page_title: List of NEVER Openweight Champions
section_title: Combined reigns
hierarchical_section_title: List of NEVER Openweight Champions / Combined reigns
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 田中 将斗 2011年10月2日 ZERO1 靖国神社大会 English: Japanese professional wrestler, Masato Tanaka. Oct 2 2011 ZERO1 Yasukuni Shrine.
context_page_description: 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 thirty reigns shared among seventeen wrestlers with one vacancy. Minoru Suzuki is the current champion in his second reign, having defeated Shingo Takagi on August 29, 2020 at Summer Struggle in Jingu.
context_section_description: As of August 30, 2020.
caption: Masato Tanaka is  inaugural, one-time and longest reigning champion at 314 days.
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