The Dragon Gate show tonight was exceptional. The wrestling was too knotch, the comedy was on, and the atmosphere is something to experience.
First note, I didn't bring my laptop and its a little difficult to flip back to cards etc so I won't breakdown all the matches anything. Instead some random thoughts and highlights.
First just a cool note. I go to a lot of DGUSA and all the guys that come over made it a point to come to my seat and say hi. This was easy because the DG office helped us get front row months ago but other companies just asked us to buy day of. Tozawa even as the heel came over during his entrance and gave a little fist bump. It felt like I was a rock star and you could hear murmurings from people around after every time trying to figure out what was up. When Tozawa got to his turnbuckle I raised a respect fist and he nicely shot me the bird and smiled which was hilarious.
Next, there is a lot of women. Like they may outnumber the men. I wish we had that dynamic at indies in the states. I was talking to Ricochet after and they looked like they wanted to eat him.
Both Gamma and Naruki Doi had their pants pulled down and butts exposed. That's two more than I expected/hoped for.
Don Fuji had two different side characters that he was tonight that got unmasked. That was a funny running joke.
The match with Dragon Kid made me miss him coming over. I also haven't seen Shingo live in almost three years and he's still a beast.
Great first night of wrestling. Also a very cool thing is in the staircase at Korakuen. People have written all along the walls and steps so there's dates of shows, company names, and other wrestling words. It makes it feel like a classic rock venue or something.