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Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. A somewhat summer break is over and Open The Voice Gate is back to talk Dragongate’s Buyuden Zero Vol 7 (7/23) and Kobe Sambo Hall (7/27) shows. They discuss the build to Shun Skywalker vs Madoka Kikuta at Dangerous Ga...

It’s the heralding of a new era of Those Days with the introduction of Kaientai! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) discuss the end of the summer of 1994 for Michinoku Pro with focus on the televised shows from Fukushima (9/15/94) and Aomori (9/29), and Sasuke doing Japanese David Letterman, Sasuke vs Liger in MichiPro?, and how the company responded to...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. Dragongate’s biggest show is in the rear mirror and Open The Voice Gate is back to talk all about Sunday’s Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival show! Case and Mike take time to unpack YAMATO vs Shun Skywalker from all angles in...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. To preview Dragongate’s biggest show of the year, Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival 2025, OTVG welcomes back Jae Church (@dgjae.bsky.social‬) to preview this Sunday’s (7/13) spectacular. They discuss 7/3’s Korakuen Hall show...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. Open The Voice Gate is back to talk about the Shun Skywalker situation, the full tentative Kobe World 2025 card, and a fun weekend in Kobe including Prime Zone+. After getting through modern Dragongate, Case and Mike s...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. Open The Voice Gate returns to discuss Dragongate and their road to Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival 2025! After the weekend of shows in Kyoto (6/14) and Hakata (6/15), the title situation at Kobe World is a lot more clear...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. Open The Voice Gate is back to discuss the big Dragongate week in Tokyo Korakuen Hall with the first time Dragongate ever had four title defense on a Korakuen show (6/4) as well as the next night (6/5) with El Desperad...

Welcome to Those Days: A Michinoku Pro Retrospective! After a spring that put The Great Sasuke and Michinoku Pro on the map, it’s time to see how the wrestling world followed up with this edition of Those Days! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) discuss the immediate fallout of the first Super J Cup and Ota Ward Gym with Michinoku Pro continuing to appe...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. Voice Gate is back to discuss Dragongate’s big trip to Sapporo, 30 under 30 and a whole lot more. Case and Mike take stock of three shows in Hokkaido including how Dragongate is building towards their giant Korakuen Ha...

Welcome to Those Days: A Michinoku Pro Retrospective! There are some events in wrestling history that we can measure before the event and then everything after. This time on Those Days, Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) discuss the lead up to the first Super J Cup and then the historic show from Sumo Hall. They discuss Super J Cup and their fandom, the...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. Open The Voice Gate begins this week with their thoughts on the life of Sabu and how he related to their wrestling fandom and the Dragon System. After that, Case and Mike break down the huge “Hopeful Gate” Dragongate K...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. The final Dead or Alive is in the books and Open The Voice Gate is back to talk all about it. The Six Way Apuestas Cage Match was Dragongate’s last match in the building and Case and Mike spend the lionshare of the sho...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. Voice Gate is joined by Jae Church (https://bsky.app/profile/dgjae.bsky.social) to preview Monday’s Dead or Alive show! For over three hours Jae, Mike and Case preview Dragongate’s farewell to Dolphins, discuss the ram...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. Leading off the show, Case and Mike discuss the passing of Takashi Okamura and his position in Dragon System history, as a promoter and figurehead. They then discuss Dragongate’s final stop in Osaka (4/27) before Dead...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case ( https://twitter.com/_inyourcase ) and Mike ( https://twitter.com/fujiiheya ) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. They managed to survive Las Vegas without incident, so Case and Mike are back to talk about Vegas, DGUSA, DG in Kobe (4/19) and a whole lot more! They catch up about their Mania weekend experience before breaking d...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. For the first time ever, Case and Mike are in-person with their thoughts on Dragongate USA Rebirth! They talk about their experience at DGUSA’s first show in eleven years, their impressions of the show, seeing some wre...

Welcome to Those Days: A Michinoku Pro Retrospective! Welcome to 1994! Case ( https://twitter.com/_inyourcase ) and Mike ( https://twitter.com/fujiiheya ) begin this episode discussing 1993 Awards for Michinoku Pro and take stock of the first calendar year for the promotion. Then it’s time to get into 1994, as the company takes a winter break in Tohoku, they travel to Tokyo Korakuen Hall and Osaka...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. With the big Gate of Passion Korakuen Hall (4/7) show in the books, OTVG is back to talk about the road to DEAD or ALIVE! The final Dragongate Cage Match in Aichi Prefectural Gym is booked after the Z-Brats vs D’Courag...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. As Dragongate concluded the 2025 Rey de Parejas this Sunday in Kobe (3/30), Open The Voice Gate is back to talk about the final night! With an unique situation for the knockout stage, Case and Mike discuss the rise of...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. SSW Quest IV is in the books and Open The Voice Gate is back to talk all about it! Case and Mike give a history of the DG side produce shows and discuss prominent eras for wrestlers within the Dragon System. They revie...

Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) lead off this episode discussing the earth-shattering 1993 Antonio Inoki Embezzlement Scandal and the dissolving of his relationship with Hisashi Shinma and the end of the Showa-era Post-War Economic Miracle. From there, Michinoku Pro enters the fall of 93 in a deeper relationship with Atsushi Onita’s FMW, the Indie Wo...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. Case and Mike get back into Dragongate mode with an impromptu 30 under 30 discussion before reviewing Rey De Parejas action in Saitama, Mie, Hiroshima and Nagoya, previewing SSW Quest IV, and taking a look at the Drago...

Welcome to Those Days: A Michinoku Pro Retrospective! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) lead off this episode discussing Michinoku Pro coming out of their first tour and Sasuke & Delfin’s complicated and deteriorating relationship with the ownership of Universal. Then, they discuss the elements leading to the collapse of Universal and try to give a...

Welcome to Those Days: A Michinoku Pro Retrospective! On this first episode of Those Days, Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) lead off the show with the format, why a Michinoku Pro podcast, the Voice Gate schedule for the next few weeks and other notes. From there, it’s time to talk about the events that led to the launch of Michinoku Pro, the first eve...

Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate. It’s been a busy March so far in Dragongate and Open The Voice Gate is back to talk all about it. Case and Mike lead off talking about YAMATO vs Kzy before discussing Yuki Yoshioka’s return, Dia Inferno reemerging, the...