# IWA World Tag Team Championship (International Wrestling Enterprise)

The International Wrestling Alliance (IWA) World Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship contested in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Enterprise (国際プロレス興行, Kokusai Puroresu Kogyō). The IWA World Tag Team Championship was created in 1969 (replacing the TWWA World Tag Team Championship) and abandoned in 1981 upon the closure of the promotion.

## History

International Wrestling Enterprise (IWE) was founded in October 1966 by Isao Yoshihara and Hiro Matsuda. The Trans-World Wrestling Alliance (TWWA) was created as the governing body for IWE. In 1967, IWE created the TWWA World Tag Team Championship, with the Fabulous Kangaroos being named the inaugural champions. The TWWA World Tag Team Championship was abandoned in 1968.
In 1968, Yoshihara formed the International Wrestling Alliance (IWA) with French promoter Roger Delaporte as a new governing body for IWE. In May 1969, IWE created the IWA World Tag Team Championship. IWE mainstays Strong Kobayashi and Toyonobori became the inaugural champions on May 18, 1969, defeating the Belgian wrestler Ivan Strogoff and the French wrestler Jean Ferré (substituting for Roger Delaporte) at an event staged in the Élysée Montmartre in Paris, France.
The titles were contended until IWE folded on September 30, 1981.

## 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 |
| N/A | Unknown information |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
| No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | Notes | Ref. |
| 1 | Strong Kobayashi and Toyonobori | May 18, 1969 | N/A | Paris, France | 1 | 236 | 3 | Kobayashi and Toyonobori defeated Ivan Strogoff and Jean Ferré to become the inaugural champions. | |
| — | Vacated | January 9, 1970 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated when Toyonobori retired. | |
| 2 | Michael Nador and Monster Roussimoff | January 18, 1970 | New Year Challenge Series | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 16 | 0 | Nador and Roussimoff defeated Great Kusatsu and Thunder Sugiyama. | |
| 3 | Great Kusatsu and Thunder Sugiyama | February 3, 1970 | AWA World Championship Series | Hiroshima, Japan | 1 | 289 | 8 | Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| 4 | Bob Windham and Larry Hennig | November 19, 1970 | Big Winter Series | Ashikaga, Japan | 1 | 23 | 3 | Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| 5 | Great Kusatsu (2) and Thunder Sugiyama (2) | December 12, 1970 | Big Winter Series | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 199 | 4 | Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| — | Vacated | June 29, 1971 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated when Kusatsu left for the United States. | |
| 6 | Bill Howard and Red Bastien | September 7, 1971 | Dynamite Series | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 16 | 0 | Bastien and Howard defeated Rusher Kimura and Thunder Sugiyama for the vacant Championship. Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| 7 | Rusher Kimura and Thunder Sugiyama (3) | September 23, 1971 | Dynamite Series | Isahaya, Japan | 1 | N/A | N/A | Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| — | Vacated | May 1972 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated when Kimura left Japan to tour overseas. | |
| 8 | Great Kusatsu (3) and Strong Kobayashi (2) | July 7, 1972 | Big Summer Series | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 285 | 6 | Kusatsu and Kobayashi defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna and Bill Miller for the vacant Championship. Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| 9 | Ivan Koloff and Mad Dog Vachon | April 18, 1973 | Dynamite Series | Tsuchiura, Japan | 1 | 26 | 1 | Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| 10 | Great Kusatsu (4) and Rusher Kimura (2) | May 14, 1973 | Dynamite Series | Funabashi, Japan | 1 | 716 | 11 | Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| — | Vacated | April 30, 1975 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated when Rusher Kimura won the IWA World Heavyweight Championship. | |
| 11 | Great Kusatsu (5) and Mighty Inoue | June 13, 1975 | Big Challenge Series | Morioka, Japan | 1 | 143 | 2 | Kusatsu and Inoue defeated Duke Savage and Killer Tor Kamata in the finals of a tournament for the vacant Championship. Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| 12 | Combat (Mad Dog Martel and Pierre Martin) | November 3, 1975 | Big Winter Series | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 29 | 1 | Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| 13 | Great Kusatsu (6) and Mighty Inoue (2) | December 2, 1975 | Big Winter Series | Yokohama, Japan | 2 | 188 | 5 | Cage match. | |
| 14 | Eddie Sullivan and Rip Tyler | June 7, 1976 | Big Challenge Series | Fukuyama, Japan | 1 | 4 | 0 | | |
| 15 | Great Kusatsu (7) and Mighty Inoue (3) | June 11, 1976 | Big Challenge Series | Koga, Japan | 3 | 207 | 7 | Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| — | Vacated | January 4, 1977 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated to allow a tournament to take place. | |
| 16 | John Quinn and Kurt Von Hess | March 25, 1977 | Sixth IWA World Series | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 1 | 0 | Quinn and Von Hess defeated Animal Hamaguchi and Isamu Teranishi in the finals of a tournament for the vacant Championship. | |
| 17 | Animal Hamaguchi and Great Kusatsu (8) | March 26, 1977 | Sixth IWA World Series | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 285 | 2 | Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| 18 | The Samoans (Afa and Sika) | January 5, 1978 | New Year Pioneer Series | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 15 | 0 | | |
| 19 | Animal Hamaguchi (2) and Great Kusatsu (9) | January 20, 1978 | New Year Pioneer Series | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 366 | 4 | | |
| 20 | Yamaha Brothers (Kantaro Hoshino and Kotetsu Yamamoto) | January 21, 1979 | New Year Pioneer Series | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 33 | 1 | Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| 21 | Animal Hamaguchi (3) and Mighty Inoue (4) | February 23, 1979 | Big Fight Series | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 415 | 9 | Two-out-of-three falls match. This was a New Japan Pro Wrestling event. | |
| — | Vacated | April 13, 1980 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated when Hamaguchi sustained an injury. | |
| 22 | Haruka Eigen and Strong Kobayashi (3) | June 29, 1980 | Big Summer Series | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 16 | 0 | Eigen and Kobayashi defeated Animal Hamaguchi and Mighty Inoue for the vacant Championship. Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| 23 | Animal Hamaguchi (4) and Mighty Inoue (5) | July 15, 1980 | Big Summer Series | Fuji, Japan | 2 | 277 | 5 | Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| — | Vacated | April 18, 1981 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated when Hamaguchi was unable to wrestle because of liver problems. | |
| 24 | Paul Ellering and Terry Latham | May 4, 1981 | Big Challenge Series | Sapporo, Japan | 1 | 12 | 1 | Ellering and Latham defeated Mighty Inoue and Rusher Kimura for the vacant Championship. Two-out-of-three falls match. | |
| 25 | Ashura Hara and Mighty Inoue (6) | May 16, 1981 | Big Challenge Series | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 85 | 2 | | |
| — | Deactivated | September 30, 1981 | — | — | — | — | — | Deactivated when the promotion folded. | |