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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship

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The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is the secundary tag team championship in the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. that is contested in the junior heavyweight division. "IWGP" is the acronym of NJPW's governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix. The title was introduced on August 8, 1998, at a NJPW live event. The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is not the only tag team title contested for in NJPW; the IWGP Tag Team Championship is also sanctioned by NJPW. According to NJPW's official website, the Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is listed as an "IWGP Jr. Tag Class", while the IWGP Tag Team Championship is considered an "IWGP Heavy Weight Class". The title is contested for by junior heavyweight wrestlers; the weight-limit for the title is 100 kg (220 lb).

Overview

Title changes happen mostly at NJPW-promoted events.  The inaugural champions were Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa, who defeated Dr. Wagner Jr. and Koji Kanemoto on August 8, 1998, in the finals of a tournament. The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin), a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) tag team, defeated then-reigning champions No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro) on January 4, 2009, at Wrestle Kingdom III. Their reign lasted until July 5, 2009, when they were defeated by Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) at a live event. During that time, they had three successful defenses; two were held by TNA due to a pre-existing relationship and an agreement with NJPW. Their first defense in TNA, a rematch against No Limit, occurred on March 31, 2009, at the tapings of their weekly television program TNA Impact!. On April 19, 2009, they made their second, and last, defense in TNA at the Lockdown pay-per-view event in a Three Way Tornado Tag Team Six Sides of Steel cage match against No Limit and The Latin American Xchange (Hernandez and Homicide).

Title history

# Tag Team
(Individual Reigns) 		Team Reigns Date Location Length Defenses Notes
1 Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa 1 August 8, 1998 Osaka, Japan 149 Days 2 Otani and Takaiwa defeated Dr. Wagner Jr. and Koji Kanemoto in a tournament final to become the first champions.
2 Dr. Wagner Jr. and Kendo Kashin 1 January 4, 1999 Tokyo, Japan 96 Days 2
3 The Great Sasuke and Jushin Thunder Liger 1 April 10, 1999 Tokyo, Japan 94 Days 0
4 Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa 2 July 13, 1999 Morioka, Japan 348 Days 4
5 Junior Stars
(Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka) 		1 June 25, 2000 Tokyo, Japan 254 Days 3
6 El Samurai and Jushin Thunder Liger (2) 1 March 6, 2001 Tokyo, Japan 136 Days 1
7 Gedo and Jado 1 July 20, 2001 Sapporo, Japan 286 Days 6
8 Jushin Thunder Liger (3) and Minoru Tanaka (2) 1 May 2, 2002 Tokyo, Japan 119 Days 1
9 Tsuyoshi Kikuchi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru 1 August 29, 2002 Tokyo, Japan 150 Days 4
10 Jushin Thunder Liger (4) and Koji Kanemoto (2) 1 January 26, 2003 Kobe, Japan 282 Days 6
— Vacated — November 4, 2003 N/A — — The championship was vacated due to Kanemoto fracturing his left cheekbone.
11 Gedo and Jado 2 November 29, 2003 Miyagi, Japan 104 Days 2 Gedo and Jado defeated Hirooki Goto and Ryusuke Taguchi to win the vacant championship.
12 American Dragon and Curry Man 1 March 12, 2004 Tokyo, Japan 85 Days 1
13 Gedo and Jado 3 June 5, 2004 Osaka, Japan 272 Days 5
14 Koji Kanemoto (3) and Wataru Inoue 1 March 4, 2005 Tokyo, Japan 71 Days 2
15 Hirooki Goto and Minoru (3) 1 May 14, 2005 Tokyo, Japan 281 Days 2
16 El Samurai (2) and Ryusuke Taguchi 1 February 19, 2006 Tokyo, Japan 139 Days 2
17 Gedo and Jado 4 July 8, 2006 Shizuoka, Japan 298 Days 2
18 Dick Togo and Taka Michinoku 1 May 2, 2007 Tokyo, Japan 270 Days 3
19 RISE

(Minoru (4) and Prince Devitt)

1 January 27, 2008 Tokyo, Japan 21 Days 0
20 Legend
(AKIRA and Jushin Thunder Liger (5)) 		1 February 17, 2008 Tokyo, Japan 155 Days 1
21 RISE
(Minoru (5) and Prince Devitt (2)) 		2 July 21, 2008 Sapporo, Japan 84 Days 1
22 No Limit
(Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro) 		1 October 13, 2008 Tokyo, Japan 83 Days 1
23 Motor City Machine Guns
(Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) 		1 January 4, 2009 Tokyo, Japan 182 Days 3 The Motor City Machine Guns defended the championship twice in the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion during their reign, as part of an agreement between TNA and NJPW.
24 Apollo 55
(Prince Devitt (3) and Ryusuke Taguchi (2)) 		1 July 5, 2009 Tokyo, Japan 290 Days 5
— Vacated — April 21, 2010 N/A — — Title held up after the championship was not defended for 30 days.
25 El Samurai (3) and Koji Kanemoto (4) 1 May 8, 2010 Tokyo, Japan 72 Days 0 El Samurai and Kanemoto defeated Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) in the finals of an eight-team tournament to win the vacant title.
26 Apollo 55
(Prince Devitt (4) and Ryusuke Taguchi (3)) 		2 July 13, 1995 Sapporo, Japan 84 Days 1
27 Golden☆Lovers
(Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi) 		1 October 11, 2010 Tokyo, Japan 104 Days 2
28 Apollo 55
(Prince Devitt (5) and Ryusuke Taguchi (4)) 		3 January 23, 2011 Tokyo, Japan 260 Days 7
29 No Remorse Corps
(Davey Richards and Rocky Romero) 		1 October 10, 2011 Tokyo, Japan 86 Days 1
30 Apollo 55
(Prince Devitt (6) and Ryusuke Taguchi (5)) 		4 January 4, 2012 Tokyo, Japan 39 Days 0
31 No Remorse Corps
(Davey Richards and Rocky Romero) 		2 February 12, 2012 Osaka, Japan 80 Days 0
— Vacated — May 2, 2012 N/A N/A —
32 Jushin Thunder Liger (6) and Tiger Mask IV 1 June 16, 2012 Osaka, Japan 36 Days 0 Liger and Tiger Mask defeated Suzuki-gun (Taichi and Taka Michinoku) to win the vacant title.
33 Forever Hooligans
(Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero (3)) 		1 July 22, 2012 Yamagata, Japan 112 Days 2
34 Time Splitters
(Alex Shelley (2) and KUSHIDA) 		1 November 11, 2012 Osaka, Japan 173 Days 3
35 Forever Hooligans
(Alex Koslov (2) and Rocky Romero( 4)) 		2 May 3, 2013 Fukuoka, Japan 164 Days 3
36 Suzuki-gun
(Taichi and Taka Michinoku (2)) 		1 October 14, 2013 Tokyo, Japan 26 Days 1
37 The Young Bucks
(Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) 		1 November 9, 2013 Osaka, Japan 224 Days 5
38 Time Splitters
(Alex Shelley (3) and KUSHIDA (2)) 		2 June 21, 2014 Osaka, Japan 140 Days 3
39 reDRagon
(Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) 		1 November 8, 2014 Osaka, Japan 95 Days 1
40 The Young Bucks
(Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) 		2 February 11, 2015 Osaka, Japan 53 Days 0 This was a three-way match, also involving Time Splitters (Alex Shelley and KUSHIDA).
41 Roppongi Vice
(Beretta and Rocky Romero (5)) 		1 April 5, 2015 Tokyo, Japan 28 Days 0
42 The Young Bucks
(Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) 		3 May 3, 2015 105 Days Fukuoka, Japan 1 This was a three-way match, also involving reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly).
43 reDRagon
(Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) 		2 August 16, 2015 141 Days Tokyo, Japan 2
44 The Young Bucks
(Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) 		4 January 4, 2016 38 Days Tokyo, Japan 0 This was a four-way match, also involving Matt Sydal and Ricochet and Roppongi Vice (Beretta and Rocky Romero).
45 Matt Sydal and Ricochet 1 February 11, 2016 59 Days Osaka, Japan 0 This was a three-way match, also involving reDRagon.
46 Roppongi Vice
(Beretta (2) and Rocky Romero (6)) 		2 April 10, 2016 23 Days Tokyo, Japan 0
47 Matt Sydal and Ricochet 2 May 3, 2016 47 Days Fukuoka, Japan 0
48 The Young Bucks
(Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) 		5 June 19, 2016 199 Days Osaka, Japan 2 This was a four-way elimination match, also involving reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) and Roppongi Vice (Beretta and Rocky Romero).
49 Roppongi Vice
(Beretta (3) and Rocky Romero (7)) 		3 January 4, 2017 61 Days Tokyo, Japan 1
50 Suzuki-gun
(Taichi (2) and Yoshinobu Kanemaru (2)) 		1 March 6, 2017 52 Days Tokyo, Japan 1
51 Roppongi Vice
(Beretta (4) and Rocky Romero (8)) 		4 April 27, 2017 45 Days Hiroshima, Japan 0
52 The Young Bucks
(Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) 		6 June 11, 2017 63 Days Osaka, Japan 1
53 Funky Future
(Ricochet (3) and Ryusuke Taguchi (6)) 		1 August 13, 2017 57 Days Tokyo, Japan 1
54 Roppongi 3K
(Sho and Yoh) 		1 October 9, 2017 87 Days Tokyo, Japan 0
55 The Young Bucks
(Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) 		7 January 4, 2018 24 Days Tokyo, Japan 0
56 Roppongi 3K
(Sho and Yoh) 		2 January 28, 2018 37 Days Sapporo, Japan 0
57 Suzuki-gun
(El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru (3)) 		1 March 6, 2018 304 Days Tokyo, Japan 3 This was a three-way match, also involving Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI and Hiromu Takahashi).
58 Los Ingobernables de Japon
(BUSHI and Shingo Takagi) 		1 January 4, 2019 61 Tokyo, Japan 1 This was a three-way match, also involving Roppongi 3K (Sho and Yoh).
59 Roppongi 3K
(Sho and Yoh) 		3 March 6, 2019 102 Days Tokyo, Japan 1
59 Bullet Club
(Taiji Ishimori and El Phantasmo) 		1 June 16, 2019 1769+ Tokyo, Japan 1

Combined reigns

† Indicates the current champion

By team

Rank Team No. of
reigns 		Combined
defenses 		Combined days
1 Gedo and Jado 4 15 960
2 The Young Bucks
(Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) 		7 9 706
3 Apollo 55
(Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) 		4 13 673
4 Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa 2 6 497
5 Time Splitters
(Alex Shelley and KUSHIDA) 		2 6 313
6 Suzuki-gun
(El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) 		1 3 304
7 Jushin Thunder Liger and Koji Kanemoto 1 6 282
8 Hirooki Goto and Minoru 1 2 281
9 Forever Hooligans
(Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero) 		2 5 276
10 Dick Togo and Taka Michinoku 1 3 270
11 Junior Stars
(Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka) 		1 3 254
12 reDRagon
(Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) 		2 3 236
13 Roppongi 3K
(Sho and Yoh) 		3 1 226
14 The Motor City Machine Guns
(Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) 		1 3 182
15 No Remorse Corps
(Davey Richards and Rocky Romero) 		2 1 166
16 Roppongi Vice
(Beretta and Rocky Romero) 		4 1 157
17 Legend
(Akira and Jushin Thunder Liger) 		1 1 155
18 Tsuyoshi Kikuchi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru 1 4 150
19 El Samurai and Ryusuke Taguchi 1 2 139
20 El Samurai and Jushin Thunder Liger 1 1 136
21 Jushin Thunder Liger and Minoru Tanaka 1 1 119
22 Matt Sydal and Ricochet 2 0 106
23 Prince Prince
(Minoru and Prince Devitt) 		2 1 105
24 Golden☆Lovers
(Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi) 		1 2 104
25 Dr. Wagner Jr. and Kendo Kashin 1 2 96
26 The Great Sasuke and Jushin Thunder Liger 1 0 94
27 American Dragon and Curry Man 1 1 85
28 No Limit
(Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro) 		1 1 83
29 El Samurai and Koji Kanemoto 1 0 72
30 Koji Kanemoto and Wataru Inoue 1 2 71
31 Los Ingobernables de Japón
(BUSHI and Shingo Takagi) 		1 1 61
32 Funky Future
(Ricochet and Ryusuke Taguchi) 		1 1 57
33 Suzuki-gun
(Taichi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) 		1 1 52
34 Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask 1 0 36
35 Suzuki-gun
(Taichi and Taka Michinoku) 		1 1 26
36 Bullet Club †
(Taiji Ishimori and El Phantasmo) 		1 1 1769+

By wrestler

Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns 		Combined
defenses 		Combined
days
1 Gedo 4 15 960
Jado 4 15 960
2 Ryusuke Taguchi 6 15 869
3 Jushin Thunder Liger 6 9 822
4 Prince Devitt 6 13 778
5 Minoru/Minoru Tanaka 5 7 759
6 Matt Jackson 7 9 706
Nick Jackson 7 9 706
7 Koji Kanemoto 4 11 679
8 Rocky Romero 8 7 599
9 Yoshinobu Kanemaru 3 8 506
10 Shinjiro Otani 2 6 497
Tatsuhito Takaiwa 2 6 497
11 Alex Shelley 3 9 495
12 El Samurai 3 3 347
13 KUSHIDA 2 6 313
14 El Desperado 1 3 304
15 Taka Michinoku 2 4 296
16 Hirooki Goto 1 2 281
17 Alex Koslov 2 5 276
18 Dick Togo 1 3 270
19 Bobby Fish 2 3 236
Kyle O'Reilly 2 3 236
20 Chris Sabin 1 3 182
21 Davey Richards 2 1 166
22 Ricochet 3 1 163
23 Beretta 4 1 157
24 Akira 1 1 155
25 Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 1 4 150
26 Sho 2 1 226
Yoh 2 1 226
27 Matt Sydal 2 0 106
28 Kenny Omega 1 2 104
Kota Ibushi 1 2 104
29 Dr. Wagner Jr. 1 2 96
Kendo Kashin 1 2 96
30 The Great Sasuke 1 0 94
31 American Dragon 1 1 85
Curry Man 1 1 85
32 Tetsuya Naito 1 1 83
Yujiro 1 1 83
33 Taichi 2 2 78
34 Wataru Inoue 1 2 71
35 BUSHI 1 1 61
Shingo Takagi 1 1 61
36 Tiger Mask 1 0 36
37 Taiji Ishimori † 1 1 1769+
El Phantasmo † 1 1 1769+

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