The International Lightweight Tag Team Championship[1] was a professional wrestling tag team championship in Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Zero1, contested exclusively among junior heavyweight (referred to by Zero1 as "lightweights", <100 kg (220 lb)) wrestlers.[2] It was created as the NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship on December 26, 2003 when Ikuto Hidaka and Dick Togo defeated Naohiro Hoshikawa and Tatsuhito Takaiwa in a tournament final.[3] This was during a time when Zero1 (then known as Pro Wrestling Zero-One) was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA); since Zero1 departed the NWA in late 2004, NWA did not recognize or sanction it, though it retained the NWA initials. The NWA began sanctioning the title again when Zero1 rejoined the NWA in 2011. Following Zero1's departure from the NWA that same year, NWA ceased sanctioning the title and the NWA initials were dropped. The championship was retired on December 25, 2020. During its existence it was one of two tag team titles in Zero1, along with the NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship, a championship typically contested among heavyweights. There were a total of 39 recognized individual champions and 28 recognized teams, who had a combined 31 official reigns.
| International Lightweight Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
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| Details | |||||||||||
| Promotion | Pro Wrestling Zero1 | ||||||||||
| Date established | December 26, 2003 | ||||||||||
| Date retired | December 25, 2020 | ||||||||||
| Other name(s) | |||||||||||
NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
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Title history
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parentheses, if different |
| 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 | Ikuto Hidaka and Dick Togo | December 26, 2003 | Rebel Z Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 55 | 2 | Defeated Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Naohiro Hoshikawa in a tournament final. | ||
| 2 | Low Ki and Leonardo Spanky | February 19, 2004 | Embers Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 106 | 2 | |||
| 3 | Tomohiro Ishii and Tatsuhito Takaiwa | June 4, 2004 | Ambitious Tour | Hachinohe, Japan | 1 | 107 | 1 | |||
| Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1) | ||||||||||
| 4 | Kaz Hayashi and Leonardo Spanky (2) | September 19, 2004 | New Whirlpool-1 Truth Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 162 | 0 | |||
| — | Vacated | February 28, 2005 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to a lack of title defenses. | ||
| 5 | Ikuto Hidaka (2) and Minoru Fujita | March 27, 2005 | Shippu Jinrai Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 516 | 9 | Defeated Leonardo Spanky and Alex Shelley. | ||
| 6 | Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley) |
August 25, 2006 | Tenkaichi Jr. | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 590 | 3 | |||
| 7 | Minoru Fujita (2) and Takuya Sugawara | April 6, 2008 | Miracle Rocket ~2nd Impact~ | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 119 | 1 | This was also for Fujita and Sugawara's NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship. | ||
| 8 | Ikuto Hidaka (3) and Munenori Sawa | August 3, 2008 | Fire Festival Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 766 | 8 | |||
| 9 | Takuya Sugawara (2) and Kaijin Habu Otoko | September 8, 2010 | Euro Vintage Action Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 333 | 4 | |||
| (NWA) National Wrestling Alliance / Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1) | ||||||||||
| 10 | Ikuto Hidaka (4) and Takafumi Ito | August 7, 2011 | Fire Festival Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 178 | 1 | |||
| 11 | Takuya Sugawara (3) and Tsuyoshi Kikuchi | February 1, 2012 | Zero1 Action | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 29 – 59 | 0 | |||
| — | Vacated | March 2012 | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 12 | Jimmyz (Jimmy Susumu and Jimmy Kagetora) |
April 24, 2012 | Zero1 Over the Rainbow | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 124 | 2 | Defeated the teams of Ikuto Hidaka and Craig Classic, and Takuya Sugawara and Mineo Fujita in a three-way match. | ||
| 13 | Takuya Sugawara (4) and Mineo Fujita | August 26, 2012 | Yokohama Big Fireworks | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 22 | 0 | |||
| 14 | Shawn Guinness and Frank David | September 17, 2012 | Tenkaichi Jr. | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 556 | 1 | |||
| Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1) | ||||||||||
| — | Vacated | March 27, 2014 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated when David was unable to return to Japan for a title defense. | ||
| 15 | Billy Ken Kid and Tigers Mask | March 30, 2014 | 11th Yasukuni Shrine Festival | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 173 | 1 | Defeated the teams of Ikuto Hidaka and Fujita "Jr." Hayato, and Mineo Fujita and Jason Lee, in a three-way match. Tigers Mask wrestled as Atsushi Maruyama after April 22, 2014. | ||
| 16 | Takuya Sugawara (5) and "brother" Yasshi | September 19, 2014 | Tenkaichi Special | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 49 | 1 | |||
| 17 | Shuji Kondo and Seiki Yoshioka | November 7, 2014 | Kassen ~ Battle Zero1 vs. W1 Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 114 | 1 | |||
| 18 | Takuya Sugawara (6) and "brother" Yasshi | March 1, 2015 | Zero1_Fourteen | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 206 | 2 | |||
| 19 | Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa (2) | September 23, 2015 | Go for Broke! | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 197 | 4 | |||
| 20 | Dangan Yankees (Ikuto Hidaka (5) and Fujita "Jr." Hayato) |
April 7, 2016 | N/A | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 237 | 1 | |||
| 21 | Isami Kodaka and Takumi Tsukamoto | November 30, 2016 | Basara Common Destiny | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 39 | 2 | |||
| 22 | Cavalry (Ryuichi Sekine and Ryota Nakatsu) |
January 8, 2017 | Basara Osaka Winter in Oyodo | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 35 | 1 | |||
| 23 | Isami Kodaka and Takumi Tsukamoto | February 12, 2017 | Basara Tenka Fubu | Nagoya, Japan | 2 | 18 | 0 | |||
| 24 | Junior Saints (Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka) |
March 2, 2017 | New Zero1 Dream Series Birth of Team | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 71 | 2 | |||
| 25 | Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa (3) | May 12, 2017 | First Ever! Bob Sapp Current Blast! | Nagoya, Japan | 2 | 9 | 0 | |||
| 26 | Ikuto Hidaka (6) and Takuya Sugawara (7) | May 21, 2017 | Shinsei Zero1 Dream Series ~ Growth | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 225 | 4 | |||
| 27 | Masamune and Sugi | January 1, 2018 | Kinga Shinnen | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 159 | 1 | |||
| 28 | Fuminori Abe and Ikuto Hidaka (7) | June 9, 2018 | Dream Series Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 311 | 3 | |||
| 29 | Kubota Brothers (Yasu Kubota and Hide Kubota) |
April 16, 2019 | Jump Up ~ Fly to the Future | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 166 | 2 | |||
| 30 | Billy Ken Kid (2) and HUB (2) | September 29, 2019 | Jump Up ~ Fly to the Future | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 371 | 0 | Hub previously held the title as Kaijin Habu Otoko. | ||
| 31 | Sugi (2) and Raicho | October 4, 2020 | 20th Anniversary Flame Festival ~ Fire Festival 2020 | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 82 | 0 | |||
| — | Deactivated | December 25, 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated when Sugi and Raicho leave the promotion; title abandoned. | ||
Combined reigns
As of November 12, 2024.
By team
| † | Indicates the current champion |
|---|
By individual
| † | Indicates the current champion |
|---|
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ikuto Hidaka | 7 | 2,288 |
| 4 | Takuya Sugawara | 7 | 973 |
| 5 | Munenori Sawa | 1 | 766 |
| 6 | Kaijin Habu Otoko/HUB | 2 | 704 |
| 7 | Minoru Fujita | 2 | 635 |
| 8 | Alex Shelley | 1 | 590 |
| Chris Sabin | 1 | 590 | |
| 10 | Frank David | 1 | 556 |
| Shawn Guinness | 1 | 556 | |
| 12 | Billyken Kid | 2 | 371 |
| 13 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | 3 | 313 |
| 14 | Fuminori Abe | 1 | 311 |
| 15 | "brother" Yasshi | 2 | 255 |
| 16 | Sugi | 2 | 241 |
| 17 | Fujita "Jr." Hayato | 1 | 237 |
| 18 | Shinjiro Otani | 2 | 206 |
| 19 | Takafumi Ito | 1 | 178 |
| 20 | Tigers Mask/Atsushi Maruyama | 2 | 173 |
| 21 | Yasu Kubota | 1 | 166 |
| Hide Kubota | 1 | 166 | |
| 23 | Masamune | 1 | 159 |
| 24 | Leonardo Spanky | 2 | 148 |
| 25 | Jimmy Kagetora | 1 | 124 |
| Jimmy Susumu | 1 | 124 | |
| 27 | Seiki Yoshioka | 1 | 114 |
| Shuji Kondo | 1 | 114 | |
| 29 | Tomohiro Ishii | 1 | 107 |
| 30 | Low Ki | 1 | 106 |
| 31 | Raicho | 1 | 82 |
| 32 | Koji Kanemoto | 1 | 71 |
| Minoru Tanaka | 1 | 71 | |
| 34 | Isami Kodaka | 2 | 57 |
| Takumi Tsukamoto | 2 | 57 | |
| 36 | Dick Togo | 1 | 55 |
| 37 | Kaz Hayashi | 1 | 42 |
| 38 | Ryota Nakatsu | 1 | 35 |
| Ryuichi Sekine | 1 | 35 | |
| 40 | Mineo Fujita | 1 | 22 |
| 41 | Tsuyoshi Kikuchi | 1 | 19 |
See also
References
External links
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