Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Championship

Open the Brave Gate
Details
Current champion(s) Ricochet
Date won November 19, 2011
Promotion Dragon Gate
Date established March 13, 2005

The Open the Brave Gate Championship is a professional wrestling title in Japanese promotion Dragon Gate; it has a weight limit of 83 kg (180 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 the 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 15 recognized champions who have had a combined 21 official reigns.

Contents

Title history

# Wrestler Times Successful defenses Date Location Notes
1 Naruki Doi
1
5
 March 13, 2005 Nagoya, Japan Defeated YOSSINO in a tournament final on The Brave Gate Tour.[3]
2 Dragon Kid
1
1
 November 13, 2005 Nagoya, Japan Won the title on the Crown Gate tour.[3]
- Vacated
-
-
 February 5, 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
1
4
 March 19, 2006 Kawagoe, Japan Defeated Dragon Kid and Naoki Tanisaki in a three-way elimination tournament final.[3]
4 Matt Sydal
1
1
 February 12, 2007 Kobe, Japan Won the title at Live Gate.[3]
5 Genki Horiguchi
1
2
 March 25, 2007 Tsu, Japan Won the title on the Memorial Gate tour.[3]
6 Yasushi Kanda
1
2
 July 1, 2007 Kobe, Japan Won the title at Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival 2007.[4]
7 Masato Yoshino
2
6
 September 22, 2007 Tokyo, Japan Won the title on the Storm Gate tour.[3]
8 Anthony W. Mori
1
0
 April 13, 2008 Nagoya, Japan Won the title on the Gate of Passion tour.
- Vacated
-
-
 April 13, 2008 Nagoya, Japan Vacated voluntarily by Mori due to Yasushi Kanda interfering in his title win.
9 Gamma
1
0
 April 27, 2008 Fukuoka, Japan Defeated Anthony W. Mori in a tournament final on the Gate of Passion tour. 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
3
0
 June 29, 2008 Osaka, Japan Won the title on the The Gate of Maximum tour, renamed back to "Open the Brave Gate". This was Masato Yoshino diguised as Dr. Muscle but the reign is recognized as a Dr. Muscle reign.
- Vacated
-
-
 June 29, 2008 Osaka, Japan Vacated the title
11 Genki Horiguchi
2
2
 July 27, 2008 Kobe, Japan Defeated m.c.KZ at Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival 2008.
12 Masato Yoshino
4
2
 October 12, 2008 Nagoya, Japan Won the title on the The Gate of Victory tour.
13 CIMA
1
3
 March 22, 2009 Tokyo, Japan Won the title on the "The Gate of Anniversary" tour, at the company's first Sumo Hall show.
14 Naruki Doi
2
0
 July 19, 2009 Tokyo, Japan Won the title at Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival 2009, this was also for the Open The Dream Gate Championship.
- Vacated
-
-
 July 28, 2009 N/A Vacated the title due to Doi also holding the Open the Dream Gate Championship.
15 Naoki Tanisaki
1
6
 August 30, 2009 Fukuoka, Japan Beat KAGETORA in a tournament final for the vacant title on the Summer Adventure Tag League III tour.
16 K-ness
1
1
 January 11, 2010 Nagoya, Japan Won the title on the Primal Gate tour.[3]
17 Super Shisa
1
1
 February 27, 2010 Nagoya, Japan Won the title on the Truth Gate tour.[3]
18 Tigers Mask
1
3
 April 18, 2010 Osaka, Japan Won the title on the Gate of Passion tour.[3][5]
19 Masato Yoshino
5
0
 August 14, 2010 Kobe, Japan Won the title on the Summer Adventure Tag League IV tour.[3][6]
- Vacated
-
-
 August 14, 2010 Kobe, Japan Vacated due to Yoshino also holding the Open the Dream Gate Championship[6]
20 PAC
1
11
 August 29, 2010 Fukuoka, Japan Defeated Susumu Yokosuka in a tournament final to win the vacant title.[7]
21 Ricochet
1
1
 November 19, 2011 Osaka, Japan Won the title on the Crown Gate tour.[3]

List of reigns by length

Wrestler Days Held Date Won Date Lost
PAC 447 August 29, 2010 November 19, 2011
Masato Yoshino 330 March 19, 2006 February 12, 2007
Naruki Doi 245 March 13, 2005 November 13, 2005
Masato Yoshino 205 September 22, 2007 April 13, 2008
Masato Yoshino 161 October 12, 2008 March 22, 2009
Naoki Tanisaki 134 August 30, 2009 January 11, 2010
CIMA 119 March 22, 2009 July 19, 2009
Tigers Mask 118 April 18, 2010 August 14, 2010
Genki Horiguchi 98 March 25, 2007 July 1, 2007
Dragon Kid 84 November 13, 2005 February 5, 2006
Yasushi Kanda 83 July 1, 2007 September 22, 2007
Genki Horiguchi 77 July 27, 2008 October 12, 2008
Gamma1 63 April 27, 2008 June 29, 2008
Super Shisa 50 February 27, 2010 April 18, 2010
K-ness 47 January 11, 2010 February 27, 2010
Matt Sydal 41 February 12, 2007 March 25, 2007
Naruki Doi 9 July 19, 2009 July 28, 2009
Ricochet 101+ November 19, 2011 Current champion
Anthony W. Mori <1 April 13, 2008
Dr. Muscle <1 June 29, 2008
Masato Yoshino <1 August 14, 2010

See also

References

  1. ^ "Dragon Gate USA's Title Situation". Dragon Gate USA Pro Wrestling. http://dgusa.tv/featurearticles1.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-20. 
  2. ^ "Open the Brave Gate title history". Wrestling-Titles.com. http://wrestling-titles.com/japan/dg/dg-bg.html. Retrieved 2007-07-17. 
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Open the Brave Gate official title history" (in Japanese). Dragon Gate Official Site. http://www.gaora.co.jp/dragongate/data/title/brave.html. Retrieved 2007-07-17. 
  4. ^ "Dragon Gate results, 2007" (in German). PuroLove.com. http://www.purolove.com/dragongate/results/results07.php. Retrieved 2007-07-17. 
  5. ^ Boutwell, Josh (2010-04-23). "Viva La Raza! Lucha Weekly". WrestleView. http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1272057328. 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" 
  6. ^ a b Boutwell, Josh (2010-08-20). "Viva La Raza! Lucha Weekly". WrestleView. http://vip.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1282333662. 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" 
  7. ^ Boutwell, Josh (2010-08-30). "Viva La Raza! Lucha Weekly". WrestleView. http://wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1283192682. Retrieved 2010-08-30. 

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