Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The NEVER Openweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. NEVER is an acronym of the terms \"New Blood\", \"Evolution\", \"Valiantly\", \"Eternal\", and \"Radical\" and was a NJPW-promoted series of events, which featured younger up-and-coming talent and outside wrestlers not signed to the promotion. The project was officially announced on July 12, 2010, and held its first event on August 24, 2010. On October 5, 2012, NJPW announced that NEVER was going to get its own championship, the NEVER Openweight Championship, the promotion's sixth active title.The title was originally scheduled to be defended exclusively at NEVER events, but this plan was quickly changed and since its foundation, the title has been defended on the undercards of NJPW events. The original concept of having younger workers wrestle for the title has also not been realized with all six holders of the title having been in their thirties or forties. Though named an \"openweight\" championship, NJPW has also categorized the title as one of the promotion's four heavyweight titles, alongside the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, the IWGP Intercontinental Championship and the IWGP Tag Team Championship. Together, the NEVER Openweight, IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Championships also form what has been called the \"New Japan Triple Crown\" (新日本トリプルクラウン, Shin Nihon Toripuru Kuraun).Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a match with a predetermined outcome. There have been ten reigns shared among six wrestlers. Katsuyori Shibata is the current champion in his first reign."@en }
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- NEVER_Openweight_Championship abstract "The NEVER Openweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. NEVER is an acronym of the terms \"New Blood\", \"Evolution\", \"Valiantly\", \"Eternal\", and \"Radical\" and was a NJPW-promoted series of events, which featured younger up-and-coming talent and outside wrestlers not signed to the promotion. The project was officially announced on July 12, 2010, and held its first event on August 24, 2010. On October 5, 2012, NJPW announced that NEVER was going to get its own championship, the NEVER Openweight Championship, the promotion's sixth active title.The title was originally scheduled to be defended exclusively at NEVER events, but this plan was quickly changed and since its foundation, the title has been defended on the undercards of NJPW events. The original concept of having younger workers wrestle for the title has also not been realized with all six holders of the title having been in their thirties or forties. Though named an \"openweight\" championship, NJPW has also categorized the title as one of the promotion's four heavyweight titles, alongside the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, the IWGP Intercontinental Championship and the IWGP Tag Team Championship. Together, the NEVER Openweight, IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Championships also form what has been called the \"New Japan Triple Crown\" (新日本トリプルクラウン, Shin Nihon Toripuru Kuraun).Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a match with a predetermined outcome. There have been ten reigns shared among six wrestlers. Katsuyori Shibata is the current champion in his first reign.".