GHC Heavyweight Championship

= GHC Heavyweight Championship =
The Global Honored Crown (GHC) Heavyweight Championship is the professional wrestling world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Noah. The title was also defended on Impact Wrestlingwhich 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. 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. There have been a total of 37 reigns shared between 21 different champions. The current champion is Davey Richards, who is in his first reign.
GHC Heavyweight Championship	GHC Heavyweight Championship 	 	
Current championship design 	Current championship design 	 	
Details 	Details 	 	
Promotion 	Pro Wrestling Noah 	 	
Date established 	April 15, 2001 	 	
Current champion(s) 	Davey Richards 	 	
Date won 	May 30, 2017 	 	
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{| class="wikitable" 	Statistics	Statistics
First champion(s) 	Mitsuharu Misawa 	 	
Most reigns 	Takashi Sugiura, Naomichi Marufuji and Go Shiozaki (4 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 (82 kg) 	 	
== Tournament ==
== Title history ==
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	Championship change 	Championship change	Reign statistics	Reign statistics	Reign statistics	Notes 	Ref.
No.	Champion 	Date 	Event 	Location 	Reign 	Days 	Defenses 	Notes 	Ref.
1 	Mitsuharu Misawa 	April 15, 2001 	Navigation for the Victory 	Tokyo, Japan 	1 	103 	1 	Defeated Yoshihiro Takayama in a tournament final. 	
2 	Jun Akiyama 	July 27, 2001 	Accomplish Our First Navigation 	Tokyo, Japan 	1 	254 	3 	 	
3 	Yoshinari Ogawa 	April 7, 2002 	Come and Watch in Ariake 	Tokyo, Japan 	1 	153 	2 	 	
4 	Yoshihiro Takayama	September 7, 2002 	Navigation Over the Date Line 	Osaka, Japan 	1 	16 	0 	 	
5 	Mitsuharu Misawa 	September 23, 2002 	Great Voyage 	Tokyo, Japan 	2 	159 	1 	 	
6 	Kenta Kobashi 	March 1, 2003 	Navigate for Evolution 	Tokyo, Japan 	1 	735 	13 	 	
7 	Takeshi Rikio 	March 5, 2005 	Navigate for Evolution 	Tokyo, Japan 	1 	245 	3 	 	
8 	Akira Taue 	November 5, 2005 	Third Great Voyage 	Tokyo, Japan 	1 	78 	1 	 	
9 	Jun Akiyama 	January 22, 2006 	First Navigation 	Tokyo, Japan 	2 	230 	2 	 	
10 	Naomichi Marufuji 	September 9, 2006 	Great Voyage 	Tokyo, Japan 	1 	92 	2 	 	
11 	Mitsuharu Misawa 	December 10, 2006 	Great Voyage 	Tokyo, Japan 	3 	448 	7 	 	
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 for the vacant title. 	
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 Navig. 2014 	Tokyo, Japan 	1 	147 	4 	 	
22 	Naomichi Marufuji 	July 5, 2014 	Great Voyage 2014 in Tokyo Vol. 2 	Tokyo, Japan 	2 	253 	6 	 	
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. 	
24 	Naomichi Marufuji 	December 23, 2015 	Destiny 2015 	Tokyo, Japan 	3 	39 	0 	 	
25 	Takashi Sugiura 	January 31, 2016 	Great Voyage 2016 in Yokohama 	Yokohama, Japan 	2 	118 	1 	 	
26 	Go Shiozaki 	May 28, 2016 	Great Voyage 2016 in Osaka 	Osaka, Japan 	3 	63 	1 	 	
27 	Takashi Sugiura 	July 30, 2016 	10th NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League	Tokyo, Japan 	3 	85 	2 	This was a lumberjack match. 	
28 	Katsuhiko Nakajima	October 23, 2016 	Great Voyage 2016 in Yokohama Vol. 2 	Yokohama, Japan 	1 	307 	7 	 	
29 	Eddie Edwards 	August 26, 2017 	Summer Navig. 2017 Vol. 2 	Tokyo, Japan 	1 	88 	2 	 	
30 	Davey Richards 	May 30, 2017 	GFW Amped Live 	Tokyo, Japan 	1 	35+ 	2 	Davey Richards won the championship thanks to working relationship between TNA and Pro Wrestling Noah. Davey Richards is recognized as champion by Pro Wrestling Noah. And any championship defenses that happen in TNA.	
== Combined reigns ==
As of July 4, 2017.
Current champion Davey Richards 
Record-tying four-time champion Takashi Sugiura also holds the records for longest combined reign at 1,064 days, most defenses in one reign at 14, and most combined defenses at 23
One-time champion Kenta Kobashi holds the record for longest reign at 735 days
†	Indicates the current champion
Rank	Wrestler 	No. of
reigns	Combined
defenses	Combined days
1 	Takashi Sugiura 	4	23	1,064
2 	Go Shiozaki 	4	11	839
3 	Kenta Kobashi 	1	13	735
4 	Mitsuharu Misawa 	3	9 	710
5 	Takeshi Morishima 	3	10	593
6 	Jun Akiyama 	3	6 	589
7 	Naomichi Marufuji 	4	10	510
8 	Katsuhiko Nakajima	2	11	443
9 	Kaito Kiyomiya 	1	6 	384
10 	Kenta 	1	9 	343
11 	Minoru Suzuki 	1	4 	283
12 	Takeshi Rikio 	1	3 	245
13 	Kensuke Sasaki 	1	2 	176
14 	Yoshinari Ogawa 	1	2 	153
15 	Yuji Nagata 	1	4 	147
16 	Eddie Edwards 	1	2 	88
17 	Keiji Mutoh 	1	2 	114
18 	Kenoh 	1	2 	79
19 	Akira Taue 	1	1 	78
20 	Davey Richards † 	1	1 	35+
21 	Yoshihiro Takayama	1	0 	16