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The Open the Dream Gate Championship is the top professional wrestling title in Japanese promotion Dragon Gate. The wrestler who holds it is considered the top singles wrestler in Dragon Gate. It was created on July 4, 2004 when CIMA was awarded the title as a result of being the last Último Dragón Gym Champion. The title belt's face has a "gate" on it which contains a plate with the titleholders' name. Any official challenger for the belt carries a key used to open the gate with, and should they win the title, then they can open the gate and put their name inside it. However, if the title is successfully defended, then the key is added to the belt as a symbol of that successful defence. There have been a total of 13 recognised champions who have had a combined 20 official reigns.
Title reigns are determined either by professional wrestling matches between different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines, or by scripted circumstances. Wrestlers were portrayed as either villains or heroes as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches for the championship.
Reigns[]
# | Name | Event | Date | Reign In Days |
Successful defenses |
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1
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CIMA | Live event Tokyo, Japan |
July 4, 2004 | 175 | 1. defeated Susumu Mochizuki on September 17, 2004 |
2
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Masaaki Mochizuki | Gate of Legend Tokyo, Japan |
December 16, 2004 | 323 | 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
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Magnitude Kishiwada | Crown Gate 2005 ~Osaka Special~ Tokyo, Japan |
November 4, 2005 | 112 | 1. defeated Kenichiro Arai on December 4, 2005 2. defeated Anthony W. Mori on February 11, 2006 |
4
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Ryo Saito | Live Event during Truth Gate tour Tokyo, Japan |
February 24, 2006 | 58 | |
5
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Susumu Yokosuka | Glorious Gate 2006 Tokyo, Japan |
April 23, 2006 | 214 | 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
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Don Fujii | Crown Gate 2006 ~Osaka Special~ Tokyo, Japan |
November 23, 2006 | 122 | 1. defeated Masaaki Mochizuki on February 4, 2007 |
7
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Jushin Thunder Liger | Memorial Gate 2007 Tsu, Japan |
March 25, 2007 | 98 | 1. defeated Masaaki Mochizuki on April 17, 2007 |
8
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CIMA | Kobe Puroresu Festival 2007 Kobe, Japan |
July 1, 2007 | 364 | 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 |
9
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Shingo Takagi | Kobe Puroresu Festival 2008 Kobe, Japan |
July 27, 2008 | 154 | 0. defeated BxB Hulk on July 27, 2008 for the vacant title 1. defeated Cyber Kong on August 31 2008 2. defeated TAKA Michinoku on September 28, 2008 3. defeated Susumu Yokosuka on November 16, 2008 |
10
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Naruki Doi | Final Gate 2008 Fukuoka, Japan |
December 28, 2008 | 449 | 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
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YAMATO | Compilation Gate 2010 Tokyo, Japan |
March 22, 2010 | 111 | 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
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Masato Yoshino | Kobe Puroresu Festival 2010 Kobe, Japan |
July 11, 2010 | 277 | 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
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Masaaki Mochizuki | Champion Gate 2011 Tokyo, Japan |
April 14, 2011 | 255 | 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
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CIMA | Final Gate 2011 Fukuoka, Japan |
December 25, 2011 | 574 | 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
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Shingo Takagi | Kobe Puroresu Festival 2013 Kobe, Japan |
July 21, 2013 | 33 | |
16
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YAMATO | The Gate of Generation Tokyo, Japan |
August 23, 2013 | 48 | 1. defeated Ryo "Jimmy" Saito on September 12, 2013 |
17
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Masato Yoshino | The Gate of Victory Tokyo, Japan |
October 10, 2013 | 143 | 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
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Ricochet | Champion Gate in Osaka Osaka, Japan |
March 2, 2014 | 64 | 1. defeated Uhaa Nation on March 6, 2014 |
19
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YAMATO | Dead or Alive 2014 Nagoya, Japan |
May 5, 2014 | 76 | 1. defeated Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!! on May 25, 2014 2. defeated Jimmy Susumu on June 15, 2014 |
20
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BxB Hulk | Kobe Puroresu Festival 2014 Kobe, Japan |
July 20, 2014 | 329 | x. defeated by Naruki Doi, Kzy, Cyber Kong & Mondai Ryu on August 5, 2014 |
20
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BxB Hulk | Kobe Puroresu Festival 2014 Kobe, Japan |
July 20, 2014 | 329 | 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 |
21
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Masato Yoshino | Champion Gate 2015 in Hakata Fukuoka, Japan |
June 14, 2015 | 63 | 1. defeated T-Hawk on July 20, 2015 |
22
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Shingo Takagi | Dangerous Gate 2015 Tokyo, Japan |
August 16, 2015 | 182 | 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 |
23
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Jimmy Susumu | Truth Gate 2016 Fukuoka, Japan |
February 14, 2016 | 21 | |
24
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Shingo Takagi | Osaka, Edion Arena Osaka #2 Osaka, Japan |
March 6, 2016 | 140 | 1. defeated Ryo "Jimmy" Saito on March 21, 2016 |
25
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YAMATO | Kobe Puroresu Festival 2016 Kobe, Japan |
July 24, 2016 | 421 | 1. defeated Akira Tozawa on September 22, 2016 2. defeated Naruki Doi on December 25th, 2016 3. defeated BxB Hulk on February 2, 2017 4. defeated Cyber Kong on March 5, 2017 5. defeated BxB Hulk, Cyber Kong, Shingo Takagi & Naruki Doi on May 5, 2017 6. defeated T-Hawk on July 23, 2017 |
26
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Masaaki Mochizuki | Dangerous Gate 2017 Tokyo, Japan |
September 18, 2017 | 265 | 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
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Masato Yoshino | King of Gate -- Day 17 Fukuoka, Japan |
June 10, 2018 | 177 | 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 | Fantastic Gate 2018 - Day 1 Tokyo, Japan |
December 4th, 2018 | 229 | 1. defeated Kzy on Febuary 10, 2019 2. defeated Shun Skywalker on March 3, 2019 3. defeated Dragon Kid on June 5, 2019 |
29 | Ben-K | Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival (2019) Kobe, Japan |
July 21th, 2019 | 147 | 1. defeated YAMATO on August 4, 2019 2. defeated Masaaki Mochizuki on August 8, 2019 3. defeated Masato Yoshino on November 4, 2019 |
30 | Naruki Doi | Final Gate (2019) Fukuoka, Japan |
December 15, 2019 | 1556+ | 1. defeated Kzy on February 7th, 2020. |
Combined reigns[]
† | Indicates the current champion |
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Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
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1 | CIMA | 3 | 22 | 1113 |
2 | Masaaki Mochizuki | 3 | 15 | 840 |
3 | Masato Yoshino | 4 | 13 | 660 |
4 | YAMATO | 4 | 12 | 656 |
5 | Shingo Takagi | 4 | 8 | 509 |
6 | Naruki Doi † | 2 | 8 | 2005+ |
7 | BxB Hulk | 1 | 7 | 329 |
8 | Susumu Yokosuka / Jimmy Susumu | 2 | 3 | 235 |
9 | PAC | 1 | 3 | 229 |
10 | Ben-K | 1 | 3 | 147 |
11 | Don Fujii | 1 | 1 | 122 |
12 | Magnitude Kishiwada | 1 | 2 | 112 |
13 | Jushin Thunder Liger | 1 | 1 | 98 |
14 | Ricochet | 1 | 1 | 64 |
15 | Ryo Saito | 1 | 0 | 58 |
Combined reigns[]
† | Indicates the current champion |
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Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
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1 | CIMA | 3 | 22 | 1113 |
2 | Masaaki Mochizuki | 3 | 15 | 840 |
3 | Masato Yoshino | 4 | 13 | 660 |
4 | YAMATO | 4 | 12 | 656 |
5 | Shingo Takagi | 4 | 8 | 509 |
6 | Naruki Doi | 1 | 8 | 449 |
7 | BxB Hulk | 1 | 7 | 329 |
8 | Susumu Yokosuka / Jimmy Susumu | 2 | 3 | 235 |
9 | Don Fujii | 1 | 1 | 122 |
10 | Magnitude Kishiwada | 1 | 2 | 112 |
11 | Jushin Thunder Liger | 1 | 1 | 98 |
12 | Ricochet | 1 | 1 | 64 |
13 | Ryo Saito | 1 | 0 | 58 |
14 | PAC † | 1 | 0 | 1932+ |
Combined reigns[]
† | Indicates the current champion |
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Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
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1 | CIMA | 3 | 22 | 1113 |
2 | Masaaki Mochizuki | 3 | 15 | 840 |
3 | YAMATO | 4 | 12 | 656 |
4 | Shingo Takagi | 4 | 8 | 509 |
5 | Masato Yoshino † | 4 | 9 | 2592+ |
6 | Naruki Doi | 1 | 8 | 449 |
7 | BxB Hulk | 1 | 7 | 329 |
8 | Susumu Yokosuka / Jimmy Susumu | 2 | 3 | 235 |
9 | Don Fujii | 1 | 1 | 122 |
10 | Magnitude Kishiwada | 1 | 2 | 112 |
11 | Jushin Thunder Liger | 1 | 1 | 98 |
12 | Ricochet | 1 | 1 | 64 |
13 | Ryo Saito | 1 | 0 | 58 |