Open The Brave Gate Championship

The Open The Brave Gate Championship belt (2020–present)

The **Open The Brave Gate Championship** is a secondary singles championship in Dragon Gate. It is the equivalent of a middleweight or welterweight championship as competitors are required to weight no more than 82 kilograms (or 181 lbs). An exception was made to the rule when Matt Sydal defended the title against Austin Aries on February 23, 2007 as this would be the first defense of any Dragon Gate championship in the United States.

## Overview

The Brave Gate was conceived by K-ness and YOSSINO in early 2005. It was to be the spiritual successor to the NWA World Welterweight Championship from the Toryumon Japan days, for which came some of the more famous matches between the two wrestlers in their rivalry. A tournament was held beginning March 3, 2005 with the eight participants each receiving a piece that, when combined, made up the center plate on the belt. When defeated, the competitor must hand over all of their pieces to the winner. The eventual winner, Naruki Doi, would collect all of the pieces and complete the belt.

When Gamma won the championship on April 27, 2008, he discarded the eight center plate pieces and replaced it with his own plate, changing the name of the title to "Open The Gamma Gate." He was still recognized as the Brave Gate champion. However, his defenses were not necessarily part of the official championship lineage until he was finally defeated by Dr. Muscle on June 29, 2008, when the title was properly restored.

Following a match on July 17, 2011, the reigning champion PAC would be returning home to the United Kingdom for an extended stay. Naoki Tanizaki stole the title and proclaimed himself as the champion in his place, changing the name of the title to "Blood Authorized Open the Brave Gate". All of his supposed defenses, however, were not officially recognized. PAC would reclaim the belt in a proper defense on September 16, 2011.

In 2018, Eita and Dragon Kid started feuding, in their feud Eita would destroy the title, initially, he changed partially, but destroyed it during Kid's fourth reign, forcing Dragon Gate to have it repaired in January 2019, changing the belt to a white strap. In June following the promotion's rebranding, the promotion unveiled a new version of the title, with the new logo of the promotion.

## Inaugural tournament

On March 13, 2005 Dragon Gate held a single-elimination tournament in the Dragon Gate The Brave Gate Tour 2005; which involved seven wrestlers from Dragon Gate and one from Kaientai Dojo. The seven wrestlers from Dragon Gate were Daniel Mishima, Genki Horiguchi, K-ness, Naoki Tanizaki, Naruki Doi, Super Shisa and YOSSINO and from Kaientai Dojo was PSYCHO. The winner was Naruki Doi and he became the inaugural Open The Brave Gate Champion.

1The match ended in a no contest at 6:48 minutes, and then it was restarted.

## Title History

1. ↑ When Gamma won the title, he discarded the 8 Pieces of the belt, replaced with his own. He changed the name to “Open the Gamma Gate”. However, his reign is still recognized, but his defenses are not a part of the official Brave Gate lineage. Also, when Gamma loses a title defense he said that the victories didn't count and he restarted the matches.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Following a match on July 17, 2011, the reigning champion PAC would be returning home to the United Kingdom for an extended stay. Naoki Tanizaki stole the title and proclaimed himself as the champion in his place. However PAC's reign is considered uninterrupted after all.
3. ↑ Flamita also made two title defenses at Desastre Total Ultraviolento (DTU). Although, Dragon Gate don't officially recognize those title defenses.
4. ↑ When Kagetora won the title, he was known as Jimmy Kagetora until the disbanding of Jimmyz, he reverted back to his old name Kagetora.

## Gallery

* Gallery
* Defenses
* Champions

Flamita after a successful title defense.Gamma with the Open the Gamma Gate Championship.Yosuke Santa Maria with his version of The Open The Brave Gate ChampionshipNaoki Tanizaki with the Blood Warriors Authorized Open the Brave Gate ChampionshipPAC after defeating Naoki Tanizaki and reclaiming his Open The Brave Gate ChampionshipContract signing between Champion Jimmy Kagetora and Challanger FlamitaContract signing between Champion Jimmy Kagetora and Challanger Yosuke♥Santa MariaEita stealing the Open the Brave Gate ChampionThe original belt design before being destroyed by EitaThe Open the Brave Gate Championship belt after being destroyed by EitaSecond belt designContract signing between Champion Susumu Yokosuka and Challanger FlamitaA miniture of the third belt designMinorita with a miniature of the Open The Brave Gate Championship

Masato Yoshino vs. CIMA - March 1, 2008Masato Yoshino vs Anthony W. Mori - April 13, 2008Gamma vs Naoshi Sano - June 20, 2008Genki Horiguchi vs Masato Yoshino - October 12, 2008Masato Yoshino vs KAGETORA - February 12, 2009CIMA vs. Naruki Doi - July 19, 2009Noaki Tanizaki vs. Super Shisa - December 10, 2009Dragon Kid vs. Tigers Mask - May 5, 2010PAC vs. Ricochet - March 1, 2011PAC vs Naruki Doi - May 5, 2011PAC vs. Genki Horiguchi - October 16, 2011Naoki Tanizaki vs Rich Swann - July 24, 2011Masamune vs. Dragon Kid - September 23, 2012Naruki Doi vs Masato Yoshino - August 1, 2013Flamita vs. Mr. Kyu Kyu Naoki Tanizaki Toyonaka Dolphin - August 17, 2014Akira Tozawa vs. Kzy - Febuary 28, 2015Dragon Kid vs. Akira Tozawa - May 5, 2015Eita vs. Akira Tozawa - July 20, 2015Punch Tominaga vs. Super Shisa vs. Akira Tozawa - August 16, 2015Naoki Tanizaki vs. Kotoka vs. Akira Tozawa - November 1, 2015Kotoka vs. Eita - December 27, 2015Eita vs. Yosuke Santa Maria - July 24, 2016Eita vs. El Lindaman in a Title vs Cape match - October 12, 2016Takehiro Yamamura vs. Jimmy Kagetora - May 5, 2017Flamita vs. Jimmy Kagetora - July 23, 2017Yosuke♥Santa Maria vs. Jimmy Kagetora - September 18, 2017Genki Horiguchi vs. Kagetora - November 3, 2017Yasushi Kanda vs. Kagetora - December 23, 2017Yosuke♥Santa Maria vs. Dragon Kid - May 6, 2018Eita vs. Dragon Kid - July 22, 2018Eita vs. Punch Tominaga - September 9, 2018Eita vs. Dragon Kid - September 24, 2018Bandido vs. Dragon Kid - November 4, 2018K-ness. vs. Dragon Kid - March 2, 2019Susumu Yokosuka vs. Dragon Kid - March 21, 2019U-T vs. Susumu Yokosuka - May 6, 2019Flamita vs. Susumu Yokosuka - July 21, 2019Yosuke♥Santa Maria vs. Susumu Yokosuka - September 11, 2019Kaito Ishida vs. Susumu Yokosuka - November 4, 2019Kaito Ishida vs. Jason Lee - December 15, 2019Kaito Ishida vs. Keisuke Okuda - November 15, 2020Kagetora vs. Keisuke Okuda - December 20, 2020SB KENTo vs. Kagetora - August 8, 2021SB KENTo vs. Keisuke Okuda - August 9, 2021SB KENTo vs. Mondai Ryu - December 12, 2021

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