#dragongate

[busaikuknee]

#dragongate #gate of bayside 2024 #luis mante #shun skywalker #my gifs #yelled when this happened. why did he send him FLYING

[randanopterix]

(Edit 8/17/2023): Thank you to everyone for donating! I’m going to close sketch requests for now to make sure that my workload remains manageable but I encourage everyone to please still consider donating to Maui if you have the means. Thank you so much!!

Hi my friends, I’m opening up sketch requests in return for charitable donations for wildfire relief in Maui. If you DM me a receipt/screenshot of a charitable donation to any of the resources below and the name of a wrestler, I will draw them for you.

Maui Mutual Aid

Maui United Way

Maui Food Bank

Maui Humane Society

Here are some examples of sketch requests I’ve done in the past so you know what to expect.

Even if you can’t donate, please share, anything counts! Thank you 🙏💕

#I’ll probably cap these at 10-15 but if this post is still here please assume that I haven’t reached the cap yet #I will probably just delete or update the post once I’ve reached that many #wrestling #mars art #aew #njpw #Dragongate #ddt #wwe

[fang-revives]

Syb's 2023 MOTY List!

I had a lot of fun doing this roundup last year! Though it feels like a patchier year than 2022 for great wrestling, there were still a few real standouts that blew my socks clean off. Here's my top 5 recs!

Jay White NJPW Departure Series (Wrestle Kingdom 17 IWGP Heavyweight Belt 04.01.20203, Loser Leaves Japan Match vs. Hikuleo 11.02.2023, Loser Leaves NJPW Match vs. Eddie Kingston 18.02.2023) 

It was so hard to pick a single match from this series so I chose not to. The sequence of these really tells a complete story I was fully glued to in real-time. The IWGP WK match I slept on a little bit because everyone was buzzing over Omega vs. Ospreay, but  I have to say when I finally watched it, it has wormed its way into my brain and has not stopped chewing. The Hikuleo match broke me a little for the last offered too-sweet. And if you forced me to pick a match of the three to recommend, it would be Eddie vs. Jay. There’s something special about Eddie being the man with so much integrity, so much love for puroresu, that he almost made me believe Jay would fight for New Japan and win. I’ll close this by saying it felt really graceful that Jay got to put an endpoint on his time in New Japan, and tell a little story with it. I’m not sure most wrestlers get the chance for whatever reason when their contract ends, but this felt like a beautiful Shakespearean tragedy, and a great way to end a killer run in NJPW.

Yota Tsuji vs. Ren Narita (G1 Climax 33, 18.07.2023) 

The most memorable G1 Climax match for me by a long shot. Physical, deranged, so many gorgeous spots (that I will miss dearly from Narita specifically as he heads off to do…whatever it is that you can call House of Torture spots). I rewatched this three times. I loved the tie booking for the Reiwa Three Muskateers, it made A-block super fun. I was really hopeful after Tsuji’s backstage comments that they’d make a story out of Narita shedding Shibata’s shadow…alas for the booking that wasn’t. 

Saki Akai Retirement Match (Tag match with Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani, vs. Kazusada Higuchi & Naomichi Marufuji & Miyu Yamashita, 12.11.2023) 

There is so much to miss about Saki Akai. Although I honestly and sincerely wish more wrestlers would retire younger and let their bodies rest (or at least do a soft retirement and then come back to do bullshit) – god, I’m going to miss her. She’s been a mainstay on the DDT roster for as long as I’ve been watching and before, and carries the intergender work with unparalleled grace. This match was booked as a unique treat for me; who had an Eruption moment back when Sakaguchi and Higuchi had their singles match, and who loves both Marufuji and Yamashita. 

Swerve Strickland vs. Hangman Page Texas Deathmatch (AEW Full Gear 18.11.2023) 

TOXIC!!! YAOI!!! DEATHMATCH!! INSANE!!! This match probably would have made it on the list for the “stapling my son’s drawing and then drinking the blood from the wound” spot alone, good god. If people didn’t believe Swerve was a mega-star before this match, they surely do now. Match that made me dissolve into monkey noises, and easily my favourite AEW match this year. 

Mask vs. Mask 5-Way Cage Survival (Dragon Kid vs Shun Skywalker vs Strong Machine J vs Ultimo Dragon vs Diamante, 02.07.2023)

Dragongate is honestly a promotion I’d love to have the time and attention span to carve out some more space for. Luckily I do have puro friends who are willing to catch me up on the dynamics so I can swing by for banger matches like these. And wow, holy shit, this was a cagematch for the age. Pulling on the drama of Dragon Kid who promised the survival of his older mentor Ultimo Dragon – leading into the personal beef of Strong Machine J and Diamante, and crystallizing to another horrible moment from one of wrestling’s best working heels right now, Shun Skywalker. This match had it all!

Honorable Mentions

Eddie Kingston vs. Claudio Castagnoli (AEW Grand Slam 2023, 20.09.2023) 

Jun Kasai & El Desperado vs. Masashi Takeda & Rina Yamashita Thumbtack Board & Razor Cross Board Alpha Death (Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS, 11.08.2023) 

Hiromu Takahashi vs. Kazuki Hirata"Let's Have Fun!!" What Will Happen!? Fun Death Match (DDT Ultimate Party 2023, 12.11.2023)

#syb 2023 moty list #new year #pro wrestling #match recs #aew #njpw #dragongate #ddt pro wrestling

[stewkakegohan]

My summer was filled with energy and excitement thanks to N-1 VICTORY 🥹🌻

#drawing #illustration #procreate #fanart #pro wrestling #pro wrestling art #original art #pro wrestling noah #all japan pro wrestling #dragongate #kenoh #go shiozaki #n1 victory 2023 #jake lee #manabu soya #jack morris #katsuhiko nakajima #timothy thatcher #wagner junior #yuki yoshioka #lance anoa'i #masa kitamiya #saxon huxley #adam brooks #daiki inaba #yoshiki inamura #yuma anzai #artist on tumblr

[scarskelly]

#blonde bitches united! #zack sabre jr #mochizuki junior #dragongate #njpw #new japan pro wrestling

[bdreamadventur3]

On the ropes

01.10.2024 | Open The New Year Gate 2024

#my photos #finally found time to edit these hope you guys like #dragongate #ultimo dragon #strong machine j #shingo takagi #kota minoura #hyo #diamante #kzy

[deathtriangles]

Dragongate is better than the things you like

#Dragon gate #dragongate #natural vibes #d'courage #x . dragongate #THIS PROMOTION IS SO FUNNY LMAO

[despemania]

(x, x)

#uploads #bushi #shun skywalker #njpw #dragongate #lij

[sybilius]

Syb’s 2022 MOTY List

Hellooooo tumblr! I thought I’d share a short list of the wrestling matches that really stuck with me this year. I’m not going to dig up links for these since this is basically a Syb Loved It list without any coherence necessarily, but if you any of these really speak to you feel free to shoot me a DM and I’ll try to find you a link!

1. Jun Kasai vs El Desperado (TAKATaichiDespeMania, 12.09.2022)

This is just a beautiful, beautiful death match whose core message is about celebrating being alive. It hit me in my core self. 15/10 would watch again anytime.

2. K-Ness Retirement match ( DG The Gate Of Passion 2022 ~ Final Burst Out! K-Ness Forever - Tag 4 - 07.04.2022 )

If there was ever a match to show you how beautiful it is that wrestling is a real-time story that can perform death as well as life-- it’s this one. Please enjoy that K-ness is tagging with his longtime tag partner (Yokosuka) against his forever rival (Dragon Kid) and his wrestling-son (Kzy). It’s a beautiful match and brought tears to my eyes.

3. Kazusada Higuchi vs. Yukio Sakaguchi (God Bless DDT 2022,  23.10.2022)

The lead-up to this match made me insane -- if I could recommend all the house shows leading up to this, I would. This is a story about Higuchi who was mentored by Sakaguchi coming into his own and having to face his mentor in the ring. It’s deeply beautiful and also romantic and intense. Pro wrestling is a love story for real.

4. KENTA vs Zack Sabre Jr. (NJPW G1 Climax 32, 17.07.2022)

Two grown men arguing about who is Senpai. Need I say more?

5. Katsuyori Shibata vs Orange Cassidy (AEW Rampage #66, 04.11.2022)

Although Shibata wrestling Ren at WK was probably most special to longtime New Japan watchers, the fact that he came to AEW to specifically put the shine on “comedy” wrestler Orange Cassidy, did some awesome comedy spots and put on a killer match, and OC was his first loss since his in-ring return? Mwah mwah perfection.

Honorable Mentions:

BCC vs JAS ft. Suzuki (AEW Forbidden Door)

Jun Akiyama vs Eddie Kingston (AEW Full Gear 2022: Zero Hour)

Punk/MJF dog collar match (AEW Revolution 2022)

DDT "Drunk Three Way" match (DDT Non-Alcoholic Beer Garden 2022)

Ren Narita vs Juice Robinson (NJPW Strong)

#pro wrestling #wrestling #moty #njpw #aew #ddt pro wrestling #dragongate #el desperado #takataichidespemania

[aemiron-main]

Multiple Henwards and the Thessalhydra

So, when it comes to adaptations of DND creatures in ST, I think we have more lenience w the thessalhydra stuff than people think we do because the mindflayer looks fuck all like a mindflayer, and the demogorgon looks fuck all like a demogorgon.

Which gave me a thought today- we’ve got a BUNCH of Henwards during the massacre, possibly even eight of them. So, I’m wondering if we’re going to get a fleshflayer-esque thessalhydra dragon creature with the various Henwards as heads. And especially considering the spider vibes already present with the fleshflayer…

Especially considering that Basket Case is on the S4 board and has imagery specifically tied to Henward, AND has this weird combined creature:

We’ve also got Vecna/Henward associated with constant references to The Thing throughout the show…

Just a thought!

#stranger things #edward creel #henry creel #st5 #dragongate

[dglog]

HBD MOCCHY!

2024.1.17.

#dragongate #funart

[busaikuknee]

#dragongate #hyo #luis mante #my gifs #your honor i think i may care them

[randanopterix]

When I get a fav this is where they go

#a happy birthday to me #you wouldn’t believe the serotonin one can get by drawing yourself as a stuffed animal and surrounding yourself with your favs #Kzy #bastard pac #Jon Moxley #Rey fenix #penta el zero miedo #shun Skywalker #dragon kid #hangman adam page #Luis Mante #Yamato dragongate #el desperado #mars art #wrestling #aew #njpw #Dragongate

[urakenbomb]

credit: El Desperado

#njpw #el desperado #dragon kid #asjf 2023 #dragongate

[birchbarkz]

jacky in the match for jason lee at gate of passion fucks me up sooo much in the head. like near the beginning of that match he is being straight up tortured by shun getting thrown onto the floor and shit it's awful. and yet he keeps going. he makes a huge comeback and starts OWNINGG. and not only that but he gets that pin for natural vibes.

despite being such a target for shun, despite getting grimy little fingers shoved down his throat.... he keeps going. never once does he think "this isn't worth it" he fights like his life is on the line!!! he loves jason and he wants to see him safe and happy with a unit that will actually care for him!!!! FUCKS ME UP!!! STORY SPOKEN WITHOUT A WORD!!!! BFFFL!

#dragongate #dragon gate #jason lee #jacky funky kamei #natural vibes worlds best unit

[scarskelly]

#they're boyfriends your honour #hyo #luis mante #dragongate #big hug