The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is a tag team championship in New Japan Pro Wrestling exclusively for wrestlers weighing under 220 pounds/100 kg. It was first awarded in August 1998 when Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa became the inaugural champions.
As of 10/14/2024 there have been 76 IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. They are listed below in order of reign, which reign it was (some held the titles multiple times), length of reign and number of successful defenses.
1-Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa. 1st reign. Length: 8/8/1988-1/4/1989. Successful defenses: 2.
2-Kendo Ka Shin & Dr. Wagner Jr. 1st reign. Length: 1/4/1989-4/10/1999. Successful defenses: 2.
3-Jushin Liger & The Great Sasuke. 1st reign. Length: 4/10/1999-7/13/1999. Successful defenses: None.
4-Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa. 2nd reign. Length: 7/13/1999-6/25/2000. Successful defenses: 4.
5-Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka. 1st reign. Length: 6/25/2000-3/6/2001. Successful defenses: 3.
6-Jushin Liger & El Samurai. 1st reign. Length: 3/6/2001-7/20/2001. Successful defenses: 1.
7-Jado & Gedo. 1st reign. Length: 7/2/2001-5/2/2002. Successful defenses: 6.
8-Jushin Liger & Minoru Tanaka. 1st reign. Length: 5/2/2002-8/29/2002. Successful defenses: 1.
9-Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi. 1st reign. Length: 8/29/2002-1/28/2003. Successful defenses: 4.
10-Jushin Liger & Koji Kanemoto. 1st reign. Length: 1/28/2003-11/4/2003. Successful defenses: 6. Vacated titles on 11/4/2093 due to a Kanemoto injury.
11-Jado & Gedo. 2nd reign. Length: 11/29/203-3/12/2004. Successful defenses: 2.
12-Curry Man (Christopher Daniels) & Bryan Danielson. 1st reign. Length: 3/12/2004-6/5/2004. Successful defenses: 1.
13-Jado & Gedo. 3rd reign. Length: 6/5/2004-3/4/2005. Successful defenses: 5.
14-Koji Kanemoto & Wataru Inoue. 1st reign. Length: 3/4/2005-5/14/2005. Successful defenses: 2.
15-Minoru Tanaka & Hirooki Goto. 1st reign. Length: 5/14/2005-2/19/2006. Successful defenses: 3.
16-El Samurai & Ryusuke Taguchi. 1st reign. Length: 2/19/2006-7/8/2006. Successful defenses: 2.
17-Jado & Gedo. 4th reign. Length: 7/8/2006-5/2/2007. Successful defenses: 2.
18-Dick Togo & Taka Michinoku. 1st reign. Length: 5/2/2007-1/27/2008. Successful defenses: 3.
19-Minoru Tanaka & Prince Devitt. 1st reign. Length: 1/27/2008-2/17/2008. Successful defenses: None.
20-Jushin Liger & AKIRA. 1st reign. Length: 2/17/2008-7/21/2008. Successful defenses: 1.
21-Minoru Tanaka & Prince Devitt. 2nd reign. Length: 7/21/2008-10/13/2008. Successful defenses: 1.
22-Yujiro (Takahashi) & Tetsuya Naito. 1st reign. Length: 10/13/2008-1/4/2009. Successful defenses: 1.
23-Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin. 1st reign. Length: 1/4/2009-7/5/2009. Successful defenses: 3.
24-Ryusuke Taguchi & Prince Devitt. 1st reign. Length: 7/5/2009-4/23/2010. Successful defenses: 5. Titles held up on 4/23/2010 aftet not being defended for 30 days.
25-Koji Kanemoto & El Samurai. 1st reign. Length: 5/8/2010-7/19/2010. Successful defenses: None.
26-Ryusuke Taguchi & Prince Devitt. 2nd reign. Length: 7/19/2010-10/11/2010. Successful defenses: 1.
27-Kota Ibushi & Kenny Omega. 1st reign. Length: 10/11/2010-1/23/2011. Successful defenses: 2.
28-Ryusuke Taguchi & Prince Devitt. 3rd reign. Length: 1/23/2011-10/10/2011. Successful defenses: 7.
29-Davey Richards & Rocky Romero. 1st reign. Length: 10/10/2011-1/4/2012. Successful defenses: 1.
30-Ryusuke Taguchi & Prince Devitt. 4th reign. Length: 1/4/2012-2/12/2012. Successful defenses: None.
31-Davey Richards & Rocky Romero. 2nd reign. Length: 2/12/2012-5/2:2012. Successful defenses: None. Titles held up on 5/2/2012 after Richards missed title defense due to travel issues.
32-Jushin Liger & Tiger Mask 4. 1st reign. Length: 6/16/2012-7/22/2012. Successful defenses: None.
33-Rocky Romero & Alex Kozlov. 1st reign. Length: 7/22/2012-11/11/2012. Successful defenses: 2.
34-KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley. 1st reign. Length: 11/11/2012-5/3/2013. Successful defenses: 3.
35-Rocky Romero & Alex Kozlov. 2nd reign. Length: 5/3/2013-10/14/2013. Successful defenses: 3.
36-Taka Michinoku & Taichi. 1st reign. Length: 10/14/2013-11/9/2013. Successful defenses: 1.
37-Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson. 1st reign. Length: 11/9/2013-6/21/2014. Successful defenses: 5.
38-KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley. 2nd reign. Length: 6/21/2014-11/8/2014. Successful defenses: 3.
39-Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish. 1st reign. Length: 11/8/2014-2/11/2015. Successful defenses: 1.
40-Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson. 2nd reign. Length: 2/11/2015-4-5/2015. Successful defenses: None.
41-Rocky Romero & Beretta (Trent Beretta). 1st reign. Length: 4/5/2015-5/3/2015. Successful defenses: None.
42-Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson. 3rd reign. Length: 5/3/2015-8/16/2015. Successful defenses: 1. Won titles in 3-way match.
43-Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish. 2nd reign. Length: 8/16/2015-1/4/2016. Successful defenses: 2.
44-Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson. 4th reign. Length: 1/4/2016-2/11/2016. Successful defenses: None. Won titles in 4-way match.
45-Ricochet & Matt Sydal. 1st reign. Length: 2/11/2016-4/10/2016. Successful defenses: None. Won titles in 3-way match.
46-Rocky Romero & Beretta. 2nd reign. Length: 4/10/2016-5/3/2016. Successful defenses: None.
47-Ricochet & Matt Sydal. 2nd reign. Length: 5/3/2016-6/19/2016. Successful defenses: None.
48-Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson. 5th reign. Length: 6/19/2016-1/4/2017. Successful defenses: 2. Won titles in 4-way match.
49-Rocky Romero & Beretta. 3rd reign. Length: 1/4/2017-3/6/2017. Successful defenses: 1.
50-Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi. 1st reign. Length: 3/6/2017-4/27/2017. Successful defenses: 1.
51-Rocky Romero & Beretta. 4th reign. Length: 4/27/2017-6/11/2017. Successful defenses: None.
52-Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson. 6th reign. Length: 6/11/2017-8/13/2017. Successful defenses: 1.
53-Ryusuke Taguchi & Ricochet. 1st reign. Length: 8/13/2017-10/9/2017. Successful defenses: 1.
54-Sho & Yoh. 1st reign. Length: 10/9/2017-1/4/2018. Successful defenses: None.
55-Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson. 7th reign. Length: 1/4/2018-1/28/2018. Successful defenses: None.
56-Sho & Yoh. 2nd reign. Length: 1/28/2018-3/6/2018. Successful defenses: None.
57-Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado. 1st reign. Length: 3/6/2018-1/4/2019. Successful defenses: 4.
58-BUSHI & Shingo Takagi. 1st reign. Length: 1/4/2019-3/6/2019. Successful defenses: 1.
59-Sho & Yoh. 3rd reign. Length: 3/6/2019-6/16/2019. Successful defenses: 1.
60-Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo. 1st reign. Length: 6/16/2019-1/5/2020. Successful defenses: 1.
61-Sho & Yoh. 4th reign. Length: 1/5/2020-8/31/2020. Successful defenses: 2. Vacated titles on 8/31/2020 due to a Yoh injury.
62-Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado. 2nd reign. Length: 9/11/2020-1/23/2021. Successful defenses: 2.
63-Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo. 2nd reign. Length: 1/23/2021-2/25/2021. Successful defenses: None.
64-Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado. 3rd reign. Length: 2/25/2021-4/4/2021. Successful defenses: None.
65-Sho & Yoh. 5th reign. Length: 4/4/2021-6/23/2021. Successful defenses: 1.
66-Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo. 3rd reign. Length: 6/23/2021-9/5/2021. Successful defenses: 1.
67-Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado. 4th reign. Length: 9/5/2021-10/26/2021. Successful defenses: None.
68-Tiger Mask 4 & Robbie Eagles. 1st reign. Length: 10/28/2021/2/19/2022. Successful defenses: 1.
69-Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato. 1st reign. Length: 2/19/2022-6/20/2022. Successful defenses: 2. Won titles in 4-way match.
70-Francesco Akira & TJP. 1st reign. Length: 6/20/2022-4/27/2023. Successful defenses: 4.
71-Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA. 1st reign. Length: 4/27/2023-6/4/2023. Successful defenses; None.
72-Francesco Akira & TJP. 2nd reign. Length: 6/4/2023-7/4/2023. Successful defenses: None.
73-Drilla Moloney (Dan Moloney) & Clark Connors. 1st reign. Length: 7/4/2023-1/4/2024. Successful defenses: 3.
74-Francesco Akira & TJP.. 3rd reign. Length: 1/4/2024-2/4/2024. Successful defenses: None.
75-Drilla Moloney & Clark Connors. 2nd reign. Length: 2/4/2024-10/14/2024. Successful defenses: 2.
76-Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA. 2nd reign. Length: 10/14/2024-Present (Current Champions). Successful defenses: None. Next defense: 1/4/2025 vs. Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita, Francesco Akira & TJP and Drilla Moloney & Clark Connors in a 4-way.
