as the IWGP Tag Team Champions on September 28, 2006 by NJPW. In 2009, The British Invasion defeated Team 3D on July 21, 2009 at a TNA television taping for the championship. Afterwards, NJPW released a statement announcing that they did not sanction the defense nor the title change, and as such did not recognize the reign. They continued to recognize Team 3D as the current champions and proclaimed that the next title defense would be by Team 3D and would be sanctioned by NJPW. On August 10, 2009, NJPW issued another press release stating that they were now recognizing The British Invasion of Brutus Magnus & Doug Williams as the current IWGP Tag Team Champions, making the reign official. Reigns Hiroyoshi Tenzan currently holds the record for most reigns by an individual wrestler, with twelve. Tenzan's combined twelve reign lengths add up to 1,988 days, which is the most of any champion. At seven reigns, the Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa) hold the record for most by a team. Tenzan & Masahiro Chono's combined five reign lengths add up to 1,010 days (the most of any team). At days, Bad Intentions' (Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson) only reign is the longest in the title's history. Keiji Mutoh & Shiro Koshinaka's only reign is the shortest, at six days. Currently, Bad Intentions' only reign has the most defenses, with ten. There are 20 reigns shared between 18 teams that are tied for the fewest successful defenses, with zero. Overall, there have been 97 reigns shared between 85 wrestlers. Bishamon (Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi) are the current champions in their second reign. They defeated FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) on January 4, 2022 at Wrestle Kingdom 17 in Tokyo, Japan References General Specific External links NJPW.co.jp New Japan Pro-Wrestling championships Tag team wrestling championships 1985 establishments in Japan