List of IWGP Intercontinental Champions
Title history

List of IWGP Intercontinental Champions

Section Title: Title history
Table Section Text: None

No.	Champion	Championship change	Reign statistics	Notes	Ref.

Date	Event	Location	Reign	Days	Defenses

1	MVP	May 15, 2011	Invasion Tour 2011: Attack on East Coast	Philadelphia, U.S.	1	148	2	Defeated Toru Yano in an eight–man tournament final to become the inaugural champion.

2	Masato Tanaka	October 10, 2011	Destruction '11	Tokyo, Japan	1	125	3

3	Hirooki Goto	February 12, 2012	The New Beginning	Osaka, Japan	1	161	2

4	Shinsuke Nakamura	July 22, 2012	Kizuna Road	Yamagata, Japan	1	313	8

5	La Sombra	May 31, 2013	Super Viernes	Mexico City, Mexico	1	50	1	This was a two out of three falls match.

6	Shinsuke Nakamura	July 20, 2013	Kizuna Road	Akita, Japan	2	168	3

7	Hiroshi Tanahashi	January 4, 2014	Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome	Tokyo, Japan	1	92	1

8	Shinsuke Nakamura	April 6, 2014	Invasion Attack	Tokyo, Japan	3	76	1

9	Bad Luck Fale	June 21, 2014	Dominion 6.21	Osaka, Japan	1	92	0

10	Shinsuke Nakamura	September 21, 2014	Destruction in Kobe	Kobe, Japan	4	224	3

11	Hirooki Goto	May 3, 2015	Wrestling Dontaku	Fukuoka, Japan	2	147	1

12	Shinsuke Nakamura	September 27, 2015	Destruction in Kobe	Kobe, Japan	5	120	2

—	Vacated	January 25, 2016	N/A	Tokyo, Japan	—	—	—	Vacated due to Nakamura leaving NJPW for WWE.

13	Kenny Omega	February 14, 2016	The New Beginning in Niigata	Nagaoka, Japan	1	126	1	Defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the vacant title.

14	Michael Elgin	June 19, 2016	Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall	Osaka, Japan	1	98	1	This was a ladder match.

15	Tetsuya Naito	September 25, 2016	Destruction in Kobe	Kobe, Japan	1	259	4

16	Hiroshi Tanahashi	June 11, 2017	Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall	Osaka, Japan	2	230	4

17	Minoru Suzuki	January 27, 2018	The New Beginning in Sapporo	Sapporo, Japan	1	92	1

18	Tetsuya Naito	April 29, 2018	Wrestling Hinokuni	Kumamoto, Japan	2	41	0

19	Chris Jericho	June 9, 2018	Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall	Osaka, Japan	1	209	1

20	Tetsuya Naito	January 4, 2019	Wrestle Kingdom 13 in Tokyo Dome	Tokyo, Japan	3	92	1	This was a no disqualification match.

21	Kota Ibushi	April 6, 2019	G1 Supercard	New York City, U.S.	1	14+	1

Sentence(s)

Goto is a former one-time IWGP Intercontinental Champion and lost the title to Nakamura in July 2012.

final_sentence: Goto is a former one-time IWGP Intercontinental Champion and lost the title to Nakamura in July 2012.