Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship

Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship
Details
Promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, Big Japan Pro Wrestling, Dramatic Dream Team, Osaka Pro Wrestling, Kaientai Dojo
Date established October 28, 1993
Current champion(s) Keisuke Ishii
Date won April 28, 2018

The Independent Junior Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship that is being defended in various independent promotions in Japan. The title was originally created by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling as the FMW Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship. It stayed with FMW from its creation in 1993 to mid-1999, when FMW dropped the title. Even with the belt being dropped by FMW, the original title belt is still used, which bears the "FMW" name on it.

In May 2010, a new championship belt was made, as Tarzan Goto's Super FMW promotion briefly revived the FMW Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship to determine its final champion.

Title history

Key
Reign The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed.
Event The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title was won
N/A The specific information is not known
— Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign

Statistics correct as of October 16, 2018

# Wrestler Reign Date Days
held		 Location Event Notes
1 The Great Sasuke 1 October 28, 1993 418 Tokyo, Japan House show Defeated Battle Ranger Z in a tournament final
2 Ricky Fuji 1 December 20, 1994 48 Nagoya, Japan House show
3 Hideki Hosaka 1 February 6, 1995 52 Okazaki, Japan House show
4 Koji Nakagawa 1 March 30, 1995 0 - 235 Yokohama, Japan House show
— Vacated — 1995 — N/A N/A
5 Koji Nakagawa 2 November 20, 1995 167 Fukuoka, Japan House show Defeated Ricky Fuji.
6 Taka Michinoku 1 May 5, 1996 420 Kawasaki, Japan 7th Anniversary Show
7 El Satánico 1 June 29, 1997 57 Mexico House show
8 Taka Michinoku 2 August 25, 1997 115 Puebla, Mexico House show
— Vacated — December 18, 1997 — N/A N/A Taka Michinoku won the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship on December 7, 1997 and was unable to defend the FMW title.
9 Minoru Tanaka 1 May 5, 1999 9 Yokohama, Japan House show Defeated Ricky Fuji for the vacant title.
10 Naoki Sano 1 May 14, 1999 261 Sapporo, Japan House show FMW no longer recognized the title after May 31, 1999, and continued to be defended in the Battlarts promotion.
11 Minoru Tanaka 2 January 30, 2000 102 Tokyo, Japan House show
12 Katsumi Usuda 1 May 11, 2000 38 Tokyo, Japan House show
13 Naoyuki Taira 1 June 18, 2000 161 Tokyo, Japan House show
14 Katsumi Usuda 2 November 26, 2000 373 Tokyo, Japan House show
— Vacated — December 4, 2001 — N/A N/A Vacated due to Battlarts closing.
15 Ikuto Hidaka 1 February 17, 2002 87 Yokohama, Japan House show Defeated Kazuya Yuasa in a tournament final.
— Retired — May 15, 2002 — N/A N/A Title retired due to FMW closing.
16 Kota Ibushi 1 August 26, 2007 349 Tokyo, Japan House show Defeated Madoka to revive the title.
17 Madoka 1 August 9, 2008 36 Chiba, Japan House show
18 Makoto Oishi 1 September 14, 2008 374 Tokyo, Japan House show
19 Gentaro 1 September 23, 2009 191 Chiba, Japan House show
20 Marines Mask II 1 April 2, 2010 160 Tokyo, Japan House show
21 Tigers Mask 1 September 9, 2010 17 Chiba, Japan House show
22 Orochi 1 September 26, 2010 48 Osaka, Japan House show
23 Tigers Mask 2 November 13, 2010 217 Osaka, Japan House show
24 Daigoro Kashiwa 1 June 18, 2011 141 Tokyo, Japan House show
25 Hiroki 1 November 6, 2011 447 Tokyo, Japan House show
26 Ricky Fuji 2 January 26, 2013 78 Chiba, Japan House show
27 Hayato Nanjo 1 April 14, 2013 27 Tokyo, Japan House show
28 Taka Michinoku 3 May 11, 2013 483 Osaka, Japan House show This match was also for Michinoku's UWA World Middleweight Championship.
29 Teppei/Atsushi Maruyama 3 September 6, 2014 169 Chiba, Japan House show Teppei formerly held the title under the ring name Tigers Mask and began working under the name Atsushi Maruyama during this reign.
30 Hi69 2 February 22, 2015 49 Chiba, Japan House show Hi69 formerly held the title under the ring name Hiroki.
31 Isami Kodaka 1 April 12, 2015 203 Tokyo, Japan House show
32 Shiori Asahi 1 November 1, 2015 503 Tokyo, Japan Club-K Super in Korakuen Hall [1]
33 Ken Ohka 1 March 18, 2017 190 Chiba, Japan Club-K Super in Blue Field [2]
34 Daisuke Sasaki 1 September 24, 2017 87 Tokyo, Japan Who's Gonna Top? This was a three-way match, where Sasaki defended the DDT Extreme Division Championship and Konosuke Takeshita defended the KO-D Openweight Championship.[3]
35 Ken Ohka 2 December 20, 2017 129 Tokyo, Japan Burnin'X'mas 2017
36 Keisuke Ishii 1 April 28, 2018 171+ Tokyo, Japan

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.k-dojo.co.jp/results/20151101kourakuen/
  2. ↑ http://www.k-dojo.co.jp/results/20170318super/
  3. ↑ http://www.ddtpro.com/ddtpro/50784/
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