Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship

Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship
Details
Current champion(s)	Shiori Asahi
Date won	November 1, 2015
Date established	October 28, 1993
Promotion	Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, Big Japan Pro Wrestling, Dramatic Dream Team, Osaka Pro Wrestling, Kaientai Dojo
Statistics First champion(s) The Great Sasuke Most reigns Taka Michinoku and Tigers Mask/Teppei/Atsushi Maruyama (3 reigns) Longest reign Taka Michinoku (483 days) Shortest reign Minoru Tanaka (9 days

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 November 28, 2024

#	Wrestler	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes
1	The 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	Ricky Fuji	1	December 20, 1994		Nagoya, Japan	House show	Defeated The Great Sasuke.
3	Hideki Hosaka	1	February 6, 1995		Okazaki, Japan	House show
4	Koji Nakagawa	1	March 30, 1995	?	Yokohama, Japan	House show
—	Vacated	1	1995	N/A	N/A	N/A
5	Koji Nakagawa	2	November 20, 1995		Fukuoka, Japan	House show	Defeated Ricky Fuji.
6	Taka Michinoku	1	May 5, 1996		Kawasaki, Japan	House show
7	El Satánico	1	June 29, 1997		Mexico	House show
8	Taka Michinoku	2	August 25, 1997		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	Minoru Tanaka	1	May 5, 1999		Yokohama, Japan	House show	Defeats Ricky Fuji.
10	Naoki Sano	1	May 14, 1999		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	Minoru Tanaka	2	January 30, 2000		Tokyo, Japan	House show
12	Katsumi Usuda	1	May 11, 2000		Tokyo, Japan	House show
13	Naoyuki Taira	1	June 18, 2000		Tokyo, Japan	House show
14	Katsumi Usuda	2	November 26, 2000		Tokyo, Japan	House show
—	Vacated	1	December 4, 2001	N/A	N/A	N/A	Vacated due to Battlarts closing.
15	Ikuto Hidaka	1	February 17, 2002		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	Kota Ibushi	1	August 26, 2007		Tokyo, Japan	House show	Defeated Madoka.
17	Madoka	1	August 9, 2008		Chiba, Japan	House show
18	Makoto Oishi	1	September 14, 2008		Tokyo, Japan	House show
19	Gentaro	1	September 23, 2009		Chiba, Japan	House show
20	Marines Mask II	1	April 2, 2010		Tokyo, Japan	House show
21	Tigers Mask	1	September 9, 2010		Chiba, Japan	House show
22	Orochi	1	September 26, 2010		Osaka, Japan	House show
23	Tigers Mask	2	November 13, 2010		Osaka, Japan	House show
24	Daigoro Kashiwa	1	June 18, 2011		Tokyo, Japan	House show
25	Hiroki	1	November 6, 2011		Tokyo, Japan	House show
26	Ricky Fuji	2	January 26, 2013		Chiba, Japan	House show
27	Hayato Nanjo	1	April 14, 2013		Tokyo, Japan	House show
28	Taka Michinoku	3	May 11, 2013		Osaka, Japan	House show	This match was also for Michinoku's UWA World Middleweight Championship.
29	Teppei/Atsushi Maruyama	3	September 6, 2014		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		Chiba, Japan	House show	Hi69 formerly held the title under the ring name Hiroki.
31	Isami Kodaka	1	April 12, 2015		Tokyo, Japan	House show
32	Shiori Asahi	1	November 1, 2015	+	Tokyo, Japan	Club-K Super in Korakuen Hall

See also

• Dramatic Dream Team
• Professional wrestling in Japan