UWA Asia Pacific Heavyweight Championship
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| UWA Asia Pacific Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
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 The UWA Asia Pacific Heavyweight Championship belt | |||||||||||
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| Promotion | Strong Style Pro-Wrestling | ||||||||||
| Date established | 2018 | ||||||||||
| Current champion | Shogun Okamoto | ||||||||||
| Date won | April 22, 2021 | ||||||||||
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The UWA Asia Pacific Heavyweight Championship (Japanese: UWAアジアパシフィックヘビー級王座, Hepburn: UWA Ajia Pashifikku Hebī-kyū Ōza) is a single championship title in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Strong Style Pro-Wrestling (SSPW), formerly known as Real Japan Pro Wrestling (RJPW). The title was established in 2018 as part of a collaboration between SSPW and the revived Mexican Universal Wrestling Association.[1] As it is a professional wrestling championship, the championship is not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers.[a] On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline,[b] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[c] or leaving the company.[d]
As of April 19, 2022[update], there have been a total of five reigns. The current champion is Shogun Okamoto who is in his second reign.
On February 28, 2018, a press conference was held in Tokyo, Japan announcing a Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) revival.[6] As part of the revival, the UWA Asia Pacific Heavyweight Championship was created and Rey Ángel was appointed as the first champion with a title defense scheduled on September 20 against Kouki Iwasaki from Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling.[7][8]
Reigns
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| N/A | Unknown information |
| (NLT) | Championship change took place "no later than" the date listed |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | Rey Ángel | July 31, 2018 (NLT) | N/A | N/A | 1 | [e] | 0 | Was awarded the title. | [7] |
| 2 | Kouki Iwasaki | September 20, 2018 | Return to Origin Pro-Wrestling #4: World Mask Man Tournament Semi-Final | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 364 | 0 | [9][10] | |
| 3 | Shogun Okamoto | September 19, 2019 | Strong Style Pro-Wrestling Vol. 3 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 182 | 0 | [11][12] | |
| 4 | Hayato Mashita | March 19, 2020 | Strong Style Pro-Wrestling Vol. 5 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 399 | 2 | This was a three-way match also involving Kouki Iwasaki. | [13][14] |
| 5 | Shogun Okamoto | April 22, 2021 | Strong Style Pro-Wrestling Vol. 10 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 1,762+ | 2 | [15][16] | |
Combined reigns
| † | Indicates the current champion |
|---|---|
| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
No. of defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shogun Okamoto † | 2 | 2 | 1,944+ |
| 2 | Hayato Mashita | 1 | 2 | 399 |
| 3 | Kouki Iwasaki | 1 | 0 | 364 |
| 4 | Rey Ángel | 1 | 0 | 51¤ |
