Open the Twin Gate Championship

Open the Twin Gate Championship
Current Champion(s)	Jimmyz Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu
Date Won	June 19, 2016
Promotion(s)	Dragon Gate
Date Established	October 12, 2007

The Open The Twin Gate Championship is the top tag team championship in Dragon Gate. It succeeded the International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (or I-J Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for short) that had previously been revived from the defunct Wrestle and Romance (WAR) promotion.

Overview

The development of the championship was funded through the prize money Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino earned for winning the inaugural Summer Adventure Tag League in 2007. Once the belts had been commissioned, Doi and Yoshino faced reigning I-J Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Keni'chiro Arai and Taku Iwasa to not only decide the first Twin Gate Champions, but to also unify the two tag team championships.

The first set of the title belts was blue in strap color with silver plates barring the flags from Japan, America, and Mexico. Since then, they have been replaced with belts that are black in strap color with gold plates.

Title History

#	Tag Team (Individual Reigns)	Team Reigns	Date	Location	Length	Defenses	Notes
1	Muscle Outlaw'z Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi	1	October 12, 2007	Tokyo	119 Days	2	Defeated Tozawa-juku (Keni'chiro Arai and Taku Iwasa) to unify the I-J Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
2	Tozawa-juku Keni'chiro Arai and Taku Iwasa	1	February 8, 2008	Tokyo	87 Days	2
3	Typhoon Ryo Saito and Susumu Yokosuka	1	May 5, 2008	Nagoya, Aichi	144 Days	3
4	WORLD-1 Masato Yoshino (2) and Naruki Doi (2)	2	September 26, 2008	Osaka	14 Days	0
5	Real Hazard Cyber Kong and YAMATO	1	October 5, 2008	Hakata, Fukuoka	147 Days	4
6	WARRIORS-5 Gamma and Susumu Yokosuka (2)	1	March 1, 2009	Osaka	65 Days	1
7	Real Hazard Genki Horiguchi and Ryo Saito (2)	1	May 5, 2009	Aichi	135 Days	3
8	KAMIKAZE Shingo Takagi and YAMATO (2)	1	September 17, 2009	Tokyo	101 Days	3
9	WARRIORS-5 CIMA and Gamma (2)	1	December 27, 2009	Fukuoka	0 Days	0
—	Vacated	—	December 27, 2009	Fukuoka	—	—	WARRIORS-5 vacated titles immediately after winning it. They would continue carrying belts as provisional champions until the decision match.
10	WARRIORS-5 CIMA (2) and Gamma (3)	2	February 10, 2010	Tokyo	40 Days	0	WARRIORS-5 defeated WORLD-1 (Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi) in a decision match.
11	KAMIKAZE Cyber Kong (2) and Shingo Takagi (2)	1	March 22, 2010	Tokyo	52 Days	1
12	K-neSuka K-ness. and Susumu Yokosuka (3)	1	May 13, 2010	Tokyo	194 Days	4
13	Gamma (4) and Naruki Doi (3)	1	November 23, 2010	Osaka	48 Days	1
14	Don Fujii and Masaaki Mochizuki	1	January 10, 2011	Nagoya, Aichi	27 Days	0
15	Blood Warriors Genki Horiguchi (2) and Ryo Saito (3)	2	February 6, 2011	Hakata, Fukuoka	133 Days	2
16	Junction Three Dragon Kid and PAC	1	June 19, 2011	Hakata, Fukuoka	28 Days	0
17	Blood Warriors CIMA (3) and Ricochet	1	July 17, 2011	Kobe, Hyogo	136 Days	3
—	Vacated	—	November 30, 2011	Tokyo	—	—	Blood Warriors vacated titles after third defense to focus on individual achivements.
18	Blood Warriors Akira Tozawa and BxB Hulk	1	December 1, 2011	Tokyo	94 Days	2	Blood Warriors defeated Junction Three (KAGETORA and Susumu Yokosuka) in a Jimmy contra Twin Gate decision match.
19	Jimmyz Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu (4)	1	March 4, 2012	Osaka	98 Days	3
20	MAD BLANKEY BxB Hulk (2) and Naoki Tanisaki	1	June 10, 2012	Sapporo, Hokkaido	7 Days	0
21	Jimmyz Jimmy Kagetora (2) and Jimmy Susumu (5)	2	June 17, 2012	Hakata, Fukuoka	35 Days	0	Won a three-way elimination match with MAD BLANKEY and Windows (K-ness. and Keni'chiro Arai).
22	-akatsuki- Shingo Takagi (3) and YAMATO (3)	2	July 22, 2012	Kobe, Hyogo	63 Days	1
23	Team Veteran Returns Don Fujii (2) and Masaaki Mochizuki (2)	2	September 23, 2012	Tokyo	160 Days	6
24	MAD BLANKEY BxB Hulk (3) and Uhaa Nation	1	March 2, 2013	Osaka	64 Days	1
25	-akatsuki- Shingo Takagi (4) and YAMATO (4)	3	May 5, 2013	Aichi	41 Days	1
26	MAD BLANKEY BxB Hulk (4) and Akira Tozawa (2)	2	June 15, 2013	Fukuoka	36 Days	0
27	WORLD-1 INTERNATIONAL Naruki Doi (4) and Ricochet (2)	1	July 21, 2013	Kobe, Hyogo	40 Days	0
28	We Are Team Veteran Dragon Kid (4) and K-ness (2)	1	August 30, 2013	Kobe, Hyogo	8 Days	0
—	Vacated	—	September 7, 2013	Osaka	—	—	We Are Team Veteran vacated the titles along with Open The Triangle Gate Championship due to Dragon Kid injury.Millenials defeated Mad Blankey (BxB Hulk and Yamato) in the finals of the 2013 Summer Adventure Tag League Tournament to become interim champions.
29	Millenials Eita and T-Hawk (2)	1	November 3, 2013	Osaka	35 Days	0	Defeated We Are Team Veteran in proper decision match to become officials champions.
30	MAD BLANKEY Naruki Doi (5) and YAMATO (5)	1	December 8, 2013	Hokkaido	14 Days	0
31	MONSTER EXPRESS Akira Tozawa (3) and Shingo Takagi (5)	1	December 22, 2013	Fukuoka	210 Days	5
32	Millenials Eita (2) and T-Hawk (3)	2	July 20, 2014	Kobe, Hyogo	105 Days	2
33	Osaka06 CIMA (4) and Gamma (5)	3	November 2, 2014	Osaka	31 Days	0
34	Millenials Eita (3) and T-Hawk (4)	3	December 3, 2014	Tokyo	25 Days	0
35	MAD BLANKEY Cyber Kong (3) and YAMATO (6)	2	December 28, 2014	Fukuoka	14 Days	0
36	MONSTER EXPRESS Masato Yoshino (3) and Shachihoko BOY	1	March 1, 2015	Osaka	104 Days	2
30	MAD BLANKEY/VerserK Naruki Doi (6) and YAMATO (7)	2	June 13, 2015	Fukuoka	267 Days	9	MAD BLANKEY disbanded and their reign continued under the VerserK unit.
31	MONSTER EXPRESS Big R Shimizu and T-Hawk (5)	1	March 6, 2016	Osaka	105	1
32	Jimmyz Jimmy Kagetora (3) and Jimmy Susumu (5)	3	June 19, 2016	Kyoto	Present	1

Gallery

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Cyber Kong and YAMATO vs. CIMA and Jushin "Thunder" Liger - December 28, 2008

Cyber Kong and Akira Tozawa vs. Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu - May 27, 2012

Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi vs. Shingo Takagi and YAMATO - August 2, 2012

Akira Tozawa and BxB Hulk

Akira Tozawa and Shingo Takagi

CIMA and Ricochet

Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino

Naruki Doi and Ricochet

Genki Horiguchi and Ryo Saito

Keni'chiro Arai and Taku Iwasa

Masaaki Mochizuki and Don Fujii

Jimmy Susumu and Jimmy Kagetora

Dragon Kid and K-ness

Shingo Takagi and YAMATO

T-Hawk and Big R Shimizu

T-Hawk and Eita

Uhaa Nation and BxB Hulk

YAMATO and Cyber Kong

Masato Yoshino and Shachihoko BOY

Naruki Doi and YAMATO