Dragongate Announces Field And Dates For King of Gate 2026
The lineup and schedule of Dragongate’s King of Gate tournament has been revealed.
During their Korakuen Hall show on Thursday, Dragongate finally announced the field and the dates for their upcoming King of Gate tournament. The KOG is set to begin on December 2 at Korakuen will conclude on December 27 in Kobe, DG’s home city.
The King of Gate was initially created in 2005 as the heir apparent to the El Numero Uno tournament which was created in Toryumon. The KOG has mostly run as a single elimination style tournament, including this year. In recent years, the tournament has been won by Kota Minoura (2023), Dragon Dia (2024), and Gianni Valletta (2025).
The first night of the King of Gate will feature four opening round matches. Riiita will take on Ryu Fuda, Hyo will battle Naruki Doi, the GOAT Masaaki Mochizuki will compete against Madoka Kikuta, and Ryoya Tanaka will challenge YAMATO.
The rest of the first round will then take place over DG’s next four shows. KAI will go against El Cucuy, who has just returned to tour with the promotion from the United States, on December 3. Then the next day, Dragon Kid will go against JACKY KAMEI, Jason Lee will compete against Mochizuki Jr., and in perhaps the biggest matchup in the first round, Kzy will go nose to nose with Yuki Yoshioka.
The next day, Kagetora will go against the upstart GuC, BxB Hulk will battle ISHIN, and the legendary Susumu Yokosuka will go against U-T. Finally on 12/6, the new GHC National Champion in NOAH, Luis Mante, will take on his good friend and occasional tag partner El Cielo, Kota Minoura will take on either Strong Machine J or Open the Dream Gate Champion Yoshiki Kato, depending on who doesn’t hold the belt after their title match on November 8, and finally, AKEY (@KEY) will go against Kazuma Kimura.
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As always, we’ll aim to provide any further updates on Dragongate’s King of Gate as soon as we hear more.
