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IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship

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IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship
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PromotionNew Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date establishedApril 23, 2003
Date retiredJune 7, 2006
Other name(s)
  • U-30 Openweight Championship
    (2003 - 2004)
  • IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship
    (2004 - 2006)

The IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship was a professional wrestling openweight championship in New Japan Pro-Wrestling for younger wrestlers who were under the age of 30. It was proposed as part of a tournament called the G2 U-30 Climax by Hiroshi Tanahashi, who ended up winning the tournament in April 2003. The U-30 Openweight Championship became officially recognized as an IWGP title in November 2004.

Only two champions between three reigns were ever crowned over its three year existence, the inaugural and two time champion Hiroshi Tanahashi, and Shinsuke Nakamura.

As his 30th birthday began to approach (which would then make him ineligible to be the champion), Tanahashi vacated the title on June 7, 2006, to focus on the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, and soon afterwards the U-30 Openweight Championship was de-emphasized and soon deactivated.

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Shinsuke Nakamura

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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.

Title history

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
1 Hiroshi Tanahashi April 23, 2003 Strong Energy 2003 Hiroshima, Japan 1 622 11 Defeated Shinya Makabe (who ironically was already 30 years old) in the finals of the G2 U-30 Climax tournament to become inaugural champion at the age of 26. [1]
2 Shinsuke Nakamura January 4, 2005 Toukon Festival: Wrestling World 2005 Tokyo, Japan 1 117 0 Defeated the champion Hiroshi Tanahashi in the main event of the Tokyo Dome Show to win the championship at the age of 24. [2]
— Vacated May 1, 2005 — — — — — Nakamura vacated the championship by company request due to not defending it.
3 Hiroshi Tanahashi June 18, 2005 Best of the Super Jr. XII Kyoto, Japan 2 354 2 Defeated Toru Yano in the finals of a six-man round-robin tournament for the vacated title at the age of 28. [3]
— Deactivated June 7, 2006 — — — — — Vacated by Tanahashi at the age of 29 to focus on the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

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Shinsuke Nakamura

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Toukon Festival: Wrestling World 2005

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Toukon Festival: Wrestling World 2005 was a professional wrestling event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling. It took place on January 4 in the Tokyo Dome. Toukon Festival: Wrestling World 2005 was the fourteenth January 4 Tokyo Dome Show held by NJPW. Officially, the show drew 46,000 spectators. The undercard of the show featured an eight-man "submissions only" tournament which Ron Waterman won when he forced Yuji Nagata to submit in the finals. The show also saw Tiger Mask defeat Heat to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship and in the main event Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship. The show also featured a unique "Dog Fight" match between Masahiro Chono, Riki Choshu and Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Chono defeated Chosu in the first match and as a result had to wrestle Tenzan in the next match.

Best of the Super Juniors

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Toru Yano

Toru Yano

Toru Yano , is a Japanese professional wrestler, trained by and currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is the KOPW 2020 and the provisional KOPW 2021. He is a four time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion. He is also a three-time IWGP Tag Team Champion and two-time GHC Tag Team Champion.

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.

Combined reigns

Hiroshi Tanahashi held the IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship twice
Hiroshi Tanahashi held the IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship twice
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns 		Combined
defenses 		Combined
days
1 Hiroshi Tanahashi 2 14 976
2 Shinsuke Nakamura 1 0 117

Source: "IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, February 19th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWGP_U-30_Openweight_Championship.

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Further Reading

IWGP Heavyweight Championship

Hiroshi Tanahashi

Yuji Nagata

Minoru Suzuki

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship

Naomichi Marufuji

Hirooki Goto

Karl Anderson

NWF Heavyweight Championship

Kota Ibushi

Zack Sabre Jr.

List of IWGP Tag Team Champions

List of IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions

List of NEVER Openweight Champions

Chase Owens

Evil (wrestler)

Will Ospreay

Great-O-Khan
See also
References
  1. ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip (April 23, 2003). "NJPW Strong Energy 2003 - Tag 5 - TV-Show @ Sun Plaza in Hiroshima, Japan". Cagematch - The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved February 27, 2021.
  2. ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip (January 4, 2005). "NJPW Toukon Festival - Wrestling World 2005 - TV-Show @ Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan". Cagematch - The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved February 27, 2021.
  3. ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip (June 18, 2005). "NJPW Best Of The Super Junior XII - Tag 12 - TV-Show @ Kyoto City Gymnasium in Kyoto, Japan". Cagematch - The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved February 27, 2021.
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