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IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship

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Average rating based on the displayed comments: 6.13
coppercowries wrote on 03.07.2023:
[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."
0zawarudo0 wrote on 27.06.2023:
[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."
GoldenIcebox wrote on 06.06.2023:
[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)."
Coffin99 wrote on 17.05.2023:
[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."
tsdenizen wrote on 14.06.2022:
[7.0] "Good looking belt, talented title holders, reigns are too short and/because the belt is fucking cursed. Don't even know why you'd wanna win this thing when it's liable to cause you some illness or injury, but to each their own. They've done the best they can given the circumstances and no crummy wrestlers have held the title. There's something to be said for that."
Childofthelost wrote on 15.05.2022:
[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."
Luna100 wrote on 27.02.2022:
[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"
GriffinX wrote on 01.02.2022:
[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."
rariyavi wrote on 03.11.2021:
[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."
Justt wrote on 26.10.2021:
[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)."
Cort3z wrote on 10.09.2021:
[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."
Upgrayedd wrote on 20.08.2021:
[3.0] "Beg your pardon, but how is this the US Championship if Jay White who's from New Zealand and Hiroshi Tanahashi who's Japanese have held, respectively currently hold the title? This title was supposed to be different from the WWE's version fo the US Championship, since only American wrestlers would be able to compete for it. Then again however, I'm starting to believe this is becoming one of those titles that's worth winning because it's a title."
dirtydylane wrote on 14.05.2021:
[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."
Tim Flyn wrote on 30.01.2021:
[4.0] "Un titre qui de base faisait doublon avec le titre Intercontinental... et qui maintenant n'est plus défendu depuis plus d'un an. La NJPW doit faire quelque chose pour lui redonner du prestige, et vite."
GooverDan wrote on 30.01.2021:
[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."
wrestlemaniac2020 wrote on 17.11.2020:
[5.0] "Could be the Title that NJPW Strong needs. Hopefully they can get Mox to drop it to Kenta or one of the US Talents."
ElPolloLoco wrote on 23.10.2020:
[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."
laldila wrote on 01.10.2020:
[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."
Ma Stump Puller wrote on 12.09.2020:
[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."
VillainClub wrote on 23.12.2019:
[3.0] "Unnötiger und hässlicher Titel. Abgesehen von Omega gab es noch keinen guten Champion und selbst bei Omega war der Titel nur Beiwerk. Entweder hat Juice Robinson den Titel oder er fordert den Champion heraus."
Pm Frank wrote on 22.08.2019:
[9.0] "Kenny Omega made this title awesome. I am going to say that this title is better than IWGP intercontinental championship"
NEVERoverweightChampion wrote on 04.07.2019:
[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."
PuroresuLover wrote on 12.05.2019:
[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."
Kevin41182 wrote on 15.02.2019:
[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."
King DDP69 wrote on 10.11.2018:
[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?"
Nikito222 wrote on 12.10.2018:
[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."
zephyr wrote on 07.10.2018:
[5.0] "Kenny Omega was a good champion (if perhaps the wrong choice for what this title represents) but everyone since then has been booked strangely and the title seems almost meaningless now"
hutchids wrote on 13.07.2018:
[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."
InactiveGuru wrote on 22.04.2018:
[8.0] "A very young title that shows a great potential. Very happy with the booking and title holders and challengers thus far."
TheAlmighty wrote on 31.01.2018:
[10.0] "NJPW führte 2017 hier einen Titel ein, um sich in Übersee besser präsentieren zu können. Alleine das Austragungsturnier dafür war richtig stark mit dem perfekten Sieger. Wahrscheinlich wollte man zudem Omega einen Titel verleihen, aber dennoch wurde hier alles sauber aufgebaut und die Protagonisten in tollen Matches stark in Szene gesetzt. Auf Augenhöhe mit dem Intercontinental Championship (dem besten 2. Titel der Welt), stellte dieser Belt vom Namen her zwar nicht die "krassesten" Matches bis WK12, aber alle Matches waren durchgehend ansehnlich und hoben neue Leute ins Scheinwerfer Licht. Wenn man dies vergleicht mit der Einführung und den Regentschaften des Universal Titels (weil auch neu) liegen hier Galaxien zwischen den beiden in punkto Matchqualität, Booking und Repräsentation. Auch durch den Titelwechsel hat sich nichts verändert! Ein toller Titel der sich vor dem IWGP Heavyweight Titel wahrlich nicht verstecken muss. So baut man einen prestigereichen Titel auf! Danke NJPW!"
shosa94 wrote on 30.01.2018:
[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."
user01001001 wrote on 13.01.2018:
[9.0] "I love this championship and its concept, and NJPW's plan for it is sound, and appears to be working well so far in my opinion. I want to see it defended at the upcoming 'Strong Style Evolved' show. Omega was the perfect choice for an inaugural champion, and the title defenses so far have been incredible (my personal favorite being vs. Juice @ Destruction in Kobe). His match against Y2J @ Wrestle Kingdom has only solidified my positive opinion on this championship and I'm looking forward to seeing more, in Omega's words, "legendary defenses". Funny how a championship that's less than a year old has been legitimized already and is being treated like a top-tier championship (looking at you WWE). The only reason I'm giving it a 9 is because it's still in its infancy, and there's always room for more. [TL;DR] Whoever takes this belt from Omega has a lot to live up to."
Ice wrote on 05.01.2018:
"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."