Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship

Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship
The Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship belt (November 2014 — Present)
Details
Promotion	Wrestle-1
Date established	September 22, 2014[1]
Current champion(s)	Kaz Hayashi and Kotaro Suzuki
Date won	September 18, 2016[2]
Statistics First champion(s) Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo)[3] Most reigns Jun Kasai and Manabu Soya (2 reigns) Longest reign Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo) (224 days) Shortest reign new Wild order (Jun Kasai and Manabu Soya) (22 days) Oldest winner Jun Kasai (41 years, 324 days)[4] Youngest winner Yasufumi Nakanoue (29 years, 360 days)[5] Heaviest champion Masayuki Kono and Yuji Okabayashi (115 kg (254 lb))[6][7] Lightest champion Kaz Hayashi (83 kg (183 lb))[8]

The Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship (WRESTLE-1タッグチャンピオンシップ Wrestle-1 Taggu Chanpionshippu) is a professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the Wrestle-1 (W-1) promotion. The title was announced on September 22, 2014, in conjunction with the start of a tournament to crown the first Wrestle-1 Champion. In Japanese the title's name includes the katakana term for "championship", Chanpionshippu (チャンピオンシップ), derived from the English language instead of the more common kanji term Ōza (王座).^[1]

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been seven reigns shared among six teams and ten wrestlers. Kaz Hayashi and Kotaro Suzuki are the current Wrestle-1 Tag Team Champions in their first reign as a team.^[2] Individually, this is the second reign for Hayashi and the first for Suzuki.^[3]

History

Championship tournament

On September 22, 2014, during the second day of a tournament to determine the inaugural Wrestle-1 Champion, it was announced that Wrestle-1 would also be introducing its own tag team championship.^[1][9][10] Through Wrestle-1's relationship with American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), the promotion had previously presented a match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship.^[11][12] The first Wrestle-1 Tag Team Champions would be crowned in the "First Tag League Greatest" round-robin tournament taking place between November 15 and 30, 2014.^[1] The two blocks containing the ten participating teams were revealed on November 3.^[13][14][15] The teams were later given official team names on November 14.^[16] In the tournament, a win was worth two points, a draw one point and a loss zero points. The top two teams from each block advanced to the semifinals and the winners wrestled in the tournament final to determine the inaugural champions.^[13] On November 27, Seiki Yoshioka pulled out of the tournament with a knee injury, forcing his team to forfeit their final match in the tournament.^[17][18] On November 30, Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo) defeated the new Wild order (Akira and Manabu Soya) in the finals to win the tournament and become the inaugural Wrestle-1 Tag Team Champions.^[3][19][20]

Final standings

A		B
Wrestlers	Score	Wrestlers	Score
Masayuki Kono and Tajiri (Desperado)	8	Kai and Ryota Hama (Akatenrou)	6
Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo (Team 246)	6	Akira and Manabu Soya (new Wild order)	5
Jiro Kuroshio and Masakatsu Funaki (Ikemen Samurai)	4	Minoru Tanaka and Seiki Yoshioka (Too Sharp)	4
Taiyō Kea and Yasufumi Nakanoue (Sunrise)	2	Hiroshi Yamato and Seiya Sanada (Seiya to Hiroshi)	4
Mazada and Nosawa Rongai (Tokyo Gurentai)	0	Koji Doi and Yusuke Kodama (Novus)	1

A	Kuroshio Funaki	Hayashi Kondo	Kono Tajiri	Mazada Nosawa	Kea Nakanoue
Kuroshio Funaki	X	Hayashi Kondo (12:10)[21]	Kono Tajiri (10:52)[22]	Kuroshio Funaki (09:55)[23]	Kuroshio Funaki (12:38)[24]
Hayashi Kondo	Hayashi Kondo (12:10)[21]	X	Kono Tajiri (14:46)[23]	Hayashi Kondo (06:28)[25]	Hayashi Kondo (13:28)[22]
Kono Tajiri	Kono Tajiri (10:52)[22]	Kono Tajiri (14:46)[23]	X	Kono Tajiri (03:35)[24]	Kono Tajiri (09:18)[25]
Mazada Nosawa	Kuroshio Funaki (09:55)[23]	Hayashi Kondo (06:28)[25]	Kono Tajiri (03:35)[24]	X	Kea Nakanoue (07:54)[21]
Kea Nakanoue	Kuroshio Funaki (12:38)[24]	Hayashi Kondo (13:28)[22]	Kono Tajiri (09:18)[25]	Kea Nakanoue (07:54)[21]	X
B	Akira Soya	Yamato Sanada	Kai Hama	Doi Kodama	Tanaka Yoshioka
Akira Soya	X	Draw (30:00)[22]	Kai Hama (16:22)[21]	Akira Soya (09:52)[23]	Akira Soya (14:46)[25]
Yamato Sanada	Draw (30:00)[22]	X	Yamato Sanada (17:08)[23]	Draw (30:00)[25]	Tanaka Yoshioka (15:50)[24]
Kai Hama	Kai Hama (16:22)[21]	Yamato Sanada (17:08)[23]	X	Kai Hama (12:05)[24]	Kai Hama (forfeit)[17]
Doi Kodama	Akira Soya (09:52)[23]	Draw (30:00)[25]	Kai Hama (12:05)[24]	X	Tanaka Yoshioka (10:20)[21]
Tanaka Yoshioka	Akira Soya (14:46)[25]	Tanaka Yoshioka (15:50)[24]	Kai Hama (forfeit)[17]	Tanaka Yoshioka (10:20)[21]	X

	Semifinals					Final
	A1	Kono and Tajiri	Pin
	B2	Akira and Soya	09:15[3]
						Akira and Soya		Pin
						Hayashi and Kondo		26:05[3]
	B1	Kai and Hama	Pin
	A2	Hayashi and Kondo	11:37[3]

Title history

#	Order in reign history
Reign	The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
Event	The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title was won
Successful defenses	The number of successful defenses the champions had during their reign
—	Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
+	Indicates the current reign is changing daily

#	Team	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Successful defenses	Notes	Ref(s)
1	Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo)	1	November 30, 2014	224	Tokyo	First Tag League Greatest	7[26]	Hayashi and Kondo defeated Akira and Manabu Soya in the finals of a ten-team tournament to become the inaugural champions.	[3][19][20]
2	new Wild order (Jun Kasai and Manabu Soya)	1	July 12, 2015	138	Tokyo	Symbol	2[27]		[26][28][29]
3	TriggeR (Masayuki Kono and Shuji Kondo (2))	1	November 27, 2015	100	Tokyo	Autumn Bout	0[30]		[27][31]
4	Real Desperado (Kazma Sakamoto and Yuji Hino)	1	March 6, 2016	94	Sendai	Trans Magic	2[32]		[30]
5	Yasufumi Nakanoue and Yuji Okabayashi	1	June 8, 2016	51	Tokyo	Outbreak	1[33]		[32][34]
6	new Wild order (Jun Kasai and Manabu Soya)	2	July 29, 2016	22	Tokyo	Symbol	0		[33][35]
—	Vacated	—	August 20, 2016	—	—	—	—	Title vacated due to Soya being sidelined with a shoulder injury.	[36][37]
7	Kaz Hayashi (2) and Kotaro Suzuki	1	September 18, 2016	79+	Tokyo	3rd Anniversary	1[38]	Hayashi and Kondo defeated "brother" Yasshi and Shuji Kondo to win the vacant title.	[2][39][40]

Combined reigns

As of December 6, 2016

†	Indicates the current champions
<1	Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day

By team

Rank	Team	No. of reigns	Combined defenses	Combined days
1	Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo)	1	7	224
2	new Wild order (Jun Kasai and Manabu Soya)	2	2	160
3	TriggeR (Masayuki Kono and Shuji Kondo)	1	0	100
4	Real Desperado (Kazma Sakamoto and Yuji Hino)	1	2	94
5	Kaz Hayashi and Kotaro Suzuki†	1	1	79+
6	Yasufumi Nakanoue and Yuji Okabayashi	1	1	51

By wrestler

Rank	Wrestler	No. of reigns	Combined defenses	Combined days
1	Shuji Kondo	2	7	324
2	Kaz Hayashi†	2	8	303+
3	Jun Kasai	2	2	160
3	Manabu Soya	2	2	160
5	Masayuki Kono	1	0	100
6	Kazma Sakamoto	1	2	94
6	Yuji Hino	1	2	94
8	Kotaro Suzuki†	1	1	79+
9	Yasufumi Nakanoue	1	1	51
9	Yuji Okabayashi	1	1	51

See also

• Wrestle-1
• Wrestle-1 Cruiser Division Championship
• Wrestle-1 Championship

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External links

• Official title history at W-1.co.jp (Japanese)
• Title history at Wrestling-Titles.com