Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship

Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship

The Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship belt
(November 2014 — Present)
Details
Current champion(s) Real Desperado (Kazma Sakamoto and Yuji Hino)
Date won March 6, 2016[1]
Date established September 22, 2014[2]
Promotion Wrestle-1

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).[2]

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been four reigns shared among four teams and seven wrestlers. Real Desperado (Kazma Sakamoto and Yuji Hino) are the current Wrestle-1 Tag Team Champions in their first reign both individually and as a team.[1]

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.[2][7][8] 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.[9][10] 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.[2] The two blocks containing the ten participating teams were revealed on November 3.[11][12][13] The teams were later given official team names on November 14.[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.[11] 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.[15][16] 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][17][18]

Final standings
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)[19]
Kono
Tajiri
(10:52)[20]
Kuroshio
Funaki
(09:55)[21]
Kuroshio
Funaki
(12:38)[22]
Hayashi
Kondo
Hayashi
Kondo
(12:10)[19]
X Kono
Tajiri
(14:46)[21]
Hayashi
Kondo
(06:28)[23]
Hayashi
Kondo
(13:28)[20]
Kono
Tajiri
Kono
Tajiri
(10:52)[20]
Kono
Tajiri
(14:46)[21]
X Kono
Tajiri
(03:35)[22]
Kono
Tajiri
(09:18)[23]
Mazada
Nosawa
Kuroshio
Funaki
(09:55)[21]
Hayashi
Kondo
(06:28)[23]
Kono
Tajiri
(03:35)[22]
X Kea
Nakanoue
(07:54)[19]
Kea
Nakanoue
Kuroshio
Funaki
(12:38)[22]
Hayashi
Kondo
(13:28)[20]
Kono
Tajiri
(09:18)[23]
Kea
Nakanoue
(07:54)[19]
X
B Akira
Soya
Yamato
Sanada
Kai
Hama
Doi
Kodama
Tanaka
Yoshioka
Akira
Soya
X Draw
(30:00)[20]
Kai
Hama
(16:22)[19]
Akira
Soya
(09:52)[21]
Akira
Soya
(14:46)[23]
Yamato
Sanada
Draw
(30:00)[20]
X Yamato
Sanada
(17:08)[21]
Draw
(30:00)[23]
Tanaka
Yoshioka
(15:50)[22]
Kai
Hama
Kai
Hama
(16:22)[19]
Yamato
Sanada
(17:08)[21]
X Kai
Hama
(12:05)[22]
Kai
Hama
(forfeit)[15]
Doi
Kodama
Akira
Soya
(09:52)[21]
Draw
(30:00)[23]
Kai
Hama
(12:05)[22]
X Tanaka
Yoshioka
(10:20)[19]
Tanaka
Yoshioka
Akira
Soya
(14:46)[23]
Tanaka
Yoshioka
(15:50)[22]
Kai
Hama
(forfeit)[15]
Tanaka
Yoshioka
(10:20)[19]
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[24] Hayashi and Kondo defeated Akira and Manabu Soya in the finals of a ten-team tournament to become the inaugural champions. [3][17][18]
2 new Wild order
(Jun Kasai and Manabu Soya)
1 July 12, 2015 138 Tokyo Symbol 2[25] [24][26][27]
3 TriggeR
(Masayuki Kono and Shuji Kondo (2))
1 November 27, 2015 100 Tokyo Autumn Bout 0[1] [25][28]
4 Real Desperado
(Kazma Sakamoto and Yuji Hino)
1 March 6, 2016 36+ Sendai Trans Magic 1[29] [1]

List of combined reigns

As of April 11, 2016

Indicates the current champions
<1 Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day

By wrestler

Rank Wrestler No. of reigns Combined
defenses
Combined
days
1 Shuji Kondo 2 7 324
2 Kaz Hayashi 1 7 224
3 Jun Kasai 1 2 138
3 Manabu Soya 1 2 138
5 Masayuki Kono 1 0 100
6 Kazma Sakamoto 1 1 36+
6 Yuji Hino 1 1 36+

See also

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