the last 9 world title reigns (plus a vacancy)

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1. Shingo is stylish as hell.

2. Really miss the old belts. The new one is decent but the original one was iconic

3. I love you Tetsuya Naito but did you really hate the intercontinental championship so much, you had to cause its disappearance??

4. 6 GOATs and EVIL.

5. On one hand, this is awesome. On the other hand, the heavyweight title picture needs some new blood

6. I seriously miss the I.C Title. One of my favorite belts🥺

7. Big DILF energy on Shingo there. I hope this inevitable defeat to Okada coming up is going to lead to him coming back around to take the title off him later in the year, but I assume Ospreay is dethroning him 11 months from now at WK18

8. EVIL champion was a mistake

9. Where do you guys watch or follow njpw at?

10. That old belt was special

11. Ibushi is lucky that EVIL is on this list, because otherwise I’d say he’s the worst of the group. I don’t care if the company was going to do it anyway, I blame him for killing the old belts.

12. Thanks, not you, for all of your hard work lads.

13. I just can’t find a way to like the new belt. The previous one was just so well done.

14. Switchblade is the best IWGP WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION

15. Crazy how there were 6 reigns between Okada losing the belt and him winning it again

16. I wasn’t particularly into the House of Torture act until they went all in on being comedy heels, but EVIL has never been awful and his one successful title defense against Hiromu was quite good. More than that though, it was a blip in time that people remember for being far worse than it actually was.

17. incorrect. Ibushi is the final IWGP Heavyweight Champion and the first IWGP World Heavyweight Champion. Its two distinct titles, so Ibushi should be two in a row.

18. None of these reigns were particularly good. Now Okada has it back, I’m hoping for at least a year+ reign filled with banger defences

19. The beauty of Heavy & IC belts cannot be forgotten. The new hunk of metal is nice, but it’s a serious downgrade in the looks department

20. goin from most recent, W, Mid, W, W, W, W, W, huge L, W

21. Is this the longest Okada was titleless since returning from excursion?

22. Technically Naito and Evil did not have the world heavyweight title. That was before the titles were united.

23. Evil being former World Champion blows my mind

24. Still sad about what they did to the previous belt
    They should not have unified the IC and the Heavyweight belt at the first place

25. New belt is so fucking ugly in every picture

26. God that belt is so ugly…

27. Who had to vacate it