GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship
| GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
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| Details | |||||||||||
| Promotion | Pro Wrestling Noah | ||||||||||
| Date established | June 24, 2001 | ||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Atsushi Kotoge | ||||||||||
| Date won | September 23, 2016 | ||||||||||
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The Global Honored Crown (GHC) Junior Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling title in Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Noah, specifically for junior heavyweight (<100 kg) workers. It was created in 2001 when Yoshinobu Kanemaru defeated Juventud Guerrera in a 12-man tournament final. In addition to Japan, the title has also been defended in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. There have been a total of 17 recognized champions who have had a combined 32 official reigns.
Tournament
NOAH held a 12-man tournament to crown the first champion, held over its month-long, 11-event Navigation for the Bright Destination tour. The tour was held from June 9 through June 24, 2001.[1]
| First round | Second round | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||||||
| June 16 | Path Finder | 12:15 | ||||||||||||||||
| June 9 | Path Finder | Pin | Miyagi | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | Pin | |||||||||||||
| June 23 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | Pin | ||||||||||||||||
| Tokyo | Kenta Kobayashi | 8:27 | ||||||||||||||||
| Tokyo | Tsuyoshi Kikuchi | 13:34 | ||||||||||||||||
| June 21 | Tsuyoshi Kikuchi | Pin | ||||||||||||||||
| Toyama | BJ Whitmer | 7:12 | ||||||||||||||||
| June 24 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | Pin | ||||||||||||||||
| Aichi | Juventud Guerrera | 17:17 | ||||||||||||||||
| June 17 | Makoto Hashi | 15:02 | ||||||||||||||||
| Oyama | Naomichi Marufuji | Pin | ||||||||||||||||
| June 23 | Naomichi Marufuji | 19:02 | ||||||||||||||||
| June 15 | Satoru Asako | Pin | ||||||||||||||||
| Tokyo | Juventud Guerrera | Pin | ||||||||||||||||
| Niigata | Matt Murphy | 11:21 | June 20 | Satoru Asako | 11:04 | |||||||||||||
| Tokyo | Juventud Guerrera | Pin | ||||||||||||||||
Title history
| # | Wrestler | Reign | Date | Days held |
Location | Event | Successful defenses |
Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | 1 | June 24, 2001 | 117 | Nagoya, Japan | Navigation for the Bright Destination tour | 2 | Defeated Juventud Guerrera in a tournament final. | [1] |
| 2 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | 1 | October 19, 2001 | 51 | Yokohama, Japan | Tug of War tour | 1 | [2] | |
| 3 | Naomichi Marufuji | 1 | December 9, 2001 | 119 | Tokyo, Japan | Navigation in Raging Ocean tour | 1 | [3] | |
| 4 | Makoto Hashi | 1 | April 7, 2002 | 1 | Tokyo, Japan | Come and Watch in Ariake | 0 | [4] | |
| — | Vacated | — | April 8, 2002 | — | — | — | — | Hashi refused the title after winning by referee stoppage due to Marufuji injuring his knee. | [5] |
| 5 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | 2 | May 26, 2002 | 308 | Sapporo, Japan | Navigation with Breeze tour | 3 | Defeated Kenta in a tournament final. | [6] |
| 6 | Michael Modest | 1 | March 30, 2003 | 166 | Fukuoka, Japan | Encountering Navigation tour | 2 | [7][8] | |
| 7 | Takashi Sugiura | 1 | September 12, 2003 | 114 | Tokyo, Japan | Navigation Over the Date Line tour | 2 | [9] | |
| 8 | Jushin Thunder Liger | 1 | January 4, 2004 | 188 | Tokyo, Japan | New Japan Pro Wrestling's Wrestling World | 5 | [10][11] | |
| 9 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | 3 | July 10, 2004 | 373 | Tokyo, Japan | Departure | 5 | [12] | |
| 10 | Kenta | 1 | July 18, 2005 | 321 | Tokyo, Japan | Destiny | 6 | [13] | |
| 11 | Takashi Sugiura | 2 | June 4, 2006 | 202 | Sapporo, Japan | Northern Navigation tour | 1 | [14] | |
| 12 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | 2 | December 23, 2006 | 126 | Tokyo, Japan | Pro Wrestling SEM's SEMful Gift in Differ | 2 | [15] | |
| 13 | Mushiking Terry | 1 | April 28, 2007 | 182 | Tokyo, Japan | Spring Navigation tour | 0 | [16] | |
| 14 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | 4 | October 27, 2007 | 323 | Tokyo, Japan | Autumn Navigation tour | 5 | ||
| 15 | Bryan Danielson | 1 | September 14, 2008 | 29 | Tokyo, Japan | Ring of Honor's The Tokyo Summit | 1 | ||
| 16 | Kenta | 2 | October 13, 2008 | 121 | Hiroshima, Japan | Won the title on the Autumn Navigation tour | 3 | ||
| 17 | Katsuhiko Nakajima | 1 | February 11, 2009 | 18 | Tokyo, Japan | Kensuke Office's Take the Dream Vol. 7 | 0 | ||
| 18 | Kenta | 3 | March 1, 2009 | 243 | Tokyo, Japan | Second Navigation tour | 3 | ||
| — | Vacated | October 30, 2009 | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to a knee injury. | ||
| 19 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | 5 | October 31, 2009 | 400 | Tokyo, Japan | Autumn Navigation tour | 6 | Defeated Jushin Thunder Liger in the finals of the Junior Heavyweight League. | |
| 20 | Kotaro Suzuki | 2 | December 5, 2010 | 292 | Tokyo, Japan | Winter Navigation tour | 7 | Suzuki was formerly known as Mushiking Terry. | |
| 21 | Katsuhiko Nakajima | 2 | September 23, 2011 | 9 | Tokyo, Japan | Shiny Navigation tour | 0 | ||
| — | Vacated | — | October 2, 2011 | — | — | — | — | Nakajima was forced to vacate the title after undergoing surgery for acute appendicitis. | |
| 22 | Ricky Marvin | 1 | October 16, 2011 | <1 | Tokyo, Japan | Navigation Sunday 2011 in Korakuen | 0 | Defeated Satoshi Kajiwara. | |
| — | Vacated | — | October 16, 2011 | — | — | — | — | Marvin vacated the title, declaring that he wanted to earn it by defeating Katsuhiko Nakajima. | |
| 23 | Katsuhiko Nakajima | 3 | November 27, 2011 | 164 | Tokyo, Japan | Great Voyage 2011 in Tokyo Vol. 4 | 4 | Defeated Ricky Marvin. | |
| 24 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | 6 | May 9, 2012 | 143 | Tokyo, Japan | The Navigation in May 2012 tour | 3 | ||
| 25 | Shuji Kondo | 1 | September 29, 2012 | 120 | Tokyo, Japan | The Navigation Saturday 2012 in Korakuen | 3 | [17] | |
| 26 | Taiji Ishimori | 1 | January 27, 2013 | 405 | Osaka, Japan | Great Voyage 2013 in Osaka | 10 | ||
| 27 | Daisuke Harada | 1 | March 8, 2014 | 273 | Tokyo, Japan | Great Voyage 2014 in Tokyo | 7 | ||
| 28 | Atsushi Kotoge | 1 | December 6, 2014 | 99 | Tokyo, Japan | Great Voyage 2014 in Tokyo Vol. 3 | 1 | ||
| 29 | Taichi | 1 | March 15, 2015 | 283 | Tokyo, Japan | Great Voyage 2015 in Tokyo | 4 | ||
| 30 | Taiji Ishimori | 2 | December 23, 2015 | 63 | Tokyo, Japan | Destiny 2015 | 1 | ||
| 31 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | 7 | February 24, 2016 | 212 | Tokyo, Japan | The Second Navigation 2016 | 4 | ||
| 32 | Atsushi Kotoge | 2 | September 23, 2016 | 73+ | Tokyo, Japan | Shiny Navig. 2016 | 3 |
Combined reigns
As of December 5, 2016.
| † | Indicates the current champion |
|---|
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | 7 | 28 | 1,876 |
| 2 | Kenta | 3 | 12 | 685 |
| 3 | Mushiking Terry/Kotaro Suzuki | 2 | 7 | 474 |
| 4 | Taiji Ishimori | 2 | 11 | 468 |
| 5 | Takashi Sugiura | 2 | 3 | 316 |
| 6 | Taichi | 1 | 4 | 283 |
| 7 | Daisuke Harada | 1 | 7 | 273 |
| 8 | Katsuhiko Nakajima | 3 | 4 | 191 |
| 9 | Jushin Thunder Liger | 1 | 5 | 188 |
| 10 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | 2 | 3 | 177 |
| 11 | Atsushi Kotoge † | 2 | 4 | 172+ |
| 12 | Michael Modest | 1 | 2 | 166 |
| 13 | Shuji Kondo | 1 | 3 | 120 |
| 14 | Naomichi Marufuji | 1 | 1 | 119 |
| 15 | Bryan Danielson | 1 | 1 | 29 |
| 16 | Makoto Hashi | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Ricky Marvin | 1 | 0 | <1 |
References
- 1 2 "NOAH Navigation to the Bright Destination tour results". Green Destiny. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ↑ "NOAH Tug of War tour results". Green Destiny. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ↑ "NOAH Navigation in Raging Ocean tour results". Green Destiny. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ↑ "NOAH Encountering Navigation 2002 tour results". Green Destiny. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ↑ "GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship official title history" (in Japanese). Pro Wrestling NOAH official site. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ↑ "NOAH Navigation with Breeze tour results". Green Destiny. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ↑ "NOAH Encountering Navigation 2003 tour results". Green Destiny. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ↑ "We are the Champions (as of July 8)". Power Slam Magazine. Lancaster, Lancashire, England: SW Publishing LTD. August 2003. p. 15. 109.
- ↑ "NOAH Navigation Over the Date Line tour results". Green Destiny. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ↑ "NJPW results, 2004". Strong Style Spirit. Archived from the original on 2007-10-14. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ↑ "We are the champions (as of February 11)". Power Slam Magazine. Lancaster, Lancashire, England: SW Publishing LTD. March 2005. p. 15. 116.
- ↑ "NOAH results, 2004". Green Destiny. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ↑ "NOAH results, 2005". Green Destiny. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ↑ "NOAH Northern Navigation tour results" (in German). PuroLove.com. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ↑ "SEM results" (in German). PuroLove.com. Archived from the original on January 15, 2008. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ↑ "NOAH Spring Navigation tour results" (in German). PuroLove.com. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ↑ "NOAH, K-DOJO [Youth Cup Day 6], ZERO1 results for September 29, 2012". puroresuspirit. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
See also
- GHC Heavyweight Championship
- GHC Tag Team Championship
- GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
- GHC Hardcore Tag Team Championship
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