IWGP Heavyweight Title @ Wrestlingdata.com

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	New Japan Pro Wrestling
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List of champions

The 269 title matches

Statistics

Champion(s)		Date	Days
The championship was installed as "IWGP Heavyweight Title".
1	Antonio Inoki	1987/06/12	325
2	Championship vacant	1988/05/02	6
3	Tatsumi Fujinami	1988/05/08	19
4	Championship vacant	1988/05/27	28
5	Tatsumi Fujinami	1988/06/24	285
6	Championship vacant	1989/04/05	19
7	Big Van Vader	1989/04/24	31
8	Salman Hashimikov	1989/05/25	48
9	Riki Choshu	1989/07/12	29
10	Big Van Vader	1989/08/10	374
11	Riki Choshu	1990/08/19	129
12	Tatsumi Fujinami	1990/12/26	22
13	Big Van Vader	1991/01/17	46
14	Tatsumi Fujinami	1991/03/04	306
15	Riki Choshu	1992/01/04	225
16	Keiji Muto	1992/08/16	400
17	Shin'ya Hashimoto	1993/09/20	196
18	Tatsumi Fujinami	1994/04/04	27
19	Shin'ya Hashimoto	1994/05/01	367
20	Keiji Muto	1995/05/03	246
21	Nobuhiko Takada	1996/01/04	116
22	Shin'ya Hashimoto	1996/04/29	489
23	Kensuke Sasaki	1997/08/31	216
24	Tatsumi Fujinami	1998/04/04	126
25	Masahiro Chono	1998/08/08	44
26	Championship vacant	1998/09/21	2
27	Scott Norton	1998/09/23	103
28	Keiji Muto	1999/01/04	340
29	Gen'ichiro Tenryu	1999/12/10	25
30	Kensuke Sasaki	2000/01/04	279
31	Championship vacant	2000/10/09	87
32	Kensuke Sasaki	2001/01/04	72
33	Scott Norton	2001/03/17	23
34	Kazuyuki Fujita	2001/04/09	270
35	Championship vacant	2002/01/04	43
36	Tadao Yasuda	2002/02/16	48
37	Yuji Nagata	2002/04/05	392
38	Yoshihiro Takayama	2003/05/02	185
39	Hiroyoshi Tenzan	2003/11/03	36
40	Shinsuke Nakamura	2003/12/09	58
41	Championship vacant	2004/02/05	10
42	Hiroyoshi Tenzan	2004/02/15	26
43	Kensuke Sasaki	2004/03/12	16
44	Bob Sapp	2004/03/28	65
45	Championship vacant	2004/06/01	4
46	Kazuyuki Fujita	2004/06/05	126
47	Kensuke Sasaki	2004/10/09	64
48	Hiroyoshi Tenzan	2004/12/12	70
49	Satoshi Kojima	2005/02/20	83
50	Hiroyoshi Tenzan	2005/05/14	65

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Rating

5.9 out of 6 stars
(Grade 1.1346)
97.3% of best value

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