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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
Current champion(s) Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon)[1]
Date won October 18, 2009[2]
Promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)
Date established December 12, 1985[3]
Other name(s)
  • IWGP World Tag Team Championship (used primarily in TNA)
  • New Japan IWGP (World) Tag Team Championship (used primarily in TNA)

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.[3] 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.[4] 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".[4] 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,[5] it has been defended in several other promotions.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan currently holds the record for most reigns by an individual wrestler, with eight. Tenzan's combined eight reign lengths add up to 1566 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 446 days, Tenzan and Chono's fourth reign is the longest in the title's history. Keiji Mutoh and Shiro Koshinaka's only reign is the shortest, at six days. Currently, Tenzan and Chono's fourth reign has the most defenses, with seven. There are 11 reigns shared between 10 teams that are tied for the fewest successful defenses, with zero. Overall, there have been 53 reigns shared between 51 wrestlers. The current champions are Team 3D, who are in their second reign.

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[edit] 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.[3] 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,[6] and in the Mexican lucha libre promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Spanish for Worldwide Wrestling Council) in 2005.[7]

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.[8] 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.[8] 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.[9]

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.[10][11] 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.[12] 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.[13] 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.[5][14]

[edit] 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 01985-12-12 December 12, 1985 &0000000000000236.000000236 Sendai, Japan Live event 5 Kimura and Fujinami defeated Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi in a tournament final to become the first champions.[3][15]
2 Akira Maeda and Osamu Kido 1 01986-08-05 August 5, 1986 &0000000000000049.00000049 Tokyo, Japan Live event 1
3 Kengo Kimura (2) and Tatsumi Fujinami (2) 2 01986-09-23 September 23, 1986 &0000000000000135.000000135 Tokyo, Japan Live event 0 [16]
— Vacated — 01987-02-05 February 5, 1987 — N/A N/A — The championship was vacated when Kimura and Fujinami split up.[16]
4 Keiji Mutoh and Shiro Koshinaka 1 01987-03-20 March 20, 1987 &0000000000000006.0000006 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 01987-03-26 March 26, 1987 &0000000000000159.000000159 Osaka, Japan Live event 2
6 Kazuo Yamazaki and Yoshiaki Fujiwara 1 01987-09-01 September 1, 1987 &0000000000000139.000000139 Fukuoka, Japan Live event 2
7 Kengo Kimura (3) and Tatsumi Fujinami (3) 3 01988-01-18 January 18, 1988 &0000000000000144.000000144 Takuyama, Japan Live event 3
8 Masa Saito and Riki Chōshū 1 01988-06-10 June 10, 1988 &0000000000000282.000000282 Hiroshima, Japan Live event 4
9 George Takano and Super Strong Machine[N 1] 1 01989-03-19 March 19, 1989 &0000000000000116.000000116 Yokohama, Japan Live event 1
10 Riki Chōshū (2) and Takayuki Iizuka[N 2] 1 01989-07-13 July 13, 1989 &0000000000000069.00000069 Tokyo, Japan Live event 1
11 Masa Saito (2) and Shinya Hashimoto 1 01989-09-20 September 20, 1989 &0000000000000219.000000219 Osaka, Japan Live event 3
12 Keiji Mutoh (2) and Masahiro Chono 1 01990-04-27 April 27, 1990 &0000000000000189.000000189 Tokyo, Japan Live event 3
13 Hiroshi Hase and Kensuke Sasaki 1 01990-11-01 November 1, 1990 &0000000000000055.00000055 Tokyo, Japan Live event 2
14 Hiro Saito and Super Strong Machine (2)[N 1] 1 01990-12-26 December 26, 1990 &0000000000000070.00000070 Hamamatsu, Japan Live event 2
15 Hiroshi Hase (2) and Kensuke Sasaki (2) 2 01991-03-06 March 6, 1991 &0000000000000015.00000015 Nagasaki, Japan Live event 0
16 Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner
(The Steiner Brothers)		 1 01991-03-21 March 21, 1991 &0000000000000229.000000229 Tokyo, Japan Starrcade 1991 in Tokyo Dome 2
17 Hiroshi Hase (3) and Keiji Mutoh (3) 1 01991-11-05 November 5, 1991 &0000000000000117.000000117 Tokyo, Japan Live event 2 Scott Norton substituted for an injured Scott Steiner in this match.
18 Bam Bam Bigelow and Big Van Vader 1 01992-03-01 March 1, 1992 &0000000000000117.000000117 Yokohama, Japan Live event 2
19 Rick Steiner (2) and Scott Steiner (2)
(The Steiner Brothers)		 2 01992-06-26 June 26, 1992 &0000000000000149.000000149 Tokyo, Japan Live event 3
20 Scott Norton and Tony Halme 1 01992-11-22 November 22, 1992 &0000000000000022.00000022 Tokyo, Japan Live event 0
21 Hawk Warrior and Power Warrior (3)[N 3]
(The Hell Raisers)		 1 01992-12-14 December 14, 1992 &0000000000000234.000000234 Tokyo, Japan Live event 4 [15]
22 Hercules Hernandez and Scott Norton (2)
(The Jurassic Powers)		 1 01993-08-05 August 5, 1993 &0000000000000152.000000152 Tokyo, Japan Live event 3 [17]
23 Hawk Warrior (2) and Power Warrior (4)[N 3]
(The Hell Raisers)		 2 01994-01-04 January 4, 1994 &0000000000000325.000000325 Tokyo, Japan Battlefield 2
24 Hiroshi Hase (4) and Keiji Mutoh (4) 2 01994-11-25 November 25, 1994 &0000000000000162.000000162 Iwate, Japan Live event 1 [18]
— Vacated — 01995-05-06 May 6, 1995 — N/A N/A — The title was vacated by Mutoh after he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.[18]
25 Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Masahiro Chono (2) 1 01995-06-10 June 10, 1995 &0000000000000027.00000027 Osaka, Japan Live event 0 Tenzan and Chono defeated Junji Hirata and Shinya Hashimoto to win the vacant championship.[19]
— Vacated — 01995-07-07 July 7, 1995 — N/A N/A — The title was vacated when Chono missed a title defense due to his father's death.[19]
26 Junji Hirata (3)[N 1] and Shinya Hashimoto (2) 1 01995-07-13 July 13, 1995 &0000000000000335.000000335 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[N 2] 1 01996-06-12 June 12, 1996 &0000000000000034.00000034 Osaka, Japan Live event 0
28 Hiroyoshi Tenzan (2) and Masahiro Chono (3) 2 01996-07-16 July 16, 1996 &0000000000000172.000000172 Sapporo, Japan Live event 2
29 Kengo Kimura (4) and Tatsumi Fujinami (4) 4 01997-01-04 January 4, 1997 &0000000000000098.00000098 Tokyo, Japan Wrestling World (1997) 3
30 Kensuke Sasaki (5) and Riki Chōshū (3) 1 01997-04-12 April 12, 1997 &0000000000000021.00000021 Tokyo, Japan Live event 0
31 Manabu Nakanishi and Satoshi Kojima 1 01997-05-03 May 3, 1997 &0000000000000099.00000099 Osaka, Japan Live event 1
32 Kazuo Yamazaki (3) and Kensuke Sasaki (6) 1 01997-08-10 August 10, 1997 &0000000000000070.00000070 Nagoya, Japan The Four Heaven in Nagoya Dome 0
33 Keiji Mutoh (5) and Masahiro Chono (4) 2 01997-10-19 October 19, 1997 &0000000000000184.000000184 Kobe, Japan Live event 2 [20]
— Vacated — 01998-04-21 April 21, 1998 — N/A N/A — The title was vacated due to Mutoh having surgery on his knee.[20]
34 Hiroyoshi Tenzan (3) and Masahiro Chono (5) 3 01998-06-05 June 5, 1998 &0000000000000040.00000040 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 01998-07-15 July 15, 1998 &0000000000000173.000000173 Sapporo, Japan Live event 2
36 Hiroyoshi Tenzan (4) and Satoshi Kojima (2) 1 01999-01-04 January 4, 1999 &0000000000000077.00000077 Tokyo, Japan Wrestling World (1999) 1
37 Kensuke Sasaki (7) and Shiro Koshinaka 1 01999-03-22 March 22, 1999 &0000000000000097.00000097 Amagasaki, Japan Live event 2
38 Michiyoshi Ohara and Tatsutoshi Goto 1 01999-06-27 June 27, 1999 &0000000000000062.00000062 Shizuoka, Japan Live event 1
39 Manabu Nakanishi (2) and Yuji Nagata 1 01999-08-28 August 28, 1999 &0000000000000327.000000327 Shizuoka, Japan Live event 4
40 Hiroyoshi Tenzan (5) and Satoshi Kojima (3) 2 02000-07-20 July 20, 2000 &0000000000000430.000000430 Tokyo, Japan Live event 6
41 Osamu Nishimura and Tatsumi Fujinami (5) 1 02001-09-23 September 23, 2001 &0000000000000035.00000035 Osaka, Japan Live event 1
42 Keiji Mutoh (6) and Taiyō Kea 1 02001-10-28 October 28, 2001 &0000000000000097.00000097 Fukuoka, Japan Live event 0 [21]
— Vacated — 02002-02-02 February 2, 2002 — N/A N/A — The title was vacated due to Mutoh leaving NJPW.[21]
43 Hiroyoshi Tenzan (6) and Masahiro Chono (6) 4 02002-03-24 March 24, 2002 &0000000000000446.000000446 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 02003-06-13 June 13, 2003 &0000000000000184.000000184 Tokyo, Japan Live event 3
45 Hiroyoshi Tenzan (7) and Osamu Nishimura (2) 1 02003-12-14 December 14, 2003 &0000000000000049.00000049 Nagoya, Japan Live event 0
46 Minoru Suzuki and Yoshihiro Takayama 1 02004-02-01 February 1, 2004 &0000000000000294.000000294 Sapporo, Japan Live event 4
47 Hiroshi Tanahashi (2) and Shinsuke Nakamura 1 02004-12-11 December 11, 2004 &0000000000000323.000000323 Osaka, Japan Live event 4
48 Hiroyoshi Tenzan (8) and Masahiro Chono (7) 5 02005-10-30 October 30, 2005 &0000000000000325.000000325 Kobe, Japan Live event 3 [8]
— Vacated — 02006-09-20 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.[8]
49 Manabu Nakanishi (3) and Takao Ōmori 1 02006-09-28 September 28, 2006 &0000000000000164.000000164 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.[8] 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.[9]
50 Giant Bernard and Travis Tomko 1 02007-03-11 March 11, 2007 &0000000000000343.000000343 Nagoya, Japan Live event 5
51 Togi Makabe and Toru Yano
(The Most Violent Players)		 1 02008-02-17 February 17, 2008 &0000000000000322.000000322 Tokyo, Japan Live event 4
52 Brother Devon and Brother Ray
(Team 3D)		 1 02009-01-04 January 4, 2009 &0000000000000198.000000198 Tokyo, Japan Wrestle Kingdom III in the Tokyo Dome 4 [5][22]
53 Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams
(The British Invasion)		 1 02009-07-21 July 21, 2009 &0000000000000089.00000089 Orlando, Florida TNA Impact! 1 Team 3D were defeated by The British Invasion on July 21, 2009 at the taping of the July 30, 2009 episode of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's primary television program TNA Impact!.[11][23] NJPW initially did not recognize nor sanction the title defense and continued to recognize Team 3D as the official champions until August 10, 2009 when they recognized The British Invasion as the champions.[1][5][12]
54 Brother Devon and Brother Ray
(Team 3D)		 2 02009-10-18 October 18, 2009 &0000000000000075.00000075+ Irvine, California Bound for Glory (2009) 0 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.[24]

[edit] List of combined reigns

† Indicates the current champions

[edit] By team

Rank[N 4] Team # of reigns Combined days
1 Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Masahiro Chono 5 1,010
2 Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami 4 613
3 Hawk Warrior and Power Warrior
(The Hell Raisers)		 2 559
4 Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima 2 507
5 Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner
(The Steiner Brothers)		 2 378
6 Keiji Mutoh and Masahiro Chono 2 373
7 Giant Bernard and Travis Tomko 1 343
8 Junji Hirata and Shinya Hashimoto 1 335
9 Manabu Nakanishi and Yuji Nagata 1 327
10 Hiroshi Tanahashi and Shinsuke Nakamura 1 323
11 Togi Makabe and Toru Yano
(The Most Violent Players)		 1 322
12 Minoru Suzuki and Yoshihiro Takayama 1 294
13 Masa Saito and Riki Chōshū 1 282
14 Hiroshi Hase and Keiji Mutoh 2 279
15 Brother Devon and Brother Ray
(Team 3D)†		 2 273+
16 Masa Saito and Shinya Hashimoto 1 219
17 Hiroshi Tanahashi and Yutaka Yoshie 1 184
18 Genichiro Tenryu and Shiro Koshinaka 1 173
19 Manabu Nakanishi and Takao Ōmori 1 164
20 Akira Maeda and Nobuhiko Takada 1 159
21 Hercules Hernandez and Scott Norton
(The Jurassic Powers)		 1 152
22 Kazuo Yamazaki and Yoshiaki Fujiwara 1 139
23 Bam Bam Bigelow and Big Van Vader 1 117
24 George Takano and Super Strong Machine 1 116
25 Manabu Nakanishi and Satoshi Kojima 1 99
26 Kensuke Sasaki and Shiro Koshinaka 1 97
26 Keiji Mutoh and Taiyō Kea 1 97
28 Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams
(The British Invasion)		 1 89
29 Hiro Saito and Super Strong Machine 1 70
29 Kazuo Yamazaki and Kensuke Sasaki 1 70
29 Hiroshi Hase and Kensuke Sasaki 2 70
31 Riki Chōshū and Takayuki Iizuka 1 69
33 Michiyoshi Ohara and Tatsutoshi Goto 1 62
34 Akira Maeda and Osamu Kido 1 49
34 Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Osamu Nishimura 1 49
36 Osamu Nishimura and Tatsumi Fujinami 1 35
37 Kazuo Yamazaki and Takashi Iizuka 1 34
38 Scott Norton and Tony Halme 1 22
39 Kensuke Sasaki and Riki Chōshū 1 21
40 Keiji Mutoh and Shiro Koshinaka 1 6

[edit] By wrestler

Rank[N 4] Wrestler # of reigns Combined days
1 Hiroyoshi Tenzan 8 1,566
2 Masahiro Chono 7 1,383
3 Kensuke Sasaki/Power Warrior 7 816
4 Keiji Mutoh 6 755
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/Super Strong Machine 3 521
12 Hiroshi Tanahashi 2 507
13 Masa Saito 2 501
14 Rick Steiner 2 378
14 Scott Steiner 2 378
16 Riki Chōshū 3 372
17 Hiroshi Hase 4 348
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 Brother Devon† 2 273+
27 Brother Ray† 2 273+
29 Kazuo Yamazaki 3 243
30 Akira Maeda 2 208
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 Bam Bam Bigelow 1 117
38 Big Van Vader 1 117
40 George Takano 1 116
41 Takayuki/Takashi Iizuka 2 103
42 Taiyō Kea 1 97
43 Brutus Magnus 1 89
43 Doug Williams 1 89
45 Osamu Nishimura 2 84
46 Hiro Saito 1 70
47 Michiyoshi Ohara 1 62
47 Tatsutoshi Goto 1 62
49 Osamu Kido 1 49
50 Tony Halme 1 22

[edit] 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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