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J-Crown

J-Crown
Details
Promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling
Date created August 5, 1996
Date retired October 5, 1997

The J-Crown (also known as J-Crown Championship) was formed originally by New Japan Pro Wrestling as a way of unifying eight non-heavyweight titles from several different organizations. The J-Crown tournament was held over four nights, from August 2nd to August 5th 1996.

Contents

Championships

Championship Promotion Held by
British Commonwealth Junior Heavyweight Championship New Japan Pro Wrestling Jushin Liger
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship New Japan Pro Wrestling The Great Sasuke
NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship Wrestle Dream Factory Masayoshi Motegi
NWA World Welterweight Championship Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Negro Casas
UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship New Japan Pro Wrestling Shinjiro Otani
WAR International Junior Heavyweight Championship Wrestle Association R Ultimo Dragon
WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship World Wrestling Association Gran Hamada
WWF Light Heavyweight Championship World Wrestling Federation El Samurai

The J-Crown Tournament

  Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
                           
   Masayoshi Motegi Pin  
 The Great Sasuke 11:50  
   The Great Sasuke Pin  
   El Samurai 16:25  
 Gran Hamada Pin
   El Samurai 12:38  
     The Great Sasuke Pin
   Último Dragón 13:56
   Jushin Liger Pin  
 Último Dragón 2:38  
   Último Dragón Pin
   Shinjiro Ohtani 16:04  
 Negro Casas Pin
   Shinjiro Ohtani 11:34  

Title history

Wrestler: Date: Place: Notes: Length of reign:
The Great Sasuke August 5, 1996 Tokyo Defeated Ultimo Dragon in a tournament final to become the first champion. 67 days
Ultimo Dragon October 11, 1996 Osaka 85 days
Jushin Liger January 4, 1997 Tokyo 183 days
El Samurai July 6, 1997 Sapporo 35 days
Shinjiro Otani August 10, 1997 Nagoya 56 days
Title retired on October 5, 1997.

End of the J-Crown

The J-Crown was defended for just over a year. When Jushin Liger was champion, he ended up losing the International Junior Heavyweight Championship to Yuuji Yasuraoka. However, Liger continued to defend the J-Crown with seven titles instead of eight.

Five months later, as the WWF was getting ready to introduce a new Light Heavyweight title, they became aware that the original Light Heavyweight Championship belt was no longer in their possession. (The physical belt had long since been used in New Japan Pro Wrestling for one of their titles.) WWF demanded that Shinjiro Otani, the current J-Crown Holder, return the belt to them immediately. He did so on October 5, 1997. On the same day, he also vacated all of the remaining titles, except for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, effectively ending the J-Crown.

Trivia

  • The longest J-Crown reign was Jushin Liger, at 6 months, 2 days.
  • Every J-Crown title holder was part of the original 8 tournament participants.
  • Despite being called the NWA World Welterweight title, it was actually governed by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Along the same line, the NWA World Junior Heavyweight title was, at the time, being governed by Wrestle Dream Factory.
  • The British Commonwealth title, WWF World Light Heavyweight and UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight titles were all being used by New Japan Pro Wrestling.

External links

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