Último Dragón Gym Championship

The Último Dragón Gym Championship was the top title in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Toryumon. As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers.[lower-alpha 1] On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline,[lower-alpha 2] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[lower-alpha 3] or leaving the company.[lower-alpha 4]

Último Dragón Gym Championship
Details
PromotionToryumon
Date establishedApril 22, 2003
Date retiredJuly 5, 2004

Title history
Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days
1 CIMA April 22, 2003 House show Tokyo, Japan 1 68 Defeated Genki Horiguchi in a tournament final to become the first champion.  
2 Magnum TOKYO June 29, 2003 House show Kobe, Japan 1 224    
3 SUWA February 8, 2004 House show Fukuoka, Japan 1 77    
— April 25, 2004 — — SUWA vacated the title due to injury.  
4 CIMA July 4, 2004 House show Kobe, Japan 2 1 Defeated Shuji Kondo in a tournament final to win the vacant title.  
— Deactivated July 5, 2004 — — — — CIMA vacated the title and abandoned it when Toryumon changed its name to Dragon Gate. The title was replaced with the Open the Dream Gate Championship.  

Footnotes
  1. Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win/loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"[1]
  2. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 271, Chapter: Texas: NWA American Tag Team Title [World Class, Adkisson] "Championship held up and rematch ordered because of the interference of manager Gary Hart"[2]
  3. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 20, Chapter: (United States: 19th Century & widely defended titles – NWA, WWF, AWA, IW, ECW, NWA) NWA/WCW TV Title "Rhodes stripped on 85/10/19 for not defending the belt after having his leg broken by Ric Flair and Ole & Arn Anderson"[3]
  4. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[4]

References
  • Hornbaker, Tim (2016). "Statistical notes". Legends of Pro Wrestling - 150 years of headlocks, body slams, and piledrivers (Revised ed.). New York, New York: Sports Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61321-808-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Duncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Waterloo, ON: Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  1. Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
  2. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 271.
  3. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 20.
  4. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 201.
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