Infinity 247 or Loser Leaves Unit 2

January 19, 2012 – Tokyo, Japan

Open the Dream Gate Champion: CIMA
Open the Triangle Gate Champions: Naruki Doi, Naoki Tanisaki & Kzy
Open the Brave Gate Champion: Ricochet
Open the Twin Gate Champions: BxB Hulk & Akira Tozawa
Open the Freedom Gate Champion: Johnny Gargano
Open the United Gate Champions: CIMA & Ricochet

The Doi Darts have been running roughshod in Dragon Gate. They have a stranglehold on the Triangle Gate belts and Naoki Tanisaki has stolen Rich Swann’s Owarai Gate belt. But in a non-title match on December 20th the Darts were beaten by Kenichiro Arai, Taku Iwasa & K-ness. The Darts then defended their titles against Gamma, Shingo Takagi and Super Shenlong on January 8th. In that match Gamma dropped Tanisaki on his shoulder, injuring him. It was feared that Tanisaki would be out for a very long time, putting the Darts in jeopardy for their title match against Iwasa, Arai ad K-ness. Kzy and Doi though assure everyone that Tanisaki will be there.

Naruki Doi © {BW}, Kzy © {BW} & “Naoki Tanisaki” © {BW} vs. Kenichiro Arai, Taku Iwasa & K-ness [Open the Triangle Gate Championship Match]
Tanisaki is actually Tomahawk TT dressed up to look almost exactly like Tanisaki, with his gear, arm in a sling and shoulder tattoo. Arai is furious. TT looks a million times less stupid as Tanisaki than he did in his TT gear. He throws off his sling and says he’s fine to wrestle. Everyone brawls to start. “Tanisaki” and Doi hit a double back elbow on K-ness for 2. “Tanisaki” hits a facebuster. He hits two more for 2. Kzy hits a low blow. K-ness hits Doi with an enziguiri. Arai hits a kneedrop. K-ness hits a dropkick. Arai hits a double stomp. He and Iwasa hit “Tanisaki” with a double wheelbarrow suplex. Arai hits a DDT on Kzy. Kzy hits the B-Boy. Iwasa hits a splash. Arai hits a double stomp. The babyfaces have awesome offense. Doi shoves Arai off the top to the floor. “Tanisaki” hits the DH and the Casanova for 2. K-ness saves Iwasa from the Implant. He hits Doi with a high kick. Doi gets a schoolboy for 2. K-ness gets a crucifix pin for 2. He hits the Kaishaku for 2. Arai hits the skyscraper double stomp. He hits a diving headbutt for 2. “Tanisaki” hits the cross suplex and Kzy hits KZ Time for 2. Doi hits the Doi 555 and the Bakatare Sliding Kick for 2. K-ness hits an enziguiri and Arai hits the Alabamaslam. K-ness hits a facebuster and Iwasa hits a neckbreaker over K-ness’ knees for 2. He hits a backbreaker. Kzy gets his face kicked off. He catches Arai with a roll up for 2. Arai hits a big boot. He hits one on Doi and “Tanisaki” as well. He hits the Hanshin Tiger Suplex. Iwasa hits the Noshigami. K-ness goes for the Darkness uster but Kzy starts leveling everything in site with plunder, drawing a disqualification at 10:10 shown of 14:19. Good match until the crappy finish, with TT doing well as Tanisaki and Kzy and the babyfaces wrestling their asses off.
Rating: ***¼

After the match Kzy tosses Referee Yagi to the floor. Yagi gets on the microphone and strips the Darts of the titles in light of the cheating and TT blatantly not being Tanisaki. Doi and Tanisaki argue after the fact. They better get it together before their upcoming Loser Leaves Unit match in a few days.

Super Shenong & Kotoka vs. Eita Kobayashi & Yosuke Watanabe saw the rookies finally wearing regular gear. They hit Kotoka with consecutive moonsaults for the win.

Don Fujii vs. Chihiro Tominaga saw Tominaga put up a fight, but eventually fall to the HIMEI. After the match Shenlong came out and attacked Tominaga. He berates Tominaga on the microphone. Tominaga puts him in the cross armbreaker, getting a nice pop. Fujii books a match between the two for February 9th.

Masaaki Mochizuki {J3} & Cyber Kong vs. Masato Yoshino {J3} & Gamma {J3} ended when Yoshino made Kong tap to the Sol Naciente. After the match Yoshino finally accepts Cyber Kong as an ally, shaking his hand.

Dragon Kid {J3}, Shingo Takagi {J3}, YAMATO {J3}, Jimmy Susumu {J3} & Jimmy Kagetora {J3} vs. CIMA {BW}, BxB Hulk {BW}, Akira Tozawa {BW}, Genki Horiguchi {BW} & Ryo Saito {BW}
Loser of the fall is out of their unit. Junction Three attacks before the bell. Everyone brawls. CIMA and Susumu fight into the crowd, foreshadowing their upcoming title match. Order is restored in the ring with CIMA and Saito hitting Kagetora with double stomps for 2. CIMA hits the Sodomy Dropkick. Hulk hits a spin kick for 2. CIMA hits the hanging double stomp, chair-assisted. It gets 2. MARAHA! ISAPPA! Tozaw and Hulk kick the crap out of Kagetora. They and CIMA hit sentons for 2. Kagetora catches Horiguchi with an enziguiri. He hits Saito with the leaping lariat. Takagi counters the Nakayubi to a suplex. He hits the Complete DDT on Darkside Tension. He and YAMATO chop Tozawa. YAMATO hits a dragon screw. He misses the dropkick and eats a bicycle kick. YAMATO hits an enziguiri. Tozawa hits a sick German suplex for 2. CIMA hits Susumu with the Superdrol. He hits the Venus and Iconoclasm. Susumu blocks the Mad Splash with a super exploder and gets 2. I cannot wait for their title match. The Jimmyz double-team CIMA. CIMA hits a suicide dive on Susumu. Hulk hits a big boot on Takagi. He hits the H Edge. He blocks the Blood Fall kicks Takagi’s face. He sweeps the leg and hits an axe kick. He hits the EVO for 2. Takagi hits a lariat. YAMATO hits a dropkick. Susumu hits a lariat. Kid hits the Messiah, his first move of the match, for 2. Hulk blocks the Pumping Bomber. Takagi hits a nasty back elbow. Dude is PISSED. He hits the Pumping Bomber. Susumu hits the Jumbo no Kachi for 2. Takagi hits MADE IN JAPAN for 2. Saito hits the pop-up German suplex. Susumu gets wrecked in the corner. CIMA and Tozawa hit a dropkick/back suplex combo for 2. Kid hits Horiguchi with the stack Frankensteiner. Takagi hits the DVD. He hits a powerbomb for 2. Kagetora hits the flying elbowdrop. YAMATO hits a frog splash for 2. This match is rockin! Horiguchi counters the Galleria to the Backslide from Heaven for 2. He blocks the Ultra Hurricanrana and hits the Beach Break. CIMA hits the Meteora for 2 when Susumu makes the save. CIMA and Tozawa kick YAMATO. CIMA hits the Tokarev. Hulk hits an axe kick. Tozawa hits a German suplex for 2. YAMATO blocks the High Tension Suplex and gets a roll up for 2. He puts on the anklelock and then the sleeper hold. Tozawa starts to fade but Kzy puts a burlap sack over the referee’s face before he can see Tozawa tap out. Doi and Yasushi Kanda destroy YAMATO. Kzy tries but Cyber Kong stops him. Kong holds Kzy for Masaaki Mochizuki’s Sankakugeri, but then tosses Mochizuki to the floor! Kong destroys all of Junction Three. He hits Kagetora with the Cyber Bomb. Tozawa and Hulk welcome Kong back into the fold. CIMA goes to do the same but Kong wipes him out with the Pineapple Bomber! Tozawa hits CIMA with a chair and Hulk hits him with the First Flash! Hulk drags Kagetora onto CIMA and forces the referee to make the count at 17:53 shown of 32:13. CIMA has been betrayed and is out of Junction Three.

The finish was a little much, but the rest of the match was absolutely insane stuff. I’ve tended to find matches that go thirty minutes before a double-cross annoying, but in this case I’m fine with it because the Blood Warriors do take pleasure in beating up Junction Three just as much as they would in beating up CIMA. This is our first real match of the year candidate, and I hope the rest of the year keeps up this kind of energy.
Rating: ****¼

The Warriors keep attacking CIMA after the match until Don Fujii makes the save. He carries CIMA to the back. Tozawa says they don’t need or want CIMA in the group and they’ll bring the Dream Gate title back into the Blood Warriors. Horiguchi asks Tozawa what he thinks he’s doing. Tozawa hits him with a bicycle kick and spits at him. Saito runs to Horiguchi’s aid. Mochizuki has words for Tozawa and Kong. Tozawa grows impatient and suggests that the feud come to an end next month in a fourteen-man tag losing group disbands match. Mochizuki agrees. YAMATO and Takagi confront Kong. Kong responds by making the loser disbands match a Yoshida Style Elimination Match, his namesake.

The show ends with a Blood Warriors backstage promo, establishing Tozawa as the leader of the group.