Various News: Dragon Gate Expands to the US, WWE Classics On Demand Update, More

– During last night’s ESPN’s E:60 piece on the WWE, they used clips from Wrestlefest XIII run by Northeast Wrestling in Bristol, CT. The footage showed Kevin Nash, who was working a 6-Man tag that night. [Credit: Pwinsider.com]

– Here are this week’s WWE Classics On Demand update [Credit: Pwinsider.com]:
The Big Ones
** Maple Leaf Gardens 8/18/85
* Adrian Adonis vs. Lanny Poffo
* Dino Bravo vs. Richard Charland
* Randy Savage vs. Bob Marcus
* King Kong Bundy vs. Jose Luis Rivera
* Cousin Junior vs, Tito Senza
* Rick McGraw vs. Ted Grizzly
* Uncle Elmer vs. Tiger Chung Lee
* Andre the Giant vs. Big John Studd
* The Hart Foundation vs. The Killer Bees
* The Junkyard Dog vs. Terry Funk
* Ricky Steamboat vs. Don Muraco

TV Classics
* Extreme Championship Wrestling 9/17/96
* Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling 12/2/81

– Dragon Gate sent out the following press release today:

ANNOUNCING DRAGON GATE USA

PHILADELPHIA – Japan’s Dragon Gate promotion has announced its expansion into United States with Dragon Gate USA at last night’s Korakuen Hall event in Tokyo. It has named Satoshi Oji as the President and Gabe Sapolsky as the Vice President of Dragon Gate USA. DGUSA will make its online home at www.DGUSA.tv as the site was launched late last night.

Dragon Gate’s roots go back to Mexico in 1999. Now Dragon Gate promotes over 250 shows per year in Japan. It will increase its schedule by running live events under the Dragon Gate USA banner every other month in the United States. The first show is scheduled for Philadelphia at The Arena on July 25th. Already announced for this event are CIMA, Dragon Kid, Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino. Tickets will go on sale on April 29th. Information will be coming soon about DGUSA’s Chicago debut on Labor Day weekend.

Oji has been a long time employee of the Dragon Gate promotion and will run an office out of Houston. Sapolsky, the former booker of ROH and office worker in the original ECW, will head the Philadelphia office.

“This is a natural progression in Dragon Gate’s growth,” Oji said. “The entire company in Japan is looking forward to bringing our style of wrestling to the United States. The wrestlers are all very excited to make a new home in the United States.”

“This is a great opportunity to bring something new, fresh and unique to the American pro wrestling scene,” Sapolsky said. “DGUSA is going to be about quality over quantity. This is the haven for pro wrestling fans. Our goal is to become known as the premium brand of pro wrestling.”

We encourage you to visit www.DGUSA.tv for feature articles, a roster section, a mission statement, the chance to order Dragon Gate USA merchandise and more. All the latest information about this revolutionary promotion is now at DGUSA.tv.

Thank you for reading this press release