Smash Championship
| Smash Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Smash | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | October 28, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | March 14, 2012[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Shinya Ishikawa | 9:27[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Tajiri | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Funaki | 7:53[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Tajiri | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Tajiri | 19:41[5] | ||||||||||||||
| Akira | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Akira | DQ | ||||||||||||||
| Takashi Iizuka | 8:37[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Akira | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Zeus | 7:55[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Yoshiaki Yago | 4:17[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Zeus | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Tajiri | 15:12[6] | ||||||||||||||
| StarBuck | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Hajime Ohara | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Último Dragón | 17:20[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Hajime Ohara | 9:32[4] | ||||||||||||||
| Veneno | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Katsutoshi Kito | 7:02[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Veneno | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Veneno | 13:25[5] | ||||||||||||||
| StarBuck | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Genichiro Tenryu | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Michael Kovac | 5:56[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Genichiro Tenryu | 7:33[4] | ||||||||||||||
| 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.[7]
Title history
| # | Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Days held |
Successful defences |
Location | Event | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | StarBuck | 1 | October 28, 2011 | 27 | 2[8] | Bunkyo, Tokyo | Smash.22 | Defeated Tajiri in the finals of a fifteen-man tournament to become the inaugural champion. | [6] |
| 2 | Dave Finlay | 1 | November 24, 2011 | 87 | 1 | Bunkyo, Tokyo | Smash.23 | [9] | |
| — | Vacated | — | February 19, 2012 | — | — | Bunkyo, Tokyo | 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. | [10][11] |
| — | Retired | — | March 14, 2012 | — | — | Bunkyo, Tokyo | Smash.Final | Tajiri retired the title at the end of the final Smash event. | [1] |
See also
References
- ^ a b "3・14『Smash.Final』試合結果（メインイベント）". Smash (in Japanese). March 14, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e "6・9『Smash.18』全試合結果". Smash (in Japanese). June 9, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
- ^ a b "7・15『Smash.19』全試合結果". Smash (in Japanese). July 15, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
- ^ a b c d "8・11『Smash.20』全試合結果". Smash (in Japanese). August 11, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
- ^ a b "9・8『Smash.21』全試合結果". Smash (in Japanese). September 8, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
- ^ a b "10・28『Smash.22』全試合結果". Smash (in Japanese). October 28, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2011.
- ^ "FCF代表スターバックが天龍と8・11『Smash.20』トーナメント2回戦で激突へ！". Smash (in Japanese). July 16, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
- ^ "Smash Championship". Cagematch. Retrieved February 12, 2012.
- ^ "『Smash.23』全試合結果". Smash (in Japanese). November 24, 2011. Retrieved November 24, 2011.
- ^ "2・19『Smash.25』全試合結果". Smash (in Japanese). February 19, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
- ^ "【※重要】 「Smash」第１章活動休止のお知らせ". Smash (in Japanese). February 10, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2012.