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) | Atsushi Onita and Masanobu Fuchi | ||||||||||
Date won | November 27, 2016 | ||||||||||
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Asia Tag Team Championship
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First champion(s) | King Kong Czaya & Tiger Joginder Singh |
Most reigns |
As individual: Michiaki Yoshimura (10) As team: Dan Kroffat and Doug Furnas (5) |
Longest reign | Jun Akiyama & Takao Omori (1,076 days) |
Shortest reign | Mitsuharu Misawa & 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 & Tiger Joginder Singh defeated JWA founder Rikidōzan & 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 100 official reigns, as the first 27 reigns from the JWA is also recognized by AJPW.
As of February 12, 2017.