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. There were no live Dragongate shows on the network this week, so it’s a mixed topic sort of Voice Gate. They lead off talking about the death of Antonio Inoki and the loss it means to the industry, preview Thursday’s Korakuen and following up on last week’s discussion on the State of Dragongate, a look around DGinUSA...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 46 min
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. Case returns to the show this week, and the two spend most of the show discussing the State of Dragongate in terms of Naruki Doi moving to freelance status with the promotion. As well they discuss Dangerous Gate 2022, Talent Development, What The Departures Really Mean, and much more. Then to close out the show, they...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 30 min
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. This week, Mike is flying solo and is here to review Dangerous Gate 2022! He looks at the big picture happenings in Dragongate coming out of their biggest Tokyo show of the year, looks at the business numbers and then breaks down the show match by match to talk about Yuki Yoshioka vs Eita, M3K vs The Iihashis & F...
Sep 21, 2022•1 hr 3 min
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. This week, Case and Mike breakdown and preview the entire Dangerous Gate 2022 card from the big Open the Dream Gate Championship match between Yuki Yoshioka and Eita to Kaito Nagano’s big show debut against Yasushi Kanda. After that, it’s time to look at Dragongate in North America, as they talk about SB KENTo, La Es...
Sep 14, 2022•1 hr 39 min
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. This week on Open The Voice Gate Case and Mike talk about the big topics coming out of a big week of shows in Osaka (9/4) and Tokyo (9/8)! The first big HIGH-END turn! Fathers and Sons collide!! Eita and Yoshioka! Don Fujii in a dress! Excursion takes! And a whole lot more! Our podcast provider, Red Circle, offers th...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr 18 min
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. This week on Open The Voice Gate Case and Mike look at the shows from this weekend in Kobe and Nara and then take listener questions. It’s a sleepy weekend in Dragongate as they have their monthly hometown show and visit Nara for Naruki Doi’s Homecoming, as Voice Gate picks out the best things from the weekend. They ...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 39 min
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. Case and Mike open this week with a wide ranging discussion of the Dragongate FUTURE class and where they place at this time with comparable rookie classes. They touch on all members on it, including the newly debuting Kaito Nagano. They discuss DG’s stop in Fukuoka (8/21) with the second generation war between Ishin...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 52 min
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. Open The Voice Gate returns to discuss Dragongate’s Summer Adventure Festival (8/14). Case and Mike touch on the company’s Osaka business especially in light of the competing shows, the fun and interesting format the Summer Adventure Festival had, generational warfare, and close out the show running down #DGinUSA, di...
Aug 17, 2022•1 hr 29 min
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. Open The Voice Gate returns as Dragongate kicks off their back half of 2022. Case and Mike discuss this week’s (8/10) Korakuen Hall show with the big Eita vs Kzy #1 Contender main event along with the departure of Keisuke Okuda, the Mochizuki Jr vs Ishin Iihashi feud, and a whole lot more! Our podcast provider, Red C...
Aug 12, 2022•1 hr 47 min
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 had their biggest shows of the year and now Open The Voice Gate is back to make sense of Kobe World Weekend 2022! They spend over two hours breaking down Ultimo Dragon’s 35th Anniversary Celebration and Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival 2022 including how KAI, Yuki Yoshioka and Kota Minoura are looking coming ou...
Aug 03, 2022•2 hr 15 min
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. On this impromptu episode of Open The Voice Gate, Case and Mike discuss the news of Kaito Ishida’s departure from Dragongate, how that leaves the company, his prospects, a timeline of his career and more. After that, they close out the show with a final Kobe World Weekend preview, including their thoughts on second n...
Jul 27, 2022•1 hr 47 min
NOTE: This episode was recorded yesterday (7/24) morning, before the announcement of the full Kobe World cards and before today’s announcement of Kaito Ishida’s departure from Dragongate. We will be back later this week to talk about that news and the full cards! 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. After this week’s Kobe Sambo Hall show, the final stop...
Jul 25, 2022•2 hr 9 min
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. This week on Voice Gate, Case and Mike lead off with Dragongate Excursion news including a name not previously mentioned as coming to North America soon! After that, they give a conflicted review on Kyoto (7/17), they talk big picture less than two weeks from Kobe World Weekend, breakdown their top ten matches in Kob...
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 57 min
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. This week on Voice Gate, Case and Mike take a big picture look at Dragongate after the shows in Tokyo (7/7) and Osaka (7/10). They discuss the Dream Gate title scene and two straight years of questionable booking for the top prize over Kobe World Weekends, and the rest of the title picture, M3K, Ben-K, and a look int...
Jul 13, 2022•1 hr 42 min
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. OTVG kicks off Kobe World 2022 month with a big look around the Dragon System! Leading off, Case and Mike discuss the 6/26 Kasukabe Open the Triangle Gate match with Perros Del Mal De Japon defending against Natural Vibes. Then they discuss the first Dragongate show of July from Kobe Sambo Hall including a look into ...
Jul 06, 2022•1 hr 24 min
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. With Dragongate taking a vacation in the Ryukyu Islands, Open the Voice Gate is back to talk about the 6/18 & 6/19 shows in Okinawa. Case and Mike talk about the vibe of these shows, a celebration of Gurukun Mask, Sasha Banks in Dragongate?!?, Kagetora, the 20th anniversary of Impact and the sliding doors of Moto...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr 2 min
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. This week on Voice Gate, Case and Mike look at the three shows from last weekend in Fukuoka (6/11-6/12) as well as turn the clock back to 2010 to discuss the Hanshin Battle: Dragon Gate vs Osaka Pro from 6/18/2010. In Fukuoka, they discuss the now three-way Dream Gate program between champion KAI, King of Gate Yuki Y...
Jun 15, 2022•1 hr 33 min
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 been a HUGE week in the Dragon System and Voice Gate is back with a near two hour episode talking all about it. Case and Mike cover the finals of the 2022 King of Gate tournament and how the future looks for Yuki Yoshioka, talk the earth shattering debut of Ryoto Mochizuki/Mochizuki Jr, Upcoming trips to Toryumo...
Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 53 min
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 jam-packed Voice Gate this week as Case and Mike look all around the Dragon System. For the first hour and a half, they go through Dragongate’s past week, including King of Gate 2nd Round Matches & Quarterfinals, the retirement of Shoya Sato, more fun with Perros, Shuji Kondo is a bad man, and Yuki Yoshiok...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr 46 min
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. Kicking off this jam packed episode, Case and Mike do their reporting with sourcing on the Nosawa/NOAH/DG situation that was brought up on Wrestling Observer shows. They spend about half an hour discussing what they found out, questions about the Observer’s reporting, and every angle possible about this story. After ...
May 24, 2022•1 hr 35 min
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. King of Gate 2022 rolls along and Voice Gate has returned to discuss the second week of the tournament. This week Case and Mike cover Dragongate’s Tajimi, Gifu (5/14) and Kobe Sambo Hall (5/15) shows including first round matches between U-T & Kagetora, Takuma Fujiwara & Ishin Iihashi, & Dragon Dia & ...
May 18, 2022•1 hr 26 min
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. King of Gate 2022 has officially kicked off and Voice Gate is back talking all about Opening Day from Korakuen Hall! (5/11) After such a big first night, Case and Mike spend the entire episode breaking down King of Gate, talk about the 2022 FUTURE class, Strong Machine J, Don Fujii, Keisuke Okuda and more! Our podcas...
May 13, 2022•1 hr 39 min
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. Dead or Alive 2022 is in the books and Case and Mike are back to review it! On this huge episode of Voice Gate, they review Dead or Alive including the superlative Dream Gate match between KAI and Susumu Yokosuka along with the rest of the card and the big news and events happening around it. After that, they conclud...
May 07, 2022•1 hr 56 min
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 Hot Season is upon us! Dead or Alive 2022 is on Thursday, and Open the Voice Gate returns to preview Dragongate’s first big show of the year! This week, Mike is joined by longtime Dragongate fanatic Alan4L (https://twitter.com/Alan4L) to preview the enormous card for Nagoya. They spend nearly two hours breaking d...
May 04, 2022•2 hr 8 min
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 second Korakuen Hall show (4/25) is in the books and the huge events around Jason Lee, Open The Voice Gate has A LOT to talk about this week. Case and Mike discuss the Jason Lee Rights to Negotiate 3-way 6-man Tag and all that happened afterwards. After reviewing the rest of Korakuen, they give an initial preview...
Apr 27, 2022•1 hr 37 min
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. On this week’s Voice Gate, Case and Mike review the Fukuoka Doubleheader (4/17)! As it’s all roads to DEAD OR ALIVE, Case and Mike put the weekend’s shows in context of the first Big Five show of the year and Monday’s big Korakuen. As well, they discuss an upcoming Voice Gate segment, they have odes to Shun Skywalker...
Apr 20, 2022•1 hr 46 min
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. On this week’s Voice Gate, Case and Mike review Final Burst Out - K-ness Forever (4/7), Dragongate’s themed first April Tokyo Korakuen Hall show, as well as from the YouTube Digests (4/10) SB KENTo vs Takuma Fujiwara from Okayama They discuss the retirement/graduation match as a Dragon System genre, the next step in ...
Apr 13, 2022•1 hr 37 min
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. On this week’s Voice Gate, Case and Mike look into the big house show and homecoming matches of the last few weeks in Dragongate! After that, they conclude their retrospective of the career of K-ness, as it’s time to talk about Absolutamente and the biggest match of early Toryumon as Dragon Kid faces his archrival Da...
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr 28 min
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. Joining Case and Mike on this special episode of Voice Gate is the English voice of Dragongate, Jae (http://twitter.com/dg_jae)! As Jae is his biggest fan, we spend almost a full hour going through the career of K-ness, including pre-Toryumon tidbits, K-ness’ relationship with Kzy and a whole lot more. The remaining ...
Mar 28, 2022•2 hr 28 min
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 Dragongate’s last live show of the month in Kobe (3/19) and Voice Gate is here to talk all about it. Case and Mike spend the first half of the show talking about the magic the promotion is putting together right now in their home base. After that, they review two matches available on Dragongate’s Youtube from Sa...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 25 min
