Abandoned: The History of the WWF International Heavyweight Championship | News, Scores, Highlights,
Most Reigns: Tatsumi Fujinami (3)
Longest Single Reign: Antonio Rocca (15 years)
Longest Combined Reign: Antonio Rocca (15 years)
Shortest Reign: Tatsumi Fujinami (a few minutes)
City with the Most Title Changes: Tokyo (2)
State with the Most Title Changes: New York (3)
Vince McMahon and his wrestling giant worked many times with New Japan Pro Wrestling. Together they shared multiple titles, quite a few of which only appeared in Japan.
The WWF International Heavyweight Championship was one of those titles. Like other titles created under their working relationship, it was abandoned when the two companies broke ties.
Professional wrestling is considered a tradition in Japan but not here. I think that’s why New Japan stopped working with WWF.
Vince changed the face of the business and NJPW may have seen that as breaking tradition. It’s because of that titles that could still exist today are gone.
If the two companies still worked together titles like this and the Martial Arts Championship could still exist and WWE could be represented in Japan in ways they can’t today.
Unfortunately it doesn’t look like we’ll ever see the two companies working together again.
The WWF International Heavyweight Championship will remain forgotten.
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