Open the Brave Gate Championship

Open the Brave Gate
Eita with the title belt in November 2016
Details
Promotion Dragon Gate
Date established March 13, 2005
Current champion(s) Eita Kobayashi
Date won July 22, 2018

The Open the Brave Gate Championship is a professional wrestling title in Japanese promotion Dragon Gate; it has a weight limit of 83 kg (183 lb), though it has been defended against heavier wrestlers in the past. It can be considered the secondary singles title in Dragon Gate and is more of a light heavyweight championship.[1] It was created on March 13, 2005 when Naruki Doi defeated Yossino in a tournament final.[2] The faceplate logo on the belt is divided into eight pieces, each piece representing the eight wrestlers who fought in the tournament to determine the inaugural champion. During Gamma's reign, he threw away all eight pieces of the faceplate and replaced it with his own plate, renaming it Open the Gamma Gate, dictating and often changing the rules of his title defenses. This ended when Masato Yoshino, wrestling as the masked Dr. Muscle, defeated Gamma and restored it to the Brave Gate title, vacating it soon afterwards. There have been a total of 18 recognized champions who have had a combined 27 official reigns.

Title history

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
<1 Reign lasted less than a day
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign DaysDefenses
1 Naruki Doi March 13, 2005 The Brave Gate 2005 Nagoya, Japan 1 2455 Defeated Yossino in a tournament final. [3]
2 Dragon Kid November 13, 2005 Crown Gate 2005 Nagoya, Japan 1 841 [3]
— Vacated February 5, 2006 Primal Gate 2006 Fukuoka, Japan — —— Vacated due to a title defense against Masato Yoshino ending in a no contest after outside interference from both men's factions. [3]
3 Masato Yoshino March 19, 2006 Brave Gate 2006 Kawagoe, Japan 1 3304 Defeated Dragon Kid and Naoki Tanisaki in a three-way elimination tournament final. [3]
4 Matt Sydal February 12, 2007 Truth Gate 2007 Kobe, Japan 1 411 [3][4]
5 Genki Horiguchi March 25, 2007 Memorial Gate 2007 Tsu, Japan 1 982 [3]
6 Yasushi Kanda July 1, 2007 Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival 2007 Kobe, Japan 1 832 [5]
7 Masato Yoshino September 22, 2007 Storm Gate 2007: Dragon Storm Tokyo, Japan 2 2046 [3]
8 Anthony W. Mori April 13, 2008 The Gate of Passion 2008 Nagoya, Japan 1 <10
— Vacated April 13, 2008 The Gate of Passion 2008 Nagoya, Japan — —— Vacated voluntarily by Mori due to Yasushi Kanda interfering in his title win.
9 Gamma April 27, 2008 The Gate of Passion 2008 Fukuoka, Japan 1 630 Defeated Anthony W. Mori in a tournament final. The title was renamed "Open the Gamma Gate" during his reign. Gamma successfully defended his Open the Gamma Gate six times but none of the defenses were not counted as part of the official Brave Gate lineage.
10 Dr. Muscle June 29, 2008 The Gate of Maximum 2008 Osaka, Japan 3 <10 Renamed back to "Open the Brave Gate". This was Masato Yoshino disguised as Dr. Muscle but the reign is recognized as a Dr. Muscle reign.
— Vacated June 29, 2008 The Gate of Maximum 2008 Osaka, Japan — —— Vacated the title.
11 Genki Horiguchi July 27, 2008 Kobe World Pro Wrestling Festival 2008 Kobe, Japan 2 772 Defeated m.c.KZ to win the title
12 Masato Yoshino October 12, 2008 The Gate of Victory 2008 Nagoya, Japan 4 1612
13 CIMA March 22, 2009 The Gate of Anniversary Tokyo, Japan 1 1193
14 Naruki Doi July 19, 2009 Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival 2009 Tokyo, Japan 2 90 This was also for the Open The Dream Gate Championship.
— Vacated July 28, 2009 — — — —— Vacated the title due to Doi also holding the Open the Dream Gate Championship.
15 Naoki Tanizaki August 30, 2009 Storm Gate 2009 Fukuoka, Japan 1 1346 Beat Kagetora in a tournament final for the vacant title.
16 K-ness January 11, 2010 Primal Gate 2010 Nagoya, Japan 1 471 [3]
17 Super Shisa February 27, 2010 Truth Gate 2010 Nagoya, Japan 1 501 [3]
18 Tigers Mask April 18, 2010 The Gate of Passion 2010 Osaka, Japan 1 1183 [3][6]
19 Masato Yoshino August 14, 2010 Summer Adventure Tag League IV Kobe, Japan 5 <10 [3][7]
— Vacated August 14, 2010 Summer Adventure Tag League IV Kobe, Japan — —— Vacated due to Yoshino also holding the Open the Dream Gate Championship. [7]
20 PAC August 29, 2010 Storm Gate 2010 Fukuoka, Japan 1 44711 Defeated Susumu Yokosuka in a tournament final to win the vacant title. [8]
21 Ricochet November 19, 2011 Crown Gate 2011 Osaka, Japan 1 1693 [3]
22 Dragon Kid May 6, 2012 Dead or Alive 2012 Nagoya, Japan 2 3649 [3]
23 Masato Yoshino May 5, 2013 Dead or Alive 2013 Nagoya, Japan 6 1174 [3]
— Vacated August 30, 2013 The Gate of Generation 2013 Kobe, Japan — —— Yoshino vacated the title, feeling it belonged to the younger generation.
24 Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!! September 29, 2013 Summer Adventure Tag League 2013 Kobe, Japan 3 1684 Defeated Kzy in the finals of a tournament. [3]
25 Flamita March 16, 2014 Memorial Gate 2014 in Wakayama Wakayama, Japan 1 2909
— Vacated December 31, 2014 — — — —— Title declared vacant three days after Flamita left the belt in the ring in protest, following his ninth defense ending in a disqualification. [9]
26 Kzy January 12, 2015 Open the New Year Gate 2015 Kobe, Japan 1 471 Kzy, as the masked Dr. Muscle, defeated Eita in the finals of a tournament. Unmasked on January 16, 2015.
27 Akira Tozawa February 28, 2015 Champion Gate 2015 in Osaka Osaka, Japan 1 2466
28 Kotoka November 1, 2015 The Gate of Destiny 2015 Osaka, Japan 1 1251
29 Yosuke ♥ Santa Maria March 5, 2016 Champion Gate 2016 in Osaka: Sumoz Osaka Basho Osaka, Japan 1 1412
30 Eita July 24, 2016 Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival 2016 Kobe, Japan 1 2234
— Vacated March 4, 2017 Champion Gate 2017 in Osaka Osaka, Japan — —— Vacated due to a match between Eita & El Lindaman being declared 'No Contest', due to multiple interference.
31 Jimmy Kagetora / Kagetora March 20, 2017 Memorial Gate 2017 in Wakayama Wakayama, Japan 1 2784
32 Yasushi Kanda December 23, 2017 The Final Gate 2017 Fukuoka, Japan 2 700
33 Punch Tominaga March 3, 2018 Champion Gate in Osaka 2018 Osaka, Japan 1 180
— Vacated March 21, 2018 — — — —— The title was vacated after a defense against Yasushi Kanda ended in No Contest.
34 Dragon Kid April 6, 2018 The Gate of Passion 2018 Tokyo, Japan 3 1071 Defeated Kagetora to win the title.
35 Eita July 22, 2018 Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival 2018 Kobe, Japan 2 641
36 Dragon Kid September 24, 2018 Dangerous Gate 2018 Tokyo, Japan 4 18+0

List of combined reigns

As of October 12, 2018.

† Indicates the current champion
Rank Wrestler No. of
Reigns		 Combined
defenses		 Combined
days
1. Masato Yoshino / Dr. Muscle 6 16 813
2. Dragon Kid† 4 11 573+
3. PAC 1 11 447
4. Genki Horiguchi /
Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!!		 3 8 343
5. Flamita 1 9 290
6. Eita 2 5 287
7. Jimmy Kagetora / Kagetora 1 5 278
8. Naruki Doi 2 5 254
9. Akira Tozawa 1 6 246
10. Ricochet 1 3 169
11. Yasushi Kanda 2 1 153
12. Yosuke ♥ Santa Maria 1 2 141
13. Naoki Tanizaki 1 6 134
14. Kotoka 1 1 125
15. CIMA 1 3 119
16. Tigers Mask 1 3 118
17. Gamma 1 0 63
18. Super Shisa 1 1 50
19. Kzy 1 1 47
K-ness 1 1 47
21. Matt Sydal 1 1 41
22. Punch Tominaga 1 0 18
22. Anthony W. Mori 1 0 0

Notes

1.^ – On May 20, 2014, Flamita successfully defended the title against Drastik Boy, Kaleth and Shane Strickland at a Desastre Total Ultraviolento (DTU) event in Pachuca, Mexico. Although Dragon Gate has not recognized the defense, it is included here.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Dragon Gate USA's Title Situation". Dragon Gate USA Pro Wrestling. Retrieved 2011-05-20. Archived
  2. ↑ "Open the Brave Gate title history". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Open the Brave Gate official title history" (in Japanese). Dragon Gate Official Site. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
  4. ↑ Hoops, Brian (February 12, 2017). "On this day in pro wrestling history (Feb 12): Christian Cage wins gold in TNA". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Dragon Gate results, 2007" (in German). PuroLove.com. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
  6. ↑ Boutwell, Josh (2010-04-23). "Viva La Raza! Lucha Weekly". WrestleView. Retrieved 2010-04-24. Open the Brave Gate Title: Tigers Mask def. Super Shisa (c) to win the title [...] Osaka Pro's Tigers Mask shockingly upsets Super Shisa for the Brave Gate Title
  7. 1 2 Boutwell, Josh (2010-08-20). "Viva La Raza! Lucha Weekly". WrestleView. Archived from the original on 2010-09-26. Retrieved 2010-08-22. Open the Brave Gate Title: Masato Yoshino def. Tigers Mask (c) to win the title! [...] Yoshino will now vacate the (Brave Gate) title
  8. ↑ Boutwell, Josh (2010-08-30). "Viva La Raza! Lucha Weekly". WrestleView. Archived from the original on 2010-09-01. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
  9. ↑ "オープン・ザ・ブレイブゲート王座決定トーナメント開催！ 1月シリーズ前半戦 京都2連戦～神戸大会 対戦カード情報". Dragon Gate (in Japanese). 2014-12-31. Retrieved 2015-01-02.
  10. ↑ Boutwell, Josh (2014-05-31). "Viva la Raza! Lucha Weekly for 5/31/14". Wrestleview. Retrieved 2014-09-09.
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