King of Gate

The fact that there's never been a true belt of focus, and even the tournaments that they have, I mean, Fatari is basically just there to claim who is the best tag team, and that's it.

Yeah, but they don't have a King of Gate equivalent.

It's really odd.

I don't know another promotion of relevance... that never had titles or a singles tournament.

And, you know, I don't need to see him take a hard pivot when they're going for these Triangle Gate belts.

We would all presume at this point that King of Gate is in December, although nobody really knows for sure.

So you have this Kato...

You have Gaja Dokuro versus Paradox in Kobe.

Mochizuki Jr. is not a credible Dreamgate challenger right now.

And then you spend the evening show... largely ignoring Kato in favor of Fuda and Dragon Kid and Yamato.

And I understand that we might have King of Gate coming up soon, but wouldn't you want to give your unproven Dreamgate champion something to do, something to sink his teeth into? Because if you weren't watching this promotion regularly, based on the way he was presented on these shows, you would have no idea that Yoshiki Kato has opened the Dreamgate champion.

Yeah, and Kato made a point of, after the afternoon main event, calling out challengers, and they didn't have anyone step out for him with that.

And I understand that he's been Triangle Gate champion twice this year, once with Ben-K and Junior, and now once with Kame and Rita, but Mike, it just doesn't feel like they've done anything with Hyoh this year.

Yeah, and there's been the part of me that I've been saying I think he's-- that they haven't been doing so much with him that he's going to really pull it off and then have, like, a strong King of Gate.

But we're at a point where it just feels like a lost year, and especially, like, at a guy who's at his peak and, and we've seen his peak be extended to this extent, right? Like, we're, we're talking about a guy that kind of bro- for all intents and purposes, broke out in 2024 and has kept up the momentum and the popularity from that.

Mm-hmm.

don't know about that because it's been such a supposed through line feud dating back to around this time last year.

And it's essentially, at every turn, Yoshiki Kato basically proving that CLO is not on his level and that you should just forget the time that Yoshiki Kato brutalized you in King of Gate 2025.

Like, I just don't feel like that there's going to be a way to make it get ramped up there.

And it just, like, I know that Rey de Perejas, I shouldn't fixate on this tournament here, but, like, what was the purpose of that? Well, I agree with that.