All Asia Heavyweight Championship

PWF All Asia Heavyweight Championship
Details
Promotion Japan Wrestling Association
All Japan Pro Wrestling
Land's End
Date established November 22, 1955
Current champion(s) Bodyguard
Date won July 29, 2018
Other name(s)
Asia Heavyweight Championship

The PWF (All) Asia Heavyweight Championship is a title contested for originally in Japan Wrestling Association (JWA).[1] When JWA shut down in 1973, the title went inactive until being reactivated in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) in 1976 after New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) announced the creation of its own version of the title.[2] The NJPW title was retired in 1981, while the AJPW title was retired in 1995, following the retirement of final champion Kintaro Ohki.[2]

On December 15, 2017, the Land's End promotion announced that it had gotten the blessing of Pacific Wrestling Federation chairman Dory Funk Jr. and Mitsuo Momota, the son of inaugural champion Rikidōzan, to revive the Asia Heavyweight Championship with a tournament to crown the new champion set to take place in South Korea on January 21, 2018.[3]

Title history

Key
Symbol Meaning
No. The overall championship reign
Reign The reign number for the specific wrestler listed.
Event The event in which the championship changed hands
N/A The specific information is not known
— Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign
[Note #] Indicates that the exact length of the title reign is unknown, with a note providing more details.
# Wrestler Reign Date Days held Location Event Notes Ref.
1 Rikidōzan 1 November 22, 1955 2,945 Tokyo, Japan JWA House show Defeated King Kong Czaya in tournament final to become the first champion. [2]
- Vacated - December 15, 1963 N/A N/A N/A Title vacated when Rikidōzan died. [2]
2 Kintaro Ohki 1 November 9, 1968 797 Seoul, South Korea House show Defeated Buddy Austin to win the vacant title. [2]
3 Bill Dromo 1 January 15, 1971 18 Tokuyama, Japan JWA House show   [2]
4 Kintaro Ohki 2 February 2, 1971 2,061 Hiroshima, Japan JWA House show The title became inactive on April 14, 1973, when the JWA closed, and was reactivated on March 26, 1976, after New Japan Pro-Wrestling announces creation of its own version of the title. [2]
- Vacant - September 24, 1976 N/A N/A N/A Title held up after match against Waldo Von Erich in Omiya, Japan. [2]
5 Kintaro Ohki 3 October 21, 1976 373 Fukushima, Japan AJPW House show Defeated Waldo Von Erich in a rematch to win the held up title. [2]
6 Giant Baba 1 October 29, 1977 1,262 Kuroiso, Japan AJPW House show Already held the PWF Heavyweight Championship, so both titles may have been defended simultaneously, or not at all. [2][4]
- Vacated - April 13, 1981 N/A N/A N/A Championship vacated for undocumented reasons. [2]
7 Kintaro Ohki 4 1981 [Note 1] South Korea House show   [2]
- Title abandoned - April 2, 1995 N/A N/A N/A Ohki, who had not wrestled in nearly a decade, officially retired and the title was abandoned. [2]
8 Ryoji Sai 1 January 21, 2018 189 Goyang, South Korea House show Defeated Bodyguard in a tournament final to win the vacant title
9 Bodyguard 1 July 29, 2018 75+ Osaka, Japan AJPW Summer Action Series 2018

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ While not being defended for nearly a decade the championship was not officially retired until Ohki officially retired, which puts this title reign at between 3,744 and 4,005 days.

References

  1. ↑ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "All Asia Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Titles. Archived from the original on 18 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-15.
  3. ↑ "緊急告知！！". Land's End (in Japanese). 2017-12-15. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  4. ↑ "PWF Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Titles. Archived from the original on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-15.
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