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#2,754 ·
I rewatched one of the first Dragon Gate shows I saw today. Dragon Gate UK: Shingo vs Yokosuka II. I may have rated the show on here before, I can't really remember, but rating it again after a rewatch can't hurt.

Dragon Gate UK: Shingo vs Yokosuka II (2010)

Cyber Kong vs. Joey Hayes
*1/2

Lion Kid vs. Mark Haskins
**1/2

Shingo Takagi vs. Susumu Yokosuka
****

Naruki Doi vs. YAMATO
***

Masaaki Mochizuki, Dragon Kid, & CIMA vs. BxB Hulk, PAC, Masato Yoshino
****1/2

Watching this show made me realise (again) that I really should watch more Dragon Gate. I love the fast paced style showcased in the main event, and the strong style works great for me too.
I remember reading about one of the DG:UK shows being pretty boring, and before I started watching I thought it might've been this one but it definitely isn't. Maybe it was one of those UK Invasion shows. I should track all the DG:UK shows down as the hot UK crowd adds to the atmosphere and enjoyability.
 
#2,763 ·
You have to see if you still feel that way after watching a few shows. If you haven't seen that type of wrestling in a while it's really fun to watch but I lose interest quickly. But that goes with most styles of wrestling. I'm constantly watching different things from either the WWE Network or my DVD collection.
 
#2,759 ·
Does anyone have a list of feds owned/pimped by David Marquez besides CWFH because I'm watching a new fed by him out of here where I've seen Vordell Walker beat the piss out of a guy, Chase Stevens bore me to death and a tag team called The Washington Bullets use a finisher called The Marion Berry.
 
#2,761 ·
That'd be SECW:Southeastern Championship Wrestling. I don't think they are his feds as much as they are part of HIS group. There's also UCW out of Utah, WCWC out of Portland, FSW in Vegas, NECW out of New England. CWE in Canada was a part of it but since they recently had NWA title defenses I'm going to say they aren't anymore.

PS Had the same post issue as everyone else so glad I wasn't alone haha
 
#2,776 ·
ROH Aftershock

Michael Elgin & War Machine (Hanson & Raymond Rowe) vs Adam Cole, Matt Hardy & Michael Bennett *1/2

Bobby Fish vs Cheeseburger DUD

Kyle O'Reilly vs Cedric Alexander **3/4

The Decade (BJ Whitmer & Roderick Strong) vs The Briscoes (Jay & Mark) **

Takaaki Watanabe vs Jay Lethal **1/4

Tommaso Ciampa vs Kevin Steen **1/4

ROH World TV Title #1 Contender, 4-Corner Match
Caprice Coleman vs ACH vs Silas Young vs Matt Taven **

ROH World Championship
Michael Elgin (c) vs Matt Hardy **3/4

Overall Grade: 3.5



AIW Nuthin' But A "G" Thang

Alex Shelley vs Tim Donst **3/4

Tyson Dux vs Shane Hollister **3/4

Pick your Poison (Gregory Iron's Choice of Opponent)
Veda Scott vs Seleziya Sparx 3/4*

Six Way Scramble
Davey Vega vs Bobby Beverly vs Matt Cross vs Cheech vs Lucas Towns vs Brent Banks ***1/4

Pick your Poison (Veda's Choice of Opponent)
Gregory Iron vs Josh Prohibition DUD

AIW Women's Championship
Athena (c) vs Nikki Storm *1/2

AIW Tag Team Championship - 3-Way Match:
The Jollyville Fuck-Its (Russ Myers & T-Money) (c) vs Flip Kendrick & The Duke vs Faith in Ryan (Eric Ryan & Rickey Shane Page) DUD

AIW Absolute Championship
Michael Elgin (c) vs Colin Delaney ***

Ethan Page & Louis Lyndon vs Johnny Gargano & ACH *

Overall Grade: 4.25
 
#2,778 ·
I recently posted a review for Dragon Gate UK: Shingo vs Yokosuka II, and after enjoying that show I decided to watch some more Dragon Gate dvd's from my collection. Yesterday I finished watching Dragon Gate USA Heat 2012, figured I might as well rate this show too:

Dragon Gate USA Heat 2012



Before I start rating I just want to say I absolutely hate this building. It looks terrible on dvd, the hard cam is on the side where most fans seem to be so the room looks to be almost empty at times.

Bonus matches:

Danny Havoc vs tHURTteen
Match starts with some technical wrestling and it's not even that bad. Kevin Steen is on commentary. Funny line from Steen: "Danny Havoc asked him to tap but Lucky Thirteen declined ever after such a polite request." :lmao
***

DJ Hyde vs Drake Younger
Last 2 minutes of no selling brought it down for me.
*3/4

Silas Young vs Gran Akuma vs Samuray Del Sol
Very short, like barely 5 minutes. Decent for what it was though.
**

DGUSA Card:

Low Ki vs Bobby Fish
Boring match. I usually like Low Ki but this match did nothing for me.
*

Ricochet vs Mike Cruz
**1/2

Masato Yoshino vs Samuray Del Sol
Decent match. Pretty bad looking botch by Del Sol about halfway through.
**1/2

CIMA and Masaaki Mochizuki vs Caleb Konley and Scott Reed
**1/4

PAC vs AR Fox
Started very slow but it picked up towards the end. It may just be me, but when I watch these 2 guys wrestle I don't want to see them exchange armbars, headlocks and leglocks for the first 5 minutes..
***

Triangle Trios Elimination Match
Akira Tozawa, BxB Hulk, and Uhaa Nation vs Sami Callihan, Arik Cannon, and Pinkie Sanchez vs Johnny Gargano, Chuck Taylor, and Rich Swann
***1/2

Overal it was a decent show. I think this was a WrestleMania weekend show, so either some guys held back because they had more shows in the next few days, or this was a not-so-good booked show. I expected more out of this show but regardless it was an enjoyable show albeit far from the best.
 
#2,779 ·
IWS Praise The Violence 2014

Jaka vs. "Speedball" Mike Bailey vs. Pinkie Sanchez
- Somewhat disappointing. It was a decent match, but there were quite a few botches that killed it for me.

Beef Wellington & Scott Parker vs. Latino Connection
- Was cool seeing Beef back. He got a pretty big reaction but it wasn't as big as I was expecting. I knew he was retired because I've seen a few BATTLEWAR shows and he does the ring announcing. It was a decent match. Didn't care for it.

Alex Silva vs. Alextreme
- Nothing special. Seems like they're building Alex Silva to be a relevant part of the new IWS. He was okay, but I'm not sure if he has the ability to be a top guy.

The AfterParty & Jae Rukin vs. Shynron & Super Smash Brothers
- I feel like this match never really clicked. Lost my interest to an extent.

Eddy Erdogan vs. Excess vs. Shayne Hawke vs. Vanessa Kraven
- Liked this match. Would have liked it more had it not involved Vanessa Kraven. Nothing against her, Just didn't get why she was in it. She was eliminated after only a few minutes. Eddy Erdogan got eliminated early after a scary bump, which I feel brought it down. Looking forward to seeing more of him though. The match was for the vacant Canadian Championship, which I guess means Max Boyer is retired. Never saw a lot of his stuff but I thought he was okay.

SLI vs. Prof. Adib-Mansour, Massacre & Paul Rosenberg
- Didn't care for this at all. It was basically used to debut TDT as the new SLI.

Buxx Belmar vs. Green Phantom
- This was billed as an "Old School IWS Deathmatch" but other than a few flaming tables, this was a pretty standard hardcore match. I'm not sure what they were using to light the tables but they should definitely use something else because the tables kept going out after a few seconds.


----

Overall, a somewhat disappointing return show. I will say that the venue looks amazing and the production is probably the best I've ever seen from IWS. I'd put it above the bigger shows at Le Medley.

This didn't really feel like an IWS show. It kind of felt more like an ISW/BATTLEWAR hybrid. There was no SeXXXy Eddy, no Manny, no PCO. I get that they can't live in the past but it feels like they're using the IWS name to draw attention to a product that most would probably overlook.

It's not a horrible show, but there's definitely room for improvement.
 
#2,784 ·
I didn't see enough of the other to warrant a judgment (this video is all I have seen of Evolve in a long while) so I won't refute your claims nor would I be surprised.

Joanna flattened that promo by replying to Drew's question on what Evolve means to her with a simple "I'm a British girl and I even know Evolve so that says something".
 
#2,788 · (Edited)
Both are quality but if you are a fan of more spots and funny stuff in matches PWG. I'd just get everything they have in stock from both of them :draper2

You can get the most recent big shows from ROH (Global Wars, War of the Worlds and Best in the World) on DVD and the Summer Heat Tour episodes (I believe there are 4 available) on VOD for continuity and keep on buying their stuff from there.

As for PWG, everything they do is sold on DVD so you can get everything or the most recent ones (Sold our Soul for Rock 'n Roll and ELEVEN when it appears) and just keep on buying them as they appear.
 
#2,796 ·
PWG DDT4 2014

Best Friends vs Rockness Monsters - **3/4
UNBREAKABLE FUCKING MACHINES vs PPRay - ***
Candice & Joey vs COLE STEEN COLE - ***1/2
AR Fox & ACH vs Rich Swann & Ricochet - ***1/2
Tommaso Ciampa vs Adam Thornstow - *1/2
Best Friends vs COLE STEEN COLE - ***1/2
Rich Swann & Ricochet vs UNBREAKABLE FUCKING MACHINES - ****1/4 (MOTN)
Chris Hero vs Johnny Gargano vs Drake Younger vs Kyle O'Reilly - ***3/4
Best Friends vs Ricochet & Rich Swann - ***1/4

- It might just be the style but I'm really into PWG now. I love the way most of the matches work. It's kind of different but it's fun.

- The PPRay vs Machines match was fun as hell for what was pretty much a longer squash. Really fun stuff.

- Candice/Joey vs Cole Steen Cole was great too. Really liked the chemistry there.

- ICMG vs Machines was MOTN for me. Crowd was way into it too. I also found my friend on camera during this match.

- Four way started off kinda slow but it picked up and got real fun after a handful of minutes.

- Main event was a solid way to end the tourney. I enjoyed it.
 
#2,804 ·
There's a new Highspots VOD with Davey where they catch up with him. I'm downloading it now, and will have it posted tomorrow. Here's the synopsis:

Long time friend of Highspots.com, Davey Richards sits down with us and catches up. We talk with Davey about his current run with TNA Wrestling. From his tag match with the Hardy Boys to his international tours with the company to even the future TV plans of the company. Hopefully he doesn't get in trouble like he normal does when he does an interview. Davey is know for speaking his mind when he sit down with us and this interview is no exception.
 
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