List of IWGP Intercontinental Champions

Current champion Tetsuya Naito

The IWGP Intercontinental Championship is 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. On October 3, 2010, American promotion Jersey All Pro Wrestling (JAPW) announced that it had reached an agreement with NJPW for the promotion to run its first shows in the United States.[1] NJPW officially announced the tour, titled NJPW Invasion Tour 2011: Attack on East Coast, on January 4, 2011, during the Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome event, announcing events for May 13 in Rahway, New Jersey, May 14 in New York City and May 15 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] It was also announced that during the tour, New Japan would introduce a new "IWGP Intercontinental Championship", which would become the promotion's fifth active title.[2] Being a professional wrestling championship, the title is won as a result of a predetermined outcome. Overall, there have been fifteen reigns shared among ten wrestlers. Tetsuya Naito is the current champion in his first reign, after defeating Michael Elgin on September 25, 2016.[3]

Title history

# Order in reign history
Reign The reign number for the specific wrestler listed
Event The event in which the title was won
Successful defenses The number of successful defenses the champion had during his reign
— Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
N/A The information is not available or is unknown
+ Indicates the current reign is changing daily
# Wrestler Reign Date Days
held		 Location Event Successful defenses Notes Ref.
1 MVP 1 May 15, 2011 148 Philadelphia, United States NJPW Invasion Tour 2011: Attack on East Coast 2 Defeated Toru Yano in an eight–man tournament final to become the inaugural champion. [4]
2 Masato Tanaka 1 October 10, 2011 125 Tokyo, Japan Destruction '11 3 [5]
3 Hirooki Goto 1 February 12, 2012 161 Osaka, Japan The New Beginning 2 [6]
4 Shinsuke Nakamura 1 July 22, 2012 313 Yamagata, Japan Kizuna Road 8 [7]
5 La Sombra 1 May 31, 2013 50 Mexico City, Mexico Super Viernes 1 This was a two out of three falls match. [8][9]
6 Shinsuke Nakamura 2 July 20, 2013 168 Akita, Japan Kizuna Road 2013 3 [10]
7 Hiroshi Tanahashi 1 January 4, 2014 92 Tokyo, Japan Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome 1 [11]
8 Shinsuke Nakamura 3 April 6, 2014 76 Tokyo, Japan Invasion Attack 2014 1 [12]
9 Bad Luck Fale 1 June 21, 2014 92 Osaka, Japan Dominion 6.21 0 [13]
10 Shinsuke Nakamura 4 September 21, 2014 224 Kobe, Japan Destruction in Kobe 3 [14]
11 Hirooki Goto 2 May 3, 2015 147 Fukuoka, Japan Wrestling Dontaku 2015 1 [15]
12 Shinsuke Nakamura 5 September 27, 2015 120 Kobe, Japan Destruction in Kobe 2 [16]
— Vacated — January 25, 2016 — Tokyo, Japan — — Vacated due to Nakamura leaving NJPW. [17]
13 Kenny Omega 1 February 14, 2016 126 Nagaoka, Japan The New Beginning in Niigata 1 Defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the vacant title. [18]
14 Michael Elgin 1 June 19, 2016 98 Osaka, Japan Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall 1 This was a ladder match. [19]
15 Tetsuya Naito 1 September 25, 2016 71+ Kobe, Japan Destruction in Kobe 1 [3]

Combined reigns

Shinsuke Nakamura, record five-time IWGP Intercontinental Champion

As of December 5, 2016.

† Indicates the current champion
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns		 Combined
defenses		 Combined
days
1 Shinsuke Nakamura 5 17 901
2 Hirooki Goto 2 3 308
3 MVP 1 2 148
4 Kenny Omega 1 1 126
5 Masato Tanaka 1 3 125
6 Michael Elgin 1 1 98
7 Hiroshi Tanahashi 1 1 92
7 Bad Luck Fale 1 0 92
9 Tetsuya Naito † 1 1 71+
10 La Sombra 1 1 50

References

  1. ↑ Meltzer, Dave (October 3, 2010). "New Japan Pro Wrestling comes to the U.S.". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Archived from the original on October 6, 2010. Retrieved May 13, 2011.
  2. 1 2 Caldwell, James (January 5, 2011). "NJPW News: New Japan to introduce new title on U.S. tour, officially announces dates & venues for "Invasion" tour". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved May 13, 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Destruction in Kobe". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on September 27, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  4. ↑ "NY遠征最終日、真壁がライノ撃破! 初代インターコンチ王者はMVP！ ライガーまさかの王座陥落!!（結果速報）". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). May 16, 2011. Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Destruction '11". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on October 14, 2011. Retrieved October 10, 2011.
  6. ↑ "The New Beginning". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 15, 2012. Retrieved February 12, 2012.
  7. ↑ "NJPW 40th anniversary Tour Kizuna Road". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
  8. ↑ Salazar López, Alexis A. (June 1, 2013). "Resultados Arena México Viernes 31 de Mayo '13". Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (in Spanish). Archived from the original on June 1, 2013. Retrieved June 1, 2013.
  9. ↑ ラ・ソンブラが新インターコンチネンタル王者に！ 中邑がメキシコで王座陥落！. New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). June 1, 2013. Archived from the original on June 8, 2013. Retrieved June 1, 2013.
  10. ↑ "吉野家Presents Kizuna Road 2013". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on July 23, 2013. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
  11. ↑ "バディファイトPresents Wrestle Kingdom 8 in 東京ドーム". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on January 4, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
  12. ↑ "Invasion Attack 2014". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Dominion 6.21". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on June 24, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2014.
  14. ↑ "Destruction in Kobe". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on September 24, 2014. Retrieved September 21, 2014.
  15. ↑ "レスリングどんたく 2015". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on May 4, 2015. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Destruction in Kobe". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on September 27, 2015. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  17. ↑ 中邑真輔が退団会見でインターコンチ王座を返上し、深々と礼。 新日本のレスラー人生を振り返り「こんなレスラー、他にいなかったなと」【1.25会見】. New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). January 25, 2016. Archived from the original on January 25, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
  18. ↑ "The New Beginning in Niigata". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 14, 2016. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
  19. ↑ "Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on August 8, 2016. Retrieved June 19, 2016.

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