World Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
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Promotion | All Japan Pro Wrestling | ||||||||||
Date established | June 10, 1988 | ||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Bodyguard and Zeus | ||||||||||
Date won | November 27, 2016 | ||||||||||
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Statistics | |
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First champion(s) | Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu |
Most reigns |
As individual: Toshiaki Kawada (9) As team: Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (6) |
Longest reign | Taiyō Kea & Minoru Suzuki (554 days) |
Shortest reign | Ashura Hara & Genichiro Tenryu (1 day) |
The World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team championship in Japanese promotion All Japan Pro Wrestling. It was created on June 10, 1988 as a unification of two previous tag team titles in All Japan; the PWF Tag Team Championship, and the NWA International Tag Team Championship; when the PWF champions Jumbo Tsuruta and Yoshiaki Yatsu defeated NWA champions The Road Warriors. As with the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship, it is symbolized by four belts, two for each wrestler, representing the former PWF and NWA titles. It is currently the top of two tag team titles in AJPW, along with the secondary All Asia Tag Team Championship. There have been a total of 53 recognized individual champions and 49 recognized teams, who have had a combined 73 official reigns.
As of February 11, 2017.