Saikyo Tag League
Saikyo Tag League is a professional wrestling round-robin hardcore tag team tournament annually held by Big Japan Pro Wrestling, considered a spin-off of New Japan Pro-Wrestling's World Tag League and All Japan Pro Wrestling's World's Strongest Tag Determination League. The tournament was established in 1999 as Maximum Tag League and then renamed as Big Japan Tag League in 2011 before returning to its old name Maximum Tag League in 2014. A new format was introduced in 2014 in which the teams were divided into two blocks, "Strong Style Block" and "Deathmatch Block". The strong style block consists of normal tag team matches and deathmatch block consists of matches contested under deathmatch rules.
The Saikyo Tag League is held under a points system, with 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. Top four teams advance to the semifinals in the knockout format and then the winning teams compete in the finals.
List of winners
Tournament history
1999
The 1999 Maximum Tag League was the first edition of the tournament which featured four teams in one block. The tournament was held between October 27 and November 8, 1999.2000
The 2000 Maximum Tag League featured a new format as it had eight teams divided into two blocks with four teams in each block. The tournament was held between September 17 and October 30, 2000.2001
The 2001 Maximum Tag League consisted of one block with five teams and was held between September 11 and September 23, 2001.2002
The 2002 Maximum Tag League consisted of total ten teams and two blocks with five teams in each block. The tournament was held between October 8 and October 31, 2002.2003
The 2003 Maximum Tag League consisted of one block with five teams and was held between October 8 and November 8, 2003.| Daikokubo Benkei and Abdullah Kobayashi | 6 |
| Daisuke Sekimoto and 2 Tuff Tony | 6 |
| Men's Teioh and Mr. Big Japan | 4 |
| Shadow WX and Mad Man Pondo | 2 |
| Katsumasa Inoue and Hiroyuki Kondo | 2 |
2009
The 2009 Maximum Tag League was the sixth edition of the tournament which marked the return of the tournament after a six-year hiatus. It was held between February 13 and May 28, 2009.- Masato Tanaka was a replacement for the injured Mammoth Sasaki.
2011
2012
The 2012 Big Japan Tag League was held between September 25 and November 24, 2012.2013
The 2013 Saikyo Tag League was held between September 25 and November 22, 2013.2014
The 2014 Big Japan Maximum Tag League featured twelve teams and two blocks with six tag teams in each block. The tournament featured a new format in which one block was named "Strong Style Block" which consisted of matches contested under strong style format and the other block was named "Deathmatch Block" in which matches were contested under deathmatch format. The tournament was held between September 20 and November 21, 2014.2015
The 2015 Big Japan Maximum Tag League featured twelve teams and two blocks with six tag teams in each block. The tournament was held between September 21 and October 29, 2015.2016
The 2016 Big Japan Maximum Tag League featured a unique format as it featured four blocks with each block consisting of four tag teams. Two blocks were Strong Style blocks and two were Deathmatch blocks in the tournament. The tournament was held between September 4 and October 31, 2016.2017
The 2017 Big Japan Maximum Tag League featured twelve teams and two blocks with six tag teams in each block. The tournament was held between September 6 and October 15, 2017.2018
The 2018 Saikyo Tag League is the current ongoing tournament featuring total fourteen teams with seven teams in each block. The tournament will be held between August 12 and October 25, 2018.| Strong Style Block | Suzuki Sekimoto | Hashimoto Kamitani | K. Hashimoto Aoki | Kawakami Kikuta | Hama Nakanoue | Nomura Abe | Yoshina Sekifuda |
| Suzuki Sekimoto | Suzuki Sekimoto | Suzuki Sekimoto | Kawakami Kikuta | Hama Nakanoue | Suzuki Sekimoto | Yoshina Sekifuda | |
| Hashimoto Kamitani | Suzuki Sekimoto | Hashimoto Kamitani | Hashimoto Kamitani | Hama Nakanoue | Hashimoto Kamitani | Hashimoto Kamitani | |
| K. Hashimoto Aoki | Suzuki Sekimoto | Hashimoto Kamitani | Kawakami Kikuta | Hama Nakanouse | K. Hashimoto Aoki | K. Hashimoto Aoki | |
| Kawakami Kikuta | Kawakami Kikuta | Hashimoto Kamitani | Kawakami Kikuta | Kawakami Kikuta | Kawakami Kikuta | Yoshino Sekifuda | |
| Hama Nakanoue | Hama Nakanoue | Hama Nakanoue | Hama Nakanouse | Kawakami Kikuta | Nomura Abe | Hama Nakanoue | |
| Nomura Abe | Suzuki Sekimoto | Hashimoto Kamitani | K. Hashimoto Aoki | Kawakami Kikuta | Nomura Abe | Yoshino Sekifuda | |
| Yoshina Sekifuda | Yoshina Sekifuda | Hashimoto Kamitani | K. Hashimoto Aoki | Yoshino Sekifuda | Hama Nakanoue | Yoshino Sekifuda | |
| Deathmatch Block | Kobayashi Uto | Takahashi Mogami | Miyamoto Kodaka | Ito Sekine | Takeda Tsukamoto | Fujita Hoshino | Ueki Sakuda |
| Kobayashi Uto | Kobayashi Uto | Kobayashi Uto | Ito Sekine | Takeda Tsukamoto | Kobayashi Uto | Kobayashi Uto | |
| Takahashi Mogami | Kobayashi Uto | Takahashi Mogami | Ito Sekine | Takahashi Mogami | Fujita Hoshino | Takahashi Mogami | |
| Miyamoto Kodaka | Kobayashi Uto | Takahashi Mogami | Ito Sekine | Takeda Tsukamoto | Miyamoto Kodaka | Miyamoto Kodaka | |
| Ito Sekine | Ito Sekine | Ito Sekine | Ito Sekine | Ito Sekine | Ito Sekine | Ueki Sakuda | |
| Takeda Tsukamoto | Takeda Tsukamoto | Takahashi Mogami | Takeda Tsukamoto | Ito Sekine | Fujita Hoshino | Takeda Tsukamoto | |
| Fujita Hoshino | Kobayashi Uto | Fujita Hoshino | Miyamoto Kodaka | Ito Sekine | Fujita Hoshino | ||
| Ueki Sakuda | Kobayashi Uto | Takahashi Mogami | Miyamoto Kodaka | Ueki Sakuda | Takeda Tsukamoto | Ueki Sakuda |