Wrestle-1 Championship

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Wrestle-1 Championship
File:Wrestle-1 Championship.jpg
The Wrestle-1 Championship belt
(September 2014 — Present)
Details
Current champion(s) Kai
Date won May 4, 2016[1]
Date established July 21, 2014[2]
Promotion Wrestle-1

The Wrestle-1 Championship (WRESTLE-1チャンピオンシップ Wrestle-1 Chanpionshippu?) is a professional wrestling championship owned by the Wrestle-1 (W-1) promotion. In Japanese the title's name includes the katakana term for "championship", Chanpionshippu (チャンピオンシップ?), derived from the English language instead of the more common kanji term Ōza (王座?). The title also does not feature the word "Heavyweight" or any other weight class, indicating an open-weight status de facto.[8]

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been eight reigns shared among six wrestlers. Kai is the current champion in his third reign.[1]

History

Championship tournament

On July 21, 2014, a full year after the start of the promotion, Wrestle-1 announced the creation of its first own title, the Wrestle-1 Championship.[2][9] Previous Wrestle-1 events had featured matches for championships owned by other promotions like All Star Wrestling (ASW), European Wrestling Promotion (EWP), Pro Wrestling Zero1 and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).[10][11] It was announced that the inaugural champion would be determined in a sixteen-man single-elimination tournament taking place between September 21 and October 8. Wrestle-1's founder Keiji Mutoh quickly announced that he would not be taking part in the tournament.[9][12] The tournament brackets were revealed on August 8, with the exception of two participants, who would be determined in qualifying matches on August 31.[8][13] In the qualifying matches, Jiro Kuroshio defeated Andy Wu and Daiki Inaba defeated Koji Doi.[14] The tournament featured only wrestlers officially signed to Wrestle-1 and none of the freelancers or outside wrestlers working regularly for the promotion.[8] Pro Wrestling Zero1's reigning World Heavyweight Champion Masakatsu Funaki announced he was looking to defend his title throughout the tournament and unifying it with the Wrestle-1 Championship.[15][16] However, just before the start of the tournament on September 19, Funaki lost the World Heavyweight Championship.[17][18] The Wrestle-1 Championship belt was unveiled at a press conference on September 17.[19][20][21] The first two rounds of the tournament were held over three shows between September 21 and 23 and saw Kai, Masakatsu Funaki, Masayuki Kono and Shuji Kondo advance to set up the two semifinal matches for October 8.[22][23][24] In the semifinals, Kai and Kono were victorious over Kondo and Funaki, respectively, setting up a final match later that same day, where Kono defeated Kai to win the tournament and become the inaugural Wrestle-1 Champion.[3][25][26]

First round
(September 21, 22)		 Second round
(September 23)		 Semifinals
(October 8)		 Finals
(October 8)
               
Kai Pin
Manabu Soya 23:40[27]
Kai Pin
Minoru Tanaka 18:18[29]
Minoru Tanaka Pin
Daiki Inaba 12:31[28]
Kai Pin
Shuji Kondo 12:50[3]
Hiroshi Yamato Pin
Seiki Yoshioka 18:48[27]
Hiroshi Yamato Pin
Shuji Kondo 15:11[29]
Shuji Kondo Pin
Kaz Hayashi 16:35[27]
Kai Pin
Masayuki Kono 17:57[3]
Masakatsu Funaki Sub
Tajiri 03:50[27]
Masakatsu Funaki Pin
Akira 14:13[29]
Ryota Hama Pin
Akira 07:34[28]
Masakatsu Funaki Pin
Masayuki Kono 07:10[3]
Masayuki Kono Pin
Jiro Kuroshio 04:56[28]
Masayuki Kono Sub
Yusuke Kodama 09:07[29]
Yasufumi Nakanoue Pin
Yusuke Kodama 12:32[27]

Title history

# Order in reign history
Reign The reign number for the specific wrestler listed
Event The event in which the title was won
Successful defenses The number of successful defenses the champion had during his reign
— Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
N/A The information is not available or is unknown
+ Indicates the current reign is changing daily
# Wrestler Reign Date Days
held		 Location Event Successful defenses Notes Ref(s)
1 Masayuki Kono 1 October 8, 2014 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Shodai Ōja Kettei Tournament 0[30] Kono defeated Kai in the finals of a sixteen-man tournament to become the inaugural champion. [3][25][26]
2 Keiji Mutoh 1 November 1, 2014 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Hold Out 2[31] [30][32][33]
3 Kai 1 March 8, 2015 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Trans Magic 0[34] [31][35][36]
4 Hideki Suzuki 1 April 1, 2015 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Cherry Blossom 2[37] [34][38][39]
5 Kai 2 July 12, 2015 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Symbol 0[40] [37][41][42]
6 Manabu Soya 1 September 21, 2015 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo 2nd Anniversary 2[43] [40][44]
7 Yuji Hino 1 January 10, 2016 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Sunrise 2[1] [43][45]
8 Kai 3 May 4, 2016 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.+ Tokyo Triumph 0 [1]

List of combined reigns

As of June 14, 2024

† Indicates the current champion
<1 Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day
Rank Wrestler No. of reigns Combined
defenses		 Combined
days
1 Keiji Mutoh 1 2 127
2 Kai† 3 0 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.+
3 Yuji Hino 1 2 115
4 Manabu Soya 1 2 111
5 Hideki Suzuki 1 2 102
6 Masayuki Kono 1 0 24

See also

References

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