Open The Dream Gate Championship

Open The Dream Gate Championship
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Details
Current Champion(s)	PAC
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Date Won	December 4, 2018
Promotion(s)	Dragon Gate
Date Established	July 4, 2004
Statistics
First champion(s)	CIMA
Most reigns	Shingo Takagi, YAMATO and Masato Yoshino (4 reigns)
Longest reign	CIMA (574 days)
Shortest reign	Jimmy Susumu (21 days)
Oldest winner	Masaaki Mochizuki (47 years)
Youngest winner	Ricochet (25 years)
Heaviest winner	Magnitude Kishiwada (105 kg)
Lightest winner	Masato Yoshino (74 kg)
Most Keys Holder	CIMA (15 keys)

The Open The Dream Gate Championship is the top singles championship in Dragon Gate. It is the successor to the Ultimo Dragon Gym Championship from Toryumon Japan, which had been discontinued as a result of the split from Toryumon. Being the last Ultimo Dragon Gym Champion, CIMA was named the first Dream Gate Champion.

OverviewEdit

The belt itself is rather unique. The name of the champion is engraved onto a plate, which is then placed on the face of the belt and protected by a locked gate. For a competitor to be a challenger for the title, he must secure a Challenger's Key. If the champion successfully defends the title, the loser's key is added to the belt as a trophy. If the challenger wins the title, the key will unlock the gate, allowing him to replace the old nameplate with his own.

Each champion can devise their own method for how one can secure a Challenger's Key. Most of the time, these are done through the creation of matches, like in CIMA's third reign by holding battle royal matches dubbed CIMA Royale. Other times, there are different methods, such as when Masato Yoshino used a lottery system to determine his next challenger. Sometimes, the winner of the King of Gate tournament will be granted a Challenger's Key as proof of their being the strongest competitor over the previous one year period.

Since its inception, Dream Gate has not only be defended in every Kobe World Hall pay-per-view event, but it has also been placed indefinitely as the show's main event. A slight exception was made in 2006 when a No Rope Bonus Match took place after the Dream Gate match, and while it appeared to have aired on pay-per-view it was officially considered a post-show dark match.

In 2013, then-champion CIMA vowed to defend the belt once every month so long as he remained champion. Though his reign ended in July, the concept remained with the addition of the belt being defended on every show at Korakuen Hall. This is even if it had already been defended on another show during the month, such as Masato Yoshino defending on November 3 as part of the Gate of Destiny pay-per-view and then the belt being defended four days later at Korakuen Hall and also in 2017 YAMATO defended the title in 5-Way Survival Steel Cage match at the Dead or Alive against Shingo Takagi, BxB Hulk, Cyber Kong and Naruki Doi. The original title belt was lost following 2015 Kobe Pro Wrestling Festival on July 20, forcing the promotion to create a new belt, which debuted on August 16, 2015. YAMATO, Shingo Takagi and Masato Yoshino share the most reigns as champions with 4 reigns. On December 4, 2018, PAC became the second gaijin, and the first British Open The Dream Gate Champion.

Title HistoryEdit

#	Wrestler	Reign	Date	Location	Event	Length	Defenses	Successful defenses	Notes
1	CIMA	1	July 4, 2004	Kobe, Hyogo	Live Event	175 Days	1	1. defeated Susumu Yokosuka on September 17, 2004	Was awarded the title for being last Ultimo Dragon Gym Champion; made official in Tokyo on August 1, 2004.
2	Masaaki Mochizuki	1	December 16, 2004	Tokyo	Gate of Legend	323 Days	4	1. defeated Ryo Saito on February 6, 2005 2. defeated Don Fujii on May 11, 2005 3. defeated TAKA Michinoku on July 3, 2005 4. defeated Shingo Takagi on September 18, 2005
3	Magnitude Kishiwada	1	November 4, 2005	Tokyo	Crown Gate 2005 - Day 3	112 Days	2	1. defeated Kenichiro Arai on December 4, 2005 2. defeated Anthony W. Mori on February 11, 2006
4	Ryo Saito	1	February 24, 2006	Tokyo, Japan	Truth Gate 2006 - Day 8	58 Days	0
5	Susumu Yokosuka	1	April 23, 2006	Tokyo	Glorious Gate 2006 - Day 8	214 Days	3	1. defeated BxB Hulk on May 7, 2006 2. defeated Dragon Kid on July 2, 2006 3. defeated Pentagon Black on September 17, 2006
6	Don Fujii	1	November 23, 2006	Tokyo	Crown Gate 2006 - Day 6	122 Days	1	1. defeated Masaaki Mochizuki on February 4, 2007
7	Jushin Thunder Liger	1	March 25, 2007	Tsu, Mie	Memorial Gate 2007	98 Days	1	1. defeated Masaaki Mochizuki on April 17, 2007
8	CIMA	2	July 1, 2007	Kobe, Hyogo	Kobe World Pro Wrestling Festival 2007	364 Days	6	1. defeated Taku Iwasa on August 11, 2007 2. defeated Naruki Doi on September 22, 2007 3. defeated Shingo Takagi on November 25, 2007 4. defeated Gamma on February 3, 2008 5. defeated Masato Yoshino on March 20, 2008 6. defeated Ryo Saito on April 27, 2008
—	Vacated	—	June 29, 2008	Osaka	—	—	—	—	CIMA vacated title due to injury.
9	Shingo Takagi	1	July 27, 2008	Kobe, Hyogo	Kobe World Pro Wrestling Festival 2008	154 Days	3	1. defeated Cyber Kong on August 31 2008 2. defeated TAKA Michinoku on September 28, 2008 3. defeated Susumu Yokosuka on November 16, 2008	Defeated BxB Hulk in a decision match.
10	Naruki Doi	1	December 28, 2008	Fukuoka	Final Gate 2008 - Day 3	449 Days	8	1. defeated Taku Iwasa on February 8, 2008 2. defeated Koji Kanemoto on March 22, 2009 3. defeated Akebono on May 5, 2009 4. defeated Masato Yoshino on June 11, 2009 5. defeated CIMA on July 19, 2009 6. defeated Susumu Yokosuka on October 25, 2009 7. defeated BxB Hulk on November 23, 2009 8. defeated Magnitude Kishiwada on December 11, 2009
11	YAMATO	1	March 22, 2010	Tokyo	Compilation Gate 2010	111 Days	3	1. defeated Susumu Yokosuka on March 27, 2010 2. defeated Shingo Takagi on May 5, 2010 3. defeated Masaaki Mochizuki on May 13, 2010
12	Masato Yoshino	1	July 11, 2010	Kobe, Hyogo	Kobe World Pro Wrestling Festival 2010	277 Days	4	1. defeated Ryo Saito on October 10, 2010 2. defeated CIMA on November 11, 2010 3. defeated Naruki Doi on December 26, 2010 4. defeated Don Fujii on January 18, 2011
13	Masaaki Mochizuki	2	April 14, 2011	Tokyo	Champion Gate 2011 - Day 3	255 Days	6	1. defeated YAMATO on May 5, 2011 2. defeated Yasushi Kanda on June 19, 2011 3. defeated BxB Hulk on July 17, 2011 4. defeated Cyber Kong on August 21, 2011 5. defeated Akira Tozawa on October 13, 2011 6. defeated Ryo Saito on November 3, 2011
14	CIMA	3	December 25, 2011	Fukuoka	Final Gate 2011	574 Days	15	1. defeated Jimmy Susumu on February 5, 2012 2. defeated PAC on March 4, 2012 3. defeated Cyber Kong on May 6, 2012 4. defeated Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!! on June 17, 2012 5. defeated Akira Tozawa on July 22, 2012 6. defeated YAMATO on August 22, 2012 7. defeated Naruki Doi on September 23, 2012 8. defeated Masato Yoshino on October 21, 2012 9. defeated BxB Hulk & Shingo Takagi on December 23, 2012 10. defeated Ryo "Jimmy" Saito on January 20, 2013 11. defeated Jimmy Kanda on February 11, 2013 12. defeated Masato Yoshino on March 3, 2013 13. defeated K-ness on April 4, 2013 14. defeated Akira Tozawa on May 5, 2013 15. defeated Ricochet on June 16, 2013
15	Shingo Takagi	2	July 21, 2013	Kobe, Hyogo	Kobe World Pro Wrestling Festival 2013	33 Days	0
16	YAMATO	2	August 23, 2013	Tokyo	The Gate Of Generation 2013 - Day 10	48 Days	1	1. defeated Ryo "Jimmy" Saito on September 12, 2013
17	Masato Yoshino	2	October 10, 2013	Tokyo	The Gate of Victory - Day 5	143 Days	4	1. defeated Naruki Doi on November 3, 2013 2. defeated T-Hawk on November 7, 2013 1. defeated BxB Hulk on December 22, 2013 4. defeated Masaaki Mochizuki on January 16, 2014
18	Ricochet	1	March 2, 2014	Osaka	Champion Gate In Osaka 2014 - Day 2	64 Days	1	1. defeated Uhaa Nation on March 6, 2014
19	YAMATO	3	May 5, 2014	Nagoya	Dead or Alive 2014	76 Days	2	1. defeated Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!! on May 25, 2014 2. defeated Jimmy Susumu on June 15, 2014
20	BxB Hulk	1	July 20, 2014	Kobe	Kobe World Pro Wrestling Festival 2014	16 Days	0
—	Naruki Doi	-001 Provisional	August 5, 2014	Tokyo	Scandal Gate 2014	12 Days	0		Defeated Hulk in a four-on-one Handicap match where is partners were Kzy, Cyber Kong and Mondai Ryu. Afterwards Doi was recognized as a "provisional" champion, pending a rematch.
20	BxB Hulk	1⁽²⁾	August 17, 2014	Tokyo	Dangerous Gate 2014	301 Days	7	1. defeated Naruki Doi on August 17, 2014 2. defeated Cyber Kong on October 5, 2014 3. defeated Akira Tozawa on November 2, 2014 4. defeated Shingo Takagi on December 28, 2014 5. defeated Jimmy Susumu on February 5, 2015 6. defeated Uhaa Nation on March 1, 2015 7. defeated Cyber Kong on May 5, 2015	Defeated Naruki Doi in a rematch to resume his reign and make his first successful title defense.
21	Masato Yoshino	3	June 14, 2015	Fukuoka	Champion Gate in Hakata 2015 - Day 2	63 Days	1	1. defeated T-Hawk on July 20, 2015
22	Shingo Takagi	3	August 16, 2015	Tokyo	Dangerous Gate 2015	182 Days	4	1. defeated Don Fujii on October 4, 2015 2. defeated Masaaki Mochizuki on November 1, 2015 x. vs Gamma ended in a no contest on December 3, 2015 3. defeated CIMA on December 27 2015	Takagi's defense against Gamma was declared an unsuccessful attempt & Takagi didn't receive a Dream Key due to massive interference by VerserK/a no contest on 12/3/2015
23	Jimmy Susumu	2	Febuary 14, 2016	Fukuoka	Truth Gate 2016 - Day 8	21 Days	0		Previously known as Susumu Yokosuka.
24	Shingo Takagi	4	March 6, 2016	Tokyo	Champion Gate in Osaka 2016 - Day 2	140 Days	1	1. defeated Ryo "Jimmy" Saito on March 21, 2016
25	YAMATO	4	July 24, 2016	Kobe	Kobe World Pro Wrestling Festival 2016	421 Days	6	1. defeated Akira Tozawa on September 22, 2016 2. defeated Naruki Doi on December 25, 2016 3. defeated BxB Hulk on February 2, 2017 4. defeated Cyber Kong on March 5, 2017 5. defeated Cyber Kong, Naruki Doi, BxB Hulk and Shingo Takagi on May 5, 2017 6. defeated T-Hawk on July 23, 2017
26	Masaaki Mochizuki	3	September 18, 2017	Oita	Dangerous Gate 2017	265 Days	5	1. defeated Susumu Yokosuka on November 3, 2017 2. defeated Ryo Saito on December 23, 2017 3. defeated Kzy on February 2, 2018 4. defeated Ben-K on March 4, 2018 5. defeated Big R Shimizu on March 21, 2018
27	Masato Yoshino	4	June 10, 2018	Fukuoka	King of Gate - Day 17	177 Days	4	1. defeated Shingo Takagi on July 22, 2018 2. defeated Takashi Yoshida on September 9, 2018 3. defeated Naruki Doi on September 24, 2018 4. defeated Ben-K on November 4, 2018
28	PAC	1	December 4, 2018	Tokyo	Fantastic Gate 2018 - Day 1	75+	1	1. defeated Kzy on February 10, 2019

Combined reignsEdit

†	Indicates the current champion

Rank	Wrestler	No. of reigns	Combined defenses	Combined days
01 1	CIMA	3	22	1113
02 2	Masaaki Mochizuki	3	15	840
03 3	Masato Yoshino	4	13	660
4	YAMATO	4	12	656
5	Shingo Takagi	4	8	509
06 6	Naruki Doi	1	8	449
07 7	BxB Hulk	1	7	329
08 8	Susumu Yokosuka / Jimmy Susumu	2	3	235
09 9	Don Fujii	1	1	122
10 10	Magnitude Kishiwada	1	2	112
11 11	Jushin Thunder Liger	1	1	98
12 12	PAC †	1	1	75+
13 13	Ricochet	1	1	64
14 14	Ryo Saito	1	0	58

GalleryEdit

V • T • E Dragon Gate
Wrestlers
		DAGA • Eita • Kazma Sakamoto • Takashi Yoshida • Yasushi Kanda • Big R Shimizu • Ben-K • PAC
		BxB Hulk • Flamita • U-T • YAMATO • Yosuke♥Santa Maria • Kagetora
		Jason Lee • Masato Yoshino • Naruki Doi • Dragon Kid • Kaito Ishida
		Kzy • "brother" YASSHI • Genki Horiguchi • Susumu Yokosuka • Punch Tominaga
		Masaaki Mochizuki • Shun Skywalker • Hyou Watanabe • Yuki Yoshioka • Kota Minoura
	Independent	Don Fujii • Gamma • "Hollywood" Stalker Ichikawa • Keni'chiro Arai • Mondai Ryu • Shachihoko BOY • Super Shisa • K-ness. • Ryo Saito • Oji Shiiba
Championships	Active	Open the Dream Gate • Open the Brave Gate • Open the Twin Gate • Open the Triangle Gate
Championships	Inactive	Open the Freedom Gate • Open the United Gate • Open the Owarai Twin Gate • Open the Owarai Gate • I-J Heavyweight Tag Team Championship • International Junior Heavyweight Championship
Tournaments	Current	King of Gate
Tournaments	Defuncted	El Numero Uno • King of Chop • Rey De Parejas • Summer Adventure Tag League • 5 Units Survival Race
Events	Champion Gate • Memorial Gate • Dead or Alive • Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival • The Gate of Origin • Dangerous Gate • Gate of Destiny • Final Gate

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OverviewEdit

Title HistoryEdit

Combined reignsEdit

GalleryEdit