Dragon Gate: Infinity #2
By: Magnus Donaldson
 

This is the second episode of Dragon Gate's TV show, this week looking at post PPV events and the fall out on recent show.

Match 1: Florida Brothers vs. Do Fixer (Genki Horiguchi, Naoki Tanisaki)
This match is completely an excuse to make fun of Genki's hair loss. It's also an excuse for some more Florida Brother comedy.
The match is clipped on this occasion, but what we see is very funny. The best part has to be when the ref can't stop doing the
 Florida Brothers pose (carrying on for around a minute after everyone else had stopped). The Florida Brothers win by DQ as per usual
 when Tanisaki accidentally hat the ref with a Dropkick- * for wrestling, **** for comedy

Match 2: Glove Match: TARU vs. Shogo Takagi
I take it a Glove match is essentially a boxing match with wrestling rules. There wasn't a lot to this match to be honest: just average stuff with
 the two working a couple of punches in with wrestling holds. TARU won it in less than two minutes with the TARU Driller- 1/2*

Match 3: TARU vs. Naoki Tanisaki
Not much to see here, essentially just some clips TARU won it though with the TARY Driller- 1/4*

Match 4: Susumu Yokosuka vs. Naoki Tanisaki
As before, this was just some clips of the final minute or so. Yokosuka won here with the Yokosuka Cutter- 1/4*

Match 5: Elimination Rules- Crazymax (CIMA, SUWA, Fuji) vs. Italian Connection (Milano Collection AT, YOSSINO, Anthony W. Mori)
 vs. Do Fixer (Magnum Tokyo, Dragon Kid & Genki Horiguchi)
Your typical three way tag craziness. Lots of multi man spots, including a eight man sleeper spot leading to Genki getting smacked in the face
 with an elastic wire of some sort. Genki being beaten up was as fun as it always is, with lots of holds working on the hair. Fujii takes about
 a million chops from everyone in the match, followed by Magnum being hat in the corner by everyone (including his own team mates).
 It's just a shame a lot of this was clipped as what was saw was great. Genki eliminated the Italian Connection with the Backslide from
 Heaven on Mori, and he used the same to pin CIMA to win the match- *** (it'd probably reach ***1/4-1/2 if it was in full)

Match 6: CIMA vs. Genki Horiguchi
This match is obviously a result of Genki's win over CIMA in the previous match. It was a solid match overall, but it never felt like it got out of
 first gear until the final minute or so. It was still a perfectly watchable match though, with good, solid back and forth wrestling throughout,
 and great reversals towards the end. CIMA won it with the Schwein- **1/2

Match 7: Final M2K (Masaaki Mochizuki, Second Doi, Susumu Yokosuka) vs. Crazymax (Catcher Fuji, CIMA, SUWA)
Catcher Fujii is essentially Don Fujii in baseball gear, mocking Second Doi. A solid six man tag, but nothing special compared with your regular
 DG six man other than the final few minutes. There were some nice reversals in this match though, in particular the stuff involving CIMA and
 Yokosuka. Doi was worked over for a while, but this had little effect as he was quickly able to tag Mochi. We then can some good, quick wrestling
 towards the end, with everyone hitting their big moves, before Yokosuka pinned CIMA following a Lariat. Dull until the final five minutes or so
 where it got pretty good, so a good match overall- **3/4

Match 8: Do Fixer (Dragon Kid, Magnum TOKYO) vs. Italian Connection (Milano Collection AT, YOSSINO)
The match never got properly started essentially, as Aagen Iisou ran in and caused the match to go to a no contest.
 This would then lead to the next match- n/r

Match 9: Magnum Tokyo, YOSSINO, Dragon Kid, Milano Collection AT vs.
Aagen Iisou (Brother YASSHI, Shuji Kondo, Touru Owashi, Takuya Sugawara)
Great match right here, with a lot of heat thanks to the strong heel/face dynamic. The first few minutes went at a hectic pace with lots
 of double team moves, before Dragon Kid got worked over by the heel stable. He was overpowered by Kondo and Owashi in particular,
 tossing him around with ease while YASSHI and Sugawara didn't get involved a whole lot. Dragon made the lucha tag eventually and the match
 reach a quick pace once again, with everyone going for their signature moves and a lot of double team moves being pulled off. Miscommunication
 with YASSHI and Sugawara lead to Sugawara taking three finishers, getting pinned with the Ultra Huracan rana- ***

Match 10: Italian Connection (Milano Collection AT, YOSSINO) vs. Aagen Iisou (Brother YASSHI, Touru Owashi)
Milano is busy posing at the start of the match he doesn't see his partner being attacked. The Italian Connection dominate YASSHI early on,
pulling him around by his hair and using a number of double team and high flying moves on him. YASSHI soon got his revenge with a
 Double Groin Claw, which allowed Owashi to tag in, and the heels soon isolated YOSSINO. He got the hot tag and this allowed him and
 Milano to pull off some more double teams. Milano got the AT Lock on YASSHI, but the ref was distracted, then YOSSINO locked the
 Sol Naciente on Owashi, but he escaped. Owashi would go on to pin YOSSINO with the Powerbomb. Solid tag main event- **1/4

A great TV episode overall. Two *** matches plus a great comedy match and a **3/4 match is good by any stretch of the imagination.
 The stuff with Tanisaki (other than the tag match) and the Glove match are all you should skip. Highly recommended

Overall Rating of Event: 8/10