The is a professional wrestling tag team title in Japanese promotion All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). Originally, it was the top tag team title in the JWA, but its status became secondary once the NWA International Tag Team Championship was brought from the United States. It is currently one of two tag team titles in AJPW, along with the World Tag Team Championship. It is also the current oldest active title in Japan.
The titles are currently vacant.
History The title was created on November 16, 1955, in the Japan Wrestling Association (JWA) when King Kong Czaya and Tiger Joginder Singh defeated JWA founder Rikidōzan and Harold Sakata in a tournament final. It was abandoned in 1973 when the JWA closed, but was later revived in 1976 by AJPW in response to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) announcing the creation of its own version of the title.
Reigns There have been a total of 132 official reigns and 34 vacancies, with the first 27 reigns from the JWA also being recognized by AJPW. There have been a total of 98 teams consisting of 118 distinctive champions who have won the championship. The current champions are Atsuki Aoyagi and Rising Hayato who are in their first reign as a team.
Combined reigns As of , . †Indicates the current champion¤The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used.
By team RankTeamNo. ofreignsCombineddefensesCombined days1 King Kong Czaya and Tiger Joginder Singh 1 ¤N/A ¤1,6602 Rikidōzan and Toyonobori 4 0 1,1233 Jun Akiyama and Takao Omori 1 12 1,0764 The Great Kojika and Motoshi Okuma 4 9 1,0565 The Can-Am Express 5 10 1,0096 Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura 3 4 9827 Takashi Ishikawa and Akio Sato 2 4 6638 Mighty Inoue and Takashi Ishikawa 2 3 5879 Footloose/Revolution 3 7 58010 Giant Baba and Toyonobori 2 ¤N/A 54411 Kintarō Ōki and Michiaki Yoshimura 3 6 ¤47812 Katsuhiko Nakajima and Kensuke Sasaki 1 3 46013 Arashi and Nobutaka Araya 1 3 43314 Seiji Sakaguchi and Michiaki Yoshimura 1 1 41515 Yankii Nichokenju/Yankee Two Kenju 2 9 39716 Purple Haze 1 6 38817 Super Generation Army 1 3 37318 Ashura Hara and Mighty Inoue 1 8 36819 Strong BJ 2 8 34220 New Generation Force/es 2 3 33021Nextream 2 8 32922Sweeper 2 4 32423S.M.O.P 2 3 28324Burning 1 4 27625 Wolf Hawkfield and Johnny Smith 1 3 27026 Minoru Suzuki and Nosawa Rongai 1 2 26327 Ashura Hara and Takashi Ishikawa 1 0 24928 ELPIDA 1 6 24529 Samson Kutsuwada and Akihisa Takachiho 1 2 23830 Tamon Honda and Masao Inoue 1 3 23531 Atsushi Onita and Yoshitatsu 1 5 22632 Musashi and Seiki Yoshioka 2 6 21833 Último Dragón and Yoshinobu Kanemaru 1 1 20634 Atsushi Onita and Masanobu Fuchi 1 1 20535Evolution 2 6 19436 Total Eclipse 1 6 19337 Jun Akiyama and Yuji Nagata 1 2 17638 Junior Stars 2 3 17139 Masanobu Fuchi and Genichiro Tenryu 1 3 16540 Johnny Ace and Kenta Kobashi 2 2 ¤157-18441 Antonio Inoki and Kintarō Ōki 1 ¤N/A 15042 The Great Kosuke and Shiryu 1 4 14143 Xceed 1 1 14044 Tamon Honda and Jun Izumida 1 1 13045 Evolution 2 2 128 Arashi and Koki Kitahara 1 2 12847 and Michiaki Yoshimura 1 ¤N/A 12748 Voodoo Murders 1 1 12249 StrongHearts 1 2 11750 RO&D 1 0 11451 Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki 1 1 11152 Team Dream Futures 1 4 10953 Animal Hamaguchi and Mighty Inoue 1 4 10854 The Eagle and The Patriot 1 1 9955 Burning 1 3 9356 Atsuki Aoyagi and Yuma Aoyagi 1 0 9257 Mitsuya Nagai and Masayuki Naruse 1 2 91 Don Fujii and Masaaki Mochizuki 1 1 9159 Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura 1 ¤N/A 8460 Rowdy 1 3 8361 No Fear 1 0 8262 Dark Kingdom 1 1 7863 Atsushi Onita and Toy Kojima 1 0 7664 Eruption 1 1 7265 Voodoo Murders 1 2 6666 Kintaro Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda 1 2 6567 Masahito Kakihara and Mitsuya Nagai 1 0 ¤54-8368 Atsuki Aoyagi and Rising Hayato 1 1 4969 The Great Kojika and Gentetsu Matsuoka 1 0 4870 Burning 1 1 46 Genki Horiguchi and Yasushi Kanda 1 0 4672 Ryuichi Kawakami and Kazumi Kikuta 1 1 4473 The Destroyer and Billy Red Lyons 1 ¤N/A 4274 Kenta Kobashi and Tiger Mask 1 0 3875 Shuji Kondo and "brother" Yasshi 1 1 3776 Black Tiger VII and Taka Michinoku 1 0 3477 Gajadokuro 2 0 32 Kendo Kashin and Nosawa Rongai 1 0 3279 Hiro Matsuda and Michiaki Yoshimura 1 1 3080 Tajiri and Yoshitatsu 1 1 2881 Buddy Austin and Mike Sharpe 1 0 27 Masao Inoue and Takao Omori 1 0 2783 Klondike Bill and Skull Murphy 1 0 2284 The Oates Brothers 1 0 19 The Von Erichs 1 0 1986 Calypso Hurricane and Gene Kiniski 1 ¤N/A 15 Jonetsu Hentai Baka 1 0 1588 Shinichi Nagano and Akira Taue 1 0 14 The British Bruisers 1 0 1490 Luther Lindsay and Ricky Waldo 1 0 1291 Gungnir Of Anarchy 1 0 1092 Billy Black and Joel Deaton 1 0 8 Mr. Gannosuke and Tetsuhiro Kuroda 1 0 894 Shinichi Nagano and Shunji Takano 1 0 695 Dan Miller and Frank Valois 1 0 596 Eddie Graham and Killer Karl Kox 1 ¤N/A 497 Joe Carollo and Killer Karl Kox 1 ¤N/A 298 Untouchables 1 0 <1
By wrestler *Combined defense statistics might be inaccurate in the case of the 1960s and 1970s when the titles were rarely defended or the documentation about title matches were uncertain. RankWrestlerNo. ofreignsCombineddefensesCombined days1 Michiaki Yoshimura 10 12 2,1162 Toyonobori 7 ¤N/A 1,7513 Takashi Ishikawa 5 7 1,4994 Jun Akiyama 4 18 1,3915 Takao Omori 3 12 1,1856 Antonio Inoki 4 4 1,1327 Rikidōzan 4 ¤N/A 1,1238 The Great Kojika 4 4 1,1049 Motoshi Okuma 4 9 1,05610 Mighty Inoue 4 15 1,03811 Doug Furnas 5 12 1,009 Dan Kroffat 5 12 1,00913 Giant Baba 3 0 67114 Akio Sato 2 4 66315 Kenta Kobashi 4 5 63216 Kintarō Ōki 4 6 62817 Ashura Hara 2 8 59218 Samson Fuyuki 3 7 580 Toshiaki Kawada 3 7 58020 Arashi 2 5 56121 Atsushi Onita 3 6 50722 Atsushi Aoki 3 10 47023 Kotaro Suzuki 3 6 46224 Katsuhiko Nakajima 1 3 460 Kensuke Sasaki 1 3 46026 Nobutaka Araya 1 3 43327 Yuma Aoyagi 3 8 42128 Seiji Sakaguchi 1 1 41529 Isami Kodaka 2 9 397 Yuko Miyamoto 2 9 39731 Zeus 1 6 388 Izanagi 1 6 38833 Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 1 3 37334 Masanobu Fuchi 2 4 37035 Tamon Honda 2 4 36536 Yuji Okabayashi 2 8 342 Daisuke Sekimoto 2 8 34238 Hikaru Sato 5 10 33739 Seiya Sanada 2 3 330 Manabu Soya 2 3 33041 Nosawa Rongai/Black Tiger VII 3 2 329 Naoya Nomura 2 8 32943 Jake Lee 2 4 324 Koji Iwamoto 2 4 32445 Yoshinobu Kanemaru 2 4 29946 Rising Hayato 2 7 29447 Johnny Smith 2 3 28448 Akebono 2 3 283 Ryota Hama 2 3 28350 Wolf Hawkfield 1 3 27051 Minoru Suzuki 1 2 26352 Masao Inoue 2 3 26253 Yoshitatsu 2 6 25454 Yuma Anzai 1 6 24555 Samson Kutsuwada 1 2 238 Akihisa Takachiho 1 2 23857 Minoru/Minoru Tanaka 3 5 23758 Mitsuya Nagai 3 3 22359 Johnny Ace 2 2 22160 Musashi 2 6 218 Seiki Yoshioka 2 6 21862 Último Dragón 1 1 20663 Yusuke Kodama 2 6 20364 Hokuto Omori 1 6 19365 Yuji Nagata 1 2 17666 Koji Kanemoto 2 3 17167 Genichiro Tenryu 1 3 16568 The Great Kosuke 1 4 141 Shiryu 1 4 141 Atsuki Aoyagi 2 1 14171 Kento Miyahara 1 1 14072 Jun Izumida 1 1 13073 Dan Tamura 2 2 128 Koki Kitahara 1 1 12875 Big Daddy Voodoo 1 1 122 Taru 1 1 12277 El Lindaman 1 2 117 T-Hawk 1 2 11779 Buchanan 1 0 114 Rico 1 0 11481 Hayabusa 1 1 111 Jinsei Shinzaki 1 1 11183 Shigehiro Irie 1 4 109 Keisuke Ishii 1 4 10985 Animal Hamaguchi 1 4 10886 Don Fujii 1 1 91 Masaaki Mochizuki 1 1 9188 Takeshi Minamino 1 1 7889 Toy Kojima 1 0 7690 Hideki Okatani 1 1 72 Yukio Sakaguchi 1 1 7292 Toshizo 1 2 6693 Genki Horiguchi 1 0 46 Yasushi Kanda 1 0 4695 Ryuichi Kawakami 1 1 44 Kazumi Kikuta 1 1 4497 Billy Red Lyons 1 ¤N/A 42 The Destroyer 1 ¤N/A 4299 Tiger Mask II/Mitsuharu Misawa 2 0 38100 Taka Michinoku 1 0 34101 Ishin 2 0 32 Yoshiki Kato 2 0 32 Kendo Kashin 1 0 32104 Tajiri 1 1 28105 Buddy Austin 1 0 27 Mike Sharpe 1 0 27107 Jerry Oates 1 0 19 Ted Oates 1 0 19 David Von Erich 1 0 19 Kerry Von Erich 1 0 19111 Calypso Hurricane 1 ¤N/A 15 Gene Kiniski 1 ¤N/A 15113 Luther Lindsay 1 0 12 Ricky Waldo 1 0 12115 Masao Hanahata 1 0 10116Killer Karl Kox 2 ¤N/A 6117 Dan Miller 1 0 5 Frank Valois 1 0 5119 Eddie Graham 1 ¤N/A 4120 Joe Carollo 1 ¤N/A 2
Notes
See also
Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship World Tag Team Championship World Junior Heavyweight Championship
References
External links Title history at All-Japan.co.jp Title history at Wrestling-Titles.com