Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate.

The first big show of Dragongate’s 2025 is in the books and Open The Voice Gate is back to talk all about it. They start with some State of the Union discussion about venues and scheduling before getting into Gate of Bayside. They review the big YAMATO vs Strong Machine J Dream Gate match along with the rest of the card; look ahead to Kyoto this weekend and more!

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Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate.

To kick off this week’s show, Case and Mike discuss Dragongate’s impending return to Wrestlemania Weekend, what they can report on, what they expect, and their excitement for Dragongate in Vegas.

Then it’s time to talk Dragongate’s huge last week with the doubleheader in Tokyo (1/15 & 16) and the Young Dragon’s Cup in Kobe (1/18 & 19). To kick off the reviews, they give their spoiler free recommendations. From there, they discuss the Premium 1on1 show, the events of 1/16 and the entire Young Dragon’s Cup tournament, their ranking of the participants and preview Gate of Bayside!

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Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate.

Dragongate has kicked off their 2025 schedule and Open The Voice Gate is back to talk about the first week’s shows in Kobe (1/9), Kyoto (1/11) and Osaka (1/12)! They give their mostly spoiler-free recommendations and then discuss the East vs West Battle and first shows on their taping loop. They discuss the three title matches coming up in Yokohama, the YAMATO vs SMJ Dream Gate match, new members of Gold Class, can Mike predict the Dead or Alive cage match, Young Dragon’s Cup Preview and a whole lot more!

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Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate - Rewind and Rewatch! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back to Rewind and Rewatch important events in Dragon System history.

Surprise! Open The Voice Gate is back with one last 25th Anniversary episode of Rewind and Rewatch as it’s time to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the founding of the transformative heel stable Blood Generation from 1/14/2005!

But first, we must talk about the steps that led us to needing Blood Generation. That takes us back to the initial Toryumon split, Odiaba Everyday Pro Wrestling, the shedding of the roster, Aagan Issou, Waku Waku Fujii Land and more! Then it’s time for one of the most important nights and shows in Dragongate history, the first SkyPerfect PPV of 2005 from Korakuen Hall on January 14th 2005!

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Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate.

Dragongate is on holiday break so that means one thing to Case and Mike: TIME FOR THE 2024 ULTY AWARDS. They discuss their thoughts on the shows going on in Japan over New Year’s week (This was recorded on 1/4/25) and Cases’ thoughts on the year-end Kobe Sambo Hall shows up top. Then they get to their ballots, decide Dragongate’s MVP, Whose stock went up in 2024 and whose went down, and the top shows and matches of Dragongate’s 2024!

Their written ballots can be found at voicesofwrestling.com or in the #Open-The-Voice-Gate channel on the VOW discord!

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Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate - Rewind and Rewatch! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back to Rewind and Rewatch important events in Dragon System history.

To complete the Dragon System’s 25th Anniversary year, Case and Mike go back to 2016 and the rookie class of 2016: Ben-K, Shun Skywalker, Yuki Yoshioka, HYO and Katsumi Takashima and their famous match on December 1, 2016 against the veteran team of CIMA, Masaaki Mochizuki, Dragon Kid, Don Fujii and Gamma. They take everyone through the major Junior Heavyweight tournaments the 2016 Super J Cup and the WWE Cruiserweight Classic, Tozawa’s departure, the Summer of Eita, YAMATO’s bad start to his long Dream Gate reign to discuss how the largest dojo class to that point of modern Dragon System history grew in front of our eyes and faced their toughest early test in the brutal Korakuen Hall match!

The footage listing can be found in the #open-the-voice-gate channel in the Voices of Wrestling discord or on the show post at Voices of Wrestling!

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Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate.

It’s a big Open The Voice Gate this week as Case and Mike are back to talk Dragongate, The Final Gate, and Konomama Ichikawa’s retirement. They lead off with the Shimizu situation, GLEAT’s PR and Subscription strategy. Then it’s time to talk The Final Gate, the YAMATO vs Dragon Dia Double Dream and Brave Gate matches, and the rest of Dragongate’s final “big show of the year. After that, Case and Mike review today’s Korakuen with Konomama Ichikawa vs Hiroshi Tanahashi, a 3 way 6 man tag and a lot of fun from Tokyo!

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Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate.

Mike is back with a bit of a Voice Gate update on his lunch break! He discusses the Shimizu suspension, what is known, where things are, and what he expects to come from this. After that, he talks about the Final Gate card changes, the full card for 12/17’s Ichikawa Retirement show and spends some time laying the argument on why Hollywood Stalker Ichikawa was the greatest comedy wrestler of all time.

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NOTE: This episode was recorded on Saturday, 12/7/24, before the news of Big Boss Shimizu’s suspension that came early morning in the US on Monday, 12/9/24

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate.

Dragongate has finally returned to the Dragongate Network and Case and Mike are back to talk all about King of Gate 2024 and Sunday’s Final Gate card. The big news is our 2024 King of Gate Dragon Dia winning the tournament in Korakuen (12/3) in huge fashion and the upcoming Double Dream/Brave Gate title match vs YAMATO at Final Gate! As well, Yoshiki Kato returns as a monster, Daiki Yanagiuchi steps up, Hulk makes obvious friends in Sapporo and a whole lot more!

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Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate - Rewind and Rewatch! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back to Rewind and Rewatch important events in Dragon System history.

They’ve done Toryumon Japan and Toryumon X, now it’s time for Mike and Case to take us back to the Toryumon 2000 Project’s Japanese landing (11/13/01)! Before we get there, we have to talk about the elevation of Ryo Saito, the introduction of Skayde as a major lucharesu figure, Mexico debuts, would be Toryumon promotional partners in 2000 & 2001, explaining Kinya Oyanagi’s gimmick, X-LAW and a whole lot more in a chaotic Timeline. Then it’s time for T2P Desembarcamiento on November 13th 2001 and a new style of lucha libre lands in Japan with a special T2P vs Toryumon Japan main event as budding T2P ace Milano Collection AT takes on Toyumon Japan top prospect Ryo Saito in a 2 out of 3 falls match! 

Footage List:

5/3/00: T2P lands in Mexico

https://dragongate.live/title/?program=program_201806011636&episode=13

9/2/00: Yoshino, Owashi, Iwasa, and Oyanagi debut

https://dragongate.live/title/?program=program_201806011636&episode=17

2/17/01: Masato Yoshino, Milano Collection AT, Takamichi Iwasa, Toru Ito & Yasushi Tsujimoto vs. Nitohei Oyanagi, Ryo Saito, Skayde, Takayuki Mori & Takayuki Yagi

https://dragongate.live/title/?program=program_201806011636&episode=22

3/4/01: X-Law: Junya Fukumasa, Milano Collection AT & Yaqui vs. Nitohei Oyanagi, Takayuki Mori & TARUcito and Takamichi Iwasa, Toru Ito & Yasushi Tsujimoto

(Nitohei Oyanagi, Takayuki Mori, & TARUcito vs. Owashi, Yoshino, & Mishima vs. Milano, Junya, & Takayuki Yagi)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7oN7i2B5jA

5/19/01: Toryumon Mexico runs Arena Coliseo

https://vk.com/video/playlist/-207689490_26?z=video-207689490_456239370%2Fclub207689490%2Fpl_-207689490_26

9/8/01: T2P comes to Michinoku Pro. Dick Togo, Masato Yoshino, Stevie "brother" Tsujimoto & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Hideki Nishida, KENtaro Mori, Masao Orihara & The Great Sasuke

https://vk.com/video/playlist/-207689490_35?z=video-207689490_456239910%2Fclub207689490%2Fpl_-207689490_35

9/16/01: More T2P vs. MichiPro - KENtaro Mori & Tiger Mask vs. Masato Yoshino & Stevie "brother" Tsujimoto

https://vk.com/video/playlist/-207689490_35?z=video-207689490_456239910%2Fclub207689490%2Fpl_-207689490_35

11/13/01: T2P Japanese Landing https://dragongate.live/title/?program=program_201806011636&episode=35 (longer versions are out there)

T2P Japanese Landing GAORA TV open: https://youtu.be/KpAne-fB5W8 

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Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate.

Without much live Dragongate this week, Case and Mike get into some big topics surrounding the Dragon System this week including CIMA and Shingo Takagi’s Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame inductions, a deep look into why CIMA was such a strong candidate, they then discuss this week’s excellent Prime Zone Plus show from Kobe Lapis Hall, Mike has a ponderous question about the wrestling industry, some thoughts on the US Indies and more!

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