Último Dragón Gym Championship
The Último Dragón Gym Championship was the top title in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Toryumon. As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers.[lower-alpha 1] On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline,[lower-alpha 2] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[lower-alpha 3] or leaving the company.[lower-alpha 4]
| Último Dragón Gym Championship | |||||||||||||
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| Details | |||||||||||||
| Promotion | Toryumon | ||||||||||||
| Date established | April 22, 2003 | ||||||||||||
| Date retired | July 5, 2004 | ||||||||||||
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Title history
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
| 1 | CIMA | April 22, 2003 | House show | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 68 | Defeated Genki Horiguchi in a tournament final to become the first champion. | |
| 2 | Magnum TOKYO | June 29, 2003 | IVrt Aniversario | Kobe, Japan | 1 | 224 | ||
| 3 | SUWA | February 8, 2004 | House show | Fukuoka, Japan | 1 | 77 | ||
| — | April 25, 2004 | — | — | SUWA vacated the title due to injury. | ||||
| 4 | CIMA | July 4, 2004 | Vo Aniversario | Kobe, Japan | 2 | 1 | Defeated Shuji Kondo in a tournament final to win the vacant title. | |
| — | Deactivated | July 5, 2004 | — | — | — | — | CIMA vacated the title and abandoned it when Toryumon changed its name to Dragon Gate. The title was replaced with the Open the Dream Gate Championship. | |
Footnotes
- Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"[1]
- Duncan & Will (2000) p. 271, Chapter: Texas: NWA American Tag Team Title [World Class, Adkisson] "Championship held up and rematch ordered because of the interference of manager Gary Hart"[2]
- Duncan & Will (2000) p. 20, Chapter: (United States: 19th Century & widely defended titles – NWA, WWF, AWA, IW, ECW, NWA) NWA/WCW TV Title "Rhodes stripped on 85/10/19 for not defending the belt after having his leg broken by Ric Flair and Ole & Arn Anderson"[3]
- Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[4]
References
- Hornbaker, Tim (2016). "Statistical notes". Legends of Pro Wrestling - 150 years of headlocks, body slams, and piledrivers (Revised ed.). New York, New York: Sports Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61321-808-2.
- Duncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Waterloo, ON: Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
- Duncan & Will 2000, p. 271.
- Duncan & Will 2000, p. 20.
- Duncan & Will 2000, p. 201.
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