Kenichiro Arai Keni ' chiro Arai ( July 7 , 1972 ) is a Japan ese wrestler for Dragon Gate . Biography . Keni ' chiro Arai , also known as AraKen , is a second term graduate of Último Dragón ' s Toryumon Japan group , and has been a mainstay on the roster ever since . He participated in FMW before joining Toryumon . He debuted as a heel , but turned face within the year and remained so for over a decade . He is known for his love of the Hanshin Tigers baseball team , and for his very hard head . Arai frequently no - sells attacks to the head when wrestling . Earlier in his career , he played an alcoholic , and would spit beer in his opponent ' s faces , but this aspect of his character was quietly dropped . Arai started as a midcarder , but gradually lost card position over the years , until he was fighting mainly in opening matches and rarely winning . However , his career changed for the better when he joined the cram school based stable Tozawa - juku in early 2007 . It saw the first ever alteration of his character , and he formed a tag team with Taku Iwasa that gave his career a resurgence . The two won the Open the Twin Gate championship from inaugural champions Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino on February 8 , 2008 , successfully retaining the titles twice before dropping them to Ryo Saito and Susumu Yokosuka on May 5 . However , he would find championship success again the following month , for on June 28 , he – along with Iwasa and newest Tozawa – juku member Shinobu – would capture the Open the Triangle Gate Titles from Shingo Takagi , YAMATO and Gamma . Unfortunately for them , they lost the titles in their first defense on July 12 , losing them to Yasushi Kanda , YAMATO and Gamma . On November 16 , he , Iwasa & Tozawa fought the Triangle Gate champions Masaaki Mochizuki , Don Fujii & Magnitude Kishiwada for the titles , but they had agreed to end Tozawa - juku if they lost . Arai ended up being pinned , bringing the stable to an end , and he and the others were given a graduation ceremony . On January 18 , 2009 , Arai shocked everyone when he joined the heel group Real Hazard , turning heel for the first time since 1998 . It came about when he came to the ring seemingly to assist Yasushi Kanda from suffering a beatdown from Real Hazard , after he lost a Real Hazard banishment match to Gamma , but instead , he joined the group , and then he joined Kanda and the other group members in beating down and ousting Gamma . He adopted a violent fight style and also re - introduced the alcoholic aspect of his character , carrying large amounts of alcohol bottles to the ring , which he used in his matches . Since joining Real Hazard , Arai ' s career has been relatively uneventful . He has won matches on a semi - regular basis , usually via a low blow followed by a flash pinfall , but he has not been in title contention . In January 2010 , during Real Hazard ' s disagreement on whether to fight clean matches or continue to cheat , Arai continued to team with the " cheat " side but didn ' t take a strong position on the issue . When the clean fight side of Genki Horiguchi , Susumu Yokosuka & K - ness left Real Hazard on February 10 , Arai stayed with the heels , and with them became one of the founding members of the new DEEP DRUNKERS stable a couple of weeks later . Since the formation of the Deep Drunkers , Arai has been mostly absent from cards and losing matches in short order when he does appear . On October 13 , 2010 , the Deep Drunkers lost a six - man tag team match to World - 1 and were as a result forced to split up . However , following the match World - 1 member Naruki Doi turned on his stablemates and joined the former Deep Drunkers and Takuya Sugawara to form a new heel group . They however decided that Arai was not needed in the new group and kicked him out .