Japanese Tag Teams

[Mattbmf]

Hey Everybody. I was wondering if anybody could name the best tag teams in Japan? I use the wrestling simulator, TNM7, and I'm starting an All Japan Pro-Wrestling promotion and want to use Japanese wrestlers, of couse. Besides Tenzan & Kojima, who are the next best tag teams in Japan?

[Rezo The Red Priest]

Current Tag Teams in Japan (just a short list)

Keiji Muto and Taiyo Kea/
Gen'ichiro Tenryu and Yoji Anjoh/
Mitsuya Nagai and Masahito Kakihara/
Takeshi Rikio and Takeshi Morishima/
Akira Taue and Jun Izumuda/
Gedo and Jado/
Mitsuharu Misawa and Yoshinari Ogawa/
Yoshihiro Takayama and Takao Omori/
Naoya Ogawa and Kazunari Murakami/
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[Ganso]

Minoru Tanaka and Koji Kanemoto
Tatsuhiro Takaiwa and Shinjiro Ohtani
Jyushin "Thunder" Lyger and El Samurai
Jinsei Shinzaki and Hayabusa (during their All Asia tag title reign)
give Goemon and Onryo a few years and they'll be in there

[Mattbmf]

Ganso, when you replied to my question about Japanese tag teams and listed Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Shinjiro Ohtani, did you mean that they were a good team or were you just listing them as a tag team? How good of a team are they?

Also, does Manabe Nakanishi have a tag team partner and is the team of Naoya Ogawa and Kazunari Murakami any good?

[Ganso]

IMO they're all very good teams, though Shinzaki and Hayabusa dont team up anymore, they were very good, as well with the rest i posted before.

[Peru-Yakuza]

All-Time greats:
Jumbo Tsuruta & Genichiro Tenryu
Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi
Tatsumi Fujinami & Kengo Kimura
Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada
Hiroshi Hase & keiji Muto
Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue
Masa Chono & Hiroyoshi Tenzan

["Livewire"]

No clue if you'd wanna know, but...

Dick Togo & Men's Teioh
Taka Michinoku & Sho Funaki
Naohiro Hoshikawa & Masato Yakushiji

Those were prolly the best teams to come out of Michinoku Pro.

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

Some great teams from the past:
Yamaha Bros.: Kotetsu Yamamoto & Kantaro Hoshino
Won IWA World Tag Team Titles and Tennessee State Tag Team Titles.

Adrian Adonis & Bob Orton Jr.
No, they are not Japanese and may have copied many moves from the Yamaha
Bros., but their combination moves had a big impact on puroresu.

Riki Choshu & Animal Hamaguchi
They popularized the combination moves made famous by Adonis & Orton.

The British Bulldogs (Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith)
Again, not Japanese, but they are the ones who "imported" the style
of Japanese tag team matches into WWF.