Open the Twin Gate Championship explained

Championshipname:Open the Twin Gate Championship
Currentholder:Paradox (Dragon Kid and Naruki Doi)
Won:May 5, 2024
Promotion:Dragon Gate
Created:October 12, 2007
Mostreigns:(as team) T-Hawk and Eita (4 reign)
(as individual) Yamato (10 reigns)
Firstchamp:Speed Muscle
Longestreign:CK-1
(397 days)
Shortestreign:Osaka06
(<1 day)
Oldest:Masaaki Mochizuki
Youngest:Kota Minoura

The Open the Twin Gate Championship is a professional wrestling tag team title created and promoted by the Japanese promotion Dragon Gate.[1] 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.

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. There have been a total of 65 reigns shared between 46 different teams consisting of 46 distinctive champions. The current title holders are Alejandro and Kaito Kiyomiya who are in their first reign as a team as well as individually.[2]

Combined reigns

As of, .

RankTeamNo. of
reigns
Combined
defenses
Combined days
1
1 9 397
2
4 4 299
3
2 9 281
4
3 7 270
5
2 5 268
6
2 6 210

1 5 210
8
3 5 205
9
2 3 203
10
1 1 200
11
1 4 194
12
2 6 187
13
2 3 156
M3K
1 3 156
15
1 3 147
16
2 3 156
17
1 3 144
18
1 3 136
191 1 133
20
2 2 130
21
2 2 128
22Natural Vibes
1 5 121
23
1 3 119
24/Z-Brats
2 2 114
25
1 1 105
26Paradox
1 2 +
27
1 2 104

1 2 104
29
1 2 87

1 0 87
31Z-Brats
1 1 86
32
1 0 84
33
1 1 74
34
3 0 71
35
1 1 65
36
1 1 64
37Kongo
1 1 59
1 1 59
39
1 1 52
40
1 0 51
411 1 48
42
1 0 40
431 0 29
44
1 0 28
45
1 0 18
46
1 0 8

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Open the Twin Gate Title. wrestling-titles.com. Wrestling Titles. March 7, 2021. May 1, 2021.
  2. Web site: Champions and Championships/Open the Twin Gate Title. wrestlingdata.com. German. Axel. Saalbach. May 1, 2021.