Dragon Gate USA Results - Mercury Rising (Atlanta GA) 4/2/11

Dragon Gate U.S.A was without a doubt the best live event I have ever been to! I'll take it further than that: Seeing Dragon Gate U.S.A live tonight was one of, if not the, best night in my life! Amazing action, amazing crowd! Many people make fun of wrestling because they fail to understand it. But I was certainly able to suspend my belief for well over three hours while watching some of the most amazing athletes in the world exhibit the greatest art form there is or will ever be -- Pro Wrestling. You know the best part? There's another Dragon Gate event at 12:00 PM tomorrow. -PWDRAGON

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Here are the results for tonights Dragon Gate USA iPPV

-BONUS CARD-
-Sal Rinauro def. Sugar Dunkerton
-RPW Tag Team Title Match: The Usual Suspects def. Hot Like Lava
-Jimmy Rave def. Kyle Matthews
-RPW Heavyweight Title Match: J-Rod def. Bull Buchanan




Jon Moxley vs Arik Cannon
Winner via pinfall John Moxley

Winner: Jon Moxley
Reby Sky comes out with a microphone to protest the decision, and Moxley shoves Valerie Malone at Reby, leading to a catfight between them. Reby gives Valerie a DDT, but Trina Michaels takes her shoe off and knocks Reby out from behind. Moxley dips Trina and lays one on her to celebrate.
We go to a backstage promo from Austin Aries saying he doesn’t need to be here in DGUSA but wants YAMATO’s title. Aries says nothing short of unconsciousness will put him down tonight, and tonight he will become a champion.

Elimination Match: Jimmy Jacobs vs Brodie Lee vs Stalker Ichickawa vs Silas Young vs AR Fox vs Jon Davis
Stalker Ichikawa is eliminated.
AR Fox is eliminated.
Silas Young is eliminated.
Jon Davis is eliminated.
Winner: Brodie Lee

We go backstage to Arik Cannon, who says he’s been doing this for a long time, and there are nights when you win and lose, but then there are nights like tonight where you get fucked. He’s pissed off, and now it’s time to do things his way.

Masato Yoshino vs Sami Callihan
 Winner  Masato Yoshino
We go backstage to Jon Moxley, and he says he’s a trendsetter and everyone follows everything he does, but Austin Aries is yesterday’s news and he’ll be out of DGUSA forever after he loses tonight…FOREVER! FOREVER! FOREVER! FOREVER! FOREVER! FOREVER! (In case you don’t know, he’s mocking an old Terry Funk promo)

Open The Brave Gate Title Match
PAC vs Akira Tozawa
Winner via pinfall PAC
We go backstage to Ronin, who say that they’re going to do the Dragon Gate six man a little different this year by proving that they belong in the ring with Blood Warriors and can beat them.
We go backstage to PAC, who simply tells Blood Warriors that they’ve got his attention, then walks off.

Open The Freedom Gate Title vs DGUSA Career
YAMATO vs. Austin Aries
Winner via pinfall YAMATO

We go backstage to Jimmy Jacobs who says sometimes he gets past the roadblocks and sometimes he doesn’t, because Brodie Lee beat him for the second time, but now he’s going to get back up tomorrow and wrestle Austin Aries in his last match in DGUSA. He says that while Aries had a hell of a match tonight, he didn’t get the job done, and tomorrow’s not going to see Aries ride off into the sunset, he’s going out with a bang and tomorrow will be his End Time.

Chuck Taylor, Johnny Gargano & Rich Swann vs CIMA, Naruki Doi & Ricochet
 Winners via pinfall Blood Warriors

Source: pwinsider.com

ADDITIONAL COMMENTARY

Mercury Rising was Dragon Gate's first event on iPPV. I was lucky enough to be there live and I can tell you that the crowd was red hot all night long! It's tough to choose a favorite match from this event. PAC vs. Akira Tozawa was simply unreal with high flying, hard hitting action. Yamato vs. Austin Aries had emotional investment and was a strong match that had everything from high-flying to technical wrestling. It's going to be difficult for anyone to pry the Freedom Gate title away from Yamato. But I think it may very well have been the Main Event Grudge Match Six Man Traditional tag featuring Blood Warriors of CIMA, Naruki Doi & Ricochet vs. Ronin of Chuck Taylor, Johnny Gargano & Rich Swann that stole the show. Truthfully, Tozawa vs. PAC makes this an automatic buy but when you combine it with Aries vs. Yamato and the six man tag team match-up, you have an event that is very special and will be remembered for years to come.