The WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship was a tag team hardcore wrestling championship contested in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling from April 2000 until FMW closed in February 2002. The title was picked up by Big Japan Pro Wrestling that same month, and remained in that promotion until late 2005, when it moved to Kaientai Dojo until 2016.[1][2] There have been a total of 37 reigns and seven vacancies shared between 30 different teams consisting of 48 distinctive champions.
| WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
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| Details | |||||||||||
| Promotion | Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (2000-2002) Big Japan Pro Wrestling (2002-2003) Kaientai Dojo (2005-2016) | ||||||||||
| Date established | April 25, 2000 | ||||||||||
| Date retired | December 2016 | ||||||||||
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Title history
edit| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parentheses, if different |
| Days | Number of days held |
| <1 | Reign lasted less than a day |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||||
| Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling | ||||||||||
| 1 | Hideki Hosaka and Yoshinori Sasaki | April 25, 2000 | Night in Shibuya Backdraft Eve | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 57 | Defeated Kintaro Kanemura and Willie Takayama to become the inaugural champions. | [3] | ||
| 2 | The Samoans (Eddie Fatu and Matty Samu) |
June 21, 2000 | King of Fight 2000 tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 37 | [4] | |||
| 3 | Hideki Hosaka (2) and Yoshinori Sasaki (2) | July 28, 2000 | King of Fight 2000 II tour | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 55 | [5] | |||
| 4 | Gedo and Jado | September 21, 2000 | Flashover tour | Sapporo, Japan | 1 | 19 | This was a three-way ladder match, also involving Kintaro Kanemura and Ryuji Yamakawa. | [6] | ||
| 5 | Homeless Jimmy and Supreme | October 10, 2000 | Power Splash tour | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 33 | [7] | |||
| 6 | Hideki Hosaka (3) and Mammoth Sasaki (3) | November 12, 2000 | Deep Throat | Yokohama, Japan | 3 | 56 | Sasaki formerly held the title as Yoshinori Sasaki. | [8] | ||
| 7 | GOEMON and Onryo | January 7, 2001 | New Year Generation tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 47 | [9] | |||
| 8 | Kintaro Kanemura and Ryuji Yamakawa | February 23, 2001 | Cluster Battle tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 282 | [10] | |||
| 9 | Daisuke Sekimoto and Men's Teioh | December 2, 2001 | Ante Up | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 75 | This was a title vs. title match with Sekimoto and Teioh's BJW Tag Team Championship also on the line. | [10] | ||
| — | Vacated | February 15, 2002 | — | — | — | — | Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling officially closed on February 15, 2002 after holding its final event eleven days earlier. The title then moved to Big Japan Pro Wrestling. | [1] | ||
| Big Japan Pro Wrestling | ||||||||||
| 10 | Jun Kasai and The W*INGer | March 21, 2002 | Live event | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 72 | Defeated Daisuke Sekimoto and Men's Teioh to win the vacant titles. | [2] | ||
| — | Vacated | June 1, 2002 | — | — | — | — | The titles were vacated after Kasai left Big Japan Pro Wrestling. | [1] | ||
| 11 | Daikokubo Benkei and Abdullah Kobayashi | March 23, 2003 | Live event | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 7 | Defeated Mad Man Pondo and Shadow WX to win the vacant titles. | [1] | ||
| 12 | Ryuji Ito and Daisaku Shimoda | March 30, 2003 | Live event | Kanagawa, Japan | 1 | 30 | [2] | |||
| 13 | Hido and YOSHIYA | April 29, 2003 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 156 | [11] | |||
| — | Vacated | October 2, 2003 | Fuyuki Army live event | Takaoka, Japan | — | — | The title was vacated after this title defense and revived by Kaientai Dojo in 2005. | |||
| Kaientai Dojo | ||||||||||
| 14 | Apple Miyuki and YOSHIYA (2) | December 23, 2005 | Live event | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 103 | Defeated Shiori Asahi and Makoto Oishi to win the vacant titles. | [1] | ||
| 15 | Mike Lee, Jr. and Mr. X | April 5, 2006 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 28 | [2] | |||
| 16 | Shiori Asahi and Makoto Oishi | May 3, 2006 | Live event | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 32 | [2] | |||
| 17 | Taka Michinoku and TOMO Michinoku | June 4, 2006 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 34 | [2] | |||
| 18 | Apple Miyuki (2) and YOSHIYA (3) | July 8, 2006 | Club-K Super Another in Osaka | Osaka, Japan | 2 | 155 | [12] | |||
| 19 | Shiori Asahi (2) and Makoto Oishi (2) | December 10, 2006 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 455 | [2] | |||
| — | Vacated | March 9, 2008 | — | — | — | — | Asahi and Oishi were stripped of the title for not defending the title for nearly a year. | |||
| 20 | Apple Miyuki (3) and YOSHIYA (4) | April 13, 2008 | Club-K Super Evolution 7 | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 154 | Lastly eliminated Shiori Asahi and Makoto Oishi in a seven-team battle royal to win the vacant titles. | [13] | ||
| 21 | Boso Boy Raito and Boso Boy Left | September 14, 2008 | Club-K Super Downtown | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 20 | [14] | |||
| 22 | Saburo Inematsu and PSYCHO | October 4, 2008 | Club-K Super Outbreak | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 63 | This was a three-way match also involving KAZMA and MIYAWAKI. | [14] | ||
| 23 | Hardcore Kid Kojiro and YOSHIYA (5) | December 6, 2008 | Club-K Overthrow | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 151 | [15] | |||
| 24 | The Brahman Brothers (Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei) |
May 6, 2009 | Club-K Super Necessary... | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 315 | [16] | |||
| 25 | Yuji Hino and Saburo Inematsu (2) | March 17, 2010 | Club-K Shinkiba | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 368 | Also won the Strongest-K Tag Team Championship from Daigoro Kashiwa and Kengo Mashimo on April 2, 2010 at Super Evolution 8 in Tokyo. | [17][18] | ||
| 26 | Kengo Mashimo and Ryuichi Sekine | March 20, 2011 | Club-K Super It's Gonna Be... | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 42 | ||||
| 27 | Randy Takuya and Saburo Inematsu (3) | May 1, 2011 | GWSP6 | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 4 | ||||
| 28 | Kengo Mashimo and Ryuichi Sekine | May 5, 2011 | GWSP6 FINAL CLUB-K SUPER Necessary... | Chiba, Japan | 2 | 175 | ||||
| 29 | Kamui and Mammoth Sasaki (4) | October 27, 2011 | FREEDOMS | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 74 | ||||
| 30 | The Brahman Brothers (Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei) |
January 9, 2012 | FREEDOMS | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 33 | ||||
| 31 | Kamui (2) and Mammoth Sasaki (5) | February 11, 2012 | FREEDOMS | Osaka, Japan | 2 | 138 | ||||
| — | Vacated | June 28, 2012 | FREEDOMS | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | Sasaki vacated the title due to a neck injury. | |||
| 32 | Kengo Mashimo (3) and YOSHIYA (6) | September 19, 2012 | Club-K Super in Shinjuku Face | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 25 | ||||
| — | Vacated | October 14, 2012 | — | — | — | — | The titles were vacated due to YOSHIYA retiring from professional wrestling. | |||
| 33 | Bambi and Makoto | January 5, 2014 | Shinshun Tatakai Hajime 2014 | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 118 | Defeated Kaji Tomato and Yuki Sato, Kengo Mashimo and Saburo Inematsu, and Daigoro Kashiwa and Ricky Fuji in a four-way match to win the vacant titles. | |||
| 34 | Nasu Banderas and Ricky Fuji | May 3, 2014 | GWSP4 | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 344 | ||||
| 35 | Ryuichi Sekine (3) and Saburo Inematsu (4) | April 12, 2015 | Evolution 13 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 203 | This was a five-way match, also involving Daigoro Kashiwa and Teppei, Kunio Toshima and Yuma, and Jun Kasai and Kenji Fukimoto. | |||
| — | Vacated | November 1, 2015 | Club-K Super in Korakuen Hall | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | Saburo Inematsu vacated his half of the title under unknown circumstances. | [19] | ||
| 36 | Kotaro Nasu and Ryuichi Sekine (4) | November 1, 2015 | Club-K Super in Korakuen Hall | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 168 | This was a seven-team hardcore rumble, where Nasu and Sekine defeated Saburo Inematsu and Alexander Otsuka, Ayumu Honda and Tiran Shi Sha, Yuma and Douki, Yoshiaki Yasato and Yoshihiro Douguchi, Ricky Fuji and Men's Teioh, Hi69 and Toru Sugiura to become the new champions. | [20] | ||
| 37 | Magatsuki (Kunio Toshima and Yuma) |
April 17, 2016 | Club-K Super Evolution | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 228 | ||||
| — | Vacated | December 2016 | — | — | — | — | Toshima and Yuma split and Yuma leaves Magatsuki. | [21] | ||
Combined reigns
edit| † | Indicates the current champion |
|---|
| Rank | Team | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shiori Asahi and Makoto Oishi | 2 | 487 |
| 2 | Apple Miyuki and YOSHIYA | 3 | 412 |
| 3 | Yuji Hino and Saburo Inematsu | 1 | 368 |
| 4 | The Brahman Brothers (Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei) |
2 | 345 |
| 5 | Nasu Banderas and Ricky Fuji | 1 | 344 |
| 6 | Kintaro Kanemura and Ryuji Yamakawa | 1 | 282 |
| 7 | Magatsuki † (Kunio Toshima and Yuma) |
1 | 228-258 |
| 8 | Kamui and Mammoth Sasaki | 2 | 212 |
| 9 | Kengo Mashimo and Ryuichi Sekine | 2 | 211 |
| 10 | Ryuichi Sekine and Saburo Inematsu | 1 | 203 |
| 11 | Hideki Hosaka (3) and Mammoth Sasaki | 3 | 168 |
| Kotaro Nasu and Ryuichi Sekine | 1 | 168 | |
| 13 | Hido and YOSHIYA | 1 | 156 |
| 14 | Hardcore Kid Kojiro and YOSHIYA | 1 | 151 |
| 15 | Bambi and Makoto | 1 | 118 |
| 16 | Daisuke Sekimoto and Men's Teioh | 1 | 75 |
| 17 | Kamui and Mammoth Sasaki | 1 | 74 |
| 18 | Jun Kasai and The W*INGer | 1 | 72 |
| 19 | Saburo Inematsu and PSYCHO | 1 | 63 |
| 20 | GOEMON and Onryo | 1 | 47 |
| 21 | The Samoans (Eddie Fatu and Matty Samu) |
1 | 37 |
| 22 | Taka Michinoku and TOMO Michinoku | 1 | 34 |
| 23 | Homeless Jimmy and Supreme | 1 | 33 |
| 24 | Ryuji Ito and Daisaku Shimoda | 1 | 30 |
| 25 | Mike Lee, Jr. and Mr. X | 1 | 28 |
| 26 | Kengo Mashimo and YOSHIYA | 1 | 25 |
| 27 | Boso Boy Raito and Boso Boy Left | 1 | 20 |
| 28 | Gedo and Jado | 1 | 19 |
| 29 | Daikokubo Benkei and Abdullah Kobayashi | 1 | 7 |
| 30 | Randy Takuya and Saburo Inematsu | 1 | 4 |
By wrestler
edit| † | Indicates the current champion |
|---|
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YOSHIYA | 6 | 744 |
| 2 | Saburo Inematsu | 4 | 638 |
| 3 | Shiori Asahi | 2 | 487 |
| Makoto Oishi | 2 | 487 | |
| 5 | Apple Miyuki | 3 | 412 |
| 6 | Ryuichi Sekine | 4 | 385 |
| 7 | Mammoth/Yoshinori Sasaki | 5 | 380 |
| 8 | Yuji Hino | 1 | 368 |
| 9 | Brahman Kei | 2 | 345 |
| Brahman Shu | 2 | 345 | |
| 11 | Ricky Fuji | 1 | 344 |
| Nasu Banderas | 1 | 344 | |
| 13 | Kintaro Kanemura | 1 | 282 |
| Ryuji Yamakawa | 1 | 282 | |
| 15 | Kengo Mashimo | 3 | 242 |
| 16 | Kunio Toshima | 1 | 228-258 |
| Yuma | 1 | 228-258 | |
| 18 | Kamui | 2 | 212 |
| 19 | Hideki Hosaka | 3 | 168 |
| Kotaro Nasu | 1 | 168 | |
| 21 | Hido | 1 | 156 |
| 22 | Hardcore Kid Kojiro | 1 | 151 |
| 23 | Bambi | 1 | 118 |
| Makoto | 1 | 118 | |
| 25 | Daisuke Sekimoto | 1 | 75 |
| Men's Teioh | 1 | 75 | |
| 27 | Jun Kasai | 1 | 72 |
| The W*INGer | 1 | 72 | |
| 29 | PSYCHO | 1 | 63 |
| 30 | GOEMON | 1 | 47 |
| Onryo | 1 | 47 | |
| 32 | Eddie Fatu | 1 | 37 |
| Matty Samu | 1 | 37 | |
| 34 | Taka Michinoku | 1 | 34 |
| TOMO Michinoku | 1 | 34 | |
| 36 | Homeless Jimmy | 1 | 33 |
| Supreme | 1 | 33 | |
| 38 | Ryuji Ito | 1 | 30 |
| Daisaku Shimoda | 1 | 30 | |
| 40 | Mike Lee, Jr. | 1 | 28 |
| Mr. X | 1 | 28 | |
| 42 | Boso Boy Raito | 1 | 20 |
| Boso Boy Left | 1 | 20 | |
| 44 | Gedo | 1 | 19 |
| Jado | 1 | 19 | |
| 46 | Abdullah Kobayashi | 1 | 7 |
| Daikokubo Benkei | 1 | 7 | |
| 48 | Randy Takuya | 1 | 4 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e Tanabe, Hisaharu. "W.E.W. Hardcore Tag Team Title". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved September 10, 2007.
- ^ a b c d e f g "WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ "FMW Night in Shibuya Backdraft Eve" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ "FMW King of Fight 2000: Day 1" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ "FMW King of Fight 2000 II: Day 9" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ "FMW Flashover 2000: Day 6" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ "FMW Power Splash 2000: Day 4" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ "FMW Deep Throat" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ "FMW New Year Generation 2001: Day 1" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ a b "FMW Cluster Battle 2001: Day 10" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ "WEW April 29, 2003" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ "K-Dojo Club-K Super Another in Osaka" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ "K-Dojo Club-K Super Evolution 7" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ a b "K-Dojo Club-K Super Downtown 2008" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ "K-Dojo Club-K Overthrow" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ "K-Dojo Club-K Super Necessary..." (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ "K-Dojo Club-K Shinkiba" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ "K-Dojo Club-K Super Evolution 8" (in German). Cagematch. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ Dark angel (November 4, 2015). "K-Dojo: Results "Club-K Super in Korakuen Hall" - 01/11/2015 - 5 Titles in dispute". superluchas.com. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
- ^ Kaientai Dojo. "Korakuen Club-K Super/2015/11/01 Results". k-dojo.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved November 1, 2015.
- ^ Dark angel (November 4, 2015). "K-Dojo: Results "Club-K Super in Korakuen Hall" - 01/11/2015 - 5 Titles in dispute". superluchas.com. Retrieved May 31, 2021.