GHC Heavyweight Championship

The Global Honored Crown (GHC) Heavyweight Championship (Japanese: GHCヘビー級王座, Hepburn: GHC Hebī-kyū Ōza) is the professional wrestling world heavyweight championship created and promoted by Pro Wrestling Noah, which was merged with Japanese promotion DDT to form CyberFight in 2020.^[1] It is one of CyberFight's two top men's world titles, alongside the KO-D Openweight Championship in DDT Pro-Wrestling.^[2] The title was also defended on Impact Wrestling which has a working relationship with Pro Wrestling Noah. It was created on April 15, 2001 when Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Yoshihiro Takayama in a 16-man tournament final.^[3] Though its name implies a particular weight class, it has been periodically held by junior heavyweights, including Yoshinari Ogawa, Kenta, Naomichi Marufuji, Katsuhiko Nakajima and Kenoh. The current champion is Kaito Kiyomiya, who is in his third reign. He defeated El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. at Noah Wrestle Magic on May 4, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan.

GHC Heavyweight Championship
Current championship design
Details
Promotion	CyberFight
Brand	Pro Wrestling Noah
Date established	April 15, 2001
Current champion(s)	Kaito Kiyomiya
Date won	May 4, 2024
Statistics First champion(s) Mitsuharu Misawa Most reigns Go Shiozaki (5 reigns) Longest reign Kenta Kobashi (735 days) Shortest reign Yoshihiro Takayama (16 days) Oldest champion Keiji Mutoh (58 years, 1 month, 20 days) Youngest champion Kaito Kiyomiya (22 years, 4 months, 26 days) Heaviest champion Takeshi Morishima (145 kg) Lightest champion Kenta (81 kg)

History

Inaugural and three-time champion Mitsuharu Misawa

Noah held a 16-man tournament to crown the first champion, held over its month-long, 18-event Navigation for the Victory GHC tour. The tour was held from March 18 through April 15, 2001.^[3]

First round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Mar. 18

Mitsuharu Misawa

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Tokyo

Akitoshi Saito

12:26

Apr. 4

Mitsuharu Misawa

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Okayama

Yoshinari Ogawa

19:44

Mar. 21

Masao Inoue

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Sagamihara

Yoshinari Ogawa

14:18

Apr. 11

Mitsuharu Misawa

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Hiroshima

Jun Akiyama

15:05†

Apr. 1

Jun Akiyama

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Fukuoka

Takao Omori

22:49

Apr. 8

Jun Akiyama

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Tokyo

Takeshi Rikio

4:02

Apr. 2

Takeshi Morishima

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Beppu

Takeshi Rikio

14:33

Apr. 15

Mitsuharu Misawa

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Tokyo

Yoshihiro Takayama

21:12

Mar. 22

Jun Izumida

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Tokyo

Yoshihiro Takayama

8:22

Apr. 3

Yoshihiro Takayama

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Uwajima

Kentaro Shiga

7:16

Mar. 30

Scorpio

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Kumamoto

Kentaro Shiga

13:06

Apr. 12

Yoshihiro Takayama

DQ

Osaka

Vader

9:24

Mar. 25

Akira Taue

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Kyoto

Vader

10:40

Apr. 6

Vader

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Ishikawa

Daisuke Ikeda

7:15

Mar. 29

Tamon Honda

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Kagoshima

Daisuke Ikeda

15:16

† Akiyama and Misawa were originally both counted out, but the match was restarted.

Reigns

As of November 21, 2024, there have been a total of 45 reigns shared between 24 different champions.

Key

No.	Overall reign number
Reign	Reign number for the specific champion
Days	Number of days held
Defenses	Number of successful defenses
+	Current reign is changing daily

No.	Champion	Championship change			Reign statistics			Notes	Ref.
		Date	Event	Location	Reign	Days	Defenses
1	Mitsuharu Misawa	April 15, 2001	Navigation for the Victory	Tokyo, Japan	1	103	1	Defeated Yoshihiro Takayama in a tournament final.	[3]
2	Jun Akiyama	July 27, 2001	Accomplish Our First Navigation	Tokyo, Japan	1	254	3		[4]
3	Yoshinari Ogawa	April 7, 2002	Come and Watch in Ariake	Tokyo, Japan	1	153	2		[5]
4	Yoshihiro Takayama	September 7, 2002	Navigation Over the Date Line	Osaka, Japan	1	16	0		[6]
5	Mitsuharu Misawa	September 23, 2002	Great Voyage	Tokyo, Japan	2	159	1		[7]
6	Kenta Kobashi	March 1, 2003	Navigate for Evolution	Tokyo, Japan	1	735	13		[8][9]
7	Takeshi Rikio	March 5, 2005	Navigate for Evolution	Tokyo, Japan	1	245	3		[8][10]
8	Akira Taue	November 5, 2005	Third Great Voyage	Tokyo, Japan	1	78	1		[11]
9	Jun Akiyama	January 22, 2006	First Navigation	Tokyo, Japan	2	230	2		[12]
10	Naomichi Marufuji	September 9, 2006	Great Voyage	Tokyo, Japan	1	92	2		[13]
11	Mitsuharu Misawa	December 10, 2006	Great Voyage	Tokyo, Japan	3	448	7		[14]
12	Takeshi Morishima	March 2, 2008	Second Navigation	Tokyo, Japan	1	188	2
13	Kensuke Sasaki	September 6, 2008	Shiny Navigation	Tokyo, Japan	1	176	2
14	Jun Akiyama	March 1, 2009	Second Navigation	Tokyo, Japan	3	105	1
—	Vacated	June 14, 2009	—	—	—	—	—	Vacated due to Akiyama suffering an ongoing spinal injury.
15	Go Shiozaki	June 14, 2009	Southern Navigation	Fukuoka, Japan	1	175	1	Defeated Takeshi Rikio to win the vacant title.	[15][16]
16	Takashi Sugiura	December 6, 2009	Winter Navigation	Tokyo, Japan	1	581	14
17	Go Shiozaki	July 10, 2011	Great Voyage	Tokyo, Japan	2	196	3
18	Takeshi Morishima	January 22, 2012	Great Voyage 2012 in Osaka	Osaka, Japan	2	371	8
19	Kenta	January 27, 2013	Great Voyage 2013 in Osaka	Osaka, Japan	1	343	9
20	Takeshi Morishima	January 5, 2014	New Year Navigation 2014	Tokyo, Japan	3	34	0
21	Yuji Nagata	February 8, 2014	The Second Navigation 2014	Tokyo, Japan	1	147	4		[17]
22	Naomichi Marufuji	July 5, 2014	Great Voyage 2014 in Tokyo Vol. 2	Tokyo, Japan	2	253	6		[18]
23	Minoru Suzuki	March 15, 2015	Great Voyage 2015 in Tokyo	Tokyo, Japan	1	283	4	On August 9, 2015, Suzuki successfully defended the title against Mio Shirai at a Pro Wrestling Wave event. The defense was not recognized by Noah, who officially only recognize four of his five defenses.	[19]
24	Naomichi Marufuji	December 23, 2015	Destiny 2015	Tokyo, Japan	3	39	0		[20]
25	Takashi Sugiura	January 31, 2016	Great Voyage 2016 in Yokohama	Yokohama, Japan	2	118	1		[21]
26	Go Shiozaki	May 28, 2016	Great Voyage 2016 in Osaka	Osaka, Japan	3	63	1		[22]
27	Takashi Sugiura	July 30, 2016	10th NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League	Tokyo, Japan	3	85	2	This was a lumberjack match.	[23]
28	Katsuhiko Nakajima	October 23, 2016	Great Voyage 2016 in Yokohama Vol. 2	Yokohama, Japan	1	307	7		[24]
29	Eddie Edwards	August 26, 2017	Summer Navigation 2017 Vol. 2	Tokyo, Japan	1	118	2		[25]
30	Kenoh	December 22, 2017	Winter Navigation 2017	Tokyo, Japan	1	79	2		[26]
31	Takashi Sugiura	March 11, 2018	Great Voyage 2018 in Yokohama	Yokohama, Japan	4	280	6		[27]
32	Kaito Kiyomiya	December 16, 2018	Great Voyage in Yokohama Vol. 2	Yokohama, Japan	1	384	6		[28]
33	Go Shiozaki	January 4, 2020	New Sunrise	Tokyo, Japan	4	405	6		[29]
34	Keiji Mutoh	February 12, 2021	Destination 2021	Tokyo, Japan	1	114	2		[30]
35	Naomichi Marufuji	June 6, 2021	CyberFight Festival 2021	Saitama, Japan	4	126	2		[31]
36	Katsuhiko Nakajima	October 10, 2021	Grand Square 2021 in Osaka	Osaka, Japan	2	136	4		[32]
37	Kazuyuki Fujita	February 23, 2022	Gain Control 2022 in Nagoya	Nagoya, Japan	1	63	1		[33]
—	Vacated	April 27, 2022	—	—	—	—	—	Vacated due to Fujita having tested positive for COVID-19.	[34]
38	Go Shiozaki	April 30, 2022	Majestic 2022	Tokyo, Japan	5	43	0	Defeated Kaito Kiyomiya to win the vacant title.	[35]
39	Satoshi Kojima	June 12, 2022	CyberFight Festival 2022	Saitama, Japan	1	34	0		[36]
40	Kenoh	July 16, 2022	Destination 2022	Tokyo, Japan	2	71	0		[37]
41	Kaito Kiyomiya	September 25, 2022	Grand Ship in Nagoya 2022	Nagoya, Japan	2	175	4		[38]
42	Jake Lee	March 19, 2023	Great Voyage in Yokohama 2023	Yokohama, Japan	1	223	4		[39]
43	Kenoh	October 28, 2023	Demolition Stage In Fukuoka	Fukuoka, Japan	3	99	2		[40]
44	Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr.	February 4, 2024	Cross Over in Sendai 2024	Sendai, Japan	1	90	1		[41]
45	Kaito Kiyomiya	May 4, 2024	Wrestle Magic	Tokyo, Japan	3	201+	6		[42]

Combined reigns

As of November 21, 2024.

Four-time champion Takashi Sugiura holds the records for longest combined reign (1,064 days), most defenses in one reign (14), and most combined defenses (23)

†	Indicates the current champion

Rank	Wrestler	No. of reigns	Combined defenses	Combined days
1	Takashi Sugiura	4	23	1,064
2	Go Shiozaki	5	11	882
3	Kaito Kiyomiya †	3	16	760+
4	Kenta Kobashi	1	13	735
5	Mitsuharu Misawa	3	9	710
6	Takeshi Morishima	3	10	593
7	Jun Akiyama	3	6	589
8	Naomichi Marufuji	4	10	510
9	Katsuhiko Nakajima	2	11	443
10	Kenta	1	9	343
11	Minoru Suzuki	1	4	283
12	Kenoh	3	4	249
13	Takeshi Rikio	1	3	245
14	Jake Lee	1	4	223
15	Kensuke Sasaki	1	2	176
16	Yoshinari Ogawa	1	2	153
17	Yuji Nagata	1	4	147
18	Eddie Edwards	1	2	118
19	Keiji Mutoh	1	2	114
20	Hijo del de Dr. Wagner Jr.	1	1	90
21	Akira Taue	1	1	78
22	Kazuyuki Fujita	1	1	63
23	Satoshi Kojima	1	0	34
24	Yoshihiro Takayama	1	0	16

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External links

• GHC Heavyweight Championship official title history