I've been watching a lot online and need to get back to my massive DVD pile. Dragon Gate USA is what I have in mind. This week its Dragon Gate USA's  Enter the Dragon 2010. This is their first anniversary show and takes place in the ECW Arena (or whatever it was called in 2010). Since CZW runs a lot of shows here (all?) this has some very prominent CZW wrestlers. I think many of these guys do get incorporated into the DGUSA/Evolve program. In hindsight, DGUSA was Gabe using B-level (at the time) and propping them up with Dragon Gate guys. It was sort of an ROH reboot. He was on the money in picking talent as you probably have seen most of the U.S. talent on WWE and/or AEW in the last few years. Its a really good looking show. But I will level with you...I bought this for Shingo vs Bryan Danielson. Let's go!

CIMA vs. Johnny Gargano - This is a good match that is pretty much a young Gargano going along for the CIMA ride. This is probably a bit longer than I would have had for my opening match. Clearly Gabe S. saw something in Johnny early on.

Arik Cannon vs. Ricochet vs. Chuck Taylor vs. Adam Cole - This very easily could have been your typical overlong indie wrestling match. They do magic here as each matchup and spot is a little something different each time. Additionally they wrestle at a really good clip. Of course they aren't selling but as this is about the fireworks, this absolutely delivers. Honestly it over delivers... It's a spot fest but a great one!

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Drake Younger vs. Naruki Doi - A showcase match for Drake Younger vs the very popular Naruki Doi. Doi was injured (he was hiding his taped up ribs under a tank top). This was a lot of fun. Little angle after the match and Drake juices

BxB Hulk vs. Masaaki Mochizuki- Very good match made by their efforts. They were dripping with sweat very early. It's clearly super hot inside the building with the crowd fanning themselves off. So things get a little loose in the execution department due to fatigue. Had the heat not been a factor, this is an easy great match.

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Scott Reed (w/Nicole Matthews) vs. Rich Swann - Fun super quick showcase type match that goes right into an angle.

CHIKARA Sekigun (Hallowicked, Jigsaw & Mike Quackenbush) & Masato Yoshino vs. KAMIKAZE USA (Akira Tozawa, Gran Akuma, Jon Moxley & YAMATO) - Well holy cow! This was awesome. Fast pedal to the metal, balls to the wall wrestling action. This really reminded me of the original Dragon Gate matches in ROH. If you liked those you're going to want to watch this! I'm going to even call this a classic multi man match! And I'm saying that as I think this is exactly the type of match Gabe S. envisioned. I guess on the PPV this was the main event which I think knocked it out of the park.

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Bryan Danielson vs. SHINGO - Tank emptying all time classic match for DGUSA. This is basically the match you wanted to see if your a fan of these guys. This is basically a ROH match dream match in a Dragon Gate ring. I wasn't sure at first but they paced this really well... again bringing this toe the absolute pinnacle of what they could do. Frankly if it wasn't so darn hot in there it may have been even better.

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Jimmy Jacobs vs Sami Callihan - There's a few dark matches that were on the live show but they're included on the 2 DVD set. The one that caught my eye was Jimmy Jacobs vs Sami Callihan. This was really good - stiff, intense wrestling. I can see if they just didn't have time for this but man, this deserved to be on the PPV. I know from watching the 16 Carat wXw stuff from this time, Sami definitely has the goods. Jacobs still has "it" as well plus he's a bigger name from ROH so it's odd this was a dark match.

Overall, this was a great show. Perhaps the best DGUSA show ever? I've seen that said. I've only seen a few and I know the earlier ones are better than the later ones. These feel like ROH offshoot shows. The later ones are far less... If only from fan attendance and well most of the actual Dragon Gate guys aren't there consistently/putting forth the effort. Anyhow, this was a great purchase and definitely recommend scooping this up from eBay or elsewhere. Danielson vs Shingo, the 8 man match, and the 4 corner match are absolutely worth your time.

Thanks for reading folks!