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Professional wrestling championship
The IMGP World Heavyweight Championship (Japanese : IMGP世界ヘビー級王座 , Hepburn : IMGP Sekai Hebī-kyū Ōza ) is an inactive professional wrestling championship in the Japanese promotion Muscle (マッスル , Massuru ) , a sub-brand of DDT Pro-Wrestling . IMGP is the acronym of International Muscle Grand Prix and a parody of New Japan Pro-Wrestling 's governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix.[1]
The championship was introduced in late 2006 and has been represented by a belt resembling the second IWGP Heavyweight Championship design.[2] Since Atsushi Maruyama won the title in 2015, it has never been defended nor has it been officially deactivated.
History [ edit ]
Key
No.
Overall reign number
Reign
Reign number for the specific champion
Days
Number of days held
Defenses
Number of successful defenses
N/A
Unknown information
+
Current reign is changing daily
No.
Champion
Championship change
Reign statistics
Notes
Ref.
Date
Event
Location
Reign
Days
Defenses
1
Danshoku Dino
September 29, 2006
Muscle 11
Tokyo, Japan
1
96
0
Defeated Antonio Honda and Seiya Morohashi in a three-way match to win the inaugural title.
[2]
2
Nikkan Lee
January 3, 2007
Muscle House 3
Tokyo, Japan
1
121
0
First woman to win the title. Ryuji Ito was the scheduled opponent for Danshoku Dino . However, his wife Nikkan Lee (who was the referee for the whole event) replaced him, fearing his recently injured arm was not fully healed yet.
[3]
3
Norikazu Fujioka
May 4, 2007
Muscle House 4
Tokyo, Japan
1
125
0
[4]
4
Kota Ibushi
September 6, 2007
Muscle 15
Tokyo, Japan
1
243
1
[5]
5
Sasori
May 6, 2008
Muscle House 6
Tokyo, Japan
1
322
1
[6]
6
Tigers Mask
March 24, 2009
N/A
N/A
1
[a]
0
[7]
—
Vacated
N/A
—
—
—
—
—
Vacated due to unknown circumstances.
7
Atsushi Maruyama
July 12, 2015
Dramatic Dreams! Vol. 2: No Subtitle
Osaka, Japan
2
3,216+
0
Defeated Super Sasadango Machine to win the vacant title. Previously held the title as Tigers Mask .
[8]
Combined reigns [ edit ]
†
Indicates the current champions
¤
The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used.
^ The date of at least one of the title changes in this reign is uncertain, which means that the reign lasted between 1 and 2,301 days.
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]