International Lightweight Tag Team Championship (Zero1) Explained

Championshipname:International Lightweight Tag Team Championship
Promotion:Pro Wrestling Zero1
Created:December 26, 2003
Mostreigns:As tag team: Takuya Sugawara and "brother" Yasshi, Isami Kodaka and Takumi Tsukamoto, and Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa (2 reigns)
As individual: Takuya Sugawara and Ikuto Hidaka (7 reigns)
Firstchamp:Ikuto Hidaka and Dick Togo
Longestreign:Ikuto Hidaka and Munenori Sawa (766 days)
Shortestreign:Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa (9 days)
Pastnames:NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship
Titleretired:December 25, 2020

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", <100kg (200lb)) 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 fron 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.

Combined reigns

As of, .

By team

Indicates the current champion
RankTeamNo. of
reigns
Combined
defenses
data-sort-type="number"Combined days
11 8 766
2Motor City Machine Guns
1 3 590
3Shawn Guinness and Frank David1 1 556
41 9 516
51 0 371
61 4 333
71 3 311
82 3 255
91 1 237
101 4 225
112 4 206
12Ikuto Hidaka and Takafumi Ito 1 1 178
131 1 173
14Kubota Brothers
1 2 166
151 0 162
161 1 159
17Jimmyz
1 2 124
181 1 119
191 1 114
201 1 107
211 2 106
22Sugi and Raicho † 1 0 82
23Junior Saints
1 2 71
242 2 57
251 2 55
26Cavalry
1 1 35
27Takuya Sugawara and Tsuyoshi Kikuchi1 0 29-59
281 0 22

By individual

Indicates the current champion
RankWrestlerNo. of
reigns
Combined days
1Ikuto Hidaka72,288
4Takuya Sugawara7973
5Munenori Sawa1766
62704
7Minoru Fujita2635
8Alex Shelley1590
Chris Sabin1590
10Frank David1556
Shawn Guinness1556
12Billyken Kid 2371
13Tatsuhito Takaiwa3313
14Fuminori Abe1311
15"brother" Yasshi2255
162 241
17Fujita "Jr." Hayato1237
18Shinjiro Otani2206
19Takafumi Ito1178
20Tigers Mask/Atsushi Maruyama2173
21Yasu Kubota1166
Hide Kubota1166
23Masamune1159
24Leonardo Spanky2148
25Jimmy Kagetora1124
Jimmy Susumu1124
27Seiki Yoshioka1114
Shuji Kondo1114
29Tomohiro Ishii1107
30Low Ki1106
31Raicho 1 82
32Koji Kanemoto171
Minoru Tanaka171
34Isami Kodaka257
Takumi Tsukamoto257
36Dick Togo155
37Kaz Hayashi142
38Ryota Nakatsu135
Ryuichi Sekine135
40Mineo Fujita122
41Tsuyoshi Kikuchi119

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pro Wrestling Zero1 official results archives . 2007-07-15 . 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: NWA International Light Tag Team Title. wrestling-titles.com. October 4, 2020. April 7, 2021.
  3. Web site: NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship official title history. 2007-07-15. ZeroOneUSA.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080617201403/http://zerooneusa.com/title_lwtag.shtml. 2008-06-17.