| 1 | 27.06.2023 | 0zawarudo0 | 8.0 | This was a brutal brawl. Hatred just oozed out of it. Will looking for tables to put Kenny's face through was awesome. The spots with the Canadian flag were awesome. This would have been a 9 if they didn't have Don come back out after being sent off (there's other ways to get to that spot, it was lazy). It almost feels like there won't be a 3rd one, but I hope there is. |
| 2 | 24.08.2021 | adam johnson | 7.0 | |
| 3 | 06.02.2024 | AhmedHosssam23 | 9.0 | |
| 4 | 19.04.2023 | AidanArcher | 9.0 | |
| 5 | 05.02.2023 | Amaury08 | 9.0 | |
| 6 | 08.07.2023 | AugustBurnsRed | 8.0 | |
| 7 | 30.07.2019 | AustinMorgan | 9.0 | |
| 8 | 17.02.2021 | becky2belts | 9.0 | |
| 9 | 11.01.2023 | benh2 | 7.0 | |
| 10 | 27.06.2023 | bisho | 9.0 | |
| 11 | 24.06.2019 | BongStroman | 9.0 | |
| 12 | 31.03.2023 | boymeetsworld | 8.0 | |
| 13 | 23.01.2022 | Brianm654 | 6.0 | |
| 14 | 21.02.2021 | BUIOOMEGA | 6.0 | |
| 15 | 15.05.2022 | Childofthelost | 9.0 | I had this title at a 5 because of the Moxley reign followed the title hotshotting from Lance to Tana to KENTA... but I think the title has really bounced back. Don't get me wrong, it's still hotshotting. But the defenses really mean something again. Tanahashi & KENTA tried to kill each other over this championship, KENTA was hurt and is still out. Tanahashi & SANADA called back to their rivalry and had a fantastic match over this championship. SANADA gets hurt and vacates the title, so Tanahashi & Ishii have probably the best match of the year over this championship. And now Juice wins the title after a Fatal-Four-Way war with four men trying to each other over this championship. I think the IWGP US Heavyweight has been redeemed and the title, despite hotshotting, really feels important again and the prestige is undeniable. |
| 16 | 15.11.2023 | Chrisssen | 8.0 | |
| 17 | 21.04.2023 | cibar12 | 8.0 | |
| 18 | 24.07.2018 | clemlayfield | 9.0 | |
| 19 | 16.07.2023 | CMmox | 8.0 | |
| 20 | 17.05.2023 | Coffin99 | 7.0 | I really want to love this championship. Its got an outstanding look, and its had some of the best people in the industry hold it in its short history. However, it hasnt been booked the best. I dont know why New Japan agreed to let 2 AEW wrestlers win this belt just so they can hold the title hostage in America, rarely defend it, and hardly ever show it off. |
| 21 | 03.07.2023 | coppercowries | 7.0 | The booking of this belt has had some very solid, even exceptional highs, but also lows and tainted reigns. An awesome start with Kenny and White, the belt eventually suffered tremendously due to the pandemic restrictions and then hot potatoed in intense but short reigns. Ospreay built the profile of the belt back up, and his feud between Ospreay and Omega has it back in the global spotlight. |
| 22 | 10.09.2021 | Cort3z | 6.0 | If Archer or Moxley win this title 1 more time, Im gunna lose my mind. NJPW definitely needs some new blood in the title picture, because this title is starting to get stale and i really hope it doesnt go down hill. |
| 23 | 18.08.2021 | Cridddus | 9.0 | |
| 24 | 09.07.2018 | CrossFaceX | 8.0 | |
| 25 | 28.02.2021 | Damian | 6.0 | |
| 26 | 26.11.2022 | DangoDaisuki | 8.0 | |
| 27 | 07.03.2023 | Dark | 8.0 | |
| 28 | 14.05.2021 | dirtydylane | 8.0 | Fun match and cool to see it being presented as a big deal on American Network TV. Nagata looked great and Mox created an atmosphere with the 'Wild Thang' entrance. Great atmosphere and it didn't overstay it's welcome. Fun watch. |
| 29 | 27.06.2023 | Dogo763 | 9.0 | |
| 30 | 04.12.2019 | Dooby | 7.0 | |
| 31 | 12.07.2018 | Draxller | 8.0 | |
| 32 | 28.02.2021 | Edge | 7.0 | |
| 33 | 19.10.2019 | El Burrito | 7.0 | |
| 34 | 23.10.2020 | ElPolloLoco | 4.0 | I think this belt was originally created to be put on foreign talent without the risks of having them jump to the competition at first occasion while carrying the belt. At some time they may have entertained the idea of only defending and promoting this belt in the US as part of the failed NJPW expansion plan into that market. Then as other commenters said things started going down the drain, and rapidly so I may add. Yes, AEW seems amenable to the idea of having their talent carry the belt, but they can put a stop to this at any moment. To make things worse the belt has been chiefly defended in Japan, something that makes little booking sense outside the big Tokyo Dome show. Epidemic or not, belt-worthy foreign talent is now in short supply: folks like Jay White and Will Ospreay have moved well above this belt and folks like Bad Luck Fale and David Finlay are not exactly championship material, at least not without very strong booking which with the present thin NJPW roster may cause tons of collateral damages. Oh well, they can always unify it with the NEVER Openweight title or use it as a prop for Master Wato and Great O-Kharn to feud on to the delight of no one. |
| 35 | 15.07.2019 | F3nI | 9.0 | |
| 36 | 31.05.2023 | franromanfraga | 7.0 | |
| 37 | 12.06.2022 | Gameplayer | 7.0 | |
| 38 | 22.09.2022 | GM56 Champion | 7.0 | |
| 39 | 06.06.2023 | GoldenIcebox | 8.0 | When Omega became the first champion in 2017, it was clear this title was going to mean something. Fast forward 6 years later, and the title is alright. It lost its luster ever since Moxley hoarded the belt for a year and a half, but the lineage really carries the title itself. The 10 best title matches in my opinion are Omega vs. White(1-27-2018), Moxley vs. Robinson(6-5-2019), Moxley vs. Archer(1-4-2020), Moxley vs. Nagata(5-12-2021), Tanahashi vs. Ibushi(9-4-2021), Tanahashi vs. KENTA(1-5-2022), Tanahashi vs. Ishii(5-1-2022), Ospreay vs. SANADA(6-12-2022), Ospreay vs. Naito(11-5-2022) and Omega vs. Ospreay (1-4-2023). |
| 40 | 30.01.2021 | GooverDan | 3.0 | Whereas New Japan STILL hasn't taken the title away from Jon Moxley after being inactive for a year. I think it is safe to say that the prestige of this title is in a sharp decline. I don't think even KENTA winning the title will help fix this poor reign. |
| 41 | 17.08.2021 | greatchickendoc | 8.0 | |
| 42 | 01.02.2022 | GriffinX | 8.0 | On the one hand the US title hasn't had a champion who is truly bad in the ring. But its not eveyr champ was able to have that great reign for various reasons. Also some what hurt but NJPW doesn't seem to know know what they want the belt to be. When it was introduced you had midcard title. I think the goal was at one was for it to be the top prize of New Japan of America but that wound up being the strong openweight title. |
| 43 | 03.11.2020 | HC7 | 7.0 | |
| 44 | 11.01.2023 | Hiimfriendly | 7.0 | |
| 45 | 13.07.2018 | hutchids | 6.0 | Since the title has been around for a year now, I feel it's fair to rate. Honestly, it has been a bit disappointing. The initial tournament to establish the champion was good even if nothing shocking happened during it. Kenny Omega was the most popular wrestler in the world, as well as a great performer, so he was a great choice to put the belt on. However, he didn't do anything of note during his 210 day rain. No notable rivals. He defended the belt against guys like Baretta, who are mid card at best which didn't do much for the belt. He ended up dropping the belt to Jay White, who also had no memorable rivals or title matches during his reign. However, no one really seemed to care about white in Japan or US during his reign, which did the title no favors. Now the belt rests on Juice, who like Omega's title opponents, is mid card at best in NJPW. Honestly, I feel 6 maybe a high rating for the belt but since the Juice and Kenny are talented, I'll leave it here for now. |
| 46 | 05.01.2018 | Ice | | It's now like every other singles NJPW championship: Prestigeous and always defended in high-level matches and it was booked above the Intercontinental Championship at WrestleKingdom on the first one it was featured at and it was possibly the best match on the show. Case closed, another amazing title picture for New Japan Pro Wrestling. |
| 47 | 22.04.2018 | InactiveGuru | 8.0 | A very young title that shows a great potential. Very happy with the booking and title holders and challengers thus far. |
| 48 | 17.08.2022 | Inserthere750 | 8.0 | |
| 49 | 28.09.2023 | InstantClassic12 | 9.0 | |
| 50 | 09.09.2023 | Ishallreview | 7.0 | |
| 51 | 03.08.2021 | joaosousa20 | 9.0 | |
| 52 | 04.10.2022 | JumpinJerry | 8.0 | |
| 53 | 16.07.2018 | JungleJungle | 9.0 | |
| 54 | 26.10.2021 | Justt | 6.0 | After the Kenny's title reign, the belt suffered from poor booking and little to no interest by fans. After Moxley won the belt, it regained some of its value but the pandemic and the lack of defenses really hurted it again. Nowadays with Tanahashi holding the belt, it is one of the best segments in the lukewarm NJPW shows. The best decision with the title, in my opinion, is to retire it but NJPW will not do this (and probably will add other midcard title in the mix). |
| 55 | 09.03.2024 | KEI | 8.0 | |
| 56 | 15.02.2019 | Kevin41182 | 4.0 | Since the title's inception, the booking for the US title has been booked rather poorly by New Japan. Of course, not all of this is New Japan's fault. Many of the workers that held the belt had other commitments. Cody, Omega, etc. I really hope that Juice can improve the title's reputation but the title has been MIA since Wrestle Kingdom. |
| 57 | 03.04.2021 | killowenskill | 7.0 | |
| 58 | 10.11.2018 | King DDP69 | 7.0 | i realy like that title...... i realy do but can we talk about the fact that the first 2 champion are not american? |
| 59 | 26.09.2020 | KiryuKazuma54 | 9.0 | |
| 60 | 15.05.2021 | Kishikaisei37x | 6.0 | |
| 61 | 21.11.2022 | Kung | 7.0 | |
| 62 | 01.10.2020 | laldila | 3.0 | Not a very good belt. Part of this is out of New Japan's control with sickness and shutdowns, but there's a lot that occurred beforehand that really was deeply uninteresting. In a way its kind of symbolic of New Japan's US expansion: a good idea but not something they put their full weight behind. |
| 63 | 01.12.2020 | Lcrossin | 9.0 | |
| 64 | 25.09.2023 | LecramFalcao | 8.0 | |
| 65 | 09.12.2018 | Lexino73 | 8.0 | |
| 66 | 27.02.2022 | Luna100 | 3.0 | It failed its purpose, the first two reigns were great, but Juice and Cody were not that good of champions, then Moxley's first reign and Lance Archer's was quite good. Then Moxley's second reign started off great, but then the pandemic hit, and it became inactive, of course Moxley could not go to Japan, because of AEW, but he would not need to, as NJPW had created Strong, but it took 29 episodes for him to have a match, and then 8 episodes later Strong created their own belt, so the US Championship, it would have been much better if Moxley dropped it to Tom Lawler, but instead they created their own belt, and the US Championship was defended on AEW more times, before losing it to Archer, who by this time left NJPW for AEW, and then it was given to Tanahashi, who has been defending it in Japan. They got it in the US but brought it back to Japan! There is no point to this, just a generic championship |
| 67 | 12.09.2020 | Ma Stump Puller | 6.0 | Outside of Omega's sensational run with the belt, it's been pretty much regarded as a C tier belt with no stakes behind it. Considering NJPW set up the belt in the first place to capitalise on the popularity of it in the US, it seemed like a good idea at the time: until AEW came along and took most if not all of their contenders away. Seriously, out of everyone who had the belt a some point, only Juice and Jay White remain, and Jay White is far into the main title picture now. Considering Moxley's the belt holder and currently can't defend it, he's basically been sitting on the belt for almost a year now, and he'll likely drop it. Hell, Cody a few months ago even openly mocked how useless the belt is in the long run during one of his promos. It was a good idea at the time, but unless they start finding some proper talent for Juice to fight for the belt, things don't look great. I really hope this belt doesn't become just another flop championship for the company: they have a few too many of those. |
| 68 | 04.01.2019 | Mahanx | 7.0 | |
| 69 | 25.07.2023 | MainEventMaster | 9.0 | |
| 70 | 26.07.2022 | majorasmask12 | 7.0 | |
| 71 | 24.12.2021 | Makoto92 | 7.0 | |
| 72 | 07.10.2021 | max670 | 8.0 | |
| 73 | 12.09.2021 | MihaiStan | 8.0 | |
| 74 | 29.07.2023 | MooGati | 9.0 | |
| 75 | 21.02.2024 | MrRaider959 | 7.0 | |
| 76 | 24.04.2022 | NakazawaNumberOne | 6.0 | |
| 77 | 04.07.2019 | NEVERoverweightChampion | 7.0 | This belt is still very recent so it's hard to judge, obviously they need more time but I think overall they did a good job. Kenny was the obvious choice as first champion and he had a good reign, his match against Jericho added prestige. Jay White did good in his first reign, he did especially great at putting over Juice Robinson and gave him a huge momentum... before Cody won the belt. This is the only thing they did wrong with the US Championship because Cody didn't need it, he was an absolute useless champion and put bad matches wich didn't gave Juice Robinson his momentum back when he regained the title. Juice did his best for his second reign, Chase Owens is a really weak challenger and Fale was okay but he ended up re-elevating the title with his match against Jon Moxley, wich despite the loss gave him some great momentum. I don't think Moxley will hold the title for a long time but he is a good addition to the list of champions and really proved he can help. |
| 78 | 12.10.2018 | Nikito222 | 5.0 | I'm sorry, but the guy under me is right. The title was created to give Kenny some historic achievement and that's it. After him, all went down, the reign of Jay White was disappointing and forgettable, the reign of Juice was full joke and Cody is being over pushed to the moon. I would not be surprised if at some time in the next year they unify it. Some points because of some great matches, but still. |
| 79 | 04.10.2022 | njpwawwe | 9.0 | |
| 80 | 26.06.2023 | No One | 9.0 | |
| 81 | 02.01.2023 | OMEGAOBSCURO | 7.0 | |
| 82 | 21.05.2022 | Paul04 | 8.0 | |
| 83 | 20.08.2023 | Personano | 7.0 | |
| 84 | 22.08.2019 | Pm Frank | 9.0 | Kenny Omega made this title awesome. I am going to say that this title is better than IWGP intercontinental championship |
| 85 | 12.05.2019 | PuroresuLover | 4.0 | Since when Juice Robinson lost to Cody on September, this Title has been a disgrace. Seriously, they're making Juice defeat guys like Bad Luck Fale and freakin' Chase Owens! Who's going to be next? Mikey Nicholls? ! I hope that stop treating this title like some piece of garbage, because this can be their championship that elevates the wrestlers, like Jay White and Kenny Omega. |
| 86 | 04.12.2022 | Rainmaker4196 | 9.0 | |
| 87 | 16.09.2020 | rainmakerpunk | 7.0 | |
| 88 | 03.11.2021 | rariyavi | 5.0 | Never felt important in my eyes. The idea is well and good, but with the pandemic and odd booking surrounding the belt its hard to give this title any praise. |
| 89 | 27.08.2022 | Reinhard Lohengramm | 7.0 | |
| 90 | 06.01.2024 | RyanKras16 | 7.0 | |
| 91 | 22.04.2019 | Seraphina Leaf | 7.0 | |
| 92 | 25.05.2022 | Shoot Headbutt Lover | 7.0 | |
| 93 | 30.01.2018 | shosa94 | 9.0 | Oh maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan. This'll obviously need to be edited in the future, because this has existed for a single day, but a few things: 1. ) Belt looks GREAT. Whoever designed it is damn good at their job. 2. ) Kenny Omega, arguably the best wrestler on the planet right now, is its first and only holder. Not a bad start. 3. ) The final to determine the first champion was a full-blown classic. 4. ) It also serves as the marker for NJPW globalization, which is obviously a huge deal. The future looks really bright for it and in time I see it as being on par with the IWGP IC title, maybe even exceeding it. Update: Great booking for this so far, every defense has been good. Omega-Jericho was massive in making it feel like a big deal. Now that Jay White has it, things could maybe get shaky, but we'll see. |
| 94 | 29.08.2023 | SinoParm | 9.0 | |
| 95 | 06.08.2020 | sladgehammer | 9.0 | |
| 96 | 05.01.2023 | SomoSWrestlinG 434 | 7.0 | |
| 97 | 08.11.2022 | Steven95 | 9.0 | |
| 98 | 15.12.2020 | Strong Zero Machine | 7.0 | |
| 99 | 13.07.2021 | StrongStyle2020 | 8.0 | |
| 100 | 04.08.2021 | Tenebrisk | 7.0 | |
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