World Junior Heavyweight Championship (Zero1)
The World Junior Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the Japanese Pro Wrestling Zero1 promotion. The title is meant for wrestlers under the weight limit of 100 kg (220 lb), referred to as "junior heavyweights" in Japan.[3]
| World Junior Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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 Shinjiro Otani, the longest-reigning NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion | |||||||||||||||||||
| Details | |||||||||||||||||||
| Promotion | New Wrestling Alliance Pro Wrestling Zero1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | September 20, 2011[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Shoki Kitamura | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | September 4, 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Other name(s) | |||||||||||||||||||
NWA Junior Heavyweight Championship (Zero1) NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (Zero1) | |||||||||||||||||||
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On July 11, 2011, then-NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Craig Classic announced that he was relinquishing his title in protest over the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) stripping The Sheik of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.[4] However, on September 20, NWA affiliate Pro Wrestling Zero1 announced that they still recognized Classic as the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion.[1] When Classic returned to the promotion on October 2, he was still in possession of the NWA title belt (which used the belt worn by the original Tiger Mask, Satoru Sayama, in the 1980s), which he went on to successfully defend against Munenori Sawa.[5][6] Despite this being the first appearance of the new version of the title, Zero1 went as far as adopting the original title's history, referring to Classic as the 108th champion and his defense against Sawa as his 22nd successful defense.[1][7] Meanwhile, NWA crowned their own NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion, Kevin Douglas, on October 7, meaning that there now were two champions supposedly holding the same title.[8] That same month, Zero1 quit the NWA and renamed all of their National Wrestling Alliance championships "New Wrestling Alliance" championships.[9]
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been seventeen reigns shared among fourteen wrestlers. Shoki Kitamura is the current champion in his first reign.
Title history
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| <1 | Reign lasted less than a day |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | |||||
| (NWA) National Wrestling Alliance / Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1) | ||||||||||
| 1 | Craig Classic | September 20, 2011 | N/A | N/A | 1 | 103 | 3[7] | Zero1 recognized Classic as the reigning "NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion", despite him having vacated the title two months earlier. | [1] | |
| Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1) | ||||||||||
| 2 | Tsuyoshi Kikuchi | January 1, 2012 | Puroresu Nippon | Tokyo | 1 | 61 | 0[10] | [7] | ||
| 3 | Takuya Sugawara | March 2, 2012 | Zero1 Eleven | Tokyo | 1 | 428 | 5 | This match was also contested for Sugawara's International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [10] | |
| 4 | Jonathan Gresham | May 4, 2013 | Big Bang | Tokyo | 1 | 132 | 1[11] | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [12] | |
| — | Vacated | September 13, 2013 | — | Tokyo | — | — | — | Gresham voluntarily vacated the title ahead of the 2013 Tenkaichi Jr. finals. | [13] | |
| 5 | Hub | September 16, 2013 | 11th Tenkaichi Jr.: Finals | Tokyo | 1 | 174 | 3[14] | Hub defeated Mineo Fujita in the finals of the 2013 Tenkaichi Jr., which was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [15] | |
| 6 | Jason Lee | March 9, 2014 | Zero1 Thirteen | Tokyo | 1 | 194 | 2 | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [16] | |
| 7 | Mineo Fujita | September 19, 2014 | Tenkaichi Special | Tokyo | 1 | 45 | 1 | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [17] | |
| 8 | Takuya Sugawara | November 3, 2014 | Hi no Kokudai Hanabi | Kumamoto | 2 | 55 | 1 | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [18] | |
| 9 | Jason Lee | December 28, 2014 | Winter Fever 4 | Hong Kong | 2 | 63 | 1[19] | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [20] | |
| 10 | Minoru Tanaka | March 1, 2015 | Zero1_Fourteen | Tokyo | 1 | 224 | 3 | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [19] | |
| 11 | Shinjiro Otani | October 11, 2015 | Change the World | Tokyo | 1 | 481 | 3[21] | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [22] | |
| 12 | Kotaro Suzuki | February 3, 2017 | Shinsei Zero1 Dream Series: Hakai no Jin | Tokyo | 1 | 265 | 3 | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [21] | |
| 13 | Sean Guinness | October 26, 2017 | Dream Series Aki no Jin Korakuen Taikai | Tokyo | 1 | 129 | 1 | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [23] | |
| 14 | Isami Kodaka | March 4, 2018 | Dream Series Sozo no Jin | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | [Note 1] | 2 | This match was also for Guinness' International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| — | Vacated | November 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to injury. | ||
| 15 | Sugi | November 24, 2018 | Dream Series ~ Nenotsuki No Jin ~ Tenka-Ichi Junior Tournament 2018 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 403 | 3 | Sugi defeated Hayata in the finals of the Tenkaichi Jr. tournament for the vacant championship This match was also for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 16 | Hub | January 1, 2020 | Happy New Year | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 247 | 0 | This match was also for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 17 | Shoki Kitamura | September 4, 2020 | Youth Playback! It All Started Here! Shinjiro Otani Returns To Asakura | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 58 | 0 | This match was also for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 18 | El Lindaman | November 1, 2020 | 2020 Fire Festival | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 84+ | 0 | This match was also for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
Combined reigns
As of January 24, 2021
| † | Indicates the current champion |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Takuya Sugawara | 2 | 6 | 483 |
| 2 | Shinjiro Otani | 1 | 3 | 481 |
| 3 | Hub | 2 | 3 | 421 |
| 4 | Sugi | 1 | 3 | 403 |
| 5 | Kotaro Suzuki | 1 | 3 | 265 |
| 6 | Jason Lee | 2 | 3 | 257 |
| 7 | Isami Kodaka | 1 | 2 | 242 |
| 8 | Minoru Tanaka | 1 | 3 | 224 |
| 9 | Jonathan Gresham | 1 | 1 | 132 |
| 10 | Sean Guinness | 1 | 1 | 129 |
| 11 | Craig Classic | 1 | 3 | 103 |
| 12 | El Lindaman † | 1 | 0 | 84+ |
| 13 | Tsuyoshi Kikuchi | 1 | 0 | 61 |
| 14 | Shoki Kitamura | 1 | 0 | 58 |
| 15 | Mineo Fujita | 1 | 1 | 45 |
See also
Footnotes
- The exact date on which Kodaka were stripped of the championship is not known, which means that his reign lasted between 242 and 265 days.
References
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