NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship
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The NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (NEVER無差別級6人タッグ王座, NEVER musabetsu-kyū 6-nin taggu ōza) is a professional wrestling championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. The current champions are Toru Yano, Oleg Boltin and Hiroshi Tanahashi, who are in their first reign as a team, while it's the fifth individually for Tanahashi and Yano, and the first for Boltin. They defeated House of Torture (Evil, Sho and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) at Wrestling World 2024 in Taiwan.
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Promotion | New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) | ||||||||||||||||||
Date established | December 21, 2015[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Toru Yano, Oleg Boltin and Hiroshi Tanahashi | ||||||||||||||||||
Date won | April 14, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
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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.
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a match with a predetermined outcome.