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It might be me just being super hungover watching the show and Naito being the only guy in New Japan other than Shingo I really care about but only the main event from last night grabbed me. MOTYC: Okada/Naito.
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Jan 5, 2020 18:32
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From Dragon Gate's Open the New Year Gate at KBS Hall 1/11 HM: Open the Twin Gate Title Decision Block B Block 1st Round Match - Masaaki Mochizuki & GAMMA vs. YAMATO and Ben-K In a match with stakes and this much talent in the ring (and GAMMA), it was bound to be a great match. Kzy/Dragon Dia v. Fuji/Kanda and Hulk/Kazma v. Kai/SMJ were also good matches worth watching, if you're interested in getting a little taste of Dragon Gate before everything kicks of in earnest for 2020 at Korakuen later this week. Dimebags Brain fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Jan 11, 2020 |
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Jan 11, 2020 18:57
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forkboy84 posted:HM I'll 2nd these as well as throw out an HM 1/12 Dragon Gate Open The New Year Gate Night 2 EIDION Arena, Osaka Open The Twin Gate Title Tournament Round 2 Kzy & Dragon Dia vs Dragon Kid and KAGETORA If only for Dia's amazing performance and the spot where he and Kagetora just loving lay into each other with chops. So far the tag tournament has been a load of fun.
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Jan 13, 2020 01:30
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From Dragon Gate's 2/7 Truth Gate 2020 at Korakuen Hall HM: Three-Way Tag - Dragon Gate (YAMATO and KAI) vs. Toryumon (Masato Yoshino and Shuji Kondo) vs. R.E.D. (Eita and BxB Hulk) Really fun tag match mainly used to advance some stories and set up future matches. BxB Hulk's new heel look (god of war cowboy?) is a hell of a thing as well. MOTYC: Open the Dream Gate Championship - Naruki Doi vs. Kzy For the third year in a row, Kzy pulls out the best match of February. loving awesome match. Dimebags Brain fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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Feb 8, 2020 00:55
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So this match is from last year but I don't know where else to put this. From Dragon Gate Prime Zone Vol. 80 - 8/13/2019 HM: Martin Kirby vs. Super Shisa A really good technical match tucked away in the Prime Zone section of the Dragon Gate Network. Prime Zone is a small studio show that DG occasionally puts on that is essentially a studio wrestling show that's non-canon (Mondai Ryu is an important character in Prime Zone canon) and mostly just DG wrestlers loving around. Larry Dallas mentioned this match on the latest Korakuen show. If you watch Dragon Gate you know Martin Kirby as the goofy bald guy who's been showing up in the undercard this past year, and Shisa is a long time veteran with one foot in retirement at this point who spends most of his time as the head trainer of the Dragon Gate dojo. This is a pretty fun 10/15 minute match consisting entirely of grappling and mat wrestling. Was cool to see Martin Kirby get a real chance to shine and show of his really solid technical skills, and go toe-to-toe with the best technical wrestler in Dragon Gate. Not a type of match you usually see in DG.
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PantherWill posted:HM: Page/Omega vs. SCU, Dynamite 2/12 Yeah.
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forkboy84 posted:Can't believe the sanctity of the MOTYC tag from Something Awful posters has been ruined. A day that shall go down in infamy. The Sting/HHH match got both the WMOTY and MOTY nods, the sanctity has been shot for a while.
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Feb 28, 2020 21:20
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HM: Darby/Guevara HM: Mox/Jericho MOTYC: PAC/Orange Cassidy MOTY: Hangman & Omega / Young Bucks
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From Dragon Gate's Championship Gate Night 1, 2/29/20. HM: Open the Brave Gate Championship - Kaito Ishida vs. Genki Horiguchi Started slow, but the finishing stretch was fantastic and brought it up. Good story centered around Ishida targeting Horiguchi''s leg for the ankle lock, getting his submission finisher over. HM: Open the Triangle Gate Championship - Kenichiro Arai, Dragon Kid, and Ryo Saito vs. Ben-K, Strong Machine J, and Dragon Dia Fun match that was dragged down by Arai being old and also selling an arm injury. Provided a good story of the slightly more heelish SMJ spending the match targeting Arai's arm while the more faceish Ben-K and Dia focused on just straight up winning. Looking forward to the matches the new Triangle Gate team can provide. Dragon Gate's Championship Gate Night 2, 3/1/2020 HM: Keisuke Okuda and Ben-K vs. Takashi Yoshida & Kaito Ishida Fun match to set up an Okuda/Ishida Brave Gate challenge in the future. The Okuda/Ishida parts of the match made me real excited for that match, as did the finish The rare DQ and post-match. In addition the Ben-K/Yoshida parts of the match was some basic but always fun hoss-off stuff. Real enjoyable match. HM: Open the Twin Gate Championship - BxB Hulk & Kazma Sakamoto vs. YAMATO and KAI Was on it's way to being a strong MOTYC, but the gently caress finish, despite its intensity, brought it down, as you could feel it sort of deflate the crowd that was really getting into it. forkboy84 posted:Coronavirus can get in the bin for robbing us of his match with Doi for Dream Gate. WE WEREN'T ACTUALLY! MOTYC: Open the Dream Gate Championship - Naruki Doi vs. Susumu Yokosuka A very methodical match based more around a battle of wits and strategy than pure physical prowess. Doi changed up his style in the beginning of the match to a more submission based offense than usual, forcing Susumu to pick and chose his spots for a comeback, with the two guys eventually beating each other up that it just became who could dig deeper into the physical well until Doi reverted back to his earlier submission strategy to get the win. Excellent match to send the crowd home happy for the Corona Virus break. Dimebags Brain fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Mar 8, 2020 |
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It rules in an abstract arthouse sort of way, but drat is it boring to watch and I definitely skipped ahead to when the match actually starts.
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Punch McLightning posted:I just want to make sure I’m right on something - Orton-Edge was about five minutes longer than the stare off portion of that Shiozaki match, and was far more boring than that half of the match? I watched the last two minutes of the match on reddit and even at 1.5x speed it was unbearably slow and drawn out. I can't imagine a full 40 minutes of that poo poo.
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Apr 6, 2020 20:31
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BxB Hulk and Shingo Takagi had a decade long blood feud where every match went over 30 minutes and the blow-off had both men going to the hospital afterwords and it was less self-indulgent than that one close up shot of Gargano touching Ciampa’s hand.
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Dragon Gate King of Gate Day 1 - 5/15 HM: YAMATO vs. Ryu Saito HM: Yokosuka Susumu vs. Yosuke Santa Maria Both of these were really good matches that if they were in front of a crowd would have been excellent matches. Really makes you appreciate how crowd response adds to, aids, and helps dictate the flow and pace of the match to watch something like the finish to YAMATO/Saito and realize that while it was sudden, it was built of a cool reversal into a very emphatic finish that would have had the crowd going nuts to smooth over any pacing issues.
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May 15, 2020 05:31
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Dragon Gate's King of Gate Night 2, 5/16 HM: BxB Hulk vs Keisuke Okuda Hulk and Okuda have pretty good chemistry in the ring and they worked a match that seemed to accommodate the lack of crowd in a way that nailed it for me. Plus always good to see my boy Hulk looking motivated. The Horiguchi/Kai match was also good but not quite nom worthy. Cool finishing sequence trading and countering flash pins and backslides.
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So honestly I don't think I've seen a match in the quarantine era that's been able to get past the lack of crowds to MOTYC, which is not to say there haven't been some good matches, but nothing's really made me feel the way a MOTYC makes me feel without the energy of the crowd. That being said... Dragon Gate King of Gate, A Block Round 2 - 5/22 HM: Kzy vs YAMATO So by seeing "Kzy vs. YAMATO" you already know this match is good. The guys had a super awesome at the kick-off show of last year's King of Gate, and it's still a good match though obviously diminished by the lack of a hot Korakuen crowd. King of Gate, B Block Round 2 - 5/23 HM: Kaito Ishida vs. Keisuke Okuda More teasing us for an eventual Brave Gate match between the two, but still lots of fun to see Okuda and Ishida lay into each other.
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Dimebags Brain posted:So honestly I don't think I've seen a match in the quarantine era that's been able to get past the lack of crowds to MOTYC, which is not to say there haven't been some good matches, but nothing's really made me feel the way a MOTYC makes me feel without the energy of the crowd. I'm a big man willing to admit when they're wrong. Jerusalem posted:MOTYC: The Stadium Stampede Match - AEW Double or Nothing 5/23
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I watched this a couple days ago, which thanks to 2020 now feels like forever ago, but still... Dragon Gate, King of Gate Block Finals, 5/30 HM: Kaito Ishida vs Naruki Doi Notable match for being the Brave Gate champ vs the Dream Gate champ, this match continued Ishida’s run of really consistent and good matches for this tournament. Ending was a bit predictable once you saw it coming, but still, good match. MOTYC: Eita vs Dragon Dia In a normal year I probably wouldn’t give this a MOTYC with the lack of crowd and all that but still this was probably the best match of the tournament and really enjoyable and compelling. Eita managed to generate some actual heat even without the crowd, and he and Dia have some great chemistry. Would love to see this match again once crowds are back.
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Jun 1, 2020 16:51
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From Dragon Gate's Rainbow Gate, 6/14 HM: All Japan Junior Heavyweight Championship Match - Susumu Yokosuka vs. Hokuto Omori (All Japan Pro Wrestling) vs. Yosuke♡Santa Maria Super fun match, great performances as you'd expect from Susumu and Maria, and while I'm not really familiar with All Japan's undercard, Omori looked really impressive and was able to keep up with the two Dragon Gate performers just fine.
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Gaz-L posted:I thought Dragon Gate didn't play well with the other promotions? They've been playing nicer with other promotions since Okamura was forced out as president and Toru Kido took over. Susumu won All Japan's junior title earlier this year and Mochizuki has been tagging with Marafuji in NOAH as well.
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Dragon Gate Rainbow Gate, 6/21 MOTYC: Open the Brave Gate Championship - Kaito Ishida vs. Keisuke Okuda Very good match, excellent story of Ishida being an absolute arrogant poo poo head and Okuda wanting to kick his dumb stupid rear end.
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Jun 21, 2020 18:32
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forkboy84 posted:HM Nth this and also from the same show HM: Kota Minoura vs. Big R Shimizu
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From Dragon Gate's Hopeful Gate at Osaka Edion Arena, 7/12 HM: Kzy & Jason Lee & Kota Minoura vs. BxB Hulk & KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Takashi Yoshida Real fun trios match, really liking all the pushes going on for younger guys in DG right now.
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Dragon Gate Memorial Gate, 8/2 MOTYC: Open the Twin Gate Championship - BxB Hulk & KAZMA SAKAMOTO vs. Jason Lee & Kota Minoura The Kota Minoura push is real! Minoura has been putting in the loving work since DG came back from quarantine break, and has been racking up impressive performances on pretty much every show, and here is no different. He plays a wonderful babyface in peril, taking pretty much all of the heat in the match before paying it off in a satisfying manor in the finishing stretch,
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Aug 2, 2020 16:31
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Dimebags Brain posted:Dragon Gate Memorial Gate, 8/2 MOTYC: Open the Dream Gate Championship - Naruki Doi vs. Eita This match was amazing, maybe the best performance of Eita's career? Definitely his best singles performance. Most invested I've been in a match start to finish all year. Wish the crowd was allowed to cheer because there were moments in this match where the building would have exploded. [edit] oops, quote is not edit.
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From Dragon Gate's 8/12 Korakuen Hall HM: Ultimo Dragon, Naruki Doi, Dragon Kid, and Shuji Kondo vs. Kzy, Ben-K, Strong Machine J, and U-T Nothing too spectacular but real fun match. Come for Kondo and Ben-K slapping meat, stay for Naruki Doi's Bakatare Sliding Kick Senton. HM: Kota Minoura, Jason Lee, and Dragon Dia vs. Kaito Ishida, Diamante, and H・Y・O Both of the big card-filling multi-mans tonight were a ton of fun. I love the absolutely dickish way Ishida grapevines the leg for his ankle lock. HM: Six-way Elimination Survival Match - Masato Yoshino vs. YAMATO vs. KAI vs. Eita vs. BxB Hulk vs. Big R Shimizu Very fun match to decide the order of entry for the cage match at Dangerous Gate. Carried by lots of entertaining character dynamics as we head towards the DoA Clusterfuck.
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Shocked that 2020 Jado and Gedo would be bad.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:WMOTYC: Jon Moxley VS Mark Sterling, AEW Dynamite 02 September 2020 2nd.
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Jerusalem posted:HM: Hikaru Shida (C) vs. Thunder Rosa for the AEW Women's Championship - AEW All Out 9/5 nth. Would've been MOTYC quality if it didn't feel like both of them were really feeling the Florida heat.
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Dragon Gate's Storm Gate 2020 at Korakeun Hall, 9/9 HM: Ultimo Dragon, Don Fujii & Shuji Kondo vs. Kento Kobune, Taketo Kamei, & Madoka Kikuta An admirable little addition to the "Old Men Beat Up Young Boys" genre of Puro. The hope spots for the youngsters here was fantastic as was Kondo's complete disdain for them in the finishing stretch. HM: Naruki Doi, Dragon Kid, Susumu Yokosuka, & Kagetora vs. Kzy, Kota Minoura, Jason Lee, & U-T The fun kind of spot-fest sprint that no company can do like Dragon Gate. I've been too busy to keep up with DG since the last Korakuen, so this was like coming home after a long day at work. Also during this match I had this horrible vision of an alternate universe where Jason Lee signed with WWE after the CWC and wasted away and stagnated on 205 Live and was now stuck in the US after getting fired in the middle of a pandemic. HM: Ben-K & Dragon Dia vs. Kaito Ishida & KAZMA SAKAMOTO Started slow but picked up real nice towards the end. That plus the post-match, setting up an Ishida/Maria Brave Gate match at Dangerous Gate and teasing Okuda as the Green Demon, pushed it up to HM for me. Kaito Ishida has been extremely good as the Brave Gate champ but he's almost too good to be the mid-card champ at this point. MOTYC: ROAD to DANGEROUS GATE -Number change 6-man Tag Match- Big R Shimizu, Eita, & YAMATO vs. KAI, BxB Hulk, & Masato Yoshino Not a workrate classic, but extremely fun character and story stuff. Match is part of the set up for the six way cage match at Dangerous Gate. Person who scores the pinfall can change their order of entry with anyone else or force two others to change their numbers if they're fine with what they've got. Tons of fun cross-faction, cross-team shenanigans, and the finish was amazing Technical wrestling master: Big R Shimizu
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Jerusalem posted:HM: Mr. Brodie (C) vs. Dustin Rhodes for the TNT Championship - AEW Dynamite 9/9 Sure, nth. 5th best match I watched today!
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Sep 10, 2020 03:56
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Eita vs Naruki Doi for the Dream Gate from 8/2 has 4 MOTYC votes friend J-Ru.
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Dragon Gate guys either get early career ending injuries or go hard forever.
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forkboy84 posted:HM Will 2nd that. They could have cut some time from the old men do comedy match to give this some extra time to get to MOTYC status, but as is, near perfect mid-card title match. And might as well get these down while they set up the cage for the main event. Also from Dangerous Gate HM: Open the Triangle Gate Championship - Dragon Gate (Ben-K, Dragon Dia, and Strong Machine J) vs. R.E.D. (Kazma Sakamoto, Takeshi Yoshida, and Diamante) A great trios sprint, with a surprising amount of story going on for such a match, with SMJ being rusty from returning from injury, Dia attempting to overcome his slump against R.E.D. and Ben-K injuring his shoulder taking stupid bumps. Kazma continues his inexplicably great Dragon Gate run. MOTYC: Naruki Doi vs. Kzy This match could have fit seamlessly next to any number of classic G1 sprints, with both guys attempting and throwing bombs early and often and going right into finishing stretch territory. MOTYC: Open the Twin Gate Championship - Jason Lee & Kota Minoura vs. Dragon Kid & Susumu Yokuska This match just straight whipped rear end. Best tag division in wrestling. Dimebags Brain fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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forkboy84 posted:nth these and I'll go MOTYC on the cage match. In ring stuff was only HM quality but the character and booking stuff, plus the post match, pushed it up to MOTYC for me. Just a big dumb grin on my face for most of the match. If you've been invested in the build and following along since the return in August, this match had a lot to sink your teeth into. KAI was an absolute delight Everything from YAMATO's entrance to KAI's escape was perfect pro-wrestling.
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Dragon Gate at Korakuen Hall, 10/7 Nothing spectacular on this show, mainly just realigning everything in the fallout of Dangerous Gate towards the build to Gate of Destiny. Regardless, pretty much every match on the card was real fun and had its moments. HM: Masaaki Mochizuki & Gamma vs. Don Fujii & Kenichiro Arai vs. Kento Kobune & Taketo Kamei The current crop of Dragon Gate's young boys is very good, tons of potential in all three of them (check Kikuta's killer exchanges with Kagetora on the following match), and watching their strggles against the cranky old men of Dragon Gate is very engaging. HM: Naruki Doi, Ryo Saito & Ryotsu Shimizu (The Artist Formerly Known As Big R) vs. Yosuke♡Santa Maria, Punch Tominaga & U-T A very fun comedy match centered around Punch getting beat up and clowned on. Highlight was Shimizu putting him in the Giant Swing and Doi using him as a jump rope. HM: YAMATO, Kzy, Ben-K & Kota Minoura vs. Eita, BxB Hulk, Kaito Ishida & KAI A killer main event intertwining like four separate feuds in one match. Great work from everyone and the Yellow Demon reveal was perfect.
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Usually when I see like every match on Dynamite get nominated I roll my eyes and go "man, WWE really killed peoples standards" but Omega/Penta was absolutely a MOTYC worthy match.
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Dragon Gate: Gate of Destiny 2020, Nov. 3 HM: Ultimo Dragon & Masato Yoshino & Yasushi Kanda vs. Kento Kobune & Taketo Kamei & Madoka Kikuta Very fun if short match. Yoshino obviously pulled a lot of weight for his team but the Young Boys Trio continue to be very good in their battle against grumpy old men. DG should honestly just put the Triangle Gate on these guys sooner rather than later. HM: Open the Twin Gate Championship - Kota Minouru & Jason Lee vs. Susumu Yokusuka & Genki Horiguchi This was a fun spotfest that was marred for me by basically just being a re-hash of the Twin Gate match from Dangerous Gate, with Kid's spots replaced with Horiguchi backslide reversals. HM: Open the Dream Gate Championship - Eita vs. Kzy A slow building match that was building and building towards something special, with Kzy as an amazing house on fire babyface against the biggest rear end in a top hat ever and then it just abruptly ended, keeping it just shy of a MOTYC for me. Match was sadly hindered by the muted crowd, would have been awesome with full reactions. Post-match was good though. MOTYC: Open the Brave Gate Championship - Kaito Ishida vs. Keisuke Okuda Hell yeah, this match was exactly what I wanted it to be. Okuda and Ishida have been feuding for several months in one of the frontrunners for Feud of the Year, and this match is where everything came to a head. Both guys have very similar wrestling styles and they spent most of the match just kicking the piss out of each other. Dimebags Brain fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Nov 4, 2020 |
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MOTYC: Elite Deletion GANGREL
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Alright Dragon Gate Pro-Wrestling Festival at Kobe World Memorial Hall 2020, 11/15 HM: Ryo Saito & Boku R Shimizu vs. Taketo Kamei & Madoka Kikuta HM: Open the Triangle Gate 3 Way Championship Match - Takashi Yoshida, KAZMA SAKAMOTO & SB KENTo vs. Dragon Kid, Kagetora & XMasato Yoshino vs. Ben-K, Yosuke♡Santa Maria & U-T Dragon Gate's 2020 rookie class are the best in the world and it's not particularly close. MOTYC: Open the Brave Gate Championship Match - Keisuke Okuda vs. Kaito Ishida The third Brave Gate match between these two this year and the third MOTYC nomination from me for it. MOTYC: Open the Twin Gate Champion Decision Match - YAMATO & Kota Minoura vs. BxB Hulk & KAI Very rad match, though YAMATO might have gotten his brains scrambled near the end there. MOTYC: Open the Dream Gate Championship Match - Eita vs. Shun Skywalker This match was loving fantastic in like, every way possible. As close to a five star match as I've seen this year. Dimebags Brain fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Nov 15, 2020 |
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