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 appear in New Japan during their best of the Super Juniors tour, but also wrapping up with FMW as well as a deeper relationship with Tenryu’s WAR. And right as the promotion was on fire and The Great Sasuke more hot than ever…The Great Sasuke announces his retirement?!? And to conclude the summer, we look at the only Michinoku Pro show taped during this period of greater interest: “How About The Great Sasuke - UWA Reunion” from Yahaba on July 30th!

A full match listing of footage covered during this episode can be found at the show post on www.voicesofwrestling.com or in the Open The Voice Gate channel on the VOW Discord.

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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.

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 Hall double header, who is in the conversation at Kobe World and their favorite moments from an excellent weekend. After that, they discuss the Dragon System side of VOW’s 30 Under 30 poll and Mike gives his elevator pitch for every Dragongate wrestler he has on his ballot!

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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 initial proposed tournament bracket, and how across one night The Great Sasuke became a wrestling superstar before talking about the tape trader aspect of this show! Then less than two weeks later, Michinoku Pro is back in Tokyo at a SUPER NO VACANCY FULL HOUSE Ota Ward Gymnasium for one of the most legendary matches in early Michinoku History - The Great Sasuke vs Jinsei Shinzaki II.

Matches and Shows Discussed:

Super J Cup - First Stage - 4/16/94

“Oedo Burns” - 4/29/94

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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.

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 Korakuen Hall (5/9) show with the incredible Gold Class versus Natural Vibes Hyo Contra Hyo main event, Masaaki Mochizuki vs Gianni Valetta, Madoka Kikuta’s first televised DG match as a member of Z-Brats and the build to the huge June Korakuen Doubleheader!

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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.

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 show discussing the match and the ramifications for the six individuals and units coming out of Monday’s main event. As well, they discuss a divisive YAMATO/Jason Lee Dream Gate match, U-T vs Homare for the vacant Brave Gate as well as the rest of the show before previewing Friday’s big Korakuen Hall show!

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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.

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 ramifications of the cage match and booking the rest of the year, the Japanese Wrestling industry, Wrestlemania Weekend, institutional knowledge of hustling and a whole lot more!

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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.

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 or Alive including the Brave Gate tourney, Fujii vs Gianni and the DOA preview matches. To close out the show, they preview Dragongate last show in Dolphins’ Arena, DEAD OR ALIVE 2025 including the Six Way Steel Cage Survival match and three title matches!

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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.

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 down one of the best shows of Mania Weekend: Dragongate X Pro Wrestling Revolution: The Gate of Revolution with the Weekend Standout matches of Lucha Solos vs Los Hermanos a la Jungla and Z-Brats vs Kzy, Ben-K and HYO. They then discuss their thoughts on DGUSA going forward/strategy before talking about what was happening in Kobe while everyone was in America. Case and Mike discuss the Brave Gate tourney, the movement in the DOA Cage Match and Luis Mante vs Jason Lee for a Dream Key before concluding the show with fun mini interviews from Vegas with Kota Minoura and ISHIN!

A special thanks to Ho Ho Lun, ISHIN and Kota Minoura for their time and help in Vegas!

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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.

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 wrestlers live for the first time, PARADOX vs Z-Brats, preview YAMATO vs Rich Swann and much more!

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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 for the first shows outside of Northeast Japan before kicking off their ‘94 campaign in Tohoku! Along the way we see Sasuke’s greatest feud that never happened, “We came to Tokyo to get scammed”, SATO vs Delfin III in Osaka and we kick off one of 1994’s biggest feuds: The Great Sasuke vs Jinsei Shinzaki. 

Matches and Shows Discussed:

2/4/94: Sasuke, SATO, & Shiryu vs. Delfin, Naniwa, & Shinzaki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRnjSECcNPo&feature=youtu.be

3/2/94 WAR: Sasuke & SATO vs. Ultimo & Orihara

https://vkvideo.ru/video548721036_456239210

3/4: SATO vs. Delfin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZwXlSsSJY

3/31/94 Michinoku Pro:

https://vkvideo.ru/video5773044_456243602

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