IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling promotion. "IWGP" is the acronym of NJPW's governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix. The title was introduced on August 8, 1998, at an NJPW live event. The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is one of two tag team titles contested for in NJPW; the IWGP Tag Team Championship is also sanctioned by NJPW. According to NJPW's official website, the Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is listed as the "IWGP Jr. Tag Class", while the IWGP Tag Team Championship is considered the "IWGP Heavyweight Class". The title is contested for by junior heavyweight wrestlers; the weight-limit for the title is per partner.
History
Title changes happen mostly at NJPW-promoted events. The [Motor City Machine Guns], a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling tag team, defeated then-champions No Limit on January 4, 2009, at Wrestle Kingdom III. Their reign lasted until July 5, 2009, when they were defeated by Apollo 55 at a live event. During that time, they had three successful defenses; two were held by TNA due to a pre-existing relationship and an agreement with NJPW. Their first defense in TNA, a rematch against No Limit, occurred on March 31, 2009, at the tapings of their weekly television program TNA Impact!. On April 19, 2009, they made their second, and last, defense in TNA at the Lockdown pay-per-view event in a Three Way Professional wrestling [tag team match types#Tornado tag team match|Tornado Tag Team] Six Sides of Steel cage match against No Limit and The Latin American Xchange.Reigns
Overall, there have been 79 reigns shared among 55 different wrestlers, who made up 44 different teams. The inaugural champions were Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa, who defeated Dr. Wagner Jr. and Koji Kanemoto on August 8, 1998, in the final of a tournament.Rocky Romero holds the record for most reigns by an individual wrestler at eight. The Young Bucks hold the record for the most by a team at seven. Gedo The [World Class Tag Team|and] Jado's combined four reigns add up to the most of any team at 960 days, and also hold the record for most total defenses at 15. Ryusuke Taguchi holds the records for most combined days and most total defenses by an individual wrestler, with 990 days and 17 defenses respectively across his seven reigns with four different partners. Apollo 55 hold the record for most defenses during a single reign at seven. Otani and Takaiwa's second reign is the longest in the title's history. Minoru at 348 days, and Prince Devitt's first reign is the shortest at 21 days.
Ichiban Sweet Boys are the current champions in their second reign as a team, but the third for Eagles and second for Fujita individually. They won the titles by defeating defending champions La Oscuridad, El Desperado and Kuukai, and List of [Bullet Club members#Sub-groups|Super Extremes] (Taiji Ishimori and Robbie X in a four-way tag team match at New Year Dash!! on January 5, 2026, in Tokyo, Japan.