NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (Zero1)
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File:Takuya Sugawara.JPG
Takuya Sugawara, longest reigning and two-time holder of the title
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Current champion(s) | Shinjiro Otani | ||||||||||||||||||
Date won | October 11, 2015[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
Date established | September 20, 2011[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
Promotion | Pro Wrestling Zero1 | ||||||||||||||||||
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NWA Junior Heavyweight Championship[3]
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The New Wrestling Alliance (NWA) 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.[5]
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.[6] However, on September 20, NWA affiliate Pro Wrestling Zero1 announced that they still recognized Classic as the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion.[2] 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.[7][8] 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.[2][9] 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.[10] That same month, Zero1 quit the NWA and renamed all of their National Wrestling Alliance championships "New Wrestling Alliance" championships.[11]
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been eleven reigns shared among nine wrestlers. Shinjiro Otani is the current champion in his first reign.[1]
Title history
# | Order in reign history |
Reign | The reign number for the specific wrestler listed |
Event | The event in which the title was won |
Successful defenses | The number of successful defenses the champion had during his reign |
— | Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign |
N/A | The information is not available or is unknown |
+ | Indicates the current reign is changing daily |
# | Wrestler | Reign | Date | Days held |
Location | Event | Successful defenses | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1 | Craig Classic | 1 | September 20, 2011 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | N/A | N/A | 3[9] | Zero1 recognized Classic as the reigning "NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion", despite him having vacated the title two months earlier. | [2] |
2 | Tsuyoshi Kikuchi | 1 | January 1, 2012 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Tokyo | Puroresu Nippon | 0[12] | [9] | |
3 | Takuya Sugawara | 1 | March 2, 2012 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Tokyo | Zero1 Eleven | 5 | This match was also contested for Sugawara's International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [12] |
4 | Jonathan Gresham | 1 | May 4, 2013 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Tokyo | Big Bang | 1[13] | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [14] |
— | Vacated | — | September 13, 2013 | — | Tokyo | — | — | Gresham voluntarily vacated the title ahead of the 2013 Tenkaichi Jr. finals. | [15] |
5 | Hub | 1 | September 16, 2013 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Tokyo | 11th Tenkaichi Jr.: Finals | 3[16] | Hub defeated Mineo Fujita in the finals of the 2013 Tenkaichi Jr., which was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [17] |
6 | Jason Lee | 1 | March 9, 2014 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Tokyo | Zero1 Thirteen | 2 | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [18] |
7 | Mineo Fujita | 1 | September 19, 2014 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Tokyo | Tenkaichi Special | 1 | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [19] |
8 | Takuya Sugawara | 2 | November 3, 2014 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Kumamoto | Hi no Kokudai Hanabi | 1 | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [20] |
9 | Jason Lee | 2 | December 28, 2014 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Hong Kong | Winter Fever 4 | 1[21] | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [22] |
10 | Minoru Tanaka | 1 | March 1, 2015 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | Tokyo | Zero1_Fourteen | 3 | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [21] |
11 | Shinjiro Otani | 1 | October 11, 2015 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.+ | Tokyo | Change the World | 1[23] | This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [1] |
List of combined reigns
As of July 9, 2024
† | Indicates the current champion |
<1 | Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day |
Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined defenses |
Combined days |
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1 | Takuya Sugawara | 2 | 6 | 483 |
2 | Jason Lee | 2 | 3 | 257 |
3 | Shinjiro Otani† | 1 | 1 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.+ |
4 | Minoru Tanaka | 1 | 3 | 224 |
5 | Hub | 1 | 3 | 174 |
6 | Jonathan Gresham | 1 | 1 | 132 |
7 | Craig Classic | 1 | 3 | 103 |
8 | Tsuyoshi Kikuchi | 1 | 0 | 61 |
9 | Mineo Fujita | 1 | 1 | 45 |
See also
References
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