Instead of their usual Golden Week “DEAD OR ALIVE” blowout event, this year Dragon Gate is moving it up a week or so for “GOLDEN COLISEUM” 2026, which will keep most of the usual May event features intact including 3 title matches with only the Open The Dream Gate Championship not on the line. But there are still high stakes for current champion Madoka Kikuta as he is in the annual Mascara Contra Caballera 6-way steel cage match, where the loser will lose his hair or, if either Shun Skywalker or El Cielo lose, their mask…AND…to up the ante further, the losing man’s faction also must disband. If Kikuta is the loser, he won’t lose his hair but BIGBOSS Shimizu will (at least that was the original plan).
There have been some late changes to the original card due to BxB Hulk and Ben-K being pulled off the event due to injuries. Shoulder & neck contusion, respectively. Kazuma Kimura is the replacement for Ben-K. Punch Tominaga is the replacement for Hulk.
Today’s event will be held at Aichi Prefectural Budokan in Nagoya and can be watched LIVE outside Japan on DRAGONGATE NETWORK in Japanese & English. It will also be available live in Japan as a PPV on GAORA On Demand, as a NEAR LIVE broadcast on GAORA SPORTS (on a 3 hour delay) and will also be a taped broadcast on Tokai TV on 5/11. You will also be able to watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube. There are 8 matches currently planned and with an intermission likely before the main event for setting up the cage (expect it to take possibly 20-30 minutes) this is going to be one of their longer events of the year, possibly running close to 4 hours.
Today’s lineup:
Hyo, Luis Mante & Kazuma Kimura vs. Jason Lee, KAI & ISHIN
Jiro Shinbashi vs. “Jungle Screaming Woman” (Jungle Kyona) (comedy match)
YAMATO, Dragon Kid, Naruki Doi & Punch Tominaga vs. Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii, Genki Horiguchi & Yasushi Kanda
Yuki Yoshioka vs. Strong Machine J
Open The Triangle Gate Champions Kzy, GuC & @KEY vs. Takashi, Problem Dragon & Koji Iwamoto for the titles
Open The Brave Gate Champion Ryoya Tanaka vs. U-T for the title*
Open The Twin Gate Champions JACKY KAMEI & Riiita vs. Susumu Yokosuka & KAGETORA for the titles
Shun Skywalker vs. Homare, El Cielo, Madoka Kikuta, Kota Minoura & Yoshiki Kato in a 6-way Mascara Contra Caballera steel cage match. The loser, who is the last one left after the other 5 climb the cage and grab a flag to escape, loses his hair or mask AND his faction must disband. If Kikuta is the loser, BIGBOSS Shimizu loses his hair. No escapes are allowed in the first 5 minutes
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*-Subject to change last-minute due to a U-T injury. No word yet on if he’ll be cleared in time to return. But based on posts on Tanaka’s social media earlier today, he’s planning as if U-T will be able to compete.