NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship

NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship
Details
Promotion Pro Wrestling Zero1
Date established June 14, 2001
Current champion(s) Taru and Chris Vice
Date won September 23, 2018

The NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship[1] is a professional wrestling tag team title in Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Zero1, typically reserved for (but not exclusive to) heavyweight (>100 kg (220 lb)) wrestlers. It was created on June 14, 2001, three months after then Pro Wrestling Zero-One's creation, when Samoa Joe & Keiji Sakoda (though Zero1 has since ceased to recognize both their reign as well as the following reign by Steve Corino and Mike Rapada)[2][3][4] defeated Yuuki Ishikawa & Katsumi Usuda.[5] This was during a time when Zero-One was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance; since the two organizations' parting in late 2004, the NWA does not recognize or sanction it, though it retains the NWA initials. It is one of two tag team titles currently active in Zero1, along with the NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship, contested exclusively among junior heavyweights. There have been a total of 43 recognized individual champions and 36 recognized teams, who have had a combined 41 official reigns.

Title history

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign DaysDefenses
1 Samoa Joe and Keiji Sakoda June 14, 2001 Shingeki Osaka, Japan 1 250 Defeated Yuuki Ishikawa and Katsumi Usuda.
2 Steve Corino and Mike Rapada July 9, 2001 — — 1 30 Awarded the title by NWA president Howard Brody.
3 Shinjiro Otani and Yuuki Ishikawa July 12, 2001 True Century Battle Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 [Note 1]0
— Vacated October 2001 — — — —— Vacated due to Ishikawa leaving ZERO-ONE.
4 Shinjiro Otani (2) and Masato Tanaka January 6, 2002 Vast Energy Tokyo, Japan 1 2875 Defeated Samoa Joe and Tom Howard.
5 Nathan Jones and Jon Heidenreich October 20, 2002 Improvement II Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 61
6 Shinya Hashimoto and Naoya Ogawa October 26, 2002 Improvement II Tour Osaka, Japan 1 501
7 Matt Ghaffari and Tom Howard December 15, 2002 Truth Creation Tokyo, Japan 1 1352
8 Shinya Hashimoto and Naoya Ogawa April 29, 2003 01 Division Tour Nagoya, Japan 2 30
— Vacated May 3, 2003 — — — —— Stripped by NWA Chairman Richard Arpin due to Ogawa throwing Ghaffari over the top rope in winning the title.
9 Steve Corino (2) and C.W. Anderson May 3, 2003 01WORLD Tokyo, Japan 1 1203 Defeated Kohei Sato and Hirotaka Yokoi.
10 Shinjiro Otani (3) and Masato Tanaka August 31, 2003 01 Summer Gift Gifu, Japan 2 1722
11 Takao Omori and Shiro Koshinaka February 19, 2004 Embers Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 1195
12 Shinya Hashimoto (3) and Yoshiaki Fujiwara June 17, 2004 Ambitious Sendai, Japan 1 752
13 Shinjiro Otani (4) and Takao Omori (2) August 31, 2004 Determination II Morioka, Japan 1 331
14 Masato Tanaka (3) and Wataru Sakata October 3, 2004 New Whirlpool-1 Truth II Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 280
— Vacated October 31, 2004 — — — —— Vacated due to ZERO-ONE leaving the NWA.
15 Kohei Sato and Ryoji Sai April 14, 2005 Outburst Revolution Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 1793 Defeated Shinjiro Otani and Masato Tanaka.
16 Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita October 10, 2005 Interception Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 1381
17 Steve Corino (3) and Y2P-160kg February 25, 2006 Happening Tour Osaka, Japan 1 1151
18 Kohei Sato and Ryoji Sai June 20, 2006 Rights Tour Odawara, Japan 2 40
19 Manabu Nakanishi and Takao Omori (3) June 24, 2006 Rights Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 2572
20 Yoshihiro Takayama and Kohei Sato (3) March 8, 2007 Max Satisfaction Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 2322
21 Minoru Fujita (2) and Takuya Sugawara October 26, 2007 Innovation Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 3994
22 Mr. Wrestling 3 (4) and Charles Evans November 28, 2008 Zero1 Beat Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 940
— Vacated March 2, 2009 — — — —— Vacated due to Charles Evans' rebellious actions against World Premier Federation.
23 Ryoji Sai (3) and Osamu Namiguchi March 15, 2009 Wrestler's 1 Tokyo, Japan 1 1231 Defeated Steve Corino and Mr. Wrestling 3.
24 Kohei Sato (4) and Kamikaze July 16, 2009 Wrestler's Utsunomiya, Japan 1 1002
25 Ikuto Hidaka (2) and Munenori Sawa October 24, 2009 Wrestler's 6 ~ Never Gonna Stop! Tokyo, Japan 1 950
26 Shinjiro Otani (5) and Akebono January 27, 2010 Wrestler's 9 Tokyo, Japan 1 3154
— Vacated December 8, 2010 — — — —— Vacated so that the title could be decided in the Furinkazan tournament.
27 Kohei Sato (5) and Kamikaze December 21, 2010 Furinkazan Nagoya, Japan 2 2673 Defeated Masato Tanaka and Daisuke Sekimoto in the final of the Furinkazan tournament.
28 Masato Tanaka (4) and Zeus September 14, 2011 Tenkaichi Jr. Tokyo, Japan 1 4194
29 Shito Ueda and Yusaku Obata November 6, 2012 Universe Tokyo, Japan 1 730
— Vacated January 18, 2013 — — — —— Vacated due to Obata being sidelined with an injury.
30 Akebono (2) and Daisuke Sekimoto February 3, 2013 Change the World Tokyo, Japan 1 3301 Defeated Kohei Sato and Zeus.
— Vacated December 30, 2013 — — — —— Vacated due to Sekimoto being sidelined with an injury.
31 Shinjiro Otani (6) and Kamikaze (3) January 1, 2014 N/A Tokyo, Japan 1 1251 Defeated Masato Tanaka and Yusaku Obata.
32 Masato Tanaka (5) and Takashi Sugiura May 6, 2014 Destiny Tokyo, Japan 1 3976
33 Kohei Sato (6) and Daisuke Sekimoto (2) June 7, 2015 Long, Long Way Tokyo, Japan 1 3344
34 Masato Tanaka (6) and James Raideen May 6, 2016 Children's Day Special Tokyo, Japan 1 2532
35 Hartley Jackson and Taru January 14, 2017 New Year Dream Series Tokyo, Japan 1 200
36 Akebono (3) and Shogun Okamoto February 3, 2017 New Year Dream Series Tokyo, Japan 1 751
— Vacated April 19, 2017 — — — —— Vacated due to Akebono being sidelined with health issues.
37 Kai and Yusaku Obata (2) May 21, 2017 Shinsei Zero1 Dream Series ~ Growth Tokyo, Japan 1 1010 Defeated Kohei Sato and Hideki Suzuki.
— Vacated August 30, 2017 — — — —— Vacated due to Kai and Obata being unable to defend the title because of scheduling conflicts.
38 Hideki Suzuki and Kohei Sato (7) September 14, 2017 Zero1 Dream Series Tokyo, Japan 1 1091 Defeated Shogun Okamoto and Yutaka Yoshie.
39 Masayuki Okamoto/Shogun Okamoto (2) and Yutaka Yoshie (2) January 1, 2018 Kinga Shinnen Tokyo, Japan 1 620 Okamoto won the title as Masayuki Okamoto, but immediately afterwards announced he was returning to the ring name Shogun Okamoto. [6]
40 Masato Tanaka (7) and Yuji Hino (1) March 4, 2018 Kinga Shinnen Tokyo, Japan 1 2033
41 Taru (2) and Chris Vice (1) September 23, 2018 Chibiko Bullying Eradication Genki Hatsuratsu ~ A Really Strong Person Does Not Do Bullying But Will Stand Up Iwate, Japan 1 24+0

Combined reigns

Rank Wrestler No. of reigns Combined days
1.Masato Tanaka71759
2.Kohei Sato71,225
3Shinjiro Otani61026
4.Daisuke Sekimoto2665
5.Akebono3734
6.Minoru Fujita2537
7.Kamikaze3492
8.Zeus1419
9.Takao Omori3409
10.Takuya Suguwara1399
11.Takashi Sugiura1397
12.Steve Corino4334
13.Ryouji Sai3306
14.Manabu Nakanishi1257
15.James Raideen1253
16.Ikuto Hidaka2233
17.Yoshihiro Takayama1232
18.Yuji Hino1203
19.Y2P-160 kg/Yutaka Yoshie2187
20.Yusaku Obata2174
21.Shogun Okamoto/Masayuki Okamoto2137
22.Matt Ghafari1135
22.Tom Howard1135
23.Shinya Hashimoto3128
24.Osamu Namiguchi1123
25.C.W Anderson1121
26.Shiro Koshinaka1119
27.Hideki Suzuki1109
28.Kai1101
29.Charles Evans195
30.Munenori Sawa195
31.Yuuki Ishikawa181
32.Yoshiaki Fujiwara175
33.Shito Ueda173
34.Naoya Ogawa253
35.Wataru Sakata128
36.Samoa Joe128
37.Keiji Sakata125
38.Hartley Jackson120
38.Taru244+
39.John Heidenreich16
40.Nathan Jones16
41.Mike Rapada13
42.Chris Vice124+

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The exact date on which Otani & Ishikawa were stripped of the championship is not known, which means that their reign lasted between 81 and 111 days.

References

  1. ↑ "Pro Wrestling ZERO1 official results archives" (in Japanese). ZERO-ONE-MAX.com. Archived from the original on 2007-07-26. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
  2. ↑ "Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE results, 2001". Strong Style Spirit. Archived from the original on 2007-06-20. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
  3. ↑ "NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship title history". TitleHistories.com. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
  4. ↑ "NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship title history". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
  5. ↑ "NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship official title history". ZEROONEUSA.com. Archived from the original on 2006-05-14. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
  6. ↑ 小幡が世界ヘビー、岡本＆吉江はインター―コンチ獲得、Sugiは入団＆政宗とライトタッグ奪取、ブードゥに朱崇花加入…1・1後楽園リポート！. Pro Wrestling Zero1 (in Japanese). 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
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