GHC Hardcore Championship

GHC Hardcore Championship
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Last Champion(s)	Kenta Kobashi
Date Won	June 8, 2009
Promotion(s)	Pro Wrestling NOAH
Date Established	2004
Date Retired	June 2010
Statistics
First champion(s)	Jun Akiyama
Most reigns	Kishin Kawabata (2 reigns)

The Global Honored Crown 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.

On November 19, 2007, Kawabata defeated Shiga to reunify the title. The title was abandoned in June 2010.

Title history

#	Wrestler/Tag Team	Reigns	Date	Location	Length	Defenses	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	140 days	2	Marufuji won this match via countout.
3	Muhammad Yone	1	March 5, 2005	Tokyo, Japan	231 days	3
4	Scorpio	1	October 22, 2005	Tokushima, Japan	316 days	1
5	Kentaro Shiga	1	September 3, 2006	Nagoya, Japan	167 days	3	The title was reformed to a tag team title.
GHC Hardcore Tag Team Championship
5	Kishin Kawabata and Kentaro Shiga	1	February 17, 2007	Tokyo, Japan	275 days	1	Defeated Go Shiozaki and Shuhei Taniguchi in a tournament final. This is still Kentaro Shiga's original championship reign.
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.