FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship
| FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling | ||||||||||||
| Date established | January 7, 1990[1] | ||||||||||||
| Date retired | August 25, 1999[2] | ||||||||||||
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The FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship was world heavyweight championship in the wrestling promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). It was one of the two premier championships in FMW, alongside the FMW Independent Heavyweight Championship.
Title history
[edit]Names
[edit]| Name | Years |
|---|---|
| WWA Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship | January 7, 1990–February 27, 1991 |
| WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship | February 27, 1991–August 28, 1993 |
| FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship | August 28, 1993–December 12, 1996 |
| FMW Double Championship | December 12, 1996–May 18, 1999 |
| FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship | May 18, 1999–August 25, 1999 |
Reigns
[edit]| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
| 1 | Beast the Barbarian | January 7, 1990 | Battle Resistance - 1st Open Tournament | Tokyo | 1 | 10 | Recognized as first champion. | [1] |
| 2 | Atsushi Onita | January 17, 1990 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | 406 | The title was renamed WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship on February 27, 1991. | [1] |
| 3 | Grigory Verichev | February 27, 1991 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | 91 | [3] | |
| 4 | Atsushi Onita | May 29, 1991 | House show | Tokyo | 2 | 231 | [3] | |
| 5 | Big Titan | January 15, 1992 | House show | Kobe, Hyogo | 1 | 15 | [3][4] | |
| 6 | Tarzan Goto | January 30, 1992 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | 55 | [3] | |
| 7 | Leon Spinks | March 25, 1992 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | 60 | [3] | |
| 8 | Atsushi Onita | May 24, 1992 | House show | Tokyo | 3 | 32 | [3] | |
| 9 | The Sheik | June 25, 1992 | House show | Sapporo, Hokkaido | 1 | [Note 1] | [3] | |
| 10 | Tiger Jeet Singh | August 1992 | House show | Sapporo, Hokkaido | 1 | [Note 2] | The Sheik rewarded the title to Tiger Jeet Singh for helping him in beating Atsushi Onita for the title. | [3] |
| 11 | Atsushi Onita | September 19, 1992 | 3rd Anniversary Show | Yokohama, Kanagawa | 4 | 337 | Title replaced by the FMW World Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. | [3] |
| 12 | Atsushi Onita | August 22, 1993 | Summer Spectacular | Osaka | 5 | 137 | Onita defeated Mr. Pogo to become the first FMW World Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Champion. | [2] |
| 13 | Mr. Pogo | January 6, 1994 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | 244 | [2] | |
| 14 | Atsushi Onita | September 7, 1994 | House show | Sapporo, Hokkaido | 6 | 136 | [2] | |
| 15 | Mr. Pogo | January 21, 1995 | House show | Sendai, Miyagi | 2 | 103 | [2] | |
| 16 | Atsushi Onita | May 4, 1995 | House show | Sendai, Miyagi | 7 | 1 | [2] | |
| — | Vacated | May 5, 1995 | 6th Anniversary Show | Kawasaki, Kanagawa | — | — | Atsushi Onita vacated the title due to his retirement. | [2] |
| 17 | Hayabusa | June 27, 1995 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | <1 | Hayabusa defeated Hisakatsu Oya for the vacant title. | [2] |
| — | Vacated | June 27, 1995 | House show | Tokyo | — | — | Hayabusa vacated the title due to injury. | [2] |
| 18 | The Gladiator | September 26, 1995 | Grand Slam tour | Tokyo | 1 | 101 | Gladiator defeated Hayabusa in the finals of a Grand Slam Tournament. | [2] |
| — | Vacated | January 5, 1996 | House show | Tokyo | — | — | The Gladiator vacated the title due to injury. | [2] |
| 19 | Super Leather | February 23, 1996 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | 94 | Leather defeated Hisakatsu Oya for the vacant title. | [2] |
| 20 | The Gladiator | May 27, 1996 | House show | Fukuoka, Fukuoka | 2 | 489 | Gladiator unified the title with the FMW Independent Heavyweight Championship by defeating W*ING Kanemura on December 11, 1996 and the title was renamed to Double Championship. This was the longest reign of the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. | [2] |
| 21 | Masato Tanaka | September 28, 1997 | Fall Spectacular | Kawasaki, Kanagawa | 1 | 100 | [2] | |
| 22 | Mr. Gannosuke | January 6, 1998 | New Year Generation tour | Tokyo | 1 | 114 | [2] | |
| 23 | Hayabusa | April 30, 1998 | 9th Anniversary Show | Yokohama, Kanagawa | 2 | 204 | [2] | |
| 24 | Kodo Fuyuki | November 20, 1998 | Scramble Survivor tour | Yokohama, Kanagawa | 1 | 179 | [2] | |
| 25 | Yukihiro Kanemura | May 18, 1999 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | 97 | Kodo Fuyuki relinquished the title due to injury and awarded it to Kanemura. As a result, the title was split from the Independent Heavyweight Championship, reverted to being Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. | [2] |
| 26 | Hayabusa | August 23, 1999 | Goodbye Hayabusa II: Hayabusa Graduation Ceremony | Tokyo | 3 | 2 | [2] | |
| — | Deactivated | August 25, 1999 | Goodbye Hayabusa II: Last Match | Sapporo, Hokkaido | — | — | The title was retired and replaced with WEW Heavyweight Championship. | [2] |
Combined reigns
[edit]| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Atsushi Onita | 7 | 1,280 |
| 2 | The Gladiator | 2 | 590 |
| 3 | Mr. Pogo | 2 | 347 |
| 4 | Hayabusa | 3 | 206 |
| 5 | Kodo Fuyuki | 1 | 179 |
| 6 | Mr. Gannosuke | 1 | 114 |
| 7 | Masato Tanaka | 1 | 100 |
| 8 | Yukihiro Kanemura | 1 | 97 |
| 9 | Super Leather | 1 | 94 |
| 10 | Grigory Verichev | 1 | 90 |
| 11 | Leon Spinks | 1 | 60 |
| 12 | Tarzan Goto | 1 | 55 |
| 13 | Tiger Jeet Singh | 1 | 49 |
| 14 | The Sheik | 1 | 37 |
| 15 | Big Titan | 1 | 15 |
| 16 | Beast the Barbarian | 1 | 10 |
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ The exact date when The Sheik rewarded the title to Tiger Jeet Singh is uncertain, which means that the championship reign lasted between 37 and 67 days.
- ^ The exact date when The Sheik rewarded the title to Tiger Jeet Singh is uncertain, which means that Singh's championship reign lasted between 19 and 49 days.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2000). "Japan: WWA Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2000). "Japan: FMW Brass Knuckles Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2000). "Japan: WWA Martial Arts Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- ^ Hoops, Brian (January 15, 2019). "Pro wrestling history (01/15): Big John Studd wins 1989 Royal Rumble". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved January 18, 2019.