History of the IWGP Heavyweight Title Belt
By Jim Rohan
on Apr 2, 2021, 6:15pm EDT
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New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s IWGP Heavyweight Championship belt was universally beloved and very quickly missed, when the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship belt was recently revealed. The reaction to the new title belt, uncovered on the final show before Sakura Genesis, was mixed at best. Change can be tough – perhaps a look back at the changes over the years will allow for some comforting perspective, or maybe it will just remind you of the lineage being set aside. Either way, it is a storied history worth exploring.