The WEW Tag Team Championship is the top tag team championship in A-TEAM. It succeeded the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship that had previously been promoted from the Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) promotion. The was part of the Apache Pro Wrestling Army for very years.
Overview[]
In 1999 in FMW Koji Nakagawa and Gedo defeated Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda to win the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. Along with that FMW Commissioner Kodo Fuyuki sealed all the FMW titles and the belt was reshaped as the WEW Tag Champion.
Title History[]
| # | Tag Team (Individual Reigns) |
Team Reigns | Date | Location | Event | Length | Defenses | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gedo and Koji Nakagawa | 1 | June 13, 1999 | Okayama | FMW Making Of A New Legend - Day 1 | 71 Days | 1 | Defeated Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda to win the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. During their reign the title was renamed to WEW Tag Team Championship |
| 2 | Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Hisakatsu Oya | 1 | August 8, 1999 | Tokyo | FMW Goodbye Hayabusa II - Hayabusa Graduation Ceremony | 100 Days | 1 | |
| 3 | Mr. Gannosuke and H | 1 | December 1, 1999 | Osaka | FMW Making Of A New Legend VI - Day 1 | 86 Days | 1 | |
| 4 | Kyoko Inoue and Kodo Fuyuki | 1 | February 25, 2000 | Tokyo | FMW Cluster Battle 2000 - Day 5 | 36 Days | 0 | Kyoki Inoue is the first known women in Japanese wrestling history to win a men's championship in a promotion. |
| 5 | Gedo and Koji Nakagawa | 2 | April 1, 2000 | Yokosuka | FMW Golden Series 2000 - Day 3 | 147 Days | 1 | |
| — | Vacated | — | May 28, 2000 | — | — | — | — | Due to Nakagawa turn on Gedo following a six-man tag team match on May 28, 2000. |
| 6 | Gedo (3) and Jado | 1 | July 14, 2000 | Takamatsu | FMW King Of Fight 2000 II - Day 2 | 14 Days | 0 | Defeated H and Tetsuhiro Kuroda to win the vacant titles. |
| 7 | Masao Inoue and Yoshinobu Kanemaru | 1 | July 28, 2000 | Tokyo | FMW King Of Fight 2000 II - Day 9 | 86 Days | 0 | |
| 8 | Naomichi Marufuji and Tamon Honda | 1 | August 22, 2000 | Tokyo | NOAH One Night Navigation | 62 Days | 1 | Title change occurs in Pro Wrestling NOAH event. |
| 9 | Kodo Fuyuki (2) and Tetsuhiro Kuroda (2) | 1 | December 23, 2000 | Tokyo | Great Voyage 2000 | 15 Days | 0 | Title change occurs in Pro Wrestling NOAH event. |
| 10 | Masato Tanaka and Gedo (4) | 1 | January 7, 2001 | Tokyo | FMW New Year Generation 2001 - Day 1 | 40 Days | 1 | |
| — | Vacated | — | Febuary 21, 2001 | — | — | — | — | Vacated when both Tanaka and Gedo left FMW. |
| 11 | Goemon (3) and Onryo | 1 | May 5, 2001 | Kawasaki | FMW Kawasaki Legend 2001 | 123 Days | 2 | Defeated Nova and Super Crazy to win the vacant titles. |
| 12 | Mr. Gannosuke (2) and Mammoth Sasaki | 1 | September 5, 2001 | Sapporo | FMW Super Dynamism 2001 - Day 13 | 34 Days | 0 | |
| 13 | Hayabusa (2) and Tetsuhiro Kuroda (3) | 1 | October 9, 2001 | Tokyo | FMW Power Splash 2001 - Day 4 | 27 Days | 0 | |
| — | Vacated | — | November 5, 2001 | — | — | — | — | Vacated later in the month when Hayabusa injured himself in a match against Mammoth Sasaki and ended his wrestling career. |
| 14 | Mr. Gannosuke (3) and Mammoth Sasaki (2) | 2 | November 23, 2001 | Yokohama | FMW Scramble Survivor 2001 - Tag 7 | 0 Days | 0 | Defeated Biomonster DNA and Dr. Luther to win the vacant titles. |
| — | Vacated | — | November 23, 2001 | — | — | — | — | Gannosuke and Sasaki vacated titles immediately after winning it to be decided in 8-team tournament. |
| 15 | Tetsuhiro Kuroda (3) and Mr. Gannosuke (4) | 1 | December 21, 2001 | Tokyo | FMW Year End Sensation 2001 | 16 Days | 0 | Defeated Kintaro Kanemura and Mammoth Sasaki in a tournament final to win the vacated titles. |
| — | Vacated | — | January 19, 2002 | — | — | — | — | The titles vacated when Gannosuke injured on January 6 during six-man tag team match thirteen days later the titles were declared vacated. |
| 16 | Kodo Fuyuki (3) and The Sandman | 1 | Febuary 4, 2002 | Tokyo | House Show | 11 Days | 0 | Defeated Sabu and Tetsuhiro Kuroda to win the vacant titles. |
| — | Vacated | — | February 15, 2002 | — | — | — | — | The titles vacated when FMW closed. |
| 17 | Akarangers Gentaro and Takashi Sasaki |
1 | August 23, 2002 | Tokyo | House Show | 200 Days | 4 | Defeated Taka Michinoku and Hi69 to revive the titles in WEW. |
| 18 | Kintaro Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda (4) | 1 | March 11, 2003 | Tokyo | House Show | 55 Days | 0 | |
| — | Vacated | — | May 5, 2003 | — | — | — | — | Title vacated when WEW closed. |
| 19 | Tetsuhiro Kuroda (5) and Onryo (2) | 1 | March 12, 2005 | Chiba | Kintaro Kanemura Festival | ? Days | 0 | Defeated GENTARO and Takashi Sasaski to win the vacated titles. |
| — | Vacated | — | 2006 | — | — | — | — | Title vacated for unknown reasons. |
| 20 | Takashi Sasaki (2) and BADBOY Hido | 1 | August 6, 2006 | Tokyo | Apache Pro Beer Garden Pro-Wrestling - Day 6 | 49 Days | 0 | |
| 21 | Jun Kasai and Tomoaki Honma | 1 | September 24, 2006 | Tokyo | Apache Pro 3rd Anniversary | 137 Days | 1 | |
| 22 | Takashi Sasaki and The Winger | 1 | Febuary 8, 2007 | Tokyo | Apache Pro It Is Your Time | 12 Days | 0 | Defeated Kintaro Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda in 4-team tournament final where become to provisional champions when Kasai was injured and he can't wrestle in a 3-way against Winger and Sasaki and GENTARO and Hi69 but was officially recognized as the champions on February 19. |
| — | Vacated | — | Febuary 20, 2007 | — | — | — | — | Title vacated for unkown reasons. |
| 23 | Jun Kasai (2) and Jaki Numazawa | 1 | June 24, 2007 | Tokyo | Apache Pro Challenge | 91 Days | 1 | Defeated GENTARO and The Winger for the vacant titles. |
| 24 | GENTARO (2) and The Winger (2) | 1 | September 23, 2007 | Tokyo | Apache Pro Apache | 207 Days | 2 | |
| 25 | Tokyo Gurentai (Nosawa and Mazada) |
1 | April 17, 2008 | Tokyo | Tetsuhiro Kuroda Produce | 507 Days | 1 | |
| 26 | Kohei Sato and KAMIKAZE | 1 | September 6, 2009 | Osaka | House Show | 711 Days | 7 | |
| 27 | Kintaro Kanemura (2) and Tetsuhiro Kuroda (5) | 2 | August 18, 2011 | Tokyo | House Show | 41 Days | 0 | |
| 28 | HIROKI and Yusaku Obata | 1 | September 28, 2011 | Tokyo | House Show | 179 Days | 2 | |
| 29 | Bad Boy Manjimaru and Takeshi Minamino |
1 | March 25, 2012 | Tokyo | House Show | 32 Days | 0 | |
| 30 | Daisaku Shimoda and Kazushi Miyamoto | 1 | April 26, 2012 | Tokyo | House Show | 35 Days | 0 | |
| 31 | Kengo Nishimura and Tomohiko Hashimoto | 1 | May 31, 2012 | Tokyo | House Show | 113 Days | 0 | |
| 32 | Kotaro Nasu and Masato Shibata | 1 | September 21, 2012 | Tokyo | House Show | 22 Days | 0 | |
| 33 | Shiochi Ichimiya and Tomohiko Hashimoto (2) | 1 | October 13, 2012 | Tokyo | House Show | 274 Days | 1 | |
| 34 | Daisaku Shimoda (2) and Rikya Fudo | 1 | July 14, 2013 | Osaka | House Show | 119 Days | 0 | |
| 35 | Tadasuke and Tomohiko Hashimoto (3) | 1 | November 10, 2013 | Osaka | House Show | 301 Days | 0 | |
| 36 | Ryoji Sai and Tetsuhiro Kuroda (6) | 1 | September 7, 2014 | Osaka | House Show | 266 Days | 0 | |
| 37 | Kazushi Miyamoto (2) and Tomohiko Hashimoto (3) | 1 | May 31, 2015 | Tokyo | House Show | 245 Days | 0 | |
| 38 | MIKAMI and Rion Mizuki | 1 | January 31, 2016 | Tokyo | House Show | 105 Days | 0 | |
| 39 | Hi69 (2) and HASEGAWA | 1 | May 15, 2016 | Tokyo | Apache Pro Big Match In Spring! Kintaro Kanemura Retirement Tour Anniversary | 105 Days | 2 | |
| 40 | Kintaro Kanemura (3) and Tetsuhiro Kuroda (6) | 3 | August 28, 2016 | Tokyo | Kintaro Kanemura Retirement Tour - Day 4 | 35 Days | 0 | |
| 41 | Tomohiko Hashimoto (4) and Keisuke Okuda | 1 | October 2, 2016 | Tokyo | Apache Pro Wrestling Final Gong | 84
Days |
0 | |
| 42 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda (7) | 1 | December 25, 2016 | Tokyo | Apache Pro Wrestling Final Show | 112
Days |
0 | |
| 43 | Masashi Takeda and Tomohiko Hashimoto (5) | 1 | April 16, 2017 | Tokyo | A-TEAM Take Off | 115 Days | 0 | |
| 44 | Daisaku Shimoda (3) and Blue Shark | 1 | August 11, 2017 | Kumamoto | A-TEAM ～The Door to Tomorrow～ | 66 Days | 0 | |
| 45 | HASEGAWA (2) and Daisuke Ikeda | 1 | October 7, 2017 | Yokohama | Live Event | 246 Days | 4 | |
| 46 | Nobutaka Moribe and Tomohiko Hashimoto (6) | 1 | June 10, 2018 | Tokyo | Live Event | 196 Days | 0 | |
| 47 | Akira Jo and Raiden | 1 | December 23, 2018 | Tokyo | A-Team WEW Tag Team Titles League - Day 7 | 119 Days | 0 | |
| 48 | Keiichi Sato and Daisuke Ikeda (2) | 1 | April 21, 2019 | Tokyo | A-TEAM 2nd Anniversary | 161 Days | 1 | |
| 49 | Gajo and Tomohiko Hashimoto (7) | 1 | September 29, 2019 | Tokyo | Live Event | 161 Days | 0 | |
| 50 | GENTARO (3) and Nobutaka Moribe | 1 | March 8, 2020 | Tokyo | Live Event | 147 Days | 0 | |
| 51 | Bryan Ishizaka and Takumi Sakurai | 1 | August 2, 2020 | Tokyo | Live Event | 35 Days | 0 | |
| 52 | HASEGAWA (3) and MIKAMI (2) | 1 | September 6, 2020 | Tokyo | Live Event | 252 Days | 4 | |
| 53 | Joji Otani and Raiden (2) | 1 | May 16, 2021 | Tokyo | Live Event | 81 Days | 2 | |
| — | Vacated | — | August 5, 2021 | — | — | — | — | Title vacated for unkown reasons. |
| 54 | Daisaku Shimoda (4) and Iori | 1 | August 22, 2021 | Tokyo | Live Event | 35 Days | 0 | Defeated Hashinosuke and Raiden for the vacant titles. |
| 55 | Gajo (2) and Tomohiko Hashimoto (8) | 2 | September 26, 2021 | Tokyo | Live Event | 177 Days | 0 | |
| — | Vacated | — | March 22, 2022 | — | — | — | — | Title vacated for unkown reasons. |
| 56 | Raiden (3) and Takumi Sakurai (2) | 1 | March 27, 2022 | Tokyo | Live Event | 56 Days | 1 | Defeated Daisaku Shimoda and Tomohiko Hashimoto for the vacant titles. |
| 57 | Iori and Masahiro Sase | 1 | May 22, 2022 | Tokyo | Live Event | 70 Days | 1 | |
| 58 | Daisaku Shimoda (4) and Kosaku Tonosaki | 1 | July 31, 2022 | Tokyo | Live Event | 119 Days | 2 | |
| 59 | Super Tiger and Tomohiko Hashimoto (9) | 1 | November 27, 2022 | Tokyo | HASEGAWA Debut 9th Anniversary | 509+ | 1 |
Gallery[]
Mr. Gannosuke and H
Mr. Gannosuke and Tetsuhiro Kuroda
Takashi Sasaki and GENTARO
Jun Kasai and Jaki Numazawa
Kazushi Miyamoto and Tomohiko Hashimoto
Kintaro Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda
MIKAMI and Rion Mizuki
Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Masashi Takeda and Tomohiko Hashimoto
HASEGAWA and Daisuke Ikeda
Nobutaka Moribe and Tomohiko Hashimoto