List of NEVER Openweight Champions
The NEVER Openweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling 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. The project was officially announced on July 12, 2010, and held its first event on August 24, 2010.
There have been twenty-nine reigns shared among seventeen wrestlers with one vacancy. Shingo Takagi is the current champion in his first reign, having defeated Hirooki Goto on February 1, 2020 at The New Beginning in Sapporo.Combined reigns
As of ,.
is
inaugural, one-time and longest reigning champion at 314 days.
