{"id":89903,"date":"2021-04-21T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=89903"},"modified":"2021-04-21T12:18:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T16:18:28","slug":"gate-of-passion-kobe-sambo-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/04\/21\/gate-of-passion-kobe-sambo-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Dragon Gate The Gate Of Passion Kobe Sambo Hall (04\/22\/21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling<\/strong> will be holding another show in <em>The Gate Of Passion 2021<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>tour<\/em> in Kobe Sambo Hall on April 22, 2021. This is an event that has a return, a continued series of <strong>KAGETORA<\/strong> trying out for different units, and a big championship match.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s take a look at the card for Dragon Gate&#8217;s return to Kobe Sambo Hall<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Undercard:<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\"><strong>Don Fuji<\/strong> and <strong>Jason Lee<\/strong> vs <strong>Genki Horiguchi<\/strong> and <strong>U-T<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\"><strong>YAMATO<\/strong>, <strong>Dragon Kid<\/strong>, and <strong>Ben-K<\/strong> vs <strong>KAI<\/strong>, <strong>SBKENTo<\/strong>, and <strong>Kaito Ishida<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">Royal Sambo 13 Man Battle Royal. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">Main Event: <strong>Shun Skywalker<\/strong>, <strong>Kota Minoura<\/strong>, and <strong>La Estrella<\/strong> vs <strong>Bridgebook Kagetora<\/strong>, <strong>Eita<\/strong>, and <strong>HipHop Kikuta<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Taketo Kamei Comeback Match: KZY, Susumu Yokosuka, and Taketo Kamei vs BxB Hulk, KAZMA Sakamoto, and H\u2022Y\u2022O<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Taketo Kamei<\/strong> is one of the rookies to come out of that outstanding 2020 class last year. However, when his fellow classmates, Hip Hop Kikuta and SBKENTo made the decision to join <strong>R.E.D.<\/strong> he was left alone to figure things out. With Kikuta and SBKENTo on the rise, it was almost like Kamei needed to step up and find himself. He had no unit, but quickly changed that. As he tried out for the new <strong>Natural Vibes\u00a0<\/strong>during the dance auditions that were held recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Both he and U-T made the cut, however, he didn\u2019t see any televised action with the unit. As he suffered an injury during training and has been out most of the year. Now that he is recovered, Natural Vibes is finally at full force. With <strong>KZY<\/strong> promising a full makeover to Kamei one must wonder how Kamei will fit in, and what he will add going forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Open the Brave Gate Championship: Keisuke Okuda(c) vs Punch Tominaga<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Since the tail end of last year, <strong>Punch Tominaga<\/strong> has become somewhat obsessed with <strong>Keisuke Okuda<\/strong>. With Punch trying to play into Okuda\u2019s wheelhouse a bit with the MMA style. Promising to knock out Okuda whenever they met. However, after a series of singles matches things were the same. Okuda either knocked out, or choked out Punch Tominaga in very short time. But, Punch got another chance, and this time it was different.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Punch ended up getting the upset win over Keisuke Okuda via a flash pin on the fifth time of asking. After this win, he challenged Okuda for the Open The Brave Gate Championship. Since that victory Punch has been working very hard to add some submission wrestling into his arsenal to get ready for his title match. Finishing matches as of late with a jumping armbar that he can apply from anywhere. However, his biggest momentum shift came recently in Fukuoka when Punch Tominaga scored yet another pin on Keisuke Okuda. Upsetting the champion in the process. Has Punch made Okuda angry enough where he has put himself in danger? Or has he gotten the Brave Gate Champion off his game, and made him vulnerable enough to where he can sneak away with the title? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. Looking to watch Dragon Gate? All their live shows will be on their steaming service\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dragongate.live\/?param=\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dragon Gate Network<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? Head on over to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/boards\/index.php\" target=\"_self\">LWOS Boards<\/a>\u00a0to engage in conversation with fellow fans!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling will be holding another show in The Gate Of Passion 2021\u00a0 tour in Kobe Sambo Hall on April 22, 2021. This is an event that has a return, a continued series of KAGETORA trying out for different units, and a big championship match.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s take a look at the card for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3712,"featured_media":89908,"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":[6701,6975,2192],"tags":[2350,7630],"class_list":["post-89903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dragon-gate","category-international-wrestling","category-wrestling","tag-dragon-gate","tag-the-gate-of-passion-2021"],"modified_by":"Scott Edwards","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89903","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\/3712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}