Wrestle-1 Tag Team Champion
| Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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The Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship belt
(November 2014 — Present) |
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| Promotion | Wrestle-1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | September 22, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | New Era (Koji Doi and Kumagoro) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | November 19, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| First champion(s) | Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo) |
| Most reigns | (as a team) New Era (Koji Doi and Kumagoro) (3 reigns) (as an individual) Kaz Hayashi, Koji Doi, Kumagoro and Shuji Kondo (3 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) |
| Youngest winner | Takanori Ito (23 years, 226 days) |
| Heaviest champion | Masayuki Kono, Yuji Okabayashi and Takanori Ito (115 kg (254 lb)) |
| Lightest champion | Kaz Hayashi (83 kg (183 lb)) |
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).
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been twelve reigns shared among eight teams and thirteen wrestlers. New Era (Koji Doi and Kumagoro) are the current Wrestle-1 Tag Team Champions in their third reign both individually and as a team.
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. 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. 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. The two blocks containing the ten participating teams were revealed on November 3. The teams were later given official team names on November 14. 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. 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. 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.
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