Open the Twin Gate Championship
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.
| Open the Twin Gate Championship | |||||||||||||
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 Previous championship design | |||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Dragon Gate | ||||||||||||
| Date established | October 12, 2007 | ||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Team Dragon Gate (Jason Lee and Kota Minoura) | ||||||||||||
| Date won | August 2, 2020 | ||||||||||||
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Title history
As of January 19, 2021.
| 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 | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | Muscle Outlaw'z (Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi) |
October 12, 2007 | The Gate of Victory | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 119 | 2 | Muscle Outlaw'z 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 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 87 | 2 | ||
| 3 | Typhoon (Ryo Saito and Susumu Yokosuka) |
May 5, 2008 | Dead or Alive | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 144 | 3 | ||
| 4 | World-1 (Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi) |
September 26, 2008 | Storm Gate | Osaka, Japan | 2 | 9 | 0 | ||
| 5 | Real Hazard (Cyber Kong and Yamato) |
October 5, 2008 | The Gate of Victory | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 147 | 4 | ||
| 6 | Warriors-5 (Gamma and Susumu Yokosuka (2)) |
March 1, 2009 | Truth Gate | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 65 | 1 | ||
| 7 | Real Hazard (Genki Horiguchi and Ryo Saito (2)) |
May 5, 2009 | Dead or Alive | Aichi, Japan | 1 | 135 | 3 | ||
| 8 | Kamikaze (Shingo Takagi and Yamato (2)) |
September 17, 2009 | Storm Gate | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 101 | 3 | ||
| 9 | Warriors-5 (Cima and Gamma (2)) |
December 27, 2009 | Final Gate | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | <1 | 0 | ||
| — | Vacated | December 27, 2009 | Final Gate | 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 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 40 | 0 | Warriors-5 defeated World-1 (Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino) to win the vacant championship. | |
| 11 | Kamikaze (Cyber Kong (2) and Shingo Takagi (2)) |
March 22, 2010 | Compilation Gate | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 52 | 1 | ||
| 12 | K-neSuka (K-ness and Susumu Yokosuka (3)) |
May 13, 2010 | Aggressive Gate | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 194 | 4 | ||
| 13 | Gamma (4) and Naruki Doi (3) | November 23, 2010 | The Gate of Destiny | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 48 | 1 | ||
| 14 | Don Fujii and Masaaki Mochizuki | January 10, 2011 | Primal Gate | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 27 | 0 | ||
| 15 | Blood Warriors (Genki Horiguchi and Ryo Saito (3)) |
February 6, 2011 | Truth Gate | Fukuoka, Japan | 2 | 133 | 2 | ||
| 16 | Junction Three (Dragon Kid and Pac) |
June 19, 2011 | Champion Gate in Hakata | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 28 | 0 | ||
| 17 | Blood Warriors (Cima (3) and Ricochet) |
July 17, 2011 | Rainbow Gate 2011: Kobe Pro–Wrestling Festival | Kobe, Japan | 1 | 136 | 3 | ||
| — | Vacated | November 30, 2011 | 1st Blood | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | — | Cima and Ricochet vacated the championship 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 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 94 | 2 | Defeated Junction Three (Kagetora and Susumu Yokosuka) to win the vacant championship. | |
| 19 | Jimmyz (Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu (4)) |
March 4, 2012 | Champion Gate in Osaka | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 98 | 3 | ||
| 20 | Mad Blankey (BxB Hulk (2) and Naoki Tanisaki) |
June 10, 2012 | The Gate of Maximum | Sapporo, Japan | 1 | 7 | 0 | ||
| 21 | Jimmyz (Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu (5)) |
June 17, 2012 | Champion Gate in Hakata | Fukuoka, Japan | 2 | 35 | 0 | This was a three-way elimination tag match, which also involvingK-ness and Kenichiro Arai of MadoGiwa Windows. | |
| 22 | -akatsuki- (Shingo Takagi (3) and Yamato (3)) |
July 22, 2012 | Kobe Pro–Wrestling Festival | Kobe, Japan | 2 | 63 | 1 | ||
| 23 | Kaettekita Veteran-gun (Don Fujii and Masaaki Mochizuki) |
September 23, 2012 | Dangerous Gate | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 160 | 6 | ||
| 24 | Mad Blankey (BxB Hulk (3) and Uhaa Nation) |
March 2, 2013 | Champion Gate | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 64 | 1 | ||
| 25 | -akatsuki- (Shingo Takagi (4) and Yamato (4)) |
May 5, 2013 | Dead or Alive | Aichi, Japan | 3 | 41 | 1 | ||
| 26 | Mad Blankey (Akira Tozawa (2) and BxB Hulk (4)) |
June 15, 2013 | Champion Gate in Hakata | Fukuoka, Japan | 2 | 36 | 0 | ||
| 27 | World-1 International (Naruki Doi (4) and Ricochet (2)) |
July 21, 2013 | Kobe Pro–Wrestling Festival | Kobe, Japan | 1 | 40 | 0 | ||
| 28 | Oretachi Veteran-gun (Dragon Kid (2) and K-ness (2)) |
August 30, 2013 | The Gate of Generation | Kobe, Japan | 1 | 8 | 0 | ||
| — | Vacated | September 7, 2013 | Summer Adventure Tag League | Osaka, Japan | — | — | — | Title vacated after Dragon Kid suffered a knee injury. | |
| † | Millennials (Eita and T-Hawk (2)) |
September 28, 2013 | Summer Adventure Tag League | Kobe, Japan | 1 | 36 | 0 | Defeated Mad Blankey (BxB Hulk and Yamato) in the finals of the Summer Adventure Tag League to become interim champions. | |
| 29 | Millennials (Eita and T-Hawk (2(3))) |
November 3, 2013 | The Gate of Destiny | Osaka, Japan | 1(2) | 35 | 0 | Millennials 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 | Hokkaido, Japan | 1 | 14 | 0 | ||
| 31 | Monster Express (Akira Tozawa (3) and Shingo Takagi (5)) |
December 22, 2013 | The Final Gate | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 210 | 5 | ||
| 32 | Millennials (Eita (2(3)) and T-Hawk (3(4))) |
July 20, 2014 | Kobe Pro–Wrestling Festival | Kobe, Japan | 2 | 105 | 2 | ||
| 33 | Osaka06 (Cima (4) and Gamma (5)) |
November 2, 2014 | The Gate of Destiny | Osaka, Japan | 3 | 31 | 0 | ||
| 34 | Millennials (Eita (3(4)) and T-Hawk (4(5))) |
December 3, 2014 | Fantastic Gate 2014 | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 25 | 0 | ||
| 35 | Mad Blankey (Cyber Kong (3) and Yamato (6)) |
December 28, 2014 | The Final Gate | Fukuoka, Japan | 2 | 63 | 0 | ||
| 36 | Monster Express (Masato Yoshino (3) and Shachihoko Boy) |
March 1, 2015 | Champion Gate in Osaka | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 104 | 2 | ||
| 37 | Mad Blankey/VerserK (Naruki Doi (6) and Yamato (7)) |
June 13, 2015 | Champion Gate in Hakata | Fukuoka, Japan | 2 | 267 | 9 | Mad Blankey disbanded and their reign continued under the VerserK unit. | |
| 38 | Monster Express (Big R Shimizu and T-Hawk (5(6))) |
March 6, 2016 | Champion Gate in Osaka | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 105 | 1 | ||
| 39 | Jimmyz (Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu (6)) |
June 19, 2016 | The Gate of Maximum | Kyoto, Japan | 3 | 137 | 4 | ||
| 40 | Over Generation (Cima (5) and Dragon Kid (3)) |
November 3, 2016 | The Gate of Destiny | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 397 | 9 | ||
| — | Vacated | December 5, 2017 | Fantastic Gate | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | — | Title vacated after Dragon Kid suffered a knee injury. | |
| 41 | VerserK/ANTIAS (Eita (4(5)) and T-Hawk(6(7))) |
December 23, 2017 | Dragon Gate Final Gate 2017 | Fukuoka, Japan | 4 | 134 | 2 | ||
| 42 | Big Ben (Ben-K and Big R Shimizu) |
May 6, 2018 | Dragon Gate Dead Or Alive 2018 | Nagoya, Aichi | 1 | 77 | 1 | ||
| 43 | Tribe Vanguard (BxB Hulk (5) and Yamato (8)) |
July 22, 2018 | Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival | Kobe, Japan | 1 | 150 | 3 | 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 Anitas. | |
| — | Vacated | December 19, 2018 | Fantastic Gate | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | — | Title vacated after BxB Hulk suffered a neck injury. | |
| 44 | R.E.D. (Ben-K (2) and Big R Shimizu (3)) |
December 23, 2018 | The Final Gate | Fukuoka, Japan | 2 | 126 | 2 | Defeated MaxiMuM (Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino), Mexablood (Bandido and Flamita) and Tribe Vanguard (Yamato and Kagetora) in a four-way elimination match to win the vacant championship. | |
| 45 | Tribe Vanguard (Kai and Yamato (9)) |
April 28, 2019 | The Gate of Passion | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 84 | 0 | First defense ended in a no contest when R.E.D. interfered. | |
| 46 | R.E.D. (Eita (5(6)) and Big R Shimizu (4)) |
July 21, 2019 | Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival | Kobe, Japan | 1 | 147 | 3 | This was a three-way elimination match, also involving MaxiMuM (Naruki Doi and Kaito Ishida). | |
| 47 | Tribe Vanguard (BxB Hulk (6) and Yamato (10)) |
December 15, 2019 | Final Gate | Fukuoka, Japan | 2 | 6 | 0 | ||
| — | Vacated | December 21, 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated when BxB Hulk betrayed Tribe Vanguard and left the unit. | |
| 48 | R.E.D. (BxB Hulk (7) and Kazma Sakamoto) |
January 15, 2020 | Open The New Year's Gate | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 200 | 1 | Defeated Team Dragon Gate (Yamato and Ben-K) in a tournament final to win the vacant championship. | |
| 49 | Team Dragon Gate (Jason Lee and Kota Minoura) |
August 2, 2020 | Memorial Gate in Wakayama 2020 | Wakayama, Japan | 1 | 104 | 2 | ||
| — | Vacated | November 14, 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated when Jason Lee couldn't work due to a high fever. | |
| 50 | R.E.D. (BxB Hulk (8) and Kai (2)) |
November 15, 2020 | Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival 2020 | Kobe, Japan | 1 | 65+ | 2 | Defeated Team Dragon Gate (Yamato and Kota Minoura) in a decision match to win the vacant title. | |
Combined reigns
As of January 19, 2020.
| † | Indicates the current champion |
|---|---|
| Rank | Team | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Over Generation (Cima and Dragon Kid) | 1 | 9 | 397 |
| 2 | Antias/Millennials/VerserK (T-Hawk and Eita) | 4 | 4 | 299 |
| 3 | Mad Blankey/VerserK (Naruki Doi and Yamato) | 2 | 9 | 281 |
| 4 | Jimmyz (Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu) | 3 | 7 | 270 |
| 5 | Blood Warriors/Real Hazard (Genki Horiguchi and Ryo Saito) | 2 | 5 | 268 |
| 6 | Mad Blankey/Real Hazard (Cyber Kong and Yamato) | 2 | 6 | 210 |
| Monster Express (Akira Tozawa and Shingo Takagi) | 1 | 5 | 210 | |
| 8 | -akatsuki-/Kamikaze (Shingo Takagi and Yamato) | 3 | 5 | 205 |
| 9 | MaxiMuM/R.E.D. (Big R Shimizu and Ben-K) | 2 | 3 | 203 |
| 10 | R.E.D. (BxB Hulk and Kazma Sakamoto) | 1 | 1 | 200 |
| 11 | K-neSuka (K-ness and Susumu Yokosuka) | 1 | 4 | 194 |
| 12 | Kaettekita Veteran-gun (Don Fujii and Masaaki Mochizuki) | 2 | 6 | 187 |
| 13 | Tribe Vanguard (BxB Hulk and Yamato) | 2 | 3 | 156 |
| 14 | R.E.D. (Big R Shimizu and Eita) | 1 | 3 | 147 |
| 15 | Typhoon (Ryo Saito and Susumu Yokosuka) | 1 | 3 | 144 |
| 16 | Blood Warriors (Cima and Ricochet) | 1 | 3 | 136 |
| 17 | Blood Warriors/Mad Blankey (Akira Tozawa and BxB Hulk) | 2 | 2 | 130 |
| 18 | Muscle Outlaw'z/World-1 (Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi) | 2 | 2 | 128 |
| 19 | Monster Express (Big R Shimizu and T-Hawk) | 1 | 1 | 105 |
| 20 | Monster Express (Masato Yoshino and Shachihoko Boy) | 1 | 2 | 104 |
| Team Dragon Gate (Jason Lee and Kota Minoura) | 1 | 2 | 104 | |
| 22 | Tozawa-juku (Kenichiro Arai and Taku Iwasa) | 1 | 2 | 87 |
| 23 | Tribe Vanguard (Kai and Yamato) | 1 | 0 | 84 |
| 24 | Osaka06/Warriors-5 (Cima and Gamma) | 3 | 0 | 71 |
| 25 | Warriors-5 (Gamma and Susumu Yokosuka) | 1 | 1 | 65 |
| 26 | Mad Blankey (BxB Hulk and Uhaa Nation) | 1 | 1 | 64 |
| 27 | R.E.D.† (Kai and BxB Hulk) | 1 | 2 | 65+ |
| 28 | Kamikaze (Cyber Kong and Shingo Takagi) | 1 | 1 | 52 |
| 29 | Gamma and Naruki Doi | 1 | 1 | 48 |
| 30 | World-1 International (Naruki Doi and Ricochet) | 1 | 0 | 40 |
| 31 | Junction Three (Dragon Kid and Pac) | 1 | 0 | 28 |
| 32 | Oretachi Veteran-gun (Dragon Kid and K-ness) | 1 | 0 | 8 |
By wrestler
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yamato | 10 | 21 | 936 |
| 2 | Susumu Yokosuka/Jimmy Susumu | 6 | 15 | 673 |
| 3 | BxB Hulk † | 8 | 9 | 622+ |
| 4 | Cima | 5 | 12 | 604 |
| 5 | Naruki Doi | 6 | 12 | 497 |
| 6 | Shingo Takagi | 5 | 11 | 467 |
| 7 | Big R Shimizu | 4 | 7 | 455 |
| 8 | Eita | 5(6) | 7 | 446 |
| 9 | Dragon Kid | 3 | 9 | 433 |
| 10 | Ryo Saito | 3 | 8 | 412 |
| 11 | T-Hawk/Naoki Tanisaki | 6(7) | 5 | 411 |
| 12 | Akira Tozawa | 3 | 7 | 340 |
| 13 | Jimmy Kagetora | 3 | 7 | 270 |
| 14 | Genki Horiguchi | 2 | 5 | 268 |
| 15 | Cyber Kong | 3 | 5 | 262 |
| 16 | Masato Yoshino | 3 | 4 | 232 |
| 17 | K-ness | 2 | 4 | 204 |
| 18 | Ben-K | 2 | 3 | 203 |
| 19 | Kazma Sakamoto | 1 | 1 | 200 |
| 20 | Don Fujii | 2 | 6 | 187 |
| Masaaki Mochizuki | 2 | 6 | 187 | |
| 22 | Gamma | 5 | 2 | 184 |
| 23 | Ricochet | 2 | 3 | 176 |
| 24 | Kai † | 2 | 2 | 149+ |
| 25 | Jason Lee | 1 | 2 | 104 |
| Kota Minoura | 1 | 2 | 104 | |
| Shachihoko Boy | 1 | 2 | 104 | |
| 28 | Kenichiro Arai | 1 | 1 | 87 |
| Taku Iwasa | 1 | 1 | 87 | |
| 30 | Uhaa Nation | 1 | 1 | 64 |
| 31 | Pac | 1 | 0 | 28 |
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