{"id":42000,"date":"2019-03-21T17:31:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=42000"},"modified":"2019-03-21T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T21:31:07","slug":"andnew-susumu-yokosuka-wins-open-the-brave-gate-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/03\/21\/andnew-susumu-yokosuka-wins-open-the-brave-gate-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Susumu Yokosuka Wins Open The Brave Gate Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Thursday&#8217;s <em><strong>Memorial Gate<\/strong><\/em> event for <strong>Dragon Gate\u00a0<\/strong>in Wakayama, Japan, 20-year veteran <strong>Susumu Yokosuka<\/strong> defeated <strong>Dragon Kid<\/strong> to end his fourth reign as Open The Brave Gate Champion at 178 days. It&#8217;s Yokosuka&#8217;s first reign with the title.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/shupromobile\/status\/1108746762972327936<\/p>\n<p>The Open the Brave Gate Championship is the equivalent to Dragon Gate&#8217;s Junior Heavyweight Championship, with a weight class limit of below 183 lbs. The 40-year old Susumu began his career in 1998, training in Mexico with <strong>Ultimo Dragon<\/strong> and <strong>Dos Caras<\/strong>, debuting with Ultimo&#8217;s <strong>Toryumon Mexico<\/strong> promotion. By 2000, he was back in Japan, working with <strong>All Japan Pro Wrestling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Guerra C3\/Galaxia R2 vs. Kenichiro Arai\/Susumu Mochizuki\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NyXZu_2f3Us?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He joined Dragon Gate in 2004, where he&#8217;s remained for the duration of his career. While he&#8217;s been used primarily as a tag team specialist &#8211; he&#8217;s a 9x Open the Triangle Gate Champion (6-Man Tag Team) and a 5x Open The Twin Gate Champion (Tag Team) &#8211; he&#8217;s also a former 2x Open the Dream Gate Champion (Dragon Gate&#8217;s top singles title). For the past year, he&#8217;s been a part of the stable <strong>Natural Vibes<\/strong>, alongside\u00a0<strong>Kzy,\u00a0Genki Horiguchi,\u00a0Punch Tominaga<\/strong>, and <strong>YASSHI<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jimmy susumu vs Shingo Takagi\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E2uIUeNQJSI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For those heading to the New York City\/New Jersey area for WrestleMania week, Susumu is slated to appear at several shows, including the <strong>WrestleCon<\/strong> <em><strong>Mark Hitchcock Memorial SuperShow<\/strong><\/em> on Thursday, April 4, and WrestleCon&#8217;s <em><strong>USA vs The World<\/strong><\/em> on Friday, April 5, where he&#8217;s scheduled to face <strong>David Starr<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Match Announcement! Dragon Gate&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ssm_yokosuka046?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ssm_yokosuka046<\/a> versus <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheProductDS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheProductDS<\/a> at US v. World. A reserved ticket to this event gets you access to the Convention on Friday starting at 10am. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tLMtMScqLb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/tLMtMScqLb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WrestleCon (@wrestlecon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wrestlecon\/status\/1102653152095072257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"InformationBoxRow\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Thursday&#8217;s Memorial Gate event for Dragon Gate\u00a0in Wakayama, Japan, 20-year veteran Susumu Yokosuka defeated Dragon Kid to end his fourth reign as Open The Brave Gate Champion at 178 days. It&#8217;s Yokosuka&#8217;s first reign with the title. https:\/\/twitter.com\/shupromobile\/status\/1108746762972327936 The Open the Brave Gate Championship is the equivalent to Dragon Gate&#8217;s Junior Heavyweight Championship, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":42003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[2350,4799],"class_list":["post-42000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","tag-dragon-gate","tag-susumu-yokosaka"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}