All-Asia Tag Team Championship

The All-Asia Tag Team Championship is a tag team title primarily competed for in All-Japan Pro Wrestling. It was created in the Japan Wrestling Association in 1955 and abandoned in 1973 when the JWA closed. In 1976 All-Japan revived the title when New Japan announced their own version of the title was being created. It is one of two tag team titles recognized by All-Japan along with their World Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. It is also the oldest active title in Japan.

As of 10/13/2024 there have been 125 All-Asia Tag Team Champions. They are listed below in order of reign, which reign it was (some held it multiple times), length of reign (the dates for the first 9-10 reigns may not be 100% accurate due to lack of reliable records) and number of successful defenses (successful defense data is not available for some reigns prior to 1973).

1-King Kong Czaya & Tiger Joginder Singh. 1st reign. Length: 11/16/1955-6/2/1960. Successful defenses: Unknown. Vacated titles on 6/2/1960 due to splitting up.

2-Dan Miller & Frank Valois. 1st reign. Length: 6/2/1960-6/7/1960. Successful defenses: None.

3-Rikidozan & Toyonobori. 1st reign. Length: 6/7/1960-2/3/1962. Successful defenses: Unknown.

4-Luther Lindsay & Ricky Waldo. 1st reign. Length: 2/3/1962-2/15/1962. Successful defenses: None.

5-Rikidozan & Toyonobori. 2nd reign. Length: 2/15/1962-6/4/1962. Successful defenses: None.

6-Buddy Austin & Mike Sharpe. 1st reign. Length: 6/4/1962-7/1/1962. Successful defenses: None.

7-Rikidozan & Toyonobori. 3rd reign. Length: 7/1/1962-1/xx/1963. Successful defenses: None. Vacated titles in January 1963 on unknown date due to a Toyonobori injury.

8-Rikidozan & Toyonobori. 4th reign. Length: 5/6/1963-12/15/1963. Successful defenses: None. Vacated titles on 12/15/1963 after the death of Rikidozan.

9-Michiaki Yoshimura & Toyonobori. 1st reign. Length: 2/20/1964-5/15/1964. Successful defenses: Unknown.

10-Calypso Hurricane & Gene Kiniski. 1st reign. Length: 5/14/1964-5/29/1964. Successful defenses: Unknown.

11-Giant Baba & Toyonobori. 1st reign. Length: 5/29/1964-6/3/1965. Successful defenses: Unknown.

12-The Destroyer & Billy Red Lyons. 1st reign. Length: 6/3/1965-7/15/1965. Successful defenses: Unknown.

13-Giant Baba & Toyonobori. 2nd reign. Length: 7/15/1965-1/5/1966. Successful defenses: Unknown. Vacated titles on 1/5/1966 due to Toyonobori taking a leave of absence.

14-Joe Carollo & Killer Karl Kox. 1st reign. Length: 5/26/1966-5/28/1966. Successful defenses: None.

15-Hiro Matsuda & Michiaki Yoshimura. 1st reign. Length: 5/28/1966-6/27/1966. Successful defenses: 1.

16-Eddie Graham & Killer Karl Kox. 1st reign. Length: 6/27/1966-7/1/1966. Successful defenses: None.

17-Giant Baba & Michiaki Yoshimura. 1st reign. Length: 7/1/1966-11/5/1966. Successful defenses: Unknown. Vacated titles on 11/5/1966 due to winning NWA International Tag Team Championship.

18-Kentaro Ohki & Michiaki Yoshimura. 1st reign. Length: 12/3/1966-4/xx/1967. Successful defenses: 2. Vacated titles in April 1967 due to Ohki injuries suffered in a car accident.

19-Antonio Inoki & Michiaki Yoshimura. 1st reign. Length: 5/26/1967-10/31/1967. Successful defenses: 1. Vacated titles on 10/31/1967 due to Inoki winning NWA International Tag Team Championship.

20-Kentaro Ohki & Michiaki Yoshimura, 2nd reign. Length: 1/6/1969-7/8/1968. Successful defenses: 2.

21-Klondike Bill & Skull Murphy. 1st reign. Length: 7/8/1968-7/30/1968. Successful defenses: None.

22-Kentaro Ohki & Michiaki Yoshimura. 3rd reign. Length: 7/30/1968-1/21/1969. Successful defenses: 2. Vacates titles on 1/21/1969 due to a Yoshimura excursion to the USA.

23-Kentaro Ohki & Antonio Inoki. 1st reign. Length: 2/3/1969-7/3/1969. Successful defenses: Unknown. Vacated titles on 7/3/1969 so Ohki could focus on defending All-Asia Heavyweight Championship.

24-Antonio Inoki & Michiaki Yoshimura. 2nd reign. Length: 8/9/1969-10/10/1969. Successful defenses: Unknown. Titles held up after 10/10/1969 match against Mr. Atomic & Buddy Austin.

25-Antonio Inoki & Michiaki Yoshimura. 3rd reign. Length: 10/30/1969-12/xx/1971. Successful defenses: 3. Vacated titles in December 1971 due to Inoki leaving JWA.

26-Seiji Sakaguchi & Michiaki Yoshimura. 1st reign. Length: 12/12/1971-1/30/1973. Successful defenses: 1. Vacated titles on 1/30/1973 due to Yoshimura retiring.

27-The Great Kojika & Gentetsu Matsuoka. 1st reign. Length: 3/3/1973-4/20/1973. Successful defenses: None.

Titles deactivated on 4/20/1973 when JWA closed.

Titles reactivated in All-Japan Pro Wrestling on 3/26/1976. Official title lineage continues below.

28-The Great Kojika & Motoshi Okuma. 1st reign. Length: 3/26/1976-10/2/1976. Successful defenses: 2.

29-Jerry & Ted Oates. 1st reign. Length: 10/2/1976-10/21/1976. Successful defenses: None.

30-Samson Kutsuwada & Akihisa Takachiho. 1st reign. Length: 10/21:1976-6/13/1977. Successful defenses: 2.

31-The Great Kojika & Motoshi Okuma. 2nd reign. Length: 6/13/1977-11/6/1977. Successful defenses: 2.

32-Animal Hamaguchi & Mighty Inoue. 1st reign. Length: 11/6/1977-2/22/1978. Successful defenses: 4

33-The Great Kojika & Motoshi Okuma. 3rd reign. Length: 2/22/1978-8/xx/1978. Successful defenses: None. Stripped of titles in August 1978 due to no defenses in 6 months.

34-The Great Kojika & Motoshi Okuma. 4th reign. Length: 5/31/1979-5/23/1981. Successful defenses: 5.

35-David & Kevin Von Erich. 1st reign. Length: 5/23/1981-6/11/1981. Successful defenses: None.

36-Takashi Ishikawa & Akio Sato. 1st reign. Length: 6/11/1981-1/xx1983. Successful defenses: 4. Vacated titles in January 1983 due to a Sato injury.

37-Ashura Hara & Mighty Inoue. 1st reign. Length: 2/23/1983-2/26/1984. Successful defenses: 8. Vacated titles on 2/26/1984 so Inoue could focus on NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship.

38-Ashura Hara & Takashi Ishikawa. 1st reign. Length: 2/xx/1984-10/22/1984. Successful defenses: None. Vacated titles on 10/22/1994.

39-Takashi Ishikawa & Akio Sato. 2nd reign. Length: 4/15/1985-7/18/1985. Successful defenses: None.

40-Animal Hamaguchi & Isamu Teranishi. 1st reign. Length: 7/18/1985-7/xx/1985. Successful defenses: 1.

41-Norio Honaga & Iasmu Teranishi. 1st reign. Length: 7/xx1985-10/31/1985. Successful defenses: 1.

42-Mighty Inoue & Takashi Ishikawa. 1st reign. Length: 10/31/1985-10/30/1986. Successful defenses: 1.

43-Ashura Hara & Super Strong Machine. 1st reign. Length: 10/30/1986-3/xx/1987. Successful defenses: None. Vacated titles in March 1987 when Machine left All-Japan.

44-Mighty Inoue & Takashi Ishikawa. 2nd reign. Length: 7/30/1987-3/9/1988. Successful defenses: 2.

45-Samson Fuyuki & Toshiaki Kawada. 1st reign. Length: 3/9/1988-9/9/1988. Successful defenses: 2.

46-Shinichi Nakano & Shuji Takano. 1st reign. Length: 9/9/1988-9/15/1988. Successful defenses: None.

47-Samson Fuyuki & Toshiaki Kawada. 2nd reign. Length: 9/15/1988-6/5/1989. Successful defenses: 4.

48-Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat. 1st reign. Length: 6/5/1989-10/20/1989. Successful defenses: 3.

49-Samson Fuyuki & Toshiaki Kawada. 3rd reign. Length: 10/20/1989-3/2/1990. Successful defenses: 1.

50-Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat. 2nd reign. Length: 3/2/1990-4/9/1990. Successful defenses: 1.

51-Kenta Kobashi & Tiger Mask 2 (Mitsuharu Misawa). 1st reign. Length: 4/9/1990-5/17/1990. Successful defenses: None. TM 2 unmasked on 5/14/1990 and revealed as Mitsuharu Misawa, who used his real name going forward. Vacated titles on 5/17/1990 so Misawa could focus on singles career.

52-Shinichi Nakano & Akira Taue. 1st reign. Length: 6/5/1990-6/19/1990. Successful defenses: None. Vacated titles on 6/19/1990 due to Nakano leaving All-Japan.

53-Kenta Kobashi & Johnny Ace. 1st reign. Length: 9/7/1990-2/xx/1991. Successful defenses: 2. Vacated titles in February 1991 due to an Ace injury.

54-Dynamite Kid & Johnny Smith. 1st reign. Length: 4/6/1991-4/20/1991. Successful defenses: None.

55-Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat. 3rd reign. Length: 4/20/1991-7/8/1991. Successful defenses: 2.

56-Kenta Kobashi & Johnny Ace. 2nd reign. Length: 7/8/1991-7/18/1991. Successful defenses: None.

57-Billy Black & Joel Deaton. 1st reign. Length: 7/18/1991-7/26/1991. Successful defenses: None.

58-Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat. 4th reign. Length: 7/26/1991-5/25/1992. Successful defenses: 3.

59-Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi. 1st reign. Length: 5/25/1992-6/2/1993. Successful defenses: 3.

60-The Eagle & The Patriot. 1st reign. Length: 6/2/1993-9/9/1993. Successful defenses: 1.

61-Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat. 5th reign. Length: 9/9/1993-12/5/1994. Successful defenses: 3. Vacated titles on 12/5/1994 to focus on All-Japan World Tag Team Championship.

62-Jun Akiyama & Takao Omori. 1st reign. Length: 1/25/1995-1/9/1998. Successful defenses: 12.

63-Wolf Hawkfield & Johnny Smith. 1st reign. Length: 1/9/1998-10/6/1998. Successful defenses: 3.

64-Tamon Honda & Jun Izumida. 1st reign. Length: 10/6/1998-2/13/1999. Successful defenses: 1.

65-Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki. 1st reign. Length: 2/13/1999-6/4/1999. Successful defenses: 1.

66-Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama. 1st reign. Length: 6/4/1999-8/25/1999. Successful defenses: None.

67-Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa. 1st reign. Length: 8/25/1999. Successful defenses: None. Vacated titles immediately so other wrestlers could hold titles. (Note: Misawa & Ogawa also won All-Japan World Tag Team Championship in same match)

68-Tamon Honda & Masao Inoue. 1st reign. Length: 10/25/1999-6/16/2000. Successful defenses: 3. Vacated titles on 6/16/2000 due to both leaving All-Japan to form Pro Wrestling NOAH.

69-Masahito Kakihara & Mitsuya Nagai. 1st reign. Length: 6/8/2001-8/xx/2001. Successful defenses: None. Vacated titles in August 2001 due to a Kakihara injury.

70-Arashi & Koki Kitahara. 1st reign. Length: 9/8/2001-1/14/2002. Successful defenses: None. Vacated titles on 1/14/2002 after losing a non-title match.

71-Arashi & Nobutaka Araya. 1st reign. Length: 4/13/2002-6/20/2003. Successful defenses: 3. Vacated titles on 6/20/2003 due to Araya winning All-Japan Word Tag Team Championship on 6/8/2003.

72-Kohei Sato & Hirotaka Yokoi. 1st reign. Length: 7/19/2003-10/10/2003. Successful defenses: 3.

73-Kintaro Kanemura & Tetsuhiro Kuroda. 1st reign. Length: 10/10/2003-12/14/2003. Successful defenses: 2. Vacated titles on 12/14/2003 due to a Kanemura illness.

74-Mr. Gannosuke & Tetsuhiro Kuroda. 1st reign. Length: 12/25/2003-1/2/2004. Successful defenses: None.

75-The Great Kosuke & Shiryu. 1st reign. Length: 1/22/2004-5/2/2004. Successful defenses: 5.

76-Masanobu Fuchi & Genichiro Tenryu. 1st reign. Length: 5/2/2004-11/3/2004. Successful defenses: 3.

77-Mitsuya Nagai & Masayuki Naruse. 1st reign. Length: 11/3/2004-2/2/2005. Successful defenses: 2.

78-Buchanan & Rico. 1st reign. Length: 2/2/2005-5/27/2005. Successful defenses: None. Vacated titles on 5/27/2005 due to Rico retiring.

79-Shuji Kondo & “brother” YASSHI. 1st reign. Length: 6/19/2005-7/26/2005. Successful defenses: 1.

80-Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kensuke Sasaki. 1st reign. Length: 7/26/2005-10/29/2006. Successful defenses: 3. Vacated titles on 10/29/2006 due to a Sasaki injury.

81-Minoru Suzuki & NOSAWA Rongai. 1st reign. Length: 1/3/2009-9/23/2009. Successful defenses: 2.

82-Akebono & Ryota Hama. 1st reign. Length: 9/23/2009-4/29/2010. Successful defenses: 3.

83-TARU & Big Daddy Voodoo (Mabel/Viscera). 1st reign. Length: 4/29/2010-8/29/2010. Successful defenses: 1.

84-Seiya Sanada & Manabu Soya. 1st reign. Length: 8/29/2010-3/21/2011. Successful defenses: 2.

85-Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi. 1st reign. Length: 3/21/2011-6/29/2011. Successful defenses: 2.

86-Seiya Sanada & Manabu Soya. 2nd reign. Length: 6/29/2011-10/23/2011. Successful defenses: 1.

87-Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi. 2nd reign. Length: 10/23/2011-7/1/2012. Successful defenses: 6.

88-Akebono & Ryota Hama. 2nd reign. Length: 7/1/2012-9/4/2012. Successful defenses: None. Vacated titles on 9/4/2012 due to an Akebono illness.

89-Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka. 1st reign. Length: 10/21/2012-1/26/2013. Successful defenses: 2.

90-Hikaru Sato & Hiroshi Yamato. 1st reign. Length: 1/26/2013-2/10/2013. Successful defenses: None.

91-Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka. 2nd reign. Length: 2/10/2013-4/25/2013. Successful defenses: 1.

92-Atsushi Aoki & Kotaro Suzuki. 1st reign. Length: 4/25/2013-1/26/2014. Successful defenses: 4.

93-Jun Akiyama & Yoshinobu Kanemaru. 1st reign. Length: 1/26/2014-4/29/2014. Successful defenses: 3.

94-Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie. 1st reign. Length: 4/29/2014-8/16/2014. Successful defenses: 4.

95-Kotaro Suzuki & Kento Miyahara. 1st reign. Length: 8/16/2014-1/3/2015. Successful defenses: 1.

96-Mitsuya Nagai & Takeshi Minamino. 1st reign. Length: 1/3/2015-3/22/2015. Successful defenses: 1.

97-Ultimo Dragon & Yoshinobu Kanemaru. 1st reign. Length: 3/22/2015-10/14/2015. Successful defenses: 1. Vacated titles on 10/14/2015 after losing a non-title match.

98-Isami Kodaka & Yuko Miyamoto. 1st reign. Length: 11/15:2015-7/24/2016. Successful defenses: 6.

99-Atsushi Aoki & Hikaru Sato. 1st reign. Length: 7/24/2016-11/27/2016. Successful defenses: 4.

100-Atsushi Onita & Masanobu Fuchi. 1st reign. Length: 11/27/2016-6/20/2017. Successful defenses: 2.

101-Atsushi Aoki & Hikaru Sato. 2nd reign. Length: 6/20/2017-8/27/2017. Successful defenses: 2.

102-Black Tiger 7 (NOSAWA Rongai) & Taka Michinoku. 1st reign. Length: 8/27/2017-9/30/2017. Successful defenses: None.

103-Naoya Nomura & Yuma Aoyagi. 1st reign. Length: 9/30/2017-1/27/2018. Successful defenses: 4. Vacated titles on 1/37/2018 due to an Aoyagi injury.

104-Jun Akiyama & Yuji Nagata. 1st reign. Length: 2/3/2018-7/29/2018. Successful defenses: 2.

105-Naoya Nomura & Yuma Aoyagi. 2nd reign. Length: 7/29/2018-2/25/2019. Successful defenses: 4. Vacated titles on 2/25/2019 due to splitting up.

106-Jake Lee & Koji Iwamoto. 1st reign. Length: 3/21/2019-5/5/2019. Successful defenses: None.

107-Ryuichi Kawakami & Kazumi Kikuta. 1st reign. Length: 5/5/2019-6/18/2019. Successful defenses: 1.

108-Jake Lee & Koji Iwamoto. 2nd reign. Length: 6/18/2019-3/23/2020. Successful defenses: 4.

109-Isami Kodaka & Yuko Miyamoto. 2nd reign. Length: 3/23/2020-8/15/2020. Successful defenses: 3.

110-Zeus & Izanagi. 1st reign. Length: 8/15/2020-9/7/2021. Successful defenses: 6.

111-El Lindaman & T-Hawk. 1st reign. Length: 9/7/2021-1/2/2022. Successful defenses: 2.

112-Yusuke Kodama & Hokuto Omori. 1st reign. Length: 1/2/2022-7/14/2022. Successful defenses: 6.

113-Minoru (Minoru Tanaka) & Toshizo. 1st reign. Length: 7/14/2022-9/18/2022. Successful defenses: 2.

114-Hikaru Sato & Dan Tamura. 1st reign. Length: 9/18/2022-10/30/2022. Successful defenses: 1.

115-TAJIRI & Yoshitatsu. 1st reign. Length: 10/30/2022-11/27/2022. Successful defenses: 1.

116-Masao Hanabata & Yusuke Kodama. 1st reign. Length: 11/27/2022-12/7/2022. Successful defenses: None.

117-Masao Inoue & Takao Omori. 1st reign. Length: 12/7/2022-1/3/2023. Successful defenses: None. Won titles in 4-way match.

118-Kendo Ka Shin & NOSAWA Rongai. 1st reign. Length: 1/3/2023-2/4/2023. Successful defenses: None.

119-Atsushi Onita & Yoshitatsu. 1st reign. Length: 2/4/2023-9/18/2023.Successful defenses: 6.

120-Jun Akiyama & Kotaro Suzuki. 1st reign. Length: 9/18/2023-11/3/2023. Successful defenses: 1.

121-Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani. 1st reign. Length: 11/3/2023-1/14/2024. Successful defenses: 1.

122-To-y (Toi Kojima) & Atsushi Onita. 1st reign. Length: 1/14/2024-3/30/2024. Successful defenses: None.

123-Hikaru Sato & Dan Tamura. 2nd reign. Length: 3/30/2024-6/24/2024. Successful defenses: 1.

124-Seiki Yoshioka & MUSASHI. 1st reign. Length: 6/24/2024-10/13/2024. Successful defenses: 4.

125-Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai. 1st reign. Length: 10/13/2024-Present (Current Champions). Successful defenses: None. Next defense: 10/29/2024 vs. Kento Miyahara & Ryo Inoue.

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