The GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (GHCジュニアヘビー級タッグ王座 GHC Junia hebī-kyū Taggu Ōza) is the secondary tag team championship in the Pro Wrestling NOAH (NOAH) promotion. that is contested in the junior heavyweight division. "GHC" is the acronym of NOAH's governing body, the Global Honored Crown. The title was created on July 16, 2003, when Naomichi Marufuji and KENTA defeated Jushin Thunder Liger and Takehiro Murahama in a tournament final. The GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is not the only tag team title contested for in NOAH; the GHC Tag Team Championship is also sanctioned by NOAH. The title is contested by junior heavyweight wrestlers; the weight limit for the title is 100 kg (220 lb) per partner. All GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title matches and contract signings were overseen and introduced by NOAH title commissioner Joe Higuchi until his death in October 2010 until he was replaced by Harley Race.
Overview[]
The title has been held and defended by teams outside NOAH, including New Japan Pro Wrestling, Dragon Gate, and Ring Of Honor, and also defended in these promotions. Title changes happen mostly at NOAH-promoted events. Minoru Fujita and Ikuto Hidaka, a Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1) tag team, defeated then-reigning champions Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Takashi Sugiura on March 5, 2006 at Navigate For Evolution 2006: Haruka Eigen Goodbye Tour on the tenth day. Their reign lasted until August 13, 2006, when they lost the titles back to Kanemaru and Sugiura at the NOAH Navigation. During that time, they had two successful defenses; held by Zero1 due to a pre-existing relationship and an agreement with NOAH. Their first defense in Zero1 was a match against Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Yoshihito Sasaki, which occurred on April 13, 2006. On June 24, 2006, they made their second and last defense against STONED (Kagetora and Takuya Sugawara).
Tournament[]
NOAH held an 8-man tournament to crown the first champion, held over its month-long, 6-event Accomplish Our Third Navigation tour. The tour was held from July 6 through July 13, 2003.
| First Round | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| July 6 | KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Tokyo | Mitsuo Momota and Tsuyoshi Kikuchi | 16:04 | ||||||||||||
| July 12 | KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Nanao, Ishikawa | Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Yoshihito Sasaki | 15:48 | ||||||||||||
| July 10 | Ricky Marvin and Superstar Steve | 17:28 | ||||||||||||
| Kyoto | Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Yoshihito Sasaki | Pin | ||||||||||||
| July 16 | KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Osaka | Jushin Thunder Liger and Takehiro Murahama | 24:27 | ||||||||||||
| July 9 | Jushin Thunder Liger and Takehiro Murahama | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Kochi | Kotaro Suzuki and Makoto Hashi | 16:55 | ||||||||||||
| July 13 | Jushin Thunder Liger and Takehiro Murahama | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Neagari, Ishikawa | Takashi Sugiura and Yoshinobu Kanemaru | 16:22 | ||||||||||||
| July 7 | Takashi Sugiura and Yoshinobu Kanemaru | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Tsushima, Nagasaki | Donovan Morgan and Michael Modest | 16:11 | ||||||||||||
Title History[]
| # | Tag Team (Individual Reigns) |
Team Reigns | Date | Location | Length | Defenses | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji | 1 | July 16, 2003 | Osaka | 690 Days | 9 | Defeated Jushin Thunder Liger and Takehiro Murahama in a tournament final. |
| 2 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Takashi Sugiura | 1 | June 5, 2005 | Sapporo | 334 Days | 2 | |
| 3 | Minoru Fujita and Ikuto Hidaka | 1 | March 5, 2006 | Tokyo | 100 Days | 1 | |
| 4 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Takashi Sugiura | 2 | August 13, 2006 | Tokyo | 147 Days | 1 | |
| 5 | The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) |
1 | January 7, 2007 | Tokyo | 14 Days | 0 | |
| 6 | Ricky Marvin and Kotaro Suzuki | 1 | January 21, 2007 | Tokyo | 307 Days | 5 | |
| 7 | Speed Muscle (Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino) |
1 | November 24, 2007 | Sapporo | 52 Days | 1 | |
| 8 | New Hazard (BxB Hulk and Shingo Takagi) |
1 | January 15, 2008 | Tokyo | 65 Days | 0 | |
| 9 | Taiji Ishimori and KENTA (2) | 1 | March 20, 2008 | Tokyo | 115 Days | 2 | |
| 10 | Disobey (Yoshinobu Kanemaru (3) and Kotaro Suzuki (2)) |
1 | July 13, 2008 | Tokyo | 553 Days | 6 | |
| — | Vacated | — | January 17, 2010 | — | — | — | Vacated due to Suzuki suffering a knee injury. |
| 11 | Ricky Marvin (2) and Taiji Ishimori (2) | 1 | February 18, 2010 | Osaka | 187 Days | 2 | Defeated Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Genba Hirayanagi in a tournament final. |
| 12 | Koji Kanemoto and Tiger Mask IV | 1 | August 22, 2010 | Tokyo | 124 Days | 2 | |
| 13 | Atsushi Aoki and Naomichi Marufuji (2) | 1 | December 24, 2010 | Tokyo | 126 Days | 2 | |
| — | Vacated | — | April 29, 2011 | — | — | — | Vacated due to Marufuji suffering an injury. |
| 14 | No Mercy (KENTA (3) and Yoshinobu Kanemaru (4)) |
1 | May 25, 2011 | Tokyo | 144 Days | 1 | Defeated Atsushi Aoki and Kotaro Suzuki to win the vacant title. |
| 15 | ANMU (Atsushi Aoki (2) and Kotaro Suzuki (3)) |
1 | October 16, 2011 | Tokyo | 280 Days | 7 | |
| 16 | Los Mexitosos (Ricky Marvin (3) and Super Crazy) |
1 | July 22, 2012 | Tokyo | 231 Days | 4 | |
| 17 | No Mercy (Genba Hirayanagi and Maybach Taniguchi Jr./SUWA) |
1 | March 10, 2013 | Yokohama | 81 Days | 1 | Taniguchi, Jr. was unmasked as SUWA during the reign. |
| — | Vacated | — | May 30, 2013 | — | — | — | Vacated due to Suwa suffering a neck injury. |
| 18 | Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask IV (2) | 1 | July 28, 2013 | Tokyo | 132 Days | 4 | Defeated Atsushi Kotoge and Taiji Ishimori in the finals of the 2013 NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League to win the vacant titles. |
| 19 | Yoshinari Ogawa and Zack Sabre Jr. | 1 | December 7, 2013 | Tokyo | 104 Days | 1 | |
| 20 | BRAVE (Atsushi Kotoge and Taiji Ishimori (3)) |
1 | March 21, 2014 | Tokyo | 22 Days | 0 | |
| 21 | Yoshinari Ogawa and Zack Sabre Jr. | 2 | April 12, 2014 | Tokyo | 84 Days | 1 | |
| 22 | BRAVE (Atsushi Kotoge (2) and Taiji Ishimori (4)) |
2 | July 5, 2014 | Tokyo | 99 Days | 0 | |
| 23 | Choukibou-gun (Kenou and Hajime Ohara) |
1 | October 12, 2014 | Yokohama | 154 Days | 3 | |
| 24 | Suzuki-gun (El Desperado and Taka Michinoku) |
1 | March 15, 2015 | Tokyo | 203 Days | 4 | This was a three-way match, also involving Daisuke Harada and Genba Hirayanagi. |
| 25 | Momo no Seishun (Atsushi Kotoge (3) and Daisuke Harada) |
1 | October 4, 2015 | Nagoya | 167 Days | 3 | |
| 26 | KenOhara (Kenoh and Hajime Ohara) |
2 | March 19, 2016 | Tokyo | 17 Days | 0 | |
| 27 | Momo no Seishun (Atsushi Kotoge (4) and Daisuke Harada (2)) |
2 | April 5, 2016 | Tokyo | 186 Days | 5 | |
| 28 | The World Class Tag Team (Gedo and Jado) |
1 | October 8, 2016 | Tokyo | 77 Days | 1 | |
| 29 | Momo no Seishun (Atsushi Kotoge (5) and Daisuke Harada (3)) |
3 | December 24, 2016 | Tokyo | 2 Days | 0 | |
| — | Vacated | — | December 26, 2016 | — | — | — | Title vacated due to Kotoge moving to the heavyweight division. |
| 30 | XX (Taiji Ishimori (5) and Hi69) |
1 | February 18, 2017 | Yokohama | 189 Days | 2 | Defeated HAYATA and YO-HEY to win the vacant title. |
| 31 | RATEL'S (HAYATA and YO-HEY) |
1 | August 26, 2017 | Tokyo | 154 Days | 3 | |
| 32 | XX (Taiji Ishimori (6) and Hi69 (2)) |
2 | January 27, 2018 | Osaka | 43 Days | 0 | |
| 33 | Minoru Tanaka and Yosinari Ogawa (3) | 1 | March 11, 2018 | Yokohama | 2 Days | 0 | |
| — | Vacated | — | March 13, 2018 | — | — | — | Tanaka and Ogawa voluntarily vacated the titles. |
| 34 | Hi69 (3) and Minoru Tanaka (2) | 1 | April 15, 2018 | Hokkaido | 245 Days | 4 | Defeated RATEL'S (HAYATA and YO-HEY) in a tournament finals to win the vacant title. |
| 35 | Back Breakers (Hajime Ohara (2) and Hitoshi Kumano) |
1 | December 16, 2018 | Yokohama | 70 Days | 1 | |
| 36 | Stinger Kotaro Suzuki (4) and Yoshinari Ogawa (4) |
1 | February 24, 2019 | Tokyo | 251 Days | 5 | During their reign, Ogawa and Suzuki formed the Stinger stable. |
| 37 | RATEL'S Daisuke Harada (4) and Tadasuke |
1 | November 2, 2019 | Tokyo | 24 Days | 0 | |
| 38 | Stinger Kotaro Suzuki (5) and Atsushi Kotoge (6) |
1 | November 26, 2019 | Niigata | 124 Days | 1 | |
| 39 | RATEL'S (HAYATA and YO-HEY) |
2 | March 29, 2020 | Tokyo | 41 Days | 1 | |
| — | Vacated | — | May 9, 2020 | — | — | — | The title were declared vacated due to HAYATA turning on YO-HEY during a title defense against Kotaro Suzuki and Yoshinari Ogawa. |
| 40 | Stinger (HAYATA (3) and Yoshinari Ogawa (5)) |
1 | May 10, 2020 | Kanagawa | 154 Days | 1 | |
| 41 | Momo no Seishun (Atsushi Kotoge (7) and Daisuke Harada (4)) |
4 | October 11, 2020 | Osaka | 42 Days | 1 | |
| 42 | Stinger (HAYATA (4) and Yoshinari Ogawa (6)) |
2 | November 22, 2020 | Yokohama | 190 Days | 5 | |
| 43 | Daisuke Harada (6) and Hajime Ohara (4) | 1 | May 21, 2021 | Tokyo | 62 Days | 1 | |
| 44 | Scramble Time (Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu) |
1 | August 1, 2021 | Hiroshima | 42 Days | 1 | |
| 45 | Atsushi Kotoge (8) and Hajime Ohara (5) | 1 | September 12, 2021 | Tokyo | 28 Days | 0 | |
| 46 | Los Perros del Mal de Japón (Eita and Nosawa Rongai) |
1 | October 10, 2021 | Osaka | 49 Days | 1 | |
| 47 | Stinger (HAYATA (5) and Yoshinari Ogawa (7)) |
3 | November 28, 2021 | Tokyo | 52 Days | 1 | |
| — | Vacated | — | January 19, 2022 | — | — | — | Vacated due to Ogawa testing positive for the COVID-19. |
| 48 | Scramble Time (Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu) |
2 | January 22, 2022 | Tokyo | 20 Days | 0 | Defeated Atsushi Kotoge and Hajime Ohara to win the vacant titles. |
| — | Vacated | — | February 11, 2022 | — | — | — | Vacated after Yoshioka was sidelined with an heel injury. |
| 49 | Atsushi Kotoge (9) and YO-HEY (3) | 1 | February 23, 2022 | Tokyo | 65 Days | 2 | Defeated Stinger (HAYATA and Yuya Susumu) to win the vacant titles. |
| 50 | Stinger (Chris Ridgeway and Yoshinari Ogawa (8)) |
1 | April 29, 2022 | Tokyo | 149 Days | 1 | |
| 51 | Atsushi Kotoge (10) and Seiki Yoshioka (3) | 1 | September 25, 2022 | Nagoya | 46 Days | 1 | |
| 52 | KONGOH Hajime Ohara (6) and Shuji Kondo |
1 | November 10, 2022 | Tokyo | 13 Days | 0 | |
| 53 | Atsushi Kotoge (11) and Seiki Yoshioka (4) | 2 | November 23, 2022 | Tokyo | 30 Days | 0 | |
| 54 | Kzy and YO-HEY (4) | 1 | December 23, 2022 | Tokyo | 9 Days | 0 | |
| 55 | Eita (2) and Yoshinari Ogawa (9) | 1 | January 1, 2023 | Tokyo | 105 Days | 2 | |
| 56 | Good Looking Guys (Tadasuke (2) and YO-HEY (5)) |
1 | April 16, 2023 | Sendai | 67 Days | 2 | |
| 57 | Stinger Chris Ridgeway (2) and Daga |
1 | June 22, 2023 | Tokyo | 75 Days | 0 | |
| — | Vacated | — | September 5, 2023 | — | — | — | Vacated after Ridgeway left for NOAH for personal reasons. |
| 58 | Los Golpeadores Dragon Bane and Alpha Wolf |
1 | September 24, 2023 | Nagoya | 100 Days | 1 | Defeated Alejandro and Ninja Mack in a decision match to win the vacant titles. |
| 59 | Good Looking Guys (Tadasuke (3) and YO-HEY (6)) |
2 | Janaury 2, 2024 | Tokyo | 159 Days | 6 | This was a three-way match also involving Alejandro and Ninja Mack. |
| 60 | Eita (3) and Shuji Kondo (2) | 1 | June 9, 2024 | Tokyo | 84 Days | 1 | |
| 61 | RATEL'S (HAYATA (6) and YO-HEY (7)) |
3 | September 1, 2024 | Osaka | 202 | 5 | |
| 62 | AMAKUSA and Junta Miyawaki | 1 | March 22, 2025 | Osaka | 31+ | 0 |
Combined reigns[]
As of April 22, 2025.
| † | Indicates the current champion |
By team[]
| Rank | Team | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji | 1 | 9 | 690 |
| 2 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Kotaro Suzuki | 6 | 553 | |
| 3 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Takashi Sugiura | 2 | 3 | 420 |
| 4 | Momo no Seishun (Atsushi Kotoge and Daisuke Harada) |
4 | 8 | 397 |
| 6 | RATEL'S (HAYATA and YO-HEY) |
3 | 9 | |
| 5 | Stinger (HAYATA and Yoshinari Ogawa) |
8 | 396 | |
| 7 | Ricky Marvin and Kotaro Suzuki | 1 | 5 | 307 |
| 8 | ANMU (Atsushi Aoki and Kotaro Suzuki) |
7 | 280 | |
| 9 | Stinger (Yoshinari Ogawa and Kotaro Suzuki) |
5 | 251 | |
| 10 | Hi69 and Minoru Tanaka | 4 | 245 | |
| 11 | XX (Taiji Ishimori and Hi69) |
2 | 2 | 232 |
| 12 | Los Mexitosos (Ricky Marvin and Super Crazy) |
1 | 4 | 231 |
| 13 | Good Looking Guys (Tadasuke and YO-HEY) |
2 | 8 | 226 |
| 14 | Suzuki-gun (El Desperado and Taka Michinoku) |
1 | 4 | 203 |
| 15 | Yoshinari Ogawa and Zack Sabre Jr. | 2 | 2 | 188 |
| 16 | Ricky Marvin and Taiji Ishimori | 1 | 185 | |
| 17 | Choukibou-gun/KenOhara (Hajime Ohara and Kenoh) |
2 | 3 | 171 |
| 18 | Minoru Fujita and Ikuto Hidaka | 1 | 2 | 161 |
| 19 | Stinger (Yoshinari Ogawa and Chris Ridgeway) |
1 | 149 | |
| 20 | No Mercy (KENTA and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) |
144 | ||
| 21 | Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask | 4 | 132 | |
| 22 | Atsushi Aoki and Naomichi Marufuji | 2 | 126 | |
| 23 | Koji Kanemoto and Tiger Mask | 124 | ||
| 24 | Stinger (Kotaro Suzuki and Atsushi Kotoge) |
1 | ||
| 25 | BRAVE (Atsushi Kotoge and Taiji Ishimori) |
2 | 0 | 121 |
| 26 | Taiji Ishimori and KENTA | 1 | 2 | 115 |
| 27 | Eita and Yoshinari Ogawa | 105 | ||
| 28 | Los Golpeadores (Dragón Bane and Alpha Wolf) |
1 | 100 | |
| 29 | Eita and Shuji Kondo | 84 | ||
| 30 | No Mercy (Genba Hirayanagi and Maybach Taniguchi Jr./SUWA) |
81 | ||
| 31 | The World Class Tag Team (Jado and Gedo) |
77 | ||
| 32 | Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka | 2 | 0 | 76 |
| 33 | Stinger (Chris Ridgeway and Daga) |
1 | 75 | |
| 34 | Back Breakers (Hajime Ohara and Hitoshi Kumano) |
1 | 70 | |
| 35 | BxB Hulk and Shingo Takagi | 0 | 65 | |
| Atsushi Kotoge and YO-HEY | 2 | |||
| 37 | Daisuke Harada and Hajime Ohara | 1 | 62 | |
| Scramble Time (Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu) |
2 | |||
| 39 | Speed Muscle (Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino) |
1 | 52 | |
| 40 | Los Perros del Mal de Japon (Eita and Nosawa Rongai) |
49 | ||
| 41 | Atsushi Kotoge and Hajime Ohara | 0 | 28 | |
| 42 | RATEL'S (Daisuke Harada and Tadasuke) |
24 | ||
| 43 | AMAKUSA and Junta Miyawaki † | 31+ | ||
| 44 | The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) |
14 | ||
| 45 | KONGOH (Shuji Kondo and Hajime Ohara) |
13 | ||
| 46 | Kzy and YO-HEY | 9 | ||
| 47 | Yoshinari Ogawa and Minoru Tanaka | 2 |
By wrestler[]
As of April 22, 2025.
Gallery[]
Original belt color
KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji
Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Takashi Sugiura
Minoru Fujita and Ikuto Hidaka
Jay and Mark Briscoe
Ricky Marvin and Kotaro Suzuki
Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino
BxB Hulk and Shingo Takagi
KENTA and Taiji Ishimori
Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Kotaro Suzuki
Ricky Marvin and Taiji Ishimori
Koji Kanemoto and Tiger Mask IV
Atsushi Aoki and Naomichi Marufuji
KENTA and Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Atsushi Aoki and Kotaro Suzuki
Ricky Marvin and Super Crazy
Genba Hirayanagi and Maybach Taniguchi Jr./SUWA
Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask IV
Yoshinari Ogawa and Zack Sabre Jr.
Atsushi Kotoge and Taiji Ishimori
Kenoh and Hajime Ohara
El Desperado and Taka Michinoku
Atsushi Kotoge and Daisuke Harada
Gedo and Jado
Taiji Ishimori and Hi69
HAYATA and YO-HEY
Yoshinari Ogawa and Minoru Tanaka
Hi69 and Minoru Tanaka
Hajime Ohara and Hitoshi Kumano
Yoshinari Ogawa and Kotaro Suzuki
Tadasuke and Daisuke Harada
Atsushi Kotoge and Kotaro Suzuki
Yoshinari Ogawa and HAYATA
Daisuke Harada and Hajime Ohara
Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu
Atsushi Kotoge and Hajime Ohara
Eita and Nosawa Rongai
YO-HEY and Atsushi Kotoge
Yoshinari Ogawa and Chris Ridgeway
Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka
Shuji Kondo and Hajime Ohara
Kzy and YO-HEY
Eita and Yoshinari Ogawa
Tadasuke and YO-HEY
Chris Ridgeway and Daga
Alpha Wolf and Dragon Bane
Eita and Shuji Kondo
AMAKUSA and Junta Miyawaki