H.Y.O vs. Dragon Dia - Dragon Gate Open The Brave Gate Title: Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival 2024
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00:01The 6th match
00:04Heavyweight title match
00:11The 51st Open the Brave Gate champion, Hyo
00:20Up to now, he has defended 7 times
00:23Aiming for the record of the most defeats in history
00:26He is the absolute champion of the new era of Brave Gate
00:36The challenger, Dragon Dyer
00:40He participated in the New Japan Pro-Wrestling Best of the Super Junior
00:45Dragon Dyer, who is popular and has improved his skills
00:506.9, Fukuoka
00:52Today, Dyer is the challenger
00:55I will go to the V-League, where I have the best defense
01:02But there is a man who I have to defeat
01:12As a representative of Dragon Gate, I have to defeat you
01:17The champion of the New Japan Pro-Wrestling Best of the Super Junior
01:20Dragon Dyer, it's you
01:23Do you know why I didn't challenge you until today?
01:29I was waiting for a worthy opponent
01:32You are a heavyweight champion of Dragon Gate?
01:36I can see that
01:38Yes, I have been saying this for a long time
01:41I am the champion of the heavyweight division of Dragon Gate
01:46In order to prove that
01:48On July 21st, in Kobe
01:51I will win the title again
01:55I will be the face of the heavyweight division of Dragon Gate
02:01Open the Brave Gate Championship
02:04Champion Kyo vs Challenger Dragon Dyer
02:31That's going to be a show that overcomes all unit boundaries
02:36No motion boundaries as well
02:39Full reign to book whatever card
02:42Open the Brave Gate Championship time
02:44Here comes the challenger
02:46Representing D-Courage, Dragon Dyer
03:00Open the Brave Gate Championship time
03:03Here comes the challenger
03:06Representing D-Courage, Dragon Dyer
03:09Open the Brave Gate Championship time
03:12Here comes the challenger
03:15Representing D-Courage, Dragon Dyer
03:18Open the Brave Gate Championship time
03:21Here comes the challenger
03:24Representing D-Courage, Dragon Dyer
03:27Dragon Dyer
03:36This is a rematch of the Open the Brave Gate Championship
03:41A rematch from this event two years ago
03:46Challenger D-Courage
03:4925 years old from Nagano Prefecture
03:52The Infinite Karat Diamond, Dragon Dyer
03:57Now the champion, the 51st Open the Brave Gate champion, this will be his 8th defense
04:22since winning the title back on December 5th of last year.
04:33He also got a new ring, entrance gown, look at that, Houston glasses and the shiny white
04:41championship belt, Open the Brave Gate, this will be his what, 6th defense, 8th defense.
04:48You were number 6.
04:49Yeah, I'm still living in the past, the 8th defense.
04:54Living in a world where that match hasn't happened yet, right?
05:01Yeah.
05:04Kyo was actually the one that laid this challenge out, he's the champion, he's made his way
05:15all the way up to 3rd place on the all-time defense list, but felt that Daiya was getting
05:20too much of the attention.
05:31He knows that Daiya has the ability, he knows he has the popularity.
05:38He personally feels that with him as champion, the Brave Gate championship is on the cusp
05:49of a new golden age.
05:53If he were to complete defense number 8, he would be within spitting distance of the defense
05:59record for this championship, that would be 11 defenses by Pac.
06:04And Kyo is looking to break that record.
06:06From 2010 into 2011, a lot of people consider that from 2010 to 2013, we had 3 Brave Gate
06:16champions.
06:17Pac was champion for a year, then it was Ricochet, then it was Dragon Kid.
06:31By putting his name up on the list, by passing those names, 2nd place would be 9 from Dragon
06:39Kid.
06:40And by putting his name on that list, he can restore the Brave Gate to what it was at those
06:50times.
06:51When these two competed for the Brave Gate at this event 2 years ago, it was match 3.
06:56In between two get-everybody-on-the-card tag matches.
07:01But today, it is above the Triangle Gate championship match.
07:07That is a sign of how important this championship has become with Kyo as champion and really
07:18with Daiya as challenger.
07:21The belt has a white strap, the champion is encouraged to dye the championship whatever
07:27color it is.
07:30Whatever color you see fit.
07:34The version of Kyo that won the championship here 2 years ago, Kyo looks back on that now
07:45and hates who he was.
07:47He was on the pre-show match last year, in what he considers to be the worst day of his
07:54life.
07:55He was in the pre-show, he had to watch his good friend, Luis Mate.
08:05We're going to start at 100 and we're going to stay here.
08:08Look at the speed, the head scissors, spin around, spin around.
08:15This has been the common theme, there have been quite a few skirmishes between these
08:20two since this match was made.
08:26That's been the story.
08:27They've traded some pinfalls against each other, the results have been almost split.
08:31But the key point is with each progressive encounter, there's been counters upon counters
08:38for everything.
08:40So really, the end stage of this match may come down to whoever has been able to come
08:47up with something new in secret that their opponent hasn't seen yet.
08:50And Dragon Daya, look at that, he's going to fly!
08:53Daya lands on his feet, and Kyo's going to fly!
08:58The key point, the turning point in Kyo's life.
09:07His grandmother used to say, you know, you will never be able to love and give love until
09:10you love yourself.
09:13And it wasn't until he broke away from Zebrats that he finally started to love himself, love
09:23his friends, love the unit that he was in, be able to accept the love of the fans.
09:30And it's turned him, you know, we used to call him, you know, the great brain.
09:36He was the brain trust of R.E.D. and then of Zebrats, but now not just mind, body, soul,
09:45and heart.
09:46He says this is the best version of himself.
09:48And love conquers all, and it will conquer Daya's ability and popularity in this championship
09:55match.
09:56And Daya rolls away to the outside, tripping the leg, oh!
10:01I have seen that, Hugh has seen that, and a DDT to the leg!
10:07Take the legs away, if Daya can't stand, he can't fight, if Daya can't fly, that takes
10:11away a considerable chunk of his offense.
10:20Hugh is having a title match right now, and his teammate Diamante and Jackie is having
10:25the twin gate match right after this.
10:28Hugh is on his own.
10:30Daya has Yuki Yoshioka, Yoshioka said he would be at ringside.
10:35Yoshioka is here today, definitely.
10:37Yoshioka was still recovering from his detached retina surgery, he had been planning on returning
10:45to action here, but you see him at ringside with the glasses on.
10:50Tanaka is here at ringside, Kiku is here at ringside, Daya now trying to fly, oh, oh, oh!
11:00Is he okay?
11:01The knee.
11:02Is he okay?
11:03It looks like he tweaked something.
11:05Wow, I mean that's, the leg that got DDT'd.
11:08I don't think he tweaked it as much as he just aggravated it.
11:12Just to finish the thought on Yoshioka, I was, you know, he's fine.
11:18You know, he's going to be able to return to the ring, but the doctor told him that
11:21it would be better for him to wait.
11:23That it's still kind of at the point where if he exerts too much, that it could undo
11:30what the surgery did.
11:31I was talking to him up at the merch stand earlier, and he was like, he still can't lift
11:35heavy weights, because you know, sometimes you're in the gym, and you...
11:39You lift heavy weights, you shout.
11:41You lift heavy, and you tighten your face, and your face turns red, and your burst of
11:45blood vessel.
11:46If he did that, it would be very bad.
11:50Trapping the two legs.
11:53Turn around.
11:54Kyo, 26 years old, from Toyohashi, debuted August 14, 2016, so he is coming up on his
12:018th anniversary very soon.
12:03Dragon Dai, 26 years old, from Nagano, he debuted in November 2018.
12:10Dai has held this championship once before, that was in 2022.
12:15Like we mentioned before, he was defeated by Kyo here at this defense, or here at this
12:20event.
12:21As the end of his first reign, he feels this is the most important match of his career.
12:28He considers himself to be the leading man of the Open the Brave Gate division.
12:35He's the protege of Dragon Kid, and much like Dragon Kid was the leading man of the Brave
12:41Gate division for so many years.
12:45But it's not just because he is Dragon Kid's successor.
12:50It's because he said, I'm not going anywhere.
12:54He has watched quite a few other wrestlers, both young and old, who were self-proclaimed
13:02centerpieces of the Brave Gate division, that are no longer with us here in Dragon
13:08Gate.
13:09But Dai is still going to be here.
13:11He will be the one that carries the legacy into our next 25 years.
13:20Still able to get in the head scissors.
13:22A lot of pain, but gets the head scissor out of the corner.
13:26Ooh.
13:27619.
13:28Going to follow up.
13:29Acai Moonsault.
13:32Landed on his feet, but that might have been the worst thing for him.
13:36Yeah.
13:45Landed right on top.
13:46You saw just Dai wasted no time in between the 619 into the Acai Moonsault.
13:52Didn't give Hyo any time to recover.
13:58Or get out of the way.
14:06Might have hurt Hyo's arm.
14:10These two have been, we have portrait signings.
14:15Now this time Dai twists his way in.
14:20We have the portrait signings here at shows and also on the web shop.
14:25We have popularity rankings on social media.
14:28And these two are typically number one and number two.
14:34Hyo is going to try and come up Dai.
14:37Going to go up with him.
14:44Sting of the top rope.
14:45Vampire scissors.
14:48Brings him down, but Hyo fights through Dai.
14:51Fights through Dai.
14:56Dai flipped out of it.
14:57Comes off, spikes him DDT.
14:59Hyo lands on his feet.
15:04There's that twisting side slam.
15:14Hyo had to exert a lot of force to get out of that.
15:16And also maybe delayed reaction on that DDT now.
15:22Both men are down after a series of moves.
15:32Hyo had put away Dai with that move in Osaka.
15:38Either Osaka or Kyoto.
15:43If he had been able to follow up that may have been the end of the match.
15:47Now both of them give it their same time.
15:49Dai is still alive.
15:51Time for chops.
15:53No, for the forearm.
15:54Boom.
16:01Let's see who got a better forearm.
16:03Hyo and Dragon Dai.
16:05Oh, the leg.
16:07Just kick the leg.
16:08That's quite a smart appeal.
16:09Kick his leg out from under his leg.
16:12Dai.
16:13Ooh.
16:14Coming back in.
16:15Springboard's back in with the cutter.
16:21Run up.
16:22Boom.
16:23Zero kick.
16:32Not enough to put Dai away.
16:42Said that a few times now though.
16:44Sometimes it's not just one move.
16:45It's an accumulation of a few.
16:50Hold on.
16:51Going for the Arfa Dai.
16:52Tried to fight.
16:53Tried to get him with a Bible.
16:58Dai.
16:59To the top.
17:00DD.
17:01DD.
17:02DD.
17:03No.
17:07Ooh.
17:09And it's a chop shooter.
17:11Turns him over.
17:12SP shooter.
17:15Wow.
17:19Can't stand back up yet.
17:25That's all right.
17:26Doing the sit down.
17:27Now he got it.
17:28Now he's got it.
17:29Yeah.
17:30Had to reposition to get in there,
17:31but anybody who grew up watching rock matches
17:36knows that's not the easiest hold to put on.
17:38Yeah.
17:39Worked very hard.
17:45Dragon Dai.
17:46Catch the rope.
17:48On the knee side.
17:49And uh-oh.
17:51Wait long.
17:52This is a move he puts you away with.
17:54Sun's out.
17:55Gun's out.
17:56Ooh.
17:57Boom.
17:58Oh, Daiya.
17:59Rolled him up.
18:00Daiya.
18:01Ooh.
18:03Yo.
18:04Easily clears the kick out, though.
18:07Whoa.
18:08Ooh.
18:10Now the stunner.
18:11Samson.
18:12Driver.
18:13To the behind.
18:15Daiya used the momentum to turn it back over.
18:18We're at the 10 minute mark.
18:20Gonna roll through again.
18:23One more time.
18:25Now a double stomp.
18:27Pounces with the double stomp.
18:33I've ate that for a few times.
18:35That double stomp feels like it's gonna break my ribs.
18:41The ribs.
18:42Yo, not the biggest opponent, but the amount of force
18:45he can generate on the sentons and those double stomps
18:50is not to be underestimated.
18:53Now on the second rope.
18:54What's he thinking?
18:55Just a little bit far away.
18:57Lock the target.
18:58Make the line.
18:59Catch the man.
19:00Hunting.
19:01Ooh.
19:02And a cutter from the second rope.
19:05And it's in.
19:06I think it was the arrogant cover.
19:10No weight on the shoulders.
19:12Let Daiya get up.
19:17You need to do it fast.
19:20Holding on.
19:22This is.
19:23Holding the arm.
19:24Wrist clutch backdrop.
19:26That's what.
19:27During his first reign as Brave Gate champion.
19:29That was one of his kill shots.
19:32Not able to lock it in though.
19:33Daiya.
19:34Jumping high kick.
19:39Oh, that's it.
19:41It's locked in.
19:42Yo.
19:43Still kicks out.
19:44Still kicks out.
19:45Dragging that.
19:46Kicks out a cutter from the corner.
19:48Kicks out backdrop.
19:49Maybe starting to wonder what else.
19:51What's he gonna do?
19:52Oh, no way.
19:54Daiya getting up fast.
19:56The leg still pain, but it's okay.
19:59It's time for the DD, DD, DD, TT.
20:03It's time to perch on the middle rope.
20:06Dragging Daiya.
20:07DD.
20:08Hold on.
20:09Boom.
20:10Oh, look at that.
20:11The neck.
20:12That wasn't a headscan.
20:13You gotta come.
20:14You gotta come.
20:15You gotta come.
20:16You gotta come.
20:17You gotta come.
20:18You gotta come.
20:19You gotta come.
20:20You gotta come.
20:21You gotta come.
20:22You're gonna come. You're gonna hop.
20:24Ah! No!
20:26Half a Samson driver!
20:31Rolls through. Reptilian!
20:33Run up!
20:34Spikes in!
20:36New champion!
20:41Just like that!
20:45Wow!
20:46That's so quick that I...
20:52I said at the start that it was gonna take...
20:55Maybe the...
20:56Maybe they're gonna need to come...
20:59Come up with something new to win.
21:01But it was exactly the opposite.
21:02You know, Daiya has had the double cork, the DD-DDT.
21:06A lot of different moves...
21:08Since losing his mask, but it was the one...
21:11The first move that...
21:12On his come up, the Reptilian Rana.
21:16He actually kicks out, but that's already count on the three.
21:21It's like 3.1, he kicks it out.
21:23Bringing back the move that brought him to the dance, the Reptilian Rana.
21:27It brings him his second Open the Brave Gate Championship.
21:43In almost nine month reign, seven defenses...
21:48By Hyo...
21:50Has come to an end, as Dragon Daiya has become the 52nd Open the Brave Gate Champion.
22:14Whether this is a golden age of the Brave Gate or not, I don't know.
22:18But we have definitely entered the diamond age.
22:25As Dragon Daiya once again...
22:36Adrenaline starting to wear off.
22:38Yeah, Yoshioka is there, you gotta...
22:41You have a week off to...
22:43You know, recover from your knee pain.
22:48Dragon Daiya...
22:50New champion, Dragon Daiya.
22:52Hyo was saying he's trying to break the record, but Dragon Daiya proved that...
22:57He's better today.
22:59Better today, I mean...
23:01This is the second time these two have fought over the Brave Gate, and I'm...
23:04I can say with a lot of confidence that it's not the last time.
23:08Yeah.
23:11They're now one and one.
23:14Hyo beat him for the championship two years ago, Daiya...
23:18Is the better man today.
23:22His SAG partner, Yuki Yoshioka...