The
IWGP (International Wrestling Grand Prix) Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is a
professional wrestling tag team title in
Japanese promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling, contested exclusively among
junior heavyweight wrestlers. It was created on
August 8 1998, when
Shinjiro Otani &
Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated
Koji Kanemoto and
Dr. Wagner, Jr. in a tournament final. There have been a total of 22 recognized individual champions and 16 recognized teams, who have had a combined 21 official reigns.
Title history
| Wrestlers:
| Times:
| Date:
| Location:
| Notes:
|
| Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
| 1
| August 8 1998
| Osaka, Japan
| |
| Kendo Kashin & Dr. Wagner, Jr.
| 1
| January 4 1999
| Tokyo, Japan
| |
| Jushin Liger & The Great Sasuke
| 1
| April 10 1999
| Tokyo, Japan
| |
| Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
| 2
| July 13 1999
| Morioka, Japan
| |
| Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka
| 1
| June 25 2000
| Tokyo, Japan
| |
| Jushin Liger & El Samurai
| 1
| March 6 2001
| Tokyo, Japan
| |
| Gedo & Jado
| 1
| July 20 2001
| Sapporo, Japan
| |
| Jushin Liger & Minoru Tanaka
| 1
| May 2 2002
| Tokyo, Japan
| |
| Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
| 1
| August 29 2002
| Tokyo, Japan
| |
| Koji Kanemoto & Jushin Liger
| 1
| January 26 2003
| Kobe, Japan
| |
| Vacated
| November 4 2003
|
| |
| Gedo & Jado
| 2
| November 29 2003
| Sendai, Japan
| |
| American Dragon & Curry Man
| 1
| March 12 2004
| Tokyo, Japan
| |
| Gedo & Jado
| 3
| June 5 2004
| Osaka, Japan
| |
| Wataru Inoue & Koji Kanemoto
| 1
| March 4 2005
| Tokyo, Japan
| |
Hirooki Goto & Minoru
| 1
| May 14 2005
| Tokyo, Japan
| |
| El Samurai & Ryusuke Taguchi
| 1
| February 19 2006
| Tokyo, Japan
| |
| Gedo & Jado
| 4
| July 8 2006
| Shizuoka, Japan
| |
| TAKA Michinoku & Dick Togo
| 1
| May 2 2007
| Tokyo, Japan
| |
| Prince Devitt & Minoru
| 1
| January 27 2008
| Tokyo, Japan
| |
| AKIRA & Jushin Liger
| 1
| February 17 2008
| Tokyo, Japan
| |
| Prince Devitt & Minoru
| 2
| July 21 2008
| Sapporo, Japan
| |
References
See also
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