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31-1034: (Redirected from United States 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

62-476: A learning excursion to American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) since February 2010; Hideo Saito , who had been on a similar tour of Puerto Rico 's World Wrestling Council since September 2010; former IWGP Tag Team and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro Takahashi of No Limit ; NJPW regulars Tama Tonga and Toru Yano , and; American independent worker Dan Maff , who made his first appearance for NJPW during

93-404: 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

124-601: 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

155-531: 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

186-945: The IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the NEVER Openweight Championship . On October 3, 2010, American promotion Jersey All Pro Wrestling announced that it had reached an agreement with NJPW to co-promote NJPW's first shows in the United States. NJPW officially announced the NJPW Invasion Tour 2011: Attack on East Coast tour on January 4, 2011, with shows taking place on May 13 in Rahway, New Jersey , May 14 in New York City and May 15 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . The following day, NJPW added that, during

217-654: The Intercontinental and Heavyweight Championships were now equals, while Dave Meltzer wrote that Nakamura and Tanahashi made the Intercontinental Championship feel like "the real world title belt". Nakamura regained the title from Tanahashi in another main event match on April 6 at Invasion Attack 2014 . Nakamura's association with the championship continued to 2016, when he successfully defended it against former IWGP Heavyweight Champion A.J. Styles at Wrestle Kingdom 10 . On January 25, 2016, Nakamura

248-639: The United States . On March 4, 2021, the championship was retired by NJPW after being unified with the IWGP Heavyweight Championship to form the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship . The final champion was Kota Ibushi , who was in his second reign at the time of the title's retirement. The title formed what was unofficially called the "New Japan Triple Crown " (新日本トリプルクラウン, Shin Nihon Toripuru Kuraun ) along with

279-457: The United States and Mexico . On May 31, 2013, while on tour with Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), with whom NJPW has a working relationship, Nakamura lost the title to La Sombra . This marked the first time the title had changed hands outside of NJPW. Nakamura regained the title back in NJPW two months later on July 20, and in the process became the first two-time holder of

310-413: 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

341-448: The first belt design—which had bronze plates on a black strap—for its resemblance to a 10 yen coin and saw it as a mockery of the IWGP. The new design featured gold plates on a white strap. The white strap was unprecedented for the IWGP, and symbolized a clean slate for its holder to add to and define. After Nakamura's departure, the title was most associated with Tetsuya Naito , who held

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372-412: 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

403-649: 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

434-450: 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

465-449: The same time. Sometimes, they were called "Double Championship". On March 4, 2021, one year after Naito's victory, the titles were unified to form the new IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. During the championship's existence there have been twenty-seven reigns shared among fifteen wrestlers with one vacancy . MVP was the first champion in the title's history. Tetsuya Naito has the most reigns with six. Shinsuke Nakamura holds

496-667: The title for a record six times. During his first reign, he began systematically destroying the title belt, forcing NJPW to have it repaired in June 2017. Unlike Nakamura, Naito firmly saw the Heavyweight Championship as the top title, and had no desire for the Intercontinental Championship when he first won it. On January 5, 2020, at Wrestle Kingdom 14 , Tetsuya Naito won the Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships. Both titles keep their individual history, but were defended at

527-674: 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

558-440: 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

589-561: 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

620-422: The title. Nakamura continued elevating the IWGP Intercontinental Championship, culminating with the IWGP Intercontinental Championship match receiving top billing over the IWGP Heavyweight Championship match at NJPW's biggest annual event, Wrestle Kingdom 8 on January 4, 2014, where former multi-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi became the new champion. Afterwards, Tokyo Sports wrote that

651-511: 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 . IWGP Intercontinental Championship The IWGP Intercontinental Championship ( IWGPインターコンチネンタル王座 , IWGP intākonchinentaru ōza )

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682-425: The tour, the promotion would introduce the IWGP Intercontinental Championship, with the inaugural champion to be crowned in a tournament taking place over the three shows. Participants for the tournament were announced on April 8, 2011. The list of participants included: former World Wrestling Entertainment performer MVP , who had signed a contract with New Japan in January 2011; Kazuchika Okada , who had been on

713-424: The tour. On May 6, it was announced that Tonga had suffered an injury which would force him out of the tournament. He was replaced by former TNA and Ring of Honor performer Josh Daniels. On May 15, MVP defeated Yano in the final of the tournament to become the inaugural champion. Through MVP's inaugural reign and the subsequent reigns of Masato Tanaka and Hirooki Goto , the IWGP Intercontinental Championship

744-618: Was a professional wrestling championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion . "IWGP" is the acronym of NJPW's governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix ( インターナショナル・レスリング・グラン・プリ , intānashonaru resuringu guran puri ) . The title was officially announced on January 5, 2011, and the Inaugural Champion MVP was crowned on May 15, 2011, during NJPW's first tour of

775-565: 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

806-429: Was largely a midcard title, remaining firmly behind the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and IWGP Tag Team Championship in importance. However, after Shinsuke Nakamura captured the title from Goto on July 22, 2012, the title began gaining importance. He was already a former three-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion and his first reign lasted 313 days. Nakamura also made the title international again, defending it in both

837-479: 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

868-457: 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

899-538: 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

930-479: Was stripped of the title due to his departure from the promotion at the end of the month. From 2012 to 2016, Nakamura held the IWGP Intercontinental Championship five times and defended it at four consecutive Wrestle Kingdom events. The title was also associated with Nakamura as it was he who personally introduced the new title belt design shortly into his first reign in August 2012. He was outspokenly disapproving of

961-530: 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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