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IWGP Tag Team Championship
Two males: one white wearing a black shirt with blue-jeans; one black with a black shirt and black pants on.
Team 3D (Brother Devon [left] and Brother Ray [right]) are two–time IWGP Tag Team Champions
Details
PromotionNew Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)
Date establishedDecember 12, 1985[1]
Current champion(s)Chaos (Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano)
Date wonMay 3, 2012
Other name(s)

  • IWGP World Tag Team Championship (used primarily in TNA)
  • New Japan IWGP (World) Tag Team Championship (used primarily in TNA)
Statistics
First champion(s)Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami
Most reigns(as a team)
Cho-Ten (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Masahiro Chono) (5 reigns)
(as an individual)
Hiroyoshi Tenzan (9 reigns)
Longest reignBad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) (564 days)
Shortest reignKeiji Mutoh and Shiro Koshinaka (6 days)

The IWGP Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. "IWGP" is the acronym of the NJPW's governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix. The title was introduced on December 12, 1985 at a NJPW live event.[1] The IWGP Tag Team Championship is not the only tag team title contested for in NJPW; the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is also sanctioned by NJPW.[2] According to NJPW's official website, the IWGP Tag Team Championship is considered an "IWGP Heavy Weight Class", while the Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is listed as an "IWGP Jr. Tag Class".[2] Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result of a scripted match. Title changes usually happen at NJPW–promoted events; although the title has only changed hands twice at a non–NJPW event,[3] it has been defended in several other promotions.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan currently holds the record for most reigns by an individual wrestler, with nine. Tenzan's combined nine reign lengths add up to 1,686 days, which is the most of any champion. At five reigns, the team of Tenzan and Masahiro Chono hold the record for most by a team. Tenzan and Chono's combined five reign lengths add up to 1,010 days (the most of any team). At 564 days, Bad Intentions' (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) only reign is the longest in the title's history. Keiji Mutoh and Shiro Koshinaka's only reign is the shortest, at six days. Currently, Bad Intentions' only reign has the most defenses, with ten. There are 12 reigns shared between 11 teams that are tied for the fewest successful defenses, with zero. Overall, there have been 59 reigns shared between 54 wrestlers. The current champions are Chaos (Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano), who are in their first reign as a team. Individually, this is the third reign for Iizuka and the second for Yano.

History

The inaugural champions were Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami, who defeated Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi in the finals of a tournament to win the championship on December 12, 1985 at a NJPW live event.[1] In addition to NJPW, the IWGP Tag Team Championship was also contested in the United States–based promotions World Championship Wrestling (WCW) (now defunct) in the early 1990s and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) since April 2009,[4] and in the Mexican lucha libre promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Spanish for Worldwide Wrestling Council) in 2005.[5]

On October 30, 2005 in Kobe, Japan, Tenzan and Chono defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi and Shinsuke Nakamura to begin their fifth overall reign as a team.[6] On July 2, 2006, a provisional tag team title was created (known as the "IWGP Provisional Tag Team Championship") when Tenzan and Chono showed signs of inactivity.[6] Koshinaka and Togi Makabe defeated the teams of Yuji Nagata and Naofumi Yamamoto and Giant Bernard and Travis Tomko in a three–way match to become the first champions. NJPW president Simon Kelly Inoki stripped Tenzan and Chono of the IWGP Tag Team Championship on September 20, 2006 after Tenzan and Chono ceased teaming. Manabu Nakanishi and Takao Ōmori, who defeated Koshinaka and Makabe on July 17, 2006 to become the IWGP Provisional Tag Team Champions, were recognized as the IWGP Tag Team Champions on September 28, 2006 by NJPW.[7]

In 2009, The British Invasion, defeated Team 3D on July 21, 2009 at the taping of the July 30, 2009 episode of TNA's primary television program, TNA Impact!, in a tables match.[8][9] Afterwards, NJPW released a statement announcing that they did not sanction the defense nor the title change, and as such were not going to recognize the reign.[10] They continued to recognize Team 3D as the current champions and proclaimed that the next title defense would be by Team 3D and would be sanctioned by NJPW.[11] On August 10, 2009, NJPW issued another press release stating that they were now recognizing The British Invasion of Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams as the current IWGP Tag Team Champions, making the reign official.[3][12]

Title history

# Order in reign history
Reign The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
Event The event in which the title was won
Successful defenses The number of successful defenses the champions had during their reign
Wrestler name (#) The number represents the individual reigns of a wrestler when this is distinct from the tag team's reign.
— Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
N/A The information is not available or is unknown
+ Indicates the current reign is changing daily
# Wrestlers
(Tag team name) 		Reign Date Days
held 		Location Event Successful defenses Notes
1 Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami 1 December 12, 1985 236 Sendai, Japan Live event 5 Kimura and Fujinami defeated Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi in a tournament final to become the first champions.[1][13]
2 Akira Maeda and Osamu Kido 1 August 5, 1986 49 Tokyo, Japan Live event 1
3 Kengo Kimura (2) and Tatsumi Fujinami (2) 2 September 23, 1986 135 Tokyo, Japan Live event 0 [14]
— Vacated — February 5, 1987 — N/A N/A — The championship was vacated when Kimura and Fujinami split up.[14]
4 Keiji Mutoh and Shiro Koshinaka 1 March 20, 1987 6 Tokyo, Japan Live event 0 Koshinaka and Mutoh defeated Akira Maeda and Nobuhiko Takada in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.
5 Akira Maeda (2) and Nobuhiko Takada 1 March 26, 1987 159 Osaka, Japan Live event 2
6 Kazuo Yamazaki and Yoshiaki Fujiwara 1 September 1, 1987 139 Fukuoka, Japan Live event 2
7 Kengo Kimura (3) and Tatsumi Fujinami (3) 3 January 18, 1988 144 Takuyama, Japan Live event 3
8 Masa Saito and Riki Chōshū 1 June 10, 1988 282 Hiroshima, Japan Live event 4
9 George Takano and Super Strong Machine[N 1] 1 March 19, 1989 116 Yokohama, Japan Live event 1
10 Riki Chōshū (2) and Takayuki Iizuka[N 2] 1 July 13, 1989 69 Tokyo, Japan Live event 1
11 Masa Saito (2) and Shinya Hashimoto 1 September 20, 1989 219 Osaka, Japan Live event 3
12 Keiji Mutoh (2) and Masahiro Chono 1 April 27, 1990 189 Tokyo, Japan Live event 3
13 Hiroshi Hase and Kensuke Sasaki 1 November 1, 1990 55 Tokyo, Japan Live event 2
14 Hiro Saito and Super Strong Machine (2)[N 1] 1 December 26, 1990 70 Hamamatsu, Japan Live event 2
15 Hiroshi Hase (2) and Kensuke Sasaki (2) 2 March 6, 1991 15 Nagasaki, Japan Live event 0
16 Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner
(The Steiner Brothers) 		1 March 21, 1991 229 Tokyo, Japan Starrcade 1991 in Tokyo Dome 2 The Steiners' WCW World Tag Team Championship was also on the line.
17 Hiroshi Hase (3) and Keiji Mutoh (3) 1 November 5, 1991 117 Tokyo, Japan Live event 2 Scott Norton substituted for an injured Scott Steiner in this match.
18 Bam Bam Bigelow and Big Van Vader
(Big, Bad, and Dangerous) 		1 March 1, 1992 117 Yokohama, Japan Live event 2
19 Rick Steiner (2) and Scott Steiner (2)
(The Steiner Brothers) 		2 June 26, 1992 149 Tokyo, Japan Live event 3 The Steiners' WCW World Tag Team Championship was also on the line.
20 Scott Norton and Tony Halme 1 November 22, 1992 22 Tokyo, Japan Live event 0
21 Hawk Warrior and Power Warrior (3)[N 3]
(The Hell Raisers) 		1 December 14, 1992 234 Tokyo, Japan Live event 4 [13]
22 Hercules Hernandez and Scott Norton (2)
(The Jurassic Powers) 		1 August 5, 1993 152 Tokyo, Japan Live event 3 [15]
23 Hawk Warrior (2) and Power Warrior (4)[N 3]
(The Hell Raisers) 		2 January 4, 1994 325 Tokyo, Japan Battlefield 2
24 Hiroshi Hase (4) and Keiji Mutoh (4) 2 November 25, 1994 162 Iwate, Japan Live event 1 [16]
— Vacated — May 6, 1995 — N/A N/A — The title was vacated by Mutoh after he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.[16]
25 Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Masahiro Chono (2)
(Cho-Ten) 		1 June 10, 1995 27 Osaka, Japan Live event 0 Tenzan and Chono defeated Junji Hirata and Shinya Hashimoto to win the vacant championship.[17]
— Vacated — July 7, 1995 — N/A N/A — The title was vacated when Chono missed a title defense due to his father's death.[17]
26 Junji Hirata (3)[N 1] and Shinya Hashimoto (2) 1 July 13, 1995 335 Sapporo, Japan Live event 6 Hashimoto and Hirata defeated Mike Enos and Scott Norton to win the vacant championship.
27 Kazuo Yamazaki (2) and Takashi Iizuka (2)[N 2] 1 June 12, 1996 34 Osaka, Japan Live event 0
28 Hiroyoshi Tenzan (2) and Masahiro Chono (3)
(Cho-Ten) 		2 July 16, 1996 172 Sapporo, Japan Live event 2
29 Kengo Kimura (4) and Tatsumi Fujinami (4) 4 January 4, 1997 98 Tokyo, Japan Wrestling World (1997) 3
30 Kensuke Sasaki (5) and Riki Chōshū (3) 1 April 12, 1997 21 Tokyo, Japan Live event 0
31 Manabu Nakanishi and Satoshi Kojima
(The Bull Powers) 		1 May 3, 1997 99 Osaka, Japan Live event 1
32 Kazuo Yamazaki (3) and Kensuke Sasaki (6) 1 August 10, 1997 70 Nagoya, Japan The Four Heaven in Nagoya Dome 0
33 Keiji Mutoh (5) and Masahiro Chono (4) 2 October 19, 1997 184 Kobe, Japan Live event 2 [18]
— Vacated — April 21, 1998 — N/A N/A — The title was vacated due to Mutoh having surgery on his knee.[18]
34 Hiroyoshi Tenzan (3) and Masahiro Chono (5)
(Cho-Ten) 		3 June 5, 1998 40 Tokyo, Japan Live event 0 Tenzan and Chono defeated Genichiro Tenryu and Shiro Koshinaka in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.
35 Genichiro Tenryu and Shiro Koshinaka (2) 1 July 15, 1998 173 Sapporo, Japan Live event 2
36 Hiroyoshi Tenzan (4) and Satoshi Kojima (2)
(Ten-Koji) 		1 January 4, 1999 77 Tokyo, Japan Wrestling World (1999) 1
37 Kensuke Sasaki (7) and Shiro Koshinaka 1 March 22, 1999 97 Amagasaki, Japan Live event 2
38 Michiyoshi Ohara and Tatsutoshi Goto
(The Mad Dogs) 		1 June 27, 1999 62 Shizuoka, Japan Live event 1
39 Manabu Nakanishi (2) and Yuji Nagata 1 August 28, 1999 327 Shizuoka, Japan Live event 4
40 Hiroyoshi Tenzan (5) and Satoshi Kojima (3)
(Ten-Koji) 		2 July 20, 2000 430 Tokyo, Japan Live event 6
41 Osamu Nishimura and Tatsumi Fujinami (5) 1 September 23, 2001 35 Osaka, Japan Live event 1
42 Keiji Mutoh (6) and Taiyō Kea
(BATT) 		1 October 28, 2001 97 Fukuoka, Japan Live event 0 [19]
— Vacated — February 2, 2002 — N/A N/A — The title was vacated due to Mutoh leaving NJPW.[19]
43 Hiroyoshi Tenzan (6) and Masahiro Chono (6)
(Cho-Ten) 		4 March 24, 2002 446 Hyōgo, Japan Live event 7 Tenzan and Chono defeated Manabu Nakanishi and Yuji Nagata in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.
44 Hiroshi Tanahashi and Yutaka Yoshie 1 June 13, 2003 184 Tokyo, Japan Live event 3 [20]
45 Hiroyoshi Tenzan (7) and Osamu Nishimura (2) 1 December 14, 2003 49 Nagoya, Japan Live event 0
46 Minoru Suzuki and Yoshihiro Takayama 1 February 1, 2004 294 Sapporo, Japan Live event 4 [21]
47 Hiroshi Tanahashi (2) and Shinsuke Nakamura 1 December 11, 2004 323 Osaka, Japan Live event 4
48 Hiroyoshi Tenzan (8) and Masahiro Chono (7)
(Cho-Ten) 		5 October 30, 2005 325 Kobe, Japan Live event 3 [6]
— Vacated — September 20, 2006 — N/A N/A — NJPW president Simon Kelly Inoki stripped Chono and Tenzan of the title after Chono and Tenzan ceased teaming.[6]
49 Manabu Nakanishi (3) and Takao Ōmori
(Wild Child) 		1 September 28, 2006 164 Sapporo, Japan Live event 1 A provisional tag team title was created on July 2, 2006 when Tenzan and Chono showed signs of inactivity; Shiro Koshinaka and Togi Makabe were the first champions.[6] Nakanishi and Ōmori were recognized as the official champions on September 28, 2006 after they won the Provisional Tag Team Championship on July 17, 2006.[7]
50 Giant Bernard and Travis Tomko 1 March 11, 2007 343 Nagoya, Japan Live event 5
51 Togi Makabe and Toru Yano
(The Most Violent Players) 		1 February 17, 2008 322 Tokyo, Japan Live event 4
52 Brother Devon and Brother Ray
(Team 3D) 		1 January 4, 2009 198 Tokyo, Japan Wrestle Kingdom III in the Tokyo Dome 4 [3][22]
53 Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams
(The British Invasion) 		1 July 21, 2009 89 Orlando, Florida TNA Impact! 1 This was a tables match that aired on the July 30, 2009 episode of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Impact!.[9][23] NJPW did not sanction the match, nor initially recognize nor sanction the title change until August 10.[3][10][24]
54 Brother Devon and Brother Ray
(Team 3D) 		2 October 18, 2009 78 Irvine, California Bound for Glory (2009) 1 This was a four–way Full Metal Mayhem Tag Team match, which also included Beer Money, Inc. and Booker T and Scott Steiner and was contested also for the TNA World Tag Team Championship, which was won by The British Invasion.[25][26]
55 Tetsuya Naitō and Yujiro Takahashi
(No Limit) 		1 January 4, 2010 119 Tokyo, Japan Wrestle Kingdom IV in Tokyo Dome 1 This was a three–way hardcore match, which also included Bad Intentions (Karl Anderson and Giant Bernard).[27]
56 Wataru Inoue and Yuji Nagata (2)
(Blue Justice Army) 		1 May 3, 2010 47 Fukuoka, Japan Wrestling Dontaku 2010 0 This was a three–way match, which also included Bad Intentions (Karl Anderson and Giant Bernard).
57 Giant Bernard (2) and Karl Anderson
(Bad Intentions) 		1 June 19, 2010 564 Osaka, Japan Dominion 6.19 10 This was a three–way elimination match, which also included No Limit (Tetsuya Naitō and Yujiro Takahashi).
58 Hiroyoshi Tenzan (9) and Satoshi Kojima (4)
(Ten-Koji) 		3 January 4, 2012 120 Tokyo, Japan Wrestle Kingdom VI in Tokyo Dome 2
59 Takashi Iizuka (3) and Toru Yano (2)
(Chaos) 		1 May 3, 2012 4,404+ Fukuoka, Japan Wrestling Dontaku 2012 0

List of combined reigns

† Indicates the current champions

By team

Rank[N 4] Team # of reigns Combined days
1 Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Masahiro Chono
(Cho-Ten) 		5 1,010
2 Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima
(Ten-Koji) 		3 627
3 Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami 4 613
4 Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson
(Bad Intentions) 		1 564
5 Hawk Warrior and Power Warrior
(The Hell Raisers) 		2 559
6 Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner
(The Steiner Brothers) 		2 378
7 Keiji Mutoh and Masahiro Chono 2 373
8 Giant Bernard and Travis Tomko 1 343
9 Junji Hirata and Shinya Hashimoto 1 335
10 Manabu Nakanishi and Yuji Nagata 1 327
11 Hiroshi Tanahashi and Shinsuke Nakamura 1 323
12 Togi Makabe and Toru Yano
(The Most Violent Players) 		1 322
13 Minoru Suzuki and Yoshihiro Takayama 1 294
14 Masa Saito and Riki Chōshū 1 282
15 Hiroshi Hase and Keiji Mutoh 2 279
16 Brother Devon and Brother Ray
(Team 3D) 		2 276
17 Masa Saito and Shinya Hashimoto 1 219
18 Hiroshi Tanahashi and Yutaka Yoshie 1 184
19 Genichiro Tenryu and Shiro Koshinaka 1 173
20 Manabu Nakanishi and Takao Ōmori 1 164
21 Akira Maeda and Nobuhiko Takada 1 159
22 Hercules Hernandez and Scott Norton
(The Jurassic Powers) 		1 152
23 Kazuo Yamazaki and Yoshiaki Fujiwara 1 139
24 Tetsuya Naitō and Yujiro Takahashi
(No Limit) 		1 119
25 Bam Bam Bigelow and Big Van Vader 1 117
26 George Takano and Super Strong Machine 1 116
27 Manabu Nakanishi and Satoshi Kojima 1 99
28 Kensuke Sasaki and Shiro Koshinaka 1 97
28 Keiji Mutoh and Taiyō Kea
(BATT) 		1 97
30 Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams
(The British Invasion) 		1 89
31 Hiro Saito and Super Strong Machine 1 70
31 Kazuo Yamazaki and Kensuke Sasaki 1 70
31 Hiroshi Hase and Kensuke Sasaki 2 70
34 Riki Chōshū and Takayuki Iizuka 1 69
35 Michiyoshi Ohara and Tatsutoshi Goto
(The Mad Dogs) 		1 62
36 Akira Maeda and Osamu Kido 1 49
36 Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Osamu Nishimura 1 49
38 Wataru Inoue and Yuji Nagata
(Blue Justice Army) 		1 47
39 Osamu Nishimura and Tatsumi Fujinami 1 35
40 Kazuo Yamazaki and Takashi Iizuka 1 34
41 Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano
(Chaos)† 		1 4404+
42 Scott Norton and Tony Halme 1 22
43 Kensuke Sasaki and Riki Chōshū 1 21
44 Keiji Mutoh and Shiro Koshinaka 1 6

By wrestler

Rank[N 4] Wrestler # of reigns Combined days
1 Hiroyoshi Tenzan 9 1,686
2 Masahiro Chono 7 1,383
3 Giant Bernard 2 907
4 Kensuke Sasaki/Power Warrior 7 816
5 Keiji Mutoh 6 755
6 Satoshi Kojima 4 726
7 Tatsumi Fujinami 5 648
8 Kengo Kimura 4 613
9 Manabu Nakanishi 3 590
10 Karl Anderson 1 564
11 Hawk Warrior 2 559
12 Shinya Hashimoto 2 554
13 Junji Hirata/Super Strong Machine 3 521
14 Hiroshi Tanahashi 2 507
15 Masa Saito 2 501
16 Rick Steiner 2 378
16 Scott Steiner 2 378
18 Yuji Nagata 2 374
19 Riki Chōshū 3 372
20 Hiroshi Hase 4 348
21 Toru Yano† 2 4726+
22 Travis Tomko 1 343
23 Shinsuke Nakamura 1 323
24 Togi Makabe 1 322
25 Minoru Suzuki 1 294
25 Yoshihiro Takayama 1 294
27 Shiro Koshinaka 3 276
27 Brother Devon 2 276
27 Brother Ray 2 276
30 Kazuo Yamazaki 3 243
31 Akira Maeda 2 208
32 Yutaka Yoshie 1 184
33 Scott Norton 2 174
34 Genichiro Tenryu 1 173
35 Takao Ōmori 1 164
36 Nobuhiko Takada 1 159
37 Hercules Hernandez 1 152
38 Yoshiaki Fujiwara 1 139
39 Takayuki/Takashi Iizuka† 3 4507+
40 Tetsuya Naitō 1 119
40 Yujiro Takahashi 1 119
42 Bam Bam Bigelow 1 117
42 Big Van Vader 1 117
42 George Takano 1 116
45 Taiyō Kea 1 97
46 Brutus Magnus 1 89
46 Doug Williams 1 89
48 Osamu Nishimura 2 84
49 Hiro Saito 1 70
50 Michiyoshi Ohara 1 62
51 Tatsutoshi Goto 1 62
52 Osamu Kido 1 49
53 Wataru Inoue 1 47
54 Tony Halme 1 22

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c Junji Hirata used the ring name Super Strong Machine during his first two reigns; one reign was with George Takano and the second was with Hiro Saito.
  2. ^ a b Takayuki Iizuka also used the ring name Takashi Iizuka and won the IWGP Tag Team Championship once with Kazuo Yamazaki.
  3. ^ a b Kensuke Sasaki used the ring name Power Warrior while he was a part of The Hell Raisers.
  4. ^ a b Each reign is ranked highest to lowest; reigns with the same number mean that they are tied for that certain rank.

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External links

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