ZERO1-MAX United States Openweight Championship

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The ZERO1-MAX United States Openweight Championship is a championship contested for in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX.

Upon its creation the title was known as the ZERO-ONE United States Heavyweight Championship. With ZERO-ONE's membership in the National Wrestling Alliance, the title changed to the NWA/ZERO-ONE United States Heavyweight Championship on July 4, 2004. On October 26, 2004, ZERO-ONE left the NWA and the title became the ZERO-ONE United States Openweight Championship until five days later, October 31, 2004, when the promotion left the NWA and changed its own name from ZERO-ONE to ZERO1-MAX. With this change, the title changed names one last time, to the ZERO1-MAX United States Openweight Championship.

[edit] Title history

Wrestler:	Times:	Date:	Location:	Notes:
Steve Corino	1	January 6, 2003	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Masato Tanaka to become the first champion.
The Predator	1	July 4, 2003	Niigata, Japan
Hulk Ogan (Naoya Ogawa)	1	August 10, 2003	Nagoya, Japan
Title vacated between August and October 2003.
The Predator	2	October 13, 2003	Fukuoka, Japan	Defeated Mike Knox to win the vacant title.
Kohei Sato	1	July 9, 2004	Tokyo, Japan
Steve Corino	2	November 11, 2004	Tokyo, Japan
Corino vacated the title in February 2005 in order to concentrate on winning the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
Spanky	1	March 23, 2005	Hakodate, Japan	Defeated Ryouji Sai to win the vacant title.
Spanky vacated the title to return to World Wrestling Entertainment.
Alex Shelley	1	September 13, 2005	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Sonjay Dutt to win the vacant title.
Christopher Daniels	1	November 23, 2005	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Shelley and Dutt in a three-way match.
Daniels stripped of the title on May 4, 2006 due to his being unable to appear for ZERO1-MAX.