Open the Triangle Gate Championship
| Open the Triangle Gate | |
|---|---|
| Details | |
| Promotion | Dragon Gate |
| Date established | November 7, 2004 |
| Current champion(s) | Natural Vibes (Kzy, Genki Horiguchi and Susumu Yokosuka) |
| Date won | May 6, 2018 |
The Open the Triangle Gate Championship is a professional wrestling trios title in Japanese promotion Dragon Gate. It was created on November 7, 2004 when The Italian Connection faction of Milano Collection A.T., Anthony W. Mori and Yossino defeated Aagan Iisou's Shuji Kondo, Takuya Sugawara and "brother" Yasshi in a tournament final.[1] Each title belt's face has three emblems on it, shaped in a triangle, that represent Power, Technique and Mind.[2] Not including interim reigns, there have been a total of 40 recognized individual champions and 44 recognized trios, who have had a combined 54 official reigns.
Title history
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parentheses, if different |
| 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 | Italian Connection Milano Collection AT, Anthony W. Mori and Yossino |
November 7, 2004 | Rey de Parejas tour | Sapporo, Japan | 1 | 108 | 2 | Defeated Aagan Iisou ("brother" Yasshi, Shuji Kondo and Takuya Sugawara) in a tournament final.[3] | |
| † | Blood Generation Cima, Naruki Doi and Shingo Takagi |
February 23, 2005 | — | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 11 | 0 | Defeated Final M2K (Kenichiro Arai, Masaaki Mochizuki and Susumu Yokosuka) to become interim champions due to Milano getting injured. This match was originally against Mochizuki, Yokosuka and K-ness, but K-ness was quickly replaced due to injury.[3] | |
| 2 | Do Fixer Dragon Kid, Genki Horiguchi and Ryo Saito |
March 6, 2005 | The Brave Gate Tour | Sapporo, Japan | 1 | 119 | 1 | This was a two out of three falls match to decide the official champions, which Do Fixer won 2-1.[3] | |
| 3 | Blood Generation Cima, Don Fujii and Naruki Doi |
July 3, 2005 | Pro Wrestling Festival 2005 | Kobe, Japan | 1 | 6 | 1 | [3] | |
| 4 | Do Fixer Dragon Kid, Genki Horiguchi and Ryo Saito |
July 9, 2005 | Rainbow Gate tour. | Morodomi, Japan | 2 | 3 | 1 | [3] | |
| 5 | Blood Generation Cima (2), Magnitude Kishiwada and Masato Yoshino (2) |
July 12, 2005 | Rainbow Gate tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 319 | 3 | This was originally a two out of three falls match on the , which Do Fixer won 2-1, winning both falls by disqualification; it was restarted as an elimination match, which Blood Generation won.[3] | |
| — | Vacated | May 27, 2006 | — | Osaka, Japan | — | — | — | Before this match, Yoshino and Kishiwada defected to Muscle Outlaw'z. Vacated due to Cima, Yoshino and Kishiwada losing a title defense to the Muscle Outlaw'z Naruki Doi, Gamma and Naoki Tanizaki by disqualification on the Aggressive Gate tour.[3] | |
| 6 | BxB Hulk, Cima (3) and Jack Evans | August 20, 2006 | The Gate of Adventure tour. | Sapporo, Japan | 1 | 41 | 0 | Defeated Do Fixer (Dragon Kid, Genki Horiguchi and Ryo Saito) in a tournament final.[3] | |
| 7 | Do Fixer Dragon Kid, Genki Horiguchi and Ryo Saito |
September 30, 2006 | Storm Gate tour. | Osaka, Japan | 3 | 50 | 0 | [3] | |
| 8 | Muscle Outlaw'z Naruki Doi (2), Gamma and Masato Yoshino (3) |
November 19, 2006 | Crown Gate tour | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 37 | 0 | Defeated Final M2K (K-ness, Yamato Onodera and Susumu Yokosuka) to become interim champions when the titles were vacated by Do Fixer due to Dragon Kid suffering from appendicitis. The interim reign was declared to be official on December 23, 2006, when a scheduled decision match against Do Fixer falls through due to Dragon's sustained illness.[1][3] | |
| 9 | Pos.Hearts BxB Hulk (2), Anthony W. Mori (2) and Super Shisa |
December 26, 2006 | Live Gate. | Kobe, Japan | 1 | 26 | 0 | [3] | |
| 10 | Muscle Outlaw'z Naruki Doi (3), Gamma (2) and Masato Yoshino (4) |
January 21, 2007 | Primal Gate tour. | Kobe, Japan | 2 | 63 | 3 | [3] | |
| 11 | Typhoon Cima (4), Ryo Saito (4) and Susumu Yokosuka |
March 25, 2007 | Memorial Gate. | Tsu, Japan | 1 | 15 | 1 | [3] | |
| 12 | Muscle Outlaw'z Naruki Doi (4), Gamma (3) and Magnitude Kishiwada (2) |
April 9, 2007 | Live Gate. | Kobe, Japan | 1 | 6 | 0 | [3] | |
| 13 | Typhoon Cima (5), Ryo Saito (5) and Susumu Yokosuka (2) |
April 15, 2007 | Glorious Gate tour. | Yokkaichi, Japan | 2 | 25 | 0 | [3] | |
| 14 | New Hazard BxB Hulk (3), Cyber Kong and Shingo Takagi |
May 10, 2007 | Aggressive Gate tour. | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 64 | 1 | [3] | |
| — | Vacated | July 13, 2007 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to Hulk suffering a jaw injury.[1] | |
| 15 | Muscle Outlaw'z Magnitude Kishiwada (3), Masato Yoshino (5) and Naruki Doi (5) |
July 22, 2007 | WrestleJam tour | Kobe, Japan | 1 | 49 | 0 | Defeated New Hazard (Cyber Kong, Jack Evans and Shingo Takagi).[4] | |
| 16 | Mushozoku Don Fujii (2), K-ness and Masaaki Mochizuki |
September 9, 2007 | Storm Gate tour. | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 168 | 3 | [5] | |
| 17 | New Hazard BxB Hulk (4), Cyber Kong (2) and Shingo Takagi (2) |
February 24, 2008 | Truth Gate tour. | Fukui, Japan | 2 | 80 | 1 | [3] | |
| — | Vacated | May 14, 2008 | — | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | — | Vacated after a title defense against Gamma, Genki Horiguchi and Yamato on the Aggressive Gate tour ended in a no contest when Takagi and Kong betrayed Hulk to form Real Hazard. An immediate decision match was made.[3] | |
| 18 | Real Hazard Gamma (4), Shingo Takagi (3) and Yamato |
May 14, 2008 | Aggressive Gate tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 45 | 1 | Defeated BxB Hulk, Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino.[3] | |
| 19 | Tozawajuku Kenichiro Arai, Taku Iwasa and Shinobu |
June 28, 2008 | Gate of Maximum tour. | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 14 | 0 | [3] | |
| 20 | Real Hazard Gamma (5), Yasushi Kanda and Yamato (2) |
July 12, 2008 | Rainbow Gate tour. | Akashi, Japan | 1 | 78 | 2 | [3] | |
| 21 | Zetsurins Don Fujii (3), Magnitude Kishiwada (4) and Masaaki Mochizuki (2) |
September 28, 2008 | Memorial Gate. | Fukui, Japan | 1 | 140 | 3 | [3] | |
| 22 | KAMIKAZE Dragon Kid (4), Shingo Takagi (4) and Taku Iwasa (2) |
February 15, 2009 | Truth Gate tour. | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 59 | 2 | [3] | |
| 23 | Warriors-5 Cima (6), Gamma (6) and Kagetora |
April 15, 2009 | Gate of Passion tour. | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 53 | 1 | [3] | |
| 23 | World-1 BxB Hulk (5), Masato Yoshino (6) and Pac |
June 7, 2009 | Gate of Maximum tour. | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 129 | 2 | [3] | |
| 25 | Zetsurins Akebono, Don Fujii (4) and Masaaki Mochizuki (3) |
October 14, 2009 | Gate of Victory tour. | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 203 | 3 | [3] | |
| 26 | Deep Drunkers Kzy, Takuya Sugawara and Yasushi Kanda (2) |
May 5, 2010 | Dead or Alive 2010. | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 8 | 0 | [3] | |
| 27 | Warriors Cima (7), Gamma (7) and Genki Horiguchi (4) |
May 13, 2010 | Aggressive Gate tour. | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 38 | 1 | [3] | |
| 28 | World-1 Naoki Tanizaki (1), Naruki Doi (6) and Pac (2) |
June 20, 2010 | Gate of Maximum tour. | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 4 | 0 | [3] | |
| 29 | Warriors Cima (8), Gamma (8) and Genki Horiguchi (5) |
June 24, 2010 | Gate of Maximum tour. | Osaka, Japan | 2 | 123 | 3 | [3] | |
| 30 | Naoki Tanizaki (2), Takuya Sugawara (2) and Yasushi Kanda (3) | October 25, 2010 | Gate of Victory tour. | Miyazaki, Japan | 1 | 62 | 1 | [3][6] | |
| 31 | Blood Warriors Cima (9), Dragon Kid (5) and Ricochet |
December 26, 2010 | Final Gate 2010. | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 140 | 5 | [3][7] | |
| — | Vacated | May 15, 2011 | — | Sapporo, Japan | — | — | — | Vacated due to Blood Warriors ejecting Dragon Kid from the group.[3] | |
| 32 | Junction Three Gamma (9), Masato Yoshino (7) and Yamato (3) |
June 18, 2011 | Champion Gate tour | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 76 | 2 | Defeated Blood Warriors (Cima, Naruki Doi and BxB Hulk) to win the vacant title.[3] | |
| 33 | Blood Warriors Kzy (2), Naoki Tanizaki (3) and Naruki Doi (7) |
September 2, 2011 | Storm Gate tour. | Kobe, Japan | 1 | 139 | 3 | [3] | |
| — | Vacated | January 19, 2012 | — | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | — | Vacated due to Kzy, Doi and Tomahawk T.T., replacing an injured Tanizaki, being disqualified in a title match against K-ness, Kenichiro Arai and Taku Iwasa.[3] | |
| 34 | Jimmyz Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!! (6), Jimmy Kanda (4) and Ryo "Jimmy" Saito (6) |
March 3, 2012 | Champion Gate tour. | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 64 | 1 | [3] | |
| 35 | World-1 International Masato Yoshino (8), Naruki Doi (8) and Pac (3) |
May 6, 2012 | Dead or Alive 2012. | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 77 | 5 | [3] | |
| — | Vacated | July 22, 2012 | — | Kobe, Japan | — | — | — | Title vacated when Pac leaves Dragon Gate for WWE.[3] | |
| 36 | Mad Blankey Akira Tozawa, BxB Hulk (6) and Naoki Tanisaki |
August 19, 2012 | N/A | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 63 | 2 | Defeated Cima, Gamma and Magnitude Kishiwada in the finals of the 2012 Summer Adventure Tag League to win the vacant title. Naoki Tanisaki not to be confused with Naoki Tanizaki.[3] | |
| 37 | Kaettekita Veteran-gun Gamma (10), HUB and Magnitude Kishiwada (5) |
October 21, 2012 | The Gate of Destiny 2012. | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 27 | 1 | [3] | |
| 38 | World-1 International Masato Yoshino (9), Naruki Doi (9) and Shachihoko BOY |
November 17, 2012 | Crown Gate 2012 | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 6 | 0 | Won the title in a three-way match, which also included the Jimmyz (Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!!, Mr. Kyu Kyu Toyonaka Dolphin and Ryo "Jimmy" Saito.[3] | |
| 39 | Jimmyz Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!! (7), Mr. Kyu Kyu Toyonaka Dolphin/Naoki Tanizaki (4) and Ryo "Jimmy" Saito (7) |
November 23, 2012 | Crown Gate 2012 tour. | Saga, Japan | 1 | 100 | 4 | Dolphin won the right to change his name back to Naoki Tanizaki during the reign on January 27, 2013. | |
| 40 | World-1 International Naruki Doi (10), Rich Swann and Shachihoko Boy (2) |
March 3, 2013 | Champion Gate 2013 tour. | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 94 | 1 | ||
| 41 | M2K Masaaki Mochizuki (4), Jimmy Susumu (3) and K-Ness (2) |
June 5, 2013 | Gate of Maximum tour. | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 11 | 0 | ||
| 42 | Jimmyz Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!! (8), Jimmy Kanda (5) and Ryo "Jimmy" Saito (8) |
June 16, 2013 | Champion Gate tour. | Fukuoka, Japan | 2 | 64 | 1 | ||
| 43 | Oretachi Veteran-gun Dragon Kid (6), K-Ness (3) and Masaaki Mochizuki (5) |
August 19, 2013 | Gate of Generation tour. | Miyazaki, Japan | 1 | 19 | 0 | ||
| — | Vacated | September 7, 2013 | — | Osaka, Japan | — | — | — | Title vacated after Dragon Kid suffered a knee injury. | |
| 44 | Mad Blankey BxB Hulk (7), Cyber Kong (3) and Yamato (4) |
October 6, 2013 | Gate of Victory tour | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 60 | 1 | Defeated Monster Express (Akira Tozawa, Masato Yoshino and Shingo Takagi) to win the vacant title. | |
| 45 | Millennials Eita, Flamita and T-Hawk (2) |
December 5, 2013 | Miracle Gate. | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 17 | 0 | ||
| 46 | Jimmyz (Jimmy Susumu (4), Mr. Kyu Kyu Naoki Tanizaki Toyonaka Dolphin (5) and Ryo "Jimmy" Saito (9)) |
December 22, 2013 | The Final Gate 2013 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 55 | 3 | Won the title in a three-way elimination match, which also included Oretachi Veteran-gun (Cima, Dragon Kid and Masaaki Mochizuki). | |
| — | Vacated | February 15, 2014 | — | Nagoya, Japan | — | — | — | Title vacated after Saito was sidelined with a back injury. | |
| 47 | Jimmyz (Jimmy Kanda (6), Jimmy Susumu (5) and Mr. Kyu Kyu Naoki Tanizaki Toyonaka Dolphin (6)) |
February 20, 2014 | Truth Gate | Kobe, Japan | 1 | 24 | 1 | Won the title by defeating Mad Blankey (Cyber Kong, Kzy and Naruki Doi) in a decision match. | |
| 48 | Millennials (Eita (2), T-Hawk (3) and U-T) |
March 16, 2014 | Memorial Gate in Wakayama. | Wakayama, Japan | 1 | 90 | 1 | ||
| 49 | Mad Blankey (Cyber Kong (4), Kzy (3) and Naruki Doi (11)) |
June 14, 2014 | Champion Gate in Hakata | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 117 | 3 | Won the title in a three-way elimination match, also involving Oretachi Veteran-gun (Don Fujii, Dragon Kid and Masaaki Mochizuki). | |
| 50 | Oretachi Veteran-gun (Cima (10), Don Fujii (5) and Gamma (11)) |
October 9, 2014 | The Gate of Victory. | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 10 | 0 | ||
| 51 | Jimmyz (Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!! (9), Jimmy Susumu (6) and Ryo "Jimmy" Saito (10)) |
October 19, 2014 | The Gate of Victory. | Yokkaichi, Japan | 1 | 70 | 1 | ||
| 52 | Dia.Hearts (Big R Shimizu, Dragon Kid (7) and Masaaki Mochizuki (6)) |
December 28, 2014 | The Final Gate 2014 | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 91 | 3 | ||
| 53 | Jimmyz (Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!! (10), Jimmy Kagetora (2) and Jimmy Susumu (7)) |
March 29, 2015 | Glorious Gate 2015 | Saga, Japan | 1 | 77 | 2 | ||
| — | Vacated | June 14, 2015 | — | Fukuoka, Japan | — | — | — | Title vacated after Kagetora was sidelined with an injury. | |
| 54 | Cima (11), Don Fujii (6) and Gamma (12) | June 14, 2015 | Champion Gate in Hakata 2015 | Fukuoka, Japan | 2 | 140 | 2 | Defeated Jimmyz (Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!!, Jimmy Susumu and Ryo "Jimmy" Saito) to win the vacant title. | |
| — | Vacated | November 1, 2015 | — | Osaka, Japan | — | — | — | Cima, Don Fujii, and Gamma voluntarily vacated the title. | |
| 55 | Monster Express Akira Tozawa (2), Masato Yoshino (10) and T-Hawk (4) |
December 6, 2015 | Fantastic Gate 2015 | Hokkaido, Japan | 1 | 273 | 5 | Defeated Naruki Doi, Shingo Takagi and Yamato in a decision match for the vacant title. | |
| 56 | Jimmyz Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!! (11), Jimmy Kanda (7) and Ryo "Jimmy" Saito (11) |
September 4, 2016 | Summer Adventure Tag League | Okanawa, Japan | 3 | 107 | 1 | ||
| — | Vacated | December 20, 2016 | — | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | — | Title vacated after Horiguchi suffered a rib injury. | |
| 57 | Jimmyz Jimmy Kanda (8), Jimmy Susumu (8) and Ryo "Jimmy" Saito (12) |
December 25, 2016 | The Final Gate 2016 | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 69 | 0 | Defeated teams of Masato Yoshino, Kotoka, Ben-K and Cyber Kong, Mondai Ryu, El Lindaman in decision match to win vacant titles. | |
| 58 | VerserK (Cyber Kong (5), Shingo Takagi (5) and T-Hawk (5)) |
March 4, 2017 | Champion Gate 2017 | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 15 | 0 | ||
| — | Vacated | March 19, 2017 | — | Nagoya, Japan | — | — | — | Titles vacated after Cyber Kong suffered a shoulder injury | |
| 59 | MaxiMuM (Ben-K, Big R Shimizu (2) and Naruki Doi (12)) |
March 20, 2017 | Memorial Gate 2017 | Wakayama, Japan | 1 | 103 | 1 | ||
| 60 | VerserK (El Lindaman, Shingo Takagi (6) and Takashi Yoshida (6)) |
July 1, 2017 | Rainbow Gate 2017 | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 125 | 1 | ||
| 61 | Tribe Vanguard (BxB Hulk (8), Kzy (4) and Yamato (5)) |
November 3, 2017 | The Gate Of Destiny 2017 | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 50 | 0 | This was a three-way match, also involving MaxiMuM (Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino and Kotoka. | |
| 62 | MaxiMuM (Masato Yoshino (11), Naruki Doi (13) and Jason Lee (1)) |
December 23, 2017 | The Final Gate 2017 | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 134 | 2 | ||
| 63 | Natural Vibes (Kzy (5), Genki Horiguchi (12) and Susumu Yokosuka (8)) |
May 6, 2018 | Dead or Alive | Aichi, Japan | 1 | 2,384+ | 4 | ||
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Open the Triangle Gate title history". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
- ^ "Dragon Gate USA's Title Situation". Dragon Gate USA Pro Wrestling. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap "Open the Triangle Gate official title history" (in Japanese). Dragon Gate Official Site. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
- ^ "DGUSA main page". Retrieved 2007-07-22.
- ^ "Dragon Gate Storm Gate tour results, September 9, 2007" (in Japanese). SportsNavi. Retrieved 2007-09-09.
- ^ Boutwell, Josh (2010-10-29). "Viva La Raza! Lucha Weekly". WrestleView. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
- ^ Boutwell, Josh (2010-12-31). "Viva La Raza! Lucha Weekly". WrestleView. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
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