BJW Tag Team Championship

The BJW World Tag Team Championship is the top tag team title defended in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Big Japan Pro Wrestling. The Championship has been the leading Tag Team Championship in the promotion since 1997.

Title history

Wrestlers:	Times:	Date:	Days held	Location:	Notes:
Takashi Ishikawa and Kengo Kimura	1	June 3, 1997	8	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Shoji Nakamaki and Takashi Okano in the finals of a five-team scramble tournament to become the first champions.[1]
Title vacated on June 11, 1997 when Ishikawa and Kimura split up.[1]
Yoshihiro Tajiri and Ryuji Yamakawa	1	July 23, 1997	152	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Takashi Ishikawa and Kishin Kawabata.[1]
Gedo and Jado	1	December 22, 1997	11	Isesaki, Japan	[1]
Yoshihiro Tajiri (2) and Ryuji Yamakawa (2)	2	January 2, 1998	61	Tokyo, Japan	[1]
Shadow Winger and Shadow WX	1	March 4, 1998	158	Shimizu, Japan	[1]
Shouji Nakamaki and Ryuji Yamakawa (3)	1	August 9, 1998	112	Kawasaki, Japan	[1]
Title vacated on November 29, 1998 when Nakamaki left BJW.[1]
Tomoaki Honma and Shadow WX (2)	1	December 5, 1998	238	Kanagawa, Japan	Defeated Jason the Terrible and Shadow Winger.[1]
Mike Samples and Ryuji Yamakawa (4)	1	July 31, 1999	38	Fukuoka, Japan	[1]
Kamikaze and Shunme Matsuzaki	1	September 7, 1999	122	Imabari, Japan	[1]
Tomoaki Honma (2) and Ryuji Yamakawa (5)	1	January 7, 2000	147	Osaka, Japan	[1]
Nick Gage and John Zandig	1	June 2, 2000	8	Nagaoka, Japan	[1]
Justice Pain and The Wifebeater	1	June 10, 2000	22	Sewell, New Jersey	[1]
Shadow WX (3) and Ryuji Yamakawa (6)	1	July 2, 2000	75	Tokyo, Japan	[1]
Kamikaze (2) and Abdullah Kobayashi	1	September 15, 2000	135	Tokyo, Japan	[1]
Daisuke Sekimoto and Men's Teioh	1	January 28, 2001	595	Tokyo, Japan	[1]
Daikokubo Benkei and Abdullah Kobayashi (2)	1	September 15, 2002	460	Fukuoka, Japan	[1]
Badboy Hido and Ryuji Itoh	1	December 19, 2003	4	Tokyo, Japan	[1]
Mr. Big Japan (R. Yamakawa, 7) and Men's Teioh (2)	1	December 23, 2003	236	Tokyo, Japan	[1]
Abdullah Kobayashi (3) and Jaki Numazawa	1	August 15, 2004	105	Kawasaki, Japan	[1]
GENTARO and Takashi Sasaki	1	November 28, 2004	289	Chiba, Japan	[1]
Title stripped on September 13, 2005 for lack of title defenses.[1]
Abdullah Kobayashi (4) and Daisuke Sekimoto (2)	1	October 14, 2005	105	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Jun Kasai and Jaki Numazawa.[1]
Mammoth Sasaki and Shadow WX (4)	1	January 27, 2006	310	Kawasaki, Japan	[1]
Daisuke Sekimoto (3) and Yoshihito Sasaki	1	December 3, 2006	455	Yokohama, Japan	[1]
Kengo Mashimo and Madoka	1	March 2, 2008	133	Tokyo, Japan	[1]
Mammoth Sasaki (2) and Daisuke Sekimoto (4)	1	July 13, 2008	237	Yokohama, Japan	[1]
Title vacated on March 7, 2009 after Sasaki is injured in an automobile accident.[1]
Isami Kodaka and Masashi Takeda	1	May 28, 2009	60	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Yuko Miyamoto and Takashi Sasaki in the finals of a Round-robin tournament final.[1]
Yuji Okabayashi and Daisuke Sekimoto (5)	1	July 27, 2009	139	Tokyo, Japan	[1]
Yoshihito Sasaki and Shinya Ishikawa	1	December 13 2009	31	Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan	[1]
Title vacated on January 13, 2010 after Ishikawa suffers a leg injury.[1]
Jun Kasai and Jaki Numazawa (2)	1	April 28, 2010	165	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Daisuke Sekimoto and Yoshihito Sasaki in a tournament final to win the vacant title.[1]
Daisuke Sekimoto (6) and Yoshihito Sasaki (2)	2	October 10, 2010	43	Sapporo, Japan	[1]
Jun Kasai (2) and Jaki Numazawa (3)	2	November 22, 2010	69	Tokyo, Japan	[1]
Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei	1	January 30, 2011	13	Nagoya, Japan	[1]
Jun Kasai (3) and Jaki Numazawa (4)	3	February 12, 2011	82	Tokyo, Japan	[1]
Isami Kodaka (2) and Yuko Miyamoto	1	May 5, 2011	332	Yokohama, Japan	[1]
Shinobu and Yoshihito Sasaki (4)	1	April 1, 2012	33	Sapporo, Japan	[1]
Shigehiro Irie and Shuji Ishikawa	1	May 4, 2012	72	Tokyo, Japan	This match took place at a Union Pro Wrestling event.[1]
Shinobu (2) and Yuji Okabayashi (2)	1	July 15, 2012	132	Sapporo, Japan	[1]
Isami Kodaka (3) and Yuko Miyamoto (2)	2	November 24, 2012	553	Tokyo, Japan	[1]
Kohei Sato and Shuji Ishikawa (2)	1	May 31, 2014	516	Tokyo, Japan	[1]
Daisuke Sekimoto (7) and Yuji Okabayashi (3)	2	October 29, 2015	62	Tokyo, Japan	This was the final of the 2015 Saikyo Tag League.[1]
Hideyoshi Kamitani and Ryota Hama	1	December 30, 2015	130+	Tokyo, Japan	[1]

List of combined reigns

By wrestler

Rank	Wrestler	# of Reigns	Combined Days
1.	Daisuke Sekimoto	7	1,636
2.	Isami Kodaka	3	945
3.	Yuko Miyamoto	3	885
4.	Men's Teioh	2	831
5.	Ryuji Yamakawa	7	821
6.	Abdullah Kobayashi	4	805
7.	Shadow WX	4	781
8.	Shuji Ishikawa	2	588
9.	Yoshihito Sasaki	4	562
10.	Mammoth Sasaki	2	547
11.	Kohei Sato	1	516
12.	Benkei Daikokuboh	1	470
13.	Jaki Numazawa	4	421
14.	Tomoaki Honma	2	385
15.	Jun Kasai	3	316
16.	GENTARO	1	289
16.	Takashi Sasaki	1	289
18.	Yuji Okabayashi	3	333
19.	Kamikaze	2	257
20.	Yoshihiro Tajiri	2	213
21.	Shinobu	2	165
22.	Shadow Winger	1	158
23.	Kengo Mashimo	1	133
23.	Madoka	1	133
25.	Shumi Matsuzaki	1	122
26.	Shouji Nakamaki	1	112
27.	Shigehiro Irie	1	72
28.	Masashi Takeda	1	60
29.	Mike Samples	1	38
30.	Shinya Ishikawa	1	31
31.	Justice Pain	1	22
31.	The Wifebeater	1	22
33.	Brahman Shu	1	13
33.	Brahman Kei	1	13
35.	Gedo	1	11
35.	Jado	1	11
37.	Takashi Ishikawa	1	9
37.	Kengo Kimura	1	9
39.	Nick Gage	1	9
39.	John Zandig	1	9
41.	Badboy Hido	1	4
41.	Ryuji Ito	1	4
43.	Hideyoshi Kamitani†	1	130+
43.	Ryota Hama†	1	130+

References

1. "BJW Tag Team Title". Wrestling Titles. Archived from the original on 9 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-15.

See also

• Big Japan Pro Wrestling