Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (Zero1) Explained

Championshipname:Intercontinental Tag Team Championship
Currentholder:M2J (Kengo Mashimo and Naka Shunma)
Won:March 20, 2024
Promotion:Pro Wrestling Zero1
New Wrestling Alliance
Created:June 14, 2001
Firstchamp:Samoa Joe and Keiji Sakoda
Longestreign:Masato Tanaka and Zeus (419 days)
Shortestreign:Steve Corino and Mike Rapada
Shinya Hashimoto and Naoya Ogawa (3 days)
Oldest:Taru
Pastnames:NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship

The Intercontinental Tag Team Championship,[1] also known as the NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship, is a professional wrestling tag team championship in Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Zero1, typically reserved for (but not exclusive to) heavyweight (>100kg (200lb)) wrestlers. It was created on June 14, 2001, three months after then Pro Wrestling Zero-One's creation, when Samoa Joe and Keiji Sakoda (though Zero1 has since ceased to recognize both their reign as well as the following reign by Steve Corino and Mike Rapada)[2] [3] [4] defeated Yuki Ishikawa and Katsumi Usuda.[5] The championship was created when Zero-One was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA); since Zero-One departed from the NWA in late 2004, the NWA does not recognize or sanction it, though it retains the NWA initials. It is one of two tag team titles currently active in Zero1, along with the Blast King Tag Team Championship, a specialty title defended exclusively in explosion matches. There have been a total of 56 recognized individual champions and 45 recognized teams, who have had a combined 49 official reigns.

Combined reigns

As of, .

Indicates the current champion
¤The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest length is considered.

By team

RankTeamNo. of
reigns
Combined
defenses
Combined days
1Emblem
(Shinjiro Otani and Masato Tanaka)
2 7 459
21 4 419
3Stepbrother Tag
(Minoru Fujita and Takuya Sugawara)
1 4 399
4Dangan Yankees
(Masato Tanaka and Takashi Sugiura)
1 6 397
52 5 367
6Kubota Brothers
(Hide Kubota and Yasu Kubota)
1 6 365
71 4 334
8ZERO64
(Akebono and Daisuke Sekimoto)
1 1 330
91 4 315
10Junya Matsunaga and Takafumi 1 2 301
111 3 298
121 2 280
131 1 268
14Wild Child
(Manabu Nakanishi and Takao Omori)
1 2 257
151 2 253
161 2 232
171 3 203
182 3 183
19Aibo Tag
(Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita)
1 1 138
201 2 135
211 1 125
22Ryoji Sai and Osamu Namiguchi 1 1 123
231 3 120
241 5 119
251 1 115
261 1 114
271 1 109
281 0 101
29Taru and Chris Vice 1 0 100
301 0 95
31Mr. Wrestling 3 and Charles Evans 1 0 94
32M2J †
(Kengo Mashimo and Naka Shunma)
1 1 +
33Towa Iwasaki and Tsugutaka Sato 1 1 93
341 0
35Junya Matsunaga and Tsugutaka Sato 1 3 79
361 2 75
1 1 75
381 0 73
391 0 62
40OH-gun
(Shinya Hashimoto and Naoya Ogawa)
2 1 53
411 1 33
421 0 28
431 0 25
441 0 20
451 0 16
461 1 6
471 0 3

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pro Wrestling ZERO1 official results archives. 2007-07-10. ZERO-ONE-MAX.com. ja. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070726155754/http://www.zero-one-max.com/results_archives.html. 2007-07-26.
  2. Web site: Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE results, 2001. 2007-07-11. Strong Style Spirit . https://web.archive.org/web/20070620110449/http://www.puroresufan.com/other/zero-one/results01.php . 2007-06-20.
  3. Web site: NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship title history. 2007-07-11. TitleHistories.com. 2008-07-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20080720162157/http://www.titlehistories.com/ZERO1_MAX_Intercontinental_Tag_Team_Titles.htm. dead.
  4. Web site: NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship title history. 2007-07-11. Wrestling-Titles.com. 2011-08-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20110816110332/http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/zero-one/nnwa-ic-t.html. dead.
  5. Web site: NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship official title history. 2007-07-11. ZEROONEUSA.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20060514234337/http://zerooneusa.com/title_ictag.shtml. 2006-05-14.