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IWGP World Heavyweight Championship

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IWGP World Heavyweight Championship
IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.jpg
The IWGP World Heavyweight Championship belt
Details
PromotionNew Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW)
Date establishedMarch 1, 2021
Current champion(s)Kazuchika Okada
Date wonJanuary 4, 2023
This article is about NJPW's top heavyweight title. For NJPW's former top heavyweight title, see IWGP Heavyweight Championship. For the inactive DDT Pro-Wrestling parody championship, see IMGP World Heavyweight Championship. For other uses, see IWGP Heavyweight Championship (disambiguation).

The IWGP World Heavyweight Championship (IWGP世界ヘビー級王座, IWGP Sekai hebī-kyū ōza) is 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 (インターナショナル・レスリング・グラン・プリ, intānashonaru resuringu guran puri).[1] The championship was created on March 1, 2021 by the unification of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the IWGP Intercontinental Championship. The current champion is Kazuchika Okada, who is in his second reign.

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Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling is a form of theater that revolves around mock combat matches that are usually performed in a ring similar to the kind used in boxing. The dramatic aspects of pro wrestling may be performed both in the ring or—as in televised wrestling shows—in backstage areas of the venue, in similar form to reality television.

New Japan Pro-Wrestling

New Japan Pro-Wrestling

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.

Professional wrestling promotion

Professional wrestling promotion

A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling that has little relationship to the rules of the amateur olympic form. "Promotion" also describes a role which entails management, advertising and logistics of running a wrestling event. Within the convention of the show, the company is a sports governing body which sanctions wrestling matches and gives authority to the championships and is responsible for maintaining the divisions and their rankings. In truth, the company serves as a touring theatre troupe, as well as event promotion body for its own events.

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.

IWGP Intercontinental Championship

IWGP Intercontinental Championship

The IWGP Intercontinental Championship was a professional wrestling 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 officially announced on January 5, 2011 and the Inaugural Champion MVP was crowned on May 15, 2011 during NJPW's first tour of the United States. On March 4, 2021, the championship was retired by NJPW after being unified with the IWGP Heavyweight Championship to form the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. The final champion was Kota Ibushi, who was in his second reign at the time of the title's retirement.

Kazuchika Okada

Kazuchika Okada

Kazuchika Okada is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he is current IWGP World Heavyweight Champion in his record-setting second reign. Okada is a five-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion where his fourth reign with the championship is the longest in history at 720 days. He also holds the record for most successful title defenses with 12.

History

The inaugural champion was Kota Ibushi.
The inaugural champion was Kota Ibushi.

In 2019, when he was IWGP Intercontinental Champion, Tetsuya Naito declared his intention of making history by becoming the first to hold the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the Intercontinental Championship at the same time.[2] By the end of the year, Jay White, who had won the Intercontinental Championship from Naito, and Kota Ibushi, who was the next challenger for the Heavyweight Championship, also expressed the same desire. After a fan vote, it was decided that Naito, White, Ibushi, and Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada would compete at Wrestle Kingdom 14 on January 4–5, 2020, where one would end up with both titles.[3] Naito achieved the feat to become the first "Double Champion" and the two titles were defended together since (apart from one time). During 2020, Naito said his original intention was for the titles to be defended separately. He requested for this, or otherwise for the titles to be unified, but no change happened. [4]

After Ibushi won the titles from Naito at Wrestle Kingdom 15 on January 4, 2021, he expressed his desire for the titles to be unified.[5] On March 1, 2021, with Ibushi still champion, the unification of the titles to create the new IWGP World Heavyweight Championship was officially announced, with Ibushi as the inaugural World Heavyweight Champion. After the announcement, Ibushi, who was scheduled to face El Desperado at the NJPW 49th Anniversary Show on March 4, 2021 in a non-title match, requested for the match to be for the Double Championship.[6] His request was granted with the title unification delayed until after the match, of which the winner would be final Double Champion and, therefore, the inaugural World Heavyweight Champion.[7] Ibushi won the match.[8]

With the announcement of the new championship was the announcement of a new championship belt.[5] Until the new belt was ready, Ibushi continued to hold the old IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Championship belts. The new belt was eventually revealed and presented to the champion Ibushi in a presentation ceremony on March 30, 2021.[9] Its design incorporated the past belt designs of the two old titles.[10]

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Kota Ibushi

Kota Ibushi

Kota Ibushi is a Japanese professional wrestler and martial artist. He is best known for his tenure with New Japan-Pro Wrestling (NJPW).

IWGP Intercontinental Championship

IWGP Intercontinental Championship

The IWGP Intercontinental Championship was a professional wrestling 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 officially announced on January 5, 2011 and the Inaugural Champion MVP was crowned on May 15, 2011 during NJPW's first tour of the United States. On March 4, 2021, the championship was retired by NJPW after being unified with the IWGP Heavyweight Championship to form the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. The final champion was Kota Ibushi, who was in his second reign at the time of the title's retirement.

Tetsuya Naito

Tetsuya Naito

Tetsuya Naito is a Japanese professional wrestler signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is the leader of the Los Ingobernables de Japón faction.

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.

Jay White

Jay White

Jamie White, better known by the ring name Jay White, is a New Zealand professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). After starting his career in 2013, White joined NJPW the following year as a Young Lion. In June 2016, White left for an overseas excursion, during which he worked for the American Ring of Honor (ROH) and the British Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW) promotions through NJPW's international partnerships.

Kazuchika Okada

Kazuchika Okada

Kazuchika Okada is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he is current IWGP World Heavyweight Champion in his record-setting second reign. Okada is a five-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion where his fourth reign with the championship is the longest in history at 720 days. He also holds the record for most successful title defenses with 12.

Wrestle Kingdom 14

Wrestle Kingdom 14

Wrestle Kingdom 14 in Tokyo Dome was a two-night professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on January 4 and 5, 2020, at the Tokyo Dome, in Tokyo, Japan. It was the 29th January 4 Tokyo Dome Show and the 14th promoted under the Wrestle Kingdom name; it was also the first time the event was held over two days, instead of taking place solely on January 4.

Wrestle Kingdom 15

Wrestle Kingdom 15

Wrestle Kingdom 15 in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place over two nights, on January 4 and 5, 2021 at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. It was the 30th January 4 Tokyo Dome Show and the 15th promoted under the Wrestle Kingdom name.

El Desperado (wrestler)

El Desperado (wrestler)

Kyosuke Mikami is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working under the ring name El Desperado . He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is currently in his 1st reign as NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion with Minoru Suzuki and Ren Narita. He is also a former two time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion and a four time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion with Yoshinobu Kanemaru. Desperado was a part of the Suzuki-gun stable from 2014 till the faction's disbandment in 2022. Mikami was trained by the NJPW dojo and worked for NJPW for two years as a Young Lion. In 2012 he traveled to Mexico for a learning excursion, working for NJPW's Mexican affiliate Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) as the masked character Namajague, a Spanish translation of Namahage, a Japanese folk demon. While in CMLL he won his first professional wrestling title alongside Okumura, the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship, in March 2013. After being unmasked due to losing a match and briefly working without one, Mikami returned to NJPW in January 2014 and was repackaged under another mask as El Desperado.

NJPW 49th Anniversary Show

NJPW 49th Anniversary Show

The NJPW 49th Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on March 4, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan at the Nippon Budokan arena. The event featured six matches, including the start of the annual New Japan Cup. In the main event match, Kota Ibushi defeated the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion El Desperado to retain his IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Championships and become the first IWGP World Heavyweight Champion.

Reigns

Record-setting two-time and current champion Kazuchika Okada
Record-setting two-time and current champion Kazuchika Okada

As of March 7, 2023, there have been six reigns shared among five wrestlers with one vacancy. Kota Ibushi was the inaugural champion, had the shortest reign at 31 days, and is also the oldest champion, winning the title at 38 years and 255 days old. Kazuchika Okada has most reign with two. Will Ospreay was the youngest at 27. Shingo Takagi had the longest reign at 211 days and three successful title defenses.

Kazuchika Okada is the current champion in his record-setting second reign. He defeated Jay White on January 4, 2023 at Wrestle Kingdom 17 in Tokyo, Japan.

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days Defenses
1 Kota Ibushi March 4, 2021 49th Anniversary Show Tokyo, Japan 1 31 0 After Ibushi, who was the reigning IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Champion, successfully defended both titles against El Desperado at the event, they were unified into the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, with Ibushi as the inaugural champion. [8]
2 Will Ospreay April 4, 2021 Sakura Genesis Tokyo, Japan 1 46 1 [11]
— Vacated May 20, 2021 — — — — — The championship was vacated due to Will Ospreay suffering a neck injury. [12]
3 Shingo Takagi June 7, 2021 Dominion 6.6 in Osaka-jo Hall Osaka, Japan 1 211 3 Defeated Kazuchika Okada to win the vacant championship. [13]
4 Kazuchika Okada January 4, 2022 Wrestle Kingdom 16
Night 1 		Tokyo, Japan 1 159 4 [14]
5 Jay White June 12, 2022 Dominion 6.12 in Osaka-jo Hall Osaka, Japan 1 206 2 [15]
6 Kazuchika Okada January 4, 2023 Wrestle Kingdom 17 Tokyo, Japan 2 62+ 2 [16]

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Kazuchika Okada

Kazuchika Okada

Kazuchika Okada is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he is current IWGP World Heavyweight Champion in his record-setting second reign. Okada is a five-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion where his fourth reign with the championship is the longest in history at 720 days. He also holds the record for most successful title defenses with 12.

Kota Ibushi

Kota Ibushi

Kota Ibushi is a Japanese professional wrestler and martial artist. He is best known for his tenure with New Japan-Pro Wrestling (NJPW).

Shingo Takagi

Shingo Takagi

Shin Takagi , known by his ring name Shingo Takagi, is a Japanese professional wrestler and former bodybuilder, currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is the provisional KOPW 2023 champion in his second reign and is a member of the Los Ingobernables de Japón stable.

Jay White

Jay White

Jamie White, better known by the ring name Jay White, is a New Zealand professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). After starting his career in 2013, White joined NJPW the following year as a Young Lion. In June 2016, White left for an overseas excursion, during which he worked for the American Ring of Honor (ROH) and the British Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW) promotions through NJPW's international partnerships.

NJPW 49th Anniversary Show

NJPW 49th Anniversary Show

The NJPW 49th Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on March 4, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan at the Nippon Budokan arena. The event featured six matches, including the start of the annual New Japan Cup. In the main event match, Kota Ibushi defeated the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion El Desperado to retain his IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Championships and become the first IWGP World Heavyweight Champion.

Tokyo

Tokyo

Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital and most populous city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents as of 2018; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan.

Japan

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 14,125 islands, with the five main islands being Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto.

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.

IWGP Intercontinental Championship

IWGP Intercontinental Championship

The IWGP Intercontinental Championship was a professional wrestling 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 officially announced on January 5, 2011 and the Inaugural Champion MVP was crowned on May 15, 2011 during NJPW's first tour of the United States. On March 4, 2021, the championship was retired by NJPW after being unified with the IWGP Heavyweight Championship to form the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. The final champion was Kota Ibushi, who was in his second reign at the time of the title's retirement.

El Desperado (wrestler)

El Desperado (wrestler)

Kyosuke Mikami is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working under the ring name El Desperado . He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is currently in his 1st reign as NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion with Minoru Suzuki and Ren Narita. He is also a former two time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion and a four time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion with Yoshinobu Kanemaru. Desperado was a part of the Suzuki-gun stable from 2014 till the faction's disbandment in 2022. Mikami was trained by the NJPW dojo and worked for NJPW for two years as a Young Lion. In 2012 he traveled to Mexico for a learning excursion, working for NJPW's Mexican affiliate Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) as the masked character Namajague, a Spanish translation of Namahage, a Japanese folk demon. While in CMLL he won his first professional wrestling title alongside Okumura, the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship, in March 2013. After being unmasked due to losing a match and briefly working without one, Mikami returned to NJPW in January 2014 and was repackaged under another mask as El Desperado.

Undisputed championship (professional wrestling)

Undisputed championship (professional wrestling)

An undisputed championship is a professional wrestling term for a champion who has obtained all of the major individual championships in his field during his era. The undisputed championship is an extremely rare and prestigious accomplishment.

Sakura Genesis 2021

Sakura Genesis 2021

Sakura Genesis was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on April 4, 2021 in Tokyo at Ryōgoku Kokugikan. Previously held under the Invasion Attack name, this was the third event to be held under the Sakura Genesis name.

Combined reigns

As of March 7, 2023.

† Indicates the current champion
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns 		Combined
defenses 		Combined
days
1 Kazuchika Okada † 2 6 221+
2 Shingo Takagi 1 3 211
3 Jay White 1 2 206
4 Will Ospreay 1 1 46
5 Kota Ibushi 1 0 31

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Kazuchika Okada

Kazuchika Okada

Kazuchika Okada is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he is current IWGP World Heavyweight Champion in his record-setting second reign. Okada is a five-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion where his fourth reign with the championship is the longest in history at 720 days. He also holds the record for most successful title defenses with 12.

Shingo Takagi

Shingo Takagi

Shin Takagi , known by his ring name Shingo Takagi, is a Japanese professional wrestler and former bodybuilder, currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is the provisional KOPW 2023 champion in his second reign and is a member of the Los Ingobernables de Japón stable.

Jay White

Jay White

Jamie White, better known by the ring name Jay White, is a New Zealand professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). After starting his career in 2013, White joined NJPW the following year as a Young Lion. In June 2016, White left for an overseas excursion, during which he worked for the American Ring of Honor (ROH) and the British Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW) promotions through NJPW's international partnerships.

Will Ospreay

Will Ospreay

William Peter Charles Ospreay is an English professional wrestler who is currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is the leader of the United Empire stable. He also wrestles for NJPW's United Kingdom based partner promotion Revolution Pro Wrestling (RevPro), where he is a former and longest reigning Undisputed British Heavyweight Champion.

Kota Ibushi

Kota Ibushi

Kota Ibushi is a Japanese professional wrestler and martial artist. He is best known for his tenure with New Japan-Pro Wrestling (NJPW).

Source: "IWGP World Heavyweight Championship", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 1st), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWGP_World_Heavyweight_Championship.

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Tomohiro Ishii

King of Pro-Wrestling (2014)

Power Struggle (2015)

Los Ingobernables de Japon

Invasion Attack 2016

Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall

King of Pro-Wrestling (2016)

Destruction (2016)

The New Beginning in Osaka (2017)

Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall

IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship

G1 Special in USA

King of Pro-Wrestling (2017)

Power Struggle (2017)
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