IMGP World Heavyweight Championship
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This article is about the inactive DDT Pro-Wrestling parody championship. For NJPW's top heavyweight title, see IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.
The IMGP World Heavyweight Championship (Japanese: IMGP世界ヘビー級王座, Hepburn: IMGP Sekai Hebī-kyū Ōza) is an inactive professional wrestling championship in the Japanese promotion Muscle (マッスル, Massuru), a sub-brand of DDT Pro-Wrestling. IMGP is the acronym of International Muscle Grand Prix and a parody of New Japan Pro-Wrestling's governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix.[1]
| IMGP World Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||
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| Details | |||||||||||||||
| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
| Date established | 2006 | ||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Atsushi Maruyama | ||||||||||||||
| Date won | July 12, 2015 | ||||||||||||||
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The championship was introduced in late 2006 and has been represented by a belt resembling the second IWGP Heavyweight Championship design.[2] Since Atsushi Maruyama won the title in 2015, it has never been defended nor has it been officially deactivated.
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| N/A | Unknown information |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| † | Indicates the current champions |
|---|---|
| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
| Rank[1] | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tigers Mask/Atsushi Maruyama † | 2 | 0 | ¤3,371+ |
| 2 | Sasori | 1 | 1 | 322 |
| 3 | Kota Ibushi | 1 | 1 | 243 |
| 4 | Norikazu Fujioka | 1 | 0 | 125 |
| 5 | Nikkan Lee | 1 | 0 | 121 |
| 6 | Danshoku Dino | 1 | 0 | 96 |
- ^ The date of at least one of the title changes in this reign is uncertain, which means that the reign lasted between 1 and 2,301 days.
- ^ "WK9 101: The Intro". Global Force Wrestling. Archived from the original on 2017-07-11. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
- ^ a b "マッスルマニア 9/29 北沢タウンホール大会その３". Extreme Party (in Japanese). Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ "マッスルハウス３ 1/3 後楽園ホールその８". Extreme Party (in Japanese). Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ "マッスルハウス４ 2007/5/4 後楽園ホールその２". Extreme Party (in Japanese). Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ "マッスル15 9/6北沢タウンホール大会". Extreme Party (in Japanese). Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ "マッスルハウス６ 5/6 後楽園ホール大会その９". Extreme Party (in Japanese). Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ "Champions and Championships". WrestlingData.com. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ "DDT Dramatic Dreams! Vol. 2 ~ Without Subtitle". WrestlingData.com. Retrieved August 3, 2020.