I was thinking about this looking at the current crop of champions in New Japan. And it got me thinking about previous title reigns and which ones had a impact in the company.
The ones I can think off the top of my head are:
Okada 4TH Heavyweight Reign: That run with the gold came at the right time with a consistency of top level matches and good stories.
Naito 1st IC Title Reign: Of all my years watching wrestling. I've never seen someone define their characters history with a title they want to destroy until there's nothing left. It basically a race against time seeing who can stop him from destroying the belt.
Catch 2/2 1st Reign: May be a unpopular opinion but I truly believed the junior tag divison got better from a story perspective with them on top and each defense had different stories to them.
Dangerous Tekkers 1st Tag Run: Pandemic was a depressing time for any wrestling fan. But one positive was seeing ZSJ & Taichi as tag Champs. And instantly the tag divison actually had some life to it weirdly enough.
Ospreay 3rd Junior Heavyweight Run: 2019 Ospreay was really on a different level. Each title defense was pretty damn good. And it ended with a bang against Hiromu at WK14.
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