The GHC (Global Honored Crown) Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is a tag team title in Pro Wrestling NOAH for Heavyweights (220+ lbs/100+ kg). It was first awarded in October 2001 when Scorpio & Vader won a tournament to become inaugural champions.
As of 6/16/2024 there have been 67 GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. They are listed in order of reign, which reign it was (some have held it multiple times), length of reign and number of successful defenses.
1-Scorpio & Vader. 1st reign. Length: 10/19/2001-11/13/2001. Successful defenses: None.
2-Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa. 1st reign. Length: 11/30/2001-12/9/2001. Successful defenses: None.
3-Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama. 1st reign. Length: 12/9/2001-2/17/2002. Successful defenses: None.
4-Takeshi Morishima & Takeshi Rikioh. 1st reign. Length: 2/17/2002-9/23/2002. Successful defenses: 4.
5-Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito. 1st reign. Length: 9/23/2002-6/6/2003. Successful defenses: 5.
6-Kenta Kobashi & Tamon Honda. 1st reign. Length: 6/6/2003-11/30/2003. Successful defenses: 2.
7-Yuji Nagata & Hiroshi Tanahashi. 1st reign. Length: 11/30/2003-1/10/2004. Successful defenses: 1.
8-Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa, 2nd reign. Length: 1/10/2004-1/23/2005. Successful defenses: 7.
9-2 Cold Scorpio & Doug Williams. 1st reign. Length: 1/23/2005-6/18/2005. Successful defenses: None.
10-Minoru Suzuki & Naomichi Marufuji. 1st reign. Length: 6/18/2005-10/28/2005. Successful defenses: 2.
11-Takeshi Morishima & Mohammed Yone. 1st reign. 10/28/2005-6/4/2006. Successful defenses: 2.
12-Kenta Kobashi & Tamon Honda. 2nd reign. Length: 6/4/2006-9/25/2006. Successful defenses: None. Vacated titles on 9/25/2006 due to Kobashi medical issues.
13-Takeshi Morishima & Mohammed Yone. 2nd reign. Length: 12/2/2006-4/1/2007. Successful defenses: None.
14-Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikioh. 1st reign. Length: 4/1/2007-9/13/2007. Successful defenses: 3. Vacated titles on 9/13/2007 due to a Rikioh injury.
15-D-Lo Brown & Buchanan. 1st reign. Length: 10/20/2007-10/27/2007. Successful defenses: None.
16-Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura. 1st reign. Length: 10/27/2007-5/23/2008. Successful defenses: 2.
17-Bison Smith & Akitoshi Saito. 1st reign. Length: 5/23/2008-9/21/2009. Successful defenses: 3.
18-Kensuke Sasaki & Takeshi Morishima. 1st reign. Length: 9/21/2009-12/6/2009. Successful defenses: 1.
19-Takeshi Rikioh & Mohammed Yone. 1st reign. Length: 12/6/2009-4/14/2010. Successful defenses: 2.
20-Bison Smith & Keith Walker. 1st reign. Length: 4/14/2010-9/10/2010. Successful defenses: 1. Vacates titles on 9/10/2010 due to Walker not returning to Japan after a family death.
21-Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuna Sano. 1st reign. Length: 9/18/2010-6/18/2011. Successful defenses: 4.
22-Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson. 1st reign. Length: 6/18/2011-1/22/2012. Successful defenses: 2.
23-Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito. 2nd reign. Length: 1/22/2012-7/22/2012. Successful defenses: 3.
24-Samoa Joe & Magnus. 1st reign. Length: 7/22/2012-10/8/2012. Successful defenses: None.
25-KENTA & Maybach Taniguchi (Shuhei Taniguchi). 1st reign. Length: 10/8/2012-10/26/2012. Successful defenses: None.
26-Go Shiozaki & Akitoshi Saito. 1st reign. Length: 10/26/2012-12/9/2012. Successful defenses: None.
27-Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura. 2nd reign. Length: 12/9/2012-3/10/2013. Successful defenses: 1.
28-Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka. 1st reign. Length: 3/10/2013-7/7/2013. Successful defenses: 2.
29-Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls. 1st reign. Length: 7/7/2013-1/25/2014. Successful defenses: 3.
30-Takeshi Morishima & Maybach Taniguchi. 1st reign. Length: 1/25/2014-5/31/2014. Successful defenses: 1.
31-Takashi Sugiura & Masato Tanaka. 1st reign. Length: 5/31/2014-1/10/2015. Successful defenses: 4.
32-Shane Haste & Mikey Nocholls. 2nd reign. Length: 1/10/2015-2/11/2015. Successful defenses: None.
33-Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. 1st reign. Length: 2/11/2015-5/28/2016. Successful defenses: 10.
34-Naomichi Marufuji & Toru Yano. 1st reign. Length: 5/28/2016-11/23/2016. Successful defenses: 6.
35-Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. 2nd reign. Length: 11/23/2016-12/3/2016. Successful defenses: None.
36-Go Shiozaki & Maybach Taniguchi. 1st reign. Length: 12/3/2016-1/21/2017. Successful defenses: 1.
37-Masa Kitamiya & Kenoh. 1st reign. Length: 1/21/2017-2/24/2017. Successful defenses: None. Vacated titles on 2/25/2017 after Kenoh turned on Kitamiya.
38-Takashi Sugiura & Kenoh. 1st reign. Length: 3/12/2017-4/14/2017. Successful defenses: None.
39-Naomichi Marufuji & Maybach Taniguchi. 1st reign. Length: 4/14/2017-8/26/2017. Successful defenses: 2.
40-Go Shiozaki & Atsushi Kotoge. 1st reign. Length: 8/26/2017-10/1/2017. Successful defenses: None.
41-Mohammed Yone & Quiet Storm. 1st reign. Length: 10/1/2017-2/11/2018. Successful defenses: 2.
42-Katsuhiko Nakajima & Masa Kitamiya. 1st reign. Length: 2/11/2018-4/29/2018. Successful defenses: None.
43-Go Shiozaki & Kaito Kiyomiya. 1st reign. Lemgth: 4/29/2018-5/29/2018. Successful defenses: None.
44-Katsuhiko Nakajima & Masa Kitamiya. 2nd reign. Length: 5/29/2018-7/28/2018. Successful defenses: None.
45-Naomichi Marufuji & Akitoshi Saito. 1st reign. Length: 7/28/2018-11/28/2018. Successful defenses: 2. Vacated titles on 11/28/2018 due to a Marufuji injury.
46-Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima. 1st reign. Length: 12/7/2018-12/16/2018. Successful defenses: None.
47-Maybach Taniguchi & Yuji Hino. 1st reign. Length: 12/16/2018-2/1/2019. Successful defenses: 1.
48-Mohammed Yone & Quiet Storm. 2nd reign. Length: 2/1/2019-2/24/2019. Successful defenses: None.
49-Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima. 2nd reign. Length: 2/24/2019-6/13/2019. Successful defenses: 1.
50-Kazma Sakamoto & Takashi Suigura. 1st reign. Length: 6/13/2019-6/27/2019. Successful defenses: None.
51-Go Shiozaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima. 3rd reign. Length: 6/27/2019-1/5/2020. Successful defenses: 3.
52-Naomichi Marufuji & Masaaki Mochizuki. 1st reign. Length: 1/5/2020-4/19/2020. Successful defenses: 1.
53-Hijo De Dr. Wagner Jr. & Rene Dupree. 1st reign. Length: 4/19/2020-7/26/2020. Successful defenses: None. Vacated titles on 7/26/2020 due to being unable to travel to Japan due to coronavirus pandemic travel restrictions.
54-Takashi Sugiura & Kazushi Sakuraba. 1st reign. Length: 8/30/2020-3/7/2021. Successful defenses: 3.
55-Katsuhiko Nakajima & Masa Kitamiya. 3rd reign. Length: 3/7/2021-7/22/2021. Successful defenses: 1. Kitamiya turned on Nakajima following title defense, but despite the split they remained champions until a determination match where the winner would remain champion along with their new partner.
56-Kaito Kiyomiya & Masa Kitamiya. 1st reign. Length: 7/22/2021-11/13/2021. Successful defenses: None. Kitamiya retained his half of title while Kiyomiya won the half held by Katsuhiko Nakajima on 7/22/2021.
57-Naomichi Marufuji & Keiji Muto. 1st reign. Legth: 11/13/2021-2/8/2022. Successful defenses: None. Vacated titles on 2/8/2022 due to a Muto injury.
58-Takashi Sugiura & Hideki Suzuki. 1st reign. Length: 3/13/2022-5/4/2022. Successful defenses: 1.
59-Hijo De Dr. Wagner Jr. & Rene Dupree. 2nd reign. Length: 5/4/2022-5/21/2022. Successful defenses: None.
60-Michael Elgin & Masa Kitamiya. 1st reign. Length: 5/21/2022-7/16/2022. Successful defenses: None. Vacated titles on 7/16/2022 due to Elgin missing a scheduled title defense.
61-Hideki Suzuki & Timothy Thatcher. 1st reign. Length: 7/16/2022-9/25/2022. Successful defenses: None.
62-Takashi Sugiura & Satoshi Kojima. 1st reign. Length: 9/25/2022-2/12/2023. Successful defenses: 3.
63-Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba. 1st reign. Length: 2/12/2023-4/16/2023. Successful defenses: 1.
64-Takashi Sugiura & Shuhei Taniguchi. 1st reign. Length: 5/16/2023-5/4/2023. Successful defenses: None.
65-Saxon Huxley & Timothy Thatcher. 1st reign. Length: 5/4/2023-9/24/2023. Successful defenses: 1.
66-Jack Morris & Anthony Greene. 1st reign. Length: 9/24/2023-6/16/2024. Successful defenses: 8.
67-Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura. 3rd reign. Length: 6/16/2024-Present (Current Champions). Successful defenses; 4. Next defense: 1/1/2025 vs. Jack Morris & TBA.
