International Lightweight Tag Team Championship (Zero1)

The International Lightweight Tag Team Championship^[1] was a professional wrestling tag team championship in Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Zero1, contested exclusively among junior heavyweight (referred to by Zero1 as "lightweights", <100 kg (220 lb)) wrestlers.^[2] It was created as the NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship on December 26, 2003 when Ikuto Hidaka and Dick Togo defeated Naohiro Hoshikawa and Tatsuhito Takaiwa in a tournament final.^[3] This was during a time when Zero1 (then known as Pro Wrestling Zero-One) was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA); since Zero1 departed the NWA in late 2004, NWA did not recognize or sanction it, though it retained the NWA initials. The NWA began sanctioning the title again when Zero1 rejoined the NWA in 2011. Following Zero1's departure from the NWA that same year, NWA ceased sanctioning the title and the NWA initials were dropped. The championship was retired on December 25, 2020. During its existence it was one of two tag team titles in Zero1, along with the NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship, a championship typically contested among heavyweights. There were a total of 39 recognized individual champions and 28 recognized teams, who had a combined 31 official reigns.

International Lightweight Tag Team Championship
Details
Promotion	Pro Wrestling Zero1
Date established	December 26, 2003
Date retired	December 25, 2020
Other name
NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship
Statistics First champions Ikuto Hidaka and Dick Togo Most reigns As tag team: Takuya Sugawara and "brother" Yasshi, Isami Kodaka and Takumi Tsukamoto, and Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa (2 reigns) As individual: Takuya Sugawara and Ikuto Hidaka (7 reigns) Longest reign Ikuto Hidaka and Munenori Sawa (766 days) Shortest reign Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa (9 days)

Title history

Key

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
<1	Reign lasted less than a day
+	Current reign is changing daily

No.	Champion	Championship change			Reign statistics			Notes	Ref.
		Date	Event	Location	Reign	Days	Defenses
	(NWA) National Wrestling Alliance / Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1)
1	Ikuto Hidaka and Dick Togo	December 26, 2003	Rebel Z Tour	Tokyo, Japan	1	55	2	Defeated Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Naohiro Hoshikawa in a tournament final.
2	Low Ki and Leonardo Spanky	February 19, 2004	Embers Tour	Tokyo, Japan	1	106	2
3	Tomohiro Ishii and Tatsuhito Takaiwa	June 4, 2004	Ambitious Tour	Hachinohe, Japan	1	107	1
	Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1)
4	Kaz Hayashi and Leonardo Spanky (2)	September 19, 2004	New Whirlpool-1 Truth Tour	Tokyo, Japan	1	162	0
—	Vacated	February 28, 2005	—	—	—	—	—	Vacated due to a lack of title defenses.
5	Ikuto Hidaka (2) and Minoru Fujita	March 27, 2005	Shippu Jinrai Tour	Tokyo, Japan	1	516	9	Defeated Leonardo Spanky and Alex Shelley.
6	Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley)	August 25, 2006	Tenkaichi Jr.	Tokyo, Japan	1	590	3
7	Minoru Fujita (2) and Takuya Sugawara	April 6, 2008	Miracle Rocket ~2nd Impact~	Tokyo, Japan	1	119	1	This was also for Fujita and Sugawara's NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship.
8	Ikuto Hidaka (3) and Munenori Sawa	August 3, 2008	Fire Festival Tour	Tokyo, Japan	1	766	8
9	Takuya Sugawara (2) and Kaijin Habu Otoko	September 8, 2010	Euro Vintage Action Tour	Tokyo, Japan	1	333	4
	(NWA) National Wrestling Alliance / Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1)
10	Ikuto Hidaka (4) and Takafumi Ito	August 7, 2011	Fire Festival Tour	Tokyo, Japan	1	178	1
11	Takuya Sugawara (3) and Tsuyoshi Kikuchi	February 1, 2012	Zero1 Action	Tokyo, Japan	1	29 – 59	0
—	Vacated	March 2012	—	—	—	—	—
12	Jimmyz (Jimmy Susumu and Jimmy Kagetora)	April 24, 2012	Zero1 Over the Rainbow	Tokyo, Japan	1	124	2	Defeated the teams of Ikuto Hidaka and Craig Classic, and Takuya Sugawara and Mineo Fujita in a three-way match.
13	Takuya Sugawara (4) and Mineo Fujita	August 26, 2012	Yokohama Big Fireworks	Yokohama, Japan	1	22	0
14	Shawn Guinness and Frank David	September 17, 2012	Tenkaichi Jr.	Tokyo, Japan	1	556	1
	Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1)
—	Vacated	March 27, 2014	—	—	—	—	—	Vacated when David was unable to return to Japan for a title defense.
15	Billy Ken Kid and Tigers Mask	March 30, 2014	11th Yasukuni Shrine Festival	Tokyo, Japan	1	173	1	Defeated the teams of Ikuto Hidaka and Fujita "Jr." Hayato, and Mineo Fujita and Jason Lee, in a three-way match. Tigers Mask wrestled as Atsushi Maruyama after April 22, 2014.
16	Voodoo Murders (Takuya Sugawara (5) and "brother" Yasshi)	September 19, 2014	Tenkaichi Special	Tokyo, Japan	1	49	1
17	Shuji Kondo and Seiki Yoshioka	November 7, 2014	Kassen ~ Battle Zero1 vs. W1 Tour	Tokyo, Japan	1	114	1
18	Voodoo Murders (Takuya Sugawara (6) and "brother" Yasshi)	March 1, 2015	Zero1_Fourteen	Tokyo, Japan	2	206	2
19	Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa (2)	September 23, 2015	Go for Broke!	Tokyo, Japan	1	197	4
20	Dangan Yankees (Ikuto Hidaka (5) and Fujita "Jr." Hayato)	April 7, 2016	N/A	Tokyo, Japan	1	237	1
21	Isami Kodaka and Takumi Tsukamoto	November 30, 2016	Basara Common Destiny	Tokyo, Japan	1	39	2
22	Cavalry (Ryuichi Sekine and Ryota Nakatsu)	January 8, 2017	Basara Osaka Winter in Oyodo	Osaka, Japan	1	35	1
23	Isami Kodaka and Takumi Tsukamoto	February 12, 2017	Basara Tenka Fubu	Nagoya, Japan	2	18	0
24	Junior Saints (Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka)	March 2, 2017	New Zero1 Dream Series Birth of Team	Tokyo, Japan	1	71	2
25	Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa (3)	May 12, 2017	First Ever! Bob Sapp Current Blast!	Nagoya, Japan	2	9	0
26	Ikuto Hidaka (6) and Takuya Sugawara (7)	May 21, 2017	Shinsei Zero1 Dream Series ~ Growth	Tokyo, Japan	1	225	4
27	Masamune and Sugi	January 1, 2018	Kinga Shinnen	Tokyo, Japan	1	159	1
28	Fuminori Abe and Ikuto Hidaka (7)	June 9, 2018	Dream Series Tour	Tokyo, Japan	1	311	3
29	Kubota Brothers (Yasu Kubota and Hide Kubota)	April 16, 2019	Jump Up ~ Fly to the Future	Tokyo, Japan	1	166	2
30	Billy Ken Kid (2) and HUB (2)	September 29, 2019	Jump Up ~ Fly to the Future	Osaka, Japan	1	371	0	Hub previously held the title as Kaijin Habu Otoko.
31	Sugi (2) and Raicho	October 4, 2020	20th Anniversary Flame Festival ~ Fire Festival 2020	Osaka, Japan	1	82	0
—	Deactivated	December 25, 2020	—	—	—	—	—	Vacated when Sugi and Raicho leave the promotion; title abandoned.

Combined reigns

As of August 17, 2025.

By team

Record longest reigning champions at 766 days, Ikuto Hidaka and Munenori Sawa

†	Indicates the current champion

Rank	Team	No. of reigns	Combined defenses	Combined days
1	Ikuto Hidaka and Munenori Sawa	1	8	766
2	Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley)	1	3	590
3	Shawn Guinness and Frank David	1	1	556
4	Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita	1	9	516
5	Billy Ken Kid and HUB	1	0	371
6	Takuya Sugawara and Kaijin Habu Otoko	1	4	333
7	Fuminori Abe and Ikuto Hidaka	1	3	311
8	Voodoo Murders (Takuya Sugawara and "brother" Yasshi)	2	3	255
9	Ikuto Hidaka and Fujita "Jr." Hayato	1	1	237
10	Ikuto Hidaka and Takuya Sugawara	1	4	225
11	Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa	2	4	206
12	Ikuto Hidaka and Takafumi Ito	1	1	178
13	Billy Ken Kid and Tigers Mask	1	1	173
14	Kubota Brothers (Yasu Kubota and Hide Kubota)	1	2	166
15	Kaz Hayashi and Leonardo Spanky	1	0	162
16	Masamune and Sugi	1	1	159
17	Jimmyz (Jimmy Susumu and Jimmy Kagetora)	1	2	124
18	Minoru Fujita and Takuya Sugawara	1	1	119
19	Shuji Kondo and Seiki Yoshioka	1	1	114
20	Tomohiro Ishii and Tatsuhito Takaiwa	1	1	107
21	Low Ki and Leonardo Spanky	1	2	106
22	Sugi and Raicho †	1	0	82
23	Junior Saints (Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka)	1	2	71
24	Isami Kodaka and Takumi Tsukamoto	2	2	57
25	Ikuto Hidaka and Dick Togo	1	2	55
26	Cavalry (Ryuichi Sekine and Ryota Nakatsu)	1	1	35
27	Takuya Sugawara and Tsuyoshi Kikuchi	1	0	29-59
28	Takuya Sugawara and Mineo Fujita	1	0	22

By individual

Record most reigns at seven(tied with Takuya Sugawara) and longest reigning (with partner Munenori Sawa) as well as combined reigning champion Ikuto Hidaka

†	Indicates the current champion

Rank	Wrestler	No. of reigns	Combined days
1	Ikuto Hidaka	7	2,288
4	Takuya Sugawara	7	973
5	Munenori Sawa	1	766
6	Kaijin Habu Otoko/HUB	2	704
7	Minoru Fujita	2	635
8	Alex Shelley	1	590
	Chris Sabin	1	590
10	Frank David	1	556
	Shawn Guinness	1	556
12	Billyken Kid	2	371
13	Tatsuhito Takaiwa	3	313
14	Fuminori Abe	1	311
15	"brother" Yasshi	2	255
16	Sugi	2	241
17	Fujita "Jr." Hayato	1	237
18	Shinjiro Otani	2	206
19	Takafumi Ito	1	178
20	Tigers Mask/Atsushi Maruyama	2	173
21	Yasu Kubota	1	166
	Hide Kubota	1	166
23	Masamune	1	159
24	Leonardo Spanky	2	148
25	Jimmy Kagetora	1	124
	Jimmy Susumu	1	124
27	Seiki Yoshioka	1	114
	Shuji Kondo	1	114
29	Tomohiro Ishii	1	107
30	Low Ki	1	106
31	Raicho	1	82
32	Koji Kanemoto	1	71
	Minoru Tanaka	1	71
34	Isami Kodaka	2	57
	Takumi Tsukamoto	2	57
36	Dick Togo	1	55
37	Kaz Hayashi	1	42
38	Ryota Nakatsu	1	35
	Ryuichi Sekine	1	35
40	Mineo Fujita	1	22
41	Tsuyoshi Kikuchi	1	19

See also

• List of National Wrestling Alliance championships