April 14, 2011 – Tokyo, Japan

Open the Dream Gate Champion: Masato Yoshino
Open the Triangle Gate Champions: Ricochet, CIMA & Dragon Kid
Open the Brave Gate Champion: PAC
Open the Twin Gate Champions: Ryo Saito & Genki Horiguchi
Open the Freedom Gate Champion: YAMATO
Open the United Gate Champions: Masato Yoshino & PAC

YAMATO © {K} vs. Yasushi Kanda {BW} [Open the Freedom Gate Championship Match]
Kanda had a lot of singles success leading to this title match. They jockey for position to start. They trade shoulder tackles in an exchange that YAMATO wins. Kanda hits the Manhattan drop and the Jon Woo. He hits a powerslam. YAMATO hits a backdrop. Kanda sends him to the floor and hits a suicide dive. Back in the ring he hits a springboard elbow. He hits a hammerlock suplex for 2. He hits a flapjack. YAMATO slams him off the top. Kanda hits an avalanche facebuster. He hits the flying elbowdrop but is slow to cover. Eventually he gets 2. YAMATO hits a roaring elbow. Kanda hits a German suplex and an exploder. He hits another German suplex for 2. YAMATO hits an enziguiri. He punts Kanda. Kanda hits another Jon Woo. He misses the flying elbowdrop. YAMATO hits a big boot and the spear for the win at 8:20 shown of 15:27. I didn’t see that finish coming. Kanda pretty much dominate this whole match before YAMATO snuck away with the win. I guess they intend on continuing to push him after this. The match was decent, but held back by Kanda’s limitations.
Rating: **½

CIMA © {BW}, Ricochet © {BW} & Dragon Kid © {BW} vs. BxB Hulk {W1}, Susumu Yokosuka {W1} & PAC {W1} [Open the Triangle Gate Championship Match]
If World-1 loses the stable must disband. CIMA and Hulk start. The typical beginning ends with CIMA booting Hulk. He and Kid hit sentons. Ricochet hits a running SSP for 2. Hulk hits a dropkick on Kid. Kid swats away a springboard dropkick. Hulk hits an axe kick. He hits one to CIMA. PAC hits a dropkick. He throws Ricochet and his stupid new haircut into the air. He hits a giant twisting quebrada. Yokosuka counters CIMA’s Venus to the exploder. They blocks each other’s finishers. CIMA hits the Superdrol. He hits the Venus and Iconoclasm. He goes for the Meteora but Yokosuka meets him up top with the super exploder. PAC hits a corkscrew moonsault off of Yokosuka’s back for 2. Kid hits the Diamond Dust. PAC ducks the 619 and hits an enziguiri. He hits a facebuster for 2. World-1 triple-teams Kid. They hit the Genkai for 2. Kid tries to hit Yokosuka with the stack hurricanrana but PAC helps him block and hits a mega avalanche DVD. He hits the Jumbo no Kachigatame for 2. They trade roll ups for 2. PAC hits the German suplex for 2. He hits a floating 450 splash for 2. That move is amazing. He blocks a reverse hurricanrana from Kid but not one from Ricochet. CIMA hits a superkick and Kid hits the Ultra Hurricanrana for 2. Whoa. Hulk hits a springboard dropkick to CIMA’s back. Ricochet does the same to Hulk. He hits the Regalplex. He hits Yokosuka with an enziguiri. Kid hits the Mysterio Rana for 2. Yokosuka cleans house with lariats. CIMA hits a superkick. Yokosuka hits the Yokosuka Cutter. Kanda hits him with a blue box attack and CIMA hits the Schwein for 2. He hits the Perfect Driver. Ricochet hits the 630 senton for 2. The Warriors hit a triple Tokarev! CIMA hits the Schwein and the Meteora for 2 after being held back by Yokosuka’s partners. CIMA punches Yokosuka and hits the Meteora again for the win at 12:19 shown of 29:39. So after almost three years of rocking it up and down the roads of Japan, World-1 is no more. This match was fantastic. It’s a crime that it couldn’t happen on PPV and we got to see less than half of it here. I imagine the rating would be higher with more of the match aired.
Rating: ****

RIP World-1: May 31, 2008 – April 14, 2011.

In the back Yokosuka blames the loss, at least in part, to Kanda. Kanda comes to the back and gets into a shouting match with him. The two will meet on PPV at Dead or Alive on May 5th.

Masato Yoshino © vs. Masaaki Mochizuki {Z} [Open the Dream Gate Championship Match]
The graphic still shows Yoshino as a member of World-1, which is sadly untrue. Mochizuki is rocking new red gear, tipping off the finish. Mochizuki controls with kicks to start. Yoshino gets supercharged but Mochizuki uses the momentum to send him to the floor and hit a quebrada. WHAT?! Back in the ring Mochizuki hits the Ikkakugeri. He hits the Twister for 2. Yoshino hits Another Space. He hits the shotgun dropkick. He hits another to the back. Mochizuki blokcs the Lightning Spiral and hits antoher Twister. He blocks another Lightning Spiral and kicks Yoshino’s head off for 2. At this point it’s obvious we’ve skipped a good chunk of the match and are in the last minutes. Mochizuki hits the Twisting Ikkakugeri. Yoshino hits the Torbellino. Mochizuki pops up and hits a chest kick. Rinse and repeat a la Yoshino vs. Yokosuka. Mochizuki blocks a Torbellino and hits another chest kick. He hits the Twister III for 2. He hits the Illusion. They trade slaps in an exchange that Yoshino wins. Yoshino finally hits the Lightning Spiral for 2. Mochizuki blocks the Lightning Spiral so Yoshino hits the Ude Yoshino. He hits another Torbellino. He puts on the Sol Naciente. Mochizuki starts to fade and Don Fujii thinks about throwing in the towel but the Zetsurin gets his foot to the bottom rope. Yoshino goes for the avalanche Lightning Spiral but Mochizuki blocks it and hits a bodyslam off the second rope. He hits the Illusion and the Shin Saikyou High Kick for 2. Yoshino rolls through a hurricanrana for 2. He gets the Riverina Special for 2. Mochizuki hits the Shin Saikyou High Kick, the Saikyou High Kick, an axe kick and the Sankakugeri to the face for the win and the title at 12:00 shown of 25:31. From the first minute this was a special match. Mochizuki had a fire lit under his bum and knew at almost every turn how to deal with Yoshino. I hate the earthquake even more now, as this FELT clipped and I’m fairly certain it’s another match that would have blown me away on PPV.
Rating: ****

The former World-1 looks shamed, having lost everything tonight. Mochizuki gets on the microphone and talks about how powerful the Blood Warriors are with their huge numbers. He asks the former World-1 members in the ring if they want to join up with him and form a new unit. He also calls out Kamikaze. If Kamikaze joined this crew they’d have numbers to match the Blood Warriors. YAMATO says he’ll think about it, but first he wants a shot at the Dream Gate title. Mochizuki acknowledges that he lost to YAMATO in a Dream Gate match a year ago, so he gives him the shot at Dead or Alive.

In the back, Ryo Saito and Genki Horiguchi rag on World-1 for losing their match and the Dream Gate title. Horiguchi knows they still have a couple titles, including the Open United Gate Championships. He says the Twin Gate titles are better tag titles. Hulk tells him to put his money where his mouth is, and that he and the former Dream Gate Champion (and current United Gate Champion) Yoshino will challenge them for a Twin Gate title match at Dead or Alive.

The show ends with clips of Kenichiro Arai {Z} vs. Naruki Doi {BW} [Number One Contender Match] from earlier in the night. Doi beat Arai with the Bakatare Sliding Kick to earn a match against PAC for the Brave Gate title at Dead or Alive. In the back Doi teases PAC for World-1 ending and tells him that he’s taking the title. Blood Warriors are really kicking the former World-1 when they’re down. Yeesh.