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22-711: The title formed what was unofficially called the "New Japan Triple Crown " (新日本トリプルクラウン, Shin Nihon Toripuru Kuraun ) along with the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and the NEVER Openweight Championship . On October 3, 2010, American promotion Jersey All Pro Wrestling announced that it had reached an agreement with NJPW to co-promote NJPW's first shows in the United States. NJPW officially announced

44-751: A record six times. During his first reign, he began systematically destroying the title belt, forcing NJPW to have it repaired in June 2017. Unlike Nakamura, Naito firmly saw the Heavyweight Championship as the top title, and had no desire for the Intercontinental Championship when he first won it. On January 5, 2020, at Wrestle Kingdom 14 , Tetsuya Naito won the Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships. Both titles keep their individual history, but were defended at

66-442: A similar tour of Puerto Rico 's World Wrestling Council since September 2010; former IWGP Tag Team and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro Takahashi of No Limit ; NJPW regulars Tama Tonga and Toru Yano , and; American independent worker Dan Maff , who made his first appearance for NJPW during the tour. On May 6, it was announced that Tonga had suffered an injury which would force him out of

88-429: A singles grudge match, during which The Young Bucks turned on Devitt, after he told them not to interfere in the match. After Taguchi had won the match, he and Devitt shook hands and ended their storyline rivalry with each other. After the following match, A.J. Styles debuted as the newest member of Bullet Club, attacking IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada . The third title match saw Tomohiro Ishii defend

110-738: The NJPW Invasion Tour 2011: Attack on East Coast tour on January 4, 2011, with shows taking place on May 13 in Rahway, New Jersey , May 14 in New York City and May 15 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . The following day, NJPW added that, during the tour, the promotion would introduce the IWGP Intercontinental Championship, with the inaugural champion to be crowned in a tournament taking place over

132-658: The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against El Desperado and Kota Ibushi . El Desperado and Ibushi had faced off in an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match at February's The New Beginning in Osaka , where, following Ibushi's win, he was challenged by Nick Jackson. This led to a singles title match between the two for April 3, where Ibushi was victorious, and a tag team title match three days later, where The Young Bucks made their third successful title defense. In

154-480: The IWGP Tag Team Championship against Hirooki Goto and Katsuyori Shibata . The two teams previously faced off in a non-title match on March 5 at NJPW's 42nd anniversary event, where Goto and Shibata were victorious. In addition, Goto and Shibata eliminated both Gallows and Anderson from the 2014 New Japan Cup in their first round matches. Anderson and Gallows, however, were victorious in

176-512: The NEVER Openweight Championship against Tetsuya Naito . Following The New Beginning in Osaka, where Ishii defeated Naito to win the title, Naito had avenged the loss by defeating Ishii in both the first round of the 2014 New Japan Cup and a six-man tag team match, which set up the title rematch, where Ishii made his first successful defense. Following his win, Ishii was challenged by Kushida . The semi-main event featured Bullet Club representatives Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson defending

198-467: The IWGP Heavyweight Championship after winning the 2014 New Japan Cup, but opted to try to end his two-match losing streak against Tanahashi. In the end, Nakamura was victorious, winning the IWGP Intercontinental Championship for the third time. Post-match, Nakamura was challenged by Daniel and Rolles Gracie , while Kazushi Sakuraba offered to form a tag team with him. The day after Invasion Attack 2014, NJPW announced Prince Devitt's resignation from

220-699: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.150 via cp1114 cp1114, Varnish XID 933500654 Upstream caches: cp1114 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:37:17 GMT Invasion Attack 2014 Invasion Attack 2014 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on April 6, 2014, in Tokyo at Ryōgoku Kokugikan . The event featured nine matches, five of which were contested for championships . It

242-462: The first belt design—which had bronze plates on a black strap—for its resemblance to a 10 yen coin and saw it as a mockery of the IWGP. The new design featured gold plates on a white strap. The white strap was unprecedented for the IWGP, and symbolized a clean slate for its holder to add to and define. After Nakamura's departure, the title was most associated with Tetsuya Naito , who held the title for

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264-641: The new champion. Afterwards, Tokyo Sports wrote that the Intercontinental and Heavyweight Championships were now equals, while Dave Meltzer wrote that Nakamura and Tanahashi made the Intercontinental Championship feel like "the real world title belt". Nakamura regained the title from Tanahashi in another main event match on April 6 at Invasion Attack 2014 . Nakamura's association with the championship continued to 2016, when he successfully defended it against former IWGP Heavyweight Champion A.J. Styles at Wrestle Kingdom 10 . On January 25, 2016, Nakamura

286-417: The record for the longest reign in the title's history at 313 days during his first reign. Tetsuya Naito's second reign of 41 days is the shortest in the title's history. Kota Ibushi was the final champion and had held the championship twice. The standard Championship belt has five plates on a white leather strap. Triple Crown (professional wrestling) Too Many Requests If you report this error to

308-441: The same time. Sometimes, they were called "Double Championship". On March 4, 2021, one year after Naito's victory, the titles were unified to form the new IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. During the championship's existence there have been twenty-seven reigns shared among fifteen wrestlers with one vacancy . MVP was the first champion in the title's history. Tetsuya Naito has the most reigns with six. Shinsuke Nakamura holds

330-612: The second title match, Tencozy ( Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima ) won the NWA World Tag Team Championship for the first time, defeating the returning National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) team The IronGodz ( Jax Dane and Rob Conway ). The midcard of the event featured a major storyline development involving the Bullet Club stable . One year after the break-up of Apollo 55 , Bullet Club leader Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi faced off in

352-457: The three shows. Participants for the tournament were announced on April 8, 2011. The list of participants included: former World Wrestling Entertainment performer MVP , who had signed a contract with New Japan in January 2011; Kazuchika Okada , who had been on a learning excursion to American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) since February 2010; Hideo Saito , who had been on

374-426: The title from Goto on July 22, 2012, 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 . On May 31, 2013, while on tour with Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), with whom NJPW has a working relationship, Nakamura lost

396-678: The title match, making their second successful defense. Finally, in the main event, Hiroshi Tanahashi defended the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against previous champion Shinsuke Nakamura in a rematch of both January's Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome and February's The New Beginning in Hiroshima . Nakamura had earned the right to challenge for either the IWGP Intercontinental or

418-633: The title to La Sombra . This marked the first time the title had changed hands outside of NJPW. Nakamura regained the title back in NJPW two months later on July 20, and in the process became the first two-time holder of the title. Nakamura continued elevating the IWGP Intercontinental Championship, culminating with the IWGP Intercontinental Championship match receiving top billing over the IWGP Heavyweight Championship match at NJPW's biggest annual event, Wrestle Kingdom 8 on January 4, 2014, where former multi-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi became

440-585: The tournament. He was replaced by former TNA and Ring of Honor performer Josh Daniels. On May 15, MVP defeated Yano in the final of the tournament to become the inaugural champion. Through MVP's inaugural reign and the subsequent reigns of Masato Tanaka and Hirooki Goto , the IWGP Intercontinental Championship was largely a midcard title, remaining firmly behind the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and IWGP Tag Team Championship in importance. However, after Shinsuke Nakamura captured

462-479: Was stripped of the title due to his departure from the promotion at the end of the month. From 2012 to 2016, Nakamura held the IWGP Intercontinental Championship five times and defended it at four consecutive Wrestle Kingdom events. The title was also associated with Nakamura as it was he who personally introduced the new title belt design shortly into his first reign in August 2012. He was outspokenly disapproving of

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484-540: Was the second event under the Invasion Attack name. Invasion Attack 2014 featured nine professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines . Wrestlers portrayed villains , heroes , or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. In the first title match, The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) defended

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