A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | CH | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
 | |
| Acronym | IGF |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2007 |
| Defunct | 2019 |
| Style | Mixed martial arts Professional wrestling (Shoot-style wrestling) |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
| Founder(s) | Antonio Inoki |
| Owner(s) | Antonio Inoki (2007–2018) Simon Inoki (2018–2019) |
| Parent | Assist Co., Ltd. |
| Split from | New Japan Pro-Wrestling |
| Predecessor | Universal Fighting-Arts Organization |
| Successor | Lucha Wrestling Puroresu ISM Hagure IGF International Eastern Heroes Inoki Genki Factory |
| Website | Official Site of the Inoki Genome Federation (archived) |
The Inoki Genome Federation (イノキ・ゲノム・フェデレーション, Inoki Genomu Federēshon) (IGF), also known in China as International Glory Fighting,[1][2] was a Japanese professional wrestling and mixed martial arts promotion founded by Antonio Inoki in 2007.
History
Antonio Inoki founded the Inoki Genome Federation (IGF) after selling New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), a promotion he founded in 1972. The first IGF show was held on June 29, 2007 at the Sumo Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The show's main event was a match between Kurt Angle and Brock Lesnar, where they competed for Lesnar's IWGP Heavyweight Championship.[3]
From 2007 to 2008, the IGF served as the Japanese territory of the National Wrestling Alliance.[4][5]
On December 31, 2010, Shinichi Suzukawa was scheduled to face Bob Sapp in an IGF special Super Heavyweight bout at K-1 Dynamite!! 2010.[6] The fight was to be held under modified MMA rules, with the fighters being barred from wearing gloves, closed-fist strikes being illegal, and palm strikes being permitted.[7] The fight was planned to air on HDNet in North America.[8] However, the fight was canceled due to a last-minute contract dispute with Sapp; the Japanese audience in attendance were told by the K-1 promoters involved in the dispute that Sapp “had lost his will to fight.”[9]
In 2011, the promotion presented a gift to Kim Jong Il, the-then leader of North Korea as part of a diplomatic effort.[10] In August 2014, IGF held two shows in Pyongyang, North Korea.[11]
On December 29, 2014, IGF announced a deal with PPTV to bring its programming to Chinese audiences.[12] In 2015, Durango Kid and Laberinto, two of Inoki's former students, along with karateka Alfredo Perez, established an IGF off-shoot promotion in the United States called Inoki Sports Management,[13] also known as Lucha Wrestling Puroresu.[14] The three men would also re-establish the Inoki Dojo in Los Angeles.[13]
In 2017, Inoki began distancing himself from the IGF and created a new promotion called ISM. After the creation of ISM, Antonio's son-in-law Simon Inoki gained more influence within the promotion and created a new brand under the IGF banner called Next Exciting Wrestling (NEW). The IGF's inaugural NEW show was held on April 20, 2017. On March 23, 2018, Antonio Inoki sold his part of the promotion and left the IGF. In April 2018, Nosawa Rongai, along with IGF wrestlers Kendo Kashin and Kazuyuki Fujita, created an IGF off-shoot promotion known as Hagure IGF International.[15][16] A new brand featuring IGF's Chinese wrestlers called Eastern Heroes (东方英雄, Toho Eiyu-den) was later founded by Simon Inoki. On June 26, Eastern Heroes wrestlers participated on night 8 of Pro Wrestling Noah's Navigation with Emerald Spirits tour.[17] The IGF closed on January 9, 2019. After the IGF's closure, Assist Co., Ltd., the promotion's parent company, opened a chain of bakeries, leading to both Kendo Kashin and Simon Inoki to humorously state "IGF has become a bakery".[18][19]
In August 2022, Antonio Inoki revived the IGF, now standing for the Inoki Genki Factory, to serve as his official management company.[20] On October 1, at age 79, Inoki died from systemic transthyretin amyloidosis.[21][22][23] On December 28, the Inoki Genki Factory held their first show, Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye x Ganryujima, a memorial event honoring Inoki organized in collaboration with Samurai Warriors Ganryujima and NJPW.[24]
Roster
Roster at time of closing
|
Notable alumni
|
Championships
IWGP Heavyweight Championship
IGF Championship
| IGF Championship | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Details | |||||||||||||||||
| Promotion | Inoki Genome Federation | ||||||||||||||||
| Date established | August 22, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | January 9, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
In February 2011, IGF started a tournament to determine the first ever IGF Champion, which eventually led to a final match between Jérôme Le Banner and Josh Barnett. However, just days prior to the final match taking place, IGF announced on August 19 that Barnett would not be able to attend the event.[25] On August 22, IGF declared Le Banner the first champion.[26] The title was founded as a professional wrestling championship, but has since December 31, 2013, been contested in legitimate mixed martial arts fights.[27][28]
Title history
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | Jérôme Le Banner | August 22, 2011 | – | – | 1 | 327 | 6 | Declared first champion, after Josh Barnett pulls out of a tournament final match. | [26] |
| 2 | Kazuyuki Fujita | July 14, 2012 | Genome21 | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 535 | 4 | [29] | |
| 3 | Satoshi Ishii | December 31, 2013 | Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2013 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 235 | 0 | With this match the title began to be contested in legitimate mixed martial arts fights. Won by unanimous decision. | |
| 4 | Mirko Cro Cop | August 23, 2014 | Inoki Genome Fight 2 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 153 | 1 | Second round doctor stoppage.
|
|
| — | Vacated | January 23, 2015 | — | — | — | — | — | Cro Cop was stripped of the title when he signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. | |
| 5 | Oli Thompson | December 31, 2015 | Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2015 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 1,105 | 0 | Defeated Fernando Rodrigues Jr. by TKO to win the IGF World GP and the vacant title. | [30] |
| — | Deactivated | January 9, 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | Retired when promotion closed. | |
Tournaments
IGF Championship Tournament
| First round (Genome14, Genome15, and Genome16) | Semifinals (Genome15 and Genome16) | Final N/A | ||||||||||||
| Josh Barnett | Win | |||||||||||||
| Montanha Silva | ||||||||||||||
| Josh Barnett | Win | |||||||||||||
| Bobby Lashley | ||||||||||||||
| Bobby Lashley | Win | |||||||||||||
| Keith Hanson | ||||||||||||||
| Jerome Le Banner | Forfeit | |||||||||||||
| Josh Barnett | ||||||||||||||
| Shinichi Suzukawa | Win | |||||||||||||
| Bob Sapp | ||||||||||||||
| Jerome Le Banner | Win | |||||||||||||
| Erik Hammer* | ||||||||||||||
| Jerome Le Banner | Win | |||||||||||||
| Shinichi Suzukawa | ||||||||||||||
- Erik Hammer replaced Shinichi Suzukawa in the tournament after defeating Ray Sefo.[31]
World Bantamweight Grand Prix
- This tournament was co-promoted with DREAM and M-1 Global.
| Quarterfinals (DREAM 17) | Semifinals (Fight For Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoka 2011) | Final (Fight For Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoka 2011) | ||||||||
 Masakazu Imanari | W | |||||||||
 Abel Cullum | SUB | |||||||||
| Masakazu Imanari | DEC | |||||||||
| Antonio Banuelos | W | |||||||||
| Hideo Tokoro | DEC | |||||||||
| Antonio Banuelos | W | |||||||||
| Antonio Banuelos | TKO | |||||||||
 Bibiano Fernandes | W | |||||||||
| Bibiano Fernandes | W | |||||||||
| Takafumi Otsuka | SUB | |||||||||
| Bibiano Fernandes | W | |||||||||
| Rodolfo Marques | DEC | |||||||||
 Yusup Saadulaev | DEC | |||||||||
| Rodolfo Marques | W | |||||||||
Inoki Genome Tournament 2012
- Ths tournament took place entirely on the Genome20 event.
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| Shinichi Suzukawa | Win | ||||||||
| Yusuke Kawaguchi | |||||||||
| Atsushi Sawada | Win | ||||||||
| Shinichi Suzukawa | |||||||||
| Atsushi Sawada | Win | ||||||||
| Hideki Suzuki | |||||||||
Inoki Genome Tournament 2013
- This tournament took place entirely on the Genome26 event.
| Quarterfinals | Semifinal | Final | |||||||||||
| Hideki Suzuki | Win | ||||||||||||
| Hideki Suzuki* | Win | ||||||||||||
| Akira Jo | |||||||||||||
| Atsushi Sawada | Double Countout | Atsushi Sawada* | |||||||||||
| Shinichi Suzukawa* | |||||||||||||
| Atsushi Sawada | Win | ||||||||||||
| Shogun Okamoto | |||||||||||||
- Shinichi Suzukawa received a bye to the semi-finals. Hideki Suzuki received a bye to the final after defeating Crusher Kawaguchi in a match. Atsushi Sawada advanced to the final despite his match against Shinichi Suzukawa ending in a double countout.[32]
Road to Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye Challenge Tournament
- This tournament took place entirely on the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2014 event.
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| Yusuke Masuda | W | ||||||||
| Takaaki "C-Boy" Oban | DEC | ||||||||
| Yusuke Masuda | W | ||||||||
| Ryo Sakai | DEC | ||||||||
| Ryo Sakai | W | ||||||||
| Tsuyoshi Kurihara | DEC | ||||||||
IGF World GP
- Quarterfinals took place on April 11, 2015 at Inoki Genome Fight 3.
- Semi-finals took place on August 29, 2015 at Inoki Genome Fight 4.
- The final took place on December 31, 2015 at Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2015.
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
 Yosef Ali Mohammad
| TKO | |||||||||||||
 Dion Staring
| Rd 1 | |||||||||||||
| Yosef Ali Mohammad
| TKO | |||||||||||||
| Fernando Rodrigues Jr.
| Rd 1 | |||||||||||||
| Fernando Rodrigues Jr.
| TKO | |||||||||||||
 Antony Rea
| Rd 1 | |||||||||||||
| Fernando Rodrigues Jr.
| TKO | |||||||||||||
 Oli Thompson
| Rd 1 | |||||||||||||
| Chris Barnett
| TKO | |||||||||||||
 Emil Zahariev
| Rd 2 | |||||||||||||
| Chris Barnett
| DEC | |||||||||||||
| Oli Thompson
| Rd 2 | |||||||||||||
| Oli Thompson
| DEC | |||||||||||||
| Ikuhisa Minowa
| Rd 2 | |||||||||||||
Genome-1: Osaka
- This tournament took place entirely on the Genome33 event.
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| Naoya Ogawa | Win | ||||||||
| Minowaman | |||||||||
| Atsushi Sawada | Win | ||||||||
| Minowaman | |||||||||
| Atsushi Sawada | Win | ||||||||
| Montanha Silva | |||||||||
Genome-1: Nagoya
- This tournament took place entirely on the Genome34 event.
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| Hideki Suzuki | Win | ||||||||
| Wang Bin | |||||||||
| Hideki Suzuki | Win | ||||||||
| Daichi Hashimoto | |||||||||
| Daichi Hashimoto | Win | ||||||||
| Raj Singh | |||||||||
Lucha Libre World Cup 2017
- This tournament took place entirely on night 2 of the Lucha Libre World Cup 2017 event and was co-promoted with Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide and Lucha Underground.
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
| Team Mexico AAA (Pagano and Psycho Clown) | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Team USA Noah (Cody Hall and Quiet Storm) | ||||||||||||||
| Team Mexico AAA (Pagano and Psycho Clown) | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Team Japan IGF (Kendo Kashin and Nosawa) | ||||||||||||||
| Team Japan IGF (Kendo Kashin and Nosawa) | DQ | |||||||||||||
| Team Rest of the World Team Rest of the World (Mil Muertes and Vampiro) | ||||||||||||||
| Team Mexico AAA (Pagano and Psycho Clown) | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Team Noah Japan (Hi69 and Taiji Ishimori) | ||||||||||||||
| Team Noah Japan (Hi69 and Taiji Ishimori) | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Team USA Lucha Underground (Marty Martinez and Son of Havoc) | ||||||||||||||
| Team Noah Japan (Hi69 and Taiji Ishimori) | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Team USA Impact (Andrew Everett and DJZ) | ||||||||||||||
| Team USA Impact (Andrew Everett and DJZ) | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Team Mexico Lucha Underground (Aero Star and Drago) | ||||||||||||||
IGF events
| # | Event title | Date | Location | Main event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toukon Bom-Ba-Ye | June 29, 2007 | Tokyo, Japan | Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Kurt Angle for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship |
| 2 | Genome | September 8, 2007 | Nagoya, Japan | Josh Barnett vs. Don Frye |
| 3 | Genome2 〜 Inoki Fighting Xmas | December 20, 2007 | Tokyo, Japan | Naoya Ogawa vs. Tadao Yasuda |
| 4 | Genome3 〜 Inoki Memorial 65 | February 16, 2008 | Tokyo, Japan | Naoya Ogawa vs. Josh Barnett |
| 5 | Genome4 | April 12, 2008 | Osaka, Japan | Naoya Ogawa vs. Tomko |
| 6 | Genome5 〜 Hokkaido Genki Summit | June 23, 2008 | Sapporo, Japan | Montanha Silva vs. Naoya Ogawa |
| 7 | Inoki Genki Festival in Hakodate 〜 Hakodate Tomodachi Bom-Ba-Ye | June 25, 2008 | Hakodate, Japan | Naoya Ogawa and Atsushi Sawada vs. Necro Butcher and The Predator |
| 8 | Genome6 | August 15, 2008 | Tokyo, Japan | Josh Barnett vs. Tank Abbott |
| 9 | Genome7 | November 24, 2008 | Aichi, Japan | Josh Barnett vs. Jon Andersen |
| 10 | Genome8 | March 15, 2009 | Hiroshima, Japan | Naoya Ogawa and The Predator vs. Yoshihiro Takayama and Montanha Silva |
| 11 | Genome9 | August 9, 2009 | Tokyo, Japan | Naoya Ogawa and Josh Barnett vs. Yoshihiro Takayama and Bob Sapp |
| 12 | Genome10 | November 3, 2009 | Tokyo, Japan | Naoya Ogawa vs. Yoshihiro Takayama |
| 13 | Genome11 | February 22, 2010 | Tokyo, Japan | Kensuke Sasaki and Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Naoya Ogawa and Atsushi Sawada |
| 14 | Genome12 | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Inoki_Genome_Federation