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Nakamura went on to challenge for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship on September 19, but he failed to recapture the title from Tanahashi. [35] In the 2011 G1 Tag League , Nakamura teamed with Toru Yano as the Chaos Top Team, winning all five of their group stage matches, advancing to the semi-finals of the tournament with a clean sheet. [ 36 ]
Shinsuke Nakamura (23 years, 9 months and 15 days) [2] The IWGP Heavyweight Championship ( IWGPヘビー級王座 , IWGP hebī-kyū ōza ) was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship [ 3 ] owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion .
[20] [21] [22] However, after Shinsuke Nakamura captured the title from Goto on July 22, 2012, [23] the title began gaining importance. He was already a former three-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion and his first reign lasted 313 days. Nakamura also made the title international again, defending it in both the United States and Mexico.
Hiroshi Tanahashi, who captured the IWGP Intercontinental Championship in the final match of the event. Wrestle Kingdom 8 was headlined by a "double main event", featuring Kazuchika Okada defending the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Tetsuya Naito and Shinsuke Nakamura defending the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against Hiroshi Tanahashi.
The second match for Wrestle Kingdom 10 was set up on November 7, 2015, after Shinsuke Nakamura had retained the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against Karl Anderson at Power Struggle. Before the match, Nakamura had announced he would defend his title at the Tokyo Dome in an open challenge and asked for his challenger to come forward at ...
Shinsuke Nakamura (24 years, 10 months and 11 days) The IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship ( IWGP U-30無差別級王座 , IWGP Andā Sātī Musabetsu-kyū Ōza ) was a professional wrestling openweight championship in New Japan Pro-Wrestling for younger wrestlers who were under the age of 30.
Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Kurt Angle to unify IGF's IWGP Heavyweight Championship and NJPW's IWGP Heavyweight Championship. [6] [17] — Unified: February 17, 2008: Circuit 2008 New Japan ISM Tokyo, Japan — — — Titles are unified and the IGF version of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship is deactivated. IGF later replaces the title with ...
On February 17, 2008, Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Kurt Angle to unify the two versions of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. [13] Afterwards, both the second and third generation title belts were retired with Nakamura being awarded a brand new belt to represent the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. [ 14 ]