The Smash Championship is a professional wrestling

Professional wrestling

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 championship, owned and promoted by the Japan

Japan

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ese promotion

Professional wrestling promotion

A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling. Promotion also describes a role which entails management, advertising and logistics of running a wrestling event...

 in Smash

Smash (professional wrestling)

Smash is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion, founded in December 2009 following the folding of Hustle. In the fall of 2009 Hustle ran into financial problems that led to several show cancellations. After a planned restructuring and restarting of the promotion failed, a number of officials...

. Championship reigns are determined by professional wrestling matches

Professional wrestling match types

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, in which competitors are involved in scripted

Screenplay

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 rivalries. These narratives create feud

Feud (professional wrestling)

A professional wrestling feud is a staged rivalry between multiple wrestlers or alliances of wrestlers. They are integrated into ongoing storylines, particularly in events which are televised...

s between the various competitors, which cast them as villains

Heel (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling, a heel is a villain character. In non-wrestling jargon, heels are the "bad guys" in professional wrestling; the term heel coming from the term take to you heels, which means to run away which heel champions tend to do to avoid losing their titles.storylines...

 and heroes

Face (professional wrestling)

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. Dave Finlay

Dave Finlay

David John "Fit" Finlay Jr. is a Northern Irish professional wrestler and road agent. He is perhaps best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling and WWE as an active wrestler and later as a road agent...

 is the current champion in his first reign.

Tournament

The tournament to crown the inaugural champion was held over five months and five events. The first round was held over two events, Smash.18 and Smash.19 on June 9 and July 15, 2011, the second round at Smash.20 on August 11, the semifinals at Smash.21 on September 8, and the finals at Smash.22 on October 28, 2011.

The tournament brackets were:

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 StarBuck won an eight man tournament in Fight Club Finland (FCF) to advance to the second round of the Smash Championship tournament.

Title history

#	Wrestlers	Reign	Date	Days held	Successful defences	Location	Event	Notes	Ref.
1								Defeated TAJIRI Yoshihiro Tajiri , is a Japanese professional wrestler, perhaps best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment. He is currently competing in SMASH as TAJIRI.-Early years :...  in the finals of a fifteen man tournament to become the inaugural champion.
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