- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship 
Jushin Liger, who has held the championship five timesDetails Current champion(s) No Remorse Corps (Davey Richards and Rocky Romero) Date won October 10, 2011 Promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) Date established August 8, 1998 Other name(s) - IWGP Junior Tag Team Championship
Statistics Most reigns Jushin Liger; Minoru; Prince Devitt (Individual, 5 reigns)
Gedo and Jado (Team, 4 reigns)First champion(s) Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa Longest reign Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa (second reign, 348 days) Shortest reign Minoru and Prince Devitt (first reign, 21 days) The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. "IWGP" is the acronym of NJPW's governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix. The title was introduced on August 8, 1998 at a NJPW live event.[1] The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is not the only tag team title contested for in NJPW; the IWGP Tag Team Championship is also sanctioned by NJPW.[2] According to NJPW's official website, the Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is listed as an "IWGP Jr. Tag Class", while the IWGP Tag Team Championship is considered an "IWGP Heavy Weight Class".[2] The title is contested for by junior heavyweight wrestlers; the weight-limit for the title is 220 lb (100 kg) per partner.[3] Being a professional wrestling championship, the title is won as a result of a predetermined outcome.
Title changes happen mostly at NJPW-promoted events. The inaugural champions were Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa, who defeated Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Koji Kanemoto on August 8, 1998 in the finals of a tournament. Jushin Liger, Minoru and Prince Devitt are currently tied for the record of most reigns by an individual wrestler, with five. At four reigns, the team of Gedo and Jado hold the record for the most by a team. Gedo and Jado's combined four reign lengths add up to 960 days—the most of any team. Separately, Gedo and Jado are tied for most days as champion. NJPW keep track of all championship title defenses per reign, which is unlike most mainstream wrestling organizations. They also hold the most total defenses as champions, with 15. Gedo and Jado separately are tied for the record of total defenses by a single wrestler. Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) hold the record for most defenses during a single reign, with 7. Liger and The Great Sasuke's only reign and Minoru and Prince Devitt's first reign share the record for the fewest successful defenses, with zero. At 348 days, Otani and Takaiwa's second reign is the longest in the title's history. Minoru and Prince Devitt's first reign is the shortest, at 21 days. Overall, there have been 29 reigns shared among 30 wrestlers, who made up 22 different teams.
The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin), a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) tag team, defeated then-reigning champions No Limit (Tetsuya Naitō and Yujiro) on January 4, 2009 at Wrestle Kingdom III. Their reign lasted until July 5, 2009, when they were defeated by Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) at a live event. During that time, they had three successful defenses; two were held by TNA due to a pre-existing relationship and an agreement with NJPW.[4] Their first defense in TNA, a rematch against No Limit, occurred on March 31, 2009 at the tapings of their weekly television program TNA Impact!.[5] On April 19, 2009, they made their second, and last, defense in TNA at the Lockdown pay-per-view event in a Three Way Tornado Tag Team Six Sides of Steel cage match against No Limit and The Latin American Xchange (Hernandez and Homicide).[6] The current champions are the No Remorse Corps (Davey Richards and Rocky Romero), who are in their first reign both individually and collectively.
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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
heldLocation Event Successful defenses Notes 1 Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa 1 August 8, 1998 149 Osaka, Japan Live event 2 Otani and Takaiwa defeated Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Koji Kanemoto in a tournament final to become the first champions.[1] 2 Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Kendo Kashin 1 January 4, 1999 96 Tokyo, Japan Wrestling World 2 3 Jushin Liger and The Great Sasuke 1 April 10, 1999 94 Tokyo, Japan Live event 0 4 Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa 2 July 13, 1999 348 Morioka, Japan Live event 4 5 Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka 1 June 25, 2000 254 Tokyo, Japan Live event 3 6 El Samurai and Jushin Liger (2) 1 March 6, 2001 136 Tokyo, Japan Live event 1 7 Gedo and Jado 1 July 20, 2001 286 Sapporo, Japan Live event 6 8 Jushin Liger (3) and Minoru Tanaka (2) 1 May 2, 2002 119 Tokyo, Japan New Japan Pro Wrestling's 30th Anniversary 1 9 Tsuyoshi Kikuchi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru 1 August 29, 2002 150 Tokyo, Japan Live event 4 10 Jushin Liger (4) and Koji Kanemoto (2) 1 January 26, 2003 282 Kobe, Japan Live event 6 [7][8] — Vacated — November 4, 2003 — N/A N/A — The championship was vacated due to Kanemoto fracturing his left cheekbone.[7] 11 Gedo and Jado 2 November 29, 2003 104 Miyagi, Japan Live event 2 Gedo and Jado defeated Hirooki Goto and Ryusuke Taguchi to win the vacant championship.[9] 12 American Dragon and Curry Man 1 March 12, 2004 85 Tokyo, Japan Live event 1 [10] 13 Gedo and Jado 3 June 5, 2004 272 Osaka, Japan Live event 5 14 Koji Kanemoto (3) and Wataru Inoue 1 March 4, 2005 71 Tokyo, Japan Live event 2 15 Hirooki Goto and Minoru (3) 1 May 14, 2005 281 Tokyo, Japan Live event 2 16 El Samurai (2) and Ryusuke Taguchi 1 February 19, 2006 139 Tokyo, Japan Live event 2 17 Gedo and Jado 4 July 8, 2006 298 Shizuoka, Japan Live event 2 18 Dick Togo and Taka Michinoku 1 May 2, 2007 270 Tokyo, Japan Live event 3 19 Minoru (4) and Prince Devitt 1 January 27, 2008 21 Tokyo, Japan Live event 0 20 Akira and Jushin Liger (5)
(Legend)1 February 17, 2008 155 Tokyo, Japan Live event 1 21 Minoru (5) and Prince Devitt (2) 2 July 21, 2008 84 Sapporo, Japan Live event 1 22 Tetsuya Naitō and Yujiro
(No Limit)1 October 13, 2008 83 Tokyo, Japan Live event 1 23 Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin
(The Motor City Machine Guns)1 January 4, 2009 182 Tokyo, Japan Wrestle Kingdom III in Tokyo Dome 3 The Motor City Machine Guns defended the championship twice in the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion during their reign, as part of an agreement between TNA and NJPW.[11] 24 Prince Devitt (3) and Ryusuke Taguchi (2)
(Apollo 55)1 July 5, 2009 290 Tokyo, Japan Live event 5 [12] — Vacated — April 21, 2010 — N/A N/A — Title held up after the championship was not defended for 30 days.[13] 25 El Samurai (3) and Koji Kanemoto (4) 1 May 8, 2010 72 Tokyo, Japan Super J Tag Tournament 1st 0 El Samurai and Kanemoto defeated Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) in the finals of an eight team tournament to win the vacant title. 26 Prince Devitt (4) and Ryusuke Taguchi (3)
(Apollo 55)2 July 19, 2010 84 Sapporo, Japan Live event 1 27 Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi
(Golden Lovers)1 October 11, 2010 104 Tokyo, Japan Destruction '10 2 28 Prince Devitt (5) and Ryusuke Taguchi (4)
(Apollo 55)3 January 23, 2011 260 Tokyo, Japan Fantasticamania 2011 7 29 Davey Richards and Rocky Romero
(No Remorse Corps)1 October 10, 2011 44+ Tokyo, Japan Destruction '11 1 List of combined reigns
Symbol Meaning † Indicates the current champions By team
Rank[N 1] Team # of reigns Combined defenses Combined days 1 Gedo and Jado 4 15 960 2 Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi
(Apollo 55)3 13 634 3 Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa 2 6 497 4 Jushin Liger and Koji Kanemoto 1 6 282 5 Hirooki Goto and Minoru 1 2 281 6 Dick Togo and Taka Michinoku 1 3 270 7 Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka 1 3 254 8 Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin
(The Motor City Machine Guns)1 3 182 9 Akira and Jushin Liger
(Legend)1 1 155 10 Tsuyoshi Kikuchi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru 1 4 150 11 El Samurai and Ryusuke Taguchi 1 2 139 12 El Samurai and Jushin Liger 1 1 136 13 Jushin Liger and Minoru Tanaka 1 1 119 14 Minoru and Prince Devitt 2 1 105 15 Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi
(Golden Lovers)1 2 104 16 Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Kendo Kashin 1 2 96 17 Jushin Liger and The Great Sasuke 1 0 94 18 American Dragon and Curry Man 1 1 85 19 Tetsuya Naitō and Yujiro
(No Limit)1 1 83 20 El Samurai and Koji Kanemoto 1 0 72 21 Koji Kanemoto and Wataru Inoue 1 2 71 22 Davey Richards and Rocky Romero
(No Remorse Corps)1 1 44+ By wrestler
Rank[N 1] Wrestler # of reigns Combined defenses Combined days 1 Gedo 4 15 960 1 Jado 4 15 960 3 Jushin Liger 5 9 786 4 Ryusuke Taguchi 4 14 773 5 Minoru 5 7 759 6 Prince Devitt 5 13 739 7 Koji Kanemoto 4 11 679 8 Shinjiro Otani 2 6 497 8 Tatsuhito Takaiwa 2 6 497 10 El Samurai 3 3 347 11 Hirooki Goto 1 2 281 12 Dick Togo 1 3 270 12 Taka Michinoku 1 3 270 14 Alex Shelley 1 3 182 14 Chris Sabin 1 3 182 16 Akira 1 1 155 17 Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 1 4 150 17 Yoshinobu Kanemaru 1 4 150 19 Kenny Omega 1 2 104 19 Kota Ibushi 1 2 104 21 Dr. Wagner, Jr. 1 2 96 21 Kendo Kashin 1 2 96 23 The Great Sasuke 1 0 94 24 American Dragon 1 1 85 24 Curry Man 1 1 85 26 Tetsuya Naitō 1 1 83 26 Yujiro 1 1 83 28 Wataru Inoue 1 2 71 29 Davey Richards 1 1 44+ 29 Rocky Romero 1 1 44+ Footnotes
References
- General
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- "IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship history" (in Japanese). New Japan Pro Wrestling. NJPW.co.jp. http://www.njpw.co.jp/data/list_category.php?cat=4. Retrieved 2010-12-23.
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- Specific
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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa · Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Kendo Kashin · Jushin Liger and Great Sasuke · Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka · El Samurai and Jushin Liger · Gedo and Jado · Jushin Liger and Minoru Tanaka · Tsuyoshi Kikuchi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru · Jushin Liger and Koji Kanemoto · American Dragon and Curry Man · Koji Kanemoto and Wataru Inoue · Hirooki Goto and Minoru · El Samurai and Ryusuke Taguchi · Dick Togo and Taka Michinoku · Minoru and Prince Devitt · Legend (Akira and Jushin Liger) · No Limit (Tetsuya Naitō and Yujiro) · The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) · Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) · El Samurai and Koji Kanemoto · Golden Lovers (Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi) · No Remorse Corps (Davey Richards and Rocky Romero) (current)New Japan Pro Wrestling Championships Active IWGP Heavyweight (reigns) · IWGP Junior Heavyweight (reigns) · IWGP Tag Team (reigns) · IWGP Junior Tag Team (reigns) · IWGP Intercontinental (reigns)Inactive IWGP U-30 (reigns) · NWA International Junior Heavyweight (reigns) · NWA World Junior Heavyweight (reigns) · NWF Heavyweight (reigns) · NWF North American Heavyweight (reigns) · NWA North American Tag Team (reigns) · UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight (reigns) · WWF International Heavyweight (reigns) · WWF International Tag Team (reigns) · WWF Junior Heavyweight (reigns) · WWF World Martial Arts Heavyweight (reigns)Tournaments Miscellaneous Categories:- New Japan Pro Wrestling championships
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