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IWGP Tag Team Championship
One time champions Team 3D
Tournament information

The International Wrestling Grand Prix (IWGP) Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team title in Japanese promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling. It was created in 1985 when Tatsumi Fujinami and Kengo Kimura defeated Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi in a tournament final.[1] Though in the past it has been held by both heavyweights and junior heavyweights, the creation of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in 1998 has made it more of an exclusively heavyweight title. In addition to Japan, it has been defended in the United States and Mexico.[2][3] As a team Masahiro Chono and Hiroyoshi Tenzan have had the most reigns—five different reigns—as champions. Tenzan has also had three additional reigns for a total of eight, which is the highest number of individual reigns in the belt's history. There have been a total of 48 recognized individual champions and 39 recognized teams, who have had a combined 52 official reigns. The British Invasion, beat Team 3D on TNA Impact! event in July 2009 in a tables match, this match was billed as for the IWGP Tag-Team Titles. But New Japan Pro Wrestling has not reconize the title change. And still fully consider Team 3D the champions.[4]

Title history

Key
Reign The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
# Numbers in bold indicate that a reign is current and changes daily
+ Indicates the current reign is changing daily.
† Indicates that this reign is not recognized as an official reign.
# Wrestlers Reign Date Location Notes
1 Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura 1 1985-12-12 Sendai, Japan Defeated Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi in a tournament final.[1]
2 Osamu Kido & Akira Maeda 1 1986-08-05 Tokyo, Japan [5]
3 Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura 2 1986-09-23 Tokyo, Japan [5]
– Vacated 1987-02-05 (n/a) Vacated when Fujinami & Kimura split up.[5]
4 Shiro Koshinaka & Keiji Mutoh 1 1987-03-20 Tokyo, Japan Defeated Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada in a tournament final.[1]
5 Akira Maeda (2) & Nobuhiko Takada 1 1987-03-26 Osaka, Japan [5]
6 Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kazuo Yamazaki 1 1987-09-01 Fukuoka, Japan [5]
7 Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura 3 1988-01-18 Sendai, Japan [6]
8 Riki Chōshū & Masa Saito 1 1988-06-10 Hiroshima, Japan [6]
9 Super Strong Machine & George Takano 1 1989-03-16 Yokohama, Japan [6]
10 Riki Chōshū (2) & Takayuki Iizuka 1 1989-07-14 Tokyo, Japan [6]
11 Shinya Hashimoto & Masa Saito (2) 1 1989-09-20 Osaka, Japan [6]
12 Masahiro Chono & Keiji Mutoh (2) 1 1990-04-27 Tokyo, Japan [6]
13 Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki 1 1990-11-01 Tokyo, Japan [7]
14 Hiro Saito & Super Strong Machine (2) 1 1990-12-26 Hamamatsu, Japan [7]
15 Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki 2 1991-03-06 Nagasaki, Japan [7]
16 Rick & Scott Steiner 1 1991-03-21 Tokyo, Japan Won the title at Starrcade 1991 in Tokyo Dome.[8]
17 Hiroshi Hase (3) & Keiji Mutoh (3) 1 1991-11-05 Tokyo, Japan Scott Norton substituted for an injured Scott Steiner in this match.[1]
18 Bam Bam Bigelow & Big Van Vader 1 1992-03-01 Yokohama, Japan Won the title at New Japan 20th Anniversary.[9]
19 Rick & Scott Steiner 2 1992-06-26 Tokyo, Japan [10]
20 Tony Halme & Scott Norton 1 1992-11-22 Tokyo, Japan [10]
21 The Hell Raisers
(Hawk Warrior & Power Warrior (3))
(Power Warrior formerly Kensuke Sasaki)		 1 1992-12-14 Osaka, Japan [10]
22 The Jurassic Powers
(Hercules Hernandez & Scott Norton (2))		 1 1993-08-05 Tokyo, Japan Won the title on the G1 Climax tour.[11]
23 The Hell Raisers
(Hawk Warrior & Power Warrior (4))		 2 1994-01-04 Tokyo, Japan Won the title at Battlefield.[12]
24 Hiroshi Hase (4) & Keiji Mutoh (4) 2 1994-11-25 Morioka, Japan Won the title on the Battle Final tour.[13]
– Vacated 1995-05-11 (n/a) Vacated so Mutoh could focus on the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.[1]
25 Masahiro Chono (2) & Hiroyoshi Tenzan 1 1995-06-12 Osaka, Japan Defeated Shinya Hashimoto & Junji Hirata.[14]
– Vacated 1995-07-07 (n/a) Vacated when Chono missed a title defense due to his father's death.[1]
26 Shinya Hashimoto (2) & Junji Hirata (3)
(Junji Hirata formerly Super Strong Machine)		 1 1995-07-13 Sapporo, Japan Defeated Mike Enos & Scott Norton.[14]
27 Takashi Iizuka (2) & Kazuo Yamazaki (2)
(Takashi Iizuka formerly Takayuki Iizuka)		 1 1996-06-12 Osaka, Japan [14]
28 Masahiro Chono (3) & Hiroyoshi Tenzan 2 1996-07-16 Sapporo, Japan [14]
29 Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura 4 1997-01-04 Tokyo, Japan Won the title at Wrestling World.[15]
30 Riki Chōshū (3) & Kensuke Sasaki (5) 1 1997-04-12 Tokyo, Japan Won the title at Battle Formation.[15]
31 Satoshi Kojima & Manabu Nakanishi 1 1997-05-03 Osaka, Japan Won the title at Strong Style Evolution.[15]
32 Kensuke Sasaki (6) & Kazuo Yamazaki (3) 1 1997-08-10 Nagoya, Japan Won the title at The Four Heaven in Nagoya Dome.[15]
33 Masahiro Chono (4) & Keiji Mutoh (5) 2 1997-10-19 Kobe, Japan Won the title on the nWo Typhoon tour.[16]
– Vacated 1998-05-07 (n/a) Vacated due to Mutoh injuring his knee.[1]
34 Masahiro Chono (5) & Hiroyoshi Tenzan 3 1998-06-05 Tokyo, Japan Defeated Shiro Koshinaka & Genichiro Tenryu in a tournament final on the Best of the Super Juniors V tour.[17]
35 Shiro Koshinaka (2) & Genichiro Tenryu 1 1998-07-15 Sapporo, Japan Won the title on the Summer Struggle tour.[18]
36 Satoshi Kojima (2) & Hiroyoshi Tenzan (4) 1 1999-01-04 Tokyo, Japan Won the title at Wrestling World.[19]
37 Shiro Koshinaka (3) & Kensuke Sasaki (7) 1 1999-03-22 Amagasaki, Japan Won the title on the Hyper Battle tour.[20]
38 Tatsutoshi Goto & Michiyoshi Ohara 1 1999-06-27 Shizuoka, Japan Won the title on the Summer Struggle tour.[21]
39 Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi (2) 1 1999-08-28 Tokyo, Japan Won the title at Jingu Climax.[19]
40 Satoshi Kojima (3) & Hiroyoshi Tenzan (5) 2 2000-07-20 Sapporo, Japan Won the title on the Summer Struggle tour.[22]
41 Tatsumi Fujinami (5) & Osamu Nishimura 1 2001-09-23 Osaka, Japan Won the title on the G1 World tour.[23]
42 Taiyō Kea & Keiji Mutoh (6) 1 2001-10-28 Fukuoka, Japan This match, at Fighting Destination in Fukuoka, was also for Kea & Mutoh's AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship.[24]
– Vacated 2002-02-01 (n/a) Vacated due to Mutoh leaving NJPW.[1]
43 Masahiro Chono (6) & Hiroyoshi Tenzan (6) 4 2002-03-24 Amagasaki, Japan Defeated Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi in a tournament final on the Hyper Battle tour.[25]
44 Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yutaka Yoshie 1 2003-06-13 Tokyo, Japan Won the title at The Crush.[26]
45 Osamu Nishimura (2) & Hiroyoshi Tenzan (7) 1 2003-12-14 Nagoya, Japan Won the title on the Battle Final tour.[27]
46 Minoru Suzuki & Yoshihiro Takayama 1 2004-02-01 Sapporo, Japan Won the title on the Fighting Spirit tour.[28]
– Vacated 2004-11-21 (n/a) Vacated due to lack of defenses brought on by a long-term injury to Takayama.[1]
47 Shinsuke Nakamura & Hiroshi Tanahashi (2) 1 2004-12-11 Osaka, Japan Defeated Kensuke Sasaki & Minoru Suzuki on the Battle Final tour.[29]
48 Masahiro Chono (7) & Hiroyoshi Tenzan (8) 5 2005-10-30 Kobe, Japan Won the title at Toukon Series 2005 in Kobe.[30] A provisional tag team title is created on July 2, 2006 when Chono & Tenzan show signs of inactivity; Shiro Koshinaka & Togi Makabe were the first champions.[31]
– Vacated 2006-09-24 (n/a) Vacated due to inactivity.[1]
49 Manabu Nakanishi (3) & Takao Ōmori 1 2006-09-28 (n/a) Recognized as champions after being provisional champions since July 17, 2006.[1]
50 Giant Bernard & Travis Tomko 1 2007-03-11 Nagoya, Japan Won the title on the Circuit 2007 New Japan Evolution tour.[32]
51 Togi Makabe & Toru Yano 1 2008-02-17 Tokyo, Japan Won the title on the Circuit 2008 New Japan ISM tour.
52 Team 3D
(Brother Ray & Brother Devon)		 1 2009-01-04 Tokyo, Japan Won the title at Wrestle Kingdom III in Tokyo Dome.
53 The British Invasion
(Brutus Magnus & Doug Williams)		 1† 2009-07-22 Orlando, Florida, USA Declared to have won the titles in a tables match on Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's primary television show TNA Impact. This aired on tape delay July 30, 2009. This change has not been officially recognized by New Japan Pro Wrestling as of yet.

List of top individual team reigns

As of July 31 2009.

Team Days Held Date Won Date Lost
Masahiro Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan 446 March 24 2002 June 13 2003
Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan 430 July 20 2000 September 23 2001
Giant Bernard & Travis Tomko 343 March 11 2007 February 17 2008
Shinya Hashimoto & Junji Hirata 335 July 13 1995 June 12 1996
Masahiro Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan 329 October 30 2005 September 24 2006
Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi 327 August 28 1999 July 20 2000
The Hell Raisers (Hawk & Power Warrior) 325 January 4 1994 November 25 1994
Shinsuke Nakamura & Hiroshi Tanahashi 323 December 11 2004 October 30 2005
Togi Makabe & Toru Yano 322 February 17 2008 January 4 2009
Minoru Suzuki & Yoshihiro Takayama 294 February 1 2004 November 21 2004
Riki Chōshū & Masa Saito 279 June 10 1989 March 16 1989
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura 236 December 12 1985 August 5 1986
The Hell Raisers 234 December 14 1992 August 5 1993
The Steiner Brothers (Rick & Scott) 229 March 21 1991 November 5 1991
Shinya Hashimoto & Masa Saito 219 September 20 1989 April 27 1990
Masahiro Chono & Keiji Mutoh 200 October 19 1997 May 7 1998
Team 3D (Brother Ray & Brother Devon) 199 January 4 2009 July 22 2009
Masahiro Chono & Keiji Mutoh 188 April 27 1990 November 1 1990
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yutaka Yoshie 184 June 13 2003 December 14 2003
Shiro Koshinaka & Genichiro Tenryu 173 July 15 1998 January 4 1999
Masahiro Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan 172 July 16 1996 January 4 1997
Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Mutoh 167 November 25 1994 May 11 1995
Manabu Nakanishi & Takao Ōmori 164 September 28 2006 March 11 2007
Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada 159 March 26 1987 September 1 1987
Hercules Hernandez & Scott Norton 152 August 5 1993 January 4 1994
The Steiner Brothers 149 June 26 1992 November 22 1992
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura 144 January 18 1988 June 10 1988
Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kazuo Yamazaki 139 September 1 1987 January 18 1988
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura 135 September 23 1986 February 5 1987
Super Strong Machine & George Takano 119 March 16 1989 July 13 1989
Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Mutoh 117 November 5 1991 March 1 1992
Big Van Vader & Bam Bam Bigelow 117 March 1 1992 June 26 1992
Satoshi Kojima & Manabu Nakanishi 99 May 3 1997 August 10 1997
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura 98 January 4 1997 April 12 1997
Shiro Koshinaka & Kensuke Sasaki 97 March 22 1999 June 27 1999
Taiyō Kea & Keiji Mutoh 96 October 28 2001 February 1 2002
Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan 77 January 4 1999 March 22 1999
Manabu Nakanishi & Takao Ōmori1 73 July 17 2006 September 28 2006
Super Strong Machine & Hiro Saito 70 December 26 1990 March 6 1991
Kensuke Sasaki & Kazuo Yamazaki 70 August 10 1997 October 19 1997
Riki Chōshū & Takayuki Iizuka 69 July 13 1989 September 20 1989
Tatsutoshi Goto & Michiyoshi Ohara 62 June 27 1999 August 28 1999
Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki 55 November 1 1990 December 26 1990
Osamu Kido & Akira Maeda 49 August 5 1986 September 23 1986
Osamu Nishimura & Hiroyoshi Tenzan 49 December 14 2003 February 1 2004
Masahiro Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan 40 June 5 1998 July 15 1998
Tatsumi Fujinami & Osamu Nishimura 35 September 23 2001 October 28 2001
Takashi Iizuka & Kazuo Yamazaki 34 June 12 1996 July 16 1996
Masahiro Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan 25 June 12 1995 July 7 1995
Tony Halme & Scott Norton 22 November 22 1992 December 14 1992
Riki Chōshū & Kensuke Sasaki 21 April 12 1997 May 3 1997
Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki 15 March 6 1991 March 21 1991
Shiro Koshinaka & Togi Makabe1 15 July 2 2006 July 17 2006
The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus & Doug Williams) 9+ July 22 2009 Current champions
Shiro Koshinaka & Keiji Mutoh 6 March 20 1987 March 26 1987

1This reign was held under the IWGP Provisional Tag Team Championship, created due to Masahiro Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan's inactivity.

List of top combined reigns

As of July 31 2009.

By team

Rank Team # Of Reigns Combined Days
1. Masahiro Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan 5 1,012
2. Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura 4 613
3. The Hell Raisers (Hawk & Power Warrior) 2 559
4. Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan 2 507
5. Masahiro Chono & Keiji Mutoh 2 388
6. The Steiner Brothers (Rick & Scott) 2 378
7. Giant Bernard & Travis Tomko 1 343
8. Shinya Hashimoto & Junji Hirata 1 335
9. Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi 1 327
10. Shinsuke Nakamura & Hiroshi Tanahashi 1 323
11. Togi Makabe & Toru Yano 1 322
12. Minoru Suzuki & Yoshihiro Takayama 1 294
13. Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Mutoh 2 284
14. Riki Chōshū & Masa Saito 1 279
15. Shinya Hashimoto & Masa Saito 1 219
16 Team 3D (Brother Ray & Brother Devon) 1 199
17. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yutaka Yoshie 1 184
18. Shiro Koshinaka & Genichiro Tenryu 1 173
19. Manabu Nakanishi & Takao Ōmori 1 164
20. Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada 1 159
21. Hercules Hernandez & Scott Norton 1 152
22. Yoshiaki Fujiwara & Kazuo Yamazaki 1 139
23. Super Strong Machine & George Takano 1 119
24. Big Van Vader & Bam Bam Bigelow 1 117
25. Satoshi Kojima & Manabu Nakanishi 1 99
26. Shiro Koshinaka & Kensuke Sasaki 1 97
27. Taiyō Kea & Keiji Mutoh 1 96
28. Super Strong Machine & Hiro Saito 1 70
29. Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki 2 70
30. Kensuke Sasaki & Kazuo Yamazaki 1 70
31. Riki Chōshū & Takayuki Iizuka 1 69
32. Tatsutoshi Goto & Michiyoshi Ohara 1 62
33. Osamu Kido & Akira Maeda 1 49
34. Osamu Nishimura & Hiroyoshi Tenzan 1 49
35. Tatsumi Fujinami & Osamu Nishimura 1 35
36. Takashi Iizuka & Kazuo Yamazaki 1 34
37. Tony Halme & Scott Norton 1 22
38. Riki Chōshū & Kensuke Sasaki 1 21
39. The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus & Doug Williams) 1 9+
40. Shiro Koshinaka & Keiji Mutoh 1 6

By wrestler

Rank Wrestler # Of Reigns Combined Days
1. Hiroyoshi Tenzan 8 1,568
2. Masahiro Chono 7 1,400
3. Kensuke Sasaki 7 817
4. Keiji Mutoh 6 774
5. Tatsumi Fujinami 5 648
6. Kengo Kimura 4 613
7. Satoshi Kojima 3 606
8. Manabu Nakanishi 3 590
9. Hawk Warrior 2 559
10. Shinya Hashimoto 2 554
11. Junji Hirata 3 524
12. Hiroshi Tanahashi 2 507
13. Masa Saito 2 498
14. Rick Steiner 2 378
14. Scott Steiner 2 378
16. Riki Chōshū 3 369
17. Hiroshi Hase 4 354
18. Giant Bernard 1 343
18. Travis Tomko 1 343
20. Yuji Nagata 1 327
21. Shinsuke Nakamura 1 323
22. Togi Makabe 1 322
22. Toru Yano 1 322
24. Minoru Suzuki 1 294
24. Yoshihiro Takayama 1 294
26. Shiro Koshinaka 3 276
27. Kazuo Yamazaki 3 243
28. Akira Maeda 2 208
29. Brother Devon 1 199
29. Brother Ray 1 199
31. Yutaka Yoshie 1 184
32. Scott Norton 2 174
33. Genichiro Tenryu 1 173
34. Takao Ōmori 1 164
35. Nobuhiko Takada 1 159
36. Hercules Hernandez 1 152
37. Yoshiaki Fujiwara 1 139
38. George Takano 1 119
39. Big Van Vader 1 117
39. Bam Bam Bigelow 1 117
41. Takayuki Iizuka 2 103
42. Taiyō Kea 1 96
43. Osamu Nishimura 2 84
44. Hiro Saito 1 70
45. Tatsutoshi Goto 1 62
45. Michiyoshi Ohara 1 62
47. Osamu Kido 1 49
48. Tony Halme 1 22
49. Brutus Magnus 1 9+
49. Doug Williams 1 9+

See also

References

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