Openweight, also known as Absolute, is an unofficial weight class in combat sports and professional wrestling. It refers to bouts where there is no weight limit and fighters with a dramatic difference in size can compete against each other. It is different from catch weight, where competitors agree to weigh in at a certain amount without an official weight class. While weight classes are usually mandatory now, openweight competition was the norm for combat sports since antiquity and continues into the modern day.[1]
^Poliakoff, Michael B. (August 2, 2022). "Ancient Combat Sports". Biblical Archaeology Society. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
Openweight, also known as Absolute, is an unofficial weight class in combat sports and professional wrestling. It refers to bouts where there is no weight...
The Strong Openweight Championship (STRONG無差別級王座, STRONG musabetsu-kyū ōza) is a professional wrestling championship owned and promoted by the New Japan...
The NEVER Openweight Championship (NEVER無差別級王座, NEVER musabetsu-kyū ōza) is a professional wrestling championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling...
World Tag Team Championship. As a singles wrestler, Tonga held the NEVER Openweight Championship four times. He has also worked with NJPW's partner promotion...
The MLW National Openweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion...
members of the Bullet Club stable, they are the former three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions with various Bullet Club teammates. In March...
Fale (バッドラック・ファレ, Baddorakku Fare). In NJPW, he is a three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion, a one-time IWGP Tag Team Champion and a one-time...
known for his time in Major League Wrestling, where he was a MLW National Openweight Champion and a one-time MLW World Heavyweight Champion, the latter being...
Bullet Club and the current Strong Openweight Champion in his first reign. He is also a former Strong Openweight Tag Team Champion, alongside former...
Dick Togo, and in the second one, the IWGP Tag Team Champions and Strong Openweight Tag Team Champions Mark Davis, Kyle Fletcher and the Undisputed British...
Tonga are seven-time IWGP Tag Team Champions and former three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions with Bad Luck Fale and Taiji Ishimori. He also...
The NEVER Openweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. NEVER is an acronym of...
Murashima and Togi Makabe, and Shoma Kato and one third of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions Oleg Boltin solded with the victory of the latter...
Tonga to win the NEVER Openweight Championship. At Lonestar Shootout, Takagi defeated Trent Beretta to retain the NEVER Openweight title. After the match...
created in 2004 as a singles title known as the Global Hardcore Crown (GHC) Openweight Hardcore Championship (グローバル・ハードコア・クラウン無差別級王座, Gurōbaru Hādokoa Kuraun...
The Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship (STRONG無差別級王座, STRONG musabetsu-kyū ōza) is a professional wrestling tag team championship owned and promoted...
Heavyweight Champion, the inaugural and longest reigning MLW National Openweight Champion, and the winner of Battle Riot III. Rohde debuted on the Arizona...
The ECCW Championship (formerly known as the NWA/ECCW Heavyweight Championship) is the top singles championship in Elite Canadian Championship Wrestling...
a press conference that Rizin Fighting Federation will host a 16-man openweight tournament September 25 in Tokyo. 2006 Pride Open-Weight Grand Prix Champion...
Pancrase: Alive 1. For The Pancrase Openweight Championship. For The Pancrase Openweight Championship. For The Pancrase Openweight Championship. Pancrase: Advance...
Prix Champion, the 2012 K-1 World Grand Prix Champion and the 2016 Rizin Openweight Grand Prix Champion becoming the second fighter in the world to win mixed...
Global Information