OPEN THE TWIN GATE TAG TEAM TITLES
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00:00Open the Twin Gate 4-Way Championship Match.
00:08We'll let the video play, and then we'll run down the rules.
00:30May vs. KZ, Flamita vs. New Sky Walker, Jason Lee.
01:01Strong Machine J, UT. Big Boss just had a successful defense.
01:09What about them? What about Flamita? What about KZ?
01:16Flamita's going home after this. Obviously, if he's a Twin Gate Champion, we're going to have to bring him back.
01:23Well, he could.
01:24Not that we need a reason to bring him back.
01:28Everybody's just as happy to have him here full-time.
01:46Back in Dragon Gate after a five-year absence, Flamita.
01:55D-Boy for life.
01:57Engines full throttle, KZ.
02:11Challenger team number two, this is Big Hug.
02:16Jackie Kame and Luis Monte.
02:19Or, as he's known on Pro Wrestling NOAH social media, Luis Monte.
02:25So Luis Monte will be there in NOAH for the next month.
02:29Something like that.
02:32But more important is tonight.
02:34We got matching new ring gear.
02:41Oh, look at the pants, look like some milk packaging.
02:45Well, one of the common themes since Kame joined Big Hug was the overall, the costume with the overalls weren't working.
03:02Your calls have been answered. Party Boy, pow, pow, pow, Jackie Kame.
03:06His partner.
03:08Mexican power, Luis Monte.
03:17That's Z-Bratz, the challenger team.
03:20Challenger team number three.
03:26Representing Z-Bratz, going to be Shun Skywalker and Jason Lee.
03:29Representing Z-Bratz, going to be Shun Skywalker and Jason Lee.
03:55Jason Lee.
04:00Shun Skywalker, look at the eye.
04:05Flashing.
04:06Look at the eyes on both of them.
04:23Shun's virus has spread to Jason Lee's left arm.
04:30And well, this is an interesting visual because once again we're going to go back to two years ago at this event.
04:41You mix the teams up, it was Shun and Monte, Jason and Jackie.
04:48It's exactly the same four person.
04:51One of the greatest Open the Twin Gate Championship matches in Dragon Gate history.
05:00I don't know.
05:05Kung Fu Dragon, my way or the highway, Jason Lee.
05:13Stark raving mad, Shun Skywalker.
05:23Now the champion team, finally, representing Paradox.
05:29This team known collectively as Not Hug because they do not hug.
05:35Dragon Kid, Naruki Doi.
05:53Naruki Doi.
05:54Doi.
05:55Not Hug, the 66th Open the Twin Gate Champion Team.
05:58This will be their first defense of the championship since winning them back on May 5th at Dead or Alive.
06:08Doi also the All Japan Pro Wrestling Junior Heavyweight Champion.
06:24Naruki Doi.
06:37Freelancing muscle, Naruki Doi.
06:51Child of God, Dragon Kid.
06:55So, like we mentioned, briefly coming back from intermission.
07:07Takagi-san from Gawara, that's our boss, going to take the Twin Gate Championships.
07:15So this match is a...
07:18So we paused for photos.
07:20Again, this is a four-way match, so one member of each team is legal at all times,
07:25which means there's no situations where you can tag somebody from another team and make them come in.
07:31You have to tag your own partner, but standard Dragon Gate tag rules,
07:35if you roll to the floor, that counts as a switch.
07:39However, the one wrinkle in Dragon Gate multi-man matches is
07:45you don't necessarily have to have somebody in the ring.
07:48If there's a situation where, you know, let's say Dragon Kid is being thrown into the air by Luis Monte,
07:57then, you know, Skywalker and Jason could be content to wait things out.
08:06As you said, there's an elimination rule.
08:08This is elimination, we're going until there's one team left.
08:11And the team that wins will walk away as Open the Twin Gate champions.
08:19This match came about, well, due to various things.
08:23Dragon Kid was pinned by many people.
08:26It was pinned by Shin Skywalker in Tokyo on June 5th.
08:30At that time, there was no challenge laid out, but a few days later in Fukuoka, we had a doubleheader.
08:35Afternoon and evening on the afternoon show,
08:37Kid was pinned by Kame, he accepted the challenge from Big Hug.
08:41On the evening show, he was pinned by KZ, he accepted the challenge from Natural Lives.
08:45Shin came out and said, hey, I hit you over the head with a thing, and I pinned you.
08:52I deserve the title shot.
08:54Dragon Kid accepted that challenge as well.
08:57Accepting three challenges in one day, GM came out and said, okay, fine, we'll just make it a four-way.
09:02Dragon Kid got him into this mess as Jason Lee got out of the way.
09:07Ooh, the head scissor by Jackie.
09:09From the bad boy, but a head scissor by Kame gets rid of Lee.
09:21Like I mentioned, Lee went to the floor.
09:23Skywalker was content to stay out of the way.
09:27Like I mentioned, Lee went to the floor.
09:30Skywalker was content to stay out.
09:32Lee's going to come back in.
09:35Oh, he wants to eliminate...
09:36Well, this is one of those things where...
09:43This is going to be really hard to keep up with.
09:46Everyone is doing one thing.
09:48This is one of those matches where your instinct is, when you see a fall happening,
09:54is to go and break it up.
09:56Because if there's a fall, the match is over.
09:58But if there's a fall, someone's going to get eliminated.
10:01It's just an elimination here.
10:02So in some cases, it may be advantageous to just let the pinfall or the submission play out.
10:12It's also, you know, if someone's getting countered out, you don't need to bring them back into the ring.
10:18So many things happening over there.
10:20We've got...
10:23As well, that's...
10:26That was a scene that we saw a few years ago, where it was Monte and Skywalker reigning supreme.
10:32But our opposite sides here, so they started to immediately go...
10:36And Dragon Kid with the déjà vu.
10:39Déjà vu, but he got...
10:40From Monte to Shun Skywalker.
10:42He passed him on.
10:45Ducking in for Monte to the outside.
10:49Jumping in. Oh, that's the outside as well.
10:51Nice awareness there from Dragon Kid.
10:55The Bermuda Triangle on Shun.
10:59Oh, on Shun as well.
11:03Let's get somebody else in there.
11:06Monte's going to fly.
11:08It's a Monte dive onto Shun now.
11:11Oh, catching the leg, Jason Lee.
11:14We saw it coming.
11:19Doi coming back in with Dragon Kid, not Huck.
11:26A lot of history here around the Open Twin Gate Championship.
11:29On the champion team, Naruki Doi was one of the founding fathers of the championship.
11:33He's held it eight times.
11:36Dragon Kid has held it four times.
11:39Wow, look at that drop kick, the height.
11:42Jason, a two-time former champion.
11:44KZ, Shun, Monte, Kame, held the championships once.
11:48Flamito, the only one in this match that will be looking for his first reign as Twin Gate champion.
11:52And now...
11:54Ooh, Flamito with a drop kick to the...
11:59...back, but from behind at Seabred.
12:02Kame has only been away from Natural Vibes for a little over two months now.
12:07KZ still very familiar with all of his...
12:12...all of his offense and all of his different patterns.
12:14He's able to stay one step ahead...
12:18...of his former protege.
12:23Flamito leaps right over KZ into that headscissor.
12:26From nowhere.
12:27And Lee, gonna go two for one on Natural Vibes with the DDT.
12:33With KZ, boom.
12:37Lee himself was a member of Natural Vibes up until March of this year.
12:41Betrayed them at the end of the Rated R House Tag League because he...
12:46Sending KZ to the...
12:47Ooh!
12:48He's tired of spinning around.
12:49He's tired of spinning around.
12:50He's tired of spinning around.
12:51He's tired of spinning around.
12:52He's tired of spinning around.
12:53He's tired of spinning around.
12:54He's tired of spinning around.
12:55KZ to the...
12:56Ooh!
12:57He's tired of spinning his wheels.
12:58That's the teamwork.
13:00Bicycle kick from Skywalker.
13:02Did the unthinkable in linking up with...
13:06...with Skywalker.
13:12Ooh!
13:13Monte to the outside.
13:14Double.
13:17Ah!
13:18Antiair dropkick!
13:19Takes Mente out.
13:20Right there!
13:21Shin Skywalker!
13:22Wow!
13:23Monte...
13:24Antiair really fast.
13:26Shun...
13:27Shun sees Paradox as just a collection of castoffs and old men
13:30who banded together in a futile attempt
13:33to recapture their previous glories and relevance.
13:37And he...
13:38By taking the Twin Gate away from them,
13:39he feels that it will shatter the illusion
13:42and the Paradox will be solved.
13:46He considers himself to be above the Twin Gate Championship,
13:49but the real value would be in exposing Not Hug.
13:54Ooh, Not Hug.
13:56Ooh!
13:58Oh, cross...
13:59Oh!
14:00They hit their own partner!
14:05And Flamita!
14:06Double crossbody!
14:07Takes advantage of the miscommunication.
14:11Ooh!
14:15Wow.
14:16That's quick.
14:17Flamita has been a force of nature since his return to Dragon Gate back in June.
14:22And...
14:25Kobe World in 2019 was the last time we had seen him here.
14:29We're all very happy to have him back.
14:34He has seamlessly integrated into Natural Vibes.
14:36Stucks the 619 and pops him up into the uppercut.
14:40Yet Flamita perfected the new Vibes dance on day one.
14:45Yeah.
14:46Machine J showed it to him.
14:48Everybody else was struggling to learn it,
14:50even KZ, UT, Shimizu.
14:53Flamita picked it up right away.
14:56A lot of people wondered,
14:57would Flamita be able to dance coming in as a member of Vibes?
15:01The answer has been a resounding yes.
15:03Is a Mexican good at dancing?
15:06Machine J said his exact words were...
15:09Ooh!
15:10He has incredible rhythm.
15:12Look at that moonsault!
15:13I think he shows it in the way he moves in the ring.
15:16Never out of place.
15:17And he's smiling.
15:18He's still smiling.
15:19It's been all smiles since he came back.
15:21Even when he...
15:22Even if he got beat up.
15:23Even before the show, after the show,
15:26just so happy to finally be home here in Dragon Gate.
15:30Ooh!
15:32619 from...
15:34Kid got him out of trouble briefly,
15:36and it's a stunner.
15:38And here comes Doi, not Hug, going on the double team.
15:43Wow!
15:45That was just playing possum.
15:46He knew Flamita was coming up behind him.
15:51Elbows in on one side,
15:52and divulso!
15:55Which is KZ on the other side.
15:59And here comes Doi,
16:00not Hug,
16:01going on the double team.
16:03And here comes Doi,
16:04not Hug,
16:05going on the double team.
16:06And here comes Doi,
16:07not Hug,
16:08going on the double team.
16:09And here comes Doi,
16:10not Hug,
16:12Now that's not...
16:14That's Big Hug.
16:16They're confusing me,
16:17not Big Hug.
16:20Oh, one puts to the man tape.
16:22Zaguro and...
16:23Oh, enough Skywalker monkey!
16:25Ooh!
16:26Used his Kame as a weapon on his own partner.
16:28Yeah.
16:29With Doi thrown in for good measure.
16:31I think if we had...
16:32If it was like Punch and Horiguchi,
16:34they should be Big Hage.
16:38That's gonna make things even more confusing.
16:41And then it can be like...
16:42It could be like Yu and...
16:47I don't know.
16:48Fudo, you guys could be not Hage.
16:50And then we could have the full...
16:51We could have four teams.
16:53Since you guys won't let him be Kung Fu Doi.
17:02Slapping Jackie on the head,
17:03Shin Skywalker.
17:12Kame was the one that was betrayed
17:14at the hands of Jason Lee.
17:17Back in March,
17:18they went at it in the steel cage
17:20back in...
17:22At Dead or Alive in May,
17:23but didn't quite come to a full conclusion.
17:27I think there's still a lot of...
17:30Unfinished business between the two of them.
17:41Jackie.
17:42Kame.
17:43On the head, look like he's crying.
17:45No!
17:46One punch.
17:48Switch around.
17:49And a big bulldog with a dropkick!
17:51Coming in!
17:52Run up!
17:53Bulldog on Skywalker.
17:55He caught Jason with the dropkick,
17:56but Not Hug were right there
17:58to cut off his rally.
18:01From behind!
18:06Turning on the cheat codes.
18:09Oh!
18:11Now Jackie...
18:12What is he gonna do?
18:13Wow!
18:17He's kicking the five of them!
18:19You can take...
18:21Take him out of Kung Fu Masters,
18:22but you can't take the Kung Fu out of him in a...
18:24Ooh!
18:27Tornijo got caught up on the ropes,
18:29but it was still enough to come down on...
18:33On both of them.
18:34Toy Dragon Kid and KZ.
18:38Monte got sea breath.
18:40Lee on the one side.
18:41We are at the ten minute mark here.
18:45Skywalker.
18:47Ooh!
18:48Stinger splash.
18:49Here comes Kame.
18:51Liu Kang kicks!
19:00Well...
19:01So, in that match two years ago,
19:03we saw a lot of Jackie Kame getting thrown into the air
19:07by Luis Monte.
19:09Ooh!
19:10Double splash!
19:11This time it's as a weapon,
19:12not as a victim.
19:14Oh!
19:16KZ from behind!
19:17Schoolboy.
19:18Another one.
19:24Ah!
19:26European uppercut takes out Monte Kame.
19:33Ooh!
19:34That kicks in the forearm.
19:38Jackie's down.
19:41Remember, there's an elimination rule
19:43and all four teams are still there.
19:46Everyone's still in play in this match.
19:48You only need one pin...
19:53...to eliminate one of them.
19:58Oh, Jackie!
19:59He's throwing him to the outside!
20:02Yo, it's like...
20:03This Natural Vibes team,
20:05this Natural Vibes team,
20:06you think you get a step up on them,
20:08but you're just putting them in position
20:11for some new type of offense.
20:14Beat Bomb from KZ only gets two, but...
20:17But we'll see some flying now.
20:18Kame.
20:20Maybe not.
20:26Uh-oh.
20:27Dragon Kid.
20:28We know what's coming.
20:29We've seen this a lot of times in the corner.
20:32Setting up Flamito.
20:34Naruki Toy.
20:37Kobe World.
20:39Top rope.
20:40Make some noise.
20:41Oh, no!
20:42He's pushed him away.
20:44Pushed him all the way down.
20:46We've got Louis...
20:47Keep him there.
20:49Here comes Kame.
20:51Wow!
20:53Rockets him into a Super Frankensteiner.
20:56Ah, KZ!
20:57Dragon Kid has been one-upped.
20:59It's for the Beat Bomb again.
21:00Slips out.
21:01Kame.
21:03Ooh, look at that drop kick.
21:04Hops up into the drop kick.
21:10Uh-oh.
21:11Gonna try again.
21:16Doesn't get him.
21:21Uh-oh.
21:23Kame.
21:25Jack, call for Monte.
21:30Three-man German suplex.
21:33That's your own partner, Diamante.
21:35He's still standing.
21:36He can go for the cover.
21:38KZ went to the floor.
21:41And it's a powerbomb from...
21:43No, it's not.
21:48Flamito rolled Monte up.
21:50In the picture, in picture.
21:55Ooh, to the outside.
22:00Drop kick.
22:02Right back up.
22:03Monte.
22:04Flamito.
22:09Ooh.
22:11Drop kick from Monte.
22:13Flamito fires right back.
22:16Whoa!
22:17Who's that?
22:18Monte rocketed into KZ.
22:21Kame.
22:25JFK.
22:27Rolls through.
22:28Kame.
22:29Has...
22:30No, he didn't.
22:33Flamito kicked out of the JFK.
22:35Super kick.
22:39Ooh, Nizza.
22:40He flipped through.
22:41Jackie.
22:42Jackie knife.
22:43Jackie knife.
22:44Still kicks out.
22:45Not enough.
22:49Kame off the ropes.
22:50Flam.
22:51Fly.
22:53Big hug and been eliminated.
23:01Kame threw everything.
23:03Wow.
23:04Everything he had at him.
23:05Oh, what's that?
23:06A kick from Lee.
23:08That was Lee.
23:10What's that?
23:11There's no pauses.
23:12That's Tukau.
23:14Yeah, Flamito celebrating.
23:16Big hug is out.
23:19Block off the kata.
23:23Kame.
23:28Flamito.
23:29No move.
23:30Nothing you do is safe when you're in there with Flamito.
23:33Ooh.
23:35Uh-oh.
23:36Now, Flamito.
23:39Retador.
23:40Ooh.
23:41Knee to the face.
23:46Flamito's pointing to the corner.
23:48Not going for the cover.
23:49He's gonna go up instead.
23:51Got one more move for you.
23:53Jason Lee.
23:54Gonna put Lee away.
23:55Flamito.
23:56That's on top of the knee.
23:58Ooh.
23:59Doi with the senton.
24:00He held him there.
24:01I think that might have...
24:04Might have did more damage to Lee.
24:07Doi fives later on his feet.
24:11Kicking Doi to the head.
24:13Doi's the champion.
24:14Maximum driver.
24:15No.
24:16That's the brain buster.
24:18To the top of the head.
24:19Shun Skywalker.
24:20Shun.
24:23Ooh.
24:24He can't go.
24:25Now, he turns around.
24:26Rakan.
24:28Rana blocked.
24:32Trying to turn it into the Bible.
24:33Uh-oh.
24:34There's chance.
24:35He's going for the Doible, but Lee.
24:39Almost being the champion.
24:40Team Shun Skywalker.
24:41Lee can see Bratz alive.
24:43Spins him around rock bottom.
24:46Standing.
24:47KZ.
24:48Moonsault with the bad boy.
24:55Interrupts Skywalker in midair.
25:00Ooh.
25:01Ah.
25:06Kick.
25:07KZ.
25:08Suplex.
25:10KZ pops up.
25:12Dodges another kick.
25:13CDJ.
25:15Plants Skywalker like a flag in the center of the ring.
25:21Hook both the arms.
25:25Ooh.
25:26Lee's got the.
25:28Got the thing.
25:29Got the thing-o.
25:32Just popped KZ on the back of the head.
25:37Shun Skywalker.
25:38Look at that.
25:39This is what he was trying earlier.
25:41Moonsault double knees to the midsection.
25:44And I think Natural Vibes have been eliminated.
25:52We are down now to the.
25:54Final two.
25:55Champions and the final challenger team.
25:58Naruki Doi, Dragon Kid, and Zebra at Shun Skywalker, Jason Lee.
26:09Naruki Doi is down.
26:14Surrounded by Zebrats.
26:20Doi's a double champion today.
26:24Shun Skywalker, Jason Lee.
26:26It's not black and yellow.
26:27They're wearing black and purple.
26:29It's the old masquerade colors.
26:31Yeah, that's true.
26:32We've got Dragon Kid here.
26:34They're history together.
26:40Ooh.
26:41Throwing Shun to the outside, Doi.
26:43He threw him all the way to the floor.
26:44619.
26:45619 into a schoolboy.
26:46This is.
26:49Rapid fire on the double teams is going to be the best way to get out of this.
26:55Messiah from Dragon Kid.
26:57Swinging DDT.
26:58Doi back.
26:59Doi fives.
27:01Bakatari.
27:02Sliding kick.
27:05That's going to be.
27:06To the face.
27:07Shun Skywalker.
27:08He leaped through the middle ropes from the apron.
27:12To get in on the save at the last moment.
27:20Doi.
27:23It's going to be him.
27:25Uh-oh.
27:27Skywalker going to go one man army.
27:34Oh!
27:35Pulls through.
27:36Oh!
27:42No!
27:45He just pins KC with this one.
27:50Oh!
27:51He's pinning him so far.
27:54Narukid Doi.
27:56I don't think he's meant to kick Sal, but.
27:58Now Skywalker.
28:00Whoa!
28:01Time to fly across the sky, but.
28:03He got cut off.
28:04Dragon Kid.
28:07Let's try again.
28:08Kobe World.
28:09Make some noise.
28:10That's the other side.
28:11Super reverse Frankensteiner.
28:13From the apron.
28:14Ultra.
28:15Hurricane.
28:17Runner.
28:19Not.
28:20Hug.
28:21Whoa!
28:22Still kicks out.
28:23Don't get the win.
28:24No way.
28:29No way.
28:31They get the replay.
28:32T-PACK!
28:33T-PACK!
28:34T-PACK!
28:36T-PACK!
28:37And he stuck him.
28:38And Dragon Kid's got one move left in the tank.
28:42A move that's named after him.
28:46Oh.
28:48Jason.
28:49Push it over.
28:51Didn't even push him much out of the way.
28:53As much as he did just into the ropes to knock Dragon Kid off.
28:57Super maximum driver!
29:02Jason with the big guns but it's not enough.
29:09Naruki throws out, what we can see in the ring, Jason Lee dragging Kit.
29:18Forearm after forearm.
29:21Arm cover off.
29:22Now in the ring, spins him around, Maximum Trevor, center of the ring.
29:26No way, we might have a new champion right now.
29:29Kicks out again, two Maximum Drivers.
29:42And now, open your weather apps, tornado watch, tornado, nobody home, misses land.
29:52And now fights through, Doi, back to life, Doi ball, they did it.
29:59Big, not hug, survived the four way and are still open the twin gate champions.
30:15You said it, that Naruki Doi was nowhere to be found in the closing stretch of the ring
30:21after that.
30:22Yeah, the final four minute, we haven't seen him right after the moonsault knee drop.
30:27But he was there when it counted.
30:37A team that was started back in February at the start of Reggae Powerhouse 2024 because
30:44Dragon Kid couldn't find anybody else that would team with him.
30:53A team that Naruki Doi didn't even want to be on.
30:56They won the tag league.
30:58They won the twin gate and they've defended here tonight.
31:01They're called not hug because Naruki Doi doesn't like Dragon Kid all that much.
31:31There's not going to be any big hugs on this side.
31:35The day they hug is the day their team ends.
31:46But you know, I don't think you need a physical relationship to be tag team champions.
31:59One more round of applause for the 66th Open the Triangle Gate champion team that has won
32:20defense now in the record books.
32:36Now the question is, have they set the pace for Paradox and Yamato?
33:03Dragon Kid, yeah, he has the energy to do the flag, the dragon flag.
33:17He held it for about 30 seconds.
33:20What's that?
33:20He held it for about 30 seconds.
33:22After all that, he got maximum driver off the top rope like five minutes ago.
33:30Dragon Kid is 48 years old, people.
33:38Okay, well, are they going to hug?
33:44No.
33:46The day they hug is the day the team ends.
33:54It might not be as hard a physical bump as the maximum driver off the top rope,
34:00but the mental damage might be the worst impact Dragon Kid has felt all night.
34:15All right.
34:16All right, fans.