AMIP Heavyweight Championship

Title History
The AMIP Heavyweight Championship was designed to be the top prize for the Heavyweight wrestlers working under the AMIP banner. It was conceived May 5th, 2012 and is still active to this day.

The first champion was determined after a twelve man Round Robin to crown the first champion. In the finals, veteran Shigehiro Matayoshi defeated Daisuke Hase to become the first champion and establishing himself as the promotions first Ace. Matayoshi would then have a trade/trade-back war with Wataru Nakamura, with Nakamura ultimately being the victor. Nakamura, who was the then leader of the villainous stable Drowning, would be betrayed by fellow stablemate Tatsuhiko Kobayashi. Kobayashi, now leader of Drowning, would dethrone Nakamura of the Heavyweight title on January 10, 2015. In March of 2015, former Ace Shigehiro Matayoshi admitted he would not resign with AMIP, and Nakamura would announce he is retiring from active competition and now the majority shareholder of AMIP. This left Kobayashi to become the new Ace of the promotion, and would hold onto the title for an amazing 16 months before losing it to Hiroshi Kawato, a popular freelancer who had signed a full-time contract with AMIP. Kawato's first reign was short however, dropping the belt straight back to Kobayashi a couple of months later.

The title would fall in the hands of it's first gaijin champion in PULSE, who won it right around Halloween. PULSE would defend the title for a little under three months before dropping the title back to Tatsuhiko Kobayashi. Kobayashi would enjoy another long reign with the title before PULSE took the title back in November.

PULSE would lose the belt to Hiroshi Kawato, which coincided well with the end of PULSE's contract, which he said that he would be returning home to resurrect HQW, but said AMIP will always hold a special place in his heart. Kawato would go on to lose the championship a mere month later to the fast rising Yonosuke Ueno. On May 25, 2019, Ueno would accidentally lose the belt in a cross-promotional charity show to outsider Genichiro Hosaku. Chairman Nakamura would give Hosaku consent to defend the title on his home promotion but made the controversial call to forbid AMIP stars for going over to Hosaku's promotion's events, saying they are exclusive products of AMIP. This prompted Hiroshi Kawato to go freelance so he could wrestle Hosaku if he wanted. This led to Kawato finding greener pastures elsewhere and leaving AMIP altogether. To remedy this nightmarish situation, Nakamura took a chance on popular tag team wrestler Satoru Hayashi. Hayashi would win that year's Heaven's Gate tournament and would defeat Hosaku to bring the championship back home to AMIP. On February 27, 2020, Nakamura held a press conference following a mass-talent exodus to announce that Hayashi would be the promotion's new Ace.