IWGP Tag Team Championship - NJPW Title History
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On this page, you find the full Title History for the IWGP Tag Team Championship, with all Championship Info, Statistics, the Belt Design changes through the years, and the full list of Title Reigns, along with dates, events, and reign durations.

The IWGP Tag Team Championship is contested in New Japan Pro Wrestling on the Heavyweight brand, by men wrestlers.

The championship was first established on December 12, 1985, and the inaugural champion was Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami.

This is a newer version of the Asia Tag Team Championship, with its own distinct lineage.

The current champion is the team of The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson), who won the title at AEW x NJPW x CMLL x ROH x STARDOM Wrestle Dynasty on January 5, 2025, and has been reigning for 15 days (Defeated United Empire (Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb) and Los Ingobernables de Japón (Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi) in a 3-Way Match to win the vacant titles.).

IWGP Tag Team Championship: Title History

  • Promotions History

    Promotionfromto
    Promotion New Japan Pro WrestlingNJPWBrand Heavyweight December 12, 1985Present
  • Championship Names & Belt Designs

    • IWGP Tag Team Championship January 4, 2013
    • IWGP Tag Team Championship January 4, 1998 January 3, 2013
    • IWGP Tag Team Championship December 12, 1985 January 3, 1998

IWGP Tag Team Championship: Title Reigns

For the Title History of the previous version of this championship, see the page for the Asia Tag Team Championship.

IWGP Tag Team Championship: Statistics

Longest Reigns

RankWrestlerReignDays
& 564
& 446
& 430
& 365
& 343
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