Dragon Gate, 6/29/08 Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium #2 2,100 Fans - Super No Vacancy Full House
This show features only one match. The first two graduates of the Dragon Gate era enter the ring for the battle that was preordained... and not necessarily by the bookers. In the beginning, Ultimo Dragon focused his Toryumon Japan promotion on two students from his first class. The evil gremlin that was CIMA and the Disco Inferno/Alex Wright job boy in Magnum TOKYO helped to elevate the Ultimo Dragon Gym to a gold standard in independent wrestling. That was a decade ago, and since then both had separated from their teacher and formed Dragon Gate.
Shingo Takagi was the first graduate under the Dragon Gate banner was placed in CIMA's Crazy MAX army. Magnum TOKYO saw an almost equal amount of potential in the second graduate, BxB Hulk and formed PoS Hearts to protect him. The two were certain to clash many times, and both eventually ended up allied in New Hazard. Being 1 and 1A in the group eventually led to BxB Hulk's ouster and for Shingo to merge New Hazard with the remnants of MUSCLE Outlaw'z to form Real Hazard.
And now the stage has set. Magnum has left Dragon Gate, but CIMA remains to hold the Open the Dream Gate Championship. This match is for the right to face Shingo's mentor and THE FACE OF DRAGON GATE itself. So what is going to happen? Will there be a new chapter in the Magnum/CIMA rivalry or will the student get the opportunity to better his master?
No, I'm not late in posting this. I actually wanted to wait a week, to make sure this video wasn't going to get cut off by overzealous interns somewhere in Internet-land.
This match is pretty good, that is, unless you're Heath Herring. I'm not always a big fan of decision matches, but Brock keeps it interesting (and completely debunks Hater's belief that hometown advantage doesn't exist in MMA) by thoroughly punishing Herring's face for three straight rounds. You may ask yourself why RESUNA-SAN doesn't just throw on a submission at any point during this match, but really--if you had cash registers for fists, you'd probably want to beat up on someone for fifteen minutes without getting arrested, too.
Also: Thanks, Brock, for totally cutting off Joe Rogan during the interview. No, SRSLY.
September 30, 1978- New Japan Pro Wrestling... Stan Hansen's career gained most of its notoriety in Japan, but that wasn't what catapulted him into superstardom. The "Bad Man from Borger" would be floundering in mid-cards as a standard hoss if he hadn't broken Bruno Sammartino's neck with that vile Western Lariat (kayfabe... in reality it was a botched bodyslam). And now, Japan is slowly becoming Hansen's turf. Who dares to tread on Hansen's yard? None other than a successor to Bruno's legacy, and WWWF Champion, Bob Backlund. Long before you willingly referred to him as Mr. Backlund, he followed Sammartino and Pedro Morales as the chosen one of Vince McMahon, Sr. Revenge for Bruno? Highly unlikely, but this is Stan Hansen that Backlund faces; there is no amateur wrestling involved. Just good ol' fashioned fisticuffs and fustigations...
2. G1 Climax - Block A: Wataru Inoue [0] vs. Shinjiro Otani [2] 3. G1 Climax - Block B: Hiroyoshi Tenzan [2] vs. Toru Yano [0] 4. G1 Climax - Block A: Manabu Nakanishi [0] vs. Satoshi Kojima [0] 5. G1 Climax Special 8 Man Tag: Riki Choshu, Masahiro Chono, Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito vs. Jado, Gedo, Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma 6. G1 Climax Special 8 Man Tag: Yuji Nagata, Tiger Mask, Jushin Liger & AKIRA vs. Giant Bernard, Milano Collection AT, Minoru & Prince Devitt 7. G1 Climax - Block B: Shinsuke Nakamura [2] vs. Yutaka Yoshie [2] 8. G1 Climax - Block B: Hirooki Goto [0] vs. Toshiaki Kawada [0] 9. G1 Climax - Block A: Hiroshi Tanahashi [0] vs. Togi Makabe [0]
*Ed. Note: if you're wondering what's up with the fail pic to the left of this text, it's because I (Cap) have to publish his article for him, because he didn't get around to it, and he didn't have a picture to go with the lede. So, he fails. Thank you.
January 3, 2008- All Japan Pro Wrestling "New Year Shining Series 2008"... AJPW wishes you a happy new year! This is the third match of the second show of the year and it pits All Japan's junior heavyweight ace, Kaz Hayashi and former WWF light-heavyweight ace in TAKA Michinoku against the Voodoo Murders' junior heavyweight representatives: Shuji Kondo (who's as cruiserweight as Kikutaro) and the STD infested mouth from Jamaica (kayfabe), "brother" YASSHI. They know each other well and 3/4 have held the AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Championship and have successfully defended against each other. YASSHI however always has the great equalizer when facing higher-echelon talent... HE PUNCHES PEOPLE IN THE DICK.
May 1, 2005- Dragon Gate "Glorious Gate 2005" Tour... On the final show of the tour, the Open the Triangle Gate Champions must defend their six-man-tag team/trios championships against a rather familiar foe. Ryo Saito, Genki Horiguchi, and Dragon Kid owe their alliance in Do FIXER to one man, and he stands across the ring from them. Magnum TOKYO was the man identified with the Do FIXER army, forming them from the ashes of M2K and turning them into "a group of gay dancers wrestling" (so says SUWA).
Magnum didn't exactly leave his old army, but he created a new one to complement his protege BxB Hulk, who stands beside him this match. Anthony W. Mori joined, making this group quite frankly the most "man-pretty" wrestling faction in history; and this group is based on that premise. Magnum is there to teach Hulk how to dance. Mori is just there to remind him that being aesthetically pleasing to women in this business means you better be prepared to take an asskicking.
March 21, 1999- Extreme Champinship Wrestling "Living Dangerously 1999"... Sid had left the WWF right before the height of the Attitude era and two WWF Heavyweight Championship reigns. He traveled around the various independent promotions around the US and eventually found his way to the BIRTHPLACE of ATTITUDE: Paul Heyman's Extreme Championship Wrestling, not the emasculated Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment Champion$#!+ Wrestling. He spent a few months in ECW and left since he wasn't getting "Balrog paid", or paid in the first place.
During this time, if you were in ECW, you were going to meet Buh Buh Ray and D-Von Dudley and you were going to get 3D'd, especially if you were teaming with their brother Little Spike (LSD). Sid is likely the biggest monster with world-title credibility that ECW has come across; he dares them to 3D him or put him through a table. Buh Buh Ray and D-Von aren't the only ones that have to worry about this psychotic hoss; his little teammate should take care not cross him.
No, I'm not late in posting this. I actually wanted to wait a week, to make sure this video wasn't going to get cut off by overzealous interns somewhere in Internet-land.
NJPW "G1 CLIMAX 2008 ~HEROES OF SUPREMACY~", 8/11/08
May 1, 2005- Dragon Gate "Glorious Gate 2005" Tour... On the final show of the tour, the Open the Triangle Gate Champions must defend their six-man-tag team/trios championships against a rather familiar foe. Ryo Saito, Genki Horiguchi, and Dragon Kid owe their alliance in Do FIXER to one man, and he stands across the ring from them. Magnum TOKYO was the man identified with the Do FIXER army, forming them from the ashes of M2K and turning them into "a group of gay dancers wrestling" (so says SUWA). 
March 21, 1999- Extreme Champinship Wrestling "Living Dangerously 1999"... Sid had left the WWF right before the height of the Attitude era and two WWF Heavyweight Championship reigns. He traveled around the various independent promotions around the US and eventually found his way to the BIRTHPLACE of ATTITUDE: Paul Heyman's Extreme Championship Wrestling, not the emasculated Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment Champion$#!+ Wrestling. He spent a few months in ECW and left since he wasn't getting "Balrog paid", or paid in the first place. 
