The UWA Asia Pacific Heavyweight Championship (Japanese: UWAアジアパシフィックヘビー級王座, Hepburn: UWA Ajia Pashifikku Hebī-kyū Ōza) is a single championship title in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Real Japan Pro Wrestling (RJPW).
The title was established in 2018 as part of a collaboration between RJPW and the revived Mexican Universal Wrestling Association.
This can either be due to a storyline,[b] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[c] or leaving the company.
On February 28, 2018, a press conference was held in Tokyo, Japan announcing a Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) revival.
[6] As part of the revival, the UWA Asia Pacific Heavyweight Championship was created and Rey Ángel was appointed as the first champion with a title defense scheduled on September 20 against Kouki Iwasaki from Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling.