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Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate.
It’s a very special episode of Open The Voice Gate as Case and Mike are joined by The Cubs Fan (https://twitter.com/luchablog) to discuss the career of Gran Hamada and his candidacy for the Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame! He’s the godfather of Lucharesu, so what does that mean? What were his business metrics? How incredible of a wrestler was he? What’s his influence case? Over the course of the episode, Case, Mike and Cubs make the argument why Gran Hamada merits Hall of Fame inclusion.
Matches discussed:
4/30/80: Gran Hamada & Satoru Sayama vs. Babe Face & Perro Aguayo
https://vk.com/video-68098508_170607264
9/12/84: Gran Hamada & Mighty Inoue vs. Chavo Guerrero & Hector Guerrero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhcBqxO8X0
?/??/90: Gran Hamada, El Hijo del Santo, & Yoshinari Asai vs. Blue Panther, Fuerza Guerrera, & Negro Casas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrLU4SPmagQ
11/13/90: Gran Hamada vs. Blue Panther
https://youtu.be/sV9XONUzjCs?si=qoHr33UhegoaNYlF
11/14/91: Gran Hamada, MASA Michinoku, & Monkey Magic Wakita vs. Dr. Wagner Jr, El Texano, & Silver King
https://vk.com/video/playlist/-207689490_34?z=video-207689490_456239394%2Fclub207689490%2Fpl_-207689490_34
10/17/92: Gran Hamada, El Texano, & Silver King vs. Black Power, El Signo, & Negro Navaro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjjC4AU0-KI&t=1s
10/10/96: Dick Togo, MEN’s Teioh, Shiryu, Shoichi Funaki, & TAKA Michinoku vs. Gran Hamada, Gran Naniwa, Masato Yakushiji, Super Delfin, & Tiger Mask
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjigyMUxNQI
12/16/96: Dick Togo, MEN’s Teioh, Shiryu, Shoichi Funaki, & TAKA Michinoku vs. Gran Hamada, Gran Naniwa, Masato Yakushiji, Super Delfin, & The Great Sasuke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXWVfgCmBG8
1/21/97: Dick Togo, MEN’s Teioh, Shiryu, & TAKA Michinoku vs. Gran Hamada, Gran Naniwa, Masato Yakushiji, & The Great Sasuke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4H03uBUmgE&t=9s
3/10/01: Dick Togo, Gran Hamada, & The Great Sasuke vs. Apache, Pentagon, & Sasuke the Great
https://vk.com/search/video?q=gran%20apache&z=video548721036_456239336
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