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T2P “LA ULTIMA FUNCTION”, 27.01.2003

Seth — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:43:21 +0000

And so we reach the end of our T2P series with the end of T2P itself. If you have been following along the way I am sure you will agree that Ultimo Dragon’s Toryumon 2000 Project was as good as it was unique. It created many stars that you see in today’s Dragon Gate and other promotions across Japan and pioneered the octagonal ring in pro-wrestling. The end is a sad one, but the era gave us some of the most memorable matches in the history of the Dragon System.

I hope that you have enjoyed this series of shows and that you now have a better understanding of one of the most important times for the company we now call Dragon Gate.

T2P “LA ULTIMA FUNCTION”, 27.01.2003
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,263 Fans

1. Pescatore Yagi & Berlinetta Boxer vs BATAyan & Takamichi Iwasa
2. Toru Owashi vs Jun Ogawauchi
- Exhibition Match: Jorge Rivera vs Syachihoko Machine #1 & Syachihoko Machine #2
3. TARU vs Kinya Oyanagei
4. Ultimo Dragon & YOSSINO vs Henry III Sugawara & Raimu Mishima
5. Lucha Libre Classica Rules: Milano Collection A.T., “brother” YASSINI & Condotti Shuji vs Ryo Saito, Second Doi & Anthony W. Mori

T2P, 26.12.2002

Seth — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:42:17 +0000

T2P, 26.12.2002
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,950 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

1. Lucha Libre Classica Rules: Anthony W. Mori, Henry III Sugawara & Phillip J. Fukumasa vs Kinya Oyanagei, Noriaki Kawabata & Jun Ogawauchi
2. Ultimo Guerrero & Rey Buccanero vs Second Doi & Takamichi Iwasa
3. Masks vs. Masks Match: Syachihoko Machine #1 & Syachihoko Machine #2 besiegen Syachihoko Machine #3 & Syachihoko Machine #4 (4:40) nach einem Syachihoko Clutch von #1 gegen #3.
4. YOSSINO vs K-ness
5. “brother” YASSINI, Condotti Shuji, Pescatore Yagi & Berlinetta Boxer vs Magnum TOKYO , Susumu Yokosuka , Genki Horiguchi & Ryo Saito
6. Ultimo Dragon Comeback World Tour Final Match: Ultimo Dragon, Perry Saturn & Norman Smiley vs Masaaki Mochizuki , Kenichiro Arai & Toru Owashi
7. NWA International Light Heavyweight Title, Lucha Libre Classica Rules: Milano Collection A.T. (c) vs CIMA

T2P “LOS CONQUISTADORES II”, 11.08.2002

Seth — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:27:26 +0000

T2P “LOS CONQUISTADORES II”, 11.08.2002
Tokyo Differ Ariake
1,600 Fans – Super No Vacancy

1. Dragon Scramble Rules: Toru Owashi vs Anthony W. Mori, Takuya Sugawara, Junya Fukumasa, Second Doi & Kinya Oyanagei
2. Dragon Scramble Rules: Milano Collection A.T. vs Condotti Shuji, Pescatore Yagi, Berlinetta Boxer, YOSSINO & “brother” YASSINI
3. Maximum Weakest Determination Match: Stalker Ichikawa vs Syachihoko Machine #1 & Syachihoko Machine #2
4. Condotti Shuji, Pescatore Yagi & Berlinetta Boxer vs Anthony W. Mori, Henry III Sugawara & Philip J. Fukumasa
5. UWA Trios Title Contendership: Milano Collection A.T., YOSSINO & “brother” YASSINI vs Toru Owashi, Second Doi & Kinya Oyanagei

T2P, 06.06.2002

Seth — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:24:17 +0000

T2P, 06.06.2002
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,720 Fans – Super No Vacancy

1. Jun Ogawauchi & Takuya Sugawara vs Pescatore Yagi & Berlinetta Boxer
2. Noriaki Kawabata vs Junya Fukumasa
3. Handicap Match: Toru Owashi vs Syachihoko Machine #1, Syachihoko Machine #2 & Syachihoko Machine #3
4. Takamichi Iwasa & Kinya Oyanagei vs TARU & TARUcito
5. Ryo Saito, Anthony W. Mori & Second Doi vs YOSSINO, “brother” YASSHINI & Condotti Shuji
6. NWA International Light Heavyweight Title, Lucha Libre Classica Rules: Milano Collection A.T. (c) vs Don Fujii

T2P, 02.03.2002

Seth — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:08:26 +0000

I’m going to be finishing off the T2P series very soon as I want to move onto something new and I was hoping that I would be done by now. Luckily I have them all ready now so will be posting one a day until we are done. There is also a special treat for you all hopefully before the end of the year to celebrate a decade of the Dragon.

T2P, 03.03.2002
Tokyo Differ Ariake
1,500 Fans – No Vacancy

1. T2P Lucha Libre Classica League – Block C, Decision Match: Anthony W. Mori vs Stevie “brother” Tsujimoto & Takayuki Yagi
2. T2P Lucha Libre Classica League – Block B, Decision Match: Toru Owashi vs Shuji Kondo
3. T2P Lucha Libre Classica League – Semi Final: Masato Yoshino vs Block C winner
4. T2P Lucha Libre Classica League – Semi Final: Milano Collection A.T. vs Block B winner
5. Raimu Mishima & Noriaki Kawabata vs Syachihoko Machine #1 & Syachihoko Machine #2
6. TARU & TARUcito vs Ryo Saito & Kinya Oyanagei
7. T2P Lucha Libre Classica League – Final / NWA International Light Heavyweight Title: Semi-final winner 1 vs Semi-final winner 2

Toryumon 2000 Project (T2P), 23.01.02

Seth — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:30:27 +0000

So it’s been almost 2 months since part one of my T2P series so apologies for that. I’ll try and keep them a bit more regular from now on.

1. Jun Ogawauchi vs Shuji Kondo
2. Noriaki Kawabata vs Raimu Mishima
3. Kinya Oyanagei vs TARU
4. Lucha Libre Exhibition: Jorge Rivera vs TARUcito
5. Handicap Match: Toru Owashi vs Syachihoko Machine Syachihoko Machine # 1 & # 2
6. Lucha Libre Classica Rules: Ryo Saito & Anthony W. Mori Takayuki Yagi vs Milano Collection AT, Masato Yoshino & Stevie “brother” Tsujimoto

Part 1:

Part 2:

Toryumon 2000 Project (T2P), 19.11.01

Seth — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:02:43 +0000

Time to start a new collection series and this time, we will be focusing on the Toryumon 2000 Project, or T2P.

T2P was started by Ultimo Dragon in 2001 to showcase the talents of his new class of trainees. What made T2P special was their innovative wrestling style, which was a combination of lucha libra and extremely complicated submission holds. The style is known as llave. To further add to the unique flavour of this promotion, the matches were held in a 6 sided ring, a ring later adopted by American promotion, TNA Wreslting.

T2P gave birth to some of the great junior stars currently wrestling today, in both Dragon Gate and all across the Japanese wrestling world. Stars such as Masato Yoshino, Naruki Doi, the Aagan Iisou unit and of course, Milano Collection AT were all T2P graduates.

In this series we will recount all the T2P shows including what I, and many others, consider to be the greatest PPV Toryumon (or Dragon Gate) has ever put on when T2P invades Toryumon in August of 2002. This is wrestling unlike anything you have ever seen before and it is sad that the majority of the alumni no longer wrestle the style. So enjoy this T2P series and relive one of the greatest eras in the Toryumon/Dragon Gate history.

Kondo Shuji vs Takayuki Yagi
Raimu Mishima vs TARUcito (Handicap rules)
Toru Owashi vs Jun Ogawauchi
Kinya Oyanegei vs TARU
Kentaro Mori & Takamichi IWASA vs Masato Yoshino & Stevie “brother” Tsujimoto
Milano Collection AT vs Ryo Saito

Part 1:

Part 2:

Samurai TV Special: Dragon Gate Kobe Legend, 19/07/09

Seth — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:31:54 +0000

A special treat for you today. SAMURAI TV recently aired a 2 hour Dragon Gate special focusing on past Kobe World shows, which aired on 19.07.09. Suffice to say it’s a great show and well worth your time.

Here is the match listing:

1. (Open the Dream Gate title match) Masaki Mochizuki (c) vs TAKA Michinoku
2. BxB Hulk vs Dos Caras
3. (No ropes match) CIMA vs Magnitude Kishiwada
4. (Open the Dream Gate title match) Susumu Yokosuka (c) vs Dragon Kid
5. (Open the Dream Gate title match) Jushin “Thunder” Liger (c) vs CIMA
6. (Open the Dream Gate title no.1 contender match) BxB Hulk vs Shingo Takagi

Part 1:

Part 2:

A HUGE thank you to mamasu for once again providing this show.

Best of Dragon Gate 2005 part 4

Seth — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:27:20 +0000

You may be wondering where part 3 went, and unfortunately I have to say my DVD of it is dead. I will try and get another copy but rather than just waiting for that here is part 4.

Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Yokosuka & TAKA Michinoku vs. Magnitude Kishiwada, CIMA & Shingo Takagi (9/7/05 PPV)
Key Hunting 4-Way Match – Open the Dream Gate Title #1 Contender Match: Susumu Yokosuka vs. Genki Horiguchi vs. Shingo Takagi vs. BxB Hulk (9/17/05 TV #28 )
Open the Dream Gate Title: Masaaki Mochizuki [c] vs. Shingo Takagi (9/18/05 TV #28 )
CIMA vs. TAKA Michinoku (10/5/05 PPV)
Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Shingo Takagi (11/2/05 PPV)

Best of Dragon Gate vol. 2

Seth — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:39:01 +0000

Here is the second volume of the Best of Dragon Gate.

I’m thinking of also putting together some match series such as best of K-ness vs Yoshino, or Dragon Kid vs SUWA. If you have some suggestions please let me know. A best of T2P might also be on the cards.

Anyways, here is the match list:

YOSSINO vs. Naruki Doi (3/13/05)
Don Fujii vs. Tozawa (4/3/05)
Ryo Saito, Dragon Kid & Genki Horiguchi vs. Susumu Yokosuka, K-ness & Katsuhiko Nakajima (4/8/05)
Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Don Fujii (5/11/05)
CIMA, Don Fujii, Magnitude Kishiwada, Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino & Shingo Takagi vs. Ryo Saito, Dragon Kid, Genki Horiguchi, Anthony W. Mori, Naoki Tanisaki & BxB Hulk (6/22/05)
Ryo Saito, Dragon Kid & Genki Horiguchi [c] vs. CIMA, Don Fujii & Naruki Doi (7/3/05 TV #29)