International Light Heavyweight Championship
| International Light Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
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| Details | |||||||||||
| Promotion | Toryumon 2000 Project | ||||||||||
| Date established | March 3, 2002 | ||||||||||
| Date retired | May 6, 2003 | ||||||||||
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The International Light Heavyweight Championship (Japanese: インターナショナルライトヘビー級王座, Hepburn: Intānashonaru Raito Hebī-kyū Ōza) was a professional wrestling championship promoted by Último Dragón's Toryumon 2000 Project (T2P) promotion. Title matches were fought under "Lucha Libre Classica" rules.
History
On January 23, 2002, at Desembarcamiento II, Toryumon President Último Dragón announced the T2P Strongest Merit Assessment League (実力査定リーグ戦, Jitsuryoku Satei Rīgusen; also known as the T2P Lucha Libre Classica League), a 12-man round-robin tournament that would crown the first International Light Heavyweight Champion. The tournament opened on February 17 at a Toryumon Mexico show, then resumed in T2P between February 27 and March 3. Milano Collection A. T. defeated Masato Yoshino in the final to win the tournament and become the inaugural champion.[1]
T2P closed a month after Cima won the title, so Cima took the title to Toryumon Japan but never defended it. The title was later abandoned when Cima won the Último Dragón Gym Championship.
Strongest Merit Assessment League
The tournament featured 12 participants divided into four blocks of three. In Block B, Shuji Kondo and Toru Owashi finished tied at 3 points, while in Block C, all three participants finished tied at 2 points. Kondo won a playoff match against Owashi, and Anthony W. Mori defeated Stevie "brother" Tsujimoto and Takayuki Yagi in a three-way playoff match to qualify to the semifinals.
| Block A | Block B | Block C | Block D | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milano Collection A. T. | 4 | Shuji Kondo | 3 | Anthony W. Mori | 2 | Masato Yoshino | 4 |
| Second Doi | 2 | Toru Owashi | 3 | Stevie "brother" Tsujimoto | 2 | Jun Ogawauchi | 2 |
| Raimu Mishima | 0 | Noriaki Kawabata | 0 | Takayuki Yagi | 2 | Kinya Oyanagi | 0 |
| Block A | Doi | Milano | Mishima | Block B | Kawabata | Kondo | Owashi | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doi | — | Milano (10:13)[2] |
Doi (15:00)[3] |
Kawabata | — | Kondo (4:43)[3] |
Owashi (7:01)[4] | |
| Milano | Milano (10:13)[2] |
— | Milano (0:51)[4] |
Kondo | Kondo (4:43)[3] |
— | Draw (20:00)[2] | |
| Mishima | Doi (15:00)[3] |
Milano (0:51)[4] |
— | Owashi | Owashi (7:01)[4] |
Draw (20:00)[2] |
— | |
| Block C | Mori | Tsujimoto | Yagi | Block D | Ogawauchi | Oyanagi | Yoshino | |
| Mori | — | Mori (10:15)[2] |
Yagi (15:00)[4] |
Ogawauchi | — | Ogawauchi (10:31)[3] |
Yoshino (8:34)[4] | |
| Tsujimoto | Mori (10:15)[2] |
— | Tsujimoto (12:05)[3] |
Oyanagi | Ogawauchi (10:31)[3] |
— | Yoshino (10:13)[2] | |
| Yagi | Yagi (15:00)[4] |
Tsujimoto (12:05)[3] |
— | Yoshino | Yoshino (8:34)[4] |
Yoshino (10:13)[2] |
— | |
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| A1 | Milano Collection A. T. | Sub | |||||||
| B1 | Shuji Kondo | 0:59[5] | |||||||
| A1 | Milano Collection A. T. | Sub | |||||||
| D1 | Masato Yoshino | 10:13[5] | |||||||
| C1 | Anthony W. Mori | 8:31[5] | |||||||
| D1 | Masato Yoshino | Sub | |||||||
Reigns
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | Milano Collection A. T. | March 3, 2002 | Strongest Merit Assessment League Finals | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 298 | 1 | Defeated Masato Yoshino in the Strongest Merit Assessment League final to win the inaugural title. | [5][1] |
| 2 | Cima | December 26, 2002 | La Ultima Caida | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 131 | 0 | [6][7] | |
| — | Deactivated | May 6, 2003 | — | — | — | — | — | Deactivated after Cima won the Último Dragón Gym Championship. | [8] |
See also
References
- ^ a b "Strongest Merit Assessment League Finals" 実力査定リーグ戦最終戦. Weekly Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Baseball Magazine Sha. Archived from the original on August 5, 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Kreikenbohm, Philip. "Toryumon Mexico". Cagematch. Archived from the original on August 5, 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g h 「実力査定リーグ戦」第3戦 [Strongest Merit Assessment League Day 3]. Dragongate (in Japanese). Archived from the original on August 5, 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g h 「実力査定リーグ戦」第2戦 [Strongest Merit Assessment League Day 2]. Dragongate (in Japanese). Archived from the original on August 5, 2025.
- ^ a b c d "Strongest Merit Assessment League Finals" 「実力差低リーグ戦」最終戦. Dragongate (in Japanese). March 3, 2002. Archived from the original on August 5, 2025.
- ^ "2002-12-26 Tokyo, Korakuen Hall" 2002.12.26 東京・後楽園ホール. Dragongate (in Japanese). December 26, 2002. Archived from the original on August 5, 2025.
- ^ "LA ULTIMA CAIDA". Weekly Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Baseball Magazine Sha. Archived from the original on August 5, 2025.
- ^ "International Light Heavyweight Title". Wrestling-Titles.com. Archived from the original on January 25, 2025.