The is a secondary title contested in the

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

ese

professional wrestling Professional wrestling is a form of theater that revolves around staged wrestling matches. The mock combat is performed in a ring similar to the kind used in boxing, and the dramatic aspects of pro wrestling may be performed both in the ring o ...

promotion Promotion may refer to: Marketing * Promotion (marketing), one of the four marketing mix elements, comprising any type of marketing communication used to inform or persuade target audiences of the relative merits of a product, service, brand or i ...

Osaka Pro Wrestling Osaka Pro Wrestling is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion, founded in 1998 by Super Delfin. The promotion held a major flagship event called the Osaka Hurricane each year from 2003 to 2012 and also hosted the fourth edition of the Supe ...

. It was established in 2008 as the Osaka Pro Wrestling Owarai Championship (before being renamed in 2019) when

Kanjyuro Matsuyama is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known for his ring name . He has worked in Toryumon and Michinoku Pro Wrestling, but is more famous for his long career in Osaka Pro Wrestling. Along with Kikutaro and Stalker Ichikawa, he is consider ...

declared himself the first Owarai Champion upon vacating the

Osaka Meibutsu Sekaiichi Championship The Osaka Meibutsu Sekaiichi Championship (Osaka World's Best Attraction Championship) was a secondary professional wrestling title contested in the Japanese pro wrestling promotion Osaka Pro Wrestling. The title was established in 2001 when Ku ...

. Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won via direct competition; it is instead won via a predetermined ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a wrestling angle. There have been twenty-three reigns by fourteen wrestlers with three vacancies. The current champion is Billyken Kid, who is in his first reign as champion.

Title history

Names

Reigns

Combined reigns

Notes

References

External links