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 NJPW. 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. |
| 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 | 1904+ | 0 |
Gallery
Mitsuharu Misawa and Yoshinari Ogawa
Yoshihiro Takayama and Takao Omori
Takeshi Morishima and Takeshi Rikio
Jun Akiyama and Akitoshi Saito
Kenta Kobashi and Tamon Honda
Hroshi Tanahashi and Yuji Nagata
Minoru Suzuki and Naomichi Marufuji
Takeshi Morishima and Muhammad Yone
Jun Akiyama and Takeshi Rikio
Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura
Akitoshi Saito and Bison Smith
Kensuke Sasaki and Takeshi Morishima
Bison Smith and Keith Walker
Takuma Sano and Yoshihiro Takayama
Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson
Magnus and Samoa Joe
KENTA and Maybach Taniguchi
Akitoshi Saito and Go Shiozaki
Toru Yano and Takashi Iizuka
Shane Haste and Mikey Nicholls
Takeshi Morishima and Maybach Taniguchi
Takashi Sugiura and Masato Tanaka
Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer
Toru Yano and Naomichi Marufuji
Maybach Taniguchi and Go Shiozaki
Kenoh and Masa Kitamiya
Kenoh and Takashi Sugiura
Naomichi Marufuji and Maybach Taniguchi
Go Shiozaki and Atsushi Kotoge
Muhammad Yone and Quiet Storm
Katsuhiko Nakajima and Masa Kitamiya
Kaito Kiyomiya and Go Shiozaki
Naomichi Marufuji and Akitoshi Saito
Katsuhiko Nakajima and Go Shiozaki
Yuji Hino and Maybach Taniguchi