Greatest IWGP Heavyweight Champions

1 Hiroshi Tanahashi Hiroshi Tanahashi is a Japanese professional wrestler who works primarily for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he is a former two time IWGP Intercontinental Champion, while also being a former seven-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion, two-time IWGP Tag Team Champion and three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag ...read more.

2 The Great Muta

3 Kazuchika Okada Kazuchika Okada is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is a former three-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion.

4 Shinya Hashimoto

5 Tatsumi Fujinami

6 Kensuke Sasaki

7 Vader

8 Shinsuke Nakamura Shinsuke Nakamura is a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist currently signed to WWE competing on Smackdown Live. Nakamura is known for his work in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a former three-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion. His other accomplishments within the ...read more.

9 Antonio Inoki Muhammad Hussain Inoki (born Kanji Inoki was a Japanese professional wrestling promoter, politician, professional wrestler and mixed martial artist best known by the ring name Antonio Inoki.

10 AJ Styles Allen Neal Jones, better known by the ring name AJ Styles, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE.

The Contenders

11 Yuji Nagata

12 Riki Choshu

13 Brock Lesnar Brock Edward Lesnar is an American professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler, professional American football player, and mixed martial artist who is currently signed to WWE.

14 Kenny Omega Tyson Smith, better known by his ring name Kenny Omega, is a Canadian professional wrestler with Japanese citizenship currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he is the current IWGP Heavyweight Champion in his first reign.

15 Kazuyuki Fujita

16 Hiroyoshi Tenzan

17 Satoshi Kojima

18 Tetsuya Naito