The New Belts on the Block - SEA Wrestling Magazine 6

This year Southeast Asia has been introduced to 6 new championships across the region. Each of these belts certainly has a unique design and offers up something extra for wrestlers to get their teeth into storyline wise.

DEXCON World Championship

A sudden and very surprising addition at Sari Sari Slam on October 19th was the reveal of the DEXCON World Championship. Now held by Jake De Leon, this belt seems poised to take over from the Puso Pinoy Championship currently held by Main Maxx as the main prize in DEXCON giving the promotion more opportunity to branch out from the storylines run by its sister. Apart from that it offers the potential for the winner to be a non local and take the DEXCON banner overseas to promote the Triller shows.

FPW Metro Manila Championship

Announced earlier this year, Ralph Imbayashi became the first holder by wining a four way match at Unfinished Business. The striking orange fronted belt allows more wrestlers to get that leg up but also for a promotion like FPW offers up the opportunity for a switch up in main events with two belts up for grabs.

Grapplemax Rising Championship

Greg Ho announced the Rising Championship early on in 2025 and Jullian Creed was crowned champion at Pro Wrestling Festival 2. The purpose of the secondary singles title was all about up-and-coming stars to provide singles wrestlers something to shoot for in their earlier years.

PSE: Asia Thailand Championship

The Thailand Championship was quietly won by Blobtang earlier on this year at a Santo Slam event in Bangkok. A rather striking piece that is now being used to represent PSE and Thailand when the monstrous fighter heads to MMA events such as Fight Circus in Las Vegas

Ring of Rebirth Championship

Long due, we are almost at the end of the ROR Championship tournament which has dominated the promotions shows over the last year. Yet to be revealed the title helps to provide some level of hierarchy around the roster as it continues to develop. It also helps demonstrate that ROR is truly a clear wrestling promotion in its own right as it deserves to be seen.

The VPW Vietnam Championship

Technically not a new championship in the pursest sense, the VPW Vietnam Championship takes on the lineage of the old SPWC/VPW Openweight Championship but with a new physical title and name. Presented to current champion Ares at Vietnamania in December the belt represents the hard work, strife and dedication of the Vietnamese people that has injected itself into the success that VPW has become.

While all the belts offer up opportunity, SEA Wrestling does feel there is potential for other championship avenues to be developed in addition to men’s singles titles. For one The Philippines desperately needs to reward all of its fantastic Pinay wrestlers with a Women’s championship. A cross promotional title would reward wrestlers in FPW, Puso and DEXCON for years of dedication. Not to mention that since the WUW Tag Titles returned to Japan there is definitely a need for Tag championships. The same is true in Malaysia where rising teams such as LOVE X FRDM could have championship classics with The Juicy Boys and Real Global Threat. Conversely SETUP Thailand could consider merging their two top belts in the IWA Thailand World title and SETUP Openweight title to create less confusion and provide us with a very intriguing Monomoth vs Jonathon Johnson match.