The following champion history features the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship.
Title history[]
# | Names | Reigns | Date | Location | Notes |
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A number inside parentheses in the "Name(s)" column indicates the wrestler had multiple tag team partners and the number is how many reigns they individually had as one-half of the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Champions. | |||||
1 | King Kong Czaya & Tiger Joginder | 1 | November 16, 1955 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Rikidōzan & Harold Sakata in a Best Two Out Of Three Falls tournament final match. |
Vacated due to Czaya & Jokinder splitting up. | |||||
2 | Dan Miller & Frank Valois | 1 | June 2, 1960 | Osaka, Japan | Defeated Rikidōzan & Michiaki Yoshimura. |
3 | Rikidōzan & Toyonobori | 1 | June 7, 1960 | Nagoya, Japan | |
4 | Luther Lindsay & Ricky Waldo | 1 | February 3, 1962 | Tokyo, Japan | |
5 | Rikidōzan (2) & Toyonobori (2) | 2 | February 15, 1962 | Tokyo, Japan | |
6 | Buddy Austin & Mike Sharpe | 1 | June 4, 1962 | Osaka, Japan | |
7 | Rikidōzan (3) & Toyonobori (3) | 3 | July 1, 1962 | Toyonaka, Japan | |
Vacated in January 1963 due to Toyonobori getting injured. | |||||
8 | Rikidōzan (4) & Toyonobori (4) | 4 | May 6, 1963 | Sapporo, Japan | Defeated Fred Atkins & Killer Kowalski. |
Vacated on December 15, 1963 due to Rikidōzan's death. | |||||
9 | Toyonobori (5) & Michiaki Yoshimura | 1 | February 20, 1964 | Nagoya, Japan | Defeated Prince Curtis Iaukea & Don Manoukian. |
10 | Caripus Hurricane & Gene Kiniski | 1 | May 14, 1964 | Yokohama, Japan | |
11 | Giant Baba & Toyonobori (6) | 1 | May 29, 1964 | Sapporo, Japan | |
12 | The Destroyer & Billy Red Lyons | 1 | June 3, 1965 | Sapporo, Japan | |
13 | Giant Baba (2) & Toyonobori (7) | 2 | July 15, 1965 | Shizuoka, Japan | |
Vacated on January 5, 1966 due to Toyonobori taking a leave of absence. | |||||
14 | Joe Carollo & Killer Karl Kox | 1 | May 26, 1966 | Sendai, Japan | Defeated Giant Baba & Michiaki Yoshimura. |
15 | Hiro Matsuda & Michiaki Yoshimura (2) | 1 | May 28, 1966 | Sapporo, Japan | |
16 | Eddie Graham & Killer Karl Kox (2) | 1 | June 27, 1966 | Nagoya, Japan | |
17 | Giant Baba (3) & Michiaki Yoshimura (3) | 1 | July 1, 1966 | Hiroshima, Japan | |
Vacated on November 5, 1966 due to Baba winning the NWA International Tag Team Championship. | |||||
18 | Kintaro Ohki & Michiaki Yoshimura (4) | 1 | December 3, 1966 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Eddie Morrow & Tarzan Zorro. |
Vacated in April 1967 due to Ohki getting injured in a car accident. | |||||
19 | Antonio Inoki & Michiaki Yoshimura (5) | 1 | May 26, 1967 | Sapporo, Japan | Defeated Ike Eakins & Waldo Von Erich. |
Vacated on October 31, 1967 due to Inoki winning the NWA International Tag Team Championship. | |||||
20 | Kintaro Ohki (2) & Michiaki Yoshimura (6) | 2 | January 6, 1968 | Osaka, Japan | Defeated Bill Miller & Rick Hunter. |
21 | Klondike Bill & Skull Murphy | 1 | July 8, 1968 | Tokyo, Japan | |
22 | Kintaro Ohki (3) & Michiaki Yoshimura (7) | 3 | July 30, 1968 | Sapporo, Japan | |
Vacated on January 21, 1969 due to Yoshimura making an excursion to the United States. | |||||
23 | Antonio Inoki (2) & Kintaro Ohki (4) | 1 | February 3, 1969 | Sapporo, Japan | Defeated Tom Jones & Buster Lloyd. |
Vacated on July 3, 1969 so Ohki could focus on defending the All Asia Heavyweight Championship. | |||||
24 | Antonio Inoki (3) & Michiaki Yoshimura (8) | 2 | August 9, 1969 | Nagoya, Japan | Defeated Crusher Lisowski & Art Michalik |
Vacated on October 10, 1969 in Yamagata, Japan after a controversial match against Mr. Atomic & Buddy Austin. | |||||
25 | Antonio Inoki (4) & Michiaki Yoshimura (9) | 3 | October 30, 1969 | Gifu, Japan | Defeated Mr. Atomic & Buddy Austin in a rematch. |
Vacated in December 1971 due to Inoki leaving the JWA. | |||||
26 | Seiji Sakaguchi & Michiaki Yoshimura (10) | 1 | December 12, 1971 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Dory Funk, Jr. & Dick Murdoch. |
Vacated on January 30, 1973 due to Yoshimura retiring. | |||||
27 | Great Kojika & Gantetsu Matsuoka | 1 | March 3, 1973 | Osaka, Japan | Defeated Killer Karl Krupp & Kurt Von Steiger. |
Title was abandoned on April 20, 1973 due to the JWA closing. | |||||
28 | Great Kojika (2) & Motoshi Okuma | 1 | March 26, 1976 | Seoul, South Korea | Defeated two Korean representatives to revive the title in All Japan Pro Wrestling. |
29 | Oates Brothers Jerry Oates & Ted Oates |
1 | October 2, 1976 | Tokyo, Japan | |
30 | Samson Kutsuwada & Akihisa Takachiho | 1 | October 21, 1976 | Fukushima, Japan | |
31 | Great Kojika (3) & Motoshi Okuma (2) | 2 | June 16, 1977 | Tokyo, Japan | |
32 | Animal Hamaguchi & Mighty Inoue | 1 | November 6, 1977 | Tokyo, Japan | |
33 | Great Kojika (4) & Motoshi Okuma (3) | 3 | February 22, 1978 | Gifu, Japan | |
Vacated due to inactivity. | |||||
34 | Great Kojika (5) & Motoshi Okuma (4) | 4 | May 31, 1979 | Noshiro, Japan | Defeated Butch Miller & Sweet Williams. |
35 | The Von Erichs David Von Erich & Kevin Von Erich |
1 | May 23, 1981 | Tokyo, Japan | |
36 | Takashi Ishikawa & Akio Sato | 1 | June 11, 1981 | Tokyo, Japan | |
Vacated in January 1983 due to Sato getting injured. | |||||
37 | Ashura Hara & Mighty Inoue (2) | 1 | February 23, 1983 | Takaishi, Japan | Defeated Great Kojika & Motoshi Okuma. |
Vacated on February 1984 so Inoue could focus on the NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | |||||
38 | Ashura Hara (2) & Takashi Ishikawa (2) | 1 | February 16, 1984 | Nagasaki, Japan | Defeated Thomas Ivey & Jerry Morrow. |
Vacated on October 22, 1984 | |||||
39 | Takashi Ishikawa (3) & Akio Sato (2) | 2 | April 15, 1985 | Nagasaki, Japan | Defeated Animal Hamaguchi & Masanobu Kurisu. |
40 | Ishin Gundan Animal Hamaguchi (2) & Isamu Teranishi |
1 | July 18, 1985 | Tokyo, Japan | |
41 | Norio Honaga & Isamu Teranishi | 1 | 1985 | Honaga replaced Hamaguchi due to injury. | |
42 | Mighty Inoue (3) & Takashi Ishikawa (4) | 1 | October 31, 1985 | Tsuruoka, Japan | |
43 | Ashura Hara (3) & Super Strong Machine | 1 | October 30, 1986 | Aomori, Japan | |
Vacated in 1987 due to Machine leaving AJPW. | |||||
44 | Mighty Inoue (4) & Takashi Ishikawa (5) | 2 | July 30, 1987 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Masanobu Kurisu & Isamu Teranishi in a tournament final. |
45 | Footloose Samson Fuyuki & Toshiaki Kawada |
1 | March 9, 1988 | Yokohama, Japan | |
46 | Shinichi Nakano & Shunji Takano | 1 | September 9, 1988 | Chiba, Japan | |
47 | Footloose Samson Fuyuki (2) & Toshiaki Kawada (2) |
2 | September 15, 1988 | Tokyo, Japan | |
48 | The Can-Am Express Doug Furnas and Dan Kroffat |
1 | June 5, 1989 | Tokyo, Japan | |
49 | Footloose Samson Fuyuki (3) & Toshiaki Kawada (3) |
3 | October 20, 1989 | Nagoya, Japan | |
50 | The Can-Am Express Doug Furnas (2) & Dan Kroffat (2) |
2 | March 2, 1990 | Nagoya, Japan | |
51 | Kenta Kobashi & Tiger Mask II | 1 | April 9, 1990 | Okayama, Japan | |
Vacated on May 17, 1990 after Mitsuharu Misawa (Tiger Mask II) unmasked and decided to focus on his singles career. | |||||
52 | Shinichi Nakano (2) & Akira Taue | 1 | June 5, 1990 | Chiba, Japan | Defeated Davey Boy Smith & Johnny Smith. |
Vacated in July 1990 due to Nakano leaving AJPW. | |||||
53 | Johnny Ace & Kenta Kobashi (2) | 1 | September 7, 1990 | Fukui, Japan | Defeated Bobby Fulton & Tommy Rogers. |
Vacated due to Ace getting injured. | |||||
54 | The British Bruisers The Dynamite Kid & Johnny Smith |
1 | April 6, 1991 | Osaka, Japan | Defeated Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Kenta Kobashi. |
55 | The Can-Am Express Doug Furnas (3) & Dan Kroffat (3) |
3 | April 20, 1991 | Tokyo, Japan | |
56 | Johnny Ace (2) & Kenta Kobashi (3) | 2 | July 8, 1991 | Osaka, Japan | |
57 | Billy Black & Joel Deaton | 1 | July 18, 1991 | Tokyo, Japan | |
58 | The Can-Am Express Doug Furnas (4) & Dan Kroffat (4) |
4 | July 26, 1991 | Matsudo, Japan | |
59 | Super Generation Army Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Kenta Kobashi (4) |
1 | May 25, 1992 | Sendai, Japan | |
60 | The Eagle & The Patriot | 1 | June 2, 1993 | Koyama, Japan | |
61 | The Can-Am Express Doug Furnas (5) & Dan Kroffat (5) |
5 | September 9, 1993 | Saitama, Japan | |
Vacated on December 5, 1994 so Furnas & Kroffat could focus on the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship. | |||||
62 | Jun Akiyama & Takao Ōmori | 1 | January 29, 1995 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Bobby Fulton & Tommy Rogers in a tournament final. |
63 | Wolf Hawkfield & Johnny Smith (2) | 1 | January 9, 1998 | Kagoshima, Japan | |
64 | Tamon Honda & Jun Izumida | 1 | October 6, 1998 | Niigata, Japan | |
65 | Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki | 1 | February 13, 1999 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the title at Fan Appreciation Day. |
66 | NO FEAR Takao Ōmori (2) & Yoshihiro Takayama |
1 | June 4, 1999 | Sapporo, Japan | Won the title on the Super Power Series tour. Also hold AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship. |
67 | Untouchables Mitsuharu Misawa (2) & Yoshinari Ogawa |
1 | August 25, 1999 | Hiroshima, Japan | This match on the Summer Action Series II tour was also for Omori & Takayama's AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship. |
Vacated on August 25, 1999 in Hiroshima, Japan so other wrestlers could hold the title. | |||||
68 | Tamon Honda (2) & Masao Inoue | 1 | October 25, 1999 | Nagaoka, Japan | Defeated Maunakea Mossman & Johnny Smith in a tournament final on the October Giant Series tour. |
Vacated on June 16, 2000 due to Honda, Inoue and several others leaving AJPW to form Pro Wrestling NOAH | |||||
69 | Masahito Kakihara & Mitsuya Nagai | 1 | June 8, 2001 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Shinya Makabe & Yuji Nagata on the Super Power Series tour. |
Vacated in August 2001 due to Kakihara suffering a knee injury. | |||||
70 | Arashi & Koki Kitahara | 1 | September 8, 2001 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Shigeo Okumura & Nobutaka Araya on the Summer Action Series II tour. |
Vacated on January 14, 2002 in Yokohama, Japan after losing a non-title match to Yoji Anjo & Genichiro Tenryu. | |||||
71 | Arashi (2) & Nobutaka Araya | 1 | April 13, 2002 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Mitsuya Nagai & Shigeo Okumura at Grand Champion Carnival. |
Vacated on June 20, 2003 due to Arashi winning the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship on June 8, 2003. | |||||
72 | ROWDY Kohei Sato & Hirotaka Yokoi |
1 | July 19, 2003 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Tomoaki Honma & Kazushi Miyamoto in a tournament final on the Summer Action Series tour. |
73 | Kintaro Kanemura & Tetsuhiro Kuroda | 1 | October 10, 2003 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the title on Pro Wrestling ZERO1's Evolution tour. |
Vacated on December 14, 2003 due to Kanemura suffering from an illness. | |||||
74 | Mr. Gannosuke & Tetsuhiro Kuroda (2) | 1 | December 25, 2003 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Jun Kasai & Tengu Kaiser on Pro Wrestling ZERO1's Rebel Z tour. |
75 | The Great Kosuke & Shiryu | 1 | January 2, 2004 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the title on the New Year Giant Series tour. |
76 | Masanobu Fuchi & Genichiro Tenryu | 1 | May 22, 2004 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the title on the Rise Up tour. |
77 | Mitsuya Nagai (2) & Masayuki Naruse | 1 | November 3, 2004 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the title at New Japan Pro Wrestling's Chrono Stream ~ Masahiro Chono 20th Anniversary. |
78 | Buchanan & Rico | 1 | February 2, 2005 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the title on the Excite Series tour. |
Vacated on May 27, 2005 due to Rico retiring. | |||||
79 | Shuji Kondo & "brother" Yasshi | 1 | June 19, 2005 | Tokyo, Japan | Defeated Tomoaki Honma & Katsuhiko Nakajima in a tournament final on the Crossover tour. |
80 | Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kensuke Sasaki | 1 | July 26, 2005 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the title on the Summer Action Series tour. |
Vacated on October 29, 2006 due to Sasaki getting injured. | |||||
81 | Minoru Suzuki & Nosawa Rongai | 1 | January 3, 2009 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the title on the New Year Shining Series tour. Defeated Osamu Nishimura & Masanobu Fuchi in finals of a 2 day tournament. |
82 | SMOP Akebono & Ryota Hama |
1 | September 23, 2009 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the title on the Flashing tour. |
83 | Voodoo Murders Taru & Big Daddy Voodoo |
1 | April 29, 2010 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the title on the 2010 GROWIN’UP tour. |
84 | New Generation Force Manabu Soya & Seiya Sanada |
1 | August 29, 2010 | Tokyo, Japan | |
85 | STRONG BJ Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi |
1 | March 21, 2011 | Tokyo, Japan | |
86 | es Manabu Soya (2) & Seiya Sanada (2) |
2 | June 19, 2011 | Tokyo, Japan | |
87 | STRONG BJ Daisuke Sekimoto (2) & Yuji Okabayashi (2) |
2 | October 23, 2011 | Tokyo, Japan | |
88 | SMOP Akebono (2) & Ryota Hama (2) |
2 | July 1, 2012 | Tokyo, Japan | |
Title vacated due to Akebono's extended illness. | |||||
89 | Junior Stars Koji Kanemoto & Minoru Tanaka |
1 | October 21, 2012 | Nagoya, Japan | Defeated Kazushi Miyamoto & Tomoaki Honma in tournament final. |
90 | Jonetsu Hentai Baka Hikaru Sato & Hiroshi Yamato |
1 | January 26, 2013 | Tokyo, Japan | |
91 | Junior Stars Koji Kanemoto (2) & Minoru Tanaka (2) |
2 | February 10, 2013 | Fukuoka, Japan | |
92 | Burning Atsushi Aoki & Kotaro Suzuki |
1 | April 25, 2013 | Nagoya, Japan | |
93 | Burning Jun Akiyama (2) & Yoshinobu Kanemaru |
1 | January 26, 2014 | Kobe, Japan | |
94 | Team Dream Futures Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie |
1 | April 29, 2014 | Tokyo, Japan | Won the title at DDT Max Bump 2014. |
95 | Xceed Kento Miyahara & Kotaro Suzuki (2) |
1 | August 16, 2014 | Tokyo, Japan | |
96 | Dark Kingdom Mitsuya Nagai (3) & Takeshi Minamino |
1 | January 3, 2015 | Tokyo, Japan | |
97 | Ultimo Dragon & Yoshinobu Kanemaru (2) | 1 | March 22, 2015 | Fukuoka, Japan | |
Dragon and Kanemura voluntarily vacated the championship after losing a non-title match to Isami Kodaka & Yuko Miyamoto. | |||||
98 | Yankee Two Kenju Isami Kodaka & Yuko Miyamoto |
1 | November 15, 2015 | Hachioji, Japan | Defeated Kotaro Suzuki & Yohei Nakajima for vacant championship. |
99 | Evolution Atsushi Aoki (2) & Hikaru Sato (2) |
1 | July 24, 2016 | Tokyo, Japan | Won at BJW Ryogokutan 2016. |
100 | Atsushi Onita & Masanobu Fuchi (2) | 1 | November 27, 2016 | Tokyo, Japan | |
101 | Evolution Atsushi Aoki (3) & Hikaru Sato (3) |
2 | June 20, 2017 | Obiuhiro, Japan | |
102 | Black Tiger VII (2) & TAKA Michinoku | 1 | August 27, 2017 | Tokyo, Japan | Black Tiger VII previously held the championship as NOSAWA Rongai. |
103 | NEXTREAM Naoya Nomura & Yuma Aoyagi |
1 | September 30, 2017 | Yamada, Japan | |
Vacated in January 27, 2018 due to Aoyagi suffering an ankle injury. | |||||
104 | Jun Akiyama (3) & Yuji Nagata | 1 | February 3, 2018 | Yokohama, Japan | Defeated Naoya Nomura & Ryoji Sai for vacant championship. |
105 | NEXTREAM Naoya Nomura (2) & Yuma Aoyagi (2) |
2 | July 29, 2018 | Osaka, Japan | |
Vacated in February 25, 2018 due to Nomura and Aoyagi splitting up. | |||||
106 | Sweeper Jake Lee & Koji Iwamoto |
1 | March 21, 2019 | Nagoya, Japan | Defeated Daichi Hashimoto & Hideyoshi Kamitani in a tournament final. |
107 | Kazumi Kikuta & Ryuichi Kawakami | 1 | May 5, 2019 | Yokohama, Japan | Won at BJW Endless Survivor 2019. |
108 | Sweeper Jake Lee (2) & Koji Iwamoto (2) |
2 | June 18, 2019 | Tokyo, Japan | |
109 | Yankee Two Kenju Isami Kodaka (2) & Yuko Miyamoto (2) |
2 | March 23, 2020 | Tokyo, Japan | |
110 | Purple Haze Izanagi & Zeus |
1 | August 15, 2020 | Tokyo, Japan | |
111 | STRONGHEARTS El Lindaman & T-Hawk |
1 | September 7, 2021 | Tokyo, Japan | |
112 | TOTAL ECLIPSE Hokuto Omori & Yusuke Kodama |
1 | January 2, 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | |
113 | Voodoo Murders Minoru (3) & Toshizo |
1 | July 14, 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | |
114 | Evolution Dan Tamura & Hikaru Sato (4) |
1 | September 18, 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | |
115 | TAJIRI & Yoshitatsu | 1 | October 30, 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | |
116 | Gungnir of Anarchy Masao Hanahata & Yusuke Kodama (2) |
1 | November 27, 2022 | Fujisawa, Japan | |
117 | Masao Inoue (2) & Takao Omori (3) | 1 | December 7, 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | Won in a 4 corners match also involving TAJIRI & Yoshitatsu and Black Menso-re & ATM. |
118 | Kendo Kashin & NOSAWA Rongai (3) | 1 | January 3, 2023 | Tokyo, Japan | |
119 | Atsushi Onita (2) & Yoshitatsu (2) | 1 | February 4, 2023 | Tokyo, Japan | Won in a Tornado Bunkhouse Current Blast Death Match. |
120 | Burning Jun Akiyama (4) & Kotaro Suzuki (3) |
1 | September 18, 2023 | Nagoya, Japan | Won in a Current Blast Bat And Board Death Match |
121 | Eruption Hideki Okatani & Yukio Sakaguchi |
1 | November 4, 2023 | Tokyo, Japan |