GHC Openweight Hardcore Championship

The Global Honored Crown Openweight Hardcore Championship was a semi-official professional wrestling championship contested in Pro Wrestling Noah. It was originally created in 2004 as a singles title known as the GHC Openweight Hardcore Championship; in 2007 it was announced that it would be reformed into a tag team title, continuing with the same lineage as the original belt. Later in 2007, it reverted to being a singles championship.

Global Honored Crown Openweight Hardcore Championship
Details
PromotionPro Wrestling Noah
Date establishedApril 18, 2004
Date retiredDecember 23, 2009

The Openweight Hardcore Championship, also known as the Global Hardcore Crown, had a unique stipulation attached to it: if the challenger was smaller than the champion, and lasted for 15 minutes, they would win the title. It could also change hands on a countout.

Kentaro Shiga, who was the 5th champion before the reforming into a tag team championship, was still recognized as such (along with his tag team partner, Kishin Kawabata), even though it was vacated to be decided in a tournament, which they won.[1]

On November 19, 2007, Kawabata defeated Shiga to reunify the title.[2] The title has remained inactive since June 2010.

Title history
Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign DaysDefenses
1 Jun Akiyama April 18, 2004 Encountering Navigation 2004 – Day 11 Hakata, Japan 1 1815 Akiyama declared himself champion.
2 Naomichi Marufuji October 16, 2004 Navigation Against The Current 2004 – Day 7 Tokushima, Japan 1 1402 Marufuji won this match via countout.
3 Muhammad Yone March 5, 2005 Navigation For Evolution 2005 – Day 10 Tokyo, Japan 1 2313
4 Scorpio October 22, 2005 Autumn Navigation 2005 – Day 11 Tokushima, Japan 1 3161
5 Kentaro Shiga September 3, 2006 Shiny Navigation 2006 – Day 6 Nagoya, Japan 1 1673
6 Kishin Kawabata and Kentaro Shiga February 17, 2007 Navigation For Evolution 2007 – Day 2 Tokyo, Japan 1 2752 Defeated Go Shiozaki and Shuhei Taniguchi in a tournament final. This is still Kentaro Shiga's original championship reign. During their reign, the title was billed as GHC Openweight Hardcore Tag Team Championship.
7 Kishin Kawabata November 19, 2007 Winter Navigation '07 – Day 4 Niigata, Japan 2 3224
8 Makoto Hashi October 6, 2008 Autumn Navigation '08 – Day 2 Isesaki, Japan 1 2452
9 Kenta Kobashi June 8, 2009 Southern Navigation 2009 – Day 3 Hachiōji, Japan 1 1984
— Deactivated December 23, 2009 — — — —— Kobashi vacates the title after suffering an injury. After that the title became inactive.

Combined reigns
Rank Wrestler No. of reigns Combined days
1. Kishin Kawabata2597
2. Kentaro Shiga2441
3. Scorpio1316
4. Makoto Hashi245
5. Muhammad Yone231
6. Kenta Kobashi198
7. Jun Akiyama181
8. Naomichi Marufuji140

References
  1. "Global Hardcore Champion". Archived from the original on 2007-07-16. Retrieved 2007-08-17.
  2. "Green Destiny ~ Supporting Pro Wrestling NOAH". Archived from the original on 2007-11-28. Retrieved 2007-11-26.
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