Dragon Gate continued the Truth Gate 2024 Tour today with their monthly Tokyo event.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK in Japanese and English.
The announced paid attendance was 1394, a full house/near sellout.
Match 1: Dragon Kid & Shuji Kondo vs. Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) & YAMATO went to a 15 minute time limit draw.
Match 2: Don Fujii beat Daiki Yanagiuchi.
Match 3: Kota Minoura, Ben-K & BxB Hulk beat Kagetora, Takashi Yoshida & Punch Tominaga. Ben-K pinned Tominaga after a spear.
Match 4: Eita beat Jason Lee.
Match 5: Ultimo Dragon, Luis Mante & Hyo beat Madoka Kikuta, Dragon Dia & Ryoya Tanaka. Mante pinned Tanaka after Vuelta Finale.
Match 6: M3K Final & Mochizuki Jr. Sendoff Match: Susumu Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda beat Madaaki Mochizuki & Mochizuki Jr. Susumu Mochizuki pinned Mochizuki Jr. after Jumbo Wins! Jr. is now headed on a training excursion to Europe and apparently the M3K faction is now disbanded.
Main Event: In an elimination match, Shun Skywalker, KAI, ISHIN, Yosjiki Kato & Gianni Valetta beat Kzy, BIGBOSS Shimizu, U-T, Strong Machine J & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI. Order of elimination: KAI by J, U-T by Valetta, Kato by Shimizu, J by ISHIN, Kzy by Valetta, Shimizu & Valetta simultaneously, Skywalker by KAMEI, KAMEI by ISHIN.
The next event is Saturday at Hotel Saint In Kurishiki in Okayama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. However, later that night in the US both events of a doubleheader at Acros Fukuoka in Fukuoka will be live on DRAGONGATE NETWORK beginning Saturday at 7:45 PM PT/10:45 PM ET for the first event and 11:45 PM PT/2:45 AM ET for the second event. Live results are scheduled for the first event.
In news coming out of today, 2 title matches were announced for CHAMPION GATE 2024 on 3/3: Open The Brave Gate Champion Hyo vs. Yasushi Kanda for the title and Open The Dream Gate Champion Luis Mante vs. Susumu Mochizuki for the title.
Also, the field for this year’s Rey de Parejas Tournament was announced: Block A is Kota Minoura & Ben-K, BIGBOSS Shimizu & Strong Machine J, Dragon Kid & Naruki Doi, Toru Owashi & Shuji Kondo, KAI & Gianni Valetta, and a team from Ryukyu Dragon Pro Wrestling (Update: That team is Mozoku Tominaga & Shuri Joe). Block B is Luis Mante & Hyo, Madoka Kikuta & Dragon Dia, Kzy & U-T, Jason Lee & JACKY “FUNKY” KAMEI, YAMATO & Susumu Mochizuki and Shun Skywalker & Yoshiki Kato. Usual round-robin tournament format, the top 2 teams in each block will advance to the Semifinals. If there are ties, tiebreaker matches will be held. The tournament starts on 3/6 at Korakuen and ends on 4/10 at Korakuen. At this time only those 2 events and 3/30 ate scheduled for DRAGONGATE NETWORK broadcasts but that is subject to change.
2/9 UPDATE: There may have been some name changes after this event. Dragon Gate’s official news blog is indicating Masaaki Mochizuki & Yasushi Kanda may now be going by their real names going forward, meaning they would be Shigeaki Mochizuki & Hiroyuki Kanda, respectively.
