This article is about NJPW's current top heavyweight title. For NJPW's former top heavyweight title, see IWGP Heavyweight Championship. For the championship previously referred to by TNA as the "IWGP World Heavyweight Championship", see IWGP Heavyweight Championship (IGF). For the inactive DDT parody championship, see IMGP World Heavyweight Championship. For other uses, see IWGP Heavyweight Championship (disambiguation).
IWGP World Heavyweight Championship
The IWGP World Heavyweight Championship belt
Details
Promotion
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date established
March 1, 2021
Current champion(s)
Jon Moxley
Date won
April 12, 2024
Statistics
First champion(s)
Kota Ibushi
Most reigns
Kazuchika Okada (2 reigns)
Longest reign
Sanada (271 days)
Shortest reign
Kota Ibushi (31 days)
Oldest champion
Tetsuya Naito (41 years, 196 days)
Youngest champion
Will Ospreay (27 years, 332 days)
Heaviest champion
Kazuchika Okada (236 lb (107 kg))
Lightest champion
Kota Ibushi (205 lb (93 kg))
The IWGP World Heavyweight Championship (IWGP世界ヘビー級王座, IWGP Sekai hebī-kyū ōza) is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. "IWGP" is the acronym of NJPW's governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix (インターナショナル・レスリング・グラン・プリ, intānashonaru resuringu guran puri).[1] The championship was created on March 1, 2021, by the unification of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the IWGP Intercontinental Championship. The current champion is Jon Moxley, who is in his first reign.
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