Dragon Gate 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 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 17 recognized individual champions and 14 recognized teams, who have had a combined 16 official reigns.

Title history

#	Wrestlers (individual reigns)	Reigns together	Successful defenses	Date	Location	Notes
1	Muscle Outlaw'z Naruki Doi (1) & Masato Yoshino (1)	1	2	October 12, 2007	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Tozawajuku (Keni'chiro Arai & Taku Iwasa) to unify the Dragon Gate I-J Heavyweight Tag Team Championship on the The Gate of Victory tour.[1]
2	Tozawajuku Keni'chiro Arai (1) & Taku Iwasa (1)	1	2	February 8, 2008	Tokyo, Japan	Won the title on the Truth Gate tour.[2]
3	Typhoon Ryo Saito (1) & Susumu Yokosuka (1)	1	3	May 5, 2008	Nagoya, Japan	Won the title at DEAD or ALIVE.[3]
4	WORLD-1 Naruki Doi (2) & Masato Yoshino (2)	2	0	September 26, 2008	Osaka, Japan	Won the title on the Storm Gate tour.[4]
5	Real Hazard Cyber Kong (1) & YAMATO (1)	1	4	October 5, 2008	Fukuoka, Japan	Won the title on the The Gate of Victory tour.[5]
6	WARRIORS-5 Gamma (1) & Susumu Yokosuka (2)	1	1	March 1, 2009	Osaka Japan	Won the title on the Truth Gate tour.[6]
7	Real Hazard Ryo Saito (2) and Genki Horiguchi (1)	1	3	May 5, 2009	Aichi Japan	Won the title on the Gate of Anniversary PPV.[6]
8	KAMIKAZE Shingo Takagi (1) and YAMATO (2)	1	3	September 17, 2009	Tokyo, Japan	Won the title on the Storm Gate tour.[6]
9	WARRIORS-5 CIMA (1) and Gamma (2)	1	0	December 27, 2009	Tokyo, Japan	Won the title on the Final Gate 2009 PPV.[6]
009.5 !-	Vacated	-001 !-	-001 !-	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	0	February 10, 2010	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated WORLD-1 (Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino) to win the vacant titles at the Truth Gate tour[6]
11	KAMIKAZE Cyber Kong 2) and Shingo Takagi (2)	1	1	March 22, 2010	Tokyo, Japan	Won the title on the Compilation Gate PPV.[6]
12	K-neSuka K-ness (1) and Susumu Yokosuka (3)	1	4	May 13, 2010	Tokyo, Japan	Won the title on the Aggressive Gate tour.[6]
13	Gamma (4) and Naruki Doi (3)	1	1	November 23, 2010	Osaka, Japan	Won the title on the Gate of Destiny PPV.[6][7]
14	Don Fujii (1) and Masaaki Mochizuki (1)	1	0	January 10, 2011	Nagoya, Japan	Won the title on the Primal Gate tour.[6]
15	Blood Warriors Genki Horiguchi (2) and Ryo Saito (3)	2	2	February 6, 2011	Fukuoka, Japan	Won the title on the Truth Gate tour.[6]
16	Junction Three (Dragon Kid (1) and PAC (1)	1	0	June 19, 2011	Fukuoka, Japan	Won the title on the Champion Gate tour.[6]
17	Blood Warriors CIMA (3) and Ricochet (1)	1	2	July 17, 2011	Kobe, Japan	Won the title on the Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival PPV.[6]

List of reigns by length

As of November 23, 2011.

Wrestlers	Days Held	Date Won	Date Lost
K-ness and Susumu Yokosuka	194	May 13, 2010	November 23, 2010
Cyber Kong & YAMATO	147	October 5, 2008	March 1, 2009
Ryo Saito & Susumu Yokosuka	144	May 5, 2008	September 26, 2008
Ryo Saito & Genki Horiguchi	135	May 5, 2009	September 17, 2009
Ryo Saito & Genki Horiguchi	133	February 6, 2011	June 19, 2011
Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino	119	October 12, 2007	February 8, 2008
Shingo Takagi and YAMATO	101	September 17, 2009	December 27, 2009
Keni'chiro Arai & Taku Iwasa	87	February 8, 2008	May 5, 2008
Gamma & Susumu Yokosuka	65	March 1, 2009	May 5, 2009
Cyber Kong and Shingo Takagi	52	March 22, 2010	May 13, 2010
Gamma and Naruki Doi	48	November 23, 2010	January 10, 2011
CIMA and Gamma	40	February 10, 2010	March 22, 2010
Dragon Kid and PAC	28	June 19, 2011	July 17, 2011
Don Fujii and Masaaki Mochizuki	27	January 10, 2011	February 6, 2011
Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino	9	September 26, 2008	October 5, 2008
CIMA and Gamma	<1	December 27, 2009	December 27, 2009
CIMA and Ricochet	129+	July 17, 2011	Current Champions

List of combined reigns by length, by wrestler

Rank	Wrestler	# Of Reigns	Combined Days
1.	Ryo Saito	3	412
2.	Susumu Yokosuka	3	403
3.	Genki Horiguchi	2	268
4.	YAMATO	2	248
5.	Cyber Kong	2	199
6.	K-ness	1	194
7.	Naruki Doi	3	176
8.	Shingo Takagi	2	153
9.	Masato Yoshino	2	128
10.	Gamma	3	114
11.	Keni'chiro Arai	1	87
11.	Taku Iwasa	1	87
13.	CIMA	3	170+
14.	Dragon Kid	1	28
14.	PAC	1	28
16.	Don Fujii	1	27
16.	Masaaki Mochizuki	1	27
17.	Ricochet	1	129+

References

1. ^ "Dragon Gate Gate of Victory 2007 tour results" (in German). PuroLove.com. http://www.purolove.com/dragongate/results/07gatevictory.php. Retrieved 2007-10-12. 
2. ^ "Dragon Gate Truth Gate tour results" (in German). PuroLove.com. http://www.purolove.com/dragongate/results/08truthgate.php. Retrieved 2008-10-05. 
3. ^ "Dragon Gate results, 2008" (in German). PuroLove.com. http://www.purolove.com/dragongate/results/results08.php. Retrieved 2008-10-05. 
4. ^ "Dragon Gate Storm Gate tour results" (in German). PuroLove.com. http://www.purolove.com/dragongate/results/08stormgate.php. Retrieved 2008-10-05. 
5. ^ "Dragon Gate The Gate of Victory 2008 tour results" (in German). PuroLove.com. http://www.purolove.com/dragongate/results/08gatevictory.php. Retrieved 2008-10-05. 
6. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} "Open the TwinGate official title history" (in Japanese). Dragon Gate Official Site. http://www.gaora.co.jp/dragongate/data/title/twin.html. Retrieved 2011-11-23. 
7. ^ Boutwell, Josh (2010-11-26). "Viva La Raza! Lucha Weekly". WrestleView. http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1290753672. Retrieved 2010-11-26. 

See also

• Dragon Gate
• Dragon Gate Open the Dream Gate Championship
• Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Championship
• Dragon Gate Open the Triangle Gate Championship
• Dragon Gate Open the Owarai Gate Championship
• Dragon Gate Open the Freedom Gate Championship

External links

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