List of current champions in New Japan Pro-Wrestling

New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) is a professional wrestling promotion based in Nakano, Tokyo. Title reigns are either determined by professional wrestling matches or are awarded to a wrestler, as a result of the culmination of various scripted storylines. There are 11 total active championships promoted by NJPW - featuring six singles championships, three traditional tag team championships, and a six-man tag team championship for male wrestlers, with two singles championship for female wrestlers. 16 wrestlers currently hold the titles.

The list includes the number of times the wrestler has held the title, the date and location of the win, and a description of the winning bout. The following is correct as of April 29, 2025.

Overview

Men's Singles

At the top of NJPW's championship hierarchy for male wrestlers in the heavyweight division is the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. Secondary titles include the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship, and the NJPW World Television Championship.

In the junior heavyweight division, the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship is the primary title.

The NEVER Openweight Championship and the Strong Openweight Championship are available to male wrestlers regardless of weight class.

Men's Tag Team

For tag teams, there are three traditional championships for two-man teams—the IWGP Tag Team Championship, the Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship, and the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for the junior heavyweight division.

The NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship serves as the title for three-man teams.

Women's Division

There are two championships for female wrestlers in NJPW - the IWGP Women's Championship (the primary title which is defended in NJPW and sister promotion Stardom), and the Strong Women's Championship.

Current champions

As of April 29, 2025.

Men's division

Singles

Championship	Current champion(s)		Reign	Date won	Days held	Successful defenses	Location	Notes	Ref.
IWGP World Heavyweight Championship		Hirooki Goto	1	February 11, 2025	77	4	Osaka, Japan	Defeated Zack Sabre Jr. at The New Beginning in Osaka.	[1]
IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship		Yota Tsuji	1	January 4, 2025	115	3	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated David Finlay at Wrestle Kingdom 19.	[2]
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship		El Desperado	5	January 4, 2025	115	5	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Douki at Wrestle Kingdom 19.	[2]
NEVER Openweight Championship		Konosuke Takeshita	1	January 4, 2025	115	5	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Shingo Takagi in a Winner Takes All match, also for Takeshita's AEW International Championship at Wrestle Kingdom 19.	[2]
Strong Openweight Championship		Tomohiro Ishii	1	April 11, 2025	18	0	Chicago, Illinois	Defeated Gabe Kidd in a 30-minute iron man match, which Ishii won 2–1 in sudden death overtime at Windy City Riot.	[3]
NJPW World Television Championship		El Phantasmo	2	April 29, 2025	0	0	Saga, Japan	Defeated Great-O-Khan at Wrestling Hizen no Kuni.

Tag team

Championship	Current champion(s)		Reign	Date won	Days held	Successful defenses	Location	Notes	Ref.
IWGP Tag Team Championship		United Empire (Great-O-Khan and Callum Newman)	1 (4, 2)	April 26, 2025	3	0	Hiroshima, Japan	Defeated Bishamon (Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi) to win the vacant titles at Wrestling Redzone in Hiroshima. Previous champions Jeff Cobb and Newman vacated the titles following the departure of Cobb from NJPW.	[4]
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship		Master Wato and Yoh	1 (2, 6)	April 29, 2025	0	0	Saga, Japan	Defeated Ichiban Sweet Boys (Robbie Eagles and Kosei Fujita) at Wrestling Hizen no Kuni.
Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship		West Coast Wrecking Crew (Royce Isaacs and Jorel Nelson)	1 (1, 1)	December 15, 2024	135	2	Long Beach, California	Defeated Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake and Zack Gibson) at Strong Style Evolved.	[5]
NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship		House of Torture (Ren Narita, Sho and Yujiro Takahashi)	1 (2, 3, 4)	January 30, 2025	89	1	Sendai, Japan	Defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano and Oleg Boltin at Road to the New Beginning 2025: Night 3.	[6]

Women's division

Championship	Current champion(s)		Reign	Date won	Days held	Successful defenses	Location	Notes	Ref.
IWGP Women's Championship		Syuri	1	April 27, 2025	2	0	Yokohama, Japan	Defeated Mayu Iwatani at All Star Grand Queendom.	[7]
Strong Women's Championship		Mercedes Moné	1	June 30, 2024	303	4	Elmont, New York	Defeated Stephanie Vaquer in a Winner Takes All match also for Moné's AEW TBS Championship at Forbidden Door.	[8]