Asia Tag Team Championship
Asia Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||||||
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Promotion | New Japan Pro-Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||
Date established | October 4, 1976 | ||||||||||||||||
Date retired | April 23, 1981 | ||||||||||||||||
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The Asia Tag Team Championship (アジアタッグ王座, ajiataggu ōza) was a tag team championship established and promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling.[1] It was New Japan Pro-Wrestling's version of the All Asia Tag Team Championship. The first champions were Seiji Sakaguchi and Strong Kobayashi, who defeated Tiger Jeet Singh and Gama Singh in a tournament final.[2] The second and final champions were Tiger Jeet Singh and Umanosuke Ueda, who dethroned the previous champions on July 15, 1977. Both tag teams also won the NWA North American Tag Team Championship at some point during their reigns, but the title was defended separately. The title was retired on April 23, 1981 due to an announcement of the IWGP, a new governing body, which would promote their own-branded championships.
Title history
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parentheses, if different |
Days | Number of days held |
Defences | Number of successful defences |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defences | ||||
1 | Seiji Sakaguchi and Strong Kobayashi | October 4, 1976 | Asia League Tournament | Sendai, Japan | 1 | 284 | 0 | This was a final of the Asia Tag Team League and two out of three falls match, in which Sakaguchi and Kobayashi defeated Tiger Jeet and Gama Singh 2–1 to become the inaugural champions. | |
2 | Tiger Jeet Singh and Umanosuke Ueda | July 15, 1977 | Asia Champion Series | Sapporo, Japan | 1 | 1,420 | 0 | This was two out of three falls match, in which Singh and Ueda won 2–1. | |
— | Deactivated | April 23, 1981 | — | — | — | — | — | Championship retired after announcement of the IWGP. |
References
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- King Kong Czaya and Tiger Joginder Singh
- Dan Miller and Frank Valois
- Rikidōzan and Toyonobori
- Luther Lindsay and Ricky Waldo
- Buddy Austin and Mike Sharpe
- Toyonobori and Michiaki Yoshimura
- Caripus Hurricane and Gene Kiniski
- Giant Baba and Toyonobori
- The Destroyer and Billy Red Lyons
- Joe Carrolo and Killer Karl Kox
- Hiro Matsuda and Michiaki Yoshimura
- Eddie Graham and Killer Karl Kox
- Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura
- Kintarō Ōki and Michiaki Yoshimura
- Antonio Inoki and Michiaki Yoshimura
- Klondike Bill and Skull Murphy
- Antonio Inoki and Kintarō Ōki
- Seiji Sakaguchi and Michiaki Yoshimura
- Great Kojika and Gentetsu Matsuoka
- Great Kojika and Motoshi Okuma
- Jerry and Ted Oates
- Samson Kutsuwada and Akihisa Takachiho
- Animal Hamaguchi and Mighty Inoue
- David Von Erich and Kevin Von Erich
- Takashi Ishikawa and Akio Sato
- Ashura Hara and Mighty Inoue
- Ashura Hara and Takashi Ishikawa
- Animal Hamaguchi and Isamu Teranishi
- Norio Honaga and Isamu Teranishi
- Mighty Inoue and Takashi Ishikawa
- Ashura Hara and Super Strong Machine
- Footloose (Samson Fuyuki and Toshiaki Kawada)
- Shinichi Nakano and Shunji Takano
- Doug Furnas and Dan Kroffat
- Kenta Kobashi and Tiger Mask II
- Shinichi Nagano and Akira Taue
- Johnny Ace and Kenta Kobashi
- British Bruisers (Dynamite Kid and Johnny Smith)
- Billy Black and Joel Deaton
- Tsuyoshi Kikuchi and Kenta Kobashi
- The Eagle and The Patriot
- Jun Akiyama and Takao Omori
- Wolf Hawkfield and Johnny Smith
- Tamon Honda and Jun Izumida
- Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki
- No Fear (Takao Omori and Yoshihiro Takayama)
- Mitsuharu Misawa and Yoshinari Ogawa
- Tamon Honda and Masao Inoue
- Masahito Kakihara and Mitsuya Nagai
- Arashi and Koki Kitahara
- Arashi and Nobutaka Araya
- Kohei Sato and Hirotaka Yokoi
- Kintaro Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda
- Mr. Gannosuke and Tetsuhiro Kuroda
- The Great Kosuke and Shiryu
- Masanobu Fuchi and Genichiro Tenryu
- Mitsuya Nagai and Masayuki Naruse
- RO&D (Buchanan and Rico Constantino)
- Shuji Kondo and "brother" Yasshi
- Katsuhiko Nakajima and Kensuke Sasaki
- Minoru Suzuki and Nosawa Rongai
- S.M.O.P. (Akebono and Ryota Hama)
- Voodoo Murders (TARU and Big Daddy Voodoo)
- Manabu Soya and Seiya Sanada
- Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi
- Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka
- Hikaru Sato and Hiroshi Yamato
- Atsushi Aoki and Kotaro Suzuki
- Jun Akiyama and Yoshinobu Kanemaru
- Team Dream Futures (Keisuke Ishii and Shigehiro Irie)
- Xceed (Kotaro Suzuki and Kento Miyahara)
- Mitsuya Nagai and Takeshi Minamino
- Último Dragón and Yoshinobu Kanemaru
- Yankii Nichokenju (Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto)
- Evolution (Atsushi Aoki and Hikaru Sato)
- Atsushi Onita and Masanobu Fuchi
- Black Tiger VII and Taka Michinoku
- Nextream (Naoya Nomura and Yuma Aoyagi)
- Jun Akiyama and Yuji Nagata
- Sweeper (Jake Lee and Koji Iwamoto)
- Ryuichi Kawakami and Kazumi Kikuta
- Purple Haze (Zeus and Izanagi)
- StrongHearts (El Lindaman and T-Hawk)
- Total Eclipse (Yusuke Kodama and Hokuto Omori)
- Voodoo Murders (Minoru and Toshizo)
- Evolution (Dan Tamura and Hikaru Sato)
- Tajiri and Yoshitatsu
- Gungnir of Anarchy (Masao Hanahata and Yusuke Kodama)
- Masao Inoue and Takao Omori
- Kendo Kashin and Nosawa Rongai
- Atsushi Onita and Yoshitatsu
- Burning (Jun Akiyama and Kotaro Suzuki)
- Eruption (Hideki Okatani and Yukio Sakaguchi)
- Atsushi Onita and Toy Kojima
- Musashi and Seiki Yoshioka (current)
Other recognized champions | |
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Champions recognized by New Japan Pro-Wrestling |