Saikyo Tag League

The **Saikyo Tag League** (**Strongest Tag League** in English) is a round-robin tag team tournament held by Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW). It was created in 1999 as the **Maximum Tag League**, as a continuation of a regular tag team tournament held since 1999 but in 2011 to 2012 the tournament was named **Big Japan Tag League** and gained the name to it's current in 2013. In 2014 BJW since they had the deathmatch and strong divisions the separated in two blocks until 2016 they separated into 4 blocks of each division. The winners of the tournament, assuming they do not already hold the belts, they get a title shot for the BJW Tag Team Championship.

The Saikyo Tag League is held under a points system, with two points for a win, one for a time limit draw and none for any other kind of a draw or a loss. The team finishing a top the points standings are the winners. Matches in the have a 30-minute time limit.

In 2020, BJW changed the tournament in to a singles-elimination tournament and was renamed **Saikyo Tag Tournament** (**Strongest Tag Tournament** in English).

## List of winners

### 1999

The 1999 Maximum Tag League featured four teams, and was held from October 27 to November 8.

Final standings
 Mike Samples and Jun Kasai | 0

### 2000

The 2000 Maximum Tag League featured four teams in each block, and was held from October 27 to November 8.

Final standings
 KAMIKAZE and Abdullah Kobayashi (C) | 0 | Mad Man Pondo and Mitch Page | 0

### 2001

The 2001 Maximum Tag League featured five teams, and was held from September 11 to Spetember 23.

Final standings
 Fantastik and Ryuji Ito | 0

### 2002

The 2002 Maximum Tag League featured five teams in two blocks and was held from October 27 to November 8.

Final standings
 Mad Man Pondo and 2 Tuff Tony

### 2003

The 2003 Maximum Tag League featured five teams, and was held from October 27 to November 8.

Final standings
 Katsumasa Inoue and Hiroyuki Kondo | 2

### 2009

The 2009 Maximum Tag League was held from February 13 to May 28. The returned to use a multi-block system, featuring 5 teams in two blocks, with the winners of each block facing each other in the final, contested for the vacant BJW Tag Team Championship which were vacated by Mammoth Sasaki and Daisuke Sekimoto.

Final standings
 Atsushi Ohashi and Yuji Okabayashi | 0 | Katsumasa Inoue and Kankuro Hoshino | 2

† Kasai injured himself shortly after the start of the tournament the rest of he and Numazawa's matches were forfeited.

†Tanaka replaced Mammoth Sasaki due to inury. The team was penalized one point for this.

†Originally Ito and Shuji Ishikawa won the match but Ito injured himself so they were replaced by Masashi Takeda and Isami Kodaka.

### 2011

The 2011 Big Japan Tag League was held from September 19 to November 22. The tournament was held in a round robin dual block format.

Final standings
 Shinya Ishikawa and Ryuichi Kawakami | 1 | Takashi Sasaki and Masato Inaba | 0

### 2012

The 2012 Big Japan Tag League was held from September 25 to November 24. Outside participation included Jun Ogawauchi and Amigo Suzuki from SECRET BASE. The final match was for the BJW Tag Team Champions which was won by Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto.

Final standings
 Jun Ogawauchi and Amigo Suzuki | 2 | Abdullah Kobayashi and Drake Younger | 4

### 2013

The 2013 Saikyo Tag League was held from September 25 to November 22. In block B the team of Ryuji Ito and Yoshihito Sasaki had to forfeit their matches due to Sasaki suffering a meniscus and cruciate ligament in his right knee.

Final standings
 Kankuro Hoshino and Masato Inaba | 0 | Ryuji Ito and Yoshihito Sasaki | 2

### 2014

The 2014 Saikyo Tag League was held from September 20 to November 22. It was the first time that it was divided into Strong and Deathmatch block.

Final standings
 Tsutomu Oosugi and Hercules Senga | 0 | Masashi Takeda and Jaki Numazawa | 0

### 2015

The 2015 Saikyo Tag League was held from September 21 to October 29. The final match was for the BJW Tag Team Champions which was won by Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi.

Final standings
 Daichi Hashimoto and Kazuki Hashimoto | 2 | Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei | 2

### 2016

The 2016 Saikyo Tag League was held from September 4 to October 31. It was the first time that was divided into 2 blocks of each division.

Final standings

### 2017

The 2017 Saikyo Tag League was held from September 2 to October 15.

Final standings
 Minoru Fujita and Kankuro Hoshino | 2 | Hideki Suzuki and Shogun Okamoto | 4

### 2018

The 2018 Saikyo Tag League would be held from August 12 to October 25. Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto were forced to pull out of the tournament and forfeit all of their last matches, after Kodaka suffered a jaw injury during Pro Wrestling BASARA show.

Final standings
 Minoru Fujita and Kankuro Hoshino | 4 | Takuya Nomura and Fuminori Abe | 2

### 2019

The 2019 Saikyo Tag League would be held from September 1 to November 26.

Final standings
 Takuho Kato and Akira Hyodo | 0

## 2020

The 2020 Saikyo Tag Tournament featured sixteen teams competing in a singles-elimination tournament, and was held from September 9 to October 20 and the format was changed in to a singles-elimination tournament instead of round-robin tag team tournament.

### 2022

The 2022 Saikyo Tag League would be held from September 4 to February 13, 2023 and the format returning its old round-robin format instead of singles-elimination tournament format.

Final standings
 Ryuji Ito and Jaki Numazawa | 5
 Daisuke Sekimoto and Kazumasa Yoshida | 4

## Gallery

* Gallery
* Winners

Trophy

Masashi Takeda and Isami KodakaDaisuke Sekimoto and Yuji OkabayashiIsami Kodaka and Yuko MiyamotoHideyoshi Kamitani and Daichi HashimotoRyota Hama and Yasufumi NakanoueShigehiro Irie and Yuji Okabayashi