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. As Dragongate closes out their 2023, OTVG returns to talk all things Dragon System in a somewhat of a Holiday Buffet episode. With Korakuen yesterday (12/19) and Final Gate on Christmas Eve, Case and Mike make sense of the Tokyo farewell to 2023, Jacky Funky Kamei’s elevation, the status of the Dream Gate going into ...
Dec 21, 2023•2 hr 20 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 returns with a somewhat catch-up, somewhat big topics episode of the program leading off with the Tokyo Sports Awards and the Dragongate issue within, the title programs going into Final Gate, some GLEAT talk as they close our their year, Mocchy in USA, Ryoya Tanaka: could be Rookie of the Year and a whole lot m...
Dec 13, 2023•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. Case and Mike are back from their holiday and are here to talk about the end of November in Dragongate! Leading off the show this week, they discuss the 2023 Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame results as it pertains to the Dragon System and Lucharesu representation. After that, they use 11/23’s “Genki Horiguchi 25th Ann...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 49 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 the heels of Gate of Destiny, Dragongate rolls back into Tokyo with a huge Korakuen Hall (11/9) show and Voice Gate is here to discuss it! Sometimes all you need is a BIG HUG as Mante and HYO showed us after the 4 v 1 handicap match and Dragongate getting back to some of their storyline magic. Ryoya Tanaka joined ...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 21 min
The Gate of Destiny is in Dragongate’s rear view and OTVG is back to review the company’s biggest Osaka show of the year! Case and Mike give their thoughts on Kikuta vs Shimizu for the Dream Gate, D’Courage vs M3K, Yoshiki Kato and Ryoya Tanaka and more! Our podcast provider, Red Circle, offers the listeners the option to sponsor the show. Click on “Sponsor This Podcaster” at https://redcircle.com/shows/open-the-voice-gate and you can donate a single time, or set up a monthly donation to Open th...
Nov 08, 2023•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. Gate of Destiny is this Sunday and OTVG is spending the entire episode previewing Dragongate’s biggest Osaka show of the year! They lead off discussing the six month build to Kikuta vs Shimizu III, the arguments for either walking out of Edion Arena Osaka as Dream Gate Champion and every angle of the big main event! ...
Nov 02, 2023•1 hr 17 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 concludes their October with a fun weekend in Fukuoka and Kagoshima (10/22-23) and Case and Mike have a lot to say about it! After his return earlier this month, Luis Mante’s big weekend leads to OTVG trying to figure out his next unit. Fukuoka meant a close to Yoshiki Kato’s Five Match Series and the guys...
Oct 25, 2023•1 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. The title card of Gate of Destiny is now clear for Dragongate and Open The Voice Gate is back to talk all about it. Has a somewhat surprising result in Kobe (10/14-15) waivered Kikuta vs Shimizu? The Brave Gate has been defended and who is walking into Osaka as champ and who is he facing? What’s the deal with Don Fuj...
Oct 19, 2023•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. The Dragon System has had their first big week in October and Open The Voice Gate is back to talk all about it! Luis Mante (ex Diamante) is back and suddenly everything changes! A new induction on the list of Punch matches as we think he’s finally figured this wrestling thing out. The reality of Gate of Origin along ...
Oct 11, 2023•2 hr 7 min
It’s finally October in Dragongate and Open The Voice Gate is back! Case and Mike lead off the show discussing the unfortunate injury bug that’s hit the promotion. From there, they discuss a fun Kobe (9/30) show that closed out the month, Mike has an impromptu performance review for one Ryo Saito, they discuss the now finalized Kikuta vs Shimizu match, and talk Buyuden and 25th Anniversary Memorial Matches and the legacies of the participants! Our podcast provider, Red Circle, offers the listene...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 38 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. Bad Luck is the topic at hand this week on Open The Voice Gate as Case and Mike discuss the sudden injury of T.N. Revolucion at Dragongate’s Osaka (9/24) show. They discuss the moments where the company has been especially snakebitten over recent years and how these events end up changing the complexion of the promot...
Sep 27, 2023•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. As September ends up being one of Dragongate’s quieter months in recent memory, Open The Voice Gate returns to talk all about the Dragon System. Mike and Case attempt to make sense of the lack of programs in the promotion as they discuss the highlights and lowlights of a fun Kyoto (9/16) stop including T.N. Revolucio...
Sep 19, 2023•1 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. Welcome to TN Talk, the one week rebrand of Open The Voice Gate where Case and Mike talk all about the debut of TN Revolución (nee Takuma Nishikawa) among all the other comings and goings in Dragongate. They discuss the main event of the September 7th Korakuen Hall show, a ranking of the FUTURE era with a perspective...
Sep 13, 2023•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. Open The Voice Gate kicks off this episode with a long discussion about Kento and Takuma’s surprising appearance at GLEAT’s latest Korakuen Hall show, Case and Mike’s impressions of it, and some reporting coming on the heels of their debut. From there they discuss Takuma Nishikawa’s debut in the main event of Dragong...
Aug 30, 2023•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. Open The Voice Gate returns with an earlier episode to discuss and review Dragongate’s biggest Tokyo show of the year, Dangerous Gate 2023! Case and Mike offer their big picture and business thoughts before getting into the Kikuta vs Minoura Dream Gate main event, YAMATO vs Fujita “Jr.” Hayato, Tomohiro Ishii’s f...
Aug 22, 2023•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. Dangerous Gate 2020, Dragongate’s biggest Tokyo show of the year is this Sunday (8/20) and Open The Voice Gate is here to preview it! Fresh off the heels of winning King of Gate 2023, Kota Minoura is challenging Open the Dream Gate champion Madoka Kikuta in the main event with a 3-Way Twin Gate match, YAMATO vs Fujit...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 32 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 2023 has been crowned and Case and Mike are back to talk all about it. They lead off the show discussing the tournament, Kota Minoura and Big Boss Shimizu. From there they talk about the rapidly approaching Dangerous Gate major show coming up in less than two weeks, discuss a Weekly Pro cover, review the...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 25 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. There’s only one night left in Dragongate’s King of Gate 2023 tournament and Open The Voice Gate is back to talk all about it. Case and Mike have an unplanned immediate segue to this weekend’s GLEAT VER MEGA show before getting into Dragongate’s last week in Tsushima and Yamaguchi. With Thursday’s semi-final and fina...
Aug 02, 2023•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. And then there were five wrestlers remaining in Dragongate’s King of Gate 2023 tournament, and Open The Voice Gate returns to talk about how we got here. It’s quarterfinal action in Kobe (7/22) and Gifu (7/23) last week with Shimizu vs Susumu, Kikuta vs Kondo and the big hometown Yoshioka vs Minoura matches. As w...
Jul 26, 2023•1 hr 45 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 second week of King of Gate 2023! Case and Mike lead off this week with their spoiler free recommendations, then talk about who to keep an eye on through the rest of the tournament and on the road to Dangerous Gate! From there, they review the action from Aichi, Kyoto, Kanazawa and Saitama before lo...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 31 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 King of Gate Season! Open The Voice Gate returns to kick off Dragongate’s big singles tournament. Case and Mike lead off the show with their spoiler free recommendations. After that it’s into Dragongate’s busiest weekend of the year with comprehensive reviews of Korakuen’s King of Gate Kickoff, Buyuden Zero Vol ...
Jul 12, 2023•1 hr 59 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. Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival 2023 is in the rear view and Open The Voice Gate is here to talk all about it. They lead off talking big picture and discussing the business of Dragongate’s biggest show of the year. From there, it’s the Five Way Steel Cage Survival Match and how all five came out of Kobe World Kinen Hall,...
Jul 06, 2023•2 hr 18 min
We are on the doorstep of Dragongate’s biggest show of the year, Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival 2023, and Open The Voice Gate returns to give their last thoughts before July 2nd. Case and Mike spend over an hour and a half previewing and breaking down the entire card including the Steel Cage Survival Five Way main event and Kikuta vs Yoshioka for the Dream Gate. Then to round out the show, they play a special Kobe World edition of Remember That Guy and make second half of 2023 predictions! Our podc...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 41 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 Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival Week and Open The Voice Gate is back with special guest Jae Church, the English voice of Dragongate, for a super-sized episode previewing this year’s show, talking Reiwa Big Six, SBK/Fujiwara, G-Something, and a whole lot more! Our podcast provider, Red Circle, offers the listeners th...
Jun 26, 2023•3 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. With the official announcement of SB KENTo and Takuma Fujiwara’s departure from Dragongate coming over the weekend, Case and Mike spend the first half of the show discussing the news with some new reporting. They discuss the context of the departure and the announcement along with what their exit means for their care...
Jun 21, 2023•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. We are at the final Network stop before Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival and Voice Gate is back to talk all about it. It’s the Mascara Contra Mascara 5 Way Steel Cage Survival match main eventing Dragongate’s biggest show of the year over the Dream Gate title match, and Case and Mike discuss the finalized card and its imp...
Jun 21, 2023•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. We are at the final Network stop before Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival and Voice Gate is back to talk all about it. It’s the Mascara Contra Mascara 5 Way Steel Cage Survival match main eventing Dragongate’s biggest show of the year over the Dream Gate title match, and Case and Mike discuss the finalized card and its imp...
Jun 14, 2023•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. Open The Voice Gate opens this week with a long discussion about SB KENTo and Takuma Fujiwara and their departure from Dragongate. This is a wide-arching discussion based on Case and Mike’s original reporting on the situation and the Observer’s report from June 2nd. They spend close to an hour discussing their timeli...
Jun 07, 2023•2 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. Voice Gate is back to talk about Dragongate’s Osaka return and how the road to Kobe World Pro-Wrestling Festival became more clear as Madoka Kikuta will defend the Dream Gate against D’Courage teammate and former champion Yuki Yoshioka. Case and Mike discuss the July 2nd main event, ramifications, and a quick history...
May 31, 2023•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. Open The Voice Gate returns to make sense of three nights of Hokkaido. Case and Mike lead off with a quick Barry chat before discussing Dragongate’s first Sapporo tripleshot of the year. They try to figure out Kobe World after a meandering weekend of Kzy and BxB Hulk hometown shows, take stock of La Estrella’s return...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 31 min
