IWGP Tag Team Championship

IWGP Tag Team Championship
Details
Current Champion(s)	Bullet Club (KENTA and Chase Owens)
Date Won	February 11, 2024
Promotion(s)	New Japan Pro Wrestling Ring of Honor (ROH) Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) All Elite Wrestling (AEW)
Date Established	December 12, 1985
Statistics
First champion(s)	Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami
Most reigns	(as a team) Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) (7 reigns) (as an individual) Hiroyoshi Tenzan (11 reigns)
Longest reign	Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) (564 days)
Shortest reign	Keiji Mutoh and Shiro Koshinaka (6 days)
Other Name(s)	• IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship • IWGP World Tag Team Championship (used by ROH and TNA)

The IWGP Tag Team Championship (IWGPタッグ王座, IWGP Taggu Ōza) is the top tag team championship in the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. "IWGP" is the acronym of the NJPW's governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix. The title was introduced on December 12, 1985 at a NJPW live event. The IWGP Tag Team Championship is not the only tag team title contested for in NJPW; the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is also sanctioned by NJPW. According to NJPW's official website, the IWGP Tag Team Championship is considered an "IWGP Heavy Weight Class", while the Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is listed as an "IWGP Jr. Tag Class". Title changes usually happen at NJPW-promoted events; although the title has only changed hands twice at a non-NJPW event, it has been defended in several other promotions.

Overview

The inaugural champions were Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami, who defeated Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi in the finals of a tournament to win the championship on December 12, 1985, at a NJPW live event. In addition to NJPW, the IWGP Tag Team Championship was also contested in the United States-based promotions World Championship Wrestling (WCW) (now defunct) in the early 1990s and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in 2009, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) in 2023, and in the Mexican lucha libre promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Spanish for Worldwide Wrestling Council) in 2005.

On October 30, 2005, in Kobe, Tenzan and Chono defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi and Shinsuke Nakamura to begin their fifth overall reign as a team. On July 2, 2006, a provisional tag team title was created (known as the "IWGP Provisional Tag Team Championship") when Tenzan and Chono showed signs of inactivity. Koshinaka and Togi Makabe defeated the teams of Yuji Nagata and Naofumi Yamamoto and Giant Bernard and Travis Tomko in a three-way match to become the first champions. NJPW president Simon Kelly Inoki stripped Tenzan and Chono of the IWGP Tag Team Championship on September 20, 2006, after Tenzan and Chono ceased teaming. Manabu Nakanishi and Takao Omori, who defeated Koshinaka and Makabe on July 17, 2006, to become the IWGP Provisional Tag Team Champions, were recognized as the IWGP Tag Team Champions on September 28, 2006, by NJPW.

In 2009, The British Invasion, defeated Team 3D on July 21, 2009, at the taping of the July 30, 2009, episode of TNA's primary television program, TNA Impact!, in a tables match. Afterwards, NJPW released a statement announcing that they did not sanction the defense nor the title change, and as such were not going to recognize the reign. They continued to recognize Team 3D as the current champions and proclaimed that the next title defense would be by Team 3D and would be sanctioned by NJPW. On August 10, 2009, NJPW issued another press release stating that they were now recognizing The British Invasion of Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams as the current IWGP Tag Team Champions, making the reign official.

Title History

#	Tag Team (Individual Reigns)	Team Reigns	Date	Location	Length	Defenses	Notes
1	Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami	1	December 12, 1985	Sendai	236 Days	5	Kimura and Fujinami defeated Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi in a tournament final to become the first champions.
2	Akira Maeda and Osamu Kido	1	August 5, 1986	Tokyo	49 Days	1
3	Kengo Kimura (2) and Tatsumi Fujinami (2)	2	September 23, 1986	Tokyo	35 Days	0
—	Vacated	—	February 5, 1987	N/A	—	—	The championship was vacated when Kimura and Fujinami split up.
4	Keiji Mutoh and Shiro Koshinaka	1	March 20, 1987	Tokyo	6 Days	0	Koshinaka and Mutoh defeated Akira Maeda and Nobuhiko Takada in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.
5	Akira Maeda (2) and Nobuhiko Takada	1	March 26, 1987	Osaka	159 Days	2
6	Kazuo Yamazaki and Yoshiaki Fujiwara	1	September 1, 1987	Osaka	139 Days	2
7	Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami	3	January 18, 1988	Takuyama	144 Days	3
8	Masa Saito and Riki Choshu	1	June 10, 1988	Hiroshima	282 Days	4
9	George Takano and Super Strong Machine	1	March 19, 1989	Yokohama	116 Days	1
10	Riki Choshu (2) and Takayuki Iizuka	1	July 13, 1989	Tokyo	69 Days	1
11	Masa Saito (2) and Shinya Hashimoto	1	September 20, 1989	Osaka	219 Days	3
12	Masahiro Chono and Keiji Mutoh (2)	1	April 27, 1990	Tokyo	189 Days	3
13	Hiroshi Hase and Kensuke Sasaki	1	November 1, 1990	Tokyo	55 Days	2
14	Hiro Saito and Super Strong Machine (2)	1	December 26, 1990	Hamamatsu	70 Days	2
15	Hiroshi Hase and Kensuke Sasaki	2	March 6, 1991	Nagasaki	15 Days	0
16	The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner)	1	March 21, 1991	Tokyo	229 Days	2	The Steiners WCW World Tag Team Championship was also on the line.
17	Hiroshi Hase (3) and Keiji Mutoh (3)	1	November 5, 1991	Tokyo	117 Days	2	Scott Norton substituted for an injured Scott Steiner in this match.
18	Big, Bad, and Dangerous (Big Van Vader and Crusher Bam Bam Bigelow)	1	March 1, 1992	Yokohama	117 Days	2
19	The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner)	2	June 26, 1992	Tokyo	149 Days	3	The Steiners' WCW World Tag Team Championship was also on the line.
20	Scott Norton and Tony Halme	1	November 22, 1992	Tokyo	22 Days	0
21	The Hell Raisers (Hawk Warrior and Power Warrior (3))	1	December 14, 1992	Tokyo	234 Days	4
22	The Jurassic Powers (Hercules Hernandez and Scott Norton (2))	1	August 5, 1993	Tokyo	152 Days	3
23	The Hell Raisers (Hawk Warrior (2) and Power Warrior (4))	2	January 4, 1994	Tokyo	325 Days	2
24	Hiroshi Hase (4) and Keiji Mutoh (4)	2	November 25, 1994	Iwate	162 Days	2
—	Vacated	—	May 6, 1995	N/A	—	—	The title was vacated by Mutoh after he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.
25	Cho-Ten (Masahiro Chono (2) and Hiroyoshi Tenzan)	1	June 10, 1995	Osaka	27 Days	0	Chono and Tenzan defeated Junji Hirata and Shinya Hashimoto to win the vacant championship.
—	Vacated	—	July 7, 1995	N/A	—	—	The title was vacated when Chono missed a title defense due to his father's death.
26	Junji Hirata (3) and Shinya Hashimoto (2)	1	July 13, 1995	Sapporo	335 Days	6	Hashimoto and Hirata defeated Mike Enos and Scott Norton to win the vacant championship.
27	Kazuo Yamazaki (2) and Takashi Iizuka (2)	1	June 12, 1996	Osaka	34 Days	0
28	Cho-Ten (Masahiro Chono (3) and Hiroyoshi Tenzan (2))	2	July 16, 1996	Sapporo	172 Days	2
29	Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami	4	January 4, 1997	Tokyo	98 Days	3
30	Kensuke Sasaki (5) and Riki Choshu (3)	1	April 12, 1997	Tokyo	21 Days	0
31	The Bull Powers (Manabu Nakanishi and Satoshi Kojima)	1	May 3, 1997	Osaka	99 Days	1
32	Kazuo Yamazaki (3) and Kensuke Sasaki (6)	1	August 10, 1997	Nagoya	70 Days	0
33	Masahiro Chono (4) and Keiji Mutoh (5)	2	October 19, 1997	Kobe	184 Days	2
—	Vacated	—	April 21, 1998	N/A	—	—	The title was vacated due to Mutoh having surgery on his knee.
34	Cho-Ten (Masahiro Chono (5) and Hiroyoshi Tenzan (3))	3	June 5, 1998	Tokyo	40 Days	0	Chono and Tenzan defeated Genichiro Tenryu and Shiro Koshinaka in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.
35	Genichiro Tenryu and Shiro Koshinaka (2)	1	July 15, 1998	Saporo	173 Days	2
36	Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan (4) and Satoshi Kojima (3))	1	January 25, 1998	Tokyo	77 Days	1
37	Kensuke Sasaki (7) and Shiro Koshinaka (3)	1	March 22, 1999	Amagasaki	97 Days	2
38	The Mad Dogs (Michiyoshi Ohara and Tatsutoshi Goto)	1	June 27, 1999	Shizuoka	62 Days	1
39	Manabu Nakanishi (2) and Yuji Nagata	1	August 28, 1999	Shizuoka	327 Days	1
40	Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan (5) and Satoshi Kojima (4))	2	July 20, 2000	Tokyo	430 Days	6
41	Osamu Nishimura and Tatsumi Fujinami (5)	1	September 23, 2001	Osaka	35 Days	1
42	BATT (Keiji Mutoh (6) and Taiyo Kea)	1	October 28, 2001	Fukuoka	97 Days	0
—	Vacated	—	February 2, 2002	—	—	—	The title was vacated due to Mutoh leaving NJPW.
43	Cho-Ten (Masahiro Chono (6) and Hiroyoshi Tenzan (6))	4	March 24, 2002	Kobe	446 Days	7	Chono and Tenzan defeated Manabu Nakanishi and Yuji Nagata in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.
44	Hiroshi Tanahashi and Yutaka Yoshie	1	June 13, 2003	Tokyo	184 Days	3
45	Hiroyoshi Tenzan (7) and Osamu Nishimura (2)	1	December 14, 2003	Nagoya	49 Days	0
46	Minoru Suzuki and Yoshihiro Takayama	1	February 1, 2004	Sapporo	294 Days	4
—	Vacated	—	November 21, 2004	—	—	—	The title was vacated due to Takayama being sidelined with an injury.
47	Hiroshi Tanahashi (2) and Shinsuke Nakamura	1	December 11, 2004	Osaka	323 Days	4	Tanahashi and Nakamura defeated Kensuke Sasaki and Minoru Suzuki to win the vacant title.
48	Cho-Ten (Masahiro Chono (7) and Hiroyoshi Tenzan(8))	5	October 30, 2005	Kobe	325 Days	3
—	Vacated	—	September 20, 2006	—	—	—	NJPW president Simon Kelly Inoki stripped Chono and Tenzan of the title after Chono and Tenzan ceased teaming.
49	Wild Child (Manabu Nakanishi (3) and Takao Omori)	1	September 28, 2006	Sapporo	164 Days	1	An interim tag team title was created on July 2, 2006, when Chono and Tenzan showed signs of inactivity; Shiro Koshinaka and Togi Makabe were the first champions. Nakanishi and Ōmori were recognized as the official champions on September 28, 2006 after they won the interim Tag Team Championship on July 17, 2006.
50	RISE (Giant Bernard and Travis Tomko)	1	March 11, 2007	Nagoya	343 Days	5
51	The Most Violent Players (Togi Makabe and Toru Yano)	1	February 17, 2008	Tokyo	322 Days	4
52	Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon)	1	January 4, 2009	Tokyo	198 Days	4
53	The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams)	1	July 21, 2009	Orlando, Florida	89 Days	1	This was a tables match that aired on the July 30, 2009, episode of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Impact!. NJPW did not sanction the match, nor initially recognize nor sanction the title change until August 10.
54	Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon)	2	October 18, 2009	Irvine, CA	78 Days	1	This was a four-way Full Metal Mayhem Tag Team Match, which also included Beer Money, Inc. and Booker T and Scott Steiner and was contested also for the TNA World Tag Team Championship, which was won by The British Invasion.
55	No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro Takahashi)	2	October 18, 2009	Tokyo	119 Days	1	This was a 3-Way Hardcore Match, which also included Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson).
56	Seigigun (Wataru Inoue and Yuji Nagata (2))	2	May 3, 2010	Fukuoka	47 Days	0	This was a 3-Way Match, which also included Bad Intentions (Karl Anderson and Giant Bernard).
57	Bad Intentions (Karl Anderson and Giant Bernard (2))	1	June 19, 2010	Osaka	564 Days	0	This was a three-way elimination match, which also included No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro Takahashi).
58	Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan (9) and Satoshi Kojima (4))	3	January 4, 2012	Tokyo	120 Days	2
59	CHAOS (Toru Yano (2) and Takashi Iizuka (3))	1	May 3, 2012	Fukuoka	48 Days	0
—	Vacated	—	June 20, 2012	N/A	—	—	Iizuka and Yano were stripped of the titles, after a title match between them and Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima) on June 16 ended in a no contest.
60	Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan (10) and Satoshi Kojima (5))	4	July 22, 2012	Yamagata	78 Days	0	Tenzan and Kojima defeated Chaos (Toru Yano and Takashi Iizuka) to win the vacant titles.
61	K.E.S. (Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer)	1	October 8, 2012	Tokyo	207 Days	5
62	Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan (11) and Satoshi Kojima (6))	5	May 3, 2013	Fukuoka	190 Days	2	This was a four-way match, which also included Chaos (Toru Yano and Takashi Iizuka) and Muscle Orchestra (Manabu Nakanishi and Strong Man).
63	K.E.S. (Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer)	2	November 9, 2013	Osaka	56 Days	0	This was the second fall of a two-fall three-way tornado tag team match which also included The IronGodz (Rob Conway and Jax Dane).
64	Bullet Club (Karl Anderson (2) and Doc Gallows)	1	January 4, 2014	Tokyo	365 Days	6
65	Meiyu Tag (Hirooki Goto and Katsuyori Shibata)	1	January 4, 2015	Tokyo	38 Days	0
66	Bullet Club (Karl Anderson (3) and Doc Gallows (2))	2	February 11, 2015	Osaka	53 Days	0
67	The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Michael Bennett)	1	February 11, 2015	Osaka	91 Days	0
68	Bullet Club (Karl Anderson (4) and Doc Gallows (3))	3	July 5, 2015	Osaka	183 Days	1
69	G.B.H. (Togi Makabe (2) and Tomoaki Honma)	1	January 4, 2016	Tokyo	97 Days	1
70	Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Roa)	1	April 10, 2016	Tokyo	70 Days	1
71	The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe)	1	June 19, 2016	Osaka	113 Days	2
72	Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Roa)	2	October 10, 2016	Tokyo	86 Days	1
73	CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano (3))	1	January 4, 2017	Tokyo	61 Days	2	This was a three-way match, which also included G.B.H. (Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma)
74	Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan (12) and Satoshi Kojima (7))	6	March 6, 2017	Tokyo	34 Days	0
75	War Machine (Hanson and Raymond Rowe)	1	April 9, 2017	Tokyo	63 Days	1
76	Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Roa)	3	June 11, 2017	Osaka	20 Days	0
77	War Machine (Hanson and Raymond Rowe)	2	July 1, 2017	Long Beach, California	85 Days	3	This was a no DQ match.
78	K.E.S. (Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer)	3	September 24, 2017	Kobe	102 Days	1	This was a three-way tornado tag team match, which also included Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa).
79	Los Ingobernables de Japón (EVIL and SANADA)	1	January 4, 2018	Tokyo	156 Days	2
80	The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson)	1	June 9, 2018	Osaka	113 Days	1
81	Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Roa)	4	September 30, 2018	Long Beach, California	96 Days	0
82	Los Ingobernables de Japón (EVIL and SANADA)	2	January 4, 2019	Tokyo	50 Days	1	This was a three-way match, also involving The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson).
83	Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Roa)	5	February 23, 2019	Tokyo	315 Days	7
84	FinJuice (Juice Robinson and David Finlay)	1	January 4, 2020	Tokyo	29 Days	0
85	Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Roa)	6	February 1, 2020	Atlanta, Georgia	20 Days	0
86	Golden☆Ace (Hiroshi Tanahashi (3) and Kota Ibushi)	1	February 21, 2020	Tokyo	142 Days	0
87	Dangerous Tekkers (Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr.)	1	July 12, 2020	Osaka	176 Days	2
88	Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Roa)	7	Janaury 4, 2021	Tokyo	148 Days	2
89	Dangerous Tekkers (Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr.)	2	June 1, 2021	Tokyo	40 Days	0
90	Los Ingobernables de Japón (Tetsuya Naito (2) and SANADA (3))	1	July 11, 2021	Sapporo	14 Days	0
91	Dangerous Tekkers (Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr.)	3	July 25, 2021	Tokyo	163 Days	1
92	Bishamon (Hirooki Goto (2) and Yoshi-Hashi)	1	January 4, 2022	Tokyo	95 Days	1
93	United Empire (Jeff Cobb and Great-O-Khan)	1	April 9, 2022	Tokyo	22 Days	0
94	General’s Jewel (Bad Luck Fale and Chase Owens)	1	May 5, 2022	Fukuoka	42 Days	0
95	United Empire (Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb)	2	June 12, 2022	Osaka	14 Days	0
96	FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler)	1	June 26, 2022	Chicago, Illinois	192 Days	2
97	Bishamon (Hirooki Goto (3) and Yoshi-Hashi (2))	2	January 4, 2023	Tokyo	94 Days	2
98	Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis)	1	April 8, 2023	Tokyo	43 Days	2
—	Vacated	—	May 21, 2023	Long Beach, California	—	—	Kyle Fletcher voluntarily relinquished the titles after Mark Davis sustained an injury.
97	Bishamon (Hirooki Goto (4) and Yoshi-Hashi (3))	3	June 4, 2023	Osaka	214 Days	2	Defeated House of Torture (EVIL and Yujiro Takahashi) in a decision match, also involving United Empire (Great O-Khan and Aaron Henare). This match was also for the Strong Openweight Tag Team Championships.
98	Guerrillas of Destiny (Hikuleo and El Phantasmo)	1	January 4, 2024	Tokyo	38 Days	0	This match was also for the Strong Openweight Tag Team Championships.
99	Bullet Club (KENTA and Chase Owens (2))	1	February 11, 2024	Osaka	68+	0

Combined reigns

As of April 19, 2024.

†	Indicates the current champions

By team

Rank	Team	No. of reigns	Combined defenses	Combined days
1	Cho-Ten (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Masahiro Chono)	5	12	1,010
2	Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima)	6	11	929
3	Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa)			756
4	Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami	4		613
5	Bullet Club (Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows)	3	7	601
6	Bad Intentions (Karl Anderson and Giant Bernard)	1	10	564
7	The Hell Raisers (Hawk Warrior and Power Warrior)	2	6	559
8	Bishamon (Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi)	3	5	403
9	Dangerous Tekkers (Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr.)		3	379
10	The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner)	2	5	378
11	Masahiro Chono and Keiji Mutoh			373
12	K.E.S. (Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer)	3	6	365
13	RISE (Giant Bernard and Travis Tomko)	1	5	343
14	Junji Hirata and Shinya Hashimoto		6	335
15	Manabu Nakanishi and Yuji Nagata		4	327
16	Hiroshi Tanahashi and Shinsuke Nakamura			323
17	The Most Violent Players (Togi Makabe and Toru Yano)	1	4	322
18	Minoru Suzuki and Yoshihiro Takayama			294
19	Masa Saito and Riki Choshu			282
20	Hiroshi Hase and Keiji Mutoh	2	3	279
21	Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon)		5	276
22	Masa Saito and Shinya Hashimoto	1	3	219
23	Los Ingobernables de Japon (EVIL and SANADA)	2	3	206
24	FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler)	1	2	192
25	Hiroshi Tanahashi and Yutaka Yoshie	1	3	184
26	Genichiro Tenryu and Shiro Koshinaka	1	2	173
27	Wild Child (Manabu Nakanishi and Takao Omori)		1	164
28	Akira Maeda and Nobuhiko Takada		2	159
29	The Jurassic Powers (Hercules Hernandez and Scott Norton)		3	152
30	War Machine (Hanson and Raymond Rowe)	2	4	148
31	Golden☆Ace (Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kota Ibushi)	1	0	142
32	Kazuo Yamazaki and Yoshiaki Fujiwara		2	139
33	No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro Takahashi)		1	119
34	Big, Bad, and Dangerous (Big Van Vader and Crusher Bam Bam Bigelow)		2	117
35	George Takano and Super Strong Machine		1	116
36	The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson)		1	113
	The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe)		2	113
38	The Bull Powers (Manabu Nakanishi and Satoshi Kojima)		1	99
39	Kensuke Sasaki and Shiro Koshinaka		2	97
	G.B.H. (Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma)		1	97
	BATT (Keiji Mutoh and Taiyō Kea)		0	97
42	The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Michael Bennett)			91
43	The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams)		1	89
44	Hiroshi Hase and Kensuke Sasaki	2	2	70
	Hiro Saito and Super Strong Machine	1		70
	Kazuo Yamazaki and Kensuke Sasaki		0	70
47	Riki Choshu and Takayuki Iizuka		1	69
48	The Mad Dogs (Michiyoshi Ohara and Tatsutoshi Goto)			62
49	CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano)		2	61
50	Akira Maeda and Osamu Kido		1	49
	Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Osamu Nishimura		0	49
52	CHAOS (Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano)			48
53	Seigigun (Wataru Inoue and Yuji Nagata)			47
54	Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis)		2	43
55	General’s Jewel (Bad Luck Fale and Chase Owens)		0	42
56	Meiyu Tag (Hirooki Goto and Katsuyori Shibata)			38
	Guerrillas of Destiny (Hikuleo and El Phantasmo)
57	United Empire (Jeff Cobb and Great-O-Khan)	2		36
58	Osamu Nishimura and Tatsumi Fujinami	1	1	35
59	Kazuo Yamazaki and Takashi Iizuka		0	34
60	FinJuice (Juice Robinson and David Finlay)			29
61	Scott Norton and Tony Halme			22
62	Kensuke Sasaki and Riki Choshu			21
64	Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito and SANADA)			14
63	Bullet Club † (KENTA and Chase Owens)			68+
65	Keiji Mutoh and Shiro Koshinaka		0	6

By wrestler

Rank	Wrestler	No. of reigns	Combined defenses	Combined days
1	Hiroyoshi Tenzan	12	23	1,988
2	Masahiro Chono	7	17	1,383
3	Karl Anderson	4		1,165
4	Satoshi Kojima	7	12	1,028
5	Giant Bernard	2	15	907
6	Kensuke Sasaki/Power Warrior	7	10	816
7	Keiji Mutoh	6	8	755
8	Tama Tonga	7	10	754
	Tanga Loa
10	Hiroshi Tanahashi	3	7	649
11	Tatsumi Fujinami	5	12	648
12	Kengo Kimura	4	11	613
13	Doc Gallows	3	7	601
14	Manabu Nakanishi		6	590
15	Hawk Warrior	2		559
16	Shinya Hashimoto		9	554
17	Junji Hirata/Super Strong Machine	3		521
18	Masa Saito	2	7	501
19	Hirooki Goto	4	5	441
20	Toru Yano	3	6	431
21	Togi Makabe	2	5	419
22	Yoshi-Hashi			403
24	Taichi	3	3	379
	Zack Sabre Jr.
25	Rick Steiner	2	5	378
	Scott Steiner
27	Yuji Nagata		4	374
28	Riki Choshu	3	5	372
29	Davey Boy Smith Jr.		6	365
	Lance Archer
30	Hiroshi Hase	4	5	348
31	Travis Tomko	1		343
32	Shinsuke Nakamura		4	323
34	Minoru Suzuki	1	4	294
	Yoshihiro Takayama
36	Shiro Koshinaka	4		276
	Brother Ray	2	5
	Brother Devon
39	Kazuo Yamazaki	3	2	243
40	SANADA		2	220
41	Akira Maeda	2	3	208
42	EVIL		2	206
43	Dax Harwood	1		192
	Cash Wheeler
45	Yutaka Yoshie		3	184
46	Scott Norton	2		174
47	Genichiro Tenryu	1	2	173
48	Takao Omori		1	164
49	Nobuhiko Takada		2	159
50	Hercules Hernandez		3	152
51	Takayuki/Takashi Iizuka	3	1	151
52	Hanson	2	4	148
	Raymond Rowe
54	Kota Ibushi	1	0	142
55	Yoshiaki Fujiwara		2	139
56	Tetsuya Naito	2	1	133
57	George Takano	1	1	119
	Yujiro Takahashi			119
59	Big Van Vader		2	117
	Crusher Bam Bam Bigelow
61	Jay Briscoe		2	113
	Mark Briscoe
	Matt Jackson		1
	Nick Jackson
65	Tomoaki Honma		1	97
	Taiyō Kea		0
67	Matt Taven		0	91
	Michael Bennett
69	Brutus Magnus		1	89
	Doug Williams
71	Osamu Nishimura	2	1	84
72	Hiro Saito	1	2	70
73	Michiyoshi Ohara		1	62
	Tatsutoshi Goto
75	Tomohiro Ishii		2	61
76	Chase Owens †	2	0	110+
77	Osamu Kido	1	1	49
78	Wataru Inoue		0	47
79	Kyle Fletcher		2	43
	Mark Davis
80	Bad Luck Fale		0	42
81	Katsuyori Shibata			38
	Hikuleo
	El Phantasmo
82	Jeff Cobb	2		36
	Great-O-Khan
85	Juice Robinson	1		29
	David Finlay
87	Tony Halme			22
88	KENTA †			68+

Gallery

• Gallery
• Champions

Original belt design

Second belt design

Third belt design

Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami

Osamu Kido and Akira Maeda

Keiji Mutoh and Shiro Koshinaka

Akira Maeda and Nobuhiko Takada

Kazuo Yamazaki and Yoshiaki Fujiwara

Riki Choshu and Masa Saito

George Takano and Super Strong Machine

Riki Choshu and Takayuki Iizuka

Masa Saito and Shinya Hashimoto

Keiji Mutoh and Masahiro Chono

Hiroshi Hase and Kensuke Sasaki

Rick and Scott Steiner

Big Van Vader and Crusher Bam Bam Bigelow

Scott Norton and Tony Halme

Hawk and Power Warrior

Junji Hirata and Shinya Hashimoto

Kazuo Yamazaki and Takashi Iizuka

Kensuke Sasaki and Riki Choshu

Masahiro Chono and Hiroyoshi Tenzan

Manabu Nakanishi and Satoshi Kojima

Satoshi Kojima and Hiroyoshi Tenzan

Kensuke Sasaki and Shiro Koshinaka

Michiyoshi Ohara and Tatsutoshi Goto

Osamu Nishimura and Tatsumi Fujinami

Keiji Mutoh and Taiyo Kea

Hiroshi Tanahashi and Yutaka Yoshie

Osamu Nishimura and Hiroyoshi Tenzan

Minoru Suzuki and Yoshihiro Takayama

Hiroshi Tanahashi and Shinsuke Nakamura

Manabu Nakanishi and Takao Omori

Giant Bernard and Travis Tomko

Togi Makabe and Toru Yano

Brother Ray and Brother Devon

Doug Willams and Brutus Magnus

Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro Takahashi

Yuji Nagata and Wataru Inoue

Karl Anderson and Giant Bernard

Toru Yano and Takashi Iizuka

Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer

Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows

Hirooki Goto and Katsuyori Shibata

Michael Bennett and Matt Taven

Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma

Tanga Roa and Tama Tonga

Jay and Mark Briscoe

Toru Yano and Tomohiro Ishii

Hanson and Raymond Rowe

EVIL and SANADA

Nick Jackson and Matt Jackson

Juice Robinson and David Finlay

Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kota Ibushi

Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr.

Tetsuya Naito and SANADA

Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi

Jeff Cobb and Great O-Khan

Bad Luck Fale and Chase Owens

Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood

Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis

Hikuleo and El Phantasmo

KENTA and Chase Owens