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AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship
Details
Current champion(s) Masakatsu Funaki & Keiji Mutoh
Date won January 3, 2010
Promotion All Japan Pro Wrestling
Date established June 10, 1988

The All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) Unified World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team title in Japanese promotion All Japan Pro Wrestling. It was created on June 10, 1988 as a unification of two previous tag team titles in All Japan; the PWF Tag Team Championship, and the NWA International Tag Team Championship; when the PWF champions Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu defeated NWA champions The Road Warriors.[1] As with the AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship, it is symbolized by four belts, two for each wrestler, representing the former PWF and NWA titles.[citation needed] It is currently the top of two tag team titles in AJPW, along with the secondary AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship.[citation needed] There have been a total of 38 recognized individual champions and 36 recognized teams, who have had a combined 56 official reigns.

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[edit] Title history

#: Name(s): Reigns: Date: Location: Notes:
1 Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu 1 June 10, 1988 Tokyo, Japan Tsuruta & Yatsu, the PWF Tag Team Champions, defeated NWA International champions The Road Warriors to unify the titles.[1]
2 Terry Gordy & Stan Hansen 1 July 29, 1988 Takasaki, Japan [2]
3 Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu 2 July 31, 1988 Hakodate, Japan [2]
4 Ashura Hara & Genichiro Tenryu 1 August 29, 1988 Tokyo, Japan [2]
5 Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu 3 August 30, 1988 Osaka, Japan [2]
Vacated on November 19, 1988 so the title could be decided in the World's Strongest Tag Team League.[1]
6 Terry Gordy & Stan Hansen 2 December 16, 1988 Tokyo, Japan Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League.[2]
7 Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu 4 February 2, 1989 Kansas City, Missouri, United States [1]
8 Stan Hansen (3) & Genichiro Tenryu (2) 1 July 11, 1989 Sapporo, Japan [2]
9 Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu 5 July 22, 1989 Kanazawa, Japan [2]
10 Stan Hansen (4) & Genichiro Tenryu (3) 2 October 20, 1989 Tokyo, Japan [2]
Vacated on November 29, 1989 so the title could be decided in the World's Strongest Tag Team League.[1]
11 Stan Hansen (5) & Genichiro Tenryu (4) 3 December 6, 1989 Tokyo, Japan Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League.[2]
12 Terry Gordy (3) & Steve Williams 1 March 6, 1990 Tokyo, Japan [2]
13 The Great Kabuki & Jumbo Tsuruta (6) 1 July 19, 1990 Takefu, Japan [2]
Vacated on July 30, 1990 due to Kabuki leaving AJPW for SWS.[1]
14 Terry Gordy (4) & Steve Williams 2 December 7, 1990 Tokyo, Japan Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League.[2]
15 Stan Hansen (6) & Danny Spivey 1 April 18, 1991 Tokyo, Japan [2]
16 Terry Gordy (5) & Steve Williams 3 July 6, 1991 Yokosuka, Japan [2]
17 Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuharu Misawa 1 July 24, 1991 Kanazawa, Japan [2]
Vacated on December 6, 1991 so the title could be decided in the World's Strongest Tag Team League.[1]
18 Terry Gordy (6) & Steve Williams 4 December 6, 1991 Tokyo, Japan Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League.[2]
19 Akira Taue & Jumbo Tsuruta (7) 1 March 4, 1992 Tokyo, Japan [2]
Vacated on November 13, 1992 so the title could be decided in the World's Strongest Tag Team League.[1]
20 Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuharu Misawa 2 December 4, 1992 Tokyo, Japan Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League.[2]
21 Terry Gordy (7) & Steve Williams 5 January 30, 1993 Chiba, Japan [2]
22 Toshiaki Kawada (3) & Akira Taue (2) 1 May 20, 1993 Sapporo, Japan [2]
23 Ted DiBiase & Stan Hansen (7) 1 September 3, 1993 Tokyo, Japan [2]
Vacated in December 1993 so the title could be decided in the World's Strongest Tag Team League.[1]
24 Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa (3) 1 December 3, 1993 Tokyo, Japan Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League.[2]
Vacated in November 1994 so the title could be decided in the World's Strongest Tag Team League.[1]
25 Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa (4) 2 December 10, 1994 Tokyo, Japan Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League.[2]
26 Toshiaki Kawada (4) & Akira Taue (3) 2 June 9, 1995 Tokyo, Japan [2]
27 Gary Albright & Stan Hansen (8) 1 January 24, 1996 Matsumoto, Japan [2]
28 Toshiaki Kawada (5) & Akira Taue (4) 3 February 20, 1996 Morioka, Japan [2]
29 Jun Akiyama & Mitsuharu Misawa (5) 1 May 23, 1996 Sapporo, Japan [2]
30 Johnny Ace & Steve Williams (6) 1 September 5, 1996 Tokyo, Japan [2]
31 Toshiaki Kawada (6) & Akira Taue (5) 4 January 17, 1997 Matsumoto, Japan [2]
32 Johnny Ace (2) & Kenta Kobashi (3) 1 May 27, 1997 Sapporo, Japan [2]
33 Gary Albright (2) & Steve Williams (7) 1 July 25, 1997 Tokyo, Japan [2]
34 Johnny Ace (3) & Kenta Kobashi (4) 2 October 4, 1997 Nagoya, Japan [2]
35 Toshiaki Kawada (7) & Akira Taue (6) 5 January 25, 1998 Yokohama, Japan [2]
36 Jun Akiyama (2) & Kenta Kobashi (5) 1 January 7, 1999 Hidaka, Japan Won the title on the New Year Giant Series tour.[3]
37 Johnny Ace (4) & Bart Gunn 1 June 9, 1999 Sendai, Japan Won the title on the Super Power Series tour.[4]
38 Takao Ōmori & Yoshihiro Takayama 1 July 23, 1999 Tokyo, Japan Won the title on the Summer Action Series tour. Also hold the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship.[5]
39 Mitsuharu Misawa (6) & Yoshinari Ogawa 1 August 25, 1999 Hiroshima, Japan This match on the Summer Action Series II tour was also for Ōmori & Takayama's All Asia title.[6]
40 Jun Akiyama (3) & Kenta Kobashi (6) 2 October 23, 1999 Nagoya, Japan Won the title on the October Giant Series tour.[7]
41 Vader & Steve Williams (8) 1 February 20, 2000 Kobe, Japan Won the title on the Excite Series tour.[8]
Vacated on April 7, 2000 due to Vader fracturing his left arm.[2]
42 Toshiaki Kawada (8) & Akira Taue (7) 6 June 9, 2000 Tokyo, Japan Defeated Takao Ōmori & Yoshihiro Takayama in a tournament final on the Super Power Series tour.[9]
Vacated on June 16, 2000 due to Taue and several others leaving AJPW to form Pro Wrestling Noah.[2]
43 Taiyō Kea & Johnny Smith 1 January 14, 2001 Tokyo, Japan Defeated Masanobu Fuchi & Toshiaki Kawada on the New Year Giant Series tour.[10]
44 Yoji Anjo & Genichiro Tenryu (5) 1 July 14, 2001 Tokyo, Japan Won the title on the Summer Action Series tour.[11]
45 Taiyō Kea (2) & Keiji Mutoh 1 October 22, 2001 Niigata, Japan Won the title on the October Giant Series tour.[12]
46 Brian Adams & Bryan Clark 1 July 17, 2002 Osaka, Japan Won the title on the Summer Action Series tour.[13]
Vacated on October 10, 2002 due to Adams becoming a professional boxer.[1]
47 Taiyō Kea (3) & Satoshi Kojima 1 December 6, 2002 Tokyo, Japan Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League.[2]
Vacated on May 8, 2003 due to inactivity.[1]
48 Arashi & Keiji Mutoh (2) 1 June 8, 2003 Yokohama, Japan Defeated Satoshi Kojima & Jimmy Yang in a tournament final on the Super Power Series tour.[14]
49 Kaz Hayashi & Satoshi Kojima (2) 1 January 18, 2004 Osaka, Japan Won the title on the New Year Giant Series tour.[15]
50 Kendo Kashin & Yuji Nagata 1 June 12, 2004 Nagoya, Japan Won the title on the Crossover tour.[16]
Vacated on December 12, 2004 due to inactivity.[1][2]
51 Jamal & Taiyō Kea (4) 1 January 16, 2005 Osaka, Japan Defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yutaka Yoshie on the New Year Shining Series tour.[17]
Vacated on December 5, 2005 due to Jamal leaving AJPW for WWE.[18]
52 Toshiaki Kawada (9) & Taiyō Kea (5) 1 February 17, 2007 Tokyo, Japan Defeated RO'Z & Suwama at Pro Wrestling Love in Ryogoku vol. 2.[19]
53 Satoshi Kojima (3) & Taru 1 August 26, 2007 Tokyo, Japan Won the title at Pro Wrestling Love in Ryogoku vol. 3.[20]
54 Joe Doering & Keiji Mutoh (3) 1 January 3, 2008 Tokyo, Japan Won the title on the New Year Shining Series tour. [21]
55 Taiyō Kea (6) & Minoru Suzuki 1 June 28, 2008 Osaka, Japan Won the title on the Crossover tour.
56 Masakatsu Funaki & Keiji Mutoh (4) 1 January 3, 2010 Tokyo, Japan Won the title on the New Year Shining Series tour.
A number inside parentheses in the "Name(s)" column indicates the wrestler had multiple tag team parters and the number is how many reigns they individually had as one-half of the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Champions.

[edit] List of top individual team reigns

Name(s): Days Held: Date Won: Date Lost:
Taiyō Kea & Minoru Suzuki 554 June 28, 2008 January 3, 2010
Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa 350 December 3, 1993 November 18, 1994
Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue 347 January 25, 1998 January 7, 1999
Jamal & Taiyō Kea 323 January 16, 2005 December 5, 2005
Taiyō Kea & Keiji Mutoh 268 October 22, 2001 July 17, 2002
Akira Taue & Jumbo Tsuruta 254 March 4, 1992 November 13, 1992
Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue 229 June 9, 1995 January 24, 1996
Arashi & Keiji Mutoh 224 June 8, 2003 January 18, 2004
Toshiaki Kawada & Taiyō Kea 190 February 17, 2007 August 26, 2007
Kendo Kashin & Yuji Nagata 183 June 12, 2004 December 12, 2004
Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa 181 December 10, 1994 June 9, 1995
Taiyō Kea & Johnny Smith 181 January 14, 2001 July 14, 2001
Joe Doering & Keiji Mutoh 177 January 3, 2008 June 28, 2008
Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu 159 February 2, 1989 July 11, 1989
Jun Akiyama & Kenta Kobashi 153 January 7, 1999 June 9, 1999
Taiyō Kea & Satoshi Kojima 153 December 6, 2002 May 8, 2003
Kaz Hayashi & Satoshi Kojima 146 January 18, 2004 June 12, 2004
Terry Gordy & Steve Williams 135 March 6, 1990 July 19, 1990
Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuharu Misawa 135 July 24, 1991 December 6, 1991
Johnny Ace & Steve Williams 134 September 5, 1996 January 17, 1997
Terry Gordy & Steve Williams 132 December 7, 1990 April 18, 1991
Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue 130 January 17, 1997 May 27, 1997
Satoshi Kojima & Taru 130 August 26, 2007 January 3, 2008
Jun Akiyama & Kenta Kobashi 120 October 23, 1999 February 20, 2000
Johnny Ace & Kenta Kobashi 113 October 4, 1997 January 25, 1998
Terry Gordy & Steve Williams 110 January 30, 1993 May 20, 1993
Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue 106 May 20, 1993 September 3, 1993
Jun Akiyama & Mitsuharu Misawa 105 May 23, 1996 September 5, 1996
Yoji Anjo & Genichiro Tenryu 100 July 14, 2001 October 22, 2001
Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue 93 February 20, 1996 May 23, 1996
Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu 90 July 22, 1989 October 20, 1989
Stan Hansen & Genichiro Tenryu 90 December 6, 1989 March 6, 1990
Terry Gordy & Steve Williams 89 December 6, 1991 March 4, 1992
Brian Adams & Bryan Clark 85 July 17, 2002 October 10, 2002
Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu 81 August 30, 1988 November 19, 1988
Stan Hansen & Danny Spivey 79 April 18, 1991 July 6, 1991
Masakatsu Funaki & Keiji Mutoh 78 January 3, 2010 Current champions
Gary Albright & Steve Williams 71 July 25, 1997 October 4, 1997
Ted DiBiase & Stan Hansen 70 September 3, 1993 November 12, 1993
Johnny Ace & Kenta Kobashi 59 May 27, 1997 July 25, 1997
Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa 59 August 25, 1999 October 23, 1999
Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuharu Misawa 57 December 4, 1992 January 30, 1993
Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu 49 June 10, 1988 July 29, 1988
Terry Gordy & Stan Hansen 48 December 16, 1988 February 2, 1989
Vader & Steve Williams 47 February 20, 2000 April 7, 2000
Johnny Ace & Bart Gunn 44 June 9, 1999 July 23, 1999
Stan Hansen & Genichiro Tenryu 40 October 20, 1989 November 29, 1989
Takao Ōmori & Yoshihiro Takayama 33 July 23, 1999 August 25, 1999
Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu 29 July 31, 1988 August 29, 1988
Gary Albright & Stan Hansen 27 January 24, 1996 February 20, 1996
Terry Gordy & Steve Williams 18 July 6, 1991 July 24, 1991
Stan Hansen & Genichiro Tenryu 11 July 11, 1989 July 22, 1989
The Great Kabuki & Jumbo Tsuruta 11 July 19, 1990 July 30, 1990
Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue 7 June 9, 2000 June 16, 2000
Terry Gordy & Stan Hansen 2 July 29, 1988 July 31, 1988
Ashura Hara & Genichiro Tenryu 1 August 29, 1988 August 30, 1988
Information current as of March 22, 2010.

[edit] List of top combined reigns

[edit] By team

Rank: Name(s): # of Reigns: Combined Days:
1 Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue 6 912
2 Taiyō Kea & Minoru Suzuki 1 554
3 Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa 2 531
4 Terry Gordy & Steve Williams 5 484
5 Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu 5 408
6 Jamal & Taiyō Kea 1 323
7 Jun Akiyama & Kenta Kobashi 2 273
8 Taiyō Kea & Keiji Mutoh 1 268
9 Akira Taue & Jumbo Tsuruta 1 254
10 Arashi & Keiji Mutoh 1 224
11 Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuharu Misawa 2 192
12 Toshiaki Kawada & Taiyō Kea 1 190
13 Kendo Kashin & Yuji Nagata 1 183
14 Taiyō Kea & Johnny Smith 1 181
15 Joe Doering & Keiji Mutoh 1 177
16 Johnny Ace & Kenta Kobashi 2 172
17 Taiyō Kea & Satoshi Kojima 1 153
18 Kaz Hayashi & Satoshi Kojima 1 146
19 Stan Hansen & Genichiro Tenryu 3 141
20 Johnny Ace & Steve Williams 1 134
21 Satoshi Kojima & Taru 1 130
22 Jun Akiyama & Mitsuharu Misawa 1 105
23 Yoji Anjo & Genichiro Tenryu 1 100
24 Brian Adams & Bryan Clark 1 85
25 Stan Hansen & Danny Spivey 1 79
26 Masakatsu Funaki & Keiji Mutoh 1 78+
27 Gary Albright & Steve Williams 1 71
28 Ted DiBiase & Stan Hansen 1 70
29 Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa 1 59
30 Terry Gordy & Stan Hansen 2 50
31 Vader & Steve Williams 1 47
32 Johnny Ace & Bart Gunn 1 44
33 Takao Ōmori & Yoshihiro Takayama 1 33
34 Gary Albright & Stan Hansen 1 27
35 The Great Kabuki & Jumbo Tsuruta 1 11
36 Ashura Hara & Genichiro Tenryu 1 1
Information current as of March 22, 2010.

[edit] By wrestler

Rank: Name(s): # of Reigns: Combined Days:
1 Taiyō Kea 6 1669
2 Toshiaki Kawada 9 1294
3 Akira Taue 7 1166
4 Kenta Kobashi 6 976
5 Mitsuharu Misawa 6 887
6 Keiji Mutoh 4 747+
7 Steve Williams 8 736
8 Jumbo Tsuruta 7 673
9 Minoru Suzuki 1 554
10 Terry Gordy 7 534
11 Satoshi Kojima 3 429
12 Yoshiaki Yatsu 5 408
13 Jun Akiyama 3 378
14 Stan Hansen 8 367
15 Johnny Ace 4 350
16 Jamal 1 323
17 Genichiro Tenryu 5 242
18 Arashi 1 224
19 Kendo Kashin 1 183
19 Yuji Nagata 1 183
21 Johnny Smith 1 181
22 Joe Doering 1 177
23 Kaz Hayashi 1 146
24 Taru 1 130
25 Yoji Anjo 1 100
26 Gary Albright 2 98
27 Brian Adams 1 85
27 Bryan Clark 1 85
29 Danny Spivey 1 79
30 Masakatsu Funaki 1 78+
31 Ted DiBiase 1 70
32 Yoshinari Ogawa 1 59
33 Vader 1 47
34 Bart Gunn 1 44
35 Takao Ōmori 1 33
35 Yoshihiro Takayama 1 33
37 The Great Kabuki 1 11
38 Ashura Hara 1 1
Information current as of March 22, 2010.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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  3. ^ "AJPW New Year Giant Series 1999 tour results". Shining Road. http://ajpw.puroresufan.com/results/nygiant99.php. Retrieved 2007-07-23. 
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  6. ^ "AJPW Summer Action Series II tour results". Shining Road. http://ajpw.puroresufan.com/results/summer299.php. Retrieved 2007-07-23. 
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  8. ^ "AJPW Excite Series tour results". Shining Road. http://ajpw.puroresufan.com/results/excite00.php. Retrieved 2007-07-23. 
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  11. ^ "AJPW Summer Action Series 2001 tour results". Shining Road. http://ajpw.puroresufan.com/results/summer01.php. Retrieved 2007-07-23. 
  12. ^ "AJPW October Giant Series tour results". Shining Road. http://ajpw.puroresufan.com/results/octgiant01.php. Retrieved 2007-07-23. 
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  14. ^ "AJPW Super Power Series 2003 tour results". Shining Road. http://ajpw.puroresufan.com/results/super03.php. Retrieved 2007-07-23. 
  15. ^ "AJPW New Year Giant Series 2004 tour results". Shining Road. http://ajpw.puroresufan.com/results/nygiant04.php. Retrieved 2007-07-23. 
  16. ^ "AJPW Crossover tour results". Shining Road. http://ajpw.puroresufan.com/results/crossover04.php. Retrieved 2007-07-23. 
  17. ^ "AJPW New Year Shining Series tour results". Shining Road. http://ajpw.puroresufan.com/results/nyshining05.php. Retrieved 2007-07-23. 
  18. ^ "AJPW news, November 7 2005 - December 13 2005". Shining Road. http://ajpw.puroresufan.com/script/show_archives.php?archive=1134722489&subaction=list-archive&. Retrieved 2007-07-23. 
  19. ^ "AJPW Pro Wrestling Love in Ryogoku vol. 2 official results" (in Japanese). All-Japan.co.jp. http://all-japan.co.jp/results/070217.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-23. 
  20. ^ "AJPW Summer Impact tour results" (in German). PuroLove.com. http://www.purolove.com/ajpw/results/07summerimpact.php. Retrieved 2008-01-03. 
  21. ^ "All Japan Pro-Wrestling World Tag Team Title". http://wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/aj-t.html. Retrieved 2008-01-10. 

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