NEVER Openweight Championship

NEVER Openweight Championship
Current champion(s):	Taichi
Date won:	September 17, 2018
Promotion:	New Japan Pro Wrestling
Date created:	October 5, 2012
First champion(s):	Masato Tanaka
Most reigns:	Tomohiro Ishii (4 reigns)
Longest reign:	James Harrison (365 days)
Shortest reign:	Michael Elgin (8 days)
Oldest winner:	Yuji Nagata (48 years, 9 days)
Youngest winner:	Evil (29 years, 281 days)
Heaviest champion:	James Harrison (250 lb (113 kg))
Lightest champion:	Masato Tanaka (205 lb (93 kg))

The NEVER Openweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion and promoted in NJPW. 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. The project was officially announced on July 12, 2010, and held its first event on August 24, 2010. 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. The title was defended several times in the WWE between January 2017 and 2018.

Reigns

Main article: List of NEVER Openweight Champions