The NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion.
NEVER is an acronym of the terms "New Blood", "Evolution", "Valiantly", "Eternal", and "Radical" and was a NJPW-promoted series of events, which featured younger up-and-coming talent and outside wrestlers not signed to the promotion. The title was announced on December 21, 2015, with the first champions crowned on January 4, 2016. Through NJPW's relationship with Ring of Honor (ROH), the title has also been defended in the American promotion. The championship is contested for by teams of three wrestlers and is the first title of its kind in the history of NJPW. The title's openweight nature means that both heavyweight and junior heavyweight wrestlers are eligible to challenge for it.
Chaos (Jay Briscoe, Mark Briscoe and Toru Yano) were the first champions in the title's history. Los Ingobernables de Japón (Bushi, Evil and Sanada) and Chaos (Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano, and Beretta) both hold the record for shortest reign at 1 day each, while Chaos (Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii and Yoshi-Hashi) hold the record for longest reign at 454 days and record for most defenses at 9 defenses. Los Ingobernables de Japón also hold the record for most reigns as a team with three. Individually, Bushi and Evil hold the record for title defenses with 6 each. Bushi, Evil, Tonga, and Yano share the record for individual reigns at 4 each.
The United Empire (Will Ospreay, Henare, and Great-O-Khan) are the current champions in their first reign as a team and individually. They won the titles by defeating Bishamon-tin (Boltin Oleg, Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi) on Night 2 of Wrestling Dontaku in Fukuoka, Japan on May 4, 2026.
Title history
Combined reigns As of , .
†Indicates the current champion
By team
RankTeamNo. ofreigns Combineddefenses Combineddays1Chaos1 9 4542House of Torture2 5 3823Ryusuke Taguchi, Togi Makabe, and Toru Yano1 4 3404Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano, and Oleg Boltin2 3 2845Los Ingobernables de Japón3 4 2816Hiroshi Tanahashi and Chaos1 8 2667Los Ingobernables de Japón1 2 2088Toru Yano and Spiritech1 2 1849Bullet Club1 2 17110House of Torture1 1 15511United Empire †1 0 +12Bullet Club2 3 13613The Elite2 2 11114Boltin Oleg and Bishamon 1 2 10515David Finlay Jr., Ricochet, and Satoshi Kojima1 1 101Super Villains1 0 10117Matt Sydal, Ricochet, and Satoshi Kojima1 0 8418Strong Style1 1 8119Chaos1 0 8020Chaos2 1 4421Taguchi Japan1 0 3722Taguchi Japan1 0 2923Hiroshi Tanahashi, Michael Elgin, and Yoshitatsu1 1 2324TMDK1 0 1525Los Ingobernables de Japón1 0 726Bullet Club1 0 327Chaos1 0 1
By wrestler
RankWrestler No. ofreigns Combineddefenses Combineddays1Evil 6 11 8712Toru Yano 7 10 8533Tomohiro Ishii 3 17 7214Hiroshi Tanahashi 6 12 6395Hirooki Goto 3 11 639Yoshi-Hashi7Yujiro Takahashi 4 5 5408Sho 3 5 5379Bushi 5 6 49610Ryusuke Taguchi 3 4 40611Oleg Boltin 3 5 38912Togi Makabe 1 4 34013Tama Tonga 4 5 31014Tanga Loa 3 5 31015Sanada 3 4 28116Kazuchika Okada 1 8 26617Yoh 2 2 26418Ren Narita 2 1 23619Ricochet 3 1 21420Matt Jackson 3 2 212Nick Jackson22Shingo Takagi 1 2 20823Satoshi Kojima 2 1 18524Master Wato 1 2 18425Taiji Ishimori 1 2 17126Great-O-Khan † 1 0 +Henare †Will Ospreay †29Bad Luck Fale 3 3 13930Kenny Omega 2 2 11131David Finlay Jr. 1010132Marty Scurll 1 0 10133Matt Sydal 1 0 8434El Desperado 1 1 81Minoru Suzuki36Jay Briscoe2 1 44Mark Briscoe38Manabu Nakanishi 1 0 3739Michael Elgin 1 1 23Yoshitatsu41Hartley Jackson 1 0 15Ryohei OiwaZack Sabre Jr.44Hiromu Takahashi 1 0 7Yota Tsuji46Beretta 1 0 1
References
External links Official title history at njpw.co.jp Title history at Wrestling-Titles.com