Intercontinental Tag Team Championship
菅原拓也
Takuya Sugawara with the current belt design in 2020
Details
PromotionPro Wrestling Zero1
New Wrestling Alliance
Date establishedJune 14, 2001
Current champion(s)Kengo Mashimo and Naka Shunma
Date wonMarch 20, 2024
Other name(s)
NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship
Statistics
First champion(s)Samoa Joe and Keiji Sakoda
Longest reignMasato Tanaka and Zeus (419 days)
Shortest reignSteve Corino and Mike Rapada
Shinya Hashimoto and Naoya Ogawa (3 days)
Oldest championTaru (54 years, 31 days)

The Intercontinental Tag Team Championship,[1] also known as the NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship, is a professional wrestling tag team championship 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 and 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 Yuki Ishikawa and Katsumi Usuda.[5] The championship was created when Zero-One was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA); since Zero-One departed from the NWA 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 Blast King Tag Team Championship, a specialty title defended exclusively in explosion matches. There have been a total of 56 recognized individual champions and 45 recognized teams, who have had a combined 49 official reigns.

Title history

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parentheses, if different
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
<1 Reign lasted less than a day
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days Defenses
(NWA) National Wrestling Alliance / Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1)
1 Samoa Joe and Keiji Sakoda June 14, 2001 Shingeki Osaka, Japan 1 25 0 Defeated Yuki Ishikawa and Katsumi Usuda to become the inaugural champions.
2 Steve Corino and Mike Rapada July 9, 2001 — — 1 3 0 Awarded the title by NWA president Howard Brody.
3 Shinjiro Otani and Yuki 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 Emblem
(Shinjiro Otani (2) and Masato Tanaka) 		January 6, 2002 Vast Energy Tokyo, Japan 1 287 5 Defeated Samoa Joe and Tom Howard.
5 Nathan Jones and Jon Heidenreich October 20, 2002 Improvement II Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 6 1
6 Shinya Hashimoto and Naoya Ogawa October 26, 2002 Improvement II Tour Osaka, Japan 1 50 1
7 Matt Ghaffari and Tom Howard December 15, 2002 Truth Creation Tokyo, Japan 1 135 2
8 Shinya Hashimoto and Naoya Ogawa April 29, 2003 01 Division Tour Nagoya, Japan 2 3 0
— 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 1 120 3 Defeated Kohei Sato and Hirotaka Yokoi.
10 Emblem
(Shinjiro Otani (3) and Masato Tanaka) 		August 31, 2003 01 Summer Gift Gifu, Japan 2 172 2
11 Takao Omori and Shiro Koshinaka February 19, 2004 Embers Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 119 5
12 Shinya Hashimoto (3) and Yoshiaki Fujiwara June 17, 2004 Ambitious Sendai, Japan 1 75 2
Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1)
13 Shinjiro Otani (4) and Takao Omori (2) August 31, 2004 Determination II Morioka, Japan 1 33 1
14 Masato Tanaka (3) and Wataru Sakata October 3, 2004 New Whirlpool-1 Truth II Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 28 0
— 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 1 179 3 Defeated Shinjiro Otani and Masato Tanaka.
16 Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita October 10, 2005 Interception Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 138 1
17 Steve Corino (3) and Y2P-160kg February 25, 2006 Happening Tour Osaka, Japan 1 115 1
18 Kohei Sato and Ryoji Sai June 20, 2006 Rights Tour Odawara, Japan 2 4 0
19 Wild Child
(Manabu Nakanishi and Takao Omori (3)) 		June 24, 2006 Rights Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 257 2
20 Yoshihiro Takayama and Kohei Sato (3) March 8, 2007 Max Satisfaction Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 232 2
21 Minoru Fujita (2) and Takuya Sugawara October 26, 2007 Innovation Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 399 4
22 Mr. Wrestling 3 (4) and Charles Evans November 28, 2008 Zero1 Beat Tour Tokyo, Japan 1 94 0
— 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 1 123 1 Defeated Steve Corino and Mr. Wrestling 3.
24 Kohei Sato (4) and Kamikaze July 16, 2009 Wrestler's Utsunomiya, Japan 1 100 2
25 Ikuto Hidaka (2) and Munenori Sawa October 24, 2009 Wrestler's 6 ~ Never Gonna Stop! Tokyo, Japan 1 95 0
26 Shinjiro Otani (5) and Akebono January 27, 2010 Wrestler's 9 Tokyo, Japan 1 315 4
— 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 2 267 3 Defeated Masato Tanaka and Daisuke Sekimoto in the final of the Furinkazan tournament.
(NWA) National Wrestling Alliance / Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1)
28 Masato Tanaka (4) and Zeus September 14, 2011 Tenkaichi Junior Tokyo, Japan 1 419 4
29 Shito Ueda and Yusaku Obata November 6, 2012 Universe Tokyo, Japan 1 73 0
Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1)
— Vacated January 18, 2013 — — — — — Vacated due to Obata being sidelined with an injury.
30 ZERO64
(Akebono (2) and Daisuke Sekimoto) 		February 3, 2013 Change the World Tokyo, Japan 1 330 1 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 1 125 1 Defeated Masato Tanaka and Yusaku Obata to win the vacant titles.
32 Dangan Yankees
(Masato Tanaka (5) and Takashi Sugiura) 		May 6, 2014 Destiny Tokyo, Japan 1 397 6
33 Kohei Sato (6) and Daisuke Sekimoto (2) June 7, 2015 Long, Long Way Tokyo, Japan 1 334 4
34 Masato Tanaka (6) and James Raideen May 6, 2016 Children's Day Special Tokyo, Japan 1 253 2
35 Hartley Jackson and Taru January 14, 2017 New Year Dream Series Tokyo, Japan 1 20 0 [6][7]
36 Akebono (3) and Shogun Okamoto February 3, 2017 New Year Dream Series Tokyo, Japan 1 75 1
— 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 1 101 0 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 1 109 1 Defeated Shogun Okamoto and Yutaka Yoshie.
39 Masayuki Okamoto/Shogun Okamoto (2) and Yutaka Yoshie (2) January 1, 2018 Kinga Shinnen Tokyo, Japan 1 62 0 Okamoto won the title as Masayuki Okamoto, but immediately afterwards announced he was returning to the ring name Shogun Okamoto. [8]
40 Masato Tanaka (7) and Yuji Hino March 4, 2018 Kinga Shinnen Tokyo, Japan 1 203 3
41 Taru (2) and Chris Vice September 23, 2018 Chibiko Bullying Eradication Genki Hatsuratsu ~ A Really Strong Person Does Not Do Bullying But Will Stand Up Iwate, Japan 1 100 0
42 Masato Tanaka (8) and Takuya Sugawara (2) January 1, 2019 Happy New Year Tokyo, Japan 1 298 3 [9]
43 Yuko Miyamoto and Masashi Takeda October 26, 2019 Yasukuni Shine 150th Anniversary Hono Pro Wrestling 17th Yamato Shinshu Chikara Matsuri Tokyo, Japan 1 280 2
— Vacated August 1, 2020 — — — — — Vacated due to Takeda suffering an injury.
44 Towa Iwasaki and Tsugutaka Sato August 2, 2020 We're Not Going To Lose To Corona! Tokyo, Japan 1 93 1 Defeated Yuko Miyamoto and Takashi Sasaki to win the vacant championships.
45 Quiet Storm and Yuji Hino (2) November 3, 2020 ZERO1 Hono Pro-Wrestling 18th Yamato Shinshu Chikara Matsuri Tokyo, Japan 1 16 0 [10]
— Vacated November 19, 2020 — — — — — Vacated due to Hino leaving Zero1.
46 Shinjiro Otani (7) and Yumehito Imanari December 25, 2020 ZERO1 2020 Final Show ~ Christmas Night Tokyo, Japan 1 268 1 Defeated the Kubota Brothers (Hide Kubota and Yasu Kubota) in the 2020 Furinkazan Tag Tournament final which was also for the vacant titles. [11]
— Vacated September 19, 2021 — — — — —
47 Gajo and Tomohiko Hashimoto November 22, 2021 Furiknazan 2021 Tokyo, Japan 1 114 1 Defeated Hartley Jackson and Junya Matsunaga in the 2021 Furinkazan Tag Tournament final which was also for the vacant titles. [12]
48 Junya Matsunaga and Takafumi March 6, 2022 Shinjiro Otani Debut 30th Anniversary Year & ZERO1 Launch 21st Anniversary Show Tokyo, Japan 1 301 2 [13]
49 Kubota Brothers
(Hide Kubota and Yasu Kubota) 		January 1, 2023 Zero1 Happy New Year 2023 Tokyo, Japan 1 365 6 [14]
50 Junya Matsunaga (2) and Tsugutaka Sato (2) January 1, 2024 Zero1 Happy New Year 2023 Tokyo, Japan 1 79 3 [15]
51 Kengo Mashimo and Naka Shunma March 20, 2024 2AW Grand Slam In Korakuen Hall Tokyo, Japan 1 2+ 0 This was a winner-takes-all match in which Mashimo and Shunma's 2AW Tag Team Championship were also on the line. [16]

Combined reigns

As of March 22, 2024.

† Indicates the current champion
¤ The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest length is considered.

By team

Rank Team No. of
reigns 		Combined
defenses 		Combined days
1 Emblem
(Shinjiro Otani and Masato Tanaka)		 2 7 459
2 Masato Tanaka and Zeus 1 4 419
3 Minoru Fujita and Takuya Sugawara 1 4 399
4 Dangan Yankees
(Masato Tanaka and Takashi Sugiura)		 1 6 397
5 Kohei Sato and Kamikaze 2 5 367
6 Kubota Brothers
(Hide Kubota and Yasu Kubota)		 1 6 365
7 Kohei Sato and Daisuke Sekimoto 1 4 334
8 ZERO64
(Akebono and Daisuke Sekimoto)		 1 1 330
9 Shinjiro Otani and Akebono 1 4 315
10 Junya Matsunaga and Takafumi 1 2 301
11 Masato Tanaka and Takuya Sugawara 1 3 298
12 Yuko Miyamoto and Masashi Takeda 1 2 280
13 Shinjiro Otani and Yumehito Imanari 1 1 268
14 Wild Child
(Manabu Nakanishi and Takao Omori)		 1 2 257
15 Masato Tanaka and James Raideen 1 2 253
16 Yoshihiro Takayama and Kohei Sato 1 2 232
17 Masato Tanaka and Yuji Hino 1 3 203
18 Kohei Sato and Ryoji Sai 2 3 183
19 Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita 1 1 138
20 Matt Ghaffari and Tom Howard 1 2 135
21 Shinjiro Otani and Kamikaze 1 1 125
22 Ryoji Sai and Osamu Namiguchi 1 1 123
23 Steve Corino and C. W. Anderson 1 3 120
24 Takao Omori and Shiro Koshinaka 1 5 119
25 Steve Corino and Y2P-160kg 1 1 115
26 Gajo and Tomohiko Hashimoto 1 1 114
27 Hideki Suzuki and Kohei Sato 1 1 109
28 Kai and Yusaku Obata 1 0 101
29 Taru and Chris Vice 1 0 100
30 Ikuto Hidaka and Munenori Sawa 1 0 95
31 Mr. Wrestling 3 and Charles Evans 1 0 94
32 Towa Iwasaki and Tsugutaka Sato 1 1 93
33 Shinjiro Otani and Yuki Ishikawa 1 0 ¤81
34 Junya Matsunaga and Tsugutaka Sato 1 3 79
35 Shinya Hashimoto and Yoshiaki Fujiwara 1 2 75
Akebono and Shogun Okamoto 1 1 75
37 Shito Ueda and Yusaku Obata 1 0 73
38 Masayuki Okamoto/Shogun Okamoto and Yutaka Yoshie 1 0 62
39 Shinya Hashimoto and Naoya Ogawa 2 1 53
40 Shinjiro Otani and Takao Omori 1 1 33
41 Masato Tanaka and Wataru Sakata 1 0 28
42 Samoa Joe and Keiji Sakoda 1 0 25
43 Hartley Jackson and Taru 1 0 20
44 Quiet Storm and Yuji Hino 1 0 16
45 Nathan Jones and Jon Heidenreich 1 1 6
46 Steve Corino and Mike Rapada 1 0 3
47 Kengo Mashimo and Naka Shunma † 1 0 2+

By wrestler

Rank Team No. of
reigns 		Combined
defenses 		Combined days
1 Masato Tanaka 8 23 2,057
2 Shinjiro Otani 7 14 ¤1,281
3 Kohei Sato 7 15 1,225
4 Akebono 3 6 720
5 Takuya Sugawara 2 7 697
6 Daisuke Sekimoto 2 5 665
7 Minoru Fujita 2 5 537
8 Kamikaze 3 6 492
9 Zeus 1 4 419
10 Takao Omori 3 8 409
11 Takashi Sugiura 1 6 397
12 Junya Matsunaga 2 5 380
13 Hide Kubota 1 6 365
Yasu Kubota 1 6 365
15 Steve Corino 4 4 334
16 Ryouji Sai 3 4 306
17 Takafumi 1 2 301
18 Masashi Takeda 1 2 280
Yuko Miyamoto 1 2 280
20 Yumehito Imanari 1 1 268
21 Manabu Nakanishi 1 2 257
22 James Raideen 1 2 253
23 Ikuto Hidaka 2 1 233
24 Yoshihiro Takayama 1 2 232
25 Yuji Hino 2 3 219
26 Y2P-160 kg/Yutaka Yoshie 2 1 187
27 Yusaku Obata 2 0 174
28 Tsugutaka Sato 2 4 172
29 Shogun Okamoto/Masayuki Okamoto 2 1 137
30 Matt Ghaffari 1 2 135
31 Tom Howard 1 2 135
32 Shinya Hashimoto 3 3 128
33 Osamu Namiguchi 1 1 123
34 Taru 2 0 120
C. W. Anderson 1 3 120
36 Shiro Koshinaka 1 5 119
37 Gajo 1 1 114
Tomohiko Hashimoto 1 1 114
39 Hideki Suzuki 1 1 109
40 Kai 1 0 101
41 Chris Vice 1 0 100
42 Munenori Sawa 1 0 95
43 Charles Evans 1 0 94
44 Towa Iwasaki 1 1 93
45 Yuki Ishikawa 1 0 ¤81
46 Yoshiaki Fujiwara 1 2 75
47 Shito Ueda 1 0 73
48 Naoya Ogawa 2 1 53
49 Wataru Sakata 1 0 28
Samoa Joe 1 0 28
51 Keiji Sakoda 1 0 25
52 Hartley Jackson 1 0 20
53 Quiet Storm 1 0 16
54 John Heidenreich 1 1 6
Nathan Jones 1 1 6
56 Mike Rapada 1 0 3
57 Kengo Mashimo † 1 0 2+
Naka Shunma † 1 0 2+

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ The exact date on which Otani and 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. Archived from the original on 2008-07-20. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
  4. ^ "NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship title history". Wrestling-Titles.com. Archived from the original on 2011-08-16. 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. ^ "【プロレスリングZERO1】曙は完治せず治療に専念！インターコンチネンタルタッグ選手権はTARUの要求によりTARU&ハートリージャクソンの挑戦が決定！ | プロレスTODAY" (in Japanese). 2017-01-11. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
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  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Dark angel (January 7, 2019). "Zero1: "Happy New Year" Sekimoto maintains his hegemony". superluchas.com. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  10. ^ Dark angel (November 12, 2020). "Zero1: Performance at Yasukuni Shrine". superluchas.com. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  11. ^ Daly, Wayne (December 26, 2020). "ZERO1 Results: 2020 Final Show ~ Christmas Night – Tokyo, Japan (12/25)". wrestling-news.net. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  12. ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip (November 12, 2021). "ZERO1 Furinkazan Tag Team Tournament 2021 - Tag 2". cagematch.net. Retrieved November 12, 2021.
  13. ^ Daly, Wayne (March 6, 2022). "ZERO1 Results: Shinjiro Otani Debut 30th Anniversary Year & ZERO1 Launch 21st Anniversary Show – Tokyo, Japan (3/6)". wrestling-news.net. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  14. ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip (January 1, 2023). "ZERO1 Happy New Year 2023". cagematch.net. Retrieved January 1, 2023.
  15. ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip (January 1, 2024). "ZERO1 Happy New Year & Do Your Best! Ganbare! Shinjiro Otani Aid 2024". cagematch.net. Retrieved January 1, 2023.
  16. ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip (March 20, 2024). "2AW Grand Slam In Korakuen Hall". cagematch.net. Retrieved March 20, 2024.

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