title: King of Dark Championship
text: # King of Dark Championship
  
  The King of Dark Championship (Japanese: キング・オブ・ダーク王座, Hepburn: Kingu obu Dāku Ōza) was a professional wrestling championship created by Amon Tsurumi. The champion was forced to wrestle exclusively in dark matches on DDT shows. Contrary to regular professional wrestling championships, the title was not rewarded to the winner of the match, but was given to the loser instead.
  
  ## Title history
  
  Key :
  
  | No. | Overall reign number |
  | - | - |
  | Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
  | Days | Number of days held |
  | Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
  | <1 | Reign lasted less than a day |
  | No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
  | No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | Notes | Ref. |
  | 1 | Gota Ihashi | February 15, 2015 | Saitama Super DDT 2015 | Saitama, Japan | 1 | 111 | 11 | Lost a tag team dark match with DJ Nira against Hiroshi Fukuda and Hoshitango, with Fukuda pinning Ihashi, therefore "branding" him to be the inaugural champion. | |
  | 2 | Suguru Miyatake | June 6, 2015 | King of DDT 2015 Saitama | Kasukabe, Japan | 1 | 8 | 1 | | |
  | 3 | Gota Ihashi | June 14, 2015 | King of DDT 2015 Osaka | Osaka, Japan | 2 | 105 | 14 | Lost a tag team dark match with Hiroshi Fukuda against champion Suguru Miyatake and Kota Umeda, with Miyatake pinning Ihashi. | |
  | 4 | Sanshiro Takagi | September 27, 2015 | Who's Gonna Top?: DDT Dramatic General Election 2015 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 37 | 4 | | |
  | 5 | Kenso | November 3, 2015 | Friendship, Effort, Victory in Nagoya 2015 | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 5 | 0 | | |
  | 6 | Kouki Iwasaki | November 8, 2015 | Saitama Slam! Vol. 6 | Kasukabe, Japan | 1 | 35 | 4 | This was a three-way dark match, also involving Gota Ihashi. | |
  | 7 | Dai Suzuki | December 13, 2015 | Super Star Lane 2015 | Hakata, Japan | 1 | 10 | 0 | | |
  | 8 | Gota Ihashi | December 23, 2015 | Never Mind 2015 | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 31 | 2 | Lost a tag team dark match with Gorgeous Matsuno against champion Dai Suzuki and Kouki Iwasaki, with Suzuki pinning Ihashi. | |
  | 9 | Seiya Morohashi | January 23, 2016 | Keisuke Ishii Produce: New Year! Momoiro Kneel Kick 2016 | Tokorozawa, Japan | 1 | <1 | 0 | | |
  | 10 | Gota Ihashi | January 23, 2016 | Keisuke Ishii Produce: New Year! Momoiro Kneel Kick 2016 | Tokorozawa, Japan | 4 | 8 | 1 | | |
  | 11 | Mizuki Watase | January 31, 2016 | Sweet Dreams! 2016 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 28 | 2 | Lost a tag team dark match with Hiroshi Fukuda against champion Gota Ihashi and Tomomitsu Matsunaga, with Ihashi pinning Watase. | |
  | 12 | Guanchulo | February 28, 2016 | Into The Fight 2016 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 6 | 0 | Lost a tag team dark match with Hiroshi Fukuda against champion Mizuki Watase and Kota Umeda, with Watase pinning Guanchulo. | |
  | 13 | Seiya Morohashi | March 5, 2016 | Saitama Slam! Vol. 9 | Kasukabe, Japan | 2 | 28 | 1 | Lost a tag team dark match with Hoshitango against champion Guanchulo and DJ Nira, with Guanchulo pinning Morohashi. | |
  | 14 | Hoshitango | April 2, 2016 | Saitama Slam! Vol. 10 | Kasukabe, Japan | 1 | 22 | 0 | | |
  | 15 | Gota Ihashi | April 24, 2016 | Max Bump 2016 | Tokyo, Japan | 5 | 27 | 1 | This was a three-way dark match, also involving Tomomitsu Matsunaga. | |
  | 16 | Yumehito Imanari | May 21, 2016 | Saitama Slam! Vol. 11 | Kasukabe, Japan | 1 | 77 | 2 | | |
  | 17 | Chikara | August 6, 2016 | Saitama Slam! Vol. 13 | Kasukabe, Japan | 1 | 50 | 2 | | |
  | 18 | Nobuhiro Shimatani | September 25, 2016 | Who's Gonna Top?: DDT Dramatic General Election 2016 - The Last Hope Special | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 147 | 11 | Lost a 6-man tag team dark match with Guanchulo and Rekka against champion Chikara, Kenso and Gota Ihashi, with Chikara pinning Shimatani. | |
  | 19 | Gota Ihashi | February 19, 2017 | Into The Fight 2017 | Tokyo, Japan | 6 | 182 | 2 | | |
  | 20 | Dai Suzuki | August 20, 2017 | Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2017 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 115 | 1 | This was a Street Fight. | |
  | — | Deactivated | December 13, 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | Deactivated upon Suzuki's retirement. | |
  
  ## List of combined reigns
  
  In the context of this title rules, a defense means a loss.
  
  | Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined defenses | Combined days |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Gota Ihashi | 6 | 31 | 464 |
  | 2 | Nobuhiro Shimatani | 1 | 11 | 147 |
  | 3 | Dai Suzuki | 2 | 1 | 125 |
  | 4 | Yumehito Imanari | 1 | 2 | 77 |
  | 5 | Chikara | 1 | 2 | 50 |
  | 6 | Sanshiro Takagi | 1 | 4 | 37 |
  | 7 | Kouki Iwasaki | 1 | 4 | 35 |
  | 8 | Seiya Morohashi | 2 | 1 | 28 |
  | 8 | Mizuki Watase | 1 | 2 | 28 |
  | 10 | Hoshitango | 1 | 0 | 22 |
  | 11 | Suguru Miyatake | 1 | 1 | 8 |
  | 12 | Guanchulo | 1 | 0 | 6 |
  | 13 | Kenso | 1 | 0 | 5 |
  