AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship
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The All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) Unified World Tag Team Championship is the premier tag team title in All Japan Pro Wrestling. As with the Triple Crown, it is a unified, indivisible championship. Some fans who do not recognize the title as a world title call it the Double Cup after the two cup-shaped trophies given to the winners in title matches.
[edit] Title history
| Wrestlers (Individual reigns) |
Reigns together |
Date | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu | 1 | June 10, 1988 | Tokyo, Japan | Tsuruta & Yatsu, the reigning PWF Tag Team Champions, defeated the NWA International Tag Team Champions The Road Warriors to unify the titles. |
| Terry Gordy & Stan Hansen | 1 | July 29, 1988 | Takasaki, Japan | |
| Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu | 2 | July 31, 1988 | Hakodate, Japan | |
| Ashura Hara & Genichiro Tenryu | 1 | August 29, 1988 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu | 3 | August 30, 1988 | Osaka, Japan | |
| Vacated on November 19, 1988 so the titles could be defended in the World's Strongest Tag Team League. | ||||
| Terry Gordy & Stan Hansen | 2 | December 16, 1988 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu | 4 | February 2, 1989 | Kansas City, Kansas | |
| Stan Hansen (3) & Genichiro Tenryu (2) | 1 | July 11, 1989 | Sapporo, Japan | |
| Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu | 5 | July 22, 1989 | Ishikawa, Japan | |
| Stan Hansen (4) & Genichiro Tenryu (3) | 2 | October 20, 1989 | Nagoya, Japan | |
| Vacated on November 29, 1989 so the titles could be defended in the World's Strongest Tag Team League. | ||||
| Stan Hansen (5) & Genichiro Tenryu (4) | 3 | December 6, 1989 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Terry Gordy (3) & Steve Williams | 1 | March 6, 1990 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| The Great Kabuki & Jumbo Tsuruta (6) | 1 | July 19, 1990 | Takefu, Japan | |
| Vacated on July 30, 1990 due to Kabuki leaving the company. | ||||
| Terry Gordy (4) & Steve Williams | 2 | December 7, 1990 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Stan Hansen (6) & Dan Spivey | 1 | April 18, 1991 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Terry Gordy (5) & Steve Williams | 3 | July 6, 1991 | Yokosuka, Japan | |
| Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuharu Misawa | 1 | July 24, 1991 | Ishikawa, Japan | |
| Vacated on November 15, 1991 so the titles could be defended in the World's Strongest Tag Team League. | ||||
| Terry Gordy (6)& Steve Williams | 4 | December 6, 1991 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Akira Taue & Jumbo Tsuruta (7) | 1 | March 4, 1992 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Vacated on November 13, 1992 so the titles could be defended in the World's Strongest Tag Team League. | ||||
| Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuharu Misawa | 2 | December 4, 1992 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Terry Gordy (7) & Steve Williams | 5 | January 30, 1993 | Chiba, Japan | |
| Toshiaki Kawada (3) & Akira Taue (2) | 1 | May 20, 1993 | Sapporo, Japan | |
| Ted DiBiase & Stan Hansen (7) | 1 | September 3, 1993 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Vacated on November 12, 1993 so the titles could be defended in the World's Strongest Tag Team League. | ||||
| Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa (3) | 1 | December 3, 1993 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Vacated on November 18, 1994 so the titles could be defended in the World's Strongest Tag Team League. | ||||
| Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa (4) | 2 | December 10, 1994 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Toshiaki Kawada (4) & Akira Taue (3) | 2 | June 9, 1995 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Gary Albright & Stan Hansen (8) | 1 | January 24, 1996 | Matsumoto, Japan | |
| Toshiaki Kawada (5) & Akira Taue (4) | 3 | February 20, 1996 | Iwate, Japan | |
| Jun Akiyama & Mitsuharu Misawa (5) | 1 | May 23, 1996 | Sapporo, Japan | |
| Johnny Ace & Steve Williams (6) | 1 | September 5, 1996 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Toshiaki Kawada (6) & Akira Taue (5) | 4 | January 17, 1997 | Matsumoto, Japan | |
| Johnny Ace (2) & Kenta Kobashi (3) | 1 | May 27, 1997 | Sapporo, Japan | |
| Gary Albright (2) & Steve Williams (7) | 1 | July 25, 1997 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Johnny Ace (3) & Kenta Kobashi (4) | 2 | October 4, 1997 | Nagoya, Japan | |
| Toshiaki Kawada (7) & Akira Taue (6) | 5 | January 25, 1998 | Yokohama, Japan | |
| Jun Akiyama (2)& Kenta Kobashi (5) | 1 | January 7, 1999 | Kochi, Japan | |
| Johnny Ace (4) & Bart Gunn | 1 | June 9, 1999 | Sendai, Japan | |
| Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama | 1 | July 23, 1999 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Mitsuharu Misawa (6) & Yoshinari Ogawa | 1 | August 25, 1999 | Hiroshima, Japan | |
| Jun Akiyama (3) & Kenta Kobashi (6) | 2 | October 23, 1999 | Nagoya, Japan | |
| Vader & Steve Williams (8) | 1 | February 20, 2000 | Kobe, Japan | |
| Vacated on April 7, 2000 due to Vader fracturing his left arm. | ||||
| Toshiaki Kawada (8) & Akira Taue (7) | 6 | June 9, 2000 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama in a tournament final. |
| Vacated on June 16, 2000 due to Akira Taue leaving the company in favor of Pro Wrestling NOAH. | ||||
| Taiyō Kea & Johnny Smith | 1 | January 14, 2001 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Masanobu Fuchi & Toshiaki Kawada in a tournament final. |
| Yoji Anjo & Genichiro Tenryu (5) | 1 | July 14, 2001 | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Taiyō Kea (2) & Keiji Mutoh | 1 | October 22, 2001 | Niigata, Japan | |
| Brian Adams & Bryan Clark | 1 | July 17, 2002 | Osaka, Japan | |
| Vacated on October 10, 2002 when Adams leaves the company to pursue a boxing career. | ||||
| Taiyō Kea (3) & Satoshi Kojima | 1 | December 6, 2002 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Vacated on May 8, 2003 due to a lack of defenses caused by an injury suffered by Taiyō Kea. | ||||
| Arashi & Keiji Mutoh (2) | 1 | June 8, 2003 | Yokohama, Japan | Defeated Satoshi Kojima & Jimmy Yang in a tournament final. |
| Kaz Hayashi & Satoshi Kojima (2) | 1 | January 18, 2004 | Osaka, Japan | |
| Kendo Kashin & Yuji Nagata | 1 | June 12, 2004 | Nagoya, Japan | |
| Vacated on December 17, 2004 due to team inactivity. | ||||
| Jamal & Taiyō Kea (4) | 1 | January 16, 2005 | Osaka, Japan | Defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yutaka Yoshie in a decision match. |
| Vacated on December 5, 2005 when Jamal leaves the company for World Wrestling Entertainment. | ||||
| Toshiaki Kawada (9) & Taiyō Kea (5) | 1 | February 17, 2007 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated RO'Z & Suwama in a decision match. |
[edit] Trivia
- The all-time record of reigns for a team is Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue with six.
- The all-time record of reigns for a foreign team is Terry Gordy & Steve Williams with five.
- Mixed Japanese-foreign teams to hold the belts include Stan Hansen & Genichiro Tenryu, Johnny Ace & Kenta Kobashi, Taiyō Kea & Keiji Muto, Taiyō Kea & Satoshi Kojima, Taiyō Kea & Toshiaki Kawada and & Taiyō Kea & Jamal
- Kea & Muto are the only team to hold both the Double Cup and the IWGP World Tag Team Championship as well as the only team to hold both titles at the same time.
