J-Crown

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J-Crown
Details
Promotion	New Japan Pro Wrestling
Date created	August 5, 1996
Date retired	October 5, 1997
Statistics Most reigns No multiple reigns First champion(s) The Great Sasuke Longest reign Jushin Liger (183 days) Shortest reign El Samurai (35 days) Oldest champion Jushin Liger (32 years, 218 days) Youngest champion Shinjiro Otani (25 years, 76 days) Heaviest champion Shinjiro Otani - 236 lb (107 kg) Lightest champion The Great Sasuke - 180 lb (82 kg)

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 1 Championships 2 The J-Crown Tournament 3 Title history 4 End of the J-Crown 5 Trivia 6 External links

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] External links

• J-CROWN Octuple Title Unification