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 interim champions We Are Team Veteran in proper decision match. |
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 and Jimmy Susumu (5) |
1 | June 19, 2016 | Kyoto | Present | 1 |