All matches occur between October 12 and November 9, 2007.
Champion Rundown
Open the Dream Gate Champion: CIMA
Open the Triangle Gate Champions: Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii & K-ness
Open the Brave Gate Champion: Yasushi Kanda
I-J Tag Team Champions: Ryo Saito & Susumu Yokosuka
Open the Twin Gate Champions: Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino
Shingo Takagi {NH} vs. Masaaki Mochizuki {Z}
This match was made at Storm Gate when Takagi took offense to Mochizuki’s mocking of Cyber Kong after their Triangle Gate match. Mochizuki attacks Takagi before the bell. They go to the floor where Mochizuki unloads with kicks. Back in the ring he trades kicks with Takagi’s chops. He kicks Takagi’s arm to win that exchange. He stomps on Takagi’s arm. Takagi comes back with a kick to the thigh. He puts a chair on Mochizuki’s leg and hits a kneedrop on it. He hits a legdrop and a kneedrop for 2. Mochizuki comes back with kicks for 2. He hits the Twister for 2. He puts on an armbar and then floats into a cross armbreaker. Takagi powers out and hits a lariat. He hits the Blood Fall but Mochizuki pops up and hits a knee kick. Takagi pops up from that and hits another lariat. He hits a clothesline to the back. Mochizuki hits a lariat and a kick to the head. Takagi hits the Last Falconry. He trades clotheslines for kicks and wins the exchange. He hits the Pumping Bomber for 2 and finishes with the Last Falconry at 6:27 shown of 14:20. They packed a ton into the footage that was shown and really beat the living crap out of each other. This went a long way to make Takagi look great, as Mochizuki generally wins singles matches and didn’t look like he was holding anything back here.
Rating: ***¼
After the match Takagi asks CIMA for the Dream Key. CIMA comes out and gives it to him without hesitation. The match is set for November 25th on PPV!
Naruki Doi © {MO} & Masato Yoshino © {MO} vs. Taku Iwasa © {TJ} & Kenichiro Arai © {TJ} [Open the Twin Gate Championship vs. I-J Tag Team Championship Unification Match]
Doi and Yoshino won the Summer Adventure Tag League and bought the Twin Gate belts with their winnings. Now the Twin Gate belts will engulf the IJ Junior Tag Championships, but first we need to know who the champions will be. Doi and Arai start. Doi hits a back elbow for 1. He and Yoshino hit a double dropkick. Yoshino hits an elevated facebuster for 2. Iwasa finds an odd way to slam Doi’s knee to the mat. Arai hits a shinbreaker on a table. He hits a headbutt to the knee. He hits another shinbreaker. Iwasa slams Doi’s knee to the mat again. Arai misses a charge and Doi hits Iwasa with the Dai Bosou. Yoshino hits a supercharged suicide dive on Arai. Doi hits a suicide dive as well. Yoshino hits Iwasa with the shotgun dropkick. He hits a vertical suplex. Iwasa hits a bodyslam. He hits a backbreaker. He hits another backbreaker for 2. He tries to choke Yoshino out with a gogoplata. Doi makes the save. He hits Arai with a stun gun. Arai drops him on his knee. Doi hits the Rydeen Bomb. Arai hits a double stomp. Yoshino hits the Sling Blade. Iwasa hits a gutbuster. He goes for a super Kegon but Speed Muscle comes back with a Sling Blade Bomb for 2. Arai dropkicks Iwasa by mistake. Doi hits the Doi 555. Iwasa hits the Gouwan. He hits the Kegon for 2. He blocks the Torbellino and hits the Noshigami for 2. Doi and Yoshino save each other from the Gouwan by taking it for each other closer than Iwasa expects. Iwasa German suplexes Arai onto Doi. He and Arai drop Yoshino onto Doi with a double wheelbarrow suplex. That gets 2. Yoshino blocks the Tombstone Piledriver and gets a roll up for 2. Arai regains his composure and hits the piledriver. He hits the 450 splash for 2. Doi hits the Avalanche 555. He hits the Bakatare Sliding Kick for 2. Arai smirks but it’s because he doesn’t know what’s coming next. Doi hits the Bakatare Sliding Kick again and finishes Arai off with the Muscular Bomb to unify the titles at 12:23 shown of 30:44. I like the way the match played off of AraIwa’s insane PPV match, but beyond that this wasn’t the match that was. What this had was Speed Muscle successfully connecting with all the things that worked for them on PPV, and AraIwa either failing to do the same or finding that what worked against RyoSuka didn’t work against Speed Muscle. Good stuff, but not quite epic.
Rating: ***½
After the match New Hazard comes to the ring to back BxB Hulk as he made a challenge to Speed Muscle for the Twin Gate. This was a big deal as Hulk had just returned from injury that night. Typhoon does the same for RyoSuka. Hulk selects YAMATO as his partner, and a match between them and RyoSuka is made to decide Speed Muscle’s challengers for the Gate of Destiny PPV.
BxB Hulk {NH} & YAMATO {NH} vs. Ryo Saito {T} & Susumu Yokosuka {T} [Number One Contenders Match]
Hulk and Saito start. Hulk hits an armdrag and a dropkick. Yokosuka hits YAMATO with a shoulder tackle. YAMATO hits a DVD. Hulk hits Saito with a back heel kick. YAMATO hits a DDT and an elbowdrop. Hulk hits a senton for 2. YAMATO puts on a cloverleaf but Saito gets to the ropes. Hulk puts on a chinlock. Saito hits a chinbreaker. He and Yokosuka hit a double-team gutbuster for 2. Hulk hits a roundhouse kick. He hits a springboard dropkick. He kicks off of Yokosuka to hit a moonsault on Saito. YAMATO hits Yokosuka with a powerslam. He and Saito trade elbows. He hits a spear and puts on the CBV. Yokosuka makes the save. Hulk misses a dropkick. Yokosuka hits a dead lift suplex for 2. Hulk hits a backdrop. He hits the Mouse and a hurricanrana for 2. Saito hits a dropkick and Yokosuka gets a sunset flip for 2. He hits the super exploder and Saito hits the Superfly Splash for 2. Yokosuka hits an errant lariat on Saito. YAMATO sends Yokosuka to the floor. He hits Saito with a German suplex. Hulk hits a leg lariat. YAMATO hits a sit-out powerbomb for 2. Hulk hits the BxB Star Press for 2. Hulk avoids a back superplex. Yokosuka helps Saito hit a German suplex. They hit the Genkai for 2. Yokosuka hits a lariat on YAMATO. YAMATO hits a weak spear. Hulk hits the EVO for 2. YAMATO hits the Galleria for 2. Saito hits a German suplex. Yokosuka kills Hulk with the Jumbo no Kachi. He and Saito hit Yokosuka with the Double Dragon Suplex. Yokosuka hits the Jumbo no Kachi for 2. Yokosuka hits Hulk with a topé con hilo. YAMATO rolls Saito up for 2. He hits an elbow. Saito hits a dragon suplex for 2. He hits the Premium Bridge for the win at 13:18 shown of 19:13. They threw a lot at each other but there wasn’t a ton stringing the whole thing together.
Rating: ***
After the match Speed Muscle attacks. Gamma comes out to the ring wearing street clothes and fights off Speed Muscle. Typhoon, the Muscle Outlaw’z and New Hazard all stand in the ring as Gamma and CIMA shake hands! Gamma says he’s joining Typhoon! However, almost immediately after saying that he attacks CIMA and embraces the Outlaw’z. Things seem all hunky dory on the blue team until the lot of them attack Kinta! Referee Ohya tries to help Kinta but they attack him too. Referee Yagi comes out and actually takes out Yoshino and Genki Horiguchi. Doi suggests the referees take on a Muscle Outlaw team in a six-man tag team match. Yasushi Kanda and K-ness agree, and Kanda will officiate the match.
Kinta Tomaoka, Takayuki Yagi & Tatsunori Ohya vs. Gamma {MO}, Genki Horiguchi {MO} & Masato Yoshino {MO}
Everyone brawls to start. The Outlaw’z destroy the referees at ringside. Gamma, Horiguchi and Yoshino hit Yagi with a triple dropkick. Horiguchi hits a swinging DDT. Gamma hits Ohya with the Flashback. He hits Kinta with a back suplex. Muscle distracts Kanda so the Outlaw’z can attack Kinta. Horiguchi hits a blue box attack. Kinta hits a lariat. Ohya hits a missile dropkick. Yagi hits a fisherman suplex. Kinta goes for the Styles Clash but Kanda hits him with the blue box!!! Gamma hits the Gamma Special and Kanda happily counts for him at 2:30 shown of 4:21. That was really fun for a 2 minute match involving three retired or non-wrestlers.
Rating: **
There were so many turns in the last two segments I can hardly keep it straight. The bottom line though is that Kinta is now neutral again while Gamma has rejoined the Outlaw’z and Kanda has joined as well. Gamma demands a shot at the title. Takagi comes out and tells him to buzz off because he has the Dream Key. Gamma then reveals that he’s stolen a Dream Key. CIMA bugs out. Takagi tells CIMA to calm down, because he will fight Gamma in a Dream Key match to decide the real contender.
BxB Hulk {NH}, Cyber Kong {NH} & YAMATO {NH} vs. Magnitude Kishiwada {MO}, Dr. Muscle {MO} & Arik Cannon {MO}
Kong and Kishiwada start. When a shoulder tackle battle goes nowhere Kishiwada asks for Kong to arm wrestle him. That leads to a Kishiwada cheap shot and shoulder tackle. Kong hits Muscle with a press slam. He bodyslams everything in sight. He clotheslines Muscle and Cannon. Kishiwada hits a dropkick. YAMATO hits a spear. He hits a powerslam for 2. Hulk hits a hurricanrana. He moonsaults onto the Outlaw’z on the floor. Kong hits Muscle with an avalanche and a Bubba Bomb. Hulk hits the BxB Star Press. Kong puts on the Stretch Muffler. Kishiwada hits YAMATO with a lariat. He hits Hulk with a powerbomb. He hits Kong with a German suplex. Kong pops up and hits a lariat. Kishiwada hits another German suplex. Cannon hits the Shining Wizard. Kishiwada hits a brainbuster for 2. Hulk hits Muscle with the Mouse and a spin kick for 2. YAMATO hits a German suplex. Hulk hits a leg lariat for 2. Kong hits a diving elbowdrop for 2. He hits the Pineapple Bomber and the Last Ride for the win at 5:06 shown of 12:33. The whole story here was Kishiwada and Kong wanting to be the strongest in Dragon Gate. Everyone else wrestled a solid match around that focus.
Rating: **¾
Needless to say Kishiwada is made about Kong stealing his finisher. He and Kong go back and forth on the microphone until a singles match is made between the two of them for the Gate of Destiny PPV. CIMA and Typhoon then come out to ask the Outlaw’z to try to make good on their promise to sabotage Typhoon. Doi calls out the newest member of Typhoon, Anthony W. Mori! Mori looks confused as his music plays. Doi then tells them to stop playing his music because he was just messing around. In reality the newest member of the Outlaw’z is Kenzo Suzuki! That’s pretty high up there on the least exciting announcements I can think of. Suzuki towers over everyone on the roster of course.
CIMA {T}, Ryo Saito {T} & Dragon Kid {T} vs. Kenzo Suzuki {MO}, Genki Horiguchi {MO} & Yasushi Kanda {MO}
Suzuki and CIMA start. Suzuki hits a big boot. Typhoon hits a triple dropkick. Kanda hits Kid with a side slam. Horiguchi pokes Saito;s eyes. Saito hits a vertical suplex. Kid hits the Superdrol. He hops on CIMA’s shoulders to make fun of Suzuki’s height. Suzuki hits a shoulder tackle. He hits a press slam. Kid hits Horiguchi with the 619. CIMA hits Suzuki with a crossbody. He hits a snap suplex. Kid hits Kanda with the Bermuda Triangle. CIMA and Saito hit Suzuki with a double back suplex. Horiguchi hits Saito with a hurricanrana. He gets a roll up for 2. Saito hits a German suplex. Kanda hits a powerslam. CIMA hits a double stomp. Kanda avoids the Venus and hits an exploder for 2. He hits a suicide dive. Kid puts Suzuki in a sleeper hold. Suzuki falls back to escape. He hits a high knee for 2. Saito hits a fisherman suplex. Kid and CIMA hit sentons. Saito hits the Superfly Splash for 2. CIMA hits Horiguchi with a superkick and the Schwein for 2. Suzuki beats him with a turnbuckle pad. Saito does the same to Suzuki. Kanda hits Saito with the blue box. Suzuki hits a lariat. Kid goes for the Ultra Hurricanrana but Suzuki blocks it and hits a brainbuster for 2. The Outlaw’z pull the top rope off the ring and wrap Kid up in it. Kanda knocks out Referee Yagi as Suzuki rips Kid’s mask. Yagi fights back but the Outlaw attack continues until the Outlaw’z get disqualified at 8:37 shown of 15:09. Crappy finish aside the match was way better than it had any right to be. The Outlaw B Team wrestled much better than they usually do.
Rating: ***
After the match CIMA distracts Suzuki so Kid can hit him with a missile dropkick from behind. Kid challenges Suzuki to a singles match at the Gate of Destiny. Suzuki hits him with the blue box and accepts the challenge.
Shingo Takagi {NH} vs. Gamma {MO} [Dream Key Match]
Gamma tries to attack Takagi from behind with his cane before the bell. Takagi avoids the shot and hits a clothesline. He takes Gamma to the floor and rams him into the barricade. CIMA watches on from the commentary table. Back in the ring Gamma spits in Takagi’s face. Takagi puts him down with a shoulder tackle. He breaks Gamma’s cane so Gamma attacks him with a chair. The fight spills to the floor where Gamma throws Takagi through rows of chairs and throws chairs on top of him. Gamma’s Muscle Outlaw’z keep Takagi’s New Hazard at bay, allowing Gamma to piledriver Takagi through a table. Gamma gets back in the ring and goes for the count out win but Takagi beats the count at 19. The Outlaw’z descend on Takagi until Gamma hits him with a momentum kick. Yasushi Kanda catapults Takagi into a bulldog from Gamma for 2. Naruki Doi gives Gamma a stick wrapped in barbed wire. Gamma swings it at Takagi’s chest and back. Kanda, Genki Horiguchi & Masato Yoshino run in and help Gamma hit a quadruple dropkick. Gamma takes a few more swings with the barbed wire stick. He brings a table into the ring. Takagi fights back and rams Gamma’s head into the table. He hits a running powerbomb against the table but it doesn’t break. The Outlaw’z run in and gang up on Takagi in the corner. New Hazard returns the favor on Gamma. Takagi hits a lariat. He hits the Last Falconry for 2 when Horiguchi breaks it up. Gamma hits a reverse hurricanrana. He breaks a chair over Takagi’s head. He piles a dozen up in the middle of the ring. He and Kanda set Takagi up top and he hits a superplex onto the chairs. Takagi fires up but Gamma hits a superkick. He hits the Gamma Special on the chairs for 2. He spits in Takagi’s face and hits a low blow. Takagi comes back with a clothesline. Yoshino throws powder in his eyes and Gamma gets a crucifix pin for 2. Kanda trips Takagi and hits him with the barbed wire stick. Gamma beats him with the stick and places it on the mat. He goes for the Gamma Special on the stick but Takagi counters to a powerbomb on the stick. Kanda hits Takagi with another foreign object. He tries to throw powder in Takagi’s eyes but hits Gamma by mistake. Takagi hits a lariat and the Last Falconry for the win at 11:28 shown of 17:48. If they wanted to make Takagi look like Superman then they had the right kind of match, but man oh man was there a lot of interference here.
Rating: **½
After the match CIMA is happy to have Takagi as the rightful challenger to his title. Takagi shakes his hand and promises to win the belt at the Gate of Destiny.
CIMA {T}, Don Fujii {Z}, Kikutaro & Lingerie Mutoh vs. Naruki Doi {MO}, Masato Yoshino {MO}, Yasushi Kanda {MO} & Genki Horiguchi {MO}
This is from Stalker Bom Ba Ye 2. The Outlaw’z attack before the bell. Kikutaro smacks Yoshino to the mat. He misses a moonsault. He hits a sit-out powerslam for 2. CIMA hits Doi with a double stomp. Doi hits a stun gun and a back suplex for 2. Kikutaro helps Fujii hit Kanda with a chokeslam. CIMA hits a DDT. Mutoh hits the Shining Wizard for 2. Our heroes gang up on Doi in the corner. Mutoh botches a moonsault, as per usual. Yoshino hits him with the Torbellino. Doi hits the Bakatare Sliding Kick for the win at 2:57 shown of 13:01. This little bout of ridiculousness was brought to us so that after the fact Kanda could relentlessly attack Fujii. Gamma and Dr. Muscle come in to continue the attack. Mochizuki and K-ness make the save. Gamma challenges the Zetsurins for a Triangle Gate match at the Gate of Destiny. He wants to win the belts with Kanda and Dr. Muscle. But this isn’t just any Dr. Muscle, as the good doctor unmasks himself revealing NOSAWA Rongai.
The Gate of Destiny has shaped up as follows:
Magnitude Kishiwada vs. Cyber Kong
The Zetsurins vs. Gamma, Kanda & Rongai for the Triangle Gate
Kenzo Suzuki vs. Dragon Kid
Speed Muscle vs. RyoSuka for the Twin Gate
CIMA vs. Shingo Takagi for the Dream Gate
BxB Hulk, YAMATO & El Generico vs. Anthony W. Mori, PAC & Lupin Matsutani
Akira Tozawa & Kenichiro Arai vs. Genki Horiguchi & Arik Cannon
The episode ends with everyone picking their spot for the King of Gate tournament. It will start December 1st and end on the 9th, and for the first time the finals will not be on PPV.