(NOAH\IPW CHRONOLOGY) HAYATA ~ IPW JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

Won: 10th August 2020, "Noah The Chronicle Vol.3"
First and last title reign 
Number of defenses: He's not going to be defending it
Lost: 10th August 2020 at the Yokohama Bunka Gym
Total number of days held: He held it for about five minutes on the 10th August 2020.

Lets face it. HAYATA only ever challenged for this belt because he wanted to take the final thing from Daisuke Harada, and the fact that Harada was clinging to a meaningless belt belonging to a promotion that no longer existed, and was never going to exist again, is pretty sad. HAYATA wanted the belt only out of spite, and after he won it he made it very clear that he had no intention of acknowledging himself as champion, or even keeping it. 

Walking into the interview area, HAYATA dragged a plastic bin into the middle of the floor. Holding the belt up he said the newest two words in his vocabulary, "Belt. Returned" and dropped the belt into the trash and walked off without looking back. 

The biggest tragedy about this belt was that it was intended at the beginning to be a bridge between the two junior heavyweight leagues in IPW and Noah; this would have seen IPW talent coming to Noah or Noah juniors coming to England for either defence or challenges. Yoshinari Ogawa in particular seemed hopeful about it, often mentioning in interviews how he wanted to win the belt and take it to England to challenge Chris Ridgeway, and NOSAWA Rongai had the idea that anyone could come to Noah to challenge for it (let's hope that no one picks it out of the trash to do that). 

Although we did get some amazing matches out of the belt in Noah, it's value started to slip in a big way after IPW announced a few months after Daisuke Harada had won it that they were closing their doors thanks to financial issues. Then when it looked as if IPW were coming back under new management, what the Coronavirus couldn't kill, the despicable behaviour of certain individuals who had wrestled for IPW came to light did, and the new owners felt quite rightly that the name was tarnished and it should remain defunct for good.