BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship

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BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship
File:岡林裕二.JPG
Yuji Okabayashi with BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship belt in August 2015
Details
Current champion(s) Yuji Okabayashi
Date won July 20, 2015[1]
Date established April 14, 2012[2]
Promotion Big Japan Pro Wrestling

The BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned by the Japanese Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) promotion. It is one of two heavyweight championships promoted by BJW, the other being the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship. The two titles symbolize the two sides of BJW; the Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship the hardcore wrestling side and the World Strong Heavyweight Championship the strong style side.[6]

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been seven reigns shared among six wrestlers. Yuji Okabayashi is the current champion in his first reign.[1]

History

On March 26, 2012, Yoshihito Sasaki defeated Daisuke Sekimoto in the finals to win the 2012 Ikkitosen Strong Climb tournament. Following his win, Sasaki requested that BJW establish a new championship that would symbolize the "strong" side of the promotion.[6] BJW already had one heavyweight championship, the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship, but it was contested exclusively in deathmatches. This led to BJW announcing the creation of the BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship on April 14, 2012.[2] On May 5, Yoshihito Sasaki defeated Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) representative and the reigning wXw Unified World Wrestling Champion Big van Walter in a decision match to become the inaugural champion.[7][8] Sasaki held the title for the rest of the year, successfully defending it four times.[1] On January 2, 2013, All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJW) representative Manabu Soya defeated Sasaki in his fifth title defense to become the second BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion.[1][9][10] Soya's reign lasted only two months, before he lost the title to Daisuke Sekimoto on March 1, 2013.[1][11][12] Sekimoto held the title for the rest of the year, breaking Sasaki's records for the longest reign and most successful title defenses, with ten.[1][13]

On December 29, 2013, Sekimoto suffered a knee injury, but made his return to the ring just two weeks later.[13] However, on January 18, 2014, Sekimoto held a press conference to announce that his quick return had led to a meniscus tear in his knee, which would require surgery, sidelining him for an estimated six weeks and forcing him to relinquish the BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship.[14][15] BJW announced that a new champion would be determined between Shinya Ishikawa and Yuji Okabayashi on February 7, 2014.[1] Okabayashi was later sidelined with a shoulder injury and replaced in the match by Ryuichi Kawakami.[16][17] On February 7, Ishikawa defeated Kawakami to become the fourth BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion.[1] During his reign on September 17, 2014, BJW surprisingly announced that Ishikawa was going to retire from professional wrestling on September 23.[18] Though Ishikawa's retirement ceremony was later canceled,[19] the BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship was declared vacant.[1]

On December 21, 2014, Union Pro Wrestling representative Shuji Ishikawa defeated Ryuichi Kawakami in a decision match to become the fifth BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion.[1] Ishikawa's reign ended in his second defense on March 31, 2015, when Daisuke Sekimoto defeated him to become the first two-time BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion.[1][20][21] On July 20, 2015, Yuji Okabayashi defeated Sekimoto to become the seventh BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion.[1][22][23]

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)
1 Yoshihito Sasaki 1 May 5, 2012 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Yokohama Endless Survivor 4[1] Sasaki defeated Big van Walter in a decision match to become the inaugural champion. [1]
2 Manabu Soya 1 January 2, 2013 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo New Year Korakuen Hall Tournament 1[1] [1]
3 Daisuke Sekimoto 1 March 1, 2013 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Korakuen Hall Tournament 10[1] [1]
— Vacated — January 18, 2014 — Yokohama — — The title was vacated when Sekimoto was sidelined with a knee injury. [1]
4 Shinya Ishikawa 1 February 7, 2014 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Korakuen Hall Tournament 2[1] Ishikawa defeated Ryuichi Kawakami in a decision match to win the vacant title. [1]
— Vacated — September 17, 2014 — — — — The title was vacated due to Ishikawa retiring from professional wrestling. [1]
5 Shuji Ishikawa 1 December 21, 2014 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Yokohama Big Japan Death Vegas 1[1] Ishikawa defeated Ryuichi Kawakami in a decision match to win the vacant title. [1]
6 Daisuke Sekimoto 2 March 31, 2015 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Ikkitosen: Deathmatch Survivor 1[1] [1]
7 Yuji Okabayashi 1 July 20, 2015 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.+ Tokyo Ryōgokutan 3[1] [1]

List of combined reigns

File:Daisuke Sekimoto.JPG
Daisuke Sekimoto, the longest reigning and only two-time BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion

As of May 27, 2024

† Indicates the current champion
<1 Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day
Rank Wrestler No. of reigns Combined
defenses		 Combined
days
1 Daisuke Sekimoto 2 10 434
2 Yuji Okabayashi† 1 3 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.+
3 Yoshihito Sasaki 1 4 242
4 Shinya Ishikawa 1 2 222
5 Shuji Ishikawa 1 1 100
6 Manabu Soya 1 1 58

See also

References

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