The Wave Tag Team Championship is a

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owned by the

Pro Wrestling Wave , is a women's professional wrestling, or Joshi Puroresu, promotion created in 2007 after the dissolution and closure of JDStar. The company was formed by Mikiko Futagami, or Gami, former JDStar wrestler Yumi Ohka, and former JDStar booker Tatsu ...

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. The title is nicknamed "Dual Shock Wave". The championship was first announced on August 28, 2011, at Wave's fourth anniversary event, and the first champions were crowned on October 30, when kanAyu (

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and

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) defeated Uematsu☆Ran (

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and

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) to win the Dual Shock Wave 2011 tournament and become the inaugural champions. From 2009 to 2010, Wave had promoted matches for the TLW World Young Women's Tag Team Championship, but this was the first title officially created and owned by the promotion. Though primarily contested for by female wrestlers, one male team, Yankii Nichokenju (

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and

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), has also held the title. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been thirty reigns shared among twenty-five teams consisting of thirty-five different wrestlers. galaxyPunch! (

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and

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) are the current champions in their second reign as a team as well as individually.

Reigns

kanAyu (

and

) were the first champions in the title's history. Las Aventureras' (

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and

Yuu Yamagata better known by her ring name is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working as a freelancer and is best known for her tenure with the Japanese promotions Kaientai Dojo and Pro Wrestling Wave. Professional wrestling career Independent ...

) third reign holds the record for the longest reign in the title's history at 282 days, while Yoko Hatanaka's (Gami and

Tomoka Nakagawa is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. After being trained by Taka Michinoku, she started her career in his Kaientai Dojo promotion in September 2004. After leaving Kaientai Dojo in 2007, Nakagawa briefly joined Ibuki, where she underwent ...

) second reign holds the record for the shortest reign at 10 days. Shidarezakura's (

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and

Yumi Ohka , better known by her ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler. Originally trained by the now defunct JDStar promotion, Ohka now works for Oz Academy and Pro Wrestling Wave. She is a former two-time Wave Single Champion, while also being ...

) only reign holds the record for the shortest reign, at 31 days. Las Aventureras holds the record for most reigns as a team, with three, while Ayako Hamada,

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, Tomoka Nakagawa and Yuu Yamagata share the record for most reigns individually, with three each.

Title history

Combined reigns

As of ,

By team

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Sakura Hirota is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working as a freelancer and is best known for her tenure with the Japanese promotions Pro Wrestling Wave and Oz Academy. Hirota's later career is characterized by being a comedy wrestler who oft ap ...

and

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By wrestler

References

External links

Pro Wrestling Wave's official website
{{Wave Tag Team Championship Pro Wrestling Wave championships Women's professional wrestling tag team championships