GHC Heavyweight Championship

Infobox championship
championshipname=GHC Heavyweight Championship


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currentholder=Kensuke Sasaki
won=March 2 2008
aired=
promotion=Pro Wrestling NOAH
brand=
created=April 15 2001
mostreigns=Mitsuharu Misawa (3)
firstchamp=Mitsuharu Misawa
longestreign=Kenta Kobashi (735 days)
shortestreign=Yoshihiro Takayama (16 days)
oldest=
youngest=
heaviest=Takeshi Morishima (115 kg)
lightest=Naomichi Marufuji (85 kg)
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titleretired=
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The Global Honored Crown (GHC) Heavyweight Championship is the top professional wrestling title in Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling NOAH. It was created on April 15 2001 when Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Yoshihiro Takayama in a 16-man tournament final. Though its name implies a particular weight class, it has been held by junior heavyweights in the past, including Yoshinari Ogawa and former GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Naomichi Marufuji. There have been a total of 10 recognized champions, who have had a combined 13 official reigns.

Title history

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 2001.16TeamBracket

RD1-seed01=Mar. 18
RD1-seed02=Tokyo
RD1-team01=nobr|Mitsuharu Misawa
RD1-team02=nobr|Akitoshi Saito
RD1-score01=Pin
RD1-score02=12:26

RD1-seed03=Mar. 21
RD1-seed04=Sagamihara
RD1-team03=nobr|Masao Inoue
RD1-team04=nobr|Yoshinari Ogawa
RD1-score03=Pin
RD1-score04=14:18

RD1-seed05=Apr. 1
RD1-seed06=Fukuoka
RD1-team05=nobr|Jun Akiyama
RD1-team06=nobr|Takao Ōmori
RD1-score05=Pin
RD1-score06=22:49

RD1-seed07=Apr. 2
RD1-seed08=Beppu
RD1-team07=nobr|Takeshi Morishima
RD1-team08=nobr|Takeshi Rikio
RD1-score07=Pin
RD1-score08=14:33

RD1-seed09=Mar. 22
RD1-seed10=Tokyo
RD1-team09=nobr|Jun Izumida
RD1-team10=nobr|Yoshihiro Takayama
RD1-score09=Pin
RD1-score10=8:22

RD1-seed11=Mar. 30
RD1-seed12=Kumamoto
RD1-team11=nobr|Scorpio
RD1-team12=nobr|Kentaro Shiga
RD1-score11=Pin
RD1-score12=13:06

RD1-seed13=Mar. 25
RD1-seed14=Kyoto
RD1-team13=nobr|Akira Taue
RD1-team14=nobr|Vader
RD1-score13=Pin
RD1-score14=10:40

RD1-seed15=Mar. 29
RD1-seed16=Kagoshima
RD1-team15=nobr|Tamon Honda
RD1-team16=nobr|Daisuke Ikeda
RD1-score15=Pin
RD1-score16=15:16

RD2-seed01=Apr. 4
RD2-seed02=Okayama
RD2-team01=nobr|Mitsuharu Misawa
RD2-team02=nobr|Yoshinari Ogawa
RD2-score01=Pin
RD2-score02=19:44

RD2-seed03=Apr. 8
RD2-seed04=Tokyo
RD2-team03=nobr|Jun Akiyama
RD2-team04=nobr|Takeshi Rikio
RD2-score03=Pin
RD2-score04=4:02

RD2-seed05=Apr. 3
RD2-seed06=Uwajima
RD2-team05=nobr|Yoshihiro Takayama
RD2-team06=nobr|Kentaro Shiga
RD2-score05=Pin
RD2-score06=7:16

RD2-seed07=Apr. 6
RD2-seed08=Ishikawa
RD2-team07=nobr|Vader
RD2-team08=nobr|Daisuke Ikeda
RD2-score07=Pin
RD2-score08=7:15

RD3-seed01=Apr. 11
RD3-seed02=Hiroshima
RD3-team01=nobr|Mitsuharu Misawa
RD3-team02=nobr|Jun Akiyama
RD3-score01=Pin
RD3-score02=15:05†

RD3-seed03=Apr. 12
RD3-seed04=Osaka
RD3-team03=nobr|Yoshihiro Takayama
RD3-team04=nobr|Vader
RD3-score03=DQ
RD3-score04=9:24

RD4-seed01=nobr|Apr. 15
RD4-seed02=Tokyo
RD4-team01=nobr|Mitsuharu Misawa
RD4-team02=nobr|Yoshihiro Takayama
RD4-score01=Pin
RD4-score02=21:12† Akiyama and Misawa were both counted out, but the match was restarted.

References

ee also

*GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship
*GHC Tag Team Championship
*GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
*GHC Hardcore Tag Team Championship
*List of NOAH title reigns by length

External links

* [http://www.noah.co.jp/ghc1.html GHC Heavyweight Championship official title history]
* [http://noah.puroresufan.com/history/hwtitle.php GHC Heavyweight Championship title history at Green Destiny]