NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions

NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship
From left to right: David Finlay, Satoshi Kojima and Ricochet as the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions in September 2016
Details
Promotion	New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date established	December 21, 2015
Current champion(s)	Hiroshi Tanahashi, Manabu Nakanishi and Ryusuke Taguchi
Date won	January 5, 2017
Statistics First champion(s) Jay Briscoe, Mark Briscoe and Toru Yano Most reigns (as a team) Jay Briscoe, Mark Briscoe and Toru Yano and The Elite (Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) (2 reigns) (as an individual) Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jay Briscoe, Kenny Omega, Mark Briscoe, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Ricochet, Satoshi Kojima and Toru Yano (2 reigns) Longest reign David Finlay, Ricochet and Satoshi Kojima (101 days) Shortest reign Los Ingobernables de Japon (Bushi, Evil and Sanada) (1 day) Oldest winner Manabu Nakanishi (49 years, 349 days) Youngest winner David Finlay (23 years, 132 days) Heaviest champion Bad Luck Fale (150 kg (330 lb)) Lightest champion Matt Jackson and Ricochet (78 kg (172 lb))

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. The title became NJPW's seventh active championship and the second to carry the NEVER name, following the NEVER Openweight Championship, which was introduced in November 2012. 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.

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a match with a predetermined outcome. There have been ten reigns shared among eight teams and twenty-one wrestlers. The current champions are Hiroshi Tanahashi, Manabu Nakanishi and Ryusuke Taguchi, who are in their first reign as a team. Individually, this is the second reign for Tanahashi and the first for Nakanishi and Taguchi.

There have been ten reigns shared among twenty-one wrestlers and eight teams with one vacancy. Jay Briscoe, Mark Briscoe and Toru Yano were the first champions in the title's history. David Finlay, Ricochet and Satoshi Kojima's only reign of 101 days is the longest in the title's history, while Los Ingobernables de Japon's (Bushi, Evil and Sanada) only reign of 1 day is the shortest. Jay Brisoce, Mark Briscoe and Toru Yano and The Elite (Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) share the record for most reigns as a team with two. Individually, the six wrestlers share the record also with Hiroshi Tanahashi, Ricochet and Satoshi Kojima. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Manabu Nakanishi and Ryusuke Taguchi are the current NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions in their first reign as a team. Individually, this is the second reign for Tanahashi and the first for Nakanishi and Taguchi.