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Japanese professional wrestler

Gedo
Gedo in March 2017
Birth name	Keiji Takayama (高山圭司, Takayama Keiji)
Born	(1969-02-20) February 20, 1969 (age 55) Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Bulldog K.T. C.T.U Ranger Green Crush Gedo
Billed height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Billed weight	86 kg (190 lb)
Trained by	NJPW Dojo
Debut	March 19, 1989

Keiji Takayama (高山圭司, Takayama Keiji, born February 20, 1969) is a Japanese professional wrestler, manager and booker signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) under the ring name Gedo (外道, Gedō). Gedo has been the main booker of NJPW since the early 2010s. As a wrestler, Gedo is best known for his tag team work with partner Jado, forming a very successful tag team from 1990 through the mid-2010s.

Alongside his backstage work, Gedo is also an on-screen character in NJPW, working as a manager for the villainous Bullet Club faction and its seventh and current leader David Finlay. Prior to this, he was the manager of Chaos, Kazuchika Okada (Chaos's former second leader) and Jay White (Bullet Club's former fifth leader). Jado and Gedo have won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship four times, the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship one-time, BJW Tag Team Championship and several other tag team championships. Gedo is an eight-time recipient of the Best Booker award from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Professional wrestling career

Early career (1989-2001)

Gedo debuted on March 19, 1989, for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) during the Takeshi Puroresu Gundan (TPG), NJPW's parody of World Wrestling Federation's Rock 'n Wrestling era. His debut match was against Magic Monkey Wakita, who would later be known as Super Delfin, on March 19, 1989. After TPG died out, Gedo, Wakita, and TPG comrade Jado left NJPW. Jado and Gedo went on to become one of the premiere tag teams in Japan.

Jado and Gedo headed to the Universal Wrestling Association in Mexico as Punish (Jado) and Crush (Gedo), and defeated Silver King and El Texano for the UWA/UWF Intercontinental Tag Team Championship on November 8, 1991. They would win these belts on two more occasions in 1992. This led to their many tours with W*NG and were a part of the incident where Kanemura was burnt. Jado and Gedo headed to Wrestling and Romance in 1994 and became one of the top tag teams there, forming a group with Kodo Fuyuki called Fuyuki-Gun. Gedo had the distinction of becoming the first title holder of all of WAR's titles as Fuyuki-Gun were the inaugural holders of the WAR World Six-Man Tag Team Championship, which they won five times while Gedo was also the inaugural International Junior Heavyweight Champion and the inaugural International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion with Lion Do.

Gedo, with the addition of being an accomplished tag team wrestler, was also one of the top junior heavyweights in Japan in the first half of the 1990s. Gedo reached the semi-finals of the 1994 Super J-Cup where he would lose to Wild Pegasus. Gedo was in the 1995 Super J-Cup and reached the finals, losing to Jushin Thunder Liger in his fourth match of the night. Gedo won his first singles title when he defeated Lionheart in a tournament final to become the inaugural International Junior Heavyweight Champion on March 26, 1995. Gedo would win this belt again, defeating Último Dragón for it.

Jado and Gedo left WAR, which was declining, and headed to Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, one of Japan's top independent promotions. Gedo, with Jado and Kodo Fuyuki, won the FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship, defeating the Headhunters and Hisakatsu Oya on March 21, 1997. It was also in 1997 that Gedo toured North America, appearing at the 1997 WCW Halloween Havoc show wrestling Chris Jericho, and winning the CRMW North American Mid-Heavyweight Championship defeating Ricky Fuji on August 31, 1997. During the Halloween Havoc show, Mike Tenay called Gedo the Dusty Rhodes of Japan. He further said that Gedo was a fan of 1970s U.S. Southern style brawling.

New Japan Pro-Wrestling

Tag team success, Great Bash Heel and Chaos (2001–2011)

Gedo won the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship not with Jado but with Koji Nakagawa when they defeated Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda on June 13, 1999. Gedo would leave FMW in 2001 along with Masato Tanaka, Jado, Hideki Hosaka, and Kaori Nakayama with the group becoming freelancers with Gedo mostly working in Michinoku Pro. Gedo along with Jado would eventually return to New Japan and win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship when they defeated Jyushin Thunder Liger and El Samurai on July 20, 2001. Gedo had a fierce rivalry with Liger after Jado and Gedo made a surprise appearance in NJPW when they both pulled Liger's mask off. Jado and Gedo won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight belts for a second time in 2003 after again defeating Liger and Samurai. In 2007, Gedo was offered a contract by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), but turned it down because he would have been required to portray a stereotypical Japanese character. In July 2007, Gedo and Jado joined the Great Bash Heel (GBH) faction. The tag team would compete in the 2007 G1 Tag League, but failed to win, with a final tally of 6 points. In April 2009 Gedo and Jado left GBH and became founding members of the Chaos stable. On November 13, 2010, Jado and Gedo returned to the top of New Japan's Junior Tag Team division by defeating their Chaos team mates Davey Richards and Rocky Romero in the finals of a five-day-long tournament to win the 2010 Super J Tag League. As a result of their victory, Gedo and Jado received a match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, which took place at a Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) event on December 26, 2010, where they were defeated by the defending champions, the Golden☆Lovers (Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi). At the end of 2011, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter named Gedo and Jado the bookers of the year. They have won the award three more times since then.

Main booker and manager (2013–2018)

On July 5, 2013, Gedo received his first shot at the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship in nearly a decade as he attempted to stop Prince Devitt from earning a shot at Okada's IWGP Heavyweight Championship. Gedo, however, failed in his challenge and Devitt advanced to the match with Okada. On November 1, Gedo and Jado received their first shot at the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in three years, but were defeated by the defending champions, Suzuki-gun (Taichi and Taka Michinoku).

In early 2015, Gedo became the primary booker of New Japan, when Jado took over as the new booker of Pro Wrestling Noah.

Defection to Bullet Club (2018-present)

Pro Wrestling Noah (2016)

On June 12, 2016, Gedo made a surprise appearance at a Pro Wrestling Noah event. He reunited with Jado to unsuccessfully challenge Atsushi Kotoge and Daisuke Harada for Noah's GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in a three-way match, also involving Taichi and Taka Michinoku. On October 8, Gedo and Jado defeated Kotoge and Harada to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. They lost the title back to Kotoge and Harada on December 24.

Championships and accomplishments

Big Japan Pro Wrestling
- BJW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jado
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling / World Entertainment Wrestling
- FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Koji Nakagawa
- FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Kodo Fuyuki and Jado
- WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jado
- WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship (5 times) – with Kodo Fuyuki and Koji Nakagawa (1), Koji Nakagawa and Jado (2), Jado and Kaori Nakayama (1), and Jado and Masato Tanaka (1)
- WEW Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Koji Nakagawa (1), Kodo Fuyuki (1) and Masato Tanaka (1)
- WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship Tournament (1999) - with Kodo Fuyuki and Gedo
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Jado
- DREAM* Win Jr. Tag Team Tournament (2002) – with El Samurai
- Super J Tag League (2010) – with Jado
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- Ranked No. 121 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2006
Pro Wrestling Noah
- GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jado
Tokyo Sports
- Best Tag Team Award (2001) – with Jado
Toryumon X
- UWA World Trios Championship (1 time) – with Jado and Katsushi Takemura
Universal Wrestling Association
- UWA/UWF Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Punish (2), Pat Tanaka (1) and Dick Togo (1)
Wrestle Association "R"
- WAR International Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Lion Do
- WAR World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (5 times) – with Hiromichi Fuyuki and Jado
- WAR World Six-Man Tag Team Championship Tournament (1994) - with Hiromichi Fuyuki and Jado
- WAR International Junior Heavyweight Championship Tournament (1995)
- WAR International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Tournament (1996) – with Lion Do
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- Best Booker (2011–2014) – with Jado
- Best Booker (2016–2019)
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2019)

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External links

Gedo's New Japan Pro-Wrestling profile
Gedo's profile at Cagematch.net

Links to related articles

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1990s	Kengo Kimura and Takashi Ishikawa Ryuji Yamakawa and Yoshihiro Tajiri Gedo and Jado Shadow Winger and Shadow WX Ryuji Yamakawa and Shoji Nakamaki Shadow WX and Tomoaki Honma Mike Samples and Ryuji Yamakawa Kamikaze and Shunme Matsuzaki
2000s	Ryuji Yamakawa and Tomoaki Honma John Zandig and Nick Gage The H8 Club (Justice Pain and The Wifebeater) Ryuji Yamakawa and Shadow WX Abdullah Kobayashi and Kamikaze Daisuke Sekimoto and Men's Teioh Abdullah Kobayashi and Daikokubo Benkei Badboy Hido and Ryuji Ito Men's Teioh and Mr. Big Japan Abdullah Kobayashi and Jaki Numazawa Gentaro and Takashi Sasaki Abdullah Kobayashi and Daisuke Sekimoto Mammoth Sasaki and Shadow WX Daisuke Sekimoto and Yoshihito Sasaki Kengo Mashimo and Madoka Daisuke Sekimoto and Mammoth Sasaki Isami Kodaka and Masashi Takeda Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi) Shinya Ishikawa and Yoshihito Sasaki
2010s	045 Junkies (Jaki Numazawa and Jun Kasai) Brahman Brothers (Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu) Yankii Nichokenju (Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto) Shinobu and Yoshihito Sasaki Shigehiro Irie and Shuji Ishikawa Shinobu and Yuji Okabayashi Twin Towers (Kohei Sato and Shuji Ishikawa) Hamakami (Hideyoshi Kamitani and Ryota Hama) Abdullah Kobayashi and Ryuji Ito Crazy Lovers (Masashi Takeda and Takumi Tsukamoto) Yasufumi Nakanoue and Ryota Hama Daisuke Sekimoto and The Bodyguard Daisuke Sekimoto and Kohei Sato
2020s	Astronauts (Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura) Kazumi Kikuta and Ryuichi Kawakami Okami (Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani) Hideyoshi Kamitani and Isami Kodaka Masaya Takahashi and Sagat Dale Patricks and Madman Pondo (current)

Bullet Club

Current

Ace Austin Bad Luck Fale Chase Owens Chris Bey Kenta Robbie X Taiji Ishimori
BC War Dogs	Clark Connors David Finlay Drilla Moloney Gabe Kidd Gedo Jake Lee Sanada
House of Torture	Dick Togo Evil Jack Perry Ren Narita Sho Yoshinobu Kanemaru Yujiro Takahashi

Former

Bullet Club Latinoamerica	El Terrible La Comandante Rey Bucanero

Part-time	Amber Gallows Brandi Rhodes Jeff Jarrett King Haku Mephisto Scott D'Amore Scott Norton Stephen Amell

Chaos

Current

Former

Bad Intentions	Giant Bernard Karl Anderson
Best Friends	Chuck Taylor Trent Beretta
Briscoe Brothers	Jay Briscoe Mark Briscoe
Forever Hooligans	Alex Koslov
Jado & Gedo	Jado Gedo
No Limit	Tetsuya Naito Yujiro Takahashi
No Remorse Corps	Davey Richards
Roppongi 3K	Sho

FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Champions

Atsushi Onita and Tarzan Goto
Sabu and Horace Boulder
Tarzan Goto and Grigory Verichev
Team Canada (Big Titan and The Gladiator)
Mr. Pogo and Hisakatsu Oya
Atsushi Onita and Mitsuhiro Matsunaga
W*ING Alliance (Mr. Pogo and The Gladiator)
Atsushi Onita and Mr. Gannosuke
W*ING Alliance (Mr. Pogo and Yukihiro Kanemura)
Love Guns (Ricky Fuji and Hisakatsu Oya)
Daisuke Ikeda and Yoshiaki Fujiwara
Lethal Weapon (Hisakatsu Oya and Horace Boulder)
Faces of Dead (Super Leather and Jason the Terrible)
The Headhunters (A and B)
W*ING Alliance (W*ING Kanemura and Hido)
ZEN (Atsushi Onita and Yukihiro Kanemura)
Team No Respect/The New Footloose (Mr. Gannosuke and Yukihiro Kanemura)
Team No Respect (Kodo Fuyuki and Hido)
Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka
Team No Respect (Kodo Fuyuki and Yukihiro Kanemura)
Hayabusa and Daisuke Ikeda
Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda
Koji Nakagawa and Gedo

FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Champions

Original FMW

Puerto Rican Army (Headhunter A, Headhunter B and Super Leather)
Koji Nakagawa, Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda
Funk Masters of Wrestling (Headhunter A, Headhunter B and Hisakatsu Oya)
Fuyuki-Gun (Kodo Fuyuki, Jado and Gedo)
Funk Masters of Wrestling (Hisakatsu Oya, Mr. Gannosuke and The Gladiator)
Hayabusa, Koji Nakagawa and Masato Tanaka
ZEN (Atsushi Onita, Hido and Tetsuhiro Kuroda)
Hayabusa, Hisakatsu Oya and Masato Tanaka
Team No Respect (Jado, Mr. Gannosuke and Yukihiro Kanemura)
ZEN (Atsushi Onita, Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda)
Team No Respect (Hido, Kodo Fuyuki and Yukihiro Kanemura)
Team No Respect (Kodo Fuyuki, Koji Nakagawa and Yukihiro Kanemura)

Resurrected FMW

Atsushi Onita, Hideki Hosaka and Masato Tanaka
Raijin Yaguchi, Tomohiko Hashimoto and W*ING Kanemura
Atsushi Onita, Hideki Hosaka and Sean Guinness

v t e IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions
1990s	Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa Dr. Wagner Jr. and Kendo Kashin The Great Sasuke and Jushin Thunder Liger
2000s	Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka El Samurai and Jyushin Thunder Liger Jado and Gedo Jyushin Thunder Liger and Minoru Tanaka Tsuyoshi Kikuchi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru Jyushin Thunder Liger and Koji Kanemoto American Dragon and Curry Man Koji Kanemoto and Wataru Inoue Hirooki Goto and Minoru El Samurai and Ryusuke Taguchi Dick Togo and Taka Michinoku Prince Prince/RISE (Minoru and Prince Devitt) Legend (Akira and Jyushin Thunder Liger) No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro) Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi)
2010s	El Samurai and Koji Kanemoto Golden☆Lovers (Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi) No Remorse Corps/Chaos (Davey Richards and Rocky Romero) Jyushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask Forever Hooligans/Chaos (Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero) Time Splitters (Alex Shelley and Kushida) Suzuki-gun (Taichi and Taka Michinoku) The Young Bucks/Bullet Club (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) Roppongi Vice/Chaos (Beretta and Rocky Romero) Matt Sydal and Ricochet Suzuki-gun (Taichi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) Funky Future/Taguchi Japan (Ricochet and Ryusuke Taguchi) Roppongi 3K/Chaos (Sho and Yoh) Suzuki-gun (El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) Los Ingobernables de Japón (Bushi and Shingo Takagi) Bullet Club's Cutest Tag Team (El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori)
2020s	Flying Tiger (Robbie Eagles and Tiger Mask) Six Or Nine (Ryusuke Taguchi and Master Wato) Catch 2/2 (TJP and Francesco Akira) Intergalactic Jet Setters (Kushida and Kevin Knight) (current) Bullet Club War Dogs (Drilla Moloney and Clark Connors)

Tenryu Project International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship

WAR
(1996–2000)

Fuyuki-gun (Gedo and Lion Do)
Lance Storm and Yuji Yasuraoka
Jushin Thunder Liger and El Samurai
Choden Senshi Battle Ranger and Masaaki Mochizuki
Masashi Aoyagi and Gokuaku Umibozu
Tomohiro Ishii and Yuji Yasuraoka
Masakazu Fukuda and Hiroyoshi Kotsubo
Shinjiro Otani and Tatsuhito Takaiwa

Dragon Gate
(2006–2007)

Don Fujii and Masaaki Mochizuki
Jado & Gedo
Typhoon (Ryo Saito and Susumu Yokosuka)
Tozawa-juku (Kenichiro Arai and Taku Iwasa)

Tenryu Project
(2010–2015,
2021–)

Black Tiger V and Masao Orihara
Diamond Ring (Katsuhiko Nakajima and Satoshi Kajiwara)
Hiroki and Masao Orihara
Joker (Gamerasu and Kuuga)
Hattoshite Good (Kenichiro Arai and Shota)
Hikaru Sato and Keita Yano
Naoki Tanizaki and Yusuke Kodama (current)
Kenichiro Arai and Rey Paloma
Oji Shiiba and Takuro Niki
Keita Yano and Yuya Susumu

Other champions
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New Japan Pro-Wrestling personnel

Wrestlers

Heavyweight	Bad Dude Tito Bad Luck Fale Boltin Oleg Chase Owens David Finlay Dax Harwood El Phantasmo Evil Fred Rosser Gabe Kidd Great-O-Khan Henare Hikuleo Hirooki Goto Hiroshi Tanahashi Hiroyoshi Tenzan Jeff Cobb Jon Moxley Jorel Nelson Juice Robinson Katsuyori Shibata Kenta Kenny Omega Lance Archer Mikey Nicholls Minoru Suzuki Ren Narita Royce Isaacs Ryohei Oiwa Sanada Satoshi Kojima Shane Haste Shingo Takagi Shota Umino Taichi Tetsuya Naito Togi Makabe Tom Lawlor Tomoaki Honma Tomohiro Ishii Toru Yano Yoshi-Hashi Yota Tsuji Yuji Nagata Yujiro Takahashi Yuya Uemura Zack Sabre Jr.
Junior heavyweight	Alex Zayne Bushi Chris Bey Clark Connors Dick Togo The DKC Douki Drilla Moloney El Desperado Francesco Akira Gedo Hiromu Takahashi Jado Kevin Knight Kosei Fujita Kushida Lio Rush Mascara Dorada Master Wato Robbie Eagles Rocky Romero Ryusuke Taguchi Sho Taiji Ishimori Taka Michinoku Tiger Mask Titán TJP Volador Jr. Wheeler Yuta Yoh Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Young Lions	Oskar Leube
Women's division	Mayu Iwatani Mercedes Moné

Staff

Stables and tag teams

v t e Team No Respect
Kodo Fuyuki Mr. Gannosuke Kintaro Kanemura Hido Jado Gedo Masao Orihara Super Leather Horace Boulder Hideki Hosaka Tetsuhiro Kuroda Koji Nakagawa Shoichi Arai

v t e UWA World Trios Champions
1980s	Los Fantásticos (Black Man, Kung Fu and Kato Kung Lee) Los Misioneros de la Muerte (Negro Navarro, El Signo and El Texano) Los Brazos (El Brazo, Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata) Los Villanos (Villano I, Villano IV and Villano V) El Triángulo de la Muerte (Kahoz, Rambo and Zandokan)
1990s	The Hawaiian Beasts (Fatu, Great Kokina and The Samoan Savage) Los Misioneros de la Muerte (Black Power II, Negro Navarro and El Signo) El Engendro, Shu El Guerrero and Scorpio Jr. Los Misioneros de la Muerte (Negro Navarro, Rocky Santana and El Signo) Shu El Guerrero, Scorpio Jr. and Villano V
2000s	Crazy-Max (Cima, Suwa and Big Fuji) M2K (Darkness Dragon, Yasushi Kanda and Susumu Mochizuki) Dragon Kid, Magnum Tokyo and Ryo Saito M2K (Darkness Dragon, Masaaki Mochizuki and Susumu Mochizuki) Italian Connection (Milano Collection A. T., Yossino and "brother" Yasshi) Do Fixer (Genki Horiguchi, Ryo Saito and Susumu Yokosuka) Shin M2K (Kenichiro Arai, Dragon Kid and Masaaki Mochizuki) Italian Connection (Milano Collection A. T., Condotti Shuji and Yossino) Hagure Gundam/Aagan Iisou (Toru Owashi, Condotti Shuji and Yassini) Kenichiro Arai, Dragon Kid and Second Doi Gedo, Jado and Katsushi Takemura Los Salseros Japoneses (Takayasu Fukuda, Pineapple Hanai and Takeshi Minamino) Hell's Demons (Takuya Sugawara, Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei) Nobutaka Araya, Toru Owashi and Takuya Sugawara The Italian Four Horsemen (Francesco Togo, Piza Michinoku and Antonio Honda) Belt Hunter×Hunter (Danshoku Dino, Hikaru Sato and Masa Takanashi)
2010s	Tokyo Gurentai (Fujita, Mazada and Nosawa Rongai) Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada and Takoyakida Ebessan (III), Kanjyuro Matsuyama and Kuishinbo Kamen Hikaru Sato, Keisuke Ishii and Yoshihiko Great Kojika, Mr. #6 and Riho Shit Heart♥Foundation (Hikaru Sato, Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga) Disaster-Box (Harashima, Toru Owashi and Yukihiro Abe) Jackets (Jiro Kuroshio, Seiki Yoshioka and Yasufumi Nakanoue) Real Desperado (Kazma Sakamoto, Koji Doi and Nosawa Rongai) Kaz Hayashi, Minoru Tanaka and Tajiri Andy Wu, Daiki Inaba and Seiki Yoshioka Jun Kasai, Nosawa Rongai and Shuji Kondo New Era (Daiki Inaba, Kohei Fujimura and Yusuke Kodama) Kaz Hayashi, Masayuki Kono and Shuji Kondo New Era (Andy Wu, Koji Doi and Kumagoro) Kaz Hayashi, Manabu Soya and Shuji Kondo Jay Freddie, Jiro Kuroshio and Kumagoro Ganseki Tanaka, Manabu Soya and Nosawa Rongai New Era (Jiro Kuroshio, Koji Doi and Kumagoro) Enfants Terribles (Seigo Tachibana, Shotaro Ashino and Yusuke Kodama) New Era (Koji Doi, Kumagoro and Takanori Ito) Sento Minzoku (Daiki Shimomura, Isami Kodaka and Ryuichi Sekine) Takato Nakano, Takumi Tsukamoto and Yasu Urano Sparky (Ryota Nakatsu, Naoki Tanizaki and Akiyori Takizawa)
2020s	Viva México Cabrones (Billy Ken Kid, Masamune and Tsubasa) Andy Wu, Hub and Ultimate Spider Jr. Sento Minzoku (Isami Kodaka, Minoru Fujita and Daiki Shimomura) Aagan Iisou (Shuji Kondo, Takuya Sugawara and Toru Owashi) (current)

v t e WAR and Tenryu Project International Junior Heavyweight Champions
WAR (1995–2006)	Gedo Lionheart Último Dragón The Great Sasuke Jushin Thunder Liger Yuji Yasuraoka Masao Orihara Masaaki Mochizuki Pentagón Black
Dragon Gate (2006–2007)	Masaaki Mochizuki
Tenryu Project (2010–2013); (2021–present)	Masaaki Mochizuki Tiger Shark Hiroki Ryuji Hijikata Takaku Fuke Masao Orihara Hub Kengo Toru Hikaru Sato Yuya Susumu Yusuke Kodama (current)

WAR and Tenryu Project World Six-Man Tag Team Champions

WAR
(1994–1998)

Fuyuki-Gun (Hiromichi Fuyuki, Gedo and Jado)
Bob Backlund, Scott Putski and The Warlord
Heisei Ishingun (Tatsutoshi Goto, Shiro Koshinaka and Michiyoshi Ohara)
Animal Hamaguchi, Koki Kitahara and Genichiro Tenryu
Arashi, Nobutaka Araya and Koki Kitahara
Golden Cups (Yoji Anjo, Yoshihiro Takayama and Kenichi Yamamoto)
Masahito Kakihara, Yuhi Sano and Nobuhiko Takada
Yoji Anjo, Bam Bam Bigelow and Hiromichi Fuyuki
Nobutaka Araya, Genichiro Tenryu and Último Dragón
Nobutaka Araya, Koki Kitahara and Lance Storm
Nobukazu Hirai, Mitsuharu Kitao and Masaaki Mochizuki

Tenryu Project
(2010–2022)

Tatsutoshi Goto, Daisuke Sekimoto and Yoshihiro Takayama
Arashi, Suwama and Tomohiro Ishii
Arashi, Genichiro Tenryu and Tomohiro Ishii
Buki, Classic Kid and Ryuichi Kawakami
Kenichiro Arai, Kohei Sato and Masayuki Kono
Gaina, Kengo and Kouki Iwasaki
Kuma Arashi, Masayuki Kono and Yusuke Kodama
Okami (Daichi Hashimoto & Hideyoshi Kamitani) and Kazuki Hashimoto
Kengo, Minoru Suzuki and Yasshi
Koji Iwamoto, Kouki Iwasaki and Shigehiro Irie (current)

WEW 6-Man Tag Team Champions

FMW
(1999–2001)

Team No Respect (Gedo, Kodo Fuyuki and Koji Nakagawa)
Hisakatsu Oya, Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda
Chocoball Mukai, Flying Kid Ichihara and Ricky Fuji
Team No Respect (Gedo, Jado and Koji Nakagawa)
Shin Fuyuki-Gun (Chocoball Mukai, Kyoko Inoue and Kodo Fuyuki)
H, Hisakatsu Oya and Tetsuhiro Kuroda
Shin Fuyuki-Gun (Kodo Fuyuki, Mr. Gannosuke and Shinjuku Shark)
Gedo, Jado and Kaori Nakayama
Complete Players (Gedo, Jado and Masato Tanaka)
Flying Kid Ichihara, Hisakatsu Oya and Ricky Fuji
Kintaro Kanemura, Kodo Fuyuki and Mr. Gannosuke
Goemon, Hayabusa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda

WEW
(2002–2004)

Gosaku Goshogawara, Taka Michinoku and Tetsuhiro Kuroda
2 Tuff Tony, Kintaro Kanemura and Mad Man Pondo

v t e WEW World Tag Team Champions
FMW (1999–2002)	Team No Respect (Gedo and Koji Nakagawa) Hisakatsu Oya and Tetsuhiro Kuroda H and Mr. Gannosuke Kodo Fuyuki and Kyoko Inoue Jado & Gedo Masao Inoue and Yoshinobu Kanemaru Tamon Honda and Naomichi Marufuji Shin Fuyuki-Gun (Kodo Fuyuki and Tetsuhiro Kuroda) Complete Players (Masato Tanaka and Gedo) Goemon and Onryo Mr. Gannosuke and Mammoth Sasaki Hayabusa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda Mr. Gannosuke and Tetsuhiro Kuroda Kodo Fuyuki and The Sandman
WEW (2002–2003)	Takashi Sasaki and Gentaro Kintaro Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda
Apache Army (2005–2016)	Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Onryo Takashi Sasaki and Badboy Hido Jun Kasai and Tomoaki Honma Jun Kasai and Jaki Numazawa Gentaro and The W*INGer Tokyo Gurentai (Mazada and Nosawa) Kohei Sato and Kamikaze Kintaro Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda Hiroki and Yusaku Obata Manjimaru and Takeshi Minamino Daisaku Shimoda and Kazushi Miyamoto Kengo Nishimura and Tomohiko Hashimoto Kotaro Nasu and Masato Shibata Shoichi Ichimiya and Tomohiko Hashimoto Daisaku Shimoda and Rikiya Fudo Tadasuke and Tomohiko Hashimoto Ryoji Sai and Tetsuhiro Kuroda Kazushi Miyamoto and Tomohiko Hashimoto Mikami and Rion Mizuki Hi69 and Hasegawa Tomohiko Hashimoto and Keisuke Okuda Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda
A-Team (2017–present)	Masashi Takeda and Tomohiko Hashimoto Daisaku Shimoda and Blue Shark Daisuke Ikeda and Hasegawa Tomohiko Hashimoto and Nobutaka Moribe Akira Jo and Raiden Daisuke Ikeda and Keiichi Sato Gajo and Tomohiko Hashimoto Gentaro and Nobutaka Moribe Brian Ishizaka and Takumi Sakurai Mikami and Hasegawa Raiden and Joji Otani Daisaku Shimoda and Iori Raiden and Takumi Sakurai Iori and Masahiro Sase Daisaku Shimoda and Kosaku Tonosaki Tomohiko Hashimoto and Super Tiger II (current)

v t e WEW Hardcore Tag Team Champions
FMW (2000–2002)	Hideki Hosaka and Yoshinori/Mammoth Sasaki The Samoans (Eddie Fatu and Matty Samu) Jado & Gedo Homeless Jimmy and Supreme Goemon and Onryo Kintaro Kanemura and Ryuji Yamakawa Daisuke Sekimoto and Men's Teioh
Big Japan Pro Wrestling (2002–2003)	Jun Kasai and The W*INGer Daikokubo Benkei and Abdullah Kobayashi Ryuji Ito and Daisaku Shimoda Hido and Yoshiya
Kaientai Dojo (2005–present)	Apple Miyuki and Yoshiya Mike Lee Jr. and Mr. X Shiori Asahi and Makoto Oishi Taka Michinoku and Tomo Michinoku Boso Boy Raito and Boso Boy Left Saburo Inematsu and Psycho Hardcore Kid Kojiro and Yoshiya Brahman Brothers (Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei) Yuji Hino and Saburo Inematsu Kengo Mashimo and Ryuichi Sekine Randy Takuya and Saburo Inematsu Kamui and Mammoth Sasaki Kengo Mashimo and Yoshiya Bambi and Makoto Nasu Banderas and Ricky Fuji Ryuichi Sekine and Saburo Inematsu Kotaro Nasu and Ryuichi Sekine Magatsuki (Kunio Toshima and Yuma)

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