AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship
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The AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship is the premier tag team title in All Japan Pro Wrestling. As with the Triple Crown, it is a unified, indivisible championship. Some fans who do not recognize the title as a world title call it the Double Cup after the two cup-shaped trophies given to the winners in title matches.
Title history
| Wrestlers: | Reigns Together: | Date: | Place: |
| Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu | 1 | June 10, 1988 | Tokyo, Japan; Reigning PWF Tag Team Champions, defeated NWA International Tag Team Champions the Road Warriors to unify the titles. |
| Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy | 1 | July 29, 1988 | Takasaki, Japan |
| Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu | 2 | July 31, 1988 | Hakodate, Japan |
| Ashura Hara & Genichiro Tenryu | 1 | August 29, 1988 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu | 3 | August 30, 1988 | Osaka, Japan |
| Title declared vacant | November 30, 1988 | Tsuruta & Yatsu lose non-title bout to Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy | |
| Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy | 2 | December 13, 1988 | Tokyo, Japan; Defeat Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada in final of year's World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu | 4 | February 2, 1989 | Kansas City, KS |
| Stan Hansen & Genichiro Tenryu | 1 | July 11, 1989 | Sapporo, Japan |
| Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu | 5 | July 22, 1989 | Ishikawa, Japan |
| Stan Hansen & Genichiro Tenryu | 2 | October 20, 1989 | Nagoya, Japan |
| Title declared vacant | November 1989 | Hansen & Tenryu voluntarily vacate titles for the year's World's Strongest Tag Team League. | |
| Stan Hansen & Genichiro Tenryu | 3 | December 6, 1989 | Tokyo, Japan; Defeat Jumbo Tsuruta & Yoshiaki Yatsu in final of World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Terry Gordy & Steve Williams | 1 | March 6, 1990 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Jumbo Tsuruta & The Great Kabuki | 1 | July 19, 1990 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Title declared vacant | July 27, 1990 | Tsuruta and Kabuki split; Kabuki jumps to Super World of Sports | |
| Terry Gordy & Steve Williams | 2 | December 7, 1990 | Tokyo, Japan; Defeat Stan Hansen & Dan Spivey in final of World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Stan Hansen & Dan Spivey | 1 | April 18, 1991 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Terry Gordy & Steve Williams | 3 | June 6, 1991 | Yokosuka, Japan |
| Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuharu Misawa | 1 | July 24, 1991 | Kanazawa, Japan |
| Title declared vacant | November 1991 | Kawada & Misawa voluntarily vacate titles for the year's World's Strongest Tag Team League. | |
| Terry Gordy & Steve Williams | 4 | December 6, 1991 | Tokyo, Japan; Defeat Stan Hansen & Dan Spivey in final of World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Jumbo Tsuruta & Akira Taue | 1 | March 4, 1992 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Title declared vacant | December 1992 | Tsuruta hospitalized due to liver problems. | |
| Toshiaki Kawada & Mitsuharu Misawa | 2 | December 4, 1992 | Tokyo, Japan; Defeat Jun Akiyama & Akira Taue in final of World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Terry Gordy & Steve Williams | 5 | January 30, 1993 | Chiba, Japan |
| Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue | 1 | May 20, 1993 | Sapporo, Japan |
| Ted DiBiase & Stan Hansen | 1 | September 3, 1993 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Title declared vacant | November 1993 | DiBiase injures his neck and is forced to retire | |
| Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa | 1 | December 3, 1993 | Tokyo, Japan; Defeat Giant Baba & Stan Hansen in final of World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Title declared vacant | November 1994 | Kobashi & Misawa voluntarily vacate titles for the year's World's Strongest Tag Team League. | |
| Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa | 2 | December 10, 1994 | Tokyo, Japan; Defeat Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue in final of World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue | 2 | June 9, 1995 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Gary Albright & Stan Hansen | 1 | January 24, 1996 | Matsumoto, Japan |
| Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue | 3 | February 20, 1996 | Morioka, Japan |
| Jun Akiyama & Mitsuharu Misawa | 1 | May 23, 1996 | Sapporo, Japan |
| Johnny Ace & Steve Williams | 1 | September 5, 1996 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue | 4 | January 17, 1997 | Matsumoto, Japan |
| Johnny Ace & Kenta Kobashi | 1 | May 27, 1997 | Sapporo, Japan |
| Gary Albright & Steve Williams | 1 | July 25, 1997 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Johnny Ace & Kenta Kobashi | 2 | October 4, 1997 | Nagoya, Japan |
| Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue | 5 | January 25, 1998 | Yokohama, Japan |
| Jun Akiyama & Kenta Kobashi | 1 | January 7, 1999 | Kochi, Japan |
| Johnny Ace & Bart Gunn | 1 | June 9, 1999 | Sendai, Japan |
| Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama | 1 | July 23, 1999 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa | 1 | August 25, 1999 | Hiroshima, Japan |
| Jun Akiyama & Kenta Kobashi | 2 | October 23, 1999 | Nagoya, Japan |
| Big Van Vader & Steve Williams | 1 | February 20, 2000 | Kobe, Japan |
| Title declared vacant | April 2000 | Vader injures his arm during a Champion's Carnival tournament match against Mitsuharu Misawa | |
| Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue | 6 | June 9, 2000 | Tokyo, Japan; Defeat Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama in tournament final. |
| Title declared vacant | June 2000 | Kawada & Taue split; Taue jumps to Pro Wrestling NOAH | |
| Taiyo Kea & Johnny Smith | 1 | January 14, 2001 | Tokyo, Japan; Defeat Toshiaki Kawada & Masanobu Fuchi. |
| Yoji Anjo & Genichiro Tenryu | 1 | July 14, 2001 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Taiyo Kea & Keiji Mutoh | 1 | October 22, 2001 | Niigata, Japan; also hold IWGP World Tag Team Championship for a while |
| Brian Adams & Bryan Clark | 1 | July 17, 2002 | Osaka, Japan |
| Title declared vacant | October 2002 | Adams announces plans to become a professional boxer | |
| Taiyo Kea & Satoshi Kojima | 1 | December 6, 2002 | Tokyo, Japan; Defeat Shinjiro Ohtani & Masato Tanaka in final of World's Strongest Tag Team League. |
| Title declared vacant | January 2003 | Kea injured during title-winning match, unable to wrestle | |
| Arashi & Keiji Mutoh | 1 | June 8, 2003 | Yokohama, Japan; Defeat Satoshi Kojima & Jimmy Yang in tournament final. |
| Kaz Hayashi & Satoshi Kojima | 1 | January 18, 2004 | Osaka, Japan |
| Kendo Ka Shin & Yuji Nagata | 1 | June 12, 2004 | Nagoya, Japan |
| Title declared vacant | September 2004 | Ka Shin & Nagata stop competing for AJPW | |
| Taiyo Kea & Jamal | 1 | January 16, 2005 | Tokyo, Japan; Defeat New Japan Pro Wrestling representatives Yutaka Yoshie & Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the titles. |
Trivia
- The all-time record of reigns for a team is Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue with six.
- The all-time record of reigns for a foreign team is Terry Gordy & Steve Williams with five.
- Mixed Japanese-foreign teams to hold the belts include Stan Hansen & Genichiro Tenryu, Johnny Ace & Kenta Kobashi, Taiyo Kea & Keiji Muto, and Taiyo Kea & Satoshi Kojima.
- Kea & Muto are the only team to hold both the Double Cup and the IWGP World Tag Team Championship as well as the only team to hold both titles at the same time.
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