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 You should be able to watch it here That's right folks, the premier lucharesu promotion are back at Korakuen Hall with a big title match, a rookie debut & some good ol' fun wrestling along the way, & it is all live & free on the Dragongate Network, no sign up required. So take this as a chance to check them out & see why this is the second largest wrestling promotion in Japan. Timezone poo poo Tokyo, Japan: 6:30pm Sydney, Australia: 8:30pm London, UK: 9:30am New York City, USA: 4:30am Los Angeles, USA: 1:30am So if you're in the UK it's perfect to watch over your breakfast, if you're in the east coast you can wake up a little early to catch it, & if you're on the west coast then hell, you can have a late night, treat yourself. I have absolutely no idea if this show will be available for free on VOD or if it is just live. The Dragongate Network works in mysterious ways. quote:1. Dragon Dia & Kaito Nagano vs Z-Brats (Diamante & ISHIN) Want to know what is what? That's handy, Voices of Wrestling have a primer up where Case Lowe briefly breaks down the matches on the show. What I will say of my own is that the main event has Match of the Year potential, Yoshioka is having a hell of a 12 months since turning face & unmasking as Dia Inferno. Right now he's running through previous Dream Gate Title holders, his previous successful defence coming against YAMATO, & now he faces the best seemingly ageless Masaaki Mochizuki. Mochizuki has been a 3 time Dream Gate holder, only bettered by Masato Yoshino, Shingo Takagi & YAMATO (4, 4 & 5 respectively), & on top of that he has the 2nd most days in company history as Champion, behind just CIMA. He has been in some of the best matches in Dragon System history. This year he has been spending time with his reunited old group M2K, only now it's M3K because Mochizuki's son has been added to the mix. Anyway, Mochizuki & Yoshioka have history together in the Mochizuki Dojo unit, where Mochi took a bunch of younger wrestlers under his wing. That's Yoshioka, Dream Gate champ, Minoura, ex Dream Gate champ, Shun Skywalker, ex Dream Gate Champ, Hyo Watanabe, current Brave Gate champ, & Keisuke Okuda who...well who quit the company to go be a can in MMA, they can't all be hits. (And lest you think I'm being uncharitable, he's 0-5 in MMA. His last 3 opponents had a combined record of 1-1. Yeah, 2 guys with 1 fight, 1 with 0). So it's got great wrestlers, title on the line, history between them, it'll be a fab match. The other match to single out is the opener. Dragon Dia is a spectacularly smooth high flyer, Kaito Nagano is a rookie who has come hot out of the gates & looks to be an exciting high-flyer himself, Diamante is one of the 2 or 3 best bases for flyers working right now (it's him & Claudio, as Case says in his preview) & ISHIN is a second generation wrestler who has been going for about a year now & only turned heel relatively recently but has fit into Z-Brats well. Dragongate normally stream the opener on Youtube & that usually means they put talented wrestlers in that spot, & often the opener ends up being the most exciting thing on a show because of that. You don't want to miss itt. So come watch this. It'll be a lot of fun. Commentary is from Jae, almost certainly the most knowledgeable English speaking Dragongate fan out there, & Ho Ho Lun who you may remember from WWE's Cruiserweight Classic. And when Ho Ho is wrestling, we may get a special guest (often it's Genki Horiguchi, but he's in that match. I hope it's Takashi Yoshida) to fill in the second seat. https://twitter.com/_InYourCase/status/1599581541826322433?s=20&t=A-TmOjeSrlvQ0628uP69Cg
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i've been watching wrestling for like nearly a decade now and i've still somehow never seen a dragon gate show some day maybe they should run a show at 11:30am local time and i finally will, because i am not staying up until 4:30 in the morning. why has only cyberfight figured this out!
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Nothing else running tonight, may as well watch this instead of something from my backlog. The theme they've got running over this VTR is nice e: Not a fan of Ho Ho breathing into the mic loudly though
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Dec 6, 2022 10:16
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SG Bamboo posted:Nothing else running tonight, may as well watch this instead of something from my backlog. Dragongate really do good music I still love that ripping RED song
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Dec 6, 2022 10:18
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It slays me that HIGH-END are such a failed group they have to team with Mondai Ryu & Takashi Yoshida. (I like Yoshida but still) I'm looking forward to seeing Doi having to face his own creation, Minorita. That'll be fun
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Dec 6, 2022 10:28
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The most important thing to know about the roster is that Mondai Ryu's nickname is also Problem Dragon, so he is announced as "Mondai Ryu" Mondai Ryu.
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Dec 6, 2022 10:32
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That child in the audience has the wrong type of mask on
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Dec 6, 2022 10:34
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Have to say that this does not look like a great turnout in Korakuen, considering they've consistently done about 1,100 in Korakuen of late. The Z-Brats theme doesn't shred quite as much as REDs but it is still pretty cool
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Dec 6, 2022 10:38
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Aw, no evil BxB Hulk cackle. "AAAA KA KA KA KA KAAAAA"
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So Yoshida and Ryu are still friends from the Mad Blankey/Verserk days, but now they're good guys?forkboy84 posted:Have to say that this does not look like a great turnout in Korakuen, considering they've consistently done about 1,100 in Korakuen of late. I assumed it was capped for cheering, but guess not
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Dec 6, 2022 10:41
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Dragon Dia looks like he could be Masato Yoshino's son
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SG Bamboo posted:So Yoshida and Ryu are still friends from the Mad Blankey/Verserk days, but now they're good guys? They're usually the lowest ranking guys in heel units, but this year they've both been among the few independents on the roster, which doesn't typically have an alignment.
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Dec 6, 2022 10:42
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SG Bamboo posted:Dragon Dia looks like he could be Masato Yoshino's son It's so weird someone that good looking was under a mask. But then Dr Wagner Jr...
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Bonk posted:They're usually the lowest ranking guys in heel units, but this year they've both been among the few independents on the roster, which doesn't typically have an alignment. Ah, so High-End are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to make up numbers
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forkboy84 posted:It's so weird someone that good looking was under a mask. I'm familiar with El Desperado yes
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SG Bamboo posted:Ah, so High-End are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to make up numbers Well yeah, it's been a disaster. Keisuke Okuda left/got fired to go be an MMA jobber (probably only hired as Ultimo is his uncle), Ben-K quit to go salvage GOLD CLASS, and Kagetora is out injured.
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SG Bamboo posted:Ah, so High-End are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to make up numbers Yeah, exactly. They lost everyone else due to injury, betrayal, or leaving the company, but Yoshida & Mondai are from the same dojo class generation as YAMATO so he accepted the help.
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If nothing else this show is a success if people get to see how good Diamante is Look at that loving dude just bump around and make the flyers look incredible
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God I love that move. Nagano is really going to be something special.
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Holy poo poo the height on that chokslam escape e: and also the finisher 
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Dia's smoothness really is jaw dropping at times
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Diamante is another fun story. He came to DG with Ultimo and was Ultimo's dance partner and then he stayed in Japan with the pandemic and turned out to be amazing
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Dec 6, 2022 10:52
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Reminder that Nagano has only been wrestling since August.
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Kato got him some Shingo Takagi longboys.
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Dec 6, 2022 10:53
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gently caress me this kid is ripped. His head looks a bit too small for his body though
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Time for some BEEF And in Kikuta's case, CAKE
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I was watching a bit of the NOAH/DG show from last month earlier and I gotta say: Shun & Tadasuke were an entertaining team
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Kikuta is the real rear end Boy.
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Dec 6, 2022 11:02
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Cool debut, liked that more than the opener
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SG Bamboo posted:Can't get him up he's too bottom heavy He has got a big bum. My favourite DG running bit on commentary is Jae dumping on Punch Tominaga.
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Love my boys that dance. That break dancing robot J
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Dec 6, 2022 11:07
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Coming out on Razor scooters, effortlessly cool
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Dec 6, 2022 11:07
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This card is really focused on showcasing the 2022 class so far. Nagano in the opener, Kato's debut, now Junior.
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I can't believe we'll never get awkward reluctant dancing from Susumu again 
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JFK has a lovely dropkick
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Strong Machine J needs to bulk up, got no definition for a machine
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