The Iron Fist Tag Team Championship (Japanese: IRON FIST TAG王者, Hepburn: Aian Fisto Taggu Ōza) is a professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the Pro-Wrestling Basara promotion,[3] a former DDT Pro-Wrestling sub-brand before it became an independent promotion on January 1, 2020.[4]
| Iron Fist Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
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 The Iron Fist Tag Team Championship belts | |||||||||||
| Details | |||||||||||
| Promotion | Pro-Wrestling Basara | ||||||||||
| Date established | September 26, 2019[1] | ||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Astronauts (Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura) | ||||||||||
| Date won | June 21, 2024 | ||||||||||
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Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. The current title holders are Astronauts (Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura).
History
editOn October 4, 2019, DDT announced that the third edition of the Basara branded Iron Fist Tag Tournament would crown the first Iron Fist Tag Team Champions.[1] The finals of the tournament took place on October 23, 2019, and saw Iron Priest (Fuma and Yusuke Kubo) defeat Sento Minzoku (Daiki Shimomura and Isami Kodaka) to become the inaugural champions.[2]
Aijin Tag (Masato Kamino and Takato Nakano) were scheduled to defend the title against Trans-Am★Hiroshi and Antonio Honda at Basara 218 on May 13, 2023; however, Kamino was pulled from the event as he had suffered a knee injury on May 8.[5] Hiroshi and Honda instead faced Sento Minzoku (Daiki Shimomura and Minoru Fujita) to determine interim champions.[6] Sento Minzoku were victorious and served as interim champions until Basara 225 on July 23, where they defeated the lineal champions to determine the undisputed champions.[7]
On October 20, 2023, Daiki Shimomura was suspended for a year due to inappropriate conduct.[8] As a result, on the next day, the championship was vacated and the team of Shimomura and Minoru Fujita withdrawn from the Iron Fist Tag Tournament.[9] Basara then announced that the winners of the tournament would become the new champions. Harimau (Ryota Nakatsu and Kazusada Higuchi) were eventually victorious, defeating Takumi Tsukamoto and Sagat in the finals.[10]
Reigns
editAs of July 3, 2024, there have been 12 reigns shared among eight different teams consisting of 15 distinctive wrestlers, plus an interim reign, and one vacancy. The current champions are Astronauts (Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura) who are in their second reign both as a team and individually. They won the title by defeating Harimau (Ryota Nakatsu and Kazusada Higuchi) on June 21, 2024.
| 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 |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | |||||
| (DDT) DDT Pro-Wrestling: Pro-Wrestling Basara | ||||||||||
| 1 | Iron Priest (Fuma and Yusuke Kubo) | October 23, 2019 | Basara 109: Utage | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 91 | 2 | Defeated Sento Minzoku (Daiki Shimomura and Isami Kodaka) in a tournament final to become the inaugural champions. | [2][11][12] | |
| Pro-Wrestling Basara | ||||||||||
| 2 | Speed of Sounds (Banana Senga and Tsutomu Oosugi) | January 22, 2020 | Basara 117: Reborn | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 364 | 7 | [13][14] | ||
| 3 | Sento Minzoku (Isami Kodaka and Daiki Shimomura) | January 20, 2021 | Basara 146: 5th Anniversary | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 168 | 2 | [15][16] | ||
| 4 | Astronauts (Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura) | July 7, 2021 | Basara 162: Hoshiai no Sora | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 109 | 2 | [17] | ||
| 5 | Speed of Sounds (Banana Senga and Tsutomu Oosugi) | October 24, 2021 | Basara 173: Futō Fukutsu | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 317 | 6 | [18] | ||
| 6 | Aijin Tag (Masato Kamino and Takato Nakano) | September 6, 2022 | Basara 199: Kō | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 96 | 1 | [19] | ||
| 7 | Takumi Tsukamoto and Yasu Urano | December 11, 2022 | Basara 206: Ryūtō Kotō | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 51 | 0 | [20] | ||
| 8 | Sento Minzoku (Isami Kodaka and Daiki Shimomura) | January 31, 2023 | Basara 209: Kō | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 18 | 0 | [21] | ||
| 9 | Aijin Tag (Masato Kamino and Takato Nakano) | February 18, 2023 | Basara 211: Oji No Kitsune 24 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 155 | 2 | [22] | ||
| — | Sento Minzoku (Daiki Shimomura and Minoru Fujita) | May 13, 2023 | Basara 218: Takagari 17 | Tokyo, Japan | — | 71 | 0 | Defeated Trans-Am★Hiroshi and Antonio Honda to become the interim champions while Masato Kamino was out of action due to a knee injury. | [6] | |
| 10 | Sento Minzoku (Daiki Shimomura and Minoru Fujita) | July 23, 2023 | Basara 225: Sengun Banba | Tokyo, Japan | 1 (3, 1) | 90 | 3 | Defeated lineal champions Aijin Tag (Masato Kamino and Takato Nakano) to unify the title. This was also considered Shimomura and Fujita's first defense of the title in this reign. | [7] | |
| — | Vacated | October 21, 2023 | — | — | — | — | — | Title vacated due to Daiki Shimomura's one-year suspension. | [9] | |
| 11 | Harimau (Ryota Nakatsu and Kazusada Higuchi) | November 7, 2023 | Basara 235: Utage | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 227 | 4 | Defeated Takumi Tsukamoto and Sagat in the final of the 2023 Iron Fist Tag Tournament to win the vacant title. | [10] | |
| 12 | Astronauts (Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura) | June 21, 2024 | Basara 251: Utage | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 12+ | 0 | [23] | ||
Combined reigns
editAs of July 3, 2024.
| † | Indicates the current champions |
By team
edit| Rank | Team | No. of reigns | Combined defenses | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Speed of Sounds (Banana Senga and Tsutomu Oosugi) | 2 | 13 | 681 |
| 2 | Aijin Tag (Masato Kamino and Takato Nakano) | 2 | 3 | 251 |
| 3 | Harimau (Ryota Nakatsu and Kazusada Higuchi) | 1 | 4 | 227 |
| 4 | Sento Minzoku (Isami Kodaka and Daiki Shimomura) | 2 | 2 | 186 |
| 5 | Astronauts † (Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura) | 2 | 2 | 121+ |
| 6 | Iron Priest (Fuma and Yusuke Kubo) | 1 | 2 | 91 |
| 7 | Sento Minzoku (Daiki Shimomura and Minoru Fujita) | 1 | 3 | 90 |
| 8 | Takumi Tsukamoto and Yasu Urano | 1 | 0 | 51 |
By wrestler
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| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined defenses | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tsutomu Oosugi | 2 | 13 | 681 |
| Banana Senga | 2 | 13 | 681 | |
| 3 | Daiki Shimomura | 3 | 5 | 276 |
| 4 | Masato Kamino | 2 | 3 | 251 |
| Takato Nakano | 2 | 3 | 251 | |
| 6 | Kazusada Higuchi | 1 | 4 | 227 |
| Ryota Nakatsu | 1 | 4 | 227 | |
| 8 | Isami Kodaka | 2 | 2 | 186 |
| 9 | Fuminori Abe † | 2 | 2 | 121+ |
| Takuya Nomura † | 2 | 2 | 121+ | |
| 11 | Fuma | 1 | 2 | 91 |
| Yusuke Kubo | 1 | 2 | 91 | |
| 13 | Minoru Fujita | 1 | 3 | 90 |
| 14 | Takumi Tsukamoto | 1 | 0 | 51 |
| Yasu Urano | 1 | 0 | 51 |
See also
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References
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- ^ a b Pro-Wrestling Basara [@basarapw] (October 21, 2023). 現王者組のベルトは返上 [The belts of the current champions are vacated.] (Tweet) (in Japanese) – via Twitter.
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