Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (Zero1)
| Intercontinental Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
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 Takuya Sugawara with the current belt design in 2020 | |||||||||||
| Details | |||||||||||
| Promotion | New Wrestling Alliance Pro Wrestling Zero1 | ||||||||||
| Date established | June 14, 2001 | ||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Gajo and Tomohiko Hashimoto | ||||||||||
| Date won | November 12, 2021 | ||||||||||
| Other name(s) | |||||||||||
NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
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The Intercontinental Tag Team Championship[1] is a professional wrestling tag team title in Japanese promoting 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 Yuuki Ishikawa and Katsumi Usuda.[5] This was during a time when Zero-One was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance; since the two organizations' parting 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 NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship, contested exclusively among junior heavyweights. There have been a total of 52 recognized individual champions and 43 recognized teams, who have had a combined 47 official reigns.
Title history[]
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| 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 Yuuki Ishikawa and Katsumi Usuda. | ||
| 2 | Steve Corino and Mike Rapada | July 9, 2001 | — | — | 1 | 3 | 0 | Awarded the title by NWA president Howard Brody. | ||
| 3 | Shinjiro Otani and Yuuki 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 | 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. | ||
| 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 | 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 | 46+ | 0 | Defeated Hartley Jackson and Junya Matsunaga in the 2021 Furinkazan Tag Tournament final which was also for the vacant titles. | [12] | |
Combined reigns[]
As of December 28, 2021.
| † | 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 | Kohei Sato and Daisuke Sekimoto | 1 | 4 | 334 |
| 7 | ZERO64 (Akebono and Daisuke Sekimoto) |
1 | 1 | 330 |
| 8 | Shinjiro Otani and Akebono | 1 | 4 | 315 |
| 9 | Masato Tanaka and Takuya Sugawara | 1 | 3 | 298 |
| 10 | Yuko Miyamoto and Masashi Takeda | 1 | 2 | 280 |
| 11 | Shinjiro Otani and Yumehito Imanari | 1 | 1 | 268 |
| 12 | Wild Child (Manabu Nakanishi and Takao Omori) |
1 | 2 | 257 |
| 13 | Masato Tanaka and James Raideen | 1 | 2 | 253 |
| 14 | Yoshihiro Takayama and Kohei Sato | 1 | 2 | 232 |
| 15 | Masato Tanaka and Yuji Hino | 1 | 3 | 203 |
| 16 | Kohei Sato and Ryoji Sai | 2 | 3 | 183 |
| 17 | Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita | 1 | 1 | 138 |
| 18 | Matt Ghaffari and Tom Howard | 1 | 2 | 135 |
| 19 | Shinjiro Otani and Kamikaze | 1 | 1 | 125 |
| 20 | Ryoji Sai and Osamu Namiguchi | 1 | 1 | 123 |
| 21 | Steve Corino and C.W. Anderson | 1 | 3 | 120 |
| 22 | Takao Omori and Shiro Koshinaka | 1 | 5 | 119 |
| 23 | Steve Corino and Y2P-160kg | 1 | 1 | 115 |
| 24 | Hideki Suzuki and Kohei Sato | 1 | 1 | 109 |
| 25 | Kai and Yusaku Obata | 1 | 0 | 101 |
| 26 | Taru and | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| 27 | Ikuto Hidaka and Munenori Sawa | 1 | 0 | 95 |
| 28 | Mr. Wrestling 3 and Charles Evans | 1 | 0 | 94 |
| 29 | Towa Iwasaki and Tsugutaka Sato | 1 | 1 | 93 |
| 30 | Shinjiro Otani and Yuuki Ishikawa | 1 | 0 | ¤81 |
| 31 | Shinya Hashimoto and Yoshiaki Fujiwara | 1 | 2 | 75 |
| Akebono and Shogun Okamoto | 1 | 1 | 75 | |
| 33 | Shito Ueda and Yusaku Obata | 1 | 0 | 73 |
| 34 | Masayuki Okamoto/Shogun Okamoto and Yutaka Yoshie | 1 | 0 | 62 |
| 35 | Shinya Hashimoto and Naoya Ogawa | 2 | 1 | 53 |
| 36 | Shinjiro Otani and Takao Omori | 1 | 1 | 33 |
| 37 | Masato Tanaka and Wataru Sakata | 1 | 0 | 28 |
| 38 | Samoa Joe and Keiji Sakoda | 1 | 0 | 25 |
| 39 | Hartley Jackson and Taru | 1 | 0 | 20 |
| 40 | Quiet Storm and Yuji Hino | 1 | 0 | 16 |
| 41 | Gajo and Tomohiko Hashimoto † | 1 | 0 | 46+ |
| 42 | Nathan Jones and Jon Heidenreich | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 43 | Steve Corino and Mike Rapada | 1 | 0 | 3 |
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 | 3 | 6 | 492 | |
| 9 | Zeus | 1 | 4 | 419 |
| 10 | Takao Omori | 3 | 8 | 409 |
| 11 | Takashi Sugiura | 1 | 6 | 397 |
| 12 | Steve Corino | 4 | 4 | 334 |
| 13 | Ryouji Sai | 3 | 4 | 306 |
| 14 | Masashi Takeda | 1 | 2 | 280 |
| Yuko Miyamoto | 1 | 2 | 280 | |
| 16 | Yumehito Imanari | 1 | 1 | 268 |
| 17 | Manabu Nakanishi | 1 | 2 | 257 |
| 18 | James Raideen | 1 | 2 | 253 |
| 19 | Ikuto Hidaka | 2 | 1 | 233 |
| 19 | Yoshihiro Takayama | 1 | 2 | 232 |
| 21 | Yuji Hino | 2 | 3 | 219 |
| 22 | Y2P-160 kg/Yutaka Yoshie | 2 | 1 | 187 |
| 23 | Yusaku Obata | 2 | 0 | 174 |
| 24 | Shogun Okamoto/Masayuki Okamoto | 2 | 1 | 137 |
| 25 | Matt Ghaffari | 1 | 2 | 135 |
| 26 | Tom Howard | 1 | 2 | 135 |
| 27 | Shinya Hashimoto | 3 | 3 | 128 |
| 28 | Osamu Namiguchi | 1 | 1 | 123 |
| 29 | Taru | 2 | 0 | 120 |
| C.W. Anderson | 1 | 3 | 120 | |
| 31 | Shiro Koshinaka | 1 | 5 | 119 |
| 32 | Hideki Suzuki | 1 | 1 | 109 |
| 33 | Kai | 1 | 0 | 101 |
| 34 | 1 | 0 | 100 | |
| 35 | Munenori Sawa | 1 | 0 | 95 |
| 36 | 1 | 0 | 94 | |
| 37 | Towa Iwasaki | 1 | 1 | 93 |
| Tsugutaka Sato | 1 | 1 | 93 | |
| 39 | 1 | 0 | ¤81 | |
| 40 | Yoshiaki Fujiwara | 1 | 2 | 75 |
| 41 | 1 | 0 | 73 | |
| 42 | Naoya Ogawa | 2 | 1 | 53 |
| 43 | Wataru Sakata | 1 | 0 | 28 |
| Samoa Joe | 1 | 0 | 28 | |
| 45 | Keiji Sakoda | 1 | 0 | 25 |
| 46 | Hartley Jackson | 1 | 0 | 20 |
| 47 | Quiet Storm | 1 | 0 | 16 |
| 48 | Gajo † | 1 | 0 | 46+ |
| Tomohiko Hashimoto † | 1 | 0 | 46+ | |
| 50 | John Heidenreich | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Nathan Jones | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| 52 | Mike Rapada | 1 | 0 | 3 |
See also[]
Footnotes[]
- ^ 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[]
- ^ "Pro Wrestling ZERO1 official results archives" (in Japanese). ZERO-ONE-MAX.com. Archived from the original on 2007-07-26. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
- ^ "Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE results, 2001". Strong Style Spirit. Archived from the original on 2007-06-20. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
- ^ "NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship title history". TitleHistories.com. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
- ^ "NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship title history". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
- ^ "NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship official title history". ZEROONEUSA.com. Archived from the original on 2006-05-14. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
- ^ "【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.
- ^ "ZERO１ 埼玉大会新生ZERO１ 新春ドリーム・シリーズ (english: Zero1 Saitama Competition - Zero1 Rebirth - New Year Dream Series)" (in Japanese). January 15, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Dark angel (January 7, 2019). "Zero1: "Happy New Year" Sekimoto maintains his hegemony". superluchas.com. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ Dark angel (November 12, 2020). "Zero1: Performance at Yasukuni Shrine". superluchas.com. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ Daly, Wayne (December 26, 2020). "ZERO1 Results: 2020 Final Show ~ Christmas Night – Tokyo, Japan (12/25)". wrestling-news.net. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip (November 12, 2021). "ZERO1 Furinkazan Tag Team Tournament 2021 - Tag 2". cagematch.net. Retrieved November 12, 2021.
External links[]
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