Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship
| Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
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| Current champion(s) | Isami Kodaka | ||||||||||
| Date won | April 12, 2015 | ||||||||||
| Date established | October 28, 1993 | ||||||||||
| Promotion | Various | ||||||||||
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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 April 30, 2015
| # | Wrestler | Reign | Date | Days held |
Location | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sasuke, The GreatThe Great Sasuke | 1 | October 28, 1993 | ? | Tokyo, Japan | House show | Defeated Battle Ranger Z. |
| — | Vacated | 1 | 1994 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Vacated so Sasuke could focus on a match with Atsushi Onita. |
| 2 | Fuji, RickyRicky Fuji | 1 | December 20, 1994 | 48 | Nagoya, Japan | House show | Defeated The Great Sasuke. |
| 3 | Hosaka, HidekiHideki Hosaka | 1 | February 6, 1995 | 52 | Okazaki, Japan | House show | |
| 4 | Nakagawa, KojiKoji Nakagawa | 1 | March 30, 1995 | ? | Yokohama, Japan | House show | |
| — | Vacated | 1 | 1995 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| 5 | Nakagawa, KojiKoji Nakagawa | 2 | November 20, 1995 | 167 | Fukuoka, Japan | House show | Defeated Ricky Fuji. |
| 6 | Michinoku, TakaTaka Michinoku | 1 | May 5, 1996 | 420 | Kawasaki, Japan | House show | |
| 7 | Satánico, ElEl Satánico | 1 | June 29, 1997 | 57 | Mexico | House show | |
| 8 | Michinoku, TakaTaka Michinoku | 2 | August 25, 1997 | 115 | Puebla, Mexico | House show | |
| — | Vacated | 1 | December 18, 1997 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Taka wins WWF World Light Heavyweight Championship on December 7, 1997 and is unable to defend the FMW title. |
| 9 | Tanaka, MinoruMinoru Tanaka | 1 | May 5, 1999 | 9 | Yokohama, Japan | House show | Defeats Ricky Fuji. |
| 10 | Sano, NaokiNaoki Sano | 1 | May 14, 1999 | 261 | Sapporo, Japan | House show | FMW no longer recognizes the title as of May 31, 1999, but it continues to be defended in the Battlarts promotion. |
| 11 | Tanaka, MinoruMinoru 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 | 1 | December 4, 2001 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Vacated due to Battlarts closing. |
| 15 | Hidaka, IkutoIkuto Hidaka | 1 | February 17, 2002 | 87 | Yokohama, Japan | House show | Defeated Kazuya Yuasa in a tournament final. |
| — | Vacated | 1 | May 15, 2002 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Title retired. |
| 16 | Ibushi, KotaKota Ibushi | 1 | August 26, 2007 | 349 | Tokyo, Japan | House show | Defeated Madoka. |
| 17 | Madoka | 1 | August 9, 2008 | 36 | Chiba, Japan | House show | |
| 18 | Oishi, MakotoMakoto 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 | Fuji, RickyRicky Fuji | 2 | January 26, 2013 | 78 | Chiba, Japan | House show | |
| 27 | Hayato Nanjo | 1 | April 14, 2013 | 27 | Tokyo, Japan | House show | |
| 28 | Michinoku, TakaTaka 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 | Kodaka, IsamiIsami Kodaka | 1 | April 12, 2015 | 18+ | Tokyo, Japan | House show |
References
- "Independent World Junior Heavyweight Title history". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
- "FMW Junior Heavyweight Title history". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
- "Independent World Junior Heavyweight Title history". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved 2014-07-17.