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词条 NEVER Openweight Championship
释义

  1. History

     Championship tournament 

  2. Reigns

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

{{Infobox pro wrestling championship
|championshipname=NEVER Openweight Championship
|image=NEVER Openweight Championship belt.jpeg
|image_size=
|caption=The NEVER Openweight Championship belt
(October 2012 — present)
|currentholder=Jeff Cobb
|won=April 6, 2019
|aired=
|promotion=New Japan Pro-Wrestling
|created=October 5, 2012[1][2]
|mostreigns=Tomohiro Ishii and Hirooki Goto (4 reigns)
|firstchamp=Masato Tanaka[3]
|shortestreign=Michael Elgin ({{age in days|month1=06|day1=09|year1=2018|month2=06|day2=17|year2=2018}} days)
|longestreign=Masato Tanaka ({{age in days|month1=11|day1=19|year1=2012|month2=09|day2=29|year2=2013}} days)
|oldest=Minoru Suzuki ({{age in years and days|1968|06|17|2017|04|27}})[1]
|youngest=Will Ospreay ({{age in years and days|1993|05|7|2019|01|04}})[2]
|heaviest=Michael Elgin ({{convert|111|kg|lb|abbr=on}})[3]
|lightest=Will Ospreay({{convert|90|kg|lb|abbr=on}})[4]
|pastnames=
|titleretired=
|pastlookimages=
}}

The {{Nihongo|NEVER Openweight Championship|NEVER 無差別級王座|NEVER musabetsu-kyū ōza}} is a professional wrestling championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. NEVER is an acronym of the terms "New Blood", "Evolution", "Valiantly", "Eternal", and "Radical" and was a NJPW-promoted series of events, which featured younger up-and-coming talent and outside wrestlers not signed to the promotion.[5][6] The project was officially announced on July 12, 2010,[6] and held its first event on August 24, 2010.[7] On October 5, 2012, NJPW announced that NEVER was going to get its own championship, the NEVER Openweight Championship, the promotion's sixth active title.[5][2]

The title was originally scheduled to be defended exclusively at NEVER events, but this plan was quickly changed and since its foundation, the title has been defended on the undercards of NJPW events.[2][15] The original concept of having younger workers wrestle for the title has also not been realized with the first seven holders of the title having been in their thirties or forties.[8][9] Instead, through the likes of Katsuyori Shibata, Togi Makabe, and Tomohiro Ishii, the NEVER Openweight Championship became known for its "gritty" title matches.[10] Though named an "openweight" championship, NJPW has also categorized the title as a heavyweight title.[11][12] Together, the NEVER Openweight, IWGP Heavyweight, and IWGP Intercontinental Championships also form what has unofficially been called the {{nihongo|"New Japan Triple Crown"|新日本トリプルクラウン|Shin Nihon Toripuru Kuraun}}.[13] The title's openweight nature means that both heavyweight and junior heavyweight wrestlers are eligible to challenge for it.[14]

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a match with a predetermined outcome. There have been twenty reigns shared among thirteen wrestlers. Jeff Cobb is the current champion in his first reign.

History

Championship tournament

On October 5, 2012, over two years after the founding of NEVER, New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced the creation of the project's first championship, the NEVER Openweight Championship.[5][15][16] The title was originally created with the idea of using it to "elevate younger wrestlers".[26] The first champion was to be determined in a sixteen-man single-elimination tournament, which was set to take place November 15 and 19, 2012.[27][28] The title and the tournament were announced by New Japan president Naoki Sugabayashi and NEVER regular Tetsuya Naito,[15][16] who was scheduled to enter the tournament, but was forced to pull out after suffering a knee injury.[17] Much like regular NEVER events, the tournament also featured wrestlers not signed to New Japan; freelancer Daisuke Sasaki, Hiro Tonai, Kengo Mashimo, Ryuichi Sekine, Shiori Asahi and Taishi Takizawa from Kaientai Dojo, and Masato Tanaka from Pro Wrestling Zero1.[18][19] The entire first round of the tournament took place on November 15 and saw Shiori Asahi, Yoshi-Hashi, Taishi Takizawa, Ryusuke Taguchi, Tomohiro Ishii, Kengo Mashimo, Karl Anderson and Masato Tanaka advance.[20][21] The rest of the tournament took place four days later. During the second round, Kengo Mashimo defeated Ryusuke Taguchi, Karl Anderson defeated Shiori Asahi, Masato Tanaka defeated Taishi Takizawa, Tomohiro Ishii defeated Yoshi-Hashi.[22][23] The semifinals saw Anderson defeat Mashimo and Tanaka defeat Ishii.[22][23] In the finals of the tournament, Tanaka, the 39-year-old, who, despite officially being affiliated with Pro Wrestling Zero1, had worked for NJPW regularly since August 2009, defeated Anderson to become the inaugural NEVER Openweight Champion.[22][23][24][25] Though the title was originally designed to be defended at NEVER events, NJPW has not held a single NEVER event since the championship tournament.[26]

{{16TeamBracket-NoSeeds
| RD1=First round
(November 15)
| RD2=Second round
(November 19)
| RD3=Semifinals
(November 19)
| RD4=Finals
(November 19)
| RD1-team01 =Karl Anderson
| RD1-team02 =Yujiro Takahashi
| RD1-score01=Pin
| RD1-score02={{nowrap|11:12[20]}}
| RD1-team03 =Hiromu Takahashi
| RD1-team04 =Shiori Asahi
| RD1-score03={{nowrap|06:14[20]}}
| RD1-score04=Pin
| RD1-team05 =Ryusuke Taguchi
| RD1-team06 =Hiro Tonai
| RD1-score05=Pin
| RD1-score06={{nowrap|08:19[20]}}
| RD1-team07 =Bushi
| RD1-team08 =Kengo Mashimo
| RD1-score07={{nowrap|08:02[20]}}
| RD1-score08=Pin
| RD1-team09 =Kushida
| RD1-team10 =Masato Tanaka
| RD1-score09={{nowrap|13:02[20]}}
| RD1-score10=Pin
| RD1-team11 =Captain New Japan
| RD1-team12 =Taishi Takizawa
| RD1-score11={{nowrap|07:22[20]}}
| RD1-score12=Pin
| RD1-team13 =Tomohiro Ishii
| RD1-team14 =Daisuke Sasaki
| RD1-score13=Pin
| RD1-score14={{nowrap|08:39[20]}}
| RD1-team15 =Yoshi-Hashi
| RD1-team16 =Ryuichi Sekine
| RD1-score15=Pin
| RD1-score16={{nowrap|07:14[20]}}
| RD2-team01 =Karl Anderson
| RD2-team02 =Shiori Asahi
| RD2-score01=Pin
| RD2-score02={{nowrap|03:59[22]}}
| RD2-team03 =Ryusuke Taguchi
| RD2-team04 =Kengo Mashimo
| RD2-score03={{nowrap|07:54[22]}}
| RD2-score04=Sub
| RD2-team05 =Masato Tanaka
| RD2-team06 =Taishi Takizawa
| RD2-score05=Pin
| RD2-score06={{nowrap|04:28[22]}}
| RD2-team07 =Tomohiro Ishii
| RD2-team08 =Yoshi-Hashi
| RD2-score07=Pin
| RD2-score08={{nowrap|06:57[22]}}
| RD3-team01 =Karl Anderson
| RD3-team02 =Kengo Mashimo
| RD3-score01=Pin
| RD3-score02={{nowrap|06:14[22]}}
| RD3-team03 =Masato Tanaka
| RD3-team04 =Tomohiro Ishii
| RD3-score03=Pin
| RD3-score04={{nowrap|10:47[22]}}
| RD4-team01 =Karl Anderson
| RD4-team02 =Masato Tanaka
| RD4-score01={{nowrap|15:12[22]}}
| RD4-score02=Pin
}}

Reigns

{{Main|List of NEVER Openweight Champions}}

There have been eighteen reigns shared among eleven wrestlers with one vacancy. Masato Tanaka was the first champion in the title's history.[22] He also holds the record for the longest reign in the title's history, at {{age in days|month1=11|day1=19|year1=2012|month2=09|day2=29|year2=2013}} days. Michael Elgin's only reign of {{age in days|month1=06|day1=09|year1=2018|month2=06|day2=17|year2=2018}} days is the shortest in the title's history. Tomohiro Ishii and Hirooki Goto both hold the record for the most reigns, with each being a four-time champion. Jeff Cobb is the current champion in his first reign, having defeated Will Ospreay for the title on April 6, 2019, at G1 Supercard.

See also

{{Portal|Professional wrestling}}
  • NEVER (professional wrestling)
  • IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship
  • NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship

References

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External links

  • Official title history at New Japan Pro Wrestling.co.jp
  • Title history at Wrestling-Titles.com
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