Active Advance Pro Wrestling Openweight Championship
Professional wrestling world championship
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The 2AW Openweight Championship is a professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the Japanese promotion Active Advance Pro Wrestling, being sanctioned as the promotion's top championship. There have been a total of thirteen reigns shared between ten different champions. The current champion is Daiju Wakamatsu who is in his first reign.[1]
| 2AW Openweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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Ayato Yoshida with the current design of the title (2022–present) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Active Advance Pro Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | September 1, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion | Taishi Takizawa | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | June 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Title history
In April 2019, the promotion (previously named Kaientai Dojo) announced that they were rebranding as Active Advance Pro Wrestling (2AW). This came as the company attempted to rebrand itself after the Taka Michinoku scandal, also changing its colors to black and white. That same night, young wrestler Ayato Yoshida won the Strongest-K Championship, symbolically leading the company into the future. He retired the title as the new 2AW Openweight Championship was created to replace it.[2]
There have been a total of sixteen reigns shared between ten different champions. Shu Asakawa was the inaugural champion. Ayato Yoshida holds the record for the longest reign with 298 days and also for the most individual reigns with four and also for the most cumulated successful defenses with twelve. The current champion is Taishi Takizawa, who won the title by defeating Ayato Yoshida at 2AW 7th Anniversary on June 21, 2026, in Chiba, Japan.
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| <1 | Reign lasted less than a day |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | Shu Asakawa | September 1, 2019 | 2AW GRAND SLAM In Korakuen Hall | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 206 | 4 | Defeated Ayato Yoshida in the tournament final to become the inaugural champion. | [3] |
| 2 | Yuji Okabayashi | March 25, 2020 | 2AW GRAND SLAM In Korakuen Hall | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 102 | 2 | [4] | |
| 3 | Ayato Yoshida | July 5, 2020 | 2AW Launching Business 1st Anniversary ~ GRAND SLAM In TKP Garden City Chiba | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 298 | 6 | [5] | |
| 4 | Taishi Takizawa | April 29, 2021 | 2AW Grand Slam In 2AW Square | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 182 | 4 | [6] | |
| 5 | Shigehiro Irie | October 28, 2021 | 2AW Grand Slam In Korakuen Hall | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 144 | 3 | [7] | |
| 6 | Kengo Mashimo | March 21, 2022 | 2AW Grand Slam In Korakuen Hall | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 279 | 7 | [8] | |
| 7 | Ayato Yoshida | December 25, 2022 | 2AW Grand Slam in TKP Garden City Chiba ~ Final Event Of The Year | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 210 | 6 | [9] | |
| 8 | Kohei Sato | July 23, 2023 | 2AW Grand Slam in TKP Garden City Chiba | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 98 | 1 | [10] | |
| 9 | Takuro Niki | October 29, 2023 | 2AW Grand Slam In TKP Garden City Chiba | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 238 | 6 | [11] | |
| 10 | Taishi Takizawa | June 23, 2024 | 2AW 5th Anniversary | Chiba, Japan | 2 | 63 | 1 | [12] | |
| 11 | Ayato Yoshida | August 25, 2024 | 2AW Grand Slam In TKP Garden City Chiba | Chiba, Japan | 3 | 245 | 5 | [13] | |
| 12 | Naka Shuma | April 27, 2025 | 2AW Grand Slam In TKP Garden City Chiba | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 56 | 0 | [14] | |
| 13 | Daiju Wakamatsu | June 22, 2025 | 2AW 6th Anniversary Grand Slam In TKP Garden City Chiba | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 112 | 4 | [15] | |
| 14 | Takuro Niki | October 12, 2025 | 2AW Grand Slam In Korakuen Hall | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 168 | 3 | [16] | |
| 15 | Ayato Yoshida | March 29, 2026 | 2AW Grand Slam In Korakuen Hall | Tokyo, Japan | 4 | 84 | 2 | [17] | |
| 16 | Taishi Takizawa | June 21, 2026 | 2AW 7th Anniversary | Chiba, Japan | 3 | 41+ | 1 | [18] | |
Combined reigns
As of August 1, 2026.
| † | Indicates the current champion |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ayato Yoshida | 4 | 19 | 837 |
| 2 | Takuro Niki | 2 | 9 | 406 |
| 3 | Kengo Mashimo | 1 | 7 | 279 |
| 4 | Taishi Takizawa † | 3 | 6 | 286+ |
| 5 | Shu Asakawa | 1 | 4 | 206 |
| 6 | Shigehiro Irie | 1 | 3 | 144 |
| 7 | Daiju Wakamatsu | 1 | 4 | 112 |
| 8 | Yuji Okabayashi | 1 | 2 | 102 |
| 9 | Kohei Sato | 1 | 1 | 98 |
| 10 | Naka Shuma | 1 | 0 | 56 |