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The Último Dragón Gym Championship (also shortened to UDG Championship) was a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the Japanese promotion Toryumon Japan. It was established in April 2003 as an award for the winner of the El Numero Uno tournament. The title was short-lived however, with only three distinctive champions over four reigns. It was deactivated on July 5, 2004, after Toryumon Japan restructured into Dragon Gate, and was replaced by the Open the Dream Gate Championship. The inaugural and final champion was Cima.

PromotionToryumon
Date establishedApril 22, 2003
Date retiredJuly 5, 2004
First championCima
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Último Dragón Gym Championship
Details
PromotionToryumon
Date establishedApril 22, 2003
Date retiredJuly 5, 2004
Statistics
First championCima
Final championCima
Most reignsCima
(2 reigns)
Longest reignMagnum Tokyo
(224 days)
Shortest reignCima
(1 day)
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As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers.[a] On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline,[b] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[c] or leaving the company.[d]

Title history

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Reign Reign number for the specific champion
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No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign DaysDefenses
1 Cima April 22, 2003 El Numero Uno 2003 Final Day Tokyo, Japan 1 681 Defeated Genki Horiguchi in the final of the 2003 El Numero Uno tournament to become the first champion. [5]
2 Magnum Tokyo June 29, 2003 IVrt Aniversario Kobe, Japan 1 2243 [6]
3 Suwa February 8, 2004 El Mes el Amor y la Amistad Fukuoka, Japan 1 770 [7]
— Vacated April 25, 2004 El Numero Uno 2004 Nagoya, Japan — —— Suwa vacated the title due to injury. [8][9]
4 Cima July 4, 2004 Vo Aniversario Kobe, Japan 2 10 Defeated Shuji Kondo in a tournament final to win the vacant title. [10]
— Deactivated July 5, 2004 — — — —— Cima vacated the title and abandoned it when Toryumon Japan changed its name to Dragon Gate. The title was replaced with the Open the Dream Gate Championship. [8][9]
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Combined reigns

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Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns		 Combined
defenses		 Combined days
1 Magnum Tokyo13224
2 Suwa1077
3 Cima2169
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Footnotes

  1. [a]
    Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"[1]
  2. [b]
    Duncan & Will (2000) p. 271, Chapter: Texas: NWA American Tag Team Title [World Class, Adkisson] "Championship held up and rematch ordered because of the interference of manager Gary Hart"[2]
  3. [c]
    Duncan & Will (2000) p. 20, Chapter: (United States: 19th Century & widely defended titles – NWA, WWF, AWA, IW, ECW, NWA) NWA/WCW TV Title "Rhodes stripped on 85/10/19 for not defending the belt after having his leg broken by Ric Flair and Ole & Arn Anderson"[3]
  4. [d]
    Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[4]

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