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
Promotion	Pro Wrestling Noah
Date established	April 18, 2004
Date retired	December 23, 2009
Statistics First champion(s) Jun Akiyama Final champion(s) Kenta Kobashi Most reigns Kishin Kawabata (2 reigns) Longest reign Kishin Kawabata (322 days) Shortest reign Naomichi Marufuji (140 days) Oldest champion Kishin Kawabata(41 years, 304 days) Youngest champion Naomichi Marufuji (25 years, 20 days) Heaviest champion Kishin Kawabata and Kentaro Shiga Lightest champion Naomichi Marufuji(90 Kg)

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	Days	Defenses
1	Jun Akiyama	April 18, 2004	Encountering Navigation 2004 – Day 11	Hakata, Japan	1	181	5	Akiyama declared himself champion.
2	Naomichi Marufuji	October 16, 2004	Navigation Against The Current 2004 – Day 7	Tokushima, Japan	1	140	2	Marufuji won this match via countout.
3	Muhammad Yone	March 5, 2005	Navigation For Evolution 2005 – Day 10	Tokyo, Japan	1	231	3
4	Scorpio	October 22, 2005	Autumn Navigation 2005 – Day 11	Tokushima, Japan	1	316	1
5	Kentaro Shiga	September 3, 2006	Shiny Navigation 2006 – Day 6	Nagoya, Japan	1	167	3
6	Kishin Kawabata and Kentaro Shiga	February 17, 2007	Navigation For Evolution 2007 – Day 2	Tokyo, Japan	1	275	2	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	322	4
8	Makoto Hashi	October 6, 2008	Autumn Navigation '08 – Day 2	Isesaki, Japan	1	245	2
9	Kenta Kobashi	June 8, 2009	Southern Navigation 2009 – Day 3	Hachiōji, Japan	1	198	4
—	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 Kawabata	2	597
2.	Kentaro Shiga	2	441
3.	Scorpio	1	316
4.	Makoto Hashi		245
5.	Muhammad Yone		231
6.	Kenta Kobashi		198
7.	Jun Akiyama		181
8.	Naomichi Marufuji		140

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.

External links

• NOAH USA site