BxB Hulk Terumasa Ishihara ( July 15 , 1980 ) , better known by his ring name BxB Hulk ( pronounced as BB Hulk ) , is a Japan ese professional wrestler , currently working for Dragon Gate as a member of the World - 1 stable . He is the current Open the Freedom Gate Champion of Dragon Gate USA . Career . He was the second student from the Dragon Gate Dojo . He was brought into Dragon Gate by Magnum Tokyo , with Tokyo ' s influence evident in many aspects of his character , most notably his trademark pre - match dance routine . Magnum Tokyo had him placed in the Pos . Hearts unit he created ( " Pos . " representing the limitless possibilities he showed ) , with Anthony W . Mori and Super Shisa as the other members . The unit largely served as a launching pad to get his career off the ground . Pos . Hearts would have only one major success , winning the Open the Triangle Gate titles in December 2006 from Naruki Doi , Masato Yoshino and Gamma , but they lost the titles in their first defense the following month back to them , and when they lost to them again the month after that , they were forced to dissolve the unit . He would join up with CIMA ' s Typhoon stable , but a few months later , in the midst of Typhoon ' s feud with the faction Muscle Outlaw ' z , he and MO ' z member Cyber Kong both betrayed their stables to join together and form New Hazard , along with Shingo Takagi and Yamato . While in the group , he would hold the Triangle Gate titles twice , and most notably , he and Shingo would win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in January 2008 . In April , Yamato betrayed both New Hazard and an outside tag team partner and defected to Muscle Outlaw ' z . A month later , Shingo and Kong turned on BxB Hulk before they were to defend the Triangle Gate titles against YAMATO , Genki Horiguchi and Gamma , citing him as a weakling , effectively vacating the titles and ending New Hazard . Then , Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino — who had recently split from MO ' z — came to his aid , and although the trio failed to win the vacant titles from Shingo , Yamato & Gamma of the newly formed Real Hazard , they formed a new unit with Naoki Tanisaki and m . c . KZ called World - 1 . On June 12 , BxB Hulk unveiled a persona that he had hinted at doing several months ago called " Killer Hulk " ( later renamed Black Hulk ) , wearing black pants and black make - up and using a violent fight style . Under this persona , he dismantled Real Hazard ' s Yasushi Kanda , blowing off what was left of their feud that they had going on for the last few months . He then got into a feud with Shingo . They fought in a match on June 29 to determine the # 1 contender for Cima ' s Open the Dream Gate Title , but the match ended in a one - hour draw . They were soon scheduled to do battle again on July 27 , but this time it would be for the Open the Dream Gate Title itself , due to Cima vacating it because of a neck injury . Hulk lost that match , but his performance impressed Shingo enough that he retracted his statement about Hulk being weak and shook hands with him . He then got into a feud with Gamma , and he as Black Hulk fought Gamma as Gamma Daiou on November 16 , which he won by count - out after putting Gamma through a table outside the ring with his E . V . O . finisher . In March 2009 , Yamato began provoking him , and even offered him membership into Real Hazard under his Black Hulk persona . He responded by randomly attacking members of Real Hazard as his Black Hulk character until Yamato and the rest of the group got the better of him on April 15 . Yamato then challenged him to a match , and he didn ' t care whether he fought Hulk as Black Hulk or his normal self . He fought Yamato as Black Hulk and won by referee stoppage . On June 7 , he won the Triangle Gate titles with Masato Yoshino and PAC , and they held them for three months before losing them to Masaaki Mochizuki , Don Fujii & Akebono . He challenged his stablemate Naruki Doi for the Open the Dream Gate Title on November 23 , but was unsuccessful in capturing the title . However , five days later , he became the inaugural Open the Freedom Gate Champion of Dragon Gate USA by winning a 14 - man tournament at DGUSA Freedom Fight . On July 11 , 2010 , BxB Hulk lost a Hair vs . Hair match against Shingo and was as a result shaved bald . On October 29 , 2010 Hulk successfully retained his Open the Freedom Gate Championship by defeating Shingo in the main event of Dragon Gate USA ' s inaugural iPPV " Bushido : Code of the Warrior " .