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* BadassDecay: KAGETORA. He went from being the BigBad of Wrestling/MichinokuProWrestling (and a strong player in El Dorado) to a low/mid-carder of many humiliating angles in DG.
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** With Wrestling/{{Toryumon}}'s remnants, obviously. The rivalry is mostly symbolic, as these remnants barely exist or have fans today.
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** With Wrestling/{{Toryumon}}'s remnants, obviously. The rivalry is mostly symbolic, as these said remnants barely exist or have fans today.
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** Dragon Gate's famous finisher obsolescence. A casual viewer can be understandbly freaked out when he watches a wrestler receiving seven finishing moves at a row and still kicking out the pin. It's become VindicatedByHistory as many promotions have taken to this in recent years, especially Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and US indies, but even {{Wrestling/WWE}} by way of its NXT brands have taken to the "finisher spam" style, making DG something of a trailblazer.
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** Dragon Gate's famous finisher obsolescence. A casual viewer can be understandbly freaked out when he watches a wrestler receiving seven finishing moves at a row and still kicking out the pin. It's become VindicatedByHistory as Ironically, many promotions have taken to this in recent years, especially Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, US indies, but and even {{Wrestling/WWE}} by way of its NXT brands have taken to the brands, making DG's "finisher spam" style, making DG style something of a trailblazer.
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** Many people resent that Dragon Gate did almost nothing with the few Toryumon X trainees it got access to in 2008, like Wrestling/TakuyaSugi, Takeshi Minamino and Shinjitsu Nohashi. They weren't acknowledged as former Toryumon men storyline-wise to begin with, and only Sugi received a mild push which everybody knew it would go nowhere.
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** Many people resent that Dragon Gate did almost nothing with the few Toryumon X trainees it got access to in 2008, like Wrestling/TakuyaSugi, Takeshi Minamino and Shinjitsu Nohashi. Nohashi (and Hayato Fujita if he counts as one). They weren't acknowledged as former Toryumon men storyline-wise to begin with, and only Sugi received a mild push which that everybody knew it would go nowhere.nowhere. KAGETORA is another example of a X trainee that has been wasted for years and still is.
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* LGBTFanbase: The promotion is rumoredly popular between LGBT people in Japan, probably due to its many pretty boys.
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* LGBTFanbase: The promotion is rumoredly apparently popular between among LGBT people in Japan, probably due to its many pretty boys.
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** Dragon Gate's famous finisher obsolescence. A casual viewer can be understandbly freaked out when he watches a wrestler receiving seven finishing moves at a row and still kicking out the pin.
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** Dragon Gate's famous finisher obsolescence. A casual viewer can be understandbly freaked out when he watches a wrestler receiving seven finishing moves at a row and still kicking out the pin. It's become VindicatedByHistory as many promotions have taken to this in recent years, especially Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and US indies, but even {{Wrestling/WWE}} by way of its NXT brands have taken to the "finisher spam" style, making DG something of a trailblazer.
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* {{HSQ}}: Losing Unit Disbands matches and the annual 6-way Cage Match often break it, notably in their finishing stretches.
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** Aagan Iisou was one of the hottest stables of its time, but there were many fans in the West who never understood quite what Japanese people saw in its member Takuya Sugawara, a non-luchador with a pretty limited moveset, a boring wrestling style and a very standard gimmick. It only got worse when Aagan Iisou moved to El Dorado Wrestling, as Sugawara immediately became the resident CreatorsPet there.
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** Aagan Hagure Gundan/Aagan Iisou was one of the hottest stables of its time, but there were many fans in the West who never understood quite what Japanese people saw in it, given that it was rather dull stable by Toryumon standards and its member only real trait was to be TheJuggernaut. The controversial decision by DG to bury Aagan Iisou after the breakup with Toryumon stirred up deept trouble backstage by them, but it almost looked like a rational decision from an international viewpoint.
** The worst individual of the group was Takuya Sugawara, a non-luchador with a pretty limited moveset, a boring wrestling style and a very standardgimmick. gimmick, which often had Western peope wondering why was he supposed to be so popular. It only got worse when Aagan Iisou moved to El Dorado Wrestling, as Sugawara immediately became the resident CreatorsPet there.there to a degree unseen even in Toryumon.
** The worst individual of the group was Takuya Sugawara, a non-luchador with a pretty limited moveset, a boring wrestling style and a very standard
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Many people resent that Dragon Gate did almost nothing with the few Toryumon X trainees it got access to in 2008, like Wrestling/TakuyaSugi, Takeshi Minamino and Shinjitsu Nohashi. They weren't acknowledged as former Toryumon men storyline-wise to begin with, and only Sugi received a mild push which everybody knew it would go nowhere.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** Aagan Iisou being immediately DemotedToExtra after the Toryumon breakup. Even if the concept of the group could have used some work, it was still wildly popular in Japan and people just wanted to see them. Instead, they were booked very randomly and almost given no segments. There is even a theory that their RoleEndingMisdemeanor was either deliberate so they could move to other promotion or a coverup for a collective resignment.
** Many people resent that Dragon Gate did almost nothing with the few Toryumon X trainees it got access to in 2008, like Wrestling/TakuyaSugi, Takeshi Minamino and Shinjitsu Nohashi. They weren't acknowledged as former Toryumon men storyline-wise to begin with, and only Sugi received a mild push which everybody knew it would go nowhere.
** Aagan Iisou being immediately DemotedToExtra after the Toryumon breakup. Even if the concept of the group could have used some work, it was still wildly popular in Japan and people just wanted to see them. Instead, they were booked very randomly and almost given no segments. There is even a theory that their RoleEndingMisdemeanor was either deliberate so they could move to other promotion or a coverup for a collective resignment.
** Many people resent that Dragon Gate did almost nothing with the few Toryumon X trainees it got access to in 2008, like Wrestling/TakuyaSugi, Takeshi Minamino and Shinjitsu Nohashi. They weren't acknowledged as former Toryumon men storyline-wise to begin with, and only Sugi received a mild push which everybody knew it would go nowhere.
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** Aagan Iisou was one of the hottest stables of its time, but there were many fans in the West who never understood quite what Japanese people saw in its member Takuya Sugawara, a non-luchador with a pretty limited moveset, a boring wrestling style and a very standard gimmick. It only got worse when Aagan Iisou moved to El Dorado Wrestling, as Sugawara immediately became the CreatorsPet.
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** Aagan Iisou was one of the hottest stables of its time, but there were many fans in the West who never understood quite what Japanese people saw in its member Takuya Sugawara, a non-luchador with a pretty limited moveset, a boring wrestling style and a very standard gimmick. It only got worse when Aagan Iisou moved to El Dorado Wrestling, as Sugawara immediately became the CreatorsPet.resident CreatorsPet there.
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* ArcFatigue: It's well known that Dragon Gate bookers know only one type of storyline (namely, gang war-style stable rivalries) and that they have been playing it since the promotion's opening in 2004.
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* ArcFatigue: It's well known that Dragon Gate bookers know only one type of storyline (namely, gang war-style stable rivalries) and that they have been playing it since the promotion's opening in 2004. This is ironic (or not so much, depends on how one views it) considering that one of their reasons to break away from Toryumon is that Último Dragón's storylines and characters were becoming too outlandish.
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** One of the great downsides of the Dragon Gate system is the sheer immobility of his roster. Aside from occasionally adding rookies, DG has had the same main names on its cards for ''decades'', even before the split from Toryumon. Its wrestlers have so much history together that it's difficult to take the stable wars seriously when everybody has been partner to everybody at least thrice on their careers.
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** One of the great downsides of the Dragon Gate system is the sheer immobility of his roster. Aside from occasionally adding rookies, DG has had mostly the same main names on its cards for ''decades'', even before the split from Toryumon. Its wrestlers have so much history together that it's difficult to take the stable wars seriously when everybody has been partner to everybody at least thrice on their careers.
* LGBTFanbase: The promotion is rumoredly popular between LGBT people in Japan, probably due to its many pretty boys.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Many people resent that Dragon Gate did almost nothing with the few Toryumon X trainees it got access to in 2008, like Wrestling/TakuyaSugi, Takeshi Minamino and Shinjitsu Nohashi: they weren't even acknowledged as former Toryumon men storyline-wise. At the end, only Sugi received a mild push who everybody knew it would go nowhere, while the rest were forgotten.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Many people resent that Dragon Gate did almost nothing with the few Toryumon X trainees it got access to in 2008, like Wrestling/TakuyaSugi, Takeshi Minamino and Shinjitsu Nohashi: they Nohashi. They weren't even acknowledged as former Toryumon men storyline-wise. At the end, storyline-wise to begin with, and only Sugi received a mild push who which everybody knew it would go nowhere, while the rest were forgotten.nowhere.
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** Aagan Iisou was one of the hottest stables of its time, but there were many fans in the West who never understood quite what Japanese people saw in its member Takuya Sugawara, a non-luchador with a pretty limited moveset, a boring wrestling style and a very standard gimmick. It only got worse when Aagan Iisou moved to El Dorado Wrestling, as the bookers immediately wrote an angle in which Sugawara, at the time only semi-affiliated to Aagan, became the most sought after wrestler in the promotion and all the stables wanted him as if he were Wrestling/TheBigShow.
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** Aagan Iisou was one of the hottest stables of its time, but there were many fans in the West who never understood quite what Japanese people saw in its member Takuya Sugawara, a non-luchador with a pretty limited moveset, a boring wrestling style and a very standard gimmick. It only got worse when Aagan Iisou moved to El Dorado Wrestling, as the bookers Sugawara immediately wrote an angle in which Sugawara, at the time only semi-affiliated to Aagan, became the most sought after wrestler in the promotion and all the stables wanted him as if he were Wrestling/TheBigShow.CreatorsPet.
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* EarWorm: "Keep in Journey", Taiji Ishimori and the Sato brothers's music single.
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** With Toryumon's remnants, obviously. The rivalry is mostly symbolic, as these remnants barely exist or have fans today.
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** With Toryumon's Wrestling/{{Toryumon}}'s remnants, obviously. The rivalry is mostly symbolic, as these remnants barely exist or have fans today.
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* RootingForTheEmpire: One of the big problems with dragondoor. Their top heels were Aagan Iisou, a very popular Dragon Gate stable that had been controversially fired from its promotion and whose return had their fans on the edge of their seats. Meanwhile, the main good guy was Taiji Ishimori, a pretty boy with a pop idol gimmick who had mostly failed to gain the crowd's love in Toryumon. Ishimori wasn't disliked, but he wasn't close to popular enough to be the main draw of the promotion, and Aagan Iisou's popularity dwarfed his. In fact, the three Aagan Iisou guys were really the only wrestlers who were truly over in the whole promotion.
* SnarkBait: [=D2P=] (aka, Dragon Door Project) to those who weren't frustrated to the point of throwing their method of viewing against the wall. That said, it did put on some good matches despite the inherent faults that lead to its quick closing.
* SnarkBait: [=D2P=] (aka, Dragon Door Project) to those who weren't frustrated to the point of throwing their method of viewing against the wall. That said, it did put on some good matches despite the inherent faults that lead to its quick closing.
