List of NEVER Openweight Champions

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Yuji Nagata, the current NEVER Openweight Champion

The NEVER Openweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. NEVER is an acronym of the terms "New Blood", "Evolution", "Valiantly", "Eternal", and "Radical" and was a NJPW-promoted series of events, which featured younger up-and-coming talent and outside wrestlers not signed to the promotion.[1][2] The project was officially announced on July 12, 2010,[2] and held its first event on August 24, 2010.[3]

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been eleven reigns shared among seven wrestlers with one vacancy. Masato Tanaka was the first champion in the title's history.[4] He also holds the record for the longest reign in the title's history, at Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days. Togi Makabe's first reign of Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days is the shortest in the title's history. Tomohiro Ishii holds the record for most reigns with the title, being a four-time champion. Yuji Nagata is the current champion in his first reign, having defeated Katsuyori Shibata for the title on May 3, 2016, at Wrestling Dontaku 2016.[5]

Title history

# Order in reign history
Reign The reign number for the specific wrestler listed
Event The event in which the title was won
Successful defenses The number of successful defenses the champion had during his reign
— Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
N/A The information is not available or is unknown
+ Indicates the current reign is changing daily
# Wrestler Reign Date Days
held		 Location Event Successful defenses Notes Ref.
1 Masato Tanaka 1 November 19, 2012 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Shodai NEVER Musabetsu Kyu Oza Kettei Tournament Final 4 Tanaka defeated Karl Anderson in the finals of a sixteen-man tournament to become the inaugural champion. [4]
2 Tetsuya Naito 1 September 29, 2013 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Kobe Destruction 2 [6]
3 Tomohiro Ishii 1 February 11, 2014 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Osaka The New Beginning in Osaka 4 [7]
4 Yujiro Takahashi 1 June 29, 2014 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Kizuna Road 2014 1 [8]
5 Tomohiro Ishii 2 October 13, 2014 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo King of Pro-Wrestling 1 [9]
6 Togi Makabe 1 January 4, 2015 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome 0 [10]
— Vacated — February 14, 2015 — — — — The title was vacated due to Makabe being sidelined with influenza. [11]
7 Tomohiro Ishii 3 February 14, 2015 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Sendai The New Beginning in Sendai 0 Ishii defeated Tomoaki Honma to win the vacant title. [12]
8 Togi Makabe 2 April 29, 2015 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Mashiki Wrestling Hinokuni 2 [13]
9 Tomohiro Ishii 4 October 12, 2015 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo King of Pro-Wrestling 1 [14]
10 Katsuyori Shibata 1 January 4, 2016 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome 3 [15]
11 Yuji Nagata 1 May 3, 2016 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.+ Fukuoka Wrestling Dontaku 2016 0 [5]

Combined reigns

Tomohiro Ishii, record four-time NEVER Openweight Champion

As of July 2, 2024

† Indicates the current champion
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns		 Combined
defenses		 Combined
days
1 Tomohiro Ishii 4 6 379
2 Masato Tanaka 1 4 314
3 Togi Makabe 2 2 207
4 Tetsuya Naito 1 2 135
5 Katsuyori Shibata 1 3 120
6 Yujiro Takahashi 1 1 106
7 Yuji Nagata † 1 0 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.+

See also

References

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External links

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