Luis Mante vs. Ben-K - Dragon Gate Open The Dream Gate Title: RAINBOW GATE 06.04.2024 Tag 3
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00:00Open the Dream Gate Challenge
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00:14Thank you for your patience.
00:17We will now begin the main event, the Open the Dream Gate Challenge.
00:23First up is the challenger, Benkei.
00:27Benkei!
00:57At COVID Pro Wrestling Festival 2024 on July 21st,
01:01as Open the Dream Gate Champion.
01:07And to do that, he's got to win the title first.
01:21Backstage, he didn't have that much to say
01:23during the backstage comments, just that
01:26He's been working hard, he's been getting himself into peak condition.
01:29Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.
01:35He is going to become the Dream Gate Champion again.
01:55And of course, that is easier said than done.
02:12Because to get there, he is going to have to go through the 38th Open the Dream Gate Champion.
02:18Representing Big Hug, Luis Monte.
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03:50I hereby declare that this match will be the Open The Dream Gate Championship that Dragon Gate Pro-Wrestling has recognized.
03:59June 4th, 2024. Dragon Gate Pro-Wrestling General Manager, Saito Ryo.
04:20I hereby declare that this match will be the Open The Dream Gate Championship that Dragon Gate Pro-Wrestling has recognized.
04:35I hereby declare that this match will be the Open The Dream Gate Championship that Dragon Gate Pro-Wrestling has recognized.
04:51His first champion, his first defense was back on January 27th at the Gate of A-Side in Yokohama versus Skywalker.
04:58Second on March 3rd versus Sumi Yokosuka at the Champion Gate in Osaka.
05:02And his third on May 5th at General Live against Gianni Valenza.
05:0860 minutes. One fall.
05:21The challenger representing Gold Class, Benkei.
05:40The champion representing Big Hug, Luis Monte.
05:48The referee for this match will be Senior Official Takayuki Yagi.
05:55Benkei, 32 years old from Chiba Prefecture, 2016 debut. Luis Monte, 31 years old from Monclova in Mexico, April 17th, 2005 debut.
06:08Yes, 2005. Do the math.
06:12He's a kid.
06:14That's what I'm talking about.
06:16He's a kid.
06:18Came to Dragon Gate in 2019 as the masked man, Dia Monte.
06:21Unfortunately, ran afoul of Shun Skywalker last year in the steel cage.
06:27Lost his mask. He's now Luis Monte.
06:30He took three months off, went back to Mexico to regroup, rest, tell his family what happened.
06:39He's been on a war path since coming back.
06:43Actually won the Dream Gate Championship before getting revenge on Skywalker in the singles match.
06:57Benkei, on the other side, held the Dream Gate Championship before.
07:01He was the 30th champion back in 2018.
07:06A big deal was made that he was the one that defeated Pak.
07:10Pak, who was thought to be unbeatable back at that time.
07:16Benkei was a member of a unit called RED with Pak.
07:23Benkei was betrayed by that unit.
07:26He proceeded to dismantle them. He went undefeated in King of Gate 2018.
07:31Challenged Pak, won the championship.
07:36Lightning quick arm drag and a drop kick.
07:39Sends the challenger scrambling to the floor.
07:45Uh-oh, no way!
07:46Monte, are you going to fly early?
07:48He is! With a rocket tope through the ropes.
07:53Benkei.
07:55The shoes come out.
07:57I'm glad it's a shoe and not his foot.
07:59I thought it was his foot for a minute.
08:02The shoes come out.
08:05Toped him out of his shoes.
08:14Benkei, with that title win, there were a lot of expectations.
08:18There were a lot of, you know, the anointing of the start of a new generation.
08:24I think that pro wrestling fans, particularly Japanese pro wrestling fans,
08:28are very quick when a new wrestler wins a championship and a promotion
08:33and declare them as the new ace or this is the guy.
08:36And a lot of those expectations came and were put on Benkei's shoulders at that time.
08:45You know, his reign wasn't a huge success is the best way to put it.
08:50He's the first one to admit that.
08:54It ended very unceremoniously at Final Gate in 2018 to a muscular bomb.
09:00And, you know, Benkei took it hard.
09:07You know, it led to him wondering, you know, what went wrong during his reign?
09:12Why wasn't, you know, why wasn't he a huge success?
09:16Why isn't he the guy now?
09:18And, you know, to get a little bit of personal info here on him,
09:25he's shared this before that, you know,
09:27it led to a lot of self-confidence and body image issues.
09:31You know, he went, he got cosmetic surgery on his eyes.
09:35He, if you remember, do you remember during the pandemic, during lockdown?
09:41Every time you saw Benkei, he looked different.
09:44We went over, we went into the pandemic.
09:46He pretty much looked like he does right now.
09:48Yeah, he looked like this in one week and then looked like 120 kilos in another week.
09:53He was 84 kilos when the pandemic started.
09:56When we did King of Gate in May, he was 106 kilos.
10:02When things restarted, he was 124 kilos.
10:10And then two months later in October, he was 83 kilos again.
10:16And I asked him, what are you doing?
10:19And he's like, I don't know.
10:22And, you know, there were other things affecting Benkei.
10:28Bad influences around him, hard whip into the buckle.
10:34One more time, Benkei.
10:41Oh, he speared the post and he ripped that Mina Ritza banner
10:44that someone paid a lot of money for.
10:47Oh, Benkei's had his shoe come off and he's shouldered into the post.
10:58The difference between that version of Benkei that I'm talking about
11:01and this version, you know, he summed it up himself
11:06with a post on social media that the old Benkei
11:11was the type of person that you guys are on tour.
11:15Like when you're down in Kyushu and you stay overnight,
11:18he would go, he would get blackout drunk.
11:20He would pass out wherever he was.
11:22Yeah, I remember seeing that before.
11:24And when it was time for the bus to leave,
11:26it was always, where's Benkei?
11:30Somebody go find Benkei.
11:32We're late.
11:33And, you know, you'd have to go find him in a ditch somewhere.
11:37And, you know, puffy red face,
11:39stinking of alcohol and pull him on the bus.
11:43That's the old Benkei, the new Benkei.
11:47He's up first thing in the morning.
11:49He's bright eyed.
11:50He does the sumo stop to get fired up.
11:52Now he's been at the gym.
11:54He's been for a run.
11:56He's the first person.
11:57He's the one that goes and finds the people that are late for the bus.
12:01He's a, you know,
12:03when a pro wrestler, sometimes they get a new gimmick.
12:06You say, well, it's a new gimmick,
12:08but it's not really a change in who they are.
12:13From the onset of him becoming the Chiki Chiki Sensei,
12:16this is a brand new Benkei.
12:22And now he has a chance to become a two time
12:25open the dream gate champion.
12:27Now he has a chance to become a two time open the dream gate champion.
12:30Again, that would pull him back into a tie with Shun Skywalker,
12:34the man he debuted on the same day as.
12:40As a two time champion among the Reiwa New Generation leaders.
12:58Okay.
13:10And it's not,
13:11it's not often that we see someone completely overwhelmed in K like this,
13:15but you know, he, he speared the post and that's,
13:19that's giving the champion something to work on.
13:21Yeah, that's the arm that spear on the pose and
13:28usually Benkei's trying to outpower the rest of his matches,
13:32but Louis Monte here obviously can't do that as easy as he can.
13:37Monte can match power with him.
13:40He can match power, match speed.
13:45May have the advantage when it comes to speed,
13:47agility and all the other things.
13:48I mean, I don't,
13:49I don't know if Benkei can do a rocket tope like the one that Monte did
13:53earlier that knocked him out of his shoes.
13:55Yeah.
14:22Oh.
14:26Oh.
14:36Monte on his champion road has faced this four very different types of
14:41opponents. You know, his first was Shun Skywalker, which was,
14:45which he knows for a long time, which he knows. And that was,
14:50that's a cross arm breaker.
14:56Oh.
15:01Benkei's trying to, trying to power his way out of this.
15:07He's managed to get to his feet. He's just,
15:10I don't know if he's going to be able to lift out,
15:12lift him up with one arm though.
15:17He can't.
15:21Oh, got the rope.
15:22He gets to the ropes.
15:26Yeah.
15:28With when you're fighting someone like Skywalker, you don't,
15:31you don't have to deal with just the physical gifts,
15:33but you've got to deal with the mind games that come along with it.
15:38And then the experienced veteran form,
15:40also former two time champion is Susumu in Osaka,
15:45where Monte picked up a knee injury early in the match,
15:50much, much like Monte is doing with Benkei here right now.
15:54And then he picked up,
15:55he picked up on an injury and it started picking that part,
15:58picking apart that body part.
16:02The match against Susumu was a,
16:03I'd say a very gutsy performance from Monte and surviving all that,
16:07coming back to win.
16:10And then you got Kiani where it was just two lunatics running into each
16:15other.
16:16That one very much Monte, you know,
16:21escaped with the win on that one where he took everything that Kiani
16:26threw at him and he just slipped through with the inside cradle at the,
16:31at the last minute.
16:35So they're showing his adaptability and his versatility as champion.
16:41Benkei says that he is ready to take charge again.
17:04You know, he wants to be a reach back here
17:07He wants to get slapping now, you know, that would be to reach it back. Obviously, this is also
17:12You know kind of throw
17:15Maybe serve to help fire puts him in aura heading into his hair match tomorrow. Now. He is trying to get the champion up
17:37Leaps into the waiting arms of of big K and from the catch
17:44Muscles him over with the suplex
17:56Okay, running up maybe this boom hit Monty off
18:07Right now touch the clothesline and this time to show the tackle gets
18:27Okay, get back up
18:32Try to and now Banky needs to go on the offense Oh
18:37Oh
18:46Well, he can't so pay like Monty to hit but he can spear him through the ropes
19:07Oh
19:14Ben taking a big gamble and it pays off
19:19He has maybe finally made a dent in the armor on Luis Monday
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20:02Guess the shoulders feeling better
20:07Case gonna top. Thank you. You don't see this very often
20:16Come on banking
20:24Banking to the top. Well when other wrestlers do this, it's a missile dropkick when Banky does it it's a mortar strike
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20:41Okay
21:03He's gonna wrap him up gonna wreck him easily
21:08I
21:10Say hey put the fingers under the chin digging in
21:15Our slam from the champions. We're at the 15-minute mark here in this dream gate championship match
21:27Chin crusher
21:32Kick but it didn't think a bank is left
21:37Oh
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22:04Down the bank is gonna get up first bank is up first
22:11Oh
22:22No, sir, no straight and strikes
22:41I
22:49Say a little bit more behind those elbows, but runs. Thank you rush the boots
22:57Yeah, Oh
23:00MCK
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23:08Don't get a pin use the momentum that bank a generated coming off the ropes
23:14Bottom up and dropped him
23:25Monte turned the race
23:29Wasn't up there long
23:32Blood following it's to
23:49Top rope what on earth is Monty
23:52Oh
23:57Our bomb what what is this?
24:04He sat out dropped him
24:07Canadian backbreaker
24:11Into a face buster up the middle rope it only gets it to
24:15Oh
24:22Whatever you've got Monty
24:31Runs him over with the clothesline
24:33I
24:45Think it slips out on the multi finale. Oh
24:49Spirit in the spirit
24:52Okay
24:54Gonna go for another one. Thank you a second spear cover new champion. Oh, no
25:03Okay
25:11German suplex
25:17Almost
25:20Ridge
25:27That was about as close as you can get
25:33Oh
25:38Nelson oh no full Nelson suplex
25:44Still kicks out get a bridge in couldn't hold the bridge
25:58For another song
26:01You might as well be drop-kicking a brick wall at this point duck again
26:08Hold the cover thank you
26:20Ben K. Thank you. It's done it again Wow
26:24Oh
26:26Just eat up the drop cake a reaction from that fan is everything eat up the drop cakes and spear
26:37On Monty
26:39Yeah, I mean my
26:45Monty probably could have shot him at point-blank with a shotgun at that point and Ben and Ben K wasn't gonna go down
26:54Oh
27:07Thank you
27:13Has become the 39th open the dream gate champion here in Tokyo
27:24Oh
27:33Bank a now has a clear path ahead of him
27:37For his dream for walking the aisle at Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival as open the dream gate champion
27:45Ben K
27:52Take the belt you earned it
27:55Oh
28:02Dan K took him to spear a German suplex full Nelson suplex and
28:08Then just eat the drop cake with the mouth with the mouth
28:13and let's
28:14As let's give one more round of applause for Monty who?
28:18Had a hell of a six-month reign as dream gate champion
28:24Oh
28:42Okay
28:55We got the railway new generation back at the top of Dragon Gate
29:13Six years not six years at seven years, but well, he said seven he said seven seven years ago 2017
29:21Best of his man drop kick to the mouth. Yeah
29:25I
29:49Could be down it doesn't matter how down you get as long as you're not out
29:55Oh
30:00Thanking the fans and also asking them what they think
30:05You know Monty and big hug have been the protagonists of Dragon Gate this year, but I think Ben K
30:18Thank a had all this we can all the support here there's a a welcome back to Minorita
30:26Oh
30:43Well with me with me to reach it back and I'll Ben case champion all that's left is for me to order to win tomorrow and
30:50that's
30:51I'm gonna complete a big two days
30:56For gold class there is Ben K
31:16Thank a not thinking back to his last time as champion, he knows that the road is only gonna get harder ahead of him
31:25That
31:28But with the support of the fans and with his newfound attitude this this version of Ben K
31:42Stick around come back tomorrow Ben K and Dragon Gate make all your hopes and dreams come true
31:56Listen to gonna shout from deep and within his soul
32:07There's our new dream gate champion Ben K
32:14New champion
32:17Right here in Toronto one big difference I see from last time
32:21the only thing the latter he could say was
32:26I'm Ben K
32:38History made here at rainbow gate 2024 in Tokyo a new open the dream gate champion crowns
32:55You
33:08They want rainbow gate
33:11We got a new champion Ben K day one is in the books
33:18But we are not done from Tokyo yeah here this week
33:25I'm gonna wait for the music to stop so I can hear myself talk
33:30It's not gonna stop it will
33:55I think he doesn't leave the ring. It's not going to
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34:51Fans thank you so much for joining us here tonight again. We will be back tomorrow same time 6 30 p.m.
34:58Japan time start time ho-ho not it will be there
35:01We've got Kotomi Nora versus Yamato hair versus hair and Lamita versus. Yo
35:07Championship we've got check our social media for the rest of the card, and we will see you again tomorrow so for now
35:14Goodbye, and good night
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