BJW Tag Team Championship

The BJW World Tag Team Championship is the top tag team title defended in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Big Japan Pro Wrestling. The championship has been the leading tag team championship in the promotion since 1997.

Title history

# Order in reign history
Reign The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
Event The event in which the title was won
— Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
N/A The information is not available or is unknown
Wrestler name (#) The number represents the individual reigns of a wrestler when this is distinct from the tag team's reign.
+ Indicates the current reign is changing daily
# Team Reign Date Days held Location Event Notes
1 Kengo Kimura and Takashi Ishikawa 1 June 3, 1997 8 Tokyo, Japan Defeated Shoji Nakamaki and Takashi Okano in the finals of a five-team scramble tournament to become the inaugural champions.
— Vacated — June 11, 1997 — N/A N/A Title vacated when Ishikawa and Kimura split up.
2 Ryuji Yamakawa and Yoshihiro Tajiri 1 July 23, 1997 152 Tokyo, Japan Defeated Takashi Ishikawa and Kishin Kawabata.
3 Gedo and Jado 1 December 22, 1997 11 Isesaki, Japan
4 Ryuji Yamakawa and Yoshihiro Tajiri 2 January 2, 1998 61 Tokyo, Japan
5 Shadow Winger and Shadow WX 1 March 4, 1998 158 Shimizu, Japan
6 Ryuji Yamakawa and Shoji Nakamaki 1 August 9, 1998 112 Kawasaki, Japan
— Vacated — November 29, 1998 — N/A N/A Title vacated when Nakamaki left BJW.
7 Shadow WX (2) and Tomoaki Honma 1 December 5, 1998 238 Yokohama, Japan Defeated Jason the Terrible and Shadow Winger.
8 Mike Samples and Ryuji Yamakawa (4) 1 July 31, 1999 38 Fukuoka, Japan
9 Kamikaze and Shunme Matsuzaki 1 September 7, 1999 122 Imabari, Japan
10 Ryuji Yamakawa (5) and Tomoaki Honma (2) 1 January 7, 2000 147 Osaka, Japan
11 John Zandig and Nick Gage 1 June 2, 2000 8 Nagaoka, Japan
12 Justice Pain and The Wifebeater 1 June 10, 2000 22 Sewell, New Jersey
13 Ryuji Yamakawa (6) and Shadow WX (3) 1 July 2, 2000 75 Tokyo, Japan
14 Abdullah Kobayashi and Kamikaze (2) 1 September 15, 2000 135 Tokyo, Japan
15 Daisuke Sekimoto and Men's Teioh 1 January 28, 2001 595 Tokyo, Japan Sekimoto and Teioh won the WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship in a title for title match on December 2.
16 Abdullah Kobayashi (2) and Daikokubo Benkei 1 September 15, 2002 460 Fukuoka, Japan
17 Badboy Hido and Ryuji Ito 1 December 19, 2003 4 Tokyo, Japan
18 Men's Teioh (2) and Mr. Big Japan (7) 1 December 23, 2003 236 Tokyo, Japan
19 Abdullah Kobayashi (3) and Jaki Numazawa 1 August 15, 2004 105 Kawasaki, Japan
20 Gentaro and Takashi Sasaki 1 November 28, 2004 289 Chiba, Japan
— Vacated — September 13, 2005 — N/A N/A Title stripped for lack of title defenses.
21 Abdullah Kobayashi (4) and Daisuke Sekimoto (2) 1 October 14, 2005 105 Tokyo, Japan Defeated Jun Kasai and Jaki Numazawa.
22 Mammoth Sasaki and Shadow WX (4) 1 January 27, 2006 310 Kawasaki, Japan
23 Daisuke Sekimoto (3) and Yoshihito Sasaki 1 December 3, 2006 455 Yokohama, Japan
24 Kengo Mashimo and Madoka 1 March 2, 2008 133 Tokyo, Japan Zero1 7th Anniversary: Truth Century Creation – Seven
25 Daisuke Sekimoto (4) and Mammoth Sasaki (2) 1 July 13, 2008 237 Yokohama, Japan Live event
— Vacated — March 7, 2009 — N/A N/A Title vacated after Sasaki is injured in an automobile accident.
26 Isami Kodaka and Masashi Takeda 1 May 28, 2009 60 Tokyo, Japan Live event Defeated Takashi Sasaki and Yuko Miyamoto in the finals of a Round-robin tournament final.
27 Daisuke Sekimoto (5) and Yuji Okabayashi 1 July 27, 2009 139 Tokyo, Japan Live event
28 Shinya Ishikawa and Yoshihito Sasaki (2) 1 December 13, 2009 31 Hakata, Japan Fantastic Tour 2009 ~ Tenka Sanbun No Kai – Day 2
— Vacated — January 13, 2010 — N/A N/A Title vacated after Ishikawa suffers a leg injury.
29 045 Junkies
(Jaki Numazawa (2) and Jun Kasai)		 1 April 28, 2010 165 Tokyo, Japan 15th Anniversary Death Tour Defeated Daisuke Sekimoto and Yoshihito Sasaki in a tournament final to win the vacant title.
30 Daisuke Sekimoto (6) and Yoshihito Sasaki (3) 2 October 10, 2010 43 Sapporo, Japan BJ Spikeout – Day 1 ~ Sapporo Pro–Wrestling Festival
31 045 Junkies
(Jaki Numazawa (3) and Jun Kasai)		 2 November 22, 2010 69 Tokyo, Japan Live event This was a Barbed Wire Execution match.
32 Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu 1 January 30, 2011 13 Nagoya, Japan Pro-Wrestling Big Thanksgiving Death Market 3 This was a Fluorescent Light Tubes Ladder deathmatch.
33 045 Junkies
(Jaki Numazawa (4) and Jun Kasai)		 3 February 12, 2011 82 Tokyo, Japan Live event This was a Fluorescent Light Tubes, Ladder & Free Weapons deathmatch.
34 Yankii Two Kenju
(Isami Kodaka (2) and Yuko Miyamoto)		 1 May 5, 2011 332 Yokohama, Japan Endless Survivor 2011 This was a Cage And Ladder deathmatch.
35 Shinobu and Yoshihito Sasaki (4) 1 April 1, 2012 33 Sapporo, Japan Beyond The Frontiers
36 Shigehiro Irie and Shuji Ishikawa 1 May 4, 2012 72 Tokyo, Japan Union Pro Golden Union 2012 This match took place at a Union Pro Wrestling event.
37 Shinobu (2) and Yuji Okabayashi (2) 1 July 15, 2012 132 Sapporo, Japan Ryuji Yamakawa The Final
38 Yankii Two Kenju
(Isami Kodaka (3) and Yuko Miyamoto)		 2 November 24, 2012 553 Tokyo, Japan Live event This was a Big Japan Tag League 2012 Final Light Tubes & Barbed Wire Board deathmatch.
39 Twin Towers
(Kohei Sato and Shuji Ishikawa (2))		 1 May 31, 2014 516 Tokyo, Japan Live event
40 Daisuke Sekimoto (7) and Yuji Okabayashi (3) 2 October 29, 2015 62 Tokyo, Japan Saikyo Tag League This was the final of the 2015 Saikyo Tag League.
41 Hamakami
(Hideyoshi Kamitani and Ryota Hama)		 1 December 30, 2015 152 Tokyo, Japan Live event
42 Twin Towers
(Kohei Sato and Shuji Ishikawa (3))		 2 May 30, 2016 217 Tokyo, Japan Live event
43 Daisuke Sekimoto (8) and Yuji Okabayashi (4) 3 January 2, 2017 196 Tokyo, Japan Live event
44 Abdullah Kobayashi (5) and Ryuji Ito (2) 1 July 17, 2017 192 Tokyo, Japan Ryōgokutan
45 Crazy Lovers (Masashi Takeda (2) and Takumi Tsukamoto) 1 January 25, 2018 435 Tokyo, Japan Live event
46 Yankii Two Kenju
(Isami Kodaka (4) and Yuko Miyamoto)		 3 April 5, 2018 194+ Tokyo, Japan Ikkitousen Strong Climb Tour

List of combined reigns

By wrestler

As of October 16, 2018.

† Indicates the current champions
Rank Wrestler # of
reigns		 Combined
days
1 Daisuke Sekimoto 8 1,832
2 Isami Kodaka 3 945
3 Abdullah Kobayashi 5 1261+
4 Yuko Miyamoto 2 885
5 Men's Teioh 2 831
6 Ryuji Yamakawa / Mr. Big Japan 7 821
7 Shuji Ishikawa 3 805
8 Shadow WX 4 781
9 Kohei Sato 2 733
10 Yoshihito Sasaki 4 562
11 Mammoth Sasaki 2 547
12 Yuji Okabayashi 4 529
13 Daikokubo Benkei 1 460
14 Jaki Numazawa 4 421
15 Tomoaki Honma 2 385
16 Jun Kasai 3 316
17 Gentaro 1 289
17 Takashi Sasaki 1 289
19 Kamikaze 2 257
20 Yoshihiro Tajiri 2 213
21 Shinobu 2 165
22 Shadow Winger 1 158
23 Hideyoshi Kamitani 1 152
23 Ryota Hama 1 152
25 Kengo Mashimo 1 133
25 Madoka 1 133
27 Ryuji Ito 2 460+
28 Shunme Matsuzaki 1 122
29 Shouji Nakamaki 1 112
30 Shigehiro Irie 1 72
31 Masashi Takeda 1 60
32 Mike Samples 1 38
33 Shinya Ishikawa 1 31
34 Justice Pain 1 22
34 The Wifebeater 1 22
36 Brahman Kei 1 13
36 Brahman Shu 1 13
38 Gedo 1 11
38 Jado 1 11
40 John Zandig 1 8
40 Kengo Kimura 1 8
40 Nick Gage 1 8
40 Takashi Ishikawa 1 8
44 Badboy Hido 1 4

See also

References

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