Open the Brave Gate Championship


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The Open the Brave Gate Championship is a professional wrestling title in Japanese promotion Dragon Gate; it has a weight limit of 83 kg (183 lb), though it has been defended against heavier wrestlers in the past. It can be considered the secondary singles title in Dragon Gate and is more of a light heavyweight championship.[1]

Open the Brave Gate

Current design of the Open the Brave Gate Championship (2019 – present)

Details
PromotionDragon Gate
Date establishedMarch 13, 2005
Current champion(s)Dragon Dia
Date wonJuly 21, 2024
Statistics
First champion(s)Naruki Doi
Most reignsMasato Yoshino (6 reigns)
Longest reignPac (447 days)
Shortest reignAnthony W. Mori and Masato Yoshino/Dr. Muscle (<1 day)
Oldest championDragon Kid (42 years, 234 days)
Youngest championFlamita (19 years, 106 days)
Heaviest championPac (194 lbs)
Lightest championKotoka (145 lbs)

The championship was created on March 13, 2005 when Naruki Doi defeated Yossino in a tournament final.[2] In the case of the first belt design from 2005 to 2019, the faceplate logo of it was divided into eight pieces, each of them representing the eight wrestlers who fought in the tournament to determine the inaugural champion. During Gamma's reign, he threw away all eight pieces of the faceplate and replaced it with his own plate, renaming it Open the Gamma Gate, dictating and often changing the rules of his title defenses. This ended when Masato Yoshino, wrestling as the masked Dr. Muscle, defeated Gamma and restored it to the Brave Gate title, vacating it soon afterwards.

There have been a total of 52 reigns shared between 33 different champions. The current champion is Dragon Dia who is in his first reign.[3]

Championship belt designs

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  • Eita with the (2005–2019) design of the title in November 2016.

  • Jason Lee with the current design of the title (2019–present).

  • H.Y.O with a closer look to the current belt design.

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
<1 Reign lasted less than a day
+ Current reign is changing daily

As of October 6, 2024.

 
Record six-time champion Masato Yoshino/Dr. Muscle.
† Indicates the current champion
Rank Wrestler No. of
Reigns 		Combined
defenses 		Combined
days
1 Masato Yoshino/Dr. Muscle 6 16 813
2 Dragon Kid 4 13 733
3 Pac 1 11 447
4 H.Y.O/Hyo 2 10 377
5 Kaito Ishida 1 4 365
6 Genki Horiguchi/H.A.Gee.Mee!! 4 8 344
7 Flamita 1 9 290
8 Eita 2 5 287
9 Jimmy Kagetora/Kagetora 2 5 286
10 Keisuke Okuda 1 5 270
11 Dragon Dia † 2 5 276+
12 Naruki Doi 2 5 254
13 Akira Tozawa 1 6 246
14 Susumu Yokosuka 1 4 228
15 Ricochet 1 3 169
16 Yasushi Kanda 2 1 153
17 Ishin 2 2 151
18 Yosuke ♥ Santa Maria 1 2 141
19 Naoki Tanizaki 1 6 134
20 Kotoka 1 1 125
21 SB Kento 2 4 124
22 Jason Lee 1 1 120
23 Cima 1 3 119
24 Tigers Mask 1 3 118
25 Minorita 1 0 69
26 Gamma 1 0 63
27 Kzy 2 1 52
28 Super Shisa 1 1 50
29 K-ness 1 1 47
30 Matt Sydal 1 1 41
31 Punch Tominaga 1 0 18
32 Anthony W. Mori 1 0 <1
1.^ – On May 20, 2014, Flamita successfully defended the title against Drastik Boy, Kaleth and Shane Strickland at a Desastre Total Ultraviolento (DTU) event in Pachuca, Mexico. Although Dragon Gate has not recognized the defense, it is included here.[34]
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