All Asia Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
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Promotion |
Japan Wrestling Association (1955-1973) All Japan Pro Wrestling (1976-present) |
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Date established | November 16, 1955 | ||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Naoya Nomura and Yuma Aoyagi | ||||||||||
Date won | September 30, 2017 | ||||||||||
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Asia Tag Team Championship
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First champion(s) | King Kong Czaya and Tiger Joginder Singh |
Most reigns |
As individual: Michiaki Yoshimura (10) As team: Dan Kroffat and Doug Furnas (5) |
Longest reign | Jun Akiyama and Takao Omori (1,076 days) |
Shortest reign | Mitsuharu Misawa and Yoshinari Ogawa (<1 day) |
The (All) Asia Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team title in Japanese promotion All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). It was created on November 16, 1955, in the Japan Wrestling Association (JWA) when King Kong Czaya and Tiger Joginder Singh defeated JWA founder Rikidōzan and Harold Sakata in a tournament final. It was abandoned in 1973 when the JWA closed, but was later revived in 1976 by AJPW. It is currently one of two tag team titles in AJPW, along with the World Tag Team Championship. It is also the oldest active title in Japan. There have been a total 103 official reigns, as the first 27 reigns from the JWA is also recognized by AJPW.
As of November 3, 2017.