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35-1023: (Redirected from US Championship ) United States Championships or United States Championship may refer to: IWGP United States Championship , professional wrestling NHRA U.S. Nationals , drag racing U.S. Chess Championship , invitational tournament U.S. Figure Skating Championships US Indoor Championships , women's tennis, 1907–2001 US PGA Championship , golf USA Indoor Track and Field Championships USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships United States Nordic Combined Championships , skiing United States Open Championship , golf United States Open Tennis Championships United States Road Racing Championship United States Swimming Championships United States bandy championship WWE United States Championship , professional wrestling See also [ edit ] United States Amateur Championships (disambiguation) U.S. National Championships (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

70-619: A deal with NJPW to host the promotion's first ever shows in the country. NJPW officially announced the "NJPW Invasion Tour 2011: Attack on East Coast" tour on January 4, 2011, during Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome , announcing that the events would be taking place on May 13 in Rahway, New Jersey , May 14 in New York City and May 15 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . NJPW also announced that during

105-404: Is also contracted. His AEW contract also prevented him from appearing at NJPW's American events. This resulted in the championship not being defended from February 2020 to February 2021, when an arrangement was made between the two promotions to allow Moxley to appear on NJPW's American television show Strong in a title defense. With AEW and New Japan forming a working relationship, Jon Moxley

140-601: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages IWGP United States Championship On May 12, 2017, during the third night of the War of the Worlds tour, co-produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Ring of Honor (ROH), NJPW United States Ambassador George Carroll announced the creation of the IWGP United States Championship. The following day, NJPW revealed

175-543: The Asylum Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . The event featured eight matches, three of which were contested for championships . The first title match of the event was contested for Jersey All Pro Wrestling 's (JAPW) Light Heavyweight Championship , which NJPW wrestler Jyushin Thunder Liger had captured the previous December. In the match Kenny Omega , a regular for both JAPW and NJPW, defeated Liger to become

210-558: The Chaos stable. Kazuchika Okada meanwhile returned to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and did not return to NJPW until January 2012. Repackaged as the "Rainmaker", Okada received a strong push and just a month later at The New Beginning defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to end his thirteen-month reign as the IWGP Heavyweight Champion and become the new champion in what NJPW called the "upset of the century". NJPW eventually returned to

245-569: The IWGP Intercontinental Championship tournament , which saw Toru Yano defeat Yujiro Takahashi and MVP defeat Tetsuya Naito . Following his match, MVP was attacked by Yano to build up the following day's tournament final. In the first title match of the event, Prince Devitt made his seventh successful defense of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against former champion Low Ki . In

280-416: The IWGP Intercontinental Championship tournament , which saw Yujiro Takahashi advance over Hideo Saito , Tetsuya Naito advance over Josh Daniels, Toru Yano advance over Dan Maff and MVP advance over Kazuchika Okada . In the main event tag team match, Charlie Haas and Rhino defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi and Togi Makabe with Rhino pinning Makabe, building up the storyline rivalry between

315-531: The "UNITED STATES" imprinted words with "UNITED KINGDOM"; the second set of side plates retained the halves of the world globe. Despite Ospreay's claim on the new name, the title was still listed under its United States name by NJPW. The first champion would be crowned in a single-elimination tournament on the weekend of July 1 and 2, 2017, during NJPW's G1 Special in USA shows in Long Beach, California . Jay Lethal

350-640: The IWGP Intercontinental Championship tournament and the second on the other big matches of the tour. The first event on the NJPW Invasion Tour 2011: Attack on East Coast tour took place on May 13, 2011, at the Rahway Recreation Center in Rahway, New Jersey . The event featured eight matches and was the only event on the tour to not include any championship matches. The event included all four first round matches in

385-588: The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship on May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2012 , in a rematch of their title match in New York City. Lance Archer, however, did become a regular for NJPW following the tour, joining Suzuki-gun and winning the 2011 G1 Tag League at the end of the year alongside the stable's leader, Minoru Suzuki. Hideo Saito ended his excursion with the tour and returned to NJPW at Dominion 6.18, attacking Yuji Nagata and joining

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420-519: The Invasion Tour, JAPW stopped promoting shows due to the heavy financial losses caused by the tour. The promotion eventually returned, however, only promoting one anniversary show per year. Five of the six JAPW regulars who took part in the tour did not make another appearance for NJPW. The only exception was Low Ki, who joined NJPW in April 2012, and concluded his return tour by defeating Prince Devitt for

455-579: The Invasion Tour, Prince Devitt held the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship for another month, before losing it to Kota Ibushi in his eighth defense on June 18 at Dominion 6.18 . Apollo 55 held the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for another five months and successfully defended it two more times, before losing it to the No Remorse Corps ( Davey Richards and Rocky Romero ) at Destruction '11. Following

490-510: The United States, but also featured a storyline development, where Rhino interrupted Togi Makabe and threatened to destroy him, setting up a storyline rivalry between the two, which lasted for the entire tour. Workers at the hotel were reportedly not in on the storyline interruption and were close to calling the police. In Japan, the tour was broadcast on tape delay by Fighting TV Samurai in two two-hour specials. The first concentrated on

525-413: The event, Lance Archer defeated Moxley for the championship in a Texas Death Match for his second reign. At the 2023 Power Struggle , after Ospreay had defended the title against Shota Umino in the main event, Bullet Club leader David Finlay destroyed both the U.S. belt and Ospreay's custom belt with a mallet after attacking Ospreay and Umino's former mentor, Jon Moxley , and a three-way match

560-550: The finals of a tournament to become the inaugural IWGP Intercontinental Champion . The event concluded with a hardcore rules match between Rhino and Togi Makabe , playing off the history of the former ECW Arena. Makabe ended up winning the final match of the tour over the former ECW and WWE wrestler. MVP held the IWGP Intercontinental Championship for five months and successfully defended it twice in rematches against Toru Yano, before being defeated by Masato Tanaka on October 10, 2011, at Destruction '11 . Following

595-412: The flags, and the second set featured half the world globe on one and the other half on the other. When Will Ospreay rebranded the title as the "IWGP United Kingdom Heavyweight Championship", he debuted a custom belt that was essentially the same design and still on red leather (albeit a shade darker), but with the U.S. flags replaced with Union Jack flags in the center and side plates, and replacing all

630-515: The main event of the evening, Hiroshi Tanahashi made his fourth successful defense of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against former WWE wrestler Charlie Haas . This marked the second time NJPW's top title had been defended in the United States, ten years after Scott Norton had made the original title defense. The third and final event on the NJPW Invasion Tour 2011: Attack on East Coast tour took place on May 15, 2011, at

665-459: The new champion. Following the fourth match, Lance Archer made his NJPW debut by attacking Satoshi Kojima . Kojima was saved by MVP , who suggested the two should form a tag team together. This played on a NJPW storyline from earlier in the month, when members of the Kojima-gun stable had turned on Kojima and appointed Minoru Suzuki as the leader of the new Suzuki-gun stable. MVP

700-573: The new title had the same concept as the IWGP Intercontinental Championship , which had been established during NJPW's May 2011 United States tour , promoted in conjunction with Jersey All Pro Wrestling (JAPW). NJPW chairman Naoki Sugabayashi stated that he wanted the title to be defended at future NJPW events in the United States as well as events held by ROH. The title has often been defended in non-disqualification/hardcore matches, including at Wrestle Kingdom 12, on night one of Wrestle Kingdom 14, and on night two of Wrestle Kingdom 16. The title belt

735-450: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title United States Championships . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_Championships&oldid=874741902 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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770-715: The title had already surpassed the IWGP Intercontinental Championship as the number two championship in NJPW. However, the promotion ranked the title in the second tier, behind both the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships and alongside the NEVER Openweight Championship . Throughout 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic prevented then champion Jon Moxley from traveling to Japan for NJPW events while keeping his commitments with All Elite Wrestling (AEW), with whom he

805-440: The title's deactivation on December 11, 2023. Kenny Omega was the inaugural champion. Juice Robinson and Hiroshi Tanahashi are tied for the record of most reigns with three. Tanahashi also was the first Japanese wrestler to win the title, was the oldest champion when he won it at 45 years old, and his third reign in the shortest at 13 days. Jay White was the youngest champion at 25 years old. Jon Moxley holds two records with

840-561: The title's official name as the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship. The title is part of an American expansion plan which NJPW had made public in the months before the announcement. Plans had been made to run extended tours in the United States with California as the base, starting in 2018. The plan was a direct response to WWE taking four wrestlers from NJPW in January 2016. Tetsuya Naito noted how

875-450: The title: his second reign is the longest reign at 564 days with five successful defenses, and he is the only wrestler to have held the title for a consecutive year. Will Ospreay was the final champion in his second reign. He defeated Kenny Omega on June 25, 2023 at Forbidden Door in Toronto, Ontario, Canada . NJPW Invasion Tour 2011 NJPW Invasion Tour 2011: Attack on East Coast

910-416: The tour the promotion would introduce its fifth active title, the IWGP Intercontinental Championship . Most of the wrestlers taking part in the tour were NJPW regulars, however, several JAPW workers, who were not regulars with NJPW, also took part in the tour; namely Charlie Haas , Dan Maff , Homicide , Josh Daniels, Low Ki and Rhino . Daniels was a late replacement for a NJPW regular Tama Tonga , who

945-518: The two and also a future IWGP Heavyweight Championship match between Tanahashi and Haas. The second event on the NJPW Invasion Tour 2011: Attack on East Coast tour took place on May 14, 2011, at Basketball City in New York City, New York . Prior to being announced at Basketball City, the event was scheduled to be held in Brooklyn . The event featured eight matches, two of which were contested for championships . The event also featured semifinals in

980-547: Was a member of Kojima-gun, but had not chosen sides in the conflict up until the event. In the second title match of the event, Apollo 55 ( Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi ) made their fifth successful defense of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against the Strong Style Thugz ( Homicide and Low Ki ). In the third title match of the event, MVP defeated Toru Yano in

1015-512: Was defended in both Japan and the United States with the first Japanese defense taking place on September 24, 2017, at Destruction in Kobe and the first stateside defense taking place on October 15, 2017, at Global Wars: Chicago . After it had been announced in November 2017 that former WWE wrestler Chris Jericho would be challenging for the title at Wrestle Kingdom 12 in Tokyo Dome , Omega stated that

1050-479: Was made red to distinguish it from the black IWGP Heavyweight Championship belt and the white IWGP Intercontinental Championship belt. It featured five plates; the American flag in the center plate with the words "UNITED STATES" imprinted over the flag, and "IWGP" imprinted on top and "CHAMPION" on the bottom. The first set side plates also featured the American flag with the words "UNITED STATES CHAMPION" imprinted over

1085-457: Was permitted to defend the title on AEW's flagship television program, AEW Dynamite . In May 2021, the title was defended in AEW for the first time, with Moxley defeating Yuji Nagata in his fourth title defense. At July 2021's AEW Fyter Fest Night 1 event, Moxley retained the championship for his record-setting fifth defense against Impact Wrestling's Karl Anderson . The following week on Night 2 of

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1120-538: Was scheduled for three men at Wrestle Kingdom 18 . For the bout, although it was initially listed as for the U.S./U.K. championship, NJPW chairman Naoki Sugabayashi announced at a press conference on November 6, 2023, that a new championship would replace the U.S./U.K. championship. On December 11, 2023, this title would be named the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship . There were 18 reigns shared among 10 wrestlers with three vacancies up until

1155-626: Was sidelined with an injury. Hideo Saito and Kazuchika Okada , two NJPW contracted wrestlers, who were at the time on learning excursions to Puerto Rico and American Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) respectively, also returned to take part in the tour. The official cards for the events were released on May 4. The day before the start of the tour, NJPW held a press conference at the Ramada hotel in Newark, New Jersey . The conference mainly featured wrestlers talking about their feelings about working in

1190-506: Was the first American tour run by Japanese professional wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in May 2011. The tour was hosted by Jersey All Pro Wrestling (JAPW) and featured all of NJPW's top wrestlers, matches for three of the promotion's four championships and the introduction of a new fifth title. The tour was first announced on October 3, 2010, when American promotion Jersey All Pro Wrestling (JAPW) announced it had reached

1225-530: Was the first participant announced for the tournament on May 12. On May 18, Hangman Page was officially added to the tournament. The other six participants as well as the bracket of the tournament, confirmed as a single-elimination tournament, were revealed on June 12. Kenny Omega went on to defeat Tomohiro Ishii in the final to become the inaugural champion. Since its creation, the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship

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