Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship
The Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the Wrestle-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",, derived from the English language instead of the more common kanji term.
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been eighteen reigns shared among sixteen teams and twenty one wrestlers.
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. Through Wrestle-1's relationship with American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, the promotion had previously presented a match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship. 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. The two blocks containing the ten participating teams were revealed on November 3. The teams were later given official team names on November 14. 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. 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. On November 30, Team 246 defeated the new Wild order in the finals to win the tournament and become the inaugural Wrestle-1 Tag Team Champions.A | Kuroshio Funaki | Hayashi Kondo | Kono Tajiri | Mazada Nosawa | Kea Nakanoue |
Kuroshio Funaki | X | Hayashi Kondo | Kono Tajiri | Kuroshio Funaki | Kuroshio Funaki |
Hayashi Kondo | Hayashi Kondo | X | Kono Tajiri | Hayashi Kondo | Hayashi Kondo |
Kono Tajiri | Kono Tajiri | Kono Tajiri | X | Kono Tajiri | Kono Tajiri |
Mazada Nosawa | Kuroshio Funaki | Hayashi Kondo | Kono Tajiri | X | Kea Nakanoue |
Kea Nakanoue | Kuroshio Funaki | Hayashi Kondo | Kono Tajiri | Kea Nakanoue | X |
B | Akira Soya | Yamato Sanada | Kai Hama | Doi Kodama | Tanaka Yoshioka |
Akira Soya | X | Draw | Kai Hama | Akira Soya | Akira Soya |
Yamato Sanada | Draw | X | Yamato Sanada | Draw | Tanaka Yoshioka |
Kai Hama | Kai Hama | Yamato Sanada | X | Kai Hama | Kai Hama |
Doi Kodama | Akira Soya | Draw | Kai Hama | X | Tanaka Yoshioka |
Tanaka Yoshioka | Akira Soya | Tanaka Yoshioka | Kai Hama | Tanaka Yoshioka | X |
Title history
Combined reigns
As of ,By team
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