JWP Tag Team Championship

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JWP Tag Team Championship
Tsukasa Fujimoto 2016.JPG
Tsukasa Fujimoto holding one of the title belts in her left hand
Details
Promotion JWP Joshi Puroresu
Date establishedAugust 9, 1992 [1]
Date retiredApril 2, 2017 [2]
Statistics
First champion(s) Cutie Suzuki and Mayumi Ozaki [1]
Final champion(s) Command Bolshoi and Leon
Most reignsAs a team (4 reigns):

As an individual (7 reigns):

Longest reign Kaori Yoneyama and Toujyuki Leon
(448 days)
Shortest reign Azumi Hyuga and Command Bolshoi
(<1 day)
Oldest champion Yumiko Hotta
(42 years, 15 days) [lower-alpha 1]
Youngest champion Arisa Nakajima
(23 years, 135 days) [lower-alpha 1]

The JWP Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the JWP Joshi Puroresu promotion. The championship was introduced on August 9, 1992, when Cutie Suzuki and Mayumi Ozaki defeated Dynamite Kansai and Sumiko Saito in a tournament final to become the inaugural champions. [1] On August 3, 2008, the title was unified with the Daily Sports Women's Tag Team Championship. [5] Together, the two titles were sometimes referred to as the "JWP Double Crown Tag Team Championship". [6] When JWP Joshi Puroresu went out of business in April 2017, the two titles were separated again with the JWP title remaining with the JWP production company, while the Daily Sports title moved on to Command Bolshoi's new follow-up promotion. [7] [8]

Contents

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title was won as a result of a scripted match. There were forty-nine reigns shared among thirty-nine different wrestlers and thirty-seven teams. The title was retired on April 2, 2017, when JWP Joshi Puroresu went out of business. That same day, Command Bolshoi and Leon won the final match contested for the title by making their second successful defense against Kazuki and Rydeen Hagane. [2] [9]

Title history

On August 9, 1992, Cutie Suzuki and Mayumi Ozaki became the inaugural champions, after defeating Dynamite Kansai and Sumiko Saito in a tournament final. [1] Since then, there have been 16 reigns in a row before the championship was vacated on June 18, 2000, after the previous champions Azumi Hyuga and Command Bolshoi won the title in controversial fashion. [4] [10] On March 31, 2001, Misae Genki and Ran Yu-Yu won the vacant title by defeating Bolshoi and Hyuga. [4] On August 12, 2008, the team of Harukura (Kayoko Haruyama and Tsubasa Kuragaki) became the inaugural Daily Sports Women's Tag Team Championship, which would be defended together with the JWP Tag Team Championship moving forward. [5] [11]

On April 2, 2017, at JWP's 25th Anniversary show, which was JWP's last show as JWP closed doors, the championship was deactivated with Bolshoi and Leon being the last champions, ith a final successful title defense against Kazuki and Rydeen Hagane. [12] [2] [9] On August 11, Pure-J was founded under Bolshoi's authority, which retained control over the Daily Sports Women's Tag Team and Princess of Pro-Wrestling Championships. [13]

Reigns

Over the championship's 24-year history, there have been 49 reigns between 37 teams composed of 39 individual champions and eight vacancies. The inaugural champions were Cutie Suzuki and Mayumi Ozaki, while Command Bolshoi and Leon being the last ones. As a team, Uematsu☆Ran (Ran Yu-Yu and Toshie Uematsu) hold the record for most reigns at four, while individually, Bolshoi and Yu-Yu shares the record for most reigns at seven. YoneLeo (Kaori Yoneyama and Toujyuki Leon)'s reign is the longest at 448 days, while Azumi Hyuga and Bolshoi's is the shortest which lasted less than a day. Yumiko Hotta is the oldest champion at 42 years old, while Arisa Nakajima is the youngest at 23 years old. [lower-alpha 1]

Key
No.Overall reign number
ReignReign number for the specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parenthesis, if different
DaysNumber of days held
DefensesNumber of successful defenses
No.ChampionChampionship changeReign statisticsNotesRef.
DateEventLocationReignDaysDefenses
1 Cutie Suzuki and Mayumi Ozaki August 9, 1992JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 12242 [10] Defeated Dynamite Kansai and Sumiko Saito in a tournament final to become the inaugural champions. [1]
2 Devil Masami and Dynamite Kansai March 21, 1993JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 12560 [10] [14]
3 Cutie Suzuki and Mayumi Ozaki December 2, 1993JWP House Show Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan 21151 [10] [4]
4 Las Cachorras Orientales
(Etsuko Mita and Mima Shimoda)
March 27, 1994JWP House Show Yokohama, Japan 12873 [10] [4]
5Hikari Fukuoka and Mayumi Ozaki (3)January 8, 1995JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 1690 [10] [4]
6 Cutie Suzuki (3) and Dynamite Kansai (2)March 18, 1995JWP House Show Osaka, Japan 12661 [10] [4]
7Hikari Fukuoka (2) and Kaoru December 9, 1995JWP House Show Yokohama, Japan 12111 [10] [4]
8 Cutie Suzuki (4) and Dynamite Kansai (3)July 7, 1996JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 21420 [10] [4]
9 Devil Masami (2) and Hikari Fukuoka (3)November 26, 1996JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 14234 [10] [4]
10 Kaoru Ito and Manami Toyota January 23, 1998JWP House Show Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan 1190 [10] [4]
11Hikari Fukuoka (4) and Tomoko Kuzumi February 11, 1998JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 11230 [10] [4]
12 Cutie Suzuki (5) and Devil Masami (3)June 14, 1998JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 1470 [10] [4]
13Hikari Fukuoka (5) and Tomoko Kuzumi (2)July 31, 1998JWP House Show Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan 21681 [10] [4]
14 Command Bolshoi and Rieko Amano/Carlos Amano January 15, 1999JWP House Show Osaka, Japan 13912 [10] Amano changed her ring name to Carlos Amano on February 24, 1999. [4]
15Zap
(Zap I (2) and Zap T)
February 10, 2000JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 11290 [10] Zap I formerly known as Kaoru Ito. [4]
16 Azumi Hyuga (3) and Command Bolshoi (2)June 18, 2000JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 1>10 [10] Azumi Hyuga formerly known as Tomoko Kuzumi. [4]
Vacated June 18, 2000Title vacated due to Hyuga and Bolshoi having won it in controversial fashion. [4] [10]
17 Misae Genki and Ran Yu-Yu March 31, 2001JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 11532 [10] Defeated Azumi Hyuga and Command Bolshoi in a tournament final to win the vacant championship. [4]
18 Azumi Hyuga (4) and Kayoko Haruyama August 31, 2001JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 1100 [10] [4]
19 Command Bolshoi (3) and Gami September 10, 2001JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 13132 [10] [4]
20 Azumi Hyuga (5) and Ran Yu-Yu (2)July 20, 2002JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 11063 [10] [4]
Vacated November 3, 2002Title vacated when Yu-Yu left JWP. [4]
21 Kaori Yoneyama and Kayoko Haruyama (2)January 25, 2004JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 13222 [10] Defeated Etsuko Mita and Misae Genki in a tournament final to win the vacant championship. [4]
22 Akino and Tsubasa Kuragaki December 12, 2004JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 11541 [10] [4]
23YoneLeo
(Kaori Yoneyama (2) and Toujyuki Leon)
May 15, 2005JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 14483 [15] [4]
24Uematsu☆Ran
(Ran Yu-Yu (3) and Toshie Uematsu)
August 6, 2006Take Aim Tokyo, Japan 11402 [16] [15]
25The☆Wanted!?
(Kazuki and Sachie Abe)
December 24, 2006JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 11681 [17] [16]
Vacated June 10, 2007Kazuki 10th Anniversary Tokyo, Japan Title vacated for the LSD45 gauntlet match. [18]
26The☆Wanted!?
(Kazuki and Sachie Abe)
June 10, 2007Kazuki 10th Anniversary Tokyo, Japan 2280 [19] Defeated Ran Yu-Yu and Toshie Uematsu to win the LSD45 gauntlet match. [18]
27Uematsu☆Ran
(Ran Yu-Yu (4) and Toshie Uematsu (2))
July 8, 2007Power Up!! Tokyo, Japan 2350 [11] [19]
28Harukura
(Kayoko Haruyama (3) and Tsubasa Kuragaki (2))
August 12, 2007Power Up!! Tokyo, Japan 14273 [20] On August 3, 2008, Haruyama and Kuragaki defeated Manami Toyota and Yumiko Hotta in a tournament final to become the inaugural Daily Sports Women's Tag Team Champions. From this point onwards, the two titles are defended together. [5] [11]
29Uematsu☆Ran
(Ran Yu-Yu (5) and Toshie Uematsu (3))
October 12, 2008Survival Road 1 Tokyo, Japan 31051 [21] [20]
30 Keito and Yumiko Hotta January 25, 2009JWP House Show Osaka, Japan 1771 [22] [21]
31 Command Bolshoi (4) and Megumi Yabushita April 12, 2009JWP–Maniax 2009 Tokyo, Japan 1980 [23] [22]
32YoneSakura
(Emi Sakura and Kaori Yoneyama (3))
July 19, 2009Pure–Slam 2009 Tokyo, Japan 11471 [24] [23]
33 Azumi Hyuga (6) and Ran Yu-Yu (6)December 13, 2009JWP–Climax 2009: 2nd Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan 2140This match was also contested for the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship. [24]
Vacated December 27, 2009JWP–Climax 2009: Azumi Hyuga Final Tokyo, Japan The title was vacated, after Hyuga retired from professional wrestling. [25]
34 Kazuki (3) and Toshie Uematsu (4)March 22, 2010Road to Maniax 2010 Osaka, Japan 11815 [26] Defeated Command Bolshoi and Megumi Yabushita in a tournament final to win the vacant championship. [27]
35 Aja Kong and Sachie Abe (3)September 19, 2010JWP Revolution 2010 Tokyo, Japan 1951 [28] [26]
36Harukura
(Kayoko Haruyama (4) and Tsubasa Kuragaki (3))
December 23, 2010JWP–Climax 2010 Tokyo, Japan 23252 [29] [28]
37Queens Revolution
(Hailey Hatred and Kaori Yoneyama (4))
November 13, 2011Road to JWP 20th 16 Tokyo, Japan 1570 [29]
Vacated January 9, 2012Hatred and Yoneyama were stripped of the title as punishment for Yoneyama canceling her announced plan to retire at the end of 2011. [30]
38Uematsu☆Ran
(Ran Yu-Yu (7) and Toshie Uematsu (5))
April 8, 2012JWP Tag League the Best 2012 Finals Tokyo, Japan 4141 [31] Defeated Hanako Nakamori and Misaki Ohata in the finals of the 2012 Tag League the Best to win the vacant championship. [3]
Vacated April 22, 2012JWP 20th Anniversary: Maniax 2012 Tokyo, Japan Title vacated after Uematsu wrestled her final JWP match before her retirement. [31]
39Tai-Pan Sisters/Reset
(Emi Sakura (2) and Kaori Yoneyama (5))
May 4, 2012JWP House Show Tokyo, Japan 21072 [32] Defeated Command Bolshoi and Rabbit Miu to win the vacant championship. [33]
40 Arisa Nakajima and Command Bolshoi (5)August 19, 2012Pure–Slam 2012 Tokyo, Japan 11402 [34] [32]
41Harukura
(Kayoko Haruyama (5) and Tsubasa Kuragaki (4))
January 6, 2013JWP 2013 Opener!! Tokyo, Japan 32242 [35] [34]
42Heart Move
(Hanako Nakamori and Morii)
August 18, 2013JWP–Pure Slam 2013 Tokyo, Japan 1700 [36]
Vacated October 27, 2013Title vacated due to Morii being sidelined with an injured right arm ever since the title win. [37]
43Jumonji Sisters
(Dash Chisako and Sendai Sachiko)
December 15, 2013JWP–Climax 2013 Tokyo, Japan 11170Defeated Leon and Ray in the finals of a four-team tournament to win the vacant championship. [38]
Vacated April 11, 2014Road to Kourakuen Tokyo, Japan Title vacated due to Sachiko being sidelined with a knee injury. [39]
44Wild Snufkin
(Command Bolshoi (6) and Kyoko Kimura)
May 4, 2014GW Itabashi 3Days Matsuri 2 Tokyo, Japan 12383 [40] Defeated Rabbit Miu and Tsukushi in a decision match to win the vacant championship. [41]
45Voladoras L×R
(Leon (2) and Ray)
December 28, 2014JWP–Climax 2014 Tokyo, Japan 12104 [42] [40]
46Jumonji Sisters
(Dash Chisako and Sendai Sachiko)
July 26, 2015Command☆Hurricane in Nagoya Nagoya, Japan 21541 [43] [42]
47Best Friends
(Arisa Nakajima (2) and Tsukasa Fujimoto)
December 27, 2015JWP–Climax 2015 Tokyo, Japan 12313 [44] [43]
48Zenryoku Batankyu
(Hanako Nakamori (2) and Kyoko Kimura (2))
August 14, 2016Pure–Plum 2016 Tokyo, Japan 11482 [12] [44]
49 Command Bolshoi (7) and Leon (3)January 9, 20172017-nen Kaimaku Sen!! Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan 1832 [9] [12]
DeactivatedApril 2, 2017JWP 25th Anniversary Tokyo, Japan The championship was retired when JWP Joshi Puroresu goes out of business. [2] [9]

Combined reigns

<1Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day

By team

RankTeamNo. of
reigns
Combined
defenses
Combined
days
1Harukura
(Kayoko Haruyama and Tsubasa Kuragaki)
37976
2YoneLeo
(Kaori Yoneyama and Toujyuki Leon)
13448
3 Devil Masami and Hikari Fukuoka14423
4 Cutie Suzuki and Dynamite Kansai 20408
5 Command Bolshoi and Rieko Amano/Carlos Amano 12391
6 Cutie Suzuki and Mayumi Ozaki 21339
7 Kaori Yoneyama and Kayoko Haruyama 12322
8 Command Bolshoi and Gami 12313
9Uematsu☆Ran
(Ran Yu-Yu and Toshie Uematsu)
44294
10Hikari Fukuoka and Tomoko Kuzumi 21291
11 Las Cachorras Orientales
(Etsuko Mita and Mima Shimoda)
13287
12Jumonji Sisters
(Dash Chisako and Sendai Sachiko)
21271
13 Devil Masami and Dynamite Kansai 10256
14YoneSakura/Tai-Pan Sisters/Reset
(Emi Sakura and Kaori Yoneyama)
23254
15Wild Snufkin
(Command Bolshoi and Kyoko Kimura)
13238
16Best Friends
(Arisa Nakajima and Tsukasa Fujimoto)
13231
17Hikari Fukuoka and Kaoru 11211
18Voladoras L×R
(Leon and Ray)
14210
19The☆Wanted!?
(Kazuki and Sachie Abe)
21196
20 Kazuki and Toshie Uematsu 15181
21 Akino and Tsubasa Kuragaki 11154
22 Misae Genki and Ran Yu-Yu 12153
23Zenryoku Batankyu
(Hanako Nakamori and Kyoko Kimura)
12148
24 Arisa Nakajima and Command Bolshoi 12140
25Zap
(Zap I and Zap T)
10129
26 Azumi Hyuga and Ran Yu-Yu 23120
27 Command Bolshoi and Megumi Yabushita 1098
28 Aja Kong and Sachie Abe 1195
29 Command Bolshoi and Leon 1283
30 Keito and Yumiko Hotta 1177
31Heart Move
(Hanako Nakamori and Morii)
1070
32Hikari Fukuoka and Mayumi Ozaki 1069
33Queens Revolution
(Hailey Hatred and Kaori Yoneyama)
1057
34 Cutie Suzuki and Devil Masami 1047
35 Kaoru Ito and Manami Toyota 1019
36 Azumi Hyuga and Kayoko Haruyama 1010
37 Azumi Hyuga and Command Bolshoi 10<1

By wrestler

RankWrestlerNo. of
reigns
Combined
defenses
Combined
days
1 Kayoko Haruyama 591,308
2 Command Bolshoi 7111,263
3 Tsubasa Kuragaki 481,130
4 Kaori Yoneyama 581,081
5Hikari Fukuoka56994
6 Cutie Suzuki 54794
7 Toujyuki Leon/Leon 38741
8 Devil Masami 34726
9 Dynamite Kansai 31664
10 Ran Yu-Yu 79567
11 Toshie Uematsu 59475
12 Tomoko Kuzumi/Azumi Hyuga 64421
13 Mayumi Ozaki 31408
14 Rieko Amano/Carlos Amano 12391
15 Kyoko Kimura 25386
16 Kazuki 36377
17 Arisa Nakajima 25371
18 Gami 12313
19 Sachie Abe 32291
20 Etsuko Mita 13287
Mima Shimoda 13287
22 Dash Chisako 21271
Sendai Sachiko 21271
24 Emi Sakura 23254
25 Tsukasa Fujimoto 13231
26 Hanako Nakamori 22218
27 Kaoru 11211
28 Ray 14210
29 Akino 11154
30 Misae Genki 12153
31 Kaoru Ito/Zap I 20148
32 Zap T 10129
33 Megumi Yabushita 1098
34 Aja Kong 1195
35 Keito 1177
Yumiko Hotta 1177
37 Morii1070
38 Hailey Hatred 1057
39 Manami Toyota 1019

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 The date of birth of Command Bolshoi is unknown, therefore, this stat might be inaccurate.

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Yasuko Kuragaki is a Japanese professional wrestler better known by the ring name Tsubasa Kuragaki. For most of her career, Kuragaki has worked for JWP Joshi Puroresu, becoming a one-time JWP Junior and two-time JWP Openweight Champion as a singles wrestler. As a tag team wrestler, she is best known as one half of the "Harukura" tag team with Kayoko Haruyama, with whom she has held the Daily Sports Women's and JWP Tag Team Championships three times each. She quit JWP in October 2013 to become a freelancer. She is currently working most notably for Oz Academy, where she is a former one-time Oz Academy Openweight Champion and a one-time Oz Academy Tag Team Champion.

The Tag League the Best was an annual professional wrestling tag team tournament, founded by All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW), which held it from 1985 to 2004. After the folding of AJW in 2005, the tournament was adopted by its one-time rival and later associate promotion, JWP Joshi Puroresu, which held it annually from 2011 to 2016.

The Natsu Onna Kettei Tournament was an annual professional wrestling tournament promoted by the JWP Joshi Puroresu promotion between 2009 and 2012. The name of the tournament was Japanese for "Summer Woman Determination Tournament" and as the name suggests, it was held during the summer. The tournament was contested in a single-elimination format, however, uniquely, every other tournament was for singles wrestlers and every other for tag teams of two wrestlers. Throughout the years, the tournament featured several outside participants, most notably from the Ice Ribbon promotion, with which JWP co-produced the 2012 "JRibbon" tournament. Kaori Yoneyama is the only wrestler to have won the tournament twice; once as a singles wrestler and once teaming with Command Bolshoi.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sachie Abe</span> Japanese professional wrestler

Yukie Abe better known by her ring name Sachie Abe is a Japanese retired professional wrestler best known for her tenure with the Japanese promotions JWP Joshi Puroresu and JDStar.

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