Throughout the "
NAVIGATION FOR THE VICTORY, GHC 2001" tour, NOAH ran a tournament to determine it's first ever GHC (Global Honored Crown) Heavyweight Champion. Spanning almost a month, the tournament that started with sixteen men came down to two. The semi final round saw two controversial results, but the final was a decisive test of the strongest.
GHC Heavyweight Title Tournament (3/18/01 to 4/15/01)
Round 1: Mitsuharu Misawa beat Akitoshi Saito (12:26) with a Tiger Driver.
Round 1: Yoshinari Ogawa beat Masao Inoue (14:18) with a backdrop hold.
Round 1: Yoshihiro Takayama beat Jun Izumida (8:22) with a high kick.
Round 1: Vader beat Akira Taue (10:40) with the Big Van Crush.
Round 1: Daisuke Ikeda beat Tamon Honda (15:16) with a high kick.
Round 1: Kentaro Shiga beat Scorpio (13:06) with an avalanche-style DDT.
Round 1: Jun Akiyama beat Takao Omori (22:49) with a wrist-clutch Exploder.
Round 1: Takeshi Rikio beat Takeshi Morishima (14:33) with a powerbomb.
Round 2: Yoshihiro Takayama beat Kentaro Shiga (7:16) with a high-angle German suplex hold.
Round 2: Mitsuharu Misawa beat Yoshinari Ogawa (19:44) with the Emerald Frosion.
Round 2: Vader beat Daisuke Ikeda (7:15) with a sky high chokeslam.
Round 2: Jun Akiyama beat Takeshi Rikio (4:02) with a front facelock.
Semi Final: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jun Akiyama went to a double countout (13:35).
Semi Final Rematch: Mitsuharu Misawa beat Jun Akiyama (1:30) with a cradle cutback.
Semi Final: Yoshihiro Takayama beat Vader (9:24) by DQ.
Final: Mitsuharu Misawa beat Yoshihiro Takayama (21:12) with the Emerald Frosion.
