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Hirooki Goto and Katsuyori Shibata, also referred to as Meiyu Tag (盟友タッグ) were a professional wrestling tag team in New Japan Pro Wrestling, where they are a former one-time IWGP Tag Team Champions and the winners of the 2014th World Tag League, while in in singles success Goto won the IWGP Intercontinental Championship and Shibata won the NEVER Openweight Championship. They were originally in a feud together, following their match at Wrestle Kingdom 8, Goto and Shibata offered some respect with each other and led to the two forming a tag team. On April 10, 2016 Meiyu Tag splitted up when Goto joined Chaos.

Feud with each other
On February 2013, Goto challenged his former high school classmate Katsuyori Shibata, which led to a match on February 10, where he and Wataru Inoue were defeated by Shibata and Kazushi Sakuraba. Afterwards, Goto and Shibata had a confrontation, building to a rivalry between the two. On March, Goto made it to the finals of the New Japan Cup, before losing to Kazuchika Okada. Goto and Shibata faced off in a match on May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2013, which ended in a draw. Their rematch took place on June 22 at Dominion 6.22, where Shibata was victorious. Their third match on July 20 ended in another draw. During early August, Goto participated in the G1 Climax. On August 8, however, it was revealed that Goto had suffered a fractured jaw injury and was pulled from the tournament.

On December 8, Goto returned and challenged Katsuyori Shibata to a match at Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome. On January 4, 2014, Goto defeated Shibata in his return match. The match ended the rivalry between two and led to the formation of a tag team called Meiyu Tag.

Teaming and Championship pursuits
The following day, Goto scored the pinfall in an eight-man tag team against Chaos, after which he challenged Kazuchika Okada to a match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. On February 11 at The New Beginning in Osaka, Goto received his seventh shot, after which he unsucessfully challenged Okada. After that, Goto and Shibata entered the IWGP Tag Team title picture by defeating the reigning champions, Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows in a non-title match on March 6. They received their title shot on April 6 at Invasion Attack, but they were unsucessfull. From July 21 to August 8, Goto and Shibata took part in the 2014 G1 Climax, where Goto finished with a record of four wins and six losses, while Shibata finnished with a record of six wins and four losses, with both ending in fourth place in their respective blocks. During the tournament final event, Shibata and Goto faced off in another match, where Shibata was victorious. Goto later entered in a storyline, where he started leading a counterattack against the Bullet Club and Chaos stables, with the goal of revitalizing New Japan's Seikigun ("regular army"), which he represented alongside his partner and Hiroshi Tanahashi. After that Shibata started a rivalry with Shinsuke Nakamura and became the number one contender to his IWGP Intercontinental Championship, later it was announced that Shibata would be working the full October to November "Road to Power Struggle" tour, his first full tour with New Japan since his return. Shibata received his title shot on November 8 at Power Struggle, but was defeated by Nakamura and Goto received his first shot at the NEVER Openweight Championship, but was defeated by the defending champion, Tomohiro Ishii. Later in the month, Goto and Shibata entered the 2014 World Tag League, where they started with a three match losing streak, later they won their four remaining matches, winning their block and advancing to the finals. On December 7, Goto and Shibata defeated Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson in the finals to win the 2014 World Tag League. This led to a rematch between the two teams at Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome, where Goto and Shibata defeated Anderson and Gallows to become the new IWGP Tag Team Champions. Goto and Shibata's reign would end on February 11 at The New Beginning in Osaka, where they were defeated by Anderson and Gallows.

On March 8, Goto and Shibata once again faced off in the second round of the 2015 New Japan Cup where Goto was victorious. Goto would make into to the finals but where he was defeated by the tournament winner Kota Ibushi. On April 5, a Shibata and Sakuraba would start a rivalry, after Sakuraba submitted Shibata in a tag team match at Invasion Attack 2015. On May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2015, Goto defeated Shinsuke Nakamura to win the IWGP Intercontinental Championship for his second time. Shibata and Sakuraba faced off on July 5 at Dominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall in a match, where Shibata was victorious also later that night Goto made his first title defense defeating Nakamura in a rematch. From July 20 to August 14, Goto and Shibata took part in the 2015 G1 Climax, where Shibata finished in the middle of his block with a record of four wins and five losses and Goto with six victories, in which one of them was against the reigning IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada, Goto entered the final day with a chance to advance from his block, but was eliminated after suffering his third loss against Yuji Nagata. Through NJPW's working relationship with the Ring of Honor, Goto returned to the United States on August 21, teaming with Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe in a six-man tag team match, where they defeated Okada, Beretta and Rocky Romero. Goto would lose the IWGP Intercontinental Championship at Destruction in Kobe, when he was defeated by Nakamura in another title rematch. Goto and Shibata participated at the 2016 World Tag league and they finished tournament with 8 points and with 4 wins and 2 losses and the lost was against Los Ingobernables de Japon (Evil and Tetsuya Naito), costing them a place at the finals, later during the World Tag League, Shibata would start a feud with Tomohiro Ishii and Goto with Tetsuya Naito, which led both to a match at Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome.

Disbanding
On January 4, 2016 at Wrestle Kingdom 10, would defeat Ishii for the NEVER Openweight Championship, winning his first NJPW title while Goto would defeat Naito. Shibata would make his first title defense on February 11 at The New Beginning in Osaka against Ishii while Goto once again recieved his shot at the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, but once again failing to win the title. Following the match, Okada offered Goto a spot to join Chaos but Goto refused.ref> On March 3, NJPW announced that Shibata had signed a one-year deal with the promotion, ending his 11-year run as a freelancer. Over the next several events, Okada tried to offer Goto a spot to join Chaos on multiple occasions, but he refused each time, while Shibata made his next title defenses against NJPW veterans, defeating Satoshi Kojima on March 19 and Hiroyoshi Tenzan on April 10, thus starting a feud. Goto made it to the finals of the 2016 New Japan Cup, but was defeated by the tournament winner Tetsuya Naito. After the match, Naito and his Los Ingobernables de Japon's stablemates would attack Goto, Okada made the save and Goto finally agreed to shake hands with him and joined Chaos, thus disbanding the team.

In wrestling

 * Goto's Finishing moves
 * Goto Shiki (Cross-legged cradle)
 * Goto Ni Shiki (Modified arm wrench inside cradle)
 * Shouten Kai (Vertical suplex sitout side slam)
 * Shibata's Finishing moves
 * G2PK (Go 2 Sleep followed by a soccer kick to the opponent's chest)
 * PK – Penalty Kick (Soccer kick to the chest of a seated opponent, usually preceded by a sleeper hold)
 * Double-team finishing moves
 * Gattai Reverse Ushikoroshi (Inverted front powerslam (Goto) / Facebreaker knee smash (Shibata) combination)

Championships and Accomplishments

 * New Japan Pro Wrestling
 * IWGP Intercontinental Championship (1 time) - Goto
 * IWGP Tag Team Championship (1 time)
 * NEVER Openweight Championship (1 time) - Shibata
 * World Tag League (2014)
 * Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 * PWI ranked him #123 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2015 - Shibata
 * Wrestling Observer Newsletter
 * 5 Star Match (2014) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi on September 21 - Shibata

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This group is not generally notable. All the references presented are from New Japan's website. If you search online, you'll see that the only people covering the topic are fansites, blogs, and mirrors of Wikipedia. We need to see multiple, independent, reliable sources. Either the redirect stays or I'm nominating this for deletion. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 14:22, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Ok, it stays as redirect sorry, but I'm kinda new in this.121.138.198.42 (talk) 14:27, 15 February 2018 (UTC)