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NEVER Openweight 6‑Man Tag Titles: Chaos, Factions, and Trios Wrestling Explained

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The NEVER Openweight 6‑Man Tag Team Championship is NJPW’s dedicated trios title, built to showcase faction chemistry, mix heavyweights and juniors, and give multi‑man undercard matches real stakes.​

What the NEVER 6‑Man titles are

  • The NEVER Openweight 6‑Man Tag Team Championship is a trios belt owned by New Japan Pro Wrestling, introduced in late 2015 with the first champions crowned at Wrestle Kingdom 10.​
  • “Openweight” means heavyweights and junior heavyweights can team together, so stables can field any combination of three wrestlers without worrying about weight limits.​

Chaos, Bullet Club, and other factions

  • From the beginning, the belts were a natural fit for NJPW’s unit system, with stables like Chaos, Bullet Club, Los Ingobernables de Japon, Taguchi Japan and House of Torture all holding the titles at various points.​
  • Bullet Club in particular used NEVER trios reigns as part of its run of “holding every title in New Japan,” while Chaos’ deep mid‑card made it ideal for rotating three‑man combinations.​

How the titles are used on cards

  • NEVER 6‑Man matches often appear in the first half of big shows, adding a championship hook to multi‑man tags that might otherwise just be faction showcases or preview tags.​
  • Because the belts are relatively low on the totem pole, they can be used to elevate younger names, give veterans something meaningful to do, or heat up faction feuds without risking the top singles titles.​

Chaos, chaos, and trios storytelling

  • The title’s history is full of chaotic multi‑team situations, tournaments, gauntlets and Ranbo‑style battle royals, where different units send in their trios to fight for bragging rights and leverage.​
  • Reigns by units like LIJ, Bullet Club variants and House of Torture have tied into bigger stories about internal pecking orders, betrayals, and shifts in faction control, even when the matches themselves are slotted early on the card.​

The current champions and why they matter

  • As of Wrestle Kingdom 20 in January 2026, TMDK’s trio of Zack Sabre Jr., Ryohei Oiwa and Hartley Jackson captured the NEVER Openweight 6‑Man Tag Titles by winning a Tornado Ranbo‑style opener, last eliminating Boltin Oleg and Bishamon.​
  • This win gives Oiwa and Jackson their first NJPW championships and positions TMDK as a major trios force going into 2026, underlining how the belts can solidify a faction’s status without needing the top singles belt.
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