Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship

The Independent Junior Heavyweight Championship is a 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. Later the title has been exclusively defended on Kaientai Dojo until 2015. After 2015 the title has been defended on Pro Wrestling Basara and on 2017 in Dramatic Dream Team.

Title history[]

#	Wrestlers	Reign	Date	Length	Location	Successful defenses	Notes
1	The Great Sasuke	1	October 28, 1993	364 Days	Tokyo	5	Defeated Battle Ranger Z to become the first champion.
—	Vacated	—	October 27,1994	—	—	—	Vacated so Sasuke could focus on a match with Atsushi Onita.
2	Ricky Fuji	1	December 20, 1994	48 Days	Nagoya	1	Defeated The Great Sasuke to win the vacant title.
3	Hideki Hosaka	1	February 6, 1995	52 Days	Okazaki	0
04 4	Koji Nakagawa	01 1	March 30, 1995	? Days	Yokohama	0
—	Vacated	—	1995	—	—	—	Relinquished the belt due to not being able to defend it.
05 5	Koji Nakagawa	2	November 20, 1995	167 Days	Fukuoka	1	Defeated Ricky Fuji to win the vacant championship.
06 6	Taka Michinoku	01 1	May 5, 1996	420 Days	Kawasaki	8
07 7	El Satánico	1	June 29, 1997	57 Days	Mexico	0
08 8	Taka Michinoku	2	August 25, 1997	115 Days	Puebla, Mexico	0
—	Vacated	—	December 18, 1997	—	—	—	Taka wins WWF World Light Heavyweight Championship on December 7, 1997 and is unable to defend the FMW title.
09 9	Minoru Tanaka	1	May 5, 1999	9 Days	Yokohama	0	Defeated Ricky Fuji to win the vacant championship.
10 10	Naoki Sano	1	May 14, 1999	261 Days	Sapporo	2	FMW no longer recognizes the title as of May 31, 1999, but it continues to be defended in the Battlarts promotion.
11 11	Minoru Tanaka	2	January 30, 2000	102 Days	Tokyo	0
12	Katsumi Usuda	1	May 11, 2000	38 Days	Tokyo	0
13	Naoyuki Taira	1	June 18, 2000	161 Days	Tokyo	0
14	Katsumi Usuda	2	November 26, 2000	373 Days	Tokyo	0
—	Vacated	—	Vacated	—	—	—	Vacated due to Battlarts closing.
15	Ikuto Hidaka	1	February 17, 2002	87 Days	Yokohama	0	Defeated Kazuya Yuasa in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.
—	Vacated	—	May 15, 2002	—	—	—	Title retired after Hidaka focused on the Tohoku Junior Heavyweight Championship.
16	Kota Ibushi	01 1	August 26, 2007	349 Days	Tokyo	5	Defeated Madoka to revive the title.
17	Madoka	1	August 9, 2008	36 Days	Chiba	0
18	Makoto Oishi	1	September 14, 2008	374 Days	Tokyo	6
19	Gentaro	1	September 23, 2009	191 Days	Chiba	6
20	Marines Mask II	1	April 2, 2010	160 Days	Tokyo	2
21	Tigers Mask	1	September 9, 2010	17 Days	Chiba	0
22	Orochi	1	September 26, 2010	48 Days	Osaka	1
23	Tigers Mask	2	November 13, 2010	217 Days	Osaka	3
24	Daigoro Kashiwa	1	June 18, 2011	141 Days	Osaka	4
25	Hiroki	1	November 6, 2011	447 Days	Tokyo	14
26	Ricky Fuji	2	January 26, 2013	78 Days	Chiba	1
27	Hayato Nanjo	1	April 14, 2013	27 Days	Tokyo	0
28	Taka Michinoku	3	May 11, 2013	483 Days	Osaka	15	This match was also for Michinoku's UWA World Middleweight Championship.
29	Teppei/Atsushi Maruyama	3	September 6, 2014	169 Days	Chiba	2	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 Days	Chiba	0	Hi69 formerly held the title under the ring name Hiroki.
31	Isami Kodaka	1	April 12, 2015	203 Days	Tokyo	6
32	Shiori Asahi	1	November 1, 2015	503 Days	Tokyo	11
33	Ken Ohka	1	March 18, 2017	190 Days	Chiba	2
34	Daisuke Sasaki	1	September 24, 2017	87 Days	Tokyo	4	This was a three-way match including Konosuke Takeshita. This was also for Sasaki's DDT Extreme Division Championship and Takeshita's KO-D Openweight Championship. Due to Sasaki submitting Ohka, Takeshita retained his title.
35	Ken Ohka	1	December 21, 2017	129 Days	Tokyo	0
35	Keisuke Ishii	1	April 28, 2018	253 Days	Tokyo	6
36	Shuichiro Katsumura	1	January 6, 2019	265 Days	Tokyo	4
37	Keisuke Ishii	2	September 28, 2019	302 Days	Tokyo	7
38	Hagane Shinno	2	July 26, 2020	27 Days	Tokyo	0
39	ASUKA	1	August 22, 2020	126 Days	Tokyo	2
40	Shota	1	December 26, 2020	20 Days	Tokyo	2
41	Arata	1	January 15, 2021	310 Days	Tokyo	1
42	Naoki Tanizaki	1	November 21, 2021	1249+	Osaka	2

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