Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship


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The Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship (三冠ヘビー級王座, Sankan Hebīkyū Ōza) is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the Japanese All Japan Pro Wrestling promotion. The current champion is Yuma Aoyagi, who is in his second reign.

Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship

Belt in use since October 2013.

Details
PromotionAll Japan Pro Wrestling
Date establishedApril 18, 1989
Current champion(s)Yuma Aoyagi
Date wonAugust 17, 2024
Other name(s)
  • PWF Triple Crown World Heavyweight Championship
  • AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship
Statistics
First champion(s)Jumbo Tsuruta
Most reignsSuwama (8 reigns)
Longest reignMitsuharu Misawa (705 days)
Shortest reignTerry Gordy (3 days)
Oldest championYuji Nagata (54 years, 9 months and 26 days)
Youngest championYuma Anzai (24 years, 10 months and 15 days)
Heaviest championAkebono (210 kg (460 lb))
Lightest championKatsuhiko Nakajima (87 kg (192 lb))

The championship was established after the unification of its then-flagship title the PWF World Heavyweight Championship, with the NWA United National Championship and the NWA International Heavyweight Championship. The titles were unified on April 18, 1989, when NWA International Heavyweight Champion Jumbo Tsuruta defeated the PWF World Heavyweight and NWA United National Champion Stan Hansen.[1]

Unlike most unified championships, the Triple Crown was originally represented through the continued use of the three individual championship belts. From 1989 to 2000, the holder of the Triple Crown was also presented by Nippon TV (AJPW's broadcaster at the time) with a large, globe-shaped trophy bearing the words "World Heavyweight Champion." The original title belts were returned to All Japan founder Giant Baba's widow Motoko in August 2013 and a new single title belt incorporating designs from the three original belts was made.[2] The new title belt, which featured three plates representing the three original title belts, was unveiled on October 27.[3] One of the plates includes the text "Jumbo Tsuruta Apr. 18 1989", representing the crowning of the inaugural champion.[4] There have been a total of 31 recognized champions who have had a combined 70 official reigns. Six men in history have held the championship for a continuous reign of one year (365 days) or more: Mitsuharu Misawa, Suwama, Kento Miyahara (who have each achieved the feat twice), Jumbo Tsuruta, Satoshi Kojima and Toshiaki Kawada.

The current champion is Yuma Aoyagi, who is in his second reign. He defeated the youngest champion of title's history, Yuma Anzai on 17 August 2024 in the second day of Summer Action Wars, held in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan.

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
+ Current reign is changing daily

As of October 2, 2024.

Six-time champion Kento Miyahara holds the records for most defenses in one reign at 10 and most combined defenses at 28.

Record eight-time champion Suwama.

† Indicates the current champion
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns 		Combined
defenses 		Combined days
1 Mitsuharu Misawa 5 21 1,799
2 Kento Miyahara 6 28 1,453
3 Suwama 8 16 1,366
4 Toshiaki Kawada 5 11 743
5 Satoshi Kojima 2 9 678
6 Jumbo Tsuruta 3 6 659
7 Genichiro Tenryu 3 4 548
8 Keiji Mutoh/The Great Muta 3 6 547
9 Stan Hansen 4 7 505
10 Minoru Suzuki 2 6 476
11 Kenta Kobashi 3 5 431
12 Akebono 2 6 379
13 Jun Akiyama 2 4 370
14 Joe Doering 2 6 315
15 Kensuke Sasaki 1 2 247
16 Jake Lee 2 3 210
17 Masakatsu Funaki 1 4 203
18 Yoshihiro Takayama 1 2 196
19 Vader 2 1 177
20 Yuma Aoyagi † 2 6 172+
21 Shinya Hashimoto 1 2 171
22 Katsuhiko Nakajima 1 4 146
23 Yuma Anzai 1 5 140
24 Go Shiozaki 1 2 138
25 Yuji Nagata 1 3 133
26 Shuji Ishikawa 1 2 98
27 Steve Williams 1 1 86
28 Zeus 1 1 84
29 Taiyō Kea 1 1 62
30 Akira Taue 1 1 61
31 Ryota Hama 1 0 42
32 Takao Omori 1 0 14
33 Terry Gordy 2 0 13
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Sporting positions
Preceded by All Japan Pro Wrestling's top heavyweight championship
1989–present 		Succeeded by

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