IMGP World Heavyweight Championship
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| IMGP World Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
| Date established | 2006 | ||||||||||||||
| Current champion | Atsushi Maruyama | ||||||||||||||
| Date won | July 12, 2015 | ||||||||||||||
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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.
| 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 | Lee Nikkan | 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 Lee Nikkan (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 | 3,676+ | 0 | Defeated Super Sasadango Machine to win the vacant title. Previously held the title as Tigers Mask. | [8] |
Combined reigns
| † | Indicates the current champions |
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| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined defenses | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tigers Mask/Atsushi Maruyama † | 2 | 0 | ¤3,677+ |
| 2 | Sasori | 1 | 1 | 322 |
| 3 | Kota Ibushi | 1 | 1 | 243 |
| 4 | Norikazu Fujioka | 1 | 0 | 125 |
| 5 | Lee Nikkan | 1 | 0 | 121 |
| 6 | Danshoku Dino | 1 | 0 | 96 |
