IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship explained

Championshipname:IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship
Currentholder:El Hijo de Canis Lupus and Hell Boy
Won:July 28, 2024
Promotion:International Wrestling Revolution Group
Created:January 2, 2000[1]
Mostreigns:Los Megas (3 reigns)
(Mega and Ultra Mega)
Firstchamp:Yasushi Kanda and Susumu Mochizuki

The IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (Campeonato Intercontinental de Parejas IWRG in Spanish) is a professional wrestling tag team championship promoted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) since 2000. As it is a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers. On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, or leaving the company.

El Hijo de Canis Lupus and Hell Boy are the current champions, having defeated Mala Fama (Látigo and Toxin) on July 28, 2024 to win the titles. A total of 57 individuals have held the championship, 33 different teams for a combined 42 reigns. The tag team championship was created in 2000 when Yasushi Kanda and Susumu Mochizuki defeated Fantasy and Black Dragon to win the tournament. Bryce Benjamin and Marshe Rockett hold the record for the longest reign, 875 days, while the team of American Gigolo and MAZADA is the team to have held the title the shortest time, nine days. Los Megas (Mega and Ultra Mega) is the only team to have held the title three times while Dr. Cerebro has held it three times as well but with two different partners.

Combined reigns

As of, .

Indicates the current champion
¤The exact length of at least one title reign is too uncertain to calculate.
RankTeamNo. of
reigns
Combined days
1Los Junior Dinamitas
2
21
3Los Cerebros
2
42
51
6Los Terribles Cerebros
1 406
72
82
91
10Los Megas
3
111
121
13
2
141
15El Hijo de Canis Lupus and Rey Leon 1
16Black Warrior and Warrior Jr. 1
171
181
191
20The Golden Gods
1
211
222
231
24
1
251
261
27Capo del Norte and Capo del Sur 1
281
291
30El Hijo de Canis Lupus and Hell Boy † 1 +
311
32Mala Fama
(Látigo and Toxin)
1 14
331

By wrestler

RankWrestlerNo. of
reigns
Combined days
13
22
2
4Bryce Benjamin 1
1
63
73
82
2
102
111
12Cerebro Negro Jr. 1 406
132
2
152
161
171
181
193
3
211
1
231
1
251
1
272
2
292 +
30Rey Leon 1
311
Warrior Jr. 1
331
341
352
36Atomico Jr. 1
Golden Dragon 1
381
392
2
411
42Joey Marx 1
Mason Conrad 1
441
1
461
1
482
49Capo del Norte 1
Capo del Sur 1
511
52American Gigolo 1
53Hell Boy † 1 +
541
551 14
1
571

Championship tournaments

2010 Tag Team Tournament

On January 14, 2010, IWRG announced that they had stripped then reigning IWRG Tag Team Champions, Ricky Cruzz and Scorpio, Jr., of the championship due to inactivity. At the same time, they announced an eight-team tag team tournament to crown new tag team champions. The tournament was announced as a "Father / Son" Tag team tournament with all teams being composed of fathers and sons. The first block took place on January 17, 2010 and featured four teams: El Canek and Hijo del Canek, Pantera and Hijo del Pantera, Olímpico and Exodia, and Negro Navarro and Trauma I. Block B took place on January 24, 2010, and featured the following teams: Brazo de Plata and Brazo de Plata, Jr., Fuerza Guerrera and Juventud Guerrera, Pirata Morgan and Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Máscara Año 2000 and Máscara Año 2000, Jr. Negro Navarro and Trauma I won "Block A" while Pirata Morgan and Hijo de Pirata Morgan won "Block B", which meant that the two teams met to determine the next Tag Team champions. On January 31, 2010 Pirata Morgan and Hijo de Pirata Morgan won the championship.

2015 Tag Team Tournament

In July 2015 IWRG announced that they were holding a tournament for the now vacant IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship after IWRG stripped previous champions Chicano and Danny Casas of the championship.

2020 #1 contender tournament

References

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: SLAM! Wrestling International -- 2000: The Year-In-Review Mexico. July 31, 2015. Slam Wrestling!. Canoe. usurped. https://web.archive.org/web/20160224111649/http://www.canoe.com/SlamWrestlingInternational/mexico_timeline-can.html. February 24, 2016.