Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship
| Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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 The Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship belt (November 2014 — Present) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Details | |||||||||||||||||||
| Promotion | Wrestle-1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | September 22, 2014[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Kaz Hayashi and Kotaro Suzuki | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | September 18, 2016[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship (WRESTLE-1タッグチャンピオンシップ Wrestle-1 Taggu Chanpionshippu) is a professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the Wrestle-1 (W-1) promotion. The title was announced on September 22, 2014, in conjunction with the start of a tournament to crown the first Wrestle-1 Champion. In Japanese the title's name includes the katakana term for "championship", Chanpionshippu (チャンピオンシップ), derived from the English language instead of the more common kanji term Ōza (王座).[1]
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been seven reigns shared among six teams and ten wrestlers. Kaz Hayashi and Kotaro Suzuki are the current Wrestle-1 Tag Team Champions in their first reign as a team.[2] Individually, this is the second reign for Hayashi and the first for Suzuki.[3]
History
Championship tournament
On September 22, 2014, during the second day of a tournament to determine the inaugural Wrestle-1 Champion, it was announced that Wrestle-1 would also be introducing its own tag team championship.[1][9][10] Through Wrestle-1's relationship with American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), the promotion had previously presented a match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship.[11][12] The first Wrestle-1 Tag Team Champions would be crowned in the "First Tag League Greatest" round-robin tournament taking place between November 15 and 30, 2014.[1] The two blocks containing the ten participating teams were revealed on November 3.[13][14][15] The teams were later given official team names on November 14.[16] In the tournament, a win was worth two points, a draw one point and a loss zero points. The top two teams from each block advanced to the semifinals and the winners wrestled in the tournament final to determine the inaugural champions.[13] On November 27, Seiki Yoshioka pulled out of the tournament with a knee injury, forcing his team to forfeit their final match in the tournament.[17][18] On November 30, Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo) defeated the new Wild order (Akira and Manabu Soya) in the finals to win the tournament and become the inaugural Wrestle-1 Tag Team Champions.[3][19][20]
| A | B | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Wrestlers | Score | Wrestlers | Score |
| Masayuki Kono and Tajiri (Desperado) | 8 | Kai and Ryota Hama (Akatenrou) | 6 |
| Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo (Team 246) | 6 | Akira and Manabu Soya (new Wild order) | 5 |
| Jiro Kuroshio and Masakatsu Funaki (Ikemen Samurai) | 4 | Minoru Tanaka and Seiki Yoshioka (Too Sharp) | 4 |
| Taiyō Kea and Yasufumi Nakanoue (Sunrise) | 2 | Hiroshi Yamato and Seiya Sanada (Seiya to Hiroshi) | 4 |
| Mazada and Nosawa Rongai (Tokyo Gurentai) | 0 | Koji Doi and Yusuke Kodama (Novus) | 1 |
| A | Kuroshio Funaki | Hayashi Kondo | Kono Tajiri | Mazada Nosawa | Kea Nakanoue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kuroshio Funaki |
X | Hayashi Kondo (12:10)[21] | Kono Tajiri (10:52)[22] | Kuroshio Funaki (09:55)[23] | Kuroshio Funaki (12:38)[24] |
| Hayashi Kondo |
Hayashi Kondo (12:10)[21] | X | Kono Tajiri (14:46)[23] | Hayashi Kondo (06:28)[25] | Hayashi Kondo (13:28)[22] |
| Kono Tajiri |
Kono Tajiri (10:52)[22] | Kono Tajiri (14:46)[23] | X | Kono Tajiri (03:35)[24] | Kono Tajiri (09:18)[25] |
| Mazada Nosawa |
Kuroshio Funaki (09:55)[23] | Hayashi Kondo (06:28)[25] | Kono Tajiri (03:35)[24] | X | Kea Nakanoue (07:54)[21] |
| Kea Nakanoue |
Kuroshio Funaki (12:38)[24] | Hayashi Kondo (13:28)[22] | Kono Tajiri (09:18)[25] | Kea Nakanoue (07:54)[21] | X |
| B | Akira Soya | Yamato Sanada | Kai Hama | Doi Kodama | Tanaka Yoshioka |
| Akira Soya |
X | Draw (30:00)[22] | Kai Hama (16:22)[21] | Akira Soya (09:52)[23] | Akira Soya (14:46)[25] |
| Yamato Sanada |
Draw (30:00)[22] | X | Yamato Sanada (17:08)[23] | Draw (30:00)[25] | Tanaka Yoshioka (15:50)[24] |
| Kai Hama |
Kai Hama (16:22)[21] | Yamato Sanada (17:08)[23] | X | Kai Hama (12:05)[24] | Kai Hama (forfeit)[17] |
| Doi Kodama |
Akira Soya (09:52)[23] | Draw (30:00)[25] | Kai Hama (12:05)[24] | X | Tanaka Yoshioka (10:20)[21] |
| Tanaka Yoshioka |
Akira Soya (14:46)[25] | Tanaka Yoshioka (15:50)[24] | Kai Hama (forfeit)[17] | Tanaka Yoshioka (10:20)[21] | X |
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| A1 | Kono and Tajiri | Pin | |||||||
| B2 | Akira and Soya | 09:15[3] | |||||||
| Akira and Soya | Pin | ||||||||
| Hayashi and Kondo | 26:05[3] | ||||||||
| B1 | Kai and Hama | Pin | |||||||
| A2 | Hayashi and Kondo | 11:37[3] | |||||||
Title history
| # | Order in reign history |
| Reign | The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed |
| Event | The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title was won |
| Successful defenses | The number of successful defenses the champions had during their reign |
| — | Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign |
| + | Indicates the current reign is changing daily |
| # | Team | Reign | Date | Days held |
Location | Event | Successful defenses |
Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo) |
1 | November 30, 2014 | 224 | Tokyo | First Tag League Greatest | 7[26] | Hayashi and Kondo defeated Akira and Manabu Soya in the finals of a ten-team tournament to become the inaugural champions. | [3][19][20] |
| 2 | new Wild order (Jun Kasai and Manabu Soya) |
1 | July 12, 2015 | 138 | Tokyo | Symbol | 2[27] | [26][28][29] | |
| 3 | TriggeR (Masayuki Kono and Shuji Kondo (2)) |
1 | November 27, 2015 | 100 | Tokyo | Autumn Bout | 0[30] | [27][31] | |
| 4 | Real Desperado (Kazma Sakamoto and Yuji Hino) |
1 | March 6, 2016 | 94 | Sendai | Trans Magic | 2[32] | [30] | |
| 5 | Yasufumi Nakanoue and Yuji Okabayashi | 1 | June 8, 2016 | 51 | Tokyo | Outbreak | 1[33] | [32][34] | |
| 6 | new Wild order (Jun Kasai and Manabu Soya) |
2 | July 29, 2016 | 22 | Tokyo | Symbol | 0 | [33][35] | |
| — | Vacated | — | August 20, 2016 | — | — | — | — | Title vacated due to Soya being sidelined with a shoulder injury. | [36][37] |
| 7 | Kaz Hayashi (2) and Kotaro Suzuki | 1 | September 18, 2016 | 79+ | Tokyo | 3rd Anniversary | 1[38] | Hayashi and Kondo defeated "brother" Yasshi and Shuji Kondo to win the vacant title. | [2][39][40] |
Combined reigns
As of December 6, 2016
| † | Indicates the current champions |
| <1 | Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day |
By team
| Rank | Team | No. of reigns | Combined defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo) |
1 | 7 | 224 |
| 2 | new Wild order (Jun Kasai and Manabu Soya) |
2 | 2 | 160 |
| 3 | TriggeR (Masayuki Kono and Shuji Kondo) |
1 | 0 | 100 |
| 4 | Real Desperado (Kazma Sakamoto and Yuji Hino) |
1 | 2 | 94 |
| 5 | Kaz Hayashi and Kotaro Suzuki† | 1 | 1 | 79+ |
| 6 | Yasufumi Nakanoue and Yuji Okabayashi | 1 | 1 | 51 |
By wrestler
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shuji Kondo | 2 | 7 | 324 |
| 2 | Kaz Hayashi† | 2 | 8 | 303+ |
| 3 | Jun Kasai | 2 | 2 | 160 |
| 3 | Manabu Soya | 2 | 2 | 160 |
| 5 | Masayuki Kono | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| 6 | Kazma Sakamoto | 1 | 2 | 94 |
| 6 | Yuji Hino | 1 | 2 | 94 |
| 8 | Kotaro Suzuki† | 1 | 1 | 79+ |
| 9 | Yasufumi Nakanoue | 1 | 1 | 51 |
| 9 | Yuji Okabayashi | 1 | 1 | 51 |
See also
References
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