GHC Heavyweight Championship

The Global Honored Crown (GHC) Heavyweight Championship is the professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Noah. The title was also defended on Impact Wrestling which has a working relationship with Pro Wrestling Noah. It was created on April 15, 2001 when Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Yoshihiro Takayama in a 16-man tournament final.[1] Though its name implies a particular weight class, it has been periodically held by junior heavyweights, including Yoshinari Ogawa, Kenta, Naomichi Marufuji, Katsuhiko Nakajima and Kenoh. There have been a total of 18 recognized champions, who have had a combined 33 official reigns.

GHC Heavyweight Championship
Current championship design
Details
PromotionPro Wrestling Noah
Date establishedApril 15, 2001
Current champion(s)Go Shiozaki
Date wonJanuary 4, 2020

Tournament

Noah held a 16-man tournament to crown the first champion, held over its month-long, 18-event Navigation for the Victory GHC tour. The tour was held from March 18 through April 15, 2001.[1]

First round Second round Semi-finals Finals
            
Mar. 18 Mitsuharu Misawa Pin
Tokyo Akitoshi Saito 12:26
Apr. 4 Mitsuharu Misawa Pin
Okayama Yoshinari Ogawa 19:44
Mar. 21 Masao Inoue Pin
Sagamihara Yoshinari Ogawa 14:18
Apr. 11 Mitsuharu Misawa Pin
Hiroshima Jun Akiyama 15:05†
Apr. 1 Jun Akiyama Pin
Fukuoka Takao Omori 22:49
Apr. 8 Jun Akiyama Pin
Tokyo Takeshi Rikio 4:02
Apr. 2 Takeshi Morishima Pin
Beppu Takeshi Rikio 14:33
Apr. 15 Mitsuharu Misawa Pin
Tokyo Yoshihiro Takayama 21:12
Mar. 22 Jun Izumida Pin
Tokyo Yoshihiro Takayama 8:22
Apr. 3 Yoshihiro Takayama Pin
Uwajima Kentaro Shiga 7:16
Mar. 30 Scorpio Pin
Kumamoto Kentaro Shiga 13:06
Apr. 12 Yoshihiro Takayama DQ
Osaka Vader 9:24
Mar. 25 Akira Taue Pin
Kyoto Vader 10:40
Apr. 6 Vader Pin
Ishikawa Daisuke Ikeda 7:15
Mar. 29 Tamon Honda Pin
Kagoshima Daisuke Ikeda 15:16

† Akiyama and Misawa were both counted out, but the match was restarted.

Title history
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 DaysDefenses
1 Mitsuharu Misawa April 15, 2001 Navigation for the Victory Tokyo, Japan 1 1031 Defeated Yoshihiro Takayama in a tournament final. [1]
2 Jun Akiyama July 27, 2001 Accomplish Our First Navigation Tokyo, Japan 1 2543 [2]
3 Yoshinari Ogawa April 7, 2002 Come and Watch in Ariake Tokyo, Japan 1 1532 [3]
4 Yoshihiro Takayama September 7, 2002 Navigation Over the Date Line Osaka, Japan 1 160 [4]
5 Mitsuharu Misawa September 23, 2002 Great Voyage Tokyo, Japan 2 1591 [5]
6 Kenta Kobashi March 1, 2003 Navigate for Evolution Tokyo, Japan 1 73513 [6][7]
7 Takeshi Rikio March 5, 2005 Navigate for Evolution Tokyo, Japan 1 2453 [6][8]
8 Akira Taue November 5, 2005 Third Great Voyage Tokyo, Japan 1 781 [9]
9 Jun Akiyama January 22, 2006 First Navigation Tokyo, Japan 2 2302 [10]
10 Naomichi Marufuji September 9, 2006 Great Voyage Tokyo, Japan 1 922 [11]
11 Mitsuharu Misawa December 10, 2006 Great Voyage Tokyo, Japan 3 4487 [12]
12 Takeshi Morishima March 2, 2008 Second Navigation Tokyo, Japan 1 1882
13 Kensuke Sasaki September 6, 2008 Shiny Navigation Tokyo, Japan 1 1762
14 Jun Akiyama March 1, 2009 Second Navigation Tokyo, Japan 3 1051
— Vacated June 14, 2009 — — — —— Vacated the title due to herniated discs in his back.
15 Go Shiozaki June 14, 2009 Southern Navigation Fukuoka, Japan 1 1751 Defeated Takeshi Rikio for the vacant title. [13][14]
16 Takashi Sugiura December 6, 2009 Winter Navigation Tokyo, Japan 1 58114
17 Go Shiozaki July 10, 2011 Great Voyage Tokyo, Japan 2 1963
18 Takeshi Morishima January 22, 2012 Great Voyage 2012 in Osaka Osaka, Japan 2 3718
19 Kenta January 27, 2013 Great Voyage 2013 in Osaka Osaka, Japan 1 3439
20 Takeshi Morishima January 5, 2014 New Year Navigation 2014 Tokyo, Japan 3 340
21 Yuji Nagata February 8, 2014 The Second Navig. 2014 Tokyo, Japan 1 1474
22 Naomichi Marufuji July 5, 2014 Great Voyage 2014 in Tokyo Vol. 2 Tokyo, Japan 2 2536
23 Minoru Suzuki March 15, 2015 Great Voyage 2015 in Tokyo Tokyo, Japan 1 2834 On August 9, 2015, Suzuki successfully defended the title against Mio Shirai at a Pro Wrestling Wave event. The defense was not recognized by Noah, who officially only recognize four of his five defenses. [15]
24 Naomichi Marufuji December 23, 2015 Destiny 2015 Tokyo, Japan 3 390
25 Takashi Sugiura January 31, 2016 Great Voyage 2016 in Yokohama Yokohama, Japan 2 1181
26 Go Shiozaki May 28, 2016 Great Voyage 2016 in Osaka Osaka, Japan 3 631
27 Takashi Sugiura July 30, 2016 10th NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League Tokyo, Japan 3 852 This was a lumberjack match.
28 Katsuhiko Nakajima October 23, 2016 Great Voyage 2016 in Yokohama Vol. 2 Yokohama, Japan 1 3077
29 Eddie Edwards August 26, 2017 Summer Navig. 2017 Vol. 2 Tokyo, Japan 1 1182
30 Kenoh December 22, 2017 Winter Navig. 2017 Tokyo, Japan 1 792
31 Takashi Sugiura March 11, 2018 Great Voyage 2018 in Yokohama Yokohama, Japan 4 2806
32 Kaito Kiyomiya December 16, 2018 Great Voyage in Yokohama Vol. 2 Yokohama, Japan 1 3846
33 Go Shiozaki January 4, 2020 New Sunrise Tokyo, Japan 4 175+2

Combined reigns

As of June 27, 2020.

Record four-time (tied with Takashi Sugiura) and current champion Go Shiozaki
Record longest reigning champion Kenta Kobashi
Inaugural and three-time champion Mitsuharu_Misawa (left) with Go Shiozaki (right; reigning champion)


† Indicates the current champion
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns		 Combined
defenses		 Combined days
1 Takashi Sugiura4231,064
2 Kenta Kobashi113735
3 Mitsuharu Misawa39710
4 Go Shiozaki †47609+
5 Takeshi Morishima310593
6 Jun Akiyama36589
7 Naomichi Marufuji38384
Kaito Kiyomiya16384
9 Kenta19343
10 Katsuhiko Nakajima17307
11 Minoru Suzuki14283
12 Takeshi Rikio13245
13 Kensuke Sasaki12176
14 Yoshinari Ogawa12153
15 Yuji Nagata14147
16 Eddie Edwards12118
17 Kenoh1279
18 Akira Taue1178
19 Yoshihiro Takayama1016

See also

References
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