IWGP Intercontinental Champion
| IWGP Intercontinental Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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IWGP Intercontinental Championship belt
(August 26, 2012 — Present) |
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| Promotion | New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | January 5, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Tetsuya Naito | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | September 25, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Past design(s) |  |
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| First champion(s) | MVP |
| Most reigns | Shinsuke Nakamura (5 reigns) |
| Longest reign | Shinsuke Nakamura (313 days) |
| Shortest reign | La Sombra (50 days) |
| Oldest winner | Masato Tanaka (38 years, 224 days) |
| Youngest winner | La Sombra (23 years, 209 days) |
| Heaviest champion | Bad Luck Fale (140 kg (310 lb)) |
| Lightest champion | La Sombra (80 kg (180 lb)) |
The IWGP Intercontinental Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. "IWGP" is the acronym of NJPW's governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix. On October 3, 2010, American promotion Jersey All Pro Wrestling announced that it had reached an agreement with NJPW for the promotion to run its first shows in the United States. NJPW officially announced the tour, titled NJPW Invasion Tour 2011: Attack on East Coast, on January 4, 2011, during the Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome event, announcing events for May 13 in Rahway, New Jersey, May 14 in New York City and May 15 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was also announced that during the tour, New Japan would introduce a new "IWGP Intercontinental Championship", which would become the promotion's fifth active title. The title is unofficially considered part of the "New Japan Triple Crown" (新日本トリプルクラウン Shin Nihon Toripuru Kuraun?) along with the IWGP Heavyweight and NEVER Openweight Championships. Being a professional wrestling championship, the title is won as a result of a predetermined outcome. Overall, there have been fifteen reigns shared among ten wrestlers. Tetsuya Naito is the current champion in his first reign, after defeating Michael Elgin on September 25, 2016.
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