Dragon Gate USA Double IPPV Weekend

[EmpireWF]

DGUSA has shows Saturday and Sunday with both available live on IPPV (WWNLive). Expecting one of the DGUSA freaks to run down the card and the big angles leading into the weekend...W2B.....

Saturday, July 28 in Taylor, MI
Open The Freedom Gate Title Match: Johnny Gargano (c) vs. Akira Tozawa
CIMA & AR Fox vs. El Generico & Samuray Del Sol
YAMATO vs. Richochet
Chuck Taylor vs. Rich Swann
Super Smash Brothers vs. The Scene
and more!

Enter The Dragon 2012: Third Anniversary Celebration
Sunday, July 29 in Chicago, IL
Open The United Gate Decision Match: CIMA & AR Fox vs. Ricochet & Rich Swann
El Generico vs. Akira Tozawa
Johnny Gargano vs. Chuck Taylor
YAMATO vs. Jon Davis
Super Smash Brothers vs. Arik Cannon & Pinkie Sanchez
and more!

[Warner2BruceTD]

Full lineup for Chicago:

Dragon Gate USA
Enter The Dragon 2012: Third Anniversary Celebration
Sunday, July 29th
The Congress Theater
2135 North Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL 60647
Belltime: 7pm CST
Doors: 6pm

Tickets now on sale in the DGUSA.tv Store or by calling 267-519-9744

Main Event #1 - Open The United Gate Decision Match
CIMA & AR Fox vs. Ricochet & Rich Swann

Main Event #2 - Dream Match
El Generico vs. Akira Tozawa with Christina Von Eerie

Main Event #3 - I Quit Match
Johnny Gargano vs. Chuck Taylor

Special Attraction Match
YAMATO vs. Jon Davis

Special Attraction Tag Team Match
Super Smash Brothers vs. Arik Cannon & Pinkie Sanchez

Special Challenge Tag Team Match
The Scene vs. Zero Gravity

Special Challenge Match
Samuray Del Sol vs. Shane Hollister

The Opening Match
Masada vs. Jake Manning

Bonus Card at 6:20 for live event ticket holders: Jay Bradley vs. Mr. 450 plus one more match with wrestlers from the Seminar/Tryout.
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-Debut of Masada, who Biss can tell you all about.

-Generico vs Tozawa, potential match of the year, two of the best wrestlers on the planet at the top of their game.

-Open the United Gate decision match, should tear the house down, Ricochet has been stripped of the title TWICE through no fault of his own (CIMA injury, Masato Yoshino booking issues), tries to win the titles for a third time.

-Gargano vs Taylor, blowoff to the long feud of former stablemates. Gargano may or may not have signed with WWE, that's the storyline of the weekend, he defends the Open the Freedom Gate title against Tozawa on Saturday.

-YAMATO is back! He faces the very much improved Jon Davis, coming off his "Style Battle tournament win in EVOLVE a few weekends ago.

-Announced today, Shane Hollister debuts, takes on red hot Samuray Del Sol, the breakthrough flier of 2012 who just tore the house down twice vs Generico at EVOLVE.

[Warner2BruceTD]

In case anybody missed it, Gabe Sapolsky came on the VSN Wrestling Podcast with me & FedEx and plugged the shows:

Joe Lanza and Rich Kraetsch are honored to welcome the Vice President of Dragon Gate USA, Owner of Evolve Wrestling and former booker for Ring of Honor Gabe Sapolsky to the program. Gabe gives his first response to the Wrestling Observer Report that he asked for a job with Ring of Honor, we also ask Gabe if he was the mastermind behind the shutdown of WrestlingBay/RUDOS.

Gabe reveals Ring of Honor and WWNLive iPPV negotiations during WrestleMania Weekend and we cover the video editing contest at DGUSA.tv and Dragon Gate USA's upcoming shows in Taylor, MI and Chicago, IL.

http://vsnarcadepodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2012-07-19T16_20_16-07_00

[Warner2BruceTD]

Personally, I believe these are the two best lineups DGUSA has put together since the early days, particularly night two.

I think as the shows have taken form, Fed has lucked out because Sunday looks just fantastic. That Tozawa/Generico could end up being a title match if Gargano drops the belt to Tozawa on Saturday, and then finishes up vs Taylor on Sunday on his way to the WWE.

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[Warner2BruceTD]

Taylor/Gargano video to catch you up. It takes you up to the EVOLVE shows from last month where Gargano successfully defended the Open the Freedom Gate:

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[Warner2BruceTD]

YAMATO is back, m'fers

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[Warner2BruceTD]

Fantastic Johnny Gargano video, very well produced, people ask about Gargano and what he's about, check this out. Rumor has it he has a WWE deal waiting for him after this weekend, I guess we'll find out, but he'll be there eventually.

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[BigBiss]

may have to check out the 28th show

[Warner2BruceTD]

Lots of buzz that Masada is getting a big push here. I don't see him listed for Saturday, but he will probably squash Jake Manning on Sunday.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Dragon Gate USA
Saturday, July 28th
Untouchable 2012
Gibraltar Trade Center
15525 Racho Road
Taylor, MI 48180
Belltime: 8pm
Doors: 7pm

Tickets now on sale in the Store or by calling 267-519-9744


Open The Freedom Gate Title Match
Johnny Gargano defends vs. Akira Tozawa

Dream Tag Team Match
CIMA & AR Fox vs. El Generico & Samuray Del Sol

Special Attraction Match
YAMATO vs. Ricochet

Grudge Match
Rich Swann vs. Chuck Taylor

Tag Team Action
Super Smash Brothers (Player Uno & Player Dos) vs. The Scene (Caleb Konley & Scott Reed) with Larry Dallas

Plus more to be signed with:
-Jon Davis
-Arik Cannon & Pinkie Sanchez of D.U.F.
-Jake Manning of The Gentlemen's Club
-Plus more to be added!!!

Bonus Card (open to all ticket holders. It will start shortly after doors open): CLASH Wrestling presents J.Miller vs. "Caveman" Tyler Elkins and 5 Way with Tommy Treznik vs. Cameron Skyy vs. Gavin Quinn vs. Ded Vaughn vs. Dave Manzo

[EmpireWF]

This looking like Gargano's last weekend before WWE?

[Warner2BruceTD]

This looking like Gargano's last weekend before WWE?

Looking that way. The booking is either paint-by-numbers or a really clever swerve to make you think he's gone (wouldn't be the first time Gabe pulled that move, so you never know).

-Saturday, Gargano defends against Akira Tozawa, who is the hottest act in Dragon Gate and the #1 heel.
-Sunday, Tozawa faces El Generico, who is being positioned as the lead babyface.
-Sunday, Gargano faces Chuck Taylor in an "I Quit" match to blow off the long feud.

So you can see how this is laid out. Gargano loses the belt Saturday, then does the job for Taylor on the way out. The Tozawa/Generico feud is now for the title, with Low Ki in the mix when he eventually comes back.

Plus it looks like Masada is getting a push from what i'm hearing, so they would have Generico/Low Ki/Masada on top on the face side, not to mention Jon Davis who is doing the win streak gimmick, and whatever faces don't end up with the tag titles. So it looks like they were ready for this and have plenty of guys to run with on top.

[Warner2BruceTD]

When you break it down, it's pretty clear that DGUSA/EVOLVE has a deeper roster than ROH at this point. The only Japanese talent I even mentioned was Tozawa, so when you toss in YAMATO, CIMA, and whatever other DG natives they decide to use at whatever point, plus AR Fox, Rich Swann, Samuray Del Sol, Bobby Fish, etc etc you've got what is probably the best indy roster since the heyday of ROH.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Stream looks fantastic, best iPPV stream yet.

[Warner2BruceTD]

CIMA & AR Fox vs El Generico & Samuray Del Sol - worth finding a way to see, MOTY contender and instant classic