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. Meant for teams of five wrestlers, the title is believed to be the first of its kind in professional wrestling. The title was first announced on April 30, 2017, with the inaugural champions crowned on August 20, 2017. A unique aspect of the title is that each belt has a different color strap; one belt has a red strap, one blue, one green, one yellow and one pink (retired for the 8-man version). Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. , there have been a total of eight reigns shared between eight different teams consisting of thirty-two distinctive champions and two vacancies. The current holders are Mao,

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who are in their first reign as a team, with Aoki being in his second individual reign.

Title history

Recognizing the difficulty of scheduling matches for the title, DDT announced that as long as the captain of the reigning champions and two other members are present, title matches can be held with two replacement members taking the other two spots in the team. These replacement members would, however, not be recognized as official champions. On December 21, 2020, the title was vacated and became the KO-D 8-Man Tag Team Championship due to the difficulty of scheduling a proper title defense during the

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. On February 14, 2021, at

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, the team of

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won the vacant title. On March 28, at

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, they lost the title in their first defense against Team Thoroughbred (

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, and ). On December 28, it was announced that the title would revert back to its original 10-man tag team form with the team of Sanshiro Takagi, Akito,

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and Yuki Ishida challenging in a 5-on-4

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on January 3, 2022.

Names

Reigns

Combined reigns

As of , .

By team

By wrestler

Notes

References

External links

DDT Pro-Wrestling's official website

KO-D Eight Man Tag Team Championship
{{KO-D 8-Man Tag Team Championship DDT Pro-Wrestling championships Tag team wrestling championships