GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship
GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||
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Promotion | Pro Wrestling Noah | ||||||||||||||
Date established | June 24, 2001 | ||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Hayata | ||||||||||||||
Date won | June 27, 2021 | ||||||||||||||
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The Global Honored Crown (GHC) Junior Heavyweight Championship 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. There have been a total of 46 reigns shared between 22 different champions. The current champion is Hayata, who is in his third reign.
Tournament[]
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 | Finals June 24 | ||||||||||||||||
Yoshinobu Kanemaru | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
Path Finder | 12:15 | ||||||||||||||||||
Path Finder | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
Kenta Kobayashi | 8:27 | ||||||||||||||||||
Yoshinobu Kanemaru | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
Tsuyoshi Kikuchi | 13:34 | ||||||||||||||||||
Tsuyoshi Kikuchi | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
BJ Whitmer | 7:12 | ||||||||||||||||||
Yoshinobu Kanemaru | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
Juventud Guerrera | 17:17 | ||||||||||||||||||
Makoto Hashi | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
Naomichi Marufuji | 15:02 | ||||||||||||||||||
Naomichi Marufuji | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
Juventud Guerrera | 19:02 | ||||||||||||||||||
Satoru Asako | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
Matt Murphy | 11:21 | ||||||||||||||||||
Satoru Asako | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
Juventud Guerrera | 11:04 |
Title history[]
No. | Overall reign number |
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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. | ||||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
1 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | June 24, 2001 | Navigation for the Bright Destination tour | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 117 | 2 | Defeated Juventud Guerrera in a tournament final. | [1] |
2 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | October 19, 2001 | Tug of War tour | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 51 | 1 | [2] | |
3 | Naomichi Marufuji | December 9, 2001 | Navigation in Raging Ocean tour | 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 tour | 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 tour | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 166 | 2 | [7][8] | |
7 | Takashi Sugiura | September 12, 2003 | Navigation Over the Date Line tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 114 | 2 | [9] | |
8 | Jushin Thunder Liger | January 4, 2004 | New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Wrestling World 2004 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 188 | 5 | [10][11] | |
9 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | July 10, 2004 | Departure (2004) | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 373 | 5 | [12] | |
10 | Kenta | July 18, 2005 | Destiny | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 321 | 6 | [13] | |
11 | Takashi Sugiura | June 4, 2006 | Northern Navigation tour | Sapporo, Japan | 2 | 202 | 1 | [14] | |
12 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | December 23, 2006 | Pro Wrestling SEM's SEMful Gift in Differ | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 126 | 2 | [15] | |
13 | Mushiking Terry | April 28, 2007 | Spring Navigation tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 182 | 0 | [16] | |
14 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | October 27, 2007 | Autumn Navigation tour | Tokyo, Japan | 4 | 323 | 5 | ||
15 | Bryan Danielson | September 14, 2008 | Ring of Honor's The Tokyo Summit | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 29 | 1 | ||
16 | Kenta | October 13, 2008 | Won the title on the Autumn Navigation tour | Hiroshima, Japan | 2 | 121 | 3 | ||
17 | Katsuhiko Nakajima | February 11, 2009 | Kensuke Office's Take the Dream Vol. 7 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 18 | 0 | ||
18 | Kenta | March 1, 2009 | Second Navigation tour | 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 tour | 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 tour | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 292 | 7 | Suzuki was formerly known as Mushiking Terry. | |
21 | Katsuhiko Nakajima | September 23, 2011 | Shiny Navigation tour | 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 tour | 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 Navig. 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 Navig. 2017 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 140 | 2 | Defeated Taiji Ishimori to win the vacant title. | |
34 | Hayata | May 27, 2017 | Navig. 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 | ||
38 | Daisuke Harada | December 16, 2018 | Great Voyage in Yokohama Vol. 2 | Yokohama, Japan | 3 | 84 | 1 | [18] | |
39 | Minoru Tanaka | March 10, 2019 | Great Voyage 2019 in Yokohama | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 147 | 1 | [19] | |
40 | Hayata | August 4, 2019 | Departure 2019 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 153 | 3 | [20] | |
41 | Yoshinari Ogawa | January 4, 2020 | New Sunrise | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 106 | 1 | [21] | |
42 | Kotaro Suzuki | April 19, 2020 | NOAH the Spirit | Tokyo, Japan | 4 | 203 | 5 | [22] | |
43 | Daisuke Harada | November 8, 2020 | NOAH Premium Prelude 2020 | Tokyo, Japan | 4 | 96 | 2 | [23] | |
44 | Seiki Yoshioka | February 12, 2021 | NOAH Destination 2021 ~ Back To Budokan ~ | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 30 | 0 | [24] | |
45 | Atsushi Kotoge | March 14, 2021 | NOAH Great Voyage 2021 in Fukuoka ~ | Fukuoka, Japan | 3 | 105 | 2 | [25] | |
46 | Hayata | June 27, 2021 | NOAH Muta The World | Fukuoka, Japan | 3 | 184+ | 7 | [26] |
Combined reigns[]
As of December 28, 2021.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Yoshinobu_Kanemaru_Mar_2017.jpg/142px-Yoshinobu_Kanemaru_Mar_2017.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Ishimori20191103.jpg/142px-Ishimori20191103.jpg)
† | Indicates the current champion |
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Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
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1 | Yoshinobu Kanemaru | 7 | 28 | 1,876 |
2 | Daisuke Harada | 4 | 16 | 847 |
3 | Kenta | 3 | 12 | 685 |
4 | Taiji Ishimori | 3 | 12 | 566 |
5 | Mushiking Terry/Kotaro Suzuki | 4 | 14 | 521 |
6 | Hayata † | 3 | 10 | 366+ |
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 | Yoshinari Ogawa | 1 | 1 | 106 |
19 | Seiki Yoshioka | 1 | 0 | 30 |
20 | Bryan Danielson | 1 | 1 | 29 |
21 | Makoto Hashi | 1 | 0 | 1 |
22 | Ricky Marvin | 1 | 0 | <1 |
See also[]
- GHC Heavyweight Championship
- GHC National Championship
- GHC Tag Team Championship
- GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
- GHC Hardcore Tag Team Championship
References[]
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- ^ "We are the Champions (as of July 8)". Power Slam Magazine. Lancaster, Lancashire, England: SW Publishing LTD. August 2003. p. 15. 109.
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External links[]
- Pro Wrestling Noah championships
- Junior heavyweight wrestling championships