The KO-D Tag Team Championship is the top tag team title DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) promotion. "KO-D" is the acronym of DDT's governing body, the King of DDT. The title was introduced on June 2, 2001, after Nosawa and Takashi Sasaki defeated Starman and Vertigo at CMLL event. Because of its origin the title is sometimes labelled as a combined certified championship between DDT and CMLL being named the CMLL Certified KO-D Tag Team Championship. However the belts have never been defended outside of DDT since its creation, being named the KO-D Tag Team Championship.
Overview[]
Throughout the history of the championship, the title was vacated eight times due to an inability to participate in title defenses. When a wrestler has been injured or unable to compete for other reasons, tournaments have been held to determine the new champion.
The titles, when they were created, were known as the CMLL Certified KO-D Tag Team Championship because of its origin the title is sometimes labeled as a combined certified championship between DDT and CMLL. However the belts have never been defended outside of DDT since its creation, being named the KO-D Tag Team Championship.
In February 2020, Yuki Ueno and Naomi Yoshimura were given a second version of the titles, replacing the first version.
Title History[]
| # | Wrestler | Reign | Date | Location | Length | Defenses | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nosawa and Takashi Sasaki | 1 | June 2, 2000 | Mexico, City, Mexico | 33 Days | 1 | CMLL on Televisa | Defeated Starman and Vertigo in a CMLL event to become the first champions. |
| 2 | MIKAMI and Super Uchuu Power | 1 | July 26, 2000 | Tokyo | 77 Days | 1 | Non-Fix 5/7 | |
| — | Vacated | — | August 16, 2001 | — | N/A | — | N/A | MIKAMI and Power vacated the titles in order to enter the DDT Tag League. |
| 3 | MIKAMI and Super Uchuu Power | 2 | September 30, 2001 | Saitama | 32 Days | 0 | Sunday DDT Theater | Defeated Sanshiro Takagi and Shoichi Ichimiya in the finals of the DDT Tag League. |
| — | Vacated | — | November 1, 2001 | — | N/A | — | N/A | Vacated due to MIKAMI and Power split up as a team. |
| 4 | GENTARO and YOSHIYA | 1 | November 1, 2001 | Tokyo | 41 Days | 1 | Non-Fix 11/1 | Defeated Suicide Boyz (MIKAMI and Tanomusaku Toba) to win the vacant titles. |
| 5 | MIKAMI (3) and Takashi Sasaki (2) | 1 | December 12, 2001 | Tokyo | 155 Days | 2 | Never Mind (2001) | |
| — | Vacated | — | May 16, 2002 | — | N/A | — | N/A | Vacated due to MIKAMI being sidelined with an injury. |
| 6 | Suicide Boyz (MIKAMI (4) and Tanomusaku Toba) |
1 | August 25, 2002 | Chiba | 60 Days | 2 | The Ring | Defeated Poison Sawada Julie and Super Uchuu Power to win the vacant titles. |
| 7 | Akarangers (GENTARO (2) and Takashi Sasaki (3)) |
1 | October 24, 2002 | Tokyo | 99
Days |
0 | Dead or Alive | |
| 8 | Sanshiro Takagi and Tomohiko Hashimoto | 1 | January 31, 2003 | Tokyo | 97 Days | 2 | Sheep | |
| — | Vacated | — | May 8, 2003 | — | N/A | — | N/A | Vacated due to Hashimoto being sidelined with an injury. |
| 9 | Seiya Morohashi and Shoichi Ichimiya | 1 | May 18, 2003 | Tokyo | 4 Days | 0 | Max Bump (2003) | Defeated Super Uchuu Power and Takashi Sasaki in the finals of an eight-team one-night tournament. |
| 10 | Takashi Sasaki (4) and Tanomusaku Toba (2) | 1 | May 22, 2003 | Tokyo | 28 Days | 2 | Non-Fix 5/22 | |
| — | Vacated | — | September 11, 2003 | — | N/A | — | N/A | Vacated after losing to Super Uchuu Power and Super Uchuu Power Omega. |
| 11 | Seiya Morohashi (2) and Tomohiko Hashimoto (2) | 1 | September 28, 2003 | Tokyo | 92 Days | 1 | Who's Gonna Top? (2003) | Defeated Takashi Sasaki and Tanomusaku Toba in the finals of the KO-D Tag League. |
| 12 | Hero! and Kudo | 1 | December 29, 2003 | Tokyo | 44 Days | 0 | Never Mind (2003) | This was a three-way match including MIKAMI and Onryo. |
| 13 | Akarangers (GENTARO (3) and Takashi Sasaki (5)) |
2 | February 11, 2004 | Yokohama | 141 Days | 3 | Future Port | |
| 14 | Ryuji Ito and Sanshiro Takagi (2) | 1 | July 1, 2004 | Tokyo | 30 Days | 0 | Audience (2003) | |
| 15 | The Gay Machine Guns (Danshoku Dino and Glenn "Q" Spectre) |
1 | July 31, 2004 | Tokyo | 41
Days |
0 | Boys, Be Ambitious | This was a three-way match including Gentaro and Takashi Sasaki |
| — | Vacated | — | September 10, 2004 | — | N/A | — | N/A | Vacated the titles in order to enter the KO-D Tag League. |
| 16 | Hero! and Kudo | 2 | September 30, 2004 | Tokyo | 33 Days | 0 | Who's Gonna Top? (2004) | Defeated Gay Machine Guns (Danshoku Dino and Glenn "Q" Spectre) in the finals of the KO-D Tag League. |
| 17 | Seiya Morohashi (3) and Tanomusaku Toba (3) | 1 | November 2, 2004 | Tokyo | 115
Days |
3 | Day Dream Believer (2004) | |
| 18 | Nobutaka Moribe and Tomohiko Hashimoto (3) | 1 | February 25, 2005 | Tokyo | 68 Days | 1 | Don't Try This at Home | |
| 19 | Seiya Morohashi (4) and Tanomusaku Toba (4) | 2 | January 30, 2005 | Tokyo | 95 Days | 2 | Into The Fight (2005) | This was a three-way match including Macho Bump and Sho Kanzaki. |
| 20 | Darkside Hero! (3) and Toru Owashi | 1 | August 7, 2005 | Nagoya | 77 Days | 1 | Dramatic Dragons | Darkside Hero! previously held title under the ring name Hero!. |
| 21 | Daichi Kakimoto and Kota Ibushi | 1 | October 23, 2005 | Tokyo | 133 Days | 2 | Day Dream Believer (2005) | |
| 22 | The Italian Four Horseman (Francesco Togo and Mori Bernard) |
1 | March 5, 2006 | Tokyo | 263 Days | 8 | 9th Anniversary: Judgement 10 | |
| 23 | Poco Takanashi and Seiya Morohashi (5) | 1 | November 23, 2006 | Tokyo | 129 Days | 2 | God Bless DDT (2006) | |
| 24 | Nuru Nuru Brothers (Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga) |
1 | April 1, 2007 | Tokyo | 139 Days | 6 | April's Fool | |
| 25 | The Italian Four Horseman (Prince Togo and Antonio Honda) |
1 | August 18, 2007 | Tokyo | 101 Days | 1 | Sanshiro Festival (2007) | Prince Togo previously held title under the ring name Francesco Togo. |
| — | Vacated | — | November 27, 2007 | — | N/A | — | N/A | Title vacated when Honda and Togo split up as a team. |
| 26 | Suicide Boyz (MIKAMI (5) and Tanomusaku Toba (5)) |
1 | April 11, 2008 | Tokyo | 180 Days | 3 | Hanami DDT Final Day | Defeated Kudo and Yasu Urano in the finals the KO-D Tag League. |
| 27 | Disaster-Box (HARASHIMA (4) and Toru Owashi (2)) |
2 | October 8, 2008 | Tokyo | 108 Days | 1 | Day Dream Believer (2008) | HARASHIMA previously held title under the ring names Hero! and Darkside Hero!. |
| 28 | Golden☆Lovers (Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi (2)) |
1 | January 24, 2009 | Tokyo | 106 Days | 1 | Dramatic 2009 Special | |
| 29 | The Italian Four Horseman (Francesco Togo and Piza Michinoku) |
1 | May 10, 2009 | Hakata | 105 Days | 0 | Wrestling Tonkotsu (2009) | |
| 30 | Kudo (3) and Yasu Urano | 1 | August 23, 2009 | Tokyo | 172 Days | 5 | Ryōgoku Peter Pan (2009) | |
| 31 | Munenori Sawa and Sanshiro Takagi (3) | 1 | February 11, 2010 | Tokyo | 199 Days | 11 | Into the Fight 2010 | |
| 32 | Butt Samurai (Danshoku Dino (2) and Shiro Koshinaka) |
1 | August 29, 2010 | Tokyo | 77 Days | 2 | Natsuyasumi no Omoide (2010) | This was a three-way match, also including MIKAMI and Tanomusaku Toba. |
| 33 | From the Northern Country (Antonio Honda (2) and Daisuke Sasaki) |
1 | November 14, 2010 | Osaka | 98 Days | 3 | Osaka Bay Blues Special | |
| 34 | GENTARO (4) and Yasu Urano (2) | 1 | February 20, 2011 | Funabashi | 104 Days | 3 | DDT Funabashi Densetsu Again (2011) | |
| 35 | TKG48 (Munenori Sawa (2) and Shigehiro Irie) |
1 | June 4, 2011 | Tokyo | 15 Days | 0 | Non-Fix: 6.4 | |
| 36 | Kenny Omega (2) and Michael Nakazawa (2) | 1 | June 19, 2011 | Tokyo | 5
Days |
0 | What Are You Doing!? (2011) | |
| 37 | HARASHIMA (5) and Hero! | 1 | June 24, 2011 | Tokyo | 30 Days | 1 | KO-D Tag Team Championship One Match Show | |
| 38 | Daisuke Sekimoto and Masa Takanashi (2) | 1 | July 24, 2011 | Tokyo | 35 Days | 0 | Ryōgoku Peter Pan (2011) | This was a four-way match, also involving the teams of Gentaro and Yasu Urano, and Kenny Omega and Michael Nakazawa. |
| 39 | Danshoku Dino (2) and Kota Ibushi (3) | 1 | August 28, 2011 | Tokyo | 15 Days | 0 | Natsuyasumi no Omoide (2011) | |
| — | Vacated | — | September 12, 2011 | — | N/A | — | N/A | Vacated due to Ibushi dislocating his left shoulder. |
| 40 | Team Dream Futures (Keisuke Ishii and Shigehiro Irie (2)) |
1 | October 10, 2011 | Sapporo | 82 Days | 3 | Sapporo Puroresu Festa | Defeated Danshoku Dino and Makoto Oishi to win the vacant titles. |
| 41 | Crying Wolf (Yasu Urano (3) and Yuji Hino) |
1 | December 31, 2011 | Tokyo | 71 Days | 2 | Never Mind (2011) | |
| 42 | New World Japan (Sanshiro Takagi (4) and Soma Takao) |
1 | March 11, 2012 | Tokyo | 35 Days | 4 | Judgement (2012) | |
| 43 | Crying Wolf (Yasu Urano (4) and Yuji Hino (2)) |
2 | April 15, 2012 | Nagoya | 62 Days | 2 | Rozanshōryūha in Nagoya (2012) | |
| 44 | Homoiro Clover Z (Kudo (4) and Makoto Oishi) |
1 | June 16, 2012 | Ibaraki | 63 Days | 3 | Ibaraki de Ikappeyokappe (2012) | |
| 45 | MIKAMI (6) and Tatsumi Fujinami | 1 | August 18, 2012 | Tokyo | 141 Days | 3 | Budōkan Peter Pan | |
| 46 | UraShima (Yasu Urano (5) and HARASHIMA (6)) |
1 | January 6, 2013 | Yokohama | 117
Days |
4 | Shinshun Yokohama Puroresu Festa | |
| 47 | Hikaru Sato and Yukio Sakaguchi | 1 | May 3, 2013 | Tokyo | 107 Days | 3 | Max Bump (2013) | |
| 48 | Yankii Nicho Kenju Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto |
1 | August 18, 2013 | Tokyo | 161 Days | 6 | Ryōgoku Peter Pan (2013) | |
| 49 | Golden☆Lovers (Kenny Omega (3) and Kota Ibushi (5)) |
2 | January 26, 2014 | Tokyo | 245 Days | 6 | Sweet Dreams (2014) | This was three-way match, also involving Konosuke Takeshita and Tetsuya Endo. |
| 50 | Happy Motel (Konosuke Takeshita and Tetsuya Endo) |
1 | September 28, 2014 | Tokyo | 140 Days | 4 | DDT Dramatic Sousenkyo 2014 | |
| 51 | Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto (2) and Yuji Okabayashi) |
1 | February 15, 2015 | Saitama | 189 Days | 4 | Saitama Super DDT (2015) | |
| 52 | Golden☆Storm Riders (Daisuke Sasaki (2) and Kota Ibushi (5)) |
1 | August 23, 2015 | Tokyo | 71 Days | 1 | Ryōgoku Peter Pan (2015) | |
| — | Vacated | — | November 2, 2015 | — | N/A | — | N/A | Vacated due to Ibushi being sidelined with a cervical disc herniation. |
| 53 | Shin Sedai Konbi (Konosuke Takeshita and Tetsuya Endo) |
2 | December 23, 2015 | Tokyo | 89 Days | 1 | Never Mind (2015) | |
| 54 | Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki (3) and Shuji Ishikawa) |
1 | March 21, 2016 | Tokyo | 104 Days | 3 | Judgement (2016) | |
| 55 | Bad Comis (KAI and Ken Ohka) |
1 | July 3, 2016 | Fukuoka | 56 Days | 0 | Super Star Lane (2016) | |
| 56 | Smile Yankees (HARASHIMA (7) and Yuko Miyamoto (2)) |
1 | August 28, 2016 | Tokyo | 42 Days | 1 | Ryōgoku Peter Pan (2016) | |
| 57 | Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki (4) and Tetsuya Endo (3)) |
1 | October 9, 2016 | Sapporo | 56 Days | 1 | Sapporo Puroresu Festa (2016) | |
| 58 | Konosuke Takeshita (3) and Mike Bailey | 1 | December 4, 2016 | Osaka | 36 Days | 1 | Osaka Octopus (2016) | |
| 59 | Masakatsu Funaki and Yukio Sakaguchi (2) | 1 | January 9, 2017 | Osaka | 110 Days | 2 | Road to Super Arena in Oyodo | |
| 60 | New No Fear (Danshoku Dino (3) and Yoshihiro Takayama) |
1 | April 29, 2017 | Tokyo | 10 Days | 0 | Max Bump (2017) | |
| — | Vacated | — | May 9, 2017 | — | N/A | — | N/A | Vacated due to Takayama being sidelined with a neck injury. |
| 61 | YaroZ (Kazusada Higuchi and Shigehiro Irie (3)) |
1 | May 21, 2017 | Sapporo | 91 Days | 3 | Road to Ryogoku (2017) | Defeated All Out (Akito and Konosuke Takeshita) to win the vacant championship. |
| 62 | HARASHIMarufuji (HARASHIMA (8) and Naomichi Marufuji) |
1 | August 20, 2017 | Tokyo | 217 Days | 5 | Ryōgoku Peter Pan (2017) | |
| 63 | SekiGuchi (Daisuke Sekimoto (3) and Kazusada Higuchi (2)) |
1 | March 25, 2018 | Tokyo | 93 Days | 3 | Judgment (2018) | |
| 64 | Damnation (Mad Paulie and Tetsuya Endo (4)) |
1 | June 26, 2018 | Tokyo | 26 Days | 0 | DDT LIVE! MAJI MANJI #9 | |
| 65 | Moonlight Express (Mike Bailey (2) and MAO) |
1 | July 22, 2018 | Tokyo | 242 Days | 2 | DDT Summer Vacation | |
| 66 | Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki (5) and Soma Takao (2)) |
2 | March 21, 2019 | Tokyo | 288 Days | 8 | DDT Into The Fight | |
| 67 | Nautilus (Yuki Ueno and Naomi Yoshimura) |
1 | January 5, 2020 | Tokyo | 296 Days | 7 | DDT New Year Lottery Special! All Seats 2000 Yen Box Office!! 2020 | |
| 68 | Eruption (Kazusada Higuchi and Yukio Sakaguchi) |
1 | October 25, 2020 | Tokyo | 168 Days | 2 | Road to Ultimate Party 2020 | |
| 69 | Smille Pissari (HARASHIMA (9) and Yuji Okabayshi (2)) |
1 | April 11, 2021 | Tokyo | 76 Days | 1 | April Fool 2021 | |
| 70 | The37KAMIINA (Konosuke Takeshita (4) and Shunma Katsumata) |
1 | June 26, 2021 | Kuamamoto | 108 Days | 2 | DDT Jounoyu Street Pro-Wrestling | |
| 71 | Disaster Box (HARASHIMA (10) and Naomi Yoshimura (2)) |
1 | October 12, 2021 | Tokyo | 83 Days | 1 | Get Alive (2021) | |
| — | Vacated | — | January 3, 2022 | — | N/A | — | N/A | Disaster Box vacated the titles for the upcoming Ultimate Tag League. |
| 72 | Disaster Box (HARASHIMA (11) and Naomi Yoshimura (3)) |
2 | February 27, 2022 | Tokyo | 21 Days | 0 | Ultmate Tag League 2022 The Final!! | Defeated Konosuke Takeshita and Yuki Ueno in the finals the Ultimate Tag League. |
| 73 | Calamari Drunken Kings (Chris Brookes and Masahiro Takanashi (3)) |
1 | March 20, 2022 | Tokyo | 63 Days | 2 | Judgement (2022) | |
| 74 | ASUKA and MAO (2) | 1 | May 22, 2022 | Tokyo | 63 Days | 0 | Audience (2022) | |
| 75 | Harimao (Kazusada Higuchi (4) and Naomi Yoshimura (4)) |
1 | July 24, 2022 | Tokyo | 121 Days | 2 | Summer Vacation 2022 | |
| — | Vacated | — | November 22, 2022 | — | N/A | — | N/A | Title vacated due to Yoshimura being sidelined with an injury. |
| 76 | ShunMAO (MAO (3) and Shunma Katsumata (2)) |
1 | January 3, 2023 | Tokyo | 704+ | 1 | DDT Hatsuyume 2023 | Defeated Calamari Drunken Kings (Chris Brookes and Masahiro Takanashi) to win the vacant championship. |
Gallery[]
Original belt design
Nosawa and Takashi Sasaki
MIKAMI and Super Uchuu Power
GENTARO and YOSHIYA
MIKAMI and Takashi Sasaki
MIKAMI and Tanomusaku Toba
GENTARO and Takashi Sasaki
Sanshiro Takagi and Tomohiko Hashimoto
Shoichi Ichimiya and Seiya Morohashi
Tanomusaku Toba and Takashi Sasaki
Tomohiko Hashimoto and Seiya Morohashi
Hero! and Kudo
Sanshiro Takagi and Ryuji Ito
Danshoku Dino and Glenn "Q" Spectre
Tomohiko Hashimoto and Nobutaka Moribe
Tanomusaku Toba and Seiya Morohashi
Toru Owashi and Darkside Hero!
Daichi Kakimoto and Kota Ibushi
Francesco Togo and Mori Bernard
Poco Takanashi and Seiya Morohashi
Tomomitsu Matsunaga and Michael Nakazawa
Prince Togo and Antonio Honda
HARASHIMA and Toru Owashi
Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi
Francesco Togo and Piza Michinoku
Kudo and Yasu Urano
Munenori Sawa and Sanshiro Takagi
Danshoku Dino and Shiro Koshinaka
Antonio Honda and Daisuke Sasaki
GENTARO and Yasu Urano
Munenori Sawa and Shigehiro Irie
Kenny Omega and Michael Nakazawa
HARASHIMA and Hero!
Daisuke Sekimoto and Masa Takanashi
Kota Ibushi and Danshoku Dino
Keisuke Ishii and Shigehiro Irie
Yasu Urano and Yuji Hino
Sanshiro Takagi and Soma Takao
Kudo and Makoto Oishi
MIKAMI and Tatsumi Fujinami
HARASHIMA and Yasu Urano
Hikaru Sato and Yukio Sakaguchi
Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto
Konosuke Takeshita and Tetsuya Endo
Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi
Daisuke Sasaki and Kota Ibushi
Daisuke Sasaki and Shuji Ishikawa
KAI and Ken Ohka
HARASHIMA and Yuko Miyamoto
Daisuke Sasaki and Tetsuya Endo
Konosuke Takeshita and Mike Bailey
Masakatsu Funaki and Yukio Sakaguchi
Danshoku Dino and Yoshihiro Takayama
Kazusada Higuchi and Shigehiro Irie
HARASHIMA and Naomichi Marufuji
Daisuke Sekimoto and Kazusada Higuchi
Mad Paulie and Tetsuya Endo
Mike Bailey and MAO
Soma Takao and Daisuke Sasaki
Yuki Ueno and Naomi Yoshimura
Kazusada Higuchi and Yukio Sakaguchi
HARASHIMA and Yuji Okabayashi
Konosuke Takeshita and Shunma Katsumata
HARASHIMA and Naomi Yoshimura
Chris Brookes and Masahiro Takanashi
ASUKA and MAO
Kazusada Higuchi and Naomi Yoshimura
MAO and Shuma Katsumata