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At United: NYC in January 2011, Yamato defeated nemesis BxB Hulk to win the Open the Freedom Gate Championship. At Mercury Rising 2011, Austin Aries challenged Yamato for his title by putting his own career on the line. Yamato defeated Aries, who would later renege on his promise to leave the company. At Open the United Gate 2011, Yamato defeated his former Kamikaze USA stable-mate Akira Tozawa to retain his title. By June, Yamato had joined the Junction Three stable in Japan to feud with heels Blood Warriors after the dissolution of Kamikaze and its American version, Kamikaze USA, which cemented Yamato's face status. At Fearless 2011, Yamato would join forces with Tozawa to challenge for the Open the United Gate Championship from tag team champions (and Junction Three stable-mates) Masato Yoshino and Pac, but Pac pinned Tozawa to ensure the champions retained their titles. At Enter the Dragon 2011, Yamato defeated his stable-mate Pac to retain his Open the Freedom Gate championship in his fourth successful defense. (Yamato's third successful defense of his title was against Yasushi Kanda in Japan in April 2011) At Untouchable 2011, Cima, Yamato's longtime rival and the leader of the Blood Warriors' stable, challenged Yamato for his Open the Freedom Gate championship based on Cima's pin on Yamato in a fatal-four-way non-title match earlier that year at Uprising 2011. Yamato managed to beat Cima in his fifth successful defense of his title. At Revolt!, Yamato defeated BxB Hulk, who was now a Blood Warriors member, in DGUSA's first no-rope no-DQ match, which was also a non-title match. At Bushido 2011, Yamato equalled BxB Hulk's number of successful title defenses with six by defeating Chuck Taylor of Ronin. At Freedom Fight 2011 in November, Yamato lost the Open the Freedom Gate Championship to Johnny Gargano of Ronin. After Freedom Fight 2011, Yamato took an eight month hiatus from Dragon Gate USA. He returned to the promotion in July 2012, for two shows, the annual Untouchable and Enter the Dragon events. In his return match at Untouchable, Yamato defeated Ricochet. The following night at Enter the Dragon, Yamato was defeated in a surprise upset by Jon Davis. This was Yamato's final match with the promotion.

On March 22, 2010, Yamato defeated Naruki Doi via Gallaria to become the 11th Open the Dream Gate Champion at Compilation Gate 2010 in Tokyo. Following this match, Yamato enjoyed three successful title defenses against Susumu Yokosuka, Shingo Takagi and Masaaki Mochizuki. On July 11, 2010, Yamato lost the Open the Dream Gate Championship to Masato Yoshino at Kobe World 2010. On May 13, 2011, Takagi disbanded Kamikaze and the following day both him and Yamato joined Masaaki Mochizuki's new stable, Junction Three, to battle Cima's Blood Warriors. On June 18, Yamato, Gamma and Yoshino defeated the Blood Warriors team of Cima, Naruki Doi and BxB Hulk to win the vacant Open the Triangle Gate Championship. They would go on to lose the title to the Blood Warriors team of Kzy, Naoki Tanisaki and Naruki Doi on September 2. On October 16, Yamato lost his hair to Cyber Kong in a six-way steel cage Hair vs. Hair match. On February 9, 2012, Junction Three was forced to disband, after losing a fourteen-man elimination tag team match to Blood Warriors. On April 19, 2012, Yamato, alongside Shingo Takagi joined with Dragon Gate NEX Member Chihiro Tominaga, and the debuting Super Shenlong III and formed -akatsuki-. On July 22, 2012, Yamato and Shingo Takagi defeated Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu to become the 22nd Open the Twin Gate Champions. They lost the title to Don Fujii and Masaaki Mochizuki on September 23, 2012. Yamato and Takagi won the title for their third time together on May 5, 2013, by defeating BxB Hulk and Uhaa Nation. They lost the title to Akira Tozawa and BxB Hulk on June 15, when Yamato turned on Takagi to join Tozawa's and Hulk's Mad Blankey stable. On August 1, Yamato became the new leader of Mad Blankey, when the stable turned on Akira Tozawa. On August 23, Yamato defeated Shingo Takagi to win the Open the Dream Gate Championship for the second time. On October 6, Yamato became a double champion, when he, BxB Hulk and Cyber Kong defeated Takagi, Akira Tozawa and Masato Yoshino to win the vacant Open the Triangle Gate Championship. However, just four days later, he lost the Open the Dream Gate Championship to Yoshino. On December 5, Mad Blankey also lost the Open the Triangle Gate Championship to Millennials (Eita, Flamita and T-Hawk). On December 8, the Mad Blankey duo of Yamato and Naruki Doi defeated the Millennials to win the Open the Twin Gate Championship. They lost the title to Akira Tozawa and Shingo Takagi on December 22. On May 5, 2014, Yamato won the Open the Dream Gate Championship for a record-tying third time by defeating Ricochet. He lost the title to former Mad Blankey stablemate BxB Hulk on July 20. On August 16, 2015, Mad Blankey was forced to disband after losing to Jimmyz in a five-on-five elimination tag team match, after being betrayed by K-ness. On September 23, Yamato formed a new stable named VerserK with Cyber Kong, Kotoka, Mondai Ryu, Naruki Doi and Shingo Takagi. On May 6, Yamato and Doi would lose the Twin Gate Championships to Big R Shimizu and T-Hawk, ending their record-breaking 267-day reign with record breaking 9 defenses. On May 5, Yamato was betrayed by his VerserK stablemates and later aligned with BxB Hulk, Kzy, and Yosuke♥Santa Maria, turning face in the process. The four ended up forming a new unit, which was named Tribe Vanguard on May 28, 2016. On June 12, Yamato defeated Big R Shimizu to win the annual King of Gate tournament. On July 24, Yamato defeated Shingo Takagi to become Dream Gate Champion for the fourth time. On September 22 at "Dangerous Gate", Yamato defeated Akira Tozawa marking his first defense. Yamato defeated Naruki Doi December 25 at "Final Gate" for his second defense. February 2 at "Truth Gate", Yamato defeated BxB Hulk marking his third defense. Yamato defeated Cyber Kong on March 5 at "Champion Gate", for his fourth successful defense. He defeated Shingo Takagi, Cyber Kong, BxB Hulk & Naruki Doi in a cage match on May 5, 2017 at Dead Or Alive, marking his fifth defense. Afterwards, Cyber Kong was forced to unmask. On September 18, 2017 at Dangerous Gate, Yamato lost the Dream Gate Championship to Masaaki Mochizuki in his seventh defense.

On Enter the Dragon, Dragon Gate USA's first ever pay-per-view which first aired on September 4, 2009, Yamato defeated BxB Hulk in the opener. On the very same show, Yamato cemented his villainous status when he and Gran Akuma engaged in a post-match attack on Mike Quackenbush and Jigsaw, starting a feud with the Chikara wrestlers. This led to Yamato & Akuma facing Quackenbush & Jigsaw in a losing effort at Untouchable. At Freedom Fight, Yamato entered the tournament to crown the first Open the Freedom Gate Champion. He defeated Davey Richards to qualify for the four-way elimination match tournament finals against Hulk, Akuma and Cima, but Hulk gained revenge when by last eliminated Yamato to become champion. At Fearless, Yamato teamed with Shingo Takagi in an elimination match against Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino and The Young Bucks. The duo would survive seeing the Bucks eliminated but fell to Doi & Yoshino in defeat. After the conclusion of Fearless' main-event, Yamato ran out with Takagi, Akuma and Richards to beat down both Hulk and Dragon Kid, but the attackers were thwarted by the Chikara wrestlers. At Mercury Rising, Yamato successfully defended his newly won Open the Dream Gate championship against Susumu Yokosuka in his first defense, while forming the Kamikaze USA stable with Takagi and Jon Moxley. At Uprising, Akira Tozawa and Gran Akuma were added to the Kamikaze USA stable, while Yamato teamed again with Takagi to defeat the team of Cima and Dragon Kid. Kamikaze USA would also attack Quackenbush, Jigsaw, Yoshino and Hulk after their matches, leading to Quackenbush challenging Yamato to a match between Kamikaze USA and the Chikara wrestlers. The match took place at Enter The Dragon 2010, which saw Yamato, Tozawa, Moxley and Akuma, representing Kamikaze USA, being defeated by Yoshino, Quackenbush, Jigsaw and Hallowicked, ending the feud between Kamikaze USA and the Chikara wrestlers. At Untouchable 2010, Yamato was defeated by WWE wrestler Bryan Danielson.

On April 17, 2008, Yamato betrayed New Hazard and sided with the Muscle Outlaw'z after he attacked his partner Naoki Tanisaki in a tag match against Gamma and Genki Horiguchi. However, the betrayal was a ruse, for on May 14, Takagi and Kong betrayed Hulk before the trio were scheduled to defend their Open the Triangle Gate Championship against Yamato, Gamma & Horiguchi. New Hazard was ended, and Takagi and Kong joined up with Yamato and company to form the new super-heel group Real Hazard. Then, he, Gamma, and Takagi won the newly-vacant Open the Triangle Gate titles in an impromptu match against Hulk, Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino. Their title reign lasted until June 28, when they were defeated by Kenichiro Arai, Taku Iwasa and Shinobu. However, he would win them back from them on July 12, along with Yasushi Kanda and Gamma, and the trio would lose the titles to Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii and Magnitude Kishiwada on September 28. But, Yamato would not be without a championship for long, for a week later, he teamed with Cyber Kong to defeat Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino for the Open the Twin Gate Championship.

Masato Onodera (小野寺 正人 , Onodera Masato, born September 10, 1981 in Ichinoseki, Iwate, Japan) is a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist, better known by his ring name Yamato (stylized in all capital letters), who works for Dragon Gate. He is a four time Open the Dream Gate Champion.