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{{Retired championship
| image = ghchardcore.jpg
| last = [[Kenta Kobashi]]
| date = June 8, 2009
| promotion = [[Pro Wrestling NOAH]]
| established = 2004
| retired = June 2010
| firstchamp = [[Jun Akiyama]]
| finalchamp = [[Kenta Kobashi]]
| mostreigns = [[Kishin Kawabata]] (2 reigns)
| longestreign = [[Hikaru Kawabata|Kishin Kawabata]] (322 days)
| shortestreign = [[Naomichi Marufuji]] (140 days)
| oldest = Kenta Kobashi (42 Years)
| youngest = [[Naomichi Marufuji]] (25 Years)
| heaviest = Kenta Kobashi (115 kg)
| lightest = Naomichi Marufuji (90 kg)
| mostkeysholder =
| pastnames = GHC Hardcore Tag Team Championship
}}

The '''Global Honored Crown (GHC) Openweight Hardcore Championship''' was a semi-official championship contested in [[Pro Wrestling NOAH]]. It was originally created in 2004 as a singles title known as the '''GHC Openweight Hardcore Championship'''; in 2007 it was announced that it would be reformed into a tag team title, continuing with the same lineage as the original belt. Later in 2007, it reverted to being a singles championship.

The Openweight Hardcore Championship, also known as the '''Global Hardcore Crown''', had a unique stipulation attached to it: if the challenger was smaller than the champion, and lasted for 15 minutes, they would win the title. It could also change hands on a countout.

[[Kentaro Shiga]], who was the 5th champion before the rechristening into a tag team championship, was still recognized as such (along with his tag team partner, Kishin Kawabata), even though it was vacated to be decided in a tournament, which they won.<ref name="title lineage">{{cite web|title=Global Hardcore Champion|url=http://www.noah-usa.cc/G%20HARDCORE%20CROWN%20Champ%20sub%20title%20page.html|accessdate=2007-08-17}}</ref>

On November 19, 2007, Kawabata defeated Shiga to reunify the title.<ref>{{cite web|title=Green Destiny ~ Supporting Pro Wrestling NOAH|url=http://noah.puroresufan.com/|accessdate=2007-11-26}}</ref> The title was abandoned in June 2010.

==Title history==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width=100%;"
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |#
! style="background: #e3e3e3; width: 25%;" |Wrestler/Tag Team
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Reigns
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Date
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Location
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Length
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Defenses
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Notes
|-
|1
|[[Jun Akiyama]]
|1
|April 18, 2004
|Hakata, Japan
|180 days
|6
|Akiyama declared himself champion.
|-
|2
|[[Naomichi Marufuji]]
|1
|October 16, 2004
|Tokushima, Japan
|{{age in days|month1=10|day1=16|year1=2004|month2=3|day2=5|year2=2005}} days
|2
|Marufuji won this match via countout.
|-
|3
|[[Muhammad Yone]]
|1
|March 5, 2005
|Tokyo, Japan
|{{age in days|month1=3|day1=5|year1=2005|month2=10|day2=22|year2=2005}} days
|3
|
|-
|4
|[[2 Cold Scorpio|Scorpio]]
|1
|October 22, 2005
|Tokushima, Japan
|{{age in days|month1=10|day1=22|year1=2005|month2=9|day2=3|year2=2006}} days
|1
|
|-
|5
|[[Kentaro Shiga]]
|1
|September 3, 2006
|Nagoya, Japan
|167 days
|3
|The title was reformed to a tag team title.
|- style="background: #e3e3e3;"
| colspan="10" |'''''GHC Hardcore Tag Team Championship'''''
|-
|5
|[[Kishin Kawabata]] and Kentaro Shiga
|1
|February 17, 2007
|Tokyo, Japan
|275 days
|1
|Defeated [[Go Shiozaki]] and [[Maybach Taniguchi|Shuhei Taniguchi]] in a tournament final. This is still Kentaro Shiga's original championship reign.
|- style="background: #e3e3e3;"
| colspan="10" |'''''GHC Openweight Hardcore Championship'''''
|-
|6
|[[Kishin Kawabata]]
|2
|November 19, 2007
|Niigata, Japan
|322 days
|4
|
|-
|7
|[[Makoto Hashi]]
|1
|October 6, 2008
|Isesaki, Japan
|245 days
|2
|
|-
|8
|[[Kenta Kobashi]]
|1
|June 8, 2009
|Hachiōji, Japan
|198 days
|4
|
|-
|—
|Vacated
|—
|December 23, 2009
|—
|—
|—
|Kobashi vacates the title after suffering an injury.
|-
|—
|Abandoned
|—
|June 2010
|—
|—
|—
|The title was abandoned after not being contested until June 2010.
|}

==Gallery==

<tabber>
|-|
Champions=
<center>
<gallery hideaddbutton="true" widths="150" bordercolor="transparent" captionalign="left" bordersize="none">
ghchardjun.jpg|Jun Akiyama
ghchardmaru.jpg|Naomichi Maufuji
ghchardyone.jpg|Muhammad Yone
ghchardscorpio.jpg|Scorpio
ghchardshiga.jpg|Kentaro Shiga
ghchardbatashiga.jpg|Kishin Kawabata and Kentaro Shiga
ghchardbata.jpg|Kishin Kawabata
ghchardkenta.jpg|Kenta Kobashi
</gallery>
</center>
</tabber>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Championships]]
[[Category:Pro Wrestling NOAH Championships]]