BJW Tag Team Championship

The BJW Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW). It 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.

Title history[]

#	Tag Team (Individual Reigns)	Team Reigns	Date	Length	Location	Defenses	Notes
1	Takashi Ishikawa and Kengo Kimura	1	June 3, 1997	8 Days	Tokyo, Japan	0	Defeated Shoji Nakamaki and Takashi Okano in the finals of a five-team scramble tournament to become the first champions.
—	Vacated	—	June 11, 1997	—	—	—	Vacated due to Ishikawa and Kimura split up.
2	Yoshihiro Tajiri and Ryuji Yamakawa	1	July 23, 1997	152 Days	Tokyo, Japan	3	Defeated Takashi Ishikawa and Kishin Kawabata to win the vacant titles.
3	Gedo and Jado	1	December 22, 1997	11 Days	Isesaki, Japan	0	This match took place at a Fuyuki Army event.
4	Yoshihiro Tajiri (2) and Ryuji Yamakawa (2)	2	January 2, 1998	61 Days	Tokyo, Japan	0
5	Shadows Shadow Winger and Shadow WX	1	March 4, 1998	158 Days	Shimizu, Japan	4
6	Shoji Nakamaki and Ryuji Yamakawa (3)	1	August 9, 1998	112 Days	Kawasaki, Japan	2
—	Vacated	—	November 29, 1998	—	—	—	Vacated due to Nakamaki leaving BJW.
7	Tomoaki Honma and Shadow WX (2)	1	December 5, 1998	238 Days	Kanagawa, Japan	3	Defeated Jason the Terrible and Shadow Winger to win the vacant titles.
8	Mike Samples and Ryuji Yamakawa (4)	1	July 31, 1999	38 Days	Fukuoka, Japan	0
9	KAMIKAZE and Shunme Matsuzaki	1	September 7, 1999	122 Days	Imabari, Japan	3
10	Tomoaki Honma (2) and Ryuji Yamakawa (5)	1	January 7, 2000	147 Days	Osaka, Japan	0
11	CZW Warriors Nick Gage and John Zandig	1	June 2, 2000	8 Days	Nagaoka, Japan	0
12	CZW Warriors Justice Pain and Wifebeater	1	June 10, 2000	22 Days	Sewell, New Jersey	0
13	Shadow WX (3) and Ryuji Yamakawa (6)	1	July 2, 2000	75 Days	Tokyo, Japan	3
14	KAMIKAZE (2) and Abdullah Kobayashi	1	September 15, 2000	135 Days	Tokyo, Japan	2
15	Men's Club Daisuke Sekimoto and Men's Teioh	1	January 28, 2001	595 Days	Tokyo, Japan	9
16	Skinheads Daikokubo Benkei and Abdullah Kobayashi (2)	1	September 15, 2002	460 Days	Fukuoka, Japan	1
17	BADBOY Hido and Ryuji Ito	1	December 19, 2003	4 Days	Tokyo, Japan	0
18	Mr. Big Japan (7) and Men's Teioh (2)	1	December 23, 2003	236 Days	Tokyo, Japan	1	Mr. Big Japan was Previously known as Ryuji Yamakawa.
19	Skinheads Abdullah Kobayashi (3) and Jaki Numazawa	1	August 15, 2004	105 Days	Kawasaki, Japan	0
20	Akarangers GENTARO and Takashi Sasaki	1	November 28, 2004	289 Days	Chiba, Japan	1
—	Vacated	—	September 13, 2005	—	—	—	Vacated due to lack of title defenses.
21	Muscle and Fat Abdullah Kobayashi (4) and Daisuke Sekimoto (2)	1	October 14, 2005	105 Days	Tokyo, Japan	1	Defeated Jun Kasai and Jaki Numazawa to win the vacant titles.
22	Mammoth Sasaki and Shadow WX (4)	1	January 27, 2006	310 Days	Kawasaki, Japan	4
23	Daisuke Sekimoto (3) and Yoshihito Sasaki	1	December 3, 2006	455 Days	Yokohama, Japan	6
24	Kengo Mashimo and Madoka	1	March 2, 2008	133 Days	Tokyo, Japan	1
25	Mammoth Sasaki (2) and Daisuke Sekimoto (4)	1	July 13, 2008	237 Days	Yokohama, Japan	6
—	Vacated	—	September 13, 2008	—	—	—	Vacated due to Sasaki being injured in an automobile accident.
26	Isami Kodaka and Masashi Takeda	1	May 28, 2009	60 Days	Tokyo, Japan	0	Defeated Yuko Miyamoto and Takashi Sasaki in the finals of a Round-robin tournament final.
27	Strong BJ Yuji Okabayashi and Daisuke Sekimoto (5)	1	July 27, 2009	139 Days	Tokyo, Japan	2
28	Yoshihito Sasaki and Shinya Ishikawa	1	December 13 2009	31 Days	Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan	0
—	Vacated	—	January 13, 2010	—	—	—	Vacated due to Ishikawa being sidelined with a leg injury.
29	B Faultless Junky's Jun Kasai and Jaki Numazawa (2)	1	April 28, 2010	165 Days	Tokyo, Japan	2	Defeated Daisuke Sekimoto and Yoshihito Sasaki in a tournament final to win the vacant title.
30	Daisuke Sekimoto (6) and Yoshihito Sasaki (2)	2	October 10, 2010	43 Days	Sapporo, Japan	0
31	B Faultless Junky's Jun Kasai (2) and Jaki Numazawa (3)	2	November 22, 2010	69 Days	Tokyo, Japan	0
32	The Brahman Brothers Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei	1	January 30, 2011	13 Days	Nagoya, Japan	0
33	B Faultless Junky's Jun Kasai (3) and Jaki Numazawa (4)	3	February 12, 2011	82 Days	Tokyo, Japan	0
34	Yankii Nicho Kenju Isami Kodaka (2) and Yuko Miyamoto	1	May 5, 2011	332 Days	Yokohama, Japan	4
35	Shinobu and Yoshihito Sasaki (4)	1	April 1, 2012	33 Days	Sapporo, Japan	0
36	Shigehiro Irie and Shuji Ishikawa	1	May 4, 2012	72 Days	Tokyo, Japan	1	This match took place at a Union Pro Wrestling event.
37	Shinobu (2) and Yuji Okabayashi (2)	1	July 15, 2012	132 Days	Sapporo, Japan	2
38	Yankii Nicho Kenju Isami Kodaka (3) and Yuko Miyamoto (2)	2	November 24, 2012	553 Days	Tokyo, Japan	17
39	Twin Towers Kohei Sato and Shuji Ishikawa (2)	1	May 31, 2014	516 Days	Tokyo, Japan	7
40	Strong BJ Yuji Okabayashi (3) and Daisuke Sekimoto (7)	2	October 29, 2015	62 Days	Tokyo, Japan	0	Defeated Twin Towers (Kohei Sato and Shuji Ishikawa) in the finals of the 2015 Saikyo Tag League to win the vacant titles.
41	Hamakami Hideyoshi Kamitani and Ryota Hama	1	December 30, 2015	152 Days	Tokyo, Japan	0
42	Twin Towers Kohei Sato (2) and Shuji Ishikawa (3)	2	May 30, 2016	217 Days	Tokyo, Japan	3
43	Strong BJ Yuji Okabayashi (4) and Daisuke Sekimoto (8)	3	January 2, 2017	196 Days	Tokyo, Japan	4
44	Abdullah Kobayashi (5) and Ryuji Ito (2)	1	July 17, 2017	186 Days	Tokyo, Japan	3
45	B Faultless Junky's Masashi Takeda (2) and Takumi Tsukamoto	1	January 25, 2018	70 Days	Tokyo, Japan	1
46	Yankii Nicho Kenju Isami Kodaka (4) and Yuko Miyamoto (3)	3	April 5, 2018	203 Days	Tokyo, Japan	3
47	Yasufumi Nakanoue and Ryota Hama (2)	1	October 25, 2018	269 Days	Tokyo, Japan	5
48	Daisuke Sekimoto (9) and The Bodyguard	1	July 21, 2019	134 Days	Osaka, Japan	0
—	Vacated	—	December 2, 2019	—	—	—	Vacated due to injury.
49	Daisuke Sekimoto (10) and Kohei Sato (3)	1	December 18, 2019	236 Days	Yokohama, Japan	3	Defeated Ryuichi Kawakami and Kazumi Kikuta in a decision match to win the titles.
50	Astronauts Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura	1	August 10, 2020	174 Days	Tokyo, Japan	5
51	Kazumi Kikuta and Ryuichi Kawakami	1	January 31, 2021	23 Days	Tokyo, Japan	0
52	Astronauts Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura	2	February 23, 2021	196 Days	Tokyo, Japan	3
53	Okami Hideyoshi Kamitani (2) and Daichi Hashimoto	1	August 15, 2021	62 Days	Tokyo, Japan	2
54	Strong BJ Yuji Okabayashi (5) and Daisuke Sekimoto (11)	4	October 16, 2021	9 Days	Nankoku, Kochi, Japan	0
55	Okami Hideyoshi Kamitani (3) and Daichi Hashimoto (2)	2	October 25, 2021	8 Days	Tokyo, Japan	0
56	Strong BJ Yuji Okabayashi (6) and Daisuke Sekimoto (12)	5	November 2, 2021	124 Days	Hiroshima, Japan	2
57	Okami Hideyoshi Kamitani (4) and Daichi Hashimoto (3)	3	March 6, 2022	60 Days	Tokyo, Japan	2
58	Astronauts Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura	3	May 5, 2022	1080+	Yokohama, Japan	3

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