IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship

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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship belts
Details
PromotionNew Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW)
Date establishedAugust 8, 1998
Current champion(s)Bullet Club War Dogs (Clark Connors and Drilla Moloney)
Date wonFebruary 4, 2024
Other name(s)
  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1998–present)
  • IWGP Junior Tag Team Championship
  • IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship
Statistics
First champion(s)Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Most reignsAs tag team: The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) (7 reigns)
As individual: Rocky Romero (8 reigns)
Longest reignShinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa (second reign, 348 days)
Shortest reignMinoru and Prince Devitt (first reign, 21 days)
Oldest championTiger Mask IV
51 years, 6 days
Youngest championFrancesco Akira
22 years, 220 days

The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (IWGPジュニアタッグ王座, IWGP juniataggu ōza) is a

promotion. "IWGP" is the acronym of NJPW's governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix (インターナショナル・レスリング・グラン・プリ, intānashonaru resuringu guran puri). The title was introduced on August 8, 1998, at an NJPW live event.[1] The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is one of two tag team titles contested for in NJPW; the IWGP Tag Team Championship is also sanctioned by NJPW.[2] According to NJPW's official website, the Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is listed as the "IWGP Jr. Tag Class", while the IWGP Tag Team Championship is considered the "IWGP Heavyweight Class".[2] The title is contested for by junior heavyweight wrestlers; the weight-limit for the title is 100 kg (220 lb) per partner.[3]
Being a professional wrestling championship, the title is won as a result of a predetermined outcome.

History

Title changes happen mostly at NJPW-promoted events.

Hernandez and Homicide).[6]

Reigns

Main article: List of IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions

Overall, there have been 74 reigns shared among 53 wrestlers, who made up 40 different teams. The inaugural champions were Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa, who defeated Dr. Wagner Jr. and Koji Kanemoto on August 8, 1998, in the final of a tournament.

Prince Devitt
and Ryusuke Taguchi) hold the record for most defenses during a single reign, with 7.

At 348 days, Otani and Takaiwa's second reign is the longest in the title's history. Minoru and Prince Devitt's first reign is the shortest, at 21 days.

Bullet Club War Dogs (Clark Connors and Drilla Moloney) are the current champions in their second reign as a team as well as individually. They defeated Catch 2/2 (TJP and Francesco Akira) at Road to the New Beginning 2024 to win the championships.

References

General
  • "IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title History". Retrieved September 27, 2009.
  • "IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship history". New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). NJPW.co.jp. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
Specific
  1. ^ "IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship history: Reign 1". New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). NJPW.co.jp. Archived from the original on September 21, 2009. Retrieved September 27, 2009.
  2. ^ a b "IWGP Tag Team Championship history". New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). NJPW.co.jp. Archived from the original on September 27, 2009. Retrieved September 27, 2009.
  3. Hernandez
    weighed more than 100kg, the weight-limit.
  4. ^ Martin, Adam (January 15, 2009). ""Global Impact 2" and New Japan and TNA relations". Wrestleview. Retrieved December 8, 2009.
  5. ^ Martin, Adam (2009-04-02). "Spoilers: Impact tapings for 4/9-16". Wrestleview. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved December 8, 2009.
  6. ^ Caldwell, James (April 19, 2009). "Caldwell's TNA Lockdown PPV report 4/19: Ongoing "virtual time" coverage of all-cage PPV - Sting vs. Foley". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved December 8, 2009.

External links

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