AJPW All Asia Heavyweight Championship

The AJPW All Asia Heavyweight Championship was a title

Championship (professional wrestling)

A Championship or "title" in professional wrestling is a recognition promoted by professional wrestling organizations.Championship reigns are determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors are involved in scripted rivalries...

contested for in All Japan Pro Wrestling

All Japan Pro Wrestling

is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established in 1972. All Japan Pro Wrestling still remains one of the most popular puroresu promotions still in operation.-The Giant Baba Era :...

(AJPW). Prior to being used in AJPW, the title was defended in the Japan Wrestling Association

Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance

Nihon Puroresu Kyōkai was the first professional wrestling promotion to be based in Japan. It operated from 1953 to 1973. Founded by Rikidōzan when he established a territory that would represent the National Wrestling Alliance in Japan...

(JWA). On July 29, 1976, New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling

is a major professional wrestling promotion in Japan, founded by Antonio Inoki in June 1972 and owned by Yuke's since 2005, when Inoki sold the promotion. Naoki Sugabayashi is the current President of the promotion and has held that position from 2007. Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, it...

recognized Tiger Jeet Singh

Tiger Jeet Singh

Jagjit Singh Hans is a semi-retired professional wrestler, known better by his ring name Tiger Jeet Singh. He wrestled as a crazed heel, coming to the ring with a sword in his mouth . Singh wrestled in Japan for 22 years...

as the champion after he defeated Seiji Sakaguchi

Seiji Sakaguchi

is a retired Japanese professional wrestler who was a mainstay of New Japan Pro Wrestling and also competed for the World Wide Wrestling Federation and the National Wrestling Alliance....

, but Singh abandoned his version of the title on May 21, 1981.

Title history

#:	Name(s):	Reigns:	Date:	Location:	Notes:
1	Rikidōzan Rikidozan , better known as Rikidōzan , was a Korean Japanese professional wrestler, known as the "Father of Puroresu" and one of the most influential men in wrestling history. Initially, he had moved from his native country Korea to Japan to become a sumo wrestler...	1	November 22, 1955	Tokyo, Japan Tokyo , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...	Defeated King Kong Czaya in tournament final to become the first champion.
Title vacated on December 15, 1963 when Rikidōzan dies due to stab wounds Stabbing A stabbing is penetration with a sharp or pointed object at close range. Stab connotes purposeful action, as by an assassin or murderer, but it is also possible to accidentally stab oneself or others.Stabbing differs from slashing or cutting in that the motion of the object used in a stabbing... he suffered a week earlier, on December 8, in Tokyo.
2	Kintaro Ohki Kintaro Ohki Kintarō Ōki was arguably the greatest South Korean professional wrestler of all time, also known professionally as Kim Il or KIM Il during his career in the Japan Wrestling Association, All Japan Pro Wrestling and International Pro...	1	November 9, 1968	Seoul, South Korea Seoul Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...	Defeated Buddy Austin to win the vacant title.
3	Bill Dromo	1	January 15, 1971	Tokuyama, Japan Tokuyama, Yamaguchi was a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.On April 21, 2003 Tokuyama was merged with the city of Shinnan'yō, the town of Kumage, from Kumage District, and the town of Kano, from Tsuno District, to form the new city of Shūnan....
4	Kintaro Ohki	2	February 2, 1971	Hiroshima, Japan Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...	The title became inactive in 1973, when the JWA closed, and was reactivated in 1976.
Title held up after on September 24, 1976, after a match against Waldo Von Erich Waldo Von Erich Walter Paul Sieber was a Canadian professional wrestler under the ring name Waldo Von Erich. He was billed as the brother of Fritz Von Erich, but was not actually related to Fritz or the rest of the Von Erich family.... in Omiya Omiya-ku, Saitama is a ward of Saitama city, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It is in the Greater Tokyo Area and about 25 km north of central Tokyo. Ōmiya-ku is surrounded by Nishi-ku , Kita-ku , Minuma-ku , Urawa-ku , Chūō-ku , and Sakura-ku of Saitama city.Ōmiya-ku is the most active commercial and business centre in... , Japan.
5	Kintaro Ohki	3	October 21, 1976	Fukushima, Japan Fukushima, Fukushima is the capital city of Fukushima Prefecture in the Tōhoku Region of Japan. As of May 2011 the city has an estimated population of 290,064 and an area of 746.43 km².It lies about 250 km north of Tokyo and 80 km south of Sendai.-History:...	Defeated Waldo Von Erich in a rematch to win the held up title.
6	Giant Baba Shohei Baba was a professional wrestler and co-founder of All Japan Pro Wrestling. He was also known as Giant Baba. Baba, along with Antonio Inoki, became one of the most famous Japanese wrestlers of his era, with a popularity in Japan comparable to Hulk Hogan's in the United States of America...	1	October 29, 1977	Kuroiso, Japan Kuroiso, Tochigi Kuroiso was a city located in Tochigi, Japan. The city was founded on November 1, 1970.On January 1, 2005 Kurioso was merged with the towns of Nishinasuno and Shiobara, both from Nasu District, to form the new city of Nasushiobara. In 2003, the city had an estimated population of 60,145 and the...	Already held the PWF Heavyweight Championship PWF Heavyweight Championship The Pacific Wrestling Federation World Heavyweight Championship is one of the three titles that make up the AJPW Triple Crown Championship. It was created in 1973 by All Japan owner Giant Baba, after he won a series of ten matches against Bruno Sammartino , Terry Funk, Abdullah the Butcher, The... , so both titles may have been defended simultaneously, or not at all.
Title vacated on April 13, 1981.
7	Kintaro Ohki	4	1981	South Korea South Korea The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
Ohki, who had not wrestled in nearly a decade, officially retired on February 4, 1995, and the title was abandoned.

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