Open The Voice Gate: More details on SB KENTo and Takuma Fujiwara leaving DragonGate
-OTVG heard about this in early May.
-Reason for SBK and Takuma leaving was "behaviour issues/misconduct." OTVG knows what the issues are, but they won't say it due to situations delicate situation thanks to Japanese culture.
-From both Mexico and Japan side the message is same. The pair won't continue wrestling in DragonGate.
-Mid May SBK stops following the DG president Kido on social media.
-Late May DG alumni tweets about the pair being part of DG, alumni gets a call from the DG office to not associate the pair with DG and the tweet was deleted.
-Technically both are still part of DG as they are on the roster page, but the relationship is over.
-There is apparently no real bad blood between the pair and the promotion.
-SBK and Takuma are now staying in Mexico and are trying to find bookings there. Apparently Konnan/AAA are interested in these two. SBK has US work visa, but Takuma doesn't.
https://redcircle.com/shows/4b3b919...episodes/a3187759-d81a-443b-9d52-9d6087e551db
The podcast starts with the SBK/Takuma talk and goes into how DG has survived similar departures before. All in all it is an easy listen and especially the talk about DGs talent pipeline and how they are doing now regarding that is really good one. If you don't know much about DragonGate, it is definitely worth listening till the show reviews portion.
On the latest VOW Flagship Podcast Joe and Rich told basically the same thing, they won't say what the issues are, but it is easy to connect the dots. They made it even easier by saying that for wrestlers in US the "behaviour issues/misconduct" are a commonplace and you would never get into trouble for it and it is very easily available in Mexico. They continued that SBK/Takuma seem to be fine with staying in Mexico and finding work there.
sounds like they smoke weed
@Sasha
I'd love for Japan to join us in the modern world on certain issues one day