GHC Tag Team Championship

GHC Tag Team Championship
Details
Current Champion(s)	Sugiura-gun; (Kazushi Sakuraba and Takashi Sugiura)
Date Won	April 19, 2020
Promotion(s)	Pro Wrestling NOAH; New Japan Pro Wrestling
Date Established	October 19, 2001
Statistics
First champion(s)	Scorpio and Vader
Most reigns	Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura (Individual, 6 reigns); AXIZ (Go Shiozaki and Katsuhiko Nakajima) (Team, 3 reigns)
Longest reign	Bison Smith and Akitoshi Saito (486 days)
Shortest reign	D'Lo Brown and Buchanan (7 days)
Oldest winner	Akitoshi Saito (52 years)
Youngest winner	Kaito Kiyomiya (21 years)

The GHC Tag Team Championship is the top tag team championship in the Pro Wrestling NOAH (NOAH) promotion. "GHC" is the acronym of the NOAH's governing body, the Global Honored Crown. The title was introduced on October 19, 2001, when Vader and Scorpio defeated Jun Akiyama and Akitoshi Saito in a tournament final. Though it is typically contested among heavyweights (>100 kg (220 lb; 16 st)), some junior heavyweights such as Naomichi Marufuji and Yoshinari Ogawa have held it in the past. The GHC Tag Team Championship is not the only tag team title contested for in NOAH; the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is also sanctioned by NOAH. All GHC Tag Team Title matches and contract signings were overseen and introduced by NOAH title commissioner Joe Higuchi until his death in October 2010 and he was replaced by Harley Race.

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result of a scripted match. Title changes usually happen at NOAH-promoted tours; although the title has only changed hands twice at a non-NOAH event, it has been defended in several other promotions.

Title History[edit | edit source]

#	Tag Team (Individual Reigns)	Team Reigns	Date	Location	Length	Defenses	Notes
1	Scorpio and Vader	1	October 19, 2001	Yokohama	42 Days	0	Defeated Akitoshi Saito and Jun Akiyama in a tournament final to become the inaugural champions.
2	Mitsuharu Misawa and Yoshinari Ogawa	1	November 30, 2001	Sapporo	9 Days	0
3	No Fear Takao Omori and Yoshihiro Takayama	1	December 9, 2001	Tokyo	70 Days	0
4	Wild II Takeshi Morishima and Takeshi Rikio	1	February 17, 2002	Tokyo	218 Days	4
5	Strenness Akitoshi Saito and Jun Akiyama	1	September 23, 2002	Tokyo	256 Days	5
6	Burning Tamon Honda and Kenta Kobashi	1	June 6, 2003	Tokyo	177 Days	2
7	Yuji Nagata and Hiroshi Tanahashi	1	November 30, 2003	Sapporo	41 Days	1
8	Mitsuharu Misawa and Yoshinari Ogawa	2	January 10, 2004	Tokyo	379 Days	7
9	KAOS 2 Cold Scorpio (2) and Doug Williams	1	January 23, 2005	Kobe	146 Days	0
10	Naomichi Marufuji and Minoru Suzuki	1	June 18, 2005	Morecambe, England	132 Days	2
11	Takeshi Morishima (2) and Muhammad Yone	1	October 28, 2005	Osaka	219 Days	2
12	Burning Tamon Honda and Kenta Kobashi	2	June 4, 2006	Sapporo	113 Days	0
—	Vacated	—	September 25, 2006	N/A	—	—	Vacated due to Kobashi's kidney cancer.
13	Takeshi Morishima (3) and Muhammad Yone (2)	2	December 2, 2006	Yokohama	120 Days	0	Defeated Takuma Sano and Yoshihiro Takayama in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.
14	Jun Akiyama (2) and Takeshi Rikio (2)	1	April 1, 2007	Tokyo	165 Days	3
—	Vacated	—	September 13, 2007	N/A	—	—	Vacated due to Rikio suffering a neck injury.
15	RO&D D'Lo Brown and Buchanan	1	October 20, 2007	Kurume	7 Days	0	Defeated Akira Taue and Go Shiozaki in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.
16	Team Ikko Naomichi Marufuji (2) and Takashi Sugiura	1	October 27, 2007	Tokyo	209 Days	2
17	Akitoshi Saito (2) and Bison Smith	1	May 23, 2008	Nagoya	486 Days	3
18	Kensuke Sasaki and Takeshi Morishima (4)	1	September 21, 2009	Niigata	76 Days	1
19	Disobey Takeshi Rikio (3) and Muhammad Yone (3)	1	December 6, 2009	Tokyo	129 Days	2
20	Bison Smith (2) and Keith Walker	1	April 14, 2010	Osaka	149 Days	1
—	Vacated	—	September 25, 2006	N/A	—	—	Vacated due to Walker not returning to Japan due to the death of his father.
21	Takuma Sano and Yoshihiro Takayama (2)	1	September 18, 2010	Osaka	273 Days	4	Defeated Akitoshi Saito and Bison Smith to win the vacant championship.
22	Bad Intentions Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson	1	June 18, 2011	Osaka	218 Days	1
23	S.A.T Jun Akiyama (3) and Akitoshi Saito (3)	2	January 22, 2012	Osaka	182 Days	3
24	Magnus and Samoa Joe	1	July 22, 2012	Ryōgoku	78 Days	0
25	No Mercy KENTA and Maybach Taniguchi	1	October 8, 2012	Yokohama	18 Days	0
26	S.A.T Akitoshi Saito (4) and Go Shiozaki	1	October 26, 2012	Niigata	44 Days	0
27	BRAVE Naomichi Marufuji (3) and Takashi Sugiura (2)	1	December 9, 2012	Ryōgoku	91 Days	1
28	CHAOS Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano	1	March 10, 2013	Yokohama	119 Days	2
29	TMDK Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste	1	July 7, 2013	Tokyo	202 Days	3
30	Choukibou-gun Maybach Taniguchi (2) and Takeshi Morishima (5)	1	January 25, 2014	Osaka	126 Days	1
31	Dangan Yankees Masato Tanaka and Takashi Sugiura (3)	1	May 31, 2014	Osaka	224 Days	4
32	TMDK Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste	2	January 10, 2015	Tokyo	32 Days	0
33	K.E.S. Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer	1	February 11, 2015	Nagoya	472 Days	10
34	Naomichi Marufuji (4) and Toru Yano (2)	1	May 28, 2016	Osaka	179 Days	6
35	K.E.S. Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer	2	November 23, 2016	Tokyo	10 Days	0
36	Go Shiozaki (2) and Maybach Taniguchi (3)	1	December 2, 2016	Tokyo	42 Days	1
37	Kenoh and Masa Kitamiya	1	January 21, 2017	Osaka	34 Days	0
—	Vacated	—	Febuary 24, 2017	N/A	—	—	Vacated when Kenoh and Kitamiya broke up.
38	Kenoh (2) and Takashi Sugiura (4)	1	March 12, 2017	Yokohama	33 Days	0	Defeated Masa Kitamiya and Muhammad Yone to win the vacant championship.
39	Maketa Ra Owari Naomichi Marufuji (5) and Maybach Taniguchi (4)	1	April 4, 2017	Tokyo	134 Days	2
40	Atsushi Kotoge and Go Shiozaki (3)	1	August 26, 2017	Tokyo	36 Days	0
41	50 Funky Powers Muhammad Yone (4) and Quiet Storm	1	October 1, 2017	Yokohama	161 Days	2
42	The Aggression Katsuhiko Nakajima and Masa Kitamiya (2)	1	March 11, 2018	Yokohama	49 Days	0
43	GO-KAI Kaito Kiyomiya and Go Shiozaki (4)	1	April 29, 2018	Niigata	30 Days	0
44	The Aggression Katsuhiko Nakajima (2) and Masa Kitamiya (3)	2	May 29, 2018	Tokyo	60 Days	0
45	Naomichi Marufuji (6) and Akitoshi Saito (5)	1	July 28, 2018	Tokyo	123 Days	2
—	Vacated	—	November 28, 2018	N/A	—	—	Vacated due to Marufuji having a shoulder injury.
46	Katsuhiko Nakajima (3) and Go Shiozaki (5)	1	December 7, 2018	Tokyo	9 Days	0	Defeated Kenoh and Masa Kitamiya in a tournament final.
47	Hooligans (Maybach Taniguchi (5) and Yuji Hino)	1	December 16, 2018	Yokohama	47 Days	1
48	50 Funky Powers Muhammad Yone (5) and Quiet Storm (2)	2	February 1, 2019	Tokyo	23 Days	0
49	AXIZ Katsuhiko Nakajima (4) and Go Shiozaki (6)	2	February 24, 2019	Tokyo	109 Days	1
50	Sugiura-gun Takashi Sugiura (5) and Kazma Sakamoto	1	June 13, 2019	Osaka	14 Days	0
51	AXIZ Katsuhiko Nakajima (5) and Go Shiozaki (7)	3	June 27, 2019	Tokyo	192 Days	3
52	MochiMaru Naomichi Marufuji (7) and Masaaki Mochizuki	1	January 5, 2020	Tokyo	105 Days	1
53	Sugiura-gun International (El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. and Rene Dupree)	1	April 19, 2020	Kanagawa	112 Days	0
—	Vacated	—	August 10, 2020	N/A	—	—	Wagner and Dupree returned the titles to Noah, due to being unable to attend Noah's events in relation to travel restrictions because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
54	Sugiura-gun (Kazushi Sakuraba and Takashi Sugiura (6))	1	August 20, 2020	Kanagawa	91+	2	Defeated AXIZ (Go Shiozaki and Katsuhiko Nakajima) to win the vacant titles.

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