IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship

History

Title changes happen mostly at NJPW-promoted events. The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin), a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) tag team, defeated then-champions No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro) on January 4, 2009, at Wrestle Kingdom III. Their reign lasted until July 5, 2009, when they were defeated by Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) at a live event. During that time, they had three successful defenses; two were held by TNA due to a pre-existing relationship and an agreement with NJPW. Their first defense in TNA, a rematch against No Limit, occurred on March 31, 2009, at the tapings of their weekly television program TNA Impact!. On April 19, 2009, they made their second, and last, defense in TNA at the Lockdown pay-per-view event in a Three Way Tornado Tag Team Six Sides of Steel cage match against No Limit and The Latin American Xchange (Hernandez and Homicide).

Reigns

Main article: List of IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions

Overall, there have been 79 reigns shared among 55 different wrestlers, who made up 44 different teams. The inaugural champions were Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa, who defeated Dr. Wagner Jr. and Koji Kanemoto on August 8, 1998, in the final of a tournament.

Rocky Romero holds the record for most reigns by an individual wrestler at eight. The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) hold the record for the most by a team at seven. Gedo and Jado's combined four reigns add up to the most of any team at 960 days, and also hold the record for most total defenses at 15. Ryusuke Taguchi holds the records for most combined days and most total defenses by an individual wrestler, with 990 days and 17 defenses respectively across his seven reigns with four different partners. Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi) hold the record for most defenses during a single reign at seven. Otani and Takaiwa's second reign is the longest in the title's history. Minoru at 348 days, and Prince Devitt's first reign is the shortest at 21 days.

Ichiban Sweet Boys (Robbie Eagles and Kosei Fujita) are the current champions in their second reign as a team, but the third for Eagles and second for Fujita individually. They won the titles by defeating defending champions La Oscuridad (Douki and Sho), El Desperado and Kuukai, and Super Extremes (Taiji Ishimori and Robbie X in a four-way tag team match at New Year Dash!! on January 5, 2026, in Tokyo, Japan.

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