Dragon Gate wrapped up their 2024 today with the final event of their 25th Anniversary campaign.
Today’s event was held at Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.
The announced paid attendance was 651.
Match 1: ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato beat Ryu Fuda & Daiki Yanagiuchi. Kato pinned Yanagiuchi after a sit-down Canadian hammer. ISHIN was a last-minute replacement for an absent Hoki.
Match 2: Don Fujii beat Akihiro Sahara.
Match 3: Ultimo Dragon, Yasushi Kanda, Takashi Yoshida & Syachihoko BOY beat Ho Ho Lun, Ho Li, Richi Tominaga (possibly Punch Tominaga) & Problem Dragon. Yoshida pinned Tominaga after Pineapple Bomber.
Match 4: Masaaki Mochizuki beat ISHIN by DQ.
Match 5: Strong Machine J won a 12 man battle royal, last eliminating Dragon Dia.
Main Event: YAMATO, Susumu Yokosuka, Kagetora & BxB Hulk vs. Shun Skywalker, Kota Minoura, KAI & Jason Lee went to a double countout. Which led to…
Main Event (again): YAMATO, Susumu Yokosuka, Kagetora, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi beat Shun Skywalker, Kota Minoura, KAI, Jason Lee & ISHIN. YAMATO pinned ISHIN after Gallaria. So yeah, ISHIN wound up wrestling in 3 matches…only one was as planned.
This wraps up Dragon Gate’s 25th Anniversary year. There’s already quite a bit of 2025 news coming out today and just now:
Ho Ho Lun is joining the promotion full-time effective in January. He had been making occasional appearances as a freelancer. He is based in Hong Kong.
The next challenge for YAMATO’s Open The Dream Gate Championship has been announced: Strong Machine J. That match will happen at THE GATE OF BAYSIDE 2025 on 1/25 at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama. At this time it will not be for the Open The Brave Gate Championship also held by YAMATO.
The next event, their 2025 opener, is 1/9 at Kobe Art Center in Kobe to kick off the Open The New Year Gate 2025 Tour. Broadcast plans TBA. The DRAGONGATE NETWORK January schedule hasn’t been announced yet (only for February).
