Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship
The Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship (インディペンデント・ワールド・ジュニアヘビー級王座, indipendento wārudo junia hebī-kyū ōza) 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.
| Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
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| 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 | September 28, 2019 | ||||||||||
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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
- FMW Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship
| 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 |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | The Great Sasuke | October 28, 1993 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | [lower-alpha 1] | 5 | Defeated Battle Ranger Z to become the inaugural champion. | [1] |
| — | Vacated | October 1994 (NLT) | — | — | — | — | — | Sasuke vacated the title to concentrate on a death match against Atsushi Onita. | [1] |
| 2 | Ricky Fuji | December 20, 1994 | Live event | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 48 | 1 | Defeated The Great Sasuke to win the vacant title. | [1] |
| 3 | Hideki Hosaka | February 6, 1995 | Live event | Okazaki, Japan | 1 | 52 | 1 | [1] | |
| 4 | Koji Nakagawa | March 30, 1995 | Live event | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | [lower-alpha 2] | 0 | [1] | |
| — | Vacated | 1995 (NLT) | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to unknown circumstances. | [1] |
| 5 | Koji Nakagawa | November 20, 1995 | Live event | Fukuoka, Japan | 2 | 167 | 1 | Defeated Ricky Fuji to win the vacant title. | [1] |
| 6 | Taka Michinoku | May 5, 1996 | FMW 7th Anniversary Show | Kawasaki, Japan | 1 | 420 | 10 | [1] | |
| 7 | El Satánico | June 29, 1997 | CMLL Domingo de Coliseo | Mexico City | 1 | 57 | 0 | This was a best two-out-of-three falls match. | [1] |
| 8 | Taka Michinoku | August 25, 1997 | Live event | Puebla, Mexico | 2 | 115 | 1 | [1] | |
| — | Vacated | December 18, 1997 | — | — | — | — | — | Taka Michinoku vacated the title right after defending against Shoichi Funaki. | [1] |
- FMW-Certified Junior Heavyweight Championship
In 1998, the title was renamed FMW-Certified Junior Heavyweight Championship (FMW認定ジュニアヘビー級王座, FMW nintei junia hebī-kyū ōza) with the launch of the FMW Unified Organization. It is considered a different title.
| 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 | Minoru Tanaka | May 5, 1999 | FMW Strongest Tag League | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 9 | 0 | Defeated Ricky Fuji to win the vacant title. | [2] |
| 2 | Naoki Sano | May 14, 1999 | Battlarts Live event | Sapporo, Japan | 1 | 17[lower-alpha 3] | 2 | FMW no longer recognized the title after May 31, 1999, and continued to be defended in the Battlarts promotion. | [2] |
| — | Deactivated | May 31, 1999 | — | — | — | — | — | Kodo Fuyuki becomes the FMW commissioner and withdraws the recognition of the title. | [2] |
- Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship
On May 31, 1999, Kodo Fuyuki became the FMW commissioner and withdrew the recognition of the title following the introduction of the WEW Single Championship which he awarded to himself on September 24. Sano was then recognized as the first Independent World Junior Heavyweight champion, in continuation of his FMW-Certified Junior Heavyweight Championship reign. Since then, the title has been defended in various Japanese promotions including Big Japan Wrestling, DDT Pro-Wrestling, Kaientai Dojo, Union Pro Wrestling, Osaka Pro Wrestling and Michinoku Pro Wrestling.
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | |||||
| Battlarts | ||||||||||
| 1 | Naoki Sano | May 31, 1999 | Live event | Sapporo, Japan | 1 | 244[lower-alpha 3] | 3 | Battlarts recognizes Sano's reign as beginning on May 14, 1999, when he won the FMW-Certified Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [3] | |
| 2 | Minoru Tanaka | January 30, 2000 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 102 | 2 | [3] | ||
| 3 | Katsumi Usuda | May 11, 2000 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 38 | 0 | [3] | ||
| 4 | Naoyuki Taira | June 18, 2000 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 161 | 3 | [3] | ||
| 5 | Katsumi Usuda | November 26, 2000 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 373 | 5 | [3] | ||
| — | Vacated | December 4, 2001 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated after Battlarts became inactive. | [3] | |
| Michinoku Pro Wrestling | ||||||||||
| 6 | Ikuto Hidaka | February 17, 2002 | Live event | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 87 | 1 | Defeated Kazuya Yuasa in a tournament final to win the vacant title. | [3] | |
| — | Deactivated | May 15, 2002 | — | — | — | — | — | Retired due to FMW closing. | [3] | |
| Various indies | ||||||||||
| 7 | Kota Ibushi | August 26, 2007 | Pro-Wrestling Summit In Ariake | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 349 | 7 | Defeated Madoka to revive the title. | [3] | |
| Kaientai Dojo | ||||||||||
| 8 | Madoka | August 9, 2008 | Super Big Show Chiba Hakkenden | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 36 | 0 | [3] | ||
| 9 | Makoto Oishi | September 14, 2008 | Club-K Super Downtown 2008 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 374 | 7 | [3] | ||
| 10 | Gentaro | September 23, 2009 | Club-K Super Downtown 2009 | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 191 | 6 | [3] | ||
| 11 | Marines Mask (II) | April 2, 2010 | Club-K Super Evolution 8 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 160 | 2 | [3] | ||
| 12 | Tigers Mask | September 9, 2010 | Club-K Shinkiba #4 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 17 | 0 | [3] | ||
| Osaka Pro Wrestling | ||||||||||
| 13 | Orochi | September 26, 2010 | Osaka Pro Sumire September Series | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 48 | 1 | [3] | ||
| 14 | Tigers Mask | November 13, 2010 | Osaka Pro Fuyu Ga Hajimaru Yo Series | Osaka, Japan | 2 | 217 | 3 | [3] | ||
| Kaientai Dojo | ||||||||||
| 15 | Daigoro Kashiwa | June 18, 2011 | Club-K Super Take | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 141 | 4 | [3] | ||
| 16 | Hiroki | November 6, 2011 | Club-K Super Joke 2011 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 447 | 15 | [3] | ||
| 17 | Ricky Fuji | January 26, 2013 | Club-K 3000 | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 78 | 1 | [3] | ||
| 18 | Hayato Nanjyo | April 14, 2013 | CLUB-K SUPER Evolution 11 - K-DOJO 11th Anniversary | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 27 | 0 | [3] | ||
| 19 | Taka Michinoku | May 11, 2013 | Club-K Tour In Osaka | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 483 | 16 | This match was also for Taka Michinoku's UWA World Middleweight Championship. | [3] | |
| 20 | Teppei | September 6, 2014 | Club-K 3000 | Chiba, Japan | 3 | 169 | 2 | Formerly held the title under the name Tigers Mask and began working under the name Atsushi Maruyama during this reign. | [3] | |
| 21 | Hi69 | February 22, 2015 | Club-K Super In TKP Garden City | Osaka, Japan | 2 | 49 | 0 | Formerly held the title under the name Hiroki. | [3] | |
| 22 | Isami Kodaka | April 12, 2015 | Club-K Super Evolution 13 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 203 | 8 | [3] | ||
| 23 | Shiori Asahi | November 1, 2015 | Club-K Super In Korakuen | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 503 | 11 | [3][4] | ||
| 24 | Ken Ohka | March 18, 2017 | Club-K Super In Blue Field | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 190 | 3 | [3][5] | ||
| DDT Pro-Wrestling / Ganbare☆Puroresu | ||||||||||
| 25 | Daisuke Sasaki | September 24, 2017 | Who's Gonna Top? DDT Dramatic General Election 2017 - Last Request Special! | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 87 | 5 | This was a three-way match, where Sasaki defended the DDT Extreme Division Championship and Konosuke Takeshita defended the KO-D Openweight Championship. | [3][6] | |
| 26 | Ken Ohka | December 20, 2017 | DDT Ganbare Pro Burning'X'mas 2017 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 129 | 0 | [3] | ||
| 27 | Keisuke Ishii | April 28, 2018 | Dreaming I Was Dreaming 2018 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 253 | 6 | [3] | ||
| 28 | Shuichiro Katsumura | January 6, 2019 | Do It On Your Own Hands 2019 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 265 | 5 | [3] | ||
| 29 | Keisuke Ishii | September 28, 2019 | I Do Not Need A Comic Magazine! 2019 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 276+ | 3 | [3] | ||
Combined reigns
As of June 30, 2020.
| † | Indicates the current champion |
|---|---|
| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined defenses | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taka Michinoku | 3 | 27 | 1,018 |
| 2 | Keisuke Ishii † | 2 | 9 | 529+ |
| 3 | Shiori Asahi | 1 | 11 | 503 |
| 4 | Hiroki/Hi69 | 2 | 15 | 496 |
| 5 | Katsumi Usuda | 2 | 5 | 411 |
| 6 | Tigers Mask/Teppei/Atsushi Maruyama | 3 | 5 | 403 |
| 7 | Makoto Oishi | 1 | 7 | 374 |
| 8 | Kota Ibushi | 1 | 7 | 349 |
| 9 | The Great Sasuke | 1 | 5 | 338¤ |
| 10 | Ken Ohka | 2 | 3 | 319 |
| 11 | Shuichiro Katsumura | 1 | 5 | 265 |
| 12 | Naoki Sano | 1 | 5 | 261 |
| 13 | Gentaro | 1 | 6 | 191 |
| 14 | Koji Nakagawa | 2 | 1 | 168¤ |
| 15 | Naoyuki Taira | 1 | 3 | 161 |
| 16 | Marines Mask (II) | 1 | 2 | 160 |
| 17 | Daigoro Kashiwa | 1 | 4 | 141 |
| 18 | Ricky Fuji | 2 | 2 | 126 |
| 19 | Minoru Tanaka | 2 | 2 | 111 |
| 20 | Ikuto Hidaka | 1 | 1 | 87 |
| Daisuke Sasaki | 1 | 5 | 87 | |
| 22 | El Satánico | 1 | 0 | 57 |
| 23 | Hideki Hosaka | 1 | 1 | 52 |
| 24 | Orochi | 1 | 1 | 48 |
| 25 | Madoka | 1 | 0 | 36 |
| 26 | Hayato Nanjyo | 1 | 0 | 27 |
Footnotes
- The date of at least one of the title changes in this reign is uncertain, which means that the reign lasted between 338 and 368 days.
- The date of at least one of the title changes in this reign is uncertain, which means that the reign lasted between 1 and 235 days.
- Sano's two separate reigns are generally being counted as one 261 days reign.
See also
- AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (predecessor, 1989–1992)
- Dramatic Dream Team
- Professional wrestling in Japan
References
- ""Independent World" World Junior Heavyweight Title [FMW] (Japan)". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- "FMW Junior Heavyweight Title (Japan)". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- "Independent World Junior Heavyweight Title (Japan)". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- http://www.k-dojo.co.jp/results/20151101kourakuen/
- http://www.k-dojo.co.jp/results/20170318super/
- http://www.ddtpro.com/ddtpro/50784/
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