The was a professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the Wrestle-1 (W-1) promotion. The title was announced on September 22, 2014, in conjunction with the start of a tournament to crown the first Wrestle-1 Champion. In Japanese the title's name includes the katakana term for "championship", , derived from the English language instead of the more common kanji term .
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been eighteen reigns shared among sixteen teams and twenty one wrestlers.
History Championship tournament On September 22, 2014, during the second day of a tournament to determine the inaugural Wrestle-1 Champion, it was announced that Wrestle-1 would also be introducing its own tag team championship. Through Wrestle-1's relationship with American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), the promotion had previously presented a match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship. The first Wrestle-1 Tag Team Champions would be crowned in the "First Tag League Greatest" round-robin tournament taking place between November 15 and 30, 2014. The two blocks containing the ten participating teams were revealed on November 3. The teams were later given official team names on November 14. In the tournament, a win was worth two points, a draw one point and a loss zero points. The top two teams from each block advanced to the semifinals and the winners wrestled in the tournament final to determine the inaugural champions. On November 27, Seiki Yoshioka pulled out of the tournament with a knee injury, forcing his team to forfeit their final match in the tournament. On November 30, Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo) defeated the new Wild order (Akira and Manabu Soya) in the finals to win the tournament and become the inaugural Wrestle-1 Tag Team Champions.
+Final standings A B Wrestlers Score Wrestlers Score Masayuki Kono and Tajiri 8 Kai and Ryota Hama 6 Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo 6 Akira and Manabu Soya 5 Jiro Kuroshio and Masakatsu Funaki 4 Minoru Tanaka and Seiki Yoshioka 4 Taiyō Kea and Yasufumi Nakanoue 2 Hiroshi Yamato and Seiya Sanada 4 Mazada and Nosawa Rongai 0 Koji Doi and Yusuke Kodama 1
A KuroshioFunaki HayashiKondo KonoTajiri MazadaNosawa KeaNakanoue KuroshioFunaki X HayashiKondo(12:10) KonoTajiri(10:52) KuroshioFunaki(09:55) KuroshioFunaki(12:38) HayashiKondo HayashiKondo(12:10) X KonoTajiri(14:46) HayashiKondo(06:28) HayashiKondo(13:28) KonoTajiri KonoTajiri(10:52) KonoTajiri(14:46) X KonoTajiri(03:35) KonoTajiri(09:18) MazadaNosawa KuroshioFunaki(09:55) HayashiKondo(06:28) KonoTajiri(03:35) X KeaNakanoue(07:54) KeaNakanoue KuroshioFunaki(12:38) HayashiKondo(13:28) KonoTajiri(09:18) KeaNakanoue(07:54) X B AkiraSoya YamatoSanada KaiHama DoiKodama TanakaYoshioka AkiraSoya X Draw(30:00) KaiHama(16:22) AkiraSoya(09:52) AkiraSoya(14:46) YamatoSanada Draw(30:00) X YamatoSanada(17:08) Draw(30:00) TanakaYoshioka(15:50) KaiHama KaiHama(16:22) YamatoSanada(17:08) X KaiHama(12:05) KaiHama(forfeit) DoiKodama AkiraSoya(09:52) Draw(30:00) KaiHama(12:05) X TanakaYoshioka(10:20) TanakaYoshioka AkiraSoya(14:46) TanakaYoshioka(15:50) KaiHama(forfeit) TanakaYoshioka(10:20) X
Title history
Combined reigns As of , †Indicates the current champions
By team
RankTeamNo. ofreignsCombineddefensesCombineddaysEnfant Terribles4 and 5 and 6789 and 10Masayuki Kono and Alejandro82 and and Enfant Terriblesnew Wild order and Daiki Inaba and Koji Doi
By wrestler RankWrestlerNo. ofreignsCombineddefensesCombineddays 3Kumagoro/Kumaarashi456722389101113Alejandro82Daiki Inaba
See also World Tag Team Championship (AJPW) IWGP World Tag Team Championship GHC Tag Team Championship NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship
References
External links Official title history at W-1.co.jp Title history at Wrestling-Titles.com