Changes: KO-D Openweight Championship

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The KO-D Openweight Championship is the top singles championship in DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) promotion. "KO-D" is the acronym of DDT's governing body, the King of DDT. The title was introduced on April 19, 2000, after Masao Orihara defeated Sanshiro Takagi to become the first champion.

The championship has been represented by two different belts. The current second version belt was introduced in January 2005. When the title was first created, all title matches had no time limit established but DDT eventually changed the rule over to a more traditional 60 minute time limit. Since 2009, DDT established the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere, with wrestlers being granted a title shot at anytime and anywhere, with the title defenses being labeled as a "Cash In" match. Otherwise, the usage of the rule was scheduled in advance and is treated as a regular title match.

Overview

In April 2000, DDT commissioner Exciting Yoshida announced the creation of DDT's first championship the DDT Openweight championship, as a way to celebrate the promotion's first event in the Korakuen Hall, in December 1999. Since there wasn’t much money in the company at the time, the belt was made as cheaply as possible.

Throughout the history of the championship, the title was vacated twice. The first time was after Nosawa was stripped of the title by the DDT Commissioner for not being appropriate as a champion. The second time was when Dick Togo suffered a tailbone injury. Antonio Honda then became the provisional champion. Togo then defeated Hondo in a unification match to become the undisputed champion. When the title was first created, all title matches had no time limit established but DDT eventually changed the rule over to a more traditional 60 minute time limit.

Overall, there have been 62 reigns shared among 30 wrestlers. Title changes happen at DDT-promoted events. Two non-Japanese wrestlers have held the title. The inaugural champion was Masao Orihara winning the title on April 19, 2000. Over his 9 reigns, HARASHIMA successfully defended the title 28 times, the most of any champion. The youngest champion is Konosuke Takeshita with 22 years old, while also being the only champion with most successful title defenses with 12 title defenses and also the longest reign as champion with 405 days.

In August 2018, Shigehiro Irie defended the title outside of Japan for the first on Dayton, Ohio, United States at Rockstar Pro Wrestling event Amped losing the title to Sami Callihan in a three-way match also involving Trey Miguel, while also becoming the first title change outside of Japan, before regaining it eight days later. On August 28, Meiko Satomura became the first female to become the KO-D Openweight Champion.

Title History

#	Wrestler	Reign	Date	Location	Length	Defenses	Event	Notes
1	Masao Orihara	1	April 19, 2000	Tokyo	98 Days	0	Live Event	Defeated Sanshiro Takagi to become the first champion.
2	Koichiro Kimura	1	July 26, 2000	Tokyo	77 Days	1	Live Event
3	Poison Sawada Julie	1	October 11, 2000	Tokyo	64 Days	1	Live Event
4	Sanshiro Takagi	1	December 14, 2000	Osaka	104 Days	2	Never Mind (2000)	Defeated Poison Sawada Julie, Tomohiko Hashimoto, and Super Uchuu Power in a four-way match.
5	Exciting Yoshida	1	March 28, 2001	Tokyo	93 Days	2	Judgement 5
6	Nosawa	1	June 29, 2001	Tokyo	146 Days	0	No Reason, No Future	Nosawa won a three-way match also including Super Uchuu Power.
—	Vacated	—	N/A	—	N/A	—	—	Nosawa was stripped of the title by the DDT Commissioner for "not being appropriate as a champion.
7	Super Uchuu Power	2	November 30, 2001	Tokyo	57 Days	1	DDT My love	Defeated Poison Sawada Julie and Sanshiro Takagi in a three-way match to become the new champion. Power was formerly known as Koichiro Kimura.
8	MIKAMI	1	January 26, 2002	Tokyo	11 Days	1	Dark Horse 2002	Mikami with Takashi Sasaki won a triple title match defeating reigning champion Super Uchuu Power and Ironman Heavymetalweight champion Asian Cooger and retaining their KO-D Tag Team Championship.
9	Super Uchuu Power	2	February 6, 2002	Tokyo	86 Days	0	Non-Fix 2/6
10	Sanshiro Takagi	2	May 3, 2002	Tokyo	28 Days	0	Turning Point (2002)	This match was also contested for Takagi's Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship.
11	Kintaro Kanemura	1	May 31, 2002	Tokyo	99 Days	1	Max Bump (2002)	This match was also contested for Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship.
12	Sanshiro Takagi	3	September 7, 2002	Chiba	83 Days	1	The Ring
13	GENTARO	1	November 29, 2002	Tokyo	23 Days	0	God Bless DDT
14	MIKAMI	2	December 22, 2002	Tokyo	208 Days	2	Never Mind (2002)	Defeated GENTARO, Tomohiko Hashimoto, and Sanshiro Takagi in a four-way match.
15	Takashi Sasaki	1	July 18, 2003	Tokyo	100 Days	2	Audience (2003)
16	Shoichi Ichimiya	1	October 26, 2003	Tokyo	108 Days	0	Dead or Alive (2003)	This was a chain deathmatch.
17	Poison Sawada Julie	1	February 11, 2004	Tokyo	196 Days	4	Future Port (2004)	Defeated Shoichi Ichimiya, Sanshiro Takagi and Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion Danshoku Dino in a four-way no DQ match to win both titles.
18	MIKAMI	3	November 2, 2004	Tokyo	89 Days	1	Day Dream Believer (2004)
19	Dick Togo	1	January 30, 2005	Tokyo	94 Days	2	Into The Fight (2005)
20	Sanshiro Takagi	4	May 4, 2005	Tokyo	172 Days	1	Max Bump (2005)
21	Danshoku Dino	1	October 23, 2005	Tokyo	191 Days	1	Day Dream Believer (2005)
22	Toru Owashi	1	May 2, 2006	Tokyo	241 Days	2	King of DDT (2006)
23	HARASHIMA	1	December 29, 2006	Tokyo	186 Days	3	Never Mind (2006)
24	Koo	1	July 3, 2007	Tokyo	110 Days	2	Dramatic Style (2007)
25	HARASHIMA	2	October 21, 2007	Tokyo	198 Days	2	Day Dream Believer (2007)
26	Dick Togo	2	May 6, 2008	Tokyo	145 Days	2	Max Bump (2008)
27	Sanshiro Takagi	5	September 28, 2008	Tokyo	218 Days	5	Who's gonna top? (2008)	This match was also contested for Takagi's DDT Extreme Division Championship and the match was a steel cage deathmatch.
28	HARASHIMA	3	May 4, 2009	Tokyo	111 Days	2	Max Bump (2009)
29	Kota Ibushi	1	August 23, 2009	Tokyo	98 Days	2	Ryogoku Peter Pan (2009)
30	Shuji Ishikawa	2	November 29, 2009	Tokyo	91 Days	4	DDT Special (2009)	Ishikawa was formerly known as Koo.
31	Daisuke Sekimoto	1	February 28, 2010	Tokyo	147 Days	4	Union Pro live event
32	HARASHIMA	4	July 25, 2010	Tokyo	112 Days	2	Ryogoku Peter Pan (2010)
33	Hikaru Sato	1	November 14, 2010	Tokyo	14 Days	0	Osaka Bay Blues Special
34	Dick Togo	3	November 28, 2010	Tokyo	31 Days	0	God Bless DDT (2010)
—	Vacated	—	December 26, 2010	—	N/A	—	—	Vacated due to Togo suffering a tailbone injury.
—	Antonio Honda	-001 Provisional	December 26, 2010	Tokyo	37 Days	0	Never Mind (2010)	Defeated GENTARO to become the provisional champion.
35	Dick Togo	4	January 30, 2011	Tokyo	95 Days	2	Sweat Dreams (2010)
36	Shuji Ishikawa	3	May 4, 2011	Tokyo	81 Days	2	Max Bump (2011)
37	Kudo	1	July 24, 2011	Tokyo	189 Days	5	Ryogoku Peter Pan (2011)
38	Danshoku Dino	2	January 29, 2012	Tokyo	63 Days	2	Sweet Dreams! (2012)
39	Sanshiro Takagi	6	April 1, 2012	Tokyo	0 Days	0	April Fool (2012)
40	Masa Takanashi	1	April 1, 2012	Tokyo	33 Days	0	April Fool (2012)	Takanashi cashed in his "Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere" contract.
41	Yuji Hino	1	May 4, 2012	Tokyo	51 Days	1	Max Bump (2012)
42	Kota Ibushi	2	June 24, 2012	Tokyo	98 Days	2	What Are You Doing (2012)
43	El Generico	1	September 30, 2012	Tokyo	84 Days	3	Who's Gonna Top? (2012)
44	Kenny Omega	1	December 23, 2012	Tokyo	87 Days	3	Never Mind (2012)
45	Shigehiro Irie	1	March 20, 2013	Tokyo	151 Days	8	Judgement (2013)
46	HARASHIMA	5	August 18, 2013	Tokyo	215 Days	6	Ryogoku Peter Pan (2013)
47	Kudo	2	March 21, 2014	Tokyo	65 Days	2	Judgement (2014)
48	HARASHIMA	6	May 25, 2014	Nagoya	266 Days	7	Friendship, Effort, Victory! (2014)
49	Kota Ibushi	3	February 15, 2015	Saitama	73 Days	1	Saitama Super DDT (2015)
50	HARASHIMA	7	April 29, 2015	Tokyo	32 Days	1	Max Bump (2015)
51	Kudo	3	May 31, 2015	Tokyo	28 Days	0	Audience (2015)
52	Ken Ohka	1	June 28, 2015	Tokyo	0 Days	0	King Of DDT (2015) Tokyo	This was a three-way match, also involving Yasu Urano. Both Ohka and Urano cashed in their "Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere" contracts.
53	Kudo	4	June 28, 2015	Tokyo	56 Days	0	King Of DDT (2015) Tokyo	Kudo cashed in his "Right to Challenge Anytime Anywhere" contract.
54	Yukio Sakaguchi	1	August 23, 2015	Tokyo	97 Days	2	Ryogoku Peter Pan (2015)
55	Isami Kodaka	1	November 28, 2015	Osaka	114 Days	3	Osaka Octopus (2015)
56	HARASHIMA	8	March 21, 2016	Tokyo	34 Days	2	Judgement (2016)
57	Daisuke Sasaki	1	April 24, 2016	Tokyo	35 Days	1	Max Bump (2016)	Sasaki cashed in his "Right to Challenge Anytime Anywhere" contract.
58	Konosuke Takeshita	1	May 29, 2016	Tokyo	91 Days	3	Audience (2016)
59	Shuji Ishikawa	4	August 28, 2016	Tokyo	98 Days	2	Ryogoku Peter Pan (2016)
60	HARASHIMA	9	December 4, 2016	Osaka	106 Days	3	Osaka Octopus (2016)
61	Konosuke Takeshita	2	March 20, 2017	Saitama	405 Days	11	Judgment (2017)
62	Shigehiro Irie	2	April 29, 2018	Tokyo	95 Days	3	Max Bump (2018)
63	Sami Callihan	1	August 1, 2018	Dayton, Ohio, United States	7 Days	0	Rockstar Pro Wrestling Amped	This was a three-way match also involving Trey Miguel.
64	Shigehiro Irie	3	August 8, 2018	Dayton, Ohio, United States	6 Days	0	Rockstar Pro Wrestling Amped
65	Danshoku Dino	3	August 14, 2018	Tokyo, Japan	15 Days	0	DDT LIVE! MAJI MANJI #14	Dino cashed in his "Right to Challenge Anytime Anywhere" contract.
66	Meiko Satomura	1	August 28, 2018	Tokyo, Japan	26 Days	0	DDT LIVE! MAJI MANJI #15	Satomura cashed in her "Right to Challenge Anytime Anywhere" contract. Satomura became the first female champion.
67	Danshoku Dino	4	September 23, 2018	Tokyo, Japan	27 Days	0	Road to Ryogoku 2018	This was a three-way match also involving Shigehiro Irie.
68	Daisuke Sasaki	2	October 21, 2018	Tokyo, Japan	119 Days	1	Ryogoku Peter Pan
69	Konosuke Takeshita	3	February 17, 2019	Tokyo, Japan	46 Days	1	Judgment (2019)
70	Daisuke Sasaki	3	April 4, 2019	New York City, New York	0 Days	0	DDT Is Coming to America
71	Tetsuya Endo	1	April 4, 2019	New York City, New York	102 Days	2	DDT Is Coming to America	Endo cashed in his "Right to Challenge Anytime Anywhere" contract.
72	Konosuke Takeshita	4	July 15, 2019	Tokyo, Japan	1740 Days	2	Wrestle Peter Pan 2019
73	HARASHIMA	10	November 3, 2019	Tokyo, Japan	84 Days	1	Ultimate Party 2019	This was a "Winner takes all" match also for the DDT Extreme Division Championship.
74	Masato Tanaka	1	January 26, 2020	Tokyo, Japan	133 Days	4	Sweet Dreams! 2020
75	Tetsuya Endo	2	June 7, 2020	Tokyo, Japan	1412+	2	Wrestle Peter Pan 2020	Endo cashed in his "Saitama Super Arena Sword" contract.

List of combined reigns

†	Indicates the current champions

Rank	Wrestler	# of reigns	Combined days
1	HARASHIMA	10	1314
2	Sanshiro Takagi	6	605
3	Konosuke Takeshita	4	653
4	Shuji Ishikawa/Koo	4	410
5	Dick/Francesco Togo	3	365
6	Kudo	4	338
7	Poison Sawada Julie	2	329
8	MIKAMI	3	307
9	Toru Owashi	1	271
10	Kota Ibushi	3	269
11	Shigehiro Irie	3	254
12	Danshoku Dino	4	267
13	Koichiro Kimura/Super Uchuu Power	3	220
14	Daisuke Sasaki	2	152
15	Daisuke Sekimoto	1	147
16	Nosawa	1	146
17	Masato Tanaka	1	133
18	Isami Kodaka	1	114
19	Shoichi Ichimiya	1	108
20	Takashi Sasaki	1	101
21	Tetsuya Endo †	2	1514+
22	Kintaro Kanemura	1	99
23	Masao Orihara	1	98
24	Yukio Sakaguchi	1	97
25	Exciting Yoshida	1	93
26	Kenny Omega	1	87
27	El Generico	1	84
28	Yuji Hino	1	51
29	Masa Takanashi	1	33
30	Meiko Satomura	1	26
31	GENTARO	1	23
32	Hikaru Sato	1	14
33	Sami Callihan	1	7
34	Ken Ohka	1	<1

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 The '''KO-D Openweight Championship''' is the top singles championship in [[DDT Pro-Wrestling]] (DDT) promotion. "KO-D" is the acronym of DDT's governing body, the King of DDT. The title was introduced on April 19, 2000, after [[Masao Orihara]] defeated [[Sanshiro Takagi]] to become the first champion.
-The championship has been represented by two different belts. The current second version belt was introduced in January 2005. When the title was first created, all title matches had no time limit established but DDT eventually changed the rule over to a more traditional 60 minute time limit. Since 2009, DDT established the [[Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere]], with wrestlers being granted a title shot at anytime and anywhere, with the title defenses being labeled as a "Cash In" match. Otherwis,e the usage of the rule was scheduled in advance and is treated as a regular title match.
+The championship has been represented by two different belts. The current second version belt was introduced in January 2005. When the title was first created, all title matches had no time limit established but DDT eventually changed the rule over to a more traditional 60 minute time limit. Since 2009, DDT established the [[Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere]], with wrestlers being granted a title shot at anytime and anywhere, with the title defenses being labeled as a "Cash In" match. Otherwise, the usage of the rule was scheduled in advance and is treated as a regular title match.
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