IWA World Heavyweight Championship (International Wrestling Enterprise)

For other uses, see IWA World Heavyweight Championship.
IWA World Heavyweight Championship
Details
PromotionInternational Wrestling Enterprise
Date established1968
Date retiredSeptember 30, 1981
Statistics
First champion(s)Bill Robinson
Final champion(s)Rusher Kimura
Most reignsRusher Kimura (5 reigns)
Longest reignRusher Kimura (1,085 days)
Shortest reignVerne Gagne (3 days)
Oldest championVerne Gagne (53 years, 260 days)
Youngest championMighty Inoue (25 years, 178 days)
Heaviest championBill Miller (290 lb (130 kg))
Lightest championVerne Gagne (215 lb (98 kg))

The International Wrestling Alliance (IWA) World Heavyweight Championship (IWA世界ヘビー級王座, IWA Sekai Hebī-kyū Ōza) was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship of the Japanese professional wrestling promotion known as International Wrestling Enterprise (国際プロレス興行, Kokusai Puroresu Kogyō). It was the first Japanese heavyweight title to be billed as a World title, and in the 1970s and early 1980s it was one of the most important titles in Japan. The title died with the promotion in 1981 but was later revived by Goro Tsurumi for his independent Kokusai Promotion.

There have been eighteen reigns between twelve wrestlers, and three vacancies.