AMIP Jr. Heavyweight Championship

The AMIP Jr. Heavyweight Championship is the top prize for any smaller competitor in All Meta-Human Impact Pro Wrestling. The title's first champion was determined at the inaugural King of Juniors Global League tournament back in August of 2012. The winner was Jr. Heavyweight veteran Minoru Gima, who would step down as champion three months later feeling the budding Jr. Heavyweight division was now it good hands.

An 8-Man tournament would be held after to crown the new champion. In the finals, Atsuki Hatanaka would win the tournament and act as a torch barer for the division. He would form a rivalry with Drowning's top junior Kotaru Eguchi, which lasted nearly a year until Eguchi finally defeated Hatanaka in his second title shot. Eguchi would hold the belt for a mere month before losing it to Alpha. Alpha would go on to defend his title against his tag team partner Beta in a sort of MegaBytes implosion match. Two months later however, Hatanaka would successfully regain his title, but would hold it for five months before a bloodthirsty Eguchi came back to reclaim his title.

Eguchi's second reign was far superior to his first, lasting a whole seven months before losing the belt to freelancer Hiroki Fukuda. Eguchi would later part ways with Drowning, which prompted leader Tatsuhiko Kobayashi to try to recruit Fukuda. Fukuda refused, so Kobayashi threw him to his wolves. Fukuda was forced to face all four of Drowning's then juniors: Sakai, Nosawa, Matsuura, and Komatsu. He succeeded, only to lose the belt to Damien Reigns, AMIP's first gaijin champion.

Damien Reigns found much scrutiny amongst AMIP fans, so it was president Wataru Nakamura's best interest to take the belt away from the exciting New Zealander, at least so he can build up his popularity. The match was set a month later between Damien and cult favourite freelancer "The Karaoke Super Sex Machine" Shunma Nakasone. Nakasone would win the title, but he was only expected to be a transitional champion. Nakamura found an amazing talent in CLM's Mascara Negra. Negra would sign a joint contract with CLM and AMIP and the agreement allowed Negra to defend his title in both promotions. To this day, Negra holds the record for most title defences at 14.

After winning the 2017 King of Juniors Global League, Damien Reigns was ready to give the Jr. Heavyweight title another shot. He defeated Mascara Negra for the title and enjoyed a massive nine month reign with the title before losing it AMIP's original, premier junior heavyweight Atsuki Hatanaka, becoming the first ever three time champion. Atsuki would enough another lengthy title reign before losing the title to AMIP Dojo trained Takato Matsuura.

Matsuura, now in his prime, was asked to carry the weight of the promotion while their world championship was now in the possession of a rival promotion's star. Genichiro Hosaku was now the Heavyweight Champion but remained loyal to his home promotion and would only compete at AMIP shows when it was convenient for him, which was almost never. So Matsuura was frequently getting booked in the main event, giving his all, while AMIP's attendance records were declining. In a creative move, longtime tag team wrestler Toru Sakai of Drowning won the 2019 King of Juniors Global League and would leave Drowning. The next week, his tag team partner Yohei Nosawa and freelancer Manabu Sonoda would fight off a Drowning assault. This new team would call themselves Hakai-gun(Chaos Army), and on June 26, 2019, Toru Sakai would win the AMIP Jr. Heavyweight Championship for the first time. This event was the best attended all year thanks to to the birth of the Anti-hero stable.

Toru Sakai would hold the belt for five months before losing it back to Matsuura. A match would be made for the AMIP Jr. Heavyweight Championship on January 27 show between Matsuura and challenger Yota Kanzuki, who's long time tag team partner Yonosuke Okita left back in August due to the pay-out cuts. The budget cuts would not only affect Okita however, as Takato Matsuura felt incredibly betrayed by his pay-out cuts. He was on the front lines trying to save AMIP, and yet his pay-outs were now barely over five figures. Disgusted, Matsuura told new president Satoshi Matanori that his match on January 27 would indeed be his last with AMIP. Yota Kanzuki would win the title match, and after the match had ended, Matsuura wished his friend Kanzuki farewell. President Matanori later told Kanzuki that he would be grooming him to be the next ace of the Jr. Heavyweight division, and to be patient as AMIP will rise back to it's former glory.