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| Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date established | October 28, 1993 | ||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Hikaru Sato | ||||||||||||||||
| Date won | December 27, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||
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FMW Junior Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||
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The Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship (Japanese: インディペンデントワールド世界ジュニアヘビー級王座, Hepburn: Indipendento Wārudo Sekai Junia Hebī-kyū Ōza) is a professional wrestling championship that is being defended in various independent promotions in Japan. The title was originally created in 1993 by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling.
There have been a total of 47 reigns spread over three lineages and shared among 33 different wrestlers. The current champion is Hikaru Sato who is in his first reign.
History
The title was created in 1993 by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) and it stayed with FMW from its inception to mid-1999, when FMW retired it. In 1998, the title was renamed FMW 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 was considered a different title with a new lineage.
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. Yuhi Sano was then recognized as the first Independent World Junior Heavyweight Champion, in continuation of his FMW Junior Heavyweight Championship reign, thus starting a third lineage. 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.
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.
Reigns
Original 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 |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | The Great Sasuke | October 28, 1993 | Kankuran! | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | [a] | 5 | Defeated Battle Ranger Z to become the inaugural champion. | [1][2] |
| — | Vacated | October 1994 | — | — | — | — | — | Sasuke vacated the title to concentrate on a death match against Atsushi Onita. | [1] |
| 2 | Ricky Fuji | December 20, 1994 | FMW vs. W*ING Alliance Full War in Nagoya | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 48 | 1 | Defeated The Great Sasuke to win the vacant title. | [1][3] |
| 3 | Hideki Hosaka | February 6, 1995 | Japan Nationwide Atsushi Onita Memorial Retirement Tour Last Fight – Final Chapter – February Series | Okazaki, Japan | 1 | 52 | 1 | [1][4] | |
| 4 | Koji Nakagawa | March 30, 1995 | Japan Nationwide Atsushi Onita Memorial Retirement Tour Last Fight – Final Chapter – March Series | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | [b] | 0 | [1][5] | |
| — | Vacated | 1995 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to unknown circumstances. | [1] |
| 5 | Koji Nakagawa | November 20, 1995 | Scramble Survivor | Fukuoka, Japan | 2 | 167 | 1 | Defeated Ricky Fuji to win the vacant title. | [1][6] |
| 6 | Taka Michinoku | May 5, 1996 | FMW 7th Anniversary Show | Kawasaki, Japan | 1 | 420 | 10 | [1] | |
| 7 | El Satánico | June 29, 1997 | CMLL Domingos de Coliseo | Mexico City | 1 | 57 | 0 | This was a best two-out-of-three falls match held at a Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre house show. | [1][7] |
| 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 Junior Heavyweight Championship
| 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. | ||||
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| 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. | [8] |
| 2 | Yuhi Sano | May 14, 1999 | Battlarts Live event | Sapporo, Japan | 1 | 17[c] | 2 | FMW no longer recognized the title after May 31, 1999, and continued to be defended in the Battlarts promotion. | [8] |
| — | Deactivated | May 31, 1999 | — | — | — | — | — | Kodo Fuyuki becomes the FMW commissioner and withdraws the recognition of the title. | [8] |
New 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 |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
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| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | |||||
| Battlarts | ||||||||||
| 1 | Yuhi Sano | May 31, 1999 | Live event | Sapporo, Japan | 1 | 244[c] | 3 | Battlarts recognizes Sano's reign as beginning on May 14, 1999, when he won the FMW Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [9] | |
| 2 | Minoru Tanaka | January 30, 2000 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 102 | 2 | [9] | ||
| 3 | Katsumi Usuda | May 11, 2000 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 38 | 0 | [9] | ||
| 4 | Naoyuki Taira | June 18, 2000 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 161 | 3 | [9] | ||
| 5 | Katsumi Usuda | November 26, 2000 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 373 | 5 | [9] | ||
| — | Vacated | December 4, 2001 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated after Battlarts became inactive. | [9] | |
| Michinoku Pro Wrestling (MPW) | ||||||||||
| 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. | [9] | |
| — | Deactivated | May 15, 2002 | — | — | — | — | — | Retired due to FMW closing. | [9] | |
| Various indies | ||||||||||
| 7 | Kota Ibushi | August 26, 2007 | Pro-Wrestling Summit In Ariake | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 349 | 7 | Defeated Madoka to revive the title. | [9] | |
| Kaientai Dojo (K-Dojo) | ||||||||||
| 8 | Madoka | August 9, 2008 | Super Big Show Chiba Hakkenden | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 36 | 0 | [9] | ||
| 9 | Makoto Oishi | September 14, 2008 | Club-K Super Downtown 2008 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 374 | 7 | [9] | ||
| 10 | Gentaro | September 23, 2009 | Club-K Super Downtown 2009 | Chiba, Japan | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Independent_World_Junior_Heavyweight_Championship||||||