Dragon Gate ran the penultimate events of The Gate Of Passion 2024 tour yesterday & today ahead of their next blowout event tomorrow.
Both events were held at Kyoto KBS Hall in Kyoto and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.
Yesterday:
The announced paid attendance was 326.
Match 1; BIGBOSS Shimizu & U-T beat KAI & ISHIN. U-T pinned ISHIN after Fuego.
Match 2; Yasushi Kanda beat Ryu Fuda.
Match 3: Masaaki Mochizuki & Strong Machine J beat Ultimo Dragon & Takashi Yoshida. J pinned Yoshida with Genie Clutch.
Match 4: YAMATO & Susumu Yokosuka beat Kota Minoura & Ben-K. YAMATO pinned Minoura.
Match 5: Dragon Kid, Naruki Doi & Kagetora beat Madoka Kikuta, Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka. Kid pinned Tanaka after Doybull.
Main Event: Shun Skywalker & Gianni Valetta beat Kzy & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI and Luis Mante & Hyo in a 3-way when Valetta pinned Mante.
Today:
The paid attendance has not yet been announced.
Match 1: Madoka Kikuta, Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka beat Masaaki Mochizuki, Ryu Fuda & Daiki Yanagiuchi. Dia pinned Fuda after DDDDT.
Match 2: Kota Minoura & Ben-K beat Genki Horiguchi & Yasushi Kanda. Minoura pinned Horiguchi after a spear.
Match 3: Dragon Kid & Ho Ho Lun beat Ultimo Dragon & Punch Tominaga. Lun pinned Tominaga.
Match 4: BIGBOSS Shimizu & U-T beat Susumu Yokosuka & Kagetora. U-T pinned Kagetora after Passion.
Natural Vibes/Big Hug vs. Z-Brats Single Match Series:
Match 5: Luis Mante vs. Gianni Valetta went to a double countout.
Match 6: ISHIN beat JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI.
Match 7: Strong Machine J beat Kzy. This was to have been Jason Lee vs. Kzy but Lee faked an injury to get out of it after interfering in Match 6.
Main Event; Hyo beat Shun Skywalker.
2-1-1, which side won depends on if J filling on for Z-Brats amounts to anything as he’s Natural Vibes.
The next event is DEAD OR ALIVE, the annual Golden Week blowout event, tomorrow at Aichi Prefectural Gym in Nagoya. The 7 match card has 2 title matches and the main event will be a 5-way Mascara Contra Caballera Barbed Wire match-there will be a flag hung above the ring, with the ring surrounded by barbed wire, when a wrestler grabs the flag they are safe from losing and eliminated from the match, the last man left loses his hair or mask. Mainly it will be hair as the only masked man in the match is Shun Skywalker. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.
