The History Of IWGP Heavyweight Championship

Описание: Episode 386: History Of The IWGP Heavyweight Championship
The International Wrestling Grand Prix(IWGP) Heavyweight Championship is one of wrestling's most prestigious championships. Founded in 1983 as a tournament championship, since 1987 it has been the official World Championship in the Heavyweight Division in New Japan Pro Wrestling. As of this upload there have been 87 official reigns with 39 different wrestlers. This episode I talk about them all; the tournament champions, the main championship(87-21 & 26-Present), the IGF, & the World Heavyweight Championship(V5 from 21-26). I go in chronological order of every champion, talk about their reigns, & go onto the next champion. This is the history of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

0:00 Introduction & Champion Rollcall
0:51 Creation Of International Wrestling Grand Prix
1:51 Hulk Hogan
2:20 Antonio Inoki
3:54 Tatsumi Fujinami
6:05 Big Van Vader
7:44 Salman Hashimikov
9:01 Riki Choshu
10:30 The Great Muta(Keiji Muto)
13:30 Shinya Hashimoto
15:59 Nobuhiko Takada
16:51 Kensuke Sasaki
18:52 Masahiro Chono
20:06 Scott Norton
21:08 Genichiro Tenryu
22:03 Kazuyuki Fujita
23:34 Tadao Yasuda
24:45 Yuji Nagata
26:30 Yoshihiro Takayama
27:15 Hiroyoshi Tenzan
28:50 Shinsuke Nakamura
30:57 Bob Sapp
32:29 Satoshi Kojima
33:31 Brock Lesnar
36:06 Kurt Angle
37:25 Hiroshi Tanahashi
41:04 Manabu Nakanishi
43:07 Kazuchika Okada
48:17 AJ Styles
49:05 Tetsuya Naito
51:35 Kenny Omega
52:44 Jay White
53:53 Evil
54:32 Kota Ibushi
55:29 Will Ospreay
56:21 Shingo Takagi
56:54 Sanada
57:29 Jon Moxley
58:17 Zack Sabre Jr.
59:30 Hirooki Goto
1:00:12 Konosuke Takeshita
1:01:02 Yota Tsuji
1:02:17 Recap

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