IWGP Provisional Tag Team Championship

The IWGP Provisional Tag Team Championship was 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. 'IWGP' is an acronym of maximum NJPW entity, the International Wrestling Grand Prix. The title was introduced on July 2, 2006, An emergency team was created (known as the Provisional IWGP Tag Team Championship) when Tenzan and Chono showed signs of inactivity. When Shiro 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 Omori, 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.

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