The is the top tag team title defended in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Big Japan Pro Wrestling. The championship has been the leading tag team championship in the promotion since 1997. There have been a total of 66 reigns shared between 49 different teams consisting of 59 distinctive champions. The current champions are Kazumi Kikuta and Toru Sugiura who are in their first reign as a team.

Title history The title was created on June 3, 1997, when Takashi Ishikawa and Kengo Kimura defeated Shoji Nakamaki and Takashi Okano in the finals of a five-team scramble tournament to become the first champions. The championship has been the leading tag team championship in the promotion since 1997. The title matches are done with normal rules, but they also can be done by deathmatches. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result of a scripted match. Title changes usually happen at BJW-promoted events; although the title has only changed hands twice at a non-BJW event, it has been defended in several other promotions like Combat Zone Wrestling and Fuyuki Army.

Combined reigns As of , . †Indicates the current champion

By team

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center" !Rank !Team !No. ofreigns !Combineddefenses !Combineddays |- !1 |Yankee Nichōkenjū || 3 || 24 || 992 |- !2 | Astronauts || 3 || 18 || 951 |- !3 | Twin Towers || 2 || 10 || 733 |- !4 | Men's Club || 1 || 9 || 595 |- !5 | Strong BJ || 5 || 8 || 530 |- !6 | Daisuke Sekimoto and Yoshihito Sasaki || 2 || 6 || 498 |- !7 | Skinheaders || 1 || 1 || 460 |- !8 | 045 Junkie's || 3 || 2 || 316 |- !9 | Team Anko-gata || 1 || 4 || 310 |- !10 | Akarangers || 1 || 1 || 289 |- !11 | Ryota Hama and Yasufumi Nakanoue || 1 || 5 || 269 |- !12 | style="background-color:#FFE6BD"| Kazumi Kikuta and Toru Sugiura † || 1 || 5 || + |- !13 | Shadow WX and Tomoaki Honma || 1 || 3 || 238 |- !14 | Mammoth Sasaki and Daisuke Sekimoto || 1 || 6 || 237 |- !rowspan=2|15 | Daisuke Sekimoto and Kohei Sato || 1 || 3 || 236 |- | Men's Teioh and Mr. Big Japan || 1 || 1 || 236 |- !17 | Crazy Lovers || 2 || 3 || 232 |- !18 | Yoshihiro Tajiri and Ryuji Yamakawa || 2 || 3 || 213 |- !19 | Baka Gaijin || 2 || 2 || 210 |- !20 | Abdullah Kobayashi and Ryuji Ito || 1 || 3 || 192 |- !21 | Kankuro Hoshino and Ryuji Ito || 1 || 3 || 191 |- !22 | Shadows || 1 || 4 || 158 |- !23 | Hamakami || 1 || 0 || 152 |- !24 | Ryuji Yamakawa and Tomoaki Honma || 1 || 0 || 147 |- !25 | Kamikaze and Abdullah Kobayashi || 1 || 2 || 135 |- !26 | Daisuke Sekimoto and The Bodyguard || 1 || 1 || 134 |- !27 | Kengo Mashimo and Madoka || 1 || 1 || 133 |- !28 | Yuji Okabayashi and Shinobu || 1 || 2 || 132 |- !29 | Okami || 3 || 4 || 130 |- !30 | Kamikaze and Shunme Matsuzaki || 1 || 3 || 122 |- !31 | Shoji Nakamaki and Ryuji Yamakawa || 1 || 2 || 112 |- !rowspan=2|32 | Abdullah Kobayashi and Daisuke Sekimoto || 1 || 1 || 105 |- | Skinheaders || 1 || 0 || 105 |- !34 | Masaya Takahashi and Sagat || 1 || 2 || 78 |- !35 | Shadow WX and Ryuji Yamakawa || 1 || 3 || 75 |- !36 | Shuji Ishikawa and Shigehiro Irie || 1 || 1 || 72 |- !37 | Hideyoshi Kamitani and Isami Kodaka || 1 || 1 || 64 |- !38 | Masashi Takeda and Isami Kodaka || 1 || 0 || 60 |- !39 | Ryuji Yamakawa and Mike Samples || 1 || 0 || 38 |- !40 | Yoshihito Sasaki and Shinobu || 1 || 0 || 33 |- !41 | Yoshihito Sasaki and Shinya Ishikawa || 1 || 0 || 31 |- !42 | Kazumi Kikuta and Ryuichi Kawakami || 1 || 0 || 23 |- !43 | Wifebeater and Justice Pain || 1 || 0 || 22 |- !44 | W-Daichan || 1 || 1 || 17 |- !45 | The Brahman Brothers || 1 || 0 || 13 |- !46 | Jado Jado and Gedo Gedo || 1 || 0 || 11 |- !rowspan=2|47 | Kengo Kimura and Takashi Ishikawa || 1 || 0 || 8 |- | Zandig and Nick Gage || 1 || 0 || 8 |- !49 | Ryuji Ito and Badboy Hido || 1 || 0 || 4

By wrestler

RankWrestlerNo. ofreignsCombineddefensesCombineddays1 Daisuke Sekimoto 13 35 2,3522 Isami Kodaka 5 25 1,1163 Abdullah Kobayashi 5 7 9974 Yuko Miyamoto 3 24 9925 Kohei Sato 3 13 9736 Fuminori Abe 3 18 951 Takuya Nomura 3 18 9518 Men's Teioh 2 10 8319 Ryuji Yamakawa/Mr. Big Japan 7 9 82110 Shuji Ishikawa 3 11 80511 Shadow WX 4 14 78112 Yuji Okabayashi 6 10 66213Yoshihito Sasaki 4 6 56214Mammoth Sasaki 2 10 54715Daikokubo Benkei 1 1 46016"Black Angel" Jaki Numazawa 4 2 421Ryota Hama 2 2 42118 Ryuji Ito 3 6 38719Tomoaki Honma 2 3 38520 Hideyoshi Kamitani 5 5 34621Jun Kasai 3 2 31622Masashi Takeda 3 3 29223Gentaro 1 1 289Takashi Sasaki 1 1 28925 Kazumi Kikuta † 2 5 +26Yasufumi Nakanoue 1 2 26927Kamikaze 2 5 25728 Toru Sugiura † 1 5 +29 Takumi Tsukamoto 2 3 23230Yoshihiro Tajiri 2 3 21331 Dale Patricks 2 2 210 Madman Pondo 2 2 21033 Kankuro Hoshino 1 3 19134Shinobu 2 2 16535 Shadow Winger 1 4 15836The Bodyguard 1 1 13437Kengo Mashimo 1 1 133Madoka 1 1 13339 Daichi Hashimoto 3 4 13040Shunme Matsuzaki 1 3 12241Shoji Nakamaki 1 2 11242 Masaya Takahashi 1 2 78 Sagat 1 2 7844 Shigehiro Irie 1 1 7245 Mike Samples 1 0 3846 Shinya Ishikawa 1 0 3147Ryuichi Kawakami 1 0 2348Justice Pain 1 0 22Wifebeater 1 0 2250 So Daimonji 1 1 1751Brahman Kei 1 0 13Brahman Shu 1 0 1353Gedo 1 0 11Jado 1 0 1154Zandig 1 0 8Kengo Kimura 1 0 8Nick Gage 1 0 8Takashi Ishikawa 1 0 859Badboy Hido 1 0 4

See also

Professional wrestling in Japan

References

External links Official BJW Tag Team Championship Title History BJW Tag Team Championship at Cagematch.net