WEW Heavyweight Championship

Statistics
First champion(s)	Kodo Fuyuki
Most reigns	Kintaro Kanemura; (6 reigns)
Longest reign	Tomohiro Ishii; (959 days)
Shortest reign	Kintaro Kanemura; (2 days)
Oldest champion	Kim Duk; (70 years, 123 days)
Youngest champion	Masato Tanaka; (26 years, 268 days)
Heaviest champion	Arashi; (146 kg (322 lb))
Lightest champion	Koji Kanemoto; (80 kg (180 lb))

WEW Heavyweight Championship
WEW Heavyweight Championship
	The WEW Heavyweight Championship belt introduced by Pro-Wrestling A-Team in 2018
Details
Promotion	FMW (1999–2002); WEW (2002–2004); Apache (2004–2016); A-Team (2018–present);
Date established	September 24, 1999
Current champion(s)	Dylan James
Date won	October 23, 2022
Other name(s)
	WEW Singles Championship; (1999); WEW World Heavyweight Championship; (1999–2002); WEW Heavyweight Championship; (2002–present);
First champion(s)
Statistics
First champion(s)	Kodo Fuyuki
Most reigns	Kintaro Kanemura; (6 reigns)
Longest reign	Tomohiro Ishii; (959 days)
Shortest reign	Kintaro Kanemura; (2 days)
Oldest champion	Kim Duk; (70 years, 123 days)
Youngest champion	Masato Tanaka; (26 years, 268 days)
Heaviest champion	Arashi; (146 kg (322 lb))
Lightest champion	Koji Kanemoto; (80 kg (180 lb))

The WEW Heavyweight Championship (Japanese: WEWヘビー級王座, Hepburn: WEW Hebī-kyū Ōza) was a professional wrestling championship, originally created in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) as the WEW Singles Championship (WEWシングル王座, WEW Shinguru Ōza), later being renamed as the WEW World Heavyweight Championship.^[1]^[2] After FMW closed in 2002, the title became the WEW Heavyweight Championship in the World Entertainment Wrestling promotion, although carrying a new lineage.

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In May 1995, Atsushi Onita went into retirement and sold Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling to ring announcer Shoichi Arai. Under Arai, the company underwent changes that would phase out the deathmatch style that popularized FMW in the early 90s. Arai enlisted Kodo Fuyuki to bring in a more "sports entertainment" look and feel for the promotion. In 1999, this resulted in the creation of the World Entertainment Wrestling (WEW) governing body for new championship titles. Fuyuki had originally intended to rename the entire promotion to complete the reorientation from hardcore (FMW) to entertainment wrestling (WEW), but this plan was stopped by Arai. Eventually, both sides agreed on a new set of titles to replace the old FMW titles. As a result, from 1999 until the end of FMW in 2002, the WEW Singles Championship was the promotion's main singles title.

Later, Fuyuki founded his own promotion (also called World Entertainment Wrestling) where the title was taken over, renamed WEW Heavyweight Championship and given a new lineage. The last champion for a long time was Kintaro Kanemura, who won the title in August 2002. When WEW folded in May 2003, the title was also declared vacant, before being reactivated in September 2006 at Kanemura's Apache Pro-Wrestling Army.^[3]

In 2018, two years after Apache Army closed its doors, the title was revived in Pro-Wrestling A-Team, an offshoot founded by Tomohiko Hashimoto.

Takeover the Independent Tournament

The "Takeover the Independent Tournament" was a sixteen-man single-elimination tournament held by Apache Army between July 25, 2012 and September 21, 2012.

First Round

Quarter-Finals

Semi-Finals

Final

July 25, 2012

Tetsuhiro Kuroda

TKO

August 28, 2012

Kintaro Kanemura