KO-D Tag Team Championship
The KO-D Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the DDT Pro-Wrestling promotion. "KO-D" stands for "King of DDT", the promotion's unofficial governing body. It is one of three tag team titles contested for in DDT, along with the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship and the KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship. The current champions are Strange Love Connection. They won the title by defeating The Apex at Ultimate Party 2025 on November 3, 2025.
The title was introduced in June 2001, when Nosawa and Takashi Sasaki returned to DDT with new championship belts that had allegedly been sanctioned by the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and which they had won in Mexico. In its early days, DDT occasionally referred to the title as the, then the.
History
The titles were created in 2001 when Nosawa and Takashi Sasaki, while on tour in Mexico, allegedly defeated Starman and Vertigo on June 2, 2001, at a Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre event. On August 16, Mikami and Super Uchuu Power vacated the titles and put it up for grab in the KO-D Tag League. They then defeated Sanshiro Takagi and Shoichi Ichimiya in the finals to win it back. However, a month later, the team split up and the titles were vacated again.The titles were vacated a third time in May 2002 after Mikami suffered an injury. It was once again contested in the KO-D Tag League and won by the Suicideboyz.
The 2003 and 2004 editions of the KO-D Tag League saw respectively Tomohiko Hashimoto and Seiya Morohashi, and Hero! and Kudo win the tournament and the title. On July 31, 2004, Glenn "Q" Spectre became the first non-Japanese wrestler to win the title when he teamed with Danshoku Dino to defeat Ryuji Ito and Sanshiro Takagi.
In February 2020, the belts were replaced with a new design featuring the current DDT logo.
On May 22, 2022, Asuka became the first woman to win the title when she teamed with Mao to defeat Calamari Drunken Kings. On November 22, it was announced that Harimau would vacate the title because Yoshimura suffered an injury four days prior and would be out of action.
On May 21, 2023, at the 2023 King of DDT Final event, champion Shunma Katsumata suffered a broken foot during his first defense of the DDT Extreme Championship. The following day, Katsumata had to vacate both the DDT Extreme and KO-D Tag Team Championships.
On November 21, 2024, it was announced that Katsumata had sustained a torn anterior ligament and that he and his partner Mao would relinquish their title once again.
Reigns
As of ,, there have been a total of 88 reigns shared between 78 different teams composed of 68 distinctive champions, and 13 vacancies. The inaugural champions were Nosawa and Takashi Sasaki. Nine teams are tied for the most reigns at two, while individually, Harashima has the most with 11. The sole reign of Nautilus is the longest at 296 days. The record for the shortest reign belongs to Seiya Morohashi and Shoichi Ichimiya whose sole reign lasted for four days. The Golden☆Lovers have the longest combined reign at 351 days. Tatsumi Fujinami is the oldest champion at 58, while Konosuke Takeshita is the youngest at 20.The current champions are Strange Love Connection. They won the title by defeating The Apex at Ultimate Party 2025 on November 3, 2025.
Combined reigns
As of ,.By team
By wrestler
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined defenses | Combined days |
| 1 | Hero!/Darkside Hero!/Harashima | 11 | 14 | 830 |
| 2 | 7 | 17 | 682 | |
| 3 | Mao † | 6 | 14 | + |
| 4 | Mikami | 6 | 11 | 628 |
| 5 | 5 | 12 | 580 | |
| 6 | 5 | 10 | 570 | |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | 540 | |
| 8 | 5 | 12 | 526 | |
| 9 | 4 | 10 | 521 | |
| 10 | 5 | 9 | 496 | |
| 11 | 4 | 9 | 473 | |
| 12 | 3 | 9 | 469 | |
| 13 | 3 | 7 | 444 | |
| 14 | 3 | 16 | 434 | |
| 15 | Gentaro | 4 | 7 | 385 |
| 16 | 4 | 8 | 373 | |
| 17 | 4 | 14 | 361 | |
| 18 | 3 | 7 | 356 | |
| 19 | 5 | 7 | 343 | |
| 20 | 2 | 9 | 331 | |
| 21 | 3 | 6 | 317 | |
| 22 | Kudo | 4 | 8 | 312 |
| 23 | 2 | 8 | 312 | |
| 24 | 3 | 9 | 309 | |
| 25 | 1 | 7 | 296 | |
| 26 | 2 | 4 | 276 | |
| 27 | 2 | 5 | 265 | |
| 28 | 3 | 3 | 257 | |
| 29 | 3 | 4 | 226 | |
| 30 | 1 | 4 | 217 | |
| 31 | 2 | 11 | 216 | |
| 32 | 2 | 7 | 203 | |
| 33 | 2 | 4 | 199 | |
| 34 | 3 | 6 | 188 | |
| 35 | 2 | 2 | 167 | |
| 36 | 1 | 6 | 161 | |
| 37 | 3 | 4 | 160 | |
| 38 | 4 | 2 | 149 | |
| 39 | 2 | 6 | 141 | |
| 39 | 1 | 3 | 141 | |
| 41 | 1 | 3 | 139 | |
| 42 | 1 | 2 | 133 | |
| 43 | † | 3 | 3 | + |
| 44 | 1 | 5 | 127 | |
| 45 | 1 | 2 | 110 | |
| 46 | Shota | 1 | 3 | 109 |
| 47 | 1 | 3 | 107 | |
| 48 | 1 | 0 | 105 | |
| 49 | 2 | 2 | 104 | |
| 49 | 1 | 3 | 104 | |
| 51 | 1 | 5 | 101 | |
| 51 | 1 | 5 | 101 | |
| 53 | 2 | 3 | 90 | |
| 54 | 1 | 3 | 82 | |
| 54 | To-y | 1 | 1 | 82 |
| 56 | 1 | 2 | 77 | |
| 57 | Mad Paulie/MJ Paul | 2 | 0 | 75 |
| 58 | Super Uchuu Power | 2 | 1 | 74 |
| 59 | Asuka | 1 | 0 | 63 |
| 60 | Kai | 1 | 0 | 56 |
| 60 | 1 | 0 | 56 | |
| 62 | 2 | 1 | 55 | |
| 63 | 1 | 1 | 47 | |
| 64 | 1 | 0 | 41 | |
| 64 | Yoshiya | 1 | 0 | 41 |
| 66 | Nosawa | 1 | 1 | 33 |
| 67 | 1 | 0 | 10 | |
| 68 | 1 | 0 | 4 |