Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Championship
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| Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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 The Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Championship title belt | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | September 25, 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion | Mizuki Watase | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | February 22, 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Championship (Japanese: スピリット・オブ・ガンバレ世界無差別級王座, Hepburn: Supiritto obu Ganbare Sekai Musabetsu-kyū Ōza) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro) promotion. The title is the first to be created specifically for GanPro.[1] The current champion is Mizuki Watase who is in his second reign.
Inaugural tournament
Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro) was founded in 2013 by Ken Ohka as a brand of DDT Pro-Wrestling. The brand was created to capture the spirit of small independent promotions in Japan, regularly bringing in wrestlers from outside the promotion.
On March 18, 2017, Ohka defeated Shiori Asahi at a Kaientai Dojo event to win the Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship.[2][3] The title remained with GanPro, where it served as the main singles title until January 2021, when it moved to Professional Wrestling Just Tap Out (JTO).[2] Without a singles title to promote, GanPro, now part of the CyberFight umbrella promotion, revived the Ganbare☆Climax tournament in September 2021 and created the Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Championship as the prize for the winner of the tournament.[4] On November 23, Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Yumehito Imanari in the final to win the inaugural title.[5]
On April 1, 2024, GanPro officially branched off from CyberFight and became an independent promotion.[6]
| Round 1 October 24 | Round 2 November 7 | Semifinals November 23 | Final November 23 | ||||||||||||||||
| Tetsuhiro Kuroda | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ken Ohka | 14:21[7] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ken Ohka | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Shota | 15:24[8] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tetsuhiro Kuroda | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Yumehito Imanari | 10:57[9] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keisuke Ishii | 2:31[8] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Shinichiro Tominaga | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Shinichiro Tominaga | 19:06[7] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Yumehito Imanari | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Yumehito Imanari | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Baliyan Akki | 8:56[8] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Yumehito Imanari | 12:37[9] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tatsuhito Takaiwa | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kouki Iwasaki | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nobuhiro Shimatani | 11:40[8] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kouki Iwasaki | 13:47[7] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Shuichiro Katsumura | TKO | ||||||||||||||||||
| Shuichiro Katsumura | Sub | ||||||||||||||||||
| Seiya Morohashi | 15:18[8] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Shuichiro Katsumura | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tatsuhito Takaiwa | 13:36[9] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tatsuhito Takaiwa | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tyson Maeguchi | 7:50[8] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tatsuhito Takaiwa | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mizuki Watase | 9:38[7] | ||||||||||||||||||
Reigns
As of April 20, 2026, there have been a total of ten reigns shared among eight different wrestlers. The current champion is Mizuki Watase who is in his second reign.
| No. | Overall reign number |
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| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
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| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | |||||
| CyberFight: Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling | ||||||||||
| 1 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | November 23, 2021 | Ganbare☆Climax 2021 Final Round | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 161 | 3 | Defeated Yumehito Imanari in the final of a 14-man tournament to become the inaugural champion. | [5] | |
| 2 | Yumehito Imanari | May 3, 2022 | Love Phantom 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 123 | 2 | [10] | ||
| 3 | Hartley Jackson | September 3, 2022 | Punch Drunk Love 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 115 | 2 | [11] | ||
| 4 | Mizuki Watase | December 27, 2022 | Giri Giri Chop! 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 194 | 4 | [12] | ||
| 5 | Isami Kodaka | July 9, 2023 | Wrestle Sekigahara II | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 171 | 4 | [13] | ||
| 6 | Shuichiro Katsumura | December 27, 2023 | Bad Communication 2023 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 122 | 2 | [14] | ||
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| 7 | Keisuke Ishii | April 27, 2024 | Spring Breakers 2024 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 244 | 4 | [15] | ||
| 8 | Yumehito Imanari | December 27, 2024 | Itsuka Giragira Suru Hi 2024 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 242 | 5 | [16] | ||
| 9 | Masaaki Mochizuki | August 26, 2025 | Mizuki Watase 10th Anniversary: It's a Summer Film 2025 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 180 | 5 | [17] | ||
| 10 | Mizuki Watase | February 22, 2026 | A Scanner Darkly 2026 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 57+ | 1 | [18] | ||
