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The Smash Championship was a professional wrestling championship, owned and promoted by the Japanese SMASH promotion. Championship reigns were determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors were involved in scripted rivalries. These narratives created feuds between the various competitors, which cast them as villains and heroes.
Tournament[]
The tournament to crown the inaugural champion was held over five months and five events. The first round was held over two events, Smash.18 and Smash.19 on June 9 and July 15, 2011, the second round at Smash.20 on August 11, the semifinals at Smash.21 on September 8, and the finals at Smash.22 on October 28, 2011.
The tournament brackets were:
| Round one (Smash.18–19) |
Round two (Smash.20) |
Semifinals (Smash.21) |
Finals (Smash.22) | |||||||||||
| Shinya Ishikawa | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Yusuke Kodama | 7:51 | |||||||||||||
| Shinya Ishikawa | 9:27 | |||||||||||||
| TAJIRI | Pin | |||||||||||||
| FUNAKI | 7:53 | |||||||||||||
| TAJIRI | Pin | |||||||||||||
| TAJIRI | 19:41 | |||||||||||||
| AKIRA | Pin | |||||||||||||
| AKIRA | DQ | |||||||||||||
| Takashi Iizuka | 8:37 | |||||||||||||
| AKIRA | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Zeus | 7:55 | |||||||||||||
| Yoshiaki Yago | 4:17 | |||||||||||||
| Zeus | Pin | |||||||||||||
| TAJIRI | 15:12 | |||||||||||||
| StarBuck | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Hajime Ohara | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Último Dragón | 17:20 | |||||||||||||
| Hajime Ohara | 9:32 | |||||||||||||
| VENENO | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Katsutoshi Kito | 7:02 | |||||||||||||
| VENENO | Pin | |||||||||||||
| VENENO | 13:25 | |||||||||||||
| StarBuck | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Genichiro Tenryu | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Michael Kovac | 5:56 | |||||||||||||
| Genichiro Tenryu | 7:33 | |||||||||||||
| StarBuck | Pin | |||||||||||||
| StarBuck | Bye | |||||||||||||
| * | ||||||||||||||
* StarBuck won an eight-man tournament in Fight Club Finland (FCF) to advance to the second round of the Smash Championship tournament.
Title history[]
| # | Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Days held |
Successful defences |
Location | Event | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1
|
StarBuck
|
1
|
October 28, 2011
|
27 | 2
|
Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
|
Smash.22
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Defeated TAJIRI in the finals of a fifteen-man tournament to become the inaugural champion. | |
| 2
|
Dave Finlay
|
1
|
November 24, 2011
|
87 | 1
|
Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
|
Smash.23
|
||
| —
|
Vacated
|
—
|
February 19, 2012
|
—
|
—
|
Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
|
Smash.25
|
On February 10, 2012, Smash announced it would cease its operations on March 14, 2012. Finlay vacated the title at the promotion's penultimate event. | |
| —
|
Retired
|
—
|
March 14, 2012
|
—
|
—
|
Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
|
Smash.Final
|
Tajiri retires the title at the end of the final Smash event. |
See also[]
- WNC Championship
