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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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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 03:05 |
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# ¿ May 21, 2024 09:38 |
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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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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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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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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 10:43 |
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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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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 10:46 |
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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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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 10:47 |
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Dia's smoothness really is jaw dropping at times
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 10:51 |
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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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gently caress me this kid is ripped. His head looks a bit too small for his body though
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 10:54 |
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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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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 10:57 |
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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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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 11:03 |
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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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I can't believe we'll never get awkward reluctant dancing from Susumu again
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 11:13 |
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JFK has a lovely dropkick
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 11:13 |
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2023 will be Kzy Time I mutter to myself while rocking back & forward in my seat
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 11:18 |
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Bonk posted:It's always funny when the company sends someone who speaks exactly zero English over to the English table. I swear Jae asks for them so he can show off how easily he can switch from Japanese to English & back
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 11:20 |
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Punch Tominaga, the man who was only in Natural Vibes V1.0 because his father had somewhere they could rehearse their dance routine. Dear GAORA for the love of Christ pay for the rights to Separados already
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 11:24 |
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You know a match is a good piss break when Shachihoko BOY & Ultimo Dragon are both in it
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 11:28 |
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Bonk posted:I like how you didn't even mention Punchy. I'll be honest, I completely forgot about him already.
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 11:31 |
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Grumpy old man Fujii killing Punch with a slap is very satisfying
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 11:34 |
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It's weird seeing Eita no longer rocking Perros gear, I got so used to it. Good job he kept some of the old shirts
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 11:45 |
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All I need from this match is Naruki Doi running around Korakuen chasing down Minorita
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 11:46 |
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I didn't get what I wanted but this was still entertaining
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 11:51 |
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SG Bamboo posted:Kai is just Yuki Iino in a wig, you can't fool me I think I was the highest person in the world in KAI as Dream Gate champ. It was very All Japan feeling with the defense against Yoshida & Shimizu bringing some beef and Susumu being Susumu. That Susumu defence at DOA ripped
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 11:59 |
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Jae's willingness to just dumb on things that didn't work is definitely part of his appeal. It's funny that he only ended up doing commentary because COVID meant they couldn't fly in Lenny Leonard & Larry Dallas
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 12:04 |
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Hulk's Axe kick always makes me wince like the dumb mark I am
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 12:04 |
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Don't know who is more surprised, Yoshida, YAMATO or literally everyone watching at home I'm glad he got some redemption after Naruki Doi mistreated him earlier this year. Takashi Yoshida is a really endearing babyface somehow
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 12:07 |
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I wondered if something big was coming and yeah, maybe the best wrestler in the world coming in is pretty drat big
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 12:11 |
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I was thinking maybe PAC but then he has that endless series in AEW. This is as good
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 12:12 |
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Final Gate just got even better
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 12:14 |
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SG Bamboo posted:Shingo spending a lot of time on how he's single Apparently that's part of what his YouTube channel is about I don't believe that man is single for any reason than because he has too many prospective partners & just can't choose
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 12:15 |
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Jae mocking Punch kills me every loving time
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 12:19 |
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Oh man, Kikuta vs Takagi is my kind of poo poo
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 12:20 |
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I'm just happy we got to see Punch get pumping bombered one more time. All is well
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 12:24 |
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I am very excited for this match
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 12:32 |
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SG Bamboo posted:Nice flip old man I couldn't have done that at 23, never mind 53
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 12:38 |
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Bonk posted:Masaaki Mochizuki is a murderer and I don't know how to accept that Accept it by nodding and saying "huh, cool"
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 12:53 |
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Let's loving go Mochi
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 12:58 |
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# ¿ May 21, 2024 09:38 |
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I jinxed it Really fun show, it just blazed by, main event was great, Shingo is here, I'm happy
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 13:00 |