Smash Championship

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Smash Championship
Details
Promotion Smash
Date establishedOctober 28, 2011
Date retiredMarch 14, 2012 [1]
Statistics
First champion(s) StarBuck
Final champion(s) Dave Finlay
Most reignsAll champions (1 reign)
Longest reign Dave Finlay (87 days)
Shortest reignStarBuck (27 days)
Oldest championDave Finlay (53 years, 35 days)
Youngest championStarBuck (38 years, 187 days)
Heaviest championDave Finlay (107 kg (236 lb))
Lightest championStarBuck (102 kg (225 lb))

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.

Contents

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 IshikawaPin
Yusuke Kodama 7:51 [2]
Shinya Ishikawa 9:27 [3]
TajiriPin
Funaki 7:53 [2]
Tajiri Pin
Tajiri19:41 [4]
Akira Pin
Akira DQ
Takashi Iizuka 8:37 [2]
AkiraPin
Zeus 7:55 [3]
Yoshiaki Yago 4:17 [5]
Zeus Pin
Tajiri 15:12 [6]
StarBuckPin
Hajime Ohara Pin
Último Dragón 17:20 [2]
Hajime Ohara 9:32 [3]
VenenoPin
Katsutoshi Kito 7:02 [5]
Veneno Pin
Veneno 13:25 [4]
StarBuckPin
Genichiro Tenryu Pin
Michael Kovac 5:56 [2]
Genichiro Tenryu 7:33 [3]
StarBuckPin
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

Key
No.Overall reign number
ReignReign number for the specific champion
DaysNumber of days held
DefensesNumber of successful defenses
No.ChampionChampionship changeReign statisticsNotesRef.
DateEventLocationReignDaysDefenses
1 StarBuck October 28, 2011Smash.22 Tokyo, Japan 1272 [8] StarBuck defeated Tajiri in the finals of a fifteen-man tournament to become the inaugural champion. [4]
2 Dave Finlay November 24, 2011Smash.23 Tokyo, Japan 1871 [9] [10]
Vacated  February 19, 2012Smash.25 Tokyo, Japan Tajiri retired the championship at the end of the final Smash event. [1]
Deactivated March 14, 2012Smash.Final Tokyo, Japan On February 10, 2012, Smash announced it would cease its operations on March 14, 2012. Dave Finlay vacated the championship at the promotion's penultimate event. [1]

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