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IWGP Heavyweight Championship (IGF)

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IWGP Heavyweight Championship
Kurt Angle with the TNA World Heavyweight Championship belt and the IWGP Heavyweight Championship belt in front of a crowd
Details
PromotionInoki Genome Federation
Date establishedJune 29, 2007
Date retiredFebruary 17, 2008
(Unified with NJPW's IWGP Heavyweight Championship)
Other name(s)
IWGP 3rd Belt (NJPW)
IWGP Third Belt (NJPW)
This article is about the championship used by the Inoki Genome Federation. For other versions, see IWGP Heavyweight Championship (disambiguation).

The IWGP Heavyweight Championship (IWGPヘビー級王座, IWGP hebī-kyū ōza) was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that existed from 1987. This article covers the interpretation of the title's history according to Inoki Genome Federation (IGF) and its founder Antonio Inoki. Both promotions agreed on the title's history up to July 15, 2006, when Brock Lesnar, who was the reigning champion, was stripped of the title by NJPW. Inoki saw this event as an error made by NJPW and spawned the IGF version of the title's history, with Lesnar still recognized as the official champion.

IGF was a territory of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), thus the title was additionally recognized by the NWA.[1] NJPW recognized the title as the IWGP 3rd Belt (IWGP 3rdベルト, IWGP sādo beruto), a championship that was merely represented by a previous (third) version of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship's title belt. The title also saw the involvement of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which also recognized it as the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and assisted in the title's retirement in 2008 when it was unified with NJPW's IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

As a professional wrestling championship, the title was won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. All title changes occurred at IGF- or NJPW-promoted events. There were a total of three reigns among three wrestlers during the title's brief history.

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Inoki Genome Federation

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Inoki Genome Federation (IGF) was a Japanese professional wrestling and mixed martial arts promotion founded by Antonio Inoki in 2007.

Antonio Inoki

Antonio Inoki

Muhammad Hussain Inoki was a Japanese professional wrestler, martial artist, politician, and promoter of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts. He was best known by the ring name Antonio Inoki , a homage to fellow professional wrestler Antonino Rocca. Inoki was a twelve-time professional wrestling world champion, notably being the first IWGP Heavyweight Champion and the first Asian WWF Heavyweight Champion – a reign not officially recognized by WWE.

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IWGP Heavyweight Championship

IWGP Heavyweight Championship

The IWGP Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. "IWGP" is the acronym of NJPW's governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix . The title was introduced on June 12, 1987, in the final of an IWGP tournament. It was unified with the IWGP Intercontinental Championship on March 4, 2021 to form the new IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

History

On October 8, 2005, at New Japan Pro-Wrestling's (NJPW) Toukon Souzou New Chapter event in Tokyo, Japan, Brock Lesnar defeated Kazuyuki Fujita and Masahiro Chono in a Three Way match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. He held the title for 280 days, having three successful defenses, until he failed to show up for a scheduled title defense. NJPW thus stripped Lesnar of the championship on July 15, 2006.[2] Lesnar cited visa issues along with NJPW owing him compensation as his reasons for failing to appear at the planned title defense. After this series of events, NJPW founder Antonio Inoki left NJPW and created a new promotion, Inoki Genome Federation (IGF). Inoki then recognized Lesnar as the IWGP Heavyweight Champion due to Lesnar never having lost the championship in a match and Lesnar still maintaining physical possession of the title belt.[3] NJPW recognized Lesnar as the IWGP 3rd Belt Champion and not the IWGP Heavyweight Champion, maintaining their stance on having stripped him of the title in 2006.[4]

On June 29, 2007, IGF held its debut show with Lesnar defending the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Kurt Angle in the main event. Angle defeated Lesnar to win the championship and went on to appear in the American Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion with the physical title belt. TNA also referred to the title belt as the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in the same manner as IGF, recognizing Angle as the official IWGP Heavyweight Champion. NJPW did not recognize Angle as the IWGP Heavyweight Champion, instead it viewed Angle as the second IWGP 3rd Belt holder.[5]

Angle went on to have two successful defenses as champion. His first defense came in TNA in a feud against Samoa Joe. Angle first appeared with the title belt in TNA on the July 5, 2007, episode of TNA's television program TNA Impact!.[6][7] The title belt became relevant to the storyline rivalry between Joe and Angle heading into TNA's Hard Justice pay-per-view (PPV) event. Leading up to TNA's Victory Road PPV event on July 15, 2007, TNA X Division Champion Joe and TNA World Heavyweight Champion Angle teamed together to face TNA World Tag Team Champions Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray) in a Tag Team match with the stipulation being whoever scored the pinfall or submission for their team won the championship of the person pinned or made to submit. Joe pinned Brother Ray in the bout, thus winning the World Tag Team Championship for himself and a partner of his choosing.[8][9] Joe chose to hold the title alone and challenged Angle to a Winner Take All match at Hard Justice for the TNA World Heavyweight, TNA X Division, TNA World Tag Team, and the IWGP Heavyweight Championships on the July 19 2007, episode of Impact!. Angle accepted the match, with Joe and Angle facing at Hard Justice on August 12, 2007 in Orlando, Florida for all of the titles.[10][11] Angle defeated Joe at the event to win the TNA World Tag Team and TNA X Division Championships, while retaining the TNA World Heavyweight and IWGP Heavyweight Championships.[12][13]

Afterwards, TNA slowly fazed out the IWGP Heavyweight Championship from their programming with Angle going on to defend the title at IGF shows. With NJPW and TNA forming a working relationship, Angle also defended the title at NJPW shows, where the title was referred to as the IWGP 3rd Belt. Angle's second defense of the title was at NJPW's Wrestle Kingdom II in Tokyo Dome event on January 4, 2008, where he defeated former NJPW-recognized IWGP Heavyweight Champion Yuji Nagata to retain the IWGP 3rd Belt.[14] Angle's third defense was against then-NJPW-recognized IWGP Heavyweight Champion Shinsuke Nakamura in a unification match on February 17, 2008 at NJPW's Circuit 2008 New Japan ISM event. Angle lost the match and the existence of the IGF-recognized IWGP Heavyweight Championship ended.[15] IGF later introduced another title five years later with the IGF Championship on December 31, 2013.[16]

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Belt designs

The title design featured a black leather base with five gold plates spaced evenly apart and the center plate being the largest. On the center plate, the words "IWGP Heavyweight Champion" were featured alongside the caricature of an eagle or similar bird of prey.[A]

Reigns

The inaugural champion was Brock Lesnar, as recognized by IGF as the official IWGP Heavyweight Champion. There were a total of three reigns among three wrestlers during the title's brief history before being unified with the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

Names
Names Dates Notes Ref(s).
IWGP Heavyweight Championship July 15, 2006 – February 17, 2008 Name used by IGF and TNA during the title's existence. [7]
IWGP Third Belt July 15, 2006 – February 17, 2008 Name used by NJPW during the title's existence. [3]
Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days Defenses
44 Brock Lesnar October 8, 2005 Toukon Souzou New Chapter Tokyo, Japan 1 629[B] 3 Brock Lesnar defeated Kazuyuki Fujita and Masahiro Chono in a Three Way match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. New Japan Pro-Wrestling stripped Lesnar of the title on July 15, 2006. IGF, however, considered his reign still active. [2]
[4]
45 Kurt Angle June 29, 2007 Toukon Bom-Ba-Ye Tokyo, Japan 1 233 2 Kurt Angle appeared with and defended the title in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), successfully retaining the championship against Samoa Joe on August 12, 2007, at TNA's Hard Justice pay-per-view (PPV) event. [4]
[17]
46 Shinsuke Nakamura February 17, 2008 Circuit 2008 New Japan ISM Tokyo, Japan 2 0 Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Kurt Angle to unify IGF's IWGP Heavyweight Championship and NJPW's IWGP Heavyweight Championship. [4]
[15]
— Unified February 17, 2008 Circuit 2008 New Japan ISM Tokyo, Japan — — — Titles are unified and the IGF version of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship is deactivated. [4]
[15]

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Kazuyuki Fujita

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Masahiro Chono

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Masahiro Chono is an American-born Japanese-American retired professional wrestler and actor best known for his 26 year stint with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). As the leader of nWo Japan, Team 2000 and Black New Japan, he was the promotion's top heel for much of his career, beginning in 1994 when he adopted his Yakuza inspired gimmick.

IWGP Heavyweight Championship

IWGP Heavyweight Championship

The IWGP Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. "IWGP" is the acronym of NJPW's governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix . The title was introduced on June 12, 1987, in the final of an IWGP tournament. It was unified with the IWGP Intercontinental Championship on March 4, 2021 to form the new IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

New Japan Pro-Wrestling

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New Japan Pro-Wrestling Co., Ltd. (NJPW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion based in Nakano, Tokyo. Founded on January 13, 1972, by Antonio Inoki, the promotion was sold to Yuke's, who later sold it to Bushiroad in 2012. TV Asahi and Amuse, Inc. own minority shares of the company. Naoki Sugabayashi has served as the promotion's Chairman since September 2013, while Takami Ohbari has served as the president of the promotion since October 2020.

Kurt Angle

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Kurt Steven Angle is an American retired professional wrestler, gold medalist in American freestyle wrestling at the 1996 Olympic Games, and former collegiate wrestler. He is best known for his tenures in both WWE and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). While at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Angle won numerous accolades, including being a two-time NCAA Division I Wrestling Champion in the heavyweight division. After graduating from college, Angle won the gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1995 World Wrestling Championships. He then won the freestyle wrestling gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics despite competing with a broken neck. He is one of four people to win the Junior Nationals, NCAA, World Championships, and the Olympics. In 2006, he was named by USA Wrestling as the greatest shoot wrestler ever and one of the top 15 college wrestlers of all time. He was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame in 2016 for his amateur accomplishments.

Samoa Joe

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Nuufolau Joel Seanoa, is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name Samoa Joe who is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is former two-time AEW TNT Champion. Joe is also the current ROH World Television Champion in his first reign as part of AEW's sister promotion and the company where Joe first rose to prominence, Ring of Honor (ROH). He was inducted into the ROH Hall of Fame as part of its 2022 inaugural class, and he has also found success working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

Pay-per-view

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Source: "IWGP Heavyweight Championship (IGF)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, August 3rd), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWGP_Heavyweight_Championship_(IGF).

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Footnotes
  1. ^ This description is based on the design of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, as seen in the images throughout the article.
  2. ^ Lesnar's reign is calculated from the day he won the NJPW-recognized IWGP Heavyweight Championship until the day he lost the IWGP Heavyweight Championship as recognized by IGF. As such, it excludes him being stripped of the title and predates the split in the championship lineage.
References

General

  • "International Wrestling Grand Prix Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Titles.com. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  • "IWGP Heavyweight Championship history". New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). NJPW.co.jp. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  • Duncan, Royal; Gary Will. "I.W.G.P Heavyweight Title History". Solie.org. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  • "Pro Wrestling Illustrated: 2008 Wrestling Almanac & Book of Facts". Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Sports & Entertainment Publications, LLC. 29 (5): 107–108. ISSN 1043-7576.

Specific

  1. ^ "Súper Luchas se convierte en medio asociado de la National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)". Superluchas.com. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
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  3. ^ a b Adamson, Matt (2007-08-05). "Destiny 8.05.07: The IWGP 3rd Belt Controversy". 411 Mania.com. Retrieved 2015-09-13. The IWGP 3rd Belt
  4. ^ a b c d e "International Wrestling Grand Prix Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Titles.com. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  5. ^ "Kurt Angle". SLAM! Sports: Wrestling. Canadian Online Explorer. 2015-04-21. Retrieved 2015-09-13. Angle went on to also defeat Brock Lesnar in Tokyo for the IWGP belt
  6. ^ Caldwell, James (2007-07-05). "Caldwell's TNA Impact report 7/5: Ongoing coverage of Impact on Spike TV". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  7. ^ a b Sokol, Chris (2007-07-06). "Impact: Total Nonstop Angle". SLAM! Sports: Wrestling. Canadian Online Explorer. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
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  10. ^ Caldwell, James (2007-07-19). "Caldwell's TNA Impact report 7/19: Angle nearly naked, Joe gets one-upped, Rhino fully recovered". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  11. ^ Sokol, Chris (2007-07-20). "Impact: Who took Angle's stuff?". SLAM! Sports: Wrestling. Canadian Online Explorer. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  12. ^ Caldwell, James (2007-08-12). "Caldwell's TNA Hard Justice report 8/12: Ongoing "virtual time" coverage of live PPV". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  13. ^ Sokol, Chris (2007-08-13). "Bad booking mars Hard Justice". SLAM! Sports: Wrestling. Canadian Online Explorer. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  14. ^ Caldwell, James (2008-01-17). "Caldwell's TNA Global Impact report 1/17: Ongoing coverage of Spike TV special". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  15. ^ a b c "NJPW Circuit 2008 New Japan ISM". Cage Match.net. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
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