21 Facts About Eita Kobayashi

Eita Kobayashi, known mononymously as Eita, is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to Dragon Gate, where he is best known as the former leader of the villainous Real Extreme Diffusion stable, in which he led the stable for nearly it's entire run.

Outside of Dragon Gate, Kobayashi has worked matches for their United States-based sister company Dragon Gate USA, and as part of his wrestling training, for Mexican promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group.

Eita Kobayashi trained for his professional wrestling career in the Japanese promotion Dragon Gate's wrestling school called "Dragon Gate Nex" and made his debut on January 26,2011 at Dragon Gate Nex's Sanctuary.

Eita Kobayashi later "graduated" to the main Dragon Gate shows as a low ranking rookie.

On May 27,2012 Eita Kobayashi teamed up with Don Fujii to lose to Akatsuki, the team of Shingo Takagi and Yamato in what turned out to be his last Dragon Gate match of 2012.

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Four days after his last match for Dragon Gate Eita Kobayashi made his debut for the Mexican International Wrestling Revolution Group promotion as part of their annual Rey del Ring tournament.

Eita Kobayashi began carrying a green drum with him to the ring that he would bang before the match to annoy his opponents and use as an actual weapon during the match.

Eita Kobayashi worked a number of IWRG's annual featured shows, such as the 2012 Legado Final where he teamed up with Imposible to defeat Centvrion and Charly Madrid.

Eita Kobayashi was part of IWRG's 2012 Festival de las Mascaras, he, Imposible and Comando Negro defeated the team of Centvrion, Matrix, Jr.

Eita Kobayashi began to work for Desastre Total Ultraviolento that promoted shows around the same area as IWRG did.

In late 2012 Eita Kobayashi worked for Dragon Gate's North American sister company Dragon Gate USA, appearing on three of their Pay-per-view events on October 21 and November 2 through 4th, losing all four matches including a match for Dragon Gate's Open the Brave Gate Championship against champion Dragon Kid.

Eita Kobayashi defeated Alan Extreme in the first round but was defeated by eventual tournament winner Cerebro Negro in the second round.

Eita Kobayashi had the chance to represent IWRG's wrestling school in a series of matches against Fuerza Guerrera's Gimnasio Konkreto school at the Arena Naucalpan 35th Anniversary Show and again at the IWRG 16th Anniversary Show, with Gimnasio Konkreto winning both matches.

On January 17,2013 Eita Kobayashi was teamed up with longtime wrestler Negro Navarro for IWRG's annual El Protector tournament, a tournament where a rookie and a "veteran" are teamed up for a tag team tournament designed to give the rookie the spotlight.

On September 23,2015, Eita Kobayashi was betrayed by Kotoka and kicked out of the newly formed VerserK unit.

On June 12,2016, Eita Kobayashi was selected to represent Dragon Gate in New Japan Pro-Wrestling's 2016 Super J-Cup.

Shimizu's mistakes would repeat during R E D's matches, leading Eita to accuse him of doing it on purpose, and blamed Ben-K and Shimizu for the loses and accused them of being incompetent.

Later that month, Eita Kobayashi took part in the 2019 King of Gate, where he won his block with a clean record of five wins, advancing to the semifinals of the tournament.

Two days later, Eita was defeated his former R E D stablemate Ben-K in the finals to win the tournament.

From May 17 until June 7, Eita Kobayashi took part in the 2020 King of Gate, which he eventually won, defeating Open The Dream Gate Champion Naruki Doi in the finals on June 7.

In May 2021, Eita Kobayashi took part in the 2021 King of Gate, finishing the tournament with a record of two wins, one draw and one loss, failing to advance to the semifinals of the tournament.