{"id":29065,"date":"2018-10-23T21:03:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T01:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=29065"},"modified":"2020-06-09T17:59:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:59:19","slug":"daga-to-dragon-gate-and-puma-king-to-ddt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/10\/23\/daga-to-dragon-gate-and-puma-king-to-ddt\/","title":{"rendered":"Daga to Dragon Gate and Puma King to DDT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two big Mexican stars are headed to Japan. Former AAA Cruiserweight Champion and star with <strong>The Crash Lucha<\/strong> and <strong>Major League Wrestling (MLW)<\/strong>, <strong>Daga<\/strong> will debut for <strong>Dragon Gate<\/strong>, while former <strong>Consejo Mundial Lucha Libre (CMLL)<\/strong>\u00a0luchador (and <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/10\/11\/indie-watch-the-rise-of-puma-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">current indie breakout star<\/a>)\u00a0<strong>Puma King<\/strong> will debut for <strong>Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) Pro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddtpro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ddtpro<\/a> debut in Japan \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5 <br \/>\u2022D King Grand Prix 2019\u2022<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheCoolestCat?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TheCoolestCat<\/a> \ud83d\udc49\ud83d\ude3c\ud83c\udfb8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V5L2DKGkp7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/V5L2DKGkp7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd Puma King (@PumaKingOficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PumaKingOficial\/status\/1054063349573525504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Puma King joins<strong> Sammy Guevara<\/strong> and <strong>Mike Bailey<\/strong> as the only <em>gaijins<\/em> in the tournament.\u00a0 King will debuting in Japan, which is a big step-up in his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/07\/16\/puma-king-announces-his-departure-from-cmll\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">career since leaving the biggest wrestling promotion in Mexico<\/a>, <strong>CMLL<\/strong>, for the indie wrestling scene. Just last week, Puma King appeared on the latest episode of IMPACT Wrestling. The nephew of <strong>Negro Casas<\/strong> and brother of <strong>Kid Tiger<\/strong> is having a incredible run. He&#8217;s been wrestling regularly in Mexico for <strong>AAA Worldwide<\/strong>. Moreover, his <strong>Pro Wrestling Guerrilla<\/strong> match with <strong>Flamita<\/strong> left everybody with their mouth opens. Guevara is currently the AAA Cruiserweight Champion and has established himself as a favorite with his high flying maneuvers in <strong>The Crash Lucha Libre,\u00a0<\/strong>and made his own DDT Pro debut this past summer.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eita_Luchador\/status\/1053995268335489025<\/p>\n<p>In another Japanese promotion, former <em>Perros del Mal<\/em> member, Daga will be joining the <em>RED<\/em> stable in <strong>Dragon Gate\u00a0<\/strong>(the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/10\/02\/breaking-pacs-back-neville-makes-return-to-dragon-gate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">same group that PAC returned to recently<\/a>). Commanded by Eita, Daga will now be wrestling alongside <strong>Yasushi Kanda<\/strong> &amp; <strong>KAZMA SAKAMOTO<\/strong> to go against\u00a0<strong>Kagetora<\/strong>, <strong>Yosuke Santa Maria<\/strong>, <strong>U-T<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Kota Minoura<\/strong> on Destiny Gate 2018. This is Daga&#8217;s first trip to Japan. The former AAA wrestler and The Crash Lucha Libre wrestler <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/10\/09\/indie-watch-daga-the-technical-luchador\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is one of the best technicians in the world<\/a>, with him recently delivering classics with guys like <strong>Hechicero<\/strong>, <strong>Matt Riddle<\/strong> and even <strong>Dragon Lee<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Pete Dunne<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The recent rise of Mexican wrestlers is a testament of the deep pool of talents that surrounds the historic territory. It use to be just one style of wrestling and from CMLL and AAA, but now, there&#8217;s a variety of talent exploding in different parts in the world. Good luck to both <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/10\/09\/indie-watch-daga-the-technical-luchador\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daga <em>&#8220;The Technical Luchador&#8221;<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/10\/11\/indie-watch-the-rise-of-puma-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Puma King<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two big Mexican stars are headed to Japan. Former AAA Cruiserweight Champion and star with The Crash Lucha and Major League Wrestling (MLW), Daga will debut for Dragon Gate, while former Consejo Mundial Lucha Libre (CMLL)\u00a0luchador (and current indie breakout star)\u00a0Puma King will debut for Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) Pro. My @ddtpro debut in Japan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":29246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6505,2,13],"tags":[3729,2941,676,1987,2828,2350,3730,2895,2943,770],"class_list":["post-29065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ddt-pro","category-featured","category-international","tag-aaa-worldwide","tag-cima","tag-cmll","tag-daga","tag-ddt","tag-dragon-gate","tag-eita","tag-puma-king","tag-t-hawk","tag-the-crash"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}