GHC Openweight Hardcore Championship

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The Global Honored Crown Openweight Hardcore Championship is a semi-official professional wrestling championship contested in Pro Wrestling NOAH. It was originally created in 2004 as a singles title known as the GHC Openweight Hardcore Championship; in 2007 it was announced that it would be reformed into a tag team title, continuing with the same lineage as the original belt. Later in 2007, it reverted back to being a singles championship.

The Openweight Hardcore Championship, also known as the Global Hardcore Crown, had a unique stipulation attached to it: if the challenger was smaller than the champion, and lasted for 15 minutes, they would win the title. It could also change hands on a countout.

Kentaro Shiga, who was the 5th champion before the rechristening into a tag team championship, was still recognized as such (along with his tag team partner, Kishin Kawabata), even though it was vacated to be decided in a tournament, which they won.^[1]

On November 19, 2007, Kawabata defeated Shiga to reunify the title. ^[2]

[edit] Title history

Wrestler(s)	Reigns	Date	Location	Notes
Jun Akiyama	1	April 18, 2004	Hakata, Japan	Akiyama declared himself champion.
Naomichi Marufuji	1	October 16, 2004	Tokushima, Japan	Marufuji won this match via countout.
Mohammed Yone	1	March 5, 2005	Tokyo, Japan
Scorpio	1	October 22, 2005	Tokushima, Japan
Kentaro Shiga	1	September 3, 2006	Nagoya, Japan
GHC Hardcore Tag Team Championship
Kishin Kawabata & Kentaro Shiga	1	February 17, 2007	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi in a tournament final. This is still Kentaro Shiga's original championship reign.
GHC Openweight Hardcore Championship
Kishin Kawabata	1	November 19, 2007	Niigata City, Japan