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GHC Tag Team Championship

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The GHC Tag Team Championship (GHCタッグ王座, GHC Taggu Ōza) 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[]

# 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, United Kingdom 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)) 		2 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 Yokohama 98 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 Yokohama 189 Days 3 Defeated AXIZ (Go Shiozaki and Katsuhiko Nakajima) to win the vacant titles.
55 The Aggression
(Katsuhiko Nakajima (6) and Masa Kitamiya (4)) 		3 March 7, 2021 Yokohama 85 Days 1
— Vacated — May 31, 2021 N/A — — The titles were declared vacated after Kitamiya turned on Nakajima.
56 Kaito Kyomiya (2) and Masa Kitamiya (5) 1 July 22, 2021 Tokyo 114 Days 0 Defeated KONGOH (Katsuhiko Nakajima and Manabu Soya) to win the vacant titles.
57 M's Alliance
(Naomichi Marufuji (8) and Keiji Mutoh) 		1 November 13, 2021 Yokohama 87 Days 2
— Vacated — February 8, 2022 N/A — — Vacated due to Keiji Mutoh suffering a left hip injury.
58 Sugiura-gun
(Hideki Suzuki and Takashi Sugiura (7)) 		1 March 13, 2022 Yokohama 52 Days 1 Defeated Daiki Inaba and Kaito Kiyomiya in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.
59 Les Mexicanas
(El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. and Rene Dupree) 		2 May 4, 2022 Tokyo 17 Days 0
60 Michael Elgin and Masa Kitamiya (6) 1 May 21, 2022 Tokyo 53 Days 0
— Vacated — July 13, 2022 N/A — — Vacated due to Elgin not being able to make it to the title defense.
61 Sugiura-gun
(Hideki Suzuki (2) and Timothy Thatcher) 		1 July 16, 2022 Tokyo 71 Days 0 Defeated Yoshiki Inamura and Masa Kitamiya to win the vacant championship.
62 Satoshi Kojima and Takashi Sugiura (8) 1 September 25, 2022 Nagoya 140 Days 3
63 Masa Kitamiya (7) and Daiki Inaba 1 February 12, 2023 Osaka 63 Days 1
64 Takashi Sugiura (9) and Shuhei Taniguchi (5) 1 April 16, 2023 Sendai 18 Days 0
65 Timothy Thatcher (2) and Saxon Huxley 1 May 4, 2023 Tokyo 143 Days 1 Originally won under the Sugiura-gun unit. Their reign resumed under the Real unit.
66 Good Looking Guys
(Jack Morris and Anthony Greene) 		1 September 24, 2023 Nagoya 266 8
67 The New NOAH's Leaders
(Naomichi Marufuji (9) and Takashi Sugiura (10)) 		3 June 16, 2024 Yokohama 199 4 Marufuji and Sugiura previously won the titles under the tag names of Team Ikko and Brave. However in this reign, they did not use any of those team names.
68 Team 2000 X
(Jack Morris (2) and Omos) 		1 January 1, 2025 Tokyo 26 1
— Vacated — January 27, 2025 Osaka — — Vacated after NOAH refused the transfer of Omos' half of the title to Daga.
69 Team 2000 X
(Jack Morris (3) and Daga) 		1 April 6, 2025 Osaka 0 27 Days Defeated All Rebellion (Kaito Kiyomiya and Galeno) to win the vacant titles.
70 Kenoh (3) and Ulka Sasaki 1 May 3, 2025 Tokyo 0 52+

Combined Reigns[]

As of June 24, 2025.

† Indicates the current champion

By team[]

Rank Team No. of
reigns 		Combined
defenses 		Combined
days
1 Team Ikko/BRAVE/The New NOAH's Leaders
(Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura) 		3 7 499
2 Akitoshi Saito and Bison Smith 1 3 486
3 K.E.S.
(Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer) 		2 10 482
4 Strenness/S.A.T
(Akitoshi Saito and Jun Akiyama) 		2 8 438
5 Mitsuharu Misawa and Yoshinari Ogawa 7 388
6 Takeshi Morishima and Muhammad Yone 2 339
7 AXIZ
(Go Shiozaki and Katsuhiko Nakajima) 		3 4 310
8 Burning
(Tamon Honda and Kenta Kobashi) 		2 2 290
9 Takuma Sano and Yoshihiro Takayama 1 4 273
10 Good Looking Guys
(Anthony Greene and Jack Morris) 		8 266
11 The Aggression
(Katsuhiko Nakajima and Masa Kitamiya) 		3 1 246
12 TMDK
(Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste) 		2 3 234
13 Dangan Yankies
(Masato Tanaka and Takashi Sugiura) 		1 4 224
14 Wild II
(Takeshi Morishima and Takeshi Rikio) 		218
Bad Intentions
(Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) 		1 218
16 Sugiura-gun
(Takashi Sugiura and Kazushi Sakuraba) 		3 189
17 50 Funky Powers
(Muhammad Yone and Quiet Storm) 		2 2 184
18 Naomichi Marufuji and Toru Yano 1 6 179
19 Jun Akiyama and Takeshi Rikio 3 165
20 Bison Smith and Keith Walker 1 149
21 KAOS
(2 Cold Scorpio and Doug Williams) 		0 146
22 Real
(Timothy Thatcher and Saxon Huxley) 		1 143
23 Satoshi Kojima and Takashi Sugiura 3 140
24 Maketa Ra Owari
(Naomichi Marufuji and Maybach Taniguchi) 		2 134
25 Naomichi Marufuji and Minoru Suzuki 132
26 Disobey
(Takeshi Rikio and Muhammad Yone) 		129
27 Choukibou-gun
(Maybach Taniguchi and Takeshi Morishima) 		1 126
28 Naomichi Marufuji and Akitoshi Saito 2 123
29 CHAOS
(Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano) 		119
30 Sugiura-gun International/Les Mexicanas
(El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. and Rene Dupree) 		2 0 115
31 Kaito Kiyomiya and Masa Kitamiya 1 114
32 Naomichi Marufuji and Masaaki Mochizuki 1 105
33 M's Alliance
(Naomichi Marufuji and Keiji Mutoh) 		2 87
34 Magnus and Samoa Joe 0 78
35 Kensuke Sasaki and Takeshi Morishima 1 76
36 Sugiura-gun
(Hideki Suzuki and Timothy Thatcher) 		0 71
37 No Fear
(Takao Omori and Yoshihiro Takayama) 		70
38 Masa Kitamiya and Daiki Inaba 1 63
39 Michael Elgin and Masa Kitamiya 0 53
40 Sugiura-gun
(Hideki Suzuki and Takashi Sugiura) 		1 52
41 Go Shiozaki and Maybach Taniguchi 49
42 Hooligans
(Maybach Taniguchi and Yuji Hino) 		47
43 S.A.T
(Akitoshi Saito and Go Shiozaki) 		0 44
44 2 Cold Scorpio and Vader 42
45 Yuji Nagata and Hiroshi Tanahashi 1 41
46 Atsushi Kotoge and Go Shiozaki 0 36
47 Kenoh and Masa Kitamiya 34
48 Kenoh and Takashi Sugiura 33
49 Go Shiozaki and Kaito Kiyomiya 30
55 Team 2000 X
(Jack Morris and Daga) 		27
50 Team 2000 X
(Jack Morris and Omos) 		1 24
51 No Mercy
(KENTA and Maybach Taniguchi) 		0 18
Takashi Sugiura and Shuhei Taniguchix
53 Sugiura-gun
(Takashi Sugiura and Kazma Sakamoto) 		14
54 RO&D
(D'Lo Brown and Buchanan) 		7
56 Kenoh and Ulka Sasaki † 52+

By wrestler[]

As of June 24, 2025.

Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns 		Combined
defenses 		Combined
days
1 Naomichi Marufuji 9 22 1,258
2 Takashi Sugiura 10 18 1,168
3 Akitoshi Saito 5 12 1,091
4 Takeshi Morishima 8 759
5 Muhammad Yone 6 652
6 Bison Smith 2 4 635
7 Jun Akiyama 3 11 603
8 Katsuhiko Nakajima 6 5 556
9 Takeshi Rikio 3 9 512
10 Masa Kitamiya 7 2 510
11 Davey Boy Smith Jr. 2 10 482
Lance Archer
13 Go Shiozaki 7 5 469
14 Maybach Taniguchi 5 392
15 Mitsuharu Misawa 2 7 388
Yoshinari Ogawa
17 Yoshihiro Takayama 4 343
18 Jack Morris 3 9 319
19 Toru Yano 2 8 298
20 Tamon Honda 2 290
Kenta Kobashi
22 Takuma Sano 1 4 273
23 Anthony Greene 8 266
24 Mikey Nicholls 2 3 234
Shane Haste
26 Masato Tanaka 1 4 224
27 Giant Bernard 1 218
Karl Anderson
29 Timothy Thatcher 2 214
30 Kazushi Sakuraba 1 3 189
31 2 Cold Scorpio 2 0 188
32 Quiet Storm 2 184
33 Keith Walker 1 1 149
34 Doug Williams 0 146
35 Kaito Kiyomiya 2 144
36 Saxon Huxley 1 1 143
37 Satoshi Kojima 3 140
38 Minoru Suzuki 2 132
41 Hideki Suzuki 2 1 123
42 Takashi Iizuka 1 2 119
39 El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. 2 0 115
Rene Dupree
43 Masaaki Mochizuki 1 1 105
44 Keiji Mutoh 2 87
45 Magnus 0 78
Samoa Joe
47 Kensuke Sasaki 1 76
48 Takao Omori 0 70
49 Kenoh † 3 119+
50 Daiki Inaba 1 1 63
51 Michael Elgin 0 53
52 Yuji Hino 1 47
53 Vader 0 42
54 Yuji Nagata 1 41
Hiroshi Tanahashi
56 Atsushi Kotoge 0 36
57 Daga 27
58 Omos 1 24
59 KENTA 0 18
60 Kazma Sakamoto 14
61 D'Lo Brown 7
Buchanan
63 Ulka Sasaki † 119+

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