Open the Twin Gate Championship

Open the Twin Gate Championship
Details
Promotion Dragon Gate
Date established October 12, 2007
Current champion(s) Tribe Vanguard
( Yamato and BxB Hulk)
Date won July 22, 2018

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 Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi introduced the new Twin Gate after winning the Summer Adventure Tag League tournament. They later defeated the IJ champions, Kenichiro Arai and Taku Iwasa, to unify the titles and become the first Twin Gate champions. There have been a total of 26 recognized individual champions and 22 recognized teams, who have had a combined 41 official reigns. Naruki Doi and Yamato, Cima and Dragon Kid hold the most successful consecutive defenses with nine. Cima and Dragon Kid are also the longest reigning champions, with first reign as a team totaling 397 days.

Title history

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
† Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion
<1 Reign lasted less than a day
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign DaysDefenses
1 Muscle Outlaw'z
(Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi)		 October 12, 2007 The Gate of Victory 2007 Tokyo, Japan 1 1192 Defeated Tozawajuku (Kenichiro Arai and Taku Iwasa) to unify the International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
2 Tozawa-juku
(Kenichiro Arai and Taku Iwasa)		 February 8, 2008 Truth Gate 2008 Tokyo, Japan 1 872
3 Typhoon
(Ryo Saito and Susumu Yokosuka)		 May 5, 2008 Dead or Alive 2008 Nagoya, Japan 1 1443
4 World-1
(Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi)		 September 26, 2008 Storm Gate 2008 Osaka, Japan 2 90
5 Real Hazard
(Cyber Kong and Yamato)		 October 5, 2008 The Gate of Victory 2008 Fukuoka, Japan 1 1474
6 Warriors-5
(Gamma and Susumu Yokosuka (2))		 March 1, 2009 Truth Gate 2009 Osaka, Japan 1 651
7 Real Hazard
(Genki Horiguchi and Ryo Saito (2))		 May 5, 2009 Dead or Alive 2009 Aichi, Japan 1 1353
8 Kamikaze
(Shingo Takagi and Yamato (2))		 September 17, 2009 Storm Gate 2009 Tokyo, Japan 1 1013
9 Warriors-5
(Cima and Gamma (2))		 December 27, 2009 Final Gate 2009 Fukuoka, Japan 1 <10
— Vacated December 27, 2009 Final Gate 2009 Fukuoka, Japan — —— CIMA and Gamma returned the title immediately and declared themselves interim champions.
10 Warriors-5
(Cima and Gamma (3))		 February 10, 2010 Truth Gate 2010 Tokyo, Japan 2 400 Defeated World-1 (Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino) to win the vacant title.
11 Kamikaze
(Cyber Kong (2) and Shingo Takagi (2))		 March 22, 2010 Compilation Gate 2010 Tokyo, Japan 1 521
12 K-neSuka
(K-ness and Susumu Yokosuka (3))		 May 13, 2010 Aggressive Gate 2010 Tokyo, Japan 1 1944
13 Gamma (4) and Naruki Doi (3) November 23, 2010 The Gate of Destiny 2010 Osaka, Japan 1 481
14 Don Fujii and Masaaki Mochizuki January 10, 2011 Primal Gate 2011 Nagoya, Japan 1 270
15 Blood Warriors
(Genki Horiguchi and Ryo Saito (3))		 February 6, 2011 Truth Gate 2011 Fukuoka, Japan 2 1332
16 Junction Three
(Dragon Kid and Pac)		 June 19, 2011 Champion Gate 2011 in Hakata Fukuoka, Japan 1 280
17 Blood Warriors
(Cima (3) and Ricochet)		 July 17, 2011 Rainbow Gate 2011: Kobe Pro–Wrestling Festival 2011 Kobe, Japan 1 1363
— Vacated November 30, 2011 1st Blood Tokyo, Japan — —— CIMA and 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)		 December 1, 2011 Fantastic Gate 2011 Tokyo, Japan 1 942 Defeated Junction Three (Kagetora and Susumu Yokosuka).
19 Jimmyz
(Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu (4))		 March 4, 2012 Champion Gate 2012 in Osaka Osaka, Japan 1 983
20 Mad Blankey
(BxB Hulk (2) and Naoki Tanisaki)		 June 10, 2012 The Gate of Maximum 2012 Sapporo, Japan 1 70
21 Jimmyz
(Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu (5))		 June 17, 2012 Champion Gate 2012 in Hakata Fukuoka, Japan 2 350 This was a three-way elimination tag match, which also included K-ness and Kenichiro Arai of MadoGiwa Windows.
22 -akatsuki-
(Shingo Takagi (3) and Yamato (3))		 July 22, 2012 Kobe Pro–Wrestling Festival 2012 Kobe, Japan 2 631
23 Kaettekita Veteran-gun
(Don Fujii and Masaaki Mochizuki)		 September 23, 2012 Dangerous Gate 2012 Tokyo, Japan 2 1606
24 Mad Blankey
(BxB Hulk (3) and Uhaa Nation)		 March 2, 2013 Champion Gate 2012 Osaka, Japan 1 641
25 -akatsuki-
(Shingo Takagi (4) and Yamato (4))		 May 5, 2013 Dead or Alive 2013 Aichi, Japan 3 411
26 Mad Blankey
(Akira Tozawa and BxB Hulk (4))		 June 15, 2013 Champion Gate 2013 in Hakata Fukuoka, Japan 2 360
27 World-1 International
(Naruki Doi (4) and Ricochet (2))		 July 21, 2013 Kobe Pro–Wrestling Festival 2013 Kobe, Japan 1 400
28 Oretachi Veteran-gun
(Dragon Kid (2) and K-ness (2))		 August 30, 2013 The Gate of Generation 2013 Kobe, Japan 1 80
— Vacated September 7, 2013 Summer Adventure Tag League 2013 Osaka, Japan — —— Title vacated after Dragon Kid suffered a knee injury.
† Millennials
(Eita and T-Hawk)		 September 28, 2013 Summer Adventure Tag League 2013 Kobe, Japan I 360 Defeated Mad Blankey (BxB Hulk and Yamato) in the finals of the Summer Adventure Tag League to become interim champions.
29 Millennials
(Eita(1) and T-Hawk (2))		 November 3, 2013 The Gate of Destiny 2013 Osaka, Japan 1 350 Defeated Oretachi Veteran-gun (Dragon Kid and K-ness) to become the official champions.
30 Mad Blankey
(Naruki Doi (5) and Yamato (5))		 December 8, 2013 Fantastic Gate 2013 Hokkaido, Japan 1 140
31 Monster Express
(Akira Tozawa (3) and Shingo Takagi (5))		 December 22, 2013 The Final Gate 2013 Fukuoka, Japan 1 2105
32 Millennials
(Eita(2) and T-Hawk (3))		 July 20, 2014 Kobe Pro–Wrestling Festival 2014 Kobe, Japan 2 1052
33 Osaka06
(Cima (4) and Gamma (5))		 November 2, 2014 The Gate of Destiny 2014 Osaka, Japan 3 310
34 Millennials
(Eita(3) and T-Hawk (4))		 December 3, 2014 Fantastic Gate 2014 Tokyo, Japan 3 250
35 Mad Blankey
(Cyber Kong (3) and Yamato (6))		 December 28, 2014 The Final Gate 2014 Fukuoka, Japan 2 630
36 Monster Express
(Masato Yoshino (3) and Shachihoko Boy)		 March 1, 2015 Champion Gate 2015 in Osaka Osaka, Japan 1 1042
37 Mad Blankey / VerserK
(Naruki Doi (6) and Yamato (7))		 June 13, 2015 Champion Gate 2015 in Hakata Fukuoka, Japan 2 2679 Mad Blankey disbanded and their reign continued under the VerserK unit.
38 Monster Express
(Big R Shimizu (1) and T-Hawk (5))		 March 6, 2016 Champion Gate 2016 in Osaka Osaka, Japan 1 1051
39 Jimmyz
(Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu (6))		 June 19, 2016 The Gate of Maximum 2016 Kyoto, Japan 3 1374
40 Over Generation
(Cima (5) and Dragon Kid (3))		 November 3, 2016 The Gate of Destiny 2016 Osaka, Japan 1 3979
— Vacated December 5, 2017 Fantastic Gate 2017 Tokyo, Japan — —— Title vacated after Dragon Kid suffered a knee injury.
41 VerserK/ANTIAS
(T-Hawk (6) and Eita (4))		 December 23, 2017 The Final Gate 2017 Fukuoka, Japan 4 1342 VerserK renamed themselves to ANTIAS during their reign.
42 MaxiMuM
(Big R Shimizu (2) and Ben-K)		 May 6, 2018 Dead or Alive 2018 Aichi, Japan 1 771
43 Tribe Vanguard
(Yamato (8) and BxB Hulk (5))		 July 22, 2018 Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival 2018 Kobe, Japan 1 82+2 Their actual first defense against Big R Shimizu and Naruki Doi ended in a no contest when Big R turned on Doi and MaxiMuM to join ANTIAS.

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