BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship

The BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship (BJW認定世界ストロングヘビー級王座, BJW nintei sekai sutorongu hebī-kyū ōza) is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned by the Japanese Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) promotion. It is one of two heavyweight championships promoted by BJW, the other being the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship. The two titles symbolize the two sides of BJW; the Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship the hardcore wrestling side and the World Strong Heavyweight Championship the strong style side.[6] The title has a lower weight limit of 96 kg (212 lb).

BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship
Yuji Okabayashi with BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship belt in August 2015
Details
PromotionBig Japan Pro Wrestling
Date establishedApril 14, 2012[1]
Current champion(s)Daichi Hashimoto
Date wonNovember 4, 2019[2]

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been thirteen reigns shared among nine wrestlers. Yuji Okabayashi is the current champion in his second reign.[2]

History

On March 26, 2012, Yoshihito Sasaki defeated Daisuke Sekimoto in the finals to win the 2012 Ikkitosen Strong Climb tournament. Following his win, Sasaki requested that BJW establish a new championship that would symbolize the "strong" side of the promotion.[6] BJW already had one heavyweight championship, the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship, but it was contested exclusively in deathmatches. This led to BJW announcing the creation of the BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship on April 14, 2012.[1] On May 5, Yoshihito Sasaki defeated Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) representative and the reigning wXw Unified World Wrestling Champion Big van Walter in a decision match to become the inaugural champion.[7][8] Sasaki held the title for the rest of the year, successfully defending it four times.[2] On January 2, 2013, All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJW) representative Manabu Soya defeated Sasaki in his fifth title defense to become the second BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion.[2][9][10] Soya's reign lasted only two months, before he lost the title to Daisuke Sekimoto on March 1, 2013.[2][11][12] Sekimoto held the title for the rest of the year, breaking Sasaki's records for the longest reign and most successful title defenses, with ten.[2][13]

On December 29, 2013, Sekimoto suffered a knee injury, but made his return to the ring just two weeks later.[13] However, on January 18, 2014, Sekimoto held a press conference to announce that his quick return had led to a meniscus tear in his knee, which would require surgery, sidelining him for an estimated six weeks and forcing him to relinquish the BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship.[14][15] BJW announced that a new champion would be determined between Shinya Ishikawa and Yuji Okabayashi on February 7, 2014.[2] Okabayashi was later sidelined with a shoulder injury and replaced in the match by Ryuichi Kawakami.[16][17] On February 7, Ishikawa defeated Kawakami to become the fourth BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion.[2] During his reign on September 17, 2014, BJW surprisingly announced that Ishikawa was going to retire from professional wrestling on September 23.[18] Though Ishikawa's retirement ceremony was later canceled,[19] the BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship was declared vacant.[2]

On December 21, 2014, Union Pro Wrestling representative Shuji Ishikawa defeated Ryuichi Kawakami in a decision match to become the fifth BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion.[2] Ishikawa's reign ended in his second defense on March 31, 2015, when Daisuke Sekimoto defeated him to become the first two-time BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion.[2][20][21] On July 20, 2015, Yuji Okabayashi defeated Sekimoto to become the seventh BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion.[2][22][23] After holding the title for a full year, setting a new record for the longest reign in its history, Okabayashi lost the BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship to Hideyoshi Kamitani in his fourth defense on July 24, 2016.[2][24][25] On December 18, Daisuke Sekimoto defeated Kamitani in his third defense to win the title for the third time.[2][26][27] He lost the title to Hideki Suzuki in his third defense on March 30, 2017.[2][28][29] With the introduction of the BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship in May 2017, BJW announced that from now on wrestlers need to weigh at least 96 kg (212 lb) to be able to challenge for the BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship.[30] After five successful title defenses, Suzuki lost the BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship to Daichi Hashimoto on December 17, 2017.[31][32]

Title history
Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
(NLT) Championship change took place "no later than" the date listed
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign DaysDefenses
1 Yoshihito Sasaki May 5, 2012 Endless Survivor Yokohama, Japan 1 2425 Defeated Big Van Walter in a decision match to become the inaugural champion. [2]
2 Manabu Soya January 2, 2013 House show Tokyo, Japan 1 581 [2]
3 Daisuke Sekimoto March 1, 2013 House show Tokyo, Japan 1 32310 [2]
— Vacated January 18, 2014 — — — —— Vacated due to a knee injury. [2]
4 Shinya Ishikawa February 7, 2014 House show Tokyo, Japan 1 2222 Defeated Ryuichi Kawakami in a decision match to win the vacant title. [2]
— Vacated September 17, 2014 — — — —— Vacated due to Ishikawa retiring from professional wrestling. [2]
5 Shuji Ishikawa December 21, 2014 Big Japan Death Vegas 2014 Yokohama, Japan 1 1001 Defeated Ryuichi Kawakami in a decision match to win the vacant title. [2]
6 Daisuke Sekimoto March 31, 2015 Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor 2015 Tokyo, Japan 2 1111 [2]
7 Yuji Okabayashi July 20, 2015 Ryōgokutan 2015 Tokyo, Japan 1 3703 [2]
8 Hideyoshi Kamitani July 24, 2016 Ryōgokutan 2016 Tokyo, Japan 1 1472 [2]
9 Daisuke Sekimoto December 18, 2016 Big Japan Death Vegas 2016 Yokohama, Japan 3 1022 [2]
10 Hideki Suzuki March 30, 2017 Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor 2017 Tokyo, Japan 1 2625 [2]
11 Daichi Hashimoto December 17, 2017 Big Japan Death Vegas 2017 Yokohama, Japan 1 1192 [2]
12 Hideki Suzuki April 15, 2018 Sapporo 2 Days Sapporo, Japan 2 2105 [2]
13 Daisuke Sekimoto November 11, 2018 Ryōgokutan 2018 Tokyo, Japan 4 1753 [2]
14 Yuji Okabayashi May 5, 2019 Endless Survivor 2019 Yokohama, Japan 2 1122 [2]
15 Kohei Sato August 25, 2019 Death Mania VII Nagoya, Japan 1 711 [2][33]
16 Daichi Hashimoto November 4, 2019 Ryōgokutan 2019 Tokyo, Japan 2 234+3 [2][34]

Combined reigns
Current champion Daichi Hashimoto
Daisuke Sekimoto, record four-time BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion

As of June 25, 2020

† Indicates the current champion
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns		 Combined
defenses		 Combined
days
1 Daisuke Sekimoto 4 15 711
2 Yuji Okabayashi 2 5 482
3 Hideki Suzuki 2 8 472
4 Daichi Hashimoto † 2 5 353+
5 Yoshihito Sasaki 1 4 242
6 Shinya Ishikawa 1 2 222
7 Hideyoshi Kamitani 1 2 147
8 Shuji Ishikawa 1 1 100
9 Kohei Sato 1 1 71
10 Manabu Soya 1 1 58

See also

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