F-1 Tag Team Championship
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The F-1 Tag Team Championship(F-1タッグチャンピオンシップ, F-1 Taggu Chanpionshippu) was a title owned and promoted by the Wrestle-1 promotion. The title was originally created in 2006 in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), with the inaugural champions crowned on December 15, 2006. The "F" in F-1 stands for "fake". In Japanese the title's name includes the katakana term for "championship", Chanpionshippu(チャンピオンシップ), derived from the English language instead of the more common kanji term Ōza(王座) that was used in the name of the title when it was still owned by AJPW.
Being a professional wrestling championship, the title is won as a result of a match with a predetermined outcome. The last champions were Keiji Muto and Kannazuki.
History
The F-1 Tag Team Championship was an unofficial tag team title in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) that was not recognized by the promotion. It was more of a comedy title as matches were a mix of regular wrestling and impromptu standup comedy routines involving the wrestlers. It was created by Keiji Muto in December 2006, and he and comedian Kannazuki were the first to win the titles.
In May 2013, 11 wrestlers including Keiji Muto left AJPW, and established a new promotion, Wrestle-1. With the departure of its creator, the F-1 Tag Team Championship was abandoned.
On August 30, 2015 it was announced that the title was going to be revived and new champions would be crowned on October 9. At Wrestle-1 Tour 2015 Fan Appreciation Day, Muto and Kannazuki reunited to defeat Manabu Soya and Sugi-chan to win the titles for their second time, starting their first reign as the F-1 Tag Team Champions in Wrestle-1; however they never defended the title as Kannazuki stopped wrestling thereafter.
On February 29, 2020, Wrestle-1 announced that they would be closing down following their final event on April 1, thus deactivating all championship titles.
Reigns
| 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 |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) | |||||||||
| 1 | Keiji Muto and Kannazuki | December 15, 2006 | Fan Appreciation Day 2006 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 1,458 | 8 | Defeated Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Akimasa Haraguchi to become the inaugural champions. | |
| 2 | Ryota Hama and Koriki Choshu | December 12, 2010 | Fan Appreciation Day 2010 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 364 | 0 | ||
| 3 | Manabu Soya and RG | December 11, 2011 | Fan Appreciation Day 2011 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 370 | 0 | ||
| 4 | Kannazuki and Takao Omori | December 15, 2012 | Fan Appreciation Day 2012 | Morioka, Japan | 1 (2, 1) | 137 | 0 | ||
| — | Deactivated | May 1, 2013 | — | — | — | — | — | All Japan Pro Wrestling abandoned the title. | |
| Wrestle-1 (W-1) | |||||||||
| 5 | Keiji Muto and Kannazuki | October 9, 2015 | Wrestle-1 Tour 2015 Fan Appreciation Day | Tokyo, Japan | 2 (2, 3) | 1,636 | 0 | Defeated Manabu Soya and Sugi-chan, after the title was revived by Wrestle-1. Wrestle-1, however, considered this a new title and dubbed Keiji Muto and Kannazuki as the first champions. | |
| — | Deactivated | April 1, 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | Title retired when Wrestle-1 closed. |
By team
| Rank | Team | No. of reigns | Combined defenses | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keiji Muto and Kannazuki | 2 | 8 | 3,094 |
| 2 | Manabu Soya and RG | 1 | 0 | 370 |
| 3 | Ryota Hama and Koriki Choshu | 1 | 0 | 364 |
| 4 | Kannazuki and Takao Omori | 1 | 0 | 137 |
By wrestler
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined defenses | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kannazuki | 3 | 8 | 3,231 |
| 2 | Keiji Muto | 2 | 8 | 3,094 |
| 3 | RG | 1 | 0 | 370 |
| Manabu Soya | 1 | 0 | 370 | |
| 5 | Koriki Choshu | 1 | 0 | 364 |
| Ryota Hama | 1 | 0 | 364 | |
| 7 | Takao Omori | 1 | 0 | 137 |
Footnotes
External links
- (in Japanese)
- on YouTube (in Japanese)