{"id":63423,"date":"2020-02-21T09:11:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=63423"},"modified":"2020-02-21T09:11:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T14:11:14","slug":"hiroshi-tanahashi-ibushi-tag-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/02\/21\/hiroshi-tanahashi-ibushi-tag-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Hiroshi Tanahashi &#038; Kota Ibushi Win Tag Team Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the most recent\u00a0<em>New Japan Road\u00a0<\/em>show the Guerillas Of Destiny (Tama Tonga &amp; Tanga Loa) defended the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships against the superteam of Kota Ibushi and Hiroshi Tanahashi.\u00a0 In a somewhat surprising results Tanahashi and Ibushi walked away with the gold.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Golden. Ace.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/njroad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#njroad<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H8nwUfbYrB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/H8nwUfbYrB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) (@RossWBermanIV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RossWBermanIV\/status\/1230824755462275072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The loss means that GOD drop the belts without registering a single successful defense after reclaiming the titles on the\u00a0<em>New Beginnings\u00a0<\/em><em>USA\u00a0<\/em>tour from\u00a0<strong>David Finlay\u00a0<\/strong>&amp;\u00a0<strong>Juice Robinson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>NJPW&#8217;s tag division has needed some fresh juice for some time now and most fans have requested that they form teams of singles stars to fill out the tag division, similar to what other Japanese companies like\u00a0<strong>All Japan Pro Wrestling\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>World Wonder Ring <\/strong><strong>Stardom<\/strong>, who have made their tag team titles legitimate drawing titles.\u00a0 With Tanahashi and Ibushi currently not having anything to do alone, since both suffered high profile defeats at\u00a0<em>Wrestle Kingdom\u00a0<\/em>the popular duo made a great choice to be tag team champions as it makes the titles more prestigious and ensures that neither man falls into the irrelevancy of multi-man tags.<\/p>\n<p>The win marks Ibushi&#8217;s first tag team title run in NJPW, in DDT he was a five-time KO-D Tag Team Champion but hadn&#8217;t held tag team gold since 2015.\u00a0 For Hiroshi Tanahashi, this will be his third tun as tag team champion in NJPW with his last coming in 2005 when he and <strong>Shinsuke Nakamura\u00a0<\/strong>held the titles.\u00a0 He has also held the CMLL and Noah tag titles with\u00a0<strong>Jyushin Liger\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Yuji Nagata\u00a0<\/strong>respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world and make sure to watch the NJPW LIVE on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/njpwworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NJPW WORLD<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the most recent\u00a0New Japan Road\u00a0show the Guerillas Of Destiny (Tama Tonga &amp; Tanga Loa) defended the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships against the superteam of Kota Ibushi and Hiroshi Tanahashi.\u00a0 In a somewhat surprising results Tanahashi and Ibushi walked away with the gold. Golden. Ace.#njroad pic.twitter.com\/H8nwUfbYrB &mdash; Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate) (@RossWBermanIV) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":63425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news","category-njpw"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}