Open the Twin Gate Championship

Open the Twin Gate
Details
Current champion(s)	Monster Express (T-Hawk and Big R Shimizu)
Date won	March 6, 2016
Date established	October 12, 2007
Promotion	Dragon Gate
Statistics First champion(s) Masato Yoshino & Naruki Doi Most reigns (as team) Cima and Gamma, Shingo Takagi and Yamato and Millennials (Eita and T-Hawk) (3) (as individual) Yamato (7) Longest reign Yamato & Naruki Doi (267 days) Shortest reign Cima & Gamma (<1 day)

The Open the Twin Gate Championship is a professional wrestling tag team title in Japanese promotion Dragon Gate. Dragon Gate had used the WAR IJ Tag Team Championship since 2006, until 2007 when Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino introduced the new Twin Gate after winning the Summer Adventure Tag League tournament. They later defeated the IJ champions, Keni'chiro Arai & Taku Iwasa, to unify the titles and become the first Twin Gate champions. There have been a total of 25 recognized individual champions and 20 recognized teams, who have had a combined 37 official reigns. YAMATO and Naruki Doi hold the most successful consecutive defenses with 9. They are also the longest reigning champions, with their second reign as a team totaling 267 days.

Title history

"P" indicates provisional title reigns.

#	Wrestler	Reigns	Date	Days held	Successful defenses	Location	Event	Notes	Ref.
1	Muscle Outlaw'z (Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino)	1	October 12, 2007	119	2	Tokyo, Japan	The Gate of Victory	Defeated Tozawajuku (Keni'chiro Arai & Taku Iwasa) to unify the Dragon Gate I-J Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
2	Tozawajuku (Keni'chiro Arai & Taku Iwasa)	1	February 8, 2008	87	2	Tokyo, Japan	Truth Gate		[1]
3	Typhoon (Ryo Saito & Susumu Yokosuka)	1	May 5, 2008	144	3	Nagoya, Japan	Dead or Alive		[2]
4	World-1 (Naruki Doi (2) & Masato Yoshino (2))	2	September 26, 2008	9	0	Osaka, Japan	Storm Gate		[3]
5	Real Hazard (Cyber Kong & Yamato)	1	October 5, 2008	147	4	Fukuoka, Japan	The Gate of Victory		[4]
6	WARRIORS-5 (Gamma & Susumu Yokosuka (2))	1	March 1, 2009	65	1	Osaka Japan	Truth Gate		[5]
7	Real Hazard (Ryo Saito (2) and Genki Horiguchi)	1	May 5, 2009	135	3	Aichi Japan	Gate of Anniversary		[5]
8	Kamikaze (Shingo Takagi (1) and Yamato (2))	1	September 17, 2009	101	3	Tokyo, Japan	Storm Gate.		[5]
9	Warriors-5 Cima and Gamma (2)	1	December 27, 2009	0	0	Tokyo, Japan	Final Gate 2009.		[5]
-	Vacated	-	December 27, 2009		-	Tokyo, Japan		Cima & Gamma returned the titles immediately and declared themselves provisional champions
10	Warriors-5 Cima (2) and Gamma (3)	2	February 10, 2010	40	0	Tokyo, Japan	Truth Gate	Defeated World-1 (Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino) to win the vacant titles	[5]
11	KAMIKAZE Cyber Kong (2) and Shingo Takagi (2)	1	March 22, 2010	52	1	Tokyo, Japan	Compilation Gate.		[5]
12	K-neSuka K-ness and Susumu Yokosuka (3)	1	May 13, 2010	194	4	Tokyo, Japan	Aggressive Gate.		[5]
13	Gamma (4) and Naruki Doi (3)	1	November 23, 2010	48	1	Osaka, Japan	Gate of Destiny.		[5][6]
14	Masaaki Mochizuki and Don Fujii	1	January 10, 2011	27	0	Nagoya, Japan	Primal Gate		[5]
15	Blood Warriors Genki Horiguchi (2) and Ryo Saito (3)	2	February 6, 2011	133	2	Fukuoka, Japan	Truth Gate.		[5]
16	Junction Three Dragon Kid and PAC	1	June 19, 2011	28	0	Fukuoka, Japan	Champion Gate		[5]
17	Blood Warriors Cima (3) and Ricochet	1	July 17, 2011	136	3	Kobe, Japan	Kobe Puroresu Festival 2011		[5]
-	Vacated	-	November 30, 2011	-	-	Tokyo, Japan	Cima & Ricochet vacated the title so Ricochet could focus on his Open the Brave Gate Championship and Cima could focus on going for the Open the Dream Gate Championship
18	Blood Warriors/Mad Blankey Akira Tozawa and BxB Hulk	1	December 1, 2011	94	2	Tokyo, Japan	Fantastic Gate	Defeated Junction Three (Kagetora and Susumu Yokosuka).	[5]
19	Jimmyz Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu (4)	1	March 4, 2012	98	3	Osaka, Japan	Champion Gate.		[5]
20	Mad Blankey BxB Hulk (2) and "Naoki Tanisaki"	1	June 10, 2012	7	0	Sapporo, Japan	Gate of Maximum.		[5]
21	Jimmyz Jimmy KAGETORA (2) and Jimmy Susumu (5)	2	June 17, 2012	35	0	Fukuoka, Japan	Champion Gate in Hakata	It was a 3-Way elimination tag match which also included K-Ness and Keni'chiro Arai of MadoGiwa Windows.
22	-akatsuki- Shingo Takagi (3) and Yamato (3)	2	July 22, 2012	63	1	Kobe, Japan	Kobe Puroresu Festival 2012
23	Kaettekita Veteran-gun Masaaki Mochizuki(2) and Don Fujii(2)	2	September 23, 2012	160	6	Tokyo, Japan	Dangerous Gate
24	Mad Blankey BxB Hulk (3) and Uhaa Nation	1	March 2, 2013	64	1	Osaka, Japan	Champion Gate
25	-akatsuki- Shingo Takagi (4) and Yamato (4)	3	May 5, 2013	41	1	Aichi, Japan	Dead or Alive 2013
26	Mad Blankey Akira Tozawa (2) and BxB Hulk (4)	2	June 15, 2013	36	0	Fukuoka, Japan	Champion Gate in Hakata
27	World-1 International Naruki Doi (4) and Ricochet (2)	1	July 21, 2013	40	0	Kobe, Japan	Kobe Puroresu Festival 2013
28	Oretachi Veteran-gun Dragon Kid (2) and K-ness (2)	1	August 30, 2013	8	0	Kobe, Japan	The Gate of Generation 2013 Day 13
-	Vacated	-	September 7, 2013	-	-	Osaka, Japan		The title was vacated after Dragon Kid suffered a knee injury.
-	Millennials Eita and T-Hawk	P	September 28, 2013	36	0	Kobe, Japan	Summer Adventure Tag League 2013	Defeated Mad Blankey (BxB Hulk and Yamato) in the finals of the 2013 Summer Adventure Tag League to become provisional champions.[5]
29	Millennials Eita and T-Hawk (2)	1	November 3, 2013	35	0	Osaka, Japan	The Gate of Destiny 2013	Defeated Oretachi Veteran-gun (Dragon Kid and K-ness) to become the official champions.[5]
30	Mad Blankey (Yamato (5) and Naruki Doi (5))	1	December 8, 2013	14	0	Hokkaido, Japan	Fantastic Gate
31	Monster Express (Akira Tozawa (3) and Shingo Takagi (5))	1	December 22, 2013	210	5	Fukuoka, Japan	The Final Gate 2013
32	Millennials Eita (2) and T-Hawk (3)	2	July 20, 2014	105	2	Kobe, Japan	Kobe Puroresu Festival 2014
33	Osaka06 Cima (4) and Gamma (5)	3	November 2, 2014	31	0	Osaka, Japan	The Gate of Destiny 2014
34	Millennials Eita (3) and T-Hawk (4)	3	December 3, 2014	25	0	Tokyo, Japan	Fantastic Gate
35	Mad Blankey Cyber Kong (3) and Yamato (6)	2	December 28, 2014	63	0	Fukuoka, Japan	The Final Gate 2014
36	Monster Express Masato Yoshino (3) and Shachihoko Boy	1	March 1, 2015	104	2	Osaka, Japan	Champion Gate 2015 in Osaka
37	Mad Blankey/VerserK (Yamato (7) and Naruki Doi (6))	2	June 13, 2015	267	9	Fukuoka, Japan	Champion Gate 2015 in Hakata	Mad Blankey disbanded and their reign continued under the VerserK unit.
38	Monster Express (T-Hawk (5) and Big R Shimizu (1))	1	March 6, 2016	63+	0	Osaka, Japan	Champion Gate 2016 in Osaka

List of combined reigns by length, by wrestler

Rank	Wrestler	# Of Reigns	Combined Days
1.	Yamato	7	696
2.	Jimmy Susumu	5	535
3.	Naruki Doi	6	495
3.	Shingo Takagi	5	467
5.	Ryo Saito	3	412
6.	Akira Tozawa	3	340
7.	Genki Horiguchi	2	268
8.	Cyber Kong	3	262
9.	Masato Yoshino	3	232
10.	Cima	4	208
11.	BxB Hulk	4	201
12.	K-ness	2	202
13.	Masaaki Mochizuki	2	187
13.	Don Fujii	2	187
15.	Gamma	5	184
16.	Ricochet	2	177
17.	"Naoki Tanisaki"/T-Hawk	4	175+
18.	Eita	3	165
19.	Jimmy KAGETORA	2	132
20.	Shachihoko Boy	1	104
21.	Keni'chiro Arai	1	87
21.	Taku Iwasa	1	87
23.	Uhaa Nation	1	64
24.	Dragon Kid	2	36
25.	PAC	1	28
26.	Big R Shimizu	1	3+

See also

• Dragon Gate
• Open the United Gate Championship

References

1. "Dragon Gate Truth Gate tour results" (in German). PuroLove.com. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
2. "Dragon Gate results, 2008" (in German). PuroLove.com. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
3. "Dragon Gate Storm Gate tour results" (in German). PuroLove.com. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
4. "Dragon Gate The Gate of Victory 2008 tour results" (in German). PuroLove.com. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
5. "Open the TwinGate official title history" (in Japanese). Dragon Gate Official Site. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
6. Boutwell, Josh (2010-11-26). "Viva La Raza! Lucha Weekly". WrestleView. Retrieved 2010-11-26.

External links

• Image of the title
• Open the Twin Gate Championship