{"id":7357,"date":"2017-08-26T19:55:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T23:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=7357"},"modified":"2017-08-27T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T16:48:04","slug":"eddie-edwards-becomes-first-gaijin-win-ghc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/08\/26\/eddie-edwards-becomes-first-gaijin-win-ghc\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Edwards Wins GHC Heavyweight Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At today&#8217;s <strong>Pro Wrestling NOAH<\/strong> event, <strong><em>Summer Navigation 2017 Vol. 2<\/em><\/strong>, GHC Heavyweight Champion <strong>Katsuhiko Nakajima<\/strong> had his 307 reign ended when GFW&#8217;s <strong>Eddie Edwards<\/strong> defeated up after 25 minutes to become the first\u00a0<em>gaijin<\/em> to win NOAH&#8217;s top singles title.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3010\u7b2c29\u4ee3GHC\u30d8\u30d3\u30fc\u7d1a\u9078\u624b\u6a29\u8005 \u30a8\u30c7\u30a3\u30fb\u30a8\u30c9\u30ef\u30fc\u30ba\u3011<br \/>8.26\u5f8c\u697d\u5712\u5927\u4f1a\u8a73\u5831 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/40DFBaWow6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/40DFBaWow6<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/noah_ghc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#noah_ghc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XfLZt1EfBy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/XfLZt1EfBy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u30d7\u30ed\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30f3\u30b0\u30fb\u30ce\u30a2 \uff5cPRO WRESTLING NOAH (@noah_ghc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noah_ghc\/status\/901429747128844288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2000 by former <strong>All-Japan<\/strong> president (and puroresu legend) <strong>Mitsuharu Misawa<\/strong>, Pro Wrestling NOAH is arguably the number 2 promotion in Japan behind <strong>NJPW<\/strong> (although number 3 All-Japan is probably more well known). Since it&#8217;s formation, NOAH&#8217;s titles have been governed by the Global Honored Crown (GHC) system, hence why all its titles are called GHC (similar to how NJPW titles are considered IWGP titles). Over the past 17 years, Japanese legends like <strong>Jun Akiyama, Kenta Kobashi, Akira Taue, Noamichi Marufuji, Yugi Nagata, Minoru Suzuki<\/strong> and Misawa himself have carried the company&#8217;s top title, the GHC Heavyweight Championship. NXT&#8217;s <strong>Hideo Itami<\/strong> &#8211; back when he was known simply as <strong>KENTA<\/strong> &#8211; held the title for 343 days, losing it just before he made his jump to the WWE Universe.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7358\" style=\"width: 503px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7358\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/08\/DIL2kG-XgAE3dvd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/08\/DIL2kG-XgAE3dvd.jpg 676w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/08\/DIL2kG-XgAE3dvd-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/08\/DIL2kG-XgAE3dvd-768x873.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/08\/DIL2kG-XgAE3dvd-696x791.jpg 696w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/08\/DIL2kG-XgAE3dvd-370x420.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NOAH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But Eddie Edwards marks a first for Pro Wrestling NOAH, as the first\u00a0<em>gaijin<\/em> &#8211; or foreigner &#8211; to capture the company&#8217;s top singles title. In doing so, he joins a small list of\u00a0<em>gaijin<\/em> to win the top Japanese title in a Japanese promotion, along with <strong>Scott Norton<\/strong>, <strong>Bob Sapp, Brock Lesnar<\/strong> and <strong>AJ Styles<\/strong> in NJPW (capturing the IWGP Heavyweight title) and <strong>Terry &#8220;Bam Bam&#8221; Gordy<\/strong>, <strong>Stan Hansen<\/strong>, <strong>&#8220;Dr. Death&#8221; Steve Williams<\/strong>, and <strong>Joe Doering<\/strong> in All-Japan (capturing the AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight title). <strong>Vader<\/strong> won both the IWGP Heavyweight and the Triple Crown during the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>This marks Eddie Edwards third major singles championship, following previous runs as both ROH World Champion and GFW Impact World Heavyweight Champion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At today&#8217;s Pro Wrestling NOAH event, Summer Navigation 2017 Vol. 2, GHC Heavyweight Champion Katsuhiko Nakajima had his 307 reign ended when GFW&#8217;s Eddie Edwards defeated up after 25 minutes to become the first\u00a0gaijin to win NOAH&#8217;s top singles title. \u3010\u7b2c29\u4ee3GHC\u30d8\u30d3\u30fc\u7d1a\u9078\u624b\u6a29\u8005 \u30a8\u30c7\u30a3\u30fb\u30a8\u30c9\u30ef\u30fc\u30ba\u30118.26\u5f8c\u697d\u5712\u5927\u4f1a\u8a73\u5831 https:\/\/t.co\/40DFBaWow6#noah_ghc pic.twitter.com\/XfLZt1EfBy &mdash; \u30d7\u30ed\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30f3\u30b0\u30fb\u30ce\u30a2 \uff5cPRO WRESTLING NOAH (@noah_ghc) August 26, 2017 Founded in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":7360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,24],"tags":[249,1354,741,677],"class_list":["post-7357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-noah","tag-eddie-edwards","tag-ghc-heavyweight-championship","tag-global-force-wrestling","tag-pro-wrestling-noah"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}