GHC Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||||||
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Promotion | CyberFight | ||||||||||||||||
Brand | Pro Wrestling Noah | ||||||||||||||||
Date established | October 19, 2001 | ||||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Team 2000X (Jack Morris and Omos) | ||||||||||||||||
Date won | January 1, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||
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The Global Honored Crown (GHC) Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team title in Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Noah. It was created on October 19, 2001, when Scorpio and Vader defeated Jun Akiyama and Akitoshi Saito in a tournament final. [1] Though it is typically contested among heavyweights (>100 kg (220 lb; 16 st)), some junior heavyweights such as Naomichi Marufuji and Yoshinari Ogawa have held it in the past. It is currently one of two tag team titles in Noah, along with the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (reserved for junior heavyweights).
There have been a total of 68 reigns shared between 54 different teams, consisting of 61 different individual champions. The current champions are Team 2000X (Jack Morris and Omos) who are in their first reign as a team.
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parentheses, if different |
Days | Number of days held |
Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
+ | Current reign is changing daily |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
1 | Scorpio and Vader | October 19, 2001 | Tug of War 2001 - Day 10 | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 42 | 0 | Defeated Jun Akiyama and Akitoshi Saito in a tournament final. | [2] |
2 | Mitsuharu Misawa and Yoshinari Ogawa | November 30, 2001 | Navigation in Raging Ocean 2001 - Day 8 | Sapporo, Japan | 1 | 9 | 0 | ||
3 | No Fear (Takao Omori and Yoshihiro Takayama) | December 9, 2001 | Navigation in Raging Ocean 2001 - Day 14 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 70 | 0 | [3] | |
4 | Wild II (Takeshi Morishima and Takeshi Rikio) | February 17, 2002 | Navigate for Evolution 2002 - Day 10 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 218 | 4 | [4] | |
5 | Jun Akiyama and Akitoshi Saito | September 23, 2002 | Great Voyage 2002 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 256 | 5 | [5] | |
6 | Burning (Tamon Honda and Kenta Kobashi) | June 6, 2003 | Navigation with Breeze 2003 - Day 17 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 177 | 2 | [6] [7] | |
7 | Yuji Nagata and Hiroshi Tanahashi | November 30, 2003 | Navigation, Uprising Spirit 2004 - Day 11 | Sapporo, Japan | 1 | 41 | 1 | [8] | |
8 | Mitsuharu Misawa and Yoshinari Ogawa | January 10, 2004 | Great Voyage 2004 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 379 | 7 | [9] | |
9 | 2 Cold Scorpio and Doug Williams | January 23, 2005 | The First Navigation 2005 - Day 9 | Kobe, Japan | 1 (2, 1) | 146 | 0 | 2 Cold Scorpio previously went by Scorpio. | [10] |
10 | Naomichi Marufuji and Minoru Suzuki | June 18, 2005 | Frontier Wrestling Alliance's NOAH Limits | Morecambe, England | 1 | 132 | 2 | [11] | |
11 | Takeshi Morishima and Muhammad Yone | October 28, 2005 | Autumn Navigation 2006 - Day 14 | Osaka, Japan | 1 (2, 1) | 219 | 2 | [12] | |
12 | Burning (Tamon Honda and Kenta Kobashi) | June 4, 2006 | Northern Navigation 2006 - Day 12 | Sapporo, Japan | 2 | 113 | 0 | [13] | |
— | Vacated | September 25, 2006 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to Kobashi becoming inactive with kidney cancer. | |
13 | Takeshi Morishima and Muhammad Yone | December 2, 2006 | Winter Navigation 2006 | Yokohama, Japan | 2 (3, 2) | 120 | 0 | Defeated Takuma Sano and Yoshihiro Takayama in a tournament final for the vacant titles. | [14] |
14 | Jun Akiyama and Takeshi Rikio | April 1, 2007 | Spring Navigation 2007 - Day 1 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 (2, 2) | 165 | 3 | [15] | |
— | Vacated | September 13, 2007 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to Rikio suffering a neck injury. | |
15 | RO&D (D'Lo Brown and Buchanan) | October 20, 2007 | Autumn Navigation 2007 - Day 8 | Kurume, Japan | 1 | 7 | 0 | Defeated Akira Taue and Go Shiozaki in a tournament final for the vacant titles. | [1] |
16 | Team Ikko (Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura) | October 27, 2007 | Autumn Navigation 2007 - Day 12 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 (2, 1) | 209 | 2 | [16] | |
17 | Akitoshi Saito and Bison Smith | May 23, 2008 | NOAH Northern Navigation 2008 - Day 5 | Nagoya, Japan | 1 (2, 1) | 486 | 3 | ||
18 | Kensuke Sasaki and Takeshi Morishima | September 21, 2009 | Exceeding Our Dreams 2009 - Day 5 | Niigata, Japan | 1 (1, 4) | 76 | 1 | ||
19 | Disobey (Takeshi Rikio and Muhammad Yone) | December 6, 2009 | Winter Navigation 2009 - Day 10 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 (3, 3) | 129 | 2 | ||
20 | Bison Smith and Keith Walker | April 14, 2010 | Spring Navigation 2010 - Day 4 | Osaka, Japan | 1 (2, 1) | 149 | 1 | ||
— | Vacated | September 10, 2010 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to Walker not returning to Japan after the death of his father. | |
21 | Takuma Sano and Yoshihiro Takayama | September 18, 2010 | Shiny Navigation 2010 - Day 5 | Osaka, Japan | 1 (1, 2) | 273 | 4 | Defeated Akitoshi Saito and Bison Smith for the vacant titles. | |
22 | Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) | June 18, 2011 | New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Dominion 6.18 | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 218 | 2 | [17] | |
23 | Special Assault Team (Jun Akiyama and Akitoshi Saito) | January 22, 2012 | Great Voyage In Osaka 2012 | Osaka, Japan | 2 (3, 3) | 182 | 3 | ||
24 | Magnus and Samoa Joe | July 22, 2012 | Great Voyage 2012 In Ryogoku | Ryōgoku, Japan | 1 | 78 | 0 | ||
25 | No Mercy (Kenta and Maybach Taniguchi) | October 8, 2012 | Autumn Navigation 2012 | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 18 | 0 | ||
26 | Special Assault Team (Akitoshi Saito and Go Shiozaki) | October 26, 2012 | Autumn Navigation 2012 - Day 5 | Niigata, Japan | 1 (4, 1) | 44 | 0 | ||
27 | Brave (Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura) | December 9, 2012 | The Great Voyage In Ryogoku 2012 Vol. 2 | Ryōgoku, Japan | 2 (3, 2) | 91 | 1 | ||
28 | Chaos (Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano) | March 10, 2013 | Great Voyage 2013 In Yokohama | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 119 | 2 | ||
29 | TMDK (Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste) | July 7, 2013 | Great Voyage 2013 In Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 202 | 3 | ||
30 | Choukibou-gun (Maybach Taniguchi and Takeshi Morishima) | January 25, 2014 | The First Navigation 2014 - Day 11 | Osaka, Japan | 1 (2, 5) | 126 | 1 | ||
31 | Dangan Yankies (Masato Tanaka and Takashi Sugiura) | May 31, 2014 | Navigation with Breeze 2014 - Day 4 | Osaka, Japan | 1 (1, 3) | 224 | 4 | ||
32 | TMDK (Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste) | January 10, 2015 | New Year Navigation 2015 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 32 | 0 | ||
33 | K.E.S. (Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer) | February 11, 2015 | Great Voyage 2015 in Nagoya | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 472 | 10 | ||
34 | Naomichi Marufuji and Toru Yano | May 28, 2016 | Great Voyage 2016 in Osaka | Osaka, Japan | 1 (4, 2) | 179 | 6 | ||
35 | K.E.S. (Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer) | November 23, 2016 | Global League-sen 2016 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 10 | 0 | ||
36 | Go Shiozaki and Maybach Taniguchi | December 3, 2016 | One Night Cruise 2016 in Differ | Tokyo, Japan | 1 (2, 3) | 49 | 1 | ||
37 | Kenoh and Masa Kitamiya | January 21, 2017 | The First Navig. 2017 | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 34 | 0 | ||
— | Vacated | February 24, 2017 | The Second Navig. 2017 | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | — | Vacated after Kenoh turned on Kitamiya. | |
38 | Kenoh and Takashi Sugiura | March 12, 2017 | Great Voyage 2017 in Yokohama | Yokohama, Japan | 1 (2, 4) | 33 | 0 | Defeated Masa Kitamiya and Muhammad Yone for the vacant titles. | |
39 | Maybach Taniguchi and Naomichi Marufuji | April 14, 2017 | GTL e no Countdown | Tokyo, Japan | 1 (4, 5) | 134 | 2 | ||
40 | Atsushi Kotoge and Go Shiozaki | August 26, 2017 | Summer Navigation 2017 Vol. 2 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 (1, 3) | 36 | 0 | ||
41 | 50 Funky Powers (Muhammad Yone and Quiet Storm) | October 1, 2017 | Great Voyage 2017 in Yokohama Vol. 2 | Yokohama, Japan | 1 (4, 1) | 161 | 2 | [18] | |
42 | The Aggression (Katsuhiko Nakajima and Masa Kitamiya) | March 11, 2018 | Great Voyage 2018 in Yokohama | Yokohama, Japan | 1 (1, 2) | 49 | 0 | [19] | |
43 | GO-KAI (Go Shiozaki and Kaito Kiyomiya) | April 29, 2018 | Great Voyage 2018 in Niigata | Yokohama, Japan | 1 (4, 1) | 30 | 0 | [20] | |
44 | The Aggression (Katsuhiko Nakajima and Masa Kitamiya) | May 29, 2018 | Navigation with Breeze 2018 | Yokohama, Japan | 2 (2, 3) | 60 | 0 | ||
45 | Naomichi Marufuji and Akitoshi Saito | July 28, 2018 | 12th Global Jr. Heavyweight Tag League | Tokyo, Japan | 1 (6, 5) | 123 | 2 | ||
— | Vacated | November 28, 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to Marufuji suffering a shoulder injury. | |
46 | Go Shiozaki and Katsuhiko Nakajima | December 7, 2018 | Winter Navigation | Tokyo, Japan | 1 (5, 3) | 9 | 0 | Defeated Kenoh and Masa Kitamiya in a tournament final for the vacant titles. | [21] |
47 | Hooligans (Maybach Taniguchi and Yuji Hino) | December 16, 2018 | Great Voyage in Yokohama Vol. 2 | Yokohama, Japan | 1 (5, 1) | 47 | 1 | [22] | |
48 | 50 Funky Powers (Muhammad Yone and Quiet Storm) | February 1, 2019 | Navigation for the Future 2019 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 (5, 2) | 23 | 0 | [23] | |
49 | AXIZ (Go Shiozaki and Katsuhiko Nakajima) | February 24, 2019 | Navigation for the Progress 2019 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 (6, 4) | 109 | 1 | [24] | |
50 | Sugiura-gun (Kazma Sakamoto and Takashi Sugiura) | June 13, 2019 | Global Junior Tag League 2019 | Osaka, Japan | 1 (1, 5) | 14 | 0 | [25] | |
51 | AXIZ (Go Shiozaki and Katsuhiko Nakajima) | June 27, 2019 | Global Junior League 2019 | Tokyo, Japan | 3 (7, 5) | 192 | 3 | ||
52 | Naomichi Marufuji and Masaaki Mochizuki | January 5, 2020 | Reboot | Tokyo, Japan | 1 (7, 1) | 105 | 1 | [26] | |
53 | Sugiura-gun International (El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. and René Duprée) | April 19, 2020 | Noah the Spirit | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 98 | 0 | [27] | |
— | Vacated | July 26, 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated when Wagner and Duprée cannot enter Japan due to international travel restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. | [28] |
54 | Sugiura-gun (Takashi Sugiura and Kazushi Sakuraba) | August 30, 2020 | KAWASAKI, GO! 2020 | Kawasaki, Japan | 1 (6, 1) | 189 | 3 | Defeated AXIZ (Go Shiozaki and Katsuhiko Nakajima) to win the vacant titles. | [29] |
55 | The Aggression (Katsuhiko Nakajima and Masa Kitamiya) | March 7, 2021 | Great Voyage 2021 In Yokohama | Yokohama, Japan | 3 (6, 4) | 137 | 1 | Kitamiya and Nakajima won the titles on this occasion as part of the Kongo stable. Kitamiya turned on Nakajima following their lone title defense from Mitsuharu Misawa Memorial from May 31, 2021. Despite that, they remained champions until a decision match was held. | [30] |
56 | Kaito Kiyomiya and Masa Kitamiya | July 22, 2021 | NOAH Up To Emotion 2021 Day 4 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 (2, 5) | 114 | 0 | Nakajima teamed with Manabu Soya to defend against Kitamiya and Kiyomiya to determine new champions. | [31] |
57 | M's Alliance (Keiji Muto and Naomichi Marufuji) | November 13, 2021 | NOAH Demolition Stage 2021 In Yokohama | Yokohama, Japan | 1 (1, 8) | 87 | 2 | [32] | |
— | Vacated | February 8, 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to Mutoh suffering a hip injury. | |
58 | Sugiura-gun (Takashi Sugiura and Hideki Suzuki) | March 13, 2022 | NOAH Great Voyage 2022 In Yokohama | Yokohama, Japan | 1 (7, 1) | 52 | 1 | Defeated Kaito Kiyomiya and Daiki Inaba in a tournament final for the vacant titles. | [33] |
59 | Sugiura-gun International (El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. and René Duprée) | May 4, 2022 | NOAH Dream On 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 17 | 0 | [34] | |
60 | Michael Elgin and Masa Kitamiya | May 21, 2022 | Dream On Final 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 (1, 6) | 56 | 0 | [35] | |
— | Vacated | July 16, 2022 | Destination 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | — | Vacated due to Elgin not being able to make it to the title defense. | |
61 | Sugiura-gun (Hideki Suzuki and Timothy Thatcher) | July 16, 2022 | Destination 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 (2, 1) | 71 | 0 | Defeated Masa Kitamiya and Yoshiki Inamura for the vacant titles. | [36] |
62 | TakaKoji (Takashi Sugiura and Satoshi Kojima) | September 25, 2022 | Grand Ship in Nagoya 2022 | Nagoya, Japan | 1 (8, 1) | 140 | 3 | [37] | |
63 | Masa Kitamiya and Daiki Inaba | February 12, 2023 | Great Voyage in Osaka 2023 | Osaka, Japan | 1 (7, 1) | 63 | 1 | [38] | |
64 | Takashi Sugiura and Shuhei Taniguchi | April 16, 2023 | Green Journey in Sendai 2023 | Sendai, Japan | 1 (9, 6) | 18 | 0 | Taniguchi was previously known as Maybach Taniguchi. | [39] |
65 | Real (Timothy Thatcher and Saxon Huxley) | May 4, 2023 | Majestic 2023 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 (2, 1) | 143 | 1 | [40] | |
66 | Good Looking Guys (Jack Morris and Anthony Greene) | September 24, 2023 | Grand Ship In Nagoya 2023 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 266 | 8 | [41] | |
67 | Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura | June 16, 2024 | Grand Ship In Yokohama | Yokohama, Japan | 3 (9, 10) | 199 | 4 | Marufuji and Sugiura previously won the titles under the tag names of Team Ikko and Brave. However in this reign, they did not use any of those team names. | [42] |
68 | Team 2000X (Jack Morris and Omos) | January 1, 2025 | The New Year 2025 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 (2, 1) | 1+ | 0 | [43] |
As of January2, 2025.
† | Indicates the current champions |
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