• Source: List of NEVER Openweight Champions

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. The project was officially announced on July 12, 2010, and held its first event on August 24, 2010.
There have been 46 reigns shared among 23 wrestlers with one vacancy. Masato Tanaka was the first champion in the title's history. He also holds the record for the longest reign in the title's history at 314 days during his only reign. Tomohiro Ishii has the most reigns, with six. Michael Elgin's only reign of 8 days is the shortest in the title's history. Minoru Suzuki is the oldest champion when he won it at 52 years old while Will Ospreay is the youngest champion at 25 years old.
The current champion is Shingo Takagi, who is in his fifth reign. He defeated Henare at Destruction in Kobe on September 29, 2024 in Kobe, Japan to win the title.




Title history






Combined reigns


As of November 23, 2024.




See also


NEVER (professional wrestling)
NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship
IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship




References






External links


Official title history at njpw.co.jp
Title history at Wrestling-Titles.com

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