Smash Championship
Japanese professional wrestling championship
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The Smash Championship was a professional wrestling championship, owned and promoted by the Japanese Smash promotion. Championship reigns were determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors were involved in scripted rivalries. These narratives created feuds between the various competitors, which cast them as villains and heroes.
Kuroshio Tokyo Japan Produce (2024–present)
| Smash Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Smash (2011–2012) Kuroshio Tokyo Japan Produce (2024–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | October 28, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The title was retired with the promotion in 2012, with the WNC Championship serving as a spiritual successor between then and 2018. In 2024, Jiro Kuroshio revived the title in his "Kuroshio Tokyo Japan Produce" independent cards.
Tournament
The tournament to crown the inaugural champion was held over five months and five events. The first round was held over two events, Smash.18 and Smash.19 on June 9 and July 15, 2011, the second round at Smash.20 on August 11, the semifinals at Smash.21 on September 8, and the finals at Smash.22 on October 28, 2011.
The tournament brackets were:
| Round one (Smash.18–19) | Round two (Smash.20) | Semifinals (Smash.21) | Finals (Smash.22) | ||||||||||||
| Shinya Ishikawa | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Yusuke Kodama | 7:51[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Shinya Ishikawa | 9:27[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Tajiri | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Funaki | 7:53[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Tajiri | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Tajiri | 19:41[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Akira | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Akira | DQ | ||||||||||||||
| Takashi Iizuka | 8:37[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Akira | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Zeus | 7:55[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Yoshiaki Yago | 4:17[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Zeus | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Tajiri | 15:12[5] | ||||||||||||||
| StarBuck | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Hajime Ohara | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Último Dragón | 17:20[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Hajime Ohara | 9:32[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Veneno | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Katsutoshi Kito | 7:02[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Veneno | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Veneno | 13:25[3] | ||||||||||||||
| StarBuck | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Genichiro Tenryu | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Michael Kovac | 5:56[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Genichiro Tenryu | 7:33[2] | ||||||||||||||
| StarBuck | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| StarBuck | Bye | ||||||||||||||
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* StarBuck won an eight-man tournament in Fight Club Finland (FCF) to advance to the second round of the Smash Championship tournament.[6]
Title history
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | StarBuck | October 28, 2011 | Smash.22 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 27 | 2[7] | StarBuck defeated Tajiri in the finals of a fifteen-man tournament to become the inaugural champion. | [3] |
| 2 | Dave Finlay | November 24, 2011 | Smash.23 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 87 | 1 | [8][9] | |
| — | Vacated | February 19, 2012 | Smash.25 | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | — | Tajiri retired the championship at the end of the final Smash event. | [10] |
| — | Deactivated | March 14, 2012 | Smash.Final | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | — | On February 10, 2012, Smash announced it would cease its operations on March 14, 2012. Dave Finlay vacated the championship at the promotion's penultimate event. | [10] |
| 3 | Kuroshio TOKYO Japan | November 8, 2024 | Kuroshio TOKYO Japan Produce Everyone Will Love Tokyo Japan Even More | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 0 | 0 | Kuroshio defeated Yuji Kito, the last recognized WNC champion, in a decision match to win the revived Smash championship. | [11] |
| 4 | Shotaro Ashino | November 8, 2024 | Kuroshio TOKYO Japan Produce Everyone Will Love Tokyo Japan Even More | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 66 | 0 | Ashino challenged Kuroshio after the match and won the championship. | [11] |
| 5 | Seigo Tachibana | January 13, 2025 | Kuroshio TOKYO Japan Produce Kuroshio TOKYO Japan 15th Anniversary ~ King Of Style Strong | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 426 | 0 | Tachibana won a four-way dance, defeating Ashino, Kumaarashi and Yusuke Kodama. | [12] |