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mrjoshdude wrote: I think Yuki Yoshioka and Hyo Watanabe from Dragon Gate debuted past that point too but I'm not entirely sure.

THE BIG CAT debuted on 8/14, which sadly is 18 days too early for 2017 so he was 2016.

Yuki Yoshioka (DG) - 10/29/2016
Katsumi Takashima (DG) - 12/1/2016

That might have been my favorite Doi Darts match they've had (outside of the Triangle Gate darts team of course). They managed to have everyone flow so well and worked great comedy (the Don Fujii chop sequence for godsakes) and the last five minutes were tremendous in both setting up Final Gate and ...

K-ness was on the Sambo Hall show that didn't make tape.

Jae, do you know why that was? Is Kobe getting dropped from the recording rotation?

Yeah, the only people in Dragon System history that I would call "stars" in the wrestling business are CIMA and Magnum Tokyo. It's such a self contained universe. DG's representation in the Super J Cups/BOSJs are proof of it and it's gonna limit Takagi and Ben-K.

The biggest star is going to be Higuchi. I say this for a few reasons. One: he has the most star potential of those guys, the second the guy walks into the arena you think Tenryu. He's got the look, the aura and everything you think of with a "star". Also, I believe you talked about this on Twitter...

...I'm not sure Shingo has that rep at all. I believe DG was extremely careful about how Shingo's career from his debut through 2008. He was immediately attached to the biggest star of the company and didn't have much of a young boy period, and then led his own unit which resulted in a remarkable h...

I don't post that often, but thanks for all the feedback. I had a blast recording with Jae/John & love doing these historical deep dives back into history.

"CATEGORY A" AWARDS. PICK A FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD PLACE FINISHER IN EACH CATEGORY. POINTS WILL BE AWARDED ON A 5-3-2 BASIS. THE WINNER OF THE AWARD IS DETERMINED BY TOTAL POINTS. 1. LOU THESZ/RIC FLAIR AWARD - 1. Kazuchika Okada - NJPW 2. Brock Lesnar - WWE 3. Masato Yoshino - Dragon Gate 2. MMA M...

http://insidedgcast.libsyn.com/inside-the-gate-episode-2-january-2016 Episode 2 is up! Awards Results, A Tozawa-juku timeline, FINAL GATE review and looking ahead! On top of all of that, Alan4L stops by and we talk all things DG including Lupin Matsutani, crazy merch, gaijins and much more! I've sub...

I think the best way to think of DoiYAMA is that they are Bond villains and Shingo is the brutish best friend who's along for the ride as long as they let him beat the hell out of the old guys/they don't become punks.

I've been shilling this on twitter, but I'm going to do a segment in January about a fanpolled "Best of 2015" awards. If you're interested, please send me an email and I'll send you a ballot. All ballots are due on 1/7/2016!

So I started a Dragon Gate podcast this month. It's still rough/I'm getting the technical parts down but I figured I'd make a plug post for it here! I'm really excited about my future episodes/guests and I hope everyone enjoys it! I'm doing timelines/mailbags each episode and I hope it helps folks b...

I really hope wrestling with a bum shoulder for a majority of a year didn't do permanent damage to Hulk.

This is probably the best place to ask this:

Does anyone know what has happened to U-T since Dangerous Gate? Haven't seen him on cards at all and didn't know if it was an injury or something else.