GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship
The Global Honored Crown (GHC) Junior Heavyweight Championship (Japanese: GHCジュニアヘビー級王座, Hepburn: GHC Junia Hebī-kyū Ōza) is a professional wrestling title in Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Noah, contested exclusively among junior heavyweight (<100 kg) wrestlers. 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. As of November 10, 2022, there have been a total of 53 reigns shared between 26 different champions. The current champion is Hayata, who is in his fifth reign.
| GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||
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 Current championship design | |||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Pro Wrestling Noah | ||||||||||||||
| Date established | June 24, 2001 | ||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Hayata | ||||||||||||||
| Date won | April 16, 2023 | ||||||||||||||
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Tournament
Current and five-time champion Hayata with the current design of the title in 2022
Noah held a 10-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]
| Round 1 June 9 & 15 | Round 2 June 16, 17, 20 & 21 | Semifinals June 23 | Final June 24 | ||||||||||||||||
| Yoshinobu Kanemaru | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Path Finder | Pin | Path Finder | 12:15 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Kenta Kobayashi | 8:27 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | Pin | |||||||||||||||
| Tsuyoshi Kikuchi | 13:34 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tsuyoshi Kikuchi | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| B. J. Whitmer | 7:12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Yoshinobu Kanemaru | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Juventud Guerrera | 17:17 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Makoto Hashi | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Naomichi Marufuji | 15:02 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Naomichi Marufuji | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Satoru Asako | Pin | Juventud Guerrera | 19:02 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Matt Murphy | 11:21 | Satoru Asako | Pin | |||||||||||||||
| Juventud Guerrera | 11:04 | ||||||||||||||||||
Title history
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| <1 | Reign lasted less than a day |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | June 24, 2001 | Navigation for the Bright Destination | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 117 | 2 | Defeated Juventud Guerrera in a tournament final. | [1] |
| 2 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | October 19, 2001 | Tug of War | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 51 | 1 | [2] | |
| 3 | Naomichi Marufuji | December 9, 2001 | Navigation in Raging Ocean | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 119 | 1 | [3] | |
| 4 | Makoto Hashi | April 7, 2002 | Come and Watch in Ariake | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 1 | 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 | May 26, 2002 | Navigation with Breeze | Sapporo, Japan | 2 | 308 | 3 | Defeated Kenta in a tournament final to win the vacant title. | [6] |
| 6 | Michael Modest | March 30, 2003 | Encountering Navigation | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 166 | 2 | [7][8] | |
| 7 | Takashi Sugiura | September 12, 2003 | Navigation Over the Date Line | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 114 | 2 | [9] | |
| 8 | Jushin Thunder Liger | January 4, 2004 | Wrestling World 2004 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 188 | 5 | This was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) event. | [10][11] |
| 9 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | July 10, 2004 | Departure 2004 | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 373 | 5 | [12] | |
| 10 | Kenta | July 18, 2005 | Destiny 2005 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 321 | 6 | [13] | |
| 11 | Takashi Sugiura | June 4, 2006 | Northern Navigation | Sapporo, Japan | 2 | 202 | 1 | [14] | |
| 12 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | December 23, 2006 | SEMful Gift in Differ | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 126 | 2 | This was a Pro Wrestling Sem event. | [15] |
| 13 | Mushiking Terry | April 28, 2007 | Spring Navigation | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 182 | 0 | [16] | |
| 14 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | October 27, 2007 | Autumn Navigation | Tokyo, Japan | 4 | 323 | 5 | ||
| 15 | Bryan Danielson | September 14, 2008 | The Tokyo Summit | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 29 | 1 | This was a Ring of Honor (ROH) event. | |
| 16 | Kenta | October 13, 2008 | Autumn Navigation | Hiroshima, Japan | 2 | 121 | 3 | ||
| 17 | Katsuhiko Nakajima | February 11, 2009 | Take the Dream Vol. 7 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 18 | 0 | This was a Kensuke Office event. | |
| 18 | Kenta | March 1, 2009 | Second Navigation | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 243 | 3 | ||
| — | Vacated | October 30, 2009 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to Kenta suffering a knee injury. | |
| 19 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | October 31, 2009 | Autumn Navigation | Tokyo, Japan | 5 | 400 | 6 | Defeated Jyushin Thunder Liger in the finals of the Junior Heavyweight League to win the vacant title. | |
| 20 | Kotaro Suzuki | December 5, 2010 | Winter Navigation | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 292 | 7 | Suzuki was formerly known as Mushiking Terry. | |
| 21 | Katsuhiko Nakajima | September 23, 2011 | Shiny Navigation | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 9 | 0 | ||
| — | Vacated | October 2, 2011 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated after Nakajima underwent surgery for acute appendicitis. | |
| 22 | Ricky Marvin | October 16, 2011 | Navigation Sunday 2011 in Korakuen | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | <1 | 0 | Defeated Satoshi Kajiwara to win the vacant title. | |
| — | Vacated | October 16, 2011 | — | — | — | — | — | Marvin refused the title, declaring that he wanted to win it by defeating Katsuhiko Nakajima. | |
| 23 | Katsuhiko Nakajima | November 27, 2011 | Great Voyage 2011 in Tokyo Vol. 4 | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 164 | 4 | Defeated Ricky Marvin to win the vacant title. | |
| 24 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | May 9, 2012 | The Navigation in May 2012 | Tokyo, Japan | 6 | 143 | 3 | ||
| 25 | Shuji Kondo | September 29, 2012 | The Navigation Saturday 2012 in Korakuen | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 120 | 3 | [17] | |
| 26 | Taiji Ishimori | January 27, 2013 | Great Voyage 2013 in Osaka | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 405 | 10 | ||
| 27 | Daisuke Harada | March 8, 2014 | Great Voyage 2014 in Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 273 | 7 | ||
| 28 | Atsushi Kotoge | December 6, 2014 | Great Voyage 2014 in Tokyo Vol. 3 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 99 | 1 | ||
| 29 | Taichi | March 15, 2015 | Great Voyage 2015 in Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 283 | 4 | ||
| 30 | Taiji Ishimori | December 23, 2015 | Destiny 2015 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 63 | 1 | ||
| 31 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | February 24, 2016 | The Second Navigation 2016 | Tokyo, Japan | 7 | 212 | 4 | ||
| 32 | Atsushi Kotoge | September 23, 2016 | Shiny Navigation 2016 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 94 | 3 | ||
| — | Vacated | December 26, 2016 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to Kotoge moving to the heavyweight division. | |
| 33 | Hajime Ohara | January 7, 2017 | The First Navigation 2017 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 140 | 2 | Defeated Taiji Ishimori to win the vacant title. | |
| 34 | Hayata | May 27, 2017 | Navigation With Breeze 2017 | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 29 | 0 | ||
| 35 | Taiji Ishimori | June 25, 2017 | Great Voyage 2017 in Fukushima | Kōriyama, Japan | 3 | 98 | 1 | ||
| 36 | Daisuke Harada | October 1, 2017 | Great Voyage 2017 in Yokohama Vol. 2 | Yokohama, Japan | 2 | 394 | 6 | ||
| 37 | Kotaro Suzuki | October 30, 2018 | Global League 2018 Day 1 |
Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 47 | 2 | [18] | |
| 38 | Daisuke Harada | December 16, 2018 | Great Voyage in Yokohama Vol. 2 | Yokohama, Japan | 3 | 84 | 1 | [19] | |
| 39 | Minoru Tanaka | March 10, 2019 | Great Voyage 2019 in Yokohama | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 147 | 1 | [20] | |
| 40 | Hayata | August 4, 2019 | Departure 2019 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 153 | 3 | [21] | |
| 41 | Yoshinari Ogawa | January 4, 2020 | New Sunrise | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 106 | 1 | [22] | |
| 42 | Kotaro Suzuki | April 19, 2020 | Noah the Spirit | Tokyo, Japan | 4 | 203 | 5 | [23] | |
| 43 | Daisuke Harada | November 8, 2020 | Premium Prelude 2020 | Tokyo, Japan | 4 | 96 | 2 | [24] | |
| 44 | Seiki Yoshioka | February 12, 2021 | Destination 2021: Back to Budōkan | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 30 | 0 | [25] | |
| 45 | Atsushi Kotoge | March 14, 2021 | Great Voyage 2021 in Fukuoka | Fukuoka, Japan | 3 | 105 | 2 | [26] | |
| 46 | Hayata | June 27, 2021 | Muta The World | Fukuoka, Japan | 3 | 197 | 8 | [27] | |
| 47 | Daisuke Harada | January 10, 2022 | N-Innovation Day 3: U-Cup Special | Yokohama, Japan | 5 | 62 | 2 | [28] | |
| 48 | Eita | March 13, 2022 | Great Voyage 2022 in Yokohama | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 47 | 0 | [29] | |
| 49 | Hayata | April 29, 2022 | Majestic 2022: N Innovation | Tokyo, Japan | 4 | 184 | 5 | [30] | |
| 50 | Ninja Mack | October 30, 2022 | Ariake Triumph: The Return | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 11 | 0 | This match was stopped after Hayata suffered a legitimate elbow injury and was unable to continue. | [31] |
| 51 | Dante Leon | November 10, 2022 | Global Honored Crown 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 43 | 0 | [32] | |
| 52 | Amakusa | December 23, 2022 | N Innovation 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 114 | 3 | [33] | |
| 53 | Hayata | April 16, 2023 | Green Journey in Sendai 2023 | Sendai, Japan | 5 | 192+ | 3 | [34] | |
Combined reigns
As of October 25, 2023.
Inaugural and record seven-time champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru also holds the records for longest combined reign at 1,876 days and most combined defenses at 28
Three-time champion Taiji Ishimori holds the records for longest reign at 405 days and most defenses in one reign at 10
| † | Indicates the current champion |
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| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | 7 | 28 | 1,876 |
| 2 | Daisuke Harada | 5 | 18 | 909 |
| 3 | Hayata † | 5 | 19 | 755+ |
| 4 | Mushiking Terry/Kotaro Suzuki | 4 | 14 | 724 |
| 5 | Kenta | 3 | 12 | 685 |
| 6 | Taiji Ishimori | 3 | 12 | 566 |
| 7 | Takashi Sugiura | 2 | 3 | 316 |
| 8 | Atsushi Kotoge | 3 | 6 | 298 |
| 9 | Taichi | 1 | 4 | 283 |
| 10 | Katsuhiko Nakajima | 3 | 4 | 191 |
| 11 | Jyushin Thunder Liger | 1 | 5 | 188 |
| 12 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | 2 | 3 | 177 |
| 13 | Michael Modest | 1 | 2 | 166 |
| 14 | Minoru Tanaka | 1 | 1 | 147 |
| 15 | Hajime Ohara | 1 | 2 | 140 |
| 16 | Shuji Kondo | 1 | 3 | 120 |
| 17 | Naomichi Marufuji | 1 | 1 | 119 |
| 18 | Amakusa | 1 | 3 | 114 |
| 19 | Yoshinari Ogawa | 1 | 1 | 106 |
| 20 | Eita | 0 | 47 | |
| 21 | Dante Leon | 0 | 43 | |
| 22 | Seiki Yoshioka | 0 | 30 | |
| 23 | Bryan Danielson | 1 | 29 | |
| 24 | Ninja Mack | 0 | 11 | |
| 25 | Makoto Hashi | 0 | 1 | |
| 26 | Ricky Marvin | 0 | <1 | |
Belt design
The standard Championship belt has three plates on a blue leather strap.
See also
References
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