The Intercontinental Tag Team Championship, 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 (>) 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) defeated Yuki Ishikawa and Katsumi Usuda. 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 58 recognized individual champions and 47 recognized teams, who have had a combined 52 official reigns. The current champions are Kubota Brothers (Yasu Kubota and Hide Kubota) who are in their second reign as a team as well as individually.
Title history
Combined reigns As of , . †Indicates the current champion¤The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest length is considered.
By team {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center" !Rank !Team !No. ofreigns !Combineddefenses !Combined days |- !1 | M2J || 1 || 3 || 556 |- !2 | Emblem || 2 || 7 || 459 |- !3 |Masato Tanaka and Zeus || 1 || 4 || 419 |- !4 | Stepbrother Tag || 1 || 4 || 399 |- !5 | Dangan Yankees || 1 || 6 || 397 |- !6 | Kubota Brothers || 2 || 6 || 386 |- !7 | Kohei Sato and Kamikaze || 2 || 5 || 367 |- !8 | Kohei Sato and Daisuke Sekimoto || 1 || 4 || 334 |- !9 | ZERO64 || 1 || 1 || 330 |- !10 | Shinjiro Otani and Akebono || 1 || 4 || 315 |- !11 | Junya Matsunaga and Takafumi || 1 || 2 || 301 |- !12 | Masato Tanaka and Takuya Sugawara || 1 || 3 || 298 |- !13 | Yuko Miyamoto and Masashi Takeda || 1 || 2 || 280 |- !14 | Shinjiro Otani and Yumehito Imanari || 1 || 1 || 268 |- !15 | Wild Child || 1 || 2 || 257 |- !16 | Masato Tanaka and James Raideen || 1 || 2 || 253 |- !17 | Yoshihiro Takayama and Kohei Sato || 1 || 2 || 232 |- !18 |style="background-color:#FFE6BD"| Junya Matsunaga and Tsugutaka Sato † || 2 || 5 || + |- !19 | Voodoo Murders || 1 || 3 || 203 |- !20 | Kohei Sato and Ryoji Sai || 2 || 3 || 183 |- !21 | Aibo Tag || 1 || 1 || 138 |- !22 | Matt Ghaffari and Tom Howard || 1 || 2 || 135 |- !23 | Shinjiro Otani and Kamikaze || 1 || 1 || 125 |- !24 | Ryoji Sai and Osamu Namiguchi || 1 || 1 || 123 |- !25 | Steve Corino and C. W. Anderson || 1 || 3 || 120 |- !26 | Takao Omori and Shiro Koshinaka || 1 || 5 || 119 |- !27 | Steve Corino and Y2P-160kg || 1 || 1 || 115 |- !28 | Gajo and Tomohiko Hashimoto || 1 || 1 || 114 |- !29 | Hideki Suzuki and Kohei Sato || 1 || 1 || 109 |- !30 | Kai and Yusaku Obata || 1 || 0 || 101 |- !31 | Voodoo Murders || 1 || 0 || 100 |- !32 | Ikuto Hidaka and Munenori Sawa || 1 || 0 || 95 |- !33 | Mr. Wrestling 3 and Charles Evans || 1 || 0 || 94 |- !34 | Towa Iwasaki and Tsugutaka Sato || 1 || 1 || 93 |- !35 | Shinjiro Otani and Yuki Ishikawa || 1 || 0 || style="background-color:#bbeeff"| |- !rowspan=2|36 | Shinya Hashimoto and Yoshiaki Fujiwara || 1 || 2 || 75 |- | Akebono and Shogun Okamoto || 1 || 1 || 75 |- !38 | Shito Ueda and Yusaku Obata || 1 || 0 || 73 |- !39 | Masayuki Okamoto/Shogun Okamoto and Yutaka Yoshie || 1 || 0 || 62 |- !40 | OH-gun || 2 || 1 || 53 |- !41 | Shinjiro Otani and Takao Omori || 1 || 1 || 33 |- !42 |Masato Tanaka and Wataru Sakata || 1 || 0 || 28 |- !43 | Samoa Joe and Keiji Sakoda || 1 || 0 || 25 |- !44 | Voodoo Murders || 1 || 0 || 20 |- !45 | Quiet Storm and Yuji Hino || 1 || 0 || 16 |- !46 | Nathan Jones and Jon Heidenreich || 1 || 1 || 6 |- !47 | Steve Corino and Mike Rapada || 1 || 0 || 3
By wrestler RankTeamNo. ofreignsCombineddefensesCombined days1Masato Tanaka 8 23 2Shinjiro Otani 7 14 3Kohei Sato 7 15 4Akebono 3 6 7205Takuya Sugawara 2 7 6976Daisuke Sekimoto 2 5 6657 Kengo Mashimo 1 3 556 Naka Shuma 1 3 5569Minoru Fujita 2 5 53710 Junya Matsunaga † 3 7 +11Kamikaze 3 6 49212Zeus 1 4 41913Takao Omori 3 8 40914Takashi Sugiura 1 6 39715 Hide Kubota 2 6 386 Yasu Kubota 2 6 38617Steve Corino 4 4 33418Ryouji Sai 3 4 30619 Tsugutaka Sato † 3 6 +20 Takafumi 1 2 30121Masashi Takeda 1 2 280Yuko Miyamoto 1 2 28023 Yumehito Imanari 1 1 26824Manabu Nakanishi 1 2 25725James Raideen 1 2 25326Ikuto Hidaka 2 1 23327Yoshihiro Takayama 1 2 23228Yuji Hino 2 3 21929Y2P-160 kg/Yutaka Yoshie 2 1 18730Yusaku Obata 2 0 17431Shogun Okamoto/Masayuki Okamoto 2 1 13732Matt Ghaffari 1 2 13533Tom Howard 1 2 13534Shinya Hashimoto 3 3 12835Osamu Namiguchi 1 1 12336Taru 2 0 120C. W. Anderson 1 3 12038Shiro Koshinaka 1 5 11939 Gajo 1 1 114 Tomohiko Hashimoto 1 1 11441Hideki Suzuki 1 1 10942Kai 1 0 10143Chris Vice 1 0 10044Munenori Sawa 1 0 9545Charles Evans 1 0 9446 Towa Iwasaki 1 1 9347Yuki Ishikawa 1 0 48Yoshiaki Fujiwara 1 2 7549Shito Ueda 1 0 7350Naoya Ogawa 2 1 5351Wataru Sakata 1 0 28Samoa Joe 1 0 2853Keiji Sakoda 1 0 2554Hartley Jackson 1 0 2055 Quiet Storm 1 0 1656John Heidenreich 1 1 6Nathan Jones 1 1 658Mike Rapada 1 0 3
See also List of National Wrestling Alliance championships
Footnotes
References
External links ZEROONEUSA.com title history Wrestling-Titles.com title history TitleHistories.com title history