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Dragon Gate wrapped up the Rey De Parejas 2026 Tournament today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Match 1: Rey De Parejas Semifinals: El Cielo & Luis Mante beat Susumu Yokosuka & KAGETORA. Mante pinned Yokosuka after Super Tigre.

Match 2: Rey De Parejas Semifinals: Yuki Yoshioka & Kota Minoura beat ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato. Minoura pinned ISHIN.

Match 3: Don Fujii, Toru Owashi & Punch Tomonaga beat Ultimo Dragon, Masaaki Mochizuki & Jiro Shinbashi. Shinbashi got scared of a Fujii piledriver and quit.

Match 4: Genki Horiguchi, Yasushi Kanda & Keni’chiro Arai beat Madoka Kikuta, KAI & Jason Lee. Horiguchi pinned KAI with Backslide From Heaven.

Match 5: YAMATO vs. Hidetaka Monma went to a 10 minute time limit draw.

Match 6: Hyo, JACKY KAMEI, Riiita, Mochizuki Junior & Gianni Valletta beat Kzy, Strong Machine J, U-T, GuC & Flamita. Valletta pinned U-T after a King Kong kneedrop. At least today Valletta was part of Love&Peace. I hope this is not a regular thing. He has to be a monster heel like he has been.

Match 7: Dragon Kid, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Ryoya Tanaka, Homare & Kazuma Kimura. Kid pinned Tanaka after Ultra Huracanrana.

Main Event: Rey De Parejas Finals: El Cielo & Luis Mante beat Yuki Yoshioka & Kota Minoura to win the tournament. Cielo pinned Yoshioka after a spinning tombstone piledriver. As a result, Cielo & Mante will likely get an Open The Twin Gate Championship shot in the future.

The next event is Saturday at Hills Sunpia Yamagata in Yamagata to start the Storm Gate 2026 Tour (the September tour). There will be no live or on demand broadcast. Only 3 more broadcasts are scheduled this month out of roughly 12 events.

UPDATE: One title match has been announced coning out of today…just not the expected one. Open The Owarai Gate Champion Sakura Hirota vs. Jiro Shinbashi for the title has been announced for 10/2. Comedy title match.

UPDATE 2: Cielo & Mante will get their Twin Gate shot on 9/12 at Ebara Wave Arena Ota/Ota City General Gym.

Dragon Gate ran their latest episode of PRIME ZONE+ yesterday, with one of the referees serving as episode GM.

Yesterday’s event was held at Kobe Lapis Hall in Kobe and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

The announced paid attendance was 68.

Match 1: Kzy & U-T beat Lucky Oshima & Tsujidai Circus (a pair of clowns). Kzy beat both simultaneously with a ground cobra twist.

Match 2: Homare won a 7 man battle royal, last eliminating Ryoya Tanaka.

Match 3: JACKY KAMEI beat SUN Florida.

Main Event: Susumu Yokosuka & KAGETORA beat Jackson & Johnson Florida in 6 seconds. KAGETORA pinned Jackson. Which led to…
Main Event (again): Susumu Yokosuka & KAGETORA beat Jackson & Johnson Florida in 12 seconds. KAGETORA pinned Jackson. Which led to…
Main Event (yet again): Susumu Yokosuka & KAGETORA beat Jackson & Johnson Florida by DQ. Jackson DQ’d. Weapon use.

The next event is Friday at Oro City Hall in Kagoshima. There will be no live or on demand broadcast, but any Rey De Parejas matches may be available on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK at a later date.

Dragon Gate kicked off the annual Rey De Parejas tournament (a round-robin format tag team event) today with their monthly Tokyo event, which also was the final event for Shun Skywalker in the promotion. He’a not retiring but it’s unclear what future plans are.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Match 1: Ryoya Tanaka, Kazuma Kimura & Tristan Moody beat JACKY KAMEI, Riiita & Mochizuki Junior and Madoka Kikuta, Kai & Jason Lee in a 3-way when Tanaka pinned Junior.

Match 2: TBA, revealed at match time to be Yasushi Kanda, beat Jiro Shinbashi in 45 seconds. Comedy squash.

Match 3: Ultimo Dragon, Yuki Yoshioka, Kota Minoura, Punch Tominaga & Ryu Fuda beat Masaaki Mochizuki, Genki Horiguchi, Don Fujii, Takashi & Problem Dragon.Fuda pinned Dragon after a Minoura R-301 (he stole the pin).

Match 4: YAMATO, BxB Hulk, Dragon Kid & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Kzy, U-T, GuC & @KEY. YAMATO pinned GuC after Gallaria.

Match 5: Rey De Parejas Block B: El Cielo & Luis Mante beat Flamita & Sangre Azteca Jr. Mante pinned Flamita.

Match 6: Rey De Parejas Block A: Strong Machine J & LEONA beat Susumu Yokosuka & KAGETORA. J pinned KAGETORA.

Match 7: Shun Skywalker Dragon Gate Final Match: Shun Skywalker beat Homare.

Main Event: Rey De Parejas Block A: Hyo & Gianni Valetta beat ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato. Valetta pinned ISHIN after a King Kong kneedrop.

The next event is Saturday at Atelier Himeji in Hyogo. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

UPDATE: The next challenger for Open The Brave Gate Champion Ryoya Tanaka was decided today…Ryu Fuda made the challenge but…OVERRULED!!! It was decided that Dragon Kid is next. That match will happen on 9/12 at Ebara Wave Arena Ota (Ota City General Gym). If Tanaka retains, he will be about 2 weeks away from passing Pac for longest title reign to date and it will be a new record 13th defense.

UPDATE 2: The first challenger for Open The Dream Gate Kzy has also been announced: YAMATO. That match will happen on 9/12.

One of the big items coning out of Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival yesterday was upcoming announcements about Dragon Gate’s Rey De Parejas, their annual tag team tournament in August. It will be a round-robin format with 2 blocks, and the first 2 teams were announced today:

Block A: Strong Machine J & LEONA (Dradition)

Block B: Yuki Yoshioka & Kota Minoura

More to come in the coming days/weeks.

UPDATE: Additional announcements since:

Block A: JACKY KAMEI & Riiita, Genki Horiguchi & Yasushi Kanda

Block B: GuC & @KEY, Flamita & Sangre Azteca Jr. (the latter from Michinoku Pro)

Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival 2026, Dragon Gate’s biggest event of the year, is now in the books.

Today’s event was held at Kobe World Hall in Kobe and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. This was also a live GAORA SPORTS broadcast in Japan. You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced but it was a legit sellout. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 3980. That’s less than half capacity but they did have a somewhat large setup)

Pre-show match: Ho Ho Lun, Punch Tomonaga & Tristan Moody beat Shachihoko BOY. Takashi & Problem Dragon. Lun pinned Dragon with Ho Roll.

Match 1: Mochizuki Junior & Kazuma Kimura beat Ryu Fuda & @KEY. Junior pinned Fuda with a German suplex hold.

Match 2: Masakatsu Funaki beat Jiro Shinbashi by submission in 16 seconds. Which led to…
Match 2 (again): Masakatsu Funaki beat Jiro Shinbashi by ref stoppage (technical submission). Which still went less than 3 minutes.

Match 3: Hyo, JACKY KAMEI & Riiita beat Strong Machine J, U-T & GuC to win the vacant Open The Triangle Gate Championship. Hyo, KAMEI & Riiita become the 100th Open The Triangle Gate Champions. Hyo pinned U-T.

Match 4: Shun Skywalker, Gianni Valetta & El Cielo beat Flamita, Luis Mante & Dragon Bane (Pro Wrestling NOAH) and KAI, Jason Lee & Alpha Wolf (Pro Wrestling NOAH) in a 3-way when Skywalker pinned Lee.

Match 5: YAMATO 20th Anniversary Match: YAMATO, KAGETORA, BxB Hulk, Dragon Kid, Susumu Yokosuka & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Uktimo Dragon, Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii, Genki Horiguchi, Yasushi Kanda & Keni’chiro Arai. YAMATO pinned Horiguchi after Gallaria.

Match 6: Open The Twin Gate Champions Yoshiki Kato & ISHIN beat Yuki Yoshioka & Kota Minoura to retain the titles. Kato pinned Yoshioka. V1 for the champs. On a related note, Yoshioka & Minoura are now a new faction known as XenisS (pronounced “Zenith”).

Match 7: Open The Brave Gate Champion Ryoya Tanaka beat Homare to retain the title. V12(!) for Tanaka. NEW RECORD!!! How many more can he get in his first reign? And who if anyone can stop him? (He does mot yet have the longest reign though. About 3 months to go to take that record from Pac)

Main Event: Kzy beat Open The Dream Gate Champion Madoka Kikuta to win the title. Kzy becomes the 43rd Open The Dream Gate Champion. The last piece of his missing career puzzle in the promotion is missing no longer. Kzy has now won all 4 of the Dragon Gate Championships. Now just a month after turning 40 and approaching his 20th Anniversary in the ring, he is the top dog and, undoubtedly, channeled those Natural Vibes afterwards to send the crowd home very happy because it’s time…it’s KZ Time!

The next event is Saturday at Suzuka Civic Hall in Mie. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

Dragon Gate said their final farewell to Shinjuku Face today with their last event as the closing Tokyo venue.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance bas not yet been announced. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 486, a legit sellout. Just 14 short of full capacity)

Match 1: Hyo vs. Gianni Valetta went to a 10 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Kikutaro beat Jiro Shinbashi.

Match 3: GuC won a 10 man battle royal, last eliminating Mochizuki Junior.

Match 4: Punch Tominaga 15th anniversary Match: Kendo Ka Shin & Masaaki Movhizuki beat YAMATO & Punch Tominaga. Ka Shin beat Tominaga.

Match 5: Yuki Yoshioka & Kota Minoura beat Susumu Yokosuka & KAGETORA. Minoura pinned KAGETORA after Endgame.

Main Event: Shun Skywalker, Dragon Kid, Strong Machine J, Flamita & Diamante (Luis Mante, back in his old masked persona for one day only) beat Madoka Kikuta, KAI, ISHIN, Jason Lee & Yoshiki Kato. Slywalker pinned Lee after SSW.

The next event is Saturday at Kyoto KBS Hall in Kyoto. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

It’s well-known that Dragon Gate wrestler Don Fujii was a sumo wrestler before turning to pro wrestling-and if you didn’t know, look up the Otake Beya YouTube channel and watch videos they posted earlier this year when they hosted Fujii and other wrestlers. Shiko (foot stomping) is an essential sumo exercise and I thought he was letting up because the promotion has announced he is injured. Knee, possibly aggravated a prior injury. Out indefinitely but at least tomorrow. Card changes have already been made-he was to have teamed with Homare, Ho Ho Lun & Tristan Moody to face Ryoya Tanaka, Genki Horiguchi, KAGETORA & Problem Dragon. They’ve essentially re-done almost the entire card as a result. It’s not yet known how long Fujii may be out but he was not scheduled for the next 2 events afterwards on Sunday and Monday (the latter being their final Shinjuku Face event). He is scheduled for Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival on 7/20 so wait and see there.

More as it becomes available.

Dragon Gate kicked off the Aggresive Gate 2026 Tour, it’s biggest of the year, with the monthly Tokyo event.

Today’s event was held at Kotakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. You can also watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Match 1: Flamita & Luis Mante beat Dragon Kid & Susumu Yokosuka. Flamita pinned Yokosuka after Flam Fly.

Match 2: YAMATO, KAGETORA, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Toru Owashi, Problem Dragon, Punch Tominaga & Ryu Fida. KAGETORA pinned Fuda.

Match 3: TBA, revealed at match time to be Alexander Otsuka, beat Jiro Shinbashi.

Match 4: Hyo, JACKY KAMEI, Riiita & Mochizuki Junior beat Strong Machine J, U-T, GuC & @KEY. Junior pinned @KEY with a German suplex hold.

Match 5: Yuki Yoshioka & Homare beat Ryoya Tanaka & Kazuma Kimura. Homare pinned Kimura.

Match 6: Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii, Genki Horiguchi & Yasushi Kanda beat Madoka Kikuta, KAI, ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato. Mochizuki pinned KAI after a buzzsaw kick.

Impromptu Match: Gianni Valetta beat Shun Skywalker.

Match 7: Kota Minoura beat Jason Lee.

Main Event: Kzy beat El Cielo. As a result, Kzy will face Open The Dream Gate Champion Madoka Kikuta for the title at Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival 2026 on 7/20.

The next event is Saturday at Nadazaki Cultural Center in Okayama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

UPDATE: Also added to 7/20 is Open The Twin Gate Champions JACKY KAMEI & Riiita vs. Yuki Yoshioka & Kota Minoura for the titles.

Dragon Gate ran the last event featuring Shun Skywalker in Osaka today before he leaves the promotion next month.

Today’s event was held at Umeda Stellar Hall in Osaka and can be watched on demand on DRAGONGATE NETWORK.

The paid attendance has not yet been announced.

Match 1: Hyo & Mochizuki Junior beat Susumu Yokosuka & BxB Hulk. Hyo pinned Hulk.

Match 2: El Cielo, Ryu Fuda & Ho Ho Lun beat KAI, ISHIN & Jason Lee. Cielo pinned Lee after Cielo Cuarto.

Match 3: Flamita beat Riiita.

Match 4: Madoka Kikuta & Yoshiki Kato beat Masaaki Mochizuki & Don Fujii in 88 seconds. Kikuta pinned Fujii after a rolling lariat.

Match 5: Strong Machine J. Kzy, U-T & GuC beat YAMATO, Dragon Kid, KAGETORA & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer). Kzy pinned KAGETORA after a running elbow smash.

Main Event: Shun Skywalker, Kota Minoura & Ryoya Tanaka beat Yuki Yoshioka, Luis Mante & Homare. Tanaka pinned Homare after Cross Saber.

The next event is tomorrow at Kobe Sambo Hall in Kobe. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

Dragon Gate runs their monthly same-day house show doubleheader today, this time back in Fukuoka for back-to-back events. It kicks off what actually is a tripleheader with a 3rd event on Monday. Both events today have 6 matches planned with the first half main event being an 8-man tag match between Love & Peace and Natural Vibes. And speaking of Love & Peace, it was announced today that JACKY KAMEI & Riiita are headed to Pro Wrestling NOAH on 7/18 to challenge for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.

Today’s event(s) will be held at Acros Fukuoka in Fukuoka and can be watched LIVE on DRAGONGATE NETWORK. You will also be able to watch the first match (of both events) FOR FREE on YouTube. There will be no commentary, but the DRAGONGATE NETWORK version will have an alternate feed with wrestler commentary. With 6 matches planned and probably the usual intermission near the end it won’t be a long event, in part because they’ll have the second event shortly after, so the running time should be around 2 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Homare & Kazuma Kimura vs. Yuki Yoshioka & El Cielo
Jiro Shinbashi vs. Takashi
Ultimo Dragon, Luis Mante & Flamita vs. Genki Horiguchi, Yasushi Kanda & Shachihoko BOY
YAMATO, Dragon Kid, BxB Hulk & Susumu Yokosuka vs. Madoka Kikuta, KAI, Yoshiki Kato & Jason Lee
Kota Minours vs. ISHIN
Hyo, JACKY KAMEI, Riiita & Mochizuki Junior vs. Strong Machine J, Kzy, Guc & @KEY

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 9 PM PT/midnight ET. The live stream will begin 15 minutes before the event.

8:44 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in about 10 minutes. Actually…

8:45 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Acros Fukuoka in Fukuoka, Japan. There is no commentary. The wrestler commentary feed begins with the first match.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. We can only see a couple rows of seats from hard camera right now but usually hte first half of these events draws the smaller crowd. The venue’s capacity is in the 600-700 range, no clue about advance ticket sales but I’ll predict a crowd around 450.

The matches should begin in about 20 minutes.

9 PM PT UPDATE: The YouTube broadcast begins now. As usual, only the first match.

The matches begin at 9:05 PM PT/12:05 AM ET.

Before the first match begins, Paradox (YAMATO, Dragon Kid, Susumu Yokosuka) comes out. YAMATO with microphone. He has a bag which apparently has the vacated Open The Triangle Gate Championship belts and returns it to GM Ryo Saito. It sounds like there might be a determination match to crown new champions next month at Kobe World Hall in Kobe.

Match 1: Homare & Kazuma Kimura vs. Yuki Yoshioka & El Cielo. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Yoshioka & El Cielo beat Homare & Kazuma Kimura. Cielo pinned Kimiura after a spinning tombstone piledriver.

The YouTube broadcast ends here.

Match 2: Jiro Shinbashi vs. Takashi. 15 minute time limit
Result: Takashi beat Jiro Shinbashi. Usual comedy match slot.

Match 3: Ultimo Dragon, Luis Mante & Flamita vs. Genki Horiguchi, Yasushi Kanda & Shachihoko BOY. 20 minute time limit
Result: Ultimo Dragon, Luis Mante & Flamita beat Genki Horiguchi, Yasushi Kanda & Shachihoko BOY. Flamita pinned BOY.

Match 4: YAMATO, Dragon Kid, BxB Hulk & Susumu Yokosuka vs. Madoka Kikuta, KAI, Yoshiki Kato & Jason Lee. 20 minute time limit
Result: Madoka Kikuta, KAI, Yoshiki Kato & Jason Lee beat YAMATO, Dragon Kid, BxB Hulk & Susumu Yokosuka. Kikuta pinned Hulk after a rolling lariat.

Intermission. We should be back in about 10 minutes.

The matches resume at 10:25 PM PT/1:25 AM ET.

Match 5: Kota Minours vs. ISHIN. 45 minute time limit
Result: ISHIN beat Kota Minoura

Main Event: Hyo, JACKY KAMEI, Riiita & Mochizuki Junior vs. Strong Machine J, Kzy, GuC & @KEY. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Strong Machine J, Kzy, GuC & @KEY beat Hyo, JACKY KAMEI, Riiita & Mochizuki Junior. GuC pinned Junior.

The next event is coming up after a short break. Live streaming on DRAGONGATE NETWORK will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.