WEW Heavyweight Championship
The WEW Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship, most recently contested in Apache Army. It was originally created for Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling as the WEW Single Championship.[1] The title was revived in Pro Wrestling A-Team in 2018 as the WEW Openweight Championship.
| WEW Openweight Championship | |||||||||||||
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| Details | |||||||||||||
| Promotion | Pro Wrestling A-Team | ||||||||||||
| Brand | Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (1999-2002) World Entertainment Wrestling (2002-2004) Apache Army (2004-2016) Pro Wrestling A-Team (2018-present) | ||||||||||||
| Date established | September 24, 1999 | ||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Tomohiko Hashimoto | ||||||||||||
| Date won | December 15, 2019 | ||||||||||||
| Other name(s) | |||||||||||||
WEW Single Championship WEW Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||
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Tournaments
Takeover the Independent Tournament
The "Takeover the Independent Tournament" was a sixteen-man single-elimination tournament held by Apache Army between July 25, 2012 and September 21, 2012.
| First Round | Quarter-Finals | Semi-Finals | Final | |||||||||||
| July 25, 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Tetsuhiro Kuroda | TKO | |||||||||||||
| August 28, 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Kintaro Kanemura | 7:12 | |||||||||||||
| Tetsuhiro Kuroda | Pin | |||||||||||||
| July 25, 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Manjimaru | 10:56 | |||||||||||||
| Manjimaru | Pin | |||||||||||||
| September 21, 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Tomohiko Hashimoto | 4:33 | |||||||||||||
| Tetsuhiro Kuroda | Pin | |||||||||||||
| July 25, 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Arashi | 4:20 | |||||||||||||
| Arashi | Pin | |||||||||||||
| August 28, 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Shota | 0:44 | |||||||||||||
| Arashi | TKO | |||||||||||||
| July 25, 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Kazushi Miyamoto | 11:27 | |||||||||||||
| Kazushi Miyamoto | Pin | |||||||||||||
| September 21, 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Kotaro Nasu | 5:52 | |||||||||||||
| Tetsuhiro Kuroda | Sub | |||||||||||||
| July 25, 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Takeshi Minamino | 13:57 | |||||||||||||
| Takeshi Minamino | Pin | |||||||||||||
| August 28, 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Shoichi Ishimiya | 5:52 | |||||||||||||
| Takeshi Minamino | Pin | |||||||||||||
| July 25, 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Masato Shibata | 5:42 | |||||||||||||
| Masato Shibata | DQ | |||||||||||||
| September 21, 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Rikiya Fudo | 8:06 | |||||||||||||
| Takeshi Minamino | Pin | |||||||||||||
| July 25, 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| HIROKI | 8:40 | |||||||||||||
| HIROKI | Pin | |||||||||||||
| August 28, 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Daisaku Shimoda | 13:18 | |||||||||||||
| HIROKI* | Pin | |||||||||||||
| July 25, 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| Keita Yano | 16:40 | |||||||||||||
| Keita Yano | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Kengo Nishimura | 11:19 | |||||||||||||
- HIROKI's Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship was on the line in the match.
Title history
| No: | Wrestler: | Reigns: | Date: | Days held: | Location: | Event: | Notes: |
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| Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling | |||||||
| 1 | Kodo Fuyuki | 1 | September 24, 1999 | 60 | Tokyo, Japan | Making of a New Legend III tour | FMW Commissioner Kodo Fuyuki awarded the title to himself. |
| 2 | Masato Tanaka | 1 | November 23, 1999 | 43 | Yokohama, Japan | FMW 10th Anniversary Show | This was a loser leaves FMW" 13,000 volt thunderbolt cage death match. |
| 3 | Tetsuhiro Kuroda | 1 | January 5, 2000 | 121 | Tokyo, Japan | New Year Generation tour | |
| 4 | Kodo Fuyuki | 2 | May 5, 2000 | 331 | Tokyo, Japan | 11th Anniversary Show: Backdraft | |
| 5 | Tetsuhiro Kuroda | 2 | April 1, 2001 | 51 | Tokyo, Japan | Fighting Creation tour | |
| 6 | Hayabusa | 1 | May 22, 2001 | 81 | Sapporo, Japan | Neo FMW tour | This was a Barbed Wire Double Hell Death Match. |
| 7 | Kintaro Kanemura | 1 | August 11, 2001 | 148 | Tokyo, Japan | Super Dynamism tour | Hayabusa defeated Kanemura on September 5 in Sapporo, but Kanemura was returned the title on September 9 due to Hayabusa using a low blow in winning the title. |
| 8 | Kodo Fuyuki | 3 | January 6, 2002 | 40 | Tokyo, Japan | FMW | |
| — | Retired | — | February 15, 2002 | — | — | — | The title was retired due to FMW closing. |
| World Entertainment Wrestling | |||||||
| 9 | Kintaro Kanemura | 2 | August 23, 2002 | 251 | Tokyo, Japan | WEW | Defeated Tetsuhiro Kuroda to re-establish the title. |
| — | Retired | — | May 1, 2003 | — | — | — | Retired when WEW promotion closed. |
| Apache Army | |||||||
| 10 | Togi Makabe | 1 | September 24, 2006 | 273 | Tokyo, Japan | Apache Pro 3rd Anniversary Show | Defeated Kintaro Kanemura in a street fight barbed wire barricade chain death match to re-establish the title. |
| 11 | Kintaro Kanemura | 3 | June 24, 2007 | 35 | Tokyo, Japan | Form of Challenge | |
| 12 | Toru Yano | 1 | July 29, 2007 | 56 | Tokyo, Japan | Lock Up | |
| 13 | Mammoth Sasaki | 1 | September 23, 2007 | 293 | Tokyo, Japan | Apache Pro | |
| 14 | Tomohiro Ishii | 1 | July 12, 2008 | 959 | Tokyo, Japan | Lock Up | |
| 15 | Kintaro Kanemura | 4 | February 26, 2011 | 90 | Tokyo, Japan | Apache Pro | |
| 16 | Arashi | 1 | May 27, 2011 | 335 | Tokyo, Japan | Apache Pro | |
| 17 | Tetsuhiro Kuroda | 3 | April 26, 2012 | 90 | Tokyo, Japan | Apache Pro | |
| — | Vacated | — | July 25, 2012 | — | Tokyo, Japan | Apache Pro | Kuroda vacated the title to enter the "Takeover the Independent" tournament. |
| 18 | Tetsuhiro Kuroda | 4 | September 21, 2012 | 345 | Tokyo, Japan | Apache Pro | Defeated Takeshi Minamino in the final of the 16-man "Takeover the Independent" tournament. |
| 19 | Kintaro Kanemura | 5 | September 1, 2013 | 805 | Tokyo, Japan | Apache Pro | |
| 20 | Tomohiko Hashimoto | 1 | November 15, 2015 | 98 | Osaka, Japan | Apache Pro | |
| 21 | Koji Kanemoto | 1 | February 21, 2016 | 308 | Osaka, Japan | Apache Pro | |
| 22 | Kintaro Kanemura | 6 | December 25, 2016 | 2 | Tokyo, Japan | Final Gong | |
| — | Retired | — | December 27, 2016 | — | Tokyo, Japan | Final Gong | The title was retired when Kanemura retired and Apache Army closed. |
| Pro Wrestling A-Team | |||||||
| 23 | Daisaku Shimoda | 1 | April 13, 2018 | 58 | Tokyo, Japan | A-Team | Defeats Blue Shark to re-establish the title. |
| 24 | Kim Duk | 1 | June 10, 2018 | 223 | Tokyo, Japan | A-Team | |
| 25 | Daisaku Shimoda | 2 | January 19, 2019 | 274 | Tokyo, Japan | A-Team | |
| 26 | Gajō | 1 | October 20, 2019 | 56 | Tokyo, Japan | A-Team | |
| 27 | Tomohiko Hashimoto | 2 | December 15, 2019 | 194+ | Tokyo, Japan | A-Team | |
Combined reigns
As of June 26, 2020.
| † | Indicates the current champion |
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| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Kintaro Kanemura | 6 | 1,338 |
| 2. | Tomohiro Ishii | 1 | 959 |
| 3. | Tetsuhiro Kuroda | 4 | 607 |
| 4. | Kodo Fuyuki | 3 | 465 |
| 5. | Arashi | 1 | 335 |
| 6. | Daisaku Shimoda | 2 | 333 |
| 7. | Koji Kanemoto | 1 | 308 |
| 8. | Mammoth Sasaki | 1 | 293 |
| 9. | Togi Makabe | 1 | 273 |
| 10. | Kim Duk | 1 | 223 |
| 11. | Tomohiko Hashimoto† | 2 | 293+ |
| 12. | Hayabusa | 1 | 81 |
| 13. | Toru Yano | 1 | 56 |
| Gajō | 1 | 56 | |
| 15. | Masato Tanaka | 1 | 43 |
References
- "WEW Single Title [FMW] (Japan)". Wrestling-Titles.com.
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