Jushin Thunder Liger

[Necro]

Championships and accomplishments

All Star Wrestling

• World Heavy Middleweight Championship (2 times)[83]
• Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
  • CMLL Universal Championship (2010)[53]
  • CMLL World Middleweight Championship (1 time)[51]
  • CMLL World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Hiroshi Tanahashi[67]
• Dragon Gate
  • Open the Dream Gate Championship (1 time)[7]
• Jersey All Pro Wrestling
  • JAPW Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[72][84]
• Michinoku Pro Wrestling
  • British Commonwealth Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[7]
  • Super J-Cup (2000)[2]
• National Wrestling Alliance
  • NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[7][85]
• New Japan Pro-Wrestling
  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (11 times)[7][6]
  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (6 times) – with The Great Sasuke (1), El Samurai (1), Minoru Tanaka (1), Koji Kanemoto (1), Akira (1) and Tiger Mask (1)[7]
  • J-Crown (1 time)[86]
  • NWA World Welterweight Championship (1 time)[7]
  • UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[7]
  • WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[7]
  • WWF Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[7]1
  • WAR International Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[87]
  • Top/Best of the Super Juniors (1992, 1994, 2001)[88]
  • G1 Climax Junior Heavyweight Tag League (2001) – with El Samurai[89]
  • Naeba Prince Hotel Cup Tag Tournament (2001) – with Yuji Nagata[90]
  • Young Lion Cup (1986)[91]
  • Outstanding Performance Award (2000)[92]
  • Tag Team Best Bout (2003) with Koji Kanemoto vs. Kotaro Suzuki and Naomichi Marufuji on June 10[93]
  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title #1 Contendership Tournament (1990)[94]
• Osaka Pro Wrestling
  • Osaka Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Takehiro Murahama[7]
• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • Ranked No. 8 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2000[2]
  • Ranked No. 12 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003[3]
  • Ranked No. 47 of the top 100 tag teams of the "PWI Years" with El Samurai in 2003
• Pro Wrestling Noah
  • GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[5]
  • GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – Tiger Mask[95]
  • NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League (2013) – Tiger Mask[95]
• Revolution Pro Wrestling
  • British J Cup (2017)[96]
• Tokyo Sports
  • Newcomer Award (1985)[97]
  • Outstanding Performance Award (1994)[98]
• Vendetta Pro Wrestling
  • Vendetty Award: Special Guest Star of the Year (2015)[99]
• World Championship Wrestling
  • WCW Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[7][6]
• WWE
  • WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2020)[100]
• Wrestle Association R
  • WAR International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with El Samurai[7]
  • Super J-Cup (1995)[101]
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter
  • Best Gimmick (1989)[102]
  • Best Flying Wrestler (1989–1993)[102]
  • Best Technical Wrestler (1989–1992)[102]
  • Best Wrestling Maneuver (1987, 1988) Shooting star press[102]
  • Match of the Year (1990) vs. Naoki Sano on January 31 in Osaka, Japan[102]
  • Most Outstanding Wrestler (1990–1992)[102]
  • Rookie of the Year (1984) tied with Tom Zenk[102]
  • Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1999)

1 The win and reign are not recognized by WWE. No reign with the championship is recognized by the company prior to December 1997.

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Tribute:

 

[Apoho Creed]

Liger one of the best Wrestlers to grace us with his presence in Wrestling. One of the most popular talents ever and I'm still wondering how in the hell did NJPW never make him World Champion just once. I've been thinking of wanting to a Watchthrough of something maybe something from my birth year in 88 or some kind of Puro. I'm sure Liger had plenty of classics during that time I haven't seen.

 

[Necro]

GODZILLA VS. JUSHIN LIGER




What we all needed.

 

[Alexa]

My favorite Liger match, which doesn't have a video anymore, would be Kishin Liger vs BADBOY Hido because it was a complete change for Liger and the match was just brutal. As well, Kishin's gimmick is what Finn Balor's "Demon King" persona should have been as well as others that have a "split side" to them.

 

[Chris]

My favorite Liger match, which doesn't have a video anymore, would be Kishin Liger vs BADBOY Hido because it was a complete change for Liger and the match was just brutal. As well, Kishin's gimmick is what Finn Balor's "Demon King" persona should have been as well as others that have a "split side" to them.

I'm intrigued, don't know much about this side of Liger at all

 

[Necro]

My favorite Liger match, which doesn't have a video anymore, would be Kishin Liger vs BADBOY Hido because it was a complete change for Liger and the match was just brutal. As well, Kishin's gimmick is what Finn Balor's "Demon King" persona should have been as well as others that have a "split side" to them.

Match Listening

(2011.05.28)
Best of The Super Jr. XVIII Block B Match
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Great Sasuke

(2008.05.26)
Singles Match
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Kazuchika Okada

(2006.07.30)
Singles Match
Kishin Liger vs. BADBOY Hido

(2006.08.09)
G1 Climax 2006 Block B Match
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Manabu Nakanishi

(2013.07.05)
CMLL World Tag Team Championship
Jushin Thunder Liger & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tama Tonga & El Terrible (c)

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It in this video?

 

[Alexa]

I'm intrigued, don't know much about this side of Liger at all

I wished the match was on YouTube or somewhere so people can see it, but I had no luck. Here are some pics of it, and if you remember his match against Suzuki like a couple of years ago then that was Kishin. Basically, Jushin had to become darker and unleash his inner demonic self. Two other well know Japanese wrestlers have done this as well, those Hayabusa when he became E and BxB Hulk when he became Killer/Black Hulk

Spoiler: Kishin Liger

It in this video?

Yes! It is! Holy shit, you are saint for finding this.

 

[Chris]

This is like how I felt when I finally found a rip of that Bridge of Dreams supershow from '95 that I'd been looking forever for to review for my thread on here

 

[Necro]

 

[Necro]

Tyler Breeze on meeting Liger: "I never met him until Brooklyn when I met him in catering. I saw some guy who is not normally there & I went, 'Hey man. is it me and you tonight?' He goes, 'Yes, yes, yes. Please, put the whole match together, I don't know this style.' I put the whole match together."

Pretty cool note on the Tyler Breeze match.

 

[Chris]

That makes a lot of sense with how the match went, it was fairly basic. I kinda wish they woulda let Liger do more but cool on him recognizing he was out of his element lol

Love breeze but still fell like it was a waste of liger even if breeze was at his hottest point actually

 

[Necro]

That makes a lot of sense with how the match went, it was fairly basic. I kinda wish they woulda let Liger do more but cool on him recognizing he was out of his element lol

Love breeze but still fell like it was a waste of liger even if breeze was at his hottest point actually

Maybe it's the catering, Liger pulled an Eric Bischoff. Ehh we'll do whatever you want lol

 

[Necro]

Awesome!

 

[Chris]

On this day in 1999, Jushin Liger on he IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship for the 10th time, taking place on an episode of WCW Monday Nitro in what I think (and have not fact checked whatsoever) may have been his last WCW appearance

 

[Alexa]

On this day in 1999, Jushin Liger on he IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship for the 10th time, taking place on an episode of WCW Monday Nitro in what I think (and have not fact checked whatsoever) may have been his last WCW appearance

It was and if it is the match, I think it is, then I advise not looking it up