October 2, 2011 – Tokyo, Japan
Open the Dream Gate Champion: Masaaki Mochizuki
Open the Triangle Gate Champions: Naruki Doi, Naoki Tanisaki & Kzy
Open the Brave Gate Champion: PAC
Open the Twin Gate Champions: CIMA & Ricochet
Open the Freedom Gate Champion: YAMATO
Open the United Gate Champions: CIMA & Ricochet
Whoa! Infinity is in HD!
CIMA {BW} & Ricochet {BW} vs. Masato Yoshino {J3} & PAC {J3}
Way of the Ronin 2011 main event rematch here. Yoshino and Dragon Kid hold a win over the Blood Warriors, so Yoshino looks to further his claim to a Twin Gate title shot here. He and CIMA start. CIMA hits a cheap shot. Yoshino hits a dropkick. Ricochet can’t get a move off on PAC. PAC hits a head scissor takedown. He hits a plancha. Yoshino puts CIMA in a chinlock. He hits a double stomp to the arm. Ricochet hits a clothesline on PAC in the corner. He hits a head kick for 2. He puts on a modified abdominal stretch while CIMA punts PAC’s ribs for 2. CIMA hits the elevated double stomp for 2. PAC hiptosses Ricochet and hits CIMA with a standing SSP. Yoshino hits Ricochet with the Sling Blade. He hits a DDT for 2. Ricochet hits a springboard clothesline. He hits the standing SSP for 2. Yoshino puts on From Jungle. PAC blocks CIMA’s save with a crossbody but then CIMA throws him into Yoshino. CIMA hits PAC with a double stomp for 2. PAC hits the Ace Crusher. He hits a northern lights suplex for 2. Yoshino hits the shotgun senton. PAC hits the British Airways for 2. Ricochet hits the Spanish Fly. He hits Yoshino with the back flip kick. CIMA hits the Perfect Driver for 2. Ricochet hits the Ace Crusher for 2. PAC hits an enziguiri and a reverse hurricanrana. Yoshino hits the Torbellino. He hits the Lightning Spiral for the win at 11:15 shown of 15:58. I loved that finish, because PAC and Yoshino came from nowhere with flustering offense to overwhelm the younger tag champion. Aside from the last minute this was almost identical to their match from Wisconsin, which isn’t a bad thing at all.
Rating: ***½
After the match Horiguchi taunts PAC with the Brave Gate title, saying he’s coming for it. Yoshino officially challenges for a Twin Gate title shot with Dragon Kid at the Gate of Destiny. The Spiked Mohicans accept.
Brodie Lee {BW} & Yasushi Kanda {BW} vs. Stalker Ichikawa & Don Fujii
The match is joined in progress with Kanda hitting Ichikawa with the diving elbowdrop. Lee hits a big boot and the sit-out powerbomb for the win. He and Fujii brawl after the bell. An argument ensues and results in Fujii, Ishikawa & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Kanda, Lee & Metal Warrior at the Gate of Destiny.
Naruki Doi {BW}, Kzy {BW} & Naoki Tanisaki {BW} vs. Masaaki Mochizuki {J3}, Susumu Yokosuka {J3} & Gamma {J3}
It was suppo
sed to be Rich Swann on the Junction Three team instead of Yokosuka, but the Blood Warriors took him out earlier on the show. Everyone brawls to start and M2G takes control. Mochizuki hits Doi with a back kick. Doi hits a dropkick. Mochizuki works his leg. Yokosuka hits Kzy with a lariat and a half nelson suplex. Mochizuki hits a lariat. He hits the Twister for 2. Gamma gives Kzy the Osuikougeki at close range. Kzy hits Yokosuka with a low blow. Tanisaki does as well. The extra Blood Warriors help Doi choke Yokosuka in the corner. Yokosuka cleans house with lariats and an exploder. Kzy confounds Gamma but can’t hit the B-Boy. Mochizuki hits Doi with the missile dropkick and Tanisaki with the Sankakugeri. He hits Kzy with a chest kick. Kzy hits a low blow. Mochizuki hits the Twister. Tanisaki misses a clothesline on Gamma. He hits the Casanova and Doi hits the hanging senton for 2. Gamma hits Doi with the Gamma Special. Mochizuki and Yokosuka sandwich Doi with kicks and lariats. Kzy saves Doi from the Sankakugeri and Tanisaki hits the DH. Doi hits the Dai Bosou. Tanisaki hits a vertical suplex. Kzy hits KZ Time for 2. Mochizuki hits Doi with a buzzsaw kick after blocking the Doi 555. He hits a big boot. Doi hits the Doi 555. Mochizuki puts on the anklelock as a counter to the Bakatare Sliding Kick. Kanda nails him with a foreign object and Doi hits the Bakatare Sliding Kick for 2. Yokosuka saves Mochizuki from the Muscular Bomb with a lariat. He hits the Jumbo no Kachi. Tanisaki hits a kneelift. He hits Gamma with the FH. Gamma blocks the Casanova and hits the Flashback. Kzy hits the B-Boy. Mochizuki hits a chest kick. He hits the Shin Saikyou High Kick. Tanisaki powders Gamma. Gamma wipes it out of his eyes and hits Kzy with a lariat. Mochizuki hits the Twister for 2. Kzy rolls Yokosuka up for 2. Yokosuka hits a sick lariat. He hits the Jumbo no Kachigatame for the win at 13:32 shown of 18:24. This was awesome. It was like a throwback to old, great triangle gate matches between M2K and the villains of the day. I really dug it, and liked how Kzy kept up with everyone.
Rating: ***½
After the match M2G demands a Triangle Gate shot at the Gate of Destiny. Doi brings out the dartboard to decide. A woman in a Junction Three shirt throws the dart and it lands on “no.” Gamma flips out and destroys the dartboard. Doi goes absolutely insane. Tanisaki tells M2G that they can have their match on the condition that they only need a 2-count to win while the challengers need a traditional 3-count. I cannot imagine that gimmick working well in a PPV Triangle Gate match. Best part of the promo: Kzy had to hold Doi back in the corner the entire time to keep him from killing Gamma. Also Doi holding the remnants of the board like an injured child in his backstage promo.
The show ends with a Gate of Destiny preview. The matches above will happen, as well as:
-Shingo Takagi vs. YAMATO vs. KAGETORA vs. Cyber Kong vs. BxB Hulk vs. Akira Tozawa in a Hair vs. Mask Survival Cage Match.
-K-ness, Kenichiro Arai & Taku Iwasa vs. Super Shisa, Super Shenlong & Kotoka
-Ryo Saito vs. Rich Swann