CK-1/Jimmyz 11/3 come to mind.

yeah that's my big problem with YASSHI/Taniyan. They'd both really add a bunch of seriousness to VerserK if they weren't freelance. Like I would have taken that Triangle Gate team seriously if it was either of them rather than Monchan.

Here is the insane thing about CIMA: Out of his nearly 20 year career, each year has been incredibly consistent with the exception of when he nearly broke his neck in 08/09. I've been working on a real comprehensive retrospective project with him/WON HOF and the more I watch, the more I'm convinced he might be the best wrestler of this generation that no one talks about.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

Tonfa posted:

I'd be very interested in this or a Mocchy "retrospective" in air quotes as both seem to still have a few solid years in the tank. Knowing CIMA he might be here in 2025 putting on a four star match.

It's gonna be done in 2017 and probably will be on VOW. I might do some audio accompaniments with it. A Mocchy one would be a whole lot of fun, but I'd need to hunt down his WAR stuff which is way low down on my list of priorities. This project has been years in the making, so I don't know when I will want to do such a deep dive into someone else any time soon.

Thauros posted:

what's the story with tanizaki anyway? I didn't even know he was freelance until recently but he seemed to be booked on every single show when he was with the jimmyz. Is it just a case of makingroomforall the young kids or is there some kinda drama?

No drama. This didn't make air on the awesome open the voice gate history episode we did with Jae of iheartdg (link here http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2016/11/20/open-voice-gate-special-bonus-episode-unit-history/), but Tanizaki does this a lot. He left DG for a couple of years to do indies/El Dorado, but came back. It's expected to be kind of the same. He has been under a freelance deal since he returned in 08 (so does KAGETORA for that matter), so it's not like he's tied down like how full-timers are. He also has a family/teenage daughter so he might want to be around Osaka a lot more.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

sticklefifer posted:

Last year I called 2016 being Eita's breakout year and hoo boy was I ever right on that.

Oh totally. He got his head out of his rear end after 2015 and made a much better claim to be Tozawa's replacement in the Big Six than T-Hawk. If more people watched Dragon Gate, he'd be the runaway for Most Improved Wrestler in the WON (obvious statement of the year).

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

super macho dude posted:

just watched Final Gate last night, and that Twin Gate match was absolutely filthy. Evil T Hawk is really great to watch and pairing him with Shingo seems perfect.

I hadn't kept up with DG in 2016, so i missed most of the faction angles and breakups. Is there a quick yearly breakdown of what happened in 2016?

I'm deep in the work for an pay-what-you-want eBook about DG in 2016 for VOW, but let's see if I can get 2016 down to a couple of paragraphs.

2016 started with VerseK on top, holding all the titles but the Triangle Gate. Their biggest goal was the elimination of Monster Express and managed to trick MX to go into a loser must disband match with Dia.Hearts (Shimizu is kind of a dumbshit and talked their way into this match). The night of the match, the two other stables called bullshit and got VerserK added to make it a 3-way loser must disband. It'd be Dia.Hearts who fell that night (2/4, my DG MOTY). This would be the peak of VerserK's year as by the end of March, they lost all their titles to Jimmy Susumu (Dream), Yosuke Santa Maria (Brave) and Shimizu/T-Hawk (Twin, Shimizu joined MX quickly after the DH disbandment). Only Shingo was able to reclaim his title. Shimizu and T-Hawk wouldn't hold their title for long as the original Jimmyz team of Susumu/Kagetora won the Twin soon after Kagetora's return after a year with injury. This would be one of the last successes for VerserK in 2016, as the unit practically tore in half with Takagi/Kong/Kotoka on one side and YAMATO/Doi/Tanizaki on another. Ryu and "brother" YASSHI would be stuck in the middle. (Yes "brother" YASSHI made his return a decade after Aagan Issou's firing. Most shocking DG event since Hulk's heel turn in 2011).

This would come to a head at DEAD OR ALIVE where everyone in the cage apuesta match was a VerserK member, Shingo vs Kong vs Kotoka vs Tanizaki vs Doi vs YAMATO (probably my number 2 DG MOTY). Through out the match the two sides would go back and forth, until it was YAMATO and Kotoka left in the cage. Then Naruki Doi turned on his tag team partner and the rest of VerserK ousted YAMATO in favor of Kotoka keeping his hair. However during these shenanigans, Kzy, Maria and a returning Hulk would lend YAMATO aid and they saved his hair/ensured that Kotoka lost the match. The four would form a new unit, Tribe Vanguard. This led into KING OF GATE, which for the first time was a 4 Block 20 Wrestler round robin. The big highlights from the league was Eita's MVP performance putting him on back on track with his Millenial peer T-Hawk, Big R Shimizu's bulldozer run to the finals, and most importantly, the 2016 KING OF GATE would be YAMATO, whom challenged Takagi for the Dream Gate at Kobe World. He would unseat Shingo for his 4th Open the Dream Gate title reign. Also at Kobe World, Eita would win his first singles title, capturing the Brave Gate from Maria.

Summer Adventure Tag League was pretty much a slog. Big things that came from it were: T-Hawk being frustrated with Monster Express and turning on them to join VerserK,Maria and Lindaman's illfated love affair tag team which came up with 0 wins, Lindaman being rejected from TV and joining VerserK in a furious rage (and a really loving big rope), Doi & YASSHI's upset over the Twin Gate champions, rookie supernova Futa Nakamura teaming with Masaaki Mochizuki, and the 2016 SATL winners Dragon Kid and Eita. The Jimmyz would quickly put down both Doi/YASSHI and DK/Eita and YAMATO made his first defense of the Dream Gate against Akira Tozawa, whom announced he'd be graduating Dragon Gate in November to join WWE. Before this, MX dropped the Triangle Gate to a Jimmyz team of Horiguchi/Saito/Kanda. After this announcement, VerserK started again to call for MX to disband and they would finally defeat Tozawa's stable in November, shortly before Tozawa's graduation match alongside the remainder of the Big Six. After Monster Express' disbandment, VerserK would turn on Doi, citing his failures in recent Twin Gate matches. The two teams for the Team Tozawa Akira Farewell at Gate of Destiny were YAMATO/Takagi/Hulk vs Tozawa/Doi/Yoshino. Also at Gate of Destiny, CIMA and Dragon Kid would unseat Susumu/Kagetora for the Twin Gate.

The remainder of the year was a bunch of intrigue about what new units will come out of the fall of Monster Express. This is also a good point to talk about the debutees of 2016. Dragon Gate perhaps has put out their strongest group of rookies since the T2P debut. I mentioned Futa Nakamura earlier and he's clearly the ace of the group and is positioned for a rapid ascent. He renamed himself Ben-K and is a power fighter with gear that's really reminiscent of Hirooki Goto. Hyou Watanabe is a smaller wrestler who aspires to be the best Brave Gate Champion of all time, and has a prickish attitude that's a lot like CIMA was after his debut. Shun Watanabe wants to be DG's next great high flyer and renamed himself Shun Skywalker, and has perhaps the shittiest gear out of anyone in DG history. Katsumi Takeshima and Yuki Yushioka debuted much later and are still in the black shorts phase of their career. The 5 '16ers would quickly stare down CIMA and force a revival of Team Veteran as CIMA/Mochizuki/Dragon Kid/Fujii/Gamma would face Ben-K/Watanabe/Skywalker/Takeshima (IN HIS DEBUT MATCH)/Yoshioka at the 12/1 Korakuen in my third place DG MOTY. The two big things about Final Gate were the unaffiliated team of Yoshino/Ben-K (see I wasn't kidding about his ascent)/Kotoka (who was injured most of the fall and returned to turn on VerserK) taking on Lindaman/Kong/Ryu and Susumu/Kanda/Saito for the vacated Triangle Gate (Horiguchi got injured by a crushing bearhug from Ben-K), where the Jimmyz would keep the title in the stable. The other big thing was Naruki Doi challenging his former tag team partner YAMATO for the Dream Gate. He would fail, but would mysteriously be helped to the back by two men shrouded in Dragon Gate jumpsuits and towels over their heads (so I started calling them the Towel Jumpsuits).

So that leaves us with this:
Dream: YAMATO
Brave: Eita
Twin: CIMA/DK
Triangle: Susumu/Kanda/Saito

VerserK: Takagi/T-Hawk/Lindaman/YASSHI (when he's around)/Tanizaki (who's not around anymore)/Kong/Ryu
Tribe Vanguard: YAMATO/Hulk/Kzy/Maria/Flamita (when he's around)
Jimmyz: Susumu/Saito/Kanda/Kagetora/Horiguchi/Kness
Over Generation: CIMA/Gamma/DK/Eita/Ishida/Yamamura/Punch
Unaffiliated: Yoshino/Doi/Mochizuki/Fujii/Shimizu/Kotoka/Peter Kaasa (new transphobic flippy muscle gaijin who's really botchy and not very good)/Ben-K/Shachi/Watanabe/Skywalker/Takeshima/Yoshioka/Stalker
Towel Jumpsuits: ???/???

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

sticklefifer posted:

The one detail missing was the biggest tragedy of the year next to the MX breakup: Kotoka's injury was his jaw being broken so he couldn't say BEEEEEHHHHHHHHH for several months.

yeah peter kaasa done hosed him up. kotoka was kind of treading water after he lost his hair, so at least he came back and is causing an impact. i'm really not looking forward to the next time that dude shows up.

Dimebags Brain posted:

The biggest issue with Dragon Gate honestly is the tag league taking up like a month and a half of time, and that it usually comes right after Kobe World. So YAMATO ends Shingo's reign of terror but because of the tag league his momentum peters out because there's no decent follow-up on that. And it wasn't helped this year by Gate of Destiny being all about Tozawa.

ah-loving-greed.

i've kind of made that a hammering point since i joined open the voice gate (and i'm writing the yamato bio in the ebook so watch me write a thousand words about it in detail), yamato was completely cut off by the knees in this reign to an extent not seen before in dragon gate. going kobe world - satl - dangerous gate - gate of destiny with only one defense and all the attention being towards tozawa killed all his momentum. this is the weakest major dream gate run since before cima's epic reign, in my opinion, and tribe vanguard is the worst unit since deep drunkers (which is considered the worst heel unit in dragon system history). i really like the round robin style of king of gate and how that flows into kobe world (i'd love to have all of it taped, but what can you do), but if you are going to do that, please god make satl single elimination so it doesn't take up two months. hell, i got bored and made a bracket that would have simulated the tournament with the block winners/runner-ups getting first round byes:

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

sticklefifer posted:

For a while now I've personally considered Final Gate their big show, even though Kobe World is promoted as such. FG is usually the payoff of the biggest title feuds and often has the year's best matches. KW is more the culmination of King of Gate and fallout from Dead or Alive. Also the positioning at the end of the year just makes it feel appropriately, well, final.

Final Gate has the big year-end happy moment most years (cept for the year when Deep Drunkers drank on top of the cage), but it's the clear #2 to Kobe World. Kobe World has its history dating back to the Anniversario shows (and was billed as the 17th annual Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival in 2016, so it is one of the few things that continue Toryumon heritage). It's in the company's home prefecture, and in every sense of the word is THE show.

If there was a bigger early year show, Final Gate wouldn't be such an end point. Compilation Gate in 09-10 at Sumo Hall was supposed to be the sixth big show each year, but DG hasn't run there since and has made March about the doubleheader Champion Gate shows in Osaka and Memorial Gate in Wakayama. This is purely conjecture, but 2011 they were just about to run it again, and then the Tsunami/Earthquake hit. They weren't able to run the event and I think they basically said "to hell with it" and decided to focus on Kansai for March.

If I were to rank the "big events" it'd go as follows

Kobe World - Clear-cut number one for obvious reasons.
Final Gate
Dead or Alive - Seen as the kickoff of Kobe World season
Kansai March
Gate of Destiny
Dangerous Gate

Some Korakuens have more relevance, such as the year kickoff, the fan appreciation second Korakuen in December, and the ones that fall into tournaments. I'll be real interested in seeing how this November Sendai show is slotted in. I felt like it made much more sense as a September show to begin their second half of the year post SATL, but I guess it'll be the build up to Final Gate.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
kyoto had the first show of the year. for those that don't know, kyoto's their biggest venue that doesn't get fully taped (gaora often will use footage from kbs hall for their bumpers/promo segments) so stuff often goes down there, and kzy scored a huge not-fluke 3 minute upset of cima and it sounds like north tribe are the next twin gate contenders.

also everyone poo poo on yamamura/ishida because everyone should poo poo on yamamura/ishida.

Dimebags Brain posted:

El Lindaman wanted a big fuckin' rope to hit people with. So he went down to the big fuckin' rope factory and got himself a big fuckin' rope.

i'm all in on dirtbag lindaman.

Thauros posted:

mort told me it's fine to run stuff from the drive in sync so I'd be happy to do it on a Monday, Tuesday, or Sunday night after this month's Korakuen hits the drive if NQQ doesn't.

it's all you bud. i just don't have the time to grab stuff anymore.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
yoshino suffered an injury in kobe: herniated disc and injured spinal cord. serious stuff so all the doiyoshi-gun stuff might be out of the window. kotoka and gamma picked up injuries as well.

looks like they are shuffling the unit shuffle.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

sticklefifer posted:

That sucks, I was really curious where that was going.

Flamita's apparently back in Mexico indies again? I can't keep track of that dude. I wonder if LU will get him back when they tape season 4.

Yeah he's completely indies/Clash based. I expect him back around Champion Gate time. Unless you're living in the dojo like Crews/Neville, you usually just do a set amount of tours each year.

and I wouldn't expect him in LU given he was a Konnan guy.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
hope everyone is ready to see yamato's dumbo ears again.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
here's my enormous king of gate preview i did with the help of people from open the voice gate.

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2017/05/08/dragon-gate-king-gate-2017-tournament-preview-predictions/

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
so King of Gate is over.

We put out a new podcast this weekend, which was mostly bitching about how bad of a winner T-Hawk is. http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2017/06/26/open-voice-gate-19-t-hawk-therapy/

I still don't think T-Hawk was the right move, but this has to be the last time he's going to be given a shot like this, so it's put up or shut up. There were a lot of good matches during the round robin stage, probably my favorites were Takagi/Mochizuki, KAGETORA/Yamamura and Kzy/Susumu. The knockout stage just made air yesterday so I haven't caught up on that show yet.

So far it looks like we'll get YAMATO/T-Hawk, a CK-1 defense (maybe MochiFujii or DoiYoshi if MMM loses on the 1st?), KAGETORA/Flamita, Probably a 3-way for the Triangle Gate, and then a bunch of stuff to fill out the card at Kobe World.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

Dimebags Brain posted:

I have come to accept that the Inexplicable T-Hawk Singles Push is the new Inexplicable Cyber Kong Singles Push. Hopefully this is the last time they do it for Kobe World though.

Yeah he's 27, and it's clear that folks like Eita/Ben-K/Yamamura are getting better responses and will be positioned for highlight pushes over the next years. I don't want it to sound like that I think T-Hawk is garbage (like Punch Tominaga): He just has a ceiling of being a number two in a unit/twin and triangle gate mainstay. There are worse positions to be in. It's a lot like where Hulk was at before he turned face/joined Dia.Hearts. There's just no evidence that the fans even care enough about T-Hawk that a face turn or usurping VerserK (which has a 20% chance of happening next week) will make the crowd change their opinion.

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

Suplex Liberace posted:

I have been poor at keeping up with dg for this year. What are the best YAMATO and Don Fuji matches to watch?

YAMATO's best match this year was the DOA cage match. Was nothing to call home about during KOG. Don Fujii's been fun all year, but nothing i've gone at least an HM on. He's going to be in an incredible opener with Mochifuji/Kness/Kanda vs Ishida/Shun/Hyo/Yoshioka. Lots of angry old man beat downs.

oatgan posted:

I'm gonna forget about it until a couple hours beforehand and then try to stay up with zero prep and pass out during intermission in my chair

imo, according to when they do intermission, you might not be missing out on a lot. ck-1 has no chemistry with each other so i'm hoping that the individual chemistry with dk/yoshino and cima/doiyoshi will help.

and yamato and t hawk will be fiiiiiiiine. probably 35 minutes long and 15 minutes of slow start, but fiiiiiiine.


Dimebags Brain posted:

Who's excited for Kobe World, even despite a possible T-Hawk victory? CK-1/Speed Muscle should be awesome at the very least.

i'm 25% on a t-hawk win. they don't like sending crowds home on a sour note at kobe world, and crowds will react that way to that. i wrote a piece this week about t-hawk's push and how it shapes up historically for dg: http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2017/07/19/the-curious-case-of-t-hawk/

and i'll be live tweeting during the show. my twitter account is @fujiiheya

NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice
hey ya'll. the unit survival league starts tomorrow, and i put together a preview for all the units and their prospects.

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2017/08/04/dragon-gate-5-unit-survival-race-preview/

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NotQuiteQuentin
Jan 29, 2005

BIG OVER
College Slice

Super No Vacancy posted:

when will the first post be updated

Don't try to put down Don Fujii.

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