 On August 23, Ibushi won the KO-D Tag Team Championship for the fifth time, when he and Daisuke Sasaki defeated Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi for the title.They vacated the title on November 2, when Ibushi was sidelined indefinitely with a cervical disc herniation.On February 21, 2016, Ibushi announced his resignation from DDT.