Championshipname: | UWA Asia Pacific Heavyweight Championship |
Currentholder: | Shogun Okamoto |
Won: | April 22, 2021 |
Promotion: | Real Japan Pro Wrestling |
Created: | 2018 |
Mostreigns: | Shogun Okamoto (2 reigns) |
Firstchamp: | Rey Ángel |
Longestreign: | (399 days) |
Shortestreign: | Rey Ángel (51 days) |
The is a single championship title in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Real Japan Pro Wrestling (RJPW). The title was established in 2018 as part of a collaboration between RJPW and the revived Mexican Universal Wrestling Association.[1] As it is a professional wrestling championship, the championship is not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers. On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, or leaving the company.
, there have been a total of five reigns. The current champion is Shogun Okamoto who is in his second reign.
On February 28, 2018, a press conference was held in Tokyo, Japan announcing a Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) revival.[2] As part of the revival, the UWA Asia Pacific Heavyweight Championship was created and Rey Ángel was appointed as the first champion with a title defense scheduled on September 20 against Kouki Iwasaki from Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling.[3] [4]
† | Indicates the current champion | |
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¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
Rank | Wrestler | data-sort-type="number" | No. of reigns | data-sort-type="number" | No. of defenses | data-sort-type="number" | Combined days |
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1 | Shogun Okamoto † | 2 | 2 | + | |||
2 | 1 | 2 | 399 | ||||
3 | 1 | 0 | 364 | ||||
4 | Rey Ángel | 1 | 0 | 51¤ |