Memorial Gate

The Memorial Gate is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and GAORA TV event promoted by Dragon Gate. The event was created in 2007 and the event was rebranded in 2012 as Memorial Gate in Wakayama as a pay-per-view (PPV). It was has been held annually since 2012, later in 2017, it was announced another event as Memorial Gate in Sendai as a pay-per-view (PPV). However, Memorial Gate in Sendai was renamed in July 2018, the event was changed to The Gate of Origin. In 2020 due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Japan, the event was postponed.

Events

#	Event	Date	City	Venue	Attendance	Main event
1	Memorial Gate (2007)	02007-03-25-0000March 25, 2007	Mie, Japan	Tsu City Gymnasium	3,800	Don Fujii (c) versus Jushin Thunder Liger for the Open The Dream Gate Championship
2	Memorial Gate in Wakayama 2012 Memorial Gate in Wakayama (2012)	02012-03-25-0000March 25, 2012	Wakayama, Japan	Wakayama, Iwade Citizens Gym Large Hall	1,180	Jimmyz (Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!!, Ryo "Jimmy" Saito and Jimmy Kanda) (c) versus Mad Blankey (Akira Tozawa, BxB Hulk and Cyber Kong) versus Team Veteran Returns (CIMA, Dragon Kid and Masaaki Mochizuki) for the Open The Triangle Gate Championship
3	Memorial Gate in Wakayama 2013 Memorial Gate in Wakayama (2013)	02013-02-11-0000February 11, 2013		Iwade City Sougou Gymnasium Large Hall	1,100	CIMA (c) versus Jimmy Kanda for the Open The Dream Gate Championship
4	Memorial Gate in Wakayama 2014 Memorial Gate in Wakayama (2014)	02014-03-16-0000March 16, 2014		Wakayama Prefectural Gym	01230 1,230	Monster Express (Akira Tozawa and Shingo Takagi) (c) versus Mad Blankey (Naruki Doi and BxB Hulk) for the Open The Twin Gate Championship
5	Memorial Gate in Wakayama 2015 Memorial Gate in Wakayama (2015)	02015-04-19-0000April 19, 2015		Wakayama Big Wave	1,085	Jimmyz (Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!!, Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu) (c) versus Dia.Hearts (Big R Shimizu, Dragon Kid and Masaaki Mochizuki) for the Open The Triangle Gate Championship
6	Memorial Gate in Wakayama 2016 Memorial Gate in Wakayama (2016)	02016-03-21-0000March 21, 2016		Wakayama Prefectural Gym	1,150	Shingo Takagi (c) versus Ryo "Jimmy" Saito for the Open The Dream Gate Championship
7	Memorial Gate in Wakayama 2017 Memorial Gate in Wakayama (2017)	02017-03-20-0000March 20, 2017			370	VerserK (Shingo Takagi, T-Hawk and "brother" YASSHI) versus Naruki Doi, Big R Shimizu and Ben-K for the Open The Triangle Gate Championship
8	Memorial Gate in Sendai (2017)	02017-11-26-0000November 26, 2017	Sendai, Japan	Sendai Sun Festa	1,600	Tribe Vanguard (YAMATO, BxB Hulk and Kzy) (c) versus VerserK (Shingo Takagi, Yasushi Kanda and Eita) for the Open The Triangle Gate Championship
9	Memorial Gate in Wakayama 2018 Memorial Gate in Wakayama (2018)	March 29, 2018	Wakayama, Japan	Wakayama Prefectural Gym	1,100	Masaaki Mochizuki (c) versus Big R Shimizu for the Open The Dream Gate Championship
10	Memorial Gate in Wakayama 2019 Memorial Gate in Wakayama (2019)	March 21, 2019			936	Dragon Kid (c) versus Susumu Yokosuka for the Open The Brave Gate Championship
11	Memorial Gate in Wakayama 2020 Memorial Gate in Wakayama (2020)	August 2, 2020			370	Naruki Doi (c) versus Eita for the Open The Dream Gate Championship
12	Memorial Gate in Wakayama 2021 Memorial Gate in Wakayama (2021)	March 27, 2021			TBD	TBA
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

References

• http://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=77047
• http://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=91781
• http://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=108517
• http://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=149394

External links

• The official Dragon Gate website