Golden Lovers
professional wrestling tag team
The Golden Lovers (ゴールデン☆ラヴァーズ, Gōruden Ravāzu; stylized as Golden☆Lovers) are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Kota Ibushi and Kenny Omega. They perform in All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
The team was formed in 2009 in the Japanese promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling, where they would win the KO-D Tag Team Championship on two occasions. They also made appearances for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where they won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship once. They disbanded when Omega left DDT in 2014, but have since reunited on multiple occasions.
History
DDT Pro-Wrestling (2009–2014)
In July 2008, Canadian wrestler Kenny Omega started his first Japanese tour with the DDT Pro-Wrestling promotion, where he quickly became friends with Kota Ibushi, with the two forming a tag team named "Golden☆Lovers" in January 2009. On January 24, Ibushi and Omega defeated Harashima and Toru Owashi to win the KO-D Tag Team Championship for the first time. After one successful defense, they lost the title to Francesco Togo and Piza Michinoku on May 10. Over the following years, Omega and Ibushi established themselves as one of the top tag teams on the Japanese independent circuit.
Meanwhile, in DDT, Ibushi and Omega came together with Gota Ihashi to form the Golden☆Rendez-Vous stable, with the three holding the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship from May 26 to June 23, 2013.
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