The History Of IWGP Heavyweight Championship

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 #IWGP #NewJapan #NJPW From The Vault Episode Archive:    • From The Vault   Twitter:   / wapw_wrestling   Instagram:   / weareprowrestling_yt   Facebook:   / weareprowrestling   Threads: https://www.threads.net/@weareprowres... Subscribe, Like, Comment, Click The Notification Bell Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use