In a shocking partnership, Sega teamed up with All Elite Wrestling on Wednesday, November 15 for a Like a Dragon-themed wrestling match. It was each bit as chaotic as you’re in all probability imagining.
In a promotional stunt supporting the newly launched Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Identify, AEW held a themed match filled with references to the collection. Dubbed the “Like a Dragon Gaiden Road Combat,” the five-on-five tag crew bout featured Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi, Chris Jericho, and Paul Wight taking up Konosuke Takeshita, Powerhouse Hobbs, Brian Cage, and Kyle Fletcher.
For followers of the collection, the match was filled with pleasant Easter eggs. Konosuke Takeshita got here to the ring in full Goro Majima ring gear (the ring announcers referred to him as a “mad canine”), whereas Omega’s crew obtained a well-known splash display screen referring to them because the Golden Dragons of Dojima.
This was a no-disqualification match, which meant that everybody concerned obtained an opportunity to copy the wild motion of the RPG collection. We noticed real-life warmth actions, piledrivers by means of meals boards, and again physique drops onto plastic palettes. Essentially the most absurd sequence of the whole present got here when Kota Ibushi rode a bicycle to the ring. That naturally went unsuitable quick, turning right into a melee weapon contained in the ring. That is in all probability the one time you’ll see somebody take a brainbuster on high of a motorcycle in a wrestling match.
The Golden Dragons stood tall on the finish, with Omega hitting his Closing Fantasy-inspired One Winged Angel on Brian Cage for the win. That’s in regards to the tamest means this might have ended, all issues thought-about, so don’t miss the spotlight reel.
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