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| Promotion | CyberFight | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | Pro Wrestling Noah | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | March 13, 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion | Hayata | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | June 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
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TheGlobal Honored Crown (GHC) Hardcore Championship (Japanese:GHCハードコア王座,Hepburn:GHC Hādokoa Ōza) is aprofessional wrestlingchampionship created and promoted by the Japaneseprofessional wrestling promotionPro Wrestling Noah, originally created in 2004 as a singles title known as theGlobal Hardcore Crown (GHC) Openweight Hardcore Championship (グローバル・ハードコア・クラウン無差別級王座,Gurōbaru Hādokoa Kuraun Musabetsu-kyū Ōza). Colloquially known as the "White GHC" belt due to its white leather strap, the championship was primarily associated withJun Akiyama during its original run. Most matches contested for the championship were held with a 15-minute time limit and often featured special stipulations chosen by the champion. The championship was first retired in 2009.
The original title had a total of nine reigns shared between eight different champions. The title was brought back in 2023 and given a new name, the GHC Hardcore Championship. The GHC Hardcore Championship has had a total of two reigns shared between two champions. The current titleholder isHayata who is in his first reign.
The Global Hardcore Crown Openweight Hardcore Championship was created in March 2004 whenJun Akiyama declared himself champion as a way to liven up thePro Wrestling Noah regional tours.[1] In 2007, it was announced that it would be reformed into atag team title, continuing with the same lineage as the original belt. Later in 2007, it reverted to being a singles championship.Kentaro Shiga, who was the fifth champion before the reforming into a tag team title, was still recognized as such (along with his tag team partner,Kishin Kawabata), even though it was vacated to be put up for grab in a tournament, which they eventually won.[2] On November 19, 2007, Kawabata defeated Shiga to reunify the title.[3] The title was deactivated after ninth champion Kenta Kobashi suffered an injury in December 2009, forcing him to vacate the title.
In October 2023, it was revealed byNosawa Rongai that Pro Wrestling Noah would bring the belt as the newly created GHC Hardcore Championship with a separate lineage.Masato Tanaka won the revived title on October 23, 2023, at Monday Magic ep. 2, by defeatingNinja Mack.[4]
Across the two lineages, there have been a total of eleven reigns shared between ten different champions. The current title holder isShuji Ishikawa who is in his first reign.
| No. | Overall reign number |
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| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
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| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | Jun Akiyama | March 13, 2004 | Navigation | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 217 | 5 | Akiyama declared himself the inaugural champion. | [1] |
| 2 | Naomichi Marufuji | October 16, 2004 | Navigation Against the Current 2004 | Tokushima, Japan | 1 | 140 | 2 | Marufuji won the match viacountout. | [5] |
| 3 | Muhammad Yone | March 5, 2005 | Navigate for Evolution 2005 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 231 | 3 | [6] | |
| 4 | Scorpio | October 22, 2005 | Autumn Navigation '05 | Tokushima, Japan | 1 | 316 | 1 | [7] | |
| 5 | Kentaro Shiga | September 3, 2006 | Shiny Navigation '06 | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 167 | 3 | [8] | |
| 6 | Kishin Kawabata andKentaro Shiga | February 17, 2007 | Navigation for Evolution 2007 – Day 2 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 275 | 2 | Defeated Go Shiozaki and Shuhei Taniguchi in a tournament final. This is still Kentaro Shiga's original championship reign. During their reign, the title was billed as GHC Openweight Hardcore Tag Team Championship. | [9] |
| 7 | Kishin Kawabata | November 19, 2007 | Winter Navigation '07 – Day 4 | Niigata, Japan | 2 | 322 | 4 | [10] | |
| 8 | Makoto Hashi | October 6, 2008 | Autumn Navigation '08 – Day 2 | Isesaki, Japan | 1 | 245 | 2 | [11] | |
| 9 | Kenta Kobashi | June 8, 2009 | Southern Navigation 2009 – Day 3 | Hachiōji, Japan | 1 | 198 | 4 | [12] | |
| — | Deactivated | December 23, 2009 | — | — | — | — | — | Kenta Kobashi vacated the title after suffering an injury. After that the title became inactive. | |
| No. | Overall reign number |
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| 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 | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
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| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | Masato Tanaka | October 23, 2023 | Monday Magic ep. 2 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 35 | 0 | DefeatedNinja Mack to win the reactivated title. | [13] |
| 2 | Ninja Mack | November 27, 2023 | Monday Magic ep. 4 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 159 | 2 | This was athree-way hardcore match also involvingSuper Crazy. | [14] |
| 3 | Shuji Ishikawa | May 4, 2024 | Wrestle Magic | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 422 | 2 | This was ahardcore match. | [15] |
| 4 | Hayata | June 30, 2025 | Noah Wrestle Magic 2025 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 144+ | 2 | [16] | |
As of November 21, 2025.
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| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined defences | Combined days |
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| 1 | Kishin Kawabata | 2 | 6 | 597 |
| 2 | Kentaro Shiga | 2 | 5 | 441 |
| 3 | Shuji Ishikawa | 1 | 2 | 422 |
| 4 | Scorpio | 1 | 1 | 316 |
| 5 | Makoto Hashi | 1 | 2 | 245 |
| 6 | Muhammad Yone | 1 | 3 | 231 |
| 7 | Jun Akiyama | 1 | 5 | 217 |
| 8 | Kenta Kobashi | 1 | 4 | 198 |
| 9 | Ninja Mack | 1 | 2 | 159 |
| 10 | Naomichi Marufuji | 1 | 2 | 140 |
| 11 | Hayata † | 1 | 2 | 144+ |
| 12 | Masato Tanaka | 1 | 0 | 35 |
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