IWGP Intercontinental Championship

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IWGP Intercontinental Championship
The five-time title holder Shinsuke Nakamura with the current title design.
The five-time title holder Shinsuke Nakamura with the current title design.
Data
Title holder Tetsuya Naito
since 4th January 2020
owner NJPW
Introduced January 5, 2011

The IWGP Intercontinental Championship (to German IWGP Intercontinental Championship ) is a wrestling title of New Japan Pro Wrestling . The abbreviation "IWGP" stands for International Wrestling Grand Prix . The title was introduced by NJPW on January 5, 2011 while touring the United States. The title is also being defended outside of Japan. As is common in wrestling, the award is based on a previously determined storyline .

history

The introduction took place during the NJPW Invasion Tour 2011: Attack on East Coast , which also took place on American soil. This tour also offered a stage to wrestlers who were not under permanent contract. On January 5, 2011 at Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome , NJPW announced that the first title holder would be determined in a tournament that will take place on May 13, 14, and 15, 2011. On May 15, 2011 MVP was able to prevail in the final against Toru Yano and was crowned the first title holder.

Records

record Record holder unit
Most title wins Shinsuke Nakamura & Tetsuya Naito 5 times each
Longest reign Shinsuke Nakamura 313 days
Shortest reign Tetsuya Naito 41 days
Oldest title holder Minoru Suzuki 52 years and 75 days
Youngest title holder La Sombra 23 years and 209 days
Heaviest title holder Bad luck fale 125 kilograms
Easiest title holder La Sombra 80 kilograms

List of title holders

# Title holder No. Days date place event annotation
01 MVP 1 148 May 15, 2011 Philadelphia , USA NJPW Invasion Tour 2011: Attack on East Coast Beat Toru Yano in the final of an 8-man tournament to win the newly introduced title.
02 Masato Tanaka 1 125 October 10, 2011 Tokyo , Japan Destruction '11
03 Hirooki Goto 1 161 February 12, 2012 Osaka , Japan The New Beginning
04th Shinsuke Nakamura 1 313 July 22, 2012 Yamagata , Japan Kizuna Road
05 La Sombra 1 050 May 31, 2013 Mexico City , Mexico Great Viernes This was a 2-out-of-3-falls match .
06th Shinsuke Nakamura 2 168 20th July 2013 Akita , Japan Kizuna Road 2013
07th Hiroshi Tanahashi 1 092 4th January 2014 Tokyo , Japan Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome
08th Shinsuke Nakamura 3 076 April 6, 2014 Tokyo , Japan Invasion Attack 2014
09 Bad luck fale 1 092 June 21, 2014 Osaka , Japan Dominion 6.21
010 Shinsuke Nakamura 4th 224 September 21, 2014 Kobe , Japan Destruction in Kobe
011 Hirooki Goto 2 147 May 3, 2015 Fukuoka , Japan Wrestling Dontaku 2015
012 Shinsuke Nakamura 5 120 September 27, 2015 Kobe , Japan Destruction in Kobe
- Title vacant - - January 25, 2016 - - Due to his contract expiring at the end of January, Nakamura returned the title at a press conference.
13 Kenny Omega 1 126 February 14, 2016 Nagaoka , Japan The New Beginning in Niigata Kenny Omega defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi for the vacant title.
14th Michael Elgin 1 098 19th June 2016 Osaka , Japan Dominion 6:19 in Osaka-jo Hall This was a ladder match .
15th Tetsuya Naito 1 259 September 25, 2016 Kobe , Japan Destruction in Kobe
16 Hiroshi Tanahashi 2 230 June 11, 2017 Osaka , Japan Dominion 6.11 at Osaka-jo Hall
17th Minoru Suzuki 1 092 January 27, 2018 Sapporo , Japan The New Beginning in Sapporo
18th Tetsuya Naito 2 041 April 29, 2018 Kumamoto , Japan Wrestling Hinokuni 2018
19th Chris Jericho 1 209 June 9, 2018 Osaka , Japan Dominion 6.9 at Osaka-jo Hall
20th Tetsuya Naito 3 092 4th January 2019 Tokyo , Japan Wrestle Kingdom 13 This was a no disqualification match.
21st Kota Ibushi 1 064 April 6, 2019 New York City , New York , USA ROH / NJPW G1 Supercard
22nd Tetsuya Naito 4th 105 June 9, 2019 Tokyo , Japan Dominion 6.9
23 Jay white ' 1 104 22nd September 2019 Kobe , Japan Destruction in Kobe
24 Tetsuya Naito 5 240+ 4th January 2020 Tokyo , Japan Wrestle Kingdom 14 - Day 1

statistics

The current title holder Tetsuya Naito, who has won the title for the fifth time
space Surname number Vert. all in all Days in total
01 Shinsuke Nakamura 5 17th 901
02 Tetsuya Naito 5 6th 00737+
03 Hiroshi Tanahashi 2 5 322
04th Hirooki Goto 2 3 308
05 Chris Jericho 1 1 209
06th MVP 1 2 148
07th Kenny Omega 1 1 126
08th Masato Tanaka 1 3 125
09 Jay White 1 1 104
010 Michael Elgin 1 1 098
11 Minoru Suzuki 1 1 092
Bad luck fale 1 0 092
13 Kota Ibushi 1 1 064
14th La Sombra 1 1 050

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IWGP Intercontinental Championship wrestling-infos.de, accessed on January 19, 2017
  2. ↑ NJPW Invasion Tour 2011 ~ Attack On East Coast ~ - Day 3 Results cagematch.de, accessed on January 19, 2017

Web links

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