IWGP World Heavyweight Championship

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 championship belt
Details
PromotionNew Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date establishedMarch 1, 2021
Current champion(s)Zack Sabre Jr.
Date wonOctober 14, 2024
Statistics
First champion(s)Kota Ibushi
Most reignsKazuchika Okada and Tetsuya Naito
(2 reigns)
Longest reignSanada
(271 days)
Shortest reignKota Ibushi
(31 days)
Oldest championTetsuya Naito
(42 years and 8 days)
Youngest championWill Ospreay
(27 years, 10 months and 28 days)
Heaviest championKazuchika Okada
(236 lb (107 kg))
Lightest championKota 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 Zack Sabre Jr., who is in his first reign.

  1. ^ "WK9 101: The Intro". Global Force Wrestling. Archived from the original on July 11, 2017. Retrieved February 1, 2016.