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Wikipedia / BJW Tag Team Championship

The 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. There have been a total of 66 reigns shared between 49 different teams consisting of 59 distinctive champions. The current champions are Kazumi Kikuta and Toru Sugiura who are in their first reign as a team.

Title history

The title was created on June 3, 1997, when Takashi Ishikawa and Kengo Kimura defeated Shoji Nakamaki and Takashi Okano in the finals of a five-team scramble tournament to become the first champions. The championship has been the leading tag team championship in the promotion since 1997. The title matches are done with normal rules, but they also can be done by deathmatches. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result of a scripted match. Title changes usually happen at BJW-promoted events; although the title has only changed hands twice at a non-BJW event, it has been defended in several other promotions like Combat Zone Wrestling and Fuyuki Army.

Combined reigns

As of , .

By team

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center" !Rank !Team !No. ofreigns !Combineddefenses !Combineddays |- !1 |Yankee Nichōkenjū || 3 || 24 || 992 |- !2 | Astronauts || 3 || 18 || 951 |- !3 | Twin Towers || 2 || 10 || 733 |- !4 | Men's Club || 1 || 9 || 595 |- !5 | Strong BJ || 5 || 8 || 530 |- !6 | Daisuke Sekimoto and Yoshihito Sasaki || 2 || 6 || 498 |- !7 | Skinheaders || 1 || 1 || 460 |- !8 | 045 Junkie's || 3 || 2 || 316 |- !9 | Team Anko-gata || 1 || 4 || 310 |- !10 | Akarangers || 1 || 1 || 289 |- !11 | Ryota Hama and Yasufumi Nakanoue || 1 || 5 || 269 |- !12 | Shadow WX and Tomoaki Honma || 1 || 3 || 238 |- !13 | Mammoth Sasaki and Daisuke Sekimoto || 1 || 6 || 237 |- !rowspan=2|14 | Daisuke Sekimoto and Kohei Sato || 1 || 3 || 236 |- | Men's Teioh and Mr. Big Japan || 1 || 1 || 236 |- !16 | Crazy Lovers || 2 || 3 || 232 |- !17 | style="background-color:#FFE6BD"| Kazumi Kikuta and Toru Sugiura † || 1 || 3 || + |- !18 | Yoshihiro Tajiri and Ryuji Yamakawa || 2 || 3 || 213 |- !19 | Baka Gaijin || 2 || 2 || 210 |- !20 | Abdullah Kobayashi and Ryuji Ito || 1 || 3 || 192 |- !21 | Kankuro Hoshino and Ryuji Ito || 1 || 3 || 191 |- !22 | Shadows || 1 || 4 || 158 |- !23 | Hamakami || 1 || 0 || 152 |- !24 | Ryuji Yamakawa and Tomoaki Honma || 1 || 0 || 147 |- !25 | Kamikaze and Abdullah Kobayashi || 1 || 2 || 135 |- !26 | Daisuke Sekimoto and The Bodyguard || 1 || 1 || 134 |- !27 | Kengo Mashimo and Madoka || 1 || 1 || 133 |- !28 | Yuji Okabayashi and Shinobu || 1 || 2 || 132 |- !29 | Okami || 3 || 4 || 130 |- !30 | Kamikaze and Shunme Matsuzaki || 1 || 3 || 122 |- !31 | Shoji Nakamaki and Ryuji Yamakawa || 1 || 2 || 112 |- !rowspan=2|32 | Abdullah Kobayashi and Daisuke Sekimoto || 1 || 1 || 105 |- | Skinheaders || 1 || 0 || 105 |- !34 | Masaya Takahashi and Sagat || 1 || 2 || 78 |- !35 | Shadow WX and Ryuji Yamakawa || 1 || 3 || 75 |- !36 | Shuji Ishikawa and Shigehiro Irie || 1 || 1 || 72 |- !37 | Hideyoshi Kamitani and Isami Kodaka || 1 || 1 || 64 |- !38 | Masashi Takeda and Isami Kodaka || 1 || 0 || 60 |- !39 | Ryuji Yamakawa and Mike Samples || 1 || 0 || 38 |- !40 | Yoshihito Sasaki and Shinobu || 1 || 0 || 33 |- !41 | Yoshihito Sasaki and Shinya Ishikawa || 1 || 0 || 31 |- !42 | Kazumi Kikuta and Ryuichi Kawakami || 1 || 0 || 23 |- !43 | Wifebeater and Justice Pain || 1 || 0 || 22 |- !44 | W-Daichan || 1 || 1 || 17 |- !45 | The Brahman Brothers || 1 || 0 || 13 |- !46 | Jado Jado and Gedo Gedo || 1 || 0 || 11 |- !rowspan=2|47 | Kengo Kimura and Takashi Ishikawa || 1 || 0 || 8 |- | Zandig and Nick Gage || 1 || 0 || 8 |- !49 | Ryuji Ito and Badboy Hido || 1 || 0 || 4 |-

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